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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Republican National Committee Appropriated One Hundred Thousand Dollars for the Foreign Language Weekly Newspapers, But It Would Not Expend One Dollar With the Colored Newspapers Throughout the OR ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE SPENT HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR FULL OR DOUBLE PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS IN BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN DAILY NEWSPAPERS IN CHICAGO AND IN ALL THE OTHER LARGE CENTERS OF POPULATION. IF THE SAME TIME THE WHITE WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS AND THE COLORED NEWSPAPERS WERE SPAT UPON, IGNORED AND SPURNED ASIDE AND RECEIVED NO CONSIDERATION WHATEVER IN THE WAY OF ADVERTISING. THE HEAD BOSSES OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY ASSUMED A POSITION THAT ALL THE COLORED PEOPLE INTENDED TO CAST THEIR VOTES FOR MESSRS. HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS—THAT IT WAS NO USE TO WASTE MONEY IN ADVERTISING IN COLORED NEWS- PAPERS. THE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE OF ILLINOIS FOLLOWED IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE IN THIS SAME RESPECT AND PRIOR TO THE ELECTION IT BAN DOUBLE PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS IN ALL THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPERS IN THIS CITY ABSOLUTELY IGNORING THE COLORED NEWSPAPERS ENTERTAINING THE IDEA— SEEMINGLY THAT THEY SHOULD EXIST ON COLD SOUP AND WIND—THAT THEIR EDITORS SHOULD FEEL THEMSELVES HIGHLY HONORED IN BEING PERMITTED TO RUN SEVERAL PAGES OF PLATE MATTER EACH WEEK FREE OF CHARGE. PRESIDENT WILSON IS THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THIS NATION TO SUCCEED HIMSELF SINCE THE RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON IN 1832. Not since the formation of the Republican Party in 1856, down to the present time has its great or eminent leaders adhered to or resorted to the "Jim Crow" policy or segregated the White and Colored Republicans to the same extent as they did during the late presidential election. In St. Louis, Mo., headquarters for the Colored Republicans were nothing more than holes in the ground and five or six young Colored women such as stenographers and so on were forced to work in those poorly entilated and ill-smelling quarers which were nothing more than death breeding dungeons or gloomy persons and to their everlasting shame and disgrace the big Colored leaders of the Republican Party in that city were too cowardly to utter one word of protest, except in low whispers, against that condition of affairs; they were fearful that they would offend their White Republican bosses if they attempted to speak out in behalf of right and justice and fair treatment for the Colored women and the others who were engaged in working for the only white Republican Party in that city. an St. Paul, Minn., in New York city and at other points the same condition of affairs existed—that is the White and the Colored Republicans were kept separated on all occasions. Here in Chicago the "color line" was sharply drawn between them, at one end of the railway in the Conway Building where the Western branch of the Republican National Committee was located Paul, Brown of Ky., presided over the Colored end of it and Col. Alvin T. Hert, from the same state, who turned out to be nothing more than a chuckel-headed big bag of wind attempted to conduct the affairs for the White Republicans but no conditions did the White and the Colored members of the party meet on the same level; all of its Colored members had to transact their business with Col. Phil. Brown, who was nothing more than a "cat's paw or a figurehead for Col. Hert and it would almost cost any Colored man his life if he As further proof that the short-sighted leaders of the Republican Party did not want much to do with the Colored people in a business way for they entertained the foolish idea that all the Colored people would be compelled to vote for Hughes and Fairbanks just the same, for the National Committee in New York City appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for the foreign language weekly newspapers but it would not expend one dollar with the Colored newspapers throughout the country. For more than two weeks before the late presidential election came to a close the Republican National Committee spent many hundred thousands of dollars for full or double page advertisements in both the Democratic and the Republican daily newspapers in Chicago and in all the other large centers of population; but at the same time the Colored newspapers and most of the White weekly newspapers were spat upon, ignored and their editors treated with the greatest contempt and spurned aside, without receiving the slightest consideration whatever in the way of advertising. The Republican state committee of Illinois followed in the footsteps of the Republican national committee in this same respect and for more than one week before November 7th it ran full or double page advertisements in all the Republican and Democratic daily newspapers in this city, but at the same time completely ignoring the Colored newspapers—seemingly there was a feeling on the part of its head members that Colored editors can easily exist on Republican wind and cold soup—that Colored editors should feel highly honored in being permitted to run several pages of plate matter each week free of charge. At this time all that we can say is that President Woodrow Wilson is the first Democratic Chief Executive of the United States to succeed himself since the re-election of President Andrew Jackson in 1832. CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 18, 1916 'THE BIRTH OF A RACE.' Makes Progress, Great Photoplay of Racial Understanding in the Hands of Competent Managers. Selig Polyscope Company Sponsors for the Production. Interest in the forthcoming feature photoplay entitled, "The Birth of a Race," is not confined to any particular class or color. Movie fans throughout the country, managers and producers, have eagerly sought information in regard to the prospective time of release, and incidentally, to find out how they may obtain an interest in the picture. The stock selling campaign has been a surprise to the management, for, while they had expected the announcement would create no little interest, they were unprepared for the hearty interest manifested in every direction. Story of Universal Appeal. Story of Universal Appeal. "The Birth of a Race" is not a Colored picture, but a White man's picture, dealing with his Colored citizen and co-laborer, in a spirit of fact with fairness. There will be no idealizations, no striving for effects. The subject is so broad and interesting that by adhering closely to actual conditions the story can be made vitally interesting and entertaining. There will be no spirit of antagonism, no animosity, but every effort will be made to build a picture that will prove a masterpiece of entertainment and instruction. The Company. Early in the summer a company was incorporated under the name of the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation and capitalized at $1,000,000, for the production and exhibition of "The Birth of a Race." Contract was at once made with Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago to produce the picture, and Colonel Selig entered into the spirit of the enterprise with enthusiasm. But, the story of the organization goes back even farther than this. The appearance and popularity in this country of a great picture play, some two years ago, caused quite a commotion. Race prejudice, which seemed to be dying a slow but natural death, was revived, and a loud cry went up from different sections of the country for its suppression. In the picture the Negro was stigmatized, as a beast, a rapist and renegade. He was shown in his meanest form as typical of his race. It is not strange that such men as Booker T. Washington and other leaders looked about for a remedy to counteract the evil. Plans were at once made, but the untimely death of Dr. Washington delayed their consumption. Finally, Edwin L. Barker, the author of several popular stories and some noteworthy photoplays, was prevailed upon to undertake the building of a master racial photoplay, and a corporation was formed for the purpose. The Story. Mr. Barker is a man of resources. He realized from the beginning that to compete with the great producers of the age was a full-sized man's job, and he began to cast about for a cabinet of assistants in whom he could place every confidence. Emmett J. Scott seemed to be the logical man to know the Negro side of the question. His connection for twenty years with Tuskegee Institute, and association with Dr. Washington had placed him Morrison Photo One of the influential and popular members of the Illinois State Senate who is ever ready to champion any worthy cause which will be beneficial to all the people residing in this state. in a position to furnish invaluable data and assistance. Geo. Frederick Wheeler, a writer of renown, a scenarioist and authority on motion pictures, was next added to the forces, to write the scenario in collaboration with Mr. Scott. The story placed in the hands of these men of experience and attainment is sure to be all that can be desired. Four months have already been spent in its preparation, and from every indication the result will be the most thrilling, absorbing and interesting picture ever produced. To Africa for Prologue The picture is to be in twelve parts. The Prologue is laid in Africa, and a special trip will be made to that continent for the opening reel of this great photoplay. The capture of slaves, trikking to the distant coast with appalling hardships and consequent loss of life, the herding of the captives on shipboard, the storm and shipwreck at sea, will all furnish excitement enough in the beginning to warrant a heart interest in the story which is to follow. The scenes for the body of the photoplay are, of course, laid in the Southland, the natural home of the Afro-American. It was there he toiled, was emancipated and has remained for the greater part. Those who have immigrated are but incident to the whole. Conditions of his servitude through the long period of his enslavement, his actual joys and sorrows, his relation to his master and to his race, will all have faithful attention. The Northern misunderstanding, and the Southern autocracy, will alike be shown. Secession, grim war, emancipation, reconstruction with its many evils, will be justly portrayed, for they all figure mightily in the birth of a race. No Attempt to Solve a Problem. No attempt will be made to solve the so-called Negro Problem. To review the writing of the erudite of the past half century, would prove the futility of such an attempt. Progress will be shown, a progress that is the marvel of the world. There can be no segregation of the races in this polyracial land. The result of any equation of the question will be that all must live and labor together for the good of a common country and a common flag. Whatever will tend to improving conditions and make this life more congenial, whatever will help to ameliorate any racial differences, must redound to the good of all. "The Birth of a Race" is a production which will have the patronage of the world at large. It is not a picture for a day, but for an age. It is not for the benefit of any particular class or section, but a picture for all the people, with the object of a better understanding universally, and a hope for general improvement. Friday evening November 24th a "Harvest Dance" will be held at the Appomattox Club, 3441 S. Wabash avenue and it is expected that its members and their families will be out in full force on that evening. No. 9 MAJOR ROBERT R. JACKSON HIGHLY HONORED. The members elect of the new Legislature dined at the Sherman House Tuesday afternoon. Some fifty or more members were present among whom was our Representative Major R. R. Jackson. The Hon. John S. Burns, democratic member, presided and conferred a great honor upon Major Jackson by selecting him as one of the speakers for the occasion. He introduced our representative as one of the most influential and brilliant members of the House. He referred particularly to the Major's value to the people of the State of Illinois and his service on the Mexican border in defense of the Flag of our Country. REV. J. C. ANDERSON WILL STARTLE THE MEMBERS OF QUINN CHAPEL THIS COMING SUNDAY MORNING. Rev. J. C. Anderson, whom the people of St. Louis, Mo., would feel highly honored to have him to assume the duties of pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Church in that city; will on this coming Sunday morning, November 19th, during the course of his sermon, uncover some very important issues or questions which will be of vital interest to the people. The public in general are earnestly and heartily invited to attend both the morning and the evening services on next Sunday. PAGE TWO How the World Is Fed. "A study, of how the world is fed reveals many interesting facts. Australia, the smallest of continents, for instance, is the largest meat eater of them all. Asia, the largest continent, on the other hand, is the smallest meat eater among them. Africa and South America lean toward vegetarianism, while Europe and North America are large consumers of meat and other animal products. Taking the world's supply of cattle, hogs and sheep," writes Harold J. Shepstone in the Millgate Monthly, "it appears that mankind at large uses in the neighborhood of 20,000,000 tons of meat a year. This would be an average of about thirty-nine pounds per capita throughout the world. In butcher's meat we find the Australian consumes 192 pounds, the American 172 pounds, the Englishman 119 pounds, the German 113 pounds, the Frenchman and the Belgian 80 pounds, the Austro-Hungarian 64 pounds, the Russian 50 pounds and the Spaniard 49 pounds." Wonders of a Book There is perhaps no greater wonder than a book. By the help of little figures upon spins or paper men have been able to transmit their thoughts through thousands of years. The names and shapes of things, the deeds and sorrows that have occurred as far back as Adam, have been made known to us. Even those invisible and abstract thoughts which have no shape or substance, but which inspired the writer and have since inspired others, are all put down in the little letters and made eternal. The songs of David, the speculations of Plato, the visions of Homer, have by these means been handed down faithfully for many centuries and distributed among mankind. If there were no books our knowledge would almost be confined to the limit of sight and hearing. All that we could not see or hear would be to us like the inhabitants of the planet Saturn—a mere matter of idle conjecture—Barry Cornwall. Felt For Him. Bobbie Smith, aged nine, was the shining light of the family, and his father was very proud of him. "I shall call round and see your teacher," said his fond parent, "and thank him for the kind interest he is taking in you." "If you do, father. I want to tell you that all the boys in our class are not known by name, but by number only. My number is 25." In due course the father called at the school and knocked at the door, which was after a few moments opened by the head master. "Good morning, sir," said Mr. Smith. "I am the father of 25." "Indeed," replied the schoolmaster, with surprise. "Come inside, my friend. I can feel for you, for I am the father of twelve myself."—London Globe. Southern California of A Southern California of Argentina. Mendoza is the southern California of Argentina. Irrigation has long been successfully applied to its vineyards, which produce more wine than the combined vineyards of the entire United States of North America. The whole of the province lies at an altitude of more than 2,000 feet. Italians are for the most part employed in the cultivation of the grapes, the whole family accompanying husband and father to the field and assisting in tending the vines. The babies are put to sleep in improvised tents while their elders work. — National Geographic Magazine. Eggs In the Nest. All birds have a systematic arrangement in depositing their eggs in the nest, and there are very few species, if any, in which some peculiarity is not to be seen if careful observation is made. Many birds so plainly and invariably show a tendency to a set arrangement that their habit is generally known. He Got the Raise "You want more money? Why, my boy, I worked three years for $11 a month right in this establishment, and now I'm owner of it." "Well, you see what happened to your boss. No man who treats his help that way can hang on to his business." Tea Production No accurate figures of the world's total production of tea can be given, but the quantity in exchange between nations amounts to about a billion pounds, worth to the producers about $150,000,000 and costing the consumers over twice as much. Unprofitably Occupied Teacher—Well, Henry, are you learning anything? Henry—Please, no, sir; I am listening to you! PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Neglect of the Nose An organ whose unhealthy condition is much neglected by the public is the nose. The interior of the nose is really very complicated. It is divided down the center by a septum, and each half of the nose contains various small chambers formed by delicate shell-like bones covered with mucous membrane and richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. Any part of this complicated organ may suffer from various forms of catarrh, congestion and inflammation, the least expression of which is a more or less constant and very tiresome cold, but which may develop into more serious difficulties. Fleetest Animals. Writers of a century ago were firm in the conviction that the greyhound was the fastest living animal; some maintained that he could run a mile in a minute. Modern observers, however, have found that the best bound is by no means able to keep pace with a trained race horse. Indeed, the late J. A. Graham, a careful student of such otters, used to say that no living animal could outfoot a modern race horse. A first rate horse running his best and not handicapped by carrying a rider can run a mile in less than 100 seconds. A fleet hound, such as those used in coursing, can run a mile in about a minute and fifty seconds. A jack rabbit is nearly as fast, and an antelope is considerably faster. Mr. Graham thought an antelope might run a mile across the level prairie in a minute and forty-five seconds. On the other hand, Mr. Cottar, an old African hunter, thinks that Thomson's gazelle would have no trouble whatever in running away from the fastest horse and that Grant's gazelle and the gerenuk are almost equally fleet. -Youth's Companion. Money No Object As an instance of the reckless character of the old time British tar an English writer quotes the following authenticated reminiscence: "One morning, as an officer was standing in Fore street, Devonport, his attention was drawn to three post-chaises, with four horses to each, drawn up at the door of the King's Arms hotel. These were presently driven off. On inquiring what great person had arrived, the officer was informed that all this display was the freak of a common sailor, who had just received £500 in prize money, and, having been granted but a week's leave, his ingenuity had devised the most ostentatious mode of getting rid of this windfall. He had hired one chaise and four for himself, another for his hat and a bird for his cudgel. It was his intent, to make the trip to London and back, which would, he hoped, nearly consume the whole sum." Really Little Known of Poland. Poland's history, with its fight for freedom, justice and equality, its struggle in defense of Christianity and European civilization and its unselfishness in aiding the weak, made it famous among the world's nations, both in success and adversity. The achievements of the Polish nation in art, music, literature, science and religion are known, as are the life deeds of its great men. But the industries, mines, trade and natural wealth of that unhappy country have since its partition been to a great extent a sealed book to most of the people outside of the nations attempting to assimilate the Poles. This was principally due to the inability of people from the outside to break through the network of foreign governmental systems in which Poland is enmeshed.-Buffalo News. How Some Insects Multiply The fecundity of certain insect forms is astounding. The progeny of one little insect, the "hop aphis," sees thirteen generations born to it in a single year and would, if unchecked to the end of the twelfth generation, multiply to the inconceivable number of ten sextillions of individuals. If this brood were marshaled in line, ten to the inch, it would extend to a point so sunk in the profundity of space that light from the head of the procession, traveling at the rate of 184,000 miles a second, would take 2,500 years to reach the earth. In eight years the progeny of a pair of gypsy moths could destroy all the foliage in the United States if unchecked.—Popular Science Monthly. What Worried Him. "Papa, dear," said the anxious daughter, "you must not worry because Harold is going to marry me and take me far away from you and mamma." Oh, a little thing like that isn't going to worry me," replied the fond parent, "but if he ever does anything that will cause you to come back to us again I certainly do him bodily injury." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch Time to Quit Then "Do you expect to spend your whole life in the wicked pursuit of riches?" asked the ascetic person. "No," replied the brisk individual. "If I'm not rich by the time I reach fifty years of age I shall consider myself an ignoble failure."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Puzzled. "Women are so awfully hard to understand!" "What's the matter now?" "Three of them have refused to marry me. I wonder what sort of a man they are looking for anyhow."—Detroit Free Press. Rude Repartee Nell--Why don't I have as many invitations to dance as you have? Belle--If you look in the glass you'll find the reason is very plain.--Baltimore American. Watchful. First Pickpick-Here he comes now! Second Pickpick-All right. You keep a watch on 'im while I take a watch off 'im! Softens It. The way of the transgressor is hard but then he generally has pneumatic tires on his automobile.—Puck. One good bead is better than a thou sand strong hands. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 18. 1916. REWARDS HEROES Middle West Figures Largely In Carnegie Medal Award. Mrs. Olive-M. J. Cooper of Battle Creek, Mich., Saved Adult and Three Children From Drowning at Spencerville, Ind., by Swimming Out and Rescuing One at a Time. Pittsburgh.—The heroism of John Murray, aged twenty-seven, a laborer, of Chicago, who risked his life to save that of Patrick Eustace, has been rewarded by the Carnegie hero fund commission, which awarded Murray a bronze medal. Reaching out into an elevator shaft on the nineteenth floor of an uncompleted building in Chicago on June 27, 1911, Murray grasped Eustace, who had fallen from the twentieth floor. Murray gripped an iron beam with one arm and with his free arm caught Eustace as he started down the elevator shaft. Other heroes from the middle west received honors. Roger W. Wells of North Madison, Ind., receives a medal. Wells, forty years old, was disabled two weeks from lung congestion, due to fumes when he assisted in rescuing James E. Dougherty from suffocation at Heldelberg, Pa., on March 27, 1916. George C. Oxley, a merchant of Marlon, Ia., rescued ten-year-old E. Emerson Harte from a runaway at Marlon on Aug. 16, 1915. Donald H. Stoops, seventeen years old, of Nappanee, Ind., receives a medal because he saved Pauline E. Holmes, thirteen, and L. Beatrice Doswell, fifteen, from drowning at Pickwick Park, Ind., June 16, 1913. Stoops, although he had lost his left arm eight months before, swam to the point where the girls were struggling, pushed one of them ahead of him with his shoulder until she was in shallow water and swam back and rescued the other girl in the same way. Dana S. Miller, a farm manager of Butler, Ind., is awarded a medal for having saved Elmer McDonald, a laborer, from an enraged bull on Aug. 17, 1912. McDonald had been gored and four ribs were broken. Miller attacked the animal with a pitchfork and was repeatedly knocked down. He finally seized a ring in the bull's nose and clung to it until the animal was subdued. William T. Best, Owosso, Mich., is listed because he saved three-year-old Carney P. Lamphe from burning after a gasoline explosion at Owosso, Jan. 5, 1915. Best's burns disabled him for six weeks. One woman is on the list. She is Mrs. Olive M. J. Cooper of Battle Creek, Mich., who saved an adult and three children from drowning at Spencerville, Ind., by swimming out on the St. Joseph river and returning with them one at a time. TEACHER NEAR DEATH. Pupil She Corrected Had Nitroglycer ine Cap. Oakbrook, Pa.-Miss May E. Dillon, a teacher in the primary grade of the schools, only realized the next day how narrowly she had escaped death. She was forced to reprimand one of her pupils the other day and used a ruler. The next day she learned that the culprit had a nitroglycerin cap in his pocket at the time. Lawrence Hine, six years old, one of the pupils, found a can of the explosive in a stone quarry and distributed some caps among his friends. The next day the owner of the caps called at the school, and all the caps were recovered from the pockets and desks of the pupils, who for twenty-four hours were in danger of being hurled in midair together with their schoolhouse and teachers. SCARED TO DEATH BY SEA Raw Lightship Keeper Goes Into Frenzy in First Gale. Newport, R.I.—A case of a man literally frightened to death has just been reported. Gustav Ljunvall went to Brenton's reef lightship as assistant keeper, but before he had time to be come accustomed to his surroundings the wind became a gale, accompanied by great seas, and the ship pitched an disturbing angles. Jlunvall expressed great fear that the ship would go down. In a frenzy he tried to jump overboard, but was restrained. His violence increased and the crew put him in an improvised straitjacket and kept him there until he died. Indian, 122 Years Old, Works Daily. Mazatlan, Mexico. — This western coast town of Mexico claims as a resident the oldest man in the world, Jose Juan Velasquez, an Indian, who, according to all records available, is 122 years old. Velasquez has the agility of a man of less than half his years and works daily as a laborer. He possesses a remarkable memory and is familiar with happenings during the Hidalgo revolution for Mexican independence from Spain in 1810-21. Horse Wears Traverser Charleston, W. Va.—A horse wearing a pair of trousers on its front legs is a novelty seen daily on the streets. The animal is attached to an express wagon, and the owner dresses him in order to protect his forelegs from files. The trousers are supported by the breastband of the harness. Peasanta Wore Platinum Buttons. "With platinum now costing around $90 an ounce," said a widely known manufacturing jeweler of this city, "it may be hard to believe that half a century or so ago peasants in Russia were wearing buttons of this metal on their clothing. They were also using it for handles of knives, forks and umbrellas, and the workmen in the jewelry shops were using it for making 'pickle' pans, a contrivance, now made of copper, that plays quite an important part in the making of jewelry. At that time platinum cost about $5 an ounce, and in Russia it was so plentiful because there was so little use for it that the Russian government decided to make coins of it in lieu of silver. The Russian people, however, were suspicious of the new metal, fearing that it had no value, and it was not long before the coins were out of circulation. It was then that they began to appear as buttons and to be melted for purposes more utilitarian than decorative."—New York Times. Man as a Meat Eater That man has eaten beef, pork and fish since the remotest ages is deduced by Professor M. W. Lyon, Jr., of the George Washington university, in an article in Science, from the life history of three species of tapeworm. These three—the Toenia saginata, or beef tapeworm; Toenia solium, or pork tapeworm, and Dibothrocephalus latus, or fish tapeworm—are highly differentiated. Part of their lives they spend in human beings, part in the animals from which they are named, and both these hosts are necessary to their development. "We have no evidence that species of any kind are rapidly produced," says Professor Lyon. "and the parasites have probably had as slow an evolution as man. The conclusion seems clear that man has been eating cattle and pigs or their immediate ancestors, and perhaps himself, for as many ages as needed for these tapeworms to attain their present degree of differentiation." "Three Sheets In the Wind." "What was the origin of the phrase for drunkenness, 'three sheets in the wind?'" a landsman asked a sailor the other day. "Well," said the sailor, "I'll explain that matter to you. The two lower corners of a ship's sail are held taut by two ropes, one called a tack and another called a sheet. The tack is always kept very tight, but the sheet is loosened according to the wind, and the looser the sheet is the more freely the sail swings. If the sail is quite free its sheet is said to be 'in the wind'. Now, suppose that all three of a ship's sails were quite free. They would then fly about very crazily, and the ship would wabble. The course of the ship would be a zigzag one, and the reason for this would be that she had 'three sheets in the wind.' That, I guess, is why a man when he zigzags in his course is said to be 'three sheets in the wind' also." Proper Breathing To breathe properly take a deep, slow breath, another and another. Put both the hands on your ribs and see how they expand and contract as you breathe in and out. Put one hand on the low ribs in front and the other opposite it on the back. Feel how the back swells as you breathe. There is a powerful muscle called the diaphragm that divides the chest from the abdomen. As the heart and lungs are in the chest, the diaphragm may be called the floor of the chest. It is fastened to the backbone, the ribs and the sternum, or breastbone. And when people speak of diaphragmatic breathing they mean just what we are doing now—filling the lungs with air and emptying them by the expansion and contraction. Banked Rails. In rounding a curve the tendency of the weight of a train is invariably to shift to the outside wheels. To counteract this tendency the outer rail of a curve is raised on a higher level than the inside, the elevation being in an exact proportion to the sharpness of the curve as determined by the principles of engineering. If both rails of a curved track were of exactly the same elevation a train would not dare round it at high speed. In Behalf of Accuracy: The reporter was interviewing the leading politician. "This," said the interviewed, "is the age of steel, and"— "Pardon me, please," interrupted the interviewer. "but in behalf of accuracy would you kindly spell that word?"— Browning's Magazine. Diplomatic "I want you," said the fair society leader, "to give me a plain opinion as to my latest photograph." "Madam." said the gallant cavalier, bowing, "to speak in plain terms of that portrait would be impossible!"—London Telegraph. Doubtful Sympathy. The Bride to Be—My only worry is about mother. She's bound to miss me terribly. Friend of the Family—Ah, well, she can't complain. After all, she's had you longer than most mothers keep their daughters.—Sydney Bulletin. Fatal Error. "I thought you bad given up burnt wood art. dearie." "Ferdinand, how can you be so heartless? This is a pie."—Kansas City Journal. An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish or else will be your destruction. Jeremy Taylor. A. E. A COLD. Now we are having in increasing numbers persons who suffer certain physical disorder called by the average citizen a "cold." The proper name for it is in professional language, Acute Coryza. It is dangerous to neglect the disease because of its possibilities. The common "cold" often is pneumonia or that other captain of death, tuberculosis. The earliest symptoms of a "cold" are the same as the early symptoms of more dangerous maladies, for instance influenza, bronchitis, tonsilitis and even infantile paralysis in the early stage. Hence it is the better practice to be serious with the treatment of what appears to be an ordinary "cold." All diseases of the upper air passages are capable of graduating into the fatal diseases of the lungs, nasopharynx and trachea. Diphtheria and pneumonia have been mistaken by the laity for a "cold" and sometimes "home remedies" are wasted as well as the time to save the life of the patient. The safer way and the way to ultimate economy is to consult your physician. He is fitted by training and experience to diagnose and treat prop- GIFTS FOR HOLY LAND GO IN CHRISTMAS SHIP American Collier Will Carry Relief For War Sufferers. New York.—America's 1916 Christmas ship for the relief of unfortunate victims of the war will leave New York Dec. 1. The American Red Cross is co-operating with the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief in collecting foodstuffs and clothing to be sent to Syria on a government collier placed at the disposal of the latter committee by Secretary Daniels. The collection of the Christmas ship cargo is in the hands of Albert W. Staub of the American Red Cross receiving and distributing station at Bush terminal, Brooklyn. Mr. Staub has already received countless bundles of old clothing, unavailable for the cargo, as military regulations preclude the shipment of second hand clothing in this cargo. He said, "It must be emphasized that the only clothing America can send to the unfortunate ones in Turkey must be new and must be sent prepaid to the American Red Cross, Bush terminal, Brooklyn." Mr. Staub sent the following letter from the war relief information and shipping office: "It is more than significant that the first letter to go out from the newly organized Red Cross war relief information office has to do with a Christmas ship. It is doubly significant that it is to take relief to a people living so near the Holy Land." MIKE HICKEY TELLS OF HIS REFORMATION MIKE HICKEY TELLS OF HIS REFORMATION Ex-Pickpocket, With Twenty Years' Prison Record, Talks to 400 Men. Mike Hickey, once a notorious pick-pocket, with a record of nineteen and a half years behind prison bars, told 400 men at the Harlem branch Y. M. C. A., New York, how he straightened out and how other inhabitants of the underworld could be helped to do the same. Mike's career as a thief lasted until about four years ago, when he wandered, fresh from Sing Sing, into the Cremorne mission, on Thirty-second street. It ended there. Now he is night man at the Bowery Y. M. C. A. and passes his spare time helping his old pals from Dannemora and Sing Sing to get their feet on the "straight and narrow." The trouble with the newly emerged convict, he said, was the old story—out into the world with a $10 bill and a wish to keep straight; a job until a cop told the boss of his record, then no more job; broke; one more trick to get money to eat; caught, and back to prison. What the convict needs is a bit of belief and encouragement when he starts to reform, said Hickey, adding that more and more the employers are beginning to give this, so that many men with long records as criminals are now taking their places in honest life. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 erly the condition before the disease has gone too far. An acute catarrhal inflammation of the upper air-passages is popularly known as a "cold" or as "catarrh." That it is contagious for susceptible persons is not so well known popularly. Susceptible persons are those who are below normal or persons who disobey the rules of hygienic living and they are found everywhere. The reason that some people escape the contagion is that they are entitled to escape as a reward for careful observation of the simple rules of an orderly, natural, hygienic, normal life. The same rule applies in other contagious diseases. It is a simple application of the natural and immutable law of the survival of the fittest. If you have made mistakes in living that have brought the sure and proper reward of inflammation of the upper air passages, called a "cold," "sore throat," tonsillitis, lagripe, influenza, pneumonia, diphtheria, lumbago or whatever the name the guesser gives it, let one series of mistakes be enough. Do not make the serious blunder of trying to do the work that you are not qualified to do. The physician is the proper person to consult at this stage of the game. Capitals We Have Had. It is asserted sometimes that the United States has had five capitals, but the statement is not correct. The United States has had but three capitals—New York, Philadelphia and Washington. In the period preceding the adoption of the constitution no place was legally constituted a capital. In a loose and unofficial sense it is possible to describe as a capital any city which was the seat of government. Taking the sessions of the Continental congress as establishing a seat of government in the Revolution and the confederation, the following cities may loosely rank as capitals: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, York Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and New York. The articles of confederation were passed by congress in Philadelphia, and the federal convention charged to prepare a constitution convened at the same place. Not Her Fault. The express was approaching a railway bridge that spanned a deep river, and a stout old lady in one of the compartments showed signs of nervousness. As the train went roaring across the structure she did not speak a word, but seemed to be holding her breath. "There," said a gentleman in a neighboring seat, "we are over it safely." The old lady heaved an explosive sigh. "Well," she said. "if we had gone to the bottom I should have died with a clear conscience, for it wouldn't have been my weight that did it. I bore up so that I really made the train lighter than it would have been without me!"—London Mail. Malabar's Lemon Grass The hillsides of the Malabar coast of India are the scene of great commercial activity once a year, when the lemon grass harvest is under way. Oil extracted from the grass is employed in the manufacture of artificial perfumes. The hillsides are burned over to destroy the old and useless grass. Six months later the fresh crop is ready to be cut, and at one the countryside is dotted with furnaces and stills. Life's Three Questions The three great questions of life are "Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly?" These our education should help us to answer, and insomuch as it fails it will lack in reaching a proper physical or moral standard. Natural Result* She—What! He, a flirt, married a flirt? How can that be? He—Why, it's simple enough. They set out to see which could beat the other flirting and it resulted in a tie—Exchange. Queer. "It's a queer language." "What's the matter now?" "When you pay the cash down you call it settling up." — Detroit Free Press. Did the Best He Could. She (during the spat)—You should have married some stupid, credulous girl. He—Well, my dear, I did the best I could—Boston Transcript. eter Pan.” rrie’s pley, cn ae = Seeend of @ newly made Ly epponte- of offering my con- on your recent marriage. Fim the look of things I guess you've piried money. Well, it was the right ing to do. ‘That shop walking berth ‘tours must have been awfully bor- ing Isshe in? I should like to be in. ‘smoduced.” - “oh, she’s at work,” said the hus- jand, with a placid smile, “t work? What do you mean?” asked the friend, ‘sell, you see, it was this way,” re. plied the be nedict. “She had a much patter position than mine—head of her agertwent, £8 a week. Wouldn't give itup. So there was nothing for it but for me to retire from business and keep jse, and here I am, you see. You tare to let women have their way in soae things.”"—London Tit-Bits. ‘The Business cf Life. Life is a business we are all apt to simamage, either living recklessly rom day to day or suffering ourselves tbe guided out of our moments by the fumitles of custom, We should de- ‘pie a man who gave as little activity ‘Bi forethought to the conduct of any der business. But in this, which is tte one thing of all others, since it con- tuls them all, we cannot see the forest forthe trees. One brief impression ob- lierates another.” There is something stupefying in the recurrence of unim- pertant things, and it is only on rare pwocations that we can rise to take 2 ostlook beyond daily concerns and carehend the narrow limits and gat possibilities of our existence.— Retest Louis Stevenson. He Was the Whole of It. Orer the wire to the parsonage came this request “The bishop would like to meet at the church this evening the pastor, the hss leader. the Sunday school super- istenlent, the president of the cradle nil aud of the young people’s societies, the president of the missionary so- ety, the chorister and the sexton!” “All right! I'M be there,” was the sasver.—Christian Herald, At Reaular Rates. Amateur Poctess—Ten dollars for Crecting the meter of this little verse! Professional Poet—Oh, yes; for this srt of work 1 charge regular plumb- eS rates. —Life, Shook. Molly—You say you shook all over Yen you proposed to her? Cholly— Yes. I did. Molly—And how about the fl? Cholly—Oh, she only shook her dead a 2 OSSSHHH OOH OD ° ¢ PRACTICAL. HEALTH HINT. © — ® + Wrona Eating. e@ a, after all” says a bulletin ¢ * from 2 state board of health, ¢ “cond health is largely a matter ¢ Fof what xoes into the stomach. 4 # Ifa person eats heavily of rich, 4 # kreasy, concentrated foods, such ¢ $4 friot meats, rich pastries, ¢ § socey or underdone breads, he # will soon tind himself seeking a $ relic from headache, sluggish- ¢ * nes. constipation and bilious- ¢ Fess, and the patent medicine ¢ Frou vill be the way he will ¢ P likely Ssoose, Pills and purga- ¢ # tives si tind a hearty weleome 4 Paul heme a warm friend to ¢ Fiersos who so poison them- ¢ #sehes. Phe trouble arising from 4 $ (ates font of this Kind is that it + Aethl in the stomach, throws 4 fet pos ns and ereates a condl- § tit sooth calls for a stronger « { heson oc the form of medicine 4 4 (otivon ott the food poison. ‘The 4 4 oe habit is acquired, and 4 le diootive organs of the stom- 4 Mibare wreeked and no longer: 4 {rf their natural functions. $M the other hand, whoever 4 Fh Gooly of fruits, vexetables, ¢ $Rllk. butter, salads, cereals and < #2 fools prepared by nature ¢ $A man not only avoids diges- « + {ge {hmbles, ‘but be is spared « 4 Seevil effects of food poisons. ¢ # ah ss rheumatism, headaches, < 4 sSiness and billousness. He ¢ # Ae ecanes the patent medicine 4 abit. Ie eats according to na- 4 4 Tes demand and needs,andno ¢ 4 pticine fs required as an after < ~~ ‘ 4 OO ie mGHINA-FiltDS tT HARD ~~~ 5.70 DISBAND ITS ARMY sitary! Aun. To F dts and tt Won crn fs ee ; Pe ore 2 Wy the Peking government ix forced to aiplon iy with the mit ‘tary organizati ‘im the provinces, particularty in the remote provinces. HARVARD MAN FOILS SUN WITH INVENTION Presses a Button In Bed and the Window. Shade Goes Down as if by Magic. * Cambridge, Mass.—Every morning at 7 o'clock Henry R. Guild of Boston, a Harvard senior, rolls over in bed. Seven o'clock is too early for a senior to get up, so Mr. Guild presses a but- ton and the shade at the distant end of his chamber rolls down as if by magic. No rising sun is going to make bim leave his bed unseasonably. Some morning he may miss a four alarm fire by pressing the button, but he’s willing to take the chance, he asserts. Getting up at 7 a. m. is a high crime at Harvard, the same as admitting Yale bas a good football team this year. Henry Guild framed up a motor, at- tached to the curtain string and laid wires to bis bedside. When the sun throws its rays into his bedroom every morning, weather permitting, he Presses @ button and the curtain flops faster than in a vaudeville theater. Mr, Guild’s next invention probably will be 2 trap door to throw tiresome seoceeeets into the cellar by means of button that any student can press. Life's attendant inconveniences aren't going to bother him while electricity can do the work. FIREMAN SAVES BABY. Pe Sve Stee La Crosse, Wis.—Coon valley rest- ents are talking of applying for a Carnegie medal “for Fireman Peter Hensgen of the La Crosse and South- eastern. He was in a freight engine cab when he saw a child in the dis- tance on the track. It was down grade and the brakes were slow to grip. Hensgen climbed out along the footboard to the pilot. grasped a rod and leaned down. He grabbed the sleeping child with his free hand and lifted her from the track. The child was the little daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jacobson. She had wandered away in the after- noon and lay down tired between the rails and went to sleep. NEW DIMES IN CIRCULATION. {$180,000 Worth of Coins Distributed by the Philadelphia Mint. Philadelphia. — The new ten cent Pieces which have been coined in large quantities at the Philadelphia mint were recently put into circulation for the first time, about $180,000 worth be- ing distributed to banks and trust com- panies. They were introduced simul- taneously in the western states from the Denver mint. ‘The obverse side of the new dime shows a head of Liberty in profile, while the reverse side shows a bundle of rods in the center and the protrud- ing battleax, symbols of unity. Sur- Founding the central design is an olive wreath, denoting peace. ‘The new coins are expected to be in general circulation within a few days. Child Escapes Coyote. Bend, Ore.—Attracted to the door yard by an unusual noise being made by her flock of turkeys, Mrs. Thomas Merchant, living east of Bend, found a coyote running toward her little girl who was playing in the yard. The ant- maj was frothing at the mouth and is Delieved to have been rabid. Mrs. Mer- chant had just tlme to snatch her aughter up and return to the house Before the coyote reached the spot ‘where the little girl was at play. — Oakland, Cal.—Dr. J. H. Callen, who had two hives of bees, much alive, on his Fruitvale avenue property, is now eccupied in cleaning out two hives of dead bees, victims of an unsuccessful Verdun defense against 2 horde of me- rauding ants. The evidence shows that the ants attacked in solid mass forma- ton, carrying the bees’ first, second and third line of trenches and then at- tacking the entrances to the hives. . THE BROAD AX, CHI ‘MBI Camera M cbete ‘ 3 2 ICAGO, 2? and War ; = Fy ~— oa Pictures, |” = uae Se an ireh of Ii “Zt a obs Ps ea wfc oys the peaked s wa : : = the camera di eens tec | the tobeten re : gun, the pi loes not rae Sac = : : S 1 qienlonge etemea =o: a ae om. mmense disad' ber often ee — : oa i Sha draws 1 cere cod lobster aad a a5 lal iy pemcard ee inoue end = a : af ae Bear pone fecaes. sme the kingdo the sae ras < early —— 1e spe- — =o ase os ts inated ote saa E : ; |= a the at or fkirmish pany the mek oa ie sn aoe } Doattios er Sate Sam = 7" 2. ft him te : : : ci . ide. og is eas scala tna . Ps = 3 : = of S ther of. . the as, the rb, = + % tod th ae e crab, ee Se we See ie = R Ly “effec: e 2 : : a = chee’ Me tee ant wieiee : a ot fos dit rc cash racteris! sip wpe ket See Brees or ta ities it grou = a os set nibs it ca 7 Pan ene ra man, ae £. trmor 1 — i : Peasanotis pooked Pe pote : = = : : F “ bree Nee a oa | = ; 3 be en ee eee thet Man" by Francis 4 Weight, trust oe : 7 : i : a ee bit of < ae : them of dan; e vo = cor, to con sal th : , : _ = to prot : em aes ae fligh The to which favorite. treeses eg nlesbeay else off the stage fa. pot well understood. Actors r ally play under their own names, but the woman’ who has achieved a repU- tation before ‘marriage prefers to re tain the name under which she became known rather thap assume that of her husband. Some" women, too, play while unmarried under another name than the real one. “¥or instance, Maude Adams is really Miss’ Kiskadden, and Marie Dressler ig Lelia Koerber. Jack and Ethel Bar- rymore are properly called Blythe, and Troly Shattuck is Clarice Etrolia de Bucharde, a name rather too long for the stage. Theater goers seem to like short names easily remembered. ‘Trixie Friganza is really Della Edna O’Calla- han, and Mary Mannering is Florence Friend; Elsie Janis was formerly Elsie Bierbower. and Margaret Anglin is Mary Warren. And so it goes through the list—Boston Herald. Orkney Islands In Pawn. ‘The Orkney islands, says Pearson's Magazine, do not really belong to Great Britain in the sense that they ‘were ever coded by treaty or acquired by conquest. They were simply trans- ferred by Denmark to Scotland in 1468. in pledge for the payment of the dowry of the Princess of Denmark, who was married to James IIL, king of Scot land. In the deed of transfer, which fs still in existence, it is specially men- tioned that Denmark shall have the Fight to redeem them at any future time by paying the orizinal amount of the dowry with interest to date. ‘There is no likelihood. however, that Denmark will ever attempt to exercise her right of redemption, because 60, 000 florins, the original amount of the dowry, plus compound interest for 448 years, would amount to perhaps £1. 000,000,000,000, and that ts a bit more than the islands are worth. “Thanks For the Ducks.” An Official in one of the largest man. ufacturing concerns in Philadelphia re cently showed me the huge plant. 1 marveled, at the labor saving ma- ehinery. “One of our workmen.” he said, “has made a great many of the improve- ments you see in this room. He likes to go duck shooting. and while off on a trip for a week or more he thinks out some new way to save labor.” ‘After a moment's pause he added: “Why. he turned up one day with a Plan whereby we save $50.000 a year.” “and what.” I inquired, “does that workman get out of it?” “Ob.” the happy official replied, “he gets the ducks."—Girard in Philadel- phia Ledger. Simple Arithmetic. ‘A little boy who had not learned how to count one day received three apples from ¢ friend. He was very pleased and told his mother afterward. “How many apples did you get?” she asked. “I don’t know just how many moth- er,” he replied. “but I got one in the middle and two outside."—New York ‘Times. Not Guilty. Little Charley had been spanked by his mother for stealing cookles. His cousin, who was present, wishing to comfort him, said: “Poor Charley! You have my sympathy.” Looking up through bis tears, he protested: “I have not! I didn't touch it!"—Boston ‘Transcript. The Ancient Mayas. It is urged by an archaeologist that the Mayas, who once inhabited Amer- fea, had a civilization as far advanced as that of any early people except the Greeks. The dwellers in the jungles of Yucatan, Guatemala and Honduras are believed to be their descendants. Clam Shells. Clam shells are susceptible of a fine polish and are used for many orna- mental purposes. Chinese carve them into snuffboxes. tops of walking sticks, bracelets and similar articles. Merely 2 Delusion. Insurance Doctor—Any insanity in your family? Cholly—Only—aw—the Pater—thinks he's the head of the house, ye knotv.—Boston Globe. Strong on Bills. Winkle—My wife would make a good member of congress, Hinkle—Whs? ‘Winkle—She's always introducing bills into the house. Where love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.—Reade. Lebster and Butterfy. . According to a scientific observer, the lobster is akin to the butterfly. The kinship is not merely that of two members of the animal kingdom. The lobster and the butterfly are actually in one and the same great group of the kingdom, like the clam and the snail or the whale and the giraffe. whose spheres of activity are so wide- ly separated. It is simply, as Darwin pointed out in the case of other crea- tures many years ago, that the lobster and its friends, the crab, the prawn and the shrimp, chose one method of life, while the butterfly and its set chose another. So the first group de- veloped characteristics suited to the conditions in which it lived, including as one of the most important, as its members do not move rapidly, a coat of armor to protect them from their innumerable enemies, while the but- terflies and the great host of winged insects shed every bit of superfluous Weight, trusting to swiftness to carry them out of danger and to protective coloring to conceal them when flight is unavailing. 2 A Uecful Celie. A writer in an English church maga- zine once found in a collier's cottage in Staffordshire a coffin used. as a bread and cheese cupboard. Notwith- standing his wife’s remonstrance, he told the story af the coffin as follows: “Eighteen years ago I ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have &. good many words. One day she said, ‘I'll never be content till I see thee in thy coffin.’ ‘Well, lass,’ I said. ‘if that'll content thee it'll-soon be done.’ “Next day I gave directions to have the thing-made. In a few days it came home, to the wife's horror. I got into and said, ‘Now, lass, are thee content? She began to cry and want- ed the ‘horrid thing’ taken away. But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she got accustomed to seeing it, and as we wanted to turn it to some use we had some shelves put in and made it into a bread and cheese cupboard. We have never quarreled since it came.” Where Johnson Made a Blunder. ‘The present Blackfriars bridge is a comparatively modern structure, which Teplaced the bridge of Robert Myine after the latter had endured, with much alteration and repair, it is true, for nearly a hundred years. Mylne’s de- sign, it will be recalled by those famil- jar with their Boswell, was attacked by Jobnson with that arrogance and, let me sadly add, ignorance which he was too wont to display in subjects of which he knew very little. Johnson, with a welght of words which might have tested any bridge, declared that no structire with elliptical arches could bear heavy weights. Mylne’s bridge has gone, but the elliptical form of arch remains, and very beautiful it is and adequate for a weisht of traffic of which Johnson never dreamed.—West- minster Gazette. Ontos of Steak: The name Lake of Blood or its equiv- alent has been given to places as far apart as England and South America. “Sanguelac”—i. e., the Lake of Blood —was the name given by the victorious Normans to the battlefield at Hastings, where the Saxons were overthrown and slain with terrible carnage, For a similar reason Lake ‘Trasimene has borne the name “Sanginetto” be- cause its waters were reddened during the second Punie war by the blood of some 15,000 Romans who fell before the troops of Hannibal. Yet another Lake of Blood, called also “Yaguar Cocha,” Is situated in the state of Ecuador. It is one of a series of lakes formed by the extinct craters of voleanoes on the towering heights of the Andes range of mountains. Game. Daughter of Western Farmer Oh, George, the harvest hands threaten to quit, and papa is away! Young Foreman— Yes, I know. I wired him this morning for instruc- tions. Daughter of Western Farmer—What id he answer? Young Foreman—He sald, “Hold hands till 1 come.” Daughter of W gin Farmer—Well, tt means an awfu.® of spooning, but T guess we can do it, can't we?—Life. Feminine Sympathy. “I could tell her how sorry all the girls felt for Mamie yesterday.” “Why so?” “Because she sat there without a word when the others were telling indignantly how those contemptible street mashers tried to flirt with them."—Baltimore American. Deserved to Get It. “I want to ask you for a bit of ade vice,” said the insinuating man. “What is it?" “[ want you to put yourself in my place and me in yours and tell me how you would zo about it if you wanted to Dorrow $10 from me.”-Exchange. cai ee “Is this the bureau of information?” asked the confused traveler. “No,” replied the man. “This is the ticket office.” s “Great guns! Is it getting so they sell tickets now for information? ’— Washington Star. Troublesome Trait. “Brown claims that he always tells the truth.” “Yes; he seems to have a mania for stirring up trouble." — New York ‘Times. This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better— BR. A. Campbell. ~~" ‘The Horse Upstairs. i Not long since we were riding on an elevated train in Chicago. We looked out of the car, and there, right at our elbow, was a horse's head, thrust through the upper floor window of a brick building. It was a startling thing. We felt like saying, “Now, what on earth are you doing up here, old man?’ But the horse appeared to be very much at home. No doubt he lived there, twenty feet or so from the ground. It was like a jail. He had no barn lot or pasture. When his day’s work was over he was taken direct from the wagon to his upstairs stall Rents were too high for his owner to furnish a stall on the ground. He never had a chance to “roll over” or to nibble at a bit of fresh plowed earth. Yet that horse's life in the city was no more artificial and abnormal than the life of the average city man. The maa goes of his own accord, however, and the horse has no choice in the matter. Probably the horses wonder why men want to hive together like bees —Farm Life. : i ae i ai Human victims were sacrificed by the Aztecs in various ways and rela- tively in large numbers. Hubert Howe Bancroft, in his “History of Mexico,” says: “The victims were for the most part captives taken in war, and war was often made solely with a view to obtaining them. A large proportion, however, consisted of condemned crim- tnals or slaves, and even of children, bought or presented for the purpose. Moreover, persons sometimes offered themselves voluntarily for the good of the people or for the honor of a god. ‘The greater part of the victims died under the knife, but some were burn- ‘ed alive, and children were often bur- fed alive or drowned, while we hear of criminals being crushed to death between stones. But the most cruel sacrifice of all, and yet the most com- mon, was performed by tearing out the heartvof a living human creature at the sacrificial stone.” 2 ‘aalaedel ahs iced ‘The palace of Sans Souci, erected by Christophe, the black leader of Haiti, is situated in the hills above the level vale of Milot, with a background of forest and a foreground sprinkled with the palms and huts of simple cul- tivators. Dilapidated ruins and a tan- gle of tropical trees are the rueful rem- nants of the glory that was once the palace without care and the garden of delight of the king of slaves. It was off the coast of Haiti, near the site of this palace, that the flagship of Columbus was wrecked, and here he left most of his men when he returned to Spain for afd. Upon his return to the settlement, which he called “La Navidad,” he found the whole party dead, including an Englishman named Allard and an Irishman, who was en- tered on the Santa Maria’s books as William of Galway.—National Geo- graphic Magezine. ‘a at This is the vampire: Always inert, sitting still, spending five to seven hours a day looking out the window on the street. Nothing to give, and al- ways giving it. Seeking amusement. entertainment, but never affording any. ‘Taking. but never giving. Sittin quietly and listening to’ others con- verse and confer, even when her pres- ence is unwelcome, but saying nothing but an occasional yes or no. Primitive minded and narrow. with nothing to give, she drains others of ideas with- out retainins them—like a sieve. ‘Thought passes through and beyond her without stopping. She acquires nothing, gives nothing, takes every: thing. One person alone with her be- comes exhausted while she is revivi- fied.—New Yofk Globe. See “There,” he said, pulling his shirt sleeves over his brawny arms and sur- eying the clothes prop which had taken him the best part of the after- noon to fix in the garden, “that’s as firm as a rock. Even the combined forces of the elements cannot bring it down.” Later in the day he found the pole on the ground. “Did you do this?” he roared to his eight-year-old son. “No, father,” was the answer; “a sparrow perched on it. I seed it my- self.”—London Globe. A River In Brazil. ‘The state of Sao Paulo, in the repul Me of Brazil, has a river that carries ‘one of the longest names of any stream in the world. The name {s of Indian origin and is “Tamanduaetehy” and {s also called without saving anything in length “river of the Great Tamanolr.” Air Movements. ‘The movement of air is variously designated, according to its velocity. as a zephyr, breeze, wind, gale or bur rieane. ‘A dense or thick fog, according t: the weather bureau, obscures object: at a distance of 1,000 feet. ee a “That youngster of yours ts pretty bright, eh?” “Reads Henry James at sight,” an swered the Boston man.—Kansas City Journal. Crust. Lottle—He wore my photograph over his heart, and it stopped the bullet Tottle—I'm not surprised, darling: 1 ‘would stop a clock.—London Sketch. One Drawback. Confession may be good for the soul, bat it’s often rough on the reputation. Charleston News and Courier. Nothing boosts the value of blessings Whe their removal—Chicago News, PAGE THREE “He Used His Head. In the American Magazine Charles ‘M. Schwab says: “Andrew Carnegie first attracted at- tention by using his head to think with. It was when he was a telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad under Colonel Thomas A. Scott. One morning a series of wrecks tangled up the line. Colonel} Scott was absent and young Carnegie could not locate him. ‘Things looked bad. “Right then Carnegie disregardedone of the road’s strictest rules and sent out a dozen telegrams signed with Colonel Scott's name, giving orders that would clear the blockade. “Young man,’ said the superintend- ent a few hours later, “do you realize that you have broken this company’s rules? “Well, Mr. Scott, aren't your tracks clear and your trains running? asked the young telegrapher. “Colonel Scott's punishment was to make Carnegie his private secretary. A few years later, when the colonel re- tired from office, he was succeeded by the former telegraph operator, then only twenty-eight years old.” ‘The Thespian’s Fiasco. Among Italians, a correspondent in Rome tells me, the origin of the term “fiasco” for failure is believed to have originated in the remark of an old Ital- fan actor. He had in the course of a play to deliver a somewhat lengthy monologue, In which he invariably scored a great success. It was his habit to always hold some object or other in his hand, changing the article every time he appeared and never us- ing the same thing twice. One even- ing, seeing a wine battle (called in Italian fiasco), he seized it and pro- ceeded on the stage to pronounce his soliloquy. Whether it was that on that occasion the audience was extriordi- narily difficult to please or whether it was that the actor was not up to his usual form, the fact remains that for once he did not obtain his customary applause, from which time the phrase “fare fiasco” has become geueral in the Italian language.—London Chron- tele. Larceet Villace In the World. Open, unprotected, utterly indefensi- ble, The Hazue has basked, swilinz. just behind the storm swept edze of the ocean for centuries. Bleak, shift- ing downs roll up to the very gardens of its suburban villas; ancient histor- feal forests proffer mild memories of their vastness in woody parks and winding shady ways. it is essentially place to be at peace. Although so mingled with the doings of the house of Orange that every square has a historical association, every old palace and park its story, though the parliaments of the Dutch states have met there since 1166 and suave ambassadors have brought it weighty questions and strange faces since the sixteenth century, there is a pretty irresponsibility about this “lar- gest Village of the world” that has en- deared it to the pleasure lover of all ages.—New York Telegram. Making Mistakes. Big men make big mistakes. Little men could not make big mistakes if they tried; they haven't the capacity. ‘The fellow of strong personality, the man who grabs at an opportunity with all his might and goes straight toward its accomplishment hurriedly is: more likely to make big mistakes than the weazened of the work! who are timid and afraid. But the mistakes do not amount to so much with him—that is the point. The little fellow who makes a mistake is lost. But the biz fellow ts only encouraged by making a mistake and often is able to drag success over his errors as a giant might drag a bull through the underbrush. ‘The little fet- low fs not to be blamed, but the biz fellow is to be admired.—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. That Midnight Oil. “I suppose,” ventured the interested friend of the family, “that John is still burning the midnight off at col- lege?” “Yes, indeed,” replied the fond but puzzled mother, “but the colleze must furnish a very inferior quality of il. John Writes me that some midnizhts the light ts so very poor that he can hardly read his hand.” — Pittsbursh Chronicle-Telegraph. fais aca From the letter of a father to his son at colleze: Dear Harold—Your brief letter came to- @ay. I am inclosing the check for the Amount you requested. I have heard a great deal of the college faculty. 1 take ft to be the faculty for spendigg money Affectionately, FATHER, New York Post. Flying Predictions. In Fe Friar Bacon predicted that flying would “shortly” become a zen eral practice, and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 said, “It will yet be as usual te hear a man call for his wines when be is going on a journey as it ts now to hear him call for his boots.” Some People Think So. “Lucia di Lammermoor’ ts a great favorte of mine.” said Mrs. Van Spen- der to Mrs. Climber, whom she was eu tertaining at the opera. “I've never met her.” said Mrs Climber. “Is she attractive?"—New Terk Wart’ “Boggs says that he finds that two can live as cheaply as one.” “Yes. They live with his wife's folks."—-Browning’s Magazine. I am responsible before God for the work I might have done and did not do.—R. A. Torrey. Proving it. Pierce and "Peter Pan." Barrie and "Peter Pan." The birth of J. M. Barrie's play, "Peter Pan," was full of romantic interest. Barrie had agreed to write a play for Frohman and met him at dinner one night at the Garrick club in London. Barrie seemed nervous and at ease. "What's the matter?" said Charles. "Simply this," said Barrie. "You know I have an agreement to deliver you the manuscript of a play?" "Yes," said Frohman. "Well, I have it all right," said Barrie, "but I am sure it will not be a commercial success. It is a dream child of mine, and I am so anxious to see it on the stage that I have written another play which I will be glad to give you and which will compensate you for any loss on the one I am so eager to produce." to see "Don't bother about that," said Frobs. "It will produce both plays." man. I wrote, "Now, the extraordinary thing about this episode is that the play about whose success Barrie was so doubtful was "Peter Pin," which made several fortunes. The manuscript he offered Frohman to indemnify him from loss was "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire," which lasted only a season. "Charles Frohman, Manager and Man." Married Money. "Glad to see you looking so well, old man," said the friend of a newly made benedict. "This is the first opportunity I have had of offering my congratulations on your recent marriage. From the look of things I guess you've married money. Well, it was the right thing to do. That shop walking berth of yours must have been awfully boring. Is she in? I should like to be introduced." "Oh, she's at work," said the husband, with a placid smile. "At work? What do you mean?" asked the friend. "Well, you see, it was this way," replied the benedict. "She had a much better position than mine—head of her department, £8 a week. Wouldn't give it up. So there was nothing for it but for me to retire from business and keep house, and here I am, you see. You have to let women have their way in some things."—London Tit-Bits. The Business of Life Life is a business we are all apt to mismanage, either living recklessly from day to day or suffering ourselves to be guided out of our moments by the instances of custom. We should despise a man who gave as little activity and forethought to the conduct of any other business. But in this, which is the one thing of all others, since it contains them all, we cannot see the forest for the trees. One brief impression obliterates another. There is something stupifying in the recurrence of unimportant things, and it is only on rare provocations that we can rise to take an outlook beyond daily concerns and comprehend the narrow limits and great possibilities of our existence.—Robert Louis Stevenson. He Was the Whole of It: Over the wire to the parsonage came this request: "The bishop would like to meet at the church this evening the pastor, the class leader, the Sunday school superintendent, the president of the cradle roll and of the young people's societies, the president of the missionary society, the chorister and the sexton." "All right! I'll be there," was the At Regular Rates. Amateur Poetess—Ten dollars for correcting the meter of this little verse Professional Poet—Oh, yes; for this sort of work I charge regular plumber's rates—Life. Shook. Molly—You say you shook all over when you proposed to her? Cholly— Yes I did. Molly—And how about the girl? Cholly—Oh, she only shook her head. --- Wrong Eating. "After all," says a bulletin from a state board of health, "good health is largely a matter of what goes into the stomach. If a person eats heavily of rich, greasy, concentrated foods, such as fried meats, rich pastries, soggy or underdone breads, he will soon find himself seeking a relief from headache, sluggishness, constipation and billiousness, and the patent medicine route will be the way he will likely choose. Pills and purgatives will find a hearty welcome and become a warm friend to persons who so poison themselves. The trouble arising from eating food of this kind is that it ferments in the stomach, throws off poisons and creates a condition which calls for a stronger poison in the form of medicine to throw off the food poison. The medicine habit is acquired, and the digestive organs of the stomach are wrecked and no longer perform their natural functions. "On the other hand, whoever eats freely of fruits, vegetables, milk, butter, salads, cereals and nuts-foods prepared by nature for man-not only avoids digestsive troubles, but he is spared the evil effects of food poisons, such as rheumatism, headaches, sluggishness and billousness. He also escapes the patent medicine habit. He eats according to nature's demand and needs, and no medicine is required as an after dose." --- CHINA FINDS IT HARD TO DISBAND ITS ARMY CHINA FINDS IT HARD TO DISBAND ITS ARMY Soldiers Love Their Job, and If Not Paid They Loot. Peking.—China's toughest problem now is how to disband the army raised during the revolution. The government, hard pressed for money, will have to raise at least $30,000,000 to pay off the 800,000 men under arms, and unpaid soldiers are always a menace in China. Coolies regard military service as a very desirable occupation. Once enlisted it is difficult to persuade them to retire. They riot and become extremely troublesome if an attempt be made to disband them without liberal payment. The commanding officers are frequently as mercenary as the soldiers. When the government fails to give its soldiers what they regard as adequate pay the troops frequently become bandits and loot. Each province has its own military governor and a distinct military organization, presumably under control of the Peking authorities, but actually independent in most cases. Consequently the Peking government is forced to deal very diplomatically with the military organizations in the provinces, particularly in the remote provinces. HARVARD MAN FOILS SUN WITH INVENTION Presses a Button In Bed and the Window.Shade Goes Down as if by Magic. Cambridge, Mass. — Every morning at 7 o'clock Henry R. Guild of Boston, a Harvard senior, rolls over in bed. Seven o'clock is too early for a senior to get up, so Mr. Guild presses a button and the shade at the distant end of his chamber rolls down as if by magic. No rising sun is going to make him leave his bed unseasonably. Some morning he may miss a four alarm fire by pressing the button, but he's willing to take the chance, he asserts. Getting up at 7 a. m. is a high crime at Harvard, the same as admitting Yale has a good football team this year. Henry Guild framed up a motor, attached to the curtain string and laid wires to his bedside. When the sun throws its rays into his bedroom every morning, weather permitting, he presses a button and the curtain flops faster than in a vaudeville theater. Mr. Guild's next invention probably will be a trap door to throw tiresome professors into the cellar by means of a button that any student can press. Life's attendant inconveniences aren't going to bother him while electricity can do the work. FIREMAN SAVES BABY. Climbed on Pilot of Locomotive, Lifted Infant From Track. La Crosse. Wis.—Coon valley residents are talking of applying for a Carnegie medal for Fireman Peter Hensgen of the La Crosse and Southeastern. He was in a freight engine cab when he saw a child in the distance on the track. It was down grade and the brakes were slow to grip. Hensgen climbed out along the footboard to the pilot, grasped a rod and leaned down. He grabbed the sleeping child with his free hand and lifted her from the track. The child was the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jacobson. She had wandered away in the afternoon and lay down tired between the rails and went to sleep. NEW DIMES IN CIRCULATION. $180,000 Worth of Coins Distributed by the Philadelphia Mint. Philadelphia. — The new ten cent pieces which have been coined in large quantities at the Philadelphia mint were recently put into circulation for the first time, about $180,000 worth being distributed to banks and trust companies. They were introduced simultaneously in the western states from the Denver mint. The obverse side of the new dime shows a head of Liberty in profile, while the reverse side shows a bundle of rods in the center and the protruding battleax, symbols of unity. Surrounding the central design is an olive wreath, denoting peace. The new coins are expected to be in general circulation within a few days. Child Escapes Coyote. Bend, Ore.-Attracted to the dooryard by an unusual noise being made by her flock of turkeys, Mrs. Thomas Merchant, living east of Bend, found a coyote running toward her little girl, who was playing in the yard. The animal was frothing at the mouth and is believed to have been rabid. Mrs. Merchant had just time to snatch her daughter up and return to the house before the coyote reached the spot where the little girl was at play. Arte Kill Bess. Oakland, Cal.-Dr. J. H. Callen, who had two bives of bees, much alive, on his Fruitvale avenue property, is now occupied in cleaning out two bives of dead bees, victims of an unsuccessful Verdun defense against a horde of mauding ants. The evidence shows that the ants attacked in solid mass formation, carrying the bees' first, second and third line of trenches and then attacking the entrances to the bives. Camera Men and War Pictures. The camera man in search of lively war pictures often enjoys the protection of a special guard, which is especially detailed to protect him. Since the camera does not shoot as far as a gun, the photographer often works at an immense disadvantage. The camera makes a conspicuous target and often draws the enemy's fire. The special camera guard, which originated in one of the early Villa campaigns in Mexico, consists of two picked men, perhaps more, who accompany the photographer or skirmish ahead of him to render his position as safe as possible when the camera is set up. Many thousands of feet of war film have been made while sharpshooters on both sides kept up a steady and effective fire. A guard of two American Indians, both crack shots, were employed for many weeks to protect L. M Burrud, an American camera man, who accompanied Villa in one of his campaigns. The Indians' stealth and daring in reconnoitering the ground in advance often proved indispensable—"The Camera Man," by Francis Arnold Collins. Stage Names and Real. The extent to which favorite actresses are somebody else off the stage is not well understood. Actors generally play under their own names, but the woman who has achieved a reputation before marriage prefers to retain the name under which she became known rather than assume that of her husband. Some women, too, play while unmarried under another name than the real one. For instance, Maude Adams is really Miss Kiskadden, and Marie Dressler is Lella Koerber. Jack and Ethel Barrymore are properly called Blythe, and Truly Shattuck is Clarice Ertrulla de Bucharde, a name rather too long for the stage. Theater goers seem to like short names easily remembered. Trixie Friganza is really Della Edna O'Callahan, and Mary Mannering is Florence Friend; Elsie Janis was formerly Elsie Blerbower, and Margaret Anglin is Mary Warren. And so it goes through the list—Boston Herald. Orkney Islands In Pawn. The Orkney islands, says Pearson's Magazine, do not really belong to Great Britain in the sense that they were ever ceded by treaty or acquired by conquest. They were simply transferred by Denmark to Scotland in 1468, in pledge for the payment of the dowry of the Princess of Denmark, who was married to James III, king of Scotland. In the deed of transfer, which is still in existence, it is specially mentioned that Denmark shall have the right to redeem them at any future time by paying the original amount of the dowry with interest to date. There is no likelihood, however, that Denmark will ever attempt to exercise her right of redemption, because 60,000 florins, the original amount of the dowry, plus compound interest for 448 years, would amount to perhaps £1,000,000,000,000, and that is a bit more than the islands are worth. "Thanks For the Ducks." An official in one of the largest manufacturing concerns in Philadelphia recently showed me the huge plant. I marveled, at the labor saving machinery. "One of our workmen," he said, "has made a great many of the improvements you see in this room. He likes to go duck shooting, and while off on a trip for a week or more he thinks out some new way to save labor." After a moment's pause he added: "Why, he turned up one day with a plan whereby we save $50,000 a year." "And what," I inquired, "does that workman get out of it?" "Oh," the happy official replied, "he gets the ducks."—Girard in Philadelphia Ledger. Simple Arithmetic A little boy who had not learned how to count one day received three apples from a friend. He was very pleased and told his mother afterward. "How many apples did you get?" she asked. "I don't know just how many mother," he replied, "but I got one in the middle and two outside."—New York Times. Not Guilty. Little Charley had been spanked by his mother for stealing cookies. His cousin, who was present, wishing to comfort him, said: "Poor Charley! You have my sympathy." Looking up through his tears, he protested: "I have not! I didn't touch it!"—Boston Transcript. The Ancient Mayas. It is urged by an archaeologist that the Mayas, who once inhabited America, had a civilization as far advanced as that of any early people except the Greeks. The dwellers in the jungles of Yucatan, Guatemala and Honduras are believed to be their descendants. Clam Shells. Clam shells are susceptible of a fine polish and are used for many ornamental purposes. Chinese carve them into snuffboxes, tops of walking sticks, bracelets and similar articles. Merely a Delusion Insurance Doctor--Any insanity in your family? Cholly--Only-aw—the pater-thinks he's the head of the house. ye know--Boston Globe. Strong on Bills. Winkle—My wife would make a good member of congress. Hinkle—Why? Winkle—She's always introducing bills into the house. Where love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. Reade. Lobster and Butterfly. According to a scientific observer, the lobster is akin to the butterfly. The kiship is not merely that of two members of the animal kingdom. The lobster and the butterfly are actually in one and the same great group of the kingdom, like the clam and the small or the whale and the giraffe, whose spheres of activity are so widely separated. It is simply, as Darwin pointed out in the case of other creatures many years ago, that the lobster and its friends, the crab, the prawn and the shrimp, chose one method of life, while the butterfly and its set chose another. So the first group developed characteristics suited to the conditions in which it lived, including as one of the most important, as its members do not move rapidly, a coat of armor to protect them from their innumerable enemies, while the butterflies and the great host of winged insects shed every bit of superfluous weight, trusting to swiftness to carry them out of danger and to protective coloring to conceal them when flight is unavailing. A. Useful Coffin: A writer in an English church magazine once found in a collier's cottage in Staffordshire a coffin used, as a bread and cheese cupboard. Notwithstanding his wife's remonstrance, he told the story of the coffin as follows: "Eighteen years ago I ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words. One day she said, 'I'll never be content till I see thee in thy coffin.' 'Well, lass,' I said, 'if that'll content thee it'll. soon be done.' "Next day I gave directions to have the thing made. In a few days it came home, to the wife's horror. I got into and sald, 'Now, lass, are these content?' She began to cry and wanted the 'horrid thing' taken away. But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she got accustomed to seeing it, and as we wanted to turn it to some use we had some shelves put in and made it into a bread and cheese cupboard. We have never quarreled since it came." Where Johnson Made a Blunder: The present Blackfriars bridge is a comparatively modern structure, which replaced the bridge of Robert Mylne after the latter had endured, with much alteration and repair, it is true, for nearly a hundred years'. Mylne's design, it will be recalled by those familiar with their Boswell, was attacked by Johnson with that arrogance and, let me sadly add, ignorance which he was too wont to display in subjects of which he knew very little. Johnson, with a weight of words which might have tested any bridge, declared that no structure with elliptical arches could bear heavy weights. Mylne's bridge has gone, but the elliptical form of arch remains, and very beautiful it is and adequate for a weight of traffic of which Johnson never dreamed.—Westminster Gazette. Lakes of Blood. The name Lake of Blood or its equivalent has been given to places as far apart as England and South America. "Sanguelac"—i. e., the Lake of Blood—was the name given by the victorious Normans to the battlefield at Hastings, where the Saxons were overthrown and slain with terrible carnage. For a similar reason Lake Trasimene has borne the name "Sanginetto" because its waters were reddened during the second Punic war by the blood of some 15,000 Romans who fell before the troops of Hannibal. Yet another Lake of Blood, called also "Yaguar Cocha," is situated in the state of Ecuador. It is one of a series of lakes formed by the extinct craters of volcanoes on the towering heights of the Andes range of mountains. Game. Daughter of Western Farmer—Oh, George, the harvest hands threaten to quit, and papa is away! Young Foreman—Yes, I know. I wired him this morning for instructions. Daughter of Western Farmer—What did he answer? Young Foreman—He said, "Hold hands till I come." Daughter of W. Farmer—Well, it means an awfu. of spooning, but I guess we can do it, can't we?—Life. Feminine Sympathy. "I could tell her how sorry all the girls felt for Mamle yesterday." "Why so?" "Because she sat there without a word when the others were telling indignantly how those contemptible street mashers tried to flirt with them."—Baltimore American. Deserved to Get It "I want to ask you for a bit of advice," said the insinuating man. "What is it?" "I want you to put yourself in my place and me in yours and tell me how you would go about it if you wanted to borrow $10 from me."--Exchange. The Irritated Tourist "Is this the bureau of information?" asked the confused traveler. "No." replied the man. "This is the ticket office." "Great guns! Is it getting so they sell tickets now for information?"—Washington Star. Troublesome Trait "Brown claims that he always tells the truth." "Yes; he seems to have a mania for stirring up trouble." — New York Times. This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.— R. A. Campbell. The Horse Upstairs. Not long since we were riding on an elevated train in Chicago. We looked out of the car, and there, right at our elbow, was a horse's head, thrust through the upper floor window of a brick building. It was a startling thing. We felt like saying, "Now, what on earth are you doing up here, old man?" But the horse appeared to be very much at home. No doubt he lived there, twenty feet or so from the ground. It was like a jail. He had no barn lot or pasture. When his day's work was over he was taken direct from the wagon to his upstairs stall. Rents were too high for his owner to furnish a stall on the ground. He never had a chance to "roll over" or to nibble at a bit of fresh plowed earth. Yet that horse's life in the city was no more artificial and abnormal than the life of the average city man. The man goes of his own accord, however, and the horse has no choice in the matter. Probably the horses wonder why men want to live together like bees.—Farm Life. Aztecs and Human Sacrifices Human victims were sacrificed by the Aztecs in various ways and relatively in large numbers. Hubert Howe Bancroft, in his "History of Mexico," says: "The victims were for the most part captives taken in war, and war was often made solely with a view to obtaining them. A large proportion, however, consisted of condemned criminals or slaves, and even of children, bought or presented for the purpose. Moreover, persons sometimes offered themselves voluntarily for the good of the people or for the honor of a god. The greater part of the victims died under the knife, but some were burned alive, and children were often buried alive or drowned, while we hear of criminals being crushed to death between stones. But the most cruel sacrifice of all, and yet the most common, was performed by tearing out the heart of a living human creature at the sacrificial stone." Haiti's Sans Souci. The palace of Sans Souci, erected by Christophe, the black leader of Haiti, is situated in the hills above the level vale of Milot, with a background of forest and a foreground sprinkled with the palms and huts of simple cultivators. Dilapidated ruins and a tangle of tropical trees are the rueful remnants of the glory that was once the palace without care and the garden of delight of the king of slaves. It was off the coast of Haiti, near the site of this palace, that the flagship of Columbus was wrecked, and here he left most of his men when he returned to Spain for aid. Upon his return to the settlement, which he called "La Navidad," he found the whole party dead, including an Englishman named Allard and an Irishman, who was entered on the Santa Maria's books as William of Galway.—National Geographic Magazine. The Vampire. This is the vampire: Always inert, sitting still, spending five to seven hours a day looking out the window on the street. Nothing to give, and always giving it. Seeking amusement, entertainment, but never affording any. Taking, but never giving. Sitting quietly and listening to others converse and confer, even when her presence is unwelcome, but saying nothing but an occasional yes or no. Primitive minded and narrow, with nothing to give, she drains others of ideas without retaining them—like a sieve. Thought passes through and beyond her without stopping. She acquires nothing, gives nothing, takes everything. One person alone with her becomes exhausted while she is revivified—New York Globe. Firm as a Rock. "There," he said, pulling his shirt sleeves over his brawny arms and surveying the clothes prop which had taken him the best part of the afternoon to fix in the garden, "that's as firm as a rock. Even the combined forces of the elements cannot bring it down." Later in the day he found the pole on the ground. "Did you do this?" he roared to his eight-year-old son. "No, father," was the answer; "a sparrow perched on it. I seed it myself."—London Globe. A River In Brazil. The state of Sao Paulo, in the republic of Brazil, has a river that carries one of the longest names of any stream in the world. The name is of Indian origin and is "Tandamauetechy" and is also called without saving anything in length "river of the Great Tamanor." Air Movements. The movement of air is variously designated, according to its velocity as a zephyr, breeze, wind, gale or hurricane. A dense or thick fog, according to the weather bureau, obscures objects at a distance of 1,000 feet. Prodiay. "That youngster of yours is pretty bright, eh?" "Reads Henry James at sight," answered the Boston man.—Kansas City Journal. Cruel. Lottie—He wore my photograph over his heart, and it stopped the bullet. Tottie I'm not surprised, darling; it would stop a clock—London Sketch. One Drawback: Confession may be good for the soul, but it's often rough on the reputation. —Charleston News and Courier. Nothing boosts the value of blessings like their removal—Chicago News. PAGE THREE He Used His Head. In the American Magazine Charles M. Schwab says: "Andrew Carnegie first attracted attention by using his head to think with. It was when he was a telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad under Colonel Thomas A. Scott. One morning a series of wrecks tangled up the line. Colonel Scott was absent and young Carnegie could not locate him. Things looked bad. "Right then Carnegie disregarded one of the road's strictest rules and sent out a dozen telegraphs signed with Colonel Scott's name, giving orders that would clear the blockade. "Young man,' said the superintendent a few hours later, 'do you realize that you have broken this company's rules? "Well, Mr. Scott, aren't your tracks clear and your trains running?' asked the young telegrapher. "Colonel Scott's punishment was to make Carnegie his private secretary. A few years later, when the colonel retired from office, he was succeeded by the former telegraph operator, then only twenty-eight years old." The Thespian's Fiasco. Among Italians, a correspondent in Rome tells me, the origin of the term "fiasco" for failure is believed to have originated in the remark of an old Italian actor. He had in the course of a play to deliver a somewhat lengthy monologue, in which he invariably scored a great success. It was his habit to always hold some object or other in his hand, changing the article every time he appeared and never using the same thing twice. One evening, seeing a wine battle (called in Italian fiasco), he seized it and proceeded on the stage to pronounce his soliloquy. Whether it was that on that occasion the audience was extraordinarily difficult to please or whether it was that the actor was not up to his usual form, the fact remains that for once he did not obtain his customary applause, from which time the phrase "fare fiasco" has become general in the Italian language.—London Chronicle. Largest Village In the World. Open, unprotected, utterly indefensible. The Hague has basked, smiling, just behind the storm swept edge of the ocean for centuries. Bleak, shifting downs roll up to the very gardens of its suburban villas; ancient historical forests proffer mild memories of their vastness in woody parks and winding shady ways. it is essentially a place to be at peace. Although so mingled with the doings of the house of Orange that every square has a historical association, every old palace and park its story, though the parlaments of the Dutch states have met there since 1406 and suave ambassadors have brought it weighty questions and strange faces since the sixteenth century, there is a pretty irresponsibility about this "largest village of the world" that has endured it to the pleasure lover of all ages.—New York Telegram. Making Mistakes. Big men make big mistakes. Little men could not make big mistakes if they tried; they haven't the capacity. The fellow of strong personality, the man who grabs at an opportunity with all his might and goes straight toward its accomplishment hurriedly is more likely to make big mistakes than the wezened of the world who are timid and afraid. But the mistakes do not amount to so much with him—that is the point. The little fellow who makes a mistake is lost. But the big fellow is only encouraged by making a mistake and often is able to drag success over his errors as a giant might drag a bull through the underbrush. The little fellow is not to be blamed, but the big fellow is to be admired.—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. That Midnight Oil. "I suppose," ventured the interested friend of the family, "that John is still burning the midnight oil at college?" "Yes, indeed," replied the fond but puzzled mother, "but the college must furnish a very inferior quality of oil. John writes me that some midnights the light is so very poor that he can hardly read his hand." — Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. College Faculty. From the letter of a father to his son at college: Dear Harold-Your brief letter came today. I am inclosing the check for the amount you requested. I have heard a great deal of the college faculty. I take it to be the faculty for spending money. Affectionately, FATHER. -New York Post Flying Predictions. In 1273 Friar Bacon predicted that flying would "shortly" become a general practice, and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 said, "It will yet be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going on a journey as it is now to hear him call for his boots." Some People Think So. "Lucia di Lammermoor" is a great favorite of mine," said Mrs. Van Spender to Mrs. Climber, whom she was entertaining at the opera. "I've never met her," said Mrs. Climber. "Is she attractive?"—New World World. Proving It "Yes. They live with his wife's folks."—Browning's Magazine. I am responsible before God for the work I might have done and did not do. R. A. Torrey. About ninety-nine per cent of all opposition among Negroes to President Wilson is founded upon the argument of race leaders who assert that while several hundred thousand Negroes voted for him four years ago the President has not been fair to the race since he has been in office. These supposedly well informed leaders charge that fewer Negroes are holding government jobs than ever before and that segregation of Negroes in the departments at Washington was started under this administration. Neither statement is true. The records show that President Wilson has greatly increased the number of Negroes employed in ordinary positions—the places to which the average person with education (not the big $5,000 jobs) might aspire—during his administration. The records show that 18,000 Negroes were on the government pay roll under Taft's administration drawing $12,418,000; while today, under the Wilson administration there are 19,680 Negro employees drawing an annual income of $13,981,200. An increase of 1,680 persons employed and an increase of $1,463,200 per year in salaries. It should not require a Chicago lawyer nor a Louisville spellbinder to help any thinking man to understand that the Wilson administration in placing 1,680 more members of the race on the pay roll and paying almost one and a half million dollars more in Salaries to Negroes than was the case under his predecessor (who the same Negro leaders four years ago said was the best president we have had since Lincoln) has been friendly to the race. The race profits more by the Wilson administration giving 1,680 more people employment than it would have if the government pay-roll had been left just as it was under the Taft administration. SEGREGATION IN ITS TRUE LIGHT. The greatest injustice done the races lies in the fact that the supposedly intelligent Negro leaders do more misleading than leading. They are trying to mislead the race into believing that segregation is a creature of the Democratic party, when as a matter of fact it is not new to Washington and is as old as the history of man. It was practiced under the Roosevelt and Taft administrations and but little if anything was heard in the way of protest. The Republican party has taught the Negro to believe that it cannot mis-treat him; that jimerowism and segregation are of Democratic origin, while in truth the Republican party is wholly responsible for both. Mr. W. T. Vernon and Mr. J. C. Napier, two estimable Colored gentlemen, while holding the position of Register of the United States Treasury were segregated and refused permission to eat in certain restaurants under government control. In several departments at Washington, especially in the Printing and Treasury Departments, segregation was practiced under both Roosevelt and Taft administrations. President Wilson is not responsible for the present alleged segregation and has not countenanced it in any department where it has been brought to his personal attention; while on the other hand, Republican civil service men at the head of various bureaus have enforced this policy under former administrations and continued to do so under the present administration until recently, when orders were issued doing away with all such objectionable discrimination. There is no segregation in any of the departments in Washington today, it has been completely wiped out.—From the Educator, Kansas City, Kansas, November 11, 1916. PRESIDENT WILSON RESTORES TO HONOR AND PENSIONS NEGRO SOLDIERS A Republican President, Roosevelt, discharged a whole battalion of Negro soldiers "without honor" and with the loss of pensions following the Brownsville, Texas affair, which Congress after a most searching investigation, could not fix upon them. Even a Texas grand jury was unable to fix the responsibility upon a single member of that battalion located at Brownsville, though an effort was made to do so. Some time since, without the noise of drum nor the blare of trumpet accompanying Col. Roosevelt's act, President Wilson caused the restoration of both honor and pensions to all such soldiers who applied and disclaimed the act charged by ex-President Roosevelt.—Ex. Some of the Colored soldiers received more than three thousand dollars in back pay which they had been deprived of owing to the rash or hot-headed act of President Theodore Roosevelt, who discharged them without honor and forever barred them from holding any civil position under the Federal government. -Editor. GREAT SEVENTH ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST TO BE A LITERARY TREAT. 7 Clubs to Participate 7. The subject, "Why Is It That the Negro of the United States Is Not a Power in the Industrial, Political and Commercial World," lends itself easily to the times. Many of the most prominent Literary people of Chicago have written the management commending the very excellent work and offering their support. The management regrets to say that because of the unusual number of Clubs desiring to enter, some of the older ones were omitted so that the new clubs could take part. It is hoped that the public will understand that the management is making every effort to give entire satisfaction in every respect in this year's contest and earnestly ask the hearty co-operation of the public. The following clubs have accepted and appointed their representatives: Bethel Literary Club, Bethel Church; St. Mark's Lyceum, St. Mark's M. E. Church; Sunday Afternoon Literary Club, Berean Baptist Church; City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; The Tuskegee Club; Star Literary Club, Ebenezer Church; Jolly Twenty Club of the North Side. The contest will be held in the spacious Auditorium of Bethel A. M. E. Church, 30th and Dearborn Streets, Sunday afternoon December 7th, 1916, at 2:30 o'clock. A silver offering at the door. B. W. Fitts, Founder and Manager. Alonzo J. Bowling, L. W. Washington, Jos. A. Marshall, Assistant Managers.—Adv. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE The Negro Fellowship League will hold its regular Sunday afternoon meeting at the Reading Room, 3005 State St., November 19, 1916. Dr. J. H. Plummer of the Eighth Regiment will make the address of the afternoon detailing his experience on the border. Dr. Plummer is one of the charter members of the Negro Fellowship League, and all are cordially invited to hear him. Last Sunday, "The Close of the Election" was the main topic of discussion, participated in by the president, Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mr. A. D. Hughes, Mr. L. W. Washington, and others. There is reason for the failure of the Republicans to carry the election, and the majority of those present agreed with the view that women's vote, re-elected Mr. Wilson. Women were carried away with the slogan "He kept us out of War" and the Colored women were not sufficiently aroused to offset that attitude. Mrs. Barnett told at length of her addresses in Topeka and Wichita Kansas, and how she found numbers of Colored women who had not registered and who didn't seem to feel interested in the election. Among the visitors were Miss Montgomery of Mound Bye, Miss., and Mr. H. Harvey of Kingston, Jamaica. The Alpha Suffrage Club, held its regular weekly meeting, Wednesday evening of November 15, 3005 State Street. After transacting the business, the women listened to a most interesting address by Mr. H. Garvey of Kingston, Jamaica, who showed that the Colored people of the West Indies suffer from many of the same restrictions as the injustice of the race of the United States. Mr. Garvey is seeking help to establish an Industrial School for the Colored people themselves in Jamaica. The Alpha Suffrage Club, will meet regularly every Wednesday evening from now on, and the members are especially urged to be present. NO COLOR LINE AT THE NEW POLICE STATIONS. Chicago, November 16, 1916 Mr. Julius F. Taylor, 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:— In answer to your inquiry, relative to an article appearing in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, to the effect that the new police station now nearing completion at S. Wabash Ave., and E. 48th St., White and Negro prisoners are to be segregated, I beg to inform you that I did not make the statement attributed to me, and I do not understand how such an article appeared in the papers. You may rest assured that Colored prisoners will not be treated in any manner other than White prisoners. Thanking you for your interest in the matter, I remain. Very truly yours, C. C. HEALY, General Superintendent Many people in all parts of this country held services and pub honor of his memory last Sunday, being one year since he from this earth. Many people in all parts of this country held services and public meetings in honor of his memory last Sunday, being one year since he passed away from this earth. DEATH OF MRS. ALLEN MAE GRIFFIN. Sunday, November 12, at 5:30 P. M., Mrs. Allen Mae Griffin, the beloved and highly esteemed wife of Charles A. Griffin and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Marcus, very peacefully closed her eyes in death at her late residence 3721 Prairie avenue. Funeral services were held over her remains Wednesday November 15 at 1 P. M., from her late home. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Rev. W. D. Cook, Rev. J. F. Thomas, Rev. J. H. Heywood and Rev. William Griffin officiated, the many floral offerings were very beautiful. George T. Kersey of the Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Company was in charge. CHICAGO UNIVERSITY THANKS ROSENWALD FOR $500,000 GIFT. Former acknowledgment has been made by the trustees of the University of Chicago to Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald for the gift of $500,000 towards the new medical fund with which it is proposed to make Chicago the medical center of the world. Resolutions adopted by the board say, after extending thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Rosenwald: "It is for Chicago and in aid of the medical profession of the whole country that the University of Chicago wishes to do its share in the war on disease, the most pressing social need of the present time." LIST OF VISITORS AT THE WABASH AVENUE DEPART- MENT Y. M. C. A., WEEK END- ING NOV. 11TH. Mr. R. R. Taylor, Director of the Industrial Department, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Mr. G. R. Bridgforth, Director Agricultural Department, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Mr. H. Hunt, Private Secretary to Dr. Robert Moton, Principal Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; Mr. E. Kinclek Jones, Director National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 2303 Seventh Avenue, New York City, N. Y. A FAITHFUL EMPLOYEE Philadelphia, Nov. 16.—Charles Dorsey recently completed 30 years continuous service as an employee of the Union League. Only one employee has been there longer than he. Mr. Dorsey was the recipient of many congratulations. APPOINTED TRUSTER Wilmington, Del., Nov. 16.—Special.—Dr. Samuel G. Elbert, of this city, has been appointed a trustee of the State College at Dover, being the first Colored man in the State so named. It is reported that Dr. George C. Hall, Col. William Randolph Cowan and Col. John R. Marshall may enter the race for Alderman of the Second Ward against Alderman Oscar De-Priest at the Aldermanic primaries the latter part of February. entry held services and public meetings in y, being one year since he passed away Miss Beatrice Lee, the highly educated daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Samuel I. Lee, 5259 Dearborn street, will between now and January 1, 1917, graduate with high honors from the Normal School and shortly after that date she will be ready to become an up-to-date school teacher. Jesse Binga and Binga Dismond, left Thursday evening for Nashville, Tenn., where they will witness the football game between the Howard University and the Fisk University teams. Mr. Binga expects to enjoy his visit to that southern city, which is full of educational institutions for the Colored race. Faulkner and Cook, the hustling real estate agents, have removed their offices from 3603 to 3605 S. State street and after expending more than $200 in refitting and remodeling their new quarters; they now have one of the best and most up-to-date real estate offices on the South side. Miss Maude J. Roberts and Miss Johnnette Boise Clanton gave a delightful musical recital at Masonic Hall in Springfield, Ill., last evening. Both young ladies are very popular among the music lovers in this city and they made a great hit in the capitol city of Ill. Dancing followed the program. Madame Calloway-Byron, the noted international song bird accompanied by William Henry Hackney, left the city Monday evening for Washington, D. C., where on Thursday evening they appeared in an All Star recital at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, under the direction of Mr. S. M. Dudley. Every seat was sold long before the recital began. William P. Nolan, who made a good race at the September primaries for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the third congressional district of Illinois and who put in some good licks in favor of the re-election of Governor Edward F. Dunne and the entire Democratic ticket of Illinois, has decided to quit the game of politics and in the near future will engage in the fire insurance business. George W. Holt, who is one of the best known men in this country among the liberal minded or the sporting element, laid down $12,000 on the outcome of the late Presidential election and of course he was for Hon. Charles E. Hughes and his money vanished like the morning mist before the rays of the bright shining sun. (Teenen) Henry Jones, also eased in $150 on Ohio wheeling in line for Charles E. Hughes for President; but so far he has been unable to connect up with his money and it has gone up into smoke like the twenty-four electoral votes of Ohio as far as Hon. Charles E. Hughes is concerned. RIGHT OF NATIONAL BANK TO ACT AS ADMINISTRATOR—An interesting question as to the right of a national bank to act as an administrator arose in the case of the Appeal of Woodbury, N. H. 96 Atl. 299. The proceeding was begun in the probate court to secure the appointment of a national bank as ad- ministrator of an estate. The petition for the appointment was denied on the ground of lack of power, and the decree denying the petition was affirmed first by the Superior Court, and then by the Supreme Court. The petitioners relied on a provision of the Federal Reserve Act which authorized the reserve board "to grant by special permit to national banks applying thereof, when not in contravention of state or local law, the right to act as trustee, executor, administrator, or registrar of stocks and bonds under such rules and regulations as the said board may prescribe," and the petitioners showed that the national bank in question had received the special permit. They were met however by a New Hampshire statute passed in 1915 which provided as follows: "No trust company, loan and trust company, loan and banking company, bank or banking company, or similar corporation, shall hereafter be appointed administrator of an estate, executor under a will, or guardian or conservator of the person or property of another." The Supreme Court held that the state statute applied to national banks, and that the special permit was unavailing in view of the provision in the Federal Reserve Act that the grant of the special permit to national banks must not be "in contravention of state or local law." Another contention of the petitioners was stated and answered by the court as follows: "As the Federal Reserve Act was approved on December 23, 1913, authorizing national banks to act as administrators when the state law permitted it, it is claimed that the New Hampshire statute of 1915 could not deprive them of that privilege; in other words, that subsequent state legislation would be ineffective to deprive them of the power of administration if they already possessed it in this state. Assuming, but not deciding, they have had that authority, it is clear that the language of the Reserve Act does not lead to the conclusion that the legislature of this state could not subsequently provide that national banks should not act as administrators, or that the probate courts should not subsequently appoint them to such positions. The power of the state over the probate courts is exclusive, and they have such powers and only such as the legislature gives them. The act of Congress was not an attempt to invest probate courts with a power of appointment they did not possess before, but it was an authorization to national banks to accept appointments when the probate courts were authorized to make them. As those courts cannot now make such appointments, it necessarily follows that national banks cannot be appointed. They have no vested right to exercise that trust, and can only enjoy the privilege when the appointing power is authorized to appoint them."—Law Notes. REFERENDUM ON REAPPORTIONMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.—The Ohio Redistricting Act of May, 1915, submitted, under the referendum provision of the State Constitution, to popular vote, and thereby disapproved, afforded the basis for the institution of mandamus proceedings culminating in the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant, 36 Supreme Court Reporter, 708. The opinion, written by Mr. Chief Justice White, upholds the ruling of the State Supreme Court that the validity of the referendum provisions is not affected by Section 4 of Article 1 of the federal Constitution, nor by Act of Congress August 8, 1911, 37 Stat. 13 (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1913, Sec. 15), regarding apportionment of representation among the States. It is held that the amendatory phrase in the act cited—"in the manner provided by the laws thereof"—is shown by the legislative history of the act to have been inserted for the express purpose of excluding contentions regarding referendum provisions. A LAWYER wanted an apprentice and placed an advertisement in the local paper. A number of boys replied, so he gathered them, all together in his office at once and looked them over. He found it pretty hard to make a choice, but at length a happy idea struck him. "Once upon a time," he said, "a farmer was very much annoyed by a huge rat that made a very comfortable living by feeding upon his grain and other products. He tried traps of all kinds to catch it, but the wily rodent evaded them all and apparently enjoyed the game of hide and seek that the farmer had devised for its recreation. One day, however, as the farmer turned the corner of a haystack, carrying a gun in his hand, he spied the troublesome rodent at the edge of the hay. Instantly raising his gun, he fired, but the blazing gun-wad dropped among the hay"— Here the lawyer stopped, and, looking at the boys, he said, "If any of you want to ask a question, write it on a piece of paper." Each did as suggested, and here are some of the questions that were asked: "Did he set the hay on fire?" "Was the stack burned to the ground?" "Did the farmer have the hay is sured?" "Was the fire engine near at hand?" "Was the rat killed?" The boy that asked the last question was chosen because he stuck to the point.—American Photography ASLEEP, NOT DEAD Printer Woke Up In Time to Dodge the Coroner and Undertaker. Mount Pleasant, N. Y. - Harry Daugherty, a printer, was dead to all intents and purposes the other eventing. The members of the household where he lived so reported to an undertaker and the coroner. The coroner immediately notified the man's parents of his death and asked the relatives if they wanted an investigation made. When the coroner and the undertaker, carrying a dead basket between them, opened the gate leading into the yard they met Daugherty, hale and hearty, going to work. Exhausted from a long day's work Daugherty had lain down on the bed for a nap when another member of the household, seeing him, became frightened and, thinking him dead, notified the authorities. OPERATES ON RIGID JAWS Surgeon Uses a Cushion of Fat to Make Them Work. Philadelphia.—A patient whose jaws had been rigid for twenty years, who had never learned to talk and who had been obliged to obtain all the nourishment through a tube, was the subject of one of the many operations performed at the various clinics here as part of the activities of the clinical congress of surgeons of North America. The joints of the patient's jaws had hardened after an attack of scars fever when he was only a year old. Dr. W. Wayne Babcock laid open the stiffened joints, scraped away a hard bony substance which was found covering them and inserted a cushion of fat taken from another part of the man's body. AUTO AIDS GUNNERS Makes Adirondacks Accessible For Week End Trips. Utica, N. Y.—In most sections of the Adirondacks game is plentiful. More and more each year the automobile is being used by gunners, particularly those who live in the cities and town near the forests. Thousands of hunters are going into the woods for week 'end trips, and machines are also used for the purpose of taking the hunters from one good ground to another. This of course relates to small game, and it is surprising how many good places can be covered by this method of gunning. The new law prohibits any gunning from an automobile, but the machine makes the innermost recesses of the forests accessible to the gunner who has a car. FLY SAVES BOY'S LIFE Accidentally Discharged Bullet Only Hurt His Arm. La Crosse, Wis.—A fly saved the life of Carl Kaeppler, thirteen years old while he was hunting in the vicinity of Swift creek with William Stellick fifteen years old. Carl felt something irritating his face head and raised his arm to brush the fly aside. At the same instant Stellick who was only a few paces distant, accidentally discharged a rifle he was carrying. The bullet passed through the fleshy part of young Kaeppler's arm and, although most of its force was spent struck the boy in the head. Physicians said he probably would have been killed had not his arm been in the way of the bullet. COYOTE ATTACKS AUTOIST. After It Was Run Over It Wanted to Bite the Driver. Reno, Nev.—That a coyote that will attack the front end of any automobile traveling thirty miles an hour, allow himself to be run over and then get up and attack the driver of the car who out of curiosity stopped to see what damage was done must be mad is the opinion of P. Y. Gillson, who enjoyed this experience on Lakeview hill, near Carson, the other night. The coyote was game, according to Gillson, but was so badly cut up that it was easily driven off with rocks before it bit any one. Gillson was accompanied on the trip by County Commissioner Henrich. COUNTRY SHORT OF PENNIES Mints Working Twenty-four Hours Day to Relieve the Conditions. Washington. — What this country needs today is more pennies, says the treasury department. To that end the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints are working twenty-four hours a day and the Denver mint sixteen hours a day turning them out. A lot of reasons are given for the shortage, the chief one being the increased use of the copper coins, with every dealer in everything adding a penny every now and then. Baseball an Element in Will Fight. New York — When Ernest G. Weex, millionaire brewer, on his deathbed ceased to ask whether the Giants won or lost, Katherine Haas, employed in the household, knew a "great change" had come. She testified in the $3,000. 000 will contest before Surrogate Or halan, in New York. BIRTH OF A RACE PHOTOPLAY CORPORATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY ANNOUNCES A MILLION DOLLAR PHOTOPLAY "THE BIRTH OF A RACE" A motion picture of racial understanding, including the true story of the Negro, together with his past, present and future relations to the White race. A great entertaining, historical, educational, inspirational photoplay for all the people. "The Birth of a Race" will be exhibited in the best theatres throughout the world. It will be staged with many new and novel effects. Special music played by an orchestra of thirty pieces. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 5, 1916. Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation, Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen:— A Few of the Many Men You Know I want you, as well as all who are interested in "The Birth of a Race," to know that I have entered into this work with genuine enthusiasm. The subject is rich in possibilities. It is a very human subject, filled with the finest pictorial and dramatic values. 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A RACE PHOTOPLAY CO 9 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET, OFFICE WILL BE OPEN NEXT BIRTH OF A RACE PHOTOPLAY CORPORATION SUITE 416, 29 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO OFFICE WILL BE OPEN NEXT WEEK. LOOK FOR IT. Who Are Interested in "The Birth of a Race" YANKEE DUCHESS Once Miss May Ogden Goelet of New York City. FRIEND OF QUEEN MARY. Could Not Be Appointed Mistress of the Robes Because She Was Not Born In England—Collects Jewels and Has a Marvelous Necklace of Turquoises. It was recently reported in American newspapers that the Duchess of Roxburghe, who before her marriage was Miss May Ogden Goelet of New York Mary DUCHESS OF ROXBURGHE. and Newport, had been offered the position of mistress of the robes to Queen Mary, vacated by the Duchess of Devonshire, consequent on the appointment of the duke to the governor generalship of Canada. The rules of the court require that the mistress of the robes should not be of lower rank than a duchess, and this rule considerably limits the number of ladies to whom the premier position in Queen Mary's household could be offered. But the rules also say she must be an Englishwoman by birth, so the Duchess of Roxburghe was barred. Of the duchesSES the two who stand most high in the regard of Queen Mary are the Duchess of Portland and the Duchess of Roxburghe. The Duchess of Portland is mistress of the robes to Queen Alexandra, otherwise it is more than possible that the position would have been offered to her. The Duchess of Roxburghe's friendship with Queen Mary is not of very long standing. Her grace was, of course, received at court after her marriage, and afterward, with her husband, was the guest on several occasions of the late King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra. The Duke of Roxburghe is one of the best all around sportsmen in England. He shoots, skates, rides to hounds and has half a dozen other strenuous pastimes, in all of which he excels. He took part in the South African war and won much praise. During a reconnoissance at Rensburg a private lost his mount. The duke, realizing the great danger the man was in, rode out under a heavy fire and effected his rescue, the private and peer riding into safety on the same horse. The duchess has a wonderful collection of turquoises, which has attracted a great deal of interest in society. The chief item in the collection is a large ornament for the neck composed of hundreds of turquoises, all fawless and of great beauty and value. The duchess had a hundred pieces of jewelry broken up to form this wonderful thing. THE BIRD'S BATH. Baking Tins Make Delightful "Tube" For Feathered Pets. Some canaries simply refuse to take baths regularly in the tiny bird baths usually provided for them. The thing to do then is to take all perches out of the cage and also the bottom. Then set the cage over an oblong or square baking tin, according to the shape of the cage, just partly filled with water. This will leave no place for the bird to go but to cling to the side of the cage, of which we will soon tire, or take his plunge. Of course, if the bird simply sits in the water without bathing he must not be allowed to remain in the bath for very long, as he will catch cold. Most birds, however, will bathe if thus managed and enjoy the bath much better than if it were taken in a tiny dish. The baking tin should be new. Freshening Velveta. Velvet must be ironed over the iron so as not to crush the pile. The best way is to get some one to hold a hot iron upward while you draw the velvet backward and forward along the hot surface. Keep the velvet well stretched and go over every piece carefully till the pile stands up well. DRESS TRIMMINGS. Style Tips About the Very Latest Garnishings. For those who may still be doubtful regarding the fashionable dress trimmings of the season a review will not be amiss. Among the most salient trimmings is wool embroidery in separable motifs or in bands. The richest oriental colors are used for the purpose, and in some instances the wool is combined with metal embroideries. Motifs in silk combined with wool are also in vogue. Such trimmings you can use appropriately on odd shaped pockets, on belts, on flat sashes, on corners of tunics and on the ever present bags. Wool fringes in blue, gray and black are in high favor. Beaded fringes, drops and tassels are very well liked. On evening gowns beaded bandings are very modish. They are used as garnitures, as straps for corsages, and in some instances they are used to give the effect of a necklace. These bands are particularly well liked in jet, in crystal and in opal. Persian colorings prove an incentive in the making of bead medallions. Combinations of bead with chenille are used on gowns for both afternoon and evening. Chenille alone is also a strong trimming and is used in all sorts of colors. Never before have spangles been so important. They are offered in infinite variety and are used largely to form the long waisted bodice, suggestive of the moven age line. Fur in larger quantities than ever is a favored trimming. Mole and seal are the favorites, but coney, skunk and opossum are not far behind. Fur cloth is also used a great deal and has proved a very pleasing substitute for the real fur. Where laces are concerned silver, gold and chantilly seem to be the favored ones. HOLIDAY BASKET. None Too Soon to Begin Your Christmas Lists. Almost any kind of weave, sweet grass or just plain straw, will make the base of this workbasket. To keep DAINTY GIFT. out the dust a figured silk top is shirred on to the upper rim, closing tightly with a silk cord of the same color. Any number of variations may come from this design. WHEN YOU SERVE TEA. Things to Do In Order to Be Really Hospitable. Remember to add as a finishing touch to the tray or tea table a vase with a few flowers, a single rose, three or four asters or a yellow daffodil or so placed in a bud vase or held in place in a flat dish by a Japanese frog. Always serve cream as well as lemon. Many persons do not enjoy tea without cream, and of course they will not be so frank as to tell you so when they see that the tea tray is not supplied with any. Serve the cut sugar in the small half lumps. For a small cup of tea a large lump often proves too much, and it is always awkward to have to break a lump or to take a lump from the cup when it is half dissolved. Take pains to see that the teapot and hot water jug are both well heated before pouring in the boiling water. By doing so the temperature of the boiling water will not be reduced in bringing the teapot and jug to level. Remember to carry the pot to the boiling water and pour the water on the tea leaves while the water is actually boiling. Many persons wrongly feel that if the water has boiled it matters little whether or not it is still boiling when it is applied to the tea leaves. Always serve sandwiches or toast in small portions. It is very awkward for the tea drinker to have to manage large portions. Bread and butter sandwiches should be of wafer thickness and should be cut in inch wide strips. A good supply should be on hand to make up for the smallness of the single pieces. Guimpes For Children Gulmpes are coming into vogue again for children. The practical wash fabrics are still to be among those popular with the smart little folk. Little plaited skirts seem to be used on practically every model, even on the smallest child. Some have the jackets slipped over the head or buttoned on the shoulders. Gulmpes, which have often been made for little folk from their mothers' shirt waists, will be of much use to them this season, since practically all have the little white sleeves and yoke of lawn, linen, batiste, organdle and other sheer materials. For the fancy dresses georgette is used. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 18. 1916. FOR YOUNG FOLKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Very Popular Farmyard Fowl. ESCAPE FROM A CRUEL FATE How Luck Saved a Fine Fat Gobbler From the Oven on Thanksgiving Day. A Hungry Time In the Woods—Things of Interest to Children. Thanksgiving was at hand, and, of course, Little Ned and Polly Ann were very much interested in it. I think, said Uncle Ben, I will have to tell you about A TURKEY'S THANKSGIVING. Gobble Gobble was a big fat turkey. He lived on a farm where there were lots of chickens and ducks and geese. They had a good time, for Farmer Binks, who owned the farm, gave them lots to eat and took good care of them. Gobble Gobble was fond of eating, and he was one of the fattest turkeys of the flock. "He'll be fine roasted," said Farmer Binks to his wife. "I think we'll keep him for Thanksgiving." The day before Thanksgiving there was a good deal going on in the house. Every one seemed busy and gay. When the farmer sent his son Jimmy out to feed the poultry Gobble Gobble asked him what was going on. But as Gobble Gobble used turkey talk in speaking to Jimmy of course the little boy didn't understand. When Jimmy went whistling into the house he forgot to close the gate after him, and Gobble Gobble darted out. "If Thanksgiving means having a good time I'm going off to have a good time myself," Gobble Gobble said, as he trotted off in the direction of the woods. "Guess I'll go off and be a wild turkey, as Grandfather Turkey Trotter said our folks all were in the long ago." So he went through the woods looking for wild turkeys to live with, but there were none there or, of course, folks would have gone out to the woods and got one whenever they wanted a turkey dinner. Poor Gobble Gobble couldn't find much to eat for supper. He slept in a tree, just as Grandfather Turkey Trotter said their folks had done in the long ago, but it wasn't so comfortable as he had expected. Gobble Gobble had a crick in his neck when he got up, and breakfast was most as scarce as supper had been. He wandered about in the woods for a day or two before Farmer Binks' son found him. Thanksgiving was over. "He would have been so much tenderer than old Turkey Trotter," sighed Jimmy's mother. "We'll have to keep Gobble Gobble for Christmas." Fun on Roller Skates Of course roller skates are lots of fun, and you can play hockey fairly well on broad sidewalks of asphalt, but the sport does not compare with the game played on the real ice. About A young girl in a white dress with a bow on her head, holding a stick, skating on roller skates. Photo by American Press Association. PLAYING HOCKFY ON THE WALK. this time or year young folks are wishing for Jack Frost to come along with his cold breath and freeze the ponds and brooks so that real ice skates may again be in fashion. Cold toes and cold noses have no terrors for healthy little people. Riddle. A warm little house, red roof, red floor; A white picket fence near the wide front door, And in the little house a nimble little man Who talks, talks, talks as hard as he can. Answer—The mouth. SKATING TOGS. A Suit Built For Winter Sports Is This. This season promises as interesting skating sets as we had last winter. The cut shows a short skirt and belted A THE ICE CHAMPION. coat of wine colored worsted flared and button trimmed. Setting it off is a lopsided tam of black velvet, a sure symbol of Mme. la Mode. NEEDLEWORK NOTES. Tips For Her Who Does Her Own Christmas Presents. A pretty card table cover is made of heavy white linen, with a spread pack of cards in each corner embroidered in black and red. Boudouir caps are good gifts for young girls. A new embroidered sort is made in the style of a Dutch cap, with the embroidery in delft blue or in black on a sheer white muslin ground. For the women who travel a corset bag—a long, narrow washable bag embroidered with the word "Corsets"—is useful. These bags can also be used to hold corsets in the bureau drawers or closet shelves. For the young housekeeper a useful gift is a luncheon set, all in one piece, consisting of centerpiece and four plate doilies attached in the form of a Greek cross. This is embroidered in various designs and in either white or colors. Fringe is in fashion, and it has invaded the realm of a.t needlework. Some of the new sofa cushions, which would make admirable gifts for the boy or girl at college, are of heavy tan linen or crash embroidered in conventional designs in bright colors and finished with wide tan cotton fringe. The autumn shops are full of interesting things to embroider and make. One is a baby's shoe bag, which would make a charming gift for a baby's first Christmas—a Christmas when the baby itself is not old enough to appreciate toys and when a gift that appeals to its mother is always acceptable. This bag is to hang on a door or wall. It is made of heavy white material, and there are two sections, one above the other, each containing pockets for three pairs of little boots or shoes. Embroidered letters across the top announce that it is for baby's shoes. THANKSGIVING CRANBERRIES Interesting Ways to Celebrate the Red Berry on Holidays. Cranberries are good any way. They taste good and look good, and they are very good for the health. Stewed cranberries are a delicious accompaniment to the everyday dinner, and there are few meats which do not taste the better for the addition of cranberries. Cranberry jelly looks better, but is not as sensible for every day, as it requires more sugar. Cranberry Pie. Ever so many like a cranberry pie. For it cover the bottom of a pie pan with a plain paste, reserving enough for an upper crust. Make a rim around the edge and pour in a filling made with one cupful of cranberries cut into halves, half a cupful of chopped, seeded raisins, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, a tablespoonful of cornstarch and lump of butter. Cover with the upper crust and bake about half an hour. Cranberry Pudding--Another possibility is cranberry pudding. To make it cream half a cupful of butter, add slowly one cupful of sugar; then add three well beaten eggs. Mix three teaspoonfuls of baking powder with three and a half cupfuls of flour; add this to the mixture alternately with half a cupful of milk. Add two cupfuls of cranberries which have been washed, dried and floured with some of the flour already measured. Turn into a buttered mold, cover closely and steam two hours. Serve with hard sauce. How to Run the Furnace. Never poke a fire from the top. Insert the poker at the bottom and raise gently. This causes a draft and makes the fire burn brightly. But it is well to make it a rule to poke the fire as seldom as you can, for the more you poke it the more quickly will the coal burn away. INDOOR GARDENS. INDOOR GARDENS. You May Have Foliage In Your Home All Winter. HOW TO COMBINE PLANTS. Experts Instruct Us That Flower Boxes Must Have Good Drainage and House Plants Be Watered Lightly and Frequently Rather Than Heavily. [Prepared by department of agriculture.] A good depth for an indoor window box is about eight inches. The bottom of the box should be covered with stones and broken pottery for drainage. This should be covered with a layer of moss to prevent the soil from working down and clogging the drainage spaces. The drainage and moss should take up together about two inches. The greater the body of soil above the moss the more uniformly moist it may be kept. The soil should fall to fill the box by from one and one-half to two inches. The indoor window box should be as long as the window is wide, and to get as much light as possible it should be level with the window sill. It may be placed either on brackets, a table or legs permanently fastened to it. A hole or holes should be provided in the bottom of the box, and a drip pan should be placed beneath to catch drainage water. The top of the soil should be allowed to become dry occasionally. The results of watering should be closely observed and the supply regulated according to needs. In general it is better to water lightly and frequently than heavily and infrequently, although just the reverse is considered best when watering is done out of doors in summer. Only plants of the same general character should be placed in window boxes since plants of different kinds require different treatment. Begonias are about the only plants that may be expected to flower in a window box. For the most part foliage alone must be depended upon as the contribution of the indoor plants to the attractiveness of the room. Among the plants which may be grown for foliage for window boxes are ferns, geraniums, Kenilworth ivy, smilax and aspidistra. The latter plant is especially valuable as a window box plant, as it will thrive in spite of considerable neglect, drought and dust. An advantage in growing plants in pots instead of in boxes is that a larger variety can be grown since different treatment may be given. In addition to the plants already mentioned for growing in window boxes, palms, rubber plants and cacti may be grown in pots. It is advisable in growing all these plants to make use of regular florists' potting soil, made up of one part compost, one part good loam and one part sand. It is well to add one twentieth part bone meal to the mixture. ODD SHAPES. Hats Are Taking on Even Freaky Outlines and Trim. Dark green felt ton, banded with a darker shade or green velvet, makes this wintry peach basket. The novel 5 THE ULTRA ONE trimming is done in gay worsted, a weird head in monkish garments, embroidered against the velvet. Oriental and ecclesiastical models are rivaling military shapes. Some Beauty Don'ts Don't wear thin shoes and gossamer silk stockings in cold weather or Nature will take her revenge and you will have that pinched, chilled look that is so unbecoming. Don't economize in shoe leather. Don't take everything but exercise and then complain that you are growing stout. Exercise, even if the weather is bad, by preparing for it. A brisk walk on a cold day is a splendid complexion beautifier. Don't fail to dry your hands thoroughly after washing if you wish to prevent them from getting chapped. Don't forget to wear a veil if your skin is susceptible to cold winds. Don't wear any heavy headgear. It is very hard on the hair. Don't let your rooms get too hot and never sit in a room that gives you chills. Have plenty of heat and keep a window open a little at the top. A long walk will take away that tired, worn look so many women have. MODEL FOR THE STOUT. Modish Suit For Those Over- plump Ones, You Know. This special design is put up in navy gaberdine, trimmed with navy retails and two sizes of buttons. The straps I NEVERTHELESS SMART. lines from bust to hip give the distinction, while gray squirrel makes the nattiest kind of collar and cuffs THANKSGIVING DINNER Two Menus For the Family Coming Home For a Reunion. Thanksgiving dinner to be enjoyed must be prepared with care and served daintily. Any one can at least have a beautifully ironed white tablecloth, and nothing could be more attractive than autumn leaves, chosen for the red and brown colors, used as a centerpiece. In the center of the leaves might be a glass bowl of fern or other pretty plant. This, surrounded with four candlesticks with red shades, would make a most attractive setting for any of the following menus: Baked Steak With Onions. Mushrooma Green Peppers and Tomatoes. Potatoes, Mashed and Browned. Tomato Aspic on Lettuce. Macaroon Cream and Fruit Cake. A rump steak about two inches thick, one large enough for two meals, using only half of it and the tenderest half for the baking. The other half may be used for a beef loaf on the day after the holiday. You will need to purchase but a quarter of a pound of mushrooms, one green pepper, Spanish onion and use but half a can of the tomatoes, using the other half to make the tomato aspic for the salad course. The macaroon cream can be made of half a pint of cream, whipped, to which add a dozen crushed stale macaroons. Put all in a jar and pack in salt and ice for an hour. Sweeten and flavor with sherry or any desired flavoring before packing in ice. Oyster on Half Shell. Roast Turkey, Stuffed with Chestnuts. Crusted. Mashed Potatoes. Canflower an Gratin. Celery. Nut Salad. Crackers. Mince Pie. Demitasse. For the small family where pig, turkey or goose is too large and too extensive try having a fine capon and, if capon is impossible to get, a good roasting chicken. This may be stuffed with oysters or stewed chestnuts in a breadcrumb dressing. A duck, too, might be had stuffed with a breadcrumb dressing, mixed with chopped apple or celery, prunes or nuts. Currant jelly on slices of orange might accompany the duck. The mince pies might be individual ones. Food Values. It is the sugar in a banana that gives its high food value. Sugar forms about 90 per cent of its bulk. Fruit is valuable largely because of the acids it contains. There is little fat in fruit, but apples contain more than any other sort. the mineral salts in vegetables are of great value. Milk contains no starch, but it does contain sugar. It is said that half a pound of dates and a glass of milk make a complete meal. Nuts contain the food elements contained in meat. Vegetables that grow underground, the tubers, have the highest nutritive value of any vegetables. Soup of the clear broth order has little food value. Its value lies in the fact that it warms the stomach and therefore helps it to start the digestive process, and that, because of its bulk, it gives a feeling of satisfaction without the necessity of overburdening the stomach with concentrated foods. Not in the Mood. "Are you feeling pretty good?" Asked his wife. "Are you in heroic mood. Fit for strife?" No reply yousafed the gent Excuse. For he knew she merely means Beating rugs. Chemistry Valuable Aid to New York Police. Quick Determination of Nature of Suspicious Stains Saves Hours In Hunt For Assasins—Men From City Laboratory Accompany Detectives In the Search For Murderers. New York.—Chemistry is becoming an important factor in helping the police to solve murders committed in this city. Commissioner Woods and Fifth Deputy Commissioner Scull decided recently that the work of detectives would be greatly expedited if, when they first started out to investigate a murder, they could have at their elbow a trained chemist to assist them in making a preliminary exami- Blood stains often play an important part in tracking down an assassin. A chemist can determine by a quick analysis whether stains are blood or some other substance and thus save the police loss of time and the danger of being led astray in their investigations. In connection with the work of the chemists a special laboratory devoted exclusively to police cases has been PRESIDENT Photo by American Press Association. POLICE COMMISSIONER WOODS. opened at the headquarters of the central testing laboratory. Here doctors make a thorough analysis of clothing and other articles brought to them for examination. This laboratory is equipped with the most approved, chemical apparatus. There are a number of high power microscopes and a microphotographic apparatus for photographing blood stains. The work of the narcotic squad of the laboratory takes up the entire time of three chemists and part of the time of another. Thousands of samples of heroin, cocaine, opium, yen shee and morphine are analyzed. The chemists, when necessary, appear in court to testify to their findings. Although the laboratory has been working but a short time in conjunction with the detective bureau, it has produced results highly satisfactory to police officials. The chemists make the most searching investigation of a crime. Dust, blits of cloth, hair, wood, metal and other sources of claws are at once collected. Without loss of time rough tests are applied at the place of the crime. In these investigations of the chemists scrapings from beneath the finger nails have revealed significant fibers of cloth, and a microscopic examination of scrapings from the shoes of numbered persons has often showed that the soles bore dirt from some locality than that in which the body was found. SHIPS AS OILER TO VOTE California Judge Takes Only Available Steamer From Honolulu Steamer From Honolulu. San Francisco. — W. N. Thomas, judge of the superior court of Santa Ana, arrived here on the Matson liner Lurline, from Honolulu, having technically worked his way as an oller. The Lurline was the last liner that would reach California in time for the election. On account of an accident the Lurline was not allowed to carry passengers. Judge Thomas felt he should vote and shipped as a member of the crew. MAIL DOG REWARDED Sam Watches Wagon When Driver Is Delivering. Washington. -Sam, the faithful dog which guards the parcel post wagon at Mount Carmel, Pa., while the driver is making deliveries, has been rewarded by Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson. The postmaster general has ordered for Sam a brass studded collar with the following inscription: "U. S. Mail. Presented to Uncle Sam's Faithful Friend by Albert S. Burleson, Postmaster General. Oct. 25, 1916." Spurs Convicts to Work. Jefferson City, Mo.-Governor Major of Missouri directed the work of 200 prisoners from 'the state penitentiary' on a ten mile stretch of road near here. The governor gave every convict three cigars and supplied them with ammunition. For each day the convicts do satisfactory work on the roads they will be allowed twenty days off their sentences. Government Sets Aside 57,000 Acres For Them. Havre, Mont.—The stony pathway of the Rocky Boy Indians has at last led to the green sward. Driven about from pillar to post ever since they wandered across the Canadian boundary through Glacier National park, Montana, several years ago as tramp tribesmen of the Cree Nation, this band of 300 red men have had so hard a lot that the nickname fell naturally upon them. Now, with the opening of the Fort Assiniboine military reservation, embracing 200,000 acres near this city, the United States government will set aside 57,000 acres for them. They are rejoicing in the fact that they are to have a permanent home. There are about 75,000 acres of tillable land in this tract, and this is to be thrown open to white settlers. The reservation is in the Bear Paw mountains. Uncle Sam has departed from the regular lottery in the disposition of this land to settlers. Application for parcels in this tract may be made at Havre, Mont. FIRST SON OF MIKADO IS INSTALLED AS HEIR Mystic Rites and Court Pomp Recall Consecration of Sovereign. Tokyo.—With mystic rite and courtly pomp which recalled the historic ceremonies attending the consecration of Emperor Yoshihito last year Hirohito, eldest son of Yoshihito, was formally installed as crown prince and heir to the throne. Prince Hirohito, who is in his sixteenth year, was proclaimed heir apparent in 1912 after Emperor Yoshihito ascended the throne upon the death of Emperor Mutsuhito. But the formal celebration of his installation as crown prince was reserved until the birthday of the illustrious Mutsuhito. On this date also the present emperor was proclaimed crown prince. Furthermore this is the prime of the beautiful Japanese autumn, the ideal season of the year when the gorgeous chrysanthemum, the crest of the Japanese imperial house, is seen in all its glory. The feature of the celebration was the Shinto ceremony early in the morning in the sanctuary of the "kamikodokoro," or sacred mirror, attended by the emperor, the princes of the blood, ministers of state and other high dignitaries. After this in the state room of the palace the imperial family accepted congratulations from court and government officials. At noon an imperial banquet was given in the Homel hall of the palace. It was accompanied with classical Japanese dances and both ancient Japanese and modern western music. Each guest received a beautiful silver commemorative medal. At night lantern processions marched to the palaces to salute the present and future monarch. JERSEY BARS "SKIP STOPS." Cars Must Take Passengers at All Streets, Utility Board Rules. Montclair, N. J.-The state board of public utility commissioners has directed the Public Service Railway company to abandon the skip stop method of operating cars in this and other towns on the Bloomfield avenue lines. The skip stop plan has been in effect since April 10, when it was adopted at the request of Verona and other western Essex municipalities and with the assent of the governing bodies of the municipalities through which the line operates. In its decision the board expressed disappointment that in its endeavor to solve the vexatious question there was an utter lack of co-operation from the various municipalities affected. The board points out that it is obvious that frequent stops slow up the operation of cars, and where any number of stops can be eliminated the inevitable result is that the cars can cover their routes more quickly. CLEVELAND'S SON AN ORATOR Makes One of Principal Speeches at Laying of Cornerstone. Princeton, N. J.—Richard Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland and a sophomore, was one of the principal speakers at the laying of the cornerstone of Princeton's new $500,000 dining hall. In behalf of the under classmen of the university he thanked the trustees and donors of the new structure. The structure will be known as Madison hall, after President Madison, class of 1771. In his dedication address President Hibben said the trustees had named the quadrangle, which the new structure completes, the Russell Sage hall, in compliment to Mrs. Russell Sage, through whose generosity most of the buildings that inclose it were made possible. On the Hunting Trail at Ninety-two. Jacks Mountain, Pa.-John Gantz, ninety-two years old, is entitled to be entered in the list of old sportsmen. It is said that Gantz has killed more game native to Pennsylvania than any other man in the state. He has killed thousands of wild turkeys in his time. Mr. Gantz is looking forward to good shooting this season. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 18, 1916 QUIT AIR BOMBS. French Decide to Abandon Their Use In War. ARE REGARDED DANGEROUS. Extreme Susceptibility of Explosive Has Outweighed Its Wonderful Detonating Qualities — Tremendously Successful Experiments Were Made With Volatile Agent When It Was First Used. Paris.—After a good deal of experimentation the French army has given up its attempts to use liquid air as a high explosive in warfare, because of its extreme susceptibility to detonate from shock. Tremendously successful experiments were made with this volatile agent at first, but they were successful only under perfectly agreeable conditions. For instance, bombs for bombarding aeroplanes were made with liquid air as the explosive which some judged to be a hundred times more powerful than bombs of a similar size employing picric acid or any of its prototypes. But it was soon learned that the sudden descent or even rapid swooping of an aeroplane carrying liquid air zombs might set off the dangerous cargo. It happened on one occasion. An aviator dipped suddenly, and nothing was ever found of him or his machine. Then the bombs were carried over elaborately prepared targets and dropped from captive balloons. The effect of the explosion was marvelous. Instead of reducing the target to matchwood and wreckage, the detonation actually wiped out every vestige of the place where the huge, cumbersome target had been. It was estimated that the concussion of the explosion would have killed any living creature within 150 yards. Shell charged with liquid air cannot of course be fired from any projectile, the shock of firing would detonate the explosive and wreck the gun. Attempts have been made to use liquid air grenades and liquid air bombs in trench mortars, which are fired by a spring, much as a catapult's missile is projected. But the extreme "touchiness" of the explosive has outweighed its wonderful detonating qualities. The Germans also have failed to utilize liquid air thus far. A TRUE GEORGE WASHINGTON He Tells How He Won a Medal "Somewhere In France." Philadelphia.—George Washington, a United States marine from Kentucky, who does not bld fair to emulate the truth telling record of his illustrious namesake, marched proudly down Broad street with a newly won sharpshooter's medal pinned to the breast of his uniform. Attracted by the medal, which closely resembles the Maltese cross worn by some European heroes, an old gentleman asked him how he had won it, and George delivered a picturesque account of stirring deeds on shell torn battlefields, while one by one the crowd gathered and listened in awe-struck silence. "But I say, old chap," interrupted a stranger, "where did all this happen?" "Oh, somewhere in France," returned George cheerfully, and the spellbinder's audience melted away. WHAT'S IN A NAME? $500,000. That's the Claim of Achille Joseph Oishei, Formerly Hoschek. New York.—There is $500,000 in this name, or, rather, in the change of it, if the owner, Achille Joseph Oishei, reckons correctly. Mr. Oishei, a lawyer, living at 180 Sterling place, Brooklyn, says that the family name was Hoschek for 1,400 years, but that his father changed it to Oishei on leaving Austria under a political cloud many years ago. In running through papers following the death of his mother last April he found one which indicated that he as the eldest surviving Hoschek is entitled to an Italian estate worth $500,000, and he applied to County Judge Fawcett in Brooklyn for permission to assume the old name with a view to making claim on the Italian government. Permission was granted. GETS BONUS TO STAY SINGLE School Board Offers Premium of $5 a Month to Outwit Cupid. Highland. Kan.-Miss Ella Eaton of Highland, who will teach in the schools of Metcalf, Ariz., during the coming year, will receive a bonus of $5 a month if she refrains from marrying until the end of the school term next spring. Marrying girls have been in great demand at Metcalf. The school board of that town has had so much trouble looking for new teachers after school has been in session three or four months that it was decided to offer a special bonus to the schoolteachers who will remain single. Richmond, Ky.-Charles Benton loss a steer, or at least thought he had. Search failed to find the animal, and he had given it up as gone when, six weeks later, he passed a sinkhole on the farm and saw the steer in it. It had lived during the time on roots and whatever else it could find. Mr. Benton says the steer weighed about 1,000 pounds when it disappeared, and it only weighed 600 when it was found. THEY TELL TIME BY COWS Meals In Clockless Towns Are Served Promptly. St. Louis, Mo.—Assessors in Fort Russell and Fosterburg townships, Madison county, Ill., have arrived in Edwardsville to deliver their annual assessment reports and to find out what time it is. Old Fort Russell and Fosterburg have no timepieces, according to the officials' reports. Time there is gauged by the length of the evening shadows, the return of the brindle cow to the barnyard for her evening meal or the crowing of the cock at dawn. There are no clocks by which wives can measure the tardiness of husbands, no clocks to ring out the evening hours and drive swains from the sides of their sweethearts, no clocks in Fosterburg to quicken the pace or point to the approach of dinner hour. Meals in Fort Russell and Fosterburg are served at the demand of appetite. The residents continue the even tenor of their way without cuckoos to squawk them out of bed or alarms to startle the morning air. SEARCH OF YEARS REWARDED Veteran Finds Daughter Lost to Him Since Civil War. Decatur, Ill.—When Archibald G. Bottoms returned to Bowling Green, Mo., at the close of the civil war he found his wife had died and the baby daughter he had left behind in 1861 absent, he knew not where. Fifty-one years after the war ended Mrs. M. H. Roberts of Decatur got track of her father through the pension bureau in Washington and has just returned to Decatur after visiting him. He is ninety-one years old. "I was placed with a family after my mother died, and they soon moved from Bowling Green to Illinois," said Mrs. Roberts. "They never told me of my parentage until many years afterward, and I never did know in what town I was born. Not long ago I asked J. C. Walsh, a Decatur man, to write to Washington, and thus I found out where my father lived." Bottoms spent years searching for his child after the war. GIRL INSISTS ON A SHAVE. Failing to Get One From Barber, She Raises a Row. Chicago.—Helen Wade entered the barber shop of Charles Collins on West Chicago avenue and, seating herself in a barber chair, demanded a shave. For fifteen minutes the owner argued with her and finally ordered her to leave. She refused to go, and Collins called Policeman John J. Hourigan. "I'll not leave here until I get a shave, and the sooner the better," the woman insisted. Hourigan took a razor and began to imitate a barber's motion over her face. Finally he announced that she had been shaved and asked her to leave the shop. "You can't kid me," the woman said when the policeman told her she had been shaved. "That razor never touched my face, and I won't leave here." Then she was arrested. WILD DOGS ATTACK GARDENER Pack In Woods Near Greenwood Lake Again Terrorize Residents. Greenwood Lake, N. J.—The great pack of wild dogs, part of which was exterminated in the woods between here and Lake Mombasha last winter by New Jersey game wardens, has again made its appearance throughout this section, creating a reign of terror in certain sections. The dogs forage on domesticated poultry and even attack persons who cross their path. Game Warden William C. Klein reports that the pack descended on the Hewitt estate in Ringwood and attacked a gardener. Farmers who have seen the raiders say there are about twenty-five or thirty of them. Game Warden Klein will start on another extermination expedition as soon as all the leaves have fallen. VALUE OF BABY'S EYES. Award of $25,000 Is Set Aside by California Superior Court. San Francisco.—The nominal value of a baby's eye was fixed at $25,000 here by Judge Frank J. Murasky in the superior court, who gave judgment for that amount to the parents of Mary Rublo, one year old, against Mrs. Amalia Razzuol, midwife. It was alleged that the woman failed to care for the baby's eyes properly at birth, and now the child is blind. "A pair of baby's eyes are priceless," said Judge Murasky. "No amount of money that this or any court could give, no matter how large the amount, would compensate for their loss." Twelve Dollars For Snakes. Oxnard, Cal.—James Benton's latest rattlesnake catch is worth $432. Benton, who lives in Santa Barbara, catches rattlesnakes for a living and recently sold thirty-six of the reptiles for $12 each to Oxnard Chinese, who value them for medicinal purposes, drugs being compounded from the venom. Benton has been bitten a number of times. In one instance almost losing his life. He catches the reptiles with a pronged stick. With Polyglot Crew Captain is Lonely, New York.—With a mixed crew of Lascars, Icelanders, Greenlanders, deck hands of Slauense extraction, men from Madagascar and some Malays the Cunard liner Pannonia docked here. She carried a cargo, but no passengers, and her captain reports the most lonesome voyage he ever sailed. Country Needs Thousands of Aviators, Says Peary. SHOULD BE BEGUN AT ONCE. Declares That Air Service Should Be Under Direction of Federal Department of Aeronautics, Separate From and Independent of Both Army and Navy Departments. New York.-Sixteen thirty-five knot battle cruisers with sixteen inch guns, an air fleet manned by thousands of aviators and universal military training are what the United States needs to be properly prepared, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary told members of the class in applied Christianity of the Mount Morris Baptist church in Fifth avenue, near One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. "The construction of the fleet," he said, "should be begun at once and completed within three years. With these we need the accessories of destroyers, submarines and hydroaeroplanes. "The air service should be under the direction of a federal department of THE Photo by American Press Association. REAR ADMIRAL PEARY. aeronautics separate from and independent of both the army and navy departments and presided over by a member of the president's cabinet. With our resources and mechanical genius under the spur of concentrated and undivided attention such a department may in the near future be more vital and important to our national safety and integrity than our navy and our army combined. "One of the first steps should be an immediate provision for educating and training a certain number of the officers of the naval militia of each state as aviators and with them as a nucleus recruiting a full aviation section of the naval militia in every state. An appropriation of $1,500,000—about $30,000 to each state—to be expended under the direction of the secretary of the navy will permit beginning this work at once." RETIRES AT THIRTY-SIX. Pederson Gets Double Credit For Fourteen Years' Service. San Juan, Porto Rico.—A record for early retirement from the United States army except for disability seems to have been made by Peder Pederson, who served as a soldier in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines for fourteen out of his total sixteen years' service. He has been retired at the age of thirty-six, with a soldier's pension of $67 a month, being credited with thirty years' service—twenty-eight for foreign duty, two for home duty. Pederson benefited by the army regulations providing for double credit for foreign service. He retired as a sergeant of ordnance and will live in Washington. He is not married, and he says that after he enjoys a little hunting and fishing he will try for some government position open to an ex-soldier. BOY SUES CITY FOR $10,000. Lowell Won't Let Munitions Worker Back to School. Lowell, Mass.—Fred H. Desmond, eighteen years old, has brought suit for $10,000 against this city because the school board has refused to let him reenter high school after working in a munition factory. Young Desmond left school to work in a cartridge factory, but now wants to go back to his studies. In its refusal to let him do so the school board said: "It is for the best interests of both the school and the boy that he should not be allowed to re-enter." Milk Puts Out Fire. Altoona, Pa.-Milk has proved just as efficacious as water in extinguishing a fire, even if it is a bit more expensive. The dairy barn of A. M. Wasson, near Tyrone, was struck by lightning. Mrs. Wasson and her two sons, Alton and Robert, were in the building milking. Flames followed the bolt, and a delay would have doomed the structure. A dozen gallons of milk, the result of the day's milking, was at hand. The milk saved the barn and stock. PAGE SEVEN RAT POISON FUMES KILL SHIP CARPENTERS Three Die and Several Violently Ill After Inhaling Chemicals. Boston.—Three carpenters lost their lives after inhaling fumes from chemicals with which the Leyland line steamship Devonian was fumigated in an effort to exterminate rats. Three others, members of the same working squad, who went to their rescue, were overcome. Hospital physicians said their condition was serious. William E. Sterling and Daniel Dempsey, first to enter the hold, died on the deck of the steamer after being brought out by members of the Devonian's crew wearing improvised gas masks. William L. Sterling, foreman of the gang and father of one of the victims, died later at a hospital. Manager Thomas of the International Mercantile Marine company said the fumigation was under direction of the port authorities. GIRL, BLIND FOUR YEARS, SUDDENLY REGAINS SIGHT Physicians Baffled, Mother Regards Cure of the Child as Miraculous. Irvington, N. J. "I can see, mamma!" said Genevieve King, eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. King, to her mother. The mother could hardly believe it was true, but the child can see plainly, after having been blind four years. "It must have been the hand of God which lifted the blindness from my daughter's eyes," said Mrs. King. "Genevieve was sent home from school four years ago by the medical inspector, with instructions that she be treated for pink eye. She rapidly grew worse, and two months later became totally blind. Physicians' treatment seemed to have no effect." "She began to show improvement when I massaged her eyes with boracic acid, witch hazel and water. For five months I have continued this constantly. I wished to get a bill changed, and she asked if she might do the errand. I was afraid to let her go out alone, but she insisted. In a few moments she returned. She ran swiftly across the room and fung herself into my arms with the cry, 'I can see, mamma.'" The girl said she groped her way downstairs and upon the walk, "when suddenly everything was light in front of me, and I could see and ran back to tell mamma. My eyes do not hurt now, but the back of my head aches awfully." She will return to school soon. TWO RODE A FISH. Man and His Son Were Mounted For a Long Time In River. Wichita, Kan.—C. A. Whitney of Route 9, on the west side, and his sixteen-year-old son rode around on the back of a forty-two pound catfish for half an hour in the Chickaskia river near Drury the other day. They finally landed the fish and brought it to Wichita. Mr. Whitney and his son have been camping for the last month. Neighbors told them of several times seeing a monster fish in the river. Mr. Whitney, wading into the river, felt around until he located the fish. He got one hand in the catfish's gills and jumped on its back. The fish darted forward and whipped around in the water until it was about to throw its rider off. Mr. Whitney's son rushed to his father's aid and climbed on top of the latter's back to weigh down the catfish. For half an hour the two men rode the fish around, struggling to get it to the bank. They finally succeeded. BARK MAKES DOG A HERO. Neighbors Find Mrs. Matt Allen Near Death From Gas. New York.-Should Mrs. Matthew Allen, sixty-seven years old, of 416 Fourth street, Brooklyn, wife of Matt Allen, a former racing trainer, recover she probably will owe her life to her pet dog, Baby. The barking of her dog aroused neighbors, who detected the odor of gas coming from Mrs. Allen's apartment. They broke in and found the woman half conscious. She was taken to the Methodist Episcopal hospital. The gas escaped from a leaky jet. WHIPPINGS HIS PENALTY. And They Will Be With Switches From Trees Boy Cut Down. New York.—That he got a thrashing a week for three weeks was the sentence imposed in the children's court at Jamaica on Edward Schultz, fifteen years old, of that place. The boy had admitted chopping down three trees on property owned by John J. Bliss, president of the Citizens' association. "Lick him with switches from the trees he chopped," suggested Justice Morgan L. Ryan to the culprit's father, who nodded grimly in the affirmative. Pawned Gold From His Teeth. Chicago—Joseph Hefferman, according to a verdict in the Chicago municipal court, had his teeth pulled to get the gold, pawned the product and bought whisky with the proceeds. He was sent to the house of correction on complaint of the dentist, whom he failed to pay. 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