The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX Charles E. Stump, Enjoyed a Pleasant Visit with Rev. W. Sampson, Broker of Wichita, Kansas and Attended the Session of the Inter- State Literary Association of Kansas Vol. XXII. Charles E. joyed a P with Rev. Broker o Kansas an the Session State Literation of Ka Topeka, Kans.—It is but fitting that I should close this year in Kansas, and I am starting upon this new one in the same state, and as you read this letter we all will have stepped into another year full of inspiration, aspiration and all that goes to make up a good man or woman. None of us can say just what is before us or how we are going to do it, but let us just work and look forward to another year. 1916 has passed into history, and to some of us it has held much that is beautiful and sweet, while some of us enter 1917 with hearts aching, and a yearning for those who have gone before us. But let us remember that before the close of this year, some one may be called upon to mourn for us. We have so lived that there will be some one to express regrets when we shall leave here to mingle with those who have gone before us. Speaking of those who have gone, I want to here extend my sympathy to Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, of Chicago, whose home is at 5922 Aberdeen street, and whose father was called from her just at the time she was getting ready to prepare for Christmas. She had everything before her, and she was ready to do her shopping for Christmas when a messenger appeared at her door with the paper that we do not like to see come to us, a telegram "Your father is dead." I felt like crying with this poor woman, because her husband was at home to spend Christmas with her and she had laid many plans. Mrs. Stewart's father was J. H. Washington, of Texas. He was one of the most noted men in that state, and for a long time stood side by side with Wright Cuney. He was at one time a member of the legislature of the state, and was a respected. member he lived in Galveston for a long time, but of late years has lived on a farm in Lamarque, Texas. His daughter married fifteen years ago, and is now making her home in Chicago where she is striving to educate her son. He leaves a widow as well as his daughter, she was the only one in the family. Now let me see. I wrote to you before from Kansas and I am doing so again. I was in Chicago for Christmas and had the pleasure of meeting many people there. I was at the business place of B. W. Fitts, on State street and found him as busy as could be making things go. I had the pleasure of meeting Rev. J. P. Thomas, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church, and spoke for him at one service. Of course I was prepared to talk about farming and many other things that I knew and perhaps said a few things that I did not know very much about, but the people just looked wise at any rate. Among the others, I met Rev. E. T. Martin, pastor of Bethesda Baptist church; Rev. I. A. Thomas, of Evans, and spent a little time with each of these men. I did not discuss any of the affairs of life with them, but just looked around. It is a great thing to be able to look wise. After Christmas dinner, I got myself together and started out to plan the farming business for the winter. It was to me a source of pleasure to be able to do this. I got to town. Coming out of Chicago on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul to this place it was indeed a fine ride. Reaching Kansas City, I went over to the home of Poet Tilford Davis, exchanged only a few words with his wife, before I found myself headed for Topeka. I got on in Kansas City, Mo., but when we passed through Kansas City, Kansas, a number joined us over there. This included Mrs. Tilford Davis, known as Mrs. Norene Davis. She was in that crowd going to the Interstate Literary Association. This organization has had its life for a quarter of a century. Did you ever hear of a literary organization, which was not local, existing for 25 years? Is there another like it in all of the country? The brain of the West, together with the talent come together to discuss literary topics, to make displays in music, art and poetry. To show to the world that we are thinking. Now, while I am not a poet, while I am not an orator, while I am not an educator, I just made up my mind that I was going to get in that bunch, keep my mouth closed and look wise and would be counted with them. Reaching the town, I met Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, and he carried me behind the church and tried to give me a few lessons in speaking, but I fell down on this and told him that I would keep still and let my mouth stay closed. He agreed to this, but indicated if he had me he would develop me to be something more than a dummy. He is one of the great men in the A.M. E. church and I expect to see him a bishop before I leave here. I think 1920 will settle this question. I had the pleasure of meeting President G. G. Brown, but he is now with the has been, for you can only serve one year. I was introduced to all those educators and requested to make a few scattering, remarks, and you can put it down that I scattered them too, for I had nothing else to do. I got up and the first thing I said I was "umposus, Gladitorium meetirum, you edicatus laitratitustum." Now, if you will tell me what I said I will give you a gold dollar. Those talented people looked at me, looked at each other and smiled. I did not really get myself together until I had heard Mrs. Norine Davis with that sweet voice of hers echo some music that was music. There is one woman who could go on the stage and get a fortune with her voice. But let us not get away from the subject. I was to stop with Hon. John M. Wright, but found that he had just before I got there, had a part of his house burned. The roof had been destroyed, and I was assigned to another place, and the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes. I had the pleasure of meeting Harry 74 HON. RICHARD J. BAPE Chairman on committee on Judiciary of the State Senate of Illinois, who is the right man in the right place and it is earnestly hoped that he will work out many reforms in relation to the judicial system of this state which is far behind these progressive times. Chairman on committee on Judiciary of the State Senate of Illinois, who is the right man in the right place and it is earnestly hoped that he will work out many reforms in relation to the judicial system of this state which is far behind these progressive times. Abbott, one of the coming young men, who offered to do all he could to assist me, to write my letters and serve me. He said that it was a pleasure to him to serve old folks. I shall ever pray for him. Then followed the meeting of Prof. William R. Carter, D.D., and his wife. These people all made me welcome. Now concerning the literary society. I don't know as I have ever seen so many educated people with talent together. They look forward to this meeting with pleasure, and it is a place where ability is displayed, and you see thought walking around in all its glory, dressed like a king. I tell you they were some thinking people. They opened up, had the addresses of welcome and responses, and then the annual address of the president, Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, and Charles Stewart, both spoke, and then ended the opening night. But that next day they just got right down to business. It was interesting to see how those people tried to keep from using the word "Negro." One year ago they passed a resolution declaring that no speaker should use that word, because it was suggestive. They had to find some other word to express the race. Poor race has a hard time to find a name. When a fellow was in his native element, making a speech, and when he would say Negro, right there and then he was called down, and perhaps his train of thought destroyed. I dare not criticize them, because they were all educated people and not subject to criticism from me. You could say Colored folks, Afro-Americans, Sambo, Coon, or anything so you did not say Negro with big or little N. I really think they carried it too far, but then I am not one of those talents and cannot say and will not attempt to say. Every fellow who was on the program was there and took his part with less than a half dozen exceptions. Wonderful. But if you could have been there that closing night when that fellow from Greece, was there so to speak. You would have thought that all them old orators had returned to live. I never heard such eloquence, such music, such poetry in all my life. It is worth while to attend this meeting. Tilford Davis read one of the finest poems I have ever heard. He belongs in the Homer, Everett, Cow- If the State Senate of Illinois, who is the is earnestly hoped that he will work out judicial system of this state which is far per and other big men worth while. He is one poet. He is in the class of Kipling. I wish that the world could just see him as he is. He is now toting mail, but some day the world will know that he lived. He is making good. It would just take me a whole paper to tell about this wonderful meeting. I do not want to take up all the space. The contest was on Friday night, and that was the great night. The church was crowded to hear them. I wish you could have heard that wonderful paper of Mrs. Willia Dwiggins, of Kansas City, Kansas. She is one of them well trained women, and she knows how to write. Her subject was "Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting." She knew what to say and how to say it. The next session will be right here in Kansas City, Kans., and if I can get money enough I am going to come out here next Christmas. Mrs. E. M. Guy, of Topeka, is the president, and I think that Mrs. Dwiggins will be the next. JUNIUS B. WOOD AND HIS RE CENT ARTICLES IN THE CHI CAGO DAILY NEWS HAVE CAUSED WIDESPREAD COM MENT. The first series of the articles recently appearing in the Chicago Daily News, ably and interestingly written by Junius B. Wood, tickled the fancy of the vast majority of the Colored people residing in this city, for they labored under the impression that they were finer than the finest silk, as they portrayed the brightest side of the picture, and toward their close the reverse side of the picture was thrown on the screen, showing many of the darker spots in it and when Mr. Wood gently reminded the Colored citizens of Chicago that in the last and the final analysis it was up to themselves to remedy some of the vice conditions which continue to flourish like a green-bay tree right in their very midst seemingly without any loud protest on their part. When these facts were pointed out in the articles, loud exclamations of disapproval were uttered on the part of the Colored people, they claiming that The Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard New Years Ball and Reception, Attended by Well on to One Thousand to Twelve Hundred People COL. AND MRS. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, CAPT. J. H. PATTON AND MRS. LOTTIE (BERT) WILLIAMS LED THE TWO WINGS OF THE GRAND MARCH WHICH WAS CONDUCTED BY CAPT. CLINTON L. HILL... BRILLIANT RECEPTION AND BALL AT THE APPOMATTOX CLUB NEW YEAR'S AFTERNOON. MANY OF THE LEADING SOCIAL LIGHTS OF THE CITY WERE PRESENT TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL WHO RETIRES FROM ITS PRESIDENCY. COL. JAMES H. JOHNSON AND HIS NEW STAFF OF OFFICERS WILL GUIDE THE DESTINIES OF THE CLUB FOR THE COMING YEAR AND IF THEY CAN GET IT UP ON A HIGHER PLANE SO THAT IT WILL STAND FOR THE HIGHEST IDEALS IN CIVIC AFFAIRS THEY WILL ADD MUCH HONOR AND GLORY UNTO THEMSELVES. Monday evening the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard held its 22nd annual ball and reception at its armory, 35th street and Forest avenue, and as there were goings on among the Colored people in all parts of the city, the affair was not as largely attended as in the past, although between one thousand and twelve hundred people were present and seemed to greatly enjoy themselves. Col. and Mrs. Franklin A. Denison and Capt. J. H. Patton and Mrs. Lottie (Bert) Williams led the two wings of the grand march, which was conducted by Capt. Clinton L. Hill. Between five and six hundred gay dancers joined in it and both the ladies and the gentlemen looked very nice and alluring in their variegated costumes while marcheing around the hall and while executing the various dances and the 1914 two-step. Mr. Bert A. Williams, who is well he had no right to refer to the buffet flats, the gambling dens or clubs and the other hell-holes of vice and crime which are always in evidence on many of the leading streets where Colored people reside. For more than fifty years the Colored people have been falsely taught or educated, namely, that they have made the greatest progress in fifty years than any other race of people in the world, which is partly true, but not altogether true. Broadly speaking, no race of people can ever make any permanent progress in all those things pertaining to the best and the noblest ideals in advancement and civilization and at all times, and in fact every race of people must put forth their best efforts to kill off the vile and vicious element which is nothing more than so much undergrowth in the transition of a race of people from absolute slavery to perfect freedom or liberty and not permit the undesirable element or those of criminal tendencies to dominate over or to control those who stand for everything that is true and beautiful in life. In every way the Colored people must be taught to drink in a larger measure of ethical culture; by so doing they will learn to separate the black sheep from the white goats—to assume an independent attitude in politics—then, and not until then, will vice and crime disappear from their midst like the morning dew on the approach of the bright, shining sun. No.16 known in all parts of the world, joined the merry dancers before the affair came to a close. New Year's day being very beautiful, the old-time custom of making or paying New Year calls was revived to a considerable extent and in the afternoon and evening of that date a very brilliant reception and ball was held at the Appomattox Club, many of the leading social lights from all parts of the city were present to pay their respects to Col. John R. Marshall who retires from the presidency of the club. Mrs. John R. Marshall, who is fast recovering her health again, was also present and was warmly greeted by her many friends. Col. James H. Johnson and the other new officers will guide the destinies of the club for the coming year, and it remains to be seen just what the club will be able to accomplish in civic affairs in 1917. THE ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. This coming February 14, will occur the one hundredth birthday anniversary of the late Frederick Douglass, who was one of the world's greatest and grandest characters and in a most befitting manner the Colored people in all parts of the United States should celebrate that important event. Here in Chicago the leaders of the race should secure the Eighth Regiment Armory and engage some of the best and most eminent speakers of both races to address the gathering and assist in the celebration. MR. AND MRS. JESSE BINGA EN- TERTAINED THEIR FRIENDS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY AT THEIR ELEGANT NEW HOME, 5922 GRAND BLVD. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Binga vacated their old home at 3324 Vernon avenue in ample time to get straightened around in their elegant and commodious new home at 5922 Grand Blvd. before the holidays and to receive their friends on New Year's Day. It is safe to say that Mr. and Mrs. Binga reside in one of the finest and most elaborately appointed homes in this city. It is reported on very reliable authority that Col. Franklin A. Denison will in the near future become one of the assistant attorney-generals of Illinois. OWNERS AND DIRECTORS Dan M. Jackson Geo. T. Kersey David A. McGowan Ahmed A. Rayner The Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Co., Inc. 2959-61 So Reliable Service Reasonal Reliable Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION Complete line of Funeral Goods. Automobiles for hire Telephone Douglas 6568 Automatic 73-657 THE SOLACE BILLIARD ACADEMY "THE MODERN SCHOOL" CLEAN AND RELIABLE THE SQLAGE BILLIARD ACADEMY TERREVOUS L. DOUGLAS, Prop. CIGARS—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOX TRADE A SPECIALTY 3556 South State Street 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 judgements, 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 and 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 snow, 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. 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 soiree 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 displeasure 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 musicals before." "No, but they'll come in handy. Mme. Squallerina 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. PAGE TWO The Mistake. "Oh, they're all right." Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT South State St. Courteous Treatment Table Prices IN CONNECTION s. Automobles for hire Automatic 73-657 BLIARD ACADEMY - CLEAN AND RELIABLE et Chicago 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 hooks 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 Tells 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 $2,000. 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 $2,000 is buried. PRIZE DOG SAVES MASTER. Barks an Alarm When Auto Pina Dr Hair Against Garage Wall. Bridgeport, Conn.-Dr. James E. Hair, widely known in this country and Canada as a dog expert, probably was saved from death by one of his prize pets when the automobile he was cranking shot forward and plinned him against the wall of the garage. The barking of the dog brought neighbors, who found Dr. Hair unconscious. He was severely bruised in the abdomen, but is expected to recover. Apparently he had thought the engine neutral and had started it without setting the brake. Shot at Movie Picture Hammond, Ind.-Patrons of the Lyric theater were thrown into a panic here when John Sebastian, a foreigner, whipped out a revolver and killed the villain, who was choking the beautiful heroine in the movie. The shot punctured the arch fleud's breast. "He was choking the lady," said John, as a policeman led him away. Automatic 73.657 一 THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6, 1917. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York, in the State of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Superintendent of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL. Amount of capital stock paid up in cash.....$ 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 office and settlement of losses $ 84,429.56 Interest or dividends to stock- holders $ 200,000.00 Commission or brokerage $ 200,000.00 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees $ 377,506.28 Rents $ 31,754.45 Advertising, printing and sta- tionery, postage, etc. $ 45,915.87 Legal expenses, furniture, fixtures and maps $ 21,560.03 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc. $ 29,821.97 Inspection and surveys $ 51,935.54 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate $ 29,651.36 State insurance departments, licenses and fees $ 83,710.52 Other licenses, fees and taxes or maturity of ledger assets $ 15,491.54 Deposits in book value of ledger assets $ 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 bonds... $ 5,753,560.22 Cash in office and bank 570,272.68 Agents' balances... $ 588,785.89 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 DEPICT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months due... $ 9,378.49 Book value real estate, bonds and stocks over market value... $ 362,334.47 Special deposits to secure liabilities in Georgia, Virginia, Canada, 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 ad- junction or in suspense. 148,480.29 Losses resisted 55,725.00 Total ..... $ 374,713.96 D e d u c t r e-in- surance ..... 108,786.21 Not 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.....24,066.66 Other liabilities ..... 1,919.13 Total Liabilities ..... $ 3,920,295.68 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, adventurer President. GUSTAV KEHR. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of January, 1916. AUGUST C. WAITERLING. [SEAL] Notary Public. 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, pur- suant 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 DISURBLEMENTS. Losses paid during the year. $ 319,319.79 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses. 7,228.47 Interest dividends to stock- holders. 60,000.00 Commissions or brokerage. 155,710.30 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees. 3,490.00 Postage of cash. 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 15,499.13 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 bonds and stocks. $ 1,057,104.68 Cash in office and bank. 42,761.07 Agents balances. 109,661.48 Total Ledger Assets..... $ 2,109,824.23 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 pro- cess of ad- junction or in suspense ..... 238,923.00 Losses resisted ..... 35,030.00 Total ..... $ 342,344.49 Deduct re-in- surance ..... 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 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, 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 $ 215,610.73 Interests, rents and dividends $ 63,311.35 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets $ 1,110.25 Increase in book value of ledger assets $ 12,130.00 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 stockholders. $ 50,000.00 Commissions or brokerage. $ 49,661.77 Salaries, fees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees. $ 17,303.61 Rents. $ 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, etc. $ 6,584.65 Other licenses, fees and taxes $ 1,805.85 Decrease in book value of ledger assets. $ 4,826.00 Agents' balances charged off. $ 10.00 Total Disbursements $ 251,012.69 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American 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.....$ 2,000,000.00 INCOME. Premiums received during the year.....$ 9,037,801.97 Interests, rents and dividends 1,122,103.89 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets.....4,137.72 From all other sources.....15,355.99 Total income $10,119,599.51 DISBURSEMENTS. Losses paid during the year $ 4,876,580.75 Expenses of adjustment and settlement of losses $ 127,033.93 Interest or dividends to stockholders $ 600,000.00 Commissions or brokerage $ 1,731,070.02 Salaries, fees and all other charges of clerks, agents and employees $ 919,455.65 Rents $ 75,068.31 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc. $ 167,895.58 Legal furniture, furniture, fixtures and maps $ 35,770.81 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fares $ 186,327.83 Inspection and surveys $ 67,330.92 Repairs, expenses and taxes on real estate $ 118,283.13 State insurance departments, taxes $ 201,461.05 Other licenses, fees and taxes $ 91,555.46 Loss on sale or maturity of ledger assets $ 243,376.01 Accents' balances charged off $ 3,320.39 All other disbursements $ 26,130.17 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of real estate ... $ 2,682,385.69 Mortgage loans on real estate Book value of bonds and stocks ... 53,150.00 18,566,082.42 Cash at office and bank ... 977,084.14 Agents balances ... 1,736,374.91 Bills receivable ... 36,090.89 Total Ledger Assets ... $24,051,164.05 NON-LEDGER ASSETS. Interest accrued ... $ 153,331.52 Other non-ledger assets ... 6,242.23 Gross Assets ..... $24,210,737.80 DEDUCT ASSETS NOT ADMITTED. Agents' balances over three months, due. $ 30,883.25 Bills receivable and loans on personal security ..... 1,925.13 Book value real estate bonds and stocks over market value 1,746,586.11 Special deposits to secure liabilities in Canada, Georgia, N. Mexico, N. Carolina, and Virginia ..... 66,717.00 $ 1,846,111.40 LIABILITIES. Losses ad- justed and unpaid ... $ 194,156.00 Losses in process of adjustment or in sus- pence ... 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 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. CRAIG, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1916. J. HOMER REED, Notary Public. [SEAL] OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American Association, on the 31st day of December, the State of Pennsylvania, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Contendant of the State of Illinois, pursuant to the Act of Congress. CAPITAL DISCUSSUREMENTS. 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 department, clerks, agents and employees. 19,369.11 Rents. 3,825.00 Advertising, printing and stationery, postage, etc. 4,963.31 Legal expenses, furniture, fixation, etc. 2,018.60 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage corps, fees, etc. 6,151.58 Inspection and surveys. 393.77 Registers, taxes and taxes on real estate. 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 Loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks or other collateral ..... 521,925.00 15,750.00 Book value of bonds and stocks ..... 78,684.00 Cash in office and bank..... 77,885.70 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 LIABILITYS. 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-insurance ..... 9,007.55 Net amount of unpaid losses. $ 57,530.38 Total unearned premiums. ..... 315,139.78 Salaries, rents, bills, taxes, ctc. ..... 5150.00 Commissions and brokerage. 588.84 Other liabilities ..... 36.00 Total Liabilities. $ 378,445.00 BUSINESS IN ILINOIS. 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. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January. WALTER C. MORRIS. [SEAL] Notary Public. 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 perpetual risks ..... 8,682.30 Interests, rents and dividends 110,902.56 Profit or interest of maturity of ledger assets ..... 7,308.03 Increase in book value of ledger assets ..... 2,440.22 From all other sources ..... 257.31 Total Income ..... $ 870,125.50 DISSEUREMENTS. 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 Commissiones to brokerage. 190,726.01 Salaries, dees and all other charges of officers, clerks, agents and employees. 83,331.63 Rents. 12,485.54 Advertising, printing and stationery, paper, all other expenses. 11,502.33 Legal expenses, furniture, fixtures and maps. 5,800.19 Underwriters' boards, fire department and salvage company. 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 licensees 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 235,900.02 Loans secured by bledge of bonds, stocks or other collateral 32,000.00 Book value of bonds and stocks 1,886,545.00 Cash in office and bank. 87,215.47 Agents' balances 121,866.48 Bills receivable 3,932.03 Other ledger assets 812.50 Total Ledger Assets... $ 2,579,769.40 BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS. Total risks taken during the year ..... 814.228.644.00 Total premiums during the year ..... 142.042.39 Total losses incurred during the year ..... 54.603.07 HENRY M. GRATZ President. EDWARD J. THOMASON. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of January, 1916. JOSEPH KLAPP NICHOLS. [SEAL] 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 rub 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 pollen 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 are in summer about the hottest place on earth's surface, a temperature of 120 degrees in the shade being not uncommon, while a black bulb solar thermometer 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 appalling nature of this Persian heat will be better realized. The greatest heat ever known in England was on Aug. 18, 1883, 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-million part of the rays flung out by the sun—London Telegraph. Odd Titles of Newspapers In Columbus, says the Depatch, there is a man whose chief joy is in a collection of newspaper titles. There are Headlights, Flashlights, Bees, Eagles, Owls, Mirrors and News-Letters, but when it comes to Perkles, Meddlers, Telescopes, Flashes and Sumbeams the class is limited. In Hot Springs there is published the Arkansas Thomas Cat, and other titles just as unusual, as 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 Chleftain is in Oklahoma, the Rustler and the Lariat 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 Already. "Does your husband subscribe to the theory that kissing transmits germs?" "No; he thinks that germs are mostly 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 stumps standing.—Popular Science Monthly. Just In Time. Plaintiff's Lawyer—I rest the case. Defendant's Ditto—You ought to. It's pretty weak.—New York American. ```markdown ``` The Countess Nada Now Becomes a Princess. GRANDDAUGHTER OF A POET. She is an Expert at Tennis, Has Lived in England Much, and Is of Rare Beauty and Charm—Said to Be a Love Match. The popularity won by the young Countess Nadejda Torby, daughter of H. I. H. the Grand Duke Michael of Russia and the Countess Torby, has been a feature of English society for some years past; notably, too, in lawn circles. Countess "Nada" being M. PRINCESS GEORGE OF BATTENBERG. an enthusiastic devotee of the game. So very wide interest was shown in her marriage to Prince George of Battenberg, which took place recently at the Chapel Royal, London. The Countess Tory, mother of the bride, was of extraordinarily romantic descent. Her father was Prince Nicholas of Nussan, who in his day defied royal authority by contracting a morganatic marriage with the daughter of the great Russian poet Pushkin, who was himself a grandson of Peter the Great's black slave Hannibal. It is only necessary to look at the Countess Nada Torby to understand that Prince George wanted her for herself alone. She is a beauty of the most entrancing type. She has large dark eyes, shaded by long lashes; a sensitive and delicately molded face, a very winning expression and a mass of black hair. With all her charms she is simple and unaffected. The grand duke has lived with his family for many years in an English estate called Keele Hall, and he and his children have mingled freely among the people of the neighborhood. The grand duke is a member of the local board of education. He is known to many Americans, with whom he has played golf in a perfectly democratic way at Cannes. The bridegroom, Prince George of Battenberg, is the son and heir of H. S. H. Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was formerly first sea lord of the admiralty. Prince George is a lieutenant in the British navy. Separate Skirt Colors painted skirt colors. The costumes have tried hard this year to get away from the accustomed stereotyped separate skirts. Judging from those on the hangers nowadays, they have been something more than successful. The separate skirts this year partake more of the nature of beautiful dreams than of actual necessities. Georgine, satin, velvets, plaited and striped soft silks and kitten's ear cloth are the popular materials. The majority of these attractive garments are made with a medium waist line with decorated fanciful girdles attached. They are plaited, tucked, greded or gathered to let in the fashionful fullness. Some of them are even mocked. The separate skirts this year come in all possible shades and colors and in every fancy combination that the mind of man could devise. There are plain colored skirts and all shades of blue ones; there are burgundies, browns, corals, orchids, wines and grays and every conceivable plaid and stripe that can be evolved from combinations of these colors. Fashion rose in skirt skirts this season. Orange Marmalade. wear thin skimmed oranges, one cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Wash the oranges, cut in half and remove the pulp with a sapphire. Cut the rind in quarters. Put all fiber; put the rind in two quarters of cold water for twenty hours. Drain, cover with fresh water and boll until tender. Drain. Put out all water; shred very fine; add to the pulp; add the sugar and slowly one hour. You can put the juice through food chopper and add the lemon juice to the rind. ABOUT FURS. Points About the Favorite Pelts This Season. At present sealskin was almost anything originally. Muskrats and rabbits are mostly used. These substitutes have not undergone as elaborate and disguising a process as the real seal, which is first of all plucked, the coarse hair being entirely removed to show the soft fur underneath. But even that fur must be dyed. So there is no such thing as natural sealskin, except the hairy silvery pelt which forms a handsome motorcoat, usually of some few years' standing. Ermine is the favorite fur and in sets and trimmings may be worn en promenade. For evening there are longermine cloaks. Chinchilla, also costing huge sums, is another fur which is likely to be unbecoming to certain women. Several furs imitate it from a distance, and opossum is in something the same coloring. Skunk is a very useful and becoming fur and serves in a thousand ways, being as much favored for trimmings as it is for sets. It is the general choice for collar and cuffs and trims profusely many a "Hudson bay seal" coat. In novelties long black monkey is a Paris fad for trimming dresses. This long fur appears in numerous ways, but as a fringe on evening gowns it is most conspicuous. Fox sets are fairly classic. Silver fox is one of the handsomest. Fisher is a magnificent choice, but it is a rather heavy fur, a good sized set being somewhat weighty. Russian fitch, cream and brown, makes a handsome set. The long stole and the muff are made up in the mode and most approved for sable sets. The beauty and richness of furs are indeed a delight. SMART EFFECT. Just to Show How Modish No Trimming May Be. Tall crown, narrow drooping brim and no trimming over a band of draped Joffre blue velvet give this J SIMPLE CHARM. good looking walking hat. What ornament it lacks is provided by the dashing cape of the long coat in broadcloth, also blue. Musical Birthright of Children. Musical Birthright of Children. In the most remote villages in this country, in purely industrial communities, among the poor and among the rich (both have forgotten), children love good songs. It is their natural inheritance. No excess of materialism in the generations affects it in the least. This is the primitive endowment. Deep down in human character there lies a harmony of adjustment with nature. Overlay it as you may with custom or habit, sully it with luxury, it still persists, for without it human life cannot be. This idealistic basis of human life, which is never destroyed, appears fresh and unstained in children and in song it bubbles up as from a pure spring.—Atlantic Monthly. Roast Young Pig. A pig about six weeks old is best for roasting whole. Scald and scrape the skin and clean thoroughly the inside, the head and the feet, removing the hoofs. Score the skin in squares, rub lard over it and season with salt and pepper. Fill with a bread dressing as for turkey, or make a cornmeal dressing as follows: Salt two quarts of cornmeal as for bread and mix to a stiff batter with boiling water; spread in shallow pans and bake. When cool break it up and add to it one-quarter pound of butter, pepper to taste and a tablespoonful of sage or thyme. Fill the pig till plump, sew it up and place it on its knees in the roasting pan. Keep plenty of water in the pan and baste frequently, turning the pig as you would a turkey. A half hour before the pig is done place whole red apples in the pan and bake. Practical Laundry Slips. For a few cents you can have a salesman's manifold order book containing carbon paper. Use this when you make out your laundry slip and you will have one copy for yourself. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6, 1917. FOR YOUNG FOLKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Very Disagreeable Gnome. THE BOY WITH THE SULKS. All About How Two Sour Tempered Individuals Made Themselves Miserable—Spoiling An Appetite—An Interesting Tale With a Moral. Well, said Uncle Ben to little Ned and Polly Ann, tonight I will tell you about Once on a time there was a little black troll who lived in the ground. He was the grouchiest troll of the tribe, and none of the other trolls ever wanted him around. Now, you may have heard it said that misery loves company, and he couldn't get it because none of his troll companions, who were cheerful little creatures who sang as they worked, could stand the little black troll for more than two minutes at a time. And the little black troll complained to the troll king that he was lonely and that he thought the other trolls didn't treat him right. The troll king thought and thought. He knew just why the other trolls didn't care to have the black troll around, but he believed it would do more good if the little black fellow found it out for himself. So he said: "Very well. There's a little boy not far from here that's been complaining in just the way you complain. I think I'll send you to visit him for awhile." The troll was quite pleased, and when he reached Johnny Blyn's house he was beginning to feel more cheerful. Johnny didn't say, "Glad to see you," or anything of that sort. He just started at the troll, and remarked, "My, what queer clothes you wear!" The troll was hungry, and, as it was lunch time, he followed Johnny in to the lunch table. Johnny began by saying that he didn't want anything and that there wasn't anything to eat. He said such horrid things about the food that at last the troll lost his own appetite. Then Johnny's mother told them to go out and play, but Johnny said he didn't want to play. He was tired of all the games. When the troll suggested some nice new ones Johnny said he wouldn't play such dull games. He stood it until tea time, and then he said to Johnny: "I'm going home. I don't think I like it here." Of course Johnny wanted to know why, and the gnome answered: "You are too peevish and ill humored, that's why." "You're peevish and ill humored yourself, you old black troll!" Johnny cried angrily. "Maybe I am," the troll answered meekly, "but I'm not going to be so any more, for if I can't stand you I can't expect anybody to stand me." Sister and Baby Ride. What a jolly time the baby is having on her first sleigh ride with sister holding tight! Snow, of course, she is yet too young to understand. But next THE BABY IN A SLEECH Photo by American Press Association. BABY'S FIRST SLEIGH RIDE. winter she will know more about it. Snow is such a queer thing; it looks so soft and warm and feathery. But when you take it in your hand it is very cold and soon disappears. It is so entirely different from what it appears to be—to a baby. A Poetical Recipe. Willie caught a little f—— Mary put it in a d—— Susie said it needed s—— Mary said, "It's not my f—— For, indeed, I never k—— What the cook would have to d—— To prepare a fish to e—— I suppose it's just like m—— The f to cook the f to bring p—— And to cook it they b—— First they put in lots of l—— Hented it, each keeping g—— Lest it get so very h—— That it would be burned a l—— Then they dipped the fish in f—— Let it cook a half an h—— Turning it when it was b—— So the upper side was d—— Then they put it in a d—— And they all ate of the f—— NEW SPORT SUIT. A Novelty Designed to Meet the Winter Weather. Warm and light jersey cloth still figures largely in sporting garments. This kilt skirt and half length coat are 1 JERSEY UP TO DATE. of maroon wool jersey nattily set off with strips of white wool, knitted. The muffler collar is interesting, as are the fastenings of the coat. TATTED EDGES. Directions For Medallions to Make a Scarf. Use size 5 thread in ecru or linen. Presume you are using linen for your cover. Use shuttle and bail. P. 3 d s, 5 p, separated by 2 d s, 3 d s, close; turn work, chain 2, d s, 6 p, separated by 2 d s; turn work, join to center p of ring and repeat. Here is a pretty edge with medallion to match which makes a very attractive scarf. For Medallion (Using Shuttle and Ball)—P 5 ds, 1 p, 4 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 large p, 2 ds, 1 p, 4 ds, 1 p, 5 ds and close; turn work—ch 3 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 p, 3 ds, turn work; P 5 ds, joint to first p, 5 ds, close; P 5 ds, 1 p, 5 ds, close; turn work, ch 3 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 p, 3 ds, repeat three times; join end of last ch to first P—mode. Asbestos Mate: The convenient disks of metal bound asbestos, plain on both sides or covered on one side with thin metal, are a boon to housewives, as they make it possible to smimmer with security. Almost invariably, however, the first time of contact of the asbestos with gas flame or heated stove top results in filling one's house or apartment with a "reek" as of pungently scorching paper. In order to avoid this inconvenience let the new asbestos mats before going into use remain for several hours either in a tightly closed and well ventilated oven or else on top of the oven, under the lids of the back of the stove, where the direct up chimney draft will carry off the odor. One good baking will generally make an end of the trouble, but if the inside of the oven be chosen for the purpose take it at a time when no food is to be baked or roasted in it, as otherwise one's cake or souffle may absorb the scent of scorching. Chocolate Sauce One square chocolate (bitter), one cupful sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one-third cupful boiling water, one-half teaspoonful vanilla. Melt the chocolate in a saucepan over hot water, add the butter and pour the boiling water on gradually. Bring to the boiling point, then add sugar and boil for fifteen minutes. When cold add the vanilla. If not sweet enough add more sugar. Overskirts That Ripple. Sometimes the ripple overskirt is dropped from the hip instead of being gathered at the waist line. In making up a frock which combines two materials—say serge and plaid silk or plum colored mohair and pussy willow—yoke and sleeves are of the silk, bodice and yoke or skirt of the wool materials; ripple overskirt of silk and the skirt beneath of the wool woven stuff. THOSE HOT CAKES Are They Not America's National and Best Dish? HOW TO MAKE ALL BATTERS. Griddles Are Important, and Cold Weather Demands That a Table-spoonful of Shortening Be Added to Give Richness to Your Flapjacks. We might call hot cakes an American national dish. The cheapest lunch room, railroad dining room or most expensive hotel serves the omnipresent griddlecake in varying degrees of excellence. To the woman in the home, especially one who does her own work, all batter mixtures seem to be somewhat of a bother. She dreads the smoke attendant on frying, the long time required to prepare a plate sufficient for the family appetite, and she is apt to allow the head of the house to seek his cakes elsewhere. But nothing, if well made, is so wholesome and sustaining as the hot cake on a cold morning. Batters of all kinds are extremely simple if important points in stirring and making them are noted. Contrary to the usual custom, it is better to sift the flour into the liquid than to pour the liquid into the flour. Add the two very slowly to avoid lumps. Beat over and over with a large perforated spoon or whip. Allow the mixture to stand long enough so that the flour may swell and the mixture not be unexpectedly too thick. If we notice the deft hot cake expert in various restaurants we will see that he pours the batter and does not spoon it. Yet few women have followed this common sense plan and stick to the old, inefficient method of ladling the batter instead of pouring it. The important thing about the mixture is the griddle. Custom has decreed that it should be soapstone, but there are both aluminum and cast iron and iron griddles which give excellent results. The important thing is to have the griddle the right temperature before the batter is laid on it. The griddle should never be washed, but wiped with paper or towel. Scouring with salt will sometimes prevent sticking. From supply stores we can secure a little-holder for the fat or griddle greaser which will help us in the somewhat untidy task of greasing the griddle. While many of the prepared pancake flours on the market are excellent, the addition of a tablespoonful of shortening increases the delicacy of the cake. Mixtures of milk are also more tender, and a griddle cake is like other cakes—if you can't make it of the best material it is not worth while. Eggs will give it more nourishment and make it more attractive looking. Waffles are particularly nourishing because they are a rich egg batter. The hot cake is nutritious because it combines milk flour, eggs and sugar, especially when eaten with some kind of sirup. As it has a high starch, sugar and fat content it is an excellent food to resist winter cold and keep up the body's energy. The sour milk mixtures made with sour milk and soda are lighter than those made with ordinary milk because in sour milk part of the protein is already digested. But batters with either sour or sweet milk are wholesome and easy to make if thought and common sense are used. THE INEVITABLE JAR. The Kind of Container You Are Always Needing. For cold cream comes this fetching jar of creamy glaze set off with a band of yellow tulips and daisies growing. ON HER TOILET TABLE. in a rich green field, however restricted. The design has both beauty and usefulness. Snowdrop Cake. Beat three eggs, using lightest colored yolks; add a little cream or milk and flavoring. Rub four ounces of butter into half a pound of flour, stir in four ounces of sugar, mix by adding the eggs and milk and stirring thoroughly, but lightly; then scatter in a teaspoonful of baking powder. Turn the mix ture into a greased cake tin, put into a hot oven, reduce the heat after a little while and let the cake bake gradually. When cold coat with sugar icing, inserting a few snowdrops at intervals just before serving. Baked Potatoes au Gratin. Bake large potatoes until well done, cut lengthwise, scoop out, mash well, add butter, a little milk or cream, salt and pepper and whip until fluffy; refill and sprinkle with grated cheese. Put back in the oven for the cheese to melt and brown slightly. These potatoes served with a roast of real are a real addition to the meal. PAGE THREE How the French Garb a Young Girl This Season. A favorite combination just now is navy blue and gray. This Paris model reverses it and appears in gray set off J. THE COY ONE. with blue, which in this case is a slit belt, the facing of the collar and the ribbon tie. Also the gray velvet poketakes a perky blue tip. RAINY PLAYTIMES. Helps For Mothers on Days Children Are Kept Indoors. Indoors on a rainy day is apt to prove a rather nerve racking time for a busy mother unless she has provided a rainy day box for the kiddies' amusement. Pasting games and books of all sorts appeal for rainy playtimes. You can make a good paste from a flour and water mixture into which a few drops of clove oil have been added. The oil gives a pleasant odor and preserves the paste against souring. Never throw away old telephone books, magazines, scraps of colored paper, etc., when there are small children in the house. Add them as contributions to the rainy day box. Rainy day may be mending day if mother will cast a glamour of privilege over the mending. Save old toys, broken china, etc., for the rainy day mending bee. Especially pretty silk pieces for doll clothes may be slipped into the rainy day box as a surprise, a new box of crayons, a bit of colored wool for a horse line—anything that will make the prospect of rain and staying in the house something for the youngsters to look forward to instead of the irksome time which it usually proves to be. Sleeve Facts. Sleeves are rather doubtful quantities this season, but none the less interesting at that. Most morning and afternoon sleeves are long. Occasionally one sees a three-quarter sleeve, but only very seldom; it is usually flowing and is called the nun's sleeve or pagoda sleeve. Evening gowns show either no sleeve at all or long, flowing angel sleeves or some arm covering made by a cape or scarf of lace. Dropped shoulder capes of ribbon velvet, which show the top of the arm, but cross it just below the top of the shoulder, are found on many evening gowns. A few kimono sleeves are to be found in afternoon and evening gowns of soft materials like tulle, satin and velvet, as this is always a more graceful treatment than the set-in sleeve. In suits the full length sleeve rather large at the wrist to admit the loose wristed glove is to be found. In coats, sleeves are larger and on the bishop order. Raglan sleeves are to be seen, too, in these separate coats. Chicken Pie. Pare,six medium sized potatoes, cut in small pieces, cook until tender, but not broken, then add two cupfuls of chicken meat and half a cupful of fresh pork, cooked and cut in small pieces. Cover with a crust made as follows: Sift three teaspoonfuls of baking powder with two cupfuls of flour. add two tablespoonfuls of shortening and half a teaspoonful of salt. Rub thoroughly together and mix with one small cupful of milk. Put on a floured board and press out with the hands to the size required to cover the chicken pie. Bake twenty minutes. PaGE FOUR - —— THE BOYS OF THE LOUISE TRAIN. ING SCHOOL MADE HAPPY BY GOODFELLOWS. C. J. Jackson, Colored jeweler, presents each boy with a golden gift. Julius F. Taylor delivered a Christmas message. ‘The Louise Training School for Col- ored Boys is the (only dependent insti- tution in the state of Lllinois, open to, and for the care and training of de- pendent Colored boys from the age of one year to fourteen years. On Saturday afternoon, December 30th, Mrs, Irene MeCoy Gaines, as- sisted by Mrs. Adelaide Green, ten- dered these little fellows their second annual Christmas party at Fraternal Hall, 6155 Wentworth Avenue, where they enjoyed a rollicking good time. ‘There was excellent music furnished by Mrs. C. J. Jackson, at the piano, ‘Mr. Clarence Bouchan, drummer and Master Robert Martin, violinist. There were speeches and songs by the young- sters, and a large chimney in which old St. Nicholas had deposited a story book, a game, or a stocking filled with good things for each little boy. ‘There wus also a nice three-cornered Christ- mas box of candy for each little fel- low. ‘Twenty-five of these were fur- nished by Mr. Arthur L. Davis and - Miss Stella MeCoy. Mr. €. J. Jackson, Colored jeweler, located at 3242 South State street, pre- sented each boy with a golden gift, taken from his stock of jewelry. Eack present was of pure gold. Among these gifts were 6 watehes and fobs, 19 gold scarf pins, 23 signet and jewel- set rings, and several pairs of cuff but- tons. The watches were presented to the boys who had averaged the high- est marks in eflicieney during the past year. Last year at the first Christmas party given these boys Mr. Jackson then took fifty articles from his stock and made glad the hearts of these little waifé. The Christmas message of the party was delivered by Julius F. Taylor, Ed. itor of The Broad Ax. Mr. Taylor gave many forceful examples of de- pendent Colored boys who had made brillient marks in life. Rev. Snelson, pastor of St. Mary’s Church, made a few remarks, which were very timely. Other friends present were: Mrs, Os- car DePriest, Mrs. Charlotte Jackson, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Dotsou, Mrs. Snel- son and daughter. After the boys had been served ice cream and cake they used the Hall for a gymnasium where they played until 7 o’elock P. M. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gaines are de- serving of the highest commendation for providing such a delightful enter- tainment for the boys of the Louise Training School, who look forward to the event each year with long and eager expectations and they and those who assisted them to make the affair a brilliant success, are bound to re- ceive their reward by and by. For the edification of those present, the boys, under the direction of drill master Lieut. R. D. Lewis, performed some very fine drilling and counter- marching, battle formations which caused them to appear like real sol- diers and again and again they re- ceived the hearty applause of the friends and visitors. So far, Mr, C.J. Jackson, the suecess- ful and enterprising jeweler at 3242 8. State street, is the only Colored busi- ness man in Chicago to become inter- ested in the boys of the Louise Train- ing School to the extent of not only con- tributing prizes for them at Christmas time, but also money to assist to make the annual entertainment for them sue~ cessful and long to be remembered by those who participate in them. a a “OPEN CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL.” Among other things, the Atlanta Constitution, probably the greatest paper in the South, says: “Georgia, as well as other southern states, is undoubtedly behind in the master of Negro education; unfair in the matter of facilities, in the quality of teachers and instructors, and in the pay of those expected to impart proper instruction to Negro children. «We have proceeded upon the the- ory that education would, in his own mind at least, carry the Negro beyond his sphere; that it would give him higher ideas of himself and make of him a poorer and less satisfactory workman, ‘That is nonsense. “If we look over the list of the most outrageous crimes committed by Negroes, we find that they are gener- ally the work of illiterate Negro brutes, Crimes of educated Negroes are fewer and of 2 minor nature, compared to those committed by Negroes in whom the brutal instinct predominates, Ed- ucation minimizes or removes that in- stinet, and morally the properly edu- cated Negro is the better citizen, just ‘as is the educated White.’” ‘Mr. and Mrs, Bert A. Williams, of New York City, are stopping at the Carter villa, 3344 South Park avenue. HEALTH NOTES. poisons means a constant fight. The perfectly clean individual, with per- fect habits of hygiene, is safe from himself, but as long as he lives in a city he is in danger from the poisons manufactured by others, for he can- not be sure that they are as clean as he is, Every outbreak of typhoid, every case of diphtheria or dysentery, every epidemic of milk-borne sore throat or food-borne contagion illustrates this fact, that all are not equally careful in household living conditions and per- sonal cleanliness, ~ Pure, milk is one of the cheapest food preducts you can buy. It is es- pecially so for babies and growing children. But be sure it is pure milk, for if it is not it will do more harm than good. You can make sure by vis- iting the plant from which your milk is secured. A milk man who is giving you pure milk will weleome your most careful inspection. The man is not very old who can remember the day when the children of the household were lined up on Saturday night for a bath in a wash- tub on the kitehen floor. The kettle lon the cook stove supplied hot water in ‘instalments and soap and elbow grease were efficiently mixed with our discomfort and squeals, That old wooden wash tub was not as dear to our hearts as the old oaken bueket is in poctry and song; but mother presided, and we all emerged with red ears, wet heads and clean bodies. Today the enameled bath tub gets its hot and cold supply from the tap in almost every dwelling, and the chances are that we city folks are a cleaner people than we used to be; and, in fact, with the multiplication of smoking chimneys and far flung dirty streets, we need better pathing facilities. Debility from bad habits in the use of depressing drugs, from poor food, lover-eating, faulty methods of eating, from overwork, too little exercise and lack of enough sleep; debility from ac- cidents or~ diseases that sap the strength; ill health from any eause— all these, by diminishing the powers of resistance, invite infection of the upper air tracts, colds. It is bad enough for men and women to destroy their own brains, burn up their stomachs, and knock out their nerves, livers, kidneys, hearts and blood vessels; but to leave a legacy of feeble minds and broken bodies to their children is still worse. This is where the regulation of individual lib- erty becomes a community matter, just as the fight against diphtheria, tuber- culosis and the drug habit, is a social, community and raee fight. Don’t sit in a cold room, improperly clothed, and expect to eseape a cold. Cold feet and cold legs invite cold in the nose. ‘Those who are afraid of draughts ‘are apt to harbor coated tongues, bad breath, indigestion, sluggish livers and ‘sallow complexions. THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1917. | Tuskegee institute, Alabama. December 31, 1916. Julius F. Taylor. Dear Sir: Tn view of the widespread diseus- sion of the causes back of the migra- tion of Negroes to the North it is timely to consider the Iynehings for the year just closed. T find according to the reeords kept by Monroe N. Work, Head of the Division of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Insti- tute, that in 1916, there have been 54 Iynchings. Of those lynched, 50 were Negroes and 4 were Whites. This is 4 less Negroes: and 9 less Whites than were put to death in 1915 when the record was 54 Negroes and 13 Whites. Tneluded in the record are 3 women. Fourteen (14) or more than one- fourth of the total Iynchings, ocurred in the State of Georgia. Of those put to death 42, or 77 per cent of the total, were charged with offenses other than rape. The charges for which Whites were Iynched were murder, 3: sus pected of eutting a woman, 1 (this a Mexican). ‘The charges for which Negroes were put to death were, attempted rape, 9: killing officers of the law, 10; murder, 7: hog stealing, and assisting another person to eseape, 6; wounding officers ‘of the law, 4; rape, 3; insult, 2; for each of the following offenses one per- son was put to death: slapping bey: robbing store; brushing against girl on street; assisting his son, accused of rape, to escape: entering a house for robbery or some other purpose; defend- ing her son, who in defense of mother, killed man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled; speaking against mob in act of putting a man to death; attacking a man and wife with club. Lynchings occurred in the following states: Alabama, 1; Arkansas, 4; THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6, 1917. . Sean ga ° } si eae ay _ 3 4 er e. | ae Fall PM | a Boa * * eee | = o. pe i. bas. pe - es et ’ « ae aS : F Peer a e : = Vee J. M. HIGGINBOTHAN. One of the high officiais of Olivet Baptist Church and one of the most successful building contractors in Chicago. EEE Florida, 8; Georgia, 14; Kansas, 1;) en manufacture liquor and sell it t Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, |our rae* who are debauched and ruines V' Missouri, 1; North Carolina, 2; Okla-|thereby."’ Dr. Gilbert also contend: homa, 4; South Carolina, 2; Tennessee, |that our womanhood is sinned agaYns 3; Texas, 9. and defenSeless in many places beeans: Robert R. Moton, the community sentiment is agains Principal. |ler. As to education, the race i ———- sinned against because he does not ge SPEAKS OUT BOLDLY his just share of the publie edueationa money and therefore our rural school And Tells Some Plain, Unvarnished are overcrowded and the teachers ar Truths that ‘Strike Home.” incompetent and underpaid at that Competent teachers cannot work fo ‘Cha AEENIEERE A OAT the pittance offered them ag salaries St. Louis, Mo.—Dr. John W. Gilbert, Dean of Theology at Paine College, Augusta, Ga., provoked much favorable discussion when he addressed the Fed- eral Council of the Churehes of Christ in America, in session here, last week. ‘The eloquent educator was speaking to ‘the report of the Commission in the in- terest of Colored churches. He was fre- quently and loudly applauded by the five hundred delegates, majority of them White, while he made his plea for larger co-operation of the white pulpits of the South in the interest of justice for our people. Among other things he said: “Sentiment is higher than law. Sen- iment overrides tlie law when the law is not the offspring of sentiment. ‘Therefore it is the duty of the minis- try to change the sentiment antagonis- tie to the Colored man. Most preach- ers are cowards in the face of senti- ment and therefore for fear of losing their personal popularity they fail vo teach the ethies of Christianity, fail to talk and act upon the principle of the Fatferhood of God and the brotherheo1 of man.’? He spoke hopefully of cic brotherly relationship existing between the M. E. church, South, and the C. M. E. church. He believes that most so— called Christians need a vision of Pe- cer's sheet in order to be taugnt that “God is no respector of persons.’? “My people,’? said he, ‘are more sinned against than sinning in the mat- ter of residence in unsanitary, un drained and dirty sections of our cities and towns; also in the matter of alco- holie Hquors; for we do uot own dis tilleries nor operate bar-rooms. White ads ie a3 ig ef a a7 re oy JAMES WELDON JOHNSON. The distinguished writer and the new field secretary of the National Association of Colored People. nen manufacture liquor and sell it to our rac» who are debauched and ruined thereby.’’ Dr. Gilbert also contends that our womanhood is sinned agatnst and deferkeless in many places beeanse the community sentiment is against her. As to education, the race is sinned against because he does not get his just share of the public edueational money and therefore our rural schools are overcrowded and the teachers are incompetent and underpaid at that. Competent teachers cannot work for the pittance offered them ag salaries. aries. He further contended that the argu- ment so often resorted to, viz., that the whites pay the larger part of the taxes is false in its political economy, for in the last analysis, the consumer, the renter, the tiller, the miner—these peo- ple pay the taxes. It is their purchases in the marts, their labor in the fields and mines that give taxable value to material things. The preacher must teach the people the truth along these lines, He suggests that ministers’ alliances composed of white and Colored preach- ers be formed in every community to take into consideration all matters per- taining to the community without re- gard to race or color. He also suggests that at least two and the’ same Sun- days per year be set apart for preach- ing to both races on their duties. to cach other. He pledged the hearty eo- operation of the Colored ministry of all churehes with their white brethren in any endeavor, North or Scuth, to in- augurate an era of good will, love and mutual help. COLORED FARMER HEADS KAN. SAS INSTITUTE. Lawrence, Kan. Special—Edward Harvey, acknowledged to be one of the most capable scientifie farmers in Douglas county, was recently elected president of the Douglis county farm- crs institute. Mr. Harvey is a gradu- ate of the Kansas University in the class of 1804 and was a member of the football team. One of his legs was broken while playing for the Jay- hawkers. ARTICLE FROM THIS WEEK’S IS- SUE OF THE LIVING CHURCH, JANUABRY 6, 1917. - “Whoever has heard a congregation of Colored churchmen singing the hymns of the church feels how much music means to this race. We believe that in a degree the hymns and canticles of our service are greatly responsible for the attraction it has for the African race. There is a small congregation— 29 communicants—of Colored ehureb- men in a mission called St. Michael and All Angels down in Florida, and they haven't any organ. This would ‘be an inconvenience in some churches, but in a Colored chureh it is a ealam- ity. This mission is the only one be- tween Jacksonville and Pensacola— that is, the only Colored mission. It is 165 miles from each of these cities. Now doubtless if this mission were to take all its money it could buy itself an organ, but the viear is training his people to pay theif apportionment, pay the honest dues which the church needs, and because they are trying to live up to these obligations they have to leave out the organ. They once had an or- gan. About twenty years ago some- body gave a well-worn organ to this mission, But the organ, after playing hymn and chant, after furnishing mu- sic for baptisms, weddings, funerals, Christmas jollifications, Easter jubilees, and Lenten devotions, has collapsed. ‘The Rev. J. Henry Brown, the vicar, would rejoice earnestly, and his con- gregation would rejoice, if a good new organ or one not so much worn out were sent to this musie-loving mission. Might we not pretend that it is in Ja- pan or China and gratify this modest need? The address is Tallahassee, Florida, Box 72. JACK JOHNSON TROPHY IN BOS- TON PAWNSHOP. Won When He First Became World's Heavyweight Champion. Ordinarily a black opal trophy in & pawnshop window would not attract any great amount of attention. This one did, however. It is a souvenir of Jack Johnson’s first battle for recogni- tion in the heavyweight ranks and has just been discovered in a Beech street pawnshop. Johnson received the trophy the day he whipped Tommy Burns for the world’s heavyweight championship. It is of 18-karat gold and was probably used as a watch fob. On one side is a huge opal, and on the other the fol- lowing inseription: World’s Heavyweight Championship, Black Opal Trophy, Presented By Percy Marks, ‘Won By Jack Johnson, Sydney, Dec. 26, 1908. Just how the emblem drifted into the pawnshop nobody seems to know, not even the ‘proprictor of the place, where it is now for sale. The trophy was pawned for $50, whieh, reekoning on the pawnbroker’s method, would place its value at about $200. COLLEGE PRESIDENT DEAD. In the death of Robert 8. Loving- gooil, president of Samuel Huston Col- lege, Austin, Texas, who died there re- cently, the race loses a valuable mab in high walks of education and civili- zation. Dr. W. H. Logan, superintemt- ent of the Houston district of the M. FE. chureh, speaking last Sunday at St. Paul M. EF. church, Galveston, said President Lovinggood spent a great life, starting sixteen years ago a col- lege in Austin, Texas, in one room and not enough chairs to aecommodate the pupils, and to-day Samuel Huston Col- lege represents several large buildings and several hundred students. This in- stitution is reported to be worth over $150,000, Dr. W. H. Logan said he could well preach about a great man like R. 8. Lovinggood. COL. JOHN B. MARSHALL AP- POINTED ASSISTANT DOOR- KEEPER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SPRING- FIELD, ILLINOIS. Col. John R. Marshall, who is fast coming to the front again in the politi- cal world, and who worked very hard without pay prior to the September primaries last year, in the interest of Col. Frank 0, Lowden, has been se lected one of the assistant doorkeepers of the House of Representatives at Springfield, IN. This recognition on the part of Col. Marshall by the powers which are com- ing to the front is very pleasing to his many friends, KANSAS FAVORS SEPARATION. Kansas City, Kansas, Speeial—The City Commissioners and Mayor Green have declared themselves in favor of a race segregation law. The Mayor says he will wait until the U. 8. Supreme Court hands down a decision in the Louisville segregation act. — ELOPES WITH FARM Hayy Columbia, Us. Speciat—Rette jays (White) told her husband that age going to quit him. Aboot the gat time, Alonzo Bradley, 9 Colona gat hand, left for parts unknown, [gen it was found that the two lad gone ae together and they were found at Page Pass, Tex., looking over the soltiens They were charged with cones, age, and the womait is now in jit Shreveport, while her companion i jail at Monroe, awaiting the deine of a ‘eracker'” judge and jury ag White women and Color men ¢¢ mingling. FIRST COLORED GIRL Pasgpy MASS. DENTAL Exay Boston, Mass, Special—The reper of the recent dental oxam'nationsy made public by the boon! of dental examiners. There is sometling epoch, al and noteworthy in the resslts of this examination in the fact that one of the sucessful candidates. Dr. Fitna ¢. C. Robinson, is not only a Colored git but she is the first vous lady of our race who has qualified horslf ang taken the test im the whole history of this state. The face of 2 Cored ist is so unusually strance at this eather ing, one of the examiners commentay on it. DEATH OF MRS. JAMES JOHNSON. Thursday evening Mrs. James John son, who resided on 65th street near Langley avenue, very suidilenly lost her eyes in death, her husband dying just about one vear azo who had worked in the Chieago postotice for many years. Funeral serviees will be heli over her remains at the house at 12 0°elock noon Monday, January Sth. Tnterment at Oakwoods cemetery. Rev. Father Si mons, pastor of St. Thomas church, will conduet the services at the house. AND STILL THEY LEAVE. Montgomery, Ala.. Special —Dospite the efforts of the White folks to pre vent Colored people from soinz North after better jobs. the Colored folks are still leaving in Iarse wumbers Over 300 women left for beyond Ma son and Dixon’s line Mondav to take good jobs in factories. 36 NEGROES CAUGHT COAXING THE SEVEN DICE. A pair of dice upon whieh lurked a coy and elusive seven, a few handfuls of change, and thirty-six Negroes were seooped up by the police the first of this week at 3010 South State street. Policy, Samuel Young was hooked as keeper. Col. and Mrs. Franklin A. Denison have moved into their new hone. whielt is a dream in every respect, at 3122 Calumet avenue and it will compare more shan favorably with the most modern and comfortable homes that can be found in any part of this coum try. Attorney S.A. T. Watkins will leave today for Washington, D. ©, where he will supervise and pass on all the de tails in connection with the purchase of the True Reformer’ Hall, in that city by the Supreme Lode of Knights of Pythias, The consideration will be more than $40,000, Mr. Wathine will spend one week in the sapitel of the nation. Prof. and Mrs. A. J. Bowling, whe have ever since their rerriaze one year ago, been residing with Mr. and Are, Charles Smith 0S. Deathorm street, are now pleasantly locsted im a lovely six room flat st os Dear born street, where they will be plead to reeeive their many beens Vref. Bowling is fast becom 9 strong fae tor in Republican polities in the Sth ward. The Emanuel Jackson yntertaking Company, 2950 am! cel 5. State street, takes great pleasure in anROUne | ing that from on ami after this date that Mr. David A, MeGowsn bas come actively intersstei in the com pany and it begs the eostinuance of the public patronage ant their old oF tomera as well as their new patrent wil receive the most favorable cous eration at all times. . Master Charles North Douglas 0 eve of T. Te Douglas, who wa real snited in marriage to Mise Eietel Slaughter, who at prevent resides Wi Mra, Robert R, Willians, 345 8 De born street, is as sharp and 3 as he possibly can be. He is os old and was born in New York It was an oversight on our part his name failed to appear in there enna teak week: Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 KEEP WELL OR TO GET WELL. Health is a matter of good habits. Common sense is all that is needed to keep well. Health and common sense are companions; they are twins that cannot be separated. To keep well use common sense which means cultivate good habits. To get good habits, seek only good associations. Shun evils of every kind. To think good is to sow the seed of health. To think evil is to sow the seed of all disease. Common sense is the only safe rule to apply to healthy living. To keep well means more than to keep free from bodily disease; it means the mind as well as the body. If you think ill you will soon be ill in body, for you will act ill action if you inline your thoughts that way. Learn to think of the air and the water as part and parcel of life and health. Learn to commune with nature and to be in harmony with the forces of nature. Give as much respect for nature as you have for any power. Remember that nature has the power of life and death. If you harmonize with nature, you shall be blessed; if you fail to agree with nature you shall be damned which means that you shall suffer for your lack of common sense. It is easy to keep well if you are sure to yourself. You cannot keep well if you are the victim of one bad thought habit, let alone the bigger burden of one bad habit of action. And you sure to remember that disease is evidence of a habit of bad thinking. In olden time people knew less about health than we know to-day. They did not have as much history to guide them and so they had more disease. They did less common sense about thinking 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 fled 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." "What?" came from the second. "My dog? I'm sorry, but that will cost you $100. That chauffeur of yours is too endless. I insist on the hundred, understand." New York Telegraph. So 'Twould. "How would you like to take a trip a submarine?" "I shouldn't care for that," replied the society bad. "Why not?" "Oh, deah! Must I really tell you? an ocean voyage would be frightfully boring, you know, if there were no fare to dawnee."—Birmingham Age- good. Back Rents. A "rack rent" is a "rent that is equiv- dent 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 but less than two-thirds of the full net annual value of the lands out of which it arises." Name of the Collie The colli's name appears to be embedded in mystery, but there seems to be a fairly reasonable foundation for supposing that it is from "coll" or "corl", on account of the broad white mark around the neck which is seen in the majority of these dogs.—Exchange Ancient Candles dollies used by the Romans were imposed of sitting surrounded by el- erate wax or pitch. Splinters of wood wrapped with fat were used by the brown porch classes about 1300. What the Trouble Was Milka—I notice that you and Brown— don't speak? Grimm—Well, we a few words over money, that's Milka—Oh, 1 suppose he owes you money? Grimm—No; he wanted to. The Minimum: Hover—Could you give me a money, dear? Mr. Hoover-Cer darling. About how little? the spiritual world the ma- world is a disheartening enigma. [Name] and acting. We know they were bad thinkers because they were, to our way of thinking, what we call bad actors. They had more disease which must follow bad thinking and bad acting. They did what they thought was right, but they did what we would now call wrong. We know better than they; we have more common sense education in the school of experience. We sleep better because we know the value of sleeping with the windows wide open. We eat better because we know the value of proper food. We drink better because we drink more and better water. We are freer than were our men and women of ye olden time, but we are not up to the standard of the people of the future. The ancient people smoked opium and tobaeco probably and paid the awful price. Our contemporaries smoke no opium by laws of the land. They smoke tobacco by governmental encouragement. The superman and woman of the future will probably not smoke anything. They will not have to pay the price of smoking. They will at least dread the fire if not the nicotine. Fire is a great sterilizer and some evidence of its power to produce race suicide is suspected when we contemplate the American Indian of the United States—the most consistent smoker of them all. Smoking was a part of his religious service. Think well, act well, to keep well. To get well, use the same rule that must be followed to keep well. The rule is the rule of success in life's journey. It is the rule of common sense. If you are sick, common sense will tell you to get under the care of a physician and follow his advice until you get well, and then continue to use common sense by living a clean, sensible, thoughtful life. How They Are Saluted: Salute 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 highest," "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. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6. 1917 "To Give Him the Sack." Two noblemen in the reign of Maximilian II.—1564-1566—one a German, the other a Spaniard, who had each rendered a great service to the emperor, asked the hand of his daughter in marriage. Maximilian said that as he esteemed them both alike it was impossible to choose between them and therefore their own prowess must decide it; but, being unwilling to risk the loss of either by engaging them in deadly combat, he ordered a large sack to be brought and declared that he who should put his rival into it should have his fair Helena. And this whimsical combat was actually performed in the presence of the Imperial court and lasted an hour. The unhappy Spanish nobleman was first overcome, and the German succeeded in enveloping him in the sack, putting him upon his back and laying him at the emperor's feet. This comical combat is said to be the origin of the phrase "Give him the sack," so common in the literature of courting. Squeaky Shoes. "While conducting a research for information on the origin of certain fashions of the past," writes Zim in the Cartoons Magazine, "I discovered the reason for the existence of the squeak in shoes. The squeak was once deemed fashionable, and men of great importance in the affairs of the country demanded it in their footwear, and cobblers were paid 2 shillings extra for putting it in. The squeak boot denoted the approach of some one of importance, and the way was made clear at once in the same manner as a bicycle's shrill whistle warns you to look to your interests. During the squeaky period men found it difficult to sneak into the house after 12 p. m. without being discovered and disgraced. Removing the shoes before entering the house is an invention which followed the squeaky shoe era, and, while the former is now almost absolute, the latter is still in vogue and as popular as ever with married men." McTavish's Compromise. A canny Scot owned a wonderful badger it was reported no dog could tackle. However, a friend of his had a dog he proposed to back against the badger, and a match was in due course made for £100, to come off in two months' time. As the time drew near there were rumors that all was not right with the dog, and the Scot's friends were making sure of victory for him. Imagine their surprise and disgust when they heard that McTavish had accepted £50 as a compromise in lieu of the £100. "You've been done, Mac," said one of them. "The dog is so mangy and unfit he could not kill a rat." "Ah," said McTavish, "I dare say, I dare say, but my badger is dead."—London Globe. Early Marriage In China. It is nothing rare in China for boys twelve to fourteen years old to marry. The physical, moral and intellectual development of the contracting parties has nothing to do with the matter. Other considerations entirely regulate the affair. An old Chinese aphorism says that the great business of life is ended when the sons and daughters are married. The Chinese parents do not care to run the danger of postponing the marriage of their children, especially of their sons, until after their own death—Exchange. Bright Youth Caller—So your son Willie has started work as an office boy. How is he getting along? Fond Mother—Splendidly! He already knows who ought to be discharged and is merely waiting to get promoted so that he can attend to it. "Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Just So. "Hubby, diamonds are said to be the same as cash." "What of it?" "I wish you would buy me a few rings." "Your idea is that they will be cash on hand?"—Louisville Courier-Journal. Just a Shade "I come of a very old family. We have a family ghost." "We have two." "I guess that gives you a shade the best of it." PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the well known physician, says in an article on health in the American Magazine: "To avoid overeating and alcohol and the tobacco habit are matters of self control. To get the sleep one needs (which means all that one can possibly soak into one's system within twenty-four hours) often takes courage—the courage to refuse invitations, to invite ridicule, to seem odd or puritanic. I believe that more minor illnesses are due to lack of sleep than to any other recognizable factor. A person catches cold, gets lumbago, is constipated or headache ridden because his vitality is below par, his physical expenditure beyond his physical income. Sleep would set him square with the world, but to get sleep means sacrificing the evening's fun. This he won't do, and so he runs in debt and is chronically edging 'toward a breakdown." ```markdown ``` First Feeding Bottle Possibly a hollow gourd constituted the first baby's feeding bottle. Torn from its parent tree, its edible interior would have found its way to the stomach of its adult plucker, after which the hollow shell would be filled with milk or other liquid refreshment for the satisfaction of the infant. In tropical countries, again, the coconut would constitute a natural feeding bottle, already filled with the necessary nourishment. Without, however, indulging in speculation of this kind it may be noted that the archaic vase room at the British museum contains specimens of feeding bottles—tetinoe, archaeologists call them—dating back to between 600 and 700 years before Christ. These very early babies' bottles are usually globular in shape, are elaborately decorated and are covered with small knobs which, it is conjectured, were used to hang tiny bells upon. In short, the feeding bottle of those days was also a rattle and a picture book combined. Government Crop Estimates Nearly 2,000,000 schedules are handled each year in the bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture in making up the government monthly crop reports, according to the annual report of the chief of the bureau of crop estimates. Nearly 100,000 names are on the voluntary crop reporting lists; forty-four paid agents are constantly making personal investigations, one agent covering a state, and a force of 105 clerks is employed in Washington to handle the large number of reports from the voluntary crop reporters and to keep records of crop information of this and foreign countries. The work of crop reporting has been so improved and systematized that estimates of production of important products can be made with a close degree of accuracy. The most complete record in existence is kept in the bureau of the estimates and statistics relating to the world's crops and live stock. Sugar. Our word "sugar" is said to be derived from the Arabic "sukkar," the article itself having got into Europe through the Arabian Mohammedans, who overran a great part of the world in the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries. According to Dr. Van Lippman, a Dutch writer, as a result of the Arab invasion of Persia sugar found its way into Arabia, whence again its culture was carried to Cyprus, Rhodes, Sicily and Egypt. In the last named country the preparation of sugar was greatly improved, and the Egyptian product became widely famous. From Egypt the industry spread along the northern coasts of Africa and so entered Spain, where, about the year 1150, some fourteen refineries were in operation. Columbus introduced sugar cane into the new world. Origin of "Eusilier" Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock musket called the fusil. At the time of the English civil war (1642-52) the term "firelock" was usually employed to distinguish these weapons from the more common matchlock muskets. Out of these companies of "firelocks" grew the "fusiliers." In the latter part of the Thirty Year war (1643) fusiliers were simply mounted troops with the fusil, as carbineiers were with the carbine. The senior fusilier regiment in the British service, the Seventh Royal fusiliers, City of London regiment, was formed on the French model in 1688. Area of the Moon The moon always presents the same face to us, as is evident from the permanency of the various markings on her surface. This proves that with respect to the earth she revolves on an axis, and the time of rotation is exactly equal to the time of revolution around the earth—viz, a little over twenty-seven days. The moon's surface contains about 14,685,000 square miles, or nearly four times the area of Europe. Both Bluffers. "If I rejected you, would you commit suicide?" "I don't know, girlie. Your sixteen-year-old sister is very attractive. In a few years"— But she accepted him forthwith, and he is working hard now to meet the installments on an engagement ring—Louisville Courier-Journal. Satisfied. "I was brought up on a farm, and I'm glad of it." "Yes?" "You bet your life! Whenever I think I'm working too hard I just stop and think of the time when I had to get up at 4 o'clock and work like a slave until dark."-New York World. Proved His Case. Mother—The whipping you had yesterday does not seem to have improved you. Your behavior has been even worse today. Willie—That's what I wanted to prove. You said I was as bad as I possibly could be yesterday. I knew you were wrong. His Inheritance Askitt—Did young Dodge inherit any thing from his father? Noit—Yes. I believe he inherited the old man's desire to avoid work.—Exchange. Corrected. Poet—How can a chap get rich on $10 capital? Reporter—You probably mean. "How can he get richer."—Puck. Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.—St. Augustine. Fixing the Carpet Sweeper The revolving brush of the ordinary carpet sweeper is driven by the friction of the wheels on which the sweeper runs against driving wheels on either end of the brush axle. To insure good friction the peripheries of all of these wheels are covered with tightly fitting rubber rings. In time these rings wear out, or the rubber becomes hardened and loses its grip. An efficient method of repairing a sweeper having imperfect or worn rubber rings is to cover the wheels with common electricians' tape, such as is employed for covering joints in wire. The tape should first be wound around the periphery of the wheel until a covering nearly equal to the thickness of the original ring is attained. This should then be secured in place by passing the tape around the ring and between the spokes of the wheels. The gripping power of the tape is fully equal to that of the original rubber rings, and the sweeper will be good for service until other parts wear out. Arsenic Absorbed by Hair. New light has been thrown on the legal side of arsenic poisoning, says the Scientific American. It has been found that arsenic compounds are absorbed by the hair of living persons, though not absorbed after death. In the hair of man arsenic has been known to reach a concentration of one to five parts in 100,000. The deposit takes place in the hair after it has been absorbed by the abdominal organs, liver and kidneys in particular. Therefore in cases of acute, quick poisoning a chemical analysis of the hair would show no arsenic, while it would be found in the liver and kidneys. On the other hand, if slow arsenic poisoning were suspected analysis would show arsenic in the hair, but not in the liver and kidneys, and it could safely be assumed that the poisoning was not recent. The legal value of such evidence is apparent. The African Marriage System You cannot fancy how deeply complicated the African marriage system is or how many ramifications there may be to a "woman's palver." One day Mr. Heminger was sitting in a hut talking with two members of his congregation, wives of one husband. He was talking to them about their sins, which were of an obvious character. The younger woman had been accused of stealing food. Then he turned to the elder, Wawa, she of the ten children, five of them dead and five of them cruel. "Wawa," he said, "why cannot you live at peace with this wife of your husband? Why are you always quarrelling?" (They are notorious scrappers.) "Well," said Wawa, "she was bought with one of my children, and I cannot forget it."-Jean Kenyon Mackenzie in Atlantic. Selfishness. It is curious how little selfishness is understood. It is generally assumed to be an intense regard for oneself, when in reality it is a supreme disregard. Unselfishness, on the other hand, is a higher regard for oneself. Selfishness is only a form of destruction. It is produced by soul avarice. What we put into ourselves draws no interest. It is constantly deteriorating in value. Selfishness is an ingrowing shortsightedness. Selfishness is also a form of sincerity. Selfish people deceive nobody. They wear their selfishness on their sleeves. Their sincerity about it is something so apparent as almost to cause a sense of admiration for its genuineness.—Life. Hot Cross Bun In History The hot cross bun has both antiquity and tradition in its favor. Its history traces back not only to the time of Cecrops and Astarte, but also to the Jewish passover cakes and the cross marked wafer of eucharistic bread adopted by the early Christians and mentioned in St. Chrysostom's liturgy. The substitution of the cross mark for the horn mark on the surface of the bun by the Greeks is supposed to have been done for the purpose of dividing more easily the bun into four equal parts. Similar cross marked buns were found in the ruins of Herculaneum. A. Success After All. "What became of the Yardle girl who was ambitious for a stage career?" "She turned out much better than her friends expected." "You don't mean to tell me she's starring now?" "No, indeed. She's the mother of six children and has a husband who doesn't run around at night."—Birmingham Age-Herald. "Loafley tells me he hasn't been so busy for years." "Nonsense! That job he has is a cinch. He never has to work hard there." "That's just it. He's been fired, and he's chasing around after another job now."—Exchange. The Method. Willis—What kind of a school is your son attending? Gillis—Very fashionable, one of those institutions where you develop the mind without using it—Life. Early Precept. Kind Lady—How'd you learn to pick pockets? Pickpocket—By watchin' me mother fishin' fer change in th' old man's trousers!—Albany Knickernocker Press. Every brave man is a man of his word—Cornellie. PAGE FIVE The Great Expyoser In 1834, after an exciting debate of several weeks, congress passed a resolution censuring President Andrew Jackson for removing the public deposits from the old National bank. The resolution as passed by congress declared "that the president in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue" has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in denigration of both." The action of congress made Jackson and his friends very angry, and Senator Thomas Benton of Missouri gave notice that he would bring forward every year a resolution to expunge the resolution of censure. After a struggle of three years Benton's resolution was finally passed, and black lines were drawn around the resolution of censure, with the inscription, "Expunged by the order of the senate this 16th day of January, 1837." Senator Benton was niknamed "the great expunger." His service to Jackson on this matter was considered the more remarkable because many years before he and Jackson had a pistol fight in a hotel at Nashville, in which Jackson was wounded and Benton was pitched headlong downstairs. Never. "Never" is a word which is wrongly defined in the dictionary. In that book we gather the understanding that "never" means not at all, forevermore. But— Each day in our broad land young women vow that they will never forgive young men. Men lift their right hands to high heaven and swear that they will never take another drink. Husbands promise never to forget to write every day. Wives promise never to make another extravagant and foolish purchase. Candidates avert that they will never run for office again. Women say they will never speak to some one any more. In all these cases "never" means any length of time from one hour to four days.—Life. Louis' Compliment to Conde. One need not overlook the enormous shortcomings of Louis XIV, as a man and as a king to admit that in some important respects he "tried to do his duty." He was a hard working sovereign both in the sphere of administration and in that social sphere which was to his mind no less important. So courteous that he never passed the poorest woman about the palace without lifting his hat, he carried polite consideration to the level of a fine art. In the way of courteous speech there are few things nobler than his remark to the great Conde as the old hero was slowly ascending the great marble staircase at Versailles. Conde apologized for being so long in mounting the steps, at the top of which the king stood waiting. "Ah, cousin," Louis replied, "one moves slowly when one is laden with laurels." Little Surprises "Mister, here's them five tons of coal you ordered this morning." "No, sir, this isn't the real, genuine olive oil. That's the reason we sell it so cheap." "You don't need to waste any sympathy on me, old peg. I am satisfied with my job, my boss and my wages." "Gentlemen, the conductor is asking us to move forward in the car. Come on; there's plenty of room." "Young man, we find that we have not been paying you enough, so we'll increase your salary $10 a week, beginning today." - Portland Express. How Easter Is Reckoned. The Christian festival of Easter corresponds to the Pascha or Passover of the Jewish faith. Easter day (from which the rest of religious movable feasts are recorded) is invariably the first Sunday succeeding the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on or next after March 21. If the fourteenth day should be Sunday, Easter day would be the Sunday following. Air and Hunger Experiments have shown that the air of an unventilated, occupied room contains substances which in some way and without producing conscious discomfort and detectable physiological symptoms diminishes the appetite for food.—Exchange. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. A noted English sanitarian has said that every time one dies from typhoid fever some one should be hanged. Aside from this view and in the light of modern medical science, typhoid deaths are now admittedly the result of sanitary blunders or criminal carelessness. The existence of typhoid fever bears the stigma of disgrace for two reasons—first, because we know more about its prevention and its filth source than most any other disease and, second, because its presence betrays filth, either as to our food and drink or as to our personal habits. Ignorance is no longer a cloak under which to hide the disgrace of typhoid fever. Keep your home and surroundings absolutely clean, keep yourself and your clothing absolutely clean, keep your food absolutely clean, and you will have no typhoid fever. ```markdown ``` THE BROAD AX In this city sinee July 19th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Be- publieans, Demoerats, Catholies, Pro- testants, single Taxers, Priests, inf- dels or anyone clse ean have their say as long as their language ie 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 reesive Attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in ad- vance. = One Year......-.seseceeceee+ 68.00 Six Mauthe..56.655.0c-sssscesns EOD Advertising rates made knowa on ap plication. - Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave, Chicago, IL PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Pub- lsher. Entered as Seeond-Class Matfer Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinois, 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 Gecoration of the occasion. Miss Bert —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 Bightseer—Le‘t ‘em be'ind, T suppose? —Passing Show. She Didn't Understand. “Galahad’— he began. “Cut it out,” interposed the young lady. “It's bad form to talk about a girl you had.”"—Louisville Courler- Journal. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the Palace of gold and marble called our Musions. Geetieee- “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 1s the biggest diamond in the world, welghing 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. i" His Seeman bn Velo, In most oriental countries sunset brings quiet to the streets and there 1s Uttle 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 ig one never to be Sead Humanity packed too close for com- fort 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 ban- ners and you have a scene that makes the dropping of the big top at home logk like a side show. Sometimes the lights on the water produce an effect almost Venetian in charm, but the bulky canal boat lacky 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. Minietes ant tee Teel, ‘The story of how Bob Burdette be gan to write for publication is rather interesting. His wife was an invalid. and most of his verse and short stuf were written solely for ber entertain ment. One day ho 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 of- fice towel. This is part of it: | Over and under was blacker than thunder And daily put on @ more inkler hue Until one windy morning without any warning 1 full on the floor and was broken tn Charles B. Lewis (Mf. Quad) in New Yer Sun. Miss Law Will Try to Soar Across Continent. START FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Will Ask Aero Club of America to Time Her—Estimates Trip Will Take Thir- ty Hours’ Flying Time—She Will Be Sole Occupant of Machine. Which Can Carry Two Passengers. New York.—From San Francisco te New York by aeroplane—that is the latest ambition of Miss Ruth Law. She announced she had accepted the of- fer of the president of an aeroplane company to build for her a new type of machine especially for long distance fly ing. “I will make the flight under my own auspices, just as I did the trip from Chicago,* Miss Law said. “The Aero Club of America probably will time me, fee ces << C E | fF ti ee “ e a i ey be bi a cae we Ae en: PUSS Tit eo 7") ee kr Lt CS am eA, ‘ at f ‘Wg ae ) - an fee | o ae ‘MISS LAW LANDING AFTE® FLIGHT. but I will be in complete charge of all the arrangements. I estimate the trip will take thirty hours’ flying time. “This new machine will carry ten hours’ fuel supply, will be capable of a sustained speed of more than 100 miles an hour and will be practical for the business man who must make a hurried trip to Chicago or elsewhere and doesn’t find it convenient to wait for a train.” | ‘Miss Law, who established an Amert- can cross country record of 590 miles ‘by the recent trip from Chieago to New ‘York, left for Buffalo to supervise the construction of the machine. The first tryout will be given within a month, and the transcontinental journey will follow soon afterward. The avatrix believes that reliability and safety are more important factors in popularizing air travel than speed. Consequently she will attempt to see that these elements are contained in the new flier. It will carry two passen- gers, but Miss Law wil he the sole oc- cupant on the coast to coast trip. The plucky bird woman's last spectac- ular appearance was when she flew over the statue of Liberty on Dec. 2, when the lighting system built by pop- ular subscriptions was dedicated. She rode in an illuminated aeroplane which left a comet-like tail of fire behind it. VOTED ILLEGALLY 52 YEARS. . ———— Man Who Thought He Was a Citizen Naturalized at Last. Denver.—James Lockart, a rancher near Ordway, Colo., was granted nat- uralization papers in the United States ‘district court here after exercising all the rights.of citizenship for fifty-two years. Lockhart, a native of Ireland, assumed that he was a citizen be- cause of naturalization papers believed to have been {issued to his father be- fore his son bad reached his majority. He has voted at every presidential elec- tion since the civil war, of which he §s a veteran; held a commission in the United States army, served as a dele- gate to the Republican national con- vention, served as sheriff of Gibson county, Ind., and has taken an active part in polities for many years. ‘The question of bis citizenship arose when he filed’ on government land in southern Colorado and it was learned that he was not’native born and that no record was available to show that ‘his father had become naturalized, Finds Dime In Fish’s Gill. Wichita, Kan.—W. E. Smith was re- cently fishing in the Little Arkansas just below the Central street dam and landed a big channel catfish weighing ‘one and a half pounds. ‘The catch was a beauty, and Mr, Smith hurried to ex- tract the hook from its mouth. As he ran his finger through the fish's left gill he found something metallic and upon extracting it found it to be a bright. shiny ten cent plece. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6, 1917. - eal aac CONVICT’S WO aes leateeetiey cones ee Lewis Ss ie aaa Sing Ah New York.—Plans have been practi: cally completed for the establishment of additional army aviation stations and schools. Stations and schools have already been instituted at Mineola N. Y.; Chicago, San Diego, Cal.; New. port News, Sai Antonio, Miami, Fla. and Columbus, N. M. It is expected that stations will soon be established ‘at Philadelphia and Memphis. A corps of instructors will be main- tained at each station, and classes for national guard officers and'reserve avi. ators will be held. It is planned to cover the entire country with stations and schools, and it is belfeved that they will serve to develop an efficient. corps of active and reserve aviators. One of the latest features inangu- rated by the aviation section of the sig. nal corps is a course of instruction for field officers. It will be conducted at San Diego. Several officers have al- ready been detailed to take the course offered there. The signal corps has now purchased or let the contracts for 350 machines. ninety of which are water machines. About $7,000,000 will be required to purchase all the material which bas been contracted for by the corps. ONLY WHITE HORSES ARE SEEN IN GERMAN GITIES Dark Animals Used For Army. Four-fifths of Taxis In Berlin Electrified, Berlin.—Almost all the horses you see working in the towns and fields in Germany are white or flea bitten gray. All the other colors are used for arms work. The whites are not, their color being too conspicuous. But the demand for horses hits been so great that even the whites are used when they are Young, being painted dark. ‘The horses left for civilian purposes are the oid ones. Most of those you find attached to the ancient droshkies on Unter den Linden look as if they were cousins to the eohippus that Noah tooke with him into the ark. ‘The axe of the drivers corresponds to the autiquity of their steeds. Most of them are graybeanis, but by way of Paradox their girths are as great as those of their horses are small, Four-fifths of the taxis are electri- fied, which enables them to proceed at a slow, dignified pace for short stretches. The few internal combus- tion motors left use benzol in place of gasoline, which is sharply restricted to official need—military, industrial and those of the high personages. In spite-of the leather shortage, the German soldier still clings to his boots. The bulk of the German soldiery is re- cruited. from the agricultural class, which has been. accustomed to boots aud does not willingly use other foot- aes SHARK GOT HALF HIS CATCH. Sudden End of Fisherman's Great Ex- pectations. Honolulu—What promised to be one of the biggest ulua catches of the sea- son for Tax Collector Charles T, Wild. er was spoiled when @ big shark took half of the fish's body as Wilder was pulling it in with his reel. Wilder was having a fine tussle with what seemed a mighty game fish. ° His line sagged, and he felt only a slow moving weight at the end of it. When he lifted from the water he found only half a fish—the head and fore portion of the body. The tall and hind part were entirely gone. Scratches on the side of the fish showed that the shark had made two grabs, the second being successful. This seems to put an end to the theory that a shark cannot bite under water or upright, for nothing else could have bitten off that tall. LINK BOYS IN LONDON AGAIN. Fog Said to Have Been the Worst In Fifty Yeare. London.—A fog which settled over London recently is described as being the most dense in fifty years, From early morning until a late hour London was a city of perpetual night. The inconvenience was greatest in the evening owing to the light restrictions. Omnibuses stopped running and taxt- cabs disappeared from the streets. Pe- destrians in the street carried torches. In the Strand torches were lighted and soldiers new to the metropolis had to be led about like blind men. ® FIFTY-FIFTY SPLIT @ FOR CONSCIENCE FUND ° anes © Washington.—The treasury de- © partment recelved a contribution © for the “conscience fund,” con- © sisting of what bad been three © $100 gold notes and four $50 © gold notes. The sender wrote ® that for “duties withheld” he de- © sired to make restitution of the © sum of $500. He said he had cut ® the five notes in two and when @ he should see in the newspapers © that his communication had been © received at the treasury depart- @ ment he would send the missing @ halves to the collector of the port ® of New York. e Lewis Returns to Sing Sing Ahead of Time. WENT TO WIFE’S FUNERAL. Physician Declares That Prisoner Would Have Come Back Even if No Guard Had Been Sent Along With Him—Convicts Decide to Give New Warden a Chance. ae ere te are Ossining, N. Y.—As a graphic illus- tration of the determination of the prisoners in Sing Sing to give a square deal to William H. Moyer, the new warden, Abe Lewis, a convict who bad been granted permission by Governor Whitman to attend, with a guard, the funeral of bis wife in Brooklyn, re- turned to the prison twelve hours ahead of time. When Lewis learned that Mr. Moyer was to begin his work as warden he decided to come back immediately to demonstrate to thé new warden that the prisoners could be safely trusted with privileges. Lewis ts regarded as one of the most reliable prisoners. He has spent seven years in Sing Sing. With only twenty months more to serve the convict learned that bis wife, who had stuck by him throuzh every- thing, had died suddenly. Their three voung children were left without any one to care for them. ‘The news nearly prostrated the prisoner. He implored Calvin Derrick, the acting warden, to let him go to Brooklyn to see the face of Lis wife once more and to arrange for the care of his children. Permission from Governor Whitman was obtained by telegraph, and Lewis and a guard started for New York. In Brooklyn Lewis learned that Mr. Moy- er surely Was to assume the warden- ship. After making hasty arrange- ments Lewis hurried back to the pris- on. The convict turned up there unex- pectedly, although the governor had granted him permission to stay over- night. - “He would bave come back just the | same even if no guard had been sent along with him,” commented Dr. Bar- ry, the prison physician, The convicts are frankly relieved now that the “permanent” warden has taken charge of the prison. Life for them within the last year has just been one warden after another. With every succession to office came changes in discipline, moditication of privileges and doubt and mistrust on the part of the prisoners. “I'm glad he's come at last,” said one of the leaders of the prisoners, “We've been on tenterhooks every time a new man came in, and we're been on the anxious seat every time a man went out. Now we can settle down to a regular life. “We're going to give the new warden a chance to show low he stands. He's promised to meet us halfway, and we'll do our share. Nobody is going to start anything inside until he has a-chance to make good his word.” FORTUNE IN ELOPEMENT. Father Will Inherit Through Publicity That Was Brought About. San Franciico, Cal—Through pub- Neity attending the wrecked romance of their eizhteen-year-old daughter, Signe, the Gerstad family of Belling- ham, Wash., it was said here. is about to come into a fortune. ‘The girl recently became a tempo- rary ward of the police through the arrest of D. M. Delmas, with whom ‘she had eloped on his promise to marry her. After being arrested on a bad check charge Delmas was identified as an escaped convict from a penitentiary in Texas, where he-had wrecked a bank. The girl was sent home. Attorney Sydney P. Robertson of this city told recently of having received a letter from a firm of Chicago attorneys asking for the address of Hilgar Ger- stad, the girl's father, sought for years as heir to an estate in Sweden. The Chicago attorneys, the letter said, had read of the girl's escapade in a Chicago paper. BOY PROVES BEST FARMER. Montclair Lad Makes Plot of 20 by 100 Feet Pay $56. Montclair, N. J.—Robert Hickie, a sixteen-year-old Montclair boy, raised vegetables worth $56 on a plot of ground 20 by 100 feet assigned him last spring by the Montclair community gardens committee. His was the most Productive and attractive of the fifty. six gardens cultivated during the past ‘season, Supervisor. George Huttenlock reported to President Dallas Flanna- gan. ‘Two tracts of land were at the dis- Dosal of the community gardens com- mittee, and by cultivating the vacant lots the gardeners made productive 115,850 square feet of land that other- wise would have yielded nothing. ‘The gardens furnished vegetables to 287 persons during the growing season, besides ‘quantities of celery, carrots and cabbage for winter consumption. i a en Portland, Ore.—iirs. Lettie Trapp of this city bas a valued pet hen named Clarice. The other day as Mrs. Trapp was feeding her fowls Clarice leaped affectionately up to her shoulder, spied a valuable pearl in Mrs. Trapp’s ear- ring, gobbled it and leaped down again, guiping. Mrs. Trapp screamed, first with pain as the pearl was wrenched away and then with horror at her loss. She caught Clarice and tmprisoned her, but could not make up her mind to have the pet dispatched so that the Jewel could be recovered. LOST KEYS, FROZE TO DEATH. Barge Captain Found Dead, Caught In Cabin Window. _New York.—Captain Frank McGee of the barge Frank Becker of Kingston, N. ¥., was-found dead from exposure on his barge, which was made fast at ler 22 of the New York Dock com- Dany at the foot of Pacific street, Brooklyn. He had evidently gone ashore and forgotten to take his keys. ‘The body was found halfway through the window of his cabin at the stern of the barge. When Thomas Henry, the night watchman, was going bis rounds he saw the legs and feet of a man hanging from the cabin window of the Frank ‘Becker and found the body was cold. Dr. Shutter of the Long Island College hospital said that Captain McGee had died from exposure and had been try- ing to get into his cabin when the yin- dow slammed down and canght his spine, so that he was unable to get in or out. He had been with friends until 2 o'clock in the morning and had gone down to the pier an hour later, it was said. He was forty-five years old. BLOW UP POLICE STATION. Boston Harbor Squad Escapes Injury. Neighbors Shaken Up. Boston,—The station of the harbor Police in the north end district was partly wrecked by an explosion of dy- namite that had been placed against the outside wall apparently with intent to destroy the building. Four policemen were inside, three of them asleep in the dormitory, just above the place where the explosion tore a hole in the wall, but all escaped harm. Residents of the populous tene- ments along Commercial and Saluta- tion streets, near. by, were scared as their houses were shaken, plaster was cracked and broken glass fell about them. The police said that the explosion was intended probably as an act of re- tallation because some unlicensed meetings led by industrial agitators ‘had been broken up recently by off- cers. Several suspected persons were questioned, but no arrests were made. ‘The residents of the district are largely foreigners. , MILLIONS IN CASH MOVED. Fifth Avenue Hardly Notices the Transfer of Wealth. New York.—Many millions in cash securities were transferred across Fifth avenue when the Fifth avenue office of the Guaranty Trust company of New York was moved from the southwest to the southeast corner of that thorough- fare and Forty-third street. The de- Eat alone of this office total nearly $40,000,000. How much was in the 2,500 safe deposit boxes is beyond con- Jecture. The work of removal was guarded by speciab officers belonging to the bank and by squads of city police- men and detectives. ‘The task began at the close of busi- ness with the cutting away of the steel bars on the Forty-third street side of the trust company’s old quarters and continued several hours. Traflic on Fifth avenue was not interrupted, and the transfer of all this wealth was practically unnoticed by the passersby. | MULES Love music. While He Breaks In Colts. Marysville, Cal.—George A. Gage of Sutter county says he Is the first “must- cal farmer.” Gage raises mules and horses. He has a big music box on his farm, and he plays band pieces, prefer- ably soothing melodies and waltzes, when he is breaking his mule colts. “Mules love music,” says Gage. “I discovered that ten years ago when I drove Benjamin Harrison—the orner- fest old mule you ever saw—to Yuba City when a brass band was playing. “The mule had one of his balky, con- trary spells that day,” Gage said, “and I could hardly do a thing with Benja- min until we got to Yuba City. You'd never believe it if I told you the chanze Just a few band selections made in that animal. From that day until Benja- min’s death he was the gentlest, lov- ingest old mulé you ever would want to see.” RISK FINE FOR CHARITY. as" Federal License. San Francisco.—Sweet charity caused 250 young women to break the federal laws. If the penalty should be en- forced they will be fined $500 each, a total of $125,000, Uncle Sam has a law that mentions a Ucense of $2.40 required of those who Would sell cigars or tobacco in any form. The 250 women sold cigarettes to the public for the benefit of biind soldiers, and, according to J. J. Scott, internal revenue collector, they are tia- die because they neglected to get Il- ceuses. Now, there were 450,000 cigurettes sold. If the law should be enforced each cigarette disposed of would cost its fair vender between 27 and 28 cents. Fish Knocks Man Down. Salina, Kan.-E. A. Hillman of Wa Keeney has x sore face, caused by 9 tussle with a large catfish which ho attempted to catch with his hands while swimming. ‘The fish was seen under a log at the edge of the creek apparently asleep, Hillman slipped his hands along the side of the fish and had almost closed his fingers through the gills when his fishship came to life and jumped for liberty. It struck Hill- man such a blow in the face that -he Was thrown off his balance and his face badly lacerated, and then the fish escaped. GIRL CONDUCTORS Twelve Hundred Are Now Employ. ed In London, THEIR WORK IS HEALTHFU,, Benefit In Physique and Complexion by Open Air Life—All Under Care * Lady Dector—Their Averase Earn. Ings Run to About $10 a Week, Every Class Represented. London—Twelve bundiet ity amy employed as London bus couducaoe and more are wanted. 1.1 sorts ot ducements are offered to tet, ining ing the assurance that the worg & healthy and even patrior The manazer of the Lonion Gener Omnibus company says: “We have bad to contradict sever, Teports that the girls ov our busses any unable to stand the strain of the wor and that in consequence thoy are jeae ing our employ. “Every week we put on nbout eighty new conductresses and would increasy ee | eS a 4 | Ral YB fe a a 4 Hc ri) } 13 mm > ms (| Se a 4 cy, | : —— LA | ee . Si | GIRL BUS CONDUCTOR. the number if we could. We can deal with hundrds more at once. “Each pupil receives not only free tuition for a period of two or three ‘weeks, but is paid 50 cents « day for her time. After they bave qualified the average earnings run to alvont $10 a week. “Phere is no abnormal sickness among the girls. They like the work and benefit in physique and complexion by the open air life. They are all un der the care of a lady doctor. “Since March we have interviewed 16,000 applicants and are very careful in our selection. Among our ranks ab most every class is represented. Quite 10 per cent of the girls have never worked before and take up the work from purely patriotic motives. There Is not the slightest reason ty suppose that they will be unable to sistl the work during the winter, si ‘tait work’ is not so trying as the publit imagines.” WANTS NOISELESS ENGINES. Hissing Locomotives Disturb Rest In Oakland, Pa. | Pittsburgh.—Oakland, the acropolis ‘of Pittsburgh, with tts great balls of ‘art and learning, ig marred by a nuk ‘sance worse by far than the venders whose presence desecrated tle Colt seum in Rome or the Rtaliy tide ta Vente, according to memiiwrs of the Onisiand board of trade. This wuivanee fg declared to be the nizht lovs aul day long hissing and funn of lor motives. This, John Dimlinz. a mem ber of the board, polnted out, is not only detrimental to Oalsial as a cet ter of art, but it robs mortals. oth art iste und Dusiness men, of thelr sive? Mr. Dimling tn an Impassivned seve told of locomotives, hice monsters which seemed to take a demilucal de light in standing for hours sjoutins in. fernal fumes and liissiny tiendishlr through their pop raives. Kepeatel Protests to the railrow! companys. be sald, were of no avail. \ committee was directed to ask the courts to erant an injunction against the ratlroad Com Pany similar to the one granted some Fears ago by the supreme cwurt we Junction Hollow resident now dead. dl @ GIRL, FOLLOWING FASHION, : CHARGED WITH INSANITY. @ Kansas City—"If #!! young @ women followed the dictates of @ fashion to the leiter tere | @ would be few out of the AF) @ lum,” was the way a sanity § © commission put It when 1 oF | @ dered the liberation of Mer ¢ © garet Wagner, seventee® years 4 © old, who was beid en complsint 4 @ of ber mother. The latter ; © thought the girl Insane because 4 @ despite cold weather. she wow ‘ @ decollete gowns and short stir ‘ © The daughter's defense was ¢ @ “All the other girls dress that ¢ @ way.” e e ° ogee THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 6, 1917. = sven pean umn cues = Eke —e—EeEEee eee ay = at 0 ue NEAR HER FIVE BRR pee tenn : ~ Our First Theater. TWO THOUSAND Vues IN Wonderful Hainter Park. GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING. : 1e food of soldiers in the Sel va-| ry 1752 the first theater in the Unit- CHOI ‘This is the heart of the playground, —— HUSBANDS IS LAST WISH) sies according to their nationalities. | 11702 the | couali ie tas caeeigree RUS CHRISTMAS EVE | worshiped by the red men in the days Girl Gave Up Stenography to Take In pall The principal meal of the Russian sol-| Vi.tinia at old Willamsbure. athe ATES of old, and here in the evidence of ceamee an Sickle Had Personally Erect- | fyeracrusts Of stches, something Be | crizinator was an English actor, Wil- | Will Be Supplemented by Soloist and| S°0°*S of mineral springs ,Debbling | Norristown, Pa.—Quitting her post- van § tween @ gruel and a soup, the chief in- - from the ground one feels more keenly i §+ "3g Tombstones to Them. Mam Hallam, Sr., who brought his own Orchestra of Seventy Pieces. tion as stenographer to go to the wash. er Soaillents ot “whieh ste cabbage, (pote. | cpaiiy trim oversees and jeamented the Duissance of God. To the left! tab, aiiss Georgianna Cuthbert is mak. _ toes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably | Sot ee aah ee vegies? = ts — from the road, looking as if it were| ing’ g¢g a week, aud she Landles an Wino be buried tm her] Dork. These aro bolted topetber, ‘with | 11" Ooctormence. ‘The ies apeest | Mew S08 This New Yor Comme. | et © block away, tees Meme Te five washes to do it, according to her Bi rrae cemetery in a corner of | salt and other seasoning, the result be- Papen: and eon wee. York, Phimadel Bity chorus, under the direction of | Coma, its sides showing the purplish | testimony in the equity action im whicy © qm near the graves of her Gve| ing a thick, nourishing and by no phia and the other leading communt- |Hatry Barnhart, wit) try to have al- | Ines of ice, great snow fields and Jag-| ghe is defendant and Mrs, Marie Lus- wfc: Vas the last wist of Mrs. | Means unpalatable dish, ties of colonial America each had its {Most all New York sing on Christmas | ged rocks. Yet it is five miles from gon, her neighbor, plaintit’. Bri ( Yan Sickle, who died re-} | The Italian soldiers, who are splen- | i While the Virginia playh eve. There will be Christmas songs | the springs to Nisqually glacier, over| Miss Cuthbert informed Judze Swartz = San romtesers tive tareety ns Satta | Te cry earte Bio Petia eos oe | aemuaal tls Chtiwtases tree 3a Motiscs | aisond ax emoet agi pereneet aat| Geemee family alone paid her $00, an- the xvavosiof ber: iusbenvis are'| Co0ms Ohetimaceronl, spaghettt an no | 5S £76 Or as fhe United Gtstom 9 | cater ed titer ths / chore aad eal] Buoken’ aflaluioas every mage e| Coen ee Bfth $8 a week ee ectell ‘by’ the wife's own | Ou. Tay ere also very Dettial to trate | Muth, Ths frat So ead torre | Mang (GCSE People es the place (cam | cari by sistas (of waryambus bewuty. | ee gets the business, she says, be. foe, Oot line thin -verse/nscribed | WRlCh Ss 6d, abot ith wie ee Eatin vist nee | SaMl WIM atAtace Suuare cardes | Haw it Wig forest oe caver’ tien Geel mio ee ne acids & | and cigars, as part of thelr rations | been SE eatNah stroliing player AD- | sod sing Handel's “Messiah.” trunks dotting the sides of a peak| im cleansing them. eal art clings to thee, love. | Whenever possible, thony Aston, who was known as Mat | ty) Chorus probably will contain be- | stripped of their branches and bark| “None of the clothing I handle ts cine oppo | No German soldier.considers his dat. | Medley. The actor and his art of that | tween 1,500 and 2,600 persons, who | and whitened by the elements. Now | solled, only mussed,” she said. b nd and true to me, ] mean cuiplete without a sausage of'| G4 were senierally Gesnised (By, the | 510 nisenigwatticing the oratorio fee | ta gitmpes of Nisqually river,| Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent 3 go | Sotte Biot ox thes, and ‘the “stronger” | Pantanieal collate. The Maseeche | cs sscthe:) ‘Thay (will bel wapeie: | wile takes tee Gaia treelhe glacier | Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in 300 cin a& 194, aged aty-tnree | #8 favor the better. A nutritious pea | setts lesisinture passed a law shortly | Dented bys solos and an orchoeee | each name, as it tumbles alonz| the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa. eer aa | Soup ts alsoa staple of the army ration, | after amateurs had given “The OF- | ¢¢ seventy pieces. « } over its rocky bed, and now it !s a| Mrs, Lusson says that a laundry there pet ree stones are small'and | , Tue mnineiay Of the Ereuch soldier | plans” at the Coffee House im Boston | ye, Barnhart, who, with Arthur Far | fordated peak rising toothlike ent of| woul be endtetabes unhealthy aud Teal! Tie brlet.. One reads “D. | Consists of his beloved “soup,” as he| fn 1749 which forbade such pertorm | well, the composer; W. Kirkpatrick | the jaw of this mighty range of which | in violation of building restrictions. te See aN Gn ant “>. calls it It ts really a thick, nourish.) ances, prescribing a penalty for ac | Brice, the treasurer, and Claude Brag-| Mount ‘Tacoma, “ihe cenatala tine| Ex the testimony experts said a laun ce idan | mg stew, made of meat, potatoes and | tors and spectators alike of $25 each. | don the architect and the creator of | was Gode te nve ten that | In the testimony experts sald a laun- Oop, Reda Rp ESS Sa | wih GR.VeS FOREIGN THEVES TO AMERICA fetectives Expect Big Haul In Jewelry at Some Society Event This Winter. Washingte.—If you happen to own jfrel collection and your taste runs jan! wowiag it in publie, you had ier hire a bodyguard this winter. fhe Cited States fs overrun with Eu- men ccools, Some of them the ‘owiliest thieves on the continent. Private doiective and police agencies Ser Yor, Poston, Philadelphia, Fashiugton. Chicago and other big cen- gesare lovk ns forward to one of the pat active Years in the last decade. Ys all ou account of the European ww, whick has made theft hardly wurth while on a big scale across the vate. In Washinton there's 4 detective smacr whieh specializes in the guard- iggof guests and jewelry at big social faxtions. ‘The business of this agency isnot confined to events at the capital, fe private detectives of faultless man- wr and speech are sent out on jobs fir west as Chicago by this same (oe man who bas devoted years of eperience aad his organization of dats to the protection of social lead- esau their suests recently returned frm a trip thot extended north to Bos- tm ail west to the Mississippl. SU's goins to be a big year for agen- tes like onr~" he said. “Within the pe twelve months Europe has been sailing over some of the cleverest jew- thieves t's country bas ever seen, i they lave only come here when ims clenr that robbery as a profes- io was uy ciinst hard times abroad wil the war was over.” WHERITANCE AFTER YEARS. fever Never in One Place Long Enough to Apply For It. & Louis George Welse, a former siler and «sa adimitted roving dispo- tion, recent !y received $390.25 from the local £. jecal aid bureau, repre- seating bi< ire of the estate of an Bee whe) in Adrian, Mich., eight- eayears Weise x) 1 1 the bureau several HS ag oy! asked Matthew Conek- Bey ess Superintendent, to assist tim in 2 ‘is inheritance. He ex- Haine! thoy fe fud never applied for thecanse the death of hig uncle klad ne soon long enough fn one Bev tot time to apply for bis tire, Conektin: «te to Adrian and in re- Beto his s+ received one from B. A. (te, pre ner of the property of Wee's “ivard Bauer, contain te the 1 due Weise and a quit fain dev © property for the lat- fssicnay ORVES [LES FOR MAIL. Memes Wis Nos Allow Rural Carrier Bring It, Sith Sau.—Frank Nichols Bes oy » 4 out of this city. er pears has stubbornly re- fed i sil come by carrier, hash < right by his door. Bes we makes the eleven Bear, and gets his mail ae “here. . ae rrler system is an ye - to the government itiat i jug false and injurl- — « rising generations 2Wo.009 on sNGES TOO RIPE. ments Valve at $50,000 Are De- See yc in Week. we" Sco miltion oranges, feat) 8 Gor cousmmption, were en it Nov York by @ squad un- fed ot ‘sou of Luelus P. Brown, ye ga bon of foods and drags Tie {Tact of health, a “wero taken from abip- Page, Oleh worminats, ‘They ag- Rey fet 250 tons and were Ye jag Pert Rico and Jamaica, Bigg © shippers was about oy OM Sinton Grice Ten, mn, A ee bn a ~Hessie Norton, aged Yee jas Teste Bowling, twen- M20 fo Gh were married on top Sigg i wirete smokestack tm an ~ city oe ae essed ceremony, Ayys" terformed by the Rev. W. ~~” What the Soldiers Eat. The food of soldiers in the fleld va ries according to their nationalities The principal meal of the Russian sol dier consists of stchee, something be tween a gruel and a soup, the chief in. gredients of which are cabbage, pota toes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably pork. ‘These are boiled together, with salt and other seasoning, the result be- ing a thick, nourishing and by no means unpalatable dish, ‘The Italian soldiers, who are splen- @id marchers, live largely on a farina. ceous 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 dat- ly menu coniplete without a sausage of some kind or other, and the “stronger” its flavor the better. A nutritious pea soup fs 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, nourish- ing stew, made of meat, potatoes and various other vezetables. The English “Tommy” ts omnivor- ous, but the things he loves above all else are bacon and jam.—Youth's Com- panion. ey ee ee Gathering spruce gum has long since become one of the steady minor indus- tries of Maine, where every year about 15,000 tous of crude gum, valued at a third of a million dollars, are harvested ‘The crude article is formed as the re- sult of Injury to red and biack spruce trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner bark of tices, and the injuries they cause, known as “hog cuts.” are fruit- ful sources of gum. Lightning scars. frost cracks, old blazes and the. abra- sions 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” ts possible—Argo- naut. Fetes ORtee An old abandoned mine near Saal- feld, in the Thuringian forest, which in the time of Luther was worked for silver, copper, alum and vitriol, has been discovered by a Berlin geologist to have developed into one of the most beauriful caverns. In the course of centuries the water percolating through the minerals has built up throughout the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stal- actites and stalagmites, thrown to gether 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 repro- duced over and over again, and yet the colors me't into each other so gently that nowhere is the impression of disagreeable contrast produced. _ Why Ie 1? Why is it that when there are two swinging doors 75 per cent of the peo- ple open the left hand door? Why don't they open the right hand one? Why is it that 60 per cent of the peo- ple 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 peo- ple 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 edze of the sidewalk to enter as they should? Why fs 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 mueb space. Why is it?—Boston Post. Very Free Verse. Vers libre is certainly taking hold. Much might be said in this connection of Sts form, its content and whether proficiency in it is innate or acquired. Let it suffice for the moment to record what happened when a musle teacher asked her pupils to make up little Verses and then make melodies to ac- company them. One little boy sald 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 spotied 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.” “Humph! Why—er—haven't I seen you before somewhere?” “Yes, your honor. I sell you ice in summer and do your plumbing in win- ter."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. No Joke. Either. “Isn't it awful the way prices have gone up?” “It surely is. Just think, my hus- band will have to work three weeks to get money enough to pay for this sim- ple little gown T have on."—Detroit Free Press. Diplomacy In the-Home. Every now and then wife urges hus- band to buy some new clothes for him- self, 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 ajways travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether tm- possible without it—Samuel Smiles. -. Our First Theater, In 1752 the first theater in the Unit. ed States was opened in the colony of Virginia at old Williamsburg. ‘The originator was an English actor, Wil- liam Hallam, Sr., who brought his own company from overseas and presented “The Merchant of Venice” as the in- tial performance. The idea spread rapidly, and soon New York, Phi'adel- phia and the other leading communt- tes of colonial America each had its theater. While the Virginia playhouse was the first in the United States, ac- tors had played in the colonies before this date. The first is said to have been the English strolling player An- thony Aston, who was known as Mat Medley. The actor and his art of that day were generally despised by the Puritanical colonists. ‘The Massachu- setts legislature passed a law shortly after amateurs had given “The Or phans” at the Coifee House in Boston in 1749 which forbade such perform. ances, prescribing a penalty for ac- tors and spectators alike of $25 each. —Exchange. Gecrteees Qatie: 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 te Lauya with a dense cloud of sieum Ly sluicing water into a kind of open mouthed oven in the wall of the stove and sits on a dals over acainst this, dabbing himself all over with water be has taken from the cistern and tempered to a just endur- able heat in a tin basin with colder Water from a barrel in the corner. Having put himself into a state border- ing on suffocation and raised bis own temperature several degrees above fe- ver point, be pulls open the door, rushes naked into te open air, rolls over and over in the snow, covers himself with it and les there till the beat 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 be stands surrounded by 4 frosh cloud of steam from the oven.” Honesty Extracrdinery, Atravelcr writing in an Italian mag- urine 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 re- member 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 drepped or placed in a conspicu- ous position. so that the rightful own- er can find his property more easily. The case is cited of an American wow- an tourist who lost her purse on an excursion in the Val Capriasca. The purse contained gold coin and a jew- eled watch. Upon returning from her trip she found the purse with its con- tents intact on a little heap of leaves, so placed that it could not fall to at- tract her attention. ie sali, iiiens iia The highest salaried man in Japan does not receive enough mouey in that form to pay for the gasoline used by his automobile, for salaries of the man- agers of business corporations are in- significantly 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 sal- ary in some cases. ‘The Mitsui company is rezarded as the biggest corporation in Japan, and ts directors are noted for their large incomes. Each director is said to re- ceive 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 re- cently with his length of arm taxed to hold a pile of iw 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. 1 thought you said you couldn't afford one this season? Mrs. Wye—So I did. But you see my hus- band had a streak of Iuck 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 an- other wife,” said he, “but none of you offers to get me another cow.” fe the Berber Shea. | “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 good- ness’ sake, don’t talk to it or it'll crawl back again.”—London Telegraph. His View of It. Wife—That girl in the opposite fiat fs quite a promising singer. Hub— Well, get her to promise that she won't siug any more.—Boston ‘Transcript. Very Unruly. Miss Paul—Grace doesn't obey any- body. Miss Pry—No; she doesn't even mind her own business.—Town Topica, Consult duty, not events. — Walter Savage Landor. o TWO THOUSAND VurCES IN CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE Will Be Supplemented by Soloist and Orchestra of Seventy Pieces. _ New York.—The New York Commu- nity chorus, under the direction of Harry Barnhart, wi! try to have al- ‘most all New York sing on Christmas eve. 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 be- tween 1,500 and 2,000 persons, who have been practicing the oratorio for two months. They will be supple- mented by a soloist and an orchestra of seventy pieces. : Mr, Barnhart, who, with Arthur Far- well, the composer; W. Kirkpatrick Brice, the treasurer, and Claude Brag- don, the architect and the creator of the “Light” half of “Song and Light,” ‘was impressed first by the national in- eptitude for music. When listening to a band concert in a park at Rochester he suddenly was struck by the idea that the mute and enckanted crowd would be glad to sing if they had only the opportunity and training. ‘To fill this need he organized a com- munity chorus in Rochester and later a smaller one at Lyons, N. Y. It was only in January of 1916 that the New York Community chorus was attempt ed, but aince then its ranks have been expanding rapidly until it now is neces- sary to transfer it from the auditorium of De Witt Clinton hig school to Mad. ison Square Garden for the Christmas celebration. SEVEN THOUSAND MILE VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG Mistaken a Dozen Times For Sub- marine In Trip Across Atlantic. New York.—A remarkable sea voy- age of 7,000 miles, from Dordrecht, Holland, to Tampico, Mexico, in a tug- boat but sixty feet in length, with a draft of three feet, has just been com- pleted by a crew of men under the leadership of Captain H. Waltaker. Captain Waltaker and his crew, of whom one was E. M. Fden, 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. Fre- quent attempts to stop passing vessels to feplenish 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 diszuised sub- marine. “We were taken for a submarine a dozen times during the trip,” said Mr. Eden, “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 tn the Panuco river. In ordinary cir- cumstances the tug would have been transported lashed to a ship's deck, but the freight rate demanded was deemed exorbitant, 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. ¥.—Colonel Roosevelt 1s on the trail of malignant malefac- tors again. This time it is one or more intrepid woodsmen who, unknown to him, sawed down a large sassafras tree on the colonel's estate, Sagamore Hill. Colonel Roosevelt offered $25 reward for information leading to the “discov- ery of the individual who maliciously and feloniously entered my land and. with a crosscut 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. | Fugffive Delirium Tremens Victim Dis- cards Clothes and Climbs. Nyack, N. ¥.—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 jail, 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 famish- @d when found by the hunters and Letchworth policemen and may dle. ‘Tordof is a painter. Work Mine In U. S. Supreme Court. Washington.—Dynamos, motors and other electrical apparatus whizzed and whirred in the sujreme court chamber at Washington when the justicés view. ed a miniature mining plant in full op- eration. The demonstration, unique in the court's history, was held to give the justices an actual view of a min- Inz patent in operation, one used in many countries and attacked-as in- valid in @ case recently reargued. ~*~ Wonderful Hainter Park.” ~~ ‘This is the heart of the playground, worshiped by the red men in the days of old, and here in the evidence of scores of mineral springs Dubbling from the ground oue feels more keenly the puissance of God. To the left from the road, looking as if it were but a block away, rises Mount Ta- coma, its sides showing the purplish Ines of ice, great snow fields and jag- ged rocks. Yet it is five miles from the springs to Nisqually glacier, over @ road as smooth as pavement and broken at almost every length of the car by vistas of surpassing beauty. Now it is a forest of silver, high tree trunks dotting the sides of a peak stripped of their branches and bark and whitened by the elements. Now it is a glimpse of Nisqually river, which takes {ts origin from the glacler of that name, as it tumbles alonz over its rocky bed, and now it ts a forésted peak rising toothlike out of the jaw of this mighty range of which Mount Tacoma, “the mountain that Was God,” in the picturesque language of the Indians, is a part.—Ralph P. Mulvane in National Magazine. Sunset and 12 o’Clack. The habit of counting 12 o'clock at sunset fs very ancient. The Turks, Greeks and most other people in the Levant have almost always counted 32 o'clock from sunset, and to this day the common people cannot under- stand that their clocks have to be changed every day and not ours. The Turks have officially adopted meridian time, but only since the Young Turks came into power—that 1s, since 1908. ‘The change was even then not made immediately. It encountered a great deal of opposition on religious grounds, because the Mohammedan hours of prayer are regulated by the sun. And the common people still stick to the old system. Only in Constantinople and Smyrna are there many Turks who keep the official meridian time, and the great majority of people throughout the Turkish dominions still count 12 o'clock, as their ancestors have from time immemorial, at sun- set.—New York Times. ‘The Famous “Green Man of Brighton.” In October, 1806, an individual was to be observed at Brighton, England, who walked out every day dressed in green from head to foot—green shoes, green gloves, green handkerchief and ‘other articles to match. This eccen- trie person lived alone, knew nobody, and in his house the curtains, the wall paper, the furniture, even the plates and dishes and the smallest tollet ar- ticles, offered an uninterrupted se- quence of green. Having started on bis career, there was obviously no rea- son to stop, and with full consistency he carried his scruples so far as to eat nothing but fruit and vegetables of the same green color. The consequences Were extremely disastrous. One fine day the green man jumped from his window Into the street, rushed forward and performed a second somersault from the top of the nearest cliff. Same Trees. In the anzle between the Kings and Kern canyons lies a woodland empire beside which the Harz and Black for- est of Germany would appear almost diminutive. Within the borders of the Sequoia National park and the General Grant National park near by there are no fewer than 1,160,000 sequoia trees, and of these 12,000 are more than ten feet in diameter. In the Sequoia Na- tlonal park stands the largest tree in the world—not the tallest, but the larg- est—the General Sherman tree, with a diameter of 36.5 feet and a height of 279.9 feet. Its massive trunk and branches contain about 1,000,000 feet of lumber, board measure. This is equal to the amount of lumber that is cut from forty acres of average Minne- sota timberland.—Arzonaut. Self Convicted. “Say, pa,” querled small Bobby, “what is gossiping, anyway?" “Gossiping, my son,” replied the old man, “If we get right down to the plain, unvarnished facts, is lying. But why do you ask?” “Because,” answered the young in- Vestigator, “ma says you do a lot of gossiping every time your business Keeps you late at the office.’—Ex- change. ‘Tae Much Pranticn. “Does your minister practice what he preaches?” the newcomer questioned. “He does.” the citizen answered, with a sich, “and I'd be perfectly willing to have him stop. He lives next door to me and begins at 7 o'clock Sunday morning to practice what he is going to preach.”—New York Times. Divided It. Sceue—Police court during dispute over elght day clock. Magistrate—I award the clock to the plaintiff. Defendant—Then what do I get? Magistrate—I'll give you the eight days.—London Stray Stories. Sharks and Death. There is an old yet still operative su- perstition among seafaring men that when a shark persistently follows a Vessel it 1s a sicn that some person on board is going to die, the alleged rea- son being that the great fish can scent death. Fashionable. zs Willie—Paw, what is a fashfonable resort? Paw—A place where you can obtain the least comfort and the most style for the most money, my son.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!—“As You Like It,” II, 7. GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING. Girl Gave Up Stenography to Take In Clothes. Norristown, Pa.—Quitting her post- tlon as stenographer to go to the wash- tub, Miss Georgianna Cuthbert is mak- ing $63 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, Marie Lus- son, her neighbor, plalntitt. ‘Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz that one family alone paid her $30, an- other $12, two $9 and a fifth $8 a week. Bhe gets the business, she says, be cause she does not use bleach or acids im cleansing them. “None of the clothing I handle is sotled, only mussed,” she said. ‘Mrs. Marie 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 aud in violation of building restrictions. In the testimony experts said a laun- ry 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 pro- ceed with the laundry. PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS. Charity Finally Took $1 That Railway Official Refused to Accept. Findlay, O.— Philosophers for cen- turies 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 South- ern 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, ex- plaining 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 ali 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 As- sociated charities, who happened in ‘Smith’s office at the time, confiscated the money for that purpose. DEER ATTACKS POSTMAN. Herd Within Three Miles of Pennsylva- ‘alice Wace Huntington, Pa.—Clark Smith, the oldest rural route agent attached to the Huntington postoffice, met with a spir- ited attack from a big buck deer while on his return trip a few evenings azo 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 emerze into the open highway just as Smith was driving leisurely past. His horse, a calico colored bronco, seemed to have aroused the fre of the buck, which leaped a fence and at- tacked the bronco by rearing up and endeavoring to strike it with its fore- feet. Mr. Smith used his whip vigor- ously 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 ‘Sickitten: Sex Sita: Seen: Altoona, Pa. — George Meritts of Franklinville, Huntingdon county, toss- ed in the throes of a frightful night- mare 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 hid- ous 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 thelr bed for some time. Finally a match and lantern were procured. The snake, more than three feet long, with seven rattles and a but- ton, 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, Aman- dus 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 ma- rine recruiting station in this city. Amandus wrote several pages in his patriotic outburst and promised to use his influence to awaken his fellow pris- oners to the call of the flag if the ma- rines would only come and get bim out. Although the young man claims to be @ good. “healthy feller,” unfortunately his morals are not in the same flourish- tng condition, so Amandus and his pals must languish in prison while the ma- rine corps remains heartless but un- contaminated. Scholars Read Original Poems. Westmont, N. J.—Eighteen grade pu- pllg 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. iy _ Catttiel ie) 2 cm‘ i Gywagt, ) GROWS HAIR | i ay > bastibretdes oll deal | | aS THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP P meeerenrenreeth trent anh | R UINENS Ish § Sag ia ad sca pelle Seesy Dave Company, New York City. N.Y. xe? SN . 4 . “Dorit Shoot It” There’s a Better Way It’s guilty, all right, and it stands con- victed of the crime of wasting your good money. The death penalty is mild. The temptation to shoot it at sundown is great. But you must have another light to put in its place. 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StateSt, - - - - Chicago, Ill. __ Plants That Cive Meat. ~~ We do not, as « ruie, think of plants as giving out heat, yet at certain times some flowers show an astonishing rise of temperature. Most remarkable in this respect are certain kinds of Arum, Just at the opening of the flower in these cases there is a great liberation of heat. ‘This is due to the fact that the respiration, or breathing, 1s at such times very vigorous. Some vers interesting experiments have been car- ried out in connection with these Arums by «means of placing a ther- mometer just inside the spathe. One of the most remarkable cases was that of @ species growing on the Mediter- ranean coast and known as Arum Italicum. The temperature of the air ‘was 60 degrees at the time of the ex periment. ‘That inside the spathe was 110 degrees. At that time the blos- soms, Which when expanded are prae- tleally scentless, gave out a fragrance suggestive of wine. It is said that Plants of this type are particularly common in Mexico.—St. Nicholas. Gintecte Se Onna Mayors are appointed in France in much the same way as in England but the prefect is a permanent gov ernment official, with intinitely greater power and of much more importance He is the supreme head of a depart ment—of which there are elghty-six- and it is his duty-to see that the laws Passed in Paris are carried out prop erly in evers commune of his depart ment. He has control over the po Mee and even over the military should their services be required in an indus trial or political dispute. He sees that the taxes are collected, and every pub: Ue 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 pald and often leads to higher things. For in: stance, M. Paul Cambon held three prefectures before he was given a dip lomatic post.—London Spectator. “A Thief of Health.” “The man who coughs or sneezes in your presence without covering his mouth with a handkerchief ts a thief,” the bulletin of the St. Louis health de partment says. “He is a thief of health and com- fort,” continues the bulletin. “Ot 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 affiicted and take note of how few persons us a handkerchief when sneezing or cough. ing. They scatter grip germs in of fices, workshops, stores, and within twenty-four to forty-eight hours thou- sands of persons are infected. Nobody seems to think it worth while to use a handkerchief.” siete On one occasion Herr Steinitz, the famous chess master, was discussing political economy with a distinguished Professor in England, and the Mal thusian theory came up. After the usual arguments the veteran ches: player thus wound up the controversy “It’s all nonsense what they say You tell me a poor man bas no right to have a large family. You say his @oing so 1s not honest, is a positive in jury to his country and to humanity. 1 tell you you are wrong, and I'll prove it. My father was a poor man—a vers poor man. My father was an honest man—a very honest man, ‘Well, he ba‘ thirteen children, and 1, Withels Steinitz, the chess champion of the world, Iam the thirteenth!” Gamest Fighters. Sparrows are proverbially pugna cious. Sometimes a tree will be 1 sparrow battiezround, and for ten min tes ft will be as lively as a dog fight. Probably the finest fighter In th: world, quadruped or biped, is the game cock, He is a match for anything hl: size in the world if he gets a fatr flel and no favor. He fs as quick asa flas! of lightning, and his spurs are terribl Weapons, quite as effective as a pair o bayonets, and used much more scien tiflcally and forvefully.—London Tele graph. John Adams’ :nauaguraticn. John Adams, the second president. saw more persons weeping at bis inau- guration 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.” a ¢F=> JESSE BING << ee ACES patiatya a ee foal ected $ ee S. Es Gor, State and 36th Place, ter Telephone Douglas 1565 CENERAL, BANEING 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 non. dents, including payment of taxes and locking after assessments. Money ys gn Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. Brem tmernoa to America ‘The transformatious that take place in a name as it passes through differ ent languages can only be accounted for by carelessness in transmission. ‘One would scurcely expect the name of Emeric, the name of a pious Hun- garian 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 llttie 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, im the Italian form of Amert- go, 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 Ilun. gary 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 old Christopher Columbus was thereby to be despoiled of a recognition that 1s tar from being compensated for by the term Columbia.—Indianapolis News, The- Cranford Apartmet Building. 3800. Wabash Ave eee t ga | eae tae ea 4 a a ce coe | is ct iar: yl Both Were Envious. It was iu Cleveland, and the day was hot. The Mastodons had just fin ished their parade, and Charles Froh man, perspiring and wearing the ab horred silk hat, entered the box offic: of the opera house on Cleveland ave: nue. 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 sili hat of yours,” said the boy at the window. “I wish I could do what you are do ing with that money,” was the re sponse of the envied one. Such was the meeting of two men who afterward became dominant fg: ures in the theatrical world. ‘The boy with the dollars was A. L. Erlanger. —“Charles Frohman, Manager and Man.” The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicag Steam heat, electric light, tile baths, marble entrance. J. W. Casey, Agent, Phone Kandolph 803 74 W. WAS ANGTON STREET. en ert ee SE ar gna cere en i ak | Ss All Eye Trouble Peet: SEE SE Femme 8. LOUIE UsseLMIN * | a The Practical O tician | Twi moST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOMS IN THE CITY By BEST GOODS AT THE LOWEST PRICES ane Consultation or examination | 3150 S. STATE ST. FREE. We bave 28 diffe Selec od =| Phone Douglas 5308 guarantee to give satisfaction. CHICAGO _ftannatee to grewtifcton. | CHICAGO Milkmaids In London. At one tine {t was a common thing to see milkmaids in Fleet street. Lon- don milkmaids of past days were usually strongly built Irish or Welsh girls, mostly Welsh, but how long azo it fe since one yodeled in Fleet street it fs difficult to say. Yet only a few years ago a milkmafd actually prac- ticed her calling in the open in central London. Two cows were attached to the “Milk fair” tn 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 orizinal holders of an old privileze granted by royalty, was abolished by order of the office of works.—London Chronicle. dons BLOCK, Presiaent FW. BLOCK!, Treseurer JOHN BLOCK! & SON PERFUMERS a C. E. KREYSSLER, Druggist 5057 South State Street NOT ON THE CORNER FOR HIGH GRADE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS All Prescriptions Carefully Compounded ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF BLOCKI’S IDEAL & BLOCKI'S FLOWER IN BOTTLE PERFUMES , Not Drastlo. Of the unconscious humor of wit- nesses the following 1s not a bad ex- ample: ‘Magistrate—I understand, then, that after heckling the candidate the de- fendant became very violent and abu sive? Constable—Yes, str. “And so,” continued the magistrate, “you used drastic measures to remove him?” Constable—No, sir; I used my club. Greased Ribbons. Crushed ribbons should not be iron- ed; 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 tron them, The Difference In Dogs. You can keep a real fine dog in food at an expense of about $10 a month, while a real sorry dog can get out and make a living for himself.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram. NN Rielcscamea ovens Saat =o nen re eae The Elite Cafe ; AND BUFFET j Roocmmmeccesmncocenoecarocca=nd 3030 STATE STREET CHICAGO No Initiative Wanted. Rich Man—My daughter, s'r, bas nev. er wanted for anything. Poor Suitor— ‘Then for heaven's sake don't wale her begin now! She wants me!—Philadel. phia Bulletin. Mocking Him. “Fortune will smile on you some day, my boy.” 2 “Maybe so, dad, but just at present she's giving me the laugh.”—Detroit Free Press.