The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Col. Frank O. Lowden Inaugurated Governor of Illinois with the Greatest Democratic Simplicity. The Oath of Office Was Administered to Him and the Other State Officials by Chief Justice, Charles C. Craig of the Supreme Court THE PARADE THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL STREETS OF SPRINGFIELD WAS VERY DAZZLING TO BEHOLD AS IT WAS COMPOSED LARGELY OF THE HEAD OFFICIALS OR OFFICERS OF THE ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS, BRIGADIER GENERAL D. JACK FOSTER, BEING THE HEAD AND FRONT OF THAT PART OF THE PARADE. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, AND TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE STAFF AND FIELD OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ATTRACTED MUCH ATTENTION AND RECEIVED THEIR SHARE OF THE AP-PLAUSE FROM THE THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS ALONG THE LINE OF MARCH. COMPANY H OF THAT SAME REGIMENT WAS DETAILED FOR GUARD DUTY AROUND THE STATE CAPITOL. THE MEMBERS OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, DID NOT TAKE ANY PART IN THE PARADE LIKE THE FAR FAMED HAMILTON CLUB OF THIS CITY AND OTHER SIMILAR CLUBS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GOVERNOR LOWDEN'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS WAS FULL OF SOUND, SANE AND PRACTICAL IDEAS. SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE ASSEMBLED AT THE DEPT TO BID FAREWELL TO GOVELNOX AND MRS. EDWARD F. DUNNE AS THEY DEPARTED FOR THEIR HOME IN CHICAGO. SEEMINGLY, THE LEADING COLORED MEN IN THIS CITY AND STATE, ARE ASHAMED TO PRESENT OR ACCOMPANY THEIR WIVES TO PUBLIC STATE FUNCTIONS. MANY RICH AND BEAUTIFUL GOWNS WORN BY THE LADIES ATTENDING THE RECEPTION. AN ORCHESTRA HIDDEN OUT OF SIGHT RENDERED THE MOST ENCHANTING MUSIC FROM THE HIGHEST CLASSICAL TO THE LATEST SELECTION IN BAGTIME MUSIC ENTITLED "THERE IS A NEW DANCE IN TOWN AND EVERYBODY IS CRAZY ABOUT IT." BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES AND THE BRILLIANT RECEPTION AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY MORE THAN FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE MANY OF THEM BEING THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.—BY JULIUS F. TAYLOR. Vol. XXII. Col. Frank the Office Office Supervisor THE PARADE THROUGH THE PRIDE WAS VERY DAZZLING TO BEHOLD OF THE HEAD OFFICIALS ORIONAL GUARDS, BRIGADIER OF THE HEAD AND FRONT OF THE PARADE. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, AN AND FIELD OFFICERS OF THE MUCH ATTENTION AND RECIPISE PLAUSE FROM THE THOUSAND LINE OF MARCH. COMPANY DETAILED FOR GUARD DUTY. THE MEMBERS OF THE APPOMAINT PART IN THE PARADE LIKE A OF THIS CITY AND OTHER STATE OF ILLINOIS. GOVERNOR LOWDEN'S INAUGURAL SANE AND PRIDE. SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE AS FAREWELL TO GOVELNOR A THEY DEPARTED FOR THEIR PART. SEEMINGLY, THE LEADING COLONEL ARE ASHAMED TO PRESENT PUBLIC STATE FUNCTIONS. MANY RICH AND BEAUTIFUL GOVING THE RECEPTION. AN OR REVERSED THE MOST ENCHA CLASSICAL TO THE LATEST STITLED "THERE IS A NEW DAY CRAZY ABOUT IT." BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE INAUGURAL RECEPTION AT THE HEAD ATTENDED BY MORE THAN FIVE THEM BEING THE MOST PROMOTED OF ILLINOIS.—BY JULIUS F. Last Sunday evening the writer boarded the 11:59 o'clock fast express train which runs at a high rate of speed between this city and St. Louis, Mo., bound for Springfield, Ill. The train was composed of sixteen Pullman Palace cars and it was drawn by two mighty or powerful engines and shortly after 12 o'clock we curled up in a lower bank for the rest of the night, and it was not long before we were stone dead to all the troubles and all those things which really try men's souls in this grand old world of so much pain and sorrow. The engines with the flashing headlights rushed through the country like mad demons and the solid steel cars ran so fast that they came mighty near running over themselves. Two other sections of the same number of cars followed the first fast train and they were loaded down from end to end with the leading Republican politicians all bound or headed for Springfield, Ill. Monday morning the sun rose clear and bright and the head weather man must have worked overtime in an effort to bring forth such an ideal or beautiful day in every way. After sprucing up a little bit and after indulging in our morning's repast we joined the great hosts of politicians from this city at the Leland Hotel and shortly after 10:30 o'clock the inaugural parade began to wend its way through the principal streets of Springfield in the following order. The parade was headed by a platoon of well groomed policemen; close in the wake of the police came the marshal and his aides and next in line were members of the Hamilton Club, headed by the Capitol City band. The head of the parade had swung west on Monroe street before all of the division formed by the Hamilton club started to march. With flags flying the Central Illinois Republican club's delegation came next HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY and was followed by the National Young Men's Republican club and more than 150 members of the Spring field Young Men's Republican club The latter unit was headed by the Watch Factory band. I. N. G. Officers Escort. In command of Brigadier General D. Jack Foster, officers of the Illinois National Guard and naval reserve constituted the main bodyguard of Governor Lowden. The rank included Colonel J. B. Sanborn and staff officers of the First Infantry, Colonel John J. Garrity and staff of the Second Infantry, Colonel Frank S. Wood and staff of the Fifth Infantry, Colonel C. G. Davis and staff of the Sixth Infantry, Major A. V. Smith, substituting for Colonel Milton J. Foreman of the First Cavalry, Colonel Franklin A. Dennison and staff of the Eighth Infantry, Captain L. A. Marsh and staff of the First Engineers, Major A. J. Smith and staff of the First Field Hospital corps, Major B. M. Beech of the Second Field Hospital corps and Captain Edward A. Evans and staff of the naval reserves. Officials in Autos. Governor Lowden's automobile came immediately in the rear of the body guard. Next in line were automobiles occupied by Ex-Governor and Mrs. Dunne, and then cars carrying Secretary of State Emmerson, Treasurer Small and Auditor Russel. In the wake of cars carrying the new state officials came Troop D. Springfield, First Illinois Cavalry. There was a long line of machines conveying Springfield and visiting women following the cavalrymen and then came Company C, Springfield, Fifth Infantry. More automobiles in which were seated visitors came next in line and then Company H. Springfield, Eighth Infantry. Still more cars containing units of the local and visiting delegations of women brought up the rear. CHICAGO, JANUARY 13, 1917 The parade disbanded in front of the north entrance to the state house. Immediately after the parade the inaugural party went to the state library and prepared to enter the hall of representatives. When the procession turned west on Monroe street it proceeded on that thoroughfare to Fourth, then south to Capitol avenue where the Lowden party and Governor and Mrs. Dunne joined it, thence east on Capitol avenue to Fifth street, north of Fifth to Adams, east on Adams to Sixth, north on Sixth to Jefferson to Fourth, south on Fourth to Capitol avenue, west on Capitol to second and north on Second to Monroe street. The parade was very dazzling to behold and the head officers of the Illinois National Guards in their fine military trappings, under the command of Brigadier General D. Jack Foster who was the head and the front of the parade was just the card. Col. Franklin A. Denison and twenty-eight of the field and staff officers of the Eighth Regiment like their White comrades received their share of the applause from the thousands of spectators along the line of march. Company H. of that same Regiment was also in the parade and at its close it was detailed for guard duty around the state capitol which was quite an honor to be conferred upon it. For some time prior to last Monday many of the most prominent members of the Appomattox Club strongly intimated that they intended on that occasion to make the trip to and from Springfield in a special Pullman car but for some cause or other none of its members showed up in the parade outside of those belonging to the Eighth Regiment that some of its staff and field officers and there was no way for the general public to tell whether they belonged to the Appomattox Club or to any other club either in Springfield or Chicago, but it does seem to us that it would have made a fine impression if ten or fifteen of its members togged in fine duds, wearing high black silk hats if they would have been in evidence in the parade. Shortly after the parade wound up the inaugural ceremonies were held in the Lower House of the Legislature which was filled to overflowing and the greatest Democratic simplicity prevailed during the inauguration of Governor Lowden and the other state officials. Chief Justice Charles C. Craig, of the Supreme Court, Democrat, administered the following short oath to Governor Lowden and the other state officials. The Governor's Oath. I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor according to the best of my ability. The following state officers and distinguished guest were seated on the platform during the inaugural ceremonies: Incoming state officers: Governor, Frank O. Lowden, Oregon; lieutenant-governor, John G. Oglesby, Elkhart; secretary of state, Louis L. Emerson, Mount Vernon; auditor, Andrew Russell, Jacksonville; treasurer, Len Small, Kankakee; attorney-general, Edward J. Brundge, Chicago. Outgoing state officers: Governor, Edward F. Dunne, Chicago; lieutenant-governor, Barratt O'Hara. Chi- 107 cage; secretary of state, Lewis G. Stevenson, Bloomington; auditor, James J. Brady, Chicago; attorney-general, P. J. Lucey, Ottawa. Holdover: Francis G. Blair, superintendent of public instruction. Justices of the Supreme Court: Orrin N. Carter, Chicago; Warren W. Dunean, Marion; William F. Farmer, Vandalia; Frank K. Dunn, Charleston; George A. Cooke, Aledo; Charles C. Craig, Galesburg; James H. Cartwright, Oregon. Three Former Governors. Former governors: Joseph W. Fifer, Bloomington; Richard Yates, Springfield; Charles S. Deneen, Chicago. Wives of deceased governors—Mrs. Richard Oglesby, Elkhart; Mrs. John R. Tanner, Springfield; Mrs. John M Palmer, Springfield. William Hale Thompson, national committeeman, Chicago; Fred W. Upham, western treasurer national committee, Chicago; Fred E. Sterling chairman republican state committee, Rockford; Bert MeCann, clerk of the house, Bloomington; Adam Cliffee, president pro tempore of the senate, Sycamore; Lawrence Y. Sherman, United States senator, Springfield. The inaugural address of Governor Lowden was well and very ably delivered and it was full of sound, sane and practical ideas and it was more than well received on the part of the vast assembly of the best and the most prominent men and women in Illinois. The remarks of former Governor Ed- HON. FRANK O. LOWDEN. The New Governor of Illinois. ward F. Dunne were also well received and as Mr. and Mrs. Dunne stood very high in the estimation of the people of Springfield regardless of politics, about two thousand of its leading citizens assembled at the depot to bid them farewell as the train pulled out bearing them to their home in Chicago. It is passing strange that at all times the leading Colored men—those who were always striving to stand right up in the front ranks and pose as the big chiefs of the Colored people, seemingly are ashamed to present or to accompany their wives to public state functions where they could be seen at their very best by the most highly cultured ladies and gentlemen of the opposite race. The reception in the evening at the executive mansion was a very brilliant affair and it will long be remembered by the more than four thousand people who attended it. The pink room where the honored receiving party greeted the guests was decorated with American Beauty roses and a great wealth of beautiful carnations and other blossoms in huge baskets were scattered throughout the large state or drawing rooms, and with so many rare and beautiful flowers to behold everywhere caused every one to feel that they had been transported into a new fairy land, and with the many ladies richly and very elegantly costumed, ablaze with diamonds and other jewels presented an enchanting scene that can never be forgotten. No.17 The official receiving party stood in the pink drawing room and it was composed of: Governor and Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, Lieutenant-Governor John G. Oglesby and his mother, Mrs. Richard Oglesby; Secretary of State L. L. Emmerson and Mrs. Emmerson; State Treasurer Len Small and Mrs. Small; Attorney General Brundage and Mrs. Brundage; Superintendent of Public Instruction and Mrs. Blair. Adjt. General Frank S. Dickson, his military face wreathed in smiles, was the master of ceremonies and introduced the guests to Governor and Mrs. Lowden. Mrs. Lowden is not only a beautiful woman but she is very queenly in appearance and she is well qualified not only to serve as the first lady of Illinois but also to preside over the White House at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Lowden's gown was of the highest creation. It was of silver cloth made in long lines which emphasized her form to perfection. The bodice was cut moderately low and very artistically embroidered in traceries of silver thread and there was a long narrow pointed train. She wore a large rope of very costly pearls. Mrs. Brundage's gown was of orange brocaded velvet. She and the governor's wife seemed to have chosen their stations, both in the administration and at the reception, in order to heighten the effect, the one of the other. Mrs. Brundage, with her viva- (Continued on page 4.) THE SOLACE BILLIARD ACADEMY TERREVOUS L. DOUGLAS, Prop. 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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the the Insurance Company of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. INCOME. Premiums received during the year..... $ 3,193,320.84 Interest, rents and dividends..... 331,164.47 Proceeds or maturity of ledger assets..... 708.63 From all other sources..... 528.33 LEDGER ASSETS. Book value of bonds and stocks..... $ 1,957,104.68 Cash in office and bank..... 42,761.07 Agents' balances..... 109,661.48 Total Ledger Assets..... $ 2,109,827.23 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American Association, in the State of Maryland, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German Ameri can Insurance Company of New York, in the State of New York, on the 31st day of march, made to the Insurance Superintend ent of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. INCOME. Premiums received during the year Invests rests and dividends Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets ..... 4,137.72 From all other sources ..... 15,355.99 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Annual statement of the German American Association, on the 31st day of the State of Pennsylvania, on the 31st day of December, 1915, made to the Insurance Association of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. CAPITAL INCOME. Premiums received during the year ..... $ 362,390.45 Interests, rents and dividends 40,757.29 Profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets ..... 108.00 President. E. P. NIEBAUM, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January, 1916. WALTER C. MORRIS, Notary Public. [SEAL] OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Heat at the Persian Gulf Odd Titles of Newspapers Careful Hubby ```markdown ``` The Countess Nada Now Be- 3 comes a Princess. gRANDDAUGHTER OF A POET. gne Is an Expert at Tennis, Has Lived in England Muck, ‘and Is of Rare Beauty and Charm—Said to Be a Love Match. qe popularity Won by the young countess Nadella Torby, daughter of BL. HL. the Grand Duke Michael of possia azo! the Countess Torby, has pen a fonruce of English society for gone sears Past; notably, too, fn lawn wonis cin. Countess “Nada” being ay 7 | fl a | > Sie fae) ae Be if oy Mo ke — , 4 as a ) ae (7 — ee BAG as Cee yy PRINCESS GEORGE OF BATTENBERG. am enthusiastic devotee of the game. fo very wide interest was shown tn her marrinze to Prince George of Bat- teaberg, which took place recently at the Chapel Royal, London. ‘The Countess Torby, mother of the ride, was of extraordinarily romantic descent. [ler father was Prince Nich- das of Nassau, who in his day defied royal authority by contracting a mor- ‘fanatic marriage with the daughter of the great Jtussian 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 Priuce George wanted her for her- mifaloue. She is a beauty of the most entrancing type. She has large dark ees, slaled by long lashes; a sensi- tive and delicately molded face, a very Wioninz expression and a mass of Mack hair. With all her charms she ‘8 simple and unaffected. ‘The grand dake tas lived with his family for many years at an English estate called Keele all, and be and his children lave mini-d freely among the people tthe ncizhiwrhood. ‘The grand duke {4 member of the local board of edu- ation, He known to many Amer- fans, with whom he has played golf fu a perfectly democratic way at Cannes, The Uriiestoom, Prince George of Battentier is the son and heir of ESM. Prine Louis of Battenberg, Who was rmerly first sea lord of fhe admisaiy. Prince George is a Mettenant ia the British navy. ~ Separate Skirt Calera. The vv wes have tried hard this Fer to x; way from the accustomed Mereotsiot separate skirts. Judging fom thew or the hangers nowadays. ther thay ) something more than Beeese; © separate skirts this Jerr par tore of the nature of heautiut vss than of actual neces: tiles. Go oe, satin, velvets, plaited Aad strip t silks and kitten’s ear Gott sro + popntar materials. ‘The Sebrity oo \ ose attractive garments fe mate wt a medium waist Ine Bit dooce fanciful girdles at- hed. "yy, are plaited, tucked. a | sod to let in the fashion- Rocker me of them are even peer Me skirts this year come in on sbades and colors and in fauifol combination that the pal of ma vould devise. ‘There are tne Clore! s\irts and all shades of bom: oes: there are burgundies, ay 2 tens. corals, orchids, wines tn SS oo every conceivable plaid comin’ tit ean be evolved from Map Ht vf these colors. Fashion Mot tn «: sirt hues this season. ey Oranae Mlaemeieda a of it Shiuned oranges, one cup- HL sci. two. tablespoontula of = Juice. Wash the oranges, cut fi and remove the pulp with a SP cur the rind in quarters. htm alt Aber: pat the rind tn ty 2S of cold water for twenty- Sour, Drain, cover with fresh DE fd tit until tender. ‘Drala. Wat water: shred very tne: hg te pulp; add the sugar and fiw one hour. You can put the “mth food chopper and add the Br 0 1 the sted. ABOUT FURS. Points About the Favor- tee Pelts This Season. At present sealskin was almost any- thing originally. Muskrats and rab- bits are mostly used. These substi tutes have not undergone as elaborate and disguising process as the real seal, which fs first of all plucked, the coarse hair being entirely removed to show the soft fur undemeath. 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 motorcout, usually of some few years’ standing. Ermine {s the favorite fur and in sets and trimmings may be worn en promenade.. For evening there are long ermine cloaks. Chinchilla, also costing huge sums, is another fur which is likely to be unbecoming to certain women. Sev- eral furs imitate ft from a distance, and opossum fs 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 8 Parls 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. Sfiver fox fs 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 indeéa a delight. SMART EFFECT. Just to Show How Modish No Trim- ming May Be. Tall crown, narrow drooping brim and no trimming over a band of draped Joffre blue velvet give this ar ee ee i @ Va fe 7 good looking walking hat. What or nament it lacks is provided by the dashing cape of the long coat in broad- cloth, also blue. | ee Musical Birthright of Children. In the most remote villages in this country, in purely industrial communi. ties, among the poor and among the rich (both have forgotten), children Jove good songs. It is their natural inheritance. No excess of materialism in the generations affects it in the least. This is the primitive endow- ment. Deep down in human charac- ter there lies a harmony of adjust- ment with nature. Overlay it as you may with custom or habit, sully it with luxury, It still persists, for with- out 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. ile in 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 dress- ing as follows: Salt two quarts of cornmeai~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 ‘ft on {ts 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. Sisithead One Mien For a few cents you can have a sales. man’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 13, 1917. ———————— FOR YOUNG FOLKS NEW SPORT SUIT. ———— ae A Novelty Designed to Sleepy Time Story About a Very Meet the Winter Weather. Disagreeable Gnome. helio ae ae cloth | figures C THE BOY WITH THE SULKS. |'Phis kit okirt and hal lensth cost All About How Two Sour Tempered Individuals Made Themselves Miser- co ‘able—Spoiling An Appetite—An In- Ree teresting Tale With a Moral. , = a Well, said Uncle Ben to little Ned r dP . tonight I will tell you Br ater olly Ann, tonight I will tell you th THE TROLL’s Visit. ie 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 bis troll companions, who were cheerful little creatures who sang as they work. ed, 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 com- plain. I think I'll send you to visit him for awhile.” The troll was quite pleased, and when he reached Jobnny Biyn's house he was beginning to feel more cheer ful. Johnny didn’t say, “Glad to see you.” or anything of that sort. He just star ed at the troll and remarked, “My. what queer clothes you wear!” ‘The troll was hungry, and, as it was lunch time, he followed Jobnny in to the lunch table. Johnny began by say- ing that he didn't want anything and that there wasn't anything fit 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 suggest- ed 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. T don't think I like it here.” Of course Johnny wanted to know why, and the gnome answered: “You are too peevish and {I humor- ed, that's why.” “You're peevish and {ll 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 2 NN es . oe — aa. > iio e ‘ uaey E =) el ie =) | ie = poet Be - mr a \ % i Rea he + at y s es L} o ey par kN fe ley 2 ‘oa ex * KS oe ee ees FE ee ¥noto by American Press Association. BABY'S FIRST SLEIGH RIDE, winter she will know more about tt. Snow is such a queer thing; it looks a0 soft and warm and feathery. But when you take it in your hand it*ts very cold and soon disappears. It is so entirely different from what it ap- pears to be—to a baby. A Poetical Recipe. Willie cauzht a little f—. Mary put it ina d—. Susio said it needed s—. Mary said, “It's not my f—+ For, indeed, I never k— ‘What the cook would have to @— To prepare a fish to e—. I suppose it's Just like m—." ‘Then she took the frying p—. And to cook it they D—. First they put in lots of im Heated 4t, each keeping s— Lest it get 80 very h— That {t would be burned a I— ‘Then they dipped the fish in {= Let It cook a half an h—, ‘Turning it when it was b— So the upper side was d—. ‘Then they put ft in a d—, And they all ate of thef—. NEW SPORT SUIT. A Novelty Designed to Meet the Winter Weather. ree eS ee ee figures largely in sporting garments This kilt skirt and half length coat are aa Fa y 4 x * ae = fe ig : maa iS 6 fo, JERSEY UP TO DATE. of maroon wool jersey nattily set off with strips of white wool, knitted. ‘The mufller collar is interesting, as are the fastenings of the coat. TATTED EDGES. Scarf. Use size 5 thread in ecru or linen. Presume you are using linen for your cover. Use shuttle and ball. P. 3 ds, 5 p, separated by 2 ds, 3 d 8, close; turn work, chain 2, d s, 6 p, separated by 2 ds; 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 D, 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, 8 ds, repeat three times; Join end of last ch to first P—mode. Edge—*P 1 ds, 1 p, 5 ds, 1 p, 6 ds, 1 P, 6 ds, 1 p, 6 ds, close; turn work, ch 8 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 p, 3 ds, turn work; 5 ds, join to p on large ring; 5 ds, close: P 5 ds, 1p, 5 ds, close; turn work and tle. Ch 3 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1p, 3 ds, turn work; P 5 ds, Join to p on small ring, 7 ds, joint to third p, mode 7 ds, 1 p, 5 ds, close; turn work, ch 3 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 p, 3 ds, turn work ; P 5 ds, join to p, 5 ds, close; P 5 ds, 1 p, 5 ds, close and tie, turn work; ch 3 ds, 1 p, 2 ds, 1 p, 3 ds, tum work; P 6 ds, join to small p; 6 ds, join to third p, mode on Ist ring; 6 ds, 1 p, 5 ds, 1 p, 1 ds, close; turn work, ch, 3 ds, repeat from star. Asbestos Mats. ‘The convenient disks of metal bound asbestos, plain on both sides or cov ered on one side with thin metal, are boon to housewives, as they make {i Possible to simmer with security. Al most invariably, however, the first time of contact of the asbestos with gas flame or heated stove top results n fAlliig-one’s house or apartment with 2 “reek” as of pungently scorching pa per. In order to avoid this incon. venience let the new asbestos mats be fore 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 soufile may absorb the scent of scorcbing. i ie en: One square chocolate’ (bitter), one cupful sugar, one tablespoonful butter. one-third cupful boiling water. one-half teaspoonful vanilla. Melt the choco: late 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 boll for Af teen minutes. When cold add the va nilla. If not sweet enough add more sugar. Overskirts That Ripple. Sometimes the ripple overskirt ts dropped from the hip instead of bein gathered at the waist line. In making up a frock which combines two mate- riale—say serge and plaid silk or plum colored mobalr and pussy willon—yoke and sleeves are of the silk, and yoke or skirt of the wool materials; Fipple overskirt of alk and the skirt beneath of the wool woven stuff. THOSE HOT CAKES Are They Not dmeric’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 Ameri- can national dish. The cheapest lunch Toom, railroad dining room or most ex- pensive hotel serves the omnipresent griddlecake in varying degrees of ex- cellence. ‘To the woman fn the home, especial- ly one who does her own work, all bat- ter mixtures seem to be somewhat of @ bother. She dreads the smoke at- tendant on frying, the long time re. quired 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 im- portant 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 Hquid into the flour. Add the two very slow- ly to avoid Inmps. 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 batfer 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 tt. ‘The important thing about the mix- ture is the griddle. Custom has de- creed that it should be soapstone, but there are both aluminum and cast tron and fron griddles which give excellent roe ‘The important thing is to have the griddle the right tempera- ‘ture before the batter is laid on it. ‘The griddle should never be washed, ‘but wiped with paper or towel. Scour- ing with salt will sometimes prevent sticking. From supply stores we can secure a little holder for the fat or griddie 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 shorten- ing 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 mate- rial it is not worth while. Eggs will give it more nourishment and make ft 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 con- tent 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 be- cause in sour milk part of the protein is already digested. But batters with either sour or sweet milk are whole- some and easy to make if thought and common sense are used. THE INEVITABLE JAR. The Kind of Container You Are Al- ways Needing. For cold cream comes this fetching Jar of creamy glaze set off with a band of yellow tulips and daisies growing Oe < ee So ee a wd Gyr or yg SO IX Ie Se ve : Re idan on use Tomer Tate, in a rich green field, however restrict- ed. The design bas both beauty and Usefulness. ieee Beat three eggs, using lightest color ed yolks; add a little cream or milk and flavoring. [tub 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 lightiy; then scatter in a teaspoon fal of baking powder. Turn the mix ‘ture into a greased cake tin, put inte @ hot oven, reduce the heat after a lit tle while and let the cake bake grad. ually. When cold coat with sugar feing, 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 fuffy; re {11 and sprinkle with grated cheese. Put back in the oven for the cheese to melt and brown slightly. These pota- toes served with a roast of veal are a real addition to the meal. PAGE THREE PARIS MODEL. How the French Garb « Young Girl This Season. A favorite combination just now is navy blue and gray. This Paris model Teverses it and appears in gray set off 2 rr \ : x \ a me =] as = RA ‘ \ . . ae E >. 37 ® 3 with blue, which in this case is a slit belt, the facing of the collar and the ribbon tle. Also the gray velvet poke takes a perky blue tip. RAINY PLAYTIMES. SSRN re NN nee Ne REE Tere Can Dae ect ASSO Are Kept Indoors. Indoors on a rainy day is apt to Prove a rather nerve racking time for ‘4 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 add- ed. The oll gives a pleasant odor and preserves the paste against souring. Never throw away old telephone books, magazines, scraps of colored ‘paper, ete., when there are small ebtl- dren in the house. Add them as con- tributions to the rainy day box. Rainy day may be mending day if mother will cast a glamour of privi- lege over the mending. Save old toys. broken china, ete., for the rainy day mending bee. Especially pretty silk pieces for doll clothes may be slipped tnto the rainr day box as a surprise, a new box of crayons, a bit of colored wool for a horse line—ansthing that will make the prospect of rain and staying in the house something for the youngsters to look forward to instead of the irk- some time which it usually proves a Sleeves are rather doubtful quanit- tles this season, but none the less inter- esting at that. Most morning and aft- ernoon sleeses are long. Oceasioually ‘one sees a three-quarter sleeve, but only very seldom ; it is usually flowing and fs 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 Ince. 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 treat- ment 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. Pare six medium sized potatoes, cut {no small pleces, cook until tender, but not broken, then add two cupfuls of chicken meat and half a cupful of fresh pork, cooked and cut in smali Pieces. Cover with a crust made as follows: Sift three teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder with two cupfuls of flour. add two tablespoonfuls of shortening and balf 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 ple. Bake twenty minutes aa ‘THE COY ONE. Sieave Casta Chicken Pie. PAGE FOUR HON. FRANK O. LOWDEN AND THE OTHER NEW STATE OFFICIALS ARE HOLDING FORTH AT SPRINGFIELD. (Concluded from page 1.) city of manner, her bewitching French accent, and her figure, emphasized the dignity and stately grace of the lady of the executive mansion. Already Springfield is much agog over the attorney general's charming wife. Mrs. Oglesby in Black. Mrs. Richard J. Oglesby, widow of one of Illinois' governors and mother of the present lieutenant governor, was in black. She received much attention from those who have long been in official life and welcomed one after another those whom she had not seen for years. With her was her daughter, Felicite. Mrs. Len Small, wife of the treasurer, wore a gown of black jetted net over black satin. Mrs. Andrew Russel was in pearl satin, and Mrs. F. G. Blair wore a gown of cream net. Mrs. Kenesaw Mountain Landis wore a black net gown trimmed in jet. Mrs. George M. Pullman, the mother of Mrs. Lowden, bore all the marks of a dowager of distinction in her violet silk gown trimmed in crystal, with her air of gracious dignity. Miss Isabel Lowden, sister of the governor was in a black net gown. Miss Florence Lowden wore pale pink tulle over satin of a slightly darker shale, Miss Harriet wore Gobelin blue panne velvet and Miss Frances Lowden wore youthful frock of white and silver. Governor Lowden was in his happiest frame of mind or mood throughout the evening and when some of his old friends were about to be presented to him he would exclaim, Hello John, Charley or William as the case might be, at the same time hitting them on the back and then in turn presenting them to Mrs. Lowden as his good friend so and so. Col. Franklin A. Denison, Col. James H. Johnson, Major Robert R. Jackson, Capt J. H. Patton, Capt. J. S. Nelson, Capt. W. S. Braddan, Lieut. R. A. J. Shaw, Capt. C. L. Hill, Mr. B. F. Mosely, Mr. R. S. Abbott, Mr. Charles Travis, Mr. Charles E. Morrison, and Attorney Charles L. Rice of Mounds, Ill., were among those who attended the reception at the executive mansion Hon. Medill Mormckirk Gave a Dinner to Some of His Friends. One of the dinner parties preceding the reception was that given by Medill McCormick at the Sangamo club, at which his guests were Judge and Mrs. Landis, Attorney General and Mrs. Brundage, Lieut. Gov. Oglesby, and his mother and sister, Miss Felicite Oglesby, Senator and Mrs. Richard J. Barr, and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Brand. Mrs. McCormick did not attend the inaugural. She is in South Carolina with her children. At the Illini Country club a large dinner was given to visitors by the club officials, dancing following, and the guests going to the reception later. CLEBRATE CENTENARY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS' BIRTH. Appeal Made to Every Colored Community to Honor the Great Colored Abolitionist Through Equal Rights Leagues or Committees for the Cause of Equal Rights. Observances That Help Causes Great and vital causes are advanced by honoring the memory of their illustious exponents. When the work of these moral heroes is yet unfinished or is being undone, the present-day struggle for humanity is strengthened by public observances of the anniversaries of the pioneers. Such events furnish the occasion to recall the careers and recite the noble utterances of the great advocates of reform, and to urge devotion to their ideals. The sentimental appeal which goes with the centenary of the birth of a moral leader makes its celebration, if carried on in the spirit of its life-work, of telling help to the same cause today. Douglass Centennial, Feb. 14. Hence it is that the National Equal Rights League, representing the crusade of Colored Americans for rights and liberties still denied, urges the celebration of the centenary of the birth of that greatest of all Colored Champions of liberty and of Citizenship for Colored Americans, Frederick Douglass, all day Wednesday, February 14. The league advises that these observances be in the name of the equal rights cause, and that in every place where Colored Americans are numerous, an Equal Rights Committee or Equal League be formed to arrange the centenary observance of this great champion of equal rights. New Year's Message. This is the first great day of our race collectively in the new year 1917 and is the League's New Year Message to the race. It will inspire our young people with respect for and pride in their racial strain to have brought out the wonderous ability of this man born a slave. It will give courage to our men and women to fight in an organized way color discrimination to learn of the brave stand taken by Douglass on many occasions. It will challenge the conscience of White Americans to know the life-struggle and the eloquent plea made by him for justice to his race. Greatness of Douglass. Douglass was the great Colored Abolitionist. An escaped slave, he eventually waged an independent campaign of agitation for the freedom of his own race. The approach of his centenary should be the signal for his people to rally to the standard of a fight of our race for rights denied because of our race. By Equal Rights Leagues or Committees. Let there be fitting observance throughout the United States of America of the Centenary of Douglass, the orator, the abolitionist, the editor, the writer, the statesman under the auspices of Equal Rights Committee, or Equal Rights League and the Citizens, all day February 14, 1917. Thus will our fight for rights be strengthened in the land which Douglass helped make one of freedom for all. BYRON GUNNER BYRON GUNNER President, Hillburn, New York. WILLIAM MUNROE TROTTER, Secretary, Cornell Boston THE PROVINCE OF THE NEWS PAPER. (By Ford S. Black, publisher, Black's Blue Book.) A Frenchman once said: "Suffer yourself to be blamed, imprisoned, condemned; suffer yourself even to be hanged, but publish your opinions;—it is not a right; it is a duty." Likewise, in the early days the newspaper was little more than a mouthpiece with which the editor-owner published his opinions. So the expression of the political, social and economical beliefs of great editors like James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greely, and Bowles and Raymond, and Dana and Godkin, was an important influence in American life. For, as Milton said: "Opinion in good men, is but knowledge in the making." The age in which these men lived has been called the period of great leaders in journalism, which meant great leaders in the thought and feeling of the day. But the tendency to abuse such power has often been present. Daniel Webster noticed it in 1833 and condemned the appointment of editors to public office as a means of securing their support. Mr. Webster said: "In popular governments a free press is the most important of all agents and instruments. The conductors of the press in popular governments occupy a place in the social and political system of the highest consequence. They wear the character of public instructors." In late years, however, there has been a decline in personal journalism and this, we believe is not without good effect. The newspaper of today has come to be an organ for the dissemination of news and general information. The editor's opinions stand less conspicuous in the large volume of the news. Only a page is given him, and he uses two or three columns of this page, while the other columns are given to other writers and to departments devoted to useful information. Many people in their quest for the news, overlook the editor altogether, or read his opinions as casually as they do the rest of the paper. Obviously, the chief business of the newspaper is to furnish the news. It also interprets the news and discusses current issues; gives useful information and advice; supplies entertaining reading; and is an advertising medium. Great improvement in newspapers has been brought about in recent years which is due mainly to the advance in advertising. Advertising has come to be an important part of the work of the newspaper. This, however, has redounded to the good of the public; for as heavy advertising has brought financial returns to the publishers, they have been enabled to increase the quantity and quality of their news, to add new features and to give better service in every respect. So that a good newspaper has come to be a veritable source of instruction as well as amusement and entertainment. I can think of no more fitting closing for this subject than the words of the great Wendell Phillips who, a generation ago, speaking of the importance of the newspaper in this country, said: "It is a momentous, yes, a fearful truth, that millions have no literature, no schools, almost no pulpit, but the press. It is a parent, school college, pulpit, theater, example, counsellor all in one. Let me make the newspaper and I care not who makes the religion or the laws." Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark and the other members of their family have removed from 3142 Forest avenue to 3217 South Park avenue and if nothing happens they expect to become the real owners of their present new home in the Spring. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 13. 1917. 107 IPEU HON. MEDHJ. McCORMICK One of the head leaders of the Republic dinner in honor of some of his man of the Republican party in I come of his many friends at Spr One of the head leaders of the Republican party in Illinois, who gave a swell dinner in honor of some of his many friends at Springfield last Monday. SEVENTY-FIVE TO ONE HUNDRED OF THE MEMBERS OF THE APPOMATTOX CLUB, ATTENDED THE ANNUAL BANQUET LAST SATURDAY EVENING. Peace, unity and harmony reigned supreme at the Appomattox Club, 3441 S. Wabash avenue, at the annual banquet last Saturday evening. Between seventy-five and one hundred of its members greatly enjoyed themselves around the festive board and there was not one discordant note or key struck nor sounded during the evening. Col. James H. Johnson, was installed as its President; David A. McGowan, first Vice-president and the other officers and directors for the coming year. It is contended that since this paper intimated in its last issue, that if the Appomattox Club expects to accomplish anything worthy of notice or the slightest consideration in the civic affairs that its members must wake up and not expend so much of their time in studying the expressions of the faces or figures on the small square card boards which are more or less in evidence on the walls throughout the club rooms or in other places at certain times; that many of its members are now willing to unite with the preachers of the various churches and with the other reform forces in an K. E. H. [Name] J. E. B. H. HON. EDWARD F. DUNNE. Former Governor of Illinois who in com hearty farewell by the citizen inois who in company with Mrs. all by the citizens of Springfield Former Governor of Illinois who in company with Mrs. Dunne, was extended a hearty farewell by the citizens of Springfield last Monday. ican party in Illinois, who gave a swell friends at Springfield last Monday. effort to improve the moral condition of the people and to curb or stamp out vice, crime, buffet flats and the gambling resorts, which are infesting every district wherein any number of Colored people reside. GOVERNOR GOES TO SAVE NEGRO Louisville, Ky., Special—Gov. A. O. Stanley is determined to prevent a repetition of the recent mob violence in Paducah which resulted in the hanging of two Negroes in that city. Declaring it was his purpose to give the mob an opportunity to "hang the governor of the commonwealth first and then wreak its vengeance on the Negro later." Gov. Stanley left Louisville Wednesday night for Murray to quell a mob which seeks the life of Lube Martin, a Negro. The Negro is charged with killing former Policeman Guthrie Duiguid. The mob threatened the life of Cireuit Judge C. H. Bush to make him bring the Negro back from Paducah, where he is in jail. It was reported to Gov. Stanley that Judge Bush had signed an order ordering the jailer to turn the Negro over to officers from Murray. "Yes I issued an order for the return of the Negro to Murray," Judge Bush said, "I was compelled to do so to save my life." 1910 Company with Mrs. Dunne, was extended a s of Springfield last Monday. BAD AIR DISEASES Here they are again, not only knocking at the door, but already inside the house. They came in when fresh air was shut out. And strange to say, they came in with people. The human animal, as long as he spends most of his time outdoors, is not dangerous to his kind and is not much of a menace when he is in the house and lets the outside air in through the wide openings of windows and doors. But when men begin to shut out the cold and shut in the artificial heat of highly expensive coal combustion, and in the same act shut out good air and shut in bad, then in the closed air spaces of so-called civilization, they begin to spread to each other the several and sundry germs that some of them have been carrying about with them all the time. Here they are: The germs of pneumonia, influenza or la grippe, tonsilitis and other kinds of sore throats, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other infections. Some of them are very contagious and easily spread. A person has one chance of dying of accident or from abuse of his body machinery, or because his ancestors have handicapped him with serious physical defects, which he cannot overcome, or does not correct. But the same person has two chances of dying of some infection, some germs. So while we are trying to fit ourselves to confer healthy bodies and strong constitutions upon our children; while we are striving to live more sanely; while we are preaching and practicing safety first, to escape violent death, the real fight must be made against the germ foes that are unseen and all the more dangerous because invisible to the naked eve. These germ foes are hostile to the individual, invading his tissues and organs and attacking his vitals through the many open doors of tonsils, (specially bad) diseased gums and teeth, defective noses, wounds of the skin or wounds somewhere in the breathing tubes, weak places in the highways of the kidney and bladder system, or wounds, or weak spots, somewhere in the thirty feet of digestive tract. It is this Winter season that peculiarly threatens us with the germs, which we spread to each other by close contact of congested, indoor life. This is why the diseases of the nose, throat, breathing tubes and lungs are so prevalent. The remedy against these community diseases of Winter and Spring is to be found first, in appreciating what these diseases are; second, how they are spread; third, by fighting for fresh air and pure-air, night and day, not only for ourselves but for all others. And finally, we are to better our chances of health under these trying conditions by living well balanced lives and protecting everybody against sneezing, coughing and spitting. It is not mere talk, but act, that is needed. In this campaign everybody is health commissioner. The Commissioner of Health of Chicago is a composite of 2,500,000 individuals among whom are certain energetic generals and captains. Every citizen is in so far health officer and must do his part, just as every cell in the body must do its part in the general team work of a perfectly healthy and comfortable body. * * * Don't dig your grave with your teeth. But don't fail to chew thoroughly the food you eat. To over-eat is often a grave matter. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON COMMANDING THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD BECOMES ONE OF THE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERALS OF ILLINOIS. As it was exclusively stated in these columns last week that Col. Franklin A. Denison would be selected as one of the assistant attorney generals of Illinois, and this week Hon. Edward J. Brundage selected him as one of his aids. Col. Denison, as in the past, honorably served as first assistant prosecuting attorney of Chicago for eight years and for four years he was assistant corporation counsel of Chicago under Mr. Brundage, and in every way he is well qualified to discharge all the duties of his new position. JULIUS F. TAYLOR INVITED TO ATTEND THE TUSKEEGE NEGRO CONFERENCE BY DOCTOR ROBERT R. MOTON. The first of this week, the writer received an invitation to attend the 26th annual session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference which is to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, January 17th and Thursday, January 18th. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, cordially extended the invitation to us to be present on that occasion. MR. R. D. GUY. The up-to-date and wide awake assistant to Ernest H. Williamson the popular undertaker and funeral director at 5028 and 5030 S. State street. Phone Kenwood 455. Mr. Guy, belongs to one of the oldest and most highly respected families of Kansas. THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE. The Negro Fellowship League will hold a membership campaign Sunday afternoon, January 14, at the Reading Room 3005 State Street at 4 o'clock. Rev. G. E. Carter a former secretary of the League will speak, Mr. R. W. Hunter, chairman of the membership committee, will preside. Plans will also be inaugurated for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birthday. Last Sunday the League was addressed by Miss Catharine Johnson late of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People. Miss Johnson has a splendid plan for encouraging business among our people. The League urgently invites all who are working for the same end, Race Development, to join us in bringing in new members to the organization. THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB THE ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB. The Alpha Suffrage Club held a meeting Friday evening, January 12, at 8 o'clock at the Reading Room, 3005 State street. It made plans for the annual meeting to be held January 26. All members are urged to be present promptly at the hour of opening. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. President. NEGROES ORGANIZE SPANISH WAR CAMP. Springfield, Ill., Jan. 12, Special—The Robert R. Blakeman camp, of Negro veterans of the Spanish American war, is now organized, and its officers elected and installed. The ceremony took place in the state arsenal. Major C. S. Close of Linecol Home camp organized the camp, assisted by Captain B. F. Bliss, department senior vice commander. Post Commander Noble Bauman, Adjutant C. A. Byers of Lincoln home were present. The officers of the camp are: Commander, Captain W. D. Hodge; historian, Lieutenant J. L. Morgan; senior vice commander, Major George W. Ford; color sargeant, Hardy Menard, George Harris; junior vice commander. MADAM C. J. WALKER BUYS LONG ISLAND LOT AMONG THE HOMES OF THE RICH. Indianapolis, Ind., Special—Mme. C. J. Walker, an Indianapolis Colored woman who has acquired enormous wealth in the last ten years through sale of a preparation advertised to take the kink out of Negroes' hair, has bought a $75,000 lot in the most exclusive section of Long Island. The lot is opposite property formerly occupied by Miss Helen Gould and close to a mansion owned by John D. Rooke feller. Mme. Walker's income is said to be in the neighborhood of $200,000 a year. WINS $1,000 SOUT BECAUSE N GRO SLEPT IN PULLMAN. Jackson, Miss., Special--Mrs. Betty Norton, of this city, has been awarded a verdict of $1,000 because she had to sleep in the same couch with a Colored passenger. Mrs. Norton boarded a train at Philadelphia en route to Memphis. A Colored man had engaged a berth in the same sleeper. Mrs. Norton protested, but the man was permitted to remain in the couch. The supreme court held that the special couch law is binding on the Southern railway in all states where the line runs, except Illinois and Indiana. ADOPTED BABY IS NEGRO. TIME SHOWS. Somewhere in Chicago lives a wealthy family with an adopted baby that has turned out to be a Negro. The baby was brought from New Orleans to the couple. Thomas H. Agency, superintendent of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said the couple came to him six months ago and wanted a baby. He was unable to supply one, but learned later they secured one elsewhere. Lately he received a letter that the baby, when first taken, was white, but had turned dark and now has kinky hair. yeALTH, cLEANLINESS, proPER LIVING, saNITATION, ETC. By ..W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 pISEASE IS INVITED. pease is the accumulation of eer. gorces. The first cause is the prin- use. Without a first cause the causes could nt follow; they not be able to fit. Without sil, plowing, sowing, rain, sun. se and other factors in cultivation, rotld be no harvest. The first isthe first line of defense. The i line of defense will never be fael by the enemy until the first is is broken. Honest thought is the line of defense in health. As soon joest thought is replaced by the vr kind of thought disease is in- ied. The conscience is the real battle rand; the eternal struggle between jie natural enemies of health and dis- jas can be traced to the mind, to the Jeswience, to the will. Tt is the habit {the lazy, the indolent, the ineficient, fie ignorant, the slothful, the imi- lutor, the careless and some others to jtink of disease as a curse causeless ier than as an invited guest. But sperfcial thinking and what follows ur thinking will not stand the acid jest of scientific truth. Disease grows frm thought through very many con- eqenees until the full fruition of fm that even a fool ean recognize jl understand. The beginning of all jisite conditions can be traced to tineght. Why do some of us pretend te think that disease is an exception ‘the order of things? Think of life as an ineline, as a tihegzan, and the beginning as a con- reyence of two inclines. One way fais up, the other down. If up is al thought; down will be the oppo- ste, bad. Good health, wealth, riches ni life; had is disease, poverty, siery and death, Cleanliness consist- aly courted controls conservation. Geanliness invites health. Disease is intel sometimes slowly but always invited if it visits us. It is in aceord rith reason, that we reap what we wr. All theories agree on that point if they agree on no other. All things lave a cause, though sometimes be- yal present efforts to ascertain, ‘When disease is invited it acts in scr with the foree of the invita- tn. If the invitation is long drawn at, attenuated, half hearted as some 8s, the response will be long drawn wt, attenuated, half hearted. If fear of mature and life rule the individual tle harvest will be disease. Fresh air aod concowitants all the time, means ife all the time, eternal life. Air hilcs with tobacco smoke is not fresh ir and the result will be trae to tatural Law Disease is invited by wrong, imma- ie and insuiticient thought which goes ater into ction of stupendous and "erful cousequences. Disease and ath are ud products seen after the ther points on the toboggan slide have ‘et overlooked or forgotten. Nations ss well as individuals are foverned yy that same law of cause XONOR BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. 4 Books: Washingfon memorial Sniee wis held yesterday afternoon * the Coloc People’s Forum, Eighth Mi Wall Sscets, at which a goodly S2 for the Washington memorial fund Sol Addresses were made ‘sTrof..- Ranks, Rev. B, C. Rober- “Mm. 5, Barr and Noah D. Thamjson. che Examiner, Los Ange- he Cal. dan. 8, 1917. MICHEL 10 NAME NEGRO TO BOARD OF EDUCATION. Nev York De, Edward P, Roberts, {az heen appointed by Mayor “cel to the New York board of Gist. tic had the imdorsement of wk K. Moton, suecessor to Booker Wobinetou, as the head of ‘Tuske- fstitute He formerly was medical “tor for the board. “s tsrarE LEFT BY FORMER = SLAVE. ot, 1i—Young Turner, a for- 3 thre, who was reputed to be the Wattiot member of the race in south- RUltsis, and who died two months kt 647,100 in his will, according “ itventory filed in Belleville by Sten. "Turner came to Bt. Char BOY ition « peany An 180k. “=a _ and effect. Disease in a nation pro- ceeds from the same cause, the mind, the conscience, the will of individuals. What can a nation or an individual say in the face of natural evidence of disease? Every individual and every mation must accept and treat earned, contracted, and invited calamities, ealled diseases. Disease is invited by defective think- ing which invites laziness of every kind and then the toboggan slide’ of horrible names too numerous to men- tion. Fase is invited by the good honest thought that precedes the daily men- ‘tal and physical bath. Start the day elem. Headaches, constipation, misery, pat- ent medicine, ‘‘colds,’? coughs, la- ‘gtippe, chilliness, pain, fear, insanity and all disease is invited by those who must entertain in them. They start the day unclean. Doctors of theology, or divinity doctors of law, of pharmacy, of den- tistry and of medicine are here for service. When you need them do not delay. If you delay you invite greater calamities. Nature transports through air, water, earth the animal, mineral and vege- table kingdoms our metaphysical as ‘well as our physical needs. When you take more or less than is compatible with ease, you have invited disease, Your guest must come. You may need assistance to help to entertain or eject your invited guest. " Invite health or invite disease. You will need assistance to entertain either. Posterity needs the best example. Your eyes, teeth, face, form and figure tell, your actions, every organ of the body tells if disease it invited. Your con- science tells best. Is disease invited? If a daily physi- cal bath is irksome and incompatible with your daily programme, you are riot 100 percent clean in body and per- fect circulation is not invited but dis- ease is invited. If you do not find time for a daily mental bath disease of the mind is logically invited; your association begets assimilation. Disease whether mental or physical never comes unless by invitation. Make the application as broad as dis- tanee and the law always applies be- cause it is natural and omnipotent. Anger and war are nervous diseases. Come back to the mind, the conscience, the will. What causes anger, envy, hate, madness, a quarrel, war, slavery? What is the most potent cause of in- flammation? What will start a fire quicker than fire? Nothing. Smoking is the most widely diffused habit.. It requires fire. Does it inflame the will, the mind? Is it an international in- vitation to international disequili- brium? We are suffering with those who have individual disease; we suffer on account of national ignorance and we suffer on account of international war, the terrible international aceu- mulation of error, disease. Find the invitation? DEMOCRATS HAVE MAJORITY OF ONE VOTE IN THE HOUSE. Washington, D. C.—Withy Represen- tative Seully of New Jersey, Democrat, definitely known to be clected, the house for next session lined up as fol- lows: Demoerats, 216; Republicans, 215; Progressives, 2; Socialist, 1; Inde- pendent, 1. ° Mr. George E. Brennan, who has for many years been one of the high priests of the Democratic party in this city and state and who is the resident manager of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, Ma., with extensive offices on the sixth floor of the Corn Exchange National Bank Building, who contributed $3,000 to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund, will in the near future depart. on @ vacation trip with Mrs, Brennan for several points in Florida, remaining there until near the first of March, re- turning home by the way of Washing- ton, D. C., where they will witness the seeond inauguration of President Wil- son. Attorney A. E. Patterson, 3102 S. State street, will leave this evening for Washington, D. C., and New York City on legal business. He will be ab- sent some ten or fifteen days. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JANUARY 13. 1917. Editor A. T. Smith Still Languishes inthe Waco, Texas Jail, for Quoting an Article from the Chicago Defender. The News of Louisville, Ky. Is Calling on the Public Spirited Citizens to As- sist to Raise a Fund to Prevent the sean Editor from Working! in the Chain Gang on the Public Roads | ATTORNEY E. D. EVANS IS THE ONLY CITIZEN BELONGING TO THE WHITE RACE IN WACO, TEXAS WHO HAS THE MORAL COURAGE TO STAND UP FOR RIGHT AND JUSTICE AND WITHOUT RECEIV- ING ONE DOLLAR FOR HIS SERVICES HE HAS BRAVELY STOOD BY A. T. SMITH, THE COLORED EDITOR. All the world knows of the horrible burning and mutilation of Jesse Wash- ington, an imbecile and’ half-wit, who was charged with the murder of a White woman in Waco, Texas, nearly ja year ago. But few people know that ithe editor of a Colored paper in that town was jailed immediately after- ward for criticising the officials and the [mob and that he has not had a day of iberty since. But such is the ease. A. T. Smith Jwas the managing editor of the Paul Quinn Weekly at the time of the lyneb- jing. And his feelings were so out- raged that he threw ‘‘conservatism’? jand ‘caution’? to the winds and wrote such burning criticisms of the officials Jand citizens of Waco, an apparently progressive and university city, that it riled the erackers and hurt their tender hides so that they arrested Smith and indicted him for criminal libel and threw him in jail, where he has lan- jguished ever sinee—forsaken by his own race and by the college for which he worked. His only friend has been R, D. Evans, an attorney (White) who volunteered his services rather than ito see him go to slaughter without an advocate. Mr. Evans succeeded in getting the judge to give Mr. Smith ithe minimum sentence of one year and to allow him the*benefit of the four months he had served. He also made lan effrt to keep Smith off the county roads as a county convict by paying $1 a day and having him remain in jail. He has raised from Colored peo- ple and paid $34 to the county treas- urer for the first month. This he must continue to do for eight months or Smith will go to the chain gang, doing hard labor for using his ‘inalienable right’? of free speech. For what he said in his paper denouncing this bar- barism he said for Colored people everywhere—in Waco, Texas, in Louis- ville, Ky., or Boston, Mass. Shall He Go? The following will help elucidate matters: Waco, Texas, Dee. 30, 1916. Mr. G. M. MeClelland, Louisville, Ky. Dear Sir: Your telegram reached my office in due course, but I was over at Austin on business and came in this morning and found it. I am sending you copy of the paper and have marked the articles. The editorial is not action- able, it being ‘‘free speech,’? but the news article was, the Chicago De- fender, from which it was copied was not given credit. I hope your people may find suffi cient sympathy with this boy to help him. He is still in jail by seratching. I certainly appreciate the race love that you and your most excellent peo- ple are displaying. ‘Yours with thanks, R. D. EVANS. Dear Warley: Try to do something about this. I telegraphed Evans last week for the article hoping to have it to present at the emancipation meeting. It came today. I am leaving for California, hoping to reach my boy before he dies, but with not much chance with five days of travel to reach him. The tele- gram today was to tell me of the beginning of the end. My heart breaks for my own boy is past words and my pocketbook is more than broken to be able to make the trip but I leave with Mr. Green, a half dollar for this persecuted Colored boy at Waco. If this editorial was unwise he was at least brave enough to speak and denounce the Waco murderers— and he spoke for me—for all Louis. Ville, It’s the Smiths and the An- thony Crawfords who will finally save us—not an antilynehing fund. If there are really as many as one hun- dred negro men and women in Louis: ville, they will give fifty cents each and send R. D. Evans $50. G. M. MeCLELLAND. sample of the editorials which caused the persecution of Mr. Smith follows. “(Is the law afraid to pursue its rightly course or is it that the law is the White man’s and goes only as he commands? Why not the law, which is said to be made for the peo- ple, be enforced upon the White man as rigidly as upon the Negro man? Did that black skin make the Negro a raving beast without the sense of intellectuality and humiliation to the extent that he must, be trodden down by the White man Because his skin is White? No! No! a thousand times no. God created all men equal. Not the White man the black man’s su- perior, but equal. But conditions of previous servitude have tended to make the Negro man feel that he is the White man’s inferior. So long as this ‘‘inferior’’ spirit lurks within our veins, just so long will we be trampled under foot by this uncivilized mass of bandits who, for no other reason than that dogish desire to see human blood flow, will take our lives, abuse our families, while we stand helplessly and look on—helpless—Yes, just because we won't take courage and stand to- gether for the right. Oh how grating on our minds is the memory of that awful deed of only a few days ago that happened right here in our city. Could it have been helped? No, you say; why you are a coward of the lowest degree; you are unfit to live and associate with humanity. You ought to be exiled, yes worse, you ought to have meted out to you a life time torture. You, you cowardly cur, are a murderer of the first degree. If you ever attempt again to say that dastardly mob could not have been re- pulsed may the God of Heaven cleave that lying tongue of yours to the roof of your mouth.’’ One mistake made by Mr. Smith was the quotation of an article from the Chicago Defender in which it was said Jesse Washington did not kill the woman but her husband was the myr- derer. Mr. Smith reprinted this ar- ticle without giving its source. This counted heavily against him in court. ‘The Chicago Defender is the largest land most unreliable race paper in the country. It is the race’s leading yel- low journal and it is always quoted at a tisk. Mr. Smith suffers for demand- ing justice and denouncing the evils all race people oppose. Shall he longer languish in jail!—The News, Louis- ville, Ky., Jan. 6, 1917. - The citizens of Louisville, Ky., and the people of this city as well as those residing in other parts of the country can well afford to contribute something to this worthy cause. If any of the friends or readers of this paper feel like assisting in this matter be it ever so little, they can forward their con- tributions to us and we will send it to Attorney R. D. Evans, Waco, Texas, at the same time requesting him to forward them a receipt for their money. —Editor. CHIPS. Mrs. Jennie Watts-Brown, 7228 Went- worth avenue, is still confined to her home from the effects of a very severe cold which she contracted during the holidays. Tt was announced in these columns December 23rd that A. V. Lancelin was lost to his friends in this part of the country. Since that statement, he has been located in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he is now employed in the lead- ing hotel of that city. The revolving brush of the ordinaty carpet sweeper is driven by the fric- tion of the wheels on which the sweep- er runs against driving wheels on el- ther end of the brush axle. To insure good friction the peripheries of all ot 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 efi- cient method of repairing a sweeper having imperfect or worn rubber rings 1s 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 {s 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 1s 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 Sclentifie American. It has been found that arsenic compounds are ab- sorbed 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 or- gans, 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 kid- neys. On the other hand, if slow ar- sente poisoning were suspected anal- ysis would show arsenic in the bair, 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. ‘ian Mieteom Sterclane Genie You caunot fancy how deeply com- plicated the African marriage system 1s or how: many ramifications there may be to a “woman's palaver.” 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 charac- ter. ‘The younger woman had been ac- cused 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 quar- reling?” (They are notorious scrap- pers.) “Well,” said Wawa, “she was bought with one of my children, and I cannot forget it."—Jean Kenyon Mac- kenzie in Atlantic. Sei It is curious how little selfishness 1s understood. It is generally assumed to be. an Intense regard for oneself, when in reality it is a supreme disre- gard. Unselfishness, on the other hand, 1s a higher regard for oneself. Selfishness {s only a form of destruc- tion. It fs produced by soul avarice. What we put into ourselves draws no interest. It 1s constantly deteriorating in value. Selfishness is an ingrowing shortsightedness. Selfishness is also a form of sincerity. Selfish people de- ceive nobody. They wear their selfish- ness 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 or eucharistic bread adopted by the early Christians and mentioned in St. Chrysostom's liturgy. ‘The substitution of the cross mark for the horn maf& 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 Hercblaneum. PAGE FIVE ‘The Great ExndAcer. In 1834, after an exciting debate of several weeks, congress passed a res- elution censuring President Andrew Jackson for removing the public ée- Pos'ts from the old National bank. ‘The resolftion as passed by congress declared “that the president in the late executive proceedings in relation to the pablie revenue bas assumed upon bimse!f authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws. but in derozation ef both.” The ac- tion of congress made Jackson and bis friends very angry, and Senator Thom- ‘as Beaton of Missouri gave notice that he would bring forward every ygar a resolution to expunge the resolution of ceasure. After a struzzle of three years Benton's resolution was finally passed. and black lines were drawn around the resolution of censure, with the in- scription, “Expunged by ages of the senate this 16th day of Mnuary. 1837." Senator Benton was nicknamed “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 fizht in a hotel at Nashville, in which Jackson was wounded and Ben- ton was pitched headlong downstairs. ee “Never” is a word which is wrongly defined in the dictionary. In that book we gather the under- standing that “never” means not at all, forevermore. But— Each day in our broad land young women vow that they will never for- give 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 an- other extravagant and foolish purchase. Candidates aver 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 Jength of time from one hour to four days.—Life. euler Canin’ te Conta, One need not overlook the enormous shortcomings of Louls XIV. as a man and as a king to admit that in some im- Portant respects he “tried to do his duty.” He was a hard working sover- eign both in the sphere of administra- tion and in that social sphere which ‘was to his mind no less {mportant. So courteous that he never passed the Poorest woman about the palace with- out 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 apolo- sized for being so long in mounting the steps, at the top of which the king stood waiting. “Ab, cousin,” Louis re- plied, “one moves slowly when one is Jaden with laurels.” f S.desie Qemeiene: ~ alister, here's them five tons of coal you ordered this morning.” “No, sir, this isn’t the real, genuine olive oll. ‘That's the reason we sell it 80 cheap.” “You don't need to waste any sym- pathy 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 inerease your salary $10 a week, begin- ning today.”—Portland Express. How Easter Is Reckoned. The Christian festival of Easter cor- responds to the Pascha or Passover of the Jewish faith. Easter day (from which the rest of religious movable feasts are recorded) 1s invariably the first Sunday sueceeding the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (four- teenth day) falls on or next after ‘March 21. If the fourteenth day should be Sunday, Easter day would be the Sunday following. | ——— ! Sc aaa Experiments have shown that the air of an unventilated, occupied room contains substances which in some way and without producing conscious dis- comfort and detectable physiological symptoms diminishes the appetite for food.—Exchange. @ PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. ° a ¢ Typhoid Fever. © A noted English sanitarian has @ sald 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 ex- @ istence of typhold fever bears @ the stigma of diszrace for two @ reasons—first. because we know @ more about its prevention and @ ite fltbs source than most any © other disease and, second, be- @ cause its presence betrays sith, @ either as to our food and drink © or as to our personal habits. @ Ignorance is no longer 2 cloak @ under which to hide the disgrace @ of typhoid fever. Keep your © bome and surroundings absolute- @ ly clean, keep yourself and your - @ clothing absolutely clean, keep | @ your food absolutely clean, and @ you will have no typhold fever. e # AVE OLA THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republians, Democrate, Catholies, Protestants, single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Locality. "Some expert says that it takes fully fifteen minutes to shear a sheep by hand." "Not if the operation is performed in Wall street."—Baltimore American. Quite Different. Miss Oldgirl (simpering)—That nice young man said I was quite a mural decoration of the occasion. Miss Pert—He meant you were a wallflower, all right.—Baltimore American. Forgetful. Caretaker—Sir Walter Scott spent a night in this room. 'Ere we 'ave a complete set of 'is works. Intelligent Sightsee—Left 'em be'ind, I suppose?—Passing Show. "Cut it out," interposed the young lady. "It's bad form to talk about a girl you had."—Louisville Courier-Journal. What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. Cautious. "I've discovered a system by which my employer could get all the work in his office done with half the force he employs now." "Why don't you tell him about it and earn his undying gratitude?" "I don't dare to. He might decide that I am one of the men he could do without."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Portugal's Big Diamond. It is claimed for the Braganza, which formed part of the Portuguese crown jewels, that it is the biggest diamond in the world, weighing 1,860 carats. Some doubt exists, however, as to whether it is a real diamond, as no official testing can be authenticated. It was found in Brazil in 1741.-London Telegraph. Night Scenes in Yokohama. In most oriental countries sunset brings quiet to the streets and there is little night life. But on Theater street, Yokohama, 11 o'clock at night sees the great crowds leaving the movies, which are close together, and the resulting scene is one never to be forgotten. Humanity packed too close for comfort surges in an unbroken tide from one end of the street to the other. Add to this mass of many hued forms the taking down of the highly colored banners and you have a scene that makes the dropping of the big top at home look like a side show. Sometimes the lights on the water produce an effect almost Venetian in charm, but the bulky canal boat lacks the artistic lines of the gondola, and the water sends forth a scent-which might be called by a plainer name. The newspaper boy rushes through the narrow streets hurling the sheets to right and left as he runs and ringing the bells at his waist to announce his arrival—Christian Herald. Burdette and the Towel. The story of how Bob Burdette began to write for publication is rather interesting. His wife was an invalid, and most of his verse and short stuff were written solely for her entertainment. One day he was talking to Frans Hatton, who later became postmaster general under Arthur. Hatton was then editing the Burlington Hawkeye. "Bob," said Hatton, "when you get through reading your stuff to your wife hand it over to me and I'll print it." One of the first things he turned over was his famous ode to the printing office towel. This is part of it: Over and under was blacker than thunder. And daily put on a more inkler hue. Until one windy morning without any warning. It fell on the floor and was broken in two. —Charles B. Lewis (M. Quad) in New York Sun. PLAN LONG FLIGHT 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 Thirty Hours' Flying Time—She Will Be Sole Occupant of Machine. Which Can Carry Two Passengers. New York.—From San Francisco to New York by aeroplane—that is the latest ambition of Miss Ruth Law. She announced she had accepted the offer of the president of an aeroplane company to build for her a new type of machine especially for long distance飞 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 will time me. ALEXANDRA MISS LAW LANDING AFTER 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 American cross country record of 500 miles by the recent trip from Chicago 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 passengers, but Miss Law will be the sole occupant on the coast to coast trip. The plucky bird woman's last spectacular appearance was when she flew over the statue of Liberty on Dec. 2, when the lighting system built by popular 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 naturalization 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 because of naturalization papers believed to have been issued to his father before his son had reached his majority. He has voted at every presidential election since the civil war, of which he is a veteran; held a commission in the United States army, served as a delegate to the Republican national convention, served as sheriff of Gibson county, Ind., and has taken an active part in politics for many years. The question of his 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 recently 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 extract 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 piece. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 13. 1917. PLAN TO STRENGTHEN ARMY FLYING SERVICE Course of Instruction For Field Officers at San Diego. New York.—Plans have been practically 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.; Newport News, San 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 maintained at each station, and classes for national guard officers and reserve aviators will be held. It is planned to cover the entire country with stations and schools, and it is believed that they will serve to develop an efficient corps of active and reserve aviators. One of the latest features inaugurated by the aviation section of the signal corps is a course of instruction for field officers. It will be conducted at San Diego. Several officers have already 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 has been contracted for by the corps. ONLY WHITE HORSES ARE SEEN IN GERMAN CITIES Dark Animals Used For Army. Four-fifths of Taxis In Berlin Electrified. 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 army work. The whites are not, their color being too conspicuous. But the demand for horses has been so great that even the whites are used when they are young, being painted dark. The horses left for civilian purposes are the old ones. Most of those you find attached to the ancient droskhies on Unter den Linden look as if they were cousins to the echippus that Noah took with him into the ark. The age of the drivers corresponds to the antiquity of their steeds. Most of them are graybeards, but by way of paradox their girths are as great as those of their horses are small. Four-fifths of the taxis are electrified, which enables them to proceed at a slow, dignified pace for short stretches. The few internal combustion 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 lifes boots. The bulk of the German soldier is recruited from the agricultural class, which has been accustomed to boots and does not willingly use other footwear. SHARK GOT HALF HIS CATCH. Sudden End of Fisherman's Great Expectations. Honolulu.—What promised to be one of the biggest ulua catches of the season for Tax Collector Charles T. Wilder was spolled when a 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 tail 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 tail. LINK BOYS IN LONDON AGAIN. Fog Said to Have Been the Worst In Fifty Years. 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 taxi-cabs disappeared from the streets. Pedestrians 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. Washington.—The treasury department received a contribution for the "conscience fund," consisting of what had been three $100 gold notes and four $50 gold notes. The sender wrote that for "duties withheld" he desired 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 department he would send the missing halves to the collector of the port of New York. A CONVICT'S WORD 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. Ossining, N. Y.-As a graphic illustration of the determination of the prisoners in Sing H. to give a square deal to William H. Moyer, the new warden, Abe Lewis, a convict who had been granted permission by Governor Whitman to attend, with a guard, the funeral of his wife in Brooklyn, returned 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 the new warden that the prisoners could be safely trusted with privileges. Lewis is 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 his wife, who had stuck by him through everything, had died suddenly. Their three young 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 his 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. Moyer surely was to assume the wardenments Lewis hurried back to the prison. The convict turned up there unexpectedly, although the governor had granted him permission to stay overnight. "He would have come back just the same even if no guard had been sent along with him," commented Dr. Barry, 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, modification 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've 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 how 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 Francisco, Cal.-Through publicity attending the wrecked romance of their eighteen-year-old daughter, Signe, the Gerstad family of Bellingham, Wash, it was said here, is about to come into a fortune. The girl recently became a temporary 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 Gerstad, 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 Hickle, 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 Flannagan. Two tracts of land were at the disposal of the community gardens committee, and by cultivating the vacant lots the gardeners made productive 115,850 square feet of land that otherwise 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. Hen Gobbles Pearl. Portland, Ore—Mrs. Lettle Trapp of this city has a valued pet hen named Clarice. The other day as Mrs. Trapp was feeding her fowls Clarice leaped affectionately up to her shoulder, sped a valuable pearl in Mrs. Trapp's earring, gobbled it and leaped down again, gulping. Mrs. Trapp screamed, first with pain as the pearl was wrenched away and then with horror at her loss. She caught Clarice and imprisoned 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. Y., was found dead from exposure on his barge, which was made fast at pier 22 of the New York Dock company 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 his 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 trying to get into his cabin when the window slammed down and caught 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 dynamite 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 tenements along Commercial and Salutation 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 retaliation because some unlicensed meetings led by industrial agitators had been broken up recently by officers. 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 thoroughfare and Forty-third street. The deposits alone of this office total nearly $40,000,000. How much was in the 2,500 safe deposit boxes is beyond conjecture. The work of removal was guarded by special officers belonging to the bank and by squads of city policemen and detectives. The task began at the close of business 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. Traffic on Fifth avenue was not interrupted, and the transfer of all this wealth was practically unnoticed by the passsby. MULES LOVE MUSIC. Rancher Has the Phonograph Play While He Breaks In Colts. Marysville, Cal.—George A. Gage of Sutter county says he is the first "musical farmer." Gage raises mules and horses. He has a big music box on his farm, and he plays band pieces, preferably 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 orneriest old mule you ever saw—to Yuba City when a brass band was playing. "The mule had one of his balky, contrary spells that day," Gage said, "and I could hardly do a thing with Benjamin until we got to Yuba City. You'd never believe it if I told you the change just a few band selections made in that animal. From that day until Benjamin's death he was the gentlest, lovingest old mule you ever would want to see." RISK FINE FOR CHARITY. Young Women Sell Cigarettes Without Federal License. San Francisco.—Sweet charity caused 250 young women to break the federal laws. If the penalty should be enforced they will be fined $500 each, a total of $125,000. Uncle Sam has a law that mentions a license 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 blind soldiers, and, according to J. J. Scott, internal revenue collector, they are liable because they neglected to get licenses. Now, there were 450,000 cigarettes 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. Sallina, Kan.-E. A. Hillman of Wa- keeney has a sore face, caused by a tussle with a large catfish which he 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 Hillman such a blow in the face that he was thrown off his balance and his face badly lacerated, and then the fish escaped. Twelve Hundred Are Now Employed In London. THEIR WORK IS HEALTHFUL. Benefit In Physique and Complexion by Open Air Life—All Under Care of Lady Doctor—Their Average Earnings Run to About $10 a Week, Every Class Represented. London.—Twelve hundred girls are employed as London bus conductors, and are more wanted. All sorts of inducements are offered to them, including the assurance that the work is healthy and even patriotic. The manager of the London General Omnibus company says: "We have had to counsel several reports that the girls on our busses are unable to stand the stream of the work and that in consequence they are leaving our employ. "Every week we put on about eight new conductresses and would increase H:24 GIRL BUS CONDUCTOR. the number if we could. We can deal with hundreds more at once. "Each pupil receives not only free tuition for a period of two or three weeks, but is paid 50 cents a day for her time. After they have qualified the average earnings run to about $50 a week. "There 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 under the care of a lady doctor. "Since March we have interviewed 10,000 applicants and are very careful in our selection. Among our ranks almost 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 to suppose that they will be unable to stand the work during the winter, and 'staff work' is not so trying as the public imagines." WANTS NOISELESS ENGINES. Hissing Locomotives Disturb Rest in Oakland, Pa. Pittsburgh.-Oakland, the acropolis of Pittsburgh, with its great bails of art and learning, is marred by a nuisance worse by far than the vendors whose presence desecrated the Coliseum in Rome or the Rialto bridge in Venice, according to members of the Oakland board of trade. This nuisance is declared to be the night long and day long hissing and timing of locomotives. This, John Binning, a member of the board, pointed out, is not only detrimental to Oakland as a center of art, but it robs mobs, both artists and business men of their sleep. Mr. Dimling in an impassioned speech told of locomotives, huge monsters which seemed to take a demonical de light in standing for hours spouting infernal funes and losing fidelity through their pop valves. Repeated protests to the railroad company, he said, were of no avail. A committee was directed to ask the courts to grant an injunction against the railroad company similar to the one granted some years ago by the supreme court to a Junction Hollow resident now dead. GIRL, FOLLOWING FASHION, CHARGED WITH INSANITY Kansas City.—"If all young women followed the dictates of fashion to the letter there would be few out of the asylum," was the way a sanity commission put it when it ordered the liberation of Margaret Wagner, seventeen years old, who was held on complaint of her mother. The latter thought the girl insane because despite cold weather, she wore decollete gowns and short skirts. The daughter's defense was "All the other girls dress that way." TO LIE NEAR HER FIVE HUSBANDS IS LAST WISH Mrs. Van Sickle Had Personally Erected Tombstones to Them. La Crosse, Wis.—To be buried in her own private cemetery in a corner of her farm near the graves of her five husbands was the last wish of Mrs. Emma C. Van Sickle, who died recently. Over the graves of her husbands are tomstones erected by the wife's own hands. One has this verse inscribed upon it: In heaven, my heart clings to thee, love. In heaven I hope to meet above. You was ever kind and true to me. So was I to you, Emma C. Another reads: "Peter, died Jan. 12, 1854, aged fifty-three years By Emma." The other three stones are small and the inscriptions brief. One reads "D. C. V." another "P. D. C." and the third "P. E." WAR DRIVES FOREIGN THIEVES TO AMERICA Detectives Expect Big Haul In Jewelry at Some Society Event This Winter. Washington. If you happen to own a jewel collection and your taste runs toward wearing it in public, you had better hire a bodyguard this winter. The United States is overrun with European crooks, some of them the sunniest thieves on the continent. Private detective and police agencies in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and other big centers are looking forward to one of the most active years in the last decade. It's all on account of the European war, which has made theft hardly worth while on a big scale across the water. In Washington there's a detective agency which specializes in the guarding of guests and jewelry at big social functions. The business of this agency is not confined to events at the capital, for private detectives of faultless manner and speech are sent on jobs as far west as Chicago by this same agency. One man who has devoted years of experience and his organization of sleuths to the protection of social leaders and their guests recently returned from a trip that extended north to Boston and west to the Mississippi. "It's going to be a big year for agencies like ours," he said. "Within the past twelve months Europe has been sending over some of the cleverest jewel thieves this country has ever seen, and they have only come here when it was clear that robbery as a profession was up against hard times abroad until the war was over." INHERITANCE AFTER YEARS. Rever Never In One Place Long Enough to Apply For It. St. Louis—George Weise, a former sailor and of an admitted roving disposition, recently received $300.25 from the local free legal aid bureau, representing his share of the estate of an uncle who died in Adrian, Mich., eight-even years ago. Weise applied to the bureau several days ago and asked Matthew Conckling, assistant superintendent, to assist him in getting his inheritance. He explained that he had never applied for it because since the death of his uncle he had not been long enough in one place to take the time to apply for his share. Coukling wrote to Adrian and in reply to his letter received one from E. A. Cole, present owner of the property of Weise's mule, Edward Bauer, containing the money due Weise and a quit claim deed to the property for the latter's signature. DRIVES MILES FOR MAIL Farmer Will Not Allow Rural Carrier to Bring It. Smith Center, Kan.-Frank Nichols lives on route No. 5 out of this city. For years Nichols has stubbornly refused to have his mail come by carrier, although a route runs right by his door. Each Saturday he makes the eleven mile drive from home and gets his mail out of the postoffice here. He insists the carrier system is an unnecessary expense to the government and that it is putting false and injurious notions into the rising generations on the farm. 2,000,000 ORANGES TOO RIPE Shipments Valued at $50,000 Are Destroyed In Week. New York. - Two million oranges, much too ripe for consumption, were destroyed in New York by a squad under the supervision of Luclus P. Brown, head of the bureau of foods and drugs of the department of health. The oranges were taken from shipping and railroad, terminals. They aggregated about 250 tons and were mostly from Porto Rico and Jamaica. The loss to the shippers was about $100,000. Wed at Stack's High Top at Stack's High Top. Florence, Colo.—Bessie Norton, aged twenty-one, and Joseph Bowling, twen- quete years old, were married on top at a 200 foot concrete smokestack in an native city witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. W. J. Kade. What the Soldiers Eat The food of soldiers in the field varies according to their nationalities. The principal meal of the Russian soldier consists of stchee, something between a gruel and a soup, the chief ingredients of which are cabbage, potatoes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably pork. These are boiled together, with salt and other seasoning, the result being a thick, nourishing and by no means unpalatable dish. The Italian soldiers, who are splendid marchers, live largely on a farinaceous diet—macaroni, spaghetti and so on. They are also very partial to fruit, which is issued, together with wine and cigars, as part of their rations whenever possible. No German soldier considers his daily menu complete without a sausage of some kind or other, and the "stronger" its flavor the better. A nutritious pea soup is also a staple of the army ration The mainstay of the French soldier consists of his beloved "soup," as he calls it. It is really a thick, nourishing stew, made of meat, potatoes and various other vegetables. The English "Tommy" is omnivorous, but the things he loves above all else are bacon and jam.—Youth's Companion. Maine's Gum Industry. Gathering spruce gum has long since become one of the steady minor industries of Malne, where every year about 15,000 tons of crude gum, valued at a third of a million dollars, are harvested The crude article is formed as the result of injury to red and black spruce trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner bark of trees, and the injuries they cause, known as "hog cuts." are fruitful sources of gum. Lightning scars, frost cracks, old blazes and the abrasions caused by falling trees and even sap sucker drills are other occasions for gum formation. Around the edges of such wounds little nodules appear and gradually develop into lumps or teats. A wide scar heals slowly and may produce gum around the entire wounded area, while a narrow seam closes so quickly that only a single row of these "nuggets" is possible—Argonaut. Transformed Mines An old abandoned mine near Saalfeld, in the Thuringian forest, which in the time of Luther was worked for silver, copper, alum and vitrol, has been discovered by a Berlin geologist to have developed into one of the most beautiful caverns. In the course of centuries the water percolating through the minerals has built up throughout the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stalactites and stalagmites, thrown together with a profusion and brilliance of color which is said to be without parallel. Deep greens, vivid blues, the purest white, yellows of all shades—in fact, the entire scale of color is reproduced over and over again, and yet the colors melt into each other so gently that nowhere is the impression of disagreeable contrast produced. Why Is It? Why is it that when there are two swinging doors 75 per cent of the people open the left hand door? Why don't they open the right hand one? Why is it that 60 per cent of the people walk on the wrong side or in the middle of the sidewalk? Why don't they walk on the right side? Why is it that 50 per cent of the people don't know how to turn a corner or enter a store? Why is it that they keep close to the building when they ought to be on the outside edge of the sidewalk to enter as they should? Why is it that people will stand like this . . . on the sidewalk and talk. Why is it they will not stand like this . . . Thereby taking up one-half as much space. Why is it?—Boston Post. Very Free Verse. Vers libre is certainly taking hold. Much might be said in this connection of its form, its content and whether proficiency in it is innate or acquired. Let it suffice for the moment to record what happened when a music teacher asked her pupils to make up little verses and then make melodies to accompany them. One little boy said he never had made up verses. "Just a little verse," said the teacher. "Well," said the boy, dreamily: Sometimes the sky at night Looks like a spotted egg. —New York Post. Due Caution. "Prizener at the bar, will you be tried by jury or by the court?" "By jury, your honor, by jury." by jjny, you love, by jjny, "Humph! Why-er-haven't I seen you before somewhere?" "Yes, your honor. I sell you ice in summer and do your plumbing in wint- er."-Richmond Times-Dispatch. No Joke. Either "Isn't it awful the way prices have gone up?" "It surely is. Just think, my husband will have to work three weeks to get money enough to pay for this simple little gown I have on."—Detroit Free Press. Diplomacy In the Home Every now and then wife urges husband to buy some new clothes for himself, but if he is a pretty good talker he can get out of it without making her mad.-Fort Worth Worth-Telegram. Very Active. Bing—He's very active in financial matters, isn't he? Bang—You bet! He owes me $10, and every time he sees me he dodges me—Town Topics. Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.—Samuel Smiles. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, JANUARY 13, 1917 Our First Theater. In 1752 the first theater in the United States was opened in the colony of Virginia at old Williamsburg. The originator was an English actor, William Hallam, Sr., who brought his own company from overseas and presented "The Merchant of Venice" as the initial performance. The idea spread rapidly, and soon New York, Philadelphia and the other leading communities of colonial America each had its theater. While the Virginia playhouse was the first in the United States, actors had played in the colonies before this date. The first is said to have been the English strolling player Anthony Aston, who was known as Mat Medley. The actor and his art of that day were generally despised by the Puritanical colonists. The Massachusetts legislature passed a law shortly after amateurs had given "The Orphans" at the Coffee House in Boston in 1749 which forbade such performances, prescribing a penalty for actors and spectators alike of $25 each.—Exchange Curious Baths In her book, "My Siberian Year," Miss M. A. Czaplacka, speaking of the social habits of the Siberians, says: "The celebrant of the fortnightly rite of the bath fills the banya with a dense cloud of steam by sluicing water into a kind of open mouthed oven in the wall of the stove and sits on a daisy over against it, dabbing himself all over with water he has taken from the cistern and tempered to a just endurable heat in a tin basin with colder water from a barrel in the corner. Having put himself into a state bordering on suffocation and raised his own temperature several degrees above fever point, he pulls open the door, rushes naked into the open air, rolls over and over in the snow, covers himself with it and lies there till the heat of his body has made a pool of water under him. Then he runs back to the banya and flagellates himself with a bunch of twigs as he stands surrounded by a fresh cloud of steam from the oven." Honesty Extraordinary. A traveler writing in an Italian magazine says that the Swiss canton of Ticino is inhabited by the most honest folk it is possible to imagine. In most of the Ticinese villages, the writer says, the oldest inhabitants do not remember any case of thieving, however petty, within a lifetime. Lost objects when found must never be taken away. They must be left where they were dropped or placed in a conspicuous position, so that the rightful owner can find his property more easily. The case is cited of an American woman tourist who lost her purse on an excursion in the Val Caprasla. The purse contained gold coin and a jeweled watch. Upon returning from her trip she found the purse with its contents intact on a little heap of leaves, so placed that it could not fall to attract her attention. Salaries With Silver Linings. The highest salaried man in Japan does not receive enough money in that form to pay for the gasoline used by his automobile, for salaries of the managers of business corporations are insignificantly small, says the Japan Times. Salaries, however, are not the total income of business men. Under the Japanese custom there is a liberal bonus system, and the bonus amounts to 300 or 400 times the monthly salary in some cases. The Mitsui company is regarded as the biggest corporation in Japan, and its directors are noted for their large incomes. Each director is said to receive in the form of a bonus about $100,000 a year, although his salary may be only $250 a month. Legal Wit. A lawyer was walking into court recently with his length of arm taxed to hold a pile of law books. To him said a friend, pointing to his books: "Why, I thought you carried all that stuff in your head." "So I do," quickly replied the learned counsel, with a knowing wink. "These are for the judges." Fine Luck. Mrs. Exe—So you've got a new gown after all. I thought you said you couldn't afford one this season? Mrs. Wye—So I did. But you see my husband had a streak of luck recently. He broke his leg the next day after taking out an accident policy that pays $50 a week.—Boston Transcript. Struck the Wrong Spot. A man lost his wife and his cow both in the same week. His neighbors tried to console him by hinting that they would see that he got another wife. "Yes; you're willing to get me another wife," said he, "but none of you offers to get me another cow." In the Barber Shop. "Your hair," said the aggravating barber to the slightly bald man, "is coming out on top." "Good!" cried the sensitive victim. "I knew it was in me. Now, for goodness' sake, don't talk to it or it'll crawl back again."—London Telegraph. His View of It. Wife-That girl in the opposite hat is quite a promising singer. Hub-Well, get her to promise that she won't sing any more.-Boston Transcript Very Unruly. Miss Paul-Grace doesn't obey anybody. Miss Pry-No; she doesn't even mind her own business.-Town Topica. Consult duty, not events. - Waltes Savage Landor. TWO THOUSAND VOICES IN CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE Will Be Supplemented by Soloist and Orchestra of Seventy Pieces. New York.—The New York Community chorus, under the direction of Harry Barnhart, will try to have almost all New York sing on Christmas 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 between 1,500 and 2,000 persons, who have been practicing the oratorio for two months. They will be supplemented by a soloist and an orchestra of seventy pieces. Mr. Barnhart, who, with Arthur Farwell, the composer; W. Kirkpatrick Brice, the treasurer, and Claude Bragdon, the architect and the creator of the "Light" half of "Song and Light," was impressed first by the national ineptitude for music. When listening to a band concert in a park at Rochester he suddenly was struck by the idea that the mute and enchanted crowd would be glad to sing if they had only the opportunity and training. To fill this need he organized a community chorus in Rochester and later a smaller one at Lyons, N. Y. It was only in January of 1916 that the New York Community chorus was attempted, but since then its ranks have been expanding rapidly until it now is necessary to transfer it from the auditorium of De Witt Clinton high school to Madison Square Garden for the Christmas celebration. SEVEN THOUSAND MILE VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG Mistaken a Dozen Times For Submarine In Trip Across Atlantic New York.—A remarkable sea voyage of 7,060 miles, from Dordrecht, Holland, to Tampaico, Mexico, in a tugboat but sixty feet in length, with a draft of three feet, has just been completed by a crew of men under the leadership of Captain H. Waltaker. Captain Waltaker and his crew, of whom one was E. M. Eden, a young artist of Amsterdam, who made the trip to satisfy a longing for adventure, started home on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam. The voyage required eighty-four days' time and was made doubly hazardous by the fact that the tug could carry only twenty-seven tons of coal. Frequent attempts to stop passing vessels to replenish the bunkers failed. Each time the presence of the small boat in the path of a steamship would send the vessel zigzagging away in the belief that the tug might be a disguised submarine. "We were taken for a submarine a dozen times during the trip," said Mr. 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 in the Panuco river. In ordinary circumstances the tug would have been transported lashed to a ship's deck, but the freight rate demanded was deemed 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. Y.—Colonel Roosevelt is on the trail of malignant malefactors again. This time it is one or more trepidd woodmen 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 "discovery 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. Fugitive Delirium Tremens Victim Discards Clothes and Climbs. Nyack, N. Y.—After passing twenty hours in the topmost branches of a tree, Edgar Tordoff was rescued by hunters. He was arrested suffering from delirium tremens and sent to the almshouse at Viola instead of to 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 famished when found by the hunters and Letchworth policemen and may die. Tordoff is a painter. Work Mine In U. S. Supreme Court. Washington.-Dynamos, motors and other electrical apparatus whizzed and whirred in the supreme court chamber at Washington when the justices viewed a miniature mining plant in full operation. The demonstration, unique in the court's history, was held to give the justices an actual view of a mining patent in operation, one used in many countries and attacked as invalid in a case recently reargued. Wonderful Rainer 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 bubbling from the ground one feels more keenly the puissance of God. To the left from the road, looking as if it were but a block away, rises Mount Tacoma, its sides showing the purplish lines of ice, great snow fields and jagged rocks. Yet it is five miles from the springs to Nisqually glacier, over a 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 peek stripped of their branches and bark and whitened by the elements. Now it is a glimpse of Nisqually river, which takes its origin from the glacier of that name, as it tumbles along over its rocky bed, and now it is a forested 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'Clock. The habit of counting 12 o'clock at sunset is very ancient. The Turks, Greeks and most other people in the Levant have almost always counted 12 o'clock from sunset, and to this day the common people cannot understand 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 is, 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 domestics still count 12 o'clock, as their ancestors have from time immemorial, at sunset—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 eccentric person lived alone, knew nobody, and in his house the curtains, the wall paper, the furniture, even the plates and dishes and the smallest toilet articles, offered an uninterrupted sequence of green. Having started on his career, there was obviously no reason 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. Some Trees. In the angle between the Kings and Kern canyons lies a woodland empire beside which the Harz and Black forest 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 1,166,000 sequoia trees, and of these 12,000 are more than ten feet in diameter. In the Sequoia National park stands the largest tree in the world—not the tallest, but the largest—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 Minnesota timberland—Argonaut. Self Convicted "Say, pa," queried 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 investigator, "ma says you do a lot of gossiping every time your business keeps you late at the office."—Ex- change. Too Much Practice. "Does your minister practice what he preaches?" the newcomer questioned. "He does," the citizen answered, with a sigh, "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. Scene—Pollice court during dispute over eight 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 superstition among seafaring men that when a shark persistently follows a vessel it is a sign that some person on board is going to die, the alleged reason being that the great fish can scent death. Fashionable. Willie—Paw, what is a fashionable 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. PAGE SEVEN GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING Girl Gave Up Stenography to Take In Clothes. Norristown, Pa.—Quitting her position as stenographer to go to the washub, Miss Georgiana Cuthertb is making $88 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 Lusson, her neighbor, plaintiff. Miss Cuthertb informed Judge Swartz that one family alone paid her $30, another $12, two $0 and a fifth $8 a week. She gets the business, she says, because she does not use bleach or acids in cleansing them. "None of the clothing I handle is solled, only mussed," she said. Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent Miss Cuthertb erecting a laundry in the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. Lusson says that a laundry there would be undesirable, unhealthy and in violation of building restrictions. In the testimony experts said a laundry would be unobjectionable; that there would be no dirt, no noise, no smell and, in fact, no reason why this woman should not be permitted to proceed with the laundry. PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS. Charity Finally Took $1 That Railway Official Refused to Accept. Findlay, O. — Philosophers for centuries have attempted to analyze the conscience of the human race and what prompts it, but have been unsuccessful. That such a thing does really exist, Charles F. Smith, general manager of the Toledo, Bowling Green and Southern railway, can now testify. Recently he was sitting in his office when two men walked in and each threw a fifty cent piece on his desk, explaining that twenty years ago they had ridden from the north side to the Tangent depot without paying fare. That was because they were compelled to stand most of the way. During all this time their consciences, they said, had troubled them and they got no rest until they had returned the money with interest. Mr. Smith refused to take the money, but'Dr. J. P. Baker, head of the Associated charities, who happened in Smith's office at the time, confiscated the money for that purpose. DEER ATTACKS POSTMAN Herd Within Three Miles of Pennsylvania Town. Huntington, Pa.—Clark Smith, the oldest rural route agent attached to the Huntington postoffice, met with a spirited attack from a big buck deer while on his return trip a few evenings ago within three miles of this place. A herd of six does, led by a large buck, had been feeding in a mountain meadow and were about to emerge into the open highway just as Smith was driving leisurely past. His horse, a calico colored bronco, seemed to have aroused the ire of the buck, which leaped a fence and attacked the bronco by rearing up and endeavoring to strike it with its forefeet. Mr. Smith used his whip vigorously on the deer. The bronco took fright and finally drew itself and driver to a place of safety. A herd of ten deer, including one elk, has been seen by a farmer at the further end of Smith's route. DREAMED ABOUT SNAKES. Then He Woke Up to Find a Three Foot Rattler In His Room. Altoona, Pa. — George Meritts of Franklinville, Huntingdon county, tossed in the throes of a frightful nightmare and dreamed of rattlesnakes. In bed with Meritts was Samuel Alley of the same place. When Meritts came to himself he still believed himself dreaming, for a hideous rattle sounded in his ears. Alley also heard it. The frightful whirr maintained a steady cadence, and both men were then aware that a rattlesnake was in their room. Having no light handy, the men were imprisoned in their bed for some time. Finally a match and lantern were procured. The snake, more than three feet long, with seven rattles and a button, was colled in the center of the floor. It was killed. WANTS TO GET OUT OF JAIL Amandus Kessler's Plea to Join Marine Corps Likely to Go Unheeded. New York.-Because he is a good porch climber, rifle shooter and has other marked accomplishments, Amandus Kessler wants to get out of jail at Easton, Pa., and become a fighter for Uncle Sam in the ranks of the United States marine corps, according to an appealing letter addressed to the marine recruiting station in this city. Amandus wrote several pages in his patriotic outburst and promised to use his influence to awaken his fellow prisoners to the call of the flag if the marines would only come and get him out. Although the young man claims to be a good, "healthy feller," unfortunately his morals are not in the same flourishing condition, so Amandus and his pals must languish in prison while the marine corps remains heartless but uncontaminated. Scholars Read Original Poems Westmont. N. 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OAKLAND 1860, 1861, 1862 JOHN J. DUNN MILLSALLE GOAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. & M. S. 51st St. and Armour Ave. ONIAGO Central 3142 Trustees Established 1877 ND 1860, 1881, 1882 PAGE RIGHT Lost UP-TO-DATE FE on the South Entertainers. JONES, Proprietor. Office Phones: Res. 5133 Ss. Wabash Ave. Oakland 4662, Auto. 73-058 Phone Drexel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Heure 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 6 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JANUARY 13. 1917. As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. 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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, is at such times very vigorous. Some very interesting experiments have been carried out in connection with these Arums by means of placing a thermometer just inside the spathe. One of the most remarkable cases was that of a species growing on the Mediterranean coast and known as Arum Italicum. The temperature of the air was 60 degrees at the time of the experiment. That inside the spathe was 110 degrees. At that time the blossoms, which when expanded are practically scentless, gave out a fragrance suggestive of wine. It is said that plants of this type are particularly common in Mexico—St. Nicholas. Prefecte In France Mayors are appointed in France in much the same way as in England, but the prefect is a permanent government official, with infinitely greater power and of much more importance. He is the supreme head of a department—of which there are eighty-six—and it is his duty to see that the laws passed in Paris are carried out properly in every commune of his department. He has control over the police and even over the military should their services be required in an industrial or political dispute. He sees that the taxes are collected, and every public improvement scheme is submitted to him in order that he may decide by whom the cost should be borne. The post of prefect is well paid and often leads to higher things. For instance, M. Paul Cambon held three prefectures before he was given a diplomatic post—London Spectator. "A Thief of Health." "The man who coughs or sneezes in your presence without covering his mouth with a handkerchief is a thief," the bulletin of the St. Louis health department says. "He is a thief of health and comfort," continues the bulletin. "Of course he does not know it, and he does not mean to injure his friends and companions, but he does that very thing every time he coughs or sneezes without protecting his mouth and nose with his handkerchief. "Watch the people who are afflicted and take note of how few persons use a handkerchief when sneezing or coughing. They scatter grip germs in offices, workshops, stores, and within twenty-four to forty-eight hours thousands of persons are infected. Nobody seems to think it worth while to use a handkerchief." Conclusive. On one occasion Herr Stelnitz, the famous chess master, was discussing political economy with a distinguished professor in England, and the Malthusian theory came up. After the usual arguments the veteran chess player thus wound up the controversy. "It's all nonsense what they say. You tell me a poor man has no right to have a large family. You say his doing so is not honest, is a positive injury to his country and to humanity. I tell you you are wrong, and I will prove it. My father was a poor man—a very poor man. My father was an honest man—a very honest man. Well, he had thirteen children, and I, Wilhelm Stelnitz, the chess champion of the world. I am the thirteenth." Gamest Fighters Sparrows are proverbially pugnacious. Sometimes a tree will be a sparrow battleground, and for ten minutes it will be as lively as a dog fight. Probably the finest fighter in the world, quadruped or biped, is the gamecock. He is a match for anything his size in the world if he gets a fair field and no favor. He is as quick as a flash of lightning, and his spurs are terrible weapons, quite as effective as a pair of bayonets, and used much more scientifically and forcefully.—London Telegraph. John Adams' inauguration. John Adams, the second president, saw more persons weeping at his inauguration than he had ever seen at any funeral and said of it: "Whether it was because of the loss of a beloved president or the accession of an unpopular one, I cannot say." --- Chicago, Ill. From Emeric to Americas. The transformations that take place in a name as it passes through different languages can only be accounted for by carelessness in transmission. One would scarcely expect the name of Emeric, the name of a plous Hungarian prince of the eleventh century, who was made a saint, to take the form of Amerigo in Italian and of Amory and Emery in English. The name in German, but little changed from the original, is Emmerich. This obscure Hungarian saint has been a person of consequence in this world, for from his name has come that of this great continent. In the fifteenth century, in the Italian form of Amerigo, it was bestowed upon an Italian navigator surnamed Vespuci, and this continent, by a still further mutilation of the name, came to be known as America. When King Stephen of Hungary was choosing a name for his son he could scarcely have imagined that the name chosen was to be the parent of the word America and that poor old Christopher Columbus was thereby to be despoiled of a recognition that is far from being compensated for by the term Columbia.-Indianapolis News. Both Were Envious It was in Cleveland, and the day was hot. The Mastodons had just finished their parade, and Charles Frohman, perspiring and wearing the abhorred silk hat, entered the box office of the opera house on Cleveland avenue. Sitting in the treasurer's seat he saw a sturdy lad fingering a pile of silver dollars. He slipped them in and out with amazing dexterity. Hearing a noise, he looked up and beheld young Frohman with the tile tilted back on his head. The boys' eyes met. Into each came a wistful look. "I wish I had that silk hat of yours," said the boy at the window. "I wish I could do what you are doing with that money," was the response of the envied one. Such was the meeting of two men who afterward became dominant figures in the theatrical world. The boy with the dollars was A. L. Erlanger.—"Charles Frohman, Manager and Man." Milkmaids In London. At one time it was a common thing to see milkmaids in Fleet street. London milkmaids of past days were usually strongly built Irish or Welsh girls, mostly Welsh, but how long ago it is since one yodeled in Fleet street it is difficult to say. Yet only a few years ago a milkmaid actually practiced her calling in the open in central London. Two cows were attached to the "Milk fair" in St. James' park, near Spring gardens, and a tumblerful of milk "fresh from the cow" was a popular beverage. The "fair," which was held by a family descended from the original holders of an old privilege granted by royalty, was abolished by order of the office of works—London Chronicle. Not Dractic. Of the unconscious humor of witnesses the following is not a bad example: Magistrate—I understand, then, that after heckling the candidate the defendant became very violent and abusive? Constable—Yes, sir. "And so," continued the magistrate, "you used drastic measures to remove him?" Constable—No, sir: I used my club. Creased Ribbons Crushed ribbons should not be fronted; 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 iron 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. No Initiative Wanted. Rich Man—My daughter, sir, has never wanted for anything. Poor Suitor—Then for heaven's sake don't make her begin now! She wants me!-Philadelphia Bulletin. Mocking Him. "Fortune will smile on you some day, my boy." "Maybe so, dad, but just at present she's giving me the laugh."—Detroit Free Press. JEFFERSON MUSEUM JESSE BINGA BANKER S. E. Cor. State and 36th Telephone Dougl S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place, Chicago Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Safety Deposit Vault REAL ESTATE As agent buy and sell Real Estate on comments, including payment of taxes and locks on Chicago Real Estate. Especially Invites the patronage The Cranford Building. 360 The finest building ever opened, steam heat, electric light, tile baths. J. V. Phone Randolph 803 74 W Recent allowed on Savings Acquisition Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per person. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT and sell Real Estate on commission, manages estates, payment of taxes and locking after assessment of Estate. 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