The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Charles E. Stump, the Kansas Farmer Newspaper Correspondent, Recently Visited Many Points in Arkansas, Oklahoma and the Sunflower State, and Was Royally Entertained by the Leading Citizens Everywhere Vol. XXII. Charles E. Kansas Fa paper Co Recently Points in Oklahoma Sunflower Was Roy tained by Citizens Ev Topeka, Kans.—While I have been trying to write to the newspaper, and have gotten away for a long time, yet I am not going to divorce myself from the farm, and you are wrong if you have ever thought anything like that. I have been riding and riding, and have been to various parts of the world, yet, I am right back in Kansas this week, as you will see, and I am here to study the farm life, and to here and there see what I can see and what I can learn about farming. I am here this week mingling with my own people as you will be able to see before I am through with my letter. When I wrote to you last I was down in Crossett, Ark., the town of one man, but now I am far from there. I left there and went out to Montrose, Ark., where I spent a few hours and when I was through with that part of the world, I went to Dermott, where I spent Sunday. When I stepped off of the wagon there I found a committee waiting for me, headed by Prof. T. J. Walker, who is grand keeper of records and seal for the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Arkansas. They tell me he is one of the finest in the country. We were soon in an automobile on our way to his home. We were not there long before they had me in the A. M. E. church, and a church full of men for me to talk to about farming or anything else I saw fit to talk about, and believe, me honey, I did some talking to those men, and they just put money down on the table for me when I was through talking and invited me to come to them again, and I think I shall do so. I want to go to see them as soon as I can make it convenient. As soon as I was through talking to the men, then I had to go to another church and talk to the women, and then I called to see Dr. Parker, and found he was sick in bed Then to the Baptist church at night, and back to the home of Mr. Walker. His wife was away to conference, and he cooked supper after church. We got on the outside of all of it, and then I left about 2:30 for Little Rock. I am not going to talk about Little Rock. But I went to Morrilton, after spending a day and night in the capital city, and there I met many people. Now from Morrilton, I went to Fort Smith, Ark., and then to Wagooer, Oklahoma, where I spent a day with Rev. M. B. Brookins. I am not going to talk about it now, but must turn my attention to the next place Nowata, Okla. I was there the guest for one day of the public school and the teachers. I looked wise all the time and had them believing that I was some educator man. Of course I threw out some big met by Dr. Jones, and he escorted me over to the school building. When he HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY presented me to Prof. J. Oscar Spencer. I said to him "Gladerbus, meeteriobus, Professoribus." Now, that Professor just looked at me, and his children smiled as if they thought I was the greatest educated man in the world. But when I said almost in the same breath, "Is you a grameraterbus from this schoolus," the children changed the expression on their faces, and still when I said "I are here for today, only," then they did do some looking. The teachers in the school in addition to the professor just named were: Prof. Horace Hughes, Miss Carrie I. Booker, Miss Julia A. Elliot, Miss Bernice O. Ellis. The boys and girls looked at me and I looked at them. I talked with the teachers using every big sound I could get together. I was soon called upon to speak to them, and it was some speaking believe me, honey. Now at noon, each one who had brought some lunch, brought it into the domestic science room, and put it together and I joined them in the eating of it. All day was spent in the school. Miss Carrie I. Booker indeed is some music player, and Miss Ellis is some singer, and then Miss Elliot is some cooker. A fine combination in a school-room, and them fessors are just educators. After school we went to the home of Mrs. Homer Flake where we had some she 'nuf dinner, and you put it down that I got on the outside of it. Mrs. Flake is some cooker also, and a fine housekeeper. Next found me at 10 o'clock that night headed for Wichita, Kans. I took my seat in the special and remained there until I reached Coffey-ville and then I went back in the chair car. I took my seat just opposite a White woman from "Redneckville," and she looked at me, and then asked the conductor in these words, "I wish you would have that nigger move out of this car, because I am not used to riding with niggers." The conductor told her that she would have to return to Oklahoma, Texas, or some other outlandish place. I had the devil in me as big as a mountain, but kept my mouth and said not a word. I am not going to tell you all the things that took place in Wichita, but I was there three days. It was a nice stay. I had the pleasure of seeing Rev. S. B. Butler, one of the best preachers we have, pull off a real rally. The people just walked up and put on the table in less than ten minutes, $537. Then they turned around and gave me $17.36 for preaching for them in a collection. Now you see I am tempted to get away from the farm. The money was put down in the following order. A. Washington, $53.58; Mrs. Carrie Anderson, $51.37; Mrs. Margaret Giles, $53.68; Mrs. Etta Barnes, $47.85; Mrs. Ernest M. Strong and influential member of the State Senate from the First Senatorial District of Illinois, millionaire real estate owner, who would make a top candidate for treasurer of Cook county in 1918. Strong and influential member of the State Senate from the First Senatorial District of Illinois, millionaire real estate owner, who would make a top candidate for treasurer of Cook county in 1918. Moore, 56.65; Miss Georgia Triplett, $16.70; Mrs. Mayme Strother, $21.45; Mrs. Emma Dunson, $44.65; Miss Estella Turner, $103.16; A. L. Case, $6.50; morning collection, $10; a friend, $1. Now this was good. They are going to put up a new building next spring. When I left Wichita, Kansas, I was accompanied by my niece, Miss Mabel Overstreet, who is going to visit Chicago. We left over the Rock Island, and were met at the stable in Topeka by Mr. Green in his automobile and President Carter of the Industrial and Educational Institute, which is known as "Western Tuskegee," in this section of the country. Prof. Carter is some educator and a man who is doing things, yet he was not too big to come down on a cold day and meet a common farmer like me. I knew he was president of a college, hence I put on extra airs, and started to use big sounds, but he told me that he was a busy man and did not have time to use his dictionary, and would rather me to get them words down to their lowest terms, so I just talked plain United States to him, and I understood myself better what I was saving. Reaching the building, we went to the school or the dormitory occupied by girls, and I was greeted by Mrs. M. L. Matthews, who was in charge, and when I started to greet her like I was educated, I was reminded that I had met her before at Tuskegee Institute and it was not necessary. Then over to the office and there I met Miss C. V. Carter, who is the stenographer and writer on a writing machine. I looked at her fingers dance over the keys like the Highland fling dance, or the fox trot. Her fingers did do some dancing, swinging corners and balancing all or something else. I wanted to compliment her and said to her: "Thinkererus, you intus writeripulutis, and I am tulos yourus shorthanditum." That young lady looked wise at me without saying a word. Now just a word or so about the school. Without a doubt this is one of the finest schools in the work for our people, and it is the work of Dr. Carter. He had an idea born into his head and used it to a queen's taste and fret, believe me. The buildings are all of stone blasted out of the ground where the school is. This is an institution that furnished its own material for buildings. They have five of them on the camp ground. They called it campus. This is the time for the meeting of the Sunflower State Agricultural Association, which is a state-wide organization composed of us farmers. I was glad to get among my own, and I want to thank Dr. Carter myself for organizing us 10 years ago, although this is the first time I have been at a meeting and I do not care to miss another meeting. I am going to be on hand every time they sound the gavel that I am able to travel. Dr. Carter knows just what we need and he does not hesitate to give it to us, and we are using it to who shall last the longest. We are making good use of these things. I wish you could have just heard what we said. I am sure you have heard of W. W. Russell, that man who lives here in Topeka and knows so much about bringing up chickens, ducks and other things like that. He told us about the diseases of fowls, and offered some good remedies. Some of the remedies he offered are just as common, and he told how he had gotten results himself. That was worth all it cost me to get here. There were experts in other branches who spoke, and I will tell you all about them in my next letter. Will have to close for this time, but look for me next week. NEGRO'S HOME DYNAMITED, HE GETS $42,500 DAMAGES. Tennessee Jury Holds "Man's Home His Castle" in. Suit Following Posse's Raid. Memphis, Tenn., Special-Upholding the contention that "a man's home is his castle and he has a right to defend it," which Judge John E. McCall emphasized in his charge, a jury in federal court here awarded Matthew Harris, a Negro, $22,500 compensatory and $20,000 punitive damages in his suit against John A. Riechman, former sheriff of Shelby-county, and members of a sheriff's posse. Harris, who sued for $100,000 was seriously injured when his home was dynamited in an attempt to dislodge him after he fired on the posse, which was searching for one of his relatives. Harris testified that he was not aware of the identity of the possemen when he resisted their efforts to search his home. Riechman was exempted from the verdict for punitive damages, as it was shown that he was not actually a member of the posse. The Seventh Annual Essay Contest Was Attended by More Than Fifteen Hundred People at Bethel Church; the Two Prizes Awarded to the Lucky Contestants Were Contributed by Dr. Louie Usselmann, the Popular Jeweler at 3150 S. State Street Last Sunday afternoon the seventh annual essay contest was held at Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn street and more than fifteen hundred people crowded into it to enjoy the highly interesting program, including the reading of the essays by the various contestants, the subject been "Why Is It That the Negro of the United States Is Not a Power in the Industrial, Political and Commercial World." The contents of all the papers were well delivered with the possible exception of one or two and the majority of them contained much food for thought, which was worthy of serious consideration. For example, Mrs. A. George, who was one of the representatives of St. Mark's Lyceum, who in the end won the ladies' diamond brooch, uttered the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she declared, during the reading of her essay, that "the Negro never will be a factor in politics in this country as long as the politicians can tell just how he is going to vote, simply by the color of his skin or by the texture of his hair" that statement on her part was worth its weight in gold and seemingly not one of the other speakers or readers on that occasion had the COLORED CATHOLIC PRIEST BE HONORED. Baltimore, Md., Special — Roman Catholic and other prominent citizens are planning a big testimonial reception to Rev. C. Randolph Uncles on January 8th, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the priesthood. He was the first Colored man to be elevated to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church in this country, and Roman Catholics of both races as well as members of other denominations will join in the celebration. It is planned to present him a testimonial gift of $2,000 on the night of the reception. On the morning of the celebration a solemn high mass will be celebrated at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church at which time Cardinal Gibbons and other notables are expected to be present. Benediction services will take place at St. Peter Claver's Church. Father Uncles is a native of Maryland. Before entering St. Hyacinth's College, Canada, to get his scholastic training for the priesthood he taught school in Baltimore county. He received his theological training at St. Mary's Seminary in this city, where Cardinal Gibbons was also educated. He has been an instructor at Epiphym No.14 courage to give expression to similar views and in all honesty it must be admitted that for more than fifty years the Negro from the highest to the lowest has been nothing more than an abject political slave. That has retarded his progress in the Industrial, Political and in the Commercial world and the further fact that he is rather inclined to be dishonest in business affairs, more than all other agencies combined. Mr. M. C. B. Mason, also representing St. Mark Lyceum, without much trouble won the other prize, a gent's diamond ring and next year the essay contest will be held at St. Mark Church, 50th and South Wabash ave. For the past seven years all the prizes for the essay contests have been contributed by Dr. Louie Usselmann, the popular jeweler at 3150 South State street, who has thousands of friends among the Colored people in every direction and the reason that the majority of the Colored people feel at home in trading at his extensive store is that they know that they will always be treated right and that they can at all times buy the best goods for the least money. Apostolic College, Walbrook for a number of years. FORMER ALDERMAN FRANK I. BENNETT BECOMES COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. Mayor William Hale Thompson deserves to be highly commended for selecting former Alderman Frank I. Bennett, as Commissioner of Public Works. For in every way he is highly qualified to discharge all the exacting duties of that office. For some years Mr. Bennett was the able Chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council. 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True glory consists in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living. Pliny. Prudent Man. Optimism. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 23, 1916. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York, in the State of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Superintendent of, the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash.....$ 1,000,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year.....$ 3,193,320.84 Interest, rents and dividends 331,164.47 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....708.63 From all other sources.....528.33 Total Income $ 3,525,722.27 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year $ 1,484,845.08 Expenses of equipment and settlement of losses. $ 84,429.56 Interest or dividends to stock- holders $ 200,000.00 Commission or brokerage. $ 641,369.45 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees. $ 377,506.28 Rents $ 31,754.45 Advertising, printing and sta- tement fees. $ 45,915.87 Legal expenses, furniture, fi- tures and maps. $ 21,560.03 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage co- mputers. $ 29,821.91 Inspection and surveys. $ 51,935.54 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate. $ 29,651.36 State insurance departments, taxes. $ 83,710.52 Other licenses, fees and taxes Loss on sale or maturity of ledger assets $ 15,491.54 Decrease in book value of taxes. $ 14,547.12 Agents' balances charged off. $ 2,895.05 All other disbursements $ 12,567.63 Total Disbursements $ 3,163,464.20 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate...$ 738,663.02 Mortgage loans on real estate 720,250.00 Book value of bonds and cash in office and bank 5,753,560.22 Agents' balances 570,272.68 Total Ledger Assets...$ 8,371,931.81 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest accrued $ 51,350.50 Other non-ledger assets 15,896.03 Gross Assets $ 8,439,178.34 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months due...$ 9,378.49 Book value real estate, bonds and stocks over market value ... 362,333.47 Special deposits to secure li- labilities in Georgia, Virginia, New Mexico, N. Carolina 37,814.54 409,526.50 Total Admitted Assets.....$ 8,029,651.84 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid. $ 170,508.67 Losses in process of adjustment or in suspense. 148,480.29 Losses resisted 55,725.00 Total ..... $ 374,713.96 Deduct re-insurance ..... 108,786.21 Net amount of unpaid losses ..... 265,927.75 Total unearned premiums ..... 3,558,971.56 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. ..... 67,410.58 Commissions and brokerage ..... 26,066.66 Other liabilities ..... 1,919.13 Total Liabilities ..... $3,920,290.68 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year ..... $32,655,841.00 Total premiums during the year ..... 380,406.74 Total losses incurred during the year ..... 169,789.05 GEO. B. EDWARDS, President. GUSTAV KEHR. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of January, 1916. AUGUST C. WAITERLING, Notary Public. [SEAL] OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German Alliance Insurance Company of New York, in the State of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Superintendent of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash.....$400,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year.....$612,421.41 Interests, rents and dividends.....$81,232.18 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....$2,097.33 Total Income.....$695,750.92 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year.$319,319.79 Expenses of adjustment and settlement or losses.....$7,228.47 Interest or dividends to stockholders.....$60,000.00 Commissions or brokerage.....$135,710.30 Salaries, fees and all other charges of all others, clerks. agents and employees.....$3,490.00 Postage, etc.....$2.20 Legal expenses.....$25.00 Fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc.....$3,396.94 State insurance departments, taxes and fees.....$14,019.64 Other licenses, fees and taxes.....$15,490.13 Loss on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....$26,984.43 All other disbursements.....$100.00 Total Disbursements.....$605,775.90 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of $f$, bonds and stocks ..... $1,957,104.68 Cash in office and bank ..... 42,761.07 Agents' balances ..... 109,961.48 Total Ledger Assets ..... $2,109,827.23 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest accrued ..... 11,117.00 Gross Assets ..... $2,120,944.23 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Book value real estate, bonds and stocks over market value ..... $179,236.68 Total Admitted Assets ..... $1,941,707.55 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid. $68,391.49 Losses in process of adjustment or in suspense ..... 238,923.00 Losses resisted. 35,030.00 Total ..... $342,344.49 Deduct re-insurance ..... 232,510.00 Net amount of unpaid losses$ 109,834.49 Total unearned premiums... 505,421.30 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. 10,000.00 Total Liabilities $ 625,255.79 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year $ 16,123,774.00 Total premiums during the year 145,867.60 Total losses incurred during the year 67,940.02 WILLIAM N. KREMER President. EDWIN M. CRAGIN, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1916. J. HOMER REED, Notary Public. [SEAL] INCOME. Premiums received during the year $ 215,610.73 Invests, rents and dividends 63,311.35 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets 1,110.25 Increase in book value of ledger assets 12,139.00 Total Income $ 292,171.33 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year. $ 104,794.44 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses. $ 2,864.89 Interest or dividends to stock- labors. $ 50,000.00 Commissions or brokerage. $ 49,661.77 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees. $ 17,303.61 Rent. $ 2,500.00 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc. $ 3,462.78 Legal expenses and maps. $ 580.77 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc. $ 5,377.42 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate. $ 1,240.51 State insurance departments, taxes and fees. $ 6,584.65 Other licenses, fees and taxes Decrease in book value of ledger assets. $ 4,826.00 Agents' balances charged off. $ 10.00 Total Disbursements $ 251,012.69 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate. $ 58,388.34 Mortgage loans on real estate. $ 719,794.39 Loans secured by pledge of stocks, bonds or other collateral. $ 32,733.25 Book value of bonds and stock. $ 381,658.00 Cash in office and bank. $ 29,798.24 Agents' balances $ 42,144.75 Other ledger assets. $ 200.00 Total Ledger Assets $ 1,264,716.97 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest and rents due and accrued $ 1,923.92 Gross Assets $ 1,277,649.23 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months, due $ 3,890.01 Total Admitted Assets $ 1,274,259.22 Losses in process of adjustment or in suspense..$ 9,948.00 Losses resisted 6,500.00 Total ..... $ 16,448.00 Deduct re-insurance ..... 4,372.62 Net amount of unpaid losses.$ 12,075.38 Total unearned premiums... 243,622.79 Amount reclaimed on perpetual policies ..... 123.00 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. 8,000.00 Commissions and brokerage.. 1,500.00 Total Liabilities $ 265,291.17 Total Liabilities ... 200,321.17 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year ... $ 4,237,112.00 Total premiums during the year ... 41,535.12 Total losses incurred during the year ... 17,707.55 MARTIN MEYERDURCH President. R. W. MACDONALD, Ass't. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January, 1916: HOWARD S. SHELDS. Notary Public. [SEAL] OFFICIAL PUBLICATION CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash.....$ 2,000,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year.....$ 9,037,801.97 Interests, rents and dividends 1,122,103.89 Pro sale on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....4,137.72 From all other sources.....15,355.99 Total income.....$10,179,399.57 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year. $ 4,876,580.75 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses..... 127,033.93 Interest or dividends to staterunts..... 600,000.00 Commissions or brokerage..... 1,731,070.02 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees..... 979,435.65 Rent..... 75,068.31 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc..... 167,895.58 Legal expenses, furniture, fixtures and maps..... 35,770.81 Use of written boards, fire department, departments, fees, etc..... 186,327.83 Inspection and surveys..... 67,330.92 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate..... 118,283.13 State agencies, departments, taxes and fees..... 201,461.05 Other licenses, fees and taxes..... 91,555.46 Loss on sale or maturity of ledger assets..... 243,761.07 Agents' balances charged off..... 3,320.39 All other disbursements..... 26,130.17 Total disbursements. $ 9,535,640.01 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate... $ 2,682,385.69 Mortgage loans on real estate Book value of bonds and cash stocks... $ 18,566,082.42 Cash office and bank... $ 977,080.14 Agents balances... $ 1,736,374.91 Bills receivable... $ 36,090.89 Total Ledger Assets... $ 24,051,164.05 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest accrued... $ 153,313.52 Other non-ledger assets... $ 6,242.23 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT A Agents' bal- ances over three months, due.$ 303.82.25 Bills receiv- able and loans on personal se- curity ... 1,925.13 Book value real estate, bonds and stocks over market value 1,746,586.11 Special de- posits to se- curie liabilities in Canada, Georgia, N. Mexico, N. Carolina, and Vir- ginia ... 66,717.00 LIABILITIES. Losses ad- justed and unpaid $ 194,156.00 Losses in process of adjustment or in sus- pense ... 1,012,753.00 Losses re- sisted ... 162,531.00 Total ... $1,369,440.00 Deduct re-in- surance ... 440,414.88 Net amount of unpaid losses. $ 929,025.12 Total unearned premiums... 9,036,192.28 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. 157,171.93 Commissions and brokerage. 14,461.48 Other liabilities 10,144.57 Total Liabilities... $10,146,941.38 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year $88,270,233.00 Total premiums during the year 820,747.13 Total losses incurred during the year 343,552.48 WILLIAM N. KREMER, President. EDWIN M. CRAGIN, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1916. J. HOMER REED. [SEAL] Notary Public. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, in the state of Pennsylvania, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Superintendent of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash ..... $ 200,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year ..... $ 362,390.45 Interests, rents and dividends ..... 40,757.29 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets ..... 108.00 Total Income ..... $ 403,255.74 DISBURSEMENTS Losses paid during the year. $ 205,120.82 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses..... 5,555.56 Interest or dividends to stockholders..... 26,000.00 Commissions or brokerage..... 109,448.70 Salaries, fees and all other charges of charge, clerks, agents and employees..... 19,369.11 Rents..... 3,825.00 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc..... 4,963.31 Legal expenses, furniture, fix-ture, etc..... 2,018.60 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc..... 6,151.58 Inspection and surveys..... 393.77 Repairs, expenses and taxes or maintenance..... 1,810.88 State insurance departments, taxes and fees..... 6,109.46 Other licenses, fees and taxes..... 3,518.07 Agents' balances charged off..... 98.01 All other disbursements..... 759.98 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate... $ 46,527.47 Mortgage loans on real estate 521,925.00 Loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks or other collateral 15,750.00 Book value of bonds and stocks 78,684.00 Cash in office and bank 77,385.79 Agents' balances 67,083.51 Bills receivable 1,835.53 Total Ledger Assets... $ 809,191.30 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest and rents due and accrued ... $ 11,381.00 Market value of real estate, bonds and stocks over book value 5,754.16 Gross Assets ... $ 826,326.46 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months, due $ 5,612.48 Total Admitted Assets... $ 820,713.98 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid... $ 9,646.41 Losses in process of adjustment or in suspense. 51,316.52 Losses resisted... 5,575.00 Total ..... $66,537.93 Deduct re-insur- ance ..... 9,007.55 Net amount of unpaid losses $ 57,530.38 Total unearned premiums... 315,197.78 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. 5,150.00 Commissions and brokerage. 588.84 Other liabilities ..... 36.00 Total Liabilities.....$ 378,445.00 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year ..... $1,887,755.00 Total premiums during the year ..... 24,186.54 Total losses incurred during the year ..... 14,951.59 W. J. PATTERSON, President. E. P. NIEBAUM, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January, 1916. WALTER C. MORRIS, Notary Public. [SEAL] OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Superintendent of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash.....$ 500,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year.....$ 729,576.12 Deposit premiums on per- perial risks.....8,682.30 Interests, rents and dividends 110,902.56 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....7,308.03 Increase in book value of led- ger assets.....2,440.22 From all other sources.....257.37 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year. $374,407.31 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses.....8,694.45 Deposit premiums returned. .....18,618.40 Interest or dividends to stockholders .....100,000.00 Commissions or brokerage.....190,726.01 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees.....83,331.63 Rents .....12,485.54 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc.....11,502.33 Legal expenses, furniture, fixtures and maps.....5,800.19 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc.....19,014.74 Inspection and surveys.....3,798.31 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate.....7,829.25 State insurance departments, taxes and fees.....17,313.45 Other licenses, fees and taxes.....11,027.27 Loss on sale or maturity of ledger assets .....21.90 Decrease in book value of ledger assets .....1,364.38 Agents' balances charged off.....138.14 All other disbursements.....2,353.46 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate... $ 211,497.32 Mortgage loans on real estate 235,900.00 Loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks or other collateral 32,000.00 Book value of bonds and stocks 1,886,545.60 Cash in office and bank 87,215.47 Agents' balances 121,866.48 Bills receivable 3,832.03 Other ledger assets 812.50 Total Ledger Assets... $ 2,579,769.40 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest and rents due and accrued $ 26,886.00 Market value of real estate, bonds and stocks over book value ... 55,752.00 Other non-ledger assets ... 5,127.24 Gross Assets $ 2,684,308.11 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months, due $ 1,394.30 Book value real estate, bonds and stocks over market value ... 175,953.10 Special deposits to secure liabilities in Georgia and Virginia ... 4,967.85 $ 182,315.21 Total Admitted Assets $ 2,485,020.96 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $ 1,395.00 Losses in process of adjustment or in suspense 57,600.00 Losses resisted. 5,850.00 Total ... $ 64,854.00 Deduct reinsurance ... 19,357.00 Net amount of unpaid losses $ 43,497.00 Total unearned premiums $ 946,676.00 Amount reclaimable on perpetual policies ... 568,178.57 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, etc. ... 3,500.00 Total Liabilities $ 1,563,833.67 BUSINESS IN ILINOIS. Total risks taken during the year ... $14,228,644.00 Total premiums during the year ... 142,042.20 Total losses incurred during the year ... 54,603.00 HENRY M. GRATZ President. EDWARD J. THOMASON Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of January, 1916. JOSEPH KLAPP NICHOLS. Notary Public. Leaves of the Poison ivy. No doubt just a picture of poison ivy is enough to cause some folks to shudder and remember the time their face and body became scarlet and swollen from contact with the leaves. How it itched and burned! Yet to rob it was only to make matters worse. A curious fact is that some persons are immune from this poison, while others must not even breathe the poison of the plant. It is often confounded with the Virginia creeper, although the difference between this is distinct. The leaves of the latter are divided into five leaflets, while those of the former have but three, a fact well worth remembering. Strange enough, the witch hazel plant is sometimes found growing close to the poison ivy. As witch hazel extract is one of the best remedies for ivy poisoning it would seem nature was holding out disease in one hand and a remedy in another. Heat at the Persian Gulf. The Persian gulf and its coasts in summer about the hottest place on earth's surface, at temperature of 8 degrees in the shade being not so common, while a black bulb solar that mometer has registered 187 degrees in the sun. When one remembers that the hottest room in a Turkish bath is usually kept at about 160 degrees the appellation nature of this Persian heat will be better realized. The greatest heat ever known in England was on Aug. 18, 1893, when a shade temperature of 95 degrees was registered. But on this day the sun temperature did not quite equal that of July 28, 1885, when 162 degrees F. was registered in the sun. When you consider facts like these it is difficult to believe that our planet receives only one two-thousand-sixth part of the rays flung out by the sun—London Telegraph. Odd Titles of Newspapers. In Columbus, says the Dispatch, there is a man whose chief joy is in a collection of newspaper titles. There are Headlights, Flashlights Bees, Eagles, Owls, Mirrors and Letters, but when it comes to Derrick Meddlers, Telescopes, Flags and Sun beams the class is limited. In He Springs there is published the Arkansas Thomas Cat, and other titles just as unusual are the Sledge Hammer, the Irrepressible, the Silent Worker and Gall. Frequently it is possible to tell from the title of a newspaper the state in which it is published. For instance the Chieftain is in Oklahoma, the Esterter and the Larlat are in Texas, Big Hole Breezes in Montana and the Roundup in Wyoming. Attractive Automobiles. "So you are in the market for an automobile?" "Yes," answered the man who likes to attract attention. "Any particular make?" "No; I merely want one that will make people turn round and stare at me when I pass." "Oh, you don't need a special type for that. Get the ordinary car and exceed the speed limit."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Careful Hubby. Careful Hubby. "Does your husband subscribe to the theory that kissing transmits germs?" "No; he thinks that germs are only transmitted by money and is very careful not to hand me any."—Kansas City Journal. Woodmen Grow Obsolete. A steam operated sawing machine fells more trees in an eight hour day than thirty woodmen. It works close to the ground and leaves no strangest standing.—Popular Science Monthly. Just In Time. Plaintiff's Lawyer—I rest the case. Defendant's Ditto—You ought to. We pretty weak.—New York Americans. TWO THOUSAND VOICES IN CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE Will Be Supplemented by Soloist and Orchestra of Seventy Pieces. New York.—The New York Community chorus, under the direction of Harry Barnhart, will try to have almost all New York sing on Christmas. There will be Christmas songs around the Christmas tree in Madison square, and later the chorus and as many other people as the place can hold will fill Madison Square Garden and sing Handel's "Messiah." The chorus probably will contain between 1,500 and 2,000 persons, who have been practicing the oratorio for two months. They will be supplemented by a soloist and an orchestra of Seven. Mr. Barnhart, who, with Arthur Farwell, the composer; W. Kirkpatrick Price, the treasurer, and Claude Bragdon, the architect and the creator of the "Light" half of "Song and Light," was impressed first by the national attitude for music. When listening to a band concert in a park at Rochester he suddenly was struck by the idea that the mute and enchanted crowd would be glad to sing if they had only the opportunity and training. To fill this need he organized a community chorus in Rochester and later a smaller one at Lyons, N. Y. It was in January of 1916 that the New York Community chorus was attempted, but since then its ranks have been expanding rapidly until it now is necessary to transfer it from the auditorium of De Witt Clinton high school to Madison Square Garden for the Christmas celebration. SEVEN THOUSAND MILE VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG Mistaken a Dozen Times For Submarine In Trip Across Atlantic. New York.—A remarkable sea voyage of 7,000 miles, from Dordrecht, Holland, to Tampico, Mexico, in a tugboat but sixty feet in length, with a draft of three feet, has just been completed by a crew of men under the leadership of Captain H. Waltaker. Captain Waltaker and his crew, of whom one was E. M. Eden, a young artist of Amsterdam, who made the trip to satisfy a longing for adventure, started home on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam. The voyage required eighty-four days' time and was made doubly hazardous by the fact that the tug could carry only twenty-seven tons of coal. Frequent attempts to stop passing vessels to replenish the bunkers failed. Each time the presence of the small boat in the path of a steamship would send the vessel zigzagging away in the belief that the tug might be a disguised submarine. "We were taken for a submarine a dozen times during the trip," said Mr. Elen, "and each time the vessel took to flight and we could not catch her, although we were badly in need of coal and provisions." The tug was the Fuerta, built by the Corona Oil company in its shipyards in Holland for use in towing oil barges in the Panuco river. In ordinary circumstances the tug would have been transported lashed to a ship's deck, but the freight rate demanded was deemed obstructant, and Captain Waltaker was selected to make the voyage with the tug under her own power. COLONEL OFFERS A REWARD Somebody Cut Down Mr. Roosevelt's Sassafras Tree at Sagamore. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Colonel Roosevelt is on the trail of malignant malefactors again. This time it is one or more intrigued woodmen who, unknown to him, saw down a large sassafras tree on the colonel's estate, Sagamore Hill. Colonel Roosevelt offered $25 reward for information leading to the "discovery of the individual who maliciously and feloniously entered my land and with a crossout saw felled a large and valuable sassafras tree, which by its fall partially destroyed an even more valuable beech tree." If there are any trees to come down at Sagamore Hill the colonel wants to do the chopping himself. UP A TREE TWENTY HOURS. Fugitive Delirium Tremens Victim Disc clothes Clothes and Climbs Nyack, N. Y. —After passing twenty hours in the topmost branches of a tree, Edgar Tordoff was rescued by hunters. He was arrested suffering from delirium tremens and sent to the almshouse at Viola instead of to jall, and when he tried to eject the inmates was strapped in a straitjacket. He escaped and wandered through the Ramapo mountains to Ladentown, where he threw away his clothes and climbed a tree. He was about famished when found by the hunters and Letchworth policemen and may die. Tordoff is a painter. Work Mine In U. S. Supreme Court. Washington.-Dynamos, motors and other electrical apparatus whizzed and whirred in the supreme court chamber at Washington when the justices viewed a miniature mining plant in full operation. The demonstration, unique in the court's history, was held to give the justices an actual view of a minimally in operation, one used in many countries and attacked as insult in a case recently reargued. A writer in the Technical World Magazine, describing the immense light on Pikes peak, says: "The venerable head of that most famous of mountains, Pikes peak, has been given an enormous eye. In Denver, seventy-five miles away, this eye can be seen flashing to and fro on clear nights, and in Colorado Springs, fifteen miles away, the 'company' on the front porch is likely to be shown up in a bright light at any moment by the cog railway's searchlight. "The giant light is 14,172 feet above sea level and is capable of flashing signals over most of central Colorado. It has been placed on a platform twenty-five feet above the summit house. Current is supplied by the turbines that convert the power of the peak streams into electricity. The searchlight is attached to a semaphore that the operator moves at will, searching out the dark beauty spots throughout the region or touching upon sections of Colorado Springs and even Denver and Pueblo when the great banks of cloud do not blanket the cities far below." Lost Skill of Ancients. From the earliest periods of which we have historical records one of man's greatest problems has been to lift heavy loads rapidly and efficiently. Some of the greatest monuments of antiquity were built under conditions that involved lifting of heavy pieces of building material to great heights, but how it was done we do not know to this day. The manner in which the great stones were raised in Egypt has always been a mystery and probably always will be. It is certain, however, that the builders of these wonderful monuments were possessed of mechanical contrivances that were lost in the dark ages intervening between their time and ours or they possessed patience to a more remarkable degree than is exhibited in any race of men at the present time.—Engineering Magazine How Water Freezes. It used to puzzle all thinking people why ponds and rivers do not freeze beyond a certain depth. This depends on a most curious fact—namely, that water is at its heaviest when it reaches 40 degrees F.—that is, 8 degrees above freezing point. On a frosty night as each top layer of water falls to 40 degrees it sinks to the bottom. Therefore the whole pond has to drop to 40 degrees before any of it can freeze. At last it is all cooled to this point, and then ice begins to form. But ice is a very bad conductor of heat. Therefore it shuts off the freezing air from the big body of comparatively warm water underneath. The thicker it gets the more perfectly does it act as a great coat, and that is why even the Arctic ocean never freezes beyond a few feet in thickness. Underpaid Postage. Insufficient postage on letters is a serious handicap to American business abroad, reports our acting vice consul at Genoa, Italy. A letter from the United States to Italy bearing a two cent stamp entails upon the recipient a payment of at least 6 cents as a penalty. "The poor impression upon Italian firms created by short paid letters," says the report, "becomes, finally, by repetition, very great. Special care in affixing the proper postage would bring ample returns by removing a cause of complaint which has exerted an unfavorable influence in foreign business." Force of Habit He was an old merchant who had built up a big business by advertising. "John," said his wife, "what do you want on your tombstone?" "Oh," he answered, "it isn't very important what the text is so long as it gets good space and is well displayed."—London Telegraph. Salt In the Sea. The volume of the saline matter in the ocean is a little more than 4,800,000 cubic miles, or, according to the United States geological survey, department of the interior, enough to cover the entire surface of the United States to a depth of 8,500 feet. Two Views. "Life," said the optimist, "is one grand sweet song." "Say, rather, a rasping graphophone record," growled the pessimist.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Pinheads. "Pa, when is a man a pinhead?" "When his head stops the point of a thing from going any farther, my son."—Baltimore American. ```markdown ``` Keep Flesh on Your Bones. A liberal allowance of fat is needful for perfecting the shape of the body. Fat gives form and roundness to the body. Fat is needed to help maintain and regulate the body heat. Fat people do not feel uncomfortable from the chilling blasts of winter, as do their less favored lean and lank brothers. Fat acts as a reserve substance which the body can draw upon for nutrition in case of emergency too. If one is inclined to grumble about his weight let him think what it would mean to him to be deprived of his useful protective covering of fat. Deterioration in health usually results when there is a marked loss of fat from the body. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 23, 1916. CHINESE HAVE PLAN TO RID HOUSE OF GHOSTS Urge Novel Method of Taking Haunt From American Legation. Washington.—A legend has gone around Peking that the American legation is haunted; that the shade of an officer who lost his life during the Boxer massacres of white men in 1900 is in the habit of occasionally visiting his old quarters in the legation, greatly to the discomfort of the occupants. This aroused considerable interest among the Chinese in Peking. Their own spooks, being daily or rather nightly companions, do not excite much attention. But a foreign ghost is quite a new thing. A Chinese gentleman named Hsu Nai Hsuan has taken the matter seriously to heart and has felt moved to write to the American minister expressing his sympathy for the affliction which the legation is undergoing in the matter of a haunted room. He says that experience has shown in China that the way to rid a house of ghosts is to remove the roof of the building, leaving the interior of the room exposed to the sun and air for some tens of days, after which the roof may be restored and the ghost will no longer frequent the place. Mr. Hsu said that he humbly offered this suggestion, "as foreigners may not be familiar with the proper method of handling ghosts in China." If congress, says the Tokyo Advertiser, is asked to appropriate a sum for the reroofing of the legation at Peking the American people will now understand what it is all about. FINDS HIDDEN ROOMS IN HOUSE OF MYSTERY Carpenter Work on Old Place Reveals Apartments None Knew About. Chicago.-At 3624 Ellis Park is an old three story frame building that was a home when Ellis park was a woodland. For the last eight or nine years, in a remodeled form, it has been an apartment building. A few days ago a carpenter, tearing away old planking to build a porch, broke through a wall and made discoveries which made 3624 Ellis Park a house of mystery. Between the second and third floors he found a hidden apartment, of which not even John Chamales, new owner of the building, knew. Carefully Frank Wilder, the carpenter, entered through the hole he had made in the wall. He found a complete set of rooms running from the front to the rear of the building. The walls and ceiling were unfinished. There were no windows and no visible means of exit. There was a small table in one corner with a few dishes on it and an old copper lamp. Rust covered, but with a frying pan of ancient days still on it, there was a stove. Some straw in a corner seemed to indicate where the mysterious occupant of the mystery chamber had slept. A piece of wire between two walls served as a hanger for an old coat. Over everything was a thick layer of dust. In hunting for an exit Wilder came upon a panel in the wall fastened with a hinge, two big iron books and a bar that fitted into iron clasps. It opened upon the staircase and so matched the paneling that it was invisible from the outside. SAYS HE BURIED GOLD. Old Man on Way to English Workhouse Tella of It. Corning, Cal.-Mrs. T. L. Barkle of Newlyn, England, in a letter to her son, the Rev. T. J. Barkle of this city, states an old man named Kempe, who came from California less than a dozen years ago, was found on the verge of starvation and taken to the workhouse. Among the old man's effects was found nearly $5,000. This was all made in California, and on the way to the workhouse Kempe said he had buried about $2,000 in California in a hole five feet deep, but never could find it. Little is known of Kempe except that he was a miner in California and returned to England eleven or twelve years ago. Somewhere in the mining district of California a bag containing $2,000 is buried. PRIZE DOG SAVES MASTER. Barke an Alarm When Auto Pine Dr. Hair Against Garage Wall. Bridgeport, Conn.-Dr. James E. Hair, widely known in this country and Canada as a dog expert, probably was saved from death by one of his prize pets when the automobile he was cranking shot forward and pinned him against the wall of the garage. The barking of the dog brought neighbors, who found Dr. Hair unconscious. He was severely bruised in the abdomen, but is expected to recover. Apparently he had thought the engine neutral and had started it without setting the brake. Shot at Movie Picture. Hammond, Ind.-Patrons of the Lyric theater were thrown into a panic here when John Sebastian, a foreigner, whipped out a revolver and killed the villain, who was choking the beautiful heroe in the movie. The shot punctured the arch fleds's breast. "He was choking 'the lady,'" said John, as a policeman led him away. LEFT PRISON A REFORMER. Quinlan, I. W. W. Leader, Told of Evils He Found as a Confict. Paterson, N. J.-Patrick Quinlan, the I. W. W. leader...who was released from the New Jersey state prison after serving time for inciting riot, told an audience of 1,000 persons in Turn hall that he was going into prison reform work. He said that he would have a conference in Newark with Thomas Mott Osborne, former warden of Sing Sing, and several other leaders in prison reform. Quinlan was in the Trenton' prison for a year and a half. In his recent campaign against conditions in New York prisons Mr. Osborne often spoke of bad conditions in the New Jersey prison. Quinlan said he was well treated by the prison authorities, but that the physical condition of the prison was bad. He said that the bathing facilities were all right in summer, but that the bathtubs were not used in winter, the prisoners getting only pails of water with which to take baths. He said that 250 men were in a condemned section of the prison and complained that the inmates were allowed to write only one letter a month and that the letters were censored going and coming. He declared that a letter written to him had been given to reporters before he had seen it. SQUIRREL ATTACKS COP. Makes Flying Leap, Burying Teeth In Thumb and Forefinger. New York.—A gray squirrel that had been making a somewhat hopeless hunt for nuts in Morningside park, near One Hundred and Twentieth street, suddenly showed renewed interest in its work as Patrolman Karl M. Huber of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street police station came along a winding path. With a screech in the squirrel tongue that sounded like a long drawn out "Eureka!" the squirrel made a flying leap at the cop. This at least is the version of the squirrel's attack on the cop told by some witnesses. Patrolman Huber, whose version of the incident also should be listened to, says that while he was trying to drive off a squirrel which had alighted on the shoulder of a frightened small boy the squirrel grabbed Huber and tried to crack him. Dr. M. K. Smith of St. Luke's hospital looked at the policeman's right hand and found that Huber had not come nearer to death than some squirrel tooth marks on the thumb and forefinger. CAN OF MONEY FOUND. Small Boys Pay Out $3,000 For 50 Cents' Worth of Candy. San Francisco, Cal. — Three small boys, whose aggregate age is twenty years, playing near San Francisco's new City and County hospital, unearthed the "end of the rainbow" in the tangible form of a tomato can stuffed with real money. Five thousand dollars in five dollar notes—federal reserve bills of the issue of 1914—the boys pulled forth and then began an onslaught upon neighboring candy stores. They did not count the money, but exchanged sheaves of the bills for bags of candy. In all they passed out $3,000 for 50 cents' worth of sweets before they were observed by a police officer, who took the remaining $2,000 in charge. In the opinion of the police the money was buried by a thief. The money will be returned to the boys if it is not claimed and identified. GIRL FIGHTS THIEF; $530 SAFE Miss Bessie Schlieff, Attacked by Bandit, Keeps Payroll. New York. — Although repeatedly struck in the face by a highwayman, Miss Bessie Schlieff, twenty-one years old, a bookkeeper employed by M. Mummergrade, a bedding manufacturer, managed to hold on to the payroll she was carrying and finally beat off her assailant. The girl received the money, amounting to $530, at the State bank. As she passed a coal yard on her way back to the office a young man tried to grab the envelope containing the cash. Several longers in the coal yard heard the girl's cries, but did not interfere. Finally the bandit fled, after Miss Schlieff had fought him. FILM SAFE CRACKERS BANNED Board of Censors Also Bara Heroines Tied to Railroad Tracks. Harrisburg, Pa.—Films showing safe crackers at work, tramps stealing watches and persons taking drugs are to be eliminated from moving picture exhibitions in Pennsylvania, according to a bulletin issued by the state board of censors. A long list of film plays, some of them thrillers with heroes tied to railroad tracks, is forbidden. Scores of films in series are enumerated as condemned, including about sixty on the subject of white slavery and twenty-five on Mexican scenes whose manufacturers the censors have been unable to locate. Prizefighting films also have been put under the ban. Skeleton of Indian Giant Oakland, Cal. — A skeleton, believed to be that of an Indian chief, was discovered by two working men engaged in digging gravel on the Frank Williams ranch, a mile and a half west of San Leandro. The bones have been taken in charge by Deputy Coroner Robert Morgan, who declares that from the size of the thigh bone it is evident that the skeleton is that of a man at least eight feet tall. The skeleton is to be sent to the anthropological department of the University of California. That May Happen at End of Great War. ALL AVAILABLE LAND GONE Commissioner of Immigration Howe Predicts That United States Will Become an Emigrant Rather Than an Immigrant Nation at the End of Hostilities In Europe. New York.—A prediction that the United States would become an "emigrant" rather than an "immigrant" nation at the close of the war was made by Commissioner of Immigration Frederic C. Howe at the Sunday evening forum of the Free synagogue. Mr. Howe took the stand that immigration was purely an economic question and declared that it had been such from the beginning. He said that those who opposed immigration did so because they desired to limit the competition of unskilled foreign labor; those who favored the wide open door did so because it made labor cheap. He said the immigrant no longer went to the farm because all the available land of the country had been taken up, hundreds of millions of acres being held for purely speculative purposes. "The immigration problem never existed so long as the land was free for the asking," said Mr. Howe, "and it is this scarceness of land which makes immigration an economic question. "It is a matter of freeing labor on one hand from the competition of the incoming labor groups from Europe and of insuring to the immigrant an opportunity to work for himself rather than for an employer interested in securing his services at the lowest possible cost. "I keep more or less in touch with the centers to which go most of the men who pass through Ellis island. I am told that everywhere the men now employed in our shops and factories who at home worked as farmers are saving their money to return to the old country. They have always wished to own their own farms—they came here for that purpose—and they figure that after the war land will be cheap in the countries overseas. This sentiment, spreading among our workers, will result in a serious crisis in our industrial life." Mr. Howe also discussed the servant question. He said that since the war there had been practically no servant girls coming to this country and that many of those who were in service had left it to enter munition factories and offices, while others had married or died. To regulate the tide of oriental immigration and, in fact, to check in some measure immigration from any land Dr. Sydney L. Gullick, an authority on Japan, suggested that, for example, if a thousand Syrians came to this country in 1900 and ten years later all had taken out American citizenship then another thousand might be admitted. If, however, only 300 had applied for naturalization papers the decision of the remaining 700 to still be Syrians automatically would keep an equal number of their fellow countrymen in Syria. RABBITS TO BE "HOT DOGS." Texas Plant Soon to Make Animals Into Sausage. Austin, Tex.—A plant for the manufacture of sausage from the meat of the Texas jackrabbit is to be erected soon and put into operation in west Texas, according to an announcement made by Fred W. Davis, state commissioner of agriculture. Promoters of the plant expect to handle most of the annual rabbit crop in their mill. The Texas state department of agriculture has decided to attempt to create a country wide demand for rabbit meat. It is expected that not less than a million rabbits, Texas born and reared, will be shipped to New England and eastern markets during the next few months. Commissioner Davis says the rabbits are quoted in some cities at a higher price than turkey or chicken. NEW COINS ARE HELD UP. Quarter and Half Dollar Won't Be Out Until First of Year. Washington.—Issue of the new half dollar designed by Adolph A. Weinman, creator of the new dime, and the new quarter, designed by Herman A. MacNeil, both considered by experts coins of great beauty, was ordered deferred by the treasury department until the beginning of 1917. The extraordinary demand for small coins—cents, nickels and dimes—is taxing the facilities of the mints, and officials believed calls for the new quarter and half dollar would swamp the mints if they were issued now. Wedding Party: No Bride. Allentown, Pa.-Andrew Mireck the other evening hunted up Arthur Koenig, Allentown's license clerk, and returned a license which, he said, was no longer any good. The day before Mireck and Mary Novatny, a comely girl, had appeared arm in arm and obtained the license. The next day she left him waiting at the church, priest, attendants, guests and all. After waiting several hours the guests disappeared in disappointment, and when Mireck got home for dinner there was a telegram from the girl in which she stated she had changed her mind and would not marry him. PAGE THREE John Adams Was a Poor Loser. John Adams, second president of the United States, was not a good loser. He wanted another term and worked hard for it. None of the candidates received a majority of the electoral votes, and the election was thrown into the house of representatives. But Adams had no chance there, for he was third in the race, and only the two having the highest number of electoral votes could be voted for. Thus the choice lay between Jefferson and Burr, and Jefferson won. Adams was very much disgruntled and did everything in his power to make things unpleasant for his successor. He filled every vacant office he could lay his hands on, so as to leave as little patronage as possible for Jefferson. Not only so, but in the closing hours of his administration he and his party associates created twenty-three new judgeships, for which there was no necessity, and worked till the stroke of midnight on March 3 filling out and signing commissions for these "midnight judges," as they were called.—Argonaut. The Hydra Is Its Own Doctor. A tiny marine animal which consists merely of a stomach and a mouth surrounded by tentacles and which is capable of turning itself inside out is called the hydra. Sometimes the hydra's mouth becomes overstretched through its taking in too much food. The animal promptly turns itself inside out, ejects the superfluous food and then returns to its normal condition. If it turns itself inside out and can't get back again it eventually dies. The hydra is its own physician and performs miracles of healing. If a tentacle is cut off a complete animal will be formed out of it. If the body is cut in half and the pieces placed together they will grow together again; if not, two entire animals will be formed, and any part of one animal will grow on to the cut surface of another. Real Heroism. A story came from Switzerland some years ago of a mountain guide whose name was not preserved. He, with two others, was leading a party over one of the most precipitous passes of the higher Alps. The men, as is usual, were tied to each other by a long rope. As they scaled the wall of ice they slipped on the edge of a frightful chasm. This man was at the end of the rope. Without his weight there was a chance for the others to regain their footing; with it there was none. He cast a glance down at the dark abyss, filled with fathomless snows, then drew his knife from his belt, saying quietly to the man next him: "Tell mother how it was, Jose." He cut the rope and fell, never to be seen of mortal man again. The Mistake. In his biography of Alexandre Dumas Harry A. Spurr says that the improvident French author, who hated avarice, was once waiting in line for his cloak at a sollee when he saw a millionaire give a tip of 50 centimes (10 cents) to the servant who handed out his paletot. Dumas, getting his cloak, threw down a 100 franc note. "Pardon, sir; you have made a mistake, I think," said the man, offering to return the note. "No, no, friend," answered Dumas, casting a disdainful glance at the millionaire. "it is the other gentleman who has made the mistake." Ready For Her. "Who are those husky gentlemen? I never saw them at one of your musicales before." "Oh, they're all right." "Do they sing?" "No, but they'll come in handy. Mme. Squalerina always wants the plano moved."-Pittsburgh Post. One Mystery Solved. He-You say these biscuits are exactly like those your mother used to make? She-Exactly. He-Then that explains why your father paid a physician $50 to say that biscuits of any sort would be absolutely fatal to him. -Richmond Times-Dispatch ```markdown ``` Faints and Guts. Fainting spells or light states of unconsciousness are frequently encountered and are brought about by lack of a sufficient blood supply for the brain. When a person begins to feel faint he should sit in a chair and hold his head by clasping the hands behind it and forcing it downward. If he is not able to do this he should be laid flat on his back with his feet elevated. A few whiffs of aromatic ammonia or a half teaspoonful in a wineglassful of cold water is a good remedy, but to have the head low, the feet high, the clothing loosened and plenty of fresh air are the most important measures. Slight cuts may be bathed with peroxide of hydrogen, but lacerated wounds, especially if dirt has got into the wounds, should be cleansed as soon as possible with gasoline or turpentine and then painted with iodine. If earth has been forced into the wounds they should be made to bleed freely and the services of a physician secured for advice against tetanus or lockjaw. As to burns in a mild degree, a simple dusting powder of borated talcum or ordinary baking soda is sufficient. Olly or sticky dressings should not be encouraged. [Name] [Image of a man with a bald head, a mustache, and a suit with a tie]. MR. JOHN McGILLEN The proficient and painstaking Chief C and the Trustees of that district general much good by retaining hi The proficient and painstaking Chief Clerk of the Sanitary District of Chicago and the Trustees of that district would do themselves and the people in general much good by retaining him in his present position. The proficient and painstaking Chief Clerk of the Sanitary District of Chicago and the Trustees of that district would do themselves and the people in general much good by retaining him in his present position. PUSHING AHEAD "THE BIRTH OF A RACE." THE WORK ON THE BIG PHOTOPLAY WILL MOVE FAST AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. Immediately after January 1st, the work on "The Birth of a Race" will be pushed as fast as possible. During these Christmas-days plans are being completed for nation-wide campaign of publicity, that everybody everywhere may know all about this big and important photoplay. The month of December shows more stock sold in "The Birth of a Race" than during any other month since the company was incorporated. The bulk of these sales were made to White men and women, who look upon the photoplay as a good investment. As an illustration, one White man, a famous architect, bought a large block of stock. This architect has been all over the world, knows Africa better than most of us know Chicago, and is sure that "The Birth of a Race" will be a great success in Europe, South America, the Orient, and elsewhere, as well as here at home. The financial worth of "The Birth of a Race" is illustrated by the fact that four big brokers have been anxious to take over the entire issue of stock, and sell the bulk of it to a select list of White investors. Much of the stock has been taken by a leading brokerage firm, with offices in a number of cities. This means that all the stock will be sold within a short time. When this is done there will be no more stock for anybody at any price. The scenario—the working story—of "The Birth of a Race" is nearing completion. As soon as it is finished, the actual making of the picture will be pushed very fast. While some scenes are being taken in Africa, others will be taken in America. Agents are now on the lookout for an old slave ship, for other things of historical interest, and for locations for the various exterior scenes. The interior scenes will be produced at the Selig studios in both Chicago and California. William N. Selig, president of the Selig Polyscope Company, who will help produce and exhibit "The Birth of a Race," is taking a great personal interest in this photoplay. His long experience convinces him that this will be the greatest motion picture ever made. Edwin L. Barker, president of the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation, and who has supervision of the picture, is just as enthusiastic as Mr. Selig. Mr. Barker has had a varied experience, and as a result occupies a unique position in the motion picture world. He has never produced a picture that did not, in addition to its entertainment qualities, possess some educational value. As an illustration, when he was with Kinemacolor Company of America, which produced motion pictures in all the colors of Nature, in "The Note in the Shirt," their first successful story picture, Mr. Barker developed an experiment into a real success. He claimed that colors could be used in such a way as to produce either laughter or tears, and as Kinemacolor reproduced every tint and shade exposed to the camera he put his claim to the test. So far as is known this was the first time that an audience ever roared with laughter simply on account of seeing a color. It may be of interest to know how this was done, and so just one scene PAGE FOUR erk of the Sanitary District of Chicago would do themselves and the people in him in his present position. from Mr. Barker's "The Note in the Shirt" will tell the story. The shirt fell into the hands of a cowboy. In removing his everyday shirt in order to put on the new one, his red flannel undershirt was exposed to view, and this red flannel undershirt always provoked a roar of laughter. Mr. Barker's most talked of picture, "The Dawn of Plenty," which he made for the International Harvester Company, is an entertaining story of the part plenty of wheat and cheap bread have played in the progress and civilization of the world. It was because of Mr. Barker's peculiar fitness for a picture like "The Birth of a Race," that Booker T. Washington suggested that he have charge of it. This insures the proper spirit. HEALTH NOTES Sow good habits and reap good health. * * * Just as fish cannot live in foul water, so human beings cannot live and thrive in foul air. * * * No one need have small pox. Vaccination is a certain preventive. Then, why not try vaccination instead of procrastination? A person with a bad cold is unfit for business. Most bad colds are due to infections spread from person to person. There are many varieties of germs that produce colds; those of pneumonia, influenza, pus microbes, and those that cause measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever and diphtheria, are common amongst us. Body secretions communicated by sneezing, coughing, spitting and careless use of handkerchiefs contain these germs. Colds from germs are spread most readily where people congregate in closed spaces. The Fall, Winter and Spring are, therefore, seasons when contagious colds are most prevalent. Why We Are Sick.—Overheated, bee-hive buildings, flats and houses; overdry air of indoor artificial heat; dust and dirt carried into living rooms on shoes and clothing; minimum sunlight of city architecture; imperfect regulation of clothing; much eating and little exercise in the open; crowding together of humans in Winter quarters, where they squeeze, cough and talk their mouth and nasal secretions, into each others' faces at close range—the are the factors that make infections; and especially contagious, infectious diseases, multiply and spread during the closed house season. These are the conditions that bring sickness and death to our people. In answer, let each citizen take account of these conditions and fight to bring about their opposites. Headache powders, patent medicine fakes and the liver pill habit are dangerous and disappointing substitutes for medical advice, adequate exercise, fresh air, proper methods of eating, a proper diet, proper correction of eye strain and nasal obstruction. They are not to be compared as remedies with free, natural elimination of waste and of worry. Better wear glasses than wear out your nerves, grow grouchy, suffer pain and lose your grip on things worth while. Whiskey never was a good medicine --- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 23. 1916 "MODEL FLATS" FOR COLORED FAMILIES DESIGN FOR APARTMENT BUILDING AT NORTHEAST CORNER OF VERNON AVENUE AND EAST 32D STREET, TO BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY MAY 1. THE ABOVE MODERN FLATS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED BY MR. JULIUS ROSENWALD, PRESIDENT OF SEARS BOBUCK AND COMPANY, WHO IS ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST PRACTICAL FRIENDS OF THE AFO-AMERICAN BACE IN THE WORLD. for anybody. It is a narcotic poison, not a tonic. * * * What gets that job, the hang dog exp pression? A shifty eye A hollow chest A slouchy walk? A sallow complexion; a bleary eye? Dirty, decayed teeth? A whiskey breath The cigarette cough? PRESIDENT WILSON URGES SALE OF RED CROSS SEALS. Commends Tuberculosis Movement—Secretary Baker Helps—$325,000,000 on Sale. "I am interested to learn of the success of the sale of the Red Cross Christmas Seal," says President Woodrow Wilson in a letter to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis made public today. "I note with genuine interest and satisfaction," he says, "of the growth and increasing success of the work of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and hope that the devotion and enthusiasm of its active members may be crowned with still greater success during the present year. "I am interested to learn of the success of the sale of the Red Cross Christmas Seals as a means of raising funds for the work, and I hope that the people of the country will avail themselves of that ready and easy means of showing their interest in a work which is of so universal importance." Secretary of War Baker is another Red Cross Seal enthusiast. He says in a letter ordering his supply of Red Cross Seals for himself and his children, Betty, Jack and Peggy, "No other one thing means so much to the life, health and happiness of the people of Cleveland as the fight against Tuberculosis." Seals to the number of 325,000,000 are now on sale in every state and territory of the United States, even in the Canal Zone, the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico. WILLIAM F. BRENNAN IS DEAD Contractor, Formerly Alderman and City Official, Passes Away. William Francis Brennan, president of the Brennan Electric Construction Company, partner of Fred W. Blocki in the Blocki & Brennan Construction Company and the Blocki-Brennan Refining Company, and former alderman of the 12th ward, died at 7 a. m. Thursday in St. Anthony's hospital, as a result of blood poisoning. He had been ill for nearly two months and for some six weeks had been delirious and in pain. An old hurt—an ankle broken years ago and rebroken recently—was aggravated and brought on blood poisoning. An operation failed to save him. He leaves a widow and four daughters, several brothers and other near relatives. Mr. Brennan was engaged in railroad construction from 1876 to 1894, when he became general manager of the Chicago General Railway Company. He was alderman from the 12th ward from 1902 to 1904, and since has been in the contracting business. At one time he was deputy commissioner of public works under Mayor Carter H. Harrison. "He gave much to charity," said Mr. Blocki, his partner. "He was a man with a big heart. He leaves enough to care for his family, but no immense estate. He leaves a host of friends rather than an estate." The funeral party will leave the family residence at 1936 South Turner avenue Sunday at noon for the Blessed Sacrament church. Central Park avenue an West 22nd street, where services will be held. Interment will be at Mount Carmel. YOUNG PEOPLE'S LYCEUM SUN DAY AT GRACE CHURCH. The last meeting of the Young People's Lyceum of Grace Presbyterian Church for the year 1916, will be held Sunday, Dec. 24, Christmas eve, at 5 o'clock. Dr. George L. Robinson, Ph.D., of the McCormick Theological Seminary will be the speaker and his subject will be "The Christmas City." He will use slides in his talk which he made while at the head of the American School of Archeology, Palestine. Dr. Robinson assisted in revising the English edition of the Bible in 1881 and the American edition in 1901. The master of ceremonies of the day will be the treasurer, Mr. C. R. Winthrop, a student of McCormick Seminary; Mr. M. Webb, bass and Mr. Hugh Buchan, tenor, will sing. Dr. Robinson has given these addresses in New York, Boston, Washington and on the north side, but it is the first time on the south side. A special Christmas offering will be taken. The letter from Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Secretary of the Booker Washington Memorial Fund, thanking the Lyceum for $25.00 will be read. The officers for the ensuing year are Miss Bertha Moseley, Pres.; Dr. Julian Lewis, Seey; Miss Maude J. Roberts, Chr. Program Com.; C. R. Winthrop, Treas.; Cary B Lewis, Chr. Speakers and Publicity Comm. JANUARY • CHAMPION FAR SUR PASSES FORMER ISSUES. Articles by Wm. H. Ferris, Mary B Talbert, and Geo. W. Harris, of National Interest. The January issue of THE CHAMPION MAGAZINE, the new Chicago publication, edited by the poet and writer, Fenton Johnson, has just come from the press. In appearance and material it far surpasses any of the preceding issues. Wm. H. Ferris' article, "Colored Business Men I Have Known," is, in a few words, a life-like reproduction of some of the country's most successful business men, past and present. Of vital interest to women and women's clubs is Mary B. Talbert's "Appeal to Save the Douglass Home." An illustration of the old home of Frederick Douglass accompanies this article. Then, too, there is a humorous short story, "That Auto of Mine" by Melton Wade. Every Colored citizen of the United States should read Geo. W. Harris' article, "The Clarion To Arms." ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES FOR 1917. Two primaries, two elections and three registration days constitute the election calendar for the city of Chicago for the year 1917 as compiled by the election board. The dates, including those for filing primary petitions, follow Jan. 29—First day for filing primary petitions for aldermen, city clerk and city treasurer with city clerk. Feb. 6—Preprimary registration day. Feb. 7—Last day for filing primary petitions with city clerk. Feb. 27—Municipal primary. March 13—Pre-election registration day. April 3—Municipal election. Aug. 22—Preprimary registration day. Sept. 12—Judicial primary. Nov. 6—Election of ten judges of the Superior Court. The registration days during the coming year are only for those who have moved since the biennial new registration days in October, or who move in the future. PETER H. DR. LOUIE USSELMANN FOR SEVEN YEARS PAST ALL THE WON IN THE ANNUAL ESSAY UTED BY DR. LOUIE USSELM 3150 SOUTH STATE STREET. FOR SEVEN YEARS PAST ALL THE COSTLY AND BEAUTIFUL PRIZES WON IN THE ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST HAVE BEEN CONTRI- UTED BY DR. LOUIE USSELMANN, THE POPULAR JEWELER AT 3150 SOUTH STATE STREET. FORD S. BLACK'S BLUE BOOK SHOULD BE IN THE HOME OF EVERY COLORED PERSON THROUGHOUT CHICAGO FOR IT IS FULL OF MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION. Ford S. Black's Blue Book, for 1917, has recently come from the press and it far surpasses his previous efforts in that direction. It is chuck full of very valuable information respecting the various lines of business conducted by Colored people in all parts of this city and that class of Colored people who are always standing around and whining; that because they are not doing nothing and have no aims or objects in life; that all other Colored men and women are in the same boat with them should read Black's Blue Book, for it may be the means of causing the heavy scales to disappear from their bat like eyes which will in the end do them much good. It can be obtained for the small sum of 25 cents from the author and publisher, 6446 St. Lawrence avenue or at the various Colored Book Stores and News Stands. ELKS SUE NEGRO LODGE Order Seeks to Restrain Alleged Imitators Who Use All Emblems. Chicago lodge, No. 4, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a corporation, has filed suit asking that Great Lakes Lodge, No. 43, Improved Benevolent Order of Elks of the World, a corporation, composed of Negroes, be enjoined from conducting its affairs or using the name of Elks. The bill asserts there is no connection between the two orders, but that the defendant is imitating the original order, even to the use of its badges and emblems, including the elk's head and antlers and the elk's tooth. It is said that some years ago that a Colored railroad man fell into the possession of a little red book which belonged to a White Elk, that the little red book contained all the signs, grips and the other secrets and so on of that order—hence the Colored Elks of the World.—Editor. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND EIGHTH REGIMENT BALLS. Monday evening December 25th, Christmas, the Knights of Pythias will give one more of its famous and pleasant balls at the 7th Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Wentworth avenue. Admission 50 cents. Music by the K. P. Band. Col. H. H. Biggs, Major Robert R. Jackson and many other big Sir Knights will be on hand to extend a Merry Christmas to all comers. The Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard will give its 22nd Annual ball and reception at the Eighth Regiment Armory, 35th Street and Forest Avenue on New Years evening, Monday, January 1st, 1917. Admission 50 cents. Music by the far famed Eighth Regiment Band, under the leadership of Capt. William E. Berry. Col. Franklin A. Denison, commanding. See ad in another column of this paper. PLEASANT MEETING OF THE PEERLESS CLUB The Peerless Club held their regular meeting at the residence of Mr. Robert Pearman's 3751 Forest Ave. This being a very interesting meeting and much business accomplished. The Club is now planning some new achievements for the coming year of 1917. The Club was honored with seven lady visitors from the Elite-Social and Charity Club, dancing being one of the features of the evening. Next meeting at the residence of Mr. Ben Cornelius, 5743 Lafayette Ave. Raymond Green, Reporter. THE COSTLY AND BEAUTIFUL PRIZES BY CONTEST HAVE BEEN CONTRIED ANN, THE POPULAR JEWELER AT PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB NOTES. The Phyllis Wheatley Club held its regular business meeting last Wed. Miss Naomi Parks, chairman of the music section, gave a delightful recital on Wednesday, Dec. 20 at the Home, 3256 Rhodes ave. The Club is growing in interest and enthusiasm. New members are enrolled at each meeting. Visitors are welcome the third Wednesday in each month. ASK CASH FOR WORK OF FIRE UNIVERSITY. A plea for funds to carry on the work of the Fisk University for Colored persons at Nashville, Teen, was made by Dr. Isaac Fisher, Colored connected with the university, at the weekly meeting of the Methodist ministers in the First Methodist Episcopal Church last Monday. ONE ELECTORAL VOTE IN WEST VIRGINIA FOR PRESIDENT WIL SON. President Wilson will receive one electoral vote from West Virginia, although Hughes carried the state. Colin S. A. Scott, the republican elector, who was placed on the ticket following the resignation of J. W. Dawson, was defeated, receiving a smaller vote than Orlando Depue, democratic elector. HONOR CHARLES E. HUGHES Named for Presidency of New York State Bar Association by Nominating Committee. Albany, N. Y.—Charles E. Hughes has been named for the presidency of the New York State Bar Association by the nominating committee of that organization, it was announced by the secretary, Frederick E. Wadhams of this city. GARY EXPELS BROTHER OF JACK JOHNSON. Gary, Ind., Special.-William Johnson, said by the Chicago detective bureau to be a brother of Jack Johnson, the pugilist, was ordered out of town by the Gary police. Johnson was arrested as a suspect and his case referred to the Chicago bureau, which announced after an investigation he was not wanted. DYER PROPOSES MONUMENT T NEGROES. Washington. — Representative Dyer of St. Louis has introduced a bill providing for the erection in Washington of a $100,000 monument to the dead Negro soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the service of their country. CHIPS. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis will leave the city Saturday with her brother Mr. Wm. T. Lindsay, her sister, Mrs. Cinthia B. Yocum and her nieces Mrs. Eugenia Tyler and Mrs. Edna Haitburn to attend the Annual reunion of the Lindsay family at Peoria on Christmas Day. The wives of the members of the Appomattox Club and the single ladies as well are looking forward with much pleasure to the ushering in of the reign of Col. James H. Johnson as president of the club, for they expect that his dutiful wife Mrs. Johnson will heartily assist to make it socially pleasant for all the ladies who will visit the club on various social occasions. Elizabeth L. Davis, Pres. Irene Goins, Cor. Sec. 2 CHIPS Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 TEETH AND MOUTH POISONS. There is probably no greater opportunity to show the value of small forces than to observe the results of the action of germs. The above statement loses its value, for the moment, if you remember the first effort you made to use tobacco or its product, snuff. The violent suffering of the tobacco beginner is the best argument against this world-wide habit, but the beginner learns, his vital forces continue to receive the poisons; the narcotic effect of the same is to benumb the sensory nerve and intense warnings are held in suspense. The action of germs begins at the first concrete evidence of life and resistance to the destructive germ activity begins at the same time. For that reason, we fail to get the violent shock that follows the sudden introduction of bodily poisons. Evidence is nevertheless plentiful that germs are at once the smallest and most powerful of material forces. The foul odor that comes from decay is an evidence of the action of germ life. The germs that produce foul odors are called putrefactive bacteria; they also produce poisons called toxins. The toxins are the waste material from the bodies of the micro-organisms and are able to produce symptoms of all types, from mild to severe, or even death, death of a part or the whole of the body. When germs locate in a decayed tooth or a wound of any kind, they produce disease by sending in their toxins and the distress produced is called by various names, according to the name of the part of the body that bears the brunt of the attack and the severity of the bombardment. The severity of the disease depends upon the resistance of the patient, care and treatment. Because it is caused by toxins it is called always a toxemia. Toxins are poisons in the same sense as alkaloids, such as nicotine and morphine are poisons. Expert chemists are not always able to differentiate between toxins and alkaloidal poisons. Their actions on the body are often identical, making diagnosis difficult and often impossible. The patient who does not use alka CHIPS Mr. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, celebrated her umpteenth birthday the first of this week. Madam M. Callaway, 3300 Rhodes avenue, gave a successful recital in Bloomington, Ill., last week, where she was well received by its best people. A. B. Lancin, who for quite a while was quite popular with the younger set on the south side, has lately been lost to his many friends in this city, for they have been unable so far to locate his whereabouts. Dr. Theo. R. Mozee, 4709 S. State street, is proving himself to be one of the best and most popular dentists in Chicago. At almost all hours of the day and evening his offices are crowded with patrons, in short, Dr. Mozee is an honor to his chosen profession. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice and the following ladies will receive New Years day: Mrs. Emma Hackley, Elmora Curtis, Mrs. Chas, Love, Mrs. Clara Lewis, Mrs. Allice Roberts, Mrs. Ella Brown, Mrs. Pannie Artis at her home 6438 Eberhart avenue. Will receive until 10 P. M. Mrs. Clara Studymire, 445 E. 32nd street, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue, was conveyed to President Hospital on Tuesday evening where she has undergone an operation and her many friends pray and hope for her speedy recovery and restoration to health. Col. Frank A. Denison has bought the former home of ex-alderman Thomas J. Dixon, at 3132 Calumet avenue simply as an investment as he does his family. It is one of the largest and most pretentious homes owned by an American. [Name] loidal poisons habitually is safer from every standpoint, save the anti-toxic power of the habit-forming alkaloid. If he has no toxins to counteract, the alkaloids will prove to be toxic. It is possible that even his germs and their products will not be acted upon by his alkaloid. His alkaloid is then a waste. The mouth is portal of entry for all nourishment and common sense requires that it be kept clean. Unclean teeth show neglect just as decay in a tooth shows it. If the mouth is thoroughly cleansed before and after meals, many of our diseases, mental and physical will be cured and prevented. The gum chewing habit has (4) good points at least; (1) it takes food particles from between the teeth, the seat of most beginning decay, (2) it sweetens the breath, (3) makes a pleasant taste and (4) hence—a pleasant disposition. Teeth and mouth poisons show so many different symptoms in different individuals and even in the same individual at different times that it is a gigantic task to enumerate them. Some are mental and some are physical; some acute and others are chronic; they may be too mild to attract attention and they may be severe enough to produce death of tissue, the ulceration of cancer or ever the dissolution of the body. It is significant that cancer of various parts of the body occurs most frequently after the age that teeth show the effects of lack or proper daily care. We speak of the cancer susceptibility in persons. Teeth and mouth poisons may enter the body and never cause pain, yet it is possible for their toxins to cause palpitation of the heart and even sudden heart failure. Insanity and varying degrees of mental deterioration has been traced to defective teeth. Common symptoms of tooth and mouth poisons are socalled rheumatism, neuralgia, wry neck (torticollis), headache, nervousness, loss of appetite, diseases of organs far from the focus in the mouth. Much of the bad temper that is shown is due to a pathology which can be cured by proper teeth and mouth care and treatment. Lung diseases follow oftener from that source than is supposed. Old Ironside Old Ironsides is such a cherished national treasure now that it seems incredible that it was once proposed in all seriousness to tear it to pieces for what little value could be got out of the material, remarks the Boston Post. Holmes was a law student at Harvard at the time. He was only a month more than twenty-one years old. He wrote his immortal poem with a lead pencil on a stray scrap of paper, yet it has been said: "This probably is the only case in which a government policy was changed by the verses of a college student." Originally Old Ironsides was one of four sister frigates, the Constitution, the Constellation, the United States and the President. Of the other three, alas, only memories remain. The Constellation was broken up, as they intended to break up Old Ironsides. One of the others rotted away at a British dock, and the fourth was lost at sea. Curiously enough, the story of these four sister frigates is one of the least known chapters in American history. Yet it is well worth reading up.-Chicago News. She Became a Bore Most persons who talk about themselves are bores. A writer in the American Magazine says: "One of the most companionable women I ever knew was so completely transformed by an operation that she unconsciously became a bore to her friends and to her family by tedious repetitions of her hospital experience. Her idea of its importance was so exaggerated that she lost all sense of proportion. Truly her 'operation' became the alpha and omega of her existence. From it all events in her life history dated. It was her sole topic of conversation. No matter how skillfully one might steer the conversational bark away from the dreaded topic, she adroitly brought it back. As a result she became self centered, introspective and a bore to her friends. Her efforts to entertain merely annoyed. Where she hoped to arouse admiration she created disgust, and where she sought sympathy she received only indifference." THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 23. 1916. GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING. Girl Gave Up Stenography to Take In Clothes. Norristown, Pa. - Quitting her position as stenographer to go to the washtub. Miss Georgianna Cuthbert is making $68 a week, and she handles only five washes to do it, according to her testimony in the equity action in which she is defendant and Mrs. Marle Lusson, her neighbor, plaintiff. Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz that one family alone paid her $30, another $12, two $9 and a fifth $8 a week. She gets the business, she says, because she does not use bleach or acids in cleansing them. "None of the clothing I handle is soiled, only mussed," she said. Mrs. Marle Lusson seeks to prevent Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. Lusson says that a laundry there would be undesirable, unhealthy and in violation of building restrictions. In the testimony experts said a laundry would be unobjectionable; that there would be no dirt, no noise, no smell and, in fact, no reason why this woman should not be permitted to proceed with the laundry. PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS Charity Finally Took $1 That Railway Official Refused to Accept Findlay, O. — Philosophers for centuries have attempted to analyze the conscience of the human race and what prompts it, but have been unsuccessful. That such a thing does really exist, Charles F. Smith, general manager of the Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern railway, can now testify. Recently he was sitting in his office when two men walked in and each threw a fifty cent piece on his desk, explaining that twenty years ago they had ridden from the north side to the Tangent depot without paying fare. That was because they were compelled to stand most of the way. During all this time their consciences, they said, had troubled them and they got no rest until they had returned the money with interest. Mr. Smith refused to take the money, but Dr. J. P. Baker, head of the Associated charities, who happened in Smith's office at the time, confiscated the money for that purpose. DFER ATTACKS POSTMAN Herd Within Three Miles of Pennsylvania Town. Huntington, Pa.—Clark Smith, the oldest rural route agent attached to the Huntington postoffice, met with a spirited attack from a big buck deer while on his return trip a few evenings ago within three miles of this place. A herd of six does, led by a large buck, had been feeding in a mountain meadow and were about to emerge into the open highway just as Smith was driving leisurely past. His horse, a calico colored bronco, seemed to have aroused the fire of the buck, which leaped a fence and attacked the bronco by rearing up and endeavoring to strike it with its forefeet. Mr. Smith used his whip vigorously on the deer. The bronco took fright and finally drew itself and driver to a place of safety. A herd of ten deer, including one elk, has been seen by a farmer at the further end of Smith's route. DREAMED ABOUT SNAKES. Then He Woke Up to Find a Three Foot Rattler In His Room. Altoona, Pa. — George Meritts of Franklinville, Huntingdon county, tossed in the throes of a frightful nightmare and dreamed of rattlesnakes. In bed with Meritts was Samuel Alley of the same place. When Meritts came to himself he still believed himself dreaming, for a hideous rattle sounded in his ears. Alley also heard it. The frightful whirr maintained a steady cadence, and both men were then aware that a rattlesnake was in their room. Having no light handy, the men were imprisoned in their bed for some time. Finally a match and lantern were procured. The'snake, more than three feet long, with seven rattles and a button, was coiled in the center of the floor. It was killed. WANTS TO GET OUT OF JAIL .Amandus Kessler's Plea to Join Marine Corps Likely to Go Unheeded. New York.-Because he is a good porch climber, rifle shooter and has other marked accomplishments, Amandus Kessler wants to get out of jail at Easton, Pa., and become a fighter for Uncle Sam in the ranks of the United States marine corps, according to an appealing letter addressed to the marine recruiting station in this city. Amandus wrote several pages in his patriotic outburst and promised to use his influence to awaken his fellow prisoners to the call of the flag if the marines would only come and get him out. Although the young man claims to be a good, "healthy feller," unfortunately his morals are not in the same flourishing condition, so Amandus and his pals must languish in prison while the marine corps remains heartless but uncontaminated. Scholars Read Original Poems Westmont, N. J.-Eighteen grade pupils in the public schools read original poems during the afternoon session, creating considerable amusement and uncovering some latent literary talent. Recently each pupil in this grade was required to make a five minute address without manuscript. The food of soldiers in the field varies according to their nationalities. The principal meal of the Russian soldier consists of sthee, something between a gruel and a soup, the chief ingredients of which are cabbage, potatoes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably pork. These are boiled together, with salt and other seasoning, the result being a thick, nourishing and by no means unpalatable dish. The Italian soldiers, who are splendid marchers, live largely on a farinaceous diet—macaroni, spaghetti and so on. They are also very partial to fruit, which is issued, together with wine and cigars, as part of their rations whenever possible. No German soldier considers his daily menu complete without a sausage of some kind or other, and the "stronger" its flavor the better. A nutritious pea soup is also a staple of the army ration. The mainstay of the French soldier consists of his beloved "soup," as he calls it. It is really a thick, nourishing stew, made of meat, potatoes and various other vegetables. The English "Tommy" is omnivorous, but the things he loves above all else are bacon and jam.—Youth's Companion. Maine's Gum Industry Gathering spruce gum has long since become one of the steady minor industries of Malne, where every year about 15,000 tons of crude gum, valued at a third of a million dollars, are harvested. The crude article is formed as the result of injury to red and black spruce trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner bark of trees, and the injuries they cause, known as "hog cuts," are fruitful sources of gum. Lightning scars, frost cracks, old blazes and the abrasions caused by falling trees and even sap sucker drills are other occasions for gum formation. Around the edges of such wounds little nodules appear and gradually develop into lumps or teats. A wide scar heals slowly and may produce gum around the entire wounded area, while a narrow seam closes so quickly that only a single row of these "nuggets" is possible.—Argonaut. Transformed Mines An old abandoned mine near Saalfeld, in the Thuringian forest, which in the time of Luther was worked for silver, copper, alum and vitrol, has been discovered by a Berlin geologist to have developed into one of the most beautiful caverns. In the course of centuries the water percolating through the minerals has built up throughout the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stalactites and stalagmites, thrown together with a profusion and brilliance of color which is said to be without parallel. Deep greens, vivid blues, the purest white, yellows of all shades—in fact, the entire scale of color is reproduced over and over again, and yet the colors melt into each other so gently that nowhere is the impression of disagreeable contrast produced. Why Is It? Why is it that when there are two swinging doors 75 per cent of the people open the left hand door? Why don't they open the right hand one? Why is it that 60 per cent of the people walk on the wrong side or in the middle of the sidewalk? Why don't they walk on the right side? Why is it that 50 per cent of the people don't know how to turn a corner or enter a store? Why is it that they keep close to the building when they ought to be on the outside edge of the sidewalk to enter as they should? Why is it that people will stand like this... on the sidewalk and talk. Why is it they will not stand like this... Thereby taking up one-half as much space. Why is it?-Boston Post. Very Free Verse. Vers libre is certainly taking hold. Much might be said in this connection of its form, its content and whether proficiency in it is innate or acquired. Let it suffice for the moment to record what happened when a music teacher asked her pupils to make up little verses and then make melodies to accompany them. One little boy said he never had made up verses. "Just a little verse," said the teacher. "Well," said the boy, dreamily: Sometimes the sky at night Looks like a spotted egg. —New York Post. Due Caution. "Prisoner at the bar, will you be tried by jury or by the court?" "By jury, your honor, by jury." By jhy, you look like a "Humph! Why-er-haven't I seen you before somewhere?" "Yes, your honor. I sell you ice in summer and do your plumbing in wint- er."-Richmond Times-Dispatch No Joke. Either "Isn't it awful the way prices have gone up?" "It surely is. Just think, my husband will have to work three weeks to get money enough to pay for this simple little gown I have on."—Detroit Free Press. Diplomacy In the Home Every now and then wife urges husband to buy some new clothes for himself, but if he is a pretty good talker he can get out of it without making her mad.-Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Very Active. Bing-He's very active in financial matters, isn't he? Bang-You bet! He owes me $10, and every time he sees me he dodges me.-Town Topics. Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.-Samuel Smiles. Our First Theater In 1752 the first theater in the United States was opened in the colony of Virginia at old Williamsburg. The originator was an English actor, William Hallam, Sr., who brought his own company from overseas and presented "The Merchant of Venice" as the initial performance. The idea spread rapidly, and soon New York, Philadelphia and the other leading communities of colonial America each had its theater. While the Virginia playhouse was the first in the United States, actors had played in the colonies before this date. The first is said to have been the English strolling player Anthony Aston, who was known as Mat Medley. The actor and his art of that day were generally despised by the Puritanical colonists. The Massachusetts legislature passed a law shortly after amateurs had given "The Orphans" at the Coffee House in Boston in 1749 which forbade such performances, prescribing a penalty for actors and spectators alike of $25 each.—Exchange. Curious Baths. In her book, "My Siberian Year," Miss M. A. Czaplacka, speaking of the social habits of the Siberlaks, says: "The celebrant of the fortnightly rite of the bath fills the banya with a dense cloud of steam by sluicing water into a kind of open mouthed oven in the wall of the stove and sits on a dals over against this, dabbing himself all over with water he has taken from the cistern and tempered to a just endurable heat in a tin basin with colder water from a barrel in the corner. Having put himself into a state bordering on suffocation and raised his own temperature several degrees above fever point, he pulls open the door, rushes naked into the open air, rolls over and over in the snow, covers himself with it and lies there till the heat of his body has made a pool of water under him. Then he runs back to the banya and flagellates himself with a bunch of twigs as he stands surrounded by a fresh cloud of steam from the oven." Honesty Extraordinary. A traveler writing in an Italian magazine says that the Swiss canton of Ticino is inhabited by the most honest folk it is possible to imagine. In most of the Ticinese villages, the writer says, the oldest inhabitants do not remember any case of thieving, however petty, within a lifetime. Lost objects when found must never be taken away. They must be left where they were dropped or placed in a conspicuous position, so that the rightful owner can find his property more easily. The case is cited of an American woman tourist who lost her purse on an excursion in the Val Caprasla. The purse contained gold coin and a jeweled watch. Upon returning from her trip she found the purse with its contents intact on a little heap of leaves, so placed that it could not fall to attract her attention. Salaries With Silver Linings The highest salaried man in Japan does not receive enough money in that form to pay for the gasoline used by his automobile, for salaries of the managers of business corporations are insignificantly small, says the Japan Times. Salaries, however, are not the total income of business men. Under the Japanese custom there is a liberal bonus system, and the bonus amounts to 300 or 400 times the monthly salary in some cases. The Mitsui company is regarded as the biggest corporation in Japan, and its directors are noted for their large incomes. Each director is said to receive in the form of a bonus about $100,000 a year, although his salary may be only $250 a month. Legal Wit A lawyer was walking into court recently with his length of arm taxed to hold a pile of law books. To him said a friend, pointing to his books: "Why, I thought you carried all that stuff in your head." "So I do," quickly replied the learned counsel, with a knowing wink. "These are for the judges." Fine Luck. Mrs. Exe—So you've got a new gown after all. I thought you said you couldn't afford one this season? Mrs. Wye—So I did. But you see my husband had a stream of luck recently. He broke his leg the next day after taking out an accident policy that pays $50 a week.—Boston Transcript. Struck the Wrong Spot. A man lost his wife and his cow both in the same week. His neighbors tried to console him by hinting that they would see that he got another wife. "Yes; you're willing to get me another wife," said he, "but none of you offers to get me another cow." In the Barber Shop "Your hair," said the aggravating barber to the slightly bald man, "is coming out on top." "Good!" cried the sensitive victim. "I knew it was in me. Now, for goodness' sake, don't talk to it or it'll crawl back again."—London Telegraph His View of It. Wife-That girl in the opposite hat is quite a promising singer. Hub-Well, get her to promise that she won't sing any more.-Boston Transcript Very Unruly. Miss Paul-Grace doesn't obey anybody. Miss Pry-No; she doesn't even mind her own business.-Town Topics. Consult duty, not events. - Walter Savage Landor. PAGE FIVE How They Are Solved Balute to the national flag, the president and ex-president of the United States and the presidents or sovereigns of foreign states, twenty-one guns; vice president of the United States and foreign ambassadors, nineteen guns; the president of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, cabinet officers, chief justice, governors within their respective states or territories, governors general of foreign states, civil governors of the Philippine Islands, general of the army, admiral of the navy and same ranks in foreign armies and navies, seventeen guns; United States and foreign ministers plenipotentiary, vice governor of the Philippine Islands, assistant secretaries of war or navy, lieutenant general or major general commanding the army and corresponding ranks in the navies, fifteen guns; ministers resident, major generals, rear admirals and corresponding ranks in foreign armies and navies, thirteen guns; charge d'affaires, brigadier generals and corresponding ranks in foreign armies and navies, eleven guns; consuls general, nine guns. Dawn and the Darkest Hour "The darkest hour is just before dawn," is an old English proverb which expresses more poetically the homelier adages. "When things are at their worst they soonest mend," "When gale is highest boat is nighest," "The longest day will have an end," "After a storm comes a calm," and finds an equivalent in other languages, as in French, "By dint of going wrong all will come right;" in Italian, "I is the eve of well;" in Persian, "It is at the narrowest part of the defile that the valley begins to open," and in Hebrew, "When the tale of bricks is doubled Moses comes." That the nights, as a rule, are darkest just before dawn is doubtless true, for the moon has then reached far on to the western horizon, while the sun is still below the eastern horizon. Sound Waves. Science says that the loudness of sounds varies inversely as the square of the distance. This is merely another way of saying that if you walk three times as far away from the source of the sound as you were before its loudness will not be a third what it was, but a ninth of what it was, for nine is the square of three. On the other hand, the density of the medium which conveys sound is very important. On a frosty night the air is dense. One consequence of this is that an automobile runs better because the engine gets larger supplies of oxygen. Another result is that sounds are heard more loudly. However, the report of a gun high up in the mountains is like the sound of an exploded firecracker. Father of English Poetry The first English bard to attain lasting fame was Geoffrey Chaucer, who was born in London about 1340. "The father of English poetry" was the son of a vintner named John Chaucer and in his youth served the king as a soldier and was taken prisoner by the French. The English king paid $80 for his ransom, which was quite a high price for a poet. Chaucer's most celebrated work, "The Canterbury Tales," was written between 1373 and 1400. It consists of a series of tales supposed to have been told by a company of pilgrims to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, and in its pages we get such pictures of English life and ways of thought as are found nowhere else. Brevity Robert Louis Stevenson was a close student of style and has left more than one interesting discussion of the technique of writing. In a letter to R. A. M. Stevenson, dated October, 1883, he says: "There is but one art—to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge! A man who knew how to omit would make an 'illad' of a daily paper." When Pressing Silk Always press silk under a piece of muslin to prevent the silk from becoming hard and crackly. First dampen the muslin and use a moderately hot iron till the muslin is quite dry. Forgetful. "Is Bronson as forgetful as ever?" "More so. Why, that fellow has to look himself up in the directory every night before he goes home from business. Forgets his address." ```markdown ``` ○○○○○○○○,○○○○○○○○ ○ ○ PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. ○ Headaches. In these modern times a headache is just as necessary and useful as a fire alarm. It is a warning that something is wrong and that somebody had better get on the job instanter and alter conditions. - What is the commonest cause of headache? There are a hundred or more different causes. - Overfatigue, not enough sleep. - Sleeping in a stuffy room, overeating or eating something that disagrees with the stomach, some slight eye defect, an infection or congestion of the nasal passage caused by cold—any of these and many more things bring on headaches. Chronic inflammation within the nose itself and also within the bony cavities of the skull which open into the nose will cause intense headaches at times. Persistent headaches are danger signals that warn you to consult a physician. JAHN OLA THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republians, Democrats, Catholies, Protestants, single Taxers, Priesta, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on ap- plication. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Locality. "Some expert says that it takes fully fifteen minutes to shear a sheep by hand." "Not if the operation is performed in Wall street."-Baltimore American. Quite Different. Miss Oldgirl (simpering)—That nice young man said I was quite a mural decoration of the occasion. Miss Pert—He meant you were a wallflower, all right—Baltimore American. Forgetful. Caretaker—Sir Walter Scott spent a night in this room. 'Ere we 'ave a complete set of 'is works. Intelligent Sightsee—Left 'em be'ind, I suppose?—Passing Show. "Cut it out," interposed the young lady. "It's bad form to talk about a girl you had."—Louisville Courier-Journal. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. Cautious. "I've discovered a system by which my employer could get all the work in his office done with half the force he employs now." "Why don't you tell him about it and earn his undying gratitude?" "I don't dare to. He might decide that I am one of the men he could do without."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Portugal's Big Diamond. It is claimed for the Braganza, which formed part of the Portuguese crown jewels, that it is the biggest diamond in the world, weighing 1,860 carats. Some doubt exists, however, as to whether it is a real diamond, as no official testing can be authenticated. It was found in Brazil in 1741.-London Telegraph. Night Scenes in Yokohama. In most oriental countries sunset brings quiet to the streets and there is little night life. But on Theater street, Yokohama, 11 o'clock at night sees the great crowds leaving the movies, which are close together, and the resulting scene is one never to be forgotten. Humanity packed too close for comfort surges in an unbroken tide from one end of the street to the other. Add to this mass of many hued forms the taking down of the highly colored banners and you have a scene that makes the dropping of the big top at home look like a side show. Sometimes the lights on the water produce an effect-almost Venetian in charm, but the bulky canal boat lacks the artistic lines of the gondola, and the water sends forth a scent which might be called by a plainer name. The newspaper boy rushes through the narrow streets hurling the sheets to right and left as he runs and ringing the bells at his waist to announce his arrival.—Christian Herald. Burdette and the Towel. The story of how Bob Burdette began to write for publication is rather interesting. His wife was an invalid, and most of his verse and short stuff were written solely for her entertainment. One day he was talking to Frank Hatton, who later became postmaster general under Arthur. Hatton was then editing the Burlington Hawkeye. "Bob," said Hatton, "when you get through reading your stuff to your wife hand it over to me and I'll print it." One of the first things he turned over was his famous ode to the printing office towel. This is part of it: Over and under was blacker than thunder and daily 'put on a more inkler hue Until one windy morning without any warning It fell on the floor and was broken in two. —Charles B. Lewis (M. Quad) in New York Sun. DIG UP BIG TOOTH OF PREHISTORIC MASTODON Well Preserved, Though Found Far Below Surface of the Ground. Cottonwood Falls, Kan.—A big tooth which is supposed to have come from the jaw of some mastodon of prehistoric ages, has been unearthed by T. E. Nichols of this city by men employed in making a deep, cut on Diamond creek, a mile and a half northeast of Elmdale. The trench had been sunk to a depth of fifty-three feet and had passed through an eight foot gravel strata when the big tooth was found. A soapstone formation was encountered just beneath it. The tooth is well preserved. It weighs over three pounds, measures a foot and three inches in circumference around its base and is three inches in height from its base to the points of the tooth. It is oblong in shape, its width being three and a half inches. There are six flanges or points to the tooth, which extend upward in regular pairs. The tooth has two large roots, there being about three or four inches of the root intact, but the lower parts are broken off. It is believed the tooth belonged to a carnivorous, or flesh eating, animal because of the flanges or sharp points. After finding the tooth another bone only a few feet away was uncovered by another workman. It is a large flat, round shaped bone, which resembles a kneecap. FAITHFUL DOG'S BARKING CALLS FATHER TO CHILD FAITHFUL DOG'S BARKING CALLS FATHER TO CHILD Little One, Playing In Pasture, Where It Strayed, Kicked by Horses. Wheatland, Wyo.—G. F. Harold's little son, Alvin, two and a half years old, was kicked in the head by a horse the other day, his skull was fractured and other severe wounds, seemingly sufficient to cause death, were sustained. The father's attention was called to the child by the frantic barking of the farm dog, and upon investigating he found that the dog was guarding the insensible form of the little boy from a bunch of horses in the pasture where the little fellow had wandered in his play. The child's forehead was crushed, the nose broken and the eye laid open by the flesh being all torn from it. As he was still alive he was rushed to a hospital with all possible speed. The surgeon performed a very delicate operation, lifting the broken bones into position and sewing the torn skin around the eye back into place, and at present writing the little fellow is getting along nicely and gives promise of complete recovery. That he was not instantly killed is probably due to the fact that the horse's hoof struck a glanding blow, and that he lives at all is because there was a skillful surgeon available. SISTERS EARN $2,400. Set New Agricultural Record Raising Cabbages. Greensburg, Pa. — Four Westmoreland county young women, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith, near Ruffsdale, have established a new agricultural record in the yield and profits to be derived from a two acre plot of cabbage. The Misses Smith, the eldest of whom is eighteen, now have a bank account of $000, with accounts due from Pittsburgh commission men amounting to $900, and a quarter of their cabbage yet remains to be cut and marketed. Buyers estimate the value of the entire field at about $2,400. Early last spring Smith turned the two acre plot over to his daughters, telling them to make any use of it they desired. The girls, after closely scanning the market reports for weeks, decided to grow cabbages. They set about 18,000 plants. KILL WHITE FACED IBIS. Kansas Hunters Were Puzzled, but Professor Solved the Problem. Topeka, Kan.-A party of hunters were near Stafford when a long legged bird, which looked like a crane and flew like a duck, suddenly rose and started toward Oklahoma. Six guns spoke at the same time. The bird gave up the southern trip. The men did not know what they had killed. They guessed everything from a mud hen to a wild turkey. George Stansfield made a secret trip to Lawrence and conferred with some of the professors. They labeled the kill a white faced glossy ibis, a species of waterfowl very rare in Kansas. The coloring is very delicate and changes continually. It is one of the snipe family, but is unfit for food. Long Trip of Bible. Mays Landing, N. J.-It will take fifty years of traveling, during which time 100,000 miles will be covered, for a "traveling Bible," now in the lodge quarters of P. O. S. of A. camp, No. 108, to fulfill its mission. The Bible is to be taken from one camp to another in each county until every county in the state has been covered, then it will go to every camp in each county, remaining three weeks with each. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 23. 1916. MAY FLY TO PARIS Transatlantic Aeroplane Line Is Possible. Says Woodhouse. Great Britain Is Spending $250,000,000 In Military Aeronautics This Year—In Half a Dozen Countries Number of Aviators Ranges Between 2,000 and 10,000. New York.—"A transatlantic aeroplane line is now quite possible owing to improved motors," Henry Woodhouse, member of the board of governors of the Aero club, told 250 members of the Rotary club here. "The aspect of things in aeronautics," he said, "has been changed. Nowadays the motor can outlast the aviator. Aeroplanes equipped with from two to six motors and carrying up to thirty people can be built for commercial purposes. The largest aeroplane at present has a carrying capacity of fifteen tons, but plans are ready for an aeroplane capable of lifting thirty tons. American aeroplanes and motors are so efficient that a flight of over a thousand miles a day is possible. "There are 25,000 aeroplanes in use in the world, and the reason why there are not more is that they cannot be supplied fast enough to replace those that are put out of action or worn out." "Great Britain is spending $250,000,000 in military aeronautics this year. Five hundred thousand people are producing and operating air craft and aeronautic supplies. The American aeronautic industry has orders and pending contracts amounting to $50,000,000. "In half a dozen countries the number of aviators ranges between 2,000 and 10,000. The United States army and navy have together about a hundred. The European countries have thousands of observation balloons and hundreds of dirigibles. The United States army and navy together have only four observation balloons ordered and one small dirigible." MAN FIGHTS JELLYFISH Swimmer Sent to a Hospital After a Life and Death Struggle. Santa Barbara, Cal.—G. H. Wilson was sent to the Cottage hospital here in a critical condition recently. He had a life and death struggle with a huge jellyfish. Four hundred feet from shore, off Serena, Wilson was suddenly attacked. He saw before him what he later said looked like a huge sheet of butter and eggs. Suddenly the strips of yellow and white began to separate from the mass and extend toward him. He turned to swim out of reach when the creature threw its tentacles about him, and the mad fight was on. In the struggle Wilson broke the mass into fragments, but reached the shore exhausted and his face and shoulders stinging as though from scalds. At the hospital it was said that the patient would recover. His pain at times was so intense that morphine had to be administered. His shoulders and face resemble one mass of poison oak burns. HE'S A GIANT SUPERMAN. Never Used Meat, Pepper, Alcohol, Tea, Tobacco—Still Single. Clinton, Mo.-Dusty and travel worn, but with his long strides retaining the vigor of all his eighteen years of backwoods life, Clarence Barton trudged into town after covering 130 miles from Turner, Mo. He came in the heat and dust over the miles of hills affoot to attend the Missouri conferences of the Seventh Day Adventists. And this youth has lived a strange life in the very modern and up to date state of Missouri. In all his eighteen years he never tasted a mouthful of meat. Never has a drink of tea or coffee passed his lips. His meager fare of daily food has never been seasoned with pepper. He never has tasted a drop of alcohol in any form and does not know the tang of tobacco smoke. And he is a perfect specimen—a young backwoods giant. Barton excelled in all the sports of the camp. SHAD SIGN OF MILD WINTER Caught in Lower Hudson For First Time In Thirty Years. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.—Shad were caught in the Hudson river for the first time in thirty years at this season of the year. The fishing experts say that it is an infallible sign of an open winter. John H. Lange, professional fisherman, caught the shad in the gill nets he had set in the running tideway for striped bass. Lavinas D. Hill, a recognized authority on fishing, said that shad usually went south to warmer waters in the fall, and when caught in the lower Hudson thirty years ago the weather was so mild that the river was open for navigation all through the winter. Busy Man Offers $1,000 For Wife Busy Man Offers 40 Words New York. Too busy to play the role of sutor himself, Albert F. Shore, a business man, has commissioned a friend to find him a wife. If the friend succeeds before Christmas in discovering a girl about twenty-four years old, either blond or brunette, but studious and not a social butterfly, he will receive $1,000. And if he has not succeeded at that time then any person may earn the $1,000 by producing a suitable bride. Shore is thirty-four years old. He is of medium height, dark complexion and dark curly hair. Teaching Birds Tricks. A professor of natural history refutes the statement so frequently made that teaching a bird to draw water needs apparatus and that the learning is cruelty to the bird. "The following experience of mine," he says, "proves that it is not so by any means. We bought a young bird last January, so wild that on our approach it flew madly round the cage. We hung the cage low and by patience, induced it to take groundsel, first held at stem's length, then between the fingers, finally from the lips. We used to let him out freely, and he would perch on the loaf next me at breakfast. His perch projected through the wires, and here was his favorite seat when at liberty. Then I tried hanging a bit of groundsel by a short string to the projecting stick. After inspection he pulled it up with his beak. On lengthening the string with a fresh bit of his preferred weed I had the pleasure and interest of seeing him pull up the string with his beak till the flower head was within reach, catching the slack after each pull with one foot and then transferring it to the other, so that the coils were quite neat."—London Globe. Water Pressure. As early as 1648 a Frenchman of science named Pascal experimented with pressures applied to liquids and discovered the following law: A pressure applied to any part of the surface of a liquid is transmitted unchanged in amount in every direction through the liquid. Perhaps the most familiar application of Pascal's law is the hydraulic press. In that machine a pump having a small piston drives water into a large cylinder and thereby forces upward a large piston, which compresses whatever is placed between the platform of the piston and the fixed crossbeam at the top of the press. If the area of the larger piston is 100 times that of the smaller a downward force of one pound exerted on the smaller piston will create an upward force of 100 pounds upon the larger piston. Home Ground Flour. Grinding wheat to make flour may be done at home as easily as the grinding of coffee. Thus a family may have whole wheat flour, freshly ground, a thing that is usually difficult to obtain. The New York Medical Journal advises its readers to buy their wheat from seedmen rather than from grocers or feed stores because it will be cheaper and more efficient. The grinder can be used also for cracking wheat. corn, barley, oats, rye and other grains for use as breakfast cereals. And the cereals will need chewing, which will not only strengthen the muscles of the chewers' jaws, but will keep their teeth from decay—that is, if they begin as children. Homemade cereals need long cooking, so a fireless cooker is almost indispensable. Greek Fire Gunpowder? M. Zenghelis told the Academie des Sciences in Paris recently that he had been studying the "Greek fire" used in war by the Byzantines. The descriptions of this say that it was hurled from a copper tube with a sound like thunder and with a great cloud of smoke. From this he concluded that the Byzantine Greeks had real cannon in which they used explosive mixtures with nitrate as a base. Therefore the honor of the discovery of gunpowder must be given to the engineer Callicus of Heilopolis, who first used it, destroying a Saracen fleet with it in 670 A.D. The Silent Moon. Dead silence reigns on the moon. A thousand cannons might be fired and a thousand drums beaten upon that alright world, but no sound could come from them. Lips might quiver and tongues essay to speak, but no action of theirs could break the utter silence of the lunar scene. Roundabout Way. "I see where an aviator contrived to have the last word with his wife." "How on earth did he do it?" "He didn't exactly do it on earth." No? "He rose 1,000 feet in the air and dropped her a message."—Birmingham Age-Herald. "She threatens to sue for divorce." "What's he say to that?" "Nothing. When their quarrels get to that point he always keeps still. He's learned from experience that the next move will be a flood of tears."—Detroit Free Press. Two Sorrows. The sorrow of the woman who cries out her grief on the kitchen towel somehow seems more sincere than that of the woman who puts on a pretty gown, arranges the sofa cushions and turns the lights low before she begins. —Exchange. Fussy. Bank Manager—Now please understand. Miss Jones, you must make the books balance. Miss Jones—Oh, Mr. Brown, how fussy you are!-London Punch. Sound and Sound. "That young Hercules over there is a great musical composer." "A sound mind in a sound body, eh?"—St. Louis Star. It is generally more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainment.—Carlyle. When the late President Laconte of Haiti set about to reduce the size of his army a few years ago many of the generals whom he mustered out of the service were put to breaking rock on the street. At one time there were more officers than men in the Haitian army, according to apparently authentic statements. In former times the pay of a Haitian soldier was small at best, nothing at worst and at all times insufficient to keep the warrior fed decently. The days for loading coffee on departing ships were great days in Haiti. They were days when the army got a square meal, thanks to the stevdore wages which the men were able to earn, says the National Geographic Magazine. The army officers of Haiti were as fond of gold lace as a mountain girl of bright colors. Small wonder, then, that the regalia of a field marshal was everywhere in evidence. Feeding the Haitian armies in the days before the American "big brother" movement was not a difficult job. Garrison rations consisted of a sugar cane stalk two or three feet long and whatever else the soldier could beg, borrow or steal. Rocking Chairs. Rocking chairs are an American institution, although they are to be found today pretty much all over the civilized world. In England they are invariably referred to as "American rockers," and indeed this application is not confined to that country. Here and there on the continent you will hear of them in the same category. Authorities are widely at variance as to the time and place of the very first rocker. But that the first one was turned out more than 200 years ago there is little room for doubt. It is fair to assume that it was the invention of a New Englander who loved his ease. He probably invented it to offset the discomforts of the severely straight backed chairs of our early colonial days—Exchange. Boumanian Peasant Diversions. Roumanian Peasant Diversions. "Many hands make light work" is a proverb of the Roumanian peasant often put into practice. Almost every night there is a neighborhood gathering like the old fashioned apple cutting or apple butter boiling in early American rural history. The houses have their turns at these parties, and there is always a kettle of cornmeal mush and baked pumpkin and potatoes and popcorn ready for the occasion. All hands join in the evening program of combing, carding and spinning the household supply of wool or flax, while the neighborhood gossip passes current among the elders and occasional words of love or childish jest among the more youthful members of the party.—National Geographic Magazine. Donkeys Are Haiti's Food Trains. Nearly all the produce for the feeding of the population of Port au Prince, Haiti, a city of some 60,000 people, is brought in on the backs of donkeys. The public squares are converted into open air market places, and here the buying and selling goes on from early morning until 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the caravans begin their toilsome journey homeward. Situated in a region famous for its fine fish, among them the delectable and plentiful "red snapper," the Haitians eat quantities of salt cod imported from Massachusetts waters. And the quality of this imported staple is such as would not find favor in American markets. - National Geographic Magazine. First "Outsiders." Until the nomination of Franklin Pierce for the presidency of the United States the word "outsider" was unknown. The committee on credentials came in to make its report and could not get into the hall because of the crowd of people who were not members of the convention. The chairman of the convention asked if the chairman of the committee was ready to report, and the chairman answered, "Yes, Mr. Chairman, but the committee is unable to get inside on account of the crowd and the pressure of the outsiders." The newspaper reporters took up the word and used it. Pilloried. "You druggists have to stand for a good many jokes." "Yes." "A drug store is sometimes facetiously alluded to as a pillory." "About right, too," said the druggist. "Keeps you penned up most of the time."—Louisville Courler-Journal. Reassuring. Irate Gentleman (to his gardener)— What do you mean, sir, by telling people in the village that I'm a stingy master? Gardener—No fear o' me a-doin' the likes o' that, guv'nor. I allus keeps my thoughts to myself— London Punch. Transmutation: "Do you think you can turn the baser metals into gold?" "Undoubtedly—if you can guess which way the steel market is going." —Washington Star Turn About. Stella—When you are engaged you tell him that he must economize. Bella—And after you are married he tells you that you must—Puck. Finished. "Jack got through college in three years." "What of it? I got through in one." —Harvard Lampoon. It is better to find excuses for others than for ourselves. Close by the great rock of Gibraltar is Catlin bay, where is to be found a colony so queer that it stands out almost as a tribe distinct in itself. Many generations ago during a storm a fleet of Genoese fishermen put into the sheltered spot and so escaped the fury of the sea. In the boats, so history has it, were many women, and they became so enamored of the spot that huts were built, and they remained. Hundreds of years have passed, and the little tribe still lingers on. The government has given them a grant of land, and a village now clusters in the shelter of the bay. Strangest of all, it is said the population dare not increase for fear it will overstep its boundary, and marriage is allowed only in rotation. No marriage, so it is claimed, may take place in the village until a way has been made for it by a death. The people are squat and only look amazingly like one another. It is a little colony of cousins, dwelling apart in the shadow of a great rock and going down to the sea in ships to earn a hard won livelihood—Exchange. Weakness of the Pilchard Very similar to the herring, a quintessential method of distinguishing the pilchard exists in Cornwall, the home of the pilchard fisheries. The difference between the fish lies in their center of gravity, for if one holds a pilchard by the back fin it will remain horizontal while a herring tips downward. One seldom sees the fish in the London markets, however, and in order to gain its due share of appreciation the pilchard has to journey to Italy and the Mediterranean. Many factories exist in southern England for the express purpose of salting and packing the fish in tins for exportation, the method used being similar to that used for sardines. Pilchards, too, resemble sardines, though their flavor is somewhat stronger. Years ago an attempt was made to smoke pilchards—like herrings—for home consumption, but the experiment proved useless, for the weight of the body broke the neck and the fish fell into the fires.—London Answers. Vegetable Lamb. One of the most remarkable natural fetishes in the world is the Chinese kouchi, called by some people "the vegetable lamb." It is regarded by the natives of China as something supernatural. They believe it to be part vegetable and part animal. The plant certainly bears a resemblance to an animal, although it might be taken for a pig as readily as a lamb. Kouchi is composed principally of the plant part known as rhizome and springs from seed. After attaining its height roots and tendrils spring from the fiber and grow downward until they enter the earth. It is this peculiar formation which has caused it to be regarded with so much awe. The Chinese claim that after it has reached its full size it ceases to be vegetable and turns animal, feeding upon the tender shoots of plants which grow near it. It Depends on the Dog Two Broadway business men met before a bar. They were good friends. "I'm worried a little," said one. "My chauffeur ran over a dog today and killed it." "Oh, I wouldn't worry about a little thing like that," said the other. "The dog probably got in the way. These dogs are a pest." "But it was your dog." but it was you. "What!" came from the second. "My dog? I'm sorry, but that will cost you $100. That chauffeur of yours is to careless. I insist on the hundred, understand." - New York Telegraph. So 'Twould. "How would you like to take a trip in a submarine?" "I shouldn't care for that," replied the society bud. "Why not?" "Oh, deah! Must I really tell you? An ocean voyage would be frightfully boring, you know, if there were no place to dawnce."—Birmingham Age Herald. Rack Rents. A "rack rent" is a "rent that is equivalent to the full net annual value of the real property out of which it issues or approximately so." By statute in England today rack rent is defined as "not less than two-thirds of the full net annual value of the lands out of which it grises." Name of the Collis The collie's name appears to be shrouded in mystery, but there seems to be a fairly reasonable foundation for supposing that it is from "collar" or "collar," on account of the broad white mark round the neck which is seen in the majority of these dogs. - Exchange Ancient Candles Candles used by the Romans were composed of string surrounded by elfter wax or pitch. Splinters of wood covered with fat were used by the English poorer classes about 1300. What the Trouble Was What the Trouble Mills—I notice that you and Brown ley don't speak? Grimm—Well, we had a few words over money, that's all. Grimm—Oh, I suppose he owes you some? Grimm—No; he wanted to. The Minimum: The Minimum Mrs. Hoover—Could you give me a little money, dear? Mr. Hoover—Certainly, darling. About how little? Exchange. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. —Joubert. Four Passengers Are Hurt, and Then the Car Burns Up. Mineola, N. Y.—A dog which trotted along the Fulton roadway in the path of auto traffic on the Hempstead plains indirectly caused the loss of a large touring car and the injury of its four occupants, Dr. Henry N. Read and Mrs. Read and their two sons, Lewis A. Edmund. and Emund Read, acting as chauffeur, came upon the dog at a turn off in the read and attempted to turn aslide, but the auto skidded and turned completely over twice after the physician and his family had been thrown clear of the revolving body of the car. A. C. Vandewater called an ambulance from the Nassau hospital. Dr. Read, seventy years old, and his wife, aged sixty, were in serious condition from shock, and their sons were cut and bruised. All were taken to the hospital. Shortly after the accident, which occurred about a mile east of Hempstead, the dry grass of the Hempstead plains became ignited from some unknown cause, and despite the efforts of persons living near by to extinguish the flames or to rescue the auto, the fire reached the gasoline tank and exploded it. The car, which lay bottom up in a ditch, was consumed to the steel framework. SANTA CLAUS BANS WAR TOYS FOR THE KIDDIES Everything Else For the Children Being Made In Great Kensington Plants Philadelphia.—Santa Claus sat in his workshop. "Twas nearing the middle of December—the children's own month—and Santa was wondering what they'd like in their stockings. "Haven't you been reading the papers? quered his first assistant. "War—nothing but war! Give 'em soldiers this year. Tin soldiers with medals on their breasts, and muskets and cannon and block fortresses and real submarine ships that will sink and war aeros that will fly! Give the babies the war to play with." But Santa gazed with sad eyes. "Peace on earth," he said softly. "Men say each other, but the children of men mustn't cherish thoughts of murder. We'll give them their dolls and their toy animals to teach them love, and pray through them it may rule all men." That's what Santa Claus said. He gave orders that never a cannon nor a soldier was to be made in his workshop. And he sent out word to all his assistant workshops up and down the world that he didn't care to drive his reindeer along setups this year for the purpose of dropping war toys down chimneys. At the big toy factories in Kensington the word that Santa Claus sent down from the north pole was received joyfully. The factories never did make many war toys. This year they'll make almost none. But dolls are there—dolls and dolls. There are "roly dollies," designed for children so tiny that their toys must sort of take care of themselves. Then there are dolls that nearly approach old fashioned, too handsome French dolls; golden curls, blood red smiles, fixed, starry eyes and ruffled gowns. And best of all, there are character dolls—modeled after real, live, breathing boys and girls. They wear their straight, soft looking hair bobbed; their cheeks are only pink as regular children's cheeks are pink; their little gingham dresses were designed and made by a dressmaker who for years was a children's dressmaker. LOSES SUIT; SHOOTS JUDGE. Three Persons Wounded as They Enter Courtroom. Hammond, Ind. — Judge Charles E. Greenwald of the superior court here was shot in the right arm and side, but not fatally; Louis De Doww, his bailiff, was wounded fatally, and George Robbins, a juror in a case before the judge, was shot in the head by Michael Unik, who is said to have harbored a grudge against the courts for many years. Unik, supposedly unbalanced, was defeated in a damage suit against the Standard Oil company twenty years ago for an injury to his arm. He approached the judge as the latter, followed by the bailiff and the juror, was entering the courtroom. He asked the judge to help him renew his suit, but the judge hurried on. Unik then opened fire. De Doww and Robbins were shot when they went to the rescue. Unik is under arrest. ```markdown ``` New York. After an absence of three days in hospital Michael Addison reached home in time to halt his own funeral. He got to his house as the undertakers brought in a pine box from the same hospital he had been in. Just then the mourners began to arrive. Addison's daughter fainted. The pine box contained another Michael Addison, and the mourning was transferred to another part of the city. FIND INDIAN RELICS. Members of a New Historical Association Get a Load of Them. Klamath Falls, Cal.—Loaded down with newly found Indian relics, including pipes, stone war hammers, dishes, grinders, seventy-five arrow heads, ten spear heads, several knives, eleven mortars and more than 100 pestles, J. C. Rutenic, A. C. Yaden, Floyd Brandenburg and George Snyder, members of the recently organized Klamath Historical association, returned recently from a ten days' research expedition through the lava beds. These beds, lying just across the California line in Modoc county, were the seat of the Modoc Indian war and have furnished many valuable relics during the last few years. Most of those found on the present trip were gathered along the receding shore of Tule lake, which is being drained at the hands of the United States reclamation service by diverting Lost river, which formerly flowed into it. ATTACKED BY PET BUCK. Hatchery Superintendent and Wife Set Upon While Feeding Pet Deer. Auburn, Me.-John F. Stanley, seventy-six, superintendent of the Maine fish hatchery grounds, and his wife, seventy-one, were nearly killed by a pet buck which suddenly became enraged. Stanley was feeding the animal, which charged on him, breaking several ribs and cutting and bruising him. Mrs. Stanley was awakened by the noise and, clad only in her nightgown, rushed to the inclosure to aid her husband. The buck charged her, too, and would have killed her but for a collie, which set upon the deer and drove him away. Mrs. Stanley crawled to the telephone, gave the alarm and then fainted. Her husband was found half submerged in a brook and helpless. The buck was killed by order of the state authorities. PAN-AMERICAN SCHOOL PLAN Argentina's Envoy Suggests Interchange of Letters by Pupils. Washington.—Plans for establishing a system of correspondence between the high schools of Argentina and the United States were discussed at a conference between Ambassador Naon of Argentina and a representative of the Washington bureau of the American Peace society. "I have already dispatched to one of the Buenos Aires schools letters written by students of the Proctor academy of Andover, N. H.," said the ambassador. "In due time I shall receive from the principal of the Argentine school a long letter written by the students there, which will be translated and sent on To Andover. Thus the plan may be considered to be definitely under way." CAT'S BITE CAUSES DEATH. Brooklyn Pier Watchman Is Stricken With Hydrophobia. New York.—Hans Jurgensen, fifty years old, of Brooklyn, a watchman on pier 38, Atlantic docks, died in the Long Island College hospital of hydrophobia caused by the bite of his pet cat. Jurgensen's hand, which was bitten, gave him a little trouble during the first six weeks following the bite, but it was only a few days ago that the hand and arm began to swell. Dr. William M. Ennils of 81 First place, Brooklyn, who was called in, diagnosed it as hydrophobia and caused Jurgensen's removal to the Long Island College hospital, where the diagnosis was verified by physicians from the department of health before his death. HE DYNAMITED HIMSELF. Dug a Hole, Packed Explosive In, Lit a Fuse and Dived In to Die. New York.—This is the way Leon David Rose, forty-five, a foreman blaster of Stony Point, Rockland county, proved to his incredulous friends that he had meant what he had said when he told them that he was going to blow himself up. He dug a bole about three feet deep in a hillside. He packed sticks of dynamite—there is no way of telling how many—into the hole. Attaching a long fuse to the explosive, he touched a match to the end of it. Then he dived into the hole and, resting on the dynamite, walted. Fragments of his body were found afterward. POOR GIRL SPURNS RICHES. Tires of $10,000 Bargain That Kept Her In the Country. Amboy, Ill.-Mary Smith, a poor Chicago girl, who was adopted by James Pankhurst, a wealthy farmer, and his wife on Aug. 13, 1915, with the understanding she was to remain single and act as companion to the aged couple and receive $10,000 upon their death, has grown tired of the bargain and returned to Chicago. "Money isn't in this world," she said. "I want the right to live as I please. I simply find that I do not like to live in the country." TREES FOR BROADWAY. Foresters Want to Co-operate With Park Department. New York.-Foresters employed by the Broadway association will ask to be allowed to co-operate with the park department in placing trees on upper Broadway, it was announced. Difficulty had been experienced in getting trees which would thrive in the city. The association has found that the oriental plane tree does well in the streets, and it is planned to plant these. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, DECEMBER 23, 1916 GIRL JILTS ARE FALSE, SAYS PROFESSOR SHAW Don't Believe Her When She Says She'll Be Your Friend. New York.—"When a girl says, 'I cannot be your wife, but I'll be your friend,' she tries to speak the truth, but butters a psychological falsehood," declared Professor Charles Gray Shaw, head of the philosophy department of the New York university, in a lecture at the institution. Professor Shaw argued that no woman could be a friend to men or to women, because a friend requires a clear cut personality and a disinterested outlook on life. Both of these, he asserted, women lack. He also declared that friendships between men were passing from the earth. "Woman cannot be a friend because she is never an individual, for to be an individual one must stand alone," he said. "Only those who stand alone can come together." Professor Shaw said that woman was like a planet—well adapted to revolve about some center, "but not organized in such a way as to stand alone." "Unfortunately, masculine friendships are just passing from the earth, and in the course of time friends will be found only in museums, along with other aboriginal products. This melancholy situation is due to the fact that modern life tends to destroy personality and a philosophic view of the world. Man is bound to man not by ties of friendship, but by bonds of professionalism which are usually of a commercial character." INDIAN TRIBES USE WHISTLING LANGUAGE Able to Express Their Thoughts Perfectly by Its Use, Says Mining Engineer. Carlisle, Pa.—That entire tribes of Indians in Mexico carry on long conversations by means of whistling is asserted by Harold T. Mapes, mining engineer, who was for twelve years in Mexico, but now lives in Carlisle. Mapes declares that the Indians have a whistling language and are able to express their thoughts perfectly by its use. He says it is not a series of signs or calls signifying danger, love, fear, peace, war, etc., but a regular language, by which the most subtle shades of thought may be expressed. Like people in other parts of the world, the Mexican Indians occasionally whistle for their dinners, only they are able to explain by their whistles exactly what kind of a dinner they want—either a simple meal of tortillas and frioles or a more elaborate feast of enchiladas and mole guajalote, with cervezor vino. Mapes says that he understands that the whistling language has been handed down from generation to generation from the time of the Toltecs and Aztecs and that Indian lovers can put a world of tenderness and passion into their whistled declarations of love or stir their fellows to heroic deeds by the fierceness with which they whistle a call to arms. A whistling language has been used from time immemorial by the Swiss mountaineers, and Neapolitan sailors converse frequently by means of whistling. Convicts in the big jails in Naples converse freely by means of whistling, and there is apparently no limit to their whistling vocabulary. BIRD DOG WEARS GLASSES. Georgia Setter Does Good Work After Visit to Oculist. Moultrie, Ga.-Fanny, a thoroughbred setter, wears spectacles. She was fitted with glasses by an oculist, who found that she had astigmatism. For years Fanny has been known as one of the best hunting dogs in this section. Before the opening of the quall season this year she went to the fields by herself and on returning showed evidence of bad falls. Fanny could not help falling into ditches and running into trees. Then it was discovered that her eyes had become affected. It is believed the glasses will correct the trouble. At least Fanny now is doing her work as well as usual. HE KNEW. Austrian Tells Who It Is That Elects a President. Hammond, Ind.—Jorn Bosovich, late of Austria, applied to the federal court for citizenship papers. Clerk Hemstock put the questions and got these answers: "Who is president of the United States?" "Mr. Wilson." "Who makes the laws?" "The congress." "Who elects the president?" "California." He got the papers. Scranton, Pa.—A letter with $5 inclosed has been received by the Pine Brook bank. The letter said that the writer held up the teller and took the money at the point of a revolver. "I am taking the first opportunity to pay it back," said the letter, which was postmarked Moscow, Pa. The bank officials will have the missive framed. The robber entered the bank and pointing a revolver at the teller, George Browning, demanded $25. Browning handed out $5, which satisfied him. FEW SMALL COINS FEW SMALL COINS Directors of Mints Hold Conference to Solve Problem. INDICATION OF PROSPERITY. People Among Whom Nickels, Dimes and Quarters Circulate Have More Than Ever Before—Engraving Department Reports Enormous Demand For One and Two Dollar Bills. New York.—An unprecedented demand for small coins—quarters, dimes, nickels and cents—a demand that is daily straining the resources of the United States treasury department, brought F. H. J. Van Engelken, director of the mint, to New York to see if something could be done to relieve the scarcity. He met officials of all mints here for a conference to devise ways and means of turning out enough small coins to meet the demand. At the conference were T. W. H. Shanahan, superintendent of the San Francisco mint; Thomas W. Annear, superintendent of the Denver mint; E. D. Hawkhs, chief clerk of the San Francisco mint, and Vernon Boyle, superintendent of the New York assay office. "We never before have been confronted by such an emergency," said Mr. Van Engelken, "and I doubt that we will be able to materially increase the production. Our two large mints now are working twenty-four hours a day, while the smallest is on a sixteen hour shift. They are all at maximum capacity, and their energies are being concentrated on the coins of which we are so short. "Our idea in holding the conference was to discuss the operation of the mints, probably adopting at all of them suggestions that have proved of benefit in one mint. We are now at capacity. Therefore by the team work which we believe this conference will produce we expect to be able to speed up our production of small coins. The problem is growing more perplexing every day." "What is the reason for the shortage in small coins?" the director of the mint was asked. "There is only one answer," he said. "The people among whom the small coins circulate have more of them than ever before. It is the result of the tremendous prosperity that is getting down to the people who use coins of small denominations. "I talked recently with the head of the engraving department in Washington. He tells me there is a similar tremendous demand for the dollar and two dollar bills and that this demand is increasing as the holiday season approaches. None of them is returned. They are worn out. Bankers say they are having great difficulty in meeting the demand." DANCED OFF DIET GAINS. Net Loss of One and a Half Pounds In Chicago Squad Due to a Ball. Chicago. — Dancing and dieting are not in harmony. The "weighing in" figures of the "diet squad," which demonstrated that 40 cents' worth of food a day is enough for the average individual showed a loss of seventeen and a half pounds when compared with figures of the day before. The answer seems to be that most of them attended the annual dance of the health department. Only two members of the squad showed a gain. Each gained half a pound. Comparing weights with those taken when the test started, seven members gained ten and a half pounds, but the other five members lost twelve pounds—net loss a pound and a half, and all because of the dance. LOTS OF MONEY IN KANSAS Hat Passed For $1,500 Brings Back $2,029. Smith Center, Kan.—There is a lot of money in Kansas—enough to buy the minister a motorcar merely by passing the hat in a crowd. So comes the report from Harlan, Kan., where fancy priced hogs, cattle, wheat and corn are the means of sustenance for farmers. The other day, says J. W. Patlee of this town, a $5,000 church was being dedicated, and the finance committee announced the fund to put the church out of debt lacked $1,500. "Pass the hat," yelled some one. The hat contained $2,029 in cash and checks when it got back. FACES DEATH FOR THEFT. Old Sea Law Puts Indiana Prisoner In Bad Fix. Gary, Ind.—Death penalty under an old sea law faces C. A. Shillinger if he is convicted of stealing a compass from a United States Steel company's ore ship. Under a law passed in 1790, Shillinger, if found guilty, must either be freed or hanged from the yard arm of the ship in Gary harbor. The prisoner will be tried in the United States district court at Indianapolis. Spanking Replaces Moral Suasion. New York.—Whatever educators may say of the advantages of moral suasion over the rod, superintendents and trustees for New York's dependent orphans have concluded to the contrary. Good, old fashioned spankings work wonders, they declare. Thirty of them met at the Russell Sage foundation and agreed that the 10,000 orphans under their care were more amenable to spanking than to other forms of reproof. GALLONS OF HONEY IN CLOSED UP FIREPLACE Owner Finds Four Years' Work of Bees Too Heavy to Move. Montclair, N. J.—A. P. Boehm, vice president of B. Altman & Co., New York, closed up a big open fireplace at his residence, 221 Midland avenue, Montclair, four years ago for two reasons. He did not care to use the fireplace, for one thing, and bees in the chimney frequently went down into his dining room. Recently Mr. Boehm decided to use the open fireplace, but found it impossible to lift the sheet of iron he had placed over the outlet to keep out the bees. Believing some bricks from the chimney had fallen down, he set a man to work making the clearance. Operations from the roof stirred up a fuss among the bees, which still inhabited the chimney. The workman decided to chloroform the bees and, placing a saturated rag upon the end of a long pole, went about the task. When the stick was pulled up again, however, the rag was dripping with honey, the weight of which had made impossible the easy removal of the sheet iron. The next thing was the boring of a hole in the iron to allow the honey to run out, a big tin pail being used to catch it. That quickly filled up, and another pail was procured. This vessel also filled up, and some kitchen pans and kettles were used. There was no diminution in the flow, and a wash boiler was next used to catch the honey. This also was filled. Before the honey had all run out a dozen vessels, large and small, were sitting around the room, all filled with delicious honey. CATTLE KING BEGAN AS HELPER IN MARKET Romantic Rise of Butcher Boy Who Died Leaving an Estate of $20,000,000. Oakland, Cal.-The romantic rise of a young German butcher boy, once the butt of jokes at Washington market, in New York, for his inability to speak English, to the position of cattle king of the west and probably the largest single land owner in the country has been revealed by a legal controversy over the administration of his estate in California. Three years before he died in Oakland, Henry Miller deeded his entire $20,000,000 estate to his daughter, Mrs. J. Leroy Nickel of San Francisco, to avoid the inheritance tax collectors of the state. The collectors now are attempting to find a way in which they can collect the tax. Miller came to this country from Wurttenberg, Germany, in 1847. He worked for a time in a small downtown hotel in New York as a porter. Finally he obtained work in Washington market as a apprentice, where he was known as "Potsdam." He saved his money and in December, 1850, joined the gold rush to California. He arrived too late to get to the gold fields and got a job as a second butcher in San Francisco. In ten months he had saved enough to set up for himself. Then the miners who had found the gold came back and, spending their money recklessly, made fortunes for the merchants of the town. Miller later became associated with Charles Lux, a cattleman, and together they bought hundreds of thousands of acres of grazing land in California, Oregon, Nevada and other western states. They went into the cattle raising business and at one time owned 80,000 head of cattle and 100,000 sheep. DEER WRECKS AN AUTOMOBILE Dazzled by Headlight, It Plunges Into Draper Car. Cold Spring. N. Y.-Game Warden James Barry was called to Peekskill to take charge of the carcass of a big male deer which plunged into an automobile in the darkness before daybreak and wrecked it near Peekskill village. The automobile, driven by Algernon Draper of Closter, N. J., was bowling along the Oscawanna road when the buck, emerging from the brush, got in front of the car. The searchlights must have dazzled it, for it plunged headforemost into the machine and was dragged underneath the engine. Penny a Day Scheme For Church. Westmont, N. J.-The Aid society of the Episcopal mission, in order to raise funds for a new church, have put a penny a day scheme into operation. A census of all residents will be made, probably in conjunction with the other churches, to ascertain the denomination of every person in town. Riverside, N. J.—A tin can man trap devised by Joseph Grimmer at a grocery store is said to have caught a victim in one Thomas Jones, a negro. Missing hams from the storage room, Grimmer attached a slik thread to a huge ham and ran the other end out into the store and attached it to a tin can. A few days later the tin can rattled across the floor. The negro is held for the grand jury. PAGE SEVEN Liquid Fire In War. Liquid fire as a war weapon is thus described in an English journal: In the earliest models the combustible liquid was propelled by a gas condenser out of a portable or fixed reservoir and was lighted by some automatic device as it escaped from the nozzle of the projecting instrument. Later a double barreled liquid gun was devised, having the upper barrel much smaller than the lower and pivoted so as to turn independently. The fluid is shot from the two barrels simultaneously, but only that from the upper one ignites automatically. This small, burning stream is so directed that it unites with the larger nonburning one at any desired point and then, of course, ignites the larger jet. The small stream is then shut off, the large one continuing to flow. The flames do not spread backward along the jet toward the nozzle, but are carried forward to the target and, striking the ground, form a veritable sheet of fire, which continues to ignite the fluid as fast and as long as it falls. The Making of Chipped Glass Sheets of glass that are covered with a shell-like raised pattern are in use for screens, partitions, electric light fixtures and other purposes. This chipped glass, for the pattern is often really chipped out of the surface, involves a process that is interesting. The sheet of glass to be treated is placed under a sand blast in order to give it a grain. This ground surface is next treated with a solution of good glue, and the glass is placed in a drying room on a rack, where it remains for some hours. Next the sheets of glass are removed to the chipping room, where they are placed on edge back to back, with the coated surfaces outward. This room is heated by steam colls, and when the heat is turned on the glue reaches its utmost degree of desiccation and curls off the glass in pieces from the size of a dime to that of a silver dollar, but it adheres so closely to the glass that in its effort to get free it tears a piece off the surface, the result being a beautiful pattern. Why the Baby Cries. Now we know why the baby cries. For a long time the cause was velled in obscurity. It might be an inaccessible pln, or it might be the helpless discrepancy betwixt the heavenly kingdom and this world, or it might be a plain case of colic, called by what newfanged term you please. It has remained for an advertising expert to discover that the baby cries in order to advertise. It is the baby's effective announcement in the imperative mood that he wants to be up and petted or he wants the moon or he wants something else, and "he won't be happy till he gets it." There is no denying that for an infant industry the baby's advertising is a great success. Nearly every time he gets results, and the most astute and alert professional solicitor cannot show a higher percentage of success.-Philadelphia Ledger. Only a "Slip of a Boy." One night while Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and her company were playing "L'Alglon" in Montreal a very angry man left the auditorium and clamored at the box office for the return of his money. The manager naturally wanted to know why. "I paid to see Mme. Bernhardt act," the man stormed, "and she's not acting." "Mme. Bernhardt is acting," replied the astonished manager. "No, she is not," retorted the man. "She does not take the part of the empress, and the only other characters are a man and the slip of a boy who plays the young duke." It took ever so long to convince him that the "slip of a boy" was Bernhardt herself.—All Around Magazine. His Magnificent Memory. "Children." squeaked the ancient man, "I can remember just as well as if it was yesterday when I was a boy and beefsteak and potatoes were so cheap that we had 'em at our house most every day and were always permitted to eat all we wanted of 'em. Oh.I tell ye I've got a wonderful—hee, hee—memory!" Later the children said among themselves: "Truly, Uncle Gulliver has an amazing memory. He can recollect things that could not possibly have happened."—Kansas City Star. Dispatching Business. Counsel For the Defense—Your honor, you neglected to ask the prisoner if she had anything to say as to why sentence should not be pronounced. Judge—Inasnuch as the prisoner is a woman, we will omit that formality in order to dispose of the case in some reasonable time—Pittsburgh Press. Stage Name. "Yes, I am going on the stage." "Well, I hope you succeed in making a name for yourself." "That has already been attended to, my dear. I picked a really beautiful one out of a romantic novel."—Louisville Courier Journal. A Real Defender "Big" brother is reasonably good about defending little sister, but the real serious trouble comes when "big" sister sees some one imposing on little brother--Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Omar—Miss Aimee certainly has a lovely complexion, hasn't she? Hazel—Yes; and the stingy thing won't tell me what brand she uses.—Exchange. The man who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated. 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It is said that plants of this type are particularly common in Mexico.-St. Nicholas. Prefects In France: Mayors are appointed in France in much the same way as in England, but the prefect is a permanent government official, with infinitely greater power and of much more importance. He is the supreme head of a department—of which there are eighty-six—and it is his duty to see that the laws passed in Paris are carried out properly in every commune of his department. He has control over the police and even over the military should their services be required in an industrial or political dispute. He sees that the taxes are collected, and every public improvement scheme is submitted to him in order that he may decide by whom the cost should be borne. The post of prefect is well paid and often leads to higher things. For instance, M. Paul Cambon held three prefectures before he was given a diplomatic post—London Spectator. "A Thief of Health:" "The man who coughs or sneezes in your presence without covering his mouth with a handkerchief is a thief," the bulletin of the St. Louis health department says. "He is a thief of health and comfort," continues the bulletin. "Of course he does not know it, and he does not mean to injure his friends and companions, but he does that very thing every time he coughs or sneezes without protecting his mouth and nose with his handkerchief. "Watch the people who are afflicted and take note of how few persons use a handkerchief when sneezing or coughing. They scatter grip germs in offices, workshops, stores, and within twenty-four to forty-eight hours thousands of persons are infected. Nobody seems to think it worth while to use a handkerchief." Conclusive. On one occasion Herr Steinitz, the famous chess master, was discussing political economy with a distinguished professor in England, and the Malthusian theory came up. After the usual arguments the veteran chess player thus wound up the controversy: "It's all nonsense what they say. You tell me a poor man has no right to have a large family. You say his doing so is not honest, is a positive injury to his country and to humanity. I tell you you are wrong, and I will prove it. My father was a poor man—a very poor man. My father was an honest man—a very honest man. Well, he had thirteen children, and I, Wilhelm Steinitz, the chess champion of the world, I am the thirteenth." Gamest Fighters. Sparrows are proverbially pugnacious. Sometimes a tree will be a sparrow battleground, and for ten minutes it will be as lively as a dog fight. Probably the finest fighter in the world, quadruped or biped, is the gamecock. He is a match for anything his size in the world if he gets a fair field and no favor. He is as quick as a flash of lightning, and his spurs are terrible weapons, quite as effective as a pair of bayonets, and used much more scientifically and forcefully.—London Telegraph. John Adams' inauguration. John Adams, the second president, saw more persons weeping at his inauguration than he had ever seen at any funeral and said of it: "Whether it was because of the loss of a beloved president or the accession of an unpopular one, I cannot say." --- Chicago, Ill. From Emeric to America. From Emeric to America. The transformations that take place in a name as it passes through different languages can only be accounted for by carelessness in transmission. One would scarcely expect the name of Emeric, the name of a plous Hungarian prince of the eleventh century, who was made a saint, to take the form of Amerigo in Italian and of Amory and Emery in English. The name in German, but little changed from the original, is Emmerich. This obscure Hungarian saint has been a person of consequence in this world, for from his name has come that of this great continent. In the fifteenth century, in the Italian form of Amerigo, it was bestowed upon an Italian navigator surnamed Vespucci, and this continent, by a still further mutilation of the name, came to be known as America. When King Stephen of Hungary was choosing a name for his son he could scarcely have imagined that the name chosen was to be the parent of the word America and that poor Christopher Columbus was thereby to be despoiled of a recognition that is far from being compensated for by the term Columbia.-Indianapolis News. Both Were Envious It was in Cleveland, and the day was hot. The Mastodons had just finished their parade, and Charles Frohman, perspiring and wearing the abhorred silk hat, entered the box office of the opera house on Cleveland avenue. Sitting in the treasurer's seat he saw a sturdy lad fingering a pile of silver dollars. He slipped them in and out with amazing dexterity. Hearing a noise, he looked up and beheld young Frohman with the tile tilted back on his head. The boys' eyes met. Into each came a wistful look. "I wish I had that silk hat of yours," said the boy at the window. "I wish I could do what you are doing with that money," was the response of the envied one. Such was the meeting of two men who afterward became dominant figures in the theatrical world. The boy with the dollars was A. L. Erlanger. —"Charles Frohman, Manager and Man." Milkmalda In London At one time it was a common thing to see milkmaids in Fleet street. London milkmaids of past days were usually strongly built Irish or Welsh girls, mostly Welsh, but how long ago it is since one yodeled in Fleet street it is difficult to say. Yet only a few years ago a milkmaid actually practiced her calling in the open in central London. Two cows were attached to the "Milk fair" in St. James' park, near Spring gardens, and a tumblerful of milk "fresh from the cow" was a popular beverage. The "fair," which was held by a family descended from the original holders of an old privilege granted by royalty, was abolished by order of the office of works—London Chronicle. Not Drastic Of the unconscious humor of witnesses the following is not a bad example: Magistrate—I understand, then, that after heckling the candidate the defendant became very violent and abusive? Constable—Yes, sir. "And so," continued the magistrate, "you used drastic measures to remove him?" Constable—No, sir: I used my club. Creased Ribbons: Crushed ribbons should not be frowned; it makes them shiny. Dampen them and then fold them smoothly and tightly around a rolling pin or empty bottle. This will remove slight creases. There is nothing for very bad creases but to tore them. The Difference In Dogs You can keep a real fine dog in food at an expense of about $19 a month, while a real sorry dog can get out and make a living for himself.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram. No Initiative Wanted: Rich Man—My daughter, sir, has never wanted for anything. Poor Suitor—Then for heaven's sake don't make her begin now! She wants me!—Philadelphia Bulletin. Mocking Him. "Fortune will smile on you some day, my boy." "Maybe so, dad, but just at present she's giving me the laugh."—Detroit Free Press. JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year cent allowed on Savings Accounts Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT As agent buy and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates for no dents, including payment of taxes and looking after assessments. 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