The Broad Ax

MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN HAVE SIGNED PLEDGE CARDS FOR HON. THOMAS CAREY FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. The BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY VOL. XXIV CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 8, 1919. Hon. William L. O'Connell, Hon. John E. Traeger, Hon. James S. McInerney, Clerk of the Appellate Court, Former Alderman Thomas Nash of the Third Ward and Many Other Big Leaders and Followers of the Carter H. Harrison Wing of the Democratic Party Are Fast Falling in Line, For Hon. Thomas Carey, For Mayor of the City of Chicago. IT IS FULLY EXPECTED, THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, THAT HON. EDWARD F. DUNNE, EXMAYOR OF CHICAGO AND, EX-GOVERNER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS WILL RUSH OUT IN THE OPEN IN FAVOR OF HON. THOMAS CAREY FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. The wisest politicians in this part of the woods are now willing to admit that Hon. Thomas Carey is making great headway in his race for mayor of Chicago, that his stock in that direction continues to rise higher and higher every day. Mr. Carey and his political managers and assistants feel pleased over the fact that in as much as former mayor Carter H. Harrison will not enter the race for mayor at this time, that many of his most prominent leaders are fast falling in line for him. Mr James S. McInerney, clerk of the Appellate Court who has always been one of the main supporters of Mr. Harrison in all of his political battles now occupies a front seat in the Carey band wagon the following statement has been issued by Mr. McInerney. The chances are ten to one that if Mr. Harrison returns home from France before the February primaries that he will also join the Carey, forces Hon. John E. Treager, Hon. William L. O'Connell, former Alderman Thomas Nash of the Third Warf are among the many other strong supporters and followers of Carter H. Harrison who are working very hard for the nomination of Hon. Thomas Carey for mayor of Chicago. It is expected that the Hon. Edward F. Dunnet will also soon rush out in the open for him and from now on to the primaries thousands and thousands of all classes of friends of Thomas Carey will fall in behind him for mayor of this city. Many first class business men are in favor of him for mayor of Chicago and Mr. Peter J. Schaefer Vice-President of Jones, Linick and Schaefer the theatrical kings, and Mr. Schaefer's campaign slogan is "Carey or a curfew Law". Mr. Schaefer is also President of the Allied Amusement Association and he will round up thousands of votes for Mr. Carey, "I heartily indorse Mr. Carey as a broad liberal-minded executive to run this city's affairs". "We will be confronted with a curfew law if the reformers are permitted to have their wishes granted at every whim, as in the past," declared Mr. Schaefer. "And it means the driving out of business of many legitimate enterprises that should be thriving. It is time that Chicago should realize the war is over and loosen up a bit." At one of his recent meetings Mr. Carey reviewed the remarks of his only opponent Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer, wherein Mr. Sweitzer declared that "he would reorganize the traction system within ten days after taking office". "Sam Insull's 'good soldier' tells us that he will reorganize the dilapidated and crowded street car system of Chicago within ten days after his election," Mr. Carey declared. "Perhaps he will, under orders from Sam Insull and Roger Sullivan. But does he tell you how he proposes to benefit the people with any changes he may make? Of course not. And what does he expect to grant in return for any favors he may get from the traction companies in order to make good this-promise of better service? A ninety-nine-year franchise, or what? These are the issues in this campaign. "I urge you to keep in mind that a vote for Sweitzer is a vote for gas and traction monopoly of Chicago's public utilities for at least four years, and perhaps for many years after Sweitzer's term has expired: I stand squarely on a municipal ownership platform and the immediate construction of a modern subway. Let Sweitzer tell for what he stands." Up to the present time more than two hundred and twenty five thousand men and women have freely signed Mr. Carey's pledge cards for mayor of Chicago and among that vast number are many Colored men and women who are ready and willing to go over the top with him on primary day, Tuesday, February 25th. BY CARDINAL AND BY SPEAKER Cardinal O'Connel wrote to the Convention of the Jewish Ministers' Association in New York:— "It is indeed only natural that all peoples who have been suffering from tyranny and persecution, should look to the peace conference as a beacon of hope for the support of justice and the progress of the world." Speaker Clark of the National House of Representatives of the U. S., wrote to this same Jewish convention:— "I think the persecution of the Jews is the most idiotic and malicious performance known in the history of the human race. The conference that Versailles ought to see it is that they get a fair deal in the world. Personally, I am exceedingly fond of the Jews." M. 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. As for Hon. Moorfield Storey, honored head of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, he went to two meetings of the Boston Branch of the National Equal Rights League and positively endorsed the movement of the League's World Democracy Congress to send race delegates to the seat of the world peace conference. He declared that—"Whether these Colored delegates are admitted to the peace conference or whether they have to stand outside the door, their presence will be felt." At the second meeting Mr. Storey declared that these delegates might be refused passports. But "the attempt to send them shall be made and for the Colored race to fail to send them would be COWARDICE." DR. R. R. MOTON AND HIS TRIP ABROAD. Tuskegee, Ala., special.—Dr. R. R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, Addressed a large audience of students, teachers and visitors in the Institute Chapel last Sunday evening, and told something of his experi- ences and observations while in France. Among other things, he told the following very touching and significant incident: "We rode for about a thousand miles in the war zone, and every-where were graves, razed buildings, fields that had been plowed up by shells, until it became almost depressing. I afterwards came back down the mountains, riding in the automobile of the Commanding Officer. After a while this officer told the chauffeur to stop that we may get out, and we went over to a field where was a little grave yard with some fifty graves of colored soldiers. The officer, a Colonel from South Carolina and a West Point man, took off his hat, and as we stood reverently in silence, he presently said: 'These men, Dr. Moton, came over here with thousands of their fellowmen to fight for our country; for Democracy. I do not know how much about democracy they understood, but to me no braver soldiers ever faced an enemy than is true of these men whose remains lie here. These men gave their lives—all they had—for humanity, and I believe that America is going to accord them—those who go back, a fuller measure of citizenship than they have ever before received; at least I think it ought to do it." RELATIVES OF WOUNDED ENTERTAINED AT Y. W. C. A. HOUSE. A Y. W. C. A. Hostess House for the convenience of women relatives of wounded soldiers and sailors was opened recently, right opposite the United States Army Debarkation Hospital, No. 5, formerly the Grand Central Palace, New York. The house has sleeping accommodations for fifty-six people and will be managed in connection with the New York City Hostess House, which maintains a room registry for the aid of strangers in the city. The lower floor is given over to a lounge and information bureau, the second floor to a cafeteria where men in service and women relatives may have luncheon, tea or dinner; the third floor to a nursery, emergency and rest room, and the upper three floors to sleeping rooms. THE BROAD AX In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Rep- ublicans, 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. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1802, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under Act of March 3, 1879 CANDIDATES AT PRIMARIES List of Names Which Will Appear on Ballots Voted on Feb. 25. Following is the complete list of candidates for nomination for city offices and alderman in the Feb. 25 primaries as they appeared in the official record at Thursday night, when the time for filing nominating petitions expired: MAYOR Republican *Wm. Hale Thompson Harry Olson Charles E. Merriam. Democrat. Robert M. Sweitzer THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 8, 1919. Democrat. Dorsey Crowe, John F. Bartlett. TWENTY-SECOND WARD. Republican. Math. Hibbeler, Frank J. Fricker. Democrat. Budolph L. Schapp, Frank Gardener, *Wm. P. Ellison. TWENTY-THIRD WARD. Republican. *Thomas O. Wallece, B. A. L. Thompson, Joseph F. Seeber. Democrat. James P. Brennan, James A. Prendergast TWENTY-FOURTH WARD. Republican. James Dorney, Herman J. Kosheler. Democrat. *Frank F. Roeder, Joseph Pionke, August Groja, Joseph Burkart, TWENTY-FIFTH WARD. Republican. *Henry D. Capitain, John B. Fergus. Democrat. Logan D. Wallace Jr. TWENTY-SIXTH WARD Republican. *William F. Lipps, William H. Wesbey. Democrat. Thomas B. Caspers, William Gaghrin, Frederick Dunham, Nicholas C, Werdell, TWENTY-SEVENTH WARD. Republican. Edward R. Armitage John Paul, Frank Brusks, Wm. L. Morgan. Democrat. Arthur S. Beadette, Nicholas S. Budzban Michael J. Geraty. TWENTY-EIGHTH WARD. Republican. Arthur Gutgesell, George Wagner. Democrat. Clayton F. Smith. TWENTY-NINTH WARD. Republican: *John Hrubec, John Golombiewki, Mortimer Kubick. Democrat. James F. Kovarik Michael F. Ryan, Daniel McFall, Waclaw Pacholski. THIRTIETH WARD Republican. John Plaehn, John Burns. Democrat. *Wm. J. Lynch, James Canty, Daniel J. O'Kern, Wm. Hanrahan, Thomas J. O'Grady. THIRTY-FIRST WARD Republican. Scott M. Hogan, Albert L. Little, Harold Johnson Abraham Strachan. William F. Smith, Chas. O. Anderson. Democrat. *James A. Long, Hugh B. Donnelly THIRTY-SECOND WARD. Republican. *Albert J. Fisher, Harry Bandringa. Democrat. Chilton P. Wilson. THIRTY-THIRD WARD. Republican John P. Garner, Albert H. Iceley, Ross E. Guthrie. Democrat. George F. Mulligan. THIRTY-FOURTH WARD Republican Jacob James Fink, Joseph Danitis, Henry Ostrowsky, Joseph J. Merenoky. Democrat. *Joseph O. Kostner, Edward F. Jirik, Geo. E. Sankstone. THIRTY-FIFTH WARD Republican. Charles Jauhnke, Conrad H. Janke, Verdure on China's Great Wall. Trees and shrubbery planted in the soil that has been accumulating for hundreds of years on the great wall of China are in thriving condition, some of them having grown to a height of 12 to 18 feet. This method of beautifying the great wall was an outgrowth of the movement for the reforestation of the country started some time ago with government sanction under the direction of foreign experts. The driveway on the great wall is considered very much improved with the addition of trees. Movie Statistics. In one evening we now see 16 an- nouncements of forthcoming attractions, 48 close-ups of the leading lady, 22 close-ups of the leading man, 12 close-ups of a wonder child, 620 people get into automobiles, 620 people get out of automobiles, six eternal triangles, 11 mistreated wives, nine unappreciated husbands, eight poor girls married to lords, three murders, one hanging, 62 pies.—Film Fun. Each Seeks His Kind. Thrust an Emerson into ahy Concord, and his pungent presence will penetrate the entire region. Soon all who come within the radius of his life respond to his presence as flowers and trees respond with boughs, brilliant and fragrant, to the sunshine. After a little, each Emerson stands girt about with Hawthornes, Whittles, Holmes and Lowells.—Newell Dwight Hillis. Real Pioneer. One of the first white men and in all probability the first British subject to make his abode in territory comprised within the boundaries of the province of New Brunswick, Canada, was John Gyles, who was carried from the southern British colonies to the wilderness of the valley of the St. John river by marauding bands of Indians. No Friends Like Old Friends. Esteem of great powers, or available qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be found and lost, but an old friend can never be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. —Samuel Johnson. Shakespeare Law Unto Himself. Shakespeare Law Unto Himself. A correspondent wonders how such a phrase as "piping time of peace" could originate. One might think it referred to the Indian's peace pipe, but Shakespeare was rather unfamiliar with the customs of American aborigines. However, Shakespeare did what he pleased with English language. First American Balloon Ascension. January 9 is the anniversary of the first balloon ascension in this country. It was made in Philadelphia in 1793, and it is interesting in view of the rapid strides in aeronautics made in the past few years. Even twenty-five years ago the idea of a dirigible airship was largely a dream. Must Be Progression. The moral law of the universe is progress. Every generation that passes idly over the earth without adding to that progress remains uninscribed upon the register of humanity, and the succeeding generation tramples its ashes as dust.—Mazzini. Mountain Laurel. The fact that mountain laurel blooms on three great national holidays, Memorial day, Flag day and Fourth of July, is one reason why the National Federation of Women's clubs advocates that flower for the national emblem. Life Much as One Makes It. Every day that is born into this world comes like a burst of music and sings itself all day through, and thou shalt make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as thou wilt—Carlyle. Fir Turpentine. Copenhagen engineers are experimenting with the production of turpentine from fir trees, the roots and twigs being used as well as the trunks.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Nothing is impossible. "A creature of marvel is this thing called man," observed the facetious philosopher. "He can ride in an automobile and run into debt at the same time." LEGEND OF CHRISTMAS ROSE There is much beauty and pathos in the legend of the Christmas rose, which comes down to us by way of both Italy and England. It concerns a little girl—Madelon, a flower seller, according to the English version; a shepherd's daughter, according to Italian sources. She desired to see the strange little king and followed the shepherds to Bethlehem, foot-sore and weary. "But she forgot all her trouble in the joy of seeing the mother and the child," says Mr. Jackson. "She stood entranced by the sight. She saw the rich gifts the wise men had brought. She saw the humble gifts of the shepherds, the loaf of barley bread, the homemade cheese, the fleece of a lamb, white and soft, fit to wrap around the baby's limbs this cold winter night. She was seized by childhood's native spirit of generosity. She, too, must give of her best. The best she ever had to give was flowers. But there are no flowers now, for it is winter, nor has she a farthing of money with which to buy anything else. She looked down at her little sun-browned hands, and a great sob arose in her throat. To have the impulse of love, without the means of expressing it, is real pain, and Madelon burst into tears. Her tears brought an instant response from the Guardian Angel Gabriel, who took her by the hand and touched the ground with his stick, when, lo, rich flowers sprang up on every side. Yes, there really are Christmas roses. They bloom in mid winter, under a blanket of snow, and their petals never wither. It is true only the legend tells it in the form of poetry, that is all." OCEAN HAS KEPT ITS SECRET No One Knows What Became of the Steamer President, Missing Since March, 1841. The first steamer to be reported missing was the President, which sailed away from New York as long ago as March, 1841. Perhaps it was because big steamers were then marvels in the eyes of the people of both the old and the new world that the whole public of America and of Europe thought of nothing but the missing liner over a period of many weeks. Ship after ship arrived which had started after the President and still no tidings of the missing ship came to hand. On April 13—unlucky day—a letter was received by one of the family of a passenger of the President, saying that the missing ship had been driven to Madeira with a damaged rudder. Flags were hoisted and there was joy on both sides of the Atlantic, but, alas! it was all a cruel hoax. Since the ill-starred day when the President left New York there have been many missing ships, and the story of the old American liner has been repeated again and again, with perhaps a slight variation in detail. Some mysteries, although never actually solved, give us something on which to found a theory. The ship which sailed away with a cargo of railway metals, matches and gunpowder, and was afterward reported "missing," may have sunk, but Sherlock Holmes would probably have thought otherwise. Not Much Wasted Nowadays. Tin and copper are not wasted, although thrown away by one who has no further use for them. Detinning processes enable manufacturers to recover most of the tin and use it over again, and copper is almost as good when resmelted as when first taken from the mine. Even the bones which come from our tables are not wasted. Bones are of value for glue making, and they are persistently gathered up and sold to the glue factories. Millions of pounds of glue are made yearly from bones. Heretofore the trouble has been to find a perfectly waterproof glue or cement which would hold the particles together under the effects of water; but today cement is used which is absolutely waterproof.-Leslie's Weekly. Authorship Not Determined. Authorship Not Determined. "The more I see of human nature, the more I love dogs." The common phrasing of this cynicism is: "The more I see of men the better I like dogs." This has proved the despair of the industrious folk who run quotable passages down to their source. Because the sentiment is somewhat sardonic it has been attributed to the French and credited to Victor Hugo and Georges Sand, but the attribution has never been satisfactorily fortified by the citation of chapter and verse. The authorship remains a problem, and when it was proposed here some years ago the curious scholarship of those who are alert to answer these questions failed to shed any light. He alone is worthy of the appellation (great) who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure. By a certain fate great acts and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equaling and honoring each other in the same ages.—Milton. CHARLATAN HAS "SOFT SNAP" Constantinople Street Scribe Finds Easy Dupes Among Those Who Seek His Services. Often in a niche in the wall of a Constantinople mosque or in a deep inset window close to the ground there sits, cross-legged, perhaps with a pair of spectacles on his nose, a person distinguished above the mass, a man of letters. In front of him stands a little desk for holding papers and a book or two, a wooden pen, an ink bottle, and some sand for blotting. In writing, however, the sage rolls the paper upon his finger, requiring no other rest for letter or for arm. A contributor to Asia Magazine, who is familiar with the ways of the near East, surmises that such a conversation as the following frequently takes place over the letter writer's table: "From whom?" asks the wise man of the women, who have humbly presented a letter. "Our husband, effendi." "Most beloved of my wives," commences the flattering reader. "I am well. I wish you are well. The weather is well. The cattle are well. Here, pausing a moment and studying the paper closely, he inquires. "What is your husband's name?" "Almoon, effendi." "Ah, yes, Almoon. Your husband's writer does not form his characters well." Satisfied, the women pay two men aliks and depart. Some weeks later they return with another letter, and similar questions and answers pass between them and the old impostor. But when they apear before him again in still a few more weeks, the crafty fellow recognizes them and immediately begins to read: "My beloved wives, I hope you are well, I am—" "But, effendi," the women interrupt him gently, "this letter, we thought, was from some one else; our husband has returned." "Ah, you should have told me so" The scribe looks at them reproachfully; so reproachfully that they murmur an apology and depart—Youth Companion. WORLD'S FIRST STEAM FERRY Was Established by John Stevens in 1811, Running Between Hoboken and New York. The first ferry in the world was established in 1811 by John Stevens between Hoboken and New York. Taking up the study of steam in 1789, it is recorded, he took out patents on marine engines three years later, and in 1798 completed his first boat, successfully operating it on the Hudson river. In 1804 a second boat was equipped with two screws, and the style of propeller designed by him was for many years preferred above later inventions. Though this was the first application of steam to the screw-propeller, yet this design was the identical short, four-threaded screw used today. It is remarkable that this form of propulsion was not practically introduced until 1837. His original steamboat also contained the first condensing double-acting engine ever made in America, and a multi-tubular boiler. In 1807 he built the sidewheel steamboat Phoenix, which was a few days behind Fulton's vessel in attaining the legal speed, and was thus shut out from the Hudson river; he bodily steamed her around to the Delaware by sea, being the first to navigate the ocean with the new motive power Old Roman Plumbers. There were plumbers in ancient Rome, and they knew their business well. The great baths (most important and extensive of all the public buildings) were supplied with water by elaborate piping systems. Along the principal streets ran lines of tall pillars of light construction, carrying pipes through which running water was supplied to the dwellings on either side. When the ancestors of the present day Germans had destroyed Rome and with it the Roman civilization, the plumbing art was lost. It stayed lost until within recent years, and now we are reviving it with some strictly modern improvements. Wind-Driven Dynamos. An account was recently given in Ingenioren by Mr.-H. C. Vorg of some experience of the utilization of wind power for driving dynamos. The mills described had saills 100 feet in diameter and an area of 3,930 square feet. With a mean wind velocity of 24 feet per second 290 horse power was obtained. Power is transmitted from the main shaft by a series of cogwheels with the spokes in tension; rope and chain gearing were found not to answer. By means of gearing the speed of the main shaft, $12\frac{1}{2}$ revolutions per minute, is increased to 1,500 revolutions per minute for the dynamo.-Scientific American. Be Ready for Advancement. There are men who labor for decades without advancing. They are good workmen, but they know nothing beyond the narrow confines of the work they are doing. They have no interest in the problems of their work, no desire to improve production through the discovery of better methods. And they wonder why others pass them on the upward climb. It is no mystery. nonly Prepare for the morrow, if you hope that the morrow will be more rosy than today. Preparation is the open sesame to advancement.—Exchange. Broad Ax. 1 Braganza Castle, Home of Portugal's Kings, Still Interesting, Although Partly in Ruins. In the tableland of the Trazos-Montes district in Portugal lies the once famous city of Braganza. It is the seat of the royal house of Braganza, from which came all the kings of Portugal since the time of the first Duke Alphonso de Portugal, in 1442. Braganza is still the most important city on the frontier between Spain and Portugal and noted for its manufacture of silks and velvets. The most important thing in Braganza, however, is the ancestral home of the kings of Portugal, the magnificent castle that crowns the heights of the town. It is a splendid example of the fortress of medieval times, and while partly in ruins it is quite well preserved and considered the most perfect remaining stronghold in Portugal with the exception of the noted Villa de Feira, near the town of Oporto. The old Braganza castle is reminiscent of the days when soldiers fared forth in blouses of metal instead of wool, and horses were known as chargers and girls were damoiselles. The central keep of the castle is completely surrounded by a moat, and is absolutely inaccessible except by an ancient drawbridge. It is easy when visiting the castle at twilight for the imagination to people it with the crusaders who used to throng these crumbling courtyards, banquet in the rough stone halls, and pay court to the fair princesses of the royal house of Portugal. The castle was practically rebuilt by the second king of Portugal on the foundations of the ancient fortress erected by Alfonso Henrique, and it still shows all the details of the art of defense in days before artillery methods of warfare were known. GREAT DAY IN CHILD'S LIFE Syracuse Youngster Will Never Forget His Meeting With His Hero, Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, the man who made and held strong friendships among men, was beloved by children. He loved them and they admired him made a hero of him. When he was at Syracuse, during the famous Barnes libel trial, a citizen sitting on his veranda, saw Roosevelt riding by for his accustomed exercise, and called to his wife, "There goes Theodore Roosevelt on horseback." The six-year-old son of the house was in the bathtub when he heard the announcement, and rushed downstairs without waiting to dress, to see his hero pass. His father told the story at a reception that night, and the colonel said: "Bring that boy to me—I want to see him." So the boy was brought, and for half an hour sat on the knee of his idol, listening to stories of life in the West, of Indians and grizzlies and African Icons, and it has been said that when he was taken home, in a state of mental intoxication, he had grown an inch in height. Stone Goes the Rounds A merchant in a little town does business with an illiterate farm woman who comes to town once a month and trades him 20 pounds of butter for 20 pounds of sugar. She is too ignorant to know the price of butter, but she is smart enough to know other things. The butter she brings him comes in the form of a big roll, and inside the roll of butter the woman always hides a stone weighing three pounds. Every time she brings the butter the merchant cuts open the roll and takes out the stone and puts it in the sack of sugar before he weighs it. Thus, the woman gets 17 pounds of sugar for 17 pounds of butter, and imagines she is cheating the merchant. The stone comes back in the roll of butter every month, and the merchant sends it back just as regularly in the same sack—Nashville Tennessee. Rotherhithe Old Saxon Town Rotherhithe Old Saxon Town. Rotherhithe is one of those old English towns, Saxon in origin, whose name lends itself to two etymological explanations. Red Rose Haven is said to be the origin of Rotherhithe, from a Red Rose signboard which used to mark some seaman's tavern centuries ago. Probably the more accurate version points to the old Saxon word "redbra," a mariner, and "hith," a haven, as accounting for the word. Certainly Rotherhithe had a great reputation for the quality of her semen; Sir John Leake, the hero of La Hogue, hailed from the old port on the Thames. In Pepys' day it was commonly known as Redriff, and occurs under that name in the Diary on many occasions. The Pork Barrel The phrase "pork barrel" originated from an old saying of the people in the farm districts that they had no need to worry on account of a severe winter, as they had their barrels filled with salted pork or other meats. From this to the sharing of political plums is but a step. When appropriations for improvements are made by congress or legislatures, such as post office improvements, and river and harbor work, each representative strives to secure a part of the appropriation for his district, so that his constituents may share in the financial distribution in the form of contracts or labor. HERMIT OF NORTH ATLANTIC Small Island of Eriskay, on Southern Coast of Scotland, Deserves the Appellation. Just off the southern coast of Scotland the tiny island of Eriskay rises abruptly from the sea, as rocky and barren a bit of land as even the Scottish coast can show. The rough waters of the Atlantic beat angrily against its steep gray walls, or rush madly up the white-sanded beach of the western coast. Stormy winds sweep the tiny island from coast to coast in unbridled fury. Nature seems to cast herself in accumulated rage against Eriskay's few sparse acres. The defenseless victim of storm and sea, this tiny scrap of an island is pathetic in its utter solitude. It is the hermit of the northern Atlantic, the recluse among islands. Its people, chiefly descendants of Jacobite refugees from Scotland, are a quiet folk—the ocean has taught them to endure in silence. The treacherous rocks along the shore are the terror of the sailors of that part of the Atlantic. They dread and shun them as they would avoid wild beasts. Yet the island, barren and desolate, is sacred to every Scotsman. The sandy, wind-swept beach is holy ground to his heart. History tells how Prince Charlie, the hero of Scottish song and story, landed here when he came to recover his father's kingdom. The descendants of his faithful followers still call the tiny inlet the "Prince's bay." The people fish and raise diminutive hens for their eggs, but even a hardy Scotsman would hesitate before attempting to eat an Eriskay chicken for his Sunday dinner. SPECIAL DAYS FOR COURTING Four Sundays in Month of November Devoted by Hollanders to Process of Matchmaking. It is the usual thing with the Dutch to compress matchmaking in all its branches within the month of November, an exchange says. The four Sundays of the month mark the four stages of the courtship, and each is known by its individual name as "Review," "Decision," "Purchase" and "Possession" Sunday. On Review Sunday in a village the whole population lingers after church while the young people parade about, but shyly forbear to speak. Decision Sunday is a long step forward. After the service each bachelor approaches the malden of his choice with a ceremonious bow. He must be shrewd, for from her manner of responding he is to judge whether it is the part of wisdom or of danger to make further advances. If the test of Decision Sunday is safely passed the suitor waits a week and on Purchase Sunday calls upon the parents of his beloved. With their approval he may appear on Possession Sunday as a prospective bridegroom. November is chosen as the fittest month of the year, because the hardest work of farming is over and the comfortable time of gathering the harvest is the merriest season of 'all'. Barrel as Novel Mousetrap. When difficulty is encountered in ridding a place of mice by the ordinary methods, try this one, which is outlined by S. L. Bastin in Popular Mechanics Magazine: Get a fairly tight barrel and bore a hole near the bottom to serve as an entrance. Throw into the barrel a quantity of shavings or any material that would be useful to the mice in forming nests. Add some grain to serve as an additional attraction and then cover with a piece of wood. Let the barrel remain in a place infested with mice for a week or ten days. At the end of this time numbers of the creatures will have taken up their abode in the barrel and be busy nest making. Then stop up the hole in the bottom with a cork or wood plug of proper size, lift up the cover of the barrel a little and pour in water until there is sufficient to drown the occupants. The trap may be emptied and, after drying, set up again. In this way a locality is soon cleared of mice. "Martyrsa." The word "martyr" has various meanings. Specifically, it is still confined to those who give their lives for their religious convictions. The "Holy Innocents" are a notable example of involuntary martyrdom. The word "martyr" should not be applied to a person who loses mere property, but is used to persons who have died while striving to attain their object. The dictionary gives as the primary definition of "martyr" "One who submits to death rather than forswear his religion; specif. one of the early Christians who suffered death for their religion." In general, the word is used also to denote one who sacrifices himself for a cause, as a martyr to the pursuit of wealth. Roosevelt Knew Youth. This story by John Burroughs illustrates Theodore Roosevelt's tender and sympathetic nature: Near a little brown schoolhouse. Burroughs writes, by the railroad track the school ma'am and her scholars were drawn up in line to see the presidential train pass. The president was at luncheon, but leaving the table rushed to the platform and waved his napkin. When he came back he said: "Those children wanted to see the president of the United States, and I could not disappoint them. They may never have another chance. What a deep impression such things make when we are young." CELEBRATE DAY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH Great Emancipator Said "Get Ready and the Chance Will Come." Today U. S. Treasury Offers Chance of Emancipation From Debt Through Government Securities. EMANCIPATION THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL FROM THE BRONZE STATUETTE GROUP BY THOMAS BALL. "And upon this act I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God." Abraham Lincoln, whose clear understanding of right and wrong, whose great qualities of heart and mind and character finally succeeded in liberating an entire race, was born just 110 years ago, February 12, 1809, in a rough log cabin in the undeveloped farmland of Kentucky. The commemoration of his birthday will this year, as in every other, be marked especially by the recollection of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave us our freedom. to the cause of his fellow humans, fall his brothers in such a task? Had not all of us done our part in liberating the oppressed countries of Europe, by now France, Belgium and other entire nations would be chained in slavery to the Germans. Then, alone the United States would have to wrestle with the tyrant. Fifty years after Lincoln devoted his life to the liberation of a race, that race had the opportunity to assist in liberating the world. Can anyone imagine Lincoln stopping half way in such a task? In Lincoln's own words, this emancipation from slavery meant for the Negro "the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns." * * * This was 56 years ago. Today, by summons from the Federal Government, amounting almost to a proclamation, the right is urged upon us not only to eat the bread we earn, but steadily to set aside a part of it so that eventually we may achieve our emancipation from economic dependence. Money invested in government securities—War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds—is the key which will unlock for us financial liberty. Out of the fund they create we can get homes, comforts, education, advancement and recreation. As Lincoln said: "The hired laborer of yesterday laborers on his own account today and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow." Not mere labor alone is necessary. To be ready to use an opportunity the products of one's labor must be accumulated. Again, as Lincoln said: "Get ready and the chance will come." There is another reason, a still better one than that of personal profits, why we should make every effort to save and invest in Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds. Money loaned in this way to the government—to give us a share in that for which Lincoln gave his life—will help to pay off the enormous costs of the war for which many Negroes have given their lives. They gave themselves gladly. They have made a wonderful, never-to-be-forgotten record of patriotism and bravery in the war. Unless we do our full part, which, after all, is extremely small compared to what they who shall never return have done, we shall have broken faith with them and tarnished the splendid shield of patriotism which they burnished so brightly. Can anyone imagine Lincoln, who devoted all his time, energy and talents Japanese as Gymnasts. Nearly all Japanese soldiers are expert gymnasts, and every barrack has a gymnasium. So well trained are they that in less than half a minute they can scale a wall 14 feet high by simply leaping on each other's shoulders, one man sustaining two or three others. French in South America. Throughout South America French is almost universally read; editions of the classics are in most houses, and book stores are filled with modern French writers of prose or verse, both in translation and in the original. to the cause of his fellow humans, fail his brothers in such a task? Had not all of us done our part in liberating the oppressed countries of Europe, by now France, Belgium and other entire nations would be chained in slavery to the Germans. Then, alone, the United States would have to wrestle with the tyrant. Fifty years after Lincoln devoted his life to the liberation of a race, that race had the opportunity to assist in liberating the world. Can anyone imagine Lincoln stopping half way in such a task? To complete it, 1919 must be a year of real thrift for everyone. By spending wisely—getting the most of what we actually need for the amount we can afford to spend—something will be left over to save. By saving intelligently, giving attention to the important things and eliminating unnecessary—something will be accumulated for investment. By investing safely—in Thrift Stamps, War Savings, Stamps or Liberty Bonds—we shall help complete the task, win personal prosperity, and assist in gaining national prosperity. The remembrance of Lincoln's Birthday should be a reminder to prove ourselves worthy of his great faith. If Lincoln Could Speak Today He Would Say to You— Emancipate yourself from money worries by putting your savings into Thrift and War Sav- ings Stamps. Have a personal share in your government by owning govern- ment stock—Thrift and War Savings Stamps. The money you pay for them is a loan from you to the government and pays you interest. --- Be active, good citizens—partners with your country in finishing up the war job and carrying out the peace program. Thrift and War Savings Stamps give this partnership. * * * * * Spend your time and energy as well as money wisely. You will then be able to buy Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Steady saving will bring your prosperity. Give Plants Air and Light. If potted plants are set in jardinieres, be sure no water stands in them and that the jardiniere is large enough (to permit of circulation of air around it. Plants need light, pure air, and cleanliness as much as human beings. Fidelity in Small Things Fidelity in small things is at the base of every great achievement. We too often forget this, and yet no truth needs more to be kept in mind, particularly in the troubled eras of history and in the crises of individual life—Charles Wagner. An item that appeared in this column recently to the effect that a certain Swiss village still retained its "spoken newspaper" for the dissemination of news instead of the modern method of the printed page, recalls to mind the fact that Detroit once had a "spoken newspaper," too, and that here the "spoken newspaper" probably reached its highest development in the United States. The Rev. Fr. Gabriel Richard, a priest of the Order of the Sulpice, who came to Detroit as resident pastor of the Roman Catholic church of Ste. Anne in 1789, was its conductor, and it was the precursor of journalism in Michigan. To arouse the public and awaken an interest in the affairs of the government, Father Richard appointed a town crier, who every Sunday at the doors of his church, told the public in general, and the congregation in picular, all the news that was fit to speak. In addition to this, the public crier mentioned the auction sales and related other advertising announcements. Later, to supplement the "spoken newspaper," a written edition was posted at a convenient place near the church. Father Richard was assisted in his news enterprise by Hopollis Meetz, the sacristan of Ste. Anne's church, but later a printer and publisher.-Detroit News. BY NO MEANS BARREN WASTE Group of Islands Known as Spitzbergen Has Been Found to Be Rich in Minerals. Spitzbergen. 400 miles northwest of North Cape in Norway, has been looked upon for centuries as a great ice-bound waste not worth the trouble of exploration. It was discovered in 1553 by Willoughby, a British navigator, and nearly fifty years later was visited by the Dutch explorer Barents. It had been known to the Russians and to the old Norsemen years before but they had taken no interest in the place. Its shores have been visited during recent centuries by the crews of whaling ships, and Arctic explorers have used it as a base of operations. It was not until Sir W. Martin Conway of Great Britain made a tour of exploration in 1863 and 1897 that anything definite was known concerning the interior of Spitzerbergen. He made a comparatively complete tour of the six islands constituting the group, but seemed more interested in the glacial aspects of the country than in looking for coal and iron, which are now known to be there in vast quantities. But he established effectively the claim of his country to sovereignty, which seems to be about to develop into a very valuable asset. Songs That Awaken Memories. Very many years ago a wise man, called Fletcher of Saltoun, said that if he were permitted to write the songs for a people he would not care who made their laws, and the sentiment has gone echoing along the corridors of time. But although we do not know the names of our song writers, says the New York Herald, the songs themselves make an impression on our minds that remains long after they have become trite and passed into oblivion. There is not one of them, however, that will not in inter years awaken memories long dormant. Lyrics that catch the public fancy usually voice some passing mood or condition, but there is one theme that never passes—one that served singers and poets before Cadmus invented letters. There is never a season, from mating spring to dreary winter, in which the passion that rules men's lives does not seek expression in some new melody. Destructive Crows Crows are destructive to the melons, pecking holes in them and causing them to rot on the vines. It is no uncommon sight to see small cotton cords encircling and across the melon fields of the south—stretched to keep away the crows, because the crows fear a trap where they see the white strings. They pull young rabbits from their nest, destroy young birds and chickens and even sometimes young pigs. They are very destructive to the pecan groves, and men are employed on some of the big pecan plantations to keep the crows away. About "Style." To comprehend the real ugliness of "style" we have only to study out of date fashion plates. Women themselves say "How could we have made such guys of ourselves?" The answer is, it was "the style" and everybody did it. One of human nature's idiosyncrasies is sensitiveness. We may not value the opinion of the person who smiles or sneers at our dress, may know ourselves the superior in intellect, and position, but we resent or feel hurt by the tacit criticism. Thus we pay tribute to convention as established by "style." Geraniums in the House Geraniums are among the house plants which like a rather high temperature and sun all day long. On the other hand, they dislike overmuch water and thrive best in pots which are rather small. It is important to keep them pinched back, too, so that they will be short and stalky. This kind of plant blooms much better than one which has been allowed to grow tall and leggy, as the florists say. All Kinds of Reasons Why the Newlyweds Should Give Some Consideration to the Animal. The cartoonist, with whom the Newlyweds are a favorite if somewhat hackneyed subject, may sharpen a fresh pencil; the day is coming, if not already here, when the joys and sorrows of young wedlock may be pictured from a new angle. We are familiar with the Newlyweds' bungalow, with their baby, with their Tin Lizzle, fruitful of mishaps; soon with these stock possessions may be listed another—to-wit, a goat. One may keep a goat in the ordinary city or suburban back yard, Eleanor Anstruther writes in Sunset. No extensive pastureage is required as in the case of the cow. If a vacant lot or brushy hillside be available, a goat will thrive on what it can glean there, though a cow, horse, or even a sheep might starve. But our suburbanite Newlyweeds presumably must keep their goat within the confines of their own back garden. Very well; every one may still be happy, including the goat. For the goat will contentedly resolve into milk and mutton any kind of vegetable or green stuff that grows in the garden. Weeds enchant her; she will eagerly devour, and with great profit to herself and owner, the results of a strenuous morning's weeding on the part of Mr. Newlywed. By-products of the kitchen, such as the parings of fruit and vegetables, are welcome, though it must always be remembered that contrary to general belief the goat is a 'clean feeder'; the garbage must go to the chickens, not to the goat. Briefly, a single goat may almost be kept on the waste from a garden, and the feed of a cow will maintain seven or eight goats. HERE'S DEFINITION OF "PEP" Altogether it's a Quality of Which Its Fortunate Possessor Is to Be Envied. It's the thing which makes the lamb gambol with glee, the colts prance with joy, the calves throw up their tails and run like fury, the birds sing in split-throat notes, the frogs croak upon the creek bank, the insects buzz and hum in the air, the milkman whistle as he jogs along, the blacksmith laughingly beat the iron into shape, the plowman urge his horses with a "gee-up, there," the engineer wave a kiss to his sweet-heart as he throws open the throttle, the woodman smiling plunge his axe into the giant tree, the banker and merchant rush to their work with a cheery "bye-bye," the mechanic and laborer fairly dance to their jobs, the soldier "go over the top," with clinched jaws and courage that knows no fear, the live salesman hie to his calls with shoulders squared, pride in his heart, and nerves a-tingle with anticipation of new success. Oh. "pep" is anything that puts happiness in the heart, energy in the body, determination in the soul, and invinble courage in the will.—Exchange. Exploration of Nineveh The great rediscoverer of Nineveh was, of course, Sir Henry Layard, who, in the early forties of last century, having obtained the patronage of Stratford Canning, British ambassador at Constantinople, himself an entrustastic archeologist, journeyed to Mosul and commenced work of excavation on the mounds of Nineveh in real earnest. The story of the wonder series of discoveries which followed has been told vividly in his book, "Nineveh and Its Remains," published in 1848. This work created a great sensation, and the following year Layard set out east once again, this time as the agent of the British museum, with a grant of $15,000 to carry still further his great/work at Mosul. For more than a year his labors went on steadily. The palaces of Seennacherib and Ashurbanipal at Kuyun were partly uncovered, as well as those of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon at Nebl-Yunus, and in 1853 Layard published an account of his second series of excavations in 146 book, "Nineveh and Babylon." Famous Old Town of Mosul The town of Mosul reached its greatest prosperity toward the beginning of the decline of the caliphate, when it was for a time an independent capital. In the eleventh century it belonged to the Seljuks and in the twelfth, under the sway of the famous Atabegs, particularly of Zenki, it had a short period of splendor. One of its curious distinctions in history is the fact that the governorship of the town, as the pashalk, was long hereditary in the originally Christian family of Abd-al-jalil, and it was only during the nineteenth century that the porte succeeded, after a long and severe contest, in establishing a more centralized system of government. Numerous Rubber Plants There are nearly two hundred different kinds of plants which carry rubber, and they are still under investigation by botanists. While the plants are found for the most part in the arid portions of the Great Basin country of eastern, California and Nevada, rubber-producing shrub has been located as far north as Washington and Idaho and as far east as Colorado and south to our southern boundary. Whether or not these plants will be brought under cultivation is a question which can only be answered after many years of study and experimentation Moa Sl “se — meee es ai 5 Seige ac | aes ic en ee Ba ies z ba Ss es ot eal ta aaa — oe . ani cpr enrneererome esas aeae TS a : ae. . . Beg) ie oe ~~ eae ie ca Se ae ic id ~— i Ee = : HON. HARRY OLSON Regular Republican Candidate for mayor of Chicago, whose thousands of warm friends feel sure of his calling and election. ‘SECRETARY LANE SPEAKS AT|DECLARATIONS 28TH ANNUAL HAMPTON. TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFER- Hampton, Virginia. — Secretar; Franklin K. Lane was the Founder’: Day Speaker at Hampton Institue on last Sunday. Principal James E Gregg introduced him as “* a high- minded servant of the people—a mar who has shown forwar-looking care ‘* * © for the welfare and happiness of all the peolpe.” Secretary Lane said: Armstrong's Lasting Monument. “General Armstrong needs no mon. ument other than Hampton Insti- tute, born out of the spirit of help fulness, charity, tolerance, faith—s spirit that represents the new day and not the day that is past. “I doubt if there is a single man who has lived in this country who has more certainly pointed the way to the character of education that will obtain in the United States in the future than General Armstrong. He foresaw the thing that was needed for the making of a democracy and he put into this institution a theory of education, a philosophy reaching far further than the colored man, which will be a standard for us throughout the United States. The best of his philosophy was tliat men and women must work. If you want men of culture,—and not .a super- ficial enlture,—they must be men who have woven into their natures the power to do.” ' Square Deal for All Men. ‘Secretary Lane paid a warm trib- ute to the splendid work of nearly 400,000 colored soldiers, of whose record, he declared, men from any ‘part of the world might well feel proud. Addressing the great Hamp- ton audience, he said: “And you are ‘to have a part in the making of this new America—in exploiting the pos- sibilities of it. No race, no people ‘ean with assurance say that they ex- press the last word of civilization. * * “The foundation of our country is tolerance, fair-play, the square deal. ‘We want to see here man, a5 man, given his chance. There may be dif- ferences between men, and we know ‘there are—physical, mental, moral; ‘Dut they are sll mend and all are to have. their chance and we all are to: Join in the making of America.” ~ _°The Hampton choir, and later the entire Hampton school, sang to Sec- guests 2 number of the “old spirit- ” including “I Want to Be! endly World,” “We Are Climb Meee? or DECLARATIONS 28TH ANNUAL TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFER- ENCE, HELD AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. The Tuskegee Negro Conference, at its Twenty-eighth annual session, sends greetings to the Negro farm- ers of the South and congratulates them upon their work in helping our nation to do her part in the winning of the war. At the call of the Na- tion, we increased the amount of food-stuffs raised. We worked longer hours in the day and on Saturdays. As a result of this labor, we have been blessed with abundant crops for which extraordinary prices have been received. Negro farmers are more prosperous than they have ever been. More of these have money in the bank and more of them are out of debt. We are proud to note that many of you are buying land and in other ways investing your surplus money. To those who are disposed to spend their money, this Conference says do not use it or spend it foolishly and by next year be in debt. Do as this Conference for the past twenty-eight years has urged and advised. Take some of the money and invest it in land. Buy more tools and machinery so that you can farm in an up-to-date manner. Use some of this money to improve your homes so that they may be more comfortable and more attractive fot your wives and chil- dreen. Get for the home labor saving devices so that your wives and chil- dren will not have to spend so much time and drudgery. Use some of this money to improve your school houses, If you do not have good school house in your°community, get in touch through the Tuskegee Institute, with the Rosenwald School House Building Committee and your, State Department of Education. Lengthen your school term. Pay your teacher a better salary. Use some of this surplus money to improve your churches: pay youg pastors more lib- erally and make provisions for hav- img services oftener than once a month. ‘The war situation compelled you to diversify your crops and to. raise other things than cotton. You have jearned how to diversify and have found out the value ‘and importance of diversified farming. Do not again depend only upon cotton. The rais- ing of live stock is becoming an im-| portant and paying industry in the ‘This Conference takes the occa- ion to call the attentoin of Negro farmers to the 0 and ad- he farmers, white and black, of the (Special.) vantage of the Federal Loan » the Negro farm owners who may finé it necessary to borrow money, to ge in touch, through National Farm Loan Association, or otherwise, with the Farm Loan Bank of your dis trict. Although the war is over, the de mand in the cities of the South and the Northern Industrial centers will still continue. These cities and in- dustries will offer such inducements in the way of good wages, protection under the law and school facilities, that unless inducements are offered on the farm and plantations, many more laborers will leave the rural districts. To plantation owners, there- fore, this Conference suggest the ad- visability of making such contracts with your laborers as will induce them to stay on the farm. Give your ten- ants a square deal: both in the con- tracts drawn and in the carrying out of these contract8, especially with re- ference to accounts in connection with supplies furnished, ete. Give the farm laborer similar inducements of wages, law protection and educatio- nal facilities as the cities and indus- trial centers are giving. If these things are done, there will be less tendency for laborers to leave the farm for the industrial centers and cities, * During the war period, whites and Negroes co-operated in subseribing to Liberty Bonds, in purchasing War Savings Stamps, in food production and in food conservation and in ctr war work activities. From various communities the white and black sol- diers were sent away with the same hearty Godspeed and in many in- stances, under the auspices of the same committee. As a result of work- ing together in these war work ac- tivities, white and Negroes, through- out this Southland, were brought into a more helpful relationship. Each learned to expect more of the other. It is the earnest desire of this Con- ference, in these times of peace, that this spirit of co-operation will con- tinue and grow stronger and more helpful and thus contribute in a larger way to the growth and devel- opment of the South. RICH WHITE CONTRACTOR SUED ‘ By Colored Woman, Who Alleges That He Broke Agreement. BETRAYED AT FOURTEEN. Says He Bought Her Home and Gave Her Car and Servants. | ‘Through the trial of an action be- fore Municipal District Justice Rich- ards in Brooklyn, New York, was de- veloped Saturday that a suit for $50,- 000 has been brought in the Supreme Court by Annie Mills, colored, against Isaac Edgar Jersey, white of Belle- rose, L. L, a wealthy contracting en- gineer with offices at No. 52 William street, Manhattan. She charges breach of contract in that he has failed to carry out an agreement to support her two children until they reach ma- jority. bd = eH / 5 gee bes P< x ees 4 ez ‘ee ts 4 , . E | “HON. A. H. ROBERTS Member of the Legislature of Illinois and chairman af the soldiers Recep- tion Committee, which will assist to welcome the old Eighth Regiment ™~ ‘back to Chicago. ‘married and has two » ab ‘lowed her two servants, a limousine and all the luxuries enjoyed by a woman of means. She said she met him when she was fourteen years old and four years later her mother learned of the life she was living, found her and had her sent to an ‘institution, where she remained a year. Soon after,coming out, she swears, she met Jersey on the street. After she had boarded in different houses for a time until he bought her a house in Grand avenue, Brook- lyn. This, she asserts, “through fraud and deceit,” he got her to transfer to his wife and then began charging her rent. When she refused to pay he brought an action for $200. When all evidence had been taken’ Justice Richards charged the jury as follows: ~ “The question for you to deter- mine is whether this woman was a tenant of the plaintiff or whether this action is a subterfuge to conceal the fact that she is his mistress.” The jurors, after brief delibgration, found in favor of the colored woman. U. S. Department of Labor. INFORMATION AND EDUCATION i. SERVICE. Washington. From the Office of Director of Negro Economics. That Negroes are employed in large numbers in the foundries in Indian- apolis as molders and core-makers of from two to fifteen years’ experience is shown by reports just made by the Investigation and Inspeetion Service to the Director of Negro Econamic: of the U. S. Department of Labor. ‘Over two hundred and fifty of these foundries, as the foreigners withdrew, many of them to go home for war the Negro molders were taken on. One curious experience has come, in that the accident rate among Negro molders and helpers has been found to be less than it was among foreign- ers engaged: in the same work. An- other very interesting fact is that both Union and non-Union white molders have worked with these Ne- Toes in most friendly co-operation and without friction. In Indianap- olis this is considered unique in the case of one foundry which is employ- ing Negro core-makers, as some em- ployers have feared to employ colored men on this work lest the white core- makers would refuse to work with them. The general testimony of the foundry owners and managers in a number of foundries is that the Negro molders have given entire saticfac- tion under the strenuous war pace, and that the Negro is making good. Some managers say that the condi- tions that exist between workers de- pend upon the individual and not upon the race. Mrs. David M. Manson, 5816 S. Michigan avenue, who devoted much of her time, during the late War with Germany, in the American Red Cross Work; is still willing to expend some of her time in that same direction, to aid the soldiers boys after they re- turn home from France. =e Aa e = hae HON. CARTER H. HARRISON Five times mayor of this city, who will not enter the race at this time fo chief executive of this city, who is urging his many friends and forner supporters to fall in behind Hon. Thomas Carey for mayor of Chicago, DEDICATION OF THE NEW ST. of Greenboro, N. C., will be the reg- PAUL'S PRESBYTERIAN | ie Pastor of the new church and CHURCH. | will preach his first sermon this com. Lasb Sunday, the members and friends of the new St. Paul's Pres- byterian Church, northwest corner of Robey street and Washington Boule- vard, celebrated the event of moving into their new church and held three services; one in the morning, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. The afternoon services were quite largely attended. Rev. John W. Lee, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., field mis- sionary of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian church, for the Northern states, served as the moderator at the morning and the afternoon services and preached the first regular sermon in it at the evening services. Charles F. Stimp- son, chairman of the Board of Trust- ess of the new church, delivered the welcome address to the friends and members. H. H. Lawrence spoke in behalf of Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, pas- tor of the Hope Presbyterian church; Rev. Jefferson, being unable to be present. Rev. C. W. Walls, pastor of the C. M. E. Church, on the west side, spoke very brifly and extended the right hand of fellowship to all those present. Rev. H. M. Carroll, of the Fulton street M. E. Church, delivered timely and eloquent remarks; among other things he declared, that Methodi and Presbyterians are double cou Solo, by Miss Marie Jefferson. The choir of Grace Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Prof. P. T. Tinsley, were preseiit and rendered several selections. Thirty-five dollars was lifted at the afternoon services. Rev. Carroll, assisting in the collec- tion. Rev. Moses H. Jackson, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, spoke at considerable length in reviewing he growth of Presbyterianism, among the Colored people in this city, and he went on to state, that there are now three Colored Presbyterian churches, one on the west side, one| ym the south side and one on the; south-west side. ; Solo, by Mr. Mitchell “of Grace Presbyterian Choir. Rev. Dr. F. A.|! Hosier, pastor of the new Eighth|| Presbyterian Church, which formerly ecupied the new St. Paul’s Church, |; vas also present and spoke very en-| jouragingly to the members ~and|; riends of the new congregation. 1 The St. Paul's Church was bought} horugh the Presbyterian Church Ex- |; ension Board for twenty-five thou-|1 and dollars; it originally cost over me hundred thousand dollars and it] s 5 modern and uptodate in every|i espect. It is by far one of nest | c hurch edifices controlled by Colore eople in this city. - ~ Pp f St. James Presbyterian Chui "WHNOUr Githaslese.—Emerson. § | Broad Ax. of Greenboro, N. C., will be the reg. ular pastor of the new church ani will preach his first sermon this com- ing Sunday morning. Rev. and Mrs Walker are both highly educated ani highly cultured and they expect to accomplish a world of good for Col- ored Presbyterianism on the west side. eee SPLENDID JOKE ON EDITOR TAYLOR | Last week as we wended our way into the Old Elite No. 1 3030 South State St., for the purpose of collect- ing our regular monthly bill from Col. John H. Whiston, a rather fine sporty looking Colored gentleman approche us at the same time extending ts hand, he exclaimed in a loud voice that “it was the first time that be had met us since we had set in a big poker game with him out on Lake avenue, several weeks prior to that time” smilingly we assured the gentle- man that the pleasure was all our. We did not intimate to the gentleman that at no time in our life bad we ever played one game of cards for money ‘and that we scarcely knew one card from the other. The next day after that incident while passing the Conway Building Clark and Washington streets a fine looking white gentleman approched us and after begging our pardon he wanted to know if we had ever lived in Birmingham, Alabama., that we very much resembled Rev. J. P. Smith of that city. 5 ‘Thus it will be seen that one day we were classed as a gambler and the next day we weré sized up as being 2 minister of the gospel. U. 8 POUGHT POR RULE BY PEOPLE, NOT MOB: LOWDEN Springfield, Il. When the United States was fightin; against the ‘‘divine right of kings” im foreign lands it was not battlin, for ‘the rule of the mob, Gov. Frank 0. Lowden declared at a midwintes banquet of the Illinois State Bar * sociation here tonight. Mr. Lowden called upon bench avi ‘bar to tell the people of Mlinois that law and not mob must rale. “Tho battle jg! only half won,"’ be ‘sid. ‘‘Just as you ere right when you told the people that this was = war in defense of democracy, #0 yo" must tell the people that though ¥° fought for the right of the people ‘» tule, we were not fighting for the right of mob rale”’. Lieut. Gov: John G. Oglesby, ix bis address, boomed Gov. Lowden for pres ident and reviewed the achievement of the present administration. Spesk er David E. Shanahan told. of the many important measures which 2: coming before the present session >! ee ee s : : i ois as Se HE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 8, 1919. aan PAGE FIVE F | — a Mr. JOHN 5. COBURN : yr and prominent Lawyer and one of the many strong supporters of flee. Thomas Carey for mayor of Chicago. qHE VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN { VIRGINIA COUNTY AGENTS The Government is asking for a billboard cleaning before the ‘cory Liberty Loan campaign be- Hundreds of thousands of tat- old posters from: former pa- tie drives still cling to walls, win- and fences in the Seventh Fede- g Reserve district. It is recommended now by the of the district and state loan tions that citizens every- get their premises in order for vex loan. Great patriotic enter- sx, itis pointed out, was displayed ‘te peple in offering window Wd boards, the walls of hand- ww business buildings and pace for the posters of the Liberty Loans and for the (Cross, United War Workers and jw amount of money could buy by advertising agencies in the course of peace—time propa- it is explained, were offered to the Government and to the ernment agencies helping to for the armed forces. ” Property owners and tenants allo- their places-of business and resi- to be plastered over with these Yow, however, the patriotic gift ‘tis space will not be complete all old posters have been remo- md everything made ready for meeption of the new posters that ‘tow being printed at Washington éstribution. Some ten million of ill be sent out to the various It is greatly desired by the ities that no trace of for- literature be left to compete he appeal of the Victory, Liber- ‘lea Posters. The old dirty pos- have long since disappeared from ‘rular billboards, but thousands item are still in evidence in empty x fences and_ building’ E ITALIAN AND COLO- 22D WOMAN FOR SLAYING Cecial Cavanaugh told Domi- Chile to go out and Kill her Clifford. She loved Chillo “tile loved her. She is colored ‘eis Italian. Cavanaugh was ‘There was a trial Tuesday in Grinal Court and the strange ‘Story was told the jury. It them both guilty and fixed the of the woman at fourt- ‘Jars in the penitentiary. Chillo ‘end twenty years in the same White gentlemen greatly. de- ‘® mess up with Colored Women Rot the slightest difference Mack, homely, and untidy they be and it seems that some Co- Women feel highly honored. to ¥ white gentlemen, even with Editor. peas VIRGINIA COUNTY AGENTS MEET AT HAMPTON. Hampton, Va.—The colored farm- demonstration agents of Virginia have just finished a four-day confer- ence at Hampton Institute. They dis- cussed “Effective Community Organ- ization Work,” “Co-operation of Schoo] and Demonstration Forces,” “The 1919 Program for Club Work,” “Demonstration Projects,” and other problems relating to the proper con- duct of extension work among farm- ers. Among those who spoke were: Dr. James E. Gregg, principal of Hamp- ton Institute, “County Agents Im- prove Rural Life”; E. A. Miller, Washington, D. C., field agent for farm-demonstration work in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Ken- tucky, “Patriotic, Liberal Service of the Colored People”; Major Allen Washington, commandant at Hamp. ton, “The County Agents Make Good”; Major J. L. Blair Buck, act- ing director of Hampton’s Agricul- taral Department, “Carrying Plans Into Action”; Charles H. Alvord, Washington, D. C., agriculturist and field agent for Texas and Oklshoma, “Leadership”; J. B."Hutcheson, Blacksbrug, Va., as- sistant director of the Virginia ex- tension work, “Demonstration Pro- jects for 1919”; Charles G, Burr, Blacksburg, Va., state agent for boys’ club work, “Projects for Boys”; F. S. Farrar, Jetersville, Va., district agent, = work in Virginia, “Relation of and Colored Peo- ple”; Emmet R. Price, Blacksburg, Va., editor, Extension Division, “The County Agent and the Public”; Charles W. Mason, Richmond, Va., assistant federal state director for Virginia, U. S. Employment Service, “Boys’ Working Reserve”; Walter G. Young, Upper Zion, Va., district agent, fano-demonstration work in Virginia, “Community Organization Work,” and John B. Pierce, Hamp- ton, Va. special agent, Extension Work, South, “Development of Com- munity Clubs.” ‘The conference further perfected workable plans for more complete yrganization of extension work hroughout Virginia. This extension work has been organized on @ pro- gressive ‘basis, so that one year's york suggests s program for another year. E ‘The assistant director of extension rork for Virginia states that the con- érence succeeded in getting down EO Be 2 ee a s NOR an ae a = =: Oc gee oor el — os 7 i ‘ Active Dencen, Republica politician and one of the new Deputy Sheriff: — of Cock Couty. 3 s SOUTHERNERS SWEAR. AT NE- GRO SOLDIER WHO RETURNS WOUNDED FROM BATTLE FIELD OF FRANCE. James P. Campbell, 368th Battalion, 92nd Division, who was gassed at Champaign, August 18th, passed through St. Louis this week on his way to Chicago. ~ Campbell was returned to the Unit- ed States, arriving in New York on November 8th. ; He was taken to Camp Pike, De- ‘cember 27th. He says that when he arrived. at Little ‘Rock he was the only Negro in a party of eleven on their way to the base hospital. The whites were royally greeted by the Red Cross workers, who served food, but offered nothing to him. At the hospital he says the only greeting he received was from a nurse. who said, “How do you feel now, little Nigger?” Campbell’s home is in Helena, Ark., where he went after leaving the hos- pital, but met nothing but sneers frem the whites. He decided to leave home forever and after boarding a street car, a man who noticed his service stripes remarked, “There is another overseas Nigger. I guess he knows it all, we will have to kill some of them.” “I felt safer in the trenches than in Arkansas,” says Campbell, “and I never expect to return home.” Many of the whites in the South are still savages;they bitterly hate it, that the slaves were set free, and seemingly civilization or advancement, will have to be shot into them.— Editor. | BETHEL LITERARY - Sunday afternoon Feb. 9th. at four o’clock Bethel Literary Society will observe Rooselvelt, Dunbar memo- tial. A very appropiate program has been arranged, which is in part as follows. Reading — Theodore Roosevelt M. E. B. Peck Reading — Paul Laurence Dunbar Irvin Jackson , Alderman Louis B. Anderson will deliver an address on “Dunbar as I knew him”. “Mrs. Geraldine Withers will furnish several excellent musical numbers. E- very body invited. Admission Free. Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Rev. W. D. Coose Pastor J. W. Bell, See’y. Dr. M. A. Majors, 4700 S. State Street, who is kept extremely busy in looking after his many patients; is heartily in favor of the re-nomi- nation and re-election, of Hon. Will- iam Hale Thompson, for Mayor of Chicago. ‘MENT WILL ARRIVE IN NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, AND IT 18 EXPECTED THAT ‘HE REGIMENT WILL "LAND IN JHICAGO BY THE 15 OR 18 OF THE MONTH | There was great rejoicing among the Colored, population of this city ‘and expécially among the relatives, sweethearts and other admirers of th; old Eighth Regiment, now the 370th. U. & Infantry, when it was defi- mently Tearned that the regiment was homeward botind, at least a portion of it, that it would arrive in New York city Monday, February 10, ani Iand in this city the latter part of the weck and be discharged at Camo Grant, later on. The advance guard of the regiment, consists of twelve-hundred and twenty nine enlisted men and sixty-nine offi- a ; AMl the citizens of Chieago are an- xiously waiting to give’ the fighting members of the Eighth Regiment a grand home coming and reception. THE PHALANX CLUB The Phalanx gave a rousing pre yram at The Peoples Movement hall fast. Sunday evening. The hall wa: crowded and speakers” and singers were applauded to the echo. ‘The cntire affair wax of the highest intellectual order, and marks and epoch in the history of our Sun- day gutherings where the church plays no doleful minor key. We must be more than spiritual and think lees of dying and what we will do after death. The chief thought to domi- ante any progressive people is what life means to them, and what they are going to do to make life worth living: The intellectual, and _ economical problems cluster all around our well being. The sober central thought of making ones self useful and helpful is the high note of harmony in the Jiapason of honied existenee. + We ure to live better in that pro- portion that we make life more a- greeable, und where we accutuate pre intellectnal, and the ecomic we sre making the world better to five in. Attorney Timothy J. Fell, who oc- cupies a fine suite of law offices on the eleventh floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building is an old friend ofAlderman Louis B. Anderson, years ago or the first time that Lawyer An- derson, appeared in any of the courts in this City Attorney Fell, gave him a few pointers, putting him next or wise to some of the Court proceedures, which was the foundation of the friendship existing between those two lawyers. : Best Eee Ea ee kee fea ae \ > 4 3 | i, : Pee 4 “MADAM BERTHA L. HENSLEY Active and prominent worker in behalf of The Phyllis Wheatley Mome 3256 Rhodes avenue, who is.leaving no stone unturned, to make the annual Carnival which will be held at the Royal Gardens a grand caeteal THE ANNUAL CHARITY CAR- , NIVAL WILL BE HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELETE SOCIAL CHARITY CLUB OF CHICAGO AT THE BEAUTIFUL ROYAL GARDENS, 459 E. 31st. Street. Wednesday evening February 12 13 and 14; the annual Charify Car- nival, will hold forth at the beautiful ‘and far famed, Royal Gandens, 459 E. 3ist, street. The Carnival will be held under the auspices of the Elete Social Cha- rity Club of Chicago. ‘The charitable efforts and success of the club which is composed of ma- ny of the most prominent and pro- gressive young men and young wo- men in this City are well and favo- rably known, to the Chicago public and the management again wishes to seek the support of Charitable ineli- ned persons to assist them to carry on the annual program mapped “out for the ensuing year by assisting them it will be aiding a most worthy cause. Madam Bertha L. Hensley, Mrs. Lizzie J. Crawley and Miss violet Anderson are the leading promoters of the Carnival. Each evening of the Carnival highly interesting programs will be rendered. Wednsday,.February 12, being Lin- coln’s birthday} it will be observed, by timely remarks, by able speakers ATLANTIC CITY BARS ONE-PIECE BATHING SUITS Atlantic City, N. J., Flesh colored stockings, bare legs, half hose, low necks, short skirts, and men’s one-piece bathing suits are for- bidden to women bathers here this year in a decree issued by the city commissioners. It is well indeed that the city offi- cials of Atlantic City have at Mit decided not to permit the dear sweet ladies to be in evidence on the bath- ing beach, in broad-day light, almost naked. — Editor. Mrs, John B. French, 4650 Win- throp avenue, is visiting her daugther Mrs. Edna Franch—Phillips of St. Louis, Mo. This coming Sunday afternoon Feb. 9th, at 3 P. M. Attorney Patrick H. O’Domnell, will address a great meet- ing to be held at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, 30th and S. Wells street. Meyers, Brennan & Co., Suite 208 Reaper Block, 82 W. Washington street; make a specialty of buying and selling Liberty Bonds. See ad in another column of this paper. SPCR r Dr. J. Norman Croker, occupies a fine suite of officer in the National Theater Building, 6221 8. Halsted street and Dr. Croker, is very much pleased with his new location. Attorney James E. White, 36 W. Randolph Street; will depart the middle of the coming week for Hous ton, Tex., where he will be the main spoke, in a far reaching law suit, which has been instituted against the Colored Masons, residing in the Lone Star State. ‘. and the celebration will be highly fitting for the occasion. Thursday evening, will be soldiers night and speakers will be present to heartily welcome them home. Friday evening, will be St. Valentine night and the people in’ general are urged to be present and secure a beautiful valentine. There will be booths of all kinds namely. Art and craft, fruit, Police, Milliners, Dressmakers, Hairdressers, eggs, Chikens, Cuppies, Crochet Bed- spread, Employment, Shoes, Pillow tops, Novelties, Drugs, Spaghetti, Ping Pong, and others. , The Elete Social Charity Club" is giving this Carnival to finance the house committee of The Phyllis Wea- tley Home, 3256 Rhodes ave. The patrons and patronesses of the affair are as follows. The East Side Women’s Club; The Peerless Club; The Tousant Saunt Club; The Phyllis Wheatley Club; The Oluster Circle, No. 37 of G. A. R.;— Mrs. Elizabeth L. Davis; Mrs. Minnie Collins; Mrs. Emma March- banks; Mr. Frank Griffin; Mr. David Bishop; Mr. August E. Pansjoe; Mrs. Covington; Mrs. Susie Hughley; Mrs. Laura Hagan; Mrs. Ella Johnson; Mrs S. David Smith; Miss Bessie Coleman Mr. L. A. Branch; Mrs. M. E. Bish; Mr. L. Clark; Mr. J. W. Hensley; Mrs. Shelton; Mrs. J. Dent; Mrs. D. Mc- Gowan; Mrs. Emma Andrews; Mrs. Ella Dawson; Mrs. Esta Black; Mrs. S. B. Davis; Mr. C. A. Todd. Mrs. May Patton, wife of Capt. and Adjuntant Patton of the 370th. Regt. and son Herman are excepted to re turn next week to the city after a three month’s rest in Fort Haucha- uca, Arizona. Mrs. Ed Nixon, 2827 S. Wabash avenue, is regaining her health the effects of a severe cold. It can be stated with pleasure, that Mrs. Nixon, is 6ne of our many stead- fast friends and she is a firm suppor- ter of this paper. Good Manners. Somg wise person has said that “good manners are surfaee Christian- ity,” and an essehtial part of good manners is unselfishness, constant thought of others and study of the other person's viewpoint. High and Low. In model. form an English inventor has succeeded in operating » railroad car that is raised above the track by the repelling force of electricity and drawn forward by magnets above it. Don't Forget This, According to an English scientist's estimate the world’s total annual rain- fall amounts to 29,457.4 cubic miles, of which less than onefourth drains through rivers into the ocean. ~ Speak Up, Then. Said the facetious feller, “You've all heard that old wheeze about hear ing Pike Speak; but did any of you ever hear Jack and the Beans Talk?” ““Inecle Ehen “Some men find fault because dey’re too wise,” sai@ Uncle Eben, “and oth- ers because dey ain’ got “sense enough.” - | Unreasonable. | “You are two-faced. You let an other feliow kins you" .“Well, 1¢ T have two faces, what's your kick? Optimistic Thought. — Be who kaorrs nothin: Fnews epetagis if he knows when to be silent. > a a O Se ee | = SS a at PE i rare ee i dee dato, ip on hie Mas By wn many ra Che fl \p Wy oe {On the left, navy-biue tricotine trimmed with a raspberry straw braid. Sus- 3 Renders of the cloth edged with the braid are attached to the skirt and ‘ hold up a front bib and continue down each side of the skirt. The sides *_ are lapped and left open at the bottom to allow for walking. ‘On the right is shown a chartreuse-colored suit with collariess coat trimmed "with tinsel embroidery. Plaited panels fall from each pocket, and there is a plaited panel in’ the front of the skirt. ‘Omamentation ts Not to Be Re- { turned to Spring Fashions, Say Style Prophets. (LINING DOMINATES THE COAT Coloration Vivid, Occasionally Dis Playing Animated Designs of Tap- estry of the Middle Ages—Vari- 3 ous Types of Jackets. _ New York.—Twice a year the little ‘yration of public opinion takes’ place around tailored sults. writes a leading ‘fashion correspondent: There is” a rapid swirl around a new center, and it sweeps over two continents. Twice & year women regard the tailored sult as the most important problem to be solved. A new one for autumn and a new one for spring is the necessity of the rich and the extravagance of the merely well-to-do. The glamor of one- piece frocks, heaped with fur or cov- ered with snfart topconts, dies out. In gutumn and spring we approach days when wraps are burdensome and the one-piece frock, unprotected, is chilly. We need the American costume that Was invented to serve our necessity. In January we begin t6 face the win- 7. yet, with our usual capricious- We face the fact of choosing a new tailored suit, Even if we do not buy it, we talk-abott it. We like to speculate upon its possibilities. We show exceeding interest in- the new fabrics that age advanced for it and the colors that the season will pro- claim. Shirtwaists and various types of blouses engage our attention. The length of coats, the narrowness of skirts. the warmth of velours, the serv- ieeability of taffeta, the probabilities of satin remaining in fashion, are phrases and reflections that fit through the jnind. ‘The dressmakers do good. propa- ganda work along this line at this time. ‘The Palm Beach season is thrown et us like a brilliant flag against 2 gray, sleet-flled sky. It de- Lights our-souls. It makes us think of Palm trees and coconut groves. of red clay roads in Georgia and Carolina, of pines that rench ‘into the blue and €roon queer songs throughout the night. ‘In other words, the tatlored ‘salt, offered to us today, makes us all dream; and dreams of pleasant things "Moderate Skirts in Street. Suits. ‘Now, here are the essentials to pro- ‘duce the dreams: Skirts are moderate (im length and width in the new things }that are exploited. They'do not sweep (the ankies; they de mot curve in at ithe back of the Knees; they have little resemblance to (the lower part of 2 n - body; they are straight, ca ankles, and they ) of movement. eas es - - 2 fare = Nofkiog ‘ripples See " aie jeurve oat, neither ts it permitted to = r sant ion of ie pore hee ont omen ber sot Saseicy thet exe lutended to serve them through the cold weather yet to come. They must be guided im their choice of reduced ‘sults today by what will be worn to- morrow. , ‘The best tailor ts content to let a skirt go free of ornamentation. | Braid is overdone, fringe has become com- monplace, and neither will be returned to the spring fashinns, as fer as the Prophets can see. | Angora embroidery vanished with the war. Bias bands ere good, and one of the best suits worn by one who prides herself on leading the way, has three bias folds, doubled and stitched at the upper qige. These ornament the hem. Any woman would care to know the details of this suit because of its pres- tige at the moment. It is of rough cheviot in a mixed, golden brown that reminds one of the heather mixtures, only the touch of green is absent. There is the straight skirt with its double bias folds at the hem, and the coat that :pples a bit from shoulders to hips. There are bias folds flaring away from the surface of the coat, at the heni and the wrists. The sleeves are cut straight, neither yielding to the inclination to be Spanish with a bell-shaped ‘opening at the wrist, or skintight, after the wedieval manner. There is a wide, rolling collar that ends at the bust, and the fastening fs unique; it consists of four long, wide tabs of the cloth, stitebed at the edges, pointed at one end, with a long, stitched buttomhole. These button- holes go over large buttons covered with the material. The stitched tabs run well across the figure, but the fronts of the coat swing open just a bit as the wearer moves, to show a ‘mandarin yellow crepe de chine blouse. Coat Linings Attract Attention. ‘The ‘dominant factor in tailored euits is the lining. It dominates the coat. It is intended to create more at- tention than the outer surface. Its coloration is vivid, and now and then it displays the animated designs of the tapestries of the middle ages. Animals rove over its surface. Human figures are engaged in buman activities. Hunting scenes, pastoral scenes, gay Uttle bits of street life, are put on the surface of your coat lining, and if you are clever,-you see to it that the pub- Me is instantly made aware of the ‘novelty. ~ ‘The pity of it is that one does not take off the coat in public. That fashion went out of existence long be- fore the, war dominated the world. It ‘has ‘not been reversed. Women keep on their jackets until they take off their skirts. And yet. with this fasb- Jon an accomplished fact, the design- ers by the usage of pictorial linings, are stimulating women to put. their coats over the backs of chairs when- ever possible. Why pay « large price for a piece Of satin tapestry if you = ‘The woman, however, dots ‘Rot accept these animated designs, sl- Si Parts Ores wicca Alcohol, Orris Powder and Quick Water Shampoo, Treatments That May Obviate the An- noying Inability to Obtain a Well-Coifed Head. ‘There are times when a woman feels that she Just can't go another day without shampooing her hair, yet she simply hasn't the time or the in- ¢lination to go through the usual proc- ess, It may be, too, that she is un- expectedly called upon to attend a function ut which a well-coifed head is an absolute necessity, and she knows that her hair simply will not go up properly without a cleansing process of some sort. Also, if the hair is to be dressed im- mediately after the shampoo the rig- orous soap shampos can hardly be in- dulged in, for scarcely a woman’ but voices the complaint, “Oh, I've washed my hair and I can’t do anything with it!” The question is, then, to hurriedly cleanse and fluff the hair with the least inconvenience. There are three ways, notes an authority, in which this can be done. : The alcohol method is excellent. First brush the scalp and hair thor- oughly with a clean brush. Get all the dust and dandruff possible out of the hair and then rub the scalp with alcohol and wipe the thick strands of the hair with a clean cloth. This will at the same time remove dirt and oil. If the hair is put on curlers immedi- ately after this treatment a good curl will result in a short time, Wet the hair well with alcohol for curling; it dries much faster than would water. Some women use a delicate toilet wa- ter for preparing the hair for curlers. The second is the orris powder method. Sift It well through the scalp and hair and let it remain for 15 min- utes or longer, so that it will absorb the ofl. Then brush it out and the dust will come with it. The powder Will fluff the hair ax well as cleanse it. Do not wet the hair for curling or it will become sticky. “'The third method is the quick water shampoo, It is the removal of the soap which takes so much pains and time. For an emergency you will find that dousing the head in hot water and then in cold, the latter to close the pores, rubbing It a little and en- tirely omitting soap, will put the hair in condition for dressing. Hair thus dipped in clear water will dry much more quickly than when given the reg- ulation soap shampoo. Of course, this eliminates some of the oil and adds a gloss to the hair. HANGINGS KEEP HOUSE WARM Heavy Curtains an Effective Assist. ance in Cold Weather—Moist Air Easier Than Dry to Heat. Several things besides coal will belp to keep the house comfortable. Win- dows not needed for ventilation pur- poses should be stuffed all around with cotton or old newspapers. Storm doors and windows will aid materially in keeping out cold; so will heavy hang- ings that may be drawn across bay window spaces and other drafty places. In all English country houses these heavy curtains are a feature of winter| furnishings ; they are pushed back dur- ing the day and drawn cosily at night when the family gathers about the sit- ting room fire. One gas jet, burming steadily, will raise the temperature of a room five degrees—and five degrees count when your thermometer registers below 60! Spraying the rooms often with water in an atomizer helps, too, for moist alr is easier to heat than dry air. ~ ATTRACTIVE SKATING SUIT fe a AWN hi \i Ce “Dh rl RY ‘TFA . The above is a particularly emart sport sult ef green bombonette with trimmings of white angora | Without enthusiaiw.—Emerson. re - , ie ‘ oly a We ery es) . lige q H 23 : iS Nita il =e Among the very small hats shown is this purple milan with moire ribbon co nee on tho cane ahader MAKE SCARF FROM OLD SHAWL Despite Ravages of Moths, Grand. mother's Pride May Be Made into Useful and Attractive Garment. Possibly you are one of those people who got out grandmother's old cash- mere shaw! which had been packed ‘way in the trunk in the attic for years, writes a correspondent, with plans for a wonderful new evening coat, and were desolated to discover that it had been almost riddled by moths. And when you hung it out in the sun for days and got rid of all the pesky little animals and had reveled in its gorgeous coloring, and regretted the eoat long and hard, you had wrap- ped it up in tar paper and put It back into the chest for another long period of oblivion. But here ts good news for you. You can use the glorious thing after all. Nothing is more fetching or chic than one of these new scarfs that some for- tunate people are using to liven up last year’s blue serge or black ‘velveteen suit, and they look as if they were de- signed for just those of us who have only small bits of our old shawis avail- able. Possibly it wasn’t the moths that prevented you from using your shawl. Maybe grandina was a Hooverizer, al- though she didn’t know it, and wore hers till it almost dropped to pieces. Whatever it may ha¥e been, get it out and see how many narrow strips you can get from the good parts. Buy a piece of red cashmere, that same love- ly red that the centers of these shawls were, cut the scarf from It of the de sired shape, bind it round the edge with band two or three Inches wide made from the pieces of the shawl, ws danger Spe men georgette crepe or two harmonizing colors of chiffon, one over the other. It will be so lovely when you get it finished that you will want to make another, and you might make one for mother, using black for the founda- tion instead of the red, lined with black shirred chiffon over red. NEW SPRING WAIST STYLE High Waistline to Be Feature of Suit ‘That Will Fit the Figure Snugly. A waistline just a trifle above nor- mal is to be the feature of the spring suit, according to present Indications. ‘This type of suit is featured especially for young women and women with de- cidedly youthful figures. Some of the sults promised for spring fit the figure quite snugly to an inch or so above the normal waistline, at which point a flaring skirt of peplum, hip length or Jonger, may be set on. Again the suit coat will be held in by a belt set on Just above the normal waistline. The sult with hizh waisted line in front and no waistline at all at the baek is also shown. This is arrived at by a panel arrangement at the back. A very graceful figure silhouette is usually given by this type of coat. Skirts are Just about the same as those shown for winter and now being worn. ‘The perfectly straight-line coat, cut ‘on chemise lines and closely related to the chemise frock, to be worn over a sleeveless blouse or vest in contrasting color and material, is also to be a favorite for spring. MODISH NOTES - Biack velvet girdles are silvertined and tie in a big bow at the side front. Lingala mete of_dyeen-enlered crepe de chine is trim with black ribbon. Narrow belts of black silk braid are seen on many of the serge dresses. ‘Taffeta will be much used for smart street frocks. Japanese cotton crepe makes excel- lent winter frocks for small children. ‘Chuddah, poplin and shark cloth are used for black skirts for winter. ‘One charming girdle is composed of small balis of angora on strands of jet. Biack-¢repe de chine ts sometimes worn with a yest of rose satin, em- broidered in white angora and gold thread. Any bit of fine linen, provided it ts eigbt or nine inches square, can be utilized for charming hand-rolled hand- kerchiefs. _ A yard of plain bisck moite ribbon can be made into a pretty little neck accessory by adding colored tassels ‘and embroidery on the ends. Soft Suede ts Brought Out for Spring Jackets. ———; Pliable Material May Be Dyed in Sea sonable Colors and Will Admit of Alluring Combinations. ‘The unheralded advent of leather coats in the autuma fashions gave the public a jolt and a surprise. It is whispered, writes a correspondent, that even the designers were not quite aware of the strength that the fash- jon would xssume. Waistcoats of leather, Jackets of Jegther and fur combined, were taken up by smart women in war work and remained as & street costume for peace activities. ‘The {dea brought about a train of other ‘ideas. Soft suede and pliable leather have been brought out for spring jackets. The suede is dyed in the spring colors, and one of new-eaf- green which goes with a white crepe : "i | 0 1m 3 we | a i] ay fa zz | —— Rainproof Suit of Black Leather. de chine skirt; ix quite alluring. Such & combination is obviously intended for Southern usage, but the soft. black leather coats with bright linings are intended for the streets of big cities. They carry skirts of cheviot, serge and heavy silk Jersey. ‘he latter ig again considered most desirable by well- dressed women. VOGUE FOR DECORATIVE WORK Combination of Braid and Embroidery Where All-Braid Embellishment Is Not Desirable: ‘When there is a considerable sur- face to be decorated. it is rather tedi- ous and tiresome to embroider the whole thing. And so the vogue for combining both braid and embroidery is'a fortunate one where the all-braid decoration is not destrable. The braid part of the combination usually confines itself to soutache. and the embroidery is intérgpersed"in long- stitch dabs. According to this method, the braiding need not take the form of Intricate scroll work. As a matter of fact, the work is very much more effective when the design is simple and bold, for the intervening embrold- ery can then be quite large and so much mare effective. Large spirals “spoked” with long, straight stitches in silk or wool make very fetching decoration with silk sou- tache of a contrasting color. Then the zigzag treatment of soutache may be given more decorative value by intro- ducing large dots between the turns, worked solid. < FLOWER HOLDERS FOR TABLE Ivory-Colored Porcelain Makes Up At tractive Set for a Pleasing ‘Centerpiece. Several years ago, when sets of porcelain flower holders, which, linked together to form a, great centerpiece, came tn, they caused almost a dinner sensation. They seemed too much of & vogue to stay, but they are here still. One such set that recently attracted attention is made of ivory-colored porcelain. There are several narrow, troughlike flower holders that, pushed together, form an irregular oblong in the center of the table. Small, short- stemmed flowers are arranged in masses in these dishes. Then there are eight tall candie- sticks to mateh, and they are grouped around. the flower’ dishes. A mirror fits nicely into the space defined by the flower dishes, and of course re- fleets the Jowers above and around it. ‘Broad Ax * too | By EVELYN NEssiT, ‘The unselfish woman of yestortay does not exist today. The woman why would spend ber precious Saturday = afternoons inside ate Daking cookies FRM, and pastries, the aa S| woman who would [Sonam spend her Sun- 7 % days cooking fam- ro = ily dinners, can't ra® be bought for love J ; ‘or money. fe : Women * have ; discovered that * | they, too, want to 4 live. © You won't me | find a woman who 2. & ‘Will toll and spin ‘: ry ' 24 hours a day i and smile at the +& end of it and say f jp . | “Al's right with (4,./%. >a) cha eneeka a | ny oy sy — j ; i ‘Thank goodness for that! It js g fortunate thing that the entirciy us selfish woman no longer exists or tha any woman who still is const)¢ted af ter this fashion ig, not appreciate these days, We don't want martyrs in our homes any more. The day of slaves is yous the woman who still has no time fm self-development—which is what the “selfish” women of today are dloing—i out of place: The laborsaving bmn hold devices were not invented as op naments. They were invented « te women would use them and have dine! to become more wonderful and perer as a result. ‘The world is too wide-nwake to te able to tolerate a woman who cn speak only of how she starches eur, tains and how she cooks her potroast| tender. The world wants women who read the newspapers, who know sme thing of the progress of science and fnvention, who take more than » cxe| ual peep out their back doors, The unselfish woman who sacrifices herself for her home to such an extent thar she cannot develop her mind snd sont, is a creature of the dark ass We want the “selfish” women who have| learned how to devote the least tine to irksome duties and the greatex| amount of time to improving th minds and making themselyes haj HARMONY IN THE WARDRO! Combinations of Colors May Be ed, Enabling Each to Have Own Color Scheme. Ever since she became old enough have any serious thoughts about Personal appearance, a certain girl had @ desire for perfect harmoay dress. The combination of « dress, a red hat and a brown cat, Instance, distressed her. A scant purse made it impossle her to purchase a complete new every time one new garment was ed to the wardrobe, so she concel the idea of adopting a color for herself. She chose blue and as these had always been favorit and becoming colors. These col combine beautifully, never clash, a! the combination enn be found in terials suitable to all seasous and casions. After she made up her mit she was never tempted to depart frot her rule of purchasing garments some shade of her adopted colors onlj and soon perfect hurmony prevailed her wardrobe. BEAUTIFUL EVENING GOWN ye | at [DRG Alpe >, 4 i vt) ih Tut i | ! | ( 2 + ». | j iS Wf] Mi : Qe ie Nile green is the color of this gant. evening gown, The draped ia of chiffon velvet, while the like waist ie formed of brocaded the sleeves, Piaehecuce cea ee ot Chicago Title and Trust Company OUR BUSINESS SINCE 1847 has been that of showing the condition of real estate titles. The millions upon millions required to build and rebuild Chicago have been furnished relying on the accuracy of our ABSTRACTS and TITLE POLICIES. Wise men judge future action by past behavior THE MASTER'S HOUSE THE CRANFORD Apartment Building 3600 WABASH AVENUE The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance J. W. CASEY, Agent Phone Main 263 133 W. Washington Street Repentant Patsy. Minnie and her little dog, Patsy, were playing in the kitchen. Minnie's mamma was cooking supper and mumbled over Patsy, causing her to drop an egg on the freshly scrubbed door. She put Patsy out on the porch and seated Minnie in a corner. In a few moments Patsy scratched on the door and began barking. Minnie said to her mother: "Mamma, can Patsy come in now? He's sorry. Don't you him pologizing?" Try to Be Agreeable. We should wisely cultivate the art of being agreeable, not only in the company of our business associates or those persons whom we meet socially but in our own homes as well. By deporting ourselves we shall find more pleasant and people in general—the home folks in particular—more considerate. On the other hand, if we continue to think only of ourselves we shall find life a trying affair—Exchange. Rugby Football. At the famous school of Rugby, England originated that form of football, bearing the name of the school, subscription, at Rugby reads: "This commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a fine guard for the rules of football, as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game. A. D. 1823." Frogs as Wasp Eaters. The common green frog has been discovered tb possess an insatiate greed for wasps. This extraordinary appetite does not seem to be in the best checked by an occasional sting. The protecting color of the frog, which sits motionless upon leaves, no doubt deludes the most wary of insects into a sense of security.—Nyack Evening Journal. Commerce and Art United. The period of Antwerp's great rise to commercial prosperity was also that of the city's chief artistic production. The names of Quentin Matsys and of Rubens are specially connected with the city, for Rubens was essentially an antwerp man, although he was not. The Tenders and elder, and Van Dyke, a native of the place. Words Most in Use. It is declared by a philologist that nine words do one-fourth of the verbal work, and 34 words one-half. The nine most useful words are: And, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you. The 34 more that, with these nine, do half our literary work are: About, all, as, nt, but, can, come, day, dear, for, get, go, hear, her, if, in, me, much, not, no, on, one, she, so, that, there, they, this, though, time, we, with, write, your. Pretty Thought The conception of the past and the future is well illustrated in the case of a little boy who said to his mother one day: 'Mother, I know why it is that babies cannot speak until they are twelve months old or more. 'It is because they come straight from heaven, and if they were able to talk as soon as they were born they would tell the secrets, and so God doesn't let them speak until they have almost forgotten them." After the Fire. When fire has swept a bit of woodland the flowers that start the following season are often not the same as grew there before and frequently are strange to the locality. Queer legends have grown up to account for this fact, but the explanation is in reality very simple. Down under the surface soil these seeds have been waiting no one knows how long. They never had a chance before fire gave it. About Bathing. Frequent bathing is conducive to good health as well as comfort. It keeps the pores of the skin clear, so that they can perform their proper function of clearing the system, through the skin, of excretions which are not discharged through the mouth, nose, kidneys or alimentary canal. Rinse with cold water. A brisk rub after the bath promotes circulation of blood. In Piccadilly. Piccadilly is believed to have got its name from pickadelles or piccadillies, a variety of turnover collar. A tailor named Higgins, who had made a fortune selling these articles of apparel, built a home in that particular part of London in 1630 and called it Piccadilly hall, hence the name Piccadilly. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 8, 1919. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 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, Time Shipping to all parts of the Country and Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Chapel. 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Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 8, 1879. ALL IS CHAOS The world seems to be having an awful mix up. Upheavals of every nature seem to be the fashion of the hour. Turbulency perhaps may be a better word. Any how nations like individuals are fussing about what shall and shall not be the new order now that the world war has to all intents come to an end. There is every reason to believe that a Republican senate will repudiate much of what will constitute the essence of the peace a democratic cabinet will foist upon this nation. Today the President of the United States is in France impressing upon the civilized world with great emphasis the fourteen points of law affecting the allies and beligerants involved in the world war. Some nations like some individuals have grown bellicose and men become grandiloquent, surfeited with power. All seem bent to impress their greatness upon the rest of mankind. The real fact is, the white man now in the height of his glory is all puzzled over the aggressive nature of his being. It will be remembered that President Wilson threw the force of his office into the recent congressional campaign. Soliciting the liberal spirit of our citizens to cast a vote for the present administration with the political result of a repudiation of democratic policies at the polls. Can it not be seen here that coming events cast their shadows long before? And that there will be a dividing line between the policies set up by Mr. Wilson and his cabinet, both houses of Congress. Not that there exist serious animosity or sinister motives in the denounciation of scruples not accepted by Republicans but that the present administration has demonstrated beyond any doubt its incapacity and inability to handle the abstruse principles of a sane and stable government. What he wishes to do, and have in getting the upper hand of his better spirit, and there is some likelihood of another war more terrible than the one just over. Flagrant political outlawry rests in the hands of those nations with power to subjugate other little nations. Peace is a wish devoutly to be a determining factor in the turbulent hour of present chaos. Sometimes we think the white race is not capable of self government. Enough laws have been enacted to meet the needs of all eternity, and still we must make laws just as we make coffins. Civilization surely must be on the down grade. Perfidy speches upon the high brows of lofty men, and every thing unfit for innocent minds fills the daily press, and reverence of manhood has been impreached in every high place. Partisanism has been rampant and patriotism has been used as a cloak behind which to operate much of what has seemed to be questionable in the ramifications of office, and office holding. Again and again has the senate called private citizens before angust committees to thrash out much of what appeared to be the elements of doubt in the proper conduct of some government official. Possibly more of this has been done within the last three years stration. In one particular case the President himself appointed a distinguished jurist to investigate the aeroplane tangle which for a time seemed to engulf the whole nation in ugly strife. Many senators and representatives of the G. O. P. have already spoken out in meeting. We pity the Negro because of all this turmoil. Ideals, greatness, goodness see to have been all smashes to race. A race lost to so many high and splendid graces once the hope of the world. To-day the darker races of mankind offer more of the noble attributes of decent humanity in spite of their Koran, their Mohammed their Chinese idols, and their Japanese Budda. Christ indeed, will have to come to this old world again and christen it anew with the Holy breathing of His righteous spirit. Instruments in every form of human devilty expose the poverty of our times and decadence marks the pathway of so called progress with the torch and fagot, lynch law and burning of human flesh. Men drunk for personal advancement and power stoop to ugly measures to satisfy their mad craving and lust for office. Reformers are being trapped and exposed, hideous forms of vice are being tolerated because a degenerate breed of gold coast misfits have millionaire names. Human prejudice has weakened the very citadel of government, and evil discrimination pays its tributes to a white skin in spite of the muck and mire of its ugly surroundings. Filthy, flashy, faulty society with its gaudy glass, fit only for vulgar eyes is holding night orgies behind the shades, where lights are burning low and greediness and gluttony of every infamous description parade their horrofying splendor. The church bells ring the lessons of righteous truth go unheeded, while the minister with softened speech tells glorious ever redeeming facts of a christian era. The world stops and turns aside for holy unction one day out of seven, then on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and the next day rushes pell mell into the uncanny vortex of human gravidity. --- --- PAGE EIGHT DEMOCRATIC FALLICIES No.21 THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO; FEBRUARY 8, 1919. EDITORIAL PAGE THEY COULD DO IT BUT THEY WON'T While the allied forces are getting down to business on the world League of nations as a panacea for political and military ills it might occur to them also to from a league for the prevention of poverty, pauperism and financial piracy. They might even launch a movement for the prevention of ignorance, and last but not least the prevention of lynching. We are not down on our knees with a magnifying glass looking for the millennium or anything like it at the present time. But the forces potent in the operation of such great good as endeavoring to make the world "safe for democracy" can not consistently leave out their program religious protests against this great holocaust of human decimation as burning human beings at the stake. If, preadventure the intellectuals of the world who represent every redeeming grace of civilized humanity should over look so great a crime as lynching and burning innocent men and women, who altho they may be charged with crime, but not given a trial in courts of law, God have mercy on us for then it will be proved that hypocracy has taken so deep seated and deep rooted a hold upon mankind that the oppresses and helpless have no ground to hope. Let us believe that the Peace conference at Paris will sift the crude form of justice, and sweeten a bit in the undiscovered mercy of humanity. Don't let us leave it all to Him who suffered much for our sins; whose rugged strides toward Calvary's summit showed need for human help. The Peace of the world embraces a peace and a race brotherhood in every courty, and if it cannot permeate the dark southland and reach Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas, then the colored soldiers who fought and died on the fronts in devasted France and Belgium have died in vain. The present conference of the intellectual giants of the age might redound to great good for the oppressed of every land, if only each individual could forget his little mangy ago for a moment and rub up the Golden Rule which has become rusted from disuse. They might champion the cause of the blacks, and browns, and yellows, and reds, if only they could forget for a moment that white is only skin deep. Color arrogance has got the rest of mankind by the throat and the worship of self interest gives us colossal stagnation of mercy. READ'AND REFLECT By Dr. M. A. Majors. A people no better fitted than the Negro of the present day does not aspire to be president or a member of the Supreme bench, but it is a fact we do not get all we deserve, and yet as the situation presents itself, we are not altogether prepared for the better things we might get. The fitness of things have a great deal to do with our racial condition. The truer we become to the real facts in our case, the wiser we become to view without alarm the multiplicity of disadvantages that hedge about us as a race. Many redeeming graces emphasize the necessity of a due regard to the process of our growth in education, wealth, and sobriety. We cannot be left out of the equation of the wordl's progress. We have made ourselves necessary along many lines of human development. Our simplicity and earnestness is worth much to mankind. Our devotion to the cause of religion has spurred the races of mankind to think sincerely and seriously of our strivings, and the money spent by public educational interests have proved to be a good investment. The future is assured by reason of our well recognized effort made in the economic progress to keep ourselves well clad, clean, and to live comfortable. There are hundreds of doors still closed to us. They will grow easy on their hinges as we prove ourselves more and more the requisite element to promote world work. The world is needing men and women attuned to the sober graces of usefulness. We will find that the spirit of the times are in unison with the spirit of self-help, not selfish aggrandizement. The era presages a better day for us. We must tune our minds to beautiful idealistics and let our hearts sing. We must be thrifty, recognizing ever the cardinal principles of truth and right, and let our hearts be dominated by the noblest principles of life. Her Heavenly Program Aunt Callie was a very religious negro woman—of the shouting variety. She was telling the children about heaven, and what she expected to do when she got there. "When I gits dar, honeys, I gwine take a crown what a angel gwine gimme, an' put it on my head. Den I gwine git out my ill' ole habh an' play some of dem heben chunes on it. Den I gwine stretch my ill' white wings an' fly fum cherry beam to cherry beam." Had Right Idea. Anyway. My youngest daughter is quite a peachy little person and it is quite amusing at times to hear her air her views. The day after Christmas several children from the neighborhood came in to see her gifts and to play with her. When exhibiting her presents she said in her best peachy manner: "I gived away a lot of things and I 'joyed my Christmas so much 'cause it's nicer to be a giver than a taker."—Chicago Tribune. Magnificent Royal Residence The most notable architectural feature of Buckingham palace is the grand staircase of white marble, which leads to the state apartments. These magnificent suites are filled with priceless objects of art and historical interest presented to the British monarchs by the royal visitors of many generations. What She Was. Dorothy was boasting to her younger sister about where she had been when she was a year old. Margaret, naturally, anxious to know how this concerned her. Inquired: "Where was I then?" Dorothy's reply was crushing. "When I was a year old, you were nothing—you were a piece of sky!" Creatures That Weep. Among the creatures that weep most easily are the ruminants. All hunters know that the stag weeps, and it is asserted that the bear sheds tears when severely wounded. The giraffe is not less sensitive and regards with tearful eyes the hunter who has wounded it. "Bully." The word "bully" as a familiar term of address was employed in the time of Shakespeare and no doubt was old even then. In the sense of prafseworthy, excellent as, "That was a bully dinner," it is used both by Americans and by British subjects. Children's Logic "Do you know," said a little fellow of four years of age, "what I thought dark was? A great, huge live thing, the color of black, with mouth and eyes." Another assured his teacher that the wind was alive, for he heard it whistling in the night. Arab Consideration. There is a story told of an Arub who possessed a beautiful and valuable steed. His companions were ready to start their journey and wanted to know why he had not saddled his horse. "Because I am angry," was his reply. Cuckoo Brings Good Luck There is an old superstition prevalent in many parts of England that, if you turn the money you have in your pocket when first you hear the cuckoo in the spring, you will not suffer from lack of cash all through the year. Bad Business. Said the facetious philosopher: "Putting something away for a rainy day is excellent business policy, but what gets a lot of fellows in the toils of the law is putting it away for a dry one." Give It a Name. A screwless corkscrew has been invented, a pointed shaft carrying a piece of metal on a pivot so that it falls at the right angle beneath a cork that it has been thrust through. Rainfall. The average rainfall on the earth is variously estimated at from 30 to 60 inches annually; ranges from 458 inches in Cherracongee, India, to zero in the Sahara desert. Quite Right. Surge. "A place for everything, and every thing in its place," said the surgeon, as he skillfully manipulated a dislocated joint back to where it started from. We Complete Your Payments. MEYERS, BRENNAN & CO. Room.208-105 N. Clark Street Opposite County Bldg. Tel. Majestic 7999. Hours: 8 to 5:30. St. Helena the Good. St. Helena according to a colonial report, appears to have no real criminals. Stone-throwing by night was for a short period the most serious offense. Last year no person was committed for trial; 104 out of 210 summary cases came under the education, road tax, and poor law ordinances and 77 trivial cases were dealt with by the police without bringing them to court. Three instances of flogging are recorded. under the juvenile smoking ordinance. Crow Has Earned Farmer's Hate. Most commonly the crow is hated by the farmer because it pulls up the young corn to get the soft seed kernels at the root, and everywhere is to be seen the scarecrow in the newly planted corn fields. Later on the damage they do to the corn crop can hardly be estimated, because they peck the end of the young ears, allowing the water to enter the shuck and rot the corn. Home-Made Martyr John G. says, in a long letter of misery, that nobody understands him in this world. If you take up that role, John, then nobody can be expected to understand you. Don't try to make yourself out a martyr. Put your back into life and carry a burden for another. You'll soon find then that you are understood and appreciated.—Exchange. Algerian Grain Regions Grain is produced in Algeria chiefly in valleys interspersed among the mountain ranges near the Mediterranean coast and on the high plateaus lying between the coastal mountain region and the less elevated ranges which form the northern border of the Sahara desert. Carved in Algerian Rocks A huge buffalo with enormous horns is conspicuous in prehistoric rock drawings lately found in Algeria. The African elephant is also a striking feature, and other animals include the lion, leopard, gazelle and domestic goats and sheep.—San Francisco Argonaut. To Remove Varnish Stains To remove varnish stains, first wet the spots with alcohol two or three times, then rub with a clean cloth. If the color is injured, sponge afterward with chloroform to restore it, unless the color is blue, in which case vinegar should be used instead. Theoretically Still at War Although France and Mexico are ostensibly at peace, a state of war still exists, theoretically, between the two nations, for after Maximilian's execution in 1867, the French withdrew their armies from Mexico, but never signed any treaty. Intentions Count for Little To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it, is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another. till he is starved and destroyed.—Tillotson. Swiftest Dog. the swiftest dog in the world, the borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has made record runs that show 75 feet in a second, which would give it a speed of 4,800 feet in a minute if the pace could be kept, up. Paper From Many Kinds of Bark Fifty kinds of bark are now used to manufacture paper, besides banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines, coconut fiber, clover and hay, straw, fresh winter weeds, sea weeds and over 150 kinds of grasses. Nuts. Nuts. A nut lock has been invented that consists of a plate of metal to be placed between two nuts with wings at the sides that can be bent to grip the nuts. Great Is Enthusiast Enthusiasm comes with the revelation of true and satisfying objects of devotion, and it is enthusiasm that sets the powers free.—Woodrow Wilson. One Cow to Thirteen People One Cow to Thirteen People. Throughout England there is one cow to every thirteen people, says Mr. J. A. Greene, a divisional food commissioner. As Matter of Duty It may not be ours to utter convincing arguments, but it may be ours to live holy lives. It may not be ours to be subtle and learned and logical, but it may be ours to be more noble and sweet and pure—Canon Furter. Advice From a Great Man Phillips Brooks once said that it is just as presumptuous to think that you can do nothing as it is to think that you can do everything. Try to "steer a middle course" between the two. Saving Oilcloth Oilcloth when used to cover tables will last much longer if the tables first be covered with paper, well rubbed with machine oil, to keep the underside of the oilcloth moist Finger Saver. Some one who has realized the damper in touching an electric fan while it is in motion has patented one with a guard equipped with a handle with which to move it. Lines to Be Remembered For an immortal being to set his affections on the things of this world is like falling in love with a sparrow as it flies by us and out of sight.—Marcen Aurellus. Man Is the Great Listener Hair is the Lester. Girls with ugly ears cover them with little knots of hair, but men's ears must stand out before the world and take what is coming to them—Toledo Blade. The largest order of merit in the world is the French Legion of Honor, which has a trifle over 500,000 members. Really. Even a realistic writer sometimes realizes that he cannot realise in his realism.—Boston Transcript. Some of the most forgetful of men have monuments erected to their memory.—Indianapolis Star. Visitors to New York. It has been reckoned that New York city has at least 200,000 visitors a day, not counting commuters. FROM THIS DATE ONWARD THE BROAD AX CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Mrs. L. Graves, The Provident Candy Shop, Notion Store and News Stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State. George I. Martin, Cigar, Notion Store and News Stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. Edward Felix, Notions, Cigars and News Stand, 3002 S. Dearborn St. F. Bishop, Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 8 W. 27th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Notion, Stationery and News Stand, 3640 S. State Street. Dodson's Shoe Shining Parlors and News Stand, So. West Corner 35th and State Streets. Lawrence M. Heard, Traveling News Agent, with news stands at 3129 S. State St. and So. East Cor. 35th and State Streets. Charles F. Mallory's Barber Shop and News Stand, 313 E. 35th Street. W. 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