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THE CHRISTMAS OR THE SOUVENIR EDITION OF THE BROAD AX WILL APPEAR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21; AS USUAL IT WILL REACH THE HIGHEST WATER MARK IN ARTISTIC AFRQ-AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN THIS COU NTRY. The BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THE MAY VOL. XXIV CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 7, 1918 No. 12 The Board of County Commissioners THE NEW COUNTY OFFICERS WERE INDUCTED INTO OFFICE LAST MONDAY. ELABORATE DISPLAYS OF RARE AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS WERE IN EVIDENCE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY BUILDING. UDGE THOMAS F. SCULLY; JUDGE HENRY HORNER; HON. ROBERT M. SWEITZER; HON. JOHN F. DEVINE; HON. HARRY R. GIBBONS; HON. CHARLES V. BARRETT AND HON. CHARLES W. PETERS, WERE AMONG THOSE WHO HELD OPEN DOOR RECEPTIONS AND RECEIVED ELABORATE FLORAL GIFTS. FORMER ALDERMAN CHARLES E. MERRIAM AND MANY OTHER REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ENTER THE RACE FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. HON. THOMAS CAREY SEEMS TO BE IN THE LEAD ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE FENCE AND HIS HOSTS OF FRIENDS AND LOYAL SUPPORTERS FEEL, THAT HE WILL BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF CHICAGO. Monday of this week the old and new county officials those who were re-elected at the November election, including Chief Justice Harry Olson Associate Judges of the Municipal Court, the new Judges being Hon. Daniel P. Trude, and Hon. Charles L. McKinley, Hon. Dennis J. Egan, who has for some time honorably served as chief clerk of the Board of Election Commissioners, was among the first public officials to the sworn in only Monday morning as chief bailiff of the Municipal Court and his rooms were crowded down with his army of friends and with big Democratic and Republican politicians all extending their hearty congratulations to Mr. Egan, wishing him the greatest success in the conduct of the affairs in connection with his responsible position. Some of the many friends of Mr. Egan presented him with some of the most beautiful flowers that were in evidence anywhere on that joyous occasion. The re-introduction of Hon. Thos. P. Scully into office as Judge of the County Court was the leading event of the day, for many of the most prominent men and women in this city were present including representatives of most all races and nationalities to wish him unbounded success in conducting the affairs of his office for another period of four years, for on his platform sat Mrs. Scully the aged mother of Judge Scully and it seemed to be the proudest moment of her life, and in shacking hands with the writer she let is be known that she was always very much pleased to read about the many complimentary things contained in The Broad Ax, from time to time, in relation to her highly honored and respected son, Judge Thomas F. Scully. Mrs. Thomas F. Scully, Thomas Francis Scully Jr., Bishop Samuel Fallows, Judge Harry P. Dolan and two sisters from the St. Vincent Orphan Asylum, aside from Judge Scully, were among those who occupied seats on the platform and all the space around in front of it was almost obscured with lovely flowers of rare and striking designs. Bishop Samuel Fallows and Judge Harry P. Dolan in the most glowing terms sounded the praise of Judge Scully, and they pointed out some of the many reforms which he had wrought or brought forth in the past four years as Judge of the County Court and Judge Dolan, very eloquently exclaimed that in the next four years that Judge Scully would prove himself to be by far the best County Judge that Cook County has ever had and at the end of that time that he may be pushed forward for mayor of Chicago. Judge Scully was very much effected when he arose to respond to the remarks of the gentlemen who had so loudly sounded his praise and at the very outset he heartily thanked his many true friends and all those, who had in any manner assisted to bring about his re-election for County Judge, and in winding up his very impressive talk he highly commended the members of the Board of Election Commissioners, and Hon. Dennis J. Egan who was its chief clerk, for their splendid work, and Judge Scully declared that this county has never had a better Board of Election Commissioners. At the conclusion of his remarks, Judge, his lovable wife Mrs. Scully and their bright little son Thomas Francis Scully, Jr. held an open door reception and hundreds of their friends marched by and shook them by the hands. Hons. August Lueders, Bernard Horwich, Frank X. Rydzewski, members of the Board of election commissioners; Alderman and Mrs. James I. McNichols the Twentieth Ward Organization; the Regular Democratic Organization of the 10th Ward, South End; the Thirteenth Ward Regular Democratic Organization; Edward Blumenthal; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Condon; Mr. and Mrs. James E. Scully; Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith; Samuel Weinshenker; Capt. C. E. Sceleth; Miss C. A. Madden; Rep. Jos. Perina; Mrs. Scully, his Mother and Sister; Mrs. Thomas F. Scully and Thomas F. Scully, Jr.; and Miss Ida Steggall, were among those who presented Judge Scully with beautiful floral gifts as tokens of their friendship for him. Hon. Henry Horner, Judge of the Probate Court, Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer, Clerk of the County Court; Hon. John F. Devine, Clerk of the Probate Court; Hon. Harry R. Gibbons, County Treasurer; Hon. Charles V. Barrett; Hon. Charles W. Peters, the new sheriff of Cook County and Hon. J. A. Kearns Chief Clerk of the Municipal Court; and Hons. William J. Healy, Harry E. Littler and W. O. Nance the new Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago all held open door receptions for their army of friends who were all remembered with lovely flowers; also William R. Parker Clerk of the Criminal Court was at home to his friends and Judge Daniel P. Trude ran his court part of the time and held a reception the [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit]. Successful business man; extensive real estate owner; who is extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens and many Colored men and women in all parts of this city are already marching under his banner for Mayor of Chicago. rest of the time, his beautiful and very pleasant wife, Mrs. Trude whom we had the pleasure of meeting and her two daughters were on hand to witness the induction of Judge Trude into office. Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer the newly re-elected county clerk, receiving the largest vote of any candidate in Cook County who may be induced to enter the race for mayor of Chicago; divided his fine floral display between the graves of John P. Hopkins, former mayor of Chicago, and Frank Ryan, member of the board of review, both of whom recently died and were intimate political friends of Mr. Sweitzer. Hon. John F. Devine, Clerk of the Probate Court permitted his friends to help themselves to his floral display and he presented the writer with some American beauty roses for Mrs. Taylor. The county commissioners: held a reception Monday afternoon by raising their pay from three thousand and six hundred dollars to five thousand dollars per year although there is no HON. THOMAS CAREY less man; extensive real estate owner all classes of his fellow citizens and man parts of this city are already marchi f Chicago. money on hand to pay the mother's pensions. The woods seem to be full of Democratic and Republican candidates for Mayor of Chicago. Capt. Charles E. Merriam; Charles A. McCulloch; Hon. William Wrigley, Jr., Hon. Frank I. Bennett; Hon. James McAndrews; Hon. Joseph F. Haas; Hon. Edward R. Litzinger; Hon. John E. Traeger; Hon. Maclay Hoyne; Hon. Thomas J. Webb; Hon. Henry Stuckart; Hon. Alfred Austrian; Hon. Thomas Carey; Hon. James Hamilton Lewis; Hon. William L. O'Connell; Hon. Harry Olson; Hon. Robert J. Roulston; Hon. Edward F. Dunne; Hon. Roger C. Sullivan; Hon. Harry H. Merrick; Hon. Carter H. Harrison; Hon. Chas. S. Deneen; Hon. Wm. Hale Thompson; and Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer are the leading candidates and the Hon. Thomas Carey whose headquarters are located in the Briggs House and his strong followers feel that he has the dead drop on all the other candidates and that he will be the next mayor of Chicago. --- Monday evening, December 9, Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., will speak on "Reconstruction and the Negro" at the Abraham Lincoln Center, Langley avenue and Oakwood Blvd. Music will be furnished by a chorus of fifty voices. Mr. Edgar A. Bancroft will introduce Dr. Moton and Judge Edward Osgood Brown, will preside. Mr. T. Arnold Hill, executive secretary of the Urban League, in this city will read his second annual report, of the year's work of the league; Mr. Horace J. Bridges, will speak on the league's program of reconstruction for Chicago. Mrs. Geneva Smith, 5363 S. Dearborn street, was on the sick list last week. She is now able to be out again... Mrs. Katie Fowler Bowling, 5363 S. Dearborn street; formerly the wife of Prof. A. J. Bowling, spent Thanksgiving week, with relatives and friends at Washington, D. C. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestans, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol. XXIV December 7, 1918 No. 12 Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under Act of March 3, 1879 CITY NEWS Reported by S. Z. C. Westerfield. Mrs. William Laws, 517 Bowen avenue, received word from the War Department that her brother Reginald Williams, had been severely wounded somewhere in France. He was a member of the old Eighth, now the 370th infantry, American Expeditionraary Forces. Adelbert Wilkins, son of Mrs. Eliza Wilkins, 3339 Forest avenue, is in the city on a short furlough from Camp Grant. He is very enthusiastic over military life and is sorry that he did not have a chance to get his shot at Ex-Kaiser Bill. Ye editor's wife, Mrs. S. Z. C. Westerfield, has been quite ill for the last week at her residence, 4605 Champlain avenue. At this writing she is much improved. Among the recent visitors to the city is Mrs. Hattie B. Geiger, of the East Side, Pittsburg, Pa. This is her first visit to the Windy City and she contemplates spending the winter here. She is stopping at the residence of James Kesler. 714 East 48th street. A very fine program was rendered at Quinn Chapel Forum last Sunday afternoon. The attendance was unusually good and Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis was at her best in an address on "Present Opportunities." She urged the women and girls of the Race to stand up and take their places in the business world, in civics, in industrial and social service circles. She dwelt upon the importance of this period of reconstruction. Many points brought out will be long remembered. The cornet solo by Miss Irene Howard was very pleasing and the continued applause indicated approval. The trio by Misses Gertrude Smith, Stella Williams and Charles Smith was rendered with much skill and showed great preparation. Miss Elma Howell read a paper on "Better Speech" which won for her the highest commendation, and the instrumental solos by Misses Fidela Cussells and Gertrude Smith were of a very high order showing mastery and skill. An oration on "Toussaint L'Ouverture" by Miss Ross James was very effective. The class chorus rendered two selections "Somewhere" and "Deep River." Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell will appear before the Forum on Jan. 5th,1 919, at 3:30 p.m. His subject will be "Emancipation." Mrs. R. H. Pollard, 5615 Lafayette avenue has taken to her home from the Wesley Memorial Hospital. An operation performed last week was very successful and it is thought she will fully recover in about two or three weeks. With the death of Paul Bronson, Grace Presbyterian Sunday School lost 04 eof its most earnest and devoted workers. -Mr. Bronson was a factor everywhere he went and could often be seen engaged in some sort of social service work. His funeral was held from the church last Monday morning, and many beautiful floral designs were sent. He leaves a mother and father to murn his loss. The Broad Ax tenders them its deepest sympathy for having lost such a princely son. Dr. Robert L. Douglass made a flying visit to Evanston during the Thanksgiving holidays. He reports that the suburb is waking up and rapidly taking its place as leader of Chicago's adjacent towns. Sergt. Charles Ford was in the city over Sunday. He is stationed at Camp Grant and believes that the boys will all be home for Xmas. Rev. J. W. McDoDwell of Glencoe, Ill., was in the city for a few days this week. His very pleasing wife was also with him. He came for the big A. M. E. Conference of church- men held at Institutional church last Tuesday night. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell spoke at South Park M. E. Church Monday night. While here she was the guest of Dr. Mary F. Waring and was quite extensively entertained. Major A. S. Peal, is expected in the city soon. His wife Mrs. Helen G. Peal is making her home here at 4605 Cahmplain avenue. Major Peal is a Y. M. C. A. Secretary overseas and has done fine work. Editor and Mrs. R. S. Abbott and Mr. and Mrs. Cary B.. Lewis have returned from St. Louis, Mo., where they attended the dedication exercises of Poro College. WOMAN INJURED BOARDING CAR. Mr.s Lillian Lewis, 34 years old, colored, 3535 La Salle St., was severely bruised when she fell from a State street car while attempting to board it Tuesday morning. --- Goat Eurpishes Milk and Churn Goat Pornishes Milk and Churn. About 70 miles northwest of Mount Sinai—where, as you remember, Moses received the Commandments—is a butter factory, the machinery of which has not been improved since his day. It consists of a bag of goat skin suspended from a tripod of poles. The Bedouin women partly fill the bag with goats' milk and then have plenty of time to discuss the neighbors as they patiently rock the bag until the butter is separated from the whey.—Popular Science Monthly. A. Nap on a 40-Mile Wind It was not so long ago that a ten-mile breeze would upset all flying plans for a day at any airdrome or exhibition field. Now nothing short of a hurricane can keep the machines on the ground. As far as the ability to make good weather of it is concerned the airman of today can laugh at a gale and fairly take a nap sitting on a '40-mile wind.—William A. Bishop, V. C., S. O., M. C., in Saturday Evening Post. From the Ancient Greeks. "To throw dust in one's eyes" is a saying derived from the ancient Greeks. Epaminondas, wishing to surprise the Lacedemonians, is said to have caused 1,000 cavalrymen to advance in front, kicking up a great dust which the wind blew into the faces of the enemy, thus blinding them to a flank movement he was executing with a view to taking the coveted heights in the rear. Marmoset's Rival Mrs. Ellen Walker of Philadelphia keeps as her mascot a land turtle which she has had for twenty-five years, since it first wandered into the yard of her home. The turtle is carried with her on all her travels in a basket made for the purpose. During the summer it spends its time, in the garden at the Walker home. In the winter it is kept in the basement. SPECIAL NOTICE From on and after this date; all matter intended for publication in the current issue of this paper, must reach the editor, not later than Thursday morning. Personal or social items published free. Write plainly and briefly on one side of the paper only. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. DECEMBER 7, 1918 HENRY (TEENAN) JONES The shining light of the Elite Cafe M stands ace high with his many fr The shining light of the Elite Cafe No. 2, who is still in the ring and still stands ace high with his many friends and patrons. America's First Library America's First Library. The first library in America was opened at Harvard college 280 years ago. For more than sixty years the Harvard collection of books was the only one of importance on the continent, but in 1700 a public library was founded, and in 1731 Benjamin Franklin started a subscription library at Philadelphia, the first of its kind in America. The library of the United States, now called the library of congress, was established in 1800. The first public library recorded in history was founded at Athens in the year 540 B. C. Bob was to have a birthday party. His best friend, Dick, met him in town the day before. "Say, kid," he asked, "what do you want me to bring you?" Bob, who was saving for a bicycle, replied: "If it's all the same to you, Dick, I'd rather you'd give me the money." The following day as Bob's mother received the little guests, Dick presented 25 cents, saying: "Mrs. G., Bob said he'd rather have the money." Never Too Old to Learn It has often been said that a man cannot learn a new trade after he is forty, but this statement has frequently been disproved. Peter S. Du Ponceau was eighty when he wrote his valuable treatise on the Cochin Chinese language, and had only then recently taken up the study; and the late John Bigelow was still an author turning out a book when he passed his ninety-fifth birthday. It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is naturally pleasing to all, and every one willing enjoyth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable and manly thing.—Thomas a Kempis. Had Elephants Break Step It is a tradition among newspaper men—and one that may be founded op fact—that in the old days when Burrum's elephants were marched across the Brooklyn bridge, in the quiet hours before daybreak, the keepers were instructed to prevent the huge animals from keeping step lest the superposition of strong vibrations might injure the structure. A French oil for waterproofing leather, cloth, paper and other materials is a mixture of eight parts of amyl acetate and four of castor oil, with one part of sulphur chloride stirred into ft. Though this form a jelly, giving off hydrochloric acid, it liquefies after being tightly covered a few days, and, the acid being then neutralized with barium carbonate, gives a colorless solution on filtering. To make a varnish, nitrocellulose is dissolved in the liquid after the addition of alcohol or behnze. There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange.—Daniel Webster. Somewhat Mercenary Quality That Counts New Waterproofing Oil. Daily Thought No. 2, who is still in the ring and still friends and patrons. The Last Word. The sweet young thing thought she was making a huge success. "There is only one thing I can't understand," he started to say. "Only one?" she asked, without letting him finish. "There was one. Now there are two. The second is why some girls never learn that it is only the pretty ones who can afford to be imprisonment." One of the persistent charges of the intellectuals against the majority of people is that they are commonplace. That, of course, is a thing only a few avoid. Out of every hundred, ninety-seven are certainly commonplace, and what we call the intellectuals are not the exceptions.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. Electric Light in Vatican Electric light was used in the Sistine chapel of the Vatican palace for the first time on the occasion of the third anniversary of the coronation of Pope Benedict XV. In former years candles were used to light the chapel, which is dark except on sunshiny days. Iodine stains may be removed from bureau scarfs, towels, etc., by using peroxide. If the first application does not remove it let the article dry and try again. Do not use peroxide on colored clothes, as the color will come out as well as the stain. Meaning of Name "Bachel" The Jews were at one time a nation of shepherds, and it was probably for this reason that the Hebrew word for a mother sheep, or a ewe, was given to some of the Jewish women, Rachel meaning "a ewe." Sugar Cane and Sugar Beets A ton of sugar cane has produced from 119 to 151 pounds of refined sugar in Louisiana in recent years; the sugar product of a ton of beets has been 210 to 285 pounds. Dust, by its own nature, can rise only so far above the road; and birds which fly higher never have it upon their wings—Henry Ward Beecher. Nightingale Leads Song Birds. The sweetest singer among birds is the nightingale; then comes the linnet, the lark, the skylark and woodlark. The mockingbird has the greatest powers of imitation. Increasing Love of Home I presume the proper meens of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.—Shenstone. Next to the pest who is always wanting a loan the chap who is always offering to lend you money when you don't want it. The nightingale's voice can be heard for a distance of a mile. Gather roses while they blossom; tomorrow is not today. The Last Word. Commonplace. Two Timely Tips Dust. Next! Office of True Friend. To know that you have a friend concerned in your struggle robs it of half its hardness. Disappointments that would assume bitter proportions lose their edge in the friend's smile. He helps us see that matters_might have been worse. Emerson is never tired of extolling the merits of the nurse of his childhood who always helped him belittle his petty hurts by being glad they were not much more painful. And that's the office of the sincere friend. His office is to bring out our best and make us manly. Ivory in the Middle Ages In the middle ages ivory was extensively used for writing tablets. One of Chaucer's characters has "A pair of tables all of ivory," and again the same writer speaks of ivory chess men: "The ches was all of ivory, the meyne fresh and new." Ivory was also much used for making caskets and mirror frames during the middle ages, and these were often elaborately carved. Of Latin Derivation Corps is a French word derived from the Latin corpus, a body, either civil or military, as a police corps, marine corps, etc. It does not signify any particular number, but an organized body. In the United States army a corps consists of two or more divisions, each containing three brigades and each brigade three regiments. The term first came into use in this country during the Civil war period. Being a Politician You cannot help being a politician. You cannot live for an hour without being a politician. But what a man generally means when he says that he is not a politician I am afraid is this—that he has been all his life enjoying his political privileges and grossly neglecting his political duties.—Rev. Hugh Price Hughes. Also, They're So Common. "The trouble with being a hero," said a soldier, "is difficulty in acting up to the part." Which reminds us of what Admiral Dewey said in the height of his fame. "It is very pleasant to be a hero, but a continuous performance is hard on the nerves."—Boston Transcript. The People's Taste. Who are by way of eminence the poets of all mankind? Surely Homer and Shakespeare. Now Homer formed his taste as he wandered from door to door, a vagrant minstrel paying for hospitality by song; and Shakespeare wrote for an audience composed in great measure of the common people. —George Bancroft. So He Had to Help "Some fellers seem to think it is smart to forget to mail the letters their wife hands 'em," said the matrimonial martyr, "but I find my lesson. I forgot to mail one my wife wrote to her mother asking her to postpone her visit till we got our housecleanin' done." Fabrics From Peat Experiments with pent have been considered successful in producing the following articles: Fibers which can be used for carpets, draperies and clothing; artificial wood for paving, railroad ties, etc.; stuffing for mattresses, pillows and cushions. Famous Sea Fighter Admiral Stewart, an American naval officer, was distinguished in the cruises which he made against privateers in the war of 1812. He was the grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell. He died November 6, 1869. Biggest Factor Overlooked All the programs of the day's work that a man lays out for himself are too exacting, and partially fail because no allowance has been made for human fruilty.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Cleaning Seed By the use of a partial vacuum the United States department of agriculture has developed a hydrocyanic acid and gas process for fumigating imported seed more rapidly than heretofore. Cold Storage Refrigerator cars cooled by ammonia machines operated by internal combustion engines utilizing petroleum for fuel are being built for a German railroad. The Morning After Said the near cynic: "The exercise of the right of suffrage is proper if not indulged in to excess, but the thing that gets fellows into court after election is overexercise." In Boston, at Any Rate "The game isn't always won by the best team," says an exchange. "No; it is generally won by the better team." —Boston Transcript. Tinder Feelings Said the near cynic, "When we listen to a speaker who is very dry, our natural conclusion is that he is punk." Nothing endures but personal qualities.—Walt Whitman. Pola an Old City Pola was a Thracian colony when the Romans swapped down and took it in 178 B. C., and a stormy existence followed this descent of the world-conquerors. In 1379 it was virtually blocked out of existence when the Genoese, daring forbears of Admiral Christopher Columbus, defeated the Venetians in a great sea fight off the port, and then wrecked the town—and kept it out of the annals for a century and a half. It came back finally and waved important again and since 1815 was Austria's principal naval harbor. Rhine Long a Boundary The first people who took possession of the banks of the Rhine, we are told, were the half-savage Celts, who afterward received the name Gauls. In the height of his glory Caesar crossed the Rhine and shortly afterward took the entire river under his jurisdiction. The river was, in Roman times, a boundary between the province of Gaul and the German tribes, and at a later date and until 1871 was the frontier between Germany and France. Had Excuse for Eating Candy Edith's aunt had come for dinner and brought the little girl a box of candy, but warning her not to eat any of it until after the meal, as it would spoil her appetite. Edith turned to her mother and asked what the menu for the meal was, and was informed that lamb stew had been provided "Oh, than I dess I'll eat tandy and spoil my appetite. I don't ture for lamb stew." Gypsy Tribes In Poland the gypsy tribes are called Zingani; in Italy, Zingart; in Spain, Gitanos; in France, Bohemians; in Germany, Zisgeuner. The Persians it is stated, apply to them a name meaning "Black Indians." Their most ancient name is that of Sinai, which is supposed to be connected with Sind, the native name for the Indus. Self-Denial Went for Nothing A young woman was staying at Jack's home, and seeing a box of camp on her table, he went into her room and helped himself. His mother told him how wrong it was, and said he must apologize. That night, before going into her room, he was heard to murmur: "If I has to 'pologize, wish I took more than one piece." My Business. Let people's tongues and actions be what they will, my business is to be good, and I make the same speech to myself that a piece of gold or an emerald or purple should: "Let people talk and act as they please, I must be an emerald and keep my color." Marcus Aurelius. Substitute for Coffee The Japanese have a substitute for coffee, said to be almost equal in every respect to natural Brazilian coffee. As result of chemical analysis by experts it is said that the goods are more wholesome than the natural bean while retaining all its flavor and quality. Nations' Religious Beliefs The German prevailing religious belief is Lutheran. The Church of England prevails in Great Britain, known more familiarly in this country as the Episcopalian. However, all churches are accepted in England now. Belgium, France and Italy are Catholic in tendency. The White Elephant A good many persons have, no doubt, got a wrong impression of the Siamese white elephant. He is not pure white, as is generally supposed, but is a sort of Albino among his race. He is a very light gray, but never a pure white color. Outside of this, he is little different from the rest of his race. Chinese Logic A merchant of Shanghai offered five pounds of tea for $2 and ten pounds for $5. When the tourist told him that was ridiculous, the Chinaman answered that the more a man buys the richer he is, and the richer he is the more he can pay—Boston Transcript. Good Sugar.Producing Country. The soil and climate in the Peruvian valleys are exceptionally favorable to the production of sugar, and the average yield of four or five tons per acre is said to surpass that of any other sugar-producing country, with the exception of Hawaii. Fertilizers Close at Hand. Peruvian farmers enjoy rare opportunities to fertilize their lands. Off the coast of Peru is a group of islands containing guano deposits that form a valuable fertilizer for the soil on which sugar cane is grown. To Be a Juror in London To be a Juror in London In the city of London a juror must be a householder or occupier of premises, and must possess property to the value of five hundred dollars. Men Differ. What is one man's automobile is an other man's luggernant. Optimistic Thought. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. Ss SO pce ae eer ar ee re = ce . = = . a ee ee DIRE MENACE TO TRAVELER RACIAL BLENDINGS IN SYRIA| NOTED PORT OF WANDERERS|HaNGED FOR BURNING COAL’ tively Simple Process, but the That Is Now So Much Prized et Sy aE ‘ See = ser, Requires Expert Supervision Was Brought to This Country Stinging Tree of Queensiand Is Fre-| So Many Nations Mave Overrun the , Samara, on the Volga, Long the Lure| tnere Was a Time When Job of Look- 0. ‘and Must Be Carefully Done. From Brazil. Quently Fatal to Unobserving or Country That No One Race Can of Nomadic People—its Ing After Production Would I 7 aw a — Too Careless Hunter. Claim Pre-eminence. Past History. Have Been Sinecure. ! rocess of preparing sardines ts 1872 United States consu eas a se Baie but requires experience | Bahia (Brazil), W. F. Talon psnse a Although the tropical shrubs of|~ Syria, the region extending from the | Samara, the Volga port, seems to| rhe pcocech cig edatalenleils with ve er| Gee care. Upon the arrival ot | DY the natives that 60 miles inlecd: no Queensland ‘are luxuriant and beauti-| Taurus mountains to Egypt and from | offer a peculiar significance for the|gar4 to the use of coal would have aie On «at the tactety thar-are| the Auton were wantin orange trees | 0s, {Be #Fe not without their dan-| the desert to “the great sea.” is the | Wanderers of the world. Through the | soomed very mild to our ancestors, re- ce ene re ee ee eee sange Srees | gerous drawbacks, for there is one| land of the patriarchs and prophets | Yeass, says The Villager, the district}) parrrstively Simple Precees, bat the meek Requires Expert Supervision es Must Be Carefully Done. spe process of preparing sardines ts qr simple but requires experience pi rest care. Upon the arrival of pe rset te factory they are jiately placed on large wopden es stent forty feet long, where ge are cleaned. This process. takes jes a second, amd a fairly efficient feker can clean from 800 to 400 ods of fish per day, according to Mrriter in Fishing Gazette. ‘the fish are then placed in vats of ten, where they are allowed to re- gain from one-half to two hours, ac- wiing to size. They are then placed wire trays equipped with prongs in grist position, where they are al- jwed to dry for about an hour before yey are ee a cooking. This ts by placing the trays In large Mex vere the fah are sabjecieh to ypresure of about two pounds of ‘gam, (wenty minutes being consumed ‘pproperty cooking the small fish and guuch as thirty-five minutes in cook- ‘og the larger sizes, =} € This cooking has to be carefully iched; if the sardines are subjected jy too much steam they become some- 1 brittle and break when being ed. Some sardines-are cooked in. ; however, am extra charge is made this process, and comparatively fee are sold. After the sardines have been prop- eiy steamed the trays are placed on jg counters for “sorting, which is due by carefully selected’ and well- yeid girls. After sorting, the tins are filed with off and placed on shelves, rhere they are allowed to remain for shout twelve hours in order to insure the proper impregnation of the oll. Pore olive ofl is’ used in preparing mst sardines, especially the best grades, but for some markets a mix- ture of olive off and high-grade pea- nut oll is desired. CIVILIZATIONS OF THE PAST Nations With High Degree of Cultiva. tion That Are Now Only Memory in Histery’s Pages. Thousands of years .ago—iong before the great western nations of today, long before even Greek and Roman were heard of—there were more or less advanced , civilizations ‘on both sides of the Pacific. China, for exam- ple, had grown into # stable Mongol- fan kingdom perhaps 4,000 years be- fore the beginning of our era. A Chinese author writes: “There is no existing nation im the world that has 4 larger past than China. She has seen the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian dynasties; the extension of a Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander; the irresistible advance of the Roman legions; the deluge of the Teutonic hordes from the north, and ‘the birth of all the nations of modern Europe.” The Japanese also, a people com- Pounded of various elements, but chiefly Mongolian and Malayan, stood Stood at the beginning of our era on & high plane of civilization, and even then exhibited the tendencies and the adaptiveness which distinguish them todey. Then away to the east in Central ‘nd South America, ‘civilizations waxed and waned, reaching their high- est development in the Aztec and In- can empires, the latter of which was an extremely interesting example of despotic socialism. Rupert Brooke in Fiji,” Fiji in moonlight is like nothing ese in this world. . . . It's all dim colors and all scents. And here, where tts high up, the most fantastically shaped mountains in the world tower % all round, and little silver clouds ‘tnd wisps of mist run bleating up and down the valleys and hillsides ve lambs looking for their mother. There's only one thing on earth as ‘beautiful; and that's Samoa by moon- light. That's utterly differegy merely heaven, sheer loveliness. You lie on 4 mat in a cool Samoan hut, and look jeat on the white sand under the high ‘Palms, and a gentle sea, and the black line of the reef a mille out, and moon- light over everything, floods and floods 4 it. not sticky, lke Honolulu moon- light, not to be eaten with a spoon, but ‘fet and abundant, such that you could lice thin golden-white shavings off Mas off cheese. , . From “Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With & Memoir.” } Otaetaen| x Marriage is the nursery of heaven. The virgin sends prayers to God, but the carries but one soul to him; but the state of marriage fills up the num- ‘ber of the elect and hath in it the la- ter of love and the delicacies of friend- tip, the blessing éf society and the Bion of hands and_hearts. It hath in 2 less of beauty, but more of safety the single life; it hath more ease, ies danger; it is mofe merry and More sad; is fuller of sorrows and aller of Joys; It Mes under more bur- ffecs, but is supported by all the iRrengths of love and charity, and ‘ose burdens are delightful.—Jeremy ‘Tylor. . Brand New Head. i "What a good head the baby has,” ‘Grinimed Aunt Madge, who had come fl the way trom Anderson just to set {the new baby im Ashland avenue “He'll be president, sure.” ty, It ought to be a good head,” put in Atte ‘brother, whose three-year-old Rox '* out of jolnt, “he only has ysed two weeks."—Indiseapolis Star. ry ot Ee FIRST OF SEEDLESS ORANGES Fruit That Is Now So Much Prized Was Grought to This Country From. Brazil. In 1872 United States consul to Bahia (Brazil), W. F. Judson, was told by the natives that 60 miles inland, up the Amazon, were native orange trees bearing fruit without seeds. Accord. ingly he sent natives after tree shoots and some of the fruit. The shoots were packed in moss and clay and sent to Washington. ‘They were set out by the agricultural department, but attracted little atten- tion until tht next year, when Horatio Tibbetts of Riverside, Cal. took the “surviving four shoots to his home and Planted them. One died and another was eaten up by a cow. At tie end of five years the two surviving trees bore 16 handsome seedless oranges. Next year the oranges were even better, and the trees bore about a box of the fruit. From that time on the cultivation of the seedless oranges about Riverside Progressed rapidly. As there were no seeds to raise the trees from it was found necessary to graft buds of the ‘Seediess trees into seedling trees. Riverside has grown from a sma‘l village to a town of 15,000 acres de- Voted to the cultivation of navel or- anges. It is the greatest orange pro- ducing locality in the world. The two original trees were fenced about and carefully guarded lest harm should come to them, and they are now en- Joying a green old age. PROCURE OIL FROM BIRDS Inhabitants of the Island of St. Kilda Are Especially Favored in Re- spect of Light. The price of coal ofl is a matter of ho interest to the inhabitants of the Island of St.\Kilda, a favorite haunt of that animated oil can, the fulmar, observes the Cincinnati Commercial ‘Tribune. So rich in oil is this sea bird that the natives simply pass a wick through its body and use it as a lamp. The oil 1s also one of the principal articles exported from the island. It is found in the birds’ stomachs, ts amber colored and has a peculiarly Dauseous odor. The old birds are sald to feed the young with it, and when they are caught or attacked they’ light- en themselves by disgorging It. In St. Kilda it Is legal to kill the ful- mars only during one week in the year; but during that week from 18,000 to 20,000 birds are destrosed. + The mutton bird of the Antarctic. also“carries its oil in the stomach and can eject this oil through the nostrils as a means of defense against ene- mies. Quantities of mutton birds are slaughtered every year for their oil on the coasts of Tasmania and New Zea- land. In its composition and proper- ties this oil closely resembles sperm ofl. Made Firat Cash Reniéter, A man named Jacob Ritty, a mer chant of Dayton, O., took vacation trip to Europe. While crossing on the steamer, he sauntered one day into the engine room and noticed a device that mechanically recorded the number of revolutions-of the propelier shaft. _Im- mediately came the idea to the mind of Mr. Ritty: “Why not invent a ma- chine that would record each coin put into the cash drawer?” When. he re- turned. home he invented the first “cash register." John H. Patterson was keeping a grocery store in a small town 80 miles from Dayton. He heard of the Ritty contrivance, sent in or- der for one, and that was the inventor's first order. The machine was crude, but it interested Mr. Pat- terson and he saw how it could be per- fected. “If it's god for my store,” he argued. “why not for all stores?” Forthwith he went to Dayton, bought the Ritty interest out, and started the National Cash Register Co., which has now - 1,800,000 machines and every year turns out more than 60,000 cash registers. Primitive Station. ‘There is in England a railway sta- tion which has dnly one train each way a week—at Blackwell Mill. situ- ated midway between Miller's Dale and Buxton. Blackwell Mill consists of eight workmen's cottages on the banks of the Wye. They are occupied by railway workmen, and it is for the convenience of the wives who wish to journey to Buxton for marketing that on Friday mornings the 9:10 train from Miller's Dale stops at Blackwell Mill. The two uncovered platforms of the “station” gre of the length of a railway coach, and composed of rough stone and gravel. The “waiting room” is a platelayer’s hut. where the trav- elers are giad to shelter from the keen wind on winter mornings. The train tarries the stationmaster, who distrib- utes the privilege tickets. LLeene the Loop in a Storm at Sea. Looping the loop in a kite balloon was the hair-raising feat performed some time since by # young balloon- Ist when the governfhent was testing the use of captive balloons on battle ships doing convoy work..according to etory to Popeater Mechanics Mage xine. The afioonist in question shad been aloft in his basket several hours despite very rough weather when a 40- mile gale struck the fleet. Instantly the gas bag made a spinning nose dive, swinging the basket and occu- pant! through ‘ complete circle. No sooner was one loop completed than another apd another followed—fifteen in ol. : DIRE MENACE TO TRAVELER Stinging Tree of Queensiand Is Fre. Quently Fatal to Unobserving or ‘Too Careless Hunter. Although the tropical shrubs of Queensland -are luxuriant an& beaut ful, they are not without their dan- gerous drawbacks, for there is one plant among them that is deadly in its effects. This is the stinging tree. If & certain portion of the traveler's body is burned by the stinging tree death ‘will follow. “Sometimes while shooting turkeys in the scrubs I have entirely forgotten the stinging tree till warned of Its close proximity by its smell,” said @ visitor to Queensland. “I was only once stung, and that very lightly. Its effects are curious; it leaves no mark, but the pain is maddening, and for months afterward the part when touched is tender, in rainy weather or when it gets wet in washing. “I have seen a man who treats ordi- ‘nary pain lightly roll on the ground in agony after being stung, and I have known a horse so completely mad, after getting into a grove of these trees, that he rushed open-mouthed at everyone who approached him and had to be shot. Dogs, when stung, will Tush about whining pitéously. biting Pieces from the affected part. The small stinging trees, a few inches high, are as dangerous as any, being hard to see and seriously impeding one's ankles.” The stinging tree emits a peculiar and disagreenble smell. It is best known, however, by its leaf, which is nearly round and has a point dt the top. HEADGEAR OF ALL FASHIONS In the Revolutionary War the Hate Worn by the Soldiers Were of ‘Many Designs. In our past wars there were no such things as flying shrapnel, or airplanes that dropped darts of steel on the soldiers below, so American soldiers Wore ordinary army hats. But modern warfare has made it necessary that soldiers wear helmets of steel. In the Revolutionary war our sol- diers’ hats were of many desizns. One of the most common was the “cocked” hat, made of black or brown felt and turned up on the sides to form three corners, The Virginia riflemen wore brown felt hats with one, side turned up, and the Maryland riflemen brown fur-trimmed hats. The hat generally worn by the New York rangers or riflémen was of black felt, cap shaped, turned up in front, with a plume. Sometimes words were marked on the front, such as “Liber- ty.” “Death.” ete. Soldiers in the cavalry or “light horse” of Philadel- phia wore sportsmen’s caps, ornament- ed with bucks’ tails. Hats worn by the First Governors’ foot guards of Connecticut were close- ly modeled after those of the British Grenadiers. They were of black fur, cap shaped. with a piece of yellow felt in front. On the side they were deco- rated with a red plume. Privates In the Pennsylvania companies wore braid-bound hats. The dragoons wore capshaned helmets. Promising Opening. The traveling showman was waxing eloquent as he described the charac- teristics of his wijd horse from Tar tary. : “Ladies and ents,” he said, “this ‘hanimal fs a real terror. If there's any gent in this comp'ny as fancies hisself as a rider, I'll give him five pounds for every minute he sticks on this hoss. I've rid hosses all my life, but this hoss is beyond me. I've tried “im every way, but ‘e shakes me off in ten seconds.” “Why not get inside him?” queried a humorist. ‘The showman walted until the laughter had died down. “My Ind.” he said, witheringly, “I've thought of that. But nature has been unkind to ‘im in the matter of mouth: it ain't big enough. Now, if it ‘ad been yours—" But the humorist did not wait to hear the. logical conclusion of the hypothesis. ecciat memieinediaiaae. Curious nicknames are applied to vessels of the British navy. The Ariadne is known as the “Hairy An- nie,” or “Haggy Agony ;” the Narcis- sus, as “Nasty Sister;” the Cressy as the “Greaser;” the Inconstant as the “Inkstand,” the Iphigenia as the “Silly Jane;” the Lucifer as the “Match Box;” the Hecate as the “He Cat,” or “The Tom,” and the Nep- tune as the “Jew's Harp.” In the American navy . similar nicknames have been used. to some extent. The Sassacus was known as the “Sassy Cuss;” the Miantonomoh as “My Aunt Don’t Know ;” the Wissahickon as the “Widow Higgins;” the Winnebago or perhaps the Wyallusing as “We Know She Goes Slow.”"—Chicago Daily News, enki inn Weieien A little friend of mine is quite a mis- chievous little boy, and after a day of play with the boys of the nelghbor- hood his conduct is not always every- thing his mother could wish. But he is quite 2 lovable little chap, too, and was one day showing his affection for his mother in true boy with hugs and kisses. His looked on approvingly and said: t Is good, son. That is the way I like to see my boy. Can't you always play nicely and be good?” The answer voiced the feel- ing of Young America; “Sure, I can, Dut I'd have to play by myself."—Cht- ago Tribune. ‘ RACIAL BLENDINGS IN SYRIA So Many Nations Have Overrun the ‘Country That No One Race Can Claim Pre-eminence. Syria. the region extending from the Taurus mountains to Egypt and from the desert to “the great sea,” is the land of the patriarchs and prophets ‘and apesties—*the Holy Land.” Its population numbers about three and One-half million gf Semitic origin, “speaking the Arabie language, and yet ‘with so. many races intermingled through the centuries of the various conquests and occupations that the people cannot claim any one race as thelr own. Greek, Roman agd Enro- pean crusader, all have blended with the acient Semitic stock to produce the Syrians of today. In Syria was the one green spot of Turkey—the Lebanon mountains. In 1980, because of the massacres, the Européan powers insisted that. these mountains be made autonomous. And since that date this little district has been a living demonstration of what the people of the land are capable of becoming. The steep mountain sides have been terraced to a height of 4,000 feet and planted to olives, figs and vities. Taxes have been low, safety tw person and property secured, good roads built and kept in repair. The people have con- structed more comfortable homes and haye sent their sons to schools and col- leges. ‘The story of the achievements of the Lebanon and its sons during these 60 years of autonomy would be a thrill- Ing narrative in itself. KEEP COOL AND KEEP WELL Some Points of Importance to Be Re membered When an Epidemic Is Threatgning Public Health. At its worst any epidemic takes but a relatively small toll of the popula- tion. and as a rule the majority of people are resistant to the assaults of the worst disease germs, including tn- fluenza, if they but take ordinary care of themsives. This is important. Whatever medical science may ndvise as to prevention or as to treatment, one simple fact that outweighs every- thing else Is that if every individual will but follow the normal life he has Jed, eat those things that are suited to his system, things he has always eaten with resulting good health, rest and sleep as usual and avoid overfatigue while carrying on his work, also as usual, he will excape the pestilence. There is no excuse for any panic. Above all, the individual should re- member that the first and last rule to follow in this state of things Is to keep cool and keep well. For the man who will keep cool will keep well, and the man who keeps well and has all his faculties about him will keep cool. This is no time for Micial or individ- ual or coltective hysteria. —Philadel- phia Public Ledger. Soka Tt makes no difference who admints- ters the extravagance or how high the purpose is, extravagance is an evil in Itself. There Is somewhat in the very fact that invites venality and corrup- tion. “The very sight of a great pile of money excites desire that too often finds some way for satisfying Itself. The papers are full of Instances of this kind, In fact, we could write a pretty good history of the country if we limited our narrative to graft and grabbing only, and yet much of It Is overlooked because it {s usual and ex- pected. Extravagance has mmle many ain unearned fortune and it ix doing as much these days, especially in govern- ment contracts, This country should hasten to apply the doctrine that an overcharge is a crime and that profit- cering Is (reason. There is nothing that so destroys tife democratic level of a nation, whether ft appears on the heichts or In the depths.—Ohio State Journal. Strike That Failed. e Labor strikes were frequent even in the earliest recorded days. An Important strike éceurred in Egypt during the reign of Cheops. several! thousand years before the Christian era. While the great pyramid erected in honor of that monarch wus in course of construction it fs stated that 50.000 workmen refused to con- tinue their labors. They were dis- satisfied with the food furnished to them, which was insufficient in quan- tity and poor im quality. Argument proving useless on the part of the contractors, soldiers were ordered to drive the strikers back to Work, and many thousands of them were cut to pieces, while those who could escape fied. The others were compelled to re- sume their labor. Sand te Sieentn: Each nation looks upgn the dog in a different way, but the dogs of war and the dogs of peace (of a pastoral and agricultural people like the Rou- manians) are beyond doubt the intel- Ugentaia’ of their kind. A little far- ther east he was sometimes held In fear, and an old Babylonian prayer runs thus: “From the dog. the snake. the scorpion, and whatever Is baleful, may Merodach preserve us.” .. . On the other hand, on some of the won- derful bas-eliefs of that period, our four-footed friends have been grate- fully immortalized, and their names Iumatn ‘wrgeten sareen. 6 tte 4i7— “He who rah and barked.” “The biter bf his foes.” “The selzer of his ene- mies.” But here in Roumania “slayer of the wolf,” “the friend of sheep,” be- tokens a less disinterested path io Mfe—Exchange. NOTED PORT OF WANDERERS Samara, on the Volga, Long the Lure of Nomadic People—its Past History. _ Samara, the Volga port, seems to offer a peculiar significance for the wanderers of the world. Through the years, says The Villager, the district has been an especial lure for nomadic Peoples; the fierce tribe of Bulgars occupied it until the thirteenth cen- tury and were followed by the Mon- gols, and when the power of the Gol- den Horde had waned the Volga bank was still ravaged by Bashkirs, Kal- smucks and Nogal Tartars; the insti- tution of the city of Samara itself was for the protection ofthe Russian em- Pire’s frontiers against the depreda- tions of these nomadic marauders from the steppes. In the effort to stablize this border region and make it a solid bulwark, Catherine II offered Germans of Wuertemburg and Baden special priv- ck for settlement here; today as h German as Russian may be heard in the streets of Samara. Yet, after all the centuries of effort, the city is again swept by wanderers, fighting hordes whe know no military “base,” gypsy warriors who have trav- ersed the Siberian expanse without baggage and without plan of cam- paign, with no orders save their own impulse, with no responsibilities save their own purpose; their exploit will go down into history with full as much Sorte as that of Genghiz Kahn's followers and with- far more honor. THINK VAMPIRES KILL SHEEP Macedonian Shepherds Have Firm Be- lief in the Existence of Creatures of a Lower World. __ A Macedonian shepherd, tending his flocks in the high pastures, sets off on his rounds in the morning, and finds several of his sheep mangled about the neck, dying or dead. He hastens to the nearest village and spreads the aw- ful news—Vampires ! Now. ® vampire may wnly be seen by certain gifted people, and these make it their life's business to destroy them. Their usual fee is about sixty dollars. So the shepherd hastens to a vampire killer, and this man takes down his long musket, loads it, and rams down a holy wafer on top of the charge. He puts on a long sheep- skin coat and sets out for the hills. Just béfore dawp he will be heard to fire a single shot. At daybreak he shows the shepherd a pool of blood. ‘That is the dead vampire, for a vam- pire is all blood, and, being shot, of course resolves into a pool of blood. A vampire slayer Is treated with great deference by his neighbors. fie is a power In the land. But io all villgges there Is usually one scoffer; ene man who can read, or, perhaps, has traveled outside his native land. He laughs when you mention vampires, and talks of wolves and dogs that have run amuck, He even hints that it Is possible to hide a bladder filled with blood beneath the long sheepskin coat the sthyer wears. There ts bad feeling between the vampire slayer and this seoffer. They pass each other without ‘acide “Houses Roofed With Gold.” “Houses roofed with gold,” of which Marco Polo wrote from rumor, were not mythical. On first arriving in Ja- pan I made a journey to Otoko Yama, in central Japan, January 27, 1871, to test the story. For centuries gold had little more value in Japan than in South America when Balboa sought the Pacific? Even until 1859 gold was worth only four times as much as silver. I found nt the Shinto temple, erected 859 A. D.. a gilded rain conduit which once en- circled the whole of the eaves of the roof, but after the long wars only 30 feet oro was left. Even at the Vienna exposition the solid gold plates on the dolphin from the Nakoya castle attracted attention. Te Ws Blahoetcaly tree et tal enrty Zs: pan there were roofs of gold—W. E. Griffis in New York Tribune. spit) deltas Gettina Full Value of Flowers. Alighly ornamental vases are attrac- tive In themselves but, as flower hold- ers, they may be said to be partial failures, as they do not serve their Purpose to the fullest extent. They rather attract attention to’ themselves, than set off the blooms for which they are designed. A vase of plain material or color, or one on which the design Is obscure, is more to be desired, as It presents the flowers in their full beau- ty, and does not distract one’s atten- tion. In the same way, « vase of tus- terware, of a shade that blends with the flowers it holds, is far more at- tractive than one of contrasting color. Vases that are to be used for all kinds of flowers might better be green, of a dull shade, as this resembles the plant coloring and is not noticeable. Death of Madame Roland. ‘The terrible French revolution brought many women as weil as men into prominence, some for their genius, some for thelr crimes and some for . Among the num- ber was Roland, wife of a fa- mous adherent of the revolution, who was guillotined November 8, 1793. As shg passed to the scaffold, she gazed at @ gigantic statue of Liberty erected ‘near it and exclaimed, “O Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!” Mme. Roland was not only &@ good but a beautiful woman, and the guillotine toolr the life of one who was, perhaps, the most remarkable woman of the French tevolution. HANGED FOR BURNING COAL There Was a Time When Job of Look- Ing After Production Would Have Been Sinecure. ' The present-day rdéstrictions with re- fard to the use of coal would have seemed very mild to our ancestors. re- marks a writer in London Tit-Bits. ‘There is no doubt that the use of what used to be called “sea coal” to distin- guish it from charcoai had its draw- backs. ‘Many look forward to the time when there will be no more smoky chimneys in Britain, when ‘the atmogphere of London will be as clean as it must have been in the days of Good Queen Bess, and when a new building will not be begrimed with soot almost as soon as It is built. : In the reign of Edward I the inhabt- tants of London petitioned the king against the growing use of coal, declar- Ing that It was “a public nuisance, cor- rupting the alr with its stink ond sméke, to the great detriment of their health.” Whereupon the king prohib- ited its use, offenders to be punished for a first offense by a fine and for a second to have thelr kilns and fur- paces destroyed. ‘The practice of using coal was at length made a capital offense and a. man was tried, condemned and hanged for burning coal in London. In those days the population of Eng- land probably did not exceed four or five million, and wood was plentiful and cheap from the vast*foreste that covered tens of thousands of square miles where now are great towns/ ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO Secret of Sir Walter Scott’s Marvelous Literary Achievements Told in a Few Words. “Never to be doing nothing” was the simple but effective rule that enabled Sir Walter Scott to get done the enor mous amount of work for which he Is noted. A passage in Lockhart's life of the poet and novelist reads: / “Those who observed him the most constantly were never able to under- stand how he contrived to keep him- self so thoroughly up with the stream of contemporary literature of almost all sorts, French and German, as well as English. That a rapid glance might tell him more than another man could gather by a week's poring may easily he guessed; but the grand secret was his perpetual practice of his own grand maxim. never to be doing nothing. He had no ‘unconsidered trifles’ of time. Every moment was turned to account; and thus he had leisure for eversthing —excepf. indeed, the newspapers, which consume so many precious hours nowadays with most men, and of which. during the period of my ac- quaintance with him, he certaiply read less than any other man I ever knew that had any habit of reading at all. T should also except, speaking general- ly, the reviews and magazines of the time. Of these he saw few, und of the few he read little.” Varying Movements of Leaves. Different species .of trees move their leaves’ very differently, so that one may gometimes tel! by the mo- tion of shadows on the ground, if he be too indolent to look up, under what kind of tree he is sitting. On the tulip-tree (which has the finest game that ever tree had, making the very pronouncing jof its name almost~llke the utterance of a strain of music— Liridodendron tulipfera), on thestulip- tree, the aspen, and on all native pop- lars, the leaves have an intense Indi- vidualism. Each one moves to suit Itself. Under the same wind one is oe up and down, another is whirl- ing. another slowly vibrating right and left, and others still, quieting themselves to sleep, as a mother gently Pats her slumbering child; and each one Intent upon a motion of its own. Sometimes other trees have single frisky leaves, but usually the oaks, ma- ples, heeches, have community of mo- tion. They.are all acting together, or are all alike still—Henry Ward Beecher, ‘The Bishop of Verdun. ‘St. Vanne, or Vitonius, died Novem- ber 9, 1525. A celebrated congrega- tion of reformed Benedictines in Lor- raine, formed in the abbey of St. Vanne in Verdun, in 1604, took him for patron, and from the famous abbey and that of Moyen-Moustler, dedteated in honor of St. Hydulphus, bears the name of St. Vanne and St. Hydutphus. Many in France desired to accede to the reform, but on account of the wars then existing, a union was thought too dificult. A reform under the same plan was set on foot in France, under the name of the Congregation »f St. Maur, and begun in the abbey of St. Austin in Limoges in 1613, and con- firmed by Gregory XV, in 1627, which now comprises 185 abbeys and pri- ories. - Mystic Shrine. The Ancient and Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystie Shrine was found- ‘ed 1,400 years ago at Mecca, Arabia. ‘The modern order is of comparatively recent origin. It.was founded at New York in 1871 by William. J. Florence, the actor. It contains a legend as to Arabic origin and on its altars rest copies of the Bible and the Koran. The ‘Mystic Shriners are an entirely sepa- rate organization from the Masonie or- der. However, one of the provisions of membership {8 that the applicant must be elther & Scottish Rite Mason, that fs to say, a Mason of the thirty- second degree, or a member of the or- der of Knights Templar. _ 94 HON. CHARLES W. PETERS The new Sheriff of Cook County; who was given a warm reception and presented with many beautiful flowers by his hosts of admiring friends on Monday; who wished him well as the high sheriff of Cook County. FAKE INFLUENZA CURES. Any wide spread outbreak of an epidemic disease invariably brings to light a flood of fake cures for it. The present almost nation-wide prevalence of influenza is proving no exception to the rule. to live in, don't move out; stick and help to make it better. In the fight for human betterment it does not pay to be a pessimist. Be an optimist all the time; and also hustle like the dickens to make your theories as well as your dreams come true. The Department of Health has received many alleged cures for both influenza and pneumonia from well meaning but ignorant people, who think they have made a wonderful discovery and who are willing to give it to the health officials for a price. Sometimes, however, these remedies are offered free and for the good of humanity. Frequently the writers recommend them not only as cures long known in the "old country," but that they also "will prevent one from getting sickness of any kind." According to a recent issue of the U. S. Public Health Reports the fake cure specialists have been busy all over the land. The U. S. Public Health Service has been deluged with offers of wonderful discoveries held secret but now offered, as a rule, for only a title of what they would be really worth to "suffering humanity." The formula for these alleged cures range all the way from sprinkling a little flour of sulphur in each shoe every morning to the daily use of a teasponful of raw onion juice three times a day. Now comes the advice of the Department of Health, which is this: Do not take patent medicines or advertised nostrum of any kind. As yet there is no specific cure for influenza; though it has been found that plenty of fresh air and sunshine along with good medical care and nursing greatly reduces the number of deaths from this disease. Do not take remedies recommended by friends or neighbors. As a rule, they do more harm than good. In case you are theatened with an attack of influenza, stay at home and call your doctor. Getting a good start is more than half the battle. Don't dope yourself with home made concoctions. Let the doctor precribe what you take. In your ignorance on the subject of treating disease you may be doing the very things you should not do, if you want to get well. Remember that physicians woh give their whole time to the study of medicine and disease must know more—a whole lot more in fact—than one who has never studied these subjects at all. Better be sensible and you will not be sorry. The right thinking citizen will help the public health official to make better health conditions in his community. If the community in which you live is lacking in any of those things which make it a safe and desirable place to live in, don't move out; stick and help to make it better. In the fight for human betterment it does not pay to be a pessimist. Be an optimist all the time; and also hustle like the dickens to make your theories as well as your dreams come true. WOMAN WITHOUT FOUR CHILDREN TERMED SLACKER Professor Urges "Superior Classes" to Maintain Members Women of America are slacking on the job of motherhood, in the opinion of Prof. Roswell H. Johnson of the University of Pittsburgh, who spoke o nthe subject of "Aequate Production" at the ninth annual conference of the American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, which opened its sessions Thursday at the Congress hotel. "We must expect more than 3.7 births from all superior women of the country or we cannot have a progressive race and maintain our numbers," said Prof. Johnson. "Are our superiors reproducing adequately? Without retailing here the details, the answer is decidedly no. Woe to the nation which, like ours, finds its superior women slacking on the job of motherhood. The married woman who does not have more than three children is, except in a few cases, pulling back on the wheels of progress. We have talked much of the nobility of women who gave sons to the risk of death. Have we no word of appeal to superior women to give life to sons?" Single Women Blamed. The single women are just as guilty slackers as the married ones, according to the professor. "Are they to be wholly excused for their celibacy?" he asked. "Haven't they allowed themselves to drift into an inexcusable anti-social misanthropy?" A racial noblesse oblige is what the women of the country need to remember, he declared. An income of $20,000 or more was declared to be actually injurious to the recipient and his family, and such a man was called "fair game for the income tax collector." Sex education, economic fair play, and birth control knowledge for the ignorant classes in order to reduce the disparity in the birth rate between theirs and the educated classes were advocated. Cantonments for Segregation. Dr. Johnson suggested that the United States cantonment should eventually be used to segregate feeble minded women who might produce their own kind. "We are about to have left vacant quarters for the accommodation of vast armies. Let us ask the loan of these places from the several states for this purpose and for the housing of cases of venereal disease." Mrs. William Lowell Putnam of Boston, president of the association, sister of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Boston and sister of Amy'Lowell, free verse exponent, said she agree heartily that there was great need for the segregation of this class of women. She startled her audience by declaring that the fault in most of the social ills was with the women rather than the men, as "women are not so pure minded as men. "Men have demanded purity of their women," she said, "but women have never demanded it of men." WORLD-WAR CLOSES; ORGANIZE ...AND MEET FOR ABOLITION OF RACE AUTOCRACY AT HOME; .COLORED DELEGATES, ON TO WASHINGTON, DEC. 16, 1918. Foreseeing coming events, the National Equal Rights League of Colored Americans in 11th Annual and National Convention assembled in Chicago, Sept. 19, 1918, adopted and sent forth to the race a plan for a national race representative Congress for race petitioners who shall proceed abroad and have the cause of democracy for Colored Americans presented at the Peace Council Table. The plan is the formation at once of local equal rights leagues or committees to elect and send a delegate (one additional for every 50 members over the first 50) to such a Congress at Washington, D. C. One delegation can be sent even if the members number less than 50. The time set was Jan. 1st, 1919. The League's officers have set the date forward to Dec. 16, 1918, in view of early closing of the war. All existing Colored organizations are asked to affiliate with the League and send one delegate for every 50 members. This applies to religious, civic, political, fraternal, industrial and literary race bodies. National organizations working for equality for Colored Americans will be asked to send 2 delegates-at-large. These delegates chosen by race organizations locally will assemble and elect race envoys to be sent to the seat of the international peace conference. Hasten to organize your league, Colored Americans, in every community and elect your delegates. Never in our time will there be another opportunity like this to ask the world for justice and consistency. Upon those of us, and God grant that they may be few, who fail now, will be the responsibility for our race being left the "Slaves of the 20th century." The League's secretary humbly prays the race, in the name of his departed wife, a martyr to its cause, to vindicate its honor and move for a share of the world democracy. This Congress will meet in the John Wesley Zion A. M. E. Church, 14th and Corcoran Sts., N. W. Washington, D. C., Dec. 16-18, 1918. WM. MONROE TROTTER, 34. Corn- hill, Boston, Mass. Corr. Sec. [Name] DR. ROBERT R. MOTON Principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who will speak at the Abraham Lincoln Center, Monday evening, December 9. FORGET COLOR LINES IN GRIDIRON GAMES UNDER ARMY REGIME. (Special to The Broad Ax.) With the exception of the Washington-Nebraska game at St. Louis Saturday, wheih will practically determine the Missouri Valley conference c hampion, the game between Camp Dodge and Pike at Little Rock on the same day and the clash between the Great Lakes and a coast eleven in Pasadena on New Year's day, the 1918 football season is now a matter of history, but there have been some incidents in games which the public does not know. In former years games have been called off because southern players refused to play against teams including one or two Negro players. This has been especially true in the Missouri Valley conference and among other teams west of the Mississippi river. White Tackle vs. Negro. Last Saturday at Des Moines, Iowa, aid Camp Dodge struggled to a scoreless tie. As in the case with service elevens this year, officers, privates, and professionals were permitted to play on the teams. The DoDdge team had Maj. Bradley of the regular army playing right tackle, while opposed to him was Slater, the giant Negro tackle of the Hawkeye team. Maj. Bradley hails from a town in the southern part of Missouri. He had been born and brought up along the strict southern lines of relationship between whites and Negroes. Before the game started Maj. Bradley was asked if he cared to play against Slater, and replied in the affirmative. Fair Play Is Shown. The writer was an official in this contest and was warned beforehand to be on the alert for foul tactics. A few plays was enough to convince anyone that the best of feeling existed between the pair. On several occasions, Maj. Bradley helped Slater to his feet when the latter was handled roughly. The conduct of these players brought forth much favorable comment from high officials in the army and those identified with the university. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE Tuskegee Inst., Ala.—The Twenty-eighth Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held at Tuskegee Institute beginning Wednesday, January 22, 1919, and concluding Thursday, January 23. The conference opens with the annual conference of Negro farmers, at which time the subject: "Meeting the Needs of the Farmer in the After-War Situation" will be discussed. The Annual Workers' Conference on Thursday, January 23, will have for the general topic: "Education and Occupations in the After-War Situation." In commenting on the conference, Dr. R. R. Moton, Principal said: "The conclusion of the terrible war brings the whole world face to face with the problem of adjustment and reconstruction. It is therefore fitting and appropriate that the discussions of the Conference this year should be HON. PETER M. HOFFMAN The popular Coroner of Cook Count day and night in order to person ing to his office. confined generally to the subjects which have a direct bearing on the present situation. The history of the conference, which was organized by Tuskegee's Founder and first Principal, is a definite and constructive contribution to the material progress of the Negro race in the South, and whatever helps the Negro helps the South. THE TEXAS FELLLOWSHIP CLUB CAMPAIGN FOR NEW MEMBERS. There are a number of clubs in Chicago among our young people. It is one of the healthy signs of positive growth and development. They stand for some determined promotion of a noble principle which is to carry us "We shall put forth every effort to secure if possible some reductions in railroad rates for the accommodation of the delegates and every indication points to a large attendance in January." THE CROSBY CONCERT COMPANY CONTINUES TO MEET WITH SUCCESS THROUGHOUT ARKANSAS AND OTHER SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH. Mrs. Ophia Brown-Wells, Is One of The Drawing Cards. The Crosby Concert Company, which started south from this city, the latter part of October; has met with great success in that section of the country. Mrs. Ophia Brown-Wells, is with the company as piano accompanist and soloist and her singing and playing catches and delights the people wherever she appears. Mr. James Crosby, the manager and star; is a comedian of no mean ability and he understands the art, of-entertaining the public. Madame Hattie Lucas, the Prima Dona, has a charming stage appearance and she has a sweet mezzo soprano voice and on all occasions she completely captivates the people. The Crosby Company, is meeting with great success everywhere and at a concert given at Brinkley, Ark. the latter part of last week; the following program was rendered, which was well received: 1. "America," with the Company assisted by the Audience. 2. Mrs. Ophia Brown-Wells, in a Piano Introduction, "Lachasse Infernal, Grand Gallop Brilliant." 3. James Crosby, Monologue Songs: "Memories," "What Kind of an American Are You?" 4. Madame Hattie Lucas, Prima Donna, "Because I Love You, Dear," "Rose in the Bud," "Spanish Love." 5. Mrs. Ophia Brown-Wells, Polonaise in A. 6. James Crosby, Recitation, "Kelly's Dream," "Kaiser's Dream." Song, "Cottage, Some Roses and You," "Let's Be Ready." 7. Madame Hattie Lucas, "Spring's Awakening." Grand Finale, "America," by Company and Audience. WASHINGTON CHURCH BURNS MORTGAGE. Washington, (Special).—Mt. Zion M. E. Church celebrated last week, its 102nd anniversary. Mortgage burning took place on Wednesday night. $6,300 was raised in the last two years under the direction of the pastor, Dr. D. D. Turpeau. ty who is always willing to work hard nally conduct all of the affairs pertain- THE TEXAS FELLOWSHIP CLUB CAMPAIGN FOR NEW MEMBERS. There are a number of clubs in Chicago among our young people. It is one of the healthy signs of positive growth and development. They stand for some determined promotion of a noble principle which is to carry us farther and higher toward success. Organization is a manifestation of a united people. A united people is a mighty force. They can do almost anything if they are properly united and properly led. The one great thing that is needful in our race life is the formation of plans to establish among us a great department store. A great department store operated by us will help to solve many problems. Until such a thing can be done. The Texas Club is making a campaign for membership. They are trying to get the people who formerly lived in Texas to come together, form a great organization and then invite other clubs of Chicago to affiliate with them in a larger body to the end of carrying forward the great department store idea. The fool has already said, "It can't be done." It can be done and it will be done. We've got to commence to do business on the large scale. We've got to begin to do some of the selling of everything we have to wear, and eat to the larger portion of ourselves who have to buy. We've got to awake, and let the other people who make sentiment take notice that the Negro has some power, and can use it wisely. BETHEL LITERARY. The season's most instructive and historical lecture was given to the members and attending visitors of Bethel Literary last Sunday afternoon by Mr. Julius F. Taylor. His subject "The History of the Ancient Egyptians" was interestingly listened to and applauded by those present. Next Sunday, Dec. 8th, at 4 p.m. Attorney W. E. Mollison will address the Club. Mrs. Geraldine Withers in connection with her usual good music has secured additional numbers on her program. Everybody invited. Admission Free. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x ADVERTISING SOLICITOR WANTED. A live hustling advertising solicitor can make good easy money, by addressing Julius F. Taylor, 6206 S. Elizabeth street; phone Wentworth 2597. Rev. W. D. Cook, Pastor Sandy W. Trice, Pres. J. W. Bell, Secretary. 1 HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN One of the most popular judges of the assisted on Monday, to make H of this County. One of the most popular judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County; who assisted on Monday, to make Hon. Charles W. Peters the new Sheriff of this County. Mrs. Henry Davis Middleton is a recent arrival from New York City where she spent several very pleasant weeks with her cousin. Attorney J. Gray Lucas, returned home from Columbus, Ohio, Thursday morning where he was engaged in a very important law suit in that city. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis ,have rented out their eleven-room home, at 3226 Prairie avenue, and they are now occupying a small apartment at 3710 Indiana avenue. The Searchlight of Seattle, Wash.; The Monitor, Omaha, Neb; The New Idea, Galveston, Tex; The Eagle, Los Angeles, Cal., have recently quoted editorials from The Broad Ax. Miss Louise Sanders of 218 West 136th St., New York City, who has been spending a fortnight in our city visiting her brother Mr. Wm. Sanders, returned to her home last week by the way of the Michigan Central R. R. Attorney William J. Latham, 6 E. 31st street, corner of State, whose card appears in another column of this paper, states; that each and every week, The Broad Ax, contains some highly interesting articles, which are worth any one's time to read. Mrs. Pearl M. Warner, 5225 Dearborn street, is full of energy and ambition. She is organist of Ebernezer Baptist Church. She is an expert piano accompanist at many social functions. She is also stenographer in a real estate office at 3906 Indiana avenue. Mrs. Anna C. DeAcklen of Nashville, Tenn., sojourning in London, England, for the last twelve years, at 11 Vasal Road, Brixton, has been passport by the United States. Consul at London for her safe return to the United States.—Mrs. DeAcklen is the mother of Dr. D. Wm. DeAcklen, the optometrist, located at 4700 State St. Mr. Joel Rogers author of "From Superman to Man" is to offer another new and valuable addition to Negro literature in the very near future. It deals with Racial Intermixture and the purpose of the author is to give the natural reasons why Negro and Caucasian are mixing in spite of opposition. Very much credit is due this rapidly rising author for his painstaking CHIPS detail and engrossing matter. He is certainly striking at the root of things. Mr. W. H. A. Moore the poet has been invited to appear before Chicago's ultra, and exclusive literary set, The Chicago Ethical Society.—He has been asked to arrange a program of his own original writings.—The Broad Ax will be represented by Dr. M. A. Majors and the event is one of the incidents, however collossal, of the Association of Negro Authors of which Mr. Moore is a member.—"Judge" W. H. A. Moore is accredited with the honor of being America's greatest Negro poet.—"C." Mr. Henry Davis Middleton is again at his literary desk, turning out stories fabulous with glittering generalities from his rich store house of imagination.—He has studied the art, and learned that proper arrangement of fact and fancy go together in marshalling the elements that make rich reading.—No doubt in the very near future interesting things pertinent to race literature will find their way into the columns of some of America's big magazines.—Mr. Henry Davis Middleton is on the job. Mrs. Edith Woodlee, the able secretary of The Texas Club has returned from Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where she got much needed rest, after a lingering illness of several weeks. Under the medical care of Dr. M. A. Majors she has been brought back to health, and is able to resume her manifold duties.—She is the devoted wife of our old friend Mr. James Woodlee who enjoys a coveted birth in the U. S. government service, a big city tax payer, and one of the big Negroes of Chicago.—Mr. Woodlee won distinction by his able management of The Voice of The Negro which was published at Atlanta, Ga., before the Atlanta riot in 1906. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX WITH "OUR BOYS" ON SACRED SOUL OF FRANCE Commandant of Casualty Camp Says "No Better Soldiers Than Colored—Extends Marked Courtesies to Special Correspondent. Something About the Historic Castle of Blois — "Essential Service" of Energetic Stevedore Regiments—Colored Soldiers Saving Money for Proverbial "Rainy Day." By RALPH W. TYLER, Accredited Representative of The Committee on Public Information. historic old Castle of Blois, perhaps the most famous chateau in France, which although erected in the thir- SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.—I have just returned from a five days' stay at an S. O. S. camp at which I met a number of Colored officers who are there either as the result of wounds or awaiting reclassification. This particular S. O. S. camp is casualty camp also to which are sent all officers, white as well as colored, who are to be reclassified as the result of wounds or other causes. Here I met Majors Arthur Williams and Charles L. Hunt, of Illinois; Captain C. L. Hill, of Chicago; Lieutenants E. S. Gillard, Indianapolis; D. W. Anthony, St. Louis; Birney Cox, Columbus, Ohio; D. E. Simelton, Chicago; Fred D. Porter, Waco, Texas; U. Gaines, Junction City, Kans.; Herdon White, Portland, Maine; B. F. Rudd, Springfield, Ohio; D. C. Allen, Springfield, Ohio, and Walker of Springfield, O. Lieut. D. W. Johnson, surgeon, of Coloumbs, Ohio, is permanently stationed here, attached to the medical corps. I have never, during my stay in France, been accorded such courteous and considerate treatment as I was accorded by General Rosenbaum, the commandant at this camp. He personally conducted me through the barracks on foot, and then accompanied me, in his automobile, on a tour of the grounds. He assured me, and I later confirmed it in conversation with the colored officers, that there is absolutely no discrimination, because of color, tolerated at this camp, either in barracks, mess or other assignments. He spoke most highly of the Colored officers and soldiers stationed at this camp, and said he was perfectly willing to be quoted as saying the colored men under him were splendid soldiers. He apparently took great pride in telling of how quickly colored soldiers learned their duties, and how punctual and precise they were in performing duties. Another white officer at this casualty camp, whose considerateness off, and fine treatment accorded colored soldiers, entitles him to be mentioned in this letter, is Lieut. C. H. Hagar, of Chicago, who is in c harge of the officer casualty company. Every colored officer here speaks in the highest terms of Lieut. Hagar. Near here, and easily and quickly accessible from the camp, stands the A MISS JOSEPHINE POLK The Colored Lady who early on the morning of November 15th, 1917, shot down in cold blood Dr. James N. Harris in his office at 37th and State street, who was acquitted on Thursday in the Criminal Court for her red-handed deed. The Colored Lady who early on the morning of November 15th, 1917, shot down in cold blood Dr. James N. Harris in his office at 37th and State street, who was acquitted on Thursday in the Criminal Court for her red-handed deed. ARTICLE V. historic old Castle of Blois, perhaps the most famous chateau in France, which although erected in the thirteenth century, is still in a marvelous state of preservation. This old castle has tragic history. Here Louis of Orleans was assassinated in 1407, Louis XII was born, the Duke de Guise and his brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine, were murdered at the order of Henri the third, here Henri III himself was assassinated, and here Catherine de Medici reigned, poisoned her many noblemen and noblewomen who became victims of her displeasure, and here she died. As one noams through the corridors, royal bed chambers, libraries, counsel and throne and ball rooms of this historical old chateau, still rich in its original decorations and settings, the royal ghosts of the hoary past seem to pass in review before you. This old chateau, at divers times, was occupied by every one of France's reigning kings and queens down to Napoleon. To whatever point the many officers ordered here for reclassification, or recuperation, may be sent, they seem to find much satisfaction in having the unusual opportunity of visiting and roaming through the old historical Castle of Blois, which has defied six centuries to shatter or decay it. And the sleepy, historical town that lies below and around the Castle of Blois, with its incomparable architecture, its massive walls, its towns and interior decorations which the present day, with all of civilization's progress, cannot equal, unfolds to our colored soldiers so much of the past as to, at least partially, compensate them for having been ordered to this casualty camp located nearby, where seven real live generals, a score or more of colonels and lieutenant colonels and majors and captains and lieutenants too numerous to be mentioned, some of them colored, anxiously await further orders. Quite complacently, and unmurmuringly, they are doing the "Watchful waiting" stunt. Colored officers waiting reclassification form less then two per cent of the total number of this casualty camp, and only, perhaps, about one per cent of the total number of commissioned colored officers in the army. This is quite a tribute to the efficiency of colored officers. But who would not complacently and unmurmuringly wait where much of France's long past history was made? Here Victor Hugo once lived, and here he wrote [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. DR. GEORGE C. HALL One of the great boosters, for the Provident Hospital; warm friend and supporter of Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Ala. One of the great boosters, for the Provident Hospital; warm friend and supporter of Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, Ala. the first chapters of his immortal "Les Miserables"; near here still stands the castles of Cardinal Amboise and the castles of Cardinal Amboise and the Duke of Epernon; the church of Saint Vinbuiltcent, erected in 1620; and in which are the tombs of Gaston of Orleans and Mademoiselle de Montpensier; the church of Saint Laumrt, built in the 13th century, and the old College of Augustine-Thierry. Our colored officers at this casualty camp, while they dine and sip their Bordeau wine of a vintage old, but which contains not the least semblance of a "kick," discuss French history of the past, much of which was written in blood, that was made in and about the old Castle of Blois. Up to date, the most delightful hours I have spent in France were spent in this casualty camp, companioned by the colored officers before mentioned, many of whom I knew personally, roaming back through the days made forever historic by the Castle of Blois. At the present time, there rests in this old castle a number of treasured old paintings, brought here for safe keeping—to save their being destroyed by the hands of the impious Hun. COLORED AMERICA AND THE PEACE TABLE. "What wilt thou have," quoth God to man. Pay for it and take it. The world has been battling for world democracy. The fight is over. The victory is won.. We paid for our share in legal tender of blood and sacrifice—fought our share, lent our share, gave our share of loyal support in every way. Now will we do our share at making peace? The one big, burning question is the democracy of all peoples. We have a case in court. Will we present our demands at the peace table or will we wait until somebody else appoints us a representative or else go without one? The price exacted by democracy is that it must be preserved. This is true whether we take it or have it bestowed. The test of the fitness for it is the ability to maintain it. The plain duty lies ahead.. Go to. Come let us see to it that our own representative presents our own claims at the peace table. We are Colored Americans, an element numbering 12,000,000 denied thoroughly the world democracy for which this war fought by the Allies, the only element in the civilized countries which fought Germany proscribed and degraded equal status, even the welfare of natives in Africa, ahead of seeking to secure for us Colored Citizens of the United States of America the restoration of rights enjoyed by all other Americans, and whose efforts are exerted first for the liberties of anyone else, while our own race is being lynched, will be guilty of a wrong to our race hardly less than treason. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. God helps those who help themselves. Only when organized can we have strength. United we stand, divided we fall. If we do not unite and assemble now while the world is being made over we are not only lost and our children, but are ourselves to blame. ALDERMAN LOUIS B. ANDERSON, ENDORSED BY THE SECOND WARD REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION TO MAKE THE SECOND RACE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. WHEREAS, it is customary for the Second Ward Regular Republican Organization to espouse by endorsement, action, and unstinted support, a candidate for the office of Alderman, representing the Second Ward, and WHEREAS, the Alderman whose term expires in April, has by his intelligence, diplomacy and intimate knowledge of municipal affairs, reflected the highest degree of credit upon this organization, and rendered a stewardship for which no apologies have to be made, and WHEREAS, his vigorous support of all matters arising in the City Council, which reflected the policies and principles of Mayor William Hale Thompson, has in the highest degree voiced the wishes of his constituents, therefore. BE IT RESOLVED that the regular Second Ward Republican Organization in meeting assembled do hereby endorse Alderman Louis B. Anderson for nomination at the February primary, 1919, to succeed himself, and pledge its unqualified support by all honorable means to insure his renomination and election. THE BOYS OF THE LOUISE TRAINING SCHOOL ARE ENJOYING LIFE. The boys of The Louise Training School of Homewood, Illinois, were organized into The Parish Lawn Triangle Club on Tuesday, November 26, 1918, by Mr. Lloyd Stone of the Wabash Avenue Branch Y. M. C. A. The following officers were elected: President—Oliver Harper. Vice President—Devere Burrows. Secretary—Finley Brown. Captain of Yankees—Charles Wagner. Captain of Jackies — Benjamin Harper. The Parish Lawn Triangle Club will meet every Tuesday night under the leadership of one of the members of the Boys' Department of the Wabash Avenue Branch Y. M. C. A. Each meeting will be divided into three phases—1st Physical activities, 2nd Business meeting, 3rd Devotionals. In the winter the boys will be taught indoor basket ball, volley ball, and baseball. At other seasons they will be engaged in relay races, track meets and other outdoor activities. On Sunday, December 1, the boys were beautifully entertained by a group of Sunday School pupils from The Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church. These young people rendered a splendid musical program arranged by Miss Thelma Simons. Through the efforts of Mr. Stone the boys will be regularly instructed and entertained in a similar manner on Sunday afternoons. The entire management of the school keenly appreciate the value of these great advantages to the school, and are deeply indebted to Mr. Stone for his untiring efforts to promote the welfare of our work. big ‘ Fata: 4 2 = ‘ x ; g c ; P - — = se a Pe as % ' > + * i rp . ie : Lue x ; _ - ! + § S r j EPR PS RENCE EE ATE Con gi SEN ba i ia ta Sit oe Eee z se ah Ti eS alg 0 i BS = z a noni bo cain he ee Pi a a a 7h 5 ram ae ee, ¥ - tists i A i a eI Lis i a at aS = NE tna 5 Bi a id 4 hie es ah Lae ae ee ert — ee oe if a . NB, é ‘A : = } il wY i BAN VER CAS 6 et ‘4 AREY? © AN SS Ay i See ; a ‘Tea gown of mauve chiffon over flesh chiffon, with a velvet of deep pur- ‘pie. It is embroidered in silver; the cord at-the waistline is also silver. Next to it is shown a house gown built from a long straight strip of golden. brown satin embroidered with dull gold thread. Over this is tffown a tunic edged with brown fur. FAR UWIFSR APTrR House Gowns Are Adopted by the Conservative, Thus Sav- ing Other Clothes. VIVID COLORS ARE IN FAVOR Biack Velvet With Cream Lace, @ Fashionable Outfit for Formal Oc- easions—High Neck and the ’ Evening Wardrobe. ‘New York.—The kind and quality of street clothing has been well establish: ed since the first of October, even ‘though fashions, newer than Septem- er ones, infiltrate through positions strongly held. For house costumes, however, there is no well-defined line of action, writes a leading fashion au- thority. A European once sair that Ameri- can women were divided into two classes: those who changed their cos- tumes for dinner and phose who did not, He might have added that the divisions also existed between those -who had dinner in the day and those who had it at night. It ts difficult to make a European take this statement seriously, for:he cannot imagine a civ- flized spot in the world where folk sit down to heavy courses of red meat, vegetables, and dessert in the early afternoon, He does not always remember that his own royalty have liked heavy din- ners before the sun went down, and he would explain that custom reason- ably by saying that such a custom did notdnterfere with the work of the day, as everyone rested after eating and, usually, retired early. The American world is getting along though in the cosmopolitan idea of having its most substantial meal after the acffvities of the day are over in order that comfortable digestion may take a leisurely course and the mind be allowed to rest from its labors. We are learning that a full stomach anda keen brain do not go together and when our millions of soldiers re- turn from a land where dinner, is an established pleasure of the evening the bomes of the country will probably change the dinner hour without real- izing that it is overturning a simon pure Americanism. Dressing for Dinner. ‘Whether or not the division between ‘those who dress for dinner and those ‘who do not, will be closed up, must be Jeft to chance. It is a custom that grows with Wealth and social sur- Foundings. It is not so much the choice of the individual as the set in Which one moves. ‘Women are like sheep, in that ghey @o whatever their friends do, as a rule, and follow the established rules of the herd. It is primal reasoning, ‘or’instinct, this, and few people break away from the accepted and uncriti- eerie nesonemes of which are units, %n some of the most culfured com- amunities it is the habit, for instance, to make a fresh toilet in the late af- ternoon, one which serves for the late dinner or supper that “follows and ‘these ‘very people may, and usually o, get into gayer and more formal lothes for some evening entertain- ‘ment that begins late. They keep ‘their decollete clothes for the public and not for their own family. © raed ite extiag howrs ts muss: We ee see ee ‘in buildings with ‘comr~nal eating rooms as the easiest way out of the servant preb- lem, the pressure to dress for dinner is too strong to be resisted, but a spe- ial kind of costume has been invented for this hour growing up out of the situation. It is the whole balance of @emand and supply which governs Progress. » . And there has come about over here still another fashion, the revival of an old one, whieh is the use of an elab- orate tea gown for those hours given over to the family and, possibly, a few intimftes, in the evening. “This, too, ‘saves the more formal evening clothes and {t spares the street gown. ‘There lies the crux of the situation: to spare the better class of clothes. New and Colorful Tea Gowns. When a fashion gets good headway, variety indesign and ingenuity keep it rolling. Now that the women with thelr seamstresses follow the dress- makers in achieving cleverness in these tea gowns that have nothing in common with wrappers the fashion is well established and new glories re- modeled from past glory is quite the boast of the average women. To achieve something colorful and clever in this line fs woman's favorite indoor sport this season. As the winter ad- vances the costumes take on more bril- Nancy and depth and velvet is con- stantly used, if not as an entire robe then as a voluminsus cout that keeps: one warm. * Many of these long coats are as vivid as those worn by the Slavs dnd metal is lavighly used. ‘The foundation robe is of chiffon over taffeta or satin and several colors throughout. One of the foolish fashions is to follow the French trick of cutting the sleeves short, leav- ing the arms exposed. No one knows why Paris found herself disposed to try out anything as foolish as this dur | ing a time when coai is disieu't to ge and leather for cloves almost prohibi- tive. Don't adopt it. Cut sleeves long. When One Leaves the House. All tea ‘gowns are not after these elaborate designs, however, so the woman who courd and would not wear such costumes at her table and in the sitting room, can fiud pleaty‘of admir- able ideas for the reconstructing of ancient and honorable dance clothes into more demure house gowns. The idea is rampant. It is left to the in- dividual to work it out according tc her purse, inclination, environment. Reaction Always Follows. This is natural. Anyone who wili read: the past as a means of appre- ciating and understanding the present and immediate future will learn much that otherwise will seem new and un- precedented. All periods of depres- sign and repression have been followed by a joyous reaction in women's ap- Parel, and ‘often in men’s clothes af well, It was the tremendovs swing of the pendulum away from the rigid sway and reign of death and privation of “Cromweil's domination over Great Britain that brought about the excess- es in apparel for which the reign of Charles II was conspicuous. As one clothes historian tells us, It was the saving of material and all other extravagances during Cromwell's era that amassed the fortunes that went toward the utmost follies in clothes during the restoration. It may be that we will see the same sort of reaction. It happened“in Paris after the allies finally defeated Napoleon, and the duke of Wellington, with’ his colleagues, occupied Paris. Those were exciting days of pleasure, Lady Shelly says in her letters, and women of all countries went into the greatest excesses in clothes and gayety. So it is better to be whrned by history as wo what to expect. | ; AMONG THE NEW SWEATERS Sleeveless Garments Made of Ribbon; ‘One With Long Ends Which Tie im the Back. “Ribbons and laces and feminine have been so continually linked together In verse that one suggests the other to the mind of the average per- son and in consequence the new sleeve- less sweaters made of ribbon seem the ‘most delightfully feminine of all such garments. < ‘They are by no means as impracti- cél as they séund elther, and fan be recommended both for beauty and for warmth. The very narrow baby ribbon ‘in any shade can be used and with large knitting needles one could easily duplicate the sweaters now on sale in the shops. Most of them are purled about the waist and are finished off with bow-knots, but of course they could be made as’elaborate or as plain ‘as ope desired. The riffon being se much heavier than the average wool, it requires fewer stitches, but as it does not stretch as much as wool does one must be careful to ‘allow plenty of leeway to slip it on over the head. Another new type of sweater that is proving very popular is the one with long ends which cross in the front and tie in a sash at the back. These are newer than the slip-on sweaters, but are a little harder to make. They should be very loosely knitted, of ‘course, and the sleeves may be knit- ted kimono style or made afterward and set In. As for the sweater itself it starts at the waist line in the back, and is knitted like the ordinary sweat- er up to the neck. ‘Then when the stitches are cast off and the shoulder knitted, the fronts are done separate- ly, adding on two stitches at every row until the bottom ts reached, and then a narrow sash is knitted and fas- tened to the end. These are only pretty whet they are done in what some people call “in and out” stitch, that is knit a row and purl row, so that there are no ribs to show, and should be done on very large needles. Needless to say, these are made of one of the new wool substitutes. VEILS ARE NOW THE RAGE Face Covering Has Gained a Promi- fence That Has Not Been Equaled in Many Years. In looking over present modes, notes @ fashion correspondent, we can sure- ly say that the accidentals seem to be more important than the key itself. ‘Take vells, for example. Perhaps you have not been addicted to veils for some time. No matter. This year you will go out and buy yourself one. Veils are now raging with a virulence not known for many a day. For morn ing wear those of the best taste are fine mesh varie¥es, often with a georgette hem attached with French knot variety. For more elaborate oc- cawions this accessory becomes more and more skittish. Thus we have all sorts and condi- tions of hems for veils. It may be chenille clover leaves with jet blos- soms, it may be ostrich blue embrold- ery, and again, your hem is apt to be edged with duvetyn matching the duvetyn of the turban. Another pop- ular conceit at present 18 to border the vell with the same material and color which face the hat brim. So one can take the black veil with hen- na or with taupe. There is no end of flavorings for this accessory. Hats, too, are doing much to enliven. the dress world. Feather tams are seen occasionally now. So is the hat trimmed with cock feathers—a pleas- ant little souvenir of the gay Italian bersaglierl who, with thelr fluttering plumage, marched down the avenue dyying the Liberty loan drive. Many of the smartest hats are of black and, some of them show little trimming. SMART COAT OF TAN VELOURS 4 : iaVh | i A ‘This attractive coat of tan velours corduroy is a very stylish and serv jeeable garment for afternoon and evening wear. The lines are full and loose and an interesting cape makes an effective item en i a - ; Ve One-Piece Dress Important Part of the Wardrobe. Tailored Frocks, Not Suits, Predom- inate in Fashion Thoroughfare Dur- Ing Shopping Hour. ‘The one-piece dress for street wear Is by far the most important single Item of a well-dressed woman's wardrobe. Selecting garments for wear ‘at home, whether for morning, after- noon or evening, is a simple task. Making these garments is equally stm- ple; but a woman's reputation for be- ing well or poorly dressed depends upon the selection of her street appar- el.‘ The guit long ago took second place. , The fact that many sult manu- facturers have Included dress lines in thelr output during the past few sea- sons helps to prove this, if any proof fs needed. A glance at any fashion- able thoroughfare is another proof. Fully 80 per cent of the women seen during any popular shopping or prom- enade hour will be found garbed in tailored frocks, not suits. Each season brings out its own spe- cial colors, with navy blue always in the lead, and this year much black Is being worn. It Is not the dull, lus- TT) ul Tailored Frock of Black Velvet. terless black of mourning, but black satin and velvet and fine black velours. The semitailored street frock _shown in the sketch would be smart made of black velvet embroidered in color and with a touch of color on the collar, sleeves and belt. The skirt of this dress, while straight, shows a ‘cleverly arranged fullness, with the “upper part gathered in to the deep straight band at the foot. ‘The dress fastens at the left front and on the shoulder. Inasmuch as a great deal of fur is being used as a trimming for street dresses this season, the frock shown would be handsome made of velvet in black or color with wide skirt band, girdle, collar, and cuffs of a flat fur such as Hudson seal, beaver, nutria, squirrel, kolinsky, etc. If fur is used to trim the dress a muff and little fur toque te match may be supplied, and @ charming outfit be the result. OILCLOTH FOR GAME TABLE Substitute for Linen Now in Marked Demand and Serving Numerous Good Purposes, The vogue for using ollcloth, or any one of the new compositions which go under the same name, in place of linen is growing apace. And now comes the most serviceable game table cover of the olicloth stenciled in the corpers with appropriate designs. The advan- tage of such a cover can easily be ap- preciated when one considers how easy it is to wipe off the cover with a damp cloth after a strenuous game. Tapes stitched across the corners tie it to the legs of the table. And again comes olicloth in the very place where you might expect4o find it—for a tablecloth and bib for the kiddie. ‘This time the sanitary mate rial is a light biscuit color and is sten- ciled in brown with ‘nursery charac- ters. A band of the brown paint around the edge of bib and tablecloth —which is really only a place cloth, large enough to fit thé tray of the high chair—4s the only finish necessary. ‘The Voque of the Panel. ‘The vogue for loose fying panels on dresses seems to be increasing as the Season develops. At first confined to the back, there loose and full-length panels are seen now on both front and back of formal, semiformal and after- noon frocks, They are frequently of a material diffetent from that in the body of the dress and sometimes are of a different color. The combination of sag- im and serge ts seen a great deal and, where the dress is all silk, the body of the garment may be of a shiny ma- terial while the panels are duil finished theugh of the same color. WAIST Or FLESH GEORGETTE {7 > > CN eal pa : Lys Simple yet extremely becoming is this bijou waist of flesh georgette. The double collar of knife plaiting, the turnback cuffs, held by bows of moire silk and the box plaits with an inter. esting line of hemstitching through the center are items worthy of note. BEADED NOVELTIES ARE HERE Woven Chains for Neck Wear Among the Attractive Trinkets Which + Have Been Imported. Among the trinkets which have been imported to this country and are sell- ing in various places are chains to be worn around the neck. “To say that they are woven does not in the least degree describe the intricacy of the patterns and designs. One, for instance, of electric blye and silver beads, is woven in patches about an inch and a half long by a half inch wide, strung together by a dozen or more strands of the beads, on straight strings, these strands being, again, about two inches in length. At the end, for a pendant, there is a square, dangling midway between the throat and waist, woven in an en- largement of the pattern displayed in the other bits of weaving. The pat- tern is not distinct. It has an elusive way with it, being a design in the shiver with a background of the shim- mering blue beads. This chain, or whatever you wish to call it, was worn with a street gown of black satin. The gown itself was entirely without trimming and it had one of those very popular and beauti- ful neck lines reaching in a straight line from shoulder to shoulder. This enabled the chain to show against the whiteness of skin for a space, and then to appear shining against the shiny blackness of the satin. ‘The effect was decidedly interesting, and the beads held one’s attention as a besatiful jewel might have dome. GOWNS. AND HATS OF WHITE ‘These Promise to Be Prime Favorites This Winter, Velvet to Figure Saati _ White is to have a vogue this winter. Long white coats are-very smart in- deed. So much is white to be in evi- dence this season that smart milliners are bringing out many hats of white velvet, or at least showing some trim- ming of this sort introduced here and there. After one has left youth far behind white needs most skillful treat- ment to be worn becoraingly. It is al- ways best to subdue it wherever pos- sible with some beading or overdrap- ing of latticed effect. Nothing could be prettier than the new dinner gowns of white velvet. ‘They are unrelieved by any sort of or nament. Now that well-dressed wom- en do not wear jewelry of any sort, there is not even a gleaming diamond Permitted to be worn with these dead white frocks. No sleeves, no corsage decorations and no sashes appear. One. can readily see that only the freshness of youth and the most pronounced beauty can successfully carry off a white velvet frock. They may be summed up in the brief verdict: Beau- tiful—at least to behold. Along with the vogue of white is that for a combination of black and white, always much favored, but again a fashion demanding skillful treatment to be successful. EXTRA WARM EVENING WRAPS Favored Garment Folds Around Figure and Has Double Thickness . Over Chest. Certain economists buy a semiform- al frock that will serve for gay hours between four and twelve p. m. with its own coat, which relieves them from the purchase of an extra evening coat, or keeps the one they possess for use for special occasions. This is after all, ‘an extravagant trick, the qritics say, for one warm long coat should serve. ‘The wrap of the hour is warm and heavy. It is no longer of chiffon nor does it show itself in cape form. It folds around the figure and has a double thickness over the chest. Furs are heaped on it, and, often, there is a return to the fashions of Charles II in the loose undersleeve of fur that ‘comes out from the wide upper sleeve. This idea, by te way, is carried out in a few street clothes, and it catches the fancy of those who abominate the hiatus between the edge of a flaring sleeve and the hand. And such sleeves ate watm. They act like a paéded muff, Infinite Variety and Non- fs Built Alike. Straight and Narrow Most Promineng, With Only Sign of Any Breadth at Waistline. ‘The dresses are the great achiogg, ments of a season that Is sill youne Among them there is an infinite yay ety and no one Is built exsctiy jy, the last one. For general lines they use these that are straight ant narrox the only sign of any breadth being seog at that unexpected place, the waistline The line of the waist has also droppeq perceptibly and no more do we see gy the daytime frock that waistline thy starts from a point somewhere uaje the arms, More likely is it t0 le sy Tunning around the hips or somerig, above them—never an inch aborey normal placing. The coat dress is new—and uty in the extreme. It 1s tallored quip formally, but it has probabilities tmp the Insertion of feminine diversiogy, that add much to Its interest. There Is one, for mstence, made of the popn. lar blue serge, that Is wrapped abot the form from shoulder to hem. The only variety jt shows Is where one side of the skirt laps over the other when there suddenly appears a sof satin lining of vivid green tone. Another one is made of dull gree velours, chemise ineut and with wide open kimon® sleeves. At the waistline, by way of a belt, a narrow piece of skunk fur fs seen, and, to repeat this note of black, another bit of the furis used at the left side of the standing collar, where it buttons tightly unde the ear. | Many of the collars on these siresses are made high and thick in appear. ance. None of them fit the neck as ig) seasons past. | It is almost necessary now to us! two materials in the shaping of a mod ish frock. The idea was started from a thought of conservation and it sur vives largely because of its sheet beauty. For afternoon and dinner gowns, printed silks and chiffons are used in combination with plain silks and chiffons. ‘Then for more works day oceasions combinations of wool and silk are more usual. ‘The straight flat panel is one of the successes of the day and is seen ia every possible phase. Usually, though, it must hang from shoulder to hem «t back, without any interruption as to waistline. In the front, however, i may be confined or not according t whim or taste. NARROW SKIRT, TUNIC BLOUSE Substitute for Tailleur Promises to & ‘One of Season’s Most Popular Garments. AS a compromise -between the coat suit and the slim frock which many women choose for autumn street weer there is a costume which may soon be overridden by popularity. It consists of a narrow skirt ‘and a tunic blouse that falls below the hips and is loese ly girded with a monastic cord. The blouse has no visible fastening. It ap parently does not open. In truth some of them do not open. They slip over the head and adjust themselves with the carelessnes of 2 peasant’s smock. If they were tightly banded ‘at the waistline with yards of brilliant material they would be def- nitely Arabian and quite brilliant in effect. They do not permit a girde to touch them. ‘They have a monk's cord carelesslf) twined below the waistline, knotted and dropped in tasselled ends at front) or side. ; AFTERNOON GOWN IN BRONZE gone ia Pill | z | at os ‘The basque has reappeared. Here is an Interesting illustration of its us? In an afternoon gown of bronze satin crepe. The side opening is an attrac” tive feature, and the oddly cut buttons with the finishing touch of mole at the neck add to its beauty. Residence, 1262 Macallister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 Attorney At Law Suite 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1239 CHICAGO Residence: 508 East 36th Street Phone Douglas 4307 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law Suite 815 Hartford Building 8 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. 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McCahey, Trusees Tel.: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN ESTABLISHED 1877 Wholesale and Retail COAL Fifty-First and Federal Sts. CHICAGO PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. "Take that picture out of your display window immediately!" demanded the lrate woman. "I am surprised that you would exhibit my photograph to the common gaze!" "Awfully thoughtless of me!" said the photographer a few minutes later. "I should, have remembered that she liked the profile best." And the profile was substituted for the offensive front view in the display window, and all were happy ever after.—Kansu's City Star. Smoke Wood for Haddocks The historic wireworks at Tintern, England, in which Sir Francis Bacon had a share, are being used as a wood-turning factory, and the waste shavings are sent to Scotland to be used for smoking haddock, as the smoke from the locally grown hard wood has a peculiar sweetness which makes it of special value. Getting Too Realistic Rosemary and her brother Edward were playing when Rosemary said: "Nqw, let's play supposing you be papa and I'll be mamma." The game proceeded nicely until Rosemary said: "Papa, Edward was a bad boy today." Whereupon Edward said: "Oh, I ain't going to play no more--you're not supposing, you're playing real." Sleep Over It. Here is a suggestion that may save you life-long remorse: When you have an important decision to make, sleep over it. I don't mean that when you meet a bear on a narrow trail you should take a nap before you decide whether to advance or retard. You know what I mean.—Los Angeles Times. Not So Deep An elderly lady who was about to cross the Atlantic for the first time was warned by a nervous neighbor of the danger of the "great deep." "Aweel, aweel," she replied, "it's been a dry summer, and I think the sea'll no be very deep." Lark Not an Early Riser. Investigation has ruined the lark's reputation for early rising. That much-celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does not rise till long after chaffinches, linnets and a number of hedgerow birds have been up and about. Use for Preludice. Prejudice must serve some useful purpose since we all have it. Demosthenes valued distrust. When the argument of antecedent probability is shelved for all time there will be no partisans, no nations—only uncared for cemeteries. Tester for Fountain Pens. Fountain pens are tested by an instrument called a micrometer. If one piece of the mechanism is out even a six-hundredth part of an inch it is rejected as faulty. Exactly. The reason why more of us aren't notable may be seen by separating that word between the third and fourth letters.—Boston Transcript. Not the Road to Wealth. "Time is money," said Uncle Eben; "but jes' de same de man dat finds himself wif a lot o' time on his hands has made a pore investment." Their Needs. Said the facetious feller: "What a hungry man wants is a reg'lar meal. What the dyspeptic requires is a meal, reg'lar." It is believed that, of all the states in the Union, Vermont has the largest number of rare and beautiful ferns. Cause of Roar of Waterfalls. The roar of a waterfall is produced almost entirely by the bursting of millions of air bubbles. Optimistic Thought Optimistic thought The desire of more riches is want, and want is poverty. KINKY HAIR Atlanta, Ga. Exelento Rent Co. Gentlemen. My picture shows you what your line EXELENTO QUININE POMADE that was my hair. Before I used it, my hair was the same, and now it is 24 inches long, and so thick that I can do it up any way I want to. JANIE RANDA Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. Usually can't straighten your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE POMADE does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Root of the hair, and makes it grow times you can tell the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fix it up to suit you. If Exelento don't do as we claim, we will give you stamps or coin. 25c by mail or receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write For Particulars. EXELENTO MEDICINE Co., Atlanta, Ga. ```markdown ``` Don't Make Any Engagement That Will Keep You From Attending the 1st Regiment, Uniform Rank, K. of P. ENTERTAINERS HALL, 35 St. and Indiana Ave. Famous New Orleans Jazz Band and Orchestra ADMISSION 50 CENTS To Consumers of Gas: About Gas Bill Errors Complaints of the been unusually free Mistakes will happen to send out between per month, as well of customers filling percentage of bill of the gas bill due to the follower. Since the war began nearly 600 of our drawn away a still last filled in harmony wendations—women. The personnel in it tirely changed in the them several times. in. We have now we had before the business to care for short-handed because work, no matter he has a large clerical. The recent influenza. Our meter-rements, which get hardest. A consequent errors in bills of the. These errors are be rected as soon as done to prevent error. Under the rule Utilities Committee lose their discovery of We do not gain by are working under only that our custom patience which the ditions pass, our the highest possible degree. The Peoples Ga SAMUE Complaints of errors in gas bills have been unusually frequent during the past month. Mistakes will happen in any business that has to send out between 650,000 and 700,000 bills, per month, as we do. The total complaints of customers filed with us are but a small percentage of bills rendered. Practically all of the gas bill mistakes happening lately are due to the following conditions: Since the war began, the army and navy have taken nearly 600 of our employees. War industries have drawn away a still larger number. Vacancies have been filled in harmony with the U.S. Government recommendations—women in place of men where possible. The personnel in many departments has been entirely changed in the sixteen months—in some of them several times. Green help has had to be broken in. We have now nearly 300 more employees than we had before the war, with practically no more business to care for; but many departments are still short-handed because inexperienced help does less work, no matter how willing. Every business that has a large clerical force has had similar experience. The recent influenza epidemic aggravated the situation. Our meter-reading and book-keeping departments, which get out the bills, have been hit the hardest. A consequence of all this has been the errors in bills of the past month. These errors are being promptly and carefully corrected as soon as detected, and everything that can be done to prevent errors is being done. In the meantime: Under the rules of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission, our customers do not lose their discount privileges during the investigation of complaints filed with us. We do not gain by inconveniencing our customers. We are working under abnormal conditions. We ask only that our customers extend to us a little of the patience which the times demand. As war conditions pass, our service will be restored to the highest possible degree of efficiency. Batavia is a city divided into two parts—Weltevreden, or the modern Batavia, and Benedenstadt, or Old Batavia. In the days of Batavia's prime, Old Batavia was known as the "Queen of the East," or, more appropriately, as the "White Man's Grave." Weltevreden is the section of Batavia in which the European residences, government buildings, shops and stores are located. It is a very attractive city, with wide streets, many garden features, good-looking buildings, spacious lawns and modern improvements. The girl who stretches every statement she makes out of all resemblance to the actual facts of the case may imagine she is strengthening what she is trying to say. But that is a mistake. People who listen to an exaggerated statement invariably discount it, and usually more then it deserves, and in addition they feel a distrust of anything which has to be so overemphasized. Every exaggerated statement is weakened in proportion us it is exaggerated.—Grit. To retain friends of the right sort means that one must prove a friend of similar caliber. But on the other hand, if a girl or woman is influenced only by display (which at best is an empty, shallow affair) she cannot hope to hold the sincere regard of persons who in truth are worth while. The really level headed girl will cling fast to the honest friends of other less palmy days—perhaps to the friends who make no display but who are stering through and through.—Exchange. How Vines Draw on Soil. Vines are said to extract yearly from the soil only about three-fourths of the quantity of potash and sulphuric acid that cereals take up. Optimistic Thought. Most powerful is he who has himself in power. Don't Exaggerate. To Retain Friend errors in gas bills have frequent during the past month. open in any business that has been 650,000 and 700,000 bills. do. The total complaints and with us are but a small bills rendered. Practically all mistakes happening lately are being conditions: the army and navy have taken employees. War industries have larger number. Vacancies have been with the U.S. Government recom- in place of men where possible. many departments has been en- tened sixteen months—in some of Green help has had to be broken nearly 300 more employees than war, with practically no more but many departments are still inexperienced help does less now willing. Every business that force has had similar experience. a epidemic aggravated the situ- aading and book-keeping depart- out the bills, have been hit the influence of all this has been the past month. being promptly and carefully cor- connected, and everything that can be is being done. In the meantime: us of the Illinois Public Mission, our customers do not grant privileges during the complaints filed with us. unconveniencing our customers. We abnormal conditions. We ask others extend to us a little of the times demand. As war con- service will be restored to the ease of efficiency. L Light & Coke Company L INSULL, Chairman Hugo's Description of Rhine. The Rhine is a stream of varied aspects. Victor Hugo, who wrote what was perhaps the finest article ever written about it, said: "The Rhine is unique; it combines the qualities of every river. Like the Rhone it is rapid; broad, like the Loire; enclosed, like the Meuse; serpentine, like the Seine; limpid and green, like the Somme; historical, like the Tiber; royal, like the Danube; mysterious, like the Nile; spangled with gold, like an American river; and, like a river of Asia, abounding with phantoms and fables." A Divine Melody. The world's history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and of every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and, though there have been mingled the discords of roaring cannon and dying man, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian—the humble listener—there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.—James A. Garfield. It Is a Little Strange. "This is a funny world," said the facetious feller. "Nothin'in ever said when a railroad man switches cars, or a musical cuss beats time; and a newspaper guy kin pound a typewriter till it shrieks for help and a bank clerk isn't worth shucks unless he strikes a balance every evenin', but jest let a feller tap a till real gentle like and without disturbin' anybody an' there's the darundest row that ever was."—Indianapolis Star. Need Animal Food. It has been found that such animal food as milk, eggs and meat contains growth-producing substances in quantities sufficient for the rapid growth and development of the body. While these substances are found in certain vegetables and grain, they are in quantities so small that often in the ordinary diet sufficient quantities are not consumed to meet the needs of the growing body. 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. The result of my campaign has built for me one of the largest and most magnificent establishments in the world. Consult me, I can save you Worry Shipping to all parts of the County Funerals a Specialty. Central D Chapel. Call promptly answered d Ernest H. Willi KENWOOD 455 Undertak 5028 and 5030 S. State St.. THE CI Apartment 3600 WAE The finest building ever o cago. Steam heat, electric Consult me, I can save you Worry, Time and Money. Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. THE BROADWAY The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance OWNERS DAN M. JACKSON GEO. T. KERSEY DAVID A McGOWAN AHMED A. RAYNER OPEN DAY The Ema Undertak 2959-61 So Reliable Service Reason FREE CHAPEL Complete Line of Funeral OWNERS AND DIRECTORS JACKSON JASEY GOWAN WAYNER Phones Calum Automatic 7 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT The Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Co., Inc. 2959-61 South State Street Service Courteous Reasonable Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION Line of Funeral Goods Automobiles DAN M. JACKSON GEO. T. KERSEY Phones Calumet 6164 DAVID A McGOWAN Automatic 71-629 AHMED A. RAYNER OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 2959-61 South State Street Reliable Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION Complete Line of Funeral Goods Automobiles for Hire A. F. CODOZOE J. H. WHISTON, Proprietors CHAS. HARRIS, Manager The B and 3030 STATE STREET FOR 2, 4, 5 and LAKEVIEW BUILDING The Elite Cafe and Buffet TE STREET FOR RENT 2,4,5 and 6 Room Flats VIEW BUILDING, 3100 ELLIS A 2,4,5 and 6 Room Flats LAKEVIEW BUILDING, 3100 ELLIS AVENUE Steam heat, hot water, electric light, wall beds, and strictly modern in every respect GEO. F. HARDING, J Phone Douglas 1 PATRONIZE O A. HARDING, Jr., REAL ESTATE Douglas 1 3101 Cottage C GEO. F. HARDING, Jr., REAL ESTATE OFFICE Phone Douglas 1 3101 Cottage Grove Ave. PETER B. Phone Main 263 As Your Telephone NCE IMMATERIAL City of this size, death knocks every some door. Too often that death ow, but misfortune as well. Let the funeral be a business proposition and it in service, quality and cost to you. The result of my campaign has of the largest and most magnificent NFORD Building AVENUE to Colored tenants in Chitile baths, marble entrance J. W. CASEY, Agent 133 W. Washington Street DIRECTORS Phones Calumet 6164 Automatic 71-629 END NIGHT Mel Jackson Bug Co., Inc. State Street Courteous Treatment Prices CONNECTION Automobiles for Hire AUTO. 72-379 Phones: DOUGLAS 3256 DOUGLAS 5071 Cafe uffet CHICAGO ENT Room Flats 100 ELLIS AVENUE REAL ESTATE OFFICE 101 Cottage Grove Ave. ADVERTISERS APPLY PAGE SEVEN LAUREL THE BROAD AX PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY In this city since July 15th, 1871 Republicans, Democrats, Catholics infidels or anyone else can have the proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper all, ever claiming the editorial not Local communications will run on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in One Year. Six Months. Advertising rates made known Vol. XXIV DECEMBER Address all co THE B 6206 South Elizabeth Phone Were JULIUS F. TAYLOR DR. M. A. MAJORS 4700 South Phone D IMPORTANT For resolutions, obituary no special announcements of events a sion is made, and the opening of cents per line; 6 words or fraction Personal or social items such everything of a general interest, Entered as Second-Class Matter, August Under Act of In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue, Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write plainly, only 4700 South State Street, Phone Drexel 1416 IMPORTANT NOTICE For resolutions, obituary notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, special announcements of events to happen, when a charge of admission is made, and the opening of new business enterprises, etc., 15 cents per line; 6 words or fraction makes one line. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879. That because you belong to the Negro race you should be more careful, and keep house in order, your yard clean and make less noise. That because you live east of State street, you are no better than a lot of people who live west of State street, because they prefer not to play exhorbitant rents. That because your skin is lighter than your neighbors, you are not better unless you act better, and live according to the prescribed rules of culture and decency. That worth makes the man or woman, the lack of it the fellow, and all the rest is leather and prunella. That eating pork every day, and often three times a day makes your skin rough, your hair brittle, and that you are laying the foundation for consumption, scrofula and a poor constitution. That late hours, big suppers and cold drinks do not make you a sport, but it makes you extravigant, wasteful and poor. That a fool and his money is soon parted. That idleness leads to vice. That evil communications corrupt good morals. That the fool killer is neglecting his job. That you can blame no one but yourself.. That the fool has said in his heart there is no God. That you could have money if you knew the value of a dime. That the reason people find fault with others is because they are so faulty themselves. That no body believes you when you know too many peoples fairs. That by doing good, and acting right you are adding your mite to the sum total of lifes' true value. TO MOTHERS AND FATHERS Don't say we are meddling, and you won't. do it if you are one of the class that don't think your children are too dodgasted nice to receive instruction from you. We see evidences every day of human forms going to waste consequent of the ravages of disease, resultant either from hard head, or irresponsible parents who would have done better by a hound, a parrot or pet goat. Fathers and mothers use to care for their children. They would make them mind, teach them to be polite, compel them to study their books at night instead of roaming the streets, and retire at reasonable hours. Nowadays it is not the custom for parents to know very much about their children, that is after they reach the years of ten and eleven. Many parents don't seem to care, and what is most startling is that neither the parents nor the child are able to keep tab on the other. You read this and because you have never DON'T FORGET. 1899, without missing one single issue. Issues, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, their say as long as their language is is. other whose platform is broad enough for right to speak its own mind. receive attention. Write plainly, only in advance. $2.00 1.00 down on application. OBER 7, 1918 No. 12 communications to BROAD AX North Street, Chicago, Ill. Centworth 2597. Editor and Publisher Associate Editor On State Street, Drexel 1416 NOTT NOTICE Notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, to happen, when a charge of admis- f of new business enterprises, etc., 15 on makes one line. such as marriages, births, deaths and published free of charge. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., 1 March 3, 1879. thought about it, at first glance you'd say it is not true. It is true. This is how the world gets its thieves, jail birds, chain gang, prostitutes murderers, gamblers, denizens of every form of vice that strings the putridity of crime upon their befouled and outcast names.—Have you a daughter, son, or both? Don't think your children are so greatly different from any other children that they can get along without the constant admonition of kind parents.—Talk to them. AN, OLD MAN COUNCIL. There's nothing much boy to tell you, You see I'm old, and words from an old man Of your race, who had no chance to learn From books, aint sharp enough to cut into Your leather mind of youth, or else, for sake Of sisters I have loved, I might say to you Don't waste your time where bright lights shine Don't let your heart be where the love For the innocent and pure is not, take rest For tired nerves, but don't take drinks, and Playing games for others hard wages, It is to steal; the wit at winning is not To wear out muscle, not the grit that Makes men work that they might eat. A woman's eyes my boy! I know!! I know! Be careful, do not go too far, She may not love, may take you for a fool. If you are not, her cunning may seem Ugly.—And if you love where innocense Is not. Don't kill her boy! flee! flee! served that they were everywhere the wind had it lay, ugly, sent to our where all the lay were hot colored people suffer any of the other no litter, and For the longe ton and the of our race clean always trimmed, cut all things kept front curtaining boisterous The Broad Fenton John The Favorite is a splendid times, and praise than any kind that per live. We like son is a gen manhood. DR. M. A. EDITOR LOCKS H EVANS, THE CHI RIGHTS BELONG TO ALL MAITAIN YOURS. Why should a free people ask anybody for what nobody is able to give? Can a man or a race be given anything that is already theirs? Can a man or a race take my hat and keep it without violating law? How then can anyone deny me of my human equality rights? It can't be done, I may be restrained for awhile, and hindered temporarily only. All human kind are alike in all the human instincts, cultivation and intellectual refining influence have subdued in a great measure some of the grosser inclinations, while others have not enjoyed cultivation and intellectual refining influences.—And then after all.—Cultivation and intellectual, refining influences, makes up his mind to rob a bank, hold up an Express tran, operate a gambling house, set up a denizen shop of vice, and yet be white washed and receive the joyous tidings that white is emblematic of purity, while black represents the unwanted, yes three million mullattoes, octofoons, and quadroons eloquently ```markdown ``` EDITORIAL PAGE demonstrate the fact that black is not wanted.'—Well, anyhow your rights, privileges and immunities, are yours, keep them. If any one disturbs them or would deny you of them, do what you think the writer would do. Mr. Roosevelt is advising the Negro not to look for any very great change in the heart of the white (human) world, now that the great war is over. Mr. Roosevelt knows the white race better than most of us. We have an idea that three hundred thousand Negroes who have been wearing the uniform of America at the battle front in France will not be any more like dumb driven cattle, and the thing they (the southern whites) called weak in morals, low in spirit, and capable only for just certain kind of work and human appreciation. We have an idea that the people of America had better change in their methods and manners of treatment, for after all, what is the difference in getting hell shot out of you in France and shooting hell out of something in America, especially if they are giving hell to you, return it to them, and don't use any politeness. This is the new order, the rock ribbed resolve of every black man in khaki. If a man will die for his country, don't you think he has a right to fight to live in his country? If they won't let him live peacefully, then what? Passing along today on a street inhabited partly by our own race I observed that paper and trash and litter were every where. It seemed that the wind had blown it in spots where it lay, ugly, an eye sore and a deposent to our nerves.Exactly in front of where all this litre, trash and paper lay were houses, and flats occupied by colored people. By contrast we will suffer any way. Where the people of the other race lived was no trash, no litter, and no piles of torn paper. For the love of Douglass, Washington and the culture and refinement of our race, let us keep our fronts clean always, grow grass, keep it trimmed, cultivate flowers and above all things keep windows washed, and front curtains clean, and avoid making boisterous noise. The Broad Ax doffs its hat to Mr. Fenton Johnson who is publishing The Favorite Magazine, (weekly). It is a splendid contribution to our times, and well worthy of better praise than phrases. It is one of the kind that people read, and hence will live. We like it because Mr. Johnson is a genius, and its tone of race manhood. DR. M. A. MAJORS ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE BROAD AX, LOCKS HORNS WITH DR. W. A. EVANS, HEALTH EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Dear Sir:— I have read your column on Health for years. I will try to explain one or two points which seem to puzzle you. Negroes have been badly treated by the whites in this country, and chiefly because of white people flaunting their superiority. Artists in painting all good white, and all black bad, have indoctrinated in the minds and hearts of mankind throughout the world, a principle that is misleading and an ideal that is false, and hurtful to no other race, like it is to the Negro race. There is no superiority of races, there is a superioty among individuals. If there was superiority of races the Negroes should claim it. Civilization, ink, hyeroglyphics, language, alphabet, and inventive genius was born in Egypt. The Esquimau call themselves the superior people. Now as to fussing because some investigator has lied or told the truth, can't you see and understand why the intelligent Negro is sensitive? But MAKE THE CHANGE YOUR- SELVES. TRASH. Dr. Evans you do not know enough about the Negro race to write about it. You may have read all the books in print on the Negro race by white authors, but doctor, dear doctor the extremest lies set up to substantiate argument carries forward the splendid design of the author the purpose of writing the book, to establish the superiority of the white race. Very few men or women of your race have won prestige telling the living truth about your race and without varnish and tinsel. About the disease, wickedness, and pollution, the profligacy, the taint of blood—and Oh Doctor the great law of Eugenics, the fit, and unfit, the great blood festers, and capper blebs of that rampant and pernicious unclean disease that has held your white civilization by the throat for three thousand years and will not let you go, leaving the elemocenary institutions filled with the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane and crippel and twisted forms. The very scream of affrighte d nature manifested in human agony, eloquently ascribing their plight, sad inextremes to the harlotry, the debauchery, and the superiority of your white race. If sanitation, hygiene, and healthful surroundings are beneficial to humanity, and you admit this is essential, why do they, (your race) object to the Negro having them, by condemning them for moving out of squallor, poor and unhealthful surrounding to cleaner and more wholesome, hygienic residences? Dr. Evans, right living, and education are discordant, discredited, and disreputable. The Negro has no red light districts. You turn down our really educated men of rare fitness and ability, for some Negro whose grandmother was your nurse, and the only time we ever get on the front page of any of your daily papers is when some low Negro has committed a crime.. White people must awake from their Rip Van Winkle sleep and try to appreciate the great strides the Negro has made along all lines. Tis true the Negro tells you funny things to make you laugh. Here in Chicago we have a Negro who has been making monkey shines for your amusement, the owner of a seventy-two flat building. The tests the Negro met in military college, cantonement, hospital, questionaire, draft, Y. M. C. A. war work and battle front, while answering hundreds of other loud calls of his country, and meeting every demand put upon them like men, ought to make you white people look on Negro life and nature other than for insipid jocularity. I have noted lots of things Dr. Evans in your column just as misleading, as is your article about Negroes, having practiced a profession, the study of which gives man a broader view on the question of mankind and the races, I am surprised, as well as deeply chagrinned that such twaddle as yours should emanate from one who styles himself a physician. M. A. MAJORS, M. D., 4700 State St. Quick Work. Overheard at a county fair: (Intoxicated Man gazing in open-mouthed astonishment at an incubator just placed in floral hall and in which the chicks are beginning to hatch)—"These here incubators just beat anything I ever saw. I give you my word them eggs haven't been in here an hour and they are hatching already." To Have Men You're Go forth into the busy world and love it, interest yourself in its life; mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows; try what you can do for men rather than what you can make them do for you, and you will know what it is to have men yours, better than if you were their king or master.—Brooke Herford. Speed of Carrier Pigeons On fairly long journeys, say to 100 miles or more, the carrier pigeon will average a speed of from 37 to 43 miles an hour. The best horse in the world can only keep up a speed approximate to that for six or seven minutes at most. The pigeon's speed is about 33 yards a second. Teutons in History. The term Teuton is of Latin origin. In ancient times the part of Europe now embraced in Germany was called Germania, and one of the principal tribes of the country was called by the civilized Romans Teutons, just as we speak of the Apache Indian. Being a fierce and warlike people they gave the Romans a great deal of trouble, and as they were the dominant tribe of that region the name of Teutons gradually came to be applied to all the people occupying what was called Germania. It has survived in the form of Teutons. Rare Bank Note A rare English bank note is in the possession of a Mr. Vesey Holt. The note is dated 1821 and is the issue of the Bank of England. After the Napoleonic wars England was short of gold, and as a temporary expedient the Bank of England put a number of five dollar bank notes into circulation, until the gold reserve was restored. In appearance they closely resemble a twenty-five dollar note, and bear no likeness to the English paper money of today. Readers Must Be Trained In literature the reader as well as the writer must be trained. Many believe that if they can look at a printed page, and pronounce the words there presented, they are readers, but if you would appreciate the sense or nonsense of a piece of writing, you must have intelligence and experience even greater than is the average among scribblers.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. His Favorite Dish A Chinese merchant, being questioned as to his favorite article of food, prefaced his reply by stating that many foreign dishes which we consider appetizing are disgusting to the Chinese. With the way thus prepared, he announced that of all foods he cared most for a stew made of a particular kind of snake, costing from six to eight dollars. Flowers as Timekeepers The dandelions open in the morning and close in the evening at the same time every day. The hawk weed and goat's beard are quite as regular. If the right subjects were planted it would, no doubt, be possible to have a bed of flowers that would tell the exact hour of the day from sunrise to sunset. Aquatic Plants. Aquatic plants should not be planted in shallow ponds or lakes that freeze solid. No matter how thick the ice forms on the surface the plants will live if the water about them, under the ice, does not freeze. If ice forms about the roots of the plants they will be killed. The Comb Toter. Miss Myrtilla says she might in time grow to love a man who totes a little comb around in his pocket to comb his mustache with in public, but she's not going to try it unless there's a law passed requiring her to.—Macon Telegraph. Bough Dry. Eh. Elsie? "Ouch, mother." protested little Elsie, as ma accidentally touched a warm, hair-curler to Elsie's ear after a general facial laundering. "I don't mind having you wash my ears, but I wish you wouldn't try to iron" em." Investigate First. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Those who have get-rich-quick securities such as stocks and bonds that pay unheard of dividends are "deecing" many. Investigate such schemes before giving up your cash. A Morning Breeze The Jokesmith's Wife (2 a. m.)— "Aw, c'm on to bed, you! Want to sit up all night knocking the weather and us poor girls?" Well, what though the temperature was 100 degrees in the dark, the little remark caused a temporary coolness. All Is Not Lost Boys no longer have the opportunity to learn their lessons by the light of a pine knot. But opportunities to master draw poker in a quiet bay loft, and by the light of a smudged lantern still are available in many rural communities. - Topeka Capital. Hughes—Yuzoyka The first successful iron and steel mill in southern Russia having been established forty years ago by a man named Hughes, one of the largest steel centers in Ukralnia bears the name Yuzovka—in his honor—Gas Logic. Do Present Work Well. Some people hunt more important work to do instead of doing the work they find to do. Any work well done opens the way to some task of importance. Each one must work out his own salvation in conquering the habit of idle thought, and today is a good time to start the work.—Agnes Greene Faster. One of the many excellent stories told by Lady Jepson in her "Notes of a Nomad" concerns her godfather, "He came often to our house," writes the authoress, "having an obvious admiration for the pretty young aunt who lived with us. One day he called as usual and I at once climbed on his knees and stared searchingly into his clear, brown eyes. 'What's the matter, child?' said he, 'and what are you looking at?' 'Mamma said to papa,' quoth I, 'that you had a wife in your eye and I'm looking to see if I can find her.' Indian Summer Indian summer is the return of genial but not hot weather after sharp frosts. It is the moment when the door of the vestibule of winter is left standing ajar for a moment to let the light, and just a little—not too much of warmth of departing summer stream in. It is a season without a rival—briefer even than the briefest spring, tenderer than the softest summer; it is the anodyne of the year's woes and the promise and pledge of a man's restoration of Eden.—Exchange Birth of Great Organization The first organization under the name of the Young Men's Christian association was effected June 6, 1844, in England, due to the efforts of George Williams, for the purpose of prayer and Bible study. Library and reading room were later added, and lecture and other courses provided. The association in America is the outgrowth of the English movement in 1844. The organization in America now has almost a million members. Shocks Retard Drug Action "Shock retards the action of drugs" says the Revue de Medecine. "Frogs in a state of shock on a blow on the head or an electric shock did not respond to the effect of a poison until after a period of eight or ten times longer than under normal circumstances, even when strychnine, for example, was injected by the vein." Saves Space If you have not a kitchen closet to hang cooking utensils in, get a large box, place it in the corner nearest your stove, paper it inside and drive nails in the slides, on which to hang different articles. Have curtains for the front and cover top with oilcloth, which will also give you a handy kitchen table at a very small expense. "Know Thyself" When God gave you your talent, he knew what he was doing. Don't be ashamed of it. Don't try to hide it, because it is not of the showy sort. Don't try to twist it into something it was never meant to be. Nobody ever made a success, who was not content to use without apology the gifts that were his.—Exchange. Security Against Pellagra. Security Against Pestilence The United States public health service reports that the disease, peltagra, is largely, if not entirely, due to a faulty diet. When meat and milk are supplied in adequate quantity there is a practical security against this disease, which last year caused 3,700 deaths. Remarkable Mexican Bird A remarkable bird found in Mexico is the bee-martin, which has a trick of ruffling up the feathers on top of its head into the exact semblance of a beautiful flower; when a bee comes along to slip honey from the supposed flower it is snapped up by the bird. Three Good Rules for Life Make the best of everything; think the best of everybody; hope the best for yourself. By so doing you will be lifting yourself and those about you to a higher plane of living—Exchange. Wonderfully Small Portraits The smallest portraits ever made are in the National museum, the work of an Italian artist. Three portraits appear in a circular frame one-eighth of an inch in diameter. Get This Girls For ironing laces and dainty fabrics an iron has been brought out in England in the form of a polished steel roller fitted with electric heating units Had His "Doots" Sailor (as he gazes at his portion of corned beef) I—wonder if t is meat used to moo or whinny.—Boston Transcript. Health and Wealth The dollar mark is a sign of wealth but not health. Health without wealth is better than wealth without health It is possible for a man to have both Popular Kind of Freedom "Freedom to do what they ought not do," remarked the man on the car, "is the only kind of liberty that appeals to some fellows." -Toledo Blade. Optimistic Thought Self-adoration is the stock in trade of a fool.