The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Hydra Or Hideous Headed Monster-Race Prejudice, Anarchy, Bloody Assassination, Mob and Lynch Law and The Most Revolting and Heart Sickening Forms of Lawlessness, Heinous or Atrocious Crimes Against Society Law And Order And The Orderly Administration of Justice Has For The Past Week Reigned Supreme In East St. Louis, Illinois. THE OUTBREAK OF THE MOB SUNDAY NIGHT SEEMINGLY WAS A WELL LAID PLAN ON THE PART OF THE CITY OFFICIALS AND ITS RING LEADERS, FOR THE POLICE UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS OF ITS SPINELESS MAYOR, FRED W. MOLLMAN, DISARMED EVERY COLORED PERSON THAT THEY COULD DISCOVER AND NO ATTEMPT WHATEVER WAS MADE BY THEM TO DISARM ONE SINGLE WHITE GENTLEMAN. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE ON THE PART OF THE POLICE TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER AND THEY WERE HEARTILY IN SYMPATHY WITH THE HELLISH AND DAMNABLE ACTIONS OF THE BLOOD-THIRSTY MOB WHO WERE BENT UPON MURDERING INNOCENT LAW ABIDING COLORED MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND DESTROYING THEIR HOMES. THE MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD WHO ARE NOTHING MORE THAN TIN HORN SOLDIERS WERE ALSO HEARTILY IN SYMPATHY WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE BLOOD THIRSTY HELL-HOUNDS, FOR THEY PERMITTED THEM TO TAKE THEIR GUNS FROM THEIR HANDS AND TO USE THEM IN SHOOTING DOWN POOR FLEEING COLORED PEOPLE. COMPANY G. OF EFFINGHAM WAS SELECTED FOR GUARD DUTY IN THAT CITY AND NOT ONE COLORED PERSON IS PERMITTED TO LIGHT OVER NIGHT IN ITS HOME TOWN. SO IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE THAT THEY WOULD BE OF NO SERVICE WHATEVER IN ASSISTING TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER. WHITE LADIES WITH ALL OF THEIR SO-CALLED CULTURE AND REFINEMENT TRANSFORMED THEM-SELVES INTO THE MOST REVOLTING SPECIMENS OF HUMANITY AND LED OFF IN DRAGGING COLORED WOMEN FROM THE STREET CARS SO THAT THEY COULD EASILY BECOME THE HELPLESS VICTIMS OF THE MOB. COL. S. O. TRIPP, WHO IS AFPRAID OF HIS OWN SHADOW WAS IN COMMAND OF THE MOB SYMPATHIZING SOLDIERS AND BY FAILING TO GRASP THE SITUATION THE ANARCHISTS AND CRIMINALS COMPOSING THE MOB AND NOT GIVING THE ORDER TO SHOOT TO KILL IT GAINED FULL HEADWAY RUNNING CLEAR OVER HE CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES EVEN KNOCKING COL. TRIPP IN THE HEAD HMSELF. HIS SOLDIERS ONLY SHOT TWICE NOT AT THE RING LEADERS OF THE MOB BUT AT TWO HELPLESS COLORED MEN KILLING THEM STONE DEAD. THE BIG PACKING COMPANIES AND THE OTHER LARGE EMPLOYERS OF COLORED HELP MUST FROM THIS ON FURNISH POLICE PROTECTION TO THEM FOR ONE THING IS CERTAIN—THAT IS THAT THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES ARE TOO COWARDLY TO DO SO. NO ONE CAN EVER TELL THE EXACT NUMBER OF INNOCENT COLORED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO WERE MASSACRED IN THE MOST HORRIBLE MANNER BY THE FIENDS OF HELL AT EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. Vol. XXII. The Hydra G. Assassin Sickening Society Has Fooled THE OUTBREAK OF THE MOB SHE THE CITY OFFICIALS AND IT SPINELESS MAYOR, FRED W. DISCOVER AND NO ATTEMPT GENTLEMAN. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE ON THE WERE HEARTILY IN SYMPATHY THIRSTY MOB WHO WERE BENEN AND CHILDREN AND DEATH. THE MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS DIERS WERE ALSO HEARTILY HOUNDS, FOR THEY PERMIT THEM IN SHOOTING DOWN HOME. COMPANY G. OF EFFINGHAM WAS PERSON IS PERMITTED TO LIE THAT THEY WOULD BE OF NO WHITE LADIES WITH ALL OF THE SELVES INTO THE MOST REVENUED WOMEN FROM THE STRICT TIMES OF THE MOB. COL. S. O. TRIPP, WHO IS AFFRAINING SOLDIERS AND BY FAILLE POSING THE MOB AND NOT RUNNING CLEAR OVER HE HEAD HMSELF. HIS SOLDIER AT TWO HELPLESS COLORED. THE BIG PACKING COMPANIES ARE THIS ON FURNISH POLICE PROCIVIL AUTHORITIES ARE TOO. NO ONE CAN EVER TELL THE EXPENDING WHO WERE MASSACRED IN THE LOUIS, ILL. It was stated in these columns last week, that "after all that is said and done and with all of his education and so-called refinement or civilization man is still at heart half devil and half savage, that it makes not the slightest difference what the color of his skin may be or what race he may be identified with for under certain conditions he is a ferocious wild beast or savage just the same." Judging from the actions of the vast majority of the supposed best people of East St. Louis, Ill., the past week our rudely constructed statement has come true in that respect. Right here it must be said that no one regrets this terrible affair at East St. Louis more than the writer for it is too appalling and horrible to contemplate for such occurrences tend to unsettle the friendly relations which should at all times exist between the better class of both races in this country, so that they at all times could be in a position to join hands in a united effort to control the vicious and the criminal element existing in both races for it is their actions which always bring on the racial conflicts and all of its attending horrors and in many instances like unto the East St. Louis affair, the loss of several million dollars worth of property, aside from the complete stoppage or destruction of all kinds of business. There is no question about it in our mind but what there is plenty of room in this country for the members of both the White and the Colored race to dwell together in absolute peace and harmony. Whenever the members of both races make up their minds that they are ready and willing to show the proper amount of respect or consideration for each other then these racial uneavages will come to an end. On Sunday evening it is claimed by the police officers of East St. Louis, and many times the police will shy far away from the truth in order to carry their point, that a large number of Colored men had met in one of the public squares in that city, that some plain clothes men were ordered to drive them away, that one of the plain clothes men was shot to death by a Colored man; the chances are if the truth is ever known that the Colored people were holding a meeting in one of their churches, for they the Colored people had learned that a cold-blooded scheme was being hatched up to murder them or drive them from their homes that very night and the next day and that the police had wended their way there to break it up; that in attempting to do so one of the plain clothes men was shot. Even if the Colored people were engaged in holding their meeting in the public square it does seem to a reasonable human being that it was the sworn duty of the police to display their stars first, so that those whom they seek could tell that they are real police officers. There was no way for the Colored people holding that meeting to tell that fact for they were unable to tell whether the plain clothes men were friends or foes. Hence the shooting on the part of some one and then in the language of Mayor William Hale Thompson "hell broke loose." According to one account prior to the plain clothes officers coming in contact with the Colored men in the public square, four or five men who looked like them rode through the Colored district in an auto and amused themselves by loudly cussing and damning the Colored people, shooting into their homes, finally ending up by foully killing one Colored woman and no pen or tongue can ever describe the most appalling and heart rendering scenes that were enacted in that hell-hole of creation after that for in the twinkling of an eye two or three thousand white gentlemen appeared on the streets as though they had sprang up out of the CHICAGO, JULY 6, 1917 Headed Mons and Lynch L Lawlessness Order And T Week Reigned WELL LAID PLAN ON THE PART OF THE UNDER THE INSTRUCTIONS OF ITS COLORED PERSON THAT THEY COULD TO DISARM ONE SINGLE WHITE TAIN LAW AND ORDER AND THEY ENABLE ACTIONS OF THE BLOOD LAW ABIDING COLORED MEN WO WITHING MORE THAN TIN HORN SOIL NS OF THE BLOOD THIRSTY HELD FROM THEIR HANDS AND TO USE THAT CITY AND NOT ONE COLORED DOWN. SO IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE NG TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER. DEFINEMENT TRANSFORMED THEM AND LED OFF IN DRAGGING COL SILLY BECOME THE HELPLESS VICT COMMAND OF THE MOB SYMPATHIZE ANARCHISTS AND CRIMINALS COM SKILL IT GAINED FULL HEADWAY KNOCKING COL. TRIPP IN THE RING LEADERS OF THE MOB BUT ERS OF COLORED HELP MUST FROM NG IS CERTAIN—THAT IS THAT THE COLORED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN THE FIENDS OF HELL AT EAST ST earth and without one moments hesitation they in the most cold-blooded and savage manner began to shoot down every Colored man, woman and child that they could come in contact with some of them were eighty and ninety years old and were not able to harm anyone yet their lives were horribly ended with glee on the part of those hellish murderers. While those terrible brutish scenes were being enacted the big, burly, brutal and cowardly police of that city who are fully steeped in race prejudice and cowardice. At the first outbreak of the mob one month ago compelled all the Colored women to expose their lower extremities while they, the police officers, searched them for concealed weapons, at that very time every manly Colored man would have been fully justified in taking a dead sure shot at every police officer who attempted to take such shameless undue liberties with respectable Colored women, and on Sunday evening these same police officers under the instructions of Fred W. Mollman the spineless mayor of East St. Louis, invaded the homes of the Colored people and completely disarmed every one of them so that they would be absolutely at the mercy of the mob, but no attempt whatever was made by them to disarm one single white gentleman and not the slightest attempt was made on the part of the would-be police to maintain law and order which and should be Supreme all the time at any cost, on the other hand, police from Chief Ransome Payne on down to the lowest man on the force were in hearty sympathy with the most hellish and damnable actions of the bloodthirsty mob who were hell-bent upon murdering in cold blood innocent law abiding Colored men, women and little children destroying their humble homes by setting them on fire, scattering their scant belongings in every direction and causing them to flee to the four winds of --- ster—Race Pr aw and The Heinous or The Orderly A d Supreme In the heavens and to become wanderers on the face of the earth in order to save their lives. Many of those poor unhappy creatres had just escaped from the blood-hounds and the savage mobs of the South and by coming to Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, they felt that by working real hard in time that they would be able to create new homes for themselves and finally settle down to a life of joy or happiness, but after all they were simply dreaming falsely for in a very short time they were confronted with the same kind of mob and lynch law with all of its attending horrors right here in the grand old State of Illinois which they had left behind them in the rotten Southland. From forty to fifty white gentlemen would tear out after one lone Colored person at one time armed to the teeth with guns, clubs, stones and other deadly weapons and whenever they would catch a new helpless victim they would conduct themselves like unto half drunken or maddened hellbounds who had just stumbled across a new or a fresh victim in the bottomless pits of an everlasting hell, there was no way on earth that Colored people could protect themselves under those conditions no matter how brave they might be unless they could have been in a position to have snatched up a death dealing bomb and paused long enough to have hurled it into the midst of the mob which would have caused them to break and run in every direction and one or two well directed bombs would have put an end to their savage and shameless conduct and forever stamped out mob and lynch law in that city. The members of the Illinois National Guards who are nothing more than tin soldiers, like the police, proved themselves heartily in sympathy with the actions of the bloodthirsty hell-hounds, for they stood around grinning and showing their teeth like a pack of white livered cowards and in the most shame-faced manner they permitted the ring leaders of the mob to walk up in front of them and take their guns from their hands and use them to shoot down the poor fleeing Colored people. Company G. of Effingham was selected for guard duty at East St. Louis, notwithstanding the fact that the race prejudice ridden citizens of its home town will not permit a Colored person to light in it over night, so it is not hard to figure out just to what extent they were in favor of assisting to maintain law and order. Many white ladies with all of their so-called culture and refinement with the greatest of ease readily transformed themselves into the most revolting specimens of humanity and freely joined their blood stained hands with those of the ring leaders of the mob; they in the most edifying manner led off in the highly laudable Christian work of dragging Colored women from the street cars, beating them over their heads with their shoes, clubs, brickbats and so on, pulling out their hair scratching and cutting them in the face and in some instances even the white gentlemen assisted the fair white ladies to commit those most high-handed crimes against society, law and order. To the everlasting credit of one white lady she bravely and bitterly protested against such brutal treatment of Colored women by white gentlemen and she declared that if they were "true American citizens they would at once further refrain from committing such vicious acts of anarchy and lawlessness,' and the white gentlemen simply jeered and sneered at her and some of them had to be restrained from striking her and if we would have been present we would have endeavored to have shot the first man clear through his law defying head who would have attempted to harm one hair on her true American head; for whoever she was, and whatever her station in life might be, she is one of the most queenly women that has ever lived in any part of the world. Some of the white ladies who assisted to give full vent to the racial spleen against the Colored women and who were most active in dragging them from the street cars, became so unnerved with the excitement that they fell down in dead faints right in the middle of the streets, think of the demoralizing effect of their bristish conduct will continue to be cast back upon the future generations of that poorly governed town; that in connection with the other heart-rendering and sickening scenes which they greatly enjoyed as so much sport or fun will in time drive them crazy or transform them into raving maniacs. It is horrible to contemplate what the future has in 'store for them and their offsprings. Col. S. O. Tripp, who was in charge or in command of the mob sympathizing soldiers was seemingly afraid of his own white shadow for he utterly failed to grasp the true situation and by falling down on his weak knees to the red-handed anarchists and black-hearted criminals composing the mob and by failing at the proper time to command his soldiers if they are deserving to wear that highly honored title to shoot to kill, for some cause or other he permitted the lawless mob to gain a full headway, thereby running over and trampling under its feet the duly constituted authorities at the same time knocking Col. Tripp in the head and only twice were shots fired by his soldiers, not at the ring leaders of the mob but the brave and gallant soldiers shot two helpless Colored men killing them stone dead, which was more than enough to cause the boss devil of the infernal regions to extend his sides with laughter at the bravery of the tinnhorn soldiers of Illinois. It may not be out of place to state right here that the big packing companies and the other large employers of Colored labor must devise some plan to furnish police protection to them for the civil authorities are not inclined to do so for the most of them are too cowardly for that. No one can ever tell just how many Colored men, women and little children met their deaths one or the other at the hands of the mob and were massacred in the most horrible manner. Any of the friends and readers of this paper who feel like aiding the Colored people at East St. Louis, Ill. can send their contributions to the writer and the amount they give will be published each week opposite their names and in due time they will receive a detailed report just how the money has been expended. No.42 RACE BIOT WORSE THAN BELGIUM, SOCIALIST SAYS. New York, July.—"Swift and severe punishment" for the East St. Louis mobs was demanded by the Socialist leader, William English Walling, in a telegram to President Wilson today. Such punishment is necessary, Mr. Walling said, because "of the dangerous effect of race riots in America on revolutionary Russia, South America, and Japan." Mr. Walling characterized the uprising as partly the result of German agents' efforts to stir up a race war to keep American troops at home and partly the result of an attempt by the southern states to keep the Negro under their thumb. Speaking as a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mr. Walling, in his telegram, said: "The international and military situation calls for immediate action. There must be swift and severe punishment for the mob. But this will not suffice. There should be an immediate presidential proclamation in the present military exigency that the full military power of the nation will be used in defense of the lives and liberty of our Colored fellow citizens." BOMB IN NEGRO FLAT LAID TO RACE TROUBLE Colored occupants of a three flat building at 5320 Maryland avenue were thrown into confusion last Sunday night when a bomb was exploded in the vestibule, wrecking it. There was a rumor that race resentments were responsible. No arrests were made. The ground floor is occupied by the family of the Rev. James Robinson, pastor of the Antioch church at 5323 South State street. They were thrown from their beds, plaster was ripped from the walls, and the windows shattered. The third floor is occupied by S. T. Motley, the owner of the building. Motley estimated the loss at $12,000. Rumors reached the police that white residents of the neighborhood resented the sale of the building to Motley, who is a Colored man. MOTON IS GRIEVED. Tuskegee, Ala., July, Special—Maj. R. R. Moton, head of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, Booker T. Washington's successor, gave out the following statement tonight concerning the East St. Louis riots: "I am pained, chagrined and discouraged that these riots on the eve of the celebration of the Declaration of Independence, should occur to bring shame to our country, especially at a time like this when we are calling upon Negroes, as well as white men, to defend democracy and to stand for a 'square deal' for weaker nations and weaker peoples." APPOINTED McADOO'S MESSEN GER Washington, D. C.—Harry M. Reynolds, Jr., has been appointed messenger boy in the Treasury Department by Secretary McAdoo, through the executive order of President Wilson. Richard Green was largely responsible for the action taken. Dan M. Jackson Gloe. T. Kersey David A. McGowan Ahmed A. 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ON MRS. WILSON'S COMMITTEE Mrs. Anderson, Aided by Great Wealth, Social Popularity and Many Friends, is Zealously Aiding Red Cross Work on the Local Committee. One of the most interested of Red Cross workers is Mrs. Larz Anderson, wife of the one time United States minister to Belgium, who is serving with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson on the Red Cross committee in the District of Columbia. An only daughter of the famous com- modore, G. H. Perkins, who was with MRS. LAEZ ANDERSON. Furragut in the great sight of Mobile bay, Mrs. Anderson comes of distinguished ancestry. Her marriage united her to another distinguished family, Larz Anderson being the nephew of General Anderson of Fort Sumter fame. The Anderson estate at Brookline, Mass., with its magnificent vistas, its spacious halls and brilliant Italian gardens, forms one of the most imposing homes to be found anywhere. Two million dollars were spent on the buildings and grounds, and the Cupid fountain standing on the site of the original Anderson homestead is world famous for its artistic beauty. The house and garden, with the bowling green between, crown a high hill which on all sides falls away sharply. Not only has Mrs. Anderson become famous for her charitable work and her interest in the welfare of the poor, but she has made her mark in the literary world. She is devoted to children and takes more pleasure in providing pleasure for them than in planning splendid fetes for the famous. Her most ambitious literary effort, a book of fair tales and other stories, published several years ago and dedicated "with much love" to her husband, is the result of her careful study of how to amuse children and at the same time to instruct them. Mr. Anderson, who was a captain of volunteers in the Spanish war, has served as secretary to the American embassies at London and Rome. He was appointed minister to Belgium in August, 1911. PAGE TWO Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Automobles for hire MILITARY STYLES. How Blue Serge and Khaki Are In the Front Row. The shops have blossomed forth with military fashions. Just where they got all the red, white and blue beddecked garments nobody knows. Of course it was a comparatively easy matter for some energetic manufacturer to have strips of the three nations' colors stitched to a lot of silk gloves or for another to have red, white and blue plipings added to an almost finished batch of organdie neckwear. But where did all the military frocks and capes come from? They are here, anyway, and they are very attractive. There are khaki shirts that would be admirable for the woman who intends to do her part in the farming world this summer. They are decorated with shields and other insignia in the national colors on the pockets. There are all sorts of capes with a military look. Some of them are braided; some are trimmed generously with brass buttons. There are blue serge frocks that almost set one cheering, they so suggest a military parade. And so it goes. We all remember that when the world war began Paris launched a few military styles. They were accepted at first with enthusiasm, but later on other styles superseded them. Perhaps with all the world at war Paris can find permanent use for military inspiration in women's fashions. Next August, when the openings that Paris has so punctillously kept up ever since that fateful August of 1914 occur again, we may know. UTILITY COAT. For Real Service Buy a Coat Something Like This. Built of gingersnap brown is this topcoat of serge, so nattily trimmed with Scotch plaids, collar, cuffs and THE COAT kangaroo pocket lids. Please note the fan of brown feathers that gives the front piece of the smart knockabout but. Frocks of Colored Linen. Frocks of colored handkerchief linen, elaborately run with hand tuckings and plats with panels of fillet lace, at times dyed in self coloring, are being worn by smart women at Palm Beach. White batiste is elaborately ornamented with soutache embroidery, with medallions of ecru lace forming the deep border on skirt or sectional panels. White and colored organdle dresses are trimmed with bandings of organdle embroidered—the same introduced in the Russian blouse or surplice draped waist. In chemise dresses of oyster white linen crash the full length panel of applique embroidery, deep sailor collars and cuffs are the distinguishing features. Broad belts of white, tan or gray suede usually confine the waist. GOOD LINES. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JULY 6. 1917. PARIS CUES. Small Details That Really Make or Mar. Some of the smart foulards are in very large designs and must be made up very cautiously, but there are plenty of designs less striking, and even where the design is very large the coloring may perhaps be neutral enough to save it from being spectacular. On the other hand, there are strikingly brilliant colorings as well as striking designs in some of the new foulards and other figured silks, and certain of the French houses, notably Bulloz and Premet, have not hesitated to employ these bold materials, sometimes successfully from a pictorial viewpoint. Belts, girdles and sashes are omnipresent and often are the most individual features of the models. Some of them are very wide and very elaborate, others quite narrow and simple, and their position varies from high directore to dropped medieval, though the latter line has less favor than it has had, and normal or high waist lines are the rule. Sleeves on day frocks are more often long than not, but many three-quarter sleeves are shown, too, on afternoon models. For the evening bodice there is often a tiny sleeve, if only an elongation of the shoulder, but the sleeveless shoulder strap corsage has not disappeared. Square and second empire decolletage are most in evidence. Paquin and several others show a liking for the collar effects standing away from the neck on day frocks, and there are quantities of collarless arrangements cut straight across or in a shallow oval or little square, often with some collar adjunct across the back. Here and there a polonaise of unbroken front line appears, and the flat, comparatively plain front is the generally accepted thing, even where the rest of the skirt is draped or very full. Skirts of tailored costumes are plaited in part or all around or are cut to fall straight and comparatively narrow, though not yet too narrow for comfort. The shirring of the slight fullness at the waistband in the back is still used on the plain models. FOR THE FETE. Doll Saleslady Always Popular at Charity Bazaars. Almost every device for raising relief funds is being used these days. There is so much profit in dolls that QUEEN OF THEM ALL. this faxen maiden is offered as a model banded saleslady. Her gown is blue satin banded with black velvet ribbon. A scrap of silver cloth gives her mantle, and please note how ingeniously a bit of black lace is used for her mits. PAY FOR GOOD WORK. Don't Try to Remunerate Your Wash Lady With Castoff Clothes. Women have sometimes made a reputation for generosity by giving away various things useless to themselves, things they have grown tired of, things always undesired bestowed upon them by one or another of their well meaning friends and relatives. Whatever may be said of this procedure, it at least puts to shame the person who offers to pay wages with discarded things. For instance, there is the woman who tried to pay part of the $1.50 and car fare of the washer-woman with a half worn winter coat and the one who gave the young schoolgirl who tended her mischievous four-year-old an entire Saturday afternoon a last month's magazine and a soiled ribbon for her services. To a very great many people money is the most urgent need of their lives. Only money will pay rent, only money will buy food, only money will provide against want in old age. Payment for service of any kind should be in money. Payment for service should be prompt. Payment for service should be maintained at the prevailing standard. Women should stand by the women who work for them. Homemade Kitchen Cabinet For those who cannot afford the luxury of a real kitchen cabinet a very good substitute can be constructed from the top of an old fashioned buffet. If it has shelves so much the better; it will then hold all kinds of spices and small cans containing articles in daily use. Small hooks about the size used for hanging up tin cups may be driven into the flat surface and will hold many utensils, such as the egg beater, can opener, tea strainer. A CABINET LADY Wife of the Secretary of the Navy Comrade of Husband. IS MOTHER OF FOUR BOYS Mrs. Daniels Comes of a Distinguished Family and Makes a Point of Chumming With Her Four Big Sons—The "Folkay" Type of Woman. An interviewer recently wrote: "At the hotel table next mine I had noticed a woman of genial plumpness, prepossessing manner and jolly laugh. The serious young man with her seemed a youngish sort of husband, but interested and attentive withal, and my sophisticated mind dismissed the slight disparity of ages as a common enough phenomenon. "Then somebody told me the pleasant, comradish lady was Mrs. Dan- 1910 Photo by American Press Association. MBS. JOSEPHUS DANIELS. lols, wife of the secretary of the navy, and the young man her eldest son, Josephus junior. I told Mrs. Daniels later of my mistake. "Josephus, my poor boy, did you hear that? cried his mother in tragic tones while her eyes laughed. And right away we were acquainted. "The navy secretary's wife is what they call in the south 'folksy,' and I love the word. Folksy people are the innately kind of heart. They assume you are all right to know and erect no formal barriers while they investigate and catalogue you. They open their minds to you in the same hospitable way do their houses and, like the American law, hold you innocent until proved guilty. "I'm glad you want me to talk about my boys,' went on this broad chested, mother hearted parent of four, 'for I'm just a domestic woman whose business in life is to see after her loved ones. If, as you say, I have managed to be pals with my lads it is because they have not been brought up. I've just loved 'em up. "We never suppressed them—told them to hush up, that children should be seen and not heard. We have encouraged them to think and speak their thoughts. From Josephus, who is twenty-two, to Frank, who is only twelve, all the boys have their careers fully mapped out." Mrs. Daniels comes from a family of soldiers, statesmen and writers. Her grandfather was one of North Carolina's governors. Her uncles, her father, her mother's people, all were eminent in various professional lines, and the beloved O. Henry was her second cousin. Aprons Made of Shirts. A wonderfully neat kitchen apron can be quickly made by using a man's discarded shirt. Turn it so that the opening will be in the back; cut off the cuffs, making the sleeves as short as you wish, and trim out the neck in or round or square yoke effect. If preferred, the garment can be put on as originally worn by sewing up the front opening and making a new one down the back. This can be fastened with one or two buttons. The shirt is already hemmed, and the side openings can be left as they are. Square Deal For the Shops "If women had only the courage to stop shopping when they are tired." said a young woman the other day. "They buy things then that they do not and never will like, and it is a bother to the women' and a needless expense to the shops. The goods are inevitably returned and credited. When shops are so decent about accepting goods and crediting them it is only fair to such establishments to give them a square deal." Sugar Sirup. Many prefer homemade sugar stirp for cakes and waffles, but its tendency to "go back to sugar" is annoying. If you will boll a little corn stirp with it, two tablespoonfuls to a pint, it will not recrystallize. The corn stirp cannot be tasted. FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Mighty Battle of Long Ago. HOW VICTOR WAS REWARDED Wonderful Feats That a Lad of Ancient Greece Accomplished—Possessed Remarkable Strength and Cleverness—Hated by Wicked King. Tonight, said Uncle Ben to little Ned and Polly Ann, I am going to tell you about the LION IN THE SKY. I told you before that every month the sun rolls through a group of stars that has an odd name. In July it is in the group of stars known as the Lion. Once there grew up in Greece a lad of great strength and cleverness named Hercules. One of the wonderful things he did was to choke to death with his infant hands two serpents that tried to kill him in his cradle. As he grew older he became stronger, and he was so good natured that he was always trying to help those about him. But after awhile Hercules came into the power of a wicked king, who set him all sorts of hard tasks. The first of these was to kill a fierce lion which had been frightening and killing the people in a valley called Nemea. Hercules took the big club, which was so heavy that no one else could handle it, and his big bow that no one else could bend. When he came to the wild, lonely valley of Nemea the lion, which happened to be very hungry, came out to meet Hercules. All the people had moved out of that part of the country because they were so afraid of the lion, so it was hard for the animal to get a meal. Hercules stepped briskly up and, fitting an arrow to his bow, sent it straight at the lion's head, but the brute's skin was so thick that the sharp point could not pierce it. Hercules tried arrow after arrow, hoping that at last he might find a tender spot. When the last arrow was gone he picked up his club and as the lion drew near let it fall with a heavy stroke on the creature's head. The club slid on the lion's thick mane and fell to the ground. Hercules had then only his own strong hands with which to fight. He grasped the snarling lion by the throat and, using all his strength, soon strangled the brute. Hercules started home with the lion's skin thrown over his shoulder. When he entered the town where he lived the people and the wicked king were frightened. They thought the Nemean lion itself had come to attack them. Instead of praising Hercules for what he had done the king ordered him after that not to enter the city until he had permission. But the people were so pleased with this wonderful service which Hercules had done them that they named a group of stars the Lion, and so it has been called ever since, and in July the sun enters the space in the sky where the Lion group is found. Learn to Swim. A person who cannot swim misses all the fun of a fine exercise and sport. He may at any time be caught in a water accident, and other persons may have to rescue him at the risk of their own lives. He may have to see his mother or sister drown before his very eyes and not be able to help her. Helping Her Country. This year everybody is trying to do something to help Uncle Sam get enough food for his people. So that is A young boy in a white shirt and overalls holds a small bucket and a spoon. the reason the little miss in this picture has taken to farm work. She was just setting out for her garden when the camera man snapped her. NOVEL EFFECT. Is This Style Merely Mili- tary or Purely Puritan? MISS PRISCILLA Over a belted jacket of rose jersey cloth falls this long coat of navy Poiret tweed, hobbled in slightly at the bottom, just enough to give a touche silhouette. Truly a chic modification of the army poncho! BEGIN TO TRAIN. With Your Country at War, Get In Line For Special Work. The importance of training women in home economics, nursing and the general conservation of food, clothing and health is emphasized in a bulletin issued by the department of the interior. "Now, as never before," says the bulletin, "every woman needs a working knowledge of home economics; hence food classes should be opened for all women desiring them. Special attention should be given to diet requirements for maintenance of health and efficiency, methods of eliminating all waste from the household and intelligent use of the more abundant foods for those which are either scarcity or of better keeping qualities. Inevitably there will be need during all of the next few years of soup kitchens, free school lunches and other forms of community feeding. A few weeks of months of intensive study of the special problems connected with handling larger quantities of food will prepare a number of women already trained in dietetics for this work. Summer schools may well offer such courses and grant advanced credits if this seems desirable. "Extension service for women living in cities is as much needed as is the work now being done by the agricultural department for the wives of farmers. Workers for this service should be prepared by the institutions for higher education. These women need to be well trained in economics and sociology, as well as in home economics, and should be urged to volunteer for this extension type of work. Extra classes giving several hours daily to practical instruction in the home care of the sick should be organized for all women students, and the most recent knowledge concerning the care of infants and children should be available to them. This is of especial importance for various reasons. If war comes upon American territory the well trained graduate nurse will be called to war hospitals, and the ordinary nursing of home sickness will devolve upon home women. In addition to this duty will be the care of returned convalescent wounded. "Normal schools, colleges and universities can during their summer schools train women to instruct in Red Cross sewing in order that the public school sewing of next year may be most effectively executed. In addition to this, courses designed to prepare teachers to instruct in the remodeling of garments will be timely. One of the great services women can render is in the saving of the nation's supply of food and clothing. Special short courses in the study of the condition of national supply of household material, needed economies and the sociologic and economic effect of women's activities should be offered." Garden Aprons as Gifts. Apropos of gifts, a farseeing little woman has made up several fascinating garden aprons to give to friends who work in their garden plots. Some are of washable awning stripe, others of a heavy smocked chambray. The most serviceable of the lot are those of rubberized drill in a charming corn color. This material is not at all heavy and may be washed off with a sponge. She also has made several small aprons of the same material to be used as play aprons for children. JUVENILE PARTY FROCK. What Daughter Needs For This Summer's Gayety. JUST SIXTEEN. White net provides this charming rainment for youth. A shirred skirt is deeply hemmed and triple tucked with a yoke trimmed in soutache braid to match the bolero and cuff. The hat is also white net and braid set off with four pink roses. NURSERY NOTES. Small Points About Proper Care of the Baby. Try laying the baby on a bed or table while you wash him. It is easier for you and better for the baby, too, as he feels the unsteadiness of your lap and wriggles accordingly. Did you know that all white walls and woodwork are bad for the nursery? It is declared by scientists that white reflects too much light for the baby's eyes. Try gray or light tan. A baby basket can be made from a medium sized laundry basket. Give it two coats of enamel on the outside and wad it inside with cotton batting. Cover with a blue or white satin and dotted swiss or point d'esprit. A pretty way to quilt the baby's wee comforter is to tie it with baby ribbons through the points to be tacked, using the bow of the ribbon for the center of an embroidered wild rose or forget me not. It is a good plan to remember that when making any of the small garments out of white flannel future shrinking can be avoided by pressing the flannel with a wet cloth before making it up and lining it. Laundering of wee clothes is an important detail of nursery regime. Nothing but pure white soaps should be used. Everything pertaining to a baby's clothes should be thoroughly rinsed, especially diapers. Boiling, sunshine and fresh air are all sterilizers. A Call to Can. In sending out instructions to the conservation chairman of each state in the Union Mrs. J. D. Sherman, chairman of the conservation department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in her call to organize said: "It is inexcusable negligence at this time for women not to inform themselves concerning the various phases of food conservation as it affects the individual, the community, the nation and our allies. "One of the greatest present needs is scientific direction in food nutrition and food economy. Thousands of women are eager to be thrifty, to use their resources wisely, but they do not know how. Sane, practical home economies instruction is greatly needed."-National Emergency Food Garden Commission. Feather Pudding. One cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, one egg, one teaspoonful salt, one cupful milk, two cupfuls flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, canned or fresh fruit. Cream together butter and sugar, add beaten egg and salt, then add alternately milk and flour sifted with baking powder. Put two tablespoonfuls fruit in each buttered cup, cover with batter and steam one hour. Serve with foamy or cream sauce. Recipe For French Artichokes Pick off from the solid green globes the outer tough petals. Scoop out with a sharp pointed knife the fuzzy centers, leaving the soft base, which is the juscious morsel. Cut each artichoke in halves, wash, drain and fry brown on each side in olive oil. Make a tomato sauce and cook thirty minutes. Then serve hot. THE GARBAGE PAIL Its Contents May Stand Between Us and Liberty. EARN YOUR APPETITES NOW! If You Save but Two Ounces of Food a Day, Stop to Compute What This Means in a Country of a Hundred Million People. [Prepared by the National Emergency Food Garden Commission.] The women of the country must be made to realize as never before that it is their part in this war to stop the waste that goes into the garbage pail, a waste that has been estimated at $700,000,000 annually. The figure is staggering in its immensity. Think what two ounces saved a day by a hundred million people means! The men folks will tell us that the money would take up many liberty bond issues and buy many battleships. In fact, they tell us such an amount would win the war. Yet it goes into the garbage pail. Women of the contry, earn your appetite! Do something now for your country by conducting your table economically. You will never know until you try it what a fascination there is in work, what a reward it brings. Pass the summer's usual rest and earn your appetite. Much meat, bread and edible fats are wasted in garbage, and tons of valuable foodstuff for animals are lost to the food supply of the nation by usual garbage reduction or disposal methods. There should be careful analysis of city garbage and enforcement of garbage collection ordinances, requiring that no glass, tin, wood, burnt matches, paper, string or inorganic trash be mixed with the vegetable material, meat scraps or bones which can be used for feed. These laws are rigidly enforced by Germany in all cities of 40,000 people. Garbage so collected from a population of 17,000,000 people in Germany, although the German garbage pail always has been far leaner than the American one and is especially light at this period, furnish briquetts rich in protein, which, when fed to dairy cattle, produced 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 quarts of milk daily. On the other hand, with us garbage is sent to reduction plants, where all the fat and oil it contains are recovered for use in making soap or greases. It is simply a question of service and proper direction. If the women of the country take up the problem one of our greatest war troubles is solved, for who knows but the garbage pail may stand between us and liberty? FORMAL GOWN. For Receptions Is This Beautiful Model In Satin. Black satin and black net are here combined to give a handsome reception frock, made with a barrel skirt THE FASHION WEEKLY THE REAL THING. accentuated by hip drapes. The lace and net bodice are strapped with beaded trimming set with squares of turquoise. Fitting Candles to Candlesticks Those of us who use candles have found often they are too large for the candlesticks. Instead of shaving off the surplus wax, plunge them for a moment in boiling water. The candle is then in condition to be pressed into the stick, it fits, and there is no waste of precious material. Making Use of All Space In the Oven. If when baking layer cake there is space left too small for another pan place a can with both ends melted off in the small space and set a pan on it. The heat will reach the baking article just the same. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JULY 6. 1917. Eye and Temper Severe. "Those who do fine needlework of any kind," says a writer in the Woman's Home Companion, "will find it advantageous to observe these rules closely: "Do not sit too long at the task. If you wish to spend a day or a half day at it, keep at it steadily for fifty minutes and drop the work for the next ten minutes, occupying your time with something else through which the mind may be relaxed. At the end of ten minutes go back to the needlework, again applying yourself to it for fifty minutes, and so continue throughout the entire day. "Always observe closely the rule regarding light direction. Sit with your back almost facing the light, with the latter coming over your left shoulder." "When working with net or fine laces that are white or light colored wear a black apron that is without gloss, and never wear a dress or apron that has a figure or stripe of any sort in it. Use plain colors as a background for your work and use colors that are receding, like blue, dark brown or green." Celebrated Bachelors Handel, Reynolds, Turner, Sir Isaac Newton and Cavendish were among the men illustrious in art or science who remained bachelors. Among authors we have Pope, Goldsmith, Lamb and Macaulay. The feeble health of "the wasp of Twickenham" stood no doubt in the way of his marrying. Goldsmith had not the same excuse, but in his case it was quite as well that he passed through life as a bachelor. A single man who habitually spends twice as much as he has is never likely to make a wise and prudent husband. Lamb, "that frail, good man," as Wordsworth calls him, was a bachelor not from choice, but from affection. The singular loyalty with which he devoted himself to his sister in circumstances of melancholy interest prevented his marrying a girl whom, it appears, he truly loved. Lord Macaulay rested content with the loving sympathy of his sister, Hannah, the wife of Sir Charles Trevelyan, whose children were to him as his own. Mental Twilight Mental health passes into mental disease most commonly in a gradual way, as light passes into darkness. There is a mental twilight, a borderland in which it is impossible to say whether the patient is mentally ill or not. It is always well for a man who undergoes such changes mentally to consult his doctor, and it is always well for the doctor not to make too light of such a change, because treatment is usually far more effectual in that borderland stage than it is when the symptoms have been fully developed. The best test of mental health is when a man feels a conscious sense of organic well being, although many persons go through life with more or less of a sense of ill being all the time and are not on that account to be regarded as insane. Our Old Paper Currency. Fractional currency was the name given to government issues of paper money of small denominations during the war between the states. Owing to the suspension of specie payments in 1861 silver coins of small denominations disappeared from circulation, causing great inconvenience to retail trade and people generally. In March, 1863, congress authorized the issue of paper notes of small denominations, 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents, and they afforded great relief. The total volume of it was limited to $50,000,000, and much of it became so worn out by circulation that it was never redeemed. Cracked Eggs. When an eggshell is cracked, even so slightly that the eye cannot see it, germs and molds find ready entrance into the egg and spoil its contents. Nature has provided the egg with a delicate protective, gelatinous coating, which, as long as it is intact, tends to keep out air and germs. Once this coating is pierced the keeping quality of the egg is lessened immediately. Three Naval Victories It is said that the three white lines which appear on the collars of sailors' blouses in the United kingdom, the lines being straight for men of the regular navy and wavy for men of the naval volunteer force, represent the three naval victories of Nelson—the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. The Idea. "Good gracious, John, why did you allow the agent to persuade you to take a cottage with no more ground than this?" "Because, my dear, I did not go into this deal with any selfish idea of territorial expansion."—Baltimore American. How They Work In an argument against fanaticism General Funston once said to a newspaper correspondent: "Even the looking glass and the wine glass have their uses. The looking glass reveals our defects to ourselves; the wine glass reveals them to others." No Great Damage "She says I made a toy of her heart." "Don't let that girl bluff you. She has been engaged seventeen times. Her heart is one of these indestructible toms."-Louisville Courier-Journal. After the Cerammy "This was given to me for a wedding present by my aunt, and I don't like it. I wonder if I could get her money back."—Life. The road to success is as easy as the road to ruin.—Benjamin Franklin. The Motion Picture Interpreter. The katsuban is a native and unique product of Japanese life and is called both a nuisance and a necessity. The name is an abridgement of katsubenbashi and means moving picture speaker. The katsuban follows every action shown in motion picture plays and interprets it to the audience. He must not only have a fluent tongue, but have the ability to imitate professional actors of both old and new schools as well as being able to speak several degrees of falsetto to portray the various characters in the plays. The profession is by no means an easy one, and the skilled members are almost as popular as the actors themselves. The katsuban cannot be dispensed with because of the introduction of foreign films in Japan. It is necessary to explain the action; otherwise the picture would be unintelligible to most of the audience. Even in the case of native pictures it is said that as yet many of the actors are not sufficiently clever to enable the management to dispense with the services of the katsuban.—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Horseshoes and Luck The luck of the horseshoe comes from three lucky things always connected with horseshoes. These consist of the following facts: It is the shape of a crescent; it is a portion of a horse; it is made from iron. Each of these has from time immemorial been considered lucky. Anything in the shape of a crescent was always considered a thing to bring luck. From the earliest times, too, at least since the world knew something of the qualities of iron, iron has been regarded as a thing to give protection and, incidentally, that would involve good luck. And, lastly, the horse since the days of English mythology has been regarded as a lucky animal. When, then, we had a combination of the three—the crescent, the iron and the horse—in one object, it became a true lucky sign in the eyes of the people.—Book of Wonders. Just Like Babel. The difficulties which the ancient builders of the Tower of Babel experienced with the language difficulty may be easily understood by any one who has spent a little time in Basrah, in Mesopotamia. The dialects in common use at Basrah are said to be more than forty in number. The most popular is Arabic, but it is not the Arabic of Egypt or Morocco. It is a distinct tongue, with which the Egyptian or Moroccan experiences the greatest difficulty. Then there is Persian, with variations known as Bagadad-Persian, Neid-Persian and Basrah-Persian. Turkish is frequently heard, while Armenian and Chaldean are the languages of the native Christian population. Kurdish is used by another section of the inhabitants, while Hindustani is the language of the Indian troops. Holy Lands. The Holy Land is a term used, especially by Christians, to designate Palestine as being the scene of the birth, ministry and death of Christ, but also employed by other religious sects to describe the places sacred to them from association. Thus the Mohammedans speak of Mecca as the Holy Land, it being the birthplace of Mohammed. The Chinese Buddhists call India the Holy Land because the founder of their religion was born there, while the Greeks bestow this same title on Elis, where was situated the temple of Olympian Zeus. Cuba's Fine Tobacco Cuba produces the highest priced tobacco grown in the world. The fine aromatic tobacco is not grown in all parts of the island, but on a little spot near the western coast, the size of which is no more than twenty-five square miles. Such tobacco as is produced in this limited area can be produced nowhere else. Different. "Why, a year ago you told me this place was easily worth $15,000. Now you estimate its value at less than $10,000." "You must remember that I was trying to sell it to you then. Now you want me to sell it for you." Economical Elopements. Rest Before Eating. The importance of resting after eating as a necessary condition for perfect digestion has been emphasized, but it is equally important to rest, physically and mentally, before eating. Dogs that had run an hour before eating and others that had been resting were fed the same ration, and it was found that those dogs that had been rested before eating digested the meal much better than those fed while tired. Usually a dog will refuse to eat if very tired, and a man who has a natural appetite will feel little inclination to eat until after he has rested, following physical exercise. The practice of hurrying from the office or shop to the dining room and eating without resting and then hurrying back to work is one of the means by which the digestive and nervous systems are gradually though imperceptibly broken down. ```markdown ``` MARINE AVIATORS Unusual Opportunities Are Offered For Advancement. Those Assigned to Flying Corps Whether Trained as Pilots or Not, Receive 50 Per Cent Increase in Their Pay and 50 Cents Per Day For Extra Duty. By FIRST LIEUTENANT ALFRED A. CUNNINGHAM, U. S. M. C. Washington.—The last congress established a navy flying corps, which consists of officers and men detailed from the navy and marine corps in the proportion of four of the navy to one of the marine corps. Civilians will be taken in as acting ensigns and second lieutenants. Numbers of men do not win promotion readily as soldiers because they lack that military bearing and manner so essential to good soldiers, but who are intelligent and have mechanical ability and can be readily trained as good aviation mechanics. For such men the flying corps is their best chance for promotion. Discipline in aviation is as important as in any other branch of the service, but a man's military smartness can be subordinated to AIRCRAFT AVIATOR LEUTENANT A. A. CUNNINGHAM, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AVIATOR some extent to his technical ability. The man, whether he has marked mechanical ability or not, who has an intelligent mind, is willing to work without having tasks assigned him and is above all so thoroughly careful and reliable that an aviator can feel perfectly confident while flying an aeroplane he has been working on is desirable for the flying corps. On account of the nature of the work it becomes imperative to remove a man who shows the slightest signs of carelessness. Qualifications for an enlisted pilot are mainly physical and psychological, and men for this position will be chosen for their suitable qualities. In general the man should be absolutely perfect as regards heart, eyesight, digestion, sense of equilibrium and nervous system. He should not be over thirty years old. There should be no question as to the quality of his "nerve." This does not mean recklessness. The man who has undermined his constitution with dissipation will not be chosen. Marines assigned to the flying corps, whether trained as pilots or not, receive 50 per cent increase on their pay and 50 cents per day for extra duty as aviation mechanics. The crew of each aeroplane consists of the chief mechanic, with rank of gunnery sergeant or sergeant; one noncommissioned officer as motor man, one noncommissioned officer as plane and wire man and two privates as helpers. From this it can be seen that the flying corps needs comparatively few men who are not suitable for noncommissioned officers. Enlisted men in the navy flying corps have unusual opportunities not only for advancement in rank, but they receive an excellent mechanical course of training which will fit them for a good position in civil life. Enlisted men assigned to aviation, regardless of their rank, are treated as students until they have been given a thorough course of training in handling, cleaning and repairing aeroplanes and motors on the ground. They are then trained in assembling aeroplanes and lining them up properly. Next they are given a thorough course in disassembling, cleaning, assembling and making all adjustments to each type of aeroplane motor used at the station. CALLED "THE WAR OF 1917." Present Struggle So Designated In Documents on Pension Claims. Washington.—In the annals of the pension bureau, which already has on file two applications for pensions on account of deaths since the declaration of war, the present struggle will go down to posterity in America as "the war of 1917." Announcing the official designation the bureau said that it was decided on for use in the records because no other suitable name could be found. The applications came from Ruth Thomas of Annapolis, widow of Lieutenant Clarence C. Thomas, killed on the Vacuum, and Mrs. Hannah Hallberg of Jamestown, N. Y., whose son, Frankie Hallberg, a member of the national guard, was killed by a train when guarding a bridge. PAGE THREE Where Lost Gold Goes. Within the last 600 years one thousand million pounds' worth of gold has vanished. Where have the missing millions gone? About one-third lies at the bottom of the sea. The treasure of lost vessels which strews the route from England to India alone has been estimated at eighty million sterling. In 1708 the British frigate De Brook, wrecked off the American coast, took with her into the depths of the ocean gold worth £2,400,000, the spoils of an intercepted Spanish treasure fleet. Another British warship, the Hussar, went down with over a million sterling in gold in 1730, and another million was lost in the Lutine in 1799. Much gold, too, is lost through wear and tear. It is a soft metal in its natural state, and despite the alloys used to make it harder it wears away comparatively quickly when coined into money. It is the same with jewelry. In these ways and a hundred others the gold gained by men through sweat and blood finds its way back to the earth whence it came.—London Opinion. Royal Names. Nicholas Romanoff is the name by which the late scar is mentioned in the Russian papers. But it may be doubted whether this is a correct use of the word Romanoff, for monarchs, who sign by their Christian names only, are not supposed to have surnames. In the early days, when both surnames and customs were in the making, they did not need them, and (except in case of dethronement, and not always then) they have never needed them since. Contrary to popular belief, Plantagenet was not a surname. Tudor may have been one, and Stuart certainly was. But Guelph was not, and so good an authority as Mr. Fox-Davies holds that the present king of England has no surname at all. Less learned authorities have been perplexed to know whether the descendants of Queen Victoria did not inherit the surname of their father, the prince consort. A Queen Ofil Duty. The neatness of her figure was accentuated by a dress of the vogue, and she bore herself with the graceful freedom of an unspoiled queen of the period when royalty did not wear corsets. She was half a block ahead of me when I first noted her unaffected statelliness, continues a writer in the New York Sun. Perhaps my attention was drawn to her by the admiration of everybody within periscopic range, the concentrated worship of the hypnotized multitude impelling me to follow its example. I walked faster and, as the sailors say, was soon abeam of her. I passed her, and as I did so I fear I violated polite precedents by viewing her askance. I recognized her instantly. She is my married sister's cook, and, as my brother-in-law has remarked, "She is some cook!"—Detroit Free Press. The Jerusalem Chamber One of the rooms in Westminster abbey that are of peculiar interest is the Jerusalem chamber, which was built more than 500 years ago and was probably at one time the abbot's withdrawing room. It was in this chamber that Henry IV. died, in curious fulfillment of a prophecy that he should die in Jerusalem: It hath been prophesied me many a year I shall not die but in Jerusalem, Which vainly I suppose the Holy Land, But bear me to that chamber. There I'll lie. In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. And in the same chamber Addison, Congreve and Prior lay in state before their splendid interment in the abbey. Had a Good Excuse Dorothy, aged 4, was present at dinner the other evening when a number of guests were being entertained by her parents, and during the lull in the conversation she began to talk very earnestly: "Why do you talk so much, Dorothy?" asked her father. "Tause 'I dot suffin' to say," was the reply—Kansas City Star. Modern Travel. The brakeman doesn't carry a lantern any more, the train "butch" tries to sell the passengers De Morgan instead of Bertha M. Clay, the conductor refuses to carry babies for fear the auditor may object, and the coaches are so light that spooning couples fall to amuse.—Salina Journal. Bonehead. "G'wan, nigger, you all ain't got no sense nohow." "Ain't got no sense? What's dis yere haid for?" "Dat thing? Dat ain't no haid, nigger; dat's jes er button on top er yo' body ter keep yer backbone from unravelin'"—Lamb. Not the Result Expected. Cashier—I cannot possibly live on the salary you are paying me. Employer—Him! Just as I thought. You'll have to give us a bond tomorrow for $5,000.—Boston Transcript. The Artist's Touch Mistress—How do you manage to make such a noise here in the kitchen? Cook—Well, just you to break four plates without making a noise. Ideas. Already Informed. Mrs. Grammercy- Why don't you tell that neighbor of yours? Mrs. Park- It isn't necessary, my dear. We're on the same party wire- Puck. Partinent Question: Convict—I'm in here for having five wives. Visitor—How are you enjoying your liberty?—Exchange. The richest mine in the world is the one within yourself. ATTORNEY J. GRAY LUCAS. One of the well known and most prominent Afro-American lawyers in Chicago who in connection with Hon. W. E. Mollison, late of Vicksburg, Miss., occupy fine law offices on the eightth floor of the Hartford Building. One of the well known and most prominent Afro-American lawyers in Chicago who in connection with Hon. W. E. Mollison, late of Vicksburg, Miss., occupy fine law offices on the eightth floor of the Hartford Building. PAGE POURE ATTORNEY J. One of the well known and most promo- who in connection with Hon. W. occupy fine law offices on the eight ATTORNEYS LUCAS AND MOLLI SON OCCUPY FINE QUARTERS IN THE HARTFORD BUILDING. Among the best equipped and conveniently located modern law offices in the city is suite No. 815 Hartford Building, corner Dearborn and Madison streets, occupied by Hons. J. Gray Lucas and W. E. Mollison. Of course Mr. Lucas_requires no introduction to our readers, and especially those in the city of Chicago. He has held a place among the leaders of the legal profession in this city for nearly a quarter of a century. Having often appeared in most important cases in the courts of Cook county, he has very frequently appeared in the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Illinois and in three cases in the Supreme Court of the United States on numerous occasions. Mr. Lucas was, in 1891, the youngest member of the Arkansas legislature having been elected on a fusion ticket of both political parties, where he at once became the recognized leader of the Republican minority of eleven members, making the epocal speeches against race discrimination, embodied RECORD OF LYNCHING FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1917. Tuskegee Institute. Editor, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: I send you the following, relative to lynchings for the first six months of the year. I find according to the records kept by Monroe N. Work, head of the Division of Records and research of the Tuskegee Institute, that in this period there have been 14 lynchings. This is 11 less than the number, 25, for the first six months of 1916 and 20 less than the number, 34, for the first six months of 1915. In 10 instances, through the bravery of officers of the law and by other means, mobs were thwarted and lynchings prevented. Of those lynched, 13 were Negroes and 1 was white. Four of those put to death, 1 white and 3 Negroes were charged with the crime of rape. One of those put to death was a Negro woman, reported to have been of unsound mind, who in resisting arrest wounded an officer of the law. I gather from reading Negro newspapers and from other sources, that in spite of the notable decrease in the number of victims of mob violence for the six months, the horrors connected with the recent burning at the stake near Memphis has increased among Negroes the fear of lynchings and accelerated their migration to the North. Yours very truly, Robert R. Moton, Principal. ARMY TURNS DOWN NEGRO MECHANIC. Robarr R. Edmonson, a Tuskegee graduate, had the officials of the army recruiting office in St. Louis in a quan- dary for a while last week. Edmonson is an expert mechanic and is em-ployed in the mechanical department of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad shops at Pueblo, Colorado. in the separate coach and election bills. Mr. Lucas was assistant prosecuting attorney of Jefferson county, at Pine Bluff for several years and was until 1893, when he came to Chicago, United States Commissioner for the Eastern Dist. of Arkansas, when he resigned, the first Colored man so appointed. Mr. Mollison has been a member of the bar of Mississippi for the period since the eighties and during that time has occupied many places of the highest responsibility. He was for a time Clerk of both the Circuit and Chancery Courts of his county and was appointed district attorney pro tem by a Democratic Judge. He has been a citizen of Vicksburg for twenty-five years until he made his home in this city. He has been connected with some of the most important cases in which any of our people have appeared within the past fifteen years. Mention was made of his making his home in Chicago in our issue of last week, residing at 3353 South Park ave. He possesses very pleasing manners and he is one of the most noted orators in this country and being deeply interested in every thing pertaining to the advancement of the Colored race he is bound to force to the front in Chicago. When the government called for mechanics to volunteer for the Second Reserve engineers, thirty-four men made application from the Pueblo shops. Edmonson was one of four whose names were submitted by B. F. Bush, president of the road. Although his application was plainly marked "Colored," he was ordered by the army officials to come to St. Louis, Mo. When he arrived at the office in that city, he was told by Colonel Townsend that "this is strictly a white man's regiment." After admitting that Edmonson's application had been accepted in regular form and that his experience was such as to qualify him for service, the colonel tried to disqualify him by stating that it would be necessary for all engineers to speak French. Edmonson demonstrated that he spoke the language fluently. Major Hall then admitted they were "up against it" and after much parleying, offered him a chance in the Mess Department. Of course Edmonson declined to accept the offer and left this week for Pueblo to resume his work in the Missouri-Pacific shops. Railroad officials here state that the call for volunteers did not specify nationality or race. HARRY SMITH CLAIMS DUBOIS GETTING $3600 SALARY FOR RACE WORK. DuBois is said to receive a salary of $3600. That is $300 a month, $75 a week, $12.50 a day—from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Pretty "nifty" pay for the editor of the Crisis. What are our people, the country over, getting from him in return for all this money! Mine Host, George W. Holt, of the Brunswick Hotel, 3004 S. State street, and owner of the Mission Buffet at 3502 S. State street, will spend most of his vacation in Chicago this season. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JULY 6. 1917. FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO. "Negro Acting as Pastor for White People." "On Lynn Creek, Giles County, Tennessee, there is a hardshell Baptist Church, supported by a number of wealthy people of that 'persuasion' who for several years past have had for their regular pastor, a Negro man, black as the ace of spades, named George—known as Bentley's Old George, and belonging to the estate of one Matthew Bentley, deceased, George is said to be most excellent man and a good preacher. Sometime ago, he had a noted public discussion, lasting four days with a white preacher, on the subject of baptism, from which the white man is said to have come off (if any difference) second best. The church wants to buy George, but he is not willing to be sold out of his master's family; and is withal a regular Southern pro-slavery parson. George is the 'peacher in charge' of a large congregation, nearly all of whom are slaveholders, and who pay him a salary of $600 to $700 for his pastoral services." Tennessee Quid Nunc-1859 THE NEW KANSAS CLUB. The Kansas Club which has been organized for 2 months is planning to take its place among the leading clubs of the city. Mr. Anthony Overton the president is one of the leading business men of the country. The club is desirous of having all representative Kansasans as members. The next meeting will be July 8 at the residence of Mrs. Hattie Errant, 3230 Calumet avenue. Mrs. M. Railey, Sec., 4626 Langley avenue. Bessie Bell, 4533 Prairie Ave. Reporter. THE FRATERNAL HOTEL CONTINUES TO DO A FLOURISHING BUSINESS. The Fraternal Hotel, located at 6155 Wentworth avenue, phone Englewood 3465, is just the place for the newcomers coming to this city from the South to stop at and most especially those employed in the Stock Yards, or in that section of the city. Its rates are reasonable and it is thoroughly sanitary. ATTORNEY WALTER M. FARMER TO ADDRESS THE BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY. This coming Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Attorney Walter M. Farmer, will address the Bethel Literary Society. His subject will be "The Crisis in Race Development." Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D. pastor; Sandy W. Trice, President. NEGRO RETAINS POSITION Strikers return to work. Schenectady, N. Y.-The 5,000 machinists and helpers of the General Electric Company, who struck June 16 to have a Negro college student removed from working among them, adjusted their differences. The Negro will remain. LIBERIA TO DEPORT GERMANS TO FRANCE. London, July.—All Germans will be deported from Liberia to France within a few days, it was learned here today. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a close-up of a person's face, but no discernible features or details can be seen. W. H. ALDERMAN JOSEPH HIGGINS SMITH. The popular city father of the 14th Ward who would make a for Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court in 19 The popular city father of the 14th Ward who would make a tip-top candidate for Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court in 1918. The popular city father of the 14th Ward who would make a tip-top candidate for Chief Bailiff of the Municipal Court in 1918. HANNIS-MULHOFER WEDDING. A very elaborate wedding will take place Saturday evening at the Humbolt Park Lutheran Church, when Miss Charlotte Hannis of 923 Addison St. will be Married to Mr. Chas, Mulhofer of 2217 Cleveland Ave., Rev. Knuten officiating. The bride will wear a handsome gown of silk tulle and will carry a bouquet of orange blossoms. Mr. Mulhofer recently attained prominence when summoned before the Federal authorities on a charge of plotting against the U. S. Government. The charge was dropped when Mr. Mulhofer established evidence that the report was the work of some malicious person. In fact he proved beyond a doubt his loyalty to the United States when it was discovered that he was born in the State of New York 30 years ago and is for the United States flag at all times. The bride and groom were the recipients of many beautiful presents from their many friends. They will be at home at 923 Addison street after July 20. MAN ASLEEP TIED AND SHOT BY WIFE. Cumberland, Md., Special—Tying the hands of her husband to the side of the bed as he slept, Mrs. Enoch Carter shot him three times. Carter, 30 years old, was a mine driver. WOMEN APPOINTED AS PRINTER'S ASSISTANTS Washington, D. C., Special—A large number of women of the race have been appointed as printer's assistants at the bureau of engraving and printing by Director Joseph E. Ralph. WIN MEDALS FOR BRAVERY. Clarksville, Tenn.-Gale Carr, a native of Clarksville, who is in the British army in France, has received two medals for bravery. He has been in the British army two years. GARVIN GOES TO FRANCE. Cleveland, O., Special.—Dr. Charles H. Garvin, graduate of Howard University, and local practitioner, has accepted a commission as lieutenant with the Surgical Unit raised by Dr. Crile, white, for immediate service in France. CHIPS Hon. John E. Owens, who occupies fine law offices in the Conway Building continues to be favorably mentioned by his numerous friends in connection with the nomination for Mayor of Chicago in 1919. Hon. Miles J. Devine, ex-city attorney of Chicago, who is one of the most popular and eminent lawyers in this city should without the slightest effort on his part be elected one of the new judges of the Superior Court, this coming fall. Society gossip has it that Miss Bertha Moseley will change her name to Mrs. Cary B. Lewis shortly after the first of this coming December and that they will reside at her parents home Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley, 6248 S. Sangamon street. 1 ird who would make a tip-top candidate Municipal Court in 1918. THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM MR. J. H. WHISTON (LOVIE JOE). Part owner of the far famed Cafe, Elite, No. 1, 3030 S. State street Mr. J. H. Whiston, (Lovie Joe) who has resided in this city for more than 32 years has gradually developed into one of its best business men, for his word is his bond in all business transactions. He is well and favorably known from coast to coast and from the extreme northern end of Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. He is also prominent in secret society circles and can count his friends by the thousands. It might be said on the side that he is delight- Dispelling an illusion. When you think you can see a ghost, how can you tell whether it really is a ghost or not? A writer gives the following scientific method: "We assume that a person sees an apparition. It may be objective—i. e., having existence outside the observer's mind—or merely a creature of a disordered brain, subjective. The seer, while looking at the vision with both his eyes, gently depresses one eyeball with his forefinger from outside the top eyelid, so causing a squint. If objective, whether bogus or not, two outlines of the 'ghost' will be seen, but one, of course, if it be subjective. One may prove this by trial any time with any object, near or far. I mention this because of the many nervous and brain weared people who see spooks and to whom it would be better that they should know that the trouble is within themselves and so seek a capable doctor than continue to be haunted, as they believe, by the supernatural." Constituents of Soot. Soot consists chiefly of carbon, tar and mineral matter, with smaller proportions of sulphur and nitrogenous compounds, and frequently has an acid reaction. The proportion of the various constituents varies greatly with different factors, such as the nature of the coal, the completeness of combustion and the distance from the fire at which the soot was deposited. "I shall try to leave footprints on the sands of time," said the man who is earnest, but not original. "Very good," replied the absent-minded criminologist, "but thumb prints are now considered more reliable."—Exchange An Obstructed Order Owens-How do you do, Mr. Shears? What can you show me in the way of a new suit today? His Tailor-Your bill, sir. That is decidedly in the way of a new suit. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Bright's Disease. Diet, according to a prominent physician, is the most important factor in the care or control of Bright's disease. "Of all diseases," the doctor says, "Bright's disease is most influenced by habits—of eating and of life generally. This holds true to every form of the disease. If a man has a necessarily fatal form of the disease, if he will live according to the rules he can add a few months or a few years to his life. If he has a chronic but slowly progressive downward form he can almost live out the expectancy of a man of his years by playing the game fair. If he has a mild form of the disease he can live the law and he will find that his symptoms will entirely disappear. The diet of a person with chronic nephritis should be simple in quality and limited in quantity. He should especially refrain from eating heavy meals. While 'neither a feast nor a famine' is advisable, the former is the more harmful." ```markdown ``` Identification: fully popular with the dear sweet ladies. Under his active management, for his partner, Mr. Arthur F. Codozoe, who has not enjoyed good health for some time, the old reliable Elite No.1 continues to do a flourishing business. Well on to five hundred patrons can comfortably be accommodated at one time and Messrs. Whiston and Codozoe desire at this time to extend their most hearty greetings to their army of friends and patrons. Our Wisdom Teeth The wisdom teeth are the four last molar teeth to grow. They come one on each side of each jaw and arrive somewhere between the ages of twenty and twenty-five years. The name is given them because it is supposed that when a person has developed physically and mentally to the point where he has secured these last four teeth he has also arrived at the age of discretion. It does not necessarily mean that one who has cut his wisdom teeth is wise, but that, having lived long enough to grow these, which complete the full set of teeth, the person has passed sufficient actual years that, if he has done what he should to fit himself for life, he should have come by that time at the age of discretion or wisdom. As a matter of fact, these teeth grow at about the same age in people whether they are wise or not-Exchange. Snake Bites In India India's annual loss of over 30,000 lives from snake bite has forced the production of an antidote serum. The Parel laboratory, Bombay, keeps a supply of cobras from which venom is extracted every ten days. The snakes are forcibly fed with egg flip through a tube. The venom is dried over lime and then dissolved in a salt solution. Increasing doses are injected in a horse until at the end of two years the animal can stand a dose 200 times the original one and is quite immune from the cobra poison. The serum from the blood of this particular horse is an antidote and is absolutely effective if injected in time. Many lives have been saved by its use. However, each bite requires an antidote made from the venom of the same sort of snake that inflicted the bite. Walking Exercise In a brisk walk of twenty minutes duration a person brings into play all the muscles of the body, the abdominal organs are shaken into activity, the lungs are filled with fresh air and are thus assisted in their natural function of purifying the blood, the action of the heart is quickened and strengthened, so that the blood, well aerated in the lungs, flows abundantly to the brain and washes out all the poison with which work and worry clog it. Every business man with a sedentary occupation ought to walk to and from his office if it is possible, as he would derive great benefit from the practice. Curious Beehives. In the village of Hoefel, Silesia, there are a number of beehives in the shape of life size figures cleverly carved in wood and painted in colors. The figures were carved more than a century ago by monks of the Naumburg monastery, who were at that time in possession of a large farm in the district. The beehives represent different characters, ranging from Moses to a military officer, a country girl and a night watchman with a spear. "Is there such a thing as a new thought?" "Maybe there is and maybe there isn't," replied the cynical man. "Some people entertain a thought so seldom that whenever one strikes them they get the idea that it's new."—Birmingham Ag-Herald. Chance Visitors FRATERNAL HOTEL FOR RENT 915 65th St. N. 80045 E. 1st Ave. N. RENTING 0165 FRATERNAL HOTEL CHICAGO BOOMS 25c PER NIGHT AND UP BOOMS $1.00 PER WEEK AND UP ASKS $837.50 FOR SHAVE. Contractor Sues Accident Company Over a Skin Infection. Kansas City, Mo.-Eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents for a shave is asked by William Kenefick, a contractor, in a suit brought in the circuit court recently. The suit, directed against an accident insurance company, is the result of an infection of the skin which Mr. Kenefick says he accidentally contracted in New York city while a barber was shaving him. He is therefore trying to collect on his accident policy, and the company refuses to pay. Leaves Pulpit For Vaudeville Zanesville, O.-The Rev. F. W. Gorman, pastor of the Congregational church, told his congregation the other night that he had signed a contract for a seven weeks' vaudeville tour. He was granted a leave of absence. The Rev. Mr. Gorman's specialty is singing. He was on the stage before entering the ministry. A Pat of Butter. One pat or serving of butter is a little thing. There are about sixty-four of them in a pound, says the department of agriculture. In many households the butter left on the plates probably would equal one pat, or one-quarter of an ounce daily, scraped off into the garbage pail. But if every one of our 20,000,000 households should waste one-quarter of an ounce of butter daily on the average it would mean 312,500 pounds a day—114,062,500 pounds a year. To make this butter would take 285,261,500 gallons of milk, or the product of over half a million ews. The United States department of agriculture, Washington, or your state agriculture college will tell you how to use every bit of butter in cookery.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Died For His Mates. There is a tablet in the sailors' home at Melbourne to James Marr. He was a sailor before the mast on the Rip. On July 15, 1873, the Rip was caught in a squall. Marr sat astride of the gaff when a great wave broke over the boat and brought down the mainmast. There was only one chance to save the Rip. That was to cut away the litter. But Marr clung to the broken spar, and to cut away meant to send him overboard to his death. So, looking at him doubtfully, the men hesitated, their axes in their hands. Marr, helpless, pondered. He saw that his death would be the boat's salvation, and he shouted: "Cut away, mates! Goodby!" Then he let himself fall into the cold, wild sea. A Divided City. Living on either side of the Danube, just at that point where it definitely sets south. Pest spreads itself out over the flat sandy plain on the left bank, while Buda rambles over the series of small and steep hills which characterize the land on the right bank. Pest is modern in aspect. It is regularly laid out and presents a splendid frontage to the river. Buda, ancient and capricious, wanders in and out among the hills, finally shouldering its way up to the Blocksberg, nearly 400 feet above the river. Behind it all are the mountains, rising in great terraces, one behind the other. Charles E. Stump The Kansas Newspaper Farmer Spent The Past Week In Chicago and He Has Again Started On Another Long Tour Through The Southern States. I have been to a few places and have seen a few people since I wrote to you the last time, and now I am writing this letter right in the city of Chicago, and will soon be through with it, and will have a few things to say to you in my next letter, but I must say what I have to say in this one before turning attention to the next one. If you will recall I was in Waco, Texas, looking around there when I wrote you the last letter. I was there with the Pythians, and noting the things being said and done by them. When that Grand Lodge was over I got my little feet in the road and left there for Muskogee, Okla., to be the guest of Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, and this is where the National Baptist Convention is to meet in September, and they are fixing to give them Baptists one more good big time, and they will be prepared for it. All will be well accommodated and cared for. These men are doing some work. It was a fine day for me in Muskogee. I spent one whole Sunday there looking around and talking to the people. When I had finished a day's work there I got myself together and started for my Kansas farm. Reaching Kansas City, Kans., I found my friend and brother Tilford Davis in the hospital where he had been operated on for intumdentum. He was getting along nicely. His daughter Miss Catheryne had finished high school and is now preparing to go to college this fall. She is going to make it to one of the big colleges of the country. I heard her say, but she did not authorize me to tell you. I will wait until I am told what to say. Of course you have heard of Kansas City, Kans., because it was placed on the map last year by some one wanting to pass segregation. They fumed around until they got it into the city election. There is one time that our people stood as a unit, and they just snowed under the man who wanted to be mayor on the platform of segregation. He has not been heard of since, and this will bring to us just a little more respect. From Kansas City, I made it to St. Louis, Mo., stopping at Poro college, one of the busiest places in the coun- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JULY 6. 1917. On6 of the many homeless Colored families at East St. Louis, Ill., who were the innocent victims of the vengeance of the blood thirsty Christian savages of that city. try, yet they are never too busy to treat all people well. Mrs. Malone is indeed a remarkable woman, and there is no getting around it. She has in her possession the stuff which will make you great. Next month people will be in St. Louis from all parts of the country, and they are going to be there to attend the session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias. They are ready for them. Believe me honey it is going to be one great big meeting. Men are getting ready to be there. They have their trunks in shape and are trying now to get something to go into them. I think they will succeed. I am not going to say much about St. Louis, because I am going back there when the supreme lodge meets, and it is then I shall have my say and say it good and strong. I made it over to Quincy, Ill., and of course I missed Rev. T. L. Smith. I visited his church there, the one that he left behind when he took his departure from this earth. The people there all love and honor him just the same. He has made good, and now he is at rest. He left a beautiful home to his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Smith, who is a young woman. Her brother John says that as long as he is in health and strength and can get hold of a dollar he is going to take care of his sister, and they are going to continue to keep house. She is one good stenographer. I wish you could see the letters coming in for that one church. So many people want it, but they can't get it. One man in Alabama wrote me a letter something like this: "Abot the vacon chirch in I L L. if it is not asking two much of you will you pleas look after that matter fr me and let me know a Bot it. Will you put me in tuch with the officers, a Man of your high standing and Broad Reprertation cand land me in I. L. L. Bethought anny trouble. Will you Be Kind Enough to do me that favor. Hoping to here from you at your earlist convention. I will be here two weeks then I will leave for Home, Hobson City, Ala." He wants a church in Illinois, and I hope that he will get it. I am sure that he needs it. But my friends, I must hasten on, for I have failed to tell you that I have been to East St. Louis where they had all that trouble, and I am delighted to have been there. Suppose I leave it now, and if I have time will tell you later. I had a delightful time in Quiney, Ill, and had the pleasure of talking with the people there. Now you want to know what happened after I left Quiney, I made it right on to Decatur, Ill., and when I stepped off of the wagon there, I found the Rev. Dr. J. A. Crockett, awaiting my arrival, and wanting to tome me around over the town. To his house I went, and had the pleasure of meeting his people. Then next found me eating—some eating—and then to his church where I had the pleasure of meeting some of the women of Decatur who had assembled for a special lecture. After a fine dinner, then we went to church at night again. This time after the lecture I went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cousins, and he is of the firm of K. C. & H. General Contracting and Wrecking Company. That man is one busy man, and while his wife attended the lecture, and in company with Mrs. Thompson, and Mrs. Cousins, I went out to the house, he was at home as busy as could be figuring on a job, making blue prints or something else. I certainly enjoyed seeing this busy man. He greeted me as he would a brother, and assured me that he was delighted to have me visit his home, and to know his family. When I was through with them, I left for this place. Of course I have seen many inspiring things, and some things which caused me to feel real happy, and other things that were not so inspiring. I reached Chicago right on time, and I am right here in town when I write this, but will be away before you can read the letter. I will be down in Jacksonville, and from there I jump to Lynchburg, Va. I am going to do some riding these days. The white man has made it so that you can eat breakfast in one state, lunch in another, six o'clock dinner in another and still sleep in another state. Wonderful age. No brass band to meet me in Chicago, but I entered the city just the same. No one looked strange at me, but B. W. Fitts, 3157 S. State street, just shook my hands like he was shaking hands with an old brother. He was really glad to see me, and then I had the pleasure of shaking hands with his wife, Mrs. Fitts, in their new place. Off to see the town. I made a trip to that big hospital on 36th and Dearborn streets, and I wanted to shout. To meet men and women looking after the sick was a great thing to me. I had the pleasure of shaking hands with one of the new nurses under training, Miss Annie M. Matthes, from Texarkana. This young woman is far from home, but she is making good, and enjoys the work very much. She is representing her mother and father in the institution, and then she is representing Arkansas. Already there is a position waiting for her when she finishes here. She had never been Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. By Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 BEGINNING TUBERCULOSIS. Tuberculosis is the principal disease. It causes more deaths than any other malady. It is a disease of civilization; that is to say, it is a house disease. It attacks those who spend too much time indoors and those who sleep with windows closed. It also attacks those who are improperly fed and those who do not eat regularly and sufficiently. The time to save the person who has the disease is in the early stage. The early stage is the beginning of the disease. Often the person who has an early stage is not aware that there is anything the matter. If is necessary that we have an idea of the method of spread of tuberculosis in order to trace cause to effect and thus locate individuals who have beginning consumption as it is also called. There is an eroneous opinion among our contemporaries that all persons who have beginning tuberculosis also have a cough. It is a recognized fact emphasized by authorities on the disease that tuberculosis attacks different organs of the body and that many of those organs may be infected by the tubercle bacillus without presenting the symptom called a cough. away from her parents so far, and so long since she has been in the world, but then she is determined that the world shall know that she lived, and then she has a desire to do something for those who suffer. A noble thing to do. Then I went over to see Mrs. Christine Cook, on 37th street. I knew her back in Kentucky, also her mother. Last winter Mrs. Cook went to spend the winter way down in Florida, to bask in the sunshine. The first time she had been away from her so long. She was enjoying herself in Florida, when a telegram called her back to Chicago, and she did not know until she was in the room that death had claimed her mother, Mrs. Tena Morton, 742 E. 35th street. Mrs. Morton, whose maiden name was Starks, was born in Frankfort, Ky., and came to Chicago about --- PAGE FIVE ```markdown ``` For instance glandular tuberculosis is common in children and bone and joint tuberculosis are also frequently found in children, yet, diseased glands and infected bones and joints and normal glands and healthy bones and joints have nothing to do with the phenomena of coughing. Even lung consumption the most dreaded and the most widespread as well as the most fatal form, often is present without the manifestation of the symptom cough. Loss of weight that is rapid is a symptom when other factors are also noted; loss of appetite and lack of strength and defective endurance should also arouse suspicion and cause the affected person to seek the physician's thorough examination and advice. Pleurisy is strongly suggestive of tuberculosis and is very slight in early consumption. Night sweats while not always due to the poison of the tuberculosis germ is often found in tuberculosis. There are thousands of people who have beginning tuberculosis and yet are not complaining of any pain or other discomfort. The modern physician can with great care diagnose almost every early case with up to date methods. Consumption can be cured and early cases offer the best chance of cure. Don't wait. 6 years ago, and for a long time lived with her two daughters in Evanston where she remained until about one year ago when her daughter Christine was married to William Cook, and then she moved and took up quarters where she died. This death was sudden, for just a week before they celebrated her 54th anniversary. The Stewart family by large numbers were present, headed by John Stewart, his wife, Charles Stewart, his wife, and all the children. They all belong to the same family. Just fourteen days after that celebration, she had gotten up to cook breakfast, when she complained of a pain about her head. Her son told her to sit down, but before she could sit down she fell in the arms of her son Jack, and about 5 hours after that her soul had taken its flight to the God who gave it. Mrs. Morton left two daughters, and two sons, and one stepson. She was a good woman and a hard church worker, and I desire to extend my sympathy to the family. One by one we are passing out. It is hard to tell who will be the next. I am saying this, because when I was in Chicago last February, I went to see her, and enjoyed much her company. She was so full of life, and had so many good things to say to me. She told me about her daughter in Florida, and I planned to go to see her, but she left before I reached St. Petersburg. We are to be ready for death, but then I have been doing much getting around in Chicago, I have seen many people, and I think that I will just tell you about my visit to Chicago in my next letter. I think it would be nice for you to be on the look out for my next letter. I may do some cussing. I must now stop this week. It may not be true, but it is reported that in the near future Mrs. Marie Burton-Hyram, one of the most noted soprano song birds in this part of the country, will introduce divorce proceedings against her husband—that she is willing after she becomes free from him, to go it single handed and alone in the future. The Byron Brothers who are far famed in the musical world, after an absence of two years from Chicago, are spending a three weeks vacation in their own home town and they are at home to their many old friends at 4340 Forestville avenue. Cause For Worry. "You must take exercise," said the physician, "and by all means worry less. Play golf." "Doctor," replied the patient, "you mean well, but a man who plays my kind of golf game can't help worrying." Too Bad. Jinks—Couldn't you borrow a thousand at the bank on your character? Binks—Impossible! I keep hens, and the banker lives next door to me!—St. Louis Republic. THE BROAD AX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Cathelies, 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. WIRELESS PHONES FOR USE OF THE NAVY System Already Successfully Tested by Secretary of Navy Daniels. Washington.—Wireless telephony as well as wireless telegraphy will be used by the United States navy in its war operations. A year ago, by order of Secretary Daniels, navy officers and officials of the Bell system planned and successfully carried out a three day mobilization of communication forces during which war conditions were simulated. Instantaneous communication was provided over the wires by both telephone and telegraph from the office of Secretary Daniels in Washington to all the naval stations in the United States, and wireless communication was maintained between the secretary's office and an American battleship in the Atlantic ocean. Since then engineers of the telephone company have worked with officials of the navy department and have further developed the wireless telephone for use in the naval service. HOW RECRUIT GAINED ONE INCH A MYSTERY HOW RECRUIT GAINED ONE INCH A MYSTERY Feeding and Gymnastic Exercises Aided This Private In Reaching Minimum Weight. Milwaukee, Wis.—Roman Jagodzinski recently tendered his services to this country as a private in Company K, First Wisconsin infantry. He weighed 115 pounds. One hundred and twenty pounds is the minimum weight under the regulations. But they passed him on to the man with the tape measure and he registered exactly five feet three and three-quarter inches. Here he was shy again, three-quarters of an inch. One week was allowed him in which to make good, and—there's no use in withholding the story any longer—he made good. Private Jagodzinski was accepted a week after his application. He weighed 120 pounds, and he measured five feet four and a quarter inches. During the week he put on five pounds in weight, and he stretched exactly an inch. "How was it done?" Corporal J. Beahog of Company K was asked. "Feeding and gymnastic exercises," was the reply. No further inquiry was made with regard to the feeding, because there isn't anything herole about gastronomic endurance contests, but some information was earnestly solicited about the stretching process. All the corporal would vouchsafe in that regard was that "Roman was rolled around on the armory floor until the additional inch was teased out of him." GIRL HARD TO TABULATE Says Her Business Is That of Distributing Religious Tracts. Albany, N. Y.—The state military census takers here are puzzled as to just how they will tabulate an unmarried nineteen-year-old Albany girl who gave these answers on her census blank: "What is your business?" "Colporteur" (one who sells or distributes religious tracts). "Are you in business for yourself?" "No." "If not what is the name of your employer?" "The Lord." "What is your employer's business?" "Forgiving sins." "What is your employer's address?" "The heavenly sanctuary." --- RECRUITS IN WEST Prairie Boys Eagerly Seek Enlistment In the Navy. MANY NEVER SAW THE SEA. Station at Great Lakes, Ill., Crowded With Sturdy Young Ranchers and Farmers Drilling For Nation's Service—Taught Sea Lore on the Sheres of Lake Michigan. Chicago.—That many sons of the prairie will man our battleships is indicated by the success of the naval recruiting plans in the middle west. From revelle to colors at the United States naval training station at Great Lakes, Ill., ranch owners' sons, farmers' sons, bankers' sons from Chicago and Springfield, newsboys, dairymen and college students drill and work to fit themselves for service with the "first line of defense." Although few of them have ever viewed the ocean or sailed the sea, the rolling prairies of Illinois and Wisconsin have filled them with a love of ROBERT M. BURKE CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. MOFFETT. the rolling deep. the openness of their native country has imbued them with a clear eyed vision and a realization of duty which has awakened in them real patriotism and a desire to be of national service. Their eagerness to place themselves at the service of the navy has overflowed the barracks of the Great Lakes naval station, which normally accommodates over 2,000 men. It has been found necessary to erect a tented city for the thousands of overplus recruits on the banks of Lake Michigan. Captain William A. Moffett, commandant of the station, speaking of the work of the station, said: "The end in view is to make a man-o-war's man out of a raw recruit. To accomplish this end a thorough training in academic work, physical exercises, military drills and lessons in seamanship is given each man under instruction, and in turn each one of them is required to show in his bearing, actions and words a sincere amenability to discipline, to demonstrate aptitude for his work and to maintain a conduct standard of the highest order. If he falls short of either or any of these cardinal requisites of the naval service he is discharged as an undesirable." ROOKIE TWINS FOOL DOCTOR. Physician Thinks He Is Examining Same Youth Twice. London.—Twin brothers, who had just reached eighteen, appeared before a medical recruiting board recently for examination preliminary to enlistment. One of them stripped, was ushered before a doctor and, having passed his examination, retired. Then the other brother appeared, but the doctor refused to examine him, declaring he could not give his attention to the same candidate twice. Not until the two went in together would he be convinced. "If one of them is killed he'll never be sure of it," commented the doctor. "He'll be uncertain whether he's himself or his brother." The twins are so nearly alike that even their parents have never been able to distinguish them positively. They have the same initials and their penmanship is identical. BUREAU RESCUES FISH. Takes Them From Overflowed Lands For Anglers' Benefit. Washington.—Every year the bureau of fisheries has agents out in the overflowed lands in the Mississippi basin to rescue fish from their new temporary homes, returning them to their original streams for the benefit of the angler. The spring floods this year carried from their original streams the following species: Spotted, blue, channel and yellow cat, horned pout, bullhead; small, common and black buffalo fish; carp, pike and plickerer, crappie, rock bass, red eye, google eye, warmmouth (also known as google eye), large mouth and small mouth black bass, bluegill bream or bluegill sunfish, yellow perch or ring perch and white bass. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JULY 6. 1917. THIS BOY ENLISTED THIS BOY ENLISTED Fourteen, Convinced Army Officers He Was Twenty-one. LONG PANTS DID THE JRICK. In Spite of His Five Feet Six Inches and 160 Pounds, Mother Dressed Him In Waists and Knickers and Even In Public Called Him Freddie, Which He Resented. Washington.—That long trousers can add seven years to life in the time it takes to put them on stands written on the army records here under the date May 2. It was then that Frederick Miller of Baltimore broke the bonds of childhood, and he broke them with a vengeance. Up to that day there was no doubt in the minds of the neighbors that, in spite of his five feet six inches and his 160 pounds, the boy was not a day over fourteen. His mother dressed him in waists and knickers and even in public called him Freddie. But there was more to be blamed on the knickers than the accusation of youth. They left visible the lower portion of Frederick's body, and as a considerable portion of 100 pounds was not above his waist, Frederick yearned with all his soul for a real pair of long trousers in which to hide his legs. On May 2 Frederick came home from school to find his mother out. A negro chore man was scrubbing the windows—a real man, wearing man's clothes. When Mrs. Miller returned she found nobody in the house, and Freddie was not seen for a week. She did not know of course that the negro had gone out dressed in a waist and knickers. Finally came a letter from Freddie saying that he was happy and was wearing army pants and leggings. The postmark was New Rochelle, so Mrs. Miller got busy. Soon Police Lieutenant Frank Cody was at Fort Slocum and Freddie was found—called Frederick—and the recruiting officers swore that if Frederick wasn't twenty-one they had never seen a man of that age. Freddie had announced he was twenty-one when he enlisted. Lleutenant Colonel Maudilin, commandant at Fort Slocum, says Frederick should stay and help win the war. But Freddie was told he must return home, and his mother said that if she couldn't call him twenty-one she could at least call him seventeen and give him a new pair of long trousers. WILD MUSTANG FLESH. Strange Meats Can Now Be Bought In Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore—Jackass, mule, donkey, burro and horse meat may now be sold in Portland meat markets. The city council has adopted an ordinance providing for the regulation of their sale. The meat must be plainly labeled with letters at least one inch high and must be inspected by the regular meat inspectors of the city. As adopted the ordinance says Dobbin and Billy and Maud before being sold to the housewife must undergo thorough inspection and be labeled "horse," "mule," "goat" or "jackass," as the case may be. The first horse meat market has been opened, and the first shipment of twenty-two wild range mustangs, rounded up by Indians in eastern Oregon, has been received, with more to follow if the demand is sufficient. The butcher says he is able to cut meat prices in two, and his quotations for horse flesh range from 4 cents a pound for soup cuts to 12½ cents for T bone steaks. MOVE TO AID INJURED. Connecticut is First State to Standardize Its Disinfectants. Hartford, Conn.—Governor Holcomb has signed the Austin bill providing for the standardization of disinfectants. Thus Connecticut is the first state to standardize disinfectants, a step regarded by physicians as of great importance at this time because of the war and the flood of worthless disinfectants on the market. Members of the medical profession have long insisted on such a law. The measure was introduced and pushed to passage by Dr. A. E. Austin, a member of the state house of representatives from Greenwich. It provides that the receptacle in which disinfectants are sold shall bear a label stating the quality of the contents on the application of the proper test. $50 IN A BIBLE Woman Hides It There, but Burglar Finds It. Pittsburgh.—Mrs. David Lyle of Homestead thought the Bible was one place a burglar would never look for money. She placed a fifty dollar bill in the family Bible, and it stood on the table in the parlor undisturbed for several months. Recently one night thieves entered and ransacked the house. The next morning the Bible was found on the floor with several pages and the fifty dollar bill missing. The thieves apparently had been so anxious to seize the money they tore the book. Back Streets For Gardens Onalaska, Wis.-Use of the city's back streets for raising potatoes was authorized recently by the town council. High school boys, under direction of the county farm school, will cultivate the highways. PREACHERS ON FARMS. An Organization Proposes That They Work in Rush Season. Topeka, Kan.—If the plan adopted by the Clay county Ministers' union is put into action in the counties throughout the state of Kansas it will put 8,000 skilled laborers into the fields during the rush season. The plan outlined in Clay county is set out in a letter to Governor Capper by the Rev. J. Ashton Davies of Clay Center. Mr. Davies says: "During the month of July and August the ministers are to work on farms, going out to that work Monday mornings and returning Saturday evenings, just as our boys are doing at the officers' camp at Fort Riley. "We may arrange to leave one minister in town, a different one each week, who shall devote his time to the interest of all the churches. The churches will, of course, continue to pay the ministers' salaries, and the wage received from the farmers will be turned over to the benevolent boards of the churches or to the Red Cross society. "If this plan could be adopted throughout the state it would send 8,000 skilled laborers into the fields." MAKE BEARS FEEL AT HOME Reproduction of Cliffs and Bowlders In City Park Pits. Denver.—Not satisfied with having mountain scenery within a few miles of the city, Denver has sent out into the Rockies and brought it into the city limits by the cartload. The scenery is not paintings or photographs, but actual reproductions of rugged cliffs and majestic bowlders selected for bear pits at City park. Agents of the city spread a gelatinous material over the most striking cliffs during the day and removed it in the cool of the morning, thus retaining an accurate impression. This was converted into plaster of paris casts, in which form the reproductions have been brought to Denver. The molds will be constructed in concrete and shot, with cement guns, in colors and tints to simulate the original rocks from which they were taken. FARMERS CAN INSURE CROPS Massachusetts Plan Guarantees 10 Per Cent Profit Worcester, Mass.-The first general farm crop insurance ever afforded the farmers of the United States was put into effect by the Worcester county farm bureau. Farmers who take out policies will be assured of a clean profit of 10 per cent over and above the cost of production on all of their 1917 crop which exceeds in volume the crop of 1916. Business men have subscribed a fund of $100,000 to guarantee the insurance. The farmer must maintain certain standards. The insurance applies to all winter staples. The crop must be marketed in Worcester county. SHAVING FUND BUYS BOND. Travelers' Joke Sixteen Years Ago Results in Saving $3,000. Waterloo, Ia.—At the grand council of the Iowa United Commercial Travelers sixteen years ago, F. W. Houck of Sheldon lost his wallet. His friends, as a practical joke, instructed all the banks not to cash a draft for him. He was in need of a shave. A fund was raised for this purpose, but meanwhile Houck succeeded in cashing his draft. The fund was turned into the treasury and maintained by annual contributions of a penny from each member. It now has passed the $3,000 mark. The council voted to invest the fund in the liberty loan. DOG CATCHES DESERTER. Holds Man by Trouser's Leg Until Officers Arrive. Leavenworth, Kan.—James Thompson, special officer here, owns a police dog whose abilities as an apprehender of criminals frequently has been scoffed at by Thompson's friends. The dog has vindicated himself. William Payne, a deserter last summer from the Missouri national guard, while stationed on the Mexican border, had escaped from the disciplinary barracks at the army post here. The dog captured the fleeing trusty, holding to the man's trousers leg and impeding his flight until officers subdued him. LYNN JUDGE FINES MAYOR. School Board Also Punished For Violating Labor Law. Lynn, Mass—Mayor George H. Newhall, Dr. Nathaniel P. Breed, Elmer E. Boyer, Mial W. Chase and S. Walter McDonough, members of the Lynn school board, were fined $5 each by Judge Henry T. Lummus. The members were charged with a violation of the eight hour law in allowing janitors of schoolhouses to work more than that time daily. Assistant City Solicitor Jacobs appealed in their behalf, and they were held in their own recognition by Judge O'Brien for the superior court. Many Blossoms on Twig. Topeka, Kan.—If all the twigs on an apple tree on the farm of George H. Kreider, near Lyndon, had as many blossoms as one twig had, and, if every blossom became an apple, the tree would have supplied an apple a day for several thousand persons. The "freek twig" has put forth half a dozen blossoms instead of the customary one. Kreider declares it a "freek of nature" and states that in all his experience as a fruit raiser he never before saw so many blossoms on a twig. Sergeant of Marines Describes Spectacle Graphically. Not Even the Innocent Victim of the Stevedores—er, Matadores—Could Get Up Any Emotion at Panama's Popular Pastime—Never Again For Mack of U. S. M. C. By SERGEANT WILLIAM L. MACK, U. S. M. C. (Pittsburgh, Pa., R. S.) Drawings By SERGEANT C. J. LOHMILLER, U. S. M. C. (Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, Pa.) Pittsburgh.—I had always wanted to see a bullfight, and when the opportunity came at Colon, Panama, I was quick to seize it. I had gone ashore on liberty, looking for excitement, and if you can call bullfighting excitement I had it. I picked up a handbill in the street. It was printed in Spanish, but I finally made out that Senor Don Porando, primer tooreador from Barcelona, would that very afternoon, with skill and neatness, dispatch the fierce and fiery toro for two 'dobe dollars per admission. Oh, que grandioso! There enters the arena now a troupe of picadors wear- THE BULL'S ENTRANCE WAS A FLIVVER. ing scarlet cloaks and carrying lances and darts. They open the gates at one side of the arena and let loose the fierce and fiery toro. The entrance of said toro was pretty much of a filiver. The vast crowd evidently had him buffaloed. He nervously looked around, pawed the dirt under his feet, jumped up into the air, cracked his heels together and then rolled over on the ground, kittenish like. From my seat in the arena I could see the marks of the voke about his neck. Now very cautiously the picadors approach within thirty yards of el toro and let fly their darts, the entire lot striking the bull's side in the region of the flank. El toro switches his tail nervously. "Those blamed canal zone mosquitoes again," he is doubtless thinking. Soon the picadors make way for the stevedores—er—I mean the matadors, who succeed in worrying the bull a great deal by their mere presence and appearance. But now comes the real thing. There is a fanfare of trumpets, a shout from the multitude, and Senor Don Porando, primer tooreador from Barcelona, has the entree. Don Porando looks the part all right, and when the now thoroughly worried DON PORANDO GIVES THE BULL THE GATE bull gets a slant at Don he bellows forth something that sounds strangely like a frightened laugh. Don Porando stalls around for a few minutes in the hope that the movie people are on the job and then rides straight at the bull. El toro perceives the maneuver, sticks his tail between his legs and beats it around the arena. But the bull is a sucker for setting the pace, it appears. Soon Don wears him down, there is a flash of Toledo steel, the bull sinks slowly to his haunches, casts his dying eyes about in wondering pain, sticks out his tongue as if to lick the hand that slew him, then—caramba! all is over. Never again for my money! When I want to see a first class bulwight I'll go to one given under the auspices of the Humane society, out in the Chicago stockyards. Old Man to Graduate Huntington, W. Va.—James William Samples, seventy-three, is about to complete the dream of a lifetime in his graduation from Marshal college. One of a family of ten children, Samples had a hard time completing the education he always coveted, but he managed four years ago to get the funds that would enable him to go through the college. ************************************************************** * THIS ROOKIE HAD BANK * ROLL OF MERE $68,000 Denver.—At Fort Logan, Colo. the United States army obtained a tall, rawboned recruit. "Does Uncle Sam keep a soldier's money? He asked. "Sure," said the officer. "Well, please keep this for me." The rookie handed over a slip of paper. It was a certificate of deposit for $68,000. "I just sold some sheep," he explained. City Youngsters Are Making a Splendid Showing In the Fields. Washington.—According to reports reaching the department of labor, the city boy is making good on the farm. More than 20,000 boys already have gone into the country to do their bit. These boys are enrolled in the United States boys' working reserve. To join the reserve a boy must be sixteen and prove himself physically fit. They have enlisted for a minimum period of two months, and most of them are planning to remain on the farms until Oct. 1. Next to agriculture the canning industry is making the heaviest demand for boys. Maryland canners have asked for 6,500, those in Michigan want 1,000, and those in New York and other states have indicated that they will send in similar calls. Assistant Secretary Vrooman of the agriculture department has written officials of the Boy Scouts of America, suggesting that the work being done by the scouts to aid the gardening campaign might be rendered even more valuable by organization of a boy patrol to prevent petty garden thieving. "Few people realize that this evil is perhaps the greatest single factor tending to discourage home gardening in and about cities," Mr. Vrooman wrote SHELL HITS TRUE AT RANGE OF TEN MILES French Gunner Smashes Tunnel, Killing Half of Men Inside and Blockading Exit. London.—This story of modern warfare is related by an official authority who has been on the front in Champagne: "On May 20 the French prepared to rush the impregnable positions on Mount Cornillet and Mount Teton. Photographs taken by their aviators showed an immense system of tunnels which apparently concealed German reserves. A single entrance was located, and the operator of a French fifteen inch gun ten miles away was told to put a shell in the entrance. "The gun started firing thousand pound shells, and the infantry was ordered to advance at a certain minute. Two hours before the time set for the advance a half ton shell planted itself squarely in the mouth of the tunnel, killing half of the men inside, blockading the exit and wrecking the transverse corridors. The French advanced and took several hundred prisoners without suffering loss. "Two months ago a French attack on Moronvillers failed because this impregnable tunnel could not be captured." BROTHERS RACE TO ENROLL Albert Thornton of Roselle, N. J., Losses When Bicycle Tire Bursts. Newark, N. J.—"Tve won! I go to war!" panted Victor Thornton of Roselle, N. J., as he burst into the army recruiting station at 250 Market street. Fifteen minutes later his brother, Albert, perspiring and out of breath, sank into a chair. The boys explained that they had asked permission of their father, Alfred Thornton, to go to war and that he had told them only one might enlist. He told them he would decide the matter by a bicycle race and started them off on a three mile trip to the recruiting station. The winner was to enlist. One of Albert's tires was punctured. He threw the wheel into a clump of bushes and ran the rest of the way to the station, hoping that a similar accident might overtake his brother. He returned home to tell his father that Victor had enlisted. FREAK OF LIGHTNING. Mark Size of Dime on Man's Back Where He Was Hit. Sharon, Pa. — D. P. Relfold of Charleston, near here, had a singular experience during a storm, which will keep him bed fast for several days. When the thunderstorm came up Relfold was in a wagon shed. Lightning struck the shed, burned a hole through his clothing at the back, went down his right leg and out of his right shoe, tearing a hole in the leather. He was rendered unconscious, but quickly recovered. An examination showed a mark the size of a dime on his back, where the bolt hit, and a red streak was fixed on his skin, the path it traveled until it left his foot. Neighbors extinguished the fire which followed before serious damage resulted. ```markdown ``` HOPES IT WILL ALL COME OUT IN THE WASH Pleasantville, N. J.—"Collar, collar, who's got my collar?" is the cry these days all because Charles Sing, a Chinese laundry- man, left town and turned over his unwashed linen to another Chinaman to do up. Bundles be- come mixed, and the shirts, col- lars and cuffs have been handed over to Chief of Police Krewson, who is expected to find their owners. FRESH CHICKENS How to Choose One From Among Embalmed Poultry. PUT WHOLESOMENESS FIRST. Tips About Dry Picked, Air Cooled Birds and the Great Danger of Bacteria Entering a Dressed One, Thus Causing Ptomaine Poisoning. We should place wholesomeness ahead of plumpness and youth. In other words, the points of greatest importance to consider are: "Is the bird untainted or reasonably fresh? Is there danger of its giving ptomaine poisoning to some one who eats it because the bacteria of decay have begun their deadly work?" The time when it was considered safer to purchase poultry which had been drawn, it being argued that the entrails were likely to contaminate the meat. Heads and feet were removed, and the purchaser felt she was getting net weight and not paying for that which must be discarded. As a matter of fact, it is now believed by the majority that it is safer to buy poultry undrawn and with the heads and feet where nature placed them. Once an opening has been made into the body cavity of a bird or the head and feet cut off, the moist, delicate tissues are laid open to the air, fairly inviting the invasion of bacteria. These bacteria soon impair the flavor of the meat, even if actual decomposition does not set in. The feet and head tell a good deal about the age of the bird. Young birds have clean, smooth legs and feet while old ones show a rough, scaly condition with the development of spurs. Some poultry specialists also claim that a fowl with yellow legs is of better flavor than one having black legs. The head of a bird which has been killed some time will tell the fact plainly to any one who can read the symptoms. Sunken eyes, darkened neck and a greenish blue color near the bill, all show that the bird is no longer fresh. To order a bird over the telephone is to trust entirely to one's marketman. It is much better to make the selection in person and to have the chicken or duck or whatever it may be drawn in one's presence. Sometimes chickens are dry picked immediately after they are killed, and to hasten the cooling process they are allowed to stand for a time in very cold water in order to remove the animal heat. This is objectionable also, for a chicken cooled in water absorbs more or less of it, which is paid for at food prices. The skin of such a bird has a white look, which has been described as "powdery." It has a thick look and is inclined to be rather shiny. A properly dry picked, air cooled chicken has a loose, clear looking skin. There are sure to be short hairs, which it is necessary to remove by singing, and the papillae, or quill sockets, show plainly. It is not at all difficult to learn to dress poultry at home. Ten or fifteen minutes at the most is all that is needed to prepare a good sized bird for cooking, and there is a great deal of satisfaction in knowing exactly what you have got. In these days of the high price of living and the still higher price of being sick the more we pay others for doing the less money we have for ourselves. SUMMER BEAUTY. Could Youth Be Garbed More Charmingly Than This? White tussure handsomely figured and cut with a smart little vest in a shade to harmonize with the predominant col- THE FASHION WEEKLY THE LATEST MODE. or in the figure gives us this beach suit. The feature is the double belt, one buckled inside the coat revers and one buckled outside, confining them slightly. Makes His Way to City to Enlist In the Navy. Little Rock, Ark.—When knowledge that the United States wanted men to join the army and navy for defense of the country against a foreign power reached Harvey Ethridge, eighteen years old, of Conway county, he stopped his plow in the midst of a furrow and made his way to this city to enlist in the navy. He arrived on the very day that a preparedness meeting had been arranged to take place under the auspices of the chamber of commerce and attended that meeting. When enthusiasm was at its height the chairman of the patriotic gathering summoned Harvey to the platform. The distinction almost took the breath of the country youth, and he hesitated. Finally he was induced to stand before the audience, and when invited to state his reasons for promptly offering his services to the country could do so only in halting language that could be heard only by those nearest him. Nevertheless the crowd cheered him long and loud as one who, although clearly not a fluent orator, had shown himself ready to do his bit in a way that counts more strongly than a mastery of public speaking. DR. FARRAND TO FIGHT PLAGUE IN FRANCE New York.-The Rockefeller foundation announced that Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of the University of Colorado, had been granted a year's leave of absence to undertake a campaign against tuberculosis in France under the auspices of the international health board of the foundation. Dr. Farrand, formerly for many years secretary of the National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, with one or two assistants, expects to sell for France within the next few weeks. The plans outlined by the foundation include: The maintenance of a central organization which will have general supervision of the work under the French government and which will undertake the preparation of literature and exhibit material and will carry out a comprehensive plan of education for the control of tuberculosis. The organization of four mobile units, which, moving from place to place, will carry on a campaign of education and publicity. Demonstration of dispensary methods and organization of local committees under whose auspices permanent dispensaries will be established. The establishment of at least four centers for the training of nurses and others who will have charge of the dispensary work. SQUIRRELS HIDE POTATOES. Oregon Man Will Increase His Plantings of Tubers by Three Pecks. Hood River, Ore.—Luhr Jensen will increase his plantings of potatoes by three pecks. Recently Mr. Jensen scattered poisoned wheat around the burrows and runways of a colony of troublesome digger squirrels near his barn. The poison was apparently fatal, for all of the squirrels disappeared. Mr. Jensen out of curiosity decided to investigate the underground tunnels of the rodents. As his excavations progressed he unearthed seven dead diggers and three pecks of fine seed potatoes that the squirrels, forewarned perhaps of the impending food shortage, had stolen from the rancher's granary and had hoarded in the storage retreats of their underground home. BOY, PLAYING SPY, DIES. His Mother Finds Him Hanged to Bedpost. New York.—Joseph Heissner, ten, a lieutenant in the cadet corps of Public school 4, Long Island City, indulged in many games while alone in his home at 90 Sunswick street, Long Island City. His favorite pastime of late has been to capture spies and deal with them as all spies and traitors deserve to be treated. In the absence of his mother recently the boy was practicing with rope and noose and slipped the loop about his neck, with the other end made fast to the bedpost. The game was more realistic than little Joseph intended it to be, for when his mother returned she found her son strangled to death and fast to the bedpost. GERMAN NAME PREVENTS HIM FROM BEING HERO. Syracuse, N. Y. — Christopher Schlachter, gridiron hero of Syracuse university, has learned "what's in a name." Merely the Teutonic flavor of his appellation was enough to keep Schlachter out of the university ambulance unit soon to go to France, although the All American player put in an application. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. JULY 6. 1917. MAKING SOLDIERS Daily Life at Plattsburg Camp Interestingly Told. CAPTAIN GETS ATTENTION. Under His Spell Slack | Minded, Careless Habited Men From Every Conceivable Corner of Civil Life Are Getting on Toward the Beginning of a Regeneration. Plattsburg, N. Y.—My captain is a worker of magic—all colors. There are 167 of us upon whom his necromancy has descended and upon whom it is working its changes, says John M. Oskison of the Virgilianes. In our day to day life, before we stepped into this atmosphere of bugle call and policing of cantonments, we not merely wanted what we wanted when we wanted it, but did what we had to do when we wanted to. Darn independent Americans we were—with that sign over our desks which reminded us that if we didn't care for a man our privilege was to tell him to go to—However, I started out to tell about our captain. At our first formation he came before us, a slender man, in smooth strides, stopped abruptly and said very distinctly, "At ease." Whereupon he looked us over, running his alive black eyes slowly along our ranks. We were not at ease under that scrutiny—believe me. Then: "Tenshun!" We made ourselves more rigid—if such an achievement were possible. "Rest!" We relaxed then, for we had not altogether neglected our drill books in the days of hurry and planning for this training camp. Again: "To shun!" We simulated in our several strange fashions the well known ramrod. Then from our captain: "When you come to the position of attention' you snap into it, heels together or as near together as the conformation of the body will permit." There was a pause, a slight twitching of our captain's face muscles. I knew we would like him as soon as I saw that fragment of a grin and reflected that his eyes were caught by the bandy legged little Irishman, whom I will call Casey. We'd known Casey nearly ten hours—and were convinced. The army needs him, even though his heels are three inches apart as he takes the position of the soldier. Again, I am getting away from the text of this little piece and the man who furnishes the illustration. Thinking of our captain and his immediate appreciation of Casey probably accounts for my diversion. "This is the way it is done," said our captain, facing first right and then left and coming to "attention." "It is not a position of strain. It is one of alertness—of readiness. "Now, 'tenshun! At ease! Next time snap into it. 'Tenshun! That's better." And so on. Snapping into it was established as the company ideal. A quality of crisp decision marks our captain as of the younger generation of American army men. He isn't the kind that "cats his young"—flierce and terrifying. We say in cantonment comment that our captain knows. If he ever had a period of fumbling adolescence it must have been long, long ago. Now he knows and can tell what he knows. Under his magic spell we slack minded, careless habited men from every conceivable corner of civil life are getting on toward the beginning of a regeneration. We are cutting off our corners sharply at "Column right!" and "Column left!" As the fellow next me parodies the Billy Sunday hymn, "Cut off the Corners! Cut off the Corners! Cut off the Corners as You Turn!" We are learning to stand at a balance —weight equally distributed between the balls and heels of the feet. The ramrod effect is passing. We are beginning to sense the real meaning of "Attention!" It is 100 per cent alertness, from toe to the last convolution of gray matter in the headpiece. As I said, we are victims of our captain's magic. Need I add, willing victims? You just naturally snap into it for the man that knows. AVIATOR BALL IS DEAD. British Announce Missing Flier Was Fatally Hurt May 7. London.-The war office has received information that Captain Albert Ball, who had made a brilliant record in the aviation corps and who had been missing since May 7, is dead. He was twenty-one years old. Captain Ball was engaged in a fight with three German planes on the evening of May 7 near Lens. When he did not return to his base it was reported that he had been captured by the enemy. At the time of his death Captain Ball had a record of bringing down forty German machines. He had received the medal for distinguished service and the military cross. He lived in Nottingham. OLD WOUND REMAINS. Civil War Veteran's Pierced Leg Gives Way In Half Century. Greensburg, Pa. — More than fifty years after he was injured by a bullet in the civil war, a bone in the left leg of Louis Osterwise gave way, and the old soldier fell helpless in his chair. When he was taken to the Westmoreland hospital physicians found that the bone had broken off at the point where the bullet had struck. Mr. Osterwise is seventy-three years old. His condition is critical. RECLUSE HAD FORTUNE. Gold Coin and Certificates of Deposit Found After His Death. Pendleton, Ore.-In an investigation of the death of Johnson W. Willard, an aged recluse of the farming district southeast of Milton, Coroner Brown discovered gold coin and certificates of deposit amounting to more than $16,000. They were tucked away in every conceivable place. An old vest hanging in a closet yielded several hundred dollars in gold. Three or four purses were found packed with coin. In addition to this, Mr. Willard owned the ranch where he lived, valued at $50,000. One daughter, Mrs. Hill, survives. Her home is in Montana. Mr. Willard lived entirely to himself since the death of his wife three years ago, and the room she used to occupy had been locked. It was there, in the bottom of a trunk, that several of the certificates of deposit were found. During the past few years Mr. Willard leased his ranch, retaining only the house and a bit of ground, where he raised a small garden. He settled on a homestead in 1869, just after the war, and in the typhoid epidemic of 1878 lost all his children but the one daughter. Mr. Willard was eighty-six. CARNEGIE IN NEW MANSION. Estate at Lenox Said to Be Equaled Only by Biltmore. Lenox, Mass—Into Shadow Brook entered its new owner, Andrew Carnegie. It is said that for size, elegance and beauty of natural surroundings no private residence in the United States, with the exception of Mrs. Vanderblit's Biltmore, bears comparison with Shadow Brook. With Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Margaret Carnegie he arrived at Lenox in Charles M. Schwab's private car. With the party were Mr. Carnegie's physician, his valet and other attendants. He was assisted from the car to an automobile and was driven immediately to Shadow Brook, three miles from the station. His apartments are on the second floor of the great house and have a beautiful outlook on Lake Mahkeenac. The house was elaborately decorated in spring flowers from the gardens of the estate. Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Carnegie have rooms on the same floor. There are twenty large rooms with fireplaces on this floor and many other rooms. Mr. Carnegie expects to pass seven months at his new American home. WILSON ON JOB EARLY. President Adopts Early Rising Permanently to Keep In Touch With War. Washington.-While a majority of the 50,000 government clerks were still asleep the president was working in his office early. He reached his desk at 6 o'clock, and it became known he is determined to adopt this hour as the daily beginning of his work. Government clerks go to work at 9 o'clock and finish at 4:30. The president frequently is in his office at night. The president's determination to get up early is not prompted wholly by a desire to avoid the hot hours of the day. The fact is that he is keeping in the closest touch with the details of the war making activities of the administration, and longer working hours are necessary if he is to have time for the recreation prescribed by Rear Admiral C. T. Grayson, his physician. SEES ALL AMERICAS IN WAR. John Barrett Predicts Western Hemisphere Will Be United. Baltimore—Within a year all Americas will be fighting together against Germany was the prediction made here before a liberty loan mass meeting by John Barrett. "If Brazil enters the conflict, as today seems imminent," he said, "two-thirds of the entire population and five-eighths of the total area of the western hemisphere will be at war with the common enemy. Can the remaining one-third of the population and three-eighths of area stand against the psychological, sympathetic and economic appeal of their sister peoples and countries having similar interests, similar institutions, similar governments and similar destiny?" LIONS KILL BURROS. Hoofs No Match For Pointed Teeth and Sharp Claws. Mentone, Cal.—Hunger has driven mountain lions and wildcats closer to the settlements than in many years, say old timers. One night recently two big lions made their appearance at the Edison power house at the mouth of Mill Creek canyon and killed two burros kept in a corral there. One burro was killed outright by the lions. The other burro fought and attracted the men at the plant, but it was so badly torn by teeth and claws of the lions that it had to be shot. The tracks showed the mountain lions to be of great size, and the men kept a close watch in the hope that hunger would drive them out again. Golf Graves With Wooden Leg. Kansas City, Mo.—Probably the only Missouri calf with a wooden leg is browsing on the farm of W. D. Brown in Ray county. The calf belonged to a neighbor and last winter stuck a nail in its hoof, sustaining injuries promising to be fatal. Craig Brown saw the calf and had an idea. He bought the animal and sent for a veterinary, who amputated the calf's leg. Later a wooden leg was substituted, and the calf is now only a little slower than the other cattle in the pasture. FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About a Most Vain, and Silly Beast. Although His Home Was In the Barnyard, He Imagined That Place Was Too Humble For His Talents—Goes on a Journey and Is Punished. Well, said Uncle Ben to Little Ned, tonight I am going to tell you about THE ARTFUL DONKEY. Once upon a time there lived in a field near a fine jungle where many lions made their home a little gray donkey. Now, this donkey was not satisfied with being just a donkey and drawing his master's little cart of vegetables to market and enjoying a comfortable home and nice meals. Neddy wanted to be a lion, and he tried to imitate the air and walk of a lion he had once seen. He fancied that his bray sounded like a lion's roar. All the farmyard animals laughed at him, which made him very cross. One day a hunter who had shot a lion stopped at his master's house with the lion skin. While the stranger was at dinner Neddy stole out to where the skin lay and slipped into it. Then he ran off toward the forest, frightening foolish hens and geese and amazing the more sensible animals. When he reached the edge of the fields he met the old black sheep who led his master's flocks. "G-r-r-u-u" brayed the donkey. The sheep laughed. Near the woods he met Mr. Fox. "Why, it's that stupid old donkey that brays whenever I come about the farmhouse at night. What's he doing running around in the skin of old Leo?" Mr. Fox said to himself. Leo was the old lion which had been shot by the hunter. His relatives in the forest were very angry about his death. "G-r-r-u-u!" brayed the donkey. "Ah, good evening, Mr. Leo!" the fox said slyly. The donkey was greatly pleased. "Glad to meet you, sir," replied the donkey. "There are some of your relations over there looking for you," the fox went on, thinking that the donkey would turn and run home. But the foolish donkey was so sure that the lions would gladly welcome him and never suspect that he was not one of themselves that he went trotting off toward a brook where some of the animals were drinking. "There he comes, the monster, dressed in my poor, dear husband's skin" roared Mrs. Leo, and she made a leap that landed her on the donkey's neck. That was all. The next day the farmer, who went out to hunt for Neddy, found the lion's skin behind the donkey's skin in the woods. Why Water Puts Out Fire Water puts out fire for two good reasons. First, if a thing is covered with water, the oxygen of the air cannot get at it to burn it. But that is not nearly the most important reason why water puts out fire. It is that water has a great capacity for heat and can hold a great deal of it. It takes so much heat into itself, and so quickly, that it lowers the temperature of the burning thing that it can no longer burn. Summer Sport Children who live near the Atlantic seacock know what fun it is to play in the sand on the beach. They think about it all winter, and as soon as ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. A PRETTY BEACH GIRL. school is out away they go to Atlantic City or some other place on the Jersey coast, where they spend hours building cathedrals and cities, grottoes and palaces in the fine white sand. There will be thousands of them, like the pretty little girl here pictured, doing that all this summer. Baby Birdie. Does the little birdie sleep? Does he shut his eyes? Does his mamma rock him Every time he cries? PAGE SEVEN WOMEN OF THE SENATE WILL AID THE RED CROSS Will Meet Weekly at Apartment of Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall. Washington.—Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the vice president, and a number of senatorial matrons have established a new social organization, to be known as the Ladies of the Senate, to meet weekly at the apartment of Mrs. Marshall, who has been elected president. Membership is limited strictly to women of the senatorial circles, with only one member of each household to be included in the society. In this it will differ from the Congressional club, after which it is patterned, as in that body wife, daughter or sister of a cabinet officer, judge or congressman may join on payment of modest annual dues and an initiation fee. The new organization is to be both patriotic and social, with dues sufficient to make it an important factor in Red Cross or other relief work, to which it will devote much time. In addition to Mrs. Marshall the officers are Mrs. Albert Cummins of Iowa, Mrs. Francis Newlands of Nevada, Mrs. John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, Mrs. James Reed of Missouri, Mrs. Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma and Mrs. Claude Swanson of Virginia. The women will meet with members of the Congressional club every Monday to continue the Red Cross work already begun under the older organization. AVIATION SERVICE NOT THE MOST DANGEROUS --- Records of Allies Show It Is Fourth In the Percentage of Washington. — Contrary to popular opinion, the air service of the army, although perhaps the most thrilling branch, is not the most dangerous. Captain Aubrey Lippincott, in charge of the personnel of the signal corps of the army, says the records of our allies put air service fourth in the percentage of losses. The heaviest losses have been in the medical corps, next in infantry and third in artillery. Although applications have been numerous for enrollment in the six cadet schools for fliers recently opened, Captain Lippincott says many more men will be needed before the end of the year. One hundred and fifty men are trained weekly. Enough men have been accepted to keep the schools supplied with recruits for more than two months, but several thousand will be required later on, as the supply of men must be constantly augmented. Only a small percentage of the men who apply for enrollment in cadet aviation schools at the universities of California, Texas, Illinois and Ohio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell can be accepted. The requirements are stricter than in any other branch of the service. The impression that only college graduates are admitted is incorrect, but a substantial foundation for intensive technical training is necessary. It has often been found that three years at college or its equivalent gives a man the knowledge which makes the training come with reasonable rapidity. SAT ON CHURCH CORNICE Woman Keeps Crowd on Edge For Two Hours by Threatening to Jump. Boston.—A crowd of several hundred people watched for two hours from behind ropes that barred the street in front of St. James' Roman Catholic church while a woman sat on the cornice threatening to jump. Firemen spread nets to break her fall, police reserves attempted to reach her, and three priests pleaded with her from the skylight. Finally the Rev. Philip J. O'Donnell reached her before she fulfilled her threat and escorted her back through the skylight. At the Psychopathic hospital she gave her name as Mrs. Cella Vennard, a parishioner of St. James' church, and said relatives were trying to commit her to an insane asylum. She would rather kill herself than submit, she said. CHINA GETS TWO HOSPITALS. Rockefeller Foundation Will Spend $3,000,000 There. Baltimore. — B. Frank Bennett, a builder, will leave here for China, where he has been commissioned by the Rockefeller foundation to build two hospitals at a cost of $3,000,000. The first hospital will be constructed in Peking and is to be modeled after Johns Hopkins hospital. The plans were drawn after suggestions of Dr. Winford H. Smith, superintendent of Johns Hopkins. The other hospital will be built in Shanghai. It is said the project of the two American hospitals is the outcome of a tour of investigation made last year by Dr. William H. Welch for the Rockefeller foundation. Dog Hero Home From War Port Washington, N. Y.—Wounded in action, Jupiter, Hubert Ralston's war dog, returned here from France after "doing his bit" to spend his declining years in comfort. A bit of shrapnel gouged out one eye and another caved in his chest. Jupiter trained with his regiment at Salisbury Flain in the first year of the war. TEENAN JONES’ PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. 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WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg atone = PHONES: OFFICE CENTRAL 6883 AUTOMATIC mee Ee RESIDENCE, 200 E 36TH STREET esis puCcLAT tae? J. Gray Lucas ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 815 Hartford Bidg. 8 S. Dearborn St. CHICAGO manana eenecare eustneniics wasn mois Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO SaeA mer sire mera Pst i wl Tired Tropical Trees. ‘The condition of life in a tropical for- est is sunlight, and to get to the top. where alone there is sunlight, is the constant aim of every tree. They have no winter's rest in the tropics, and they are so hard at work all day long that at night the trees seem quite tired out From dawn to sunset the trees are hard at work. You can almost see some of them growing, and, as may naturally be supposed, they must have a little rest at night. The tree is thor- oughly exhausted, its branches lose their stiffness, while the leaves droop and fold themselves together. Unlike those of temperate climates, the trees of the tropics all, more or less, show signs of exhaustion toward sunset. New South Wales devotes 5,138,000 acres to wheat growing. THE BROAD.AX, CHICAGO, JULY 6, 1917. Qdentes: to Ge Cl i. Ae 2 Sora Civilians have all kinds of trouble when visiting a military camp, because they invariably attempt to pass the flag waving at regimental or brigade headquarters without paying it any more recognition than they would an ice wagon or a garbage can. But in such places they are compelled to ex- tend proper courtesy to the flag of their country. There is always a hawk faced colonel roosting in the black depths of his tent Just behind the col- ors, and woe to the soldier on guard tf he lets a civilian go past without sa- luting. ‘When a civilian starts to pass the colors without removing his hat the sentry, knowing that the regimental hawk is glaring balefully at him, swoops down on the surprised civilian and sternly says, “Take off your hat.” ‘Women, of course, cannot take off their hats to the colors, but as they pass the colors or the colors are car ried by them, they can at least stop talking and keep their eyes fastened on Old Glory.—Chicago Herald. ‘Sesteane Giaeen @lesd ‘The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul 4s the cloomiest of bastiles. It stands on the bank of the Neva in Petrograd, ‘opposite what was the Winter palace of Russia's masters. It is a veritable temple of silence, such as Carlyle sigh- ed for in vain. Prince Krapotkin, who spent many weary months within its walls, tells how the officers moved about with silent tread. The floor of his cell was covered with felt, and he found that though the walls had the appearance of being paper the paper was only pasted on canvas, behind which was a wire grating packed with layers of felt. Krapotkin measured his cell and found that ten steps from one corper to the other repeated 150 times was two-thirds of a mile. He desired to walk five miles a day and accomplished his task walking rapidly to the comers, but turning slowly to avoid dizziness, ‘The t etchetrina le Gut ‘The saying “The latchstring is out” signifies hospitality. It 1s a standing invitation to visit the party who uses it, In early times throughout New England and other parts of the coun- try the houses were built of logs, and the door fastenings were simply a Wooden latch on the inside of the door. which fell into a notched stick in the doorpost. The simple contrivance was owing to the fact that nails and fron were hard to get. On the inside the latch was lifted by the hand easily, but to lift it from the outside a hole was bored in the door, which was made of slabs, and a string passed through. which was fastened to the latch. By pulling the string the latch was Ufted and the door opened. To lock the door the string was drawn inside so that « person on the outside could not use it. Me Mad Ta. | If all men were like a colored porter fn Frankfort, newspaper men would find the game an extremely easy one. The porter, who is known to every man and boy in the city, recently was ivoreed from his first wife and with- in a few days was married again. A reporter happened in the clerk's office Just as he was about taking out his icense. “When are you to be married. Frank?" asked the reporter. The porter told him, and the ques- tioning was continued until his wife to be grabbed hold of his arm and ‘whispered, “Don’t tell that man all about this.” “T've got to,” the porter whispered back. “He's a reporter.”—Indlanapolis News. Wiese atte Ben Giraudan Bisa. “Particularly pleasant to grow are herbs,” says Grace Tabor in the Wo- man's Home Companion, “and by a lit tle study of their very special market they may be easily turned into pin money. Every butcher who makes bis own sausage {s a potential customer. and the large packing houses, of course, use large quantities. Chemists, per- fumers and pickle factories also re quire them. Solicit trade if this line is what you think you would like, of- fering a sample of your wares, just as any manufacturer shows samples of his goods.” Manila's Name Widely Used. Manila has given its name probably to more articles of commerce than any other city in the world. “Mantla” to- Bacco, cheroots, bemp, hats, paper. matting, bracelets and rings are just & few of the things which remind peo- ple in different countries of the capital of the Philippines—London Chronicle. His Experience. “That young electrician got an an- swer from the girl he proposed to that ‘was opposed to all his scientific princi- ples.” “What was it?” “A decided negative which was alse quite positive.”—Baltimore American. A Wise Boy’s Revly. Willie's Mamma—Come now, Wil- Ye, I am ready to hear you repeat your history lesson. Willie—Aw, let history repeat itself.—Philadelphia Record. Something Wagnerian, Mrs, A—What did your husband say when he saw the bill for your new gown? Mrs. B.—I didn't hear. I start- ed to play on the piano. Worse Luck. Fatigued Philip—Did the lady trow Doilin’ water on youse? Wandering ‘Walter—Worse'n dat, Phil; worse'n dat Tt was soapsuds! A man should be upright, not have to be kept straizht—Marcus Aurelius. Seen of hin Gabon As NearAs Your Telepho i DISTANCE IMMATERIAL me 3 JN. Metropolitan City of this size, death knock, PT a thirty minutes at some door. Too often tha, S°? PS ad not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well, ict we price you pay for a funeral be a business proposiins ey A you will benefit by it in service, quality and cox 4g a7 in dollars and cents. The result of my campaig, {° . built for me one of the largest and most mene establishments in the world. ery A vat will convince you. G3 Consult me, Ican save you Womy, Time and Money. 4 Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile \= Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and ~~ Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. = * Ss 1s. Yas Ernest H. Williamson, esate KENWOOD AUTOMATIC — “32” Undertaker ‘7337 Gr | 5028 and 5030S. StateSt, - - - - Chicago, Without the periscope the submarine ‘would be a blinded fighter. Its most deadly work is done when it is so far submerged that only a foot or two of the periscope’s tip can be seen. The Periscope is a long vertical tube of small diameter with prisms at either end and the necessary lenses. It rises eighteen feet above the deck, and be- low, where the other end pierces the hull, s the eyepiece for the observer. It ean be turned in any direction, and when a merchantman trying to run the blockade or an enemy ship comes with- in its field the submarine is suddenly transformed into a formidable and stealthy sea tiger. The periscope be- comes its eyes and the dials, com- passes and other instruments of the fire control its brain. The engines that carry it to effective range are its swift, tireless legs, and the destructive charge of 250 pounds of guncotton in the un- leashed torpedo is the death dealing jaws and rending claws of the great cat that has seen its prey and steals up on it with the skill of a tiger stalk- ing a buffalo. No tiger is more merci- less.—Frank E. Evans in St, Nicholas. The- Cranford Apartmeit Building, 3600. Wabash Ave- A Lost Trade Secret. It has frequently happened that val uable trade secrets have been lost be yond recovery. For instance, the best watch oil, it appears, cannot be ob tained today because the secret proc ess of mixing tt perished with the in yentor. ‘It is said that the last quart of this famous fluid was sold for $200, and that was thirty-five years ago. Since then every effort has been made to analyze the product in an attempt to reproduce the oll, but without suc- cess. The man who made it and who alone knew its composition died, and, it further appears, not even his name or the place of his burial is known. He never revealed to any one the details of bis process, and it was not until after his death that the real value of the of] was appreciated —Los Angeles Times. Marine ian ae eae Kees nies She leeds aan A oy ee sea ape FoM Ce y ; wa a, - ET 4 = an | bs A E4 {a : 4 be tbe = Ce ee oI ps i Ponda? Be > | 4 sae ae i a a: f The Eskimo Skin Canoe. ‘The kayak, or skin canoe, of the Es Kimo was in use on the coast of north. erm Russia two or three centuries ago, according to Dr. MacRitchie, F. 8, A (cot). Evidence of this is obtained from statements made by Burrough in 1556 and from the chronicles of a Dan- ish expedition to Vaigats in 1653. It was further shown that three kayaks ‘were captured off the northern shores of Scotland about the end of the sev- enteenth century. One of these is still Preserved in the museum of Marischal college, Aberdeen, An important fact is the occasional presence of a kayay- using race of Finns or Finnmen in the Orkney islands during the last twenty years of the seventeenth cen- tury, as testified to by three writers of that period—Toronto Mail and Em- pire. 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