The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The Eighth Illinois Infantry, Col. Franklin A. Denison Commanding, Has the Great Distinction of Being the Only Military Organization In the World to be Officered from Head To Foot by Colored Men. It Will Depart For The Training Camp, Fort Logan, Houston, Texas, Shortly After September 1st. COMPANY G IN COMMAND OF CAPTAIN GEORGE M. ALLEN AND LIEUTENANT JOE WARNER, CONSISTING OF 141 MEN, DEPARTED FOR THAT TRAINING CAMP LAST SATURDAY MORNING AND HEADED BY THE FAMOUS EIGHTH REGIMENT BAND, THE PEOPLE LOUDLY AND HEARTILY APPLAUDED THEM AS THEY WENDED THEIR WAY DOWN MICHIGAN AVENUE, SOME OF THEM, NO DOUBT, FOR THE LAST TIME. THE COMPANY ARRIVED SAFE AT FORT LOGAN EARLY ON TUESDAY MORNING AND IT WILL PREPARE THE TRAINING CAMP AND ACT AS THE ADVANCE GUARD OF THE ALMOST TWO THOUSAND MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT WHO WILL SHORTLY FOLLOW THEM. THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DID NOT HESITATE IN DECLARING THE LATTER PART OF LAST WEEK AND THE FIRST OF THIS WEEK, THAT THEY HAVE VISITED AND INSPECTED ALL OF THE ARMORIES IN CHICAGO—THAT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY IS THE CLEANEST, THE MOST SANITARY AND A MODEL OF PERFECTION AND FAR SURPASSES ALL OF THE OTHER ARMORIES IN THOSE QUALITIES. THOSE UNSOUGHT FOR STATEMENTS ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES MEDICAL EXAMINERS REFLECT THE GREATEST CREDIT UPON COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON, WHO SLEEPS IN THE ARMORY EVERY NIGHT AND ON A MOMENT'S NOTICE HE IS READY TO ISSUE HIS ORDERS, "GET READY, FORWARD, MARCH!" HE IS WORKING EARLY AND LATE TO BRING HIS MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND MEN UP TO A HIGH STATE OF MILITARY PERFECTION. IT SHOULD BE THE SOLEMN DUTY OF EVERY COLORED MAN AND WOMAN RESIDING IN THIS CITY TO AID CHAPLAIN W. S. BRADAN AND COL. DENISON IN ADMONISHING THE MEN TO REFRAIN FROM USING VILE AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE WHILE WALKING ON THE STREETS AND IN OTHER PUBLIC PLACES AND AT ALL TIMES TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES LIKE REAL GENTLEMANLY SOLDIERS, WHICH WILL GREATLY TEND TO RAISE THEM IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE BEST THINKING WHITE AND COLORED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE NATION. Vol. XXII. The Eighty-mandarinary Orde To Foot Camp, November 1st COMPANY G IN COMMAND OF OLLIEUTENANT JOE WARNER, COSFOR THAT TRAINING CAMP, HEADED BY THE FAMOUS EIGHT LOUDLY AND HEARTILY APPETHEIR WAY DOWN MICHIGAN DOUBT, FOR THE LAST TIME. THE COMPANY ARRIVED SAFE AT MORNING AND IT WILL PREPARE AS THE ADVANCE GUARD OF MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT THEM. THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR THE DID NOT HESITATE IN DECLAREWEEK AND THE FIRST OF THE ED AND INSPECTED ALL OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARM SANITARY AND A MODEL OF ALL OF THE OTHER ARMORIES. THOSE UNSOUGHT FOR STATEMENTS MEDICAL EXAMINERS UPON COL. FRANKLIN A. DENEVERY NIGHT AND ON A MOISSUE HIS ORDERS, "GET BEWORKING EARLY AND LATE THOUSAND MEN UP TO A HIGH. IT SHOULD BE THE SOLEMN DUTY WOMAN RESIDING IN THIS CITY AND COL. DENISON IN AD FROM USING VILE AND OBSON ON THE STREETS AND IN OTHER TIMES TO CONDUCT THEMSESSOLDIERS, WHICH WILL GREATESTIMATION OF THE BEST THPLE THROUGHOUT THE NATION. The rank and file of the members of the Eighth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, were overjoyed when they learned last Friday morning that the War Department at Washington, D. C., had finally decided to reverse its former decision and permit Colored soldiers to wend their way onto Fort Logan, Houston, Texas, that the Eighth Illinois Regiment would not be separated from the other Illinois National Guard troops, that they would become a part of that division to be known as the Thirty-third division when it is sent to fight in the trenches of France. Sometime in the future the many readers of this paper may be permitted to learn the true facts in relation to Secretary of War Baker, changing his mind or reversing his former decision pertaining to the treatment which should be accorded to the Colored soldier; it might be stated right here without violating our word and honor not to divulge none of the most important information which has been imparted to us by several eminent and very distinguished gentlemen who are very prominent in the affairs of this country, within the past two weeks, touching upon this all important subject, and all that can be said at this time is that the twelve million Colored people in this country can never repay Hon. Martin B. Madden and our highly esteemed and beloved steadfast friend Rev. Father Edward A. Kelly, for the part that they played in behalf of the Eighth Regiment and the important position it should freely be permitted to occupy during the progress of the greatest war that the civilized world has ever gazed upon. At no time in the past has the slightest attempt ever been made to draw the "color-line" in dealing with the Eighth Regiment and the loyal citizens --- of this state were not willing to permit the present Southern Democratic administration to indulge in such foolishness and by manfully kicking up some dust the whole situation has been radically changed in connection with it. Some of those who come from down behind the sun hate it very much because it is the only military organization in the world to be officered from head to foot by Colored men—they much prefer to see White men at the head of all the Colored soldiers—hence the dishonorable effort to hold the Eighth Regiment in the rear of some of those who are attempting to conduct the military affairs of this country at the present time. The Eighth Regiment formed a part of second brigade and it honorably served on the border in 1916, and it was brigaded long before that time even during the Spanish-American War, at that time Co. L of Boston, Mass., was one of the units of the 6th Infantry of Mass., and again we repeat it there never was any question about "color-line" until this present administration busted into power at-Washington, D. C. Late Thursday evening of last week the heads of the war department received much new light from on high respecting the Colored soldiers and on Friday morning the order was flashed to Col. Franklin A. Denison, Commanding the regiment to forward Co. G. to Port Logan, Houston, Texas, at once and on Saturday morning that company consisting of 141 men, in charge of Captain George M. Allen and Lieutenant Joe Warner headed by the far famed Eighth Regiment band departed for that training camp—all along on Michigan Ave., they were loudly and heartily applauded as they wended their way on to the depot and some of them no doubt bid a long farewell to their CHICAGO, AUGUST 25, 1917 loved ones for the last time. Early on Tuesday morning the Co. arrived at Fort Logan, Houston, Texas, safe and sound and for the next two weeks it will spend its time in preparing the training camp and in fact act as the advance guard of the almost two thousand members of that famous regiment who will proudly follow them shortly after September 1st. It can be stated with a great deal of pleasure, namely, that the medical examiners for the United States Government did not hesitate in declaring the last part of last week and the first part of this week—that they have visited and inspected all of the armories in this city—that the Eighth Regiment Armory is by far the cleanest, the most sanitary—that it is a model of perfection in every way—that it far surpasses all of the other armories in all of those very important qualities. Those expressions on the part of the medical examiners for the United States Government reflects the greatest credit on Col. Frank A. Denison who is one of the very best all around commanding officers in the State of Illinois and he will rank with the high military headlight in the other sections of this country. Col. Denison is right on his job all the time, he sleeps in the armory every night and works early and late in looking after all of the details in connection with the welfare of his regiment which consists of more than two thousand men and it is more than on a war footing and no other regiment can touch it in that respect. It is fast approaching that high state of military perfection and on the very shortest notice he is ready to send forth his command "forward march." As the men composing the Eighth Regiment in the past and are at the present time made remarkable records along these lines, it should be the solemn duty of every Colored man and woman residing in this part of the country who are interested in the absolute success of the Eighth Regiment in every way to aid Chaplain W. S. Braddan and Col. Denison in admonishing those composing the regiment whom all race loving Colored men and women should be justly proud of to absolutely refrain from using loud' vile and obscene language while walking on the streets and in other public places where they not only come in contact with women and sweet little children of their own race but with women and children of the opposite race which to say the least sounds very bad and it greatly tends to cause many people at all times to look upon all Colored soldiers with scorn and contempt. As stated before if the Colored men and women who claim to be interested in the success of the Eighth Regiment will in every way possible assist Col. Denison and Chaplain Braddan to bring around these much needed reforms it will not only keep the men out of much trouble and assist to raise them still higher in the estimation of the best thinking White and Colored people throughout this mighty nation. The field, staff and line officers of the Eighth Regiment are as follows: Col. Franklin A. Denison, Commanding; Lieut. Col. James H. Johnson; Major Rufus M. Stokes, 1st Battalion; Major Charles N. Hunt, 2nd Battalion; Major Otis B. Duncan, 3rd Battalion; Adjutant Capt. John H. Patton; Major Commanding the Eighth Illinois Infantry, the only military organization in the world to be officered from head to foot by Colored men and on a moment's notice he is ready to depart with his regiment for Fort Logan, Houston, Texas, and on to the trenches in France. Surgeon James R. White, Hospital Corps; Capt. Leonard W. Lewis, Hospital Corps; 1st Lieut. Spencer C. Dickerson, Hospital Corps; 1st Lieut. James F. Lawson, Hospital Corps; Chaplain Capt. William S. Braddan; 1st Lieut. Harry W. Jones, 1st-Battalion; 1st Lieut. Samuel McGowan, 2nd Battalion; 1st Lieut. Clement N. Hinton, 3rd Battalion; Capt. Stewart A. Betts, Company A; Capt. Stuart Alexander, Company B; Capt. James H. Smith, Company C; Capt. Benjamin E. Pinkney, Company D; Capt. Clinton L. Hill, Company E; Capt. Pusey D. Arnett, Company F; Capt. George M. Allen, Company G; Capt. Joseph L. Morgan, Company I; Capt. Ivan C. Harper, Company K; Capt. Arthur Williams, Company M; Capt. James S. Nelson, Supply Company and Quarter Master; Capt. Samuel R. Gwynne, Machine-Gun Company. Band—Band-Leader, George L. Dulf; Band-Sergeant, Albert C. Blue; 1st Lieut. Devere J. Warner, Co. G; 1st Lieut. Michael Browning, Co. F; 1st Lieut. Robert A. J. Shaw, Co. E; 2nd Lieut. Albert Williams, Co. A; 2nd Lieut. Franklin McFarland, Co. B; 2nd Lieut. Arthur Jones, Co. C; 2nd Lieut. Lawrence Chavis, Co. D; 2nd Lieut. Benote H. Lee, Co. E; 2nd Lieut. Osceola Browning, Co. F; 2nd Lieut. Louis Washington, Co. G; 2nd Lieut. Harry Allen, Co. H; Regt'1 Sergt. Major James E. Hensley; Battalion Sergt. Major George L. Giles, 2nd Battalion; Battalion Sergt. Major Armour Henderson, 1st Battalion; Battalion Sergt. Major Thomas P. Hubbard, 3rd Battalion; 1st Lieut. Louis Johnson, Co. D; 1st. Lieut. Robert Ward, Co. A; 1st Lieut. Samuel Gordon, Co. C; Capt. James C. Hall, Co. H. In conclusion we do not know how other people may feel towards Col. Denison and his men, but as an humble citizen of Illinois we are exceedingly proud of him and his Eighth Regiment. THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE AT CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE. August 14, 15, 16, 17, the National Negro Business League held its Eighteenth annual session or meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn., and from the beginning to the end all of the sessions were largely attended by visitors far and near. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. C. Napir, who was elected president a year ago in Kansas City to succeed the late Dr. Washington, was unanimously re-elected president of the league. The other officers are: First vicepresident, Charles Banks, Mound No. 49 ison Com- Only Mili- rom Head e Training er Septem- Matzene—Chicago. Bayou, Miss.; second vice-president, Charles H. Brooks, Philadelphia; third vice-president, John M. Wright, Topeka, Kan.; fourth vice-president, Fred R. Moore, New York City; fifth vice-president, P. R. Church, Memphis, Tenn.; secretary, Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; treasurer, Charles H. Anderson, Jacksonville, Fla.; registrar, R. C. Houston, Fort Worth, Tex.; official stenographer, W. H. Davis, Rosecroft, Md.; transportation agent, Ernest T. Attwell, Tuskegee Institute. Executive Committee — Robert R: Moton, Tuskegee Institute, chairman; T. J. Elliott, Muskogee, Okla.; W. T. Andrews, Sumter, S. C.; J. B. Bell, Houston, Tex.; J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky.; Robert E. Jones, New Orleans, La.; T. H. Hayes, Memphis, Tennessee; George C. Hall, Chicago, Ill.; W. C. Gordon, St. Louis, Mo.; Logan H. Stewart, Evansville, Ind.; A. F. Herndon, Atlanta, Ga.; A. L. Garrett, Fayetteville, N. C.; R. S. Jackson, Philadelphia, Penn.; Chester E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark. Attorney W. E. Mollison, late of Vicksburg, Miss., will, on Sunday, September 2nd, at 2:30 o'clock P. M., address the Bethel Literary Society in the main auditorium. His subject will be, "What Makes the Difference?" Dan M. Jackson Geo. T. Kersey David A. McGowan Ahmed A. Rayner The Eman Undertaking 2959-61 S Reliable Service Reasona FREE CHAPEL Complete line of Funeral Good "WE BUILI Buy a Lot WE PUT UP LOTS $25.00 Cas Reliable Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices WE PUT UP YOUR HOUSE LOTS $25.00 Cash, $10.00 per Month Full Particulars at Fraternal In Real Estate, Phone Englewood 3465 FREE STYLE BOOK HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing and grooming. Every colored woman should have one. We sell thousands our hair and toilet articles. 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Elephants screamed and trumpeted when mice were introduced, shrinking from them as far as their chains allowed. One elephant, however, more knowing than the rest, when a couple of mice were placed on the ground before him quietly placed his foot on them. Steel ships differ from those of wood in that their hulls are made of steel plates riveted together instead of the old method of using wooden planking. They are enabled to float because, being hollow, they have what is called buoyancy. A steel ship displaces a volume of water equal in weight to its own. The principle of buoyancy may be tested by floating an iron pall in a bathtub full of water. "Do you find that your constituents agree with you?" "No," replied Senator Sorghum. "But that doesn't cause me any apprehension. If they refuse to be guided, there is plenty of time for me to come around and agree with them."—Washington Star Brooms should always hang when not in use. Have a hole bored through the handle four inches from the end and large enough to slip over an ordinary nail. When left on the floor a broom soon loses its shape and will not do good work. Footpad—And now I'll trouble you to take off that suit of clothes. Jones—Thanks awfully. Only for you my wife would have made me wear it for two years more—Boston Globe. "Have you seen Bill's new wife?" "Yes, and they do say she's the last word in wives." "Nonsense! There isn't any such thing."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.—Mark Twain. PAGE TWO Lions Fear Mice. Steel Ships. Sense of Security. Hang Up the Broom. Truly Grateful. No. Last Word. Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 Juel Jackson ing Co., Inc. South State St. Courteous Treatment table Prices IN CONNECTION ds. Automobles for hire D FOR YOU" for $200.00 YOUR HOUSE h, $10.00 per Month Investment Co. Renting & Loans 6155 Wentworth Ave. Whistler's Retort. Whistler made many enemies, notably the critic John Ruskin. This did not deter him from being indefatigably independent as an artist, however. It is said his mots were quoted everywhere. The following letter to the editor of the London Observer is characteristic of his attitude: Sir- In your report of the Graham sale of pictures at Messrs. Christie & Manson's rooms I read the following: "The next work put upon the easel was a nocturne in blue and silver, by J. M. Whistler. It was received with hieses." May I beg, through your widely spread newspaper, to acknowledge the distinguished, though I fear unconscious, compliment so publicly paid? It is rare that recognition so complete is made during the lifetime of the painter, and I would wish to have recorded my full sense of this flattering exception in my favor. The sea otter is nearly twice the size of the common river otter, and the fur, without finishing or preparation of any kind, is more beautiful as it is stripped from the animal than the richest seal-skin, which has to be scraped, plucked of the long upper hairs and then dyed before it could be recognized as the beautiful object which the finished fur undoubtedly is. In the sea otter's fur the soft undercoat, the true fur, is as thick as that of the seal and nearly twice as long, while the long outer hairs are as soft as a sable's tail and often a pale gray, which gives to the whole coat an appearance as of dark fur slightly frosted over. The Traitors' Gate One of the most famous entrances in the world is doubtless the ancient Traitors' gate in the Tower of London. It was through this portal for several centuries that traitors were conducted from the banks of the river Thames into the tower. To Americans probably the most familiar of these unfortunates was Sir Walter Raleigh. Coral reefs and islands are formed by the coral building polyps. These animals live only in clear water, the depth of which is not greater than about twenty-five fathoms and the temperature of which does not sink below 6S degrees F. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Chorea, or St. Vitus' dance, is a nervous disease characterized by irregular and perfectly involuntary muscular contractions. The disease occurs most commonly in childhood and is probably caused in most cases by the action of some bacterial poison on the nervous system. It often follows one of the infectious diseases of childhood and is especially frequent after attacks of acute rheumatism. The treatment of chorea calls for as much quiet and seclusion as possible, for an ample diet with plenty of fat and for tonics. The patient must avoid muscular exercise and nervous excitement. He will get much benefit from rest in bed for several hours each day. In very severe cases death may occur from exhaustion, but as a rule recovery takes place in from six weeks to six months. Since the movements cannot be controlled by the will, admonitions to stop them are cruel and tend only to increase the trouble. The medical treatment must, of course, be prescribed by a physician. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Whistler's Retort. The Sea Otter Coral Builders St. Vitus' Dance THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 25. 1917. Passing of the Livery Stable Pasting of the Livery Stable Buggies are not often seen now in the big cities, but in the rural districts a great many buggies still are sold, it being suspected that for general courting purposes they are vastly superior to anything in the vehicle line yet invented. But certainly the livery stable must by this time find business dull. Thus passes a great institution where the wits were wont to gather and discuss horses, men, politics and crops, but especially horses. In many a small town the livery stable office was really public opinion. The traveling men who came to engage a rig were always willing to discuss the affairs of the outside world; the farmers who left their horses to be fed while in town were as likely as not to loaf about the barn while their wives did the shopping, there to discuss crops and the weather, and of course no young man could hire a narrow seated rig without revealing, either by his actions or his speech, the progress of his affairs of the heart—Indianapolis News. Fall of the Bastille. The famous French prison known as the Bastille was originally the Castle of Paris and was built by order of Charles V. between 1370 and 1383 as a defense against the English. When it came to be used as a state prison it was provided with vast bulwarks and ditches. The Bastille had four towers, of five stories each, on each of its larger sides, and it was partly in these towers and partly in underground cellars that the prisons were situated. It was capable of containing from seventy to eighty persons, a number frequently reached during the reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV., the majority of them being persons of the highest rank. The Bastille was destroyed by the mob on July 15, 1789, and the governor and a number of his officers were killed. On its site now stands the column of July, erected in memory of the patrons of 1789 and 1830. A Touch of Nature. Just a dirty little yellow cur! I called him homeless until I heard a dirtier little urchin yelling, "Aw, gowan home!" and pelting him with stones. The youngster swore, and I felt sorry for the dog. I wanted to wring the urchin's neck and save the dog. Just as I was about to put my thought into action a big black limousine came swerving down the street. The child darted before it, grabbed the little yellow cur to his heart, and the two came rolling from beneath the whirring wheels. As I helped them from the gutter the boy was moaning. "Where are you hurt, boy?" I asked excitedly, turning him around on his sturdy bare legs. "Dey didn't hurt me—but—dey dern near got my dog!" walled the urchin between dry soils.—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. Military Digits. Men with long, tapering "piano" fingers are apt to desert after short service, while those having stubby digits, denoting stability of character and utter lack of the artistic temperament, usually stand by their boats and make the best marines. Although desertions from the marine corps are light at times, it has been said that actors, sign writers and strange to say; waiters furnish the largest number of deserters. Records, including finger prints, of all men enlisted in the corps are kept at headquarters for purposes of identification, and there are cases on record where bodies, with finger tips intact, have been positively identified through the finger print medium—Philadelphia Press. The Word "Expire." "Expire" in its literal sense is breathing out. Inspiration and expiration together constitute respiration. Izaak Walton observed that "if the inspiring or expiring organ of any animal be stopped it suddenly dies." The Roma's spoke of "breathing out" the breath of life instead of "dying" by way of euphemism, just as they said "vivit" (he has lived) instead of "he is dead." In all languages the reluctance frankly to say "dead" or "die" appears; hence such words and phrases as "pass away," "decease," "demise," "the departed," "the late," "no more," "if anything should happen to me." His Answer. "Now, Captain Wilson," said a certain brigadier general, according to a story which is told in London, "suppose you found your company cut off from the rest of the battalion, hopeless outnumbered and surrounded on every side. What would you do?" "By Jove, sir, you are a pessimist!" replied Captain Wilson. A Modern Escape. When asked how he got out of prison a witty rogue replied, "I got out of my cell with ingenuity, ran upstairs with agility, crawled out the back window in secrecy, slid down the lightning rod with rapidity, walked out of the town with dignity and am now basking in the sunshine of liberty."—Exchange. Justice. Justice—Five dollars for speeding and ten for contempt of our roads.—Exchange. Heaven never helps the man who will not act.-Sophocles. Map Showing Proposed Hard Road System for Illinois SYNOPSIS. House Bill 559 passed by the 50th General Assembly of the State of Illinois, May 2, 1917, provides for $60,000,000.00 bond issue drawing 3½% interest due in 20 years. About 4800 miles of hard roads are to be built in Illinois as outlined on this map, in 5 years after the first construction contracts are awarded. The question of issuing the bonds to build these roads is to be decided by the people at the General Election in November, 1918. Illinois State Fair Springfield, Sept. 7 to 15 There will be attractions day and night. Amateur Automobile Races, Sept. 7. Professional Automobile Races Sept. 15. Motorcycle Races, September 8. A $28,000 Speed Program Harasses and Running Races September 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. Public Sales, Pure Bred Live Stock will be held for the benefit of the AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. Liberati's Celebrated Band and Grand Opera Pageant of 16 Grand Opera Singers Afternoons and evenings. A Wonderful Firework Spectacle at night: "Modern Warfare" or an attack on the Trenches showing the mighty and sweeping changes in manner and methods of waging war, with Aeroplanes, Zeppelins, Automobiles, high explosives, bombs, tanks and other war energy. Bombardment of Cities, Destruction of Ammunition Plants, Blowing up of Forts, also Costumed Troops of all Warring Nations in Grand Review. Night Horse Show, evenings of September 11, 12 and 13, in the Coliseum. The best exhibit of horse flesh in the world. Patterson's Animal Shoes will be open Day and Night. A Tented City adjoins the Fair Grounds. Come with your family, camp out and see the Fair. All equipment can be rented at a nominal cost. Of Helgoland one has an unexpected glimpse in Rudolf Lehmann's reminiscences, published over twenty years ago. The artist went to Helgoland in 1849 and found Liszt, the great pianist, staying in "that most bracing of watering places—a barren rock some 100 feet high and scarcely two miles in circumference in the midst of the North sea." There were, besides Liszt, half a dozen well known people staying in Helgoland, and Lehmann calls it "this enchanted island." He says it is formed of bright red sandstone, so soft that the sea, washing away some of its base, is dyed red for some distance. Since Lord Salisbury ceded the little island to Germany at least £200,000 were spent in fortifying Helgoland—London Chronicle. Here's Your Hat; Stay Awhile. It is the Nunc Dimitris—the art of the peaceful departure. To know when to go and how to let go after "mine eyes have seen"—yes, that is a fine art indeed. Learn the art of terminal facility and save a world of apologies and regrets afterward. Learn not to linger over anything, even a telephone. Long conversations, long explanations, long letters, long farewells, long prayers in public, sermons or speeches and long spun out stories—pray avoid them. Come to the point on time. Depart gracefully. Peace will then pursue you. Leave a wish and longing because you have gone. Learn to let go of little things today and you will be ready to decide quickly at tomorrow's crisis and to depart in peace.—Christian Advocate. Important Trifles The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at 5 in the morning or 9 at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easier six months longer. But if he sees you at a billard table or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work he sends for his money the next day.—Benjamin Franklin. Good Policy. "I never interfere with other people's affairs." "No?" "No; I stopped that years ago, when I checked up and found that all the money I had ever made came from minding my own business."—Detroit Free Press. Talks on HEALTH, CLEANLINESS, PROPER LIVING, SANITATION, ETC. By Dr. W. A. Driver 3300 So. State Street Phone Douglas 3617 DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY With the excessive heat of the summer months diarrhoea and dysentery are prevalent. With the heat of the same period flies reproduce rapidly; flies visit everywhere if not restrained by proper mechanical appliances. They are held by almost all investigators to be responsible for much of the gastrointestinal disease, especially diarrhoea of a certain type and some dysenteries, the summer diarrhoea. It is obvious that flies are flithy and they fly from flith to food without wiping the contamination from their feet. Micro-organisms are so small that millions of the most virulent germs can be transported by a single fly in a single contact. Watch the fly and keep flies from contact with food. Improper food is a primary cause of diarrhoea and dysenteries, especially in children, in whom it frequently follows overfeeding or the improper ingestion of unripe fruit. All raw vegetables, salads, and fruits should be avoided or at any rate scalded before use. In some persons special articles of diet will always produce a slight diarrhoea. In such a case the individual has what is called an idiosyncrasy for the offending article of food. Certain toxins such as decaying materials, the poisons J. B. TAGGART, President Preport Proposed Hard Road S ```markdown ``` produced by pathogenic and non-pathogenic micro-organisms and the decomposition products of milk and incompatibles produce sometimes the most violent intestinal catarrh. Various names are often given to the condition. The diarrhoea is found in many diseases, such as cholera infantum, appendicitis, and arsenical poisoning as well as the toxemias referred to above. The diarrhoea is nature's effort to throw off the offending material. In the matter of treatment the physician adheres to the old well-known rule of an old medical sect which had for its shibboleth "Similia similibus curantur," or like cures like. In other words the doctor gives such treatment as will aid nature in throwing off the poisons and gives antiseptics and purgatives "mixed with brains." Prevention is the best treatment. Rest in bed should be insisted upon when the disease is developed. Warm and cold baths are good. Stop all food until pain and vomiting cease. Gradually return to solid food when symptoms subside. Liquid diet, preferably milk or predigested or pasteurized milk is best when the fever is the only re-remaining symptom. Such cases always are serious. Americans Will Establish School For Boys Abroad. IN LAFAYETTE'S BIRTHPLACE Old Chateau Where Famous General Saw Light of Day Will Accommodate Fifty Youngsters, Who Will Later Be Brought to This Country to Be Fitted For Business Careers. Paris.—To promote a deep and lasting understanding between England, France and the United States is the aim of the Lafayette school recently established in the old Lafayette chateau (Chateau Chavinac) in Auverne, France, which will open early in October with fifty French boys as pupils. The quaint and historic Lafayette chateau has been purchased by friends of the American Fund For French Heures, of which Mrs. William Astor Chanler is chairman. About $20,000 a year will be needed to run the school for fifty boys, and it is hoped that the response to appeals to the public will bring enough money so that the institution can be enlarged to accommodate 200 boys and can be endowed as a permanent international center of instruction. For the present the sons of Frenchmen who have fallen in battle will be received, carefully selected from lists submitted by French prefects. No boy older than twelve or younger than six is taken. Until he is eighteen he receives the best education that can be given him by French and English masters, and when he reaches eighteen he comes to the United States to study for three or four years in an American university or in some branch of business or industry which will fit him to take back American ideas and ideals to be used in the rebuilding of his country. As the plan progresses it is expected that the sons of British and American soldiers will receive similar education in France. The school has been indorsed by the highest French authorities and will be under the same system of inspection Mary MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR CHANLER. as government institutions. On the American committee are men prominent in many phases of national life, who will see that the French students who come to this country have every opportunity to learn the best of the United States. John McGee has offered to place two boys in the coal industry and two in railroad offices; Professor Henry Fairchild Osborn will see that two fitted to study natural science have their chance; Clarence Mackay will see that two more learn the organization of the transatlantic cable system and that one studies in a university; two more will be cared for by engineering societies and two by a New York daily newspaper. While the boys are in this country they are expected to be self supporting. Their guarantors will see that they have proper facilities for study and make themselves responsible for their personal welfare. Now a number of French boys are on probation in the Lafayette chateau, and from these and scores of other applicants the first year's quota will be chosen. During the first year or two a few older boys of fourteen and fifteen are taken, so that some of them will be fitted to come to this country in two or three years. "We met the most amazing response from every one," said Mrs. Chanler. "Our list of French patrons includes most of the members of the French cabinet. Where we have needed materials at once the government has requisitioned a car and had them sent to us. The French teachers who teach in our school are the only teachers who retain their place on the pension list when they leave the public institutions to teach in a private organization." Find Petrified Oaks Fremont, Neb.—Petrified trunks of oak trees have been found thirty feet underground in sand pits here. A theory advanced is that the trees were buried several centuries ago when the stream that is now the Platte river cut its channel through here. There are now no oak trees in the Platte river valley except transplanted specimens. LETTER OVERCOMES FATHER. Son He Thought Dead Writes From Wales Hospital Verona, N. N.—Charles B. Canfield of Hanford place, Caldwell, received a letter from his son, Harry C. Canfield, written from a hospital at Carnetton, Wales. Mr. Canfield received a letter in April from England saying that his son either had been killed or taken prisoner in an engagement on the French front. No news had been received since that time, and Mr. Canfield had practically given his son up as dead. Mr. Canfield was on a ladder painting his house when his daughter told him the letter had arrived. The father was so overcome that he fell from the ladder. He then staggered into the house. It was several minutes before he could open the letter. In the letter Harry Canfield wrote that his left arm had been shattered, that shrapnel wounds in the head had affected his hearing and that his sight was impaired. The letter said that the writer was overcome with gas and for more than three weeks lay unconscious. He said he had been longing to hear from home. The writer did not explain how he had reached Wales. The only comment by the writer on the war itself is contained in two sentences: "The Germans are bending, but they will keep it up. What happened in France is unspeakable." WILD MAN OF GEORGIA SPEAKS UNKNOWN TONGUE "Understands Nothing Said and Says Nothing I Understand," Says Linguist. Atlanta, Ga.—A strange, wild, hairy creature, bearing some semblance of a man and some semblance of a wild creature, who was captured on the banks of the Chattahoochee river by Sheriff Taylor of Heard county, has been brought to Atlanta and turned over to the federal authorities, but they have no use for him and do not want him, and it looks as if Sheriff Taylor will have to take him back and feed him at the expense of Heard county. So far as Atlanta's leading linguists can discover, he speaks no language. Dr. F. E. May, the French consul, who is able to converse in most of the civilized tongues, has tried him out with no success. "He understands nothing I speak; he speaks nothing I understand," says Dr. May. The stranger is little and bent and carries a cane. His head and face are matted with hair. He looks like a wild man, but he appears to be perfectly harmless. "The government doesn't want him. I don't want him, and he won't run rabbits, so what am I going to do with him?" asks Sheriff Taylor. SAND INSTEAD OF SOCIALISM. Returning Russians Say Our Police Substituted It. For "Literature." Yokohama.-Nineteen boxes brought here by Russians from the United States which were destined for Russia were found when opened to be filled with sand instead of Socialistic literature, as the immigrants had supposed. The Russians said that they had intended to take the literature home for the enlightenment of their fellow citizens, and they alleged that the American police had substituted sand for the pamphlets in the course of the journey across the American continent. There is a steady stream through Japan of Russian workers returning to their fatherland from the United States. They are forwarded in batches of fifty to Harbin, where they are turned over to the Russian authorities. TWO YEAR MAN HUNT ENDS Mounted Police Bring Out Eskimos Accused of Priesta' Murder. Edmonton, Alberta--The end of a 3,000 mile journey over ice covered rivers and snow crusted plains was reached by a party of mounted police officers who arrived here with two Eskimos named Similisak and Wlusuk, said to be wanted in connection with the deaths of Fathers Rouvier and Leroux, who were slain at Bloody Falls in the arctic regions in 1913. Inspector J. D. Lanouse headed the police party on the trip, which took more than two years. ```markdown ``` WOMEN MAY WATCH VOTING IN FRANCE Albany, N. Y.-When the soldiers from New York state cast their votes in France next November nurses and other women residents of the state who happen to be on French soil may act as watchers at the polls. Governor Whitman and the legislative leaders have been asked to change the pending bill providing an easier method for canvassing the soldier vote so that women may act in this capacity. "Our request is a very reasonable one and should be granted." said Mrs. Helen Leavitt of the New York State Woman Suffrage party. "Comparatively few women may be able to act as watchers in France, but hundreds will be able to serve in that capacity at the various camps where the national army is to be trained." THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 25, 1917. ALFONSO'S PLIGHT ALFONSO'S PLIGHT King of Spain Has Overplayed His Popularity. ONCE STOOD WELL WITH ALL His Youth, Physical Energy and Genuine Interest In Welfare of His Country Made a Great Appeal to the Popular Imagination, but Recent Events Have Changed Opinion. Barcelona, Spain.—Five years ago a Spanish republic was but a wild dream in the minds of a few irreconcilable extremists. The Republican leaders had no prestige whatever in the country at large, and their following was being reduced to a mere handful. The causes of this were, of course, many, but everybody agreed that among them the personal influence of the king was paramount. That young sovereign seemed to be chosen by fate or Providence to gather around him all sections of his people and lead them united to great destinies. Today things have altogether changed. This is no exaggeration, but the naked truth plainly stated. A little retrospect is necessary for the better understanding of the present [Name] KING ALFONSO OF SPAIN. situation. As soon as he was able to move about unfettered King Alfonso appeared and to a certain extent proved himself to be a ruler with an open mind, a keen perception of realities, a genuine interest in the welfare of the country and an earnest desire to promote it by all means in his power. His youth and physical energy appealed to the popular imagination as symbols of hope and power, but his achievements as a polo player and a crack shot and his undeniable qualities as an all round sportsman were perhaps more praised abroad than appreciated at home. The high water mark of popularity was reached when, two years before the breaking out of the war, King Alfonso called to counsel several prominent men of the Spanish political Left. Among other representative personalities there went to the royal palace Professor Azcarate. Although no publicity was given to the interviews, both these men admitted privately that the king had made on them the best of impressions. Simultaneously with this royal move the right wing of the Republican party detached itself from the old fold, made clear its acceptance of the monarchical regime and formed a new political party, which was styled the Reformist party. Everything then seemed to point toward a future of close cooperation and understanding between the crown and the democracy. The king, however, if not unwilling, was at any rate unable to follow energetically the path of liberalism and reform, and as far back as three years ago the disappointment of the Spanish people had already begun. Then came the war and the sharp division of the country into pro-Germans and pro-allies. The king was credited with proally leanings. He devoted himself to the relief of prisoners of war of all nationalities and did very good work, particularly in locating prisoners believed to have been killed. He has been in personal communication with thousands of families in all belligerent countries. But when all is said it must be recognized that kind heartedness and willingness to oblige are poor substitutes for statesmanship. GIVES A DRIED LUNCHEON Mrs. Lasing Demonstrates Palatability of Evaporated Food. Washington.—The "dried luncheon" made its appearance among the household war economies of official life when Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the secretary of state, served to her luncheon guests a six course meal composed entirely of dried foods. Dried vegetable boulillon, dried chicken, dried vegetables of many kinds, dried salad, dried fruit and dried mint were on the menu, and the guests said afterward that the combination was unusually appetizing. It more than demonstrated, they said, that the department of agriculture experts were right in advocating the use of more dried food. Those present were Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. William C. Redfield, Mrs. Champ Clark, Mrs. Atlee Pomerene and Mrs. Hugh L. Scott. GERMAN USE OF POLICE DOGS Story of Their Value In Detection and Capture of Food Swimmers Berlin, via London. — Germany's trained police dogs are proving of value in running down violators of the food laws. Near Berlin the dogs located a man who had been pilfering from vegetable patches of truck gardeners, leading officials to the house where the stolen vegetables were hidden. In Munich a constable attempted to seize a man caught with fifty pounds of meat from an illegal slaughter house. The man escaped, leaving the burden behind, but was tracked to a haylift by police dogs. When the officer returned to the spot where the meat was left he found the meat gone. The police dogs were again summoned and located it in a house where it had been hidden by a woman. When brought to court the meat speculator pleaded he was without funds. The court was inclined to doubt the story and, suspecting the meat smuggler had hidden his purse in the haylift, again requisitioned the police dogs, which found the man's pocketbook well filled with currency hidden in the hay. PRESIDENT BEARS HIS WAR WORRIES WELL Takes Mild Exercise and Reads Detective Stories For Diversion. Washington.—If you have pictured President Wilson careworn, haggard and breaking under the strain of his tremendous war problems, change the portrait. It's wrong. On one of his unannounced strolls from the White House to Secretary Baker's office in the state, war and navy building he gave press men an opportunity of a good close-up of Woodrow Wilson in war mood. Swinging out from Secretary Baker's room and down the tiled corridor, the president had more the manner of a man who had just concluded a pleasant chat with an old crony about nothing in particular than of a nation's leader who had just discussed a vital world problem. Clad in snowy linen coat and trousers, a fat topped, broad brimmed straw hat set squarely on his head, the president moved at a brisk pace toward the stairway. There was spring in his step. His smile was genial, his cheeks ruddy with the glow of health. Realizing the vital importance of keeping himself fit, the president is exceedingly careful to play with his work. Early every morning, long before most Washingtonians are so much as turning over for their pre-getting up nap, the president is out in his knickerbockers and off around the golf course. Mrs. Wilson usually accompanies him. Golf, walking and other mild forms of exercise take care of the president's physical health. For mental diversion and rest he turns from the problems of war to intricate, complex and quite thrilling detective stories. BIG BROTHERS FOR SOLDIERS Every Boy In Khaki of New Jersey Will Be Cared For. Trenton, N. J.-A movement to provide every soldier from Jersey going abroad with a "big brother" to look after his interests at home has been begun by the New Jersey State Committee on Public Safety. Appeals to help carry out the plan have been sent to mayors and other city officials throughout the state. The "big brother" is expected to look after the soldier's dependents, keep his job open, send him reading matter and tobacco and see that he is kept informed through regular correspondence of happenings at home. STATE SOCIALISM IN SHOES Italian Government Will Manufacture 300,000 Pairs a Month. Rome.-In view of the great increase in the price of footwear, the Italian government has decided to manufacture a standard shoe of stout make and at a reasonable price. Three hundred thousand pairs will be turned out monthly in Italy, and another 200,000 pairs will be imported. London.—The medical correspondent of the London Times writes: "A discovery of importance is described in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Service. It is to the effect that amoebic dysentery is carried about by the housefly. "One has only to remember the descriptions of the fly plague at Gallipoli to understand how the dysentery outbreak there was propagated. The authors conclude that an efficient system of fly and sewage destruction and arrangements for preventing files from getting into the sewage at all would reduce if not entirely eradicate dysentery as well as many other intestinal disorders." Paper Balloon Goes 600 Miles Anderson, Ind.-Miss Helen Beck of this place said she sent up a seven foot paper balloon from her home in Indianapolis on July 4. Miss Beck attached a small strip of paper to the balloon bearing her name and requesting the finder to notify her where the balloon descended. She has received a letter from W. D. Stoddard of 416 Central avenue, Hot Springs, Ark., saying he had found the balloon. The previous record flight of a paper balloon is said to have been 400 miles. The distance from Indianapolis to Hot Springs is about 600 miles. Valiant Americans Who Would Go to War With Men. COMPLETE REGIMENT READY. Colonel N. J. Boardman, One of the Leaders of the Woman Warriors, Thinks if They Can't Go With Our Men to France They Should Help Their Sisters In Russia. New York.-The American Woman's League For Self Defense has organized an American regiment of women and plans to send it to the eastern front to serve beside the Russian women's Legion of Death. "If the government is sending our men to fight in France we'll go and fight in Russia," valiantly declares Colonel N. J. Boardman of the woman's regiment. "It would not surprise me if as time goes on American women did the same thing. American women are just as capable and noble as those of Russia. And when the call comes, and I would not be surprised if it should, we, too, will see women giving their blood on the field of battle." "American women are as patriotic, as brave and as physically fit for the trenches as are the women of Russia," General Ida Powell Priest, leader of the league, said. "If the need arises our woman's regiment is ready to go to the front and endure all the perils of the battlefield. My sister said to me the other day. 'You won't go abroad, will you, when I have nobody but you?' I answered, 'I have offered my services to my country, and if I am called I shall go.'" "At least 2,000 American women have been given war training by our organ- P. A. COLONEL N. J. BOARDMAN. ization since it started, and we now can mobilize a woman's regiment numbering between 1,500 and 1,600. At the beginning of hostilities we put our services at the disposal of the government. Our league has twelve branches fully organized and headquarters in six states—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and California. "And as to the amount of military training the women of the regiment receive, they have the infantry and cavalry drill in uniform under officers of the United States army, and they have gun practice," General Priest explained. "You should see the rifle scores made by some of our girls. We have not yet given them bayonet drill, but that will come if necessary. "The discipline of our organization is strictly military, and members are subject to court martial for infractions of our rules or for any act committed in uniform that merits comment or adverse criticism." "We are a true blue American regiment," Colonel Boardman emphasized when asked about the membership of her force. "No woman is allowed to join unless she is an American citizen or can show her first papers. She must take the oath of allegiance to the United States and sign allegiance to the American Woman's League For Self Defense. "Every girl in the regiment receives military training and military discipline. In addition, she may take a course in wireless telegraphy, first aid, motor driving, motorcycling, signaling, swimming or jitjitsu. A number of members of our regiment already have been detached on special duty in France with the Red Cross and the United States military forces." BUNGALOW ON WHEELS. Couple Travels on an Auto on Their Way East. Marysville, Ore. — Traveling in a "home on wheels," Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Basel of Milton Junction, Wis., arrived here recently on their way home. Mr. and Mrs. Basel are comfortably quartered in a neat little house built on a motorcar chassis. The house is 6 by 6 by 13 feet, contains a cooking galley, lavatory, table, chairs and bed. There are three windows on each side of the house and one in the rear. The house is built of basswood and covered with canvas. The floor is covered with rugs and the windows curtained. They have traveled 4,750 miles in their nomadic home. PAGE THREE HAS A GROWING FLAG. Red, White and Blue In His Yard Plot Now. Shelbyville, Ind.—A growing American flag is the attraction which Alonzo Leora Rice, Shelby county poet, has in the yard of his home in Union township. The flag has been seen by hundre/is of persons from several counties, and Mr. Rice says it is a floral conception which he has had for several years. The flag is formed by three varieties of clematis—red, white and blue planted in the order named and growing on a wire trellis. The flag is four feet wide and twelve feet long. The colored flowers form the stripes and field of blue, while the stars are formed by the white flowers, which are shaped similarly to the star. The clematis is hardy and blooms until frost. OUR MEN AT FRONT PUT BAN ON NAME "SAMMY" Officers and Privates In France Resent Use of Name and Urge It Be Forgotten. American Training Camp In France—Not until the recent arrival in camp of certain American newspapers did the soldiers of the American expeditionary forces become aware that efforts were being made in certain quarters to fix upon them the name "Sammy." That name never is heard on this side. Within the past few days the newspaper correspondents have been approached by great numbers of the officers and men asking that something be sent home telling the people there how the standard bearers of the American army really resent what they consider an inapt, undignified and irritating name. It can also be stated that the resentment does not rest alone with the officers and men of the army, but that it extends to all Americans resident in Paris and other parts of France, many having written in to say that they consider "Sammy" most unsuitable for men who have come to France seriously and earnestly to fight for the liberties of the peoples of the world. "Please hit the 'Sammy' propaganda as hard as you can," said an officer of distinguished rank to a correspondent. "The men and officers would be proud to have an appropriate nickname, but there is not one among us who thinks 'Sammy' is in any way suitable, and it certainly is not desired. "The name does not in any way suit a fighting man. We recognize, of course, that it is an effort to play upon the name of Uncle Sam. But who would think of calling Uncle Sam Uncle Sammy? It is ridiculous. COLLEGE GIRL TO HERD SHEEP Theresa Tromp at One Time Cared For the Insane. Spokane, Wash.—The theories of the classroom applied to the practical world is the system of education being pursued by Theresa Tromp, a senior of the University of Washington. She resides at Lynden, Wash. Some of the experiences which Miss Tromp has sought in order to test her theories of philosophy have been obtained in the insane hospital at Medical Lake, where she was employed for a few weeks as an attendant. Having finished her observations there, the young student will proceed to North Yakima, where she expects to herd sheep. "I am going to devote my summer to all sorts of strange experiences in order to test out my theory of philosophy," said Miss Tromp. POILUS CRAVE FOR TANGO. Convalescents In France Object to Law Which Says They Must Not Dance. Paris. — Wounded soldiers convalescing at Deauville indorse the project to permit dancing at the watering place and object to the authorities' enforcing the law for bidding it. the soldiers enjoy the music and watching the Parisiennes now there tangoing with the officers who have recovered sufficiently. Hotel keepers of Paris assert that per cent of the soldiers on furlough sleep on the floor instead of in beds, as they find the softness of mattresses and the yielding springs uncomfortable after three years of sleeping on the ground. Will Train Girl Farmers Canton, O.-Mrs. Will C. Green, wife of a Canton merchant, is planning to turn her large estate, Glen Ardens, near here, into a school farm, where Canton girls will be given intensive training in farming that will enable them in a few weeks to hire out as farm hands. Overalls and straw hats will be adopted as a uniform, and the girls will work in squads, with a captain over each squad. Most of the girls are about sixteen. They will work four days a week, seven hours a day. The girls will don their overalls at their homes and be taken to and from the estate in autos. Hen Mothers Kittens Milton, Ind.-An old hen belonging to Mrs. Will Huddleston, near Abington, wished to sit. She found in a manger a neat nest containing young kittens and began covering them. Now when the mother cat comes it crawls under the wings of the hen, which remains on the nest. When the cat goes it leaves the kittens to the motherly care of the hen. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person's face, but no discernible details can be made out. ATTORNEY CHARLES C. ROE. Supreme Secretary of the Freemen of esting article on the "Assimilation sue of the paper is worth any one' contents. Supreme Secretary of the Freemen of the World, whose able and highly interesting article on the 'Assimilation of the Races' which appears in this issue of the paper is worth any one's time to familiarize themselves with its contents. We are publishing in this issue an article on "The Negro" by Charles C. Roe, a well known attorney, residing in the Second Ward. During the past ten years Mr. Roe has been a prominent figure in the Democratic politics of the Second Ward, where he is now President of the Second Ward Democracy. For many years the democrats of the ward refused to take the Colored man into the organization, but when Mr. Roe was unanimously elected RACE BIOTS AT PORT LOGAN, TEXAS. Colored Soldiers Kill Captain of Illi nois Battery. Many Wounded in Fight at Houston Cantonment. Houston, Tex., Aug. 24—Special. Twelve White men civilians, police officers, and national guardmen were killed and more than a score of persons—men, women and children—were injured in an outbreak here tonight of Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry, stationed here to act as guards during the construction of Camp Logan at which the Illinois national guard will train. It is not known how many Negroes are dead. Capt. J. W. Mattes of battery A, Second Illinois field artillery was among the dead, being killed when he tried to remonstrate with Negro soldiers who were running rampant firing their guns. Race riots broke out tonight in Camp Logan, where Illinois national guardsmen are to be trained for service in France. At least two men are known to have been killed, three Illinois soldiers were wounded, fifteen civilians were injured, including two girls. Shooting continued for more than an hour. The riot raged around the camp of the Twenty-fourth infantry, a Negro regiment of regulars, sent here for guard duty. 8th Illinois Fights Rioters. A company of the Eighth Illinois (Negro) infantry, on duty here preparing camp for the Chicago Negro guardsmen, 'did valiant service in aiding in guelling the rioters. All telegraph and telephone wires to Camp Logan are cut or under military control, and no one outside of officers are permitted to enter the camp. From reports of the excitement in the camp it is probable that the total list of casualties has not been made known. WOMAN STARTS TROUBLE The trouble started this afternoon when a policeman of the city force tried to arrest a Negro woman near the camp of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry. One of the troopers who was escorting the woman objected to the arrest, and became noisy. Some of the other troopers came to the aid of their comrade. The officer had to club one of the soldiers and one of the military police also on guard duty at the camp. The soldiers attacked the policeman and he called for reserves. Four city detectives were sent to the camp in an automobile. --- PAGE FOUR president he insisted that the organization must recognize the Colored Democrats and nominated J. Gray Lucas for Vice-President and he was elected, thus making an epoch in ward politics. Mr. Roe is a public lecturer of note, two of his subjects being, "He Fell in Love With His Wife" and "The Flight of the Tartars." He has lectured to many Colored organizations and churches and is known as a staunch friend of the race. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES Brief Bits of News and Comments On Men and Measures. LIBERIA OPPOSES GERMANY. Baltimore, Md.—Dr. Ernest Lyon Liberian Consul-General, resident here states the announcement that Liberia has severed diplomatic relations with Germany has greater significance than may appear, at first sight, to the average reader. The Republic is neither a also wireless facilities in Liberia which tal, Monrovia, a place with a population of about 6000, has, since 1910, been a station on the cable route between Germany and Brazil. There are also wireless facilities in Liberia which the Germans have made use of in communicating with certain of the South American republics, and, probably, with Mexico. Liberia can do its bit. Announcement is now made that the State Department at Washington has been notified that Liberia has declared war against Germany. It is said their object is to intern German merchants and sympathizers who are active in aiding the cause of Germany against the Allies. A SINISTER PARALLEL New York, N. Y.-The New York World, stalwart of stalwarts, points out in an editorial review a sinister parallel, which deserves the careful reading of thoughtful men and women everywhere. The World says: Had it not been for the insistent determination of the Slave States to extend their "peculiar institution," the Civil War would never have been fought. Had the advocates of slavery been content to leave slavery to the States that wanted slavery, the issue could ultimately have been adjusted without the loss of more than 500,000 lives and the wasting of billions of treasure. The Southern States are now undertaking to do what the slave States once unsuccessfully attempted. They are resolved to extend their prohibitory system to the rest of the country and to override the States that are opposed to Federal regulation of the sumptuary habits of the people. The Senate yesterday voted to submit the amendment to the Legislatures of the several States, and unless reason triumphs over fanaticism in the House the country will be torn for the next six years by this unnecessary and highly dangerous controversy. At a time when the most solemn duty of Congress is to promote American unity and concentrate its energies on the winning of the war, a new subject of national discord is created by the failure of the Senate to measure up to its great responsibilities. Under the Constitution as it now stands the people of every State have full power to regulate the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquors. They can license it, they can restrict it, they THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 25, 1917. The Assimilation of the Races. Highly Interesting and Instructive article by Attorney Charles C. Roe, President Of The Second Ward Democracy. This is the Era of The Negro. Everywhere we see Negroes actively engaged in pursuits and occupations that were at one time practically the monopoly of the Whites. The idea of economic independence is permeating the whole human fabric. And in the United States of America the picture of liberty, equality and fraternity is limned in brighter lines than in any other country. The pages of history are begemmed with the record of the lives of illustrious Negroes, and this country has upon its banner a rare galaxy of stars—Negroes who have advanced hand in hand with all other noble men in the path of freedom and progress. Indeed, every step in that path has been attendant upon the emancipation of the Negro and the recognition of the fact that the Negro is as good as any other man—when he is. We are realizing that man's rights and Negro's rights are synchronous. We can not afford to have joints in the social armor. We need the Negro to assist in the defeat of drunkenness, gambling, vice, graft and all forms of evil. The White mind is being surely tempered by the patriotic, progressive and co-operative tendencies of the Negro. The Negro holds a great commission; and if the past and the present are an earnest for the future he will do his duty faithfully and well, and advance still further the standard of truth, virtue and civilization. We might hark back to the genesis of civilization and trace the golden woof of the Negro's influence for good through the warp of the ages. Who can ever forget that hand in hand against oppression, privation and hardship White and Black have struggled together. They have assisted, in making the waste places green and the desert to blossom. They shouldered the axe, helped clear the forests, and have done their share in sowing and harvesting the crops. Since they have been fed on the milk of freedom and cradled in liberty, the remarkable effect the Negro's work has had on the life and destiny of the nation can not be over-estimated. Now, we are at war. Will the Negro help? Who can doubt it when we remember the gallant regulars of the Twenty-fifth Infantry at El Caney—how they dashed into the jaws of death, bayonet in hand, seventy-two strong and only twenty-four came out alive after annihilating over two hundred and fifty Spaniards; how the noble Tenth at LaQuasina on the slope of San Juan Hill, where he met Spanish bullets and face to face—conquered. Will the American people ever forget that it was a Negro who fell first in battle in the revolutionary war. Crispus Attucks? In our own city—how they have progressed! Look at the beautiful homes they occupy; their successful businesses; their progress in culture and education and their growing wealth. Some may be jealous of their splendid record, but, jealousy is indicative of inferiority. We should be proud of the Negro. They are true blue Americans—no hyphen indicates his nativity. This nation has not solved the problems he presents, but it has progressed in honor and equity toward the solution. Let the history of that progress speak. The bonds of confidence and respect are growing between the two dominant races of this Union and they will grow, and continue to grow until there will be the fullest understanding between them. The Negro must share the school fund equitably throughout the country; he must have the fullest protection of our laws in every State in the Union. He must not be discriminated against anywhere in this broad land. Discrimination breeds resentment and distrust prohibit it as they please. That is how it should be. That is how it must be if the fundamental principles of the Government of the United States are not to be overthrown and the Federal authority made the dictator of the personal habits of every man, woman and child in the United States. NEGRO TROOPS MAY GO TO CUBA FOR TRAINING. Washington, D. C., (Special)—It was suggested in a military quarters here that Negro troops may be sent to Cuba for training taking advantage of the and the two peoples can not live happily together where one has lost its confidence in the other. No government can be strong that is not just. We cannot hope to have the confidence and respect of the Negro unless we are just in the enactment, in the interpretation, and in the execution of the law. The future of the Negro in America portends for his advancement in all the walks of human effort. In politics, art, science, religion and in all forms of cultural advancement he is as sure to rise, as is the sun to set. His past efforts indicate his future accomplishments. He has the capacity—it has been shown. It is up to the individual effort of each to command his place in society. Some will fall by the wayside overtaken by sloth and indolence, but as a race of people, they must not be judged by individuals. At the outset the history of the American Negro discloses a wonderful picture of the transplantation of a race of men out of the jungles into a new world, there to do the work and druggery of a race assuming superiority and commanding obedience by the law of the land. They had had no opportunity of suitable training of either thought or hand—they were not even schooled in the old world civilization. They were thwarted in every aspiration in the new home to which they were unwillingly brought—puzzled, even daunted by their new environment. The history of the progress of the Negro must date from Lincoln's Emancipation. We must not forget that much of the progress of the Negro is spiritual as well as material, a thing not of institutions, but of the heart and the imagination. The American historian must not overlook the fact, that while men out of every European race, men out of Asia, men out of Africa have crowded into the United States, and an infinite crossing of strains is fast forming a new race—that the slow but gradual commingling of the Whites and Blacks, must result ultimately in the black strain becoming the dominant one in the mixture of the bloods, as far as any individual race is considered, in its relation to the White strain. No White man has yet advocated publicly the assimilation of the Black. All discerning ones know it is inevitable. Perhaps one-fourth of all the Colored people of America are inoculated with the blood of the Caucasian and this, only after a few centuries of contact. Foreign White stock fast loses its identity amongst us, and this is more perceptible among the Blacks than the White will admit, but they too, are destined to lose much of their physical heredity and race characteristics, in the future composite American. The races of this nation can not long live separate and apart. Nations grow by spirit not by blood, and nowhere is this significant principle to be seen more clearly than here. The future of the Negro in America is fixed by the inexorable laws of environment, contagion, contact and association and nothing can be said of his race that will not apply equally to all other races here, either White, Black or Yellow. It is different with the American Indian. He will not be assimilated. He is fast disappearing but the Negro does not object to assimilation—he courts it and is proud to commingle his blood with the White. History has proven that where the two meet, one disappears and that one, the Black. Witness the mulatto. So, we must not get excited when we know that the Negro is to be assimilated. It will not retard but hasten the progress of all the races of mankind into one race, which will speak one language, live under one Flag and worship one God. offer of the Cuban government to the United States of land for encampments. At the war department it was stated that no definite decision had been reached as to what troops would be sent to Cuba. EX-CONGRESSMAN WHITE SUCH GEEDS BASS Philadelphia, Pa.—George H. White, a former member of Congress from North Carolina, has been appointed assistant city solicitor here to succeed the late Harry W. Bass. [Portrait of a man in a suit and hat, arms crossed, looking directly at the camera. The background is dark, emphasizing the subject.] HENRY (TEENAN) JONES. The Elks, who is ever popular with the baseball fans, and is inclined to do a little sporting and he is one of the Col. Franklin A. Denison and his Eighth Regiment. Prominent member of the Elks, who is ever popular with the baseball fans, and with others who are inclined to do a little sporting and he is one of the greatest admirers of Col. Franklin A. Denison and his Eighth Regiment. JUDGE MAYO OF GLUECK BROS SUED BY A COLORED WOMAN. He Got Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars From Her. Replete with sensational charges is a suit for damages which was filed in the Gary Superior Court last week by Henrietta Winrow, Colored, against Martha E. Mayo and Alphonso C. Mayo. Soon after the suit was filed a restraining order was issued to prevent the defendants from obtaining money which they are believed to have deposited in the First National Bank. In her complaint the Colored woman alleged that Mayo appeared in Centralia, Ill., about the first of June and represented himself as a person of great importance in Gary and worth a million dollars; that he had been associate justice of the supreme court of the United States for six years; that he had served in the Illinois legislature for six years; that he was a colonel in the Union army during the Civil war, and judge of the Superior Court of Gary. The plaintiff further charges that Mayo posed as a minister and on May 20 held religious services on three different occasions in Centralia, Ill. The services were conducted in Colored churches and the plaintiff was present at one of these services. She declares she heard Mayo declare he was the best friend the Colored race ever had and was devoting his entire life toward its uplift. In this way, it is charged, he paved the way toward inducing the Colored people to buy property in Gary at exorbitant prices. The plaintiff charges he declared he had lots to sell to Negroes in the best residential sections of Gary that would be worth four or five times as much within a year or eighteen months, and that he stood ready to sell them at one-half their actual value. Accordingly the Colored woman says she entered into a contract whereby she was to purchase a residence property embracing lots 3 and 4, block 35, Chicago-Tolleson Land and Investment Company's Second Oak Park addition. The price agreed upon was four thousand dollars and it was represented, that the dwelling was in good state of repair and provided with all modern conveniences, and situated in the best residential section of the city. The woman gave Mayo $2,550 in cash and agreed to pay for the balance at the rate of $40 a month. A few days ago she came to Gary and found the property located in a foreign quarter, and the dwelling without modern conveniences and worth not to exceed $2,500. She immediately went to Mayo and demanded the cancellation of the contract and the return of her money. The demand was refused. Later she ascertained that Mayo was insolvent and immediately consulted an attorney with a view of bringing suit. Several years ago, Rev. Mayo preached and held forth in many of the Colored churches in this city and as one ```markdown ``` of the holy men of God he assisted to work the poor Colored people out of much easy money in the way of selling them worthless sand hill lots in his home town—Editor. PRAISES THE BROAD AX FOR ITS SUPPORT FOR THE PHYLLI WHEATLEY HOME. Chicago, August 20, 1917. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor and Publisher, The Broad Ax, 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dear Mr. Taylor:— We write to thank you for the continued kind support which you gave to the Home by your write-up for the Benefit Ball Game, held last week, when the American Giants and the A B C's of Indianapolis, played a real ball game for us. Our incomplete returns show net proceeds as $496.00. We hope to give a complete report next week. Respectfully yours, personally and for the Benefit Game Committee, J. SNOWDEN PORTER, Chairman. AN OUTRAGEOUS PRACTICE The coming of the Colored people from the Gulf States is bringing into the courts of Chicago a number of cases wherein southern creditors are following Colored men to Chicago and having them arrested and taken back for trial on one charge and another. Such a case came to fight Tuesday. Emile Mixon, a reputable citizen, was arrested during the last few days on a charge that really amounts to an effort to imprison him for debt, and the officers came for him. He resisted extradition and engaged W. J. Latham and W. E. Mollison, formerly of Mississippi, now practicing here, and F. L. Barnett of this city to resist the effort to take him back to Mississippi. These attorneys have taken every means to resist the unjust practice and will fight every inch of ground from Springfield to Washington if necessary. SECRET SERVICE MEN HOLD NE GRO SPEAKER. A sign on a wagon from which he preached in the streets of Chicago reading: "Real Estate Men—Not Labor, Responsible for East St. Louis Riots," Monday, brought a Negro, said to be Arthur Jonas, under the scrutiny of United States officials. A talk at Dearborn and Madison streets, which was said to have been in accord with his sign, caused his detention. He is said to have figured in the recent riots in East St. Louis. Mr. Jonas is well known in Chicago and if we mistake not he headed the movement to nominate and elect Col. William G. Anderson Alderman from the Second Ward in 1916.—Editor. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing slightly to the right. The background is plain and light-colored. There is a decorative border at the bottom of the image.] HON. CHARLES S. DENEEN. As the chief executive of the great State of the provisions of the Anti-Mob I nation and made it possible for the armory. As the chief executive of the great State of Illinois, he cheerfully adhered to all of the provisions of the Anti-Mob Law of this state and he laid the foundation and made it possible for the Eighth Regiment to secure its present armory. THE RED CAP MEN AT THE 12TH STREET STATION, ILLINOIS CENTRAL ARE STILL MOVING AROUND. By Juan Wyatte Bell. Dr. R. R. Moton of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Major A. W. Washington of Hampton and Mr. Emmett J. Scott passed through this city Saturday on their way to Des Moines, Iowa, to visit the Officers Training Camp. Each of these noted gentlemen addressed the soldiers. They returned last Tuesday and report a grand time. Mr. Sandy W. Trice had a very pleasant chat with these distinguished friends of his and they promised him and E. P. Johnson, a former student of Hampton that upon their return trip this autumn to address Bethel Literary of which Mr. Trice was recently re-elected President and Mr. C. P. Johnson a member of the publicity committee. Mrs. E. Frye, 5763 La Fayette Ave. left last Tuesday morning on the Michigan Central to visit friends in Saginaw, Bay City and Detroit. Mrs. Cox of Columbus, Ohio, arrived in this city last Saturday for a ten days visit. She is the host of Mrs. E. Martin, 3326 Vernon Ave. Mr. Samuel Harris left last Saturday evening for St. Louis to attend the Supreme Grand Lodge, K. of P. and also to visit his many friends there. Miss Nannie Taylor of New Orleans, recently became the bride of Mr. Albert Miller of this city. We wish them all happiness. P. S. Mr. Miller was not drafted. Mr. A. W. Wilkinson of 4120 W. Bell Place, St. Louis, Mo., was in the city on very important business last week. Mr. Wilkinson promises to send us some very important news on the E. St. Louis affair. Mr. Saul Shields, Labor Agt., for the I. C. R. R., left last Monday for Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Onawa, Cherokee, Ia., and Omaha, Neb., on very urgent business. We expect him to return early next week. Mrs. Jas. Evans, 3422 Wabash Ave., was recently a victim of ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Evans reports that she is speedily recovering from a condition that several days ago seemed extremely critical. Mr. John Combs and Mr. Marshall are both suffering with what is termed in Patagonia, S. A. "Malo Patas." Visit a chiropodist boys. Mr. Jas. Robinson now in Portsmouth, N. H., was recently entertained as the Guest of Honor at the U. S. Naval Chefs' Club, and reports it the swellest affair that he has ever attended. --- --- 1 state of Illinois, he cheerfully adhered to all Law of this state and he laid the founda- e Eighth Regiment to secure its present Mrs. Rosa Rice of St. Louis, Mo., has been visiting Mrs. J. E. Ferguson, 3842 Elmwood Ave. She recently returned home to attend the K. of P. encampment. There were several dainty func- tions given in her honor and she left saying that she had a very pleasant trip. Mr. Houston Waxe and Moses Southern formerly employes of the I. C. R. R., are now members of the Eighth Regiment. Bethel Literary held a symposium last Sunday, Aug. 19, of 5 mins. talk. Subject, Our duty to our brother from the South. The following gentlemen spoke. Atty. A. L. Williams, Atty. H. Gaines, Mr. H. W. Rhea, Ex-Pres. B. W. Fitts and Mr. A. L. Edwards, after which the president turned over the gavel to Mr. Geo. T. Kersey, Ex-Pres. It was generally expressed by those present that Mr. Kersey showed his efficiency as a presiding officer. We all take our hats off to Bro. George. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Sandy W. Trice, Pres.; H. A. Watkins, Vice Pres.; Mrs. A. C. Owens Sec.; J. W. Bell, Asst. Sec.; Jas. Brown, Chaplain; Mrs. H. C. Champion, Asst Chaplain; Mrs. Nannie Meacham Musical Director; H. W. Rhea, Reporter; Irving A. Jackson, Journalist; Mrs L. C. Robinson, Treas.; P. G. Lewis, Sarg't at Arms. The society voted to not close their meeting as had been planned for the month of September, but will give way next Sunday to The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon which is held annually in Bethel Church. The next meeting of the club will be Sunday afternoon, Sept. 2nd, at 4 o'clock. The programme will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. Mr. Sandy W. Trice feels highly honored to know that Hon. A. L. Roberts postponed his trip to Michigan in order to attend the election and also Mr. B. W. Fitts who left his sick room to be present and our good friend Attorney A. L. Williams and many others who were present. Our heartiest thanks we extend to them all. SET DATE FOR BUNDY HEARING Columbus, O.—Aug. 29, has been set as the date for further hearing in the extradition of Dr. Leroy N. Bundy of Cleveland, wanted on a murder charge in connection with the East St. Louis (Ill.) race riots. Negro societies are fighting Bundy's extradition on the ground that he cannot receive a fair trial at East St. Louis. Mrs. Carter Slaughter, mother of Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas, 4428 Langley avenue and William C. Slaughter brother of Mrs. Douglas, both of Louisville, Ky., will spend about ten days in visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas. --- --- --- THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 25. 1917 Hon. Charles S. Deneen as The Governor of Illinois Cheerfully and Willingly Upheld or Carried out all of The Provisions of The "Anti-Mob Law." He Greatly assisted Hon. Edward D. Green to Place it on the Statute Books of this State. To the Editor of the Broad Ax, Chicago: Dear Sir: I noticed in several issues of your paper lately, a statement in your article regarding the "Anti-Mob Law" as follows: "For it must be distinctly remembered, that under this Anti-Mob Law Bill, Governor Charles S. Dereen in 1005 and 1906, was forced or compelled to remove Sheriff Davis of Alexander County from office for failing to do his full duty regarding the riots at Cairo, Illinois," etc. Following this statement, the law is published in full by you and the law as printed by you shows the error which you made. The law provides, that if a person is taken from the sheriff and lynched, "it shall be concursive evidence of the failure on the part of said sheriff to do his duty and upon the fact being made to appear to the Governor, he shall publish a proclamation declaring the office of such sheriff vacant and his office shall thereby and theret become immediately vacated and the coroner shall immediately proceed to and perform the duties of the sheriff until the successor of such sheriff shall have been duly elected and appointed." The law also provides, that within ten days thereafter, the sheriff may petition the Governor for reinstatement, and if the Governor, upon hearing the petition of the sheriff, and the evidence in support thereof, "shall find that such sheriff has done all in his power to protect the life of such prisoner and performed the duties required of him by existing laws, regarding the protecting of prisoners, then said Governor may reinstate said sheriff in his office, and shall issue to him a certificate of reinstatement, the same to be effective on the date of such order of reinstatement and the decision of such Governor shall be final." A Negro was taken from the custody of the sheriff and lynched. Governor Deneen immediately declared the sheriff's office vacant, as the law provides. There was no discretion in the matter. But the sheriff filed his petition, as provided by the law, for reinstatement and Governor Deneen, after looking into the matter carefully, refused to issue a certificate of reinstatement. In this matter Governor Deneen had discretion and acted upon the evidence. He was not forced or compelled either to reinstate or refused so to do. He had a wide discretion and his judgment was final. So great was the feeling aroused by Governor Deneen's refusal to reinstate the sheriff, that when later the Governor, in his campaign, went to Cairo to speak, no hall could be secured for him, nor the court house, and the meeting had to be abandoned, after his arrival. But his action made the law respected in Cairo, and there has been no violence since. It may be remembered, that a few weeks after these occurrences, and after the removal of the sheriff, a Ne- CHIPS Dr. Edward S. Miller, 3101 S. State St., left the city Wednesday night for a vacation trip to Danville, Kentucky, his old home. He will be away about ten days. Attorney A. L. Williams, 184 W. Washington street, is a warm admirer of the Hon. Charles S. Deneen, and he will be with him for United States Senator in 1918, to the very ditch. Attorney William J. Latham, late of Vicksburg, Miss., who has become a resident of Chicago and moved his family into their new home at 3419 South Park avenue. Mr. Latham has opened up law offices at the northeast corner of 31st and State streets. On Wednesday evening he returned to Mississippi to transact some law business. He will be absent ten days. gro boy picked the pocket of a woman on a principal business street. He was arrested and lodged in jail. A mob gathered to lynch him, and one of the leading citizens of Cairo led the mob. The militia had been called out by Governor Deneen, however, and the leader of the mob was killed in his tracks by the militia. Since these actions of Governor Deneen, in support of the law and its enforcement, no violence has occurred to any Colored men in Cairo or Alexander County. Your article is, I think, peculiarly unfortunate in its statement of facts as well as of law, and the more, because Governor Deneen was the governor when the riots occurred at Springfield. To suppress these riots, Governor Deneen called out six regiments of the National Guard. Because of this, although the mob set fire to thirty buildings when it organized and filled Springfield with terror, only one man lost his life. The largest number of the National Guard ever assembled in Illinois was called out by Governor Deneen on that occasion, and his prompt action prevented a reign of terror—such as occurred at East St. Louis a few weeks ago. I may add too, that I think the files of your own paper will show that the passage of the Bill to suppress mob violence in Illinois was largely due to Governor Deneen himself. This statement is not made to disparage in any way the work done by the Hon. Edward D. Green. He did all he could. But he himself has often acknowledged that the Bill could not have passed without the invaluable aid of Governor Deneen in both houses of the general assembly. Credit is due the more to Governor Deneen in this matter because the Illinois law to suppress mob violence was the first law of its kind passed by any of the states. I may add also, that the Colored people of the state are under the greatest obligation to Gov. Deneen for what he did for the Eighth Regiment Armory. It will be remembered, because it was familiar matter at the time, that the colonels of the National Guard agreed among themselves in reference to the number of arsenals that should be built each two years through appropriations by the general assembly and drew lots as to the order in which they should be built. Unfortunately, the Eighth Regiment was not successful. Gov. Deneen, however, carried out the programs agreed upon by the colonels and was largely instrumental in securing in addition the appropriation for the Eighth Regiment Army. It was this appropriation that gave to the Colored regiment its permanent home. I make this statement, feeling sure that you did not wish in any way to misstate any matters regarding Gov. Deneen, and also because I am sure that the Colored people of this state would feel that one who had done so much to show them that the protection of the law was applied to them equally with others, should not be misrepresented.—A. L. W. Mrs. L. R. Gaston of Galveston, Tex., is the house guest of Mrs. Charles Steward, 5922 S. Aberdeen st. She will visit in this city two or three weeks. Mrs. J. Frank Armstrong, wife of Dr. J. J. Frank Armstrong, 1924 West Lake Street, and Mrs. Macon H. Huggins are in Michigan spending a vacation of ten days on Oakdale Farm near Benton Harbor. Mrs. Grant Gardner of Muskegon, Mich., who formerly resided in this city, spent the past week in pleasantly visiting with some of her many friends here. She was the guest of the Idlewild Hotel, 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue while in the city. She left for her Michigan home on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Gardner is a strong supporter and admirer of this paper. Big Bargain In Four Story Brick Modern Flat Building. Lot 125 x25 Easy Payments. THE BIGGEST BARGAIN EVEB OFFERED CONSISTING OF FOUR STORY MODERN BRICK FLAT BUILDING. HIGHLY POLISHED OAK FLOORS, OAK TRIMMINGS, STEAM HEAT. FOURTEEN THREE BOOM FLATS, ONE SIX BOOM FLAT, RENTED TO WHITE TENANTS. RENT THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FOUR DOLLARS PEB YEAR. MORTGAGE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS DUE IN TWO YEARS. ONE THOUSAND IN THREE YEARS. ONE THOUSAND IN FOUR YEARS. BALANCE FIVE YEARS. PRICE EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. FIVE TIMES THE RENT WILL PAY FOR THE BUILDING. PROPERTY LOCATED ONE BLOCK FROM "L" STATION, HALF BLOCK FROM COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE. SPLENDID PLACE FOR FIRST CLASS HOTEL. FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS, ADDRESS A. M. CARE OF JULIUS F. TAYLOR. 6418 CHAMPLAIN AVE. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. Attention is called to the correction of the telephone number on the card of W. E. Mollison, attorney and counselor. The attorney is residing at 3353 South Park avenue and his home telephone number is Douglas 2773. Mrs. William Honesty and Mrs. Adelaide Stewart Burton of Youngstown, Ohio, who have for several weeks been the guest of Mrs. Robert A. Williams, 3544 S. Dearborn street, returned to their Ohio home last Friday highly delighted with their sightseeing trip to Chicago. Mr. Emmet J. Scott, Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., and Secretary of the National Negro Business League, spent the first part of this week in Chicago. Stopping at the Palmer House. Mr. Scott was headed for Washington, D. C. in company with Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, and Major A. W. Washington who is prominently connected with the Hampton Institute. All three of them were very much pleased with their delightful stopover in Chicago. Mr. Frank C. Brown, 6508 St. Lawrence avenue, returned home lately from a five weeks' tour through the mountains and the mining camps of Colorado. He hit many old, almost extinct Indian trails while exploring in that region or the so-called wild and wooly west. His trip was greatly enjoyed by him and he has a long desire to return to that part of the country and become a miner, stockraiser or a real farmer. --- Attorney and Mrs. Arthur A. Lowery of Pontiac, Ill. visited with some of their friends in this city the past week on their way home from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On last Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Lowery called at the Eighth Regiment Armory to pay their respects to Col. Franklin A. Denison, and they were highly delighted to meet him and behold the soldiers. It was our pleasure to be presented to Mr. and Mrs. Lowery at that time, who have resided in Pontiac for twelve years past, where Mr. Lowery has been successful in the practice of the law, saved his money and invested it in good real estate. He has carried and successfully contested several important cases in the Supreme Court of this State, winning them on their merits. One of the cases can be found in the 263 Illinois Supreme Court reports on page 564. From this on Attorney and Mrs. Lowery, who are shining examples of what Colored people can do, when they make up their minds to hustle early and late, will be regular readers of The Broad Ax. 1 An Aerial Shepherd. The little republic of Venezuela boasts of a remarkable bird which can be trained to tend flocks. Not only does the yak-a-milk, as it is called, take the place of the sheep dog, but it is frequently used to guard the home of its owner. When the Indians capture a yak-a-milk they find little difficulty in training it to domestic use. It is attached to the farmyard and performs the same duties as a faithful watchdog. A yak-a-milk soon learns to know and obey the voice of its master. Its usual gait is slow and sedate, but sometimes it will execute most eccentric movements, waltzing and proueting in a very absurd fashion. Instances are recorded where yak-a-milks have defended their charges from attacks of wild and savage animals and even driven them off. He Was Equal to It. A student who could not sound the letter "r" was given the following sentence to read: "Robert gave Richard a rap in the ribs for roasting the rabbit so rare." He studied it in silence a minute, then glibly rendered it as follows: "Bobby gave Dicky a thump in the side for cooking the bunny so little."—Albany Knickerbocker-Press. PAGE FIVE In Four Story in Flat Building. Easy Payments. TERED CONSISTING OF FOUR STORY FLAT BUILDING. OAK TRIMMINGS, STEAM HEAT. ONE SIX BOOM FLAT, RENTED TO THE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND DOLLARS. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS HOUSAND IN THREE YEARS. ONE BALANCE FIVE YEARS. PRICE S. FIVE TIMES THE RENT WILL. FROM "L" STATION, HALF BLOCK QUE. SPLENDID PLACE FOR FIRST ADDRESS A. M. CARE OF JULIUS F. E. PHONE WENTWORTH 2597. Truth About a "Monster." **Huth About a "Monster."** According to the ancient writers, the basilisk—sometimes called cockatrice—was a monster to be greatly dreaded. Its breath filled the air with a deadly poison and burned up vegetation, and the glance of its eye was fatal to both man and beast. The only creature that could face it and live, they said, was the cock, and travelers were advised to take loudly crowding cocks with them as a protection against the monster. So much for superstition. As a matter of fact, the basilisk is a harmless lizard living a quiet life in the woods and feeding on insects. Its appearance, however, is formidable, and it is this, perhaps, that gave it a bad name. It grows to a length of from twenty-five to thirty inches, including its tail, which is much longer than its body. Hissing from its head and inclining backward is a broad, wing-like expansion which gives it some resemblance to the flying lizard. The crest of this expansion is formed somewhat like a crown, and that gave the basilisk its name, which is from the Greek word meaning king—Exchange. Reels & With Jaweded Bearings Without a doubt jeweled bearings on the reel make it run more smoothly and add to its life. The lengthened life of a reel, due to the fact that it is jeweled, more than overbalances the added cost over the ordinary kind. As a general thing, the jewels are set in removable caps at the end of the bearings, which makes it easy to keep them clean and oiled. Of course the jeweled reel nicks you deeper in the bank roll, but after a fellow has put in practice work on the lower priced reels and feels like investing in one that will last forever, if handled right, then the jeweled reel is the only one to buy. Right down to cases, as it were, the jeweled reel is one that acts best in the hands of the angler who knows how to handle it. It spins with such freedom and speed that it is conducive to back lashes with the beginner, who has not the thumb work to control it.—From "Lake and Stream Game Fishing," by Dixle Carroll. Once the Home of Pirates. Margarita, the mountainous island off the coast of Venezuela, has a reputation that ill matches its pleasing name. It was discovered by Columbus in 1498 and got its name from its pearl fisheries, for the Spanish word for pearl is the old Greek margarites. For generations it was the headquarters of the pirates—and especially of the slave traders—of the Spanish Main and the prison of slaves who were awaiting transportation. Etiquette. Originally the word etiquette meant a ticket, label or slip of paper attached to a bag or object to indicate its contents. It then came to be used of a ticket given to a person taking part in a ceremony to tell him what he should do; hence the modern meaning. Word From Bre'r Williams De folks what find fault wid de world God made can't map out a better one ter save dey lives. De day's work ain't well done onless you kin make a pillow of yo' conscience an' sleep out de night.—Atlanta Constitution. Joyous Funerals At funerals of the military nobility in Siam gayety instead of sorrow reigns supreme. The funeral pyre is lighted by the king himself, and this is followed by sports and the lotus dance. He Did It. She (romantically)—The man I marry must be willing to go through fire for me. He—Then I'm your man. The boss has fired me for telephoning you so often—Boston Transcript. Pa Knew. "Pa, how long can a man live on water?" "It depends, Willie, on whether he is aboard a ship that won't sink."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Something brought on by overwork."—Detroit Free Press. To give up of your own will what would cost too much in time and strength is not failure—it is success. # AVR ALU THE BROADAX Published Weekly In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrat, Catholics, Protestants, single Taxer, Priesta, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6418 Champlain Ave., Chicago, Ill. PHONE WENTWORTH 2507. JULIUS P. TAYLOR, Edited and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. Treasures of the Tiber's Bed. Treasures of the Tiber's Bed. Father Tiber must be trembling in his bed over the quest for the gold supposed to lie in the foundations of the old temple of Jove, for the river has more than once been threatened. Lecky holds that its periodical flooding and bequest of marshes and malaria have been the salvation of Italy in preventing the Italian parliament, for reasons of health, from sitting long in session. Garibaldi had other views. He meant to fling the old river from Rome to Tivoli, so sent for that of engineers, Sir John Fowler. Fowler made the necessary surveys for diversion of the Tiber into the Anio, to canalize the malarial area and drain it into the sea. It would have been a great and romantic feat of engineering, but honest John loved Garibaldi as faithfully as did the red shirted Thousand. "It will cost you nine millions for the work and as much again for compensation. Don't think of it," he bluntly said. "Oh, you stubborn English!" laughed the hero. "Americans here would do the work for nothing merely to get the antiquities in the Tiber bed." But he took Fowler's advice—London Chronicle. The Misunderstood Shark There seems to be some misunderstanding concerning the way in which sharks attack victims. Some claim that they turn over as they attack so as to bite more readily with their receding underjaw. Others claim, according to the Popular Science Monthly, that they attack head on, swimming to their victim in a straight line. According to J. E. Williamson, whose work in photographing the shark under water for motion picture plays has been notably successful, the "head-on" description of attack is the correct one. "I can prove by my pictures that a shark does not turn over to bite," states Mr. Williamson. "If a shark wants to pick up anything from the bottom of the sea he goes right down to it as a cat pounces on a bone and picks it up. A shark does not turn over to bite any more than any other fish does." Dealing In Diamonds There is no other form in which human wealth is so compact and so durable as in diamonds. A paper three inches long and an inch and a half wide will hold a king's ransom in a form that a million years will not harm and that not even fire itself, except the heat of the electric furnace and of the Bunsen burner, will destroy. You would think that anything so precious would be hedged about with a host of precautions. Just the opposite is true. Men go into the offices of wholesale diamond dealers, slip packages of uncut stones worth thousands of dollars into their pockets and go away with no record of the transaction except a "memorandum." Half the business of many dealers in precious stones is done by letting goods go out "on memorandum." The one thing that the man in the trade guard more carefully than their diamonds is their credit - Youth's Companion. The Authority. "Tell me, my man, do you exercise your marital prerogative and dominate your wife?" "Better ask her. She's the boss."-Baltimore American. Disadvantages: "Here's a man died from the effects of chewing phosphorus on matches." "That is what comes from putting oneself too much on a light diet."—Baltimore American. Punishment: Caller—Here are some verses I wrote. What ought I to get for them? Editor (after glancing over lines)—I am an editor, not a magistrate—Boston Transcript. Man slinks beneath his load when fear rises in his heart; drive away his fear and you will divide his load. Filipinos Are Lazy. The Filipino strikes me as unbearably lazy. He has had roads built for him, schools run for him, good government and peace secured to him and an unusual measure of confidence placed in him. He has graduated from almost no clothes into spotless white, with patent leather "kicks," a clean shirt and a resplendent tie, so that he looks like the swell member of a pair of black face comedians. He has had "sitting down" jobs created or discovered for him and has taken with remarkable alacrity to the ice cream soda habit, just like any other cultured being. He has learned to speak English very well and has been trained into a really good athlete. But, as far as I can see so far, he is not much changed since the days when he dawled into school, followed by a servant to carry his books and ink bottle. I doubt very much whether he will work as hard or as intelligently to make something of himself and the islands as Uncle Sam has worked for him.—Christian Herald. Northcliffe's Test. In Everybody's Magazine Isaac F. Marcosch furnishes a concrete incident which explains in a manner Lord Northcliffe's wonderful success as a journalist. It shows why Northcliffe and his ramified interests have forged ahead: He once met a subeditor in the corridor of the London Mail building and asked him how he was getting along. "Splendidly, thank you," was the reply. "How long have you been with me?" "Six months, my lord." "What money are you getting?" "Seven pounds a week." "Are you happy and contented?" "Yes, but I have lots of leisure." "Then you are not the man for me. I don't want any member of my staff to be happy and contented on £7 a week." He himself has never been content with man or machine when he could get a better one. Cadets of Switzerland. Although no Swiss is legally liable for military service until the year in which he reaches the age of twenty, nevertheless a very large number of boys begin at the age of twelve to train as cadets and learn to carry and use rifles and to drill. These boys are supplied with their rifles by the government, but keep them at home and are responsible for having them always in proper condition. Should a rifle be found on inspection not to have been properly cleaned the boy's parents are liable to a heavy fine, and should this neglect occur a second time the boy may be punished by being dismissed from the cadet corps, this naturally being a disgrace from which every boy shrinks. These cadets all wear uniforms, which are supplied by the parents or, if the latter be in poor circumstances, then by the cadet corps association. Some of these Swiss cadets now have even light artillery. The Girl Who Fusses The fussy girl sat next us in the car this morning. And she fussed and she fussed and she fussed. She settled herself three times, hunched up her right shoulder, took off her right glove and patted her hair, pulled the back of her collar into shape, shrugged up her left shoulder, pulled off her left glove and patted her hair, pushed her hair a little more to one side and put on both gloves, patted her hair and crossed her right ankle over her left, squared both shoulders and patted her hair, settled herself in a new position and pulled her coat down at the waist, patted her hair, surveyed her nose in the tiny glass at the bottom of her bag and patted her hair, pulled her hat a wee bit more to one side and reversed her ankles, then began at the top of her program and repeated it. Worcester Post. Her View of It. A certain lady attempted to open an account at a department store. The store asked her for a reference, and she named Coutts' bank. Coutts' bank, on being appealed to, replied that as a credit proposition the lady was an uncertain and even dangerous risk, and accordingly the department store wrote to her: Madam—We regret to say your reference is unsatisfactory. To this the lady wrote back: You certainly surprise me. I always considered Coutts' bank a most respectable and solid institution. —Philadelphia Bulletin. Virtue and Immortality Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing, the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation and is transmitted again to the children. Is not that an immortality worth striving for?—Kropotkin. Grease on White Goods To remove cream spots from embroidered centerpieces or dolles dampen the spot with liquid ammonia, then lay a fresh piece of blotting paper over it and iron lightly. This treatment will remove any grease from white goods. You've Been There. Invalid Down For a Rest Cure—Is this a restful place, boatman? Boatman—It used to be, sir, after folks came 'ere to rest—Philadelphia Ledger. The Hire the Higher Teacher—What is the difference between "I will hire a taxi and I have hired a taxi?" Kid—About $6.50.—New Orleans Times-Democrat. We would willingly' have others perfect and yet amend not our own faults—Thomas a Kemps. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 25. 1917. Valuable Black Walnut Black walnut is the ideal wood for gun stocks, but it is scarce and high in price, and there are few of the trees left in this country. A single tree of this species can be sold for a good price, and a grove of black walnut trees represents a small fortune. About the only black walnut trees available now are those on farms and private estates, and they are fast disappearing. The wood is hard and takes a high polish, qualities which make it desirable for the use to which it is put. Manufacturers have not found a wood to take its place satisfactorily. Some of the black walnut used is obtained from old furniture or walnscoting, stairways and interior trim of dwellings or churches. Many years ago black walnut was used extensively in the manufacture of the best grades of furniture, and in old churches pews and pulpits made of it can be found today. The demand for the wood is gradually causing them to disappear.—New York Sun. Carelessness and Fires. Little Horace, whose father thinks he is a second Edison, and his mother, who would like to use electricity for everything from curling her hair to stoking the furnace, do more to keep the fire engines busy than mice ever did in all the years they chewed matches. Washington Devereux, chief of the electrical department of the Philadelphia Fire Underwriters' association, said 54,000 fires were caused last year by overheated electrical devices. The fault wasn't with the devices, he said, but with the human equation—the woman who turned on the "juice" in her electric iron and then went out for a social afternoon without turning it off. He made the statement that no father had a right to buy his ten-year-old son a ten cent book on "How to Wire the House In Your Spare Moments" unless he was prepared to see the place go up in smoke some bright afternoon.—Philadelphia Ledger. Keep Up With the Present. Success and happiness depend upon the way in which we adapt ourselves to the realities of the objective life. If we fight against change—and change we must meet at every turn and in every department of life—we soon become exhausted, wear ourselves out and sink back into ourselves—into the subconscious—and fail and grow old before our time. If we eling to past experiences, refuse to live in the present, let our faith die when disappointments come, the results are the same. The life forces ebb and we sink into the great sea of the unconscious and are on the road to being submerged. Desire, will, concentration, purpose, faith—these can be applied to keep us living in the present, to keep our enthusiasm active and our creativeness expressing—Nautilus. What's the Answer? Old elephant hunters who have hunted their quarry in India, Siam and the wilds of the Malay peninsula are agreed upon the following fact: Bury the carcass of a full grown tusker in any spot in Asia—it matters not whether the location be high and dry or low and damp—one year from the date of burial not a shred of hide nor a silver of bone can be found by digging. Neither disintegration nor ants can be an explanation, for the phenomenon has been noted in the highlands of Nepal, where buried carcasses of other animals than the elephant undergo little or no change within a year and elephants' bones disappear in localities where ants are unknown. So far the scientists have failed to come forward with an answer The "Crowned Republic." It was Tennyson who gave to England the phrase "Our crowned republic." It was the bill of rights, by which parliament voted "Dutch William" and his wife, Mary, joint sovereigns of England, which made Great Britain a "crowned republic." From the moment the bill of rights gave the house of commons the sole right to levy taxes and that house resolved only to grant the crown annual supplies the backbone of absolutism was broken and the nerve centers of tyranny were paralyzed. Henceforth we were a "crowned republic."—London Answers. Safety First. "What is your objection to me as a son-in-law?" "I haven't any objection to you," replied Mr. Cumrox. "But I have trouble enough maintaining my own position in this household without assuming the slightest responsibility for anybody else."—Washington Star. Life "Young man, there is nothing worse than high life on a low salary," said the wise man who is always giving advice. "Oh, I don't know," replied the young man who knew a thing or two himself. "It's no worse than low life on a high salary."—Florida Times-Union. Her Choice "Does your daughter play Mozart?" we asked, displaying unusual erudition. "I believe so," she replied deprecatingly, "but I think she prefers euchre."—Philadelphia Ledger. If Useless, Quit. "Oh, stop whining. Is whining going to mend matters?" "I suppose not." "Then if not, whine not."—Exchange. "That'll spoil the whole day for me Make it sunset."--Lamb. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of medicre people--Joubert. Origin of the Matinee. Origin of the matinee. Whether or not we have to look back to the fifties for the first matinee, there is at least little doubt that the invention had not attained any general popularity when the seventies were reached. I am reminded that the Bancrofts, who were responsible for many innovations that have since become the vogue, did not institute afternoon performances until 1876, after they had been in management eleven years. The Bancrofts, if not the inventors of the matinee, were certainly the first to pay full salaries to those who took part in them. Not until 1878 did the matinee become a fixed and regular feature of even the Bancroft management. It was a byproduct of "Diplomacy," the success of which made any means of providing additional performances acceptable. Sir Squire Bancroft has put it on record that at the beginning the matinee was a much more costly affair than it is now, as frequent and separate advertisements and announcements were necessary to make it known.—Westminster Gazette. A Defect In Higher Education A Detect in Higher Education It must be said that the higher education of the United States is at present in a condition where it may readily drop backward rather than improve. The college student of today and in some cases even the university student is permitted to sprawl over so large and so varied an area of intellectual interest that he loses the discipline in concentration, in hard work, and in the mastery of some relatively small field that comes from pursuing a better and older method. There is just now, however, a marked tendency among the better colleges to aid and to guide the student toward concentrating his interests and his energies upon a small group of subjects that have some common center of interest and some well marked relationship. This movement is a sound and hopeful one and should be encouraged and aided. President Butler in Youth's Companion. Salt Means Much to Health. Salt Means Much to Health. "If the human race should be deprived of salt even for a period of a few months," said a physician, "we would not only lose a natural healthful incentive for our food, but disease, with all its attendant miseries, would spread with such relentless speed as to defy the efforts of the most skillful doctors of the land. Ailing persons frequently refuse sugar, but they seldom turn up their noses at common salt. That is because there is in the body a deficiency of chloride of sodium, and nature intuitively excites the desire for it. Salt is essential to health and life and is as much a food as bread or flesh. If there is no wish for salt in a person doctors uniformly conclude that disease in some form is lurking unsuspected in the system." Obliterating Class Distinctions Modern and cultured persons, I believe, object to their children seeing kitchen company or being taught by a woman like Peggotty. But surely it is more important to be educated in a sense of human dignity and equality than in anything else in the world. And a child who has once had to respect a kind and capable woman of the lower classes will respect the lower classes forever. The true way to overcome the evil in class distinctions is not to denounce them as revolutionists denounce them, but to ignore them as children ignore them.—G. K. Chesterton. The Spanish Alcalde In former times in Spain the alcalde de corte was a judge of the palace court, having jurisdiction in and about the residence of the king. The office is now obsolete in this sense, but "alcalde" is still used to designate the mayor of a town exercising the functions of a justice of the peace. Why He Looked Sour. Dusty Dennis—Why do you look so sour, pard? Gritty George—Why, one of dem comic artists wanted me to sit on de fence and let him sketch me. Dusty Dennis—What of dat? Gritty George—It was a barb wire fence.—Exchange. News to Her. "What was the farmer talking about?" asked the first city girl. "A whifletree." said the other. "Well, I've studied botany, but I never heard of a whifletree. Sounds like his idea of a joke."—Louisville Courier-Journal. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Flat Foot A treatment suitable, with but slight modification, for all cases of static foot trouble (flat foot), from the early cases which are often described as "weak ankles" to the most severe cases, where there is old standing structural change, is described by Dr. P. B. Rath in the Lancet. The treatment consists of attention to footwear, attention to position in standing and walking and regular daily exercises. Whether boots or shoes are worn, whether they button or lace, they must be the shape of the feet. The inner side of the boot where the big toe lies is kept straight, so that the end of the boot is opposite the big toe and not opposite the second or third toe. This is to insure that the big toe is not pushed out against the other toes and has plenty of room in which to act. The soles should be a sixth to a fourth of an inch thick, the heels broad, an inch or less in height. ```markdown ``` There Are None. During his visit to the United States General Joffre was hurled through subways, jerked into skyscrapers, flung from New York to Chicago on a fast train and in general taken care of with the breathless assiduity which characterizes American hospitality. On the eve of his departure for Montreal he was asked by a reporter to state freely and frankly which one of our national characteristics had most impressed him during his stay. "Well, since you put it that way," replied Joffre, "I have been chiefly impressed by your blunt outspokenness and, if I may venture to say so, your lack of respect to your superiors." "Our superiors!" exclaimed the reporter in blank amazement. "But we haven't any!" "And," remarked Joffre in telling the story, "after making acquaintance with their wonderful country and its still more wonderful inhabitants I have come to the conclusion that what that reporter said was about right." The Mighty Amazon. The Amazon, which flows through Brazil from west to east, is the mightiest river in the world. It rises in the Andes, and its course to the Atlantic is over 4,000 miles. It has more than 1,100 trributaries, the chief being the Madeira, which is 1,800 miles long, and the Rio Negro, 1,350 miles long. The extent of the waters of this majestic river is the largest in the world, over 30,000 miles of its surface being of a navigable natu.. It drains nearly 3,000,000 square miles of territory. There are something like 1,200 different kinds of birds which are exclusive to the valleys of this wonderful river and thousands of varieties of animal life which are unknown in any other part of the world. The soil of the basin of the Amazon is so rich that for every bushel of maize planted it is estimated that 800 can be harvested. Tone Quality In Music. Tone quality is a great factor in music. Vibrations in their multiples and relations determine tone. Various instruments vary in tone quality just as does the human voice. A bell, once cast, remains the same in tone, somber or clear, to the end of its usefulness. A violin is more than a bell, and on fine violins the most subtle nuances of tone quality can be produced. The higher the harmonics, or overtones, the higher the multiples, and the more elaborate and delicate the combinations the more exquisite the tone quality of the instrument. The human voice is greatest in tone quality, excelling the instrument, because the singer's harmonics are based not alone upon physical proportions, but also upon the heart and soul of the individual—Exchange. Coveted Feathers Mamo is the name of a beautiful bird of the Hawaiian Islands, now believed to be extinct, having been destroyed for the sake of its golden yellow feathers, used in former days to decorate the state robes of chiefs. The coveted feathers of the mamo bird were a small tuft about an inch long beneath each wing. The royal cloak of the Hawaiian King Kamehameha I., made of these rare feathers, was four feet long and eleven and a half feet wide at the bottom. This cloak of mamo tufts is said to have been buried with one of the later Hawaiian kings. The plumage of the namo was generally black, excepting the lower back and parts of the wings, which were yellow. Tropical Rains Tropical rains are of relatively short duration by reason of the small number of cyclonic storms in the tropics, and this duration is fairly uniform throughout the year. The heaviest general rainfalls in Porto Rico are associated with West Indian hurricanes. The historic hurricane of Aug. 8, 1899, precipitated rainfall equivalent to 1,113 tons per acre. Crossed Eyes. Squint is caused by an unequal action of the muscles of the eyeball. If the muscles which move the eyeball outward are shorter than those which move it inward, divergent squint results. If the internal muscles are the stronger the result is convergent squint. Just Like the Boy. "Errand boys are very scarce. I can furnish you with an office girl." "These innovations disturb me. I can't get used to 'em." "You won't notice the difference. This girl can whistle." — Pittsburgh Post. ********************************* * * * PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. * Remedies For Scurvy The juices of fruit-oranges. lemons, prunes—are well known remedies for scurvy, but it has been found that the white potato has proved just as useful. For young children a small portion of the potato is required—one tablespoonful of mashed potato to one pint of water and added to twenty-fours' feeding of milk (instead of the usual cereal). Care must be taken to pare the potato very thin. An average sized potato (bolled) will provide the amount needed. The vitamins may be retained by adding the mashed potato to the water in which it was bolled. This is a very simple and easy cure and one which a child will willingly take without objecting. TO BANISH EGG SHAMP00S Barbers Say Plan Would Save 250,000-000 a Year. South Bend, Ind.-J. D. Kimerer, a barber of this city, has a scheme to save 250,000 eggs a year for the consumption of the people. He has put his plan before National Food Director Hoover and received from him assurance of its consideration. Kimerer would do away with the egg shampoo during the war. He says that on an average, which is considered low, each barber in the United States gives three egg shampoos a week, using two eggs. Recent statistics show that there are 300,000 barbers. Thus if the government placed a ban on egg shampoos for men it would mean the saving of 93,600,000 eggs each year, provided each barber averaged but three shampoos. But other barbers in the city say the average of three is too low and that it would be nearer six or eight. Figured at that rate, more than 200,000,000 eggs could be saved. It is a hard matter to get at the number of eggs used by women for shampooing, inasmuch as many do their own work. However, a hairdresser estimates that 50,000,000 eggs are used each year. UNUSUAL RELICS FOUND. New Light Cast on Pueblo Civilization by Discovery. Santa Fe, N. M.—An extraordinary find of historic pottery and relics has been made by Earl Morris, excavating Pueblo ruins at Aztec, San Juan county, with a force of twenty-five men for the American Museum of Natural History. The discovery includes sixty pieces of rare pottery, over 20,000 carved red and black stone heads, baskets, matting, knives, battleaxes and other stone implements. The turquoise beads, malasics and shell ornaments are classed as among the finest ever excavated in the southwest. Grains of corn with cobs, tassels and husks were found intact, as were also beans and bean pods, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca leaves, rushes, cotton yarn and cloth, sandals, snowshoes, beaver teeth and bones of animals and human beings. One skeleton in a sitting position indicated the man had been decapitated. The find was made in an underground communal dwelling buried for centuries. BEES MAKE HOME IN HOUSE. Store Honey Unmolested For Three Years In Doctor's Residence. St. Louis.—A swarm of bees has lived and made honey for three years in the brick wall at the home of Dr. Allen Wilson, Wagoner place. Dr. Wilson has never interfered with the bees, and they have never harmed him, nor has he ever eaten any of the honey. The bees' improvised hive is a cavity in the wall about halfway to the top of the two story house on the kitchen side. The entrance is a small hole apparently left by the bricklayer when placing the bricks around the anchor of an iron wall brace. Dr. Wilson said he had investigated and found that the cavity now extends into the wall about a foot, apparently having been hollowed out by the bees themselves. The swarm is not a very large one, and Dr. Wilson thinks it has not produced more honey than it needed. He does not expect to try to remove the bees. TRANSPLANTING BONE That of Stockman's Leg Now In His Arm. Ringling, Okla.—Ten inches of bone that supported his leg between the knee and ankle now is filling that amount of space in the forearm of Jim Herring, stockman, of Grady, having been transplanted by a surgeon as the only remedy that would save the arm. The leg, now bearing a silver plate, has healed, and the arm promises to be as good as new before long. Ten months ago Herring sprained his arm. Not having ready access to a surgeon and, thinking the injury slight, he set the member himself. At length a bone trouble developed and continued to grow more and more malignant for eight months. Taking out the impaired bone was the surgical cure decided upon, and the space was filled with bone from his leg. COMES FROM A BIG FAMILY. Recruit is Six Feet Four and a Half Brother, Taller, Also to Enlist. Springfield, Mo.-John F. Haley, a twenty-three-year-old farmer near Ozark, Christian county, holds the record for the tallest man accepted at the United States army recruiting station here since the declaration of war. He is six feet four and one-half inches in his bare feet. He had to stoop when he entered the door of the recruiting station to enlist. "You fellows may think I'm big," he told the recruiting force, "but just wait till you see my brother. He's two inches taller than I. He'll be here in two or three days to enlist too. He hasn't quite finished helping dad with the planting." Wife Beater Ducked Kansas City, Mo.—A new form of punishment has been devised by Judge Herrod of the city court for wife beaters. After sentencing George Martin to a hundred days on the rock pile Judge Herrod, ordered the patrolmen who escorted him to the "farm" to stop on their way past the Missouri river and duck their prisoner three times. Martin beat his wife because she could not make the baby stop crying. A KINDERGARTNER How One Woman Got Legislation Under Way. FROM MAINE TO THE WEST. Mothers and Clubwomen of Five of the United States Have Already Succeeded In Getting Better Laws For Early Education Passed. During the past few years mothers and clubwomen all over the country have been growing more and more alive to the need of more kindergarteners, and this year they have been successful in five states in getting better kindergarten laws passed. The women of Maine, Texas and Washington have the greatest cause for rejoicing, because their new laws authorize school boards to open kindergarten when parents petition for them. By having the matter regulated by law mothers and fathers in these three states will now have some guarantee of success when they ask to have a kindergarten started in the public school in their neighborhood. Miss Nellie Brown of the Federation of Women's Clubs was largely responsible for the success of the legislative campaign in Maine, but it is safe to say she could have done nothing without the support which she received from the clubwomen and kindergartners of Bangor and from the kinder- . MRS. GEORGE W. STEERE. garten children themselves. A number of these tiny tots drew, colored and cut American flags for the 182 senators and representatives of the state. Ten of the children were present at the hearing on the bill before the education committee and sang "America" and saluted the flag. As they turned to march out there was a volume of applause, and when the room was again quiet the chairman of the committee said, his face wreathed in smiles, "Miss Brown, I guess you've won your hearing." In Texas both the Congress of Mothers and the women's clubs were influential in getting their law passed. Under the leadership of Mrs. Griffith of the federation and Mrs. Steere of the congress a sentiment for kindergarteners was aroused all over the state. The result was that, when it came time to think of introducing a bill the state superintendent of education framed it and college presidents and professors were glad to speak in its behalf. This wealth of public support not only made it easy to put the bill through, but is now helping the Texan workers in their efforts to put the law into effect. Mrs. George W. Steere of Fort Worth, Tex., was at the forefront of the work in her state to obtain a good kindergarten law, and the governor's signature to the bill was hardly dry before she was launched on a campaign reaching from El Paso to Galveston to interest parents in petitioning for classes. Some of the arguments she used successfully with legislators were: The early years are the most impressionable, and in a wise educational system these years should not be left unprovided for. Little children are given a good start not only in school, but in life, through the excellent training which the kindergarten gives. The majority of parents who want kindergarten training for their children cannot afford to pay tuition at private kindergarten. The kindergarten is democratic in that it brings educational advantages to all children before any must leave school to go to work. Vegetable Coloring. A very dainty green color for candies or iceing is quickly obtained from lettuce leaves. Simply macerate the leaves between saucer and spoon and add the juice to the cooking sugar until dark enough. This has the advantage over spinach as a coloring agent of being obtainable at all seasons and is not so expensive as the liquid vegetable color. To Remove Chawing Gum. Should you happen to sit down on a piece of chewing gum do not try to scrape it off and risk spoiling your skirt. Simply take a piece of ice and hold it tightly over the gum for a few minutes. This hardens the gum and causes it to crumble. It may then be brushed off with no injury to the cloth LATEST MODES. New Autumn Brocks Even Have Names. It is not difficult to make a snap prophecy at what the new French gowns will incorporate as special features when one hears some of their names. Kerensky and Pershing are the names to be given to two new coats; Brusloff, Verdun, Petain, Victore and Louvain are others, and among these it is rather interesting to see Peter Pan and La Tosca. It is said that the highlander's costume is still a source of delightful inspiration to the French designers, and that they will not relinquish the idea of plated skirts, checks and tartan plaids, curious shoulder draperies and short belted jackets. Another bit of information about the new fashions concerns the linings of coats. Last spring the French introduced colored linen as a substitute for silk in the jackets that belonged to suits. This autumn they will introduce corduroy. A buyer who has just returned from Paris says that this corduroy is called a trench lining, but one who is "fed up" with stories of the trenches and their communicating roads might say that the name corduroy indicated the road over which the "trenchers" have to come and go. One is quite sure that France will adopt something from the uniforms of our army, to which she has been giving such happy approval during the month. The milliners will have an excellent chance in the picturesque hat which our troops wear, and one has already arrived in this country made of satin and velvet. It may be, however, that the American woman is too familiar with the swaggering brim and punched in crown to warrant an expensive milliner making an appeal with it to her purse. No doubt the Frenchwomen will adopt the hat with enthusiasm. Surely the milliners will find an easier sale for the attractive and rolllicking hat of the United States troops than they did for the French marine cap and the queer hat of the Grenadier guards. The poncho, the sombrero and the Pershing overcoat may become rivals of the Russian boot, the Cossack cap and the Algerian skirt. ABOUT PLAYTHINGS. The Great Value of Letting a Child Amuse Himself. [Prepared by the Kansas state board of health.] Play material of a sort which best pleases children is at hand in nearly every home. The baby often finds more pleasure in a string of empty spools or a few clothespins than in the rattles and balls which have come from an expensive toy shop. As the child grows articles and materials at hand will, if properly utilized, give the greatest joy. All sorts of paper may be used for folding and cutting or for scrap books. Magazines furnish a wealth of pictures to cut out or to paint. Wooden boxes make stores, doll houses and forts, while chairs and tables readily become horses, steamboats, stages and a thousand other things by the use of a little imagination. Old cotton cloth torn into two inch strips and sewed together end to end will make yards of reins, enough to drive the coach and four which is so easily created out of the dining room chairs. When toys are to be bought or made for children they should be the material out of which the child may construct his own amusements rather than something which he is merely to watch. It is a well known fact that many of the expensive mechanical toys are discarded after a brief acquaintance or ruined in the attempt to find out what makes them go, because the child wants to do something rather than to be amused or entertained. Among the mechanical toys, however, railroads and trains of all sorts have a perennial joy for all small boys, because, with the tracks in sections and the different kinds of cars and engines, they are able to construct their own systems according to their own ideas. Toy figures and toy dogs, cats and other animals lend themselves readily to many uses. All sorts of vehicles, such as wagons, carts, tricycles and carriages, garden tools, small brooms and carpet sweepers and all sorts of articles for doll housekeeping are adapted to play in which the imaginative element is most important. Books and drawing, sewing, writing and building materials all have their place, and many of these are at hand in every home. Smart Fads. Japanese broideries are seen even on sports coats of jersey. Girdies made of beads are a pretty addition to the straight frock. Ecru tinted Irish lace is to be seen on afternoon and evening gowns. Georgette crape combinations are trimmed with bands of liberty satin. Long blouses suggesting smocks are made of sheer handkerchief linen. Princess slips to wear under lingerie dresses are made of plink organdle. Fabric Gloves. Fabric gloves have gained a great vogue since the beginning of the European war. One sees women wearing them for all but evening occasions. Some of the fabric weaves are so fine and so cleverly made that one cannot tell them from suede at a short distance, and they are shaped to the hand with a care that was never before bestowed on this kind of glove. Gray is most effective, as are some shades of suede and tan. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. AUGUST 25. 1917. FOR YOUNG FOLKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Sleepy Time Story About Some Interesting Insects. SET TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY How One of These Creatures Caught a Prize That He Was Very Pleaseed to Get Rid Of-What Happens When the Clouds Pour Down Rain. Well, said Uncle Ben to Little Ned and Polly Ann, I am going to tell you about WEBS IN THE GRASS. This morning while I was walking in the field I saw in the grass the tents of a bold robber band. I thought I heard Mrs. Fly say as she flew by me: "There are those spider webs stretched out on the grass. Well, the spiders won't catch me this time. It was very kind of Fairy Dewdrop to sprinkle the webs with drops of water so that we may see them and keep out of trouble." But as it got warmer the drops were drunk up by the hot sun and went sailing up into the sky to make clouds. Then unless you had sharp eyes and looked closely you could not see the lacey tents, which were, after all, traps in which the sly spider hoped to catch dinner, breakfast and tea. One spider caught a little brown skipper butterfly. As soon as he felt the web shake from the struggles of the insect up he darted through his funnel shaped stairway and pounced upon the butterfly. Once a big brown wasp came buzzing across the garden and in flying too near the ground struck a spider's web. The minute the spider saw what he had caught he was so frightened he was most ready to run downstairs again, but he feared for his precious web. It had taken a whole hour to spin it. So the spider hurried to the edge of the web and began cutting away the threads that held the prisoner. In a minute the wasp was free and dropped to the grass. Soon he was able to fly away, and then the spider came out of his hole and mended the broken web. But the little dewdrops that had gone up to the sky and joined the nice big clouds must have told tales, for after awhile the clouds rolled over the sky till the sun was hidden, and a host of big raindrops came pattering to the ground. They battered at the spider webs till they were torn to bits, and the spiders crawled away into holes under stones or in the ground, waiting for the rain to stop. And, of course, there was no supper for the spiders and no breakfast the next day, for it kept right on raining. But as tomorrow promises to be a sunshine day perhaps you may notice whether they have set their traps again in the grass. A Fine Sand Fort. 6 Photo by American Press Association. WATCHING THE ENEMY. With the aid of a discarded life buoy the young soldier in the picture has constructed a fort in the sand. The enemy must be in front of him, as he is intently watching something in the line of his vision. No fear that the enemy can approach the fort without being seen. Keen eyes are guarding every approach. The fort cannot be surprised. --- The Kind of Coat That Sport Girls Need. THE WOOL COAT SWAGGER OUTFIT. Worn with a white serge sport suit is this natty coat of striped jersey, green striped with white. The cut is the thing, though the white satin tippet is smart as anything made. PHILIPPINE EMBROIDERY. It Is Supplanting the French, Being Both Pretty and Cheap. At last women are discovering the beauty of Philippine embroidery. That statement is hardly true, for they have known of the beauty of Philippine embroidery for years. But the Philippine women have been embroidering garments that could not possibly be transformed to suit American demands. There is some tale that the Filipino women, when they were taught to wear our clothes, asked for American patterns. That happened to be in the day when the never to be forgotten but never lamented Mother Hubbard was in the height of its power. Hence the Filipinos were given, it is said, a Mother Hubbard pattern. And that has remained the foundation pattern of their shapeless costume ever since. In the same way, when the Filipino women first began to do embroidery for the Americans must have been some time shortly after the close of the Spanish war—just when American women were wearing their first "lingerde waists." They were white blouses in their least attractive form—with high, tight collars, and they fastened down the back. And so the Filipino women have since then been giving us "waist patterns," nicely embroidered, to be sure, but one and all cut on those old fashioned lines—lines that could not be reconciled with the present mode. Recently somebody with clothes sense must have gone down to the Philippine Islands and told somebody there that American women changed their mode of dress with the passing years. For recently there have been wholly wearable garments, hand embroidered by the Philippine women, cut on fashionable lines. There is really very attractive underwear embroidered in the Philippines. It is cheaper than the French work, and it is equally attractive, although it is different. Let us all be grateful to the enterprising soul who changed the current of Filipino industry from those endless and useless blouses that came in just after American acquisition of the islands. Delicious Salad Dressing. Dainty and oriental in flavor is a salad dressing made with white wine vinegar, one-half cupful of vinegar boiled with two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half stick cinnamon, five cloves. Chill this sirup on ice and when quite cold pour in, drop by drop, one-half cupful best grade of olive oil. Beat it while mixing and continue until it assumes a creamy appearance. When done add a pinch of salt and a liberal supply of Hungarian paprika; no black pepper. This sirup should be so finely blended that no flavor predominates. Do not have it too sweet. Use it on vegetables or fruit salads. Save the juice left over, provided you have served it from a large dish instead of individual dishes, and the flavor of fruit or vegetables makes richer the oil, which can be used in potato salad or deviled eggs. Clean Mirrors. If glass mirrors should become very dirty it is easy to wash them with warm white soapsuds and rinse immediately with warm ammonia water or water to which a little alcohol has been added. After this go over with a fine chamols skin. THRIFT SLOGANS How to Save Foods, Labor and Gas by Planning. DOUBLE PORTIONS THE IDEA An Expert Tells Us How to Conserve Odd Ends Instead of Enriching the Garbage Pails with Leftovers—A Role For the "Tail End" of Steaks. In these days when "thrift" is the housewives' national slogan it is well to consider methods which will enable the last fragments to be utilized. In many homes a leftover is an accident, but the better way is to make a "planned over" which shall be put to really-wider use. For instance, when buying a steak with a tail end have this end chopped by the butcher. But do not stop there. Buy at the same time enough chuck or lower round steak to make enough of the meat so that when all chopped together there will be enough for a second meal two days later, whereas the small tail alone would not have been enough. In cooking rice for luncheon cook enough more so that there will be sufficient for rice cakes for breakfast, not merely a small saucerful with which hardly anything can be done. Similarly with many other foods, which by cooking about one-third more the first time will prove sufficient for a second meal, rather than have left such a small portion that it will likely be thrown out and considered not worth saying. In cooking vegetables it is easy to cook at one time a double portion, to be divided into two days' use. For instance, carrots or spinach or asparagus can be cooked with one using of fuel, then used one day hot, one day cold. The water must be saved in which it was cooked. This, when combined with cream, will make a delicious cream soup for luncheon of the third day. It is in the water of the vegetables that the most valuable mineral salts are to be found, so that by saving them we are also saving food values. In making pie crust make sufficient extra to have for tarts or small cheese crackers by adding old grated cheese to the paste before it is cooked. In preparing any kind of corncharch or tapioca pudding make it in small molds instead of in a large one. The small molds will serve just one person, and there is likely to be little waste, where if a large mold is used the portions will not come out even, and there is likely to be waste. Everywhere that the "double cooking" can be given and fuel thus saved there is economy. Very many families cook separate meat, potatoes and vegetables over separate burners every day, when by the double cooking they could not only save time, but fuel and material, if more were cooked at once and the remainder of the dish made a "planned over" instead of a "left over." In cooking cereal there is always a little over, which in many homes is thrown out or put on a saucer, expecting to be warmed, but which never is. Why not, instead, cook more and then pour the excess into muffin rings, where it can be made into cakes to fry for lunch or next day's breakfast? Or enough can be saved to form the basis of griddelcakes, muffins and similar dishes. If fish is used buy enough so that the second amount can be made into cakes or scalloped forms, etc. The bones and waste can be used in a soup, which, if well seasoned and strained and combined with rice, will conserve the most nourishing values of the fish. MILITARY MODEL. Most Millinery For the Fall Copies the Army Caps. A A LA BUSSE. Black satin covered, this turban makes its hit by line, the craze for fall hats being mostly for national shapes of the different armles. The scroll vell does an amazing lot of trimming too. A stunning hat for service. To Prevent Graining. Often maple sirup and other sugar sirups grain when left standing for some time. This can be prevented, however, if a teaspoonful of cream of tartar is added to the sirup and the contents brought to a boil before it is set aside. Taking Out Stains Camphorated oil will clean the marks made by hot dishes on the polished table. Rub grass stains with molasses and wash. PAGE SEVER Youth Looks Well In This Kind of Model. THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MODISH LINES. Beige color still holds its own and when it comes in a georgette crape, fashioned with huge deep tucks and adorned with a deep girdle and disks of beige soutache, the effect is charming indeed for maidens. ANOTHER ECONOMY. How to Make Attractive and Fadeless Kitchen Curtains. One woman states: "Every week when the laundry was returned it was a fresh reminder that the children's clothing was wearing out and that I needed new towels, tablecloths and curtains. "I purchased first of all necessary clothing for the children and a few pieces of household linen. My kitchen curtains were threadbare, but every time I planned to purchase new ones a more pressing need swallowed the money. "Curtains do not last forever, and when mine were positively hopeless I suddenly remembered reading about unbleached muslin curtains. Now, unbleached muslin curtains did not have an attractive sound, and I had never seen curtains of this material, but having such a tiny allowance I decided that I could do what others had done and make muslin curtains for my kitchen. "So I purchased the material, made the curtains and hemstitched them on the sewing machine. I had just finished making one of the kiddies a gingham dress, and scraps of the material were lying about. As an experiment I picked up a small diamond shaped piece and placed it near the hem of the curtain, and as it was rather effective I tried another piece, and this gave me an idea which I proceeded to work out. "Just above the hem of the curtain I placed six diamond shaped pieces of gingham about four inches apart. After basting them in place I stitched them around the edge (using the sewing machine), and at the top I made a casing for the curtain rod by sewing a narrow strip of gingham on the muslin." Autumn Colors Already Paris is busy planning fall fashions, and the very first thing to be decided is the question of colors, so that manufacturers of materials may set to work. After that there will be time enough to arrange about styles and silhouettes. Decidedly rusty is the shade that promises to be most fashionable next fall. It is called rouille, which, in fact, means rust. There are two rust shades, both reddish brown, but one very much brighter than the other. All the new grays are metallic grays—nothing so soft as smoke. Silver, nickel, gun, metal and iron gray are represented. There is platinum gray, too, and there is pewter. Even aluminum gray is not forgotten. Quite appropriately for autumn time, the new greens are called duck greens, and the browns are known as pheasant browns. Most of the new blues are called army blue, and the shades number as many as there are kinds of blue uniforms in the world. Of course the choice of Paris is the French uniform blue. Practical/Sewing Kit. One of the small wicker suit cases, the size that children carry, can be turned into a practical sewing kit. It would be convenient for veranda sewing and vacation days, as it can easily be carried about and so fitted up that all the materials for mending, sewing or embroidery would be at hand. Sdft Blankets. When washing wool blankets do not rinse in clear water to keep the softness. Rinse in warm water in which has been dissolved just enough soap to make the water soft. TEENAN JO TEENAN JONES' PLACE 3445 SOUTH STATE STREET Telephone Douglas 4591 The finest and most UP-TO BUFFET and CAFE on the Side. First-Class Entertainer HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Prop The finest and most UP-TO-DATE BUFFET and CAFE on the South Side. First-Class Entertainers. HENRY "TEENAN" JONES, Proprietor. Residence 1262 Macallister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 313-329 Reeper Block Clark & Washington Sts. Phones Central 239 Auto. 41-916 CHICAGO PHONES: OFFICE, MAIN 418 AUTOMATIC 33-736 RESIDENCE, DREXEL 7999 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 708, 184 WASHINGTON ST. NOTARYPUBLIC CHICAGO Franklin A. Denison ATTORNEY AT LAW 36 West Randolph St., Chicago Suite 708 Delaware Building Tel. Central 3142 OFFICE PHONE: CALUMET 878 RESIDENCE. 3419 South Park Ave. PHONE DOUGLAS 6823 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 7 2 East 31st Street CHICAGO FRANK DUNN J. B. McCAHEY Trustees Established 1877 TEL. OAKLAND 1850, 1851, 1852 JOHN J. DUNN JOURNAL COAL RETAIL Fifty-First and Armour Avenue RAILYARDS 51st St. and L. S. A. M. S. 51st St. and Armour Avs. CHICAGO Phone Kenwood 7730 A. D. CECIL CONTRACTOR PAINTING & DECORATING 5229 S Wabash Ave. C IC GO ILL. XELENTO Quinine Pomade Copyrighted JANIE RAND and MARGARET BERRY wrote us that they had hardly any hair, but after using Factoine you can see the results on their pictures. Kinky Hair cannot be made straight. You have to have hair before it can be straightened. Now this EXELENTO QUININE POMADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky, nappy hair grow long, soft and silky. It cleans dandruff and stops Falling Hair at once. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write For Particulars at Once EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. "Picking Up Speed." A favorite recommendation in selling a car is that it will pick up speed very rapidly, but it would seem that both dealers and manufacturers are working against their own interests in suggesting such methods of operation to users of cars. To accelerate a car weighing more than a ton from five miles an hour to forty miles in fifteen to twenty seconds means a tremendous strain on every portion of the machine and is especially destructive of tires. Moreover, there is no reasonable advantage in the procedure, for the time gained thereby could hardly be measured with a stop watch in a day's run. The result is attained by supplying a much greater power than the user has any need for, and the principal use made of it is to jump across the track in front of trolley cars and railroad trains. Once a year it might save a man's life, but even then it would not be necessary if ordinary precaution were observed in driving. In the meantime the car owner is paying for a lot of gasoline consumed by the excessively large engine, which has been of no benefit to him.—Scientific American. --- PAGE EIGHT most UP-TO-DATE SAFE on the South Entertainers. JONES, Proprietor. A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St., Chicago Suite 615 to 616 PHONE MAIN 2214 Phone Main 2017 Automatic 32-395 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Bldg. 184 W. Washington St. Residence 5548 Jefferson Av. Phone Midway 5515 Chicago PHONES: OFFICE CENTRAL 6583 AUTOMATIC 42590 RESIDENCE, 508 E. 36TH STREET PHONE DOUGLAS 4397 J. Gray Lucas ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 815 Hartford Bldg. 8 S. Dearborn St. CHICAGO PHONE: CENTRAL 6583 RESIDENCE, 3353 South Park Ave. PHONE DOUGLAS 2773 W. E. MOLLISON ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR Suite 815 Hartford Bldg. CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 S. Wainsh Ave. Oakland 4062, Auto. 73-058 Phone Drezel 18815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Gas Users Take Notice! The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company hereby offers to give two (2) Junior mantle lights to each and every consumer of gas in the City of Chicago who is wholly dependent upon flat flame burners for illumination, and to install them free of charge. Please read carefully the instructions given below for taking advantage of this offer and promptly securing— FREE—Two Junior Mantle Gas Lights At the right hand side of the first gas bill you receive on and after August 10, 1917, you will find a coupon headed, "To The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co." If you have no incandescent mantle gas lights or electric lights in your home, sign that coupon on the line marked X. Do not tear off the coupon; just sign it and it will come to us, when you pay your gas bill, as your application for the two Junior mantle lights. We will then furnish and install the lights FREE—provided, as specified by City Ordinance, you are wholly dependent upon flat flame burners for illumination. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Telephone Wabash 6000 This Monster Does Exist. The dingonek is a huge, unclassified aquatic monster. It resembles in many of its characteristics the extinct dinosaur, a huge reptile of the Mesozoic period, fossils of which have been discovered by paleontologists in the sandstone strata both of the African and American continents. Barometer Paper. Barometer paper, that can color according as the weather or dry, may be made under formulas, according to the contant. One formula is: Cobalt c one part; gelatin, ten parts; wa parts. In this the normal color It lives in Lake Victoria Nyanza and its numerous tributaries, and there is no record of the monster having been seen in any other part of the world. Whether it is a descendant of one of the huge prehistoric saurians that has by a process of adaptation—living as it does in impenetrable regions far away from the encroachments of civilized man—continued with but slight modifications through prodigious ages to the present time, or whether it is an unclassified reptile or amphibian, it is equally impossible to say, as no specimen exists either of its bones or of its skin. That this monster does exist, however, there can be no particle of doubt, as the testimony of authoritative eyewitnesses cannot be reasonably discredited.—Wide World. If you wish to be or do anything great in this world you will find every hour and every day an opportunity in some way. If nothing else the lull in routine is opportunity to study up for future reference and use. If your mind is full of plans and ideas for carrying them out you can make almost any situation or circumstance work in to help you. It is not so much how you go at a thing as to get at it. Begin by doing something. Do and think at the same time. That think will help in the next do, and by always doing what you know how to do, first, you will find the next step easier. It is not the talkers and the arguers who accomplish the most in this world. Try some plan while the next one is talking about it, and you will be surprised at how easy it is to keep in the front row of the procession—Minneapolis Tribune. In the New York Historical society in New York city is a small but choice collection of historic walking canes. The most valuable of the lot is a stout, serviceable cane used by Benjamin Franklin. It afterward came into possession of Dr. John W. Francis, the eminent physician of three-quarters of a century ago. Next in interest is one sold to have been used by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. There are also two canes made from timber of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship at the battle of Lake Erie. Of a more curious nature is a thick cane made from the tusk of a walrus presented by Howland Pell and a quaintly carved cane of hardwood made by a Mandan Indian.—New York Times. --- Do and Think. Historic Walking Canes. Barometer paper, that changes its color according as the weather is wet or dry, may be made under several formulas, according to the color you want. One formula is: Cobalt chloride, one part; gelatin, ten parts; water, 100 parts. In this the normal color is pink. This color changes to violet in medium humid weather and to blue in wet weather. Another formula that makes yellow in dry weather calls for cupric chloride, one part; gelatin, ten parts; water, 100 parts. Still another formula is cobalt chloride, one part; gelatin, twenty parts; nickel oxide, seventy-five parts; water, 200 parts. This gives a green in dry weather. Immense paper or muslin in either solution.—Brooklyn Eagle. A London taxi driver had an elderly lady as his fare the other day. On arriving at her home she gave him the legal fare—one shilling—along with a food economy pamphlet headed "How to Live on Skippea a Day." "Excuse me, miss," said he, handing back the pamphlet. "I couldn't think of taking this from you, because in the absence of the information it contains you might be tempted to live beyond your hincome." Two Speedy Classes. "Are there more than one?" "Yes; two. There's the class that spend their money faster than they make it and the other crowd that make their money faster than they can spend it."-Detroit Free Press. An Impromptu Joke. "Where are my tennis things?" demanded the wife of the professional humorist. "Look in the nursery. You will generally find a racket and bawl there," replied the professional humorist, making a note on his cuff—Town Topics. Two Worries. The Other Woman—Poor Henry Cash is always worrying about the money market! The Other Man—and Mrs. Cash is always worrying about the market money. Fat Pickings. Burglar—The lawyer got me acquitted, but he took every cent I had. Pal—What are you going to do now? Burglar—I guess I'd better rob the lawyer.—Lamb. After a man has raised a family of grown daughters every time mother speaks to him he involuntarily asks. "How much?"—Houston Post. If a man is forever telling you what he is going to do tomorrow it is a waste of time to ask him what he did yesterday. hereby rights to City of on flat install given fer and ior hts receive coupon Co." rights or on the d it will our appli- will then included, as depend- company cash 6000 --- Barometer Paper. Too Liberal. Two Worries. Fat Pickings. Naturally. As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL In a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. 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