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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY DR. J. FRANK ARMSTRONG, 1924 W. Lake Street Was Not Guilty of Alienating the Affections of Mrs. George O'Bannon. Dr. ARMSTRONG Still has Pending in the Superior Court a Suit Against Col. R. S. Abbott and the Greatest Weekly Newspaper in the World for Twenty Thousand Dollars for Libel and Defamation of Character. VOL. XXIV DR. J. F Was Dr. ARMS Against C in the Wor ation of CL It will be re-called that it was stated in the columns of the greatest weekly newspaper in the world whose owners claim to be first class Christians and not black midnight character assassins, in its issue of Nov. 24, 1917, that Dr. J. F. Armstrong, 1924 W. Lake St. had been "beaten up and slashed in a mix—up in the home of Mr. Geo O'Bannon 2234 Fulton St., that Mr. O'Bannon had returned home suddenly and found Dr. Armstrong in his home making love to his wife, with his coat and collar off and sweating in the face to beat the band, that Mr. O'Bannon drove him out of his home where he had called many times not in a professional way, with a deep gash in his back; that the Park Ave. Hospital rendered medical assistance to Dr. Armstrong. It will be further re-called that it was stated in the columns of this paper December 29th, 1917, that, that "wild cat story" was simply published to enable the greatest weekly newspaper in the world to sell some extra copies of it at the expense of upright and honorable citizens; that it must be said to be great credit of Dr. Armtrong that he possess a splendid reputation; that he is a gentlemen of the very highest character and it is an act of gross injustice to him to publish such rot about him. Shortly after the time mentioned above Dr. Armstrong spent many hours in hanging around in or outside of the office of the world's greatest weekly newspaper, as he wanted to request Col. Abbott to publish a retraction of his false statement but Col. Cary Lewis with his horse laugh always informed Dr. Armstrong that Col. Abbott had just faded away to attesd and lead an old time Presbyterian DR. ROBERT B. MOTON, WELL RECEIVED AT THE SOUTH PARK CHURCH THUESDAY EVENING. Under the auspices of the Urban League, Chicago Branch, Dr. Robert Russo Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, addressed a very appreciative audience at the South Park M. E. Church last Tuesday night. Dr. Moton fresh from his experiences in France and in the army camps of the Western Front, where he went at the direction of the President of the United States and Secretary of War Baker, greatly enlightened his audience on the condition as he found them. His narrative at times made one shudder to prayer meeting or that he was out getting some fresh air in his five thousand dollar auto. Not long after Dr. Armstrong had utterly failed to connect up with Col. Abbott, and he had failed to publish a retraction, Mr. O'Bannon brought suit in the Superior Court against Dr. Armstrong demanding ten thousand dollars from him for alienating his wife's affections and Col. Abbott found space in the columns of the great weekly newspaper in the world to publish that fact, to the whole world, and on Monday morning of this week Dr. Armstrong had his day in court and after Judge Mangan sitting in the Superior Court had heard the direct evidence of Mr. O'Bannon he decided that there was not one thing in his tale of woe and he dismissed his ten thousand dollar suit against Dr. Armstrong without requiring him to ascend the witness stand and Mrs Armstrong who is one of our warm Lady friends who very bravely stood by her husband during his so called court troubles in the dastardly attempt to black en his character and to shake him down for some easy money, was over come with joy at the out come of the case. Dr. Armstrong still has a suit in the Superior Court against Col R. S. Abbott, calling for twenty thousand dollars for libel and defamation of character and it is reported that Col. Albert B. George Attorney for Col. Abbott, is ready and willing to settle the case out of court by having the big wealthy editor, whom they claim has one hundred thousand dollars in the bank to pay Dr. Armstrong form three to five thousand dollars and publish a retraction of the article at the same time. think of the erroneous rumors that were successfully circulated, tending to damage the Negro as a fighting unit and as to his moral unfitness. The happy side of his investigation brought to light the fact that in most cases adverse criticism of our troops and their conduct was greatly exaggerated. He quoted words of comendation of the conduct of our colored soldiers in and out of action coming from officers of high rank. "The colored soldiers," said he: "vigorously resented the attempted German pro paganda by shooting over their lines literature asking why the Negro should fight the Germans; lay down your arms and come CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 19, 1919 ARMSTROKE Alienating the A hill has Pene bott and theenty Thousa with us; we will treat you fairly; the United States discriminates against you, burns you, lynches you, puts you in Jim Crow Cars and denies you your rights as American citizens." To this the colored soldier replied, "you cannot appeal to us on such grounds, those are matters of domestic concern, our business here is to win this war; we'll take care of such things when we get back home." The speaker of the evening let it be known in no mistaken terms that he was absolutely sure the pulse of the American people was quickening to the real principles of democracy. Mr. Edgar A. Bancroft, counsel for the Int. Harvester Company, and one of the Trustees of Tuskegee, introduced Dr. Moton, — Attorney Albert B. George presided. The meeting was arranged by the Executive Secretary of the Chicago Branch, Urban League, Mr. T. Arnold Hill. Among others on the platform were Maj. J. R. Lynch, Morris Lewis, Julius F. Taylor, Alexander L. Jackson, Dr. George C. Hall, Prof. Horace Bridges, Edgar A. Bancroft, T. Arnold Hill and Dr. Bryant, pastor of the Church who also officiated delivering the invocation in the utterance of which he asked divine blessing on the President of the United States, prayers for his return and attention to his labors for democracy on this side of the sea. Mrs. Garnes sang. At the conclusion of the meeting a number of friends crowded to meet Dr. Moton, among them W. R. Cowan, David Manson, J. R. Auter, George Walker, George R. Arthur, Charles Satchell Morris Jr., D. P. French, Dr. Law Blanchet, Dr. Garnes, Miss Caro Lewis, and many others. Many new membership were received for the League and Mr. Will is to be congratulated on the success of the meeting. "L." DR. GEORGE A. THORNTON, FINED 50 DOLLARS AND COST IN THE COURT OF DO- MESTIC RELATIONS, BY JUDGE SHERIDAN E. FRY. Last Saturday Dr. George A. Thornton a Colored dentist at 35th Street and Indiana Avenue, had his day in Court, before Judge Sheridan E. Fry, who ably and cooly presides over the Court of Domestic Relations. After patiently listening to all of the undisputable evidence against, Dr. Thorton; closed his wise judicial eyes real tight and ING, 1924 Affections of M ding in the the Greates and Dollars One of the high county; who not under a not wear on Superior cov in remaining frills of fea for Attorney fined him fifty dollars and cost, for contributing to the delinquency of a young Colored school girl. Colored Citizens Respond to Appeal for Jewish Sufferers The campaign to raise $125,000 for suffering Jews in Europe was opened at Temple Adath Israel last Monday night at Louisville, Kentuky. Among the speakers was Mr. Julius Rosenwald, — the well known philanthropist, — who has contributed thousands at the building of Colored Y. M. C. A.'s and Colleges, and who has given elevating and respectable employment to Colored girls in the offices of the Sears-Roebuek Co., which he heads. Mr. Rosenwald made an excellent talk and spoke at length on [Name] One of the high class plain Democratic Judges of the Circuit court of Cook county; who manfully contends that we are living in a Republic and not under a monarchial form of government; for that reason he will not wear one of the black robes which many of the other circuit and Superior court judges are sporting around in. Judge Scanlan believes in remaining close to the plain or the common people without any frills of feathers and he would make a dandy Republican candidate for Attorney General of Illinois in 1920. HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN Mass plain Democratic Judges of the Citizenmanfully contends that we are living monarchial form of government; for a of the black robes which many of the art judges are sporting around in. Judges close to the plain or the common p hers and he would make a dandy Re General of Illinois in 1920. the condition of the Colored people in this country. He told how highly a sum of $200 which had been sent in by Colored people was appreciated for the Race which he said were sufferers themselves. He told of his visit to France and how on the battle field Jew blood and Gentile blood and blood of Colored and white was indistinguishable. He declared God had made all men and the color of their skin should not be considered in the treatment of men. He said he wished America could have seen the Colored soldier as he had seen them, and prejudice would have passed away forever. Such statements on such an occasion made by a leading national character to an audience of white people, were extraordinary but in the reports of Mr. Rosenwald's speech in the daily papers not a word of them was given. The Louisville News editorial last week in which Colored citiz- No. 31 ens were urged to contribute their mite to this cause, bore fruit, as buttons worn by many Colored people gave witness. Of all racial groups in this country, the Jews are the fairest to Colored people and the Race was given an excellent opportunity to show their appreciation in this campaign for sufferers of that race in Europe. — (From the News. Louisville, Ky.) — JUDGE HARRISON TO SPEAK AT EBENEZER BAPT.IST CHURCH Judge William H. Harrison, formerly of Oklahoma City, but now of Chicago will speak Wednesday night, April 30th, 1919 at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 35th, and Dearborn St. under the auspices of the Dramatic and Musical Club. Mrs. Pearl Warner, president T. Chapman, seey. — Judge Harrison's subject will be — "The Hour Has Come." PAGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholica, 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. Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597. JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol XXIV. April 19, 1919 No. 31 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., under Act of March 3, 1879 Joy of Motoring No feeling in the world is equal to the thrill of real motoring. The joy of the long tour, through strange and out-of-the-way places is never ending. Odd scenes and quaint people are everywhere. Get out on the road, off the boulevard and see how the other people live. Little Chance for Confession. "A good husband ought to tell his wife all his faults," explains the professional solver of domestic problems in a Milwaukee newspaper. A very original idea, but what is the prescribed method of conduct when she persists in telling about them first? Mending Knives and Forks. To mend a knife or steel fork which has come out of the handle, fill the hole with finely powdered resin and hold the rough end of the knife or fork in the fire until it becomes hot. Insert it in the powdered resin and hold it straight until firmly fixed. Whassa Matter With You. Man? Whaissa Matter With You, Man? "Why won't I do?" demanded the lady of 300 pounds displacement, as she indignantly waved the want ad section in his face. "Didn't you advertise for a stout woman to do housework?"—Indianapolis Star. Ain't It So? "Speakin' of musical instruments," remarked the facetious feller, "there's no music as purty to the ears of a business man as hearin' 'Taps' played on his cash register."—Indianapolis Star. New Screw Fastener. An Australian inventor has patented a screw fastener for wool bale bands that enables the bales to be made tight and permits the use of narrow bands, thereby saving steel. Knew Where It Would Land. Lawyer—"Yes, sir! We can settle up this estate for you in about eight months." The Principal Heir—"But can you wait that long for the money?" —Judge. Wisdom in Saving. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone and die not worth a groat at last. Household Hint "Albert, I want you to see the new dining room set Mr. Brown has bought for his wife. It would just match our wall paper." Abbreviating Names The ploneers give up beautiful names and the postal authorities abbreviate them—San Francisco Chronicle. Optimistic Thought. A low station with safety is better than a high one with danger. Coney as a Venice. Coming up toward Sandy Hook on a perfectly placid sea we were blessed with just that amount of haze which turned Coney island into Venice, Arthur E. Shipley writes in Scribner's Magazine. The sea was an Adriatic lagoon; we might have left Trieste overnight! The same merciful mist changed the clear-cut outlines of the skyscrapers into Turner's pictures and the Boy and the Poet became ecstatic with the ecstasy of youth. Once Powerful Empire. No country, not even Egypt, made a deeper mark in the history of the ancient world than Mesopotamia. For thousands of years it was the seat of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. To the bountiful resources of nature its peoples added those of art and science, and the country during the centuries waxed not only in material wealth and military power, but also in culture. The ancient glory of Mesopotamia has passed, but the glamour remains. These Days of Hysteria. It is claimed that chess playing is dying out. In the old days, when hysteria did not have possession of the land and the inhabitants thereof, chess playing was quite popular. Now we are a steam-heated civilization, with no time for study for the mere delight of learning. Remember when Paul Murphy of New Orleans was the chess wizard of the world?—Los Angeles Times. Japan's Delightful Climate. Japan is considered, because of its delightful climate, the playground of the East. Residents of other countries of the far East Indies, the Philippines, and the Straits settlements, flock to Japan in the hot summer months to enjoy its mountain resorts. Owling to the large tourist business some of these resorts present all the up-to-date advantages. Makeshift as It Were. A strange family had recently moved into the neighborhood. Robert had made the acquaintance of the small son and had learned from him that the man was only the boy's stepfather, and, in explanation to me, Robert said: "It ain't James' own daddy, mamma; he's just a second-handed one."—Chicago Tribune. A Windfall. The origin of "windfall," in the sense of "good luck," dates from the time of William the Conqueror. It was then a criminal offense to cut timber in the forests. Only such could be gathered as the wind had blown down; hence, a heavy windstorm was hailed by the peasants as so much good luck, and from this comes the modern application of the expression. The Time He Hurries. When a seventeen-year-old boy's father tells him it's time he was picking out a trade he doesn't see any reason to hurry. But when his girl tells him the same thing he begins deciding between statesmanship and professional baseball right away.—Kansas City Star. Seems an Unfair Division. Thousands of bats discarded by English women are exported every year to Brazil, where they are eagerly bought by the Indians. The feathers and other ornaments on the hats are taken by the men, and the bare straw shapes given to their womenfolk. Heat and Tuberculosis James B. Murphy and Ernest Sturm (Journal of Experimental Medicine) subjected mice to heat and a week later inoculated them with a strain of tuberculosis virulent for mice. These animals displayed a greater resistance than normal. Liberty Demands Full Loyalty We honor Liberty in name and form. We set up her statues and sound her praises. But we have not yet fully trusted her. And with our growth, so grow her demands. She will have no half service.-Lord Macaulay. Milton's Diction. How grandly Milton rolls and winds through the arches and labyrinths of his magnificent and involved diction, waking musical echoes at every turn and variation of its progress!—E. P. Whipple. Our Occasional Observance. A man will sit by the hour matching pennies, but if his wife asks him to match a piece of dress goods, whatta howl of rage and indignation there'd be!—Indianapolis Star. Advantage of Wings. Another good thing about the flying an angel does is that he never has to light upon the top of a house and bawl for somebody to help him down.—Dallas News. "Locket" Eveglassea. Eyglaisses for which a-British pat- ent has been granted can be folded when idle to resemble a locket and worn on a chain as an ornament. Be Glad. If you see a man or woman successful, be glad of it. Don't waste time belittling his success. Use your force trying to equal it. Daily Thought. A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health—Bacon. Useful Though Unwed. The modern view is that a woman is not necessarily a failure because her life has been Miss-spent—Boston Transcript. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, APRIL 19, 1919 DAY HONORED BY WELSHMEN March the First Known the World Over as Anniversary of the Country's Patron Saint. The first day of March has long been observed as a special day by the people of Wales and is called St. David's day in honor of the good St. David, patron saint of the Welsh, who lived in the sixth century. St. David was said to have been the son of a prince of Cardiganshire, Wales, and is accredited with the working of many miracles, especially among the poor of the country. It was said that when the saint first went into the fields to preach to his followers the ground on which he was standing began to rise until it assumed a goodly height, and henceforth was his pulpit. For hundreds of years the Welsh wore sprigs of leek—a plant with broad bluish-green leaves and yellow flower clusters—in their hats as a symbol of recognition of the day. This custom was brought about, some say, from the fact that in a battle of the Welsh against their old enemies, the Saxons, St. David had ordered all Welshmen to go into battle, wearing their native leek, not only to distinguish them from their enemies, but to bring them good luck. Other writers argue that the badge was worn more as a fraternal sign and because leek was grown in every Welsh garden and was the favorite vegetable of a true Welshman. Writers of the last century depict a typical Welsh garden as a garden of onions, garlic and leek. Homely incidents are told of Welshmen assisting each other in farming and eating their leeks together, a ceremony symbolic of hospitality and good fellowship. NOT ALWAYS PROPERLY SANE Scientists Assert Few People Have at All Times Full Command of Their Mental Faculties. Many people think that the expression "temporary insanity" is merely used by a jury wishing to save relatives pain, but numbers of doctors who have made a study of mental disorders emphatically declare it is no idle term. One doctor has stated that temporary insanity is a condition of double consciousness, not dissimilar to epilepsy. A person normally quite sane may have attacks of temporary aberration lasting little more than a few minutes, especially after long bouts of hard, continuous mental work, being particularly liable if insomnia supervenes. Crimes have been committed in the early morning when the perpetrator has not really been properly awake, and has been horrified to find what he has done. This is a true case of temporary insanity, but it is comparatively rare, and a man in normal health would not suffer in this way. A specialist in mental diseases has stated that he knew a case in which a person was insane during a certain time of each day, and that others have been known when the patient was quite normal at ordinary times, but suffered from a temporary fit of mania regularly once a month. Forming Artificial Pearls Pearls were valuable as gems in China as early as twenty-two centuries before our era, and the Chinese had worked out a plan for the artificial formation of pearls about 700 years ago, which they have carried on extensively. Large numbers of oysters are collected and the shell gently opened to allow the introduction of various foreign substances which are inserted by means of a forked bamboo stick. These pellets are generally made of prepared mud, but may be bone, brass or wood. The oysters are then placed in shallow ponds connected with canals and are nourished by tubs of night soil thrown in from time to time. Some time later, from several months to two years, depending upon the size of the gem desired, these oysters are taken out of the shell, the pearls removed and the body of the animal eaten as food. Millions of such pearls are sold annually in China. The most valuable are either round or pear shaped. Few Old People in New Guinea. Few Old People in New Guinea. The average duration of life is shorter in New Guinea than in any other country, owing to the peculiar diet of the natives, who devour with gusto the larvae of beetles, dug out of decayed tree trunks, and habitually drink seawater when near the const." The people die off at about forty," A. E. Pratt says in his "Two Years Among the Cannibals of New Guinea." "We saw one very old man, who may have been about sixty years of age—the only example of longevity that we came across. He was bent almost double, and had a long, white beard. His fellow tribesmen regarded him as a great curiosity, and brought him to see us. Despite the decrepitude of his body, however, there was no trace of senility; his senses were unimpaired and the poor old creature showed great gratitude for a gift of tobacco." Hence the Congestion. "You have plenty of room in Ameri ca," said the foreign visitor. "Oh, yes." "Then why do you build so many sky-scrapers?" Stranger to the Western World. The Asiatic zoological expedition, sent into the South Chinese mountain province of Yunnan to investigate its range of animal life, succeeded in securing several fine specimens of the serow, which is a stranger to the western world. The serow is a mountain dweller, somewhat like the chamois, says the New York World. It is wary and fleet and takes a dizzy and seemingly impossible course among its native crags. No Snowballs. No Lectures. Fines having been imposed upon a number of students in a well-known college for snowballing in the college garden, 136 men left the place in a body and picketed the neighborhood. Armed with sticks and hurdles, they refused to admit the students who preferred lectures to snowballing, and when one of the professors received a missile on the ear the police had to interfere. Beware. The frequent repetition of any facial expression causes permanent alterations in the expression, and these correspond with, and suggest to the beholder, the emotional state that has predominated; so that the man who is always laughing comes to look "a jolly man," the thinker a thoughtful man, and the woman who worries begins to wear a worried look that persists. Valuable Tree. The beech, which is found in the temperate zone in Europe, America and Asia, is valuable in medicine for the creosote distilled from its tar. Creosote, creosote carbonate and gualacol are medicines used to supplement the hygienic measures which have done so much to reduce the death rate in sufferers from pulmonary tuberculosis. Strike Balked Legislators A strike once brought a legislature to a standstill, no less than the house of representatives at Washington. The officers of the house had notified the stenographers that their pay would be cut ten cents a folio, and the short-hand writers immediately struck, forcing a suspension of the sitting until matters were amicably arranged. Wonder of Plant Life A species of the acacia tree attains a height of about eight feet. When full grown it closes its leaves together in colls each day at sunset. Thus settled it will flutter violently if touched, and if the branches are shaken the tree will emit a nauseating odor. The natives call it the "angry tree." The Frigate Bird. Naturalists aver that the frigate bird performs most of the business of its life on the wing-feeding, the collection of nesting material, and even sleeping. The spread of its mighty pinions is immense, and it can fly 90 miles an hour without seeming to move. Beginning of Auto Craze In September, 1895, there were on file in Washington more than 500 applications for patents on automobiles. Three hundred different types of motor vehicles had been built or were in process of construction at that date. The first requisite of success in business is character, a word which includes temperance, fairness, politeness, industry and as much intelligence as can be accumulated.—E. W. Howe. Thirty Thousand Teeth: It is, we believe, quite true that the common or garden snail "has something like 30,000 teeth. What its feelings and language must be when it has toothache we leave you to imagine. Mentioned in the Bible Biblical mention is made of 19 different precious stones. 6 metals, 104 trees and plants, 35 animals, 39 birds, 6 fishes, 11 reptiles, 20 insects and other smaller creatures. Uncle Eben. "De man dat's makin' life a little happier for some-one else," said Uncle Eben, "is doin' a heap矿丹 dan de folks dat measures success by wearin' fine clothes and actin' bossy." Record Hailstorm The greatest hallstorm on record was in Europe in 1788. The biggest stones described as having then fallen were more than half a pound in weight. Too True. It only takes a few minutes to find in others the faults we can't discover in ourselves in a lifetime.—Boston Transcript. Spider Web Weight It is estimated that four miles of an ordinary spider's thread would weigh scarcely a grain. Daily Thought. Thank God, I also am an American —Daniel Webster. Telephonely speaking, crossed lines lead to cross words. W. shing Uvate Old songs, old books, old friends old old methods of agitating oysters Specialists of the bureau of chemistry United States department of agriculture have determined that oysters soak up a great deal more water and lose much more in nutrients when washed by the new air blast and mechanical device method than when washed by the old method, on a skimmer with a hose and paddle. Planting Fruits in North In the north and wherever the winter conditions are severe on plant life, either from temperatures, driving winds, or other causes, fruits are usually planted in the spring as early as the soil can be put in suitable condition. It is important that they be set out while the plants are dormant and before the buds have started. Weekly News Letter. Executions Went On. Some years ago the executioners of Canton struck against striking off any more heads unless they were paid an extra Shilling for each head removed. The prisoners in the condemned cells were anxious that the strike should continue until the crack of doom, but the authorities climbed down and the executions went on as merrily as before. Disliked Church Bells It is not everyone who regards the bells of London with affection. Keats expressed his dislike of the Sabbath bells in a sonnet, and there is a story of a man who was with difficulty dissuaded from becoming a Mohammedan in order to escape into a religion which was opposed to the ringing of church bells. To Get Rid of Roaches The United States department of agriculture considers ridding a house of roaches important enough to give instructions how to accomplish this. Mix equal parts of sodium fluoride and flour (or starch). Use like ordinary roach powders, forcing it into crevices, sprinkling it around drain pipes, etc. Faulta. Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it, and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves. when their time comes.—Ruskin. Could Verify Statement "There are songs," said the musician, "that never, never die. They go ringing down the ages." "That is true, sir," Brown replied. "For the past six months and upward I have heard my daughter try to kill two or three each evening, but they never, never die." Gas in Bamboo. Natural gas' conveyed in bamboo tubes was utilized in China years ago, and one of their writers mentions boxes which repeated the sound of persons' voices that were dead—a machine similar to the phonograph. The Folding Fan in Japan The Folding Fan in Japan. It is said that the folding fan originated with the people of Japan, which is likely enough to be true. For we can scarcely imagine a dainty little kimono-clad lady without her fan, can we? Time to Ascertain Truth. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts, for if you let it pass the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.—Wirt. Prehistoric Almanac In the British museum there is to be seen an almanac which is 1,200 years older than the Christian era; it dates back to the reign of the Egyptian king, Rameses the Great. Get a Man-Size Job. It is so easy to find fault that self-respecting persons ought to be ashamed to waste their energies in that way—Boston Transcript. National Faults The guilt of every national star comes back to the voter in a fraction, the common denominator of which is several millions. -Lowell. Intelligence of Animals. The hog is the most intelligent animal on the farm, except the dog. Horses are next, then cattle. Sheep have the least sense. Turnip Watch? According to a western paper, "Sim Hanson was robbed of his watch and other vegetables."—Boston Transcript. Ink when spilled on a carpet can be almost entirely removed if milk is used before it becomes dry. The greatness of a state does not depend upon the number of its square miles. Daily Thought The best of prophets of the future is the past.—Byron. Ivory Mata. There are but three mats of ivory in existence. The largest one measures eight by four feet, and although made in the north of India, has a Greek design for a border. It is used only on state occasions, like the signing of important documents. The cost of this precious mat was almost the calculable, for more than 6,400 pounds of pure ivory were used in its construction. Only the finest and most flexible strips of the material could be used, and the mat is like the finest woven fabric. Task for Mamma Ben was visiting his aunt, who so far forgot herself as to use a "swear word." The youngster was horrified and upon arriving home he began to tell his grandfather about the occurrence. When he reached the place in his story where the "swear" had to be repeated he stopped and said so pealingly: "Mother, won't you say just once so grandpa can hear how awful Aunt Sue sounded?" Plodders Have Their Uses It is the men who have had vision who have moved the world forward. The rest of us are plodders. We are good plodders and we all do the best we can, but we are really followers in the footsteps of others. If we follow well, and if we plod patiently and tirelessly we also may claim our need of praise. Also we shall surely be given our reward—Exchange. Red-Tapeism A young detective was enthusiastic but inexperienced. Rushing into his chief's office in great excitement, he crled, "I've found the murderer! I've got him cornered so that he can't escape." The chief regarded him with withering scorn. "Allow me," he said "to draw your attention to the fact that at present we are looking, not for the murderer, but for claws." On Riches I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. For as the baggage is to the army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind but it hinders the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit—Bac con. Quite Right. Auntie Aunt Nancy listened with horror to the language of a fat old gentleman who had been forced to climb six flights of stairs to his office because the elevator wasn't running. "There she said, surely. "There is an example of what we may expect from a man who has had no birthgirl up." Life's Turning Point When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe. Rity the Manicurist Of course you have your little wives and moment of vexation while going about your daily tasks, but supose you had to listen to all the flubdub and mushy talk a manicurist has to listen to while she goes about hers? - Macon Telegraph. Art for Art's Sake "The desideratum of things artisle mused the guy with the temperament "would be a wedding between the girl on the front page of a current magazine and the fellow on the collar ad vertisement." Remember One's Limitations. In the moral world there is nothing impossible, if we put a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself; but he must not attempt to do too much with others.—Humboldt. Not Fair Division. We do not wisely when we we complain and censure. We cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment- Feltham The Largest Butterfly. The largest butterfly known is found in British New Guinea, and there only Measured across the wings, specimens are often from 8 to 11 inches wide. Few Chinese-Built Lines. Of the 15 lines comprising the system of Chinese government railways only one was built by the Chinese themselves. Chance for a Fat One. Advertisement—"Good opportunity for a bright woman with a large corporation."—Boston Transcript. Can't Stop Him. A man will surmount all obstacles when he shows a natural tendency to make a fool of himself. Wales' Last Wolf. The last wolf in Wales was killed on Cader Idris in the year 1768. Daily Thought. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifice.—Emerson. Humer of Billy Manning, Famous Old- Time Comedian, Undimmed Even. on His Deathbed. When the incomparable wag and mourner, Billy Manning, lay dying, Billy Emerson. Dan O'Hara and other friends of long standing made up a calling party. "Good morning, Bill. How are you today?" was Emerson's salutation for the party. "Well," the dying minstrel drowled, his sense of humor penetrating even the mists of oncoming death. "I feel a good deal like an old circus horse after the tenting season. I want to go 'round, but can't." This was spoken in the tone of hopefulness but comic pathos with which poor Won was wont to catch the public. "You're looking first-rate," O'Harn put in, trying hard to give his voice a note of cheering encouragement, but giving sorrowfully at the prone, emaciated figure on the bed. "Are you lookin' at me, or at the big pillows under me?" Manning queried, waking feely at his old partner Emerson, who had difficulty in restrainable tears. hig his teeth. "What does the doctor say about you, Bill?" another of the party asked, feeling it incumbent upon himself to say something, anything—a position of extreme difficulty, as any visitor to the dying can testify. Oh, he says I need rest. Now there's a doctor—there's a doctor, boys, that knows his business! That's why I bought a lot in the cemetery yesterday. I need—rest." "Come, now, Bill." said the choking Emerson, "isn't there something you'd like to take outside of what the doctor's giving you?" "Yes," was the reply. "Td like to be a benefit." And that was how the big farewell Manning benefit came about. The mistress's last days were made easy by it and the sore hearts of his friends and comrades of merrier days and more or less hectic nights correspondingly glad by reflection. The last words of Billy Manning were: "Bors I am billed ahead." WONDERFUL OLD ST. PAUL'S Bayard Taylor's Graphic Description of the Beauty of London's Famous Cathedral. St. Paul's is on a scale of grandeur, explelling everything I have yet seen, writes Bayard Taylor of his first trip abroad in 1844. The dome seems to stand in the sky, as you look at it; the distance from which you view it, combined with the atmosphere of London, gives it a dim, shadowy appearance, that startles one with its immensity. The roof from which the dome springs is itself as high as the spires of most other churches; blackened for 300 years with the coal smoke of London it stands like a relic of the giant architecture of the early world. The interior is what one would expect to behold, after viewing the outside. A maze of grand arches on every side encompasses the dome, at which you gaze up as at the sky; . . . I was never more impressed with the grandeur of human invention than when ascending the dome. I could with difficulty conceive the means by which such a mighty edifice had been lifted into the air. The dome is like the summit of a mountain, so wide is the prospect and so great the pile upon which you stand. Direct Marketing Limited Direct Marketing Limited. While it may be attractive to a city dweller to believe that he can have a vegetable garden grown for him 100 miles or 150 miles away, place his orders for the cost of a stamp and have the produce delivered at his door, it should be remembered that not all farm products lend themselves to direct marketing by parcel post. Usually it is impracticable to market such heavy products as potatoes by parcel post, whereas eggs, butter, sausage, poultry, many vegetables and nut meats may frequently be shipped with profit and at a saving to the purchaser. In general, the greater the value a pound the more favorable is the chance for direct marketing.—Weekly News Letter. Physiognomy. There is not a man to be found on earth who is not daily influenced by physiognomy; not a man who cannot figure to himself a countenance which shall to him appear exceedingly lovely, or exceedingly hateful, not a man who does not more or less, the first time he is in the company of a stranger, observe, estimate and compare and judge him according to appearances, although he might never have heard of the word or thing called physiognomy; not a man who does not judge of all things that pass through his hands by their physiognomy; that is, of their internal worth by their external appearance—John Caspar Leviston Digestibility of Cheese By experiments on the digestibility of cheese it has been shown that much depends on the special physical character of the food. All fat cheeses are said to be dissolved and digested with great rapidity, because the molecules of cheese—the nitrogenous part of the cheese—are separated only by the fat, and so the gastric juice can attack a large surface of the cheese at one time. Whether the cheese be hard or soft does not appear to influence digestion, and there is no connection between the digestibility and the percentage of water present in the cheese. CANNOT IMPROVE ON VIOLIN Centuries Pass, but No Difference Is Seen in the Structure of This Instrument. Even in this age of bustle and change, some few of the old stand-bys remain unchanged, but at that it is rather startling to realize that the violin, probably the best-loved of all musical instruments, has remained virtually unchanged in shape or substance for three centuries. In that time the harpsichord, lute and spinet have passed away, the harp has been improved, the piano has been invented and developed, but the violin, which took a hundred years to assume its present form, since the days of the great Stradivari, the world's most famous violin maker, has remained unchanged. The violin is popularly supposed to date from the date of the ancient Indians, but the present instrument had its beginning back in the days of the trubadours, who used musical boxes called violes or guitar fiddles. And as the years went by, the little violes were improved. The shape was altered; bit by bit the instrument changed. Now a bridge was added; now a walst; now the "F holes"—two carved openings on either side of the bridge—were added. And from 1500 to 1700 the violin industry rose to its greatest achievement in the development of Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari, Italian violin makers living in the town of Cremona. Since their time there has been no change, and the finest and most priceless musical instrument of today is a Stradivarius violin, made three centuries ago by the master craftsman, Stradivari, in Cremona. BURIED WEALTH IN IVORY Place in Far Northern Siberia Is Undoubtedly Where Mammoths Went to Die. In the region of the Lena delta, in far northern Siberia, there is a gigantic species of mole which, burrowing underground, dies if by chance exposed to light. It has enormous tusks, and the half-savage nomads of the country sometimes use strips of its thick hide for reindeer harness. Truth to tell, the "mole" is the long-extinct mammoth, and the last surviving specimen perished long before the earliest dawn of human history, says a writer in Philadelphia Ledger. Indeed, it may very well be that 100,000 years have passed since the youngest mammoth walked the earth. In their day these huge animals roamed in herds all over northern Siberia, where the climate was mild and salubrious. But there came a sudden change and Jack Frost established a permanent reign in that part of the world. The mammoths, huddled in valleys, were overwhelmed by snowdrifts, which hardened to solid ice, preserved their bodies intact even to the present time. Now and then the hot sun of the short arctic summer melts out and reveals to view one of the great carcasses—the meat still fresh enough to be fed to dogs. The eyeballs of one specimen found on the Tas river, between the Obi and the Yenesel, were as perfect as if the animal had been killed only a day or two earlier. Origin of Number Symbols The origin of our common number symbols has never been clearly established, but until recently all writers agree that these symbols were transmitted to Europe by the Arabs, who had obtained them from India. It is very interesting to note that available data relating to the origin of our common number symbols have been carefully re-examined by Carra de Vaux. Among the most surprising results are the following: Our common number symbols originated in Europe and from there were transmitted to the Persians. Both India and Arabia received them from Persia, so that the common term Hindu-Arabic numerals is decidedly misleading. The common numerals did not come from letters of the alphabet, but were formed directly for the purpose of representing numbers. Ancient Jaffa. Jaffa is one of the oldest towns in the world; some call it the oldest town. The first historical document relating to Jaffa is found in Egypt, in an inscription on the temple of Karnak. It is in the list of towns which Thothmes land of Canaan 16 centuries before the Christian era. Jaffa is already mentioned several times in the fifteenth century B. C., in the Tel Amarna letters, and Jabitereh, an Egyptian governor, ruled Jaffa and Caza in the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Then, as today, Jaffa was famous for its gardens. The place is not mentioned in the Pentateuch. The name is first found in Joshua 19:20, as bordering on the territory of Dan. Time Ally of Virtues. Sometimes the man with the vision goes down to dusty and silent death with his vision still unfulfilled. Yet, time does not desert him then. Time goes ever on and on, though men may falter and die. So, time proves an ally even in death. It blows its breath upon the smoldering embers and lifts the fires of every dream into flame again. Truth, patience, faith, persistence these are all virtues. And time is the only ally of them—the ally that justifies them in the end though the powers of darkness may contend against them—Los Angeles Times. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. APRIL 19. 1919 WHERE GREAT WRITER SLEEPS Grave of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Located Amid Scenes of Rare Beauty. The Samoan islands have two shrines—the home and grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. In his search for health, Stevenson built a home on one of the islands and called it Vallima (Five Waters). Here he spent the last four years of his life. Vallima lies far up a steep mountain road. It is a rambling, green wooden house, half native style, half an English country home. Stevenson is said to have enjoyed contrasts of native and English life. It pleased him to have his household appear in evening dress at dinner and to be waited upon by Samoan natives. His many kindnesses toward the natives so touched them that they were aroused to enough energy to build a road up the mountain to his home. The crude but important piece of work they called "The Road of the Loving Heart." "It shall never be muddy, it shall endure, this road that we have dug," prophesied the natives on presenting their gift. The grave of Tusitala, the story teller, lies far up the mountain beyond Stevenson's home. The trail is so difficult that the services of over fifty natives were needed to carry the casket up to its destination. The mountain path leads through a tropical forest of the gorgeous flowers of Samoa. Hibiscus, cape jasmine, orange blossoms fill the air with their perfume. Many birds sing and flash through the underbrush, for native chiefs forbid use of any firearms on the mountain where Tusitala lies. On a tiny plateau at the top of the mountain is the tomb with the memorial verse that Stevenson himself wrote carved on the stone. Far away from even the quiet life of the native settlements Stevenson's grave is the most peaceful place in an island of penge."Niksa" in Chicago News. LARGELY BASED ON FANCY Dates of World's Most Momentous Events Conceded to Have No Historical Accuracy. Christian antiquity, against all astronomical possibility, recognized the 25th of March as the actual day of Christ's death. The opinion that the incarnation also took place on that date is founded on a Cyprianic work, "De Pascha Computus." It argues that the coming of Christ and his death must have coincided with the creation and fall of Adam. And since the world was created in spring, the Savior was also conceived, and died shortly after the equinox of spring. Similar calculations are found in the early and later middle ages, and to them, no doubt, the dates of the feast of the Annunciation and of Christmas owe their origin. Consequently the ancient martyrologists assigned to this date the creation of Adam, the crucifixion, the fall of Lucifer, the passing of Israel through the Red sea and the imposition of Isaac. The festival of the Annunciation is now kept on March 25, which, for a long period, was the beginning of the legal year in England. The earliest authentic evidence of the celebration of the Announcement by the Angel to the Virgin that she was to conceive and bear a son is in a canon of the council of Toledo, held in 656. Musical Ear. Notes differing only one-hundredth part of a tone from each other can be distinguished by the well-trained ear of a musician. Most people cannot perceive a difference of one-tenth of a tone, and a few can scarcely tell one tone from another. The cause of this curious disparity is due to slight differences in the structure of the cochlea, a wonderful piece of apparatus in the innermost part of the ear, says London Tit-Bits. It is a little body, shaped like a small shell, and believed to be the part of the hearing apparatus which recognizes musical sounds. In its structure it closely resembles the strings of a piano and even has a damper to prevent the mixture of sounds quickly following one another. This little musical apparatus is set going by vibrations received from the middle ear or drum and in some mysterious manner it sends these on to the brain through the auditory nerve in the form of musical sounds. Keep the Home Woodland Growing. In case of fire you will find a home woodland a very convenient means of replacing the loss and a great saving in money. Keep the home woodland growing. When there is a strike in the coal mines you will find it very comfortable to have plenty of home-grown wood. Keep the home fires burning. When you need extra money to pay off a mortgage, a doctor's bill, or for a college education for the children, you will find a reserve fund in the woodland. Keep the home folks protected—Weekly News Letter. The lawyer's wife and the minister's wife were discussing the merchant's wife. "Mrs. Moore is all right," admitted Mrs. Attorney, "or at least she would be if she could talk about something else besides herself. She certainly is an egotist. Do you know her husband? Is he as egotistical as she is?" Now the parsonage lady knew that she must not say anything that would cause trouble should she be quoted. So truthfully she replied: "Oh, he speaks Moore fluently, also." APPROVED DESIGN OF STREET Papers of Thomas Jefferson Show Hla Conception With Laying Out Capita- tal's Great Avenue. Among the papers of Thomas Jefferson in the library of congress there is the bill of Pontius D. Stelle, in 1807, to Thomas Munroe, superintendent of the city of Washington, for "a supper provided for all the workmen engaged in the public buildings, on the completion of the south wing of the capitol, 167 persons, at $1.25 per head." The supper was given at the capitol. The bill was approved by B. Henry Latrobe, superintendent of public buildings, who calls the event "the raising supper." A particularly interesting letter is one from President Jefferson to Superintendent Munroe, dated Monticello, March 21, 1803, referring to Thornton's original design for Pennsylvania avenue, which Jefferson amended and approved. This approved design shows a gravel road for carriages, 18 feet in width, bordered on each side by a space 41 feet wide for tree-lined walks, then a brick pavement 20 feet in width. Jefferson explains: "One reason of preference is that this agrees with the present disposition of the Pennsylvania avenue. It will allow us also next autumn either to plant our outer elms in the same line with the Lombardy poplars, giving to these trees of large growth a distance suitable to their size, or we may plant them midway, so as to make a shaded mall of 41 feet breadth, or pass a canal along the middle at a future day or a gravel walk, or anything we please." HALTED AT EDGE OF JUNGLE Explorera Forced to Cut Pathway to Reach Mighty Tropical Ocean of Follage. Here, at the edge of our cleared compound, we were confronted by a tangle. It was not very high—twenty feet or so—but dense and unbroken. Like newly trapped creatures we paced back and forth along it, looking for an opening. It was without a break. We examined it more closely, and saw a multitude of slender, graceful cane-stems hung with festoons of grass-like drapery. One of us seized a wisp of this climbing grass and pulled downward. When he dropped it, his hand dripped blood. He might as well have run a scroll saw over his fingers. The lunge had shown its teeth. We laughed and retreated to the upper floor for consultation. The sight we saw there decided us. In the distance "not far away," to use the hopelessly indefinite Guiana vernacular high over the tumbled lower growths, towered the real jungle—the high bush. This was the edge of that mighty tropical ocean of foliage, that sea of life with its surface 100, 200 feet above the earth, stretching unbroken to the Andes; leagues of unknown wonderland. And here we were, after thousands of miles of voyaging to study the life of this great jungle, to find our last few yards blocked by a mass of vegetation! There was no dissenting voice. We must cut a trail, and at once, straight to the jungle.—William Beebe, in Atlantic Monthly. Different in Japan. The list of things done differently in Japan is said to be a long one by those competent to speak from contact with the Japanese. Here are a few taken at random, to show that the difference is real: Japanese indies sit with their hands folded, palm upward; every lady shaves. Ladies never brush their hair, they only comb it. It is polite to make a noise with the mouth when eating certain food. Ladies, however, seldom do so, as they are supposed to suppress their feelings. A bride calls on her neighbors and friends, instead of her neighbors and friends calling on her. Where we speak of a thimbleful the Japanese speak of a "sparrow's tear." Number three is always lucky, except in "tukuwan" (pickled radish). To offer a person three pieces would be rude. We speak of putting a thing on the fire to cook. The Japanese speak of putting fire through it. A man never wishes his wife "good morning" first. She greets him and he replies. A woman never speaks of her husband as such; she speaks of "the house."—Brooklyn Eagle. No Official Italian Crown. There is no official crown worn by the royalty of Italy. The famous crown of Lombardy, which dates from the middle of the fourth century, is treasured in an Italian cathedral, and is the oldest and most sacred of all crowns of Europe. However, the present king, like his two predecessors, has never been crowned, and never will be. The crown is made of large gold plaques hinged together and richly jeweled and enameled. It is held as very sacred, for inside the gold is a narrow iron band, which tradition says is the nail that fastened the feet of Christ to the cross. The crown is held as being too sacred to use. Don't Worry. Rise above small things. The woman who lets small things worry her will be completely undone the first time she meets with a really big problem. It is disintegrating to your mental and nervous condition, not to mention your physical condition, to worry. You need not be resigned to fate nor slip your troubles as the old friend duck's back throws water. But you can meet troubles with a will to conquer or adjust them—and after that "they should worry," but not you. ORIENTAL LOVE QE -BEAUTY Flowers and Nature Have Always Figured Prominently in Their Paintings and Writings. The Orient was always fond of flowers. In primitive times the Arabs studied the big herbalis of Byzantine doctors and scientists and copied flower after flower in their own manner; they loved them, but they were unconscious of their beauty. When they wanted to adorn they only used the conventionalized form of the lotus and the arabesque flower consecrated by hundreds of years of tradition. Later on Chinese masters taught them the living beauty of flowers. In the Mongol miniatures they study the blossoming almond tree and the iris, but in the sixteenth century only they begin to love the flower for itself—to study each leaf, each petal, each line and each hue of color. They show the same intimate love for detail which inspired the landscapes of Behzad. Their landscapes are always like the poems of Hafiz—sunny, cheerful and gay. Nothing more charming than these meetings of kings and princesses in the greens under richly embroidered tents with musicians and dancers. And no difference if the artist paints one of the cruel bloody scenes of the antique "Shahnameh": must it not be a wonderful feeling to be executed by the order of the king in his illustrious presence, with retainers and maldens around, the sun shining, a soft wind covering your head and shoulders with the pink petals of the almond tree in flower? The birds sing sweeter than ever in the trees. The touch of the cold steel is after all only of passing moment and eternal is the beauty of sun, spring and flowers.—R. M. Riefstahl, in Asia Magazine. SHOW SPIRIT • OF FAIRNESS American Gives English Writers Credit for One Attribute That is Worthy of Praise. I have frequently said the writers in England are superior to ours, particularly as to fairness and conservatism. The other day I ran across a review article criticising the general ignorance of the people about old and classical things. After proving his point cleverly and effectually the writer proceeded to examine himself. He turned to the encyclopedia at random and took the first subject at the top of the page. He confessed he knew nothing about it. He did the same thing with many other subjects of classical antiquity. And this fellow is one of the best-educated men in England. An American writer would not have done that; he would have pretended to be thoroughly familiar with everything in the encyclopedia, and witheringly abused the people for lacking his great knowledge. The truth about old classical subjects is that most of them are buried in books and that few people know anything about them, for the reason that they are not of the slightest importance. An Englishman is mean, but he has a lot of sense; and he will be reasonably fair, even if disagreeable with it.—E. W. Howe's Magazine. Tints and Autumn Colors Everyone has seen and admired the beautiful colors of autumn leaves, but very few know anything about the why and wherefore. It has been noticed that in two trees of maples, oak or other trees, coloring in autumn, of the same species, one will often take on much brighter color than the other. It should be remembered that, though there must be certain chemical combinations before any color can be produced, the act of producing is a vital one, and can only operate under vital conditions. If we cut off a branch of any tree in summer time and throw it aside, the leaves turn black or brown, and without any brilliant color; but if the branch be only half broken off or in some way injured the leaves will color, as if the autumn time had arrived. This shows that coloring is connected with a check to vital power, short of its total destruction. Hence, in the autumn, the tree with the greater vital power will color less than the other. The Whippoorwill. It is almost impossible to see a whippoorwill in the daytime because of the manner in which it sits upon a limb of a tree. It doesn't sit crosswise, like other birds, but lengthwise of the limb. Its toes are short, but broad-spreading, and it can sit lengthwise on a limb better than it could sit crosswise, where it would have to clasp the limb with its toes like other birds. You may pass right under a tree where a whippoorwill is sitting on a limb and never notice it—and it knows it will never be noticed, so it doesn't become alarmed and fly out of the tree. Why Diamonds Burst That diamonds burst is an old idea, which has been variously explained. It has been thought that the stones have been fractured by violent eruptions in the inclosing rocks, by sudden removal of pressure around them, or in the smoky specimens by spontaneous breaking up. Dr. J. R. Sutton concludes that the breaking usually results from the minerals inclosed. These may be garnet zircon, ilmenite or iron pyrites, and such crystals, under ordinary heating at least, have so much greater expansion than the diamond that they would exert great pressure. PAGE THREE WHEN THOUGHTS ARE ASTRAY Foolish Expressions Frequently Made Use of in Moments of Complete Surprise. When taken by surprise, the most sensible persons are often startled into saying foolish things. The passengers on an electric car the other day were amused when a frivolous, dalty butterfly of a young girl fluttered in, and half way down the aisle dropped her hand upon the shoulder of a large, competent-looking lady with a basket full of parcels, exclaiming: "You dear Aunt Isabel! So here you are at last!" The lady addressed started, turned upon the speaker the face of a total stranger, and said icily: "I'm not dear, and I'm not here, and when I'm an aunt I'm not Aunt Isabel!" She grew very red, and so did the snubbed young woman as, amid the titters of their neighbors, the girl begged pardon and hurried forward to her real Aunt Isabel, wildly beckoning her from a seat farther forward. Still more thoroughly confused in speech; although clear enough in her meaning, was the young wife, who was addressed by a strange gentleman in a railway station. She was wearing a raincoat and blue glove—most deceptive of costumes—and her height and general appearance led him to mistake her for his wife, whose train had been delayed. Coming up behind her, he took her familiarly by the arm, exclaiming: "Thank goodness, I've found you, Mary! I began to think you were lost!" "You're mistaken, sir!" she gasped, jerking nervously round. "You haven't found me, and she is lost. I'm Mary, but she isn't me!"—Youth's Companion. ALL WERE "POOR FISH" ONCE Scientific Sharp Goes Back Fifty Million Years to Prove Truth of His Statement. When your best girl calls you a "poor fish" believe her. For she has a line on your ancestry. Any regret you may have felt that your ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower should be somewhat appeased by the thought that they at least swam over, under or in the wake of that illustrious vessel. This information may not be new to students of evolution, but to those who have been too busy to do any research work fish ancestry may come as something of a shock. Especially if you're a fisherman and have been unwittingly hooking your distant relatives all these years. The evolution of man is being traced in a series of lectures at one of the Harlem high schools by a well-known professor and he has all the natives by the ears, writes a New York correspondent of Pittsburgh Dispatch. He told them that they were all mere fish 50,000,000 years ago, which is going back beyond their earliest recollections, and since then the fish markets of Harlem have become centers of interest. The staring eyes of the prostrate shad, herring and flounder has caused many passers-by to stop and earnestly look for recognition from a long-lost relation. The majority of Harlemites, however, cannot figure it out whether they were descended from a lamprey eel or a striped bass. Staten Island. The borough of Richmond, otherwise Staten island, and the second largest borough of Greater New York, probably would have been part of New Jersey had it not been for the sporting spirit of the duke of York, afterward James II, and of Capt. Christophs, Billop, a sturdy navigator of Old Manhattan. When New Jersey claimed the island, the duke announced that all islands in the bay that could be circumnavigated in a day should belong to the colony of New York. The Jerseyite colonists were gleeful at this, feeling sure that Staten island could not be claimed by this plan. Captain Billop, however, disliking the Jersey governor, took it upon himself to make the trial in his famous sloop, the Bentley, and made the circuit just within 24 hours. In recognition of his feat he was given a large tract of land and a fine house on the southern end of the island. Popular Phrases "What is a popular phrase?" some one once asked. "Something we all repeat like parrots, without knowing its real origin or meaning," was the reply of the cynic; and to a certain extent he was right, observes an exchange. How many of us, for instance, can tell where the terms "tuft hunters" and "fools' paradise" arose? As a matter of fact, the latter phrase originated in the theological argument that there is a place for fools just outside paradise, while the term "tuft hunting" took its rise at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where at one time the young noblemen wore a peculiarly formed cap with a tuft, which presumably attracted hangers on. Danger in Dust. All kinds of dust form dangers to human beings. Not only does dust exercise a direct harmful influence on the tissues of the organism, but it is the chief transporting agent of germs of infection and contagion. Dust is composed of infinitesimal particles of street mud and of refuse of every description which lie on the surface of the soil. These particles, when dry, are disseminated in the atmosphere, together with all the impurities and microbes which they may contain, and to which they serve as transporting agents. 1930 DR. J. FRANK ARMSTRONG The popular and leading west side physician and surgeon, was not guilty of endevouring to make love, to Mrs. George O'Bannon. THE MENACE OF THE CUR Rabies is not a hot weather menace only. The old theory that dogs went mad only during the so-called "dog-days" in August has long since been exploded. For years the cases of rabies in animals not human beings, have been as numerous during the winter months as during the hot weather months. Fortunately, cases of rabies in human beings are rare; so rare in fact that there are those who assert that no such disease exists and, therefore, they bitterly oppose all laws and ordinance requiring the muzzling of dogs or prohibiting them to run at large and to snap at and bite any and all persons who come in their way. Still, the fact remains that there is rabies among the lower animals and that the bite of a rabid dog or the scratch of an infuriated, rabid cat causes rabies or hydrohobia in the persons so infected. A recent case of this kind is reported in the Bulletin of the Department of Health of the City of New York. Here by an unmuzzled dog January 19th of this year. The same day the dog also bit three other persons, but was finally killed by a police offices and sent to the city laboratory where the brain was examined and a diagnosis of rabies was made. All of those bitten were immediately given the Pasteur treatment, beginning on the day after the wounds were inflicted. All recovered except the little girl first bitten who did not respond to the treatment and who finally died in terrible agony in a hospital February 12th, just twenty eight days after having been bitten. The animal responsible for the death was a stray dog, ownerless and uneared for; yet it no doubt had at some time been a family pet but for some reason had become a stray and, of course all the more a menace to the entire community.—New York City, as have most other cities in the country, has an ordinance prohibiting unmuzzled dogs to be at large. But it is extremely difficult, if not indeed impossible, to enforce the law against animals without owners. For example, during 1918 there were 174 cases of persons bitten by dogs reported to the Department of Health. And of these, lab oratory examination of the brains of the 174 days suspected should that 26, had rabies and the Pasteur treatment was given to the persons who had been bitten by these animals.—No deaths from hydrophobia were reported for the year. If you have the clean up bug in your system, let it work. B., the time you have your premises nicely cleaned up your case of cleanacitus will be completely cured. Garden hints are health hints. This is why we are giving hints and "hunches" on gardening. PAGE FOUR 9 If that garden has not been spaded, high time you were at it now. Early onions should be in the ground now. Gèt busy. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH STANDS READY TO AID THE COLORED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. For the benefit of the Negroes of the United States the Presbyterian Church has just appropriated $400.000 as a part of its New Era program. This will be used under the direction of the Freedmen's Board of the Presbyterian Church for the education of the Negro youth of the country. In announcing its plans the Presbyterian Church says: "The unsurpassed loyalty of the Negro soldier, and his courage, obedience, and patriotism; the devotion and consecration of his entire race in this land, to follow our flag, and meet our national responsibility; his unbargaining enlistment, despite a justified consciousness of much injustice and-denial of rights, have shown him worthy of our confidence and praise. "He has the right to think a New Era has dawned. He has the right to have visions of more schools, more aid for the illiterate and unguided, more and better preachers to offer the true Gospel. We must turn the one-roomed miserable cabin into a neat and attractive home, train Negro men and women to be pure-hearted parents, help the race to clean ambitions, to pure amusements, more elevating conditions, and give the Negro the privilege of developing fully, and without unlawful restraint, every talent and every power." In New Era Magazine, official medium of the Presbyterian Church, for May, will appear a special tribute to the Christian Negroes of the United States, praising them as being patient, forbearing, quiet in spirit, obedient to law, loyal, self-sacrificing, enduring all things for a noble aim. The article demands for the Negro recognition of justice and right and a better future. "If he is a Christian", says New Era Magazine, "if he has been trained in the truths of God and taught the value and responsibility of a true life, he will help to save our country and the world. That man is foolish who despises or ignores the force of 12,000,000 Negroes and refuses to give them Christian training." The Home Mission Monthly, issued by the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, at 156 Fifth Ave. New York City, devotes its April issue largely to consideration of the Negro. It discusses Reconstruction and the Negro, Negro migration and attendant conditions, gives illuminating extracts from letters of Negro soldiers, tells of a notable conference of Presbyterian Negro workers, and shows how the Y. M. C. A. is a means of meeting the colored girls' need for self-expression. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 19, 1919 HON. THOMAS E. SCULLY -(By Cecilia Fisher.) The Annual Mothers and Daughters Banquet, which was held last Friday evening at the Emerson St., Dept., Y. M. C. A., was a very enjoyable affair. After the Mothers and Daughters had all gathered together in the assembly room, they marched down to the dining room. About eight young men acting as waiters served a fine menu. — During the dinner, the orchestra furnished splendid music. The Young Ladies. Quartette, of Evanston furnished two selections entitled: "The Rosary" and "Cupid Made Love To the Moon."— Mr. W. Stewart, of Glencoe, rendered several classical violin selections, Mr. Stewart is a very talented young man, and his selections were highly appreciated. Mrs. Mamie Pollard, Chairman of the Executive Board, gave a short address of welcome. Mrs. Mary DePugh, Pres., of the Dunbar Club, acted as Master of Ceremonies. Rev. J. R. Ransom, Pastor of the A. M. E. Church in Wichita, Kansas was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fisher last Sunday. He preached at Ebenezer A. M. C. Church Sunday evening to a large congregation. Mrs. W. H. Twiggs, and her little daughter Martha, have returned from a trip in West Virginia, where they spent six weeks visiting relatives. The Evanston Lyceum, which met Sunday afternoon at the Emerson St., Dept., Y. M. C. A., was largely attended. Miss. Wilma Franklin rendered a vocal solo which was very sweet. Mr. Wilbur Helm, ex-principle of the Academy School of Northwestern University, was the speaker for the Lyceum. He addressed the Lyceum on the school situation in Evanston. He said: "he was very much interested in the schools and institutions for our people, and that in the coming election for Supt. of the public schools of Evanston, he urged that the people vote for Mr. Balmer, not only for the best interest of Evanston, but for the best interest of our people". — Mr. W. Stewart, rendered a violin selection. Miss LaJune Jones rendered an instrumental solo. We are glad to note at this writing, that Mrs. Clara Mimms, 1812 Darrow Ave., who is on the Annual Minstrel Show, will be given soon at the "Y". Watch for the date! Rev. R. E. Wilson preached to a large congregation last Sunday morning. He urged his members to come out during Passion week to a series of sermons, which would be preached by him, and his assistants. — A rally will be held Easter Sunday, and each member is expected to give $10. The recital given by Mrs. Effie Osbourne and her assistants was well attended. The musical selections rendered were of the highest class and very much appreciated by those present. Mrs. Osbourne ne is one of our talented singers, and her singing is always enjoyed by lovers of good music. The 365th Band, Mr. Albert Jones, director paraded thru the streets of Evanston Wednesday afternoon. They dined at the Y after which they gave the Evanstonians a grand concert. MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE BETS GIFTS OF $300,000 Nashville, Tenn. Special.—The Carnegie Foundation and the General Education Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church has offered separate gifts of $15.000-$300.000 in all—to the Meharry Medical College, of Nashville, which has been recognized as the leading Negro medical college in the world. With the gifts goes the condition that the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the trustees and friends of the college raise an additional $200.000. The latter fund will be used for endowment. Meharry College was founded by the Methodist Church in 1876, and has grown steadily since. It has departments of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy and had an enrollment of 499 students last year. It has not only been recognized as the leading colored medical college, but has also won distinction throughout the whole educational field, both white and colored. Two hundred and fifty of its graduates served in the medical service of the United States army during the war. Master James Arthur Wilson, 5148 S. Dearborn street; is one of the active members of the Berean Baptist Church Sunday school and tomorrow Easter Sunday; he will deliver a short talk to the boys and girls of the Sunday school. ```markdown ``` [Name] DR. ROBERT R. MOTON Head of Tuskogee Institute, Alabama, who made many friends in this city after speaking at OrchestraHall, the City Club and at the South Park M. E. Church. GIRL SWALLOW $400 RING, THEN FOOLS SURGEON Stella Holley, a colored maid, was arrested last Saturday by detectives. They found about $1.500 worth of jewelry that belonged to Mrs. Henry Metzl, 6751 Jeffery Avenue, in Stella's home at 3541 South Dearborn street, and in Stella's throat, with the aid of an X-ray, they located a $400 diamond ring. "I swalled it",— explained Stella. So they rushed Stella from doctor to doctor, winding up at the Cook county hospital. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock, while detectives and doctors prepared to fish the ring from Stella's throat, she looked up at a surgeon and grinned: "Doctor, it slipped!" The doctor packed up his tools. The detectives demanded an operation to recover the diamond. They were advised to wait a few days and on Tuesday it is said that Miss. Stella stood on her head and that the diamond ring was recovered. THE COMMONWEALTH EDI SON COMPANY EMPLOYES COLORED MEN. Through the efforts of Hon. Warren B. Douglas, chairman of the United Civic League, and member of the Legislature from the third senatorial district of Illinois; the Commonwealth Edison Company are now employing three or four Colored men in its electrical department, which in the past has always been closed to Colored people. The four Colored men, have served as soldiers in the Signal Corps Division, in the United States Army and their experience in electricity in the Meter Installation Department, went a long ways in fitting them for their present positions. The Commonwealth Edison Co. stands ready and willing to employ more experienced Colored electricians at fair wages and eight hours a day: Representative Douglas, deserves to be highly commended, for assisting to land Colored men and women, in good positions. BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY An excellent program has been arranged by Mrs. R. A Jackson, in Bethel Literary next Sunday afternoon April 20th. at four o'clock. Mrs. S. F. Peyton, 5012 S. State Street, who conducts a candy shop, ice cream parlor and news stand at that number has been under the weather for the past two months but she is gradually on the mend to the delight of her many friends. Rev. and Mrs. Floyd G. Snelson, 5253 S. Dearborn street; are spending a short vacation in St. Louis, Mo. with friends. A NATION WIDE MOVEMENT EPITHET 'NIGGER' MUST GO Buffalo, N. Y., Special — The Buffalo Commercial, daily, is backing strongly the nation-wide movement for the abolition of the terms "wop" "dago" "hike" "Nigger" "shine" an other similar characterizations. The Colored people all over this country, should at all times refrain from using the ugly word "Nigger", which would greatly assist in the nation-wide movement for the abolition of all repulsive terms or names which are now so commonly used in relation to the various races in this country.—Editor. THE AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUB Announcees its 23rd Annual Show and Dance at 8th Regiment Armory 3517 Forest Ave., Easter Monday Night, April 21st. The Club has spared no pains to make this the biggest, grandest and newest affair in it history. The entire proceeds go to the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People. The show will begin promptly at 8.30 P. M. — The Dance at 10:00. Tickets 50 cents. — Adv. CHIPS Mr. Henry Davis Middleton was in to see the new and up-to-date office of Drs. Majors and Bluitt last Sunday. Col. Franklin A. Denison, 3132 Calumet avenue; has been confined to his home, the past week with sickness. — The first part of this coming week, he expects to be able to be out again. Last Friday Evening The Texas Club tendered a reception to Col. Franklin. A Denison and his soldier boys at the Soldiers and Sailors Club. ...Drs. Majors and Bluitt located at 4700 State St., have opened an office complete in its arrangement, taste, and facility. They are prepared to render the public first class medical service backed by their ripened years of experience. Dr. H. Franklin Bray the Rocky Mountain Evangelist and Superintendent of the Sunshine Rescue Mission at 2830 S. State St., is engaged in a great revival campaign in Euelid Ave., A. M. E. Church Pittsburg, Pa. He is expected to return to the city for the first Sunday in May. Lawyer Richard Westbrooks grew eloquent in delivering his introduction of Col. Denison to the guests of the Texas Club at the reception last Friday evening. — He strenued a path of roses for the Col. to walk on., tracing his steps up the heights, through the law, the official life and on to the fighting front in France. He was cheered lustly. CHIPS Hon. A. H. Roberts Has Introduced The following Bill in the Legislature of Illinois which has Been Ordered Printed and Referred to the Committee on Appropriation, asking for Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, to Erect a Monument to the Memory of Frederick Douglass in Washington Park this city or some Other Suitable place on the South Side. M. B. HON. A. H. ROBERTS Honored member of the Legislature of Illinois from the 3rd senatorial distri ct, who should be encouraged to land the appropriation to erect a SEVEN KILLED IN RACE KIOTS: TROUBLE NOT OVER Charles Satchell Morris Jr. — "Boy Orator" — left last Tues. Millen, Ga., Special. — Seven fatalities were reported here in race riots begun Saturday at Buck head Church, this county. County Policeman W. C. Brown, T. H. Stephens, night marshal, and 4 colored men were killed and another colored man was taken from the jail and lynched. Seven colored lodge and church buildings have been burned and it is feared that the trouble is not yet over. The Amateur Minstrel Club, will hold forth in their annual frolie, Easter Monday night at the Eighth Regiment Armory. See announcement, in another column of this paper. Dr. and Mrs George C. Hall, 3408 South Park Ave. delightfully entertained Dr. R. Russo Moton, head of the Tuskegee Institute Alabama during his recent visit to this city. Alderman Louis B. Anderson, who is an old friend of Col. Charles Young, who entertained him at his home 2821 S. Wabash ave. last Saturday and Sunday; has been under the weather all of this week, with a touch of the "Flu". B. H. Johnson, 4913 State St. who has for many years been successfully engaged in the furniture moving, van and storage business, is of the opinion: that there will not be a great deal of moving this spring or the first of May; as there are not many desirable vacant flats and houses in sight at the present time. Dr. Geo. C. Hall delivered an able address at the Soldiers and Sailors Club, on the occasion of the reception to Col. Denison and his soldiers last Friday evening. For sober serious instruction Dr. Halls philosophy was brilliant as well as eloquent, his tribute was indeed fitting and he paid in glowing with the warmth of his school day friendship. CHIPS Charles Satchell Morris Jr. — "Boy Orator" — left last Tuesday night for a short lecture tour in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr. Morris has lectured in one or two of the churches of Chicago and on his return is expected to appear before a large audience. He is pursuing his studies at Weaton College, Weaton, Illinois, at the present time. In June he will take up a special course at the University of Chicago. Young Morris gives a great promise as an orator of force and one who will deliver a constructive message. — His career in college and his service to his race is a wonderful inspiration to the colored youth. Barbadoes Islandi Barbadoes island is the most easterly of the West Indies. George Washington took the one foreign journey of his life to Barbadoes with his invalid brother. Lawrence Washington. It is the most densely populated in the world, averaging 1,120 people per square mile. Garrulous Husbands "Don't expect a wife always to be the listener," advises Winifred Black. Certainly not. Wives have to sleep occasionally. The fact is, the law ought to punish those garrulous husbands who talk their wives to death. —Houston Post. Life in Bermuda. One feature of life in Bermuda which always impresses the stranger is the apparent prosperity of the natives, white and colored alike. Distressing poverty is unknown, and even the poorest families can boast of a stone house and a garden. Don't Meet Them Often. Don't Meet Their Owns "Is it always the husband's fault?" asks a magazine advertisement. Well, of course, there are some things with which husband never had anything to do. But they are rare.—Kansas City Star. 16. Speed Is Wanted. If Speed Is Some girls get their ruddy cheeks by daily callisthenics, others by daily cosmetics. Both ways are satisfactory for obtaining results but you got to hand it to the latter for speed. Cant is the voluntary over-charging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up pretense to a feeling you never had, and have no wish for.—Hazlitt. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 19, 1919 The following bill introduced in the Legislature of Illinois by Hon. A. H. Roberts speaks for itself. For an Act to provide for the construction and erection of a monument to the memory of Frederick Douglas in Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, or some public place selected by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, and making an appropriation therefor. Section 1 — Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: — The Department of Public Works and Buildings is hereby empowered to make all necessary contracts and spend such sums of money in connection with the purchase, erection and dedication of said monument as shall be necessary or shall be appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose not to exceed from the State treasury twenty-five thousand dollars ($25.000.00). Whereas, Frederick Douglass, orator, publicist and statesman, was closely associated with Abraham Lincoln in the noble cause of liberating the freedmen and delivering the nation from a system which corrupted its morals and sapped the foundations of its institution; and Whereas, the great service rendered by the said Frederick Douglass with voice and pen did touch to purge our country of that greatest of curses, human bondage; and Whereas, In the recent world war the group of American citizens, distinguished by the services of Frederick Douglass, were not only among the first to answer their country's call, but were the first to bear the American flag to the flaming, firing line in France, were cited for bravery by regiments, and by their valor, heroic action and distinguished service, penetrated forthwith into the German lines when the armistice was declared and added new lustre to the fame and fortune of the American soldier; and Whereas, By this formal expression of good will and public esteem, this patriotic group of true Americans which has so freely shed its blood and given its sons to fight and die at home and abroad will be inspired to still nobler sentiment and services for the nation it loves so well and the great body of the American people will be encouraged to stand more strongly with them for liberty, justice and equality, for all Americans, who believe in the [Name] [Image of a man in a military uniform with a hat.] [Name not visible] Captain W. S. BRADDAN Chaplain of the 370th W. S. Infantry will contribute the history of the Eighth Regiment in France in the May 3. W. S. Infantry will contribute his first article on the eighth Regiment in France in The Broad Ax, Saturday, Chaplain of the 370th W. S. Infantry will contribute his first article on the history of the Eighth Regiment in France in The Broad Az, Saturday May 3. A Bill. assimilation and solidarity of all the varied and dissimilar elements of our population, invincible because of its righteousness, and all powerful because dominated by one sentiment, one purpose and one destiny. Section 1 The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars 25.000.00), or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of procuring and erecting a suitable monument in accordance to this Act to the memory of Frederick Douglass and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer for the payment of the expenditures necessary therefor upon the presentation to him of proper vouchers therefor, certified to as correct by the Director of Public Works and Building, and approved by the Director of Finance and the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the same out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated Mrs. Laura Lapsley of Portland Oregon, is on her way to this city to visit her son Dr. Lorenzo Lapsley; she will spend the summer here with friends and at Atlantic City, New Jersey. THE RED CROSS Top row: Lieptenant H. Oldham, S. Anderson, L. Gully, J. Hankins, Mary Wickliffe, Helen Thorne, Lieutenant M. Haddox. First row: Mrs. Eva Jenifer, Capt. Mary F. Waring, Lt. DeWitt Smith, Mrs. George A. M. McKinlock, Commandant of the Canteen, was hostess to seven hundred of her Canteen workers at a dinner in the ballroom of Hotel La Salle last Tuesday evening. A distinguished and brilliant array of military and civil celebrities graced the speaker's table. Major General Leonard Wood, sitting at the right of the hostess, was the principal speaker, and with him set his entire staff, including Colonel Humprey, General Wood's chief of staff, Colonels Patty and Baker, Majors Crockett, Stanton and Bonner and General Wood's two aides, Captain Harris and Lieutenant Wood. Quoting from General Wood's speech. "The war could not have been won without the Canteen." Captain Waring's team as pictured above with Mrs. Marie Hudlin and Mrs. G. F. Jackson were among the guests. Sympathy. Sympathy can people our life with a crowd. The fisherman on the ocean alone at night is not alone when he remembers the earnest longings which are arising up to heaven at home for his safety; the traveler is not alone when the faces which will greet him on his arrival seem to beam upon film as he trudges on; the solitary student is not alone when he feels that human hearts will respond to the truths which he is preparing to address to them.—F. W. Robertson. First Thrift Day. The first "thrift day" in America was August 11, 1915. That was the first time one special day was ever officially set aside for the purpose of encouraging attention to thrift. The day was celebrated in California as "thrift day" in response to a proclamation of Governor Johnson. The occasion marked the opening of the thrift congress, held at the Panama-Pacific exposition by the American Society for Thrift.—Thrift Magazine. Indian Tailor Bird A very curious nest is made by the tailor bird of India, a tiny yellow creature. To escape snakes and monkeys this bird takes a dead leaf, flies up into a tree, and with a fiber for a thread and its bill for a needle sews the leaf to a green one hanging from the tree. The sides are sewn up, an opening to the nest thus formed being left at the top. The leaf, apparently hanging from a twig, would never be taken for a nest. Unlucky Thirteen. A correspondent suggests that the origin of the "unlucky thirteen" superstition is to be found in the casting lots by Hanan to discover a "lucky day" for the destruction of the Jews. The 13th was certainly a most unfortunate selection in this case, and the story was so popular in the middle ages that it may really have given rise to the superstition. Friendship That Lasts Friendship is apt to creep away into some corner of the temple on whose shrine love has descended. This mild affection is but a twinkling taper that will burn steadily on, perhaps unseen amid the dazzling glory of love's supernatural lamp, ( ) be found shining benignantly when the lamp is shattered. Cork Substitute A good substitute for corb is obtained from certain fungi, which are dried and ground, mixed with cement and consolidated by pressure. PAGE FIVE produced which has wittee on Monument y or some n, S. Anderson, L. Gully, J. Hankins, tenant M. Haddox. t. Mary F. Waring, Lt. DeWitt Smith, commandant of the Canteen, was hostess workers at a dinner in the ballroom of A distinguished and brilliant array ed the speaker's table. Major General the hostess, was the principal speaker, including Colonel Humprey, General and Baker, Majors Crockett, Stanton aides, Captain Harris and Lieutenant oeech. "The war could not have been ed above with Mrs. Marie Hudlia and requests. J. Hankins, Witt Smith, was hostess ballroom of brilliant array major General pal speaker,ey, Generalett, Stanton Lieutenant it have been Hudlin and By-products are substances or results obtained collaterally or incidentally in the operation of a specific process or manufacture of something else. In hunting game for food the hides and feathers are by-products; in manufacturing lumber sawdust and shavings are by-products; in the manufacture of gas, coke is a by-product, though not the only one evolved in the process. Raising Foxes on Ranches. Raising ranch-bred foxes is an industry that is being carried on extensively in all the Canadian provinces, in at least a dozen of the northernmost states of the United States, and beginning in Japan and Norway, all lying in much the same climate belt, adapted to domesticating the black fox, under the most favorable conditions. Gluten is the main nutritive element in all flour made from grain, though it exists in larger proportion in some varieties of wheat than in others, and in hard wheat more than in soft. Gluten flour is flour from which the starch element has been wholly or partly removed, thereby bettering it for the use of diabetic patients. Who Owns the Ring? That an engagement ring is no longer the property of a young lady who breaks her engagement is the recent verdict of an English court. The girl in the case had broken off the engagement, but decided to keep the tokens of regard as souvenirs—until the court interfered—Savannah News. Among professional men actors supply the greatest proportion of lunatics. Then come, in order, musicians, civil servants, clergymen, writers and editors, and army men. The wonder is that editors do not figure much higher in the list. As far as can be learned, the earliest use of the nickname John Chinman as a designation for celestials is in "a letter to the committee of management of Drury Lane theater," published in London just 100 years ago. Where the Wrinkles Are. "Improving the boudoir cap—little wrinkles that help to make it more becoming," says a headline. The wrinkles as w... fund the prop- --- By-Products Gluten. Mad Musician. "John Chinaman" PAGE SIX ONE-PIECE GOWN IS IN EVIDENCE French Brocks Elaborate, Colorful, Long and Short, Draped and Straight. BRILLIANT SEASON IN PARIS Fashion Shows Held by Leading Dressmakers to Determine Spring Styles Prove Disappointing to Foreign Buyers. The fashion shows which are held at the leading Paris dressmakers to determine the spring styles are disappointing, perhaps, from the point of view of the foreign buyers, while to the Parisienne the season on the whole seems the most brilliant that she has seen for many a day, writes a Paris fashion correspondent. The American buyers naturally expected great things from the French creators whose ideas have been so deeply affected by the mourning of France during these five years of war. They figured that this first victory season would be one of remarkable elegance, entirely forgetting the fact that France cannot throw aside her somber black merely because the ar- A Ribbon Trims This Tunic Dress From Paris—the Sash is of Wide Blue Ribbon and the Other Materials Are Crepe Georgette and Lace. Ribbon Trims This Tunic Dress From Paris—the Sash Is of Wide Blue Ribbon and the Other Materials Are Crepe Georgette and Lace. mistice was signed. She still mourns her dead and it will be another six months or perhaps a year before she can think of returning to her former magnificence of dress. Then, again, the foreign buyers have figured that the sudden change from war to peace would mean a sudden change in the method of living and, therefore, a sudden change in the styles, but peace has made no noticeable change so far, and when the change does come it will take place so gradually, as we come out from under our numerous restrictions, that we will scarcely notice it. The French women are still deprived of their automobiles and the former fashionable tea houses cannot resume their gayeties until they can serve something besides plain tea. The lack of butter and sugar means a lot to a tea house and all of these things have their influences on the fashions. Some of the houses, however, have borne in mind that the peace conference, with its delegates coming from the corners of the earth that have been untouched by the war, would bring some of the old gayety to Paris and that the buyers from those countries would expect brilliant collections of dresses. Elaborate and Elegant. The Martial and Armand collection, for instance, is most elaborate and elegant in every detail, which is largely due to the fact that Mme. Valle was called upon in December to make a number of handsome evening dresses for the reception given to the Italian embassy for the King of Italy and President Wilson. She has an extensive Italian clientele, and with fifteen handsome dresses at this dinner and reception she was inclined to think that her Italian, Spanish and American buyers would buy the same kind of dresses in February. The Maison Martial et Armand is showing no great change in the general style. There is some effort made to get away from the "robe chemise," but the effort has not been altogether successful. The skirts are still very narrow and short and many of the models are the same old "chemise" that the French women absolutely refuse to give up, much to the disgust of the American buyers. The models that have not the straight lines are slightly draped, but the afternoon dresses are practically all the same loose chemise variety with the only new note in the very elaborate embroidery. The embroideries are wonderful throughout the collection. A new embroidery is introduced in gold thread in long stitches which make it look like the wrong side of the satin 1 brocades that are used for upholster ing. A new beaded embroidery is also to be noted in which tiny beads are sewed on in little loops in a very close design giving it a feathery appearance. The most gorgeous metal tissues and metal brocades are used in the evening dresses, which are always gracefully draped and are still short and trains shown with all of them. A marked feature of the collection is the little tulle jackets trimmed in ostrich feathers and the handsome spangled capes. A cape embroidered in black spangles and jet is one of the most popular models in the collection despite the fact that its price is 2,000 francs. Evening Dresses First. Little attention is being paid to tailored costumes in any of the dress-making establishments. All have made an effort to specialize in the afternoon and evening dresses. Jenny's charming blue serge street dresses make one forget that she is not showing many "taillleurs." They are the usual straight, narrow, one-piece frocks loosely belted by a broad sash of novelty ribbon, but the little white vests that are worn with all of them give them a very new look. These waist-coats with their Directoire collars are decidedly a feature of the collection. They no longer extend below the waist line, as did those of the last two seasons, but they merely fill in the deep V of the serge bodice and are not low in the neck. If Jenny's models are as popular as they promise to be now the separate neckwear will come into its own again, for separate collars are shown with the serge dresses. Many of them are the turned down linen collars that we wore years ago with shirt waists. With them are worn pretty little ribbon ties. Ribbon, in fact, is another marked feature of the collection. Practically all of the models have ribbon sashes, and fringe, too, is featured. All of the sashes have fringed ends and bands of fringe are employed in all sorts of ways. Jenny shows her usual gorgeous evening dresses which can easily be described as evening skirts and nothing more. Even the shoulder straps are so transparent that they can scarcely be seen, but the skirts make up for all that the bodices lack. They are most dazzling, in the most brilliant colors, in metal brocades and snell victory throughout. Doeullet, too, is showing an important collection, especially in evening dresses. He shows one model after another exquisitely draped in gold cloth and often combined with embroidered tulle. Metal cloth and jet seem to be his favorite combination and he uses quantities of jet fringe, all of which means expense, making it difficult for the Americans to buy, because the duty runs many of them up to the three and four thousand franc mark. I recall one dress in the most georgeous metal tissue the actual material of which sells for 170 francs a yard. One thinks nothing of paying 100 francs a yard now for the most ordinary tissues. Doeulillet has a pretty way of using a bright colored satin and meta, brocade bodice with a black satin skirt. No trimming of any kind is used except a black jet fringe to finish the ends of the sash, which is made of the brocade. The Doeulillet skirts are not too short and not too narrow, but they have a different movement from all of THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Paris is Mad About Sashes. This One Is Embroidered on the Material of the Dress, Which Is Striped Taffeta in Blue and White. Sash Is Embroidered in Gold, Rose and Blue. the others in the manner in which they are caught up in front and are much longer in the back. A specialty is made of good wearable coats, for which the house has long been noted. Roder's new broad striped woolen materials are most effectively used. I recall one in a rich golden brown with a black stripe that is the smartest sport coat that I have yet seen. All of the coats are made to be held around the figure and up in the front, just as last season. The one movement that is to be seen everywhere and the only one that is strikingly new is the long waist fine with semi-draped bodices. Worth carries out this idea in many different ways, making it rather the bands on which his models are cropped. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, APRIL 19, 1919 NEW SPRING HATS Headgear Displays More Trimming Than in the Past. Bright Colors and Gay Flowers Are Used in Profusion on Many of the Models. Paris has said the word and hats shall display more trimming this season, in consequence, than they have for many days past. Women had grown accustomed to the hat of line and nothing more and they liked it, but they have bobbed over to the new style and the streets are a-bloom with colors that are bright and flowers that recall the days of the Easter bonnet. It is hard to say whether the hats are large or small or medium sized, for there are samples of each size and An Exquisite Creation of Moss Roses Nestling in a Field of Sunrise Pink, and a Trace of Delicate Greenery. shape—the small ones being by far the most popular for this time of year when the winds are likely to blow a gale and when vells are necessary to keep the hat anywhere near the place where it naturally belongs. They are summer hats with which we are concerned, but straw, the summer hat material, seems to be the least considered this season. There are hats of silk, hats of satin, hats of ribbon, hats of feathers, hats of flowers, but few and far between are the hats of straw. The flower hats are, perhaps, the most successful because they have about them most of the feeling of spring. A whole bunch of flowers set on top of a lady's head speaks most eloquently of the change of the season. And then the flower hats are done in such a charming manner just now, with their little blossoms sewed flat to the shape and the shape hugging the form of the head. The little veil that ties it all together is just the touch which makes the whole complete. Embroidery, which has found its way into most of the dresses which one sees nowadays, has taken a foremost place in the making of hats. A French hat that has reached these shores is made of nasturtium-colored satin—one of those nasturtium shades—and it has a narrow, straight brim with a full, rather puffy crown that is embroidered all over the surface with a winding design of black silk embroidery. The brim is faced with black satin to improve the effect. A little bonnet hat is made all of blue forget-me-nots sewed closely together. It has long streamers of the narrowwest of black velvet ribbons that tie coquettishly under the chin of the person who is fortunate enough to be able to wear it. When the hats are made of straw they bravely adopt color as their chief excuse for being. One which came from Paris, too, is a brilliant salad green with a broad brim that is turned up at the back and trimmed there with a bow of wide velvet ribbon of the same color. Indeed, ribbon bows are the thing to do this season. Some stick straight up into the air, others droop to the lowest possible point, while still others stand straight out on either side adding to the breadth of the hat. COTTON LINGERIE IN FAVOR Serviceable Garments Are Made on Simple Lines With Little or No Lace Trimmings. Lingerie made of cotton materials has again found favor in exclusive and high-priced styles. When cotton went up in price the difference between the cost of silk and cotton garments became negligible. Silk, therefore, because of its practicability and ease of laundering, grew in popularity till it began to be made in tailored styles for everyday use, and its position of aristocracy was some what undermined as a consequence. While fancy models are still featured in crepe de chine and georgette, the bulk of the demand is for serviceable garments made on simple lines with little or no lace trimming. On the other hand, with the increasing perfection of the design of the Philippine hand-embroidered and flettrumed garments, and with the advent of batiste as a delicate cotton material for lingerie, many of the new high-priced and exclusive models are of these types. A Yarn Hint With yarn still at a premium it is an economy toravel up the old stretched sweater and knit it over again. If you do not want to wash or dye the yarn you will be puzzled how to make it smooth enough to work with. There is a simple process for you to follow. Wrap it in a towel or old cloth and put it in a steamer, colander, or double boiler over boiling water. The steaming freshens it so that it looks like new. Women Now Choose Clothes That Are Suitable for Amusements or Social Functions. It is not difficult to read something of the habits of the woman of today from her clothes. If she is fond of sports and drives her own car, she will choose a type of clothes that is suitable for these amusements. If she spends her morning hours in the garden and her afternoons entertaining friends at tea, then again one is sure to know it by her clothes. It has become a well known fact that fashion follows religiously in the footsteps of the habits and fancies of women. This is true in England and in France, also, but it is particularly evident in the clothes of American women. A few years ago the American woman spent her entire summer day in country or sport clothes, but this season she is more likely to change her morning dress after her afternoon nap and appear at tea time in a simple frock of dainty material with light shoes and stockings and, possibly, a large shade hat. The wearing of a dainty gown is a charming habit to acquire, and the gown need not be for afternoon wear alone, but may be worn for informal dinners as well. It is not often that one finds a material and style that fits two occasions, but the materials and designs used in such gowns are very lovely and altogether appropriate for both afternoon and evening wear. Embroidered net in white, cream, and in soft colors, lace-trimmed English eyelet embroidery, embroidered batiste, chiffon, and new volles made up over silk are quite as pretty as the most elaborate evening gowns. TAFFETA FOR SUMMER WEAR THE FASHION WEEKLY Everyone from the little miss of three to her grandmamma will wear taffeta this summer. The little miss rejoices in taffeta coats and her older sisters in frocks of this favored silk. NEW VESTS FASTEN IN BACK Fashionable Garment Is Cut in One Piece and the Collar Is Snapped to Place. These new vests may be purchased in a wide choice of fabrics and colors and are cut in one piece, unlike the "but tied in front" model that we all know so well. The collar is "snapped" to place, and a narrow satin ribbon on either side of the vest is tied in back to keep it from slipping, says a fashion writer. A winter suit that shows a high color like a wall about the throat may be remade into a military model. Carefully remove the fur and store it away. If the collar fits well around the neck you can face it with a strip of black crinoline to prevent wrinkles. A broad band of soutache braid in black silk can trim the neck and the braid can be repeated on the bottom of the peplum in three rows. This is especially advisable when the peplum has beef fur trimmed and one desires to change it. Brass buttons in a double row may replace the covered buttons to give the suit a more military appearance. A regulation leather belt will be an added attraction and should be selected in a dark shade. A Feather Fan. The feather fan, always a decided addition to the evening gown, is quite as popular this season as it was last. Its decorative value has gained its undisputed favor among women, for when in a brilliant shade of American Beauty or emerald green it is worn with a jet black evening dress it affords a striking note of contrast. These fans are, in most cases, extremely large and full, the ostrich feathers being either curled or straight, according to individual taste. If you have no curtain stretches, lay your lace curtains on a good clean spot of grass, tacking the points to the ground with toothpicks. This method stretches them perfectly, and if a sunny spot in the lawn is selected they will bleach at the same operation. BLOUSE IN DEMAND Middy in a Straight Jersey Silk Is a Smart Thing. Popular Garment May Be Worn as a Substitute for Sweater, Short Walst or Cuiress. No sooner had we heard of the straight jersey silk milddy blouses worn at Monte Carlo by smart women than the shops introduced them in America, writes a fashion authority. We get clothes by wireless these days. The garment and the cable come together. It must be a delightful truth to the American people that this is so; that they can see in their own shops everything that Europe offers, and almost as quickly as Europe accepts it. Of course the American public does not accept a novelty as quickly as France does. It takes six months, as a rule, between there and here. We accept our own fashions, however, more quickly than we do the French ones. Take the instance of the long, tight skirt which was put into the channels of fashion last fall. This is a good example of how rapidly the American continent takes up something that is introduced here. This skirt is worn from the R. F. D. routes to the centers of all great cities. We are very, very tired of it by this time. It goes in at the knees, back and front, and permits walking only through a slit at the back. It is sold for any price that one has in the purse. The reason for the popularity of the American designs is that they are sent out by salesmen into every place where clothes are bought and sold. All of which is to say that when the Riviera began to show those loose Jersey silk blouses, which are quite negligible in appearance, the American shops offered them for the Florida Riviera. They are merely straight pieces of brilliantly colored silk jersey in a heavy or a thin weave. In golden yellow, for instance, they look like the gold mesh bags that women carry. They are so supple that they do not really stand away from the figure; they just wrinkle against it. The neck is high or low, and the sleeves are elbow length or long. They are trimmed with a band of jersey in another color. This outlines the neck and wrists, the edges of the pockets are put in, and sometimes the hem, where it flattens against the hips or turns up to form a purse pocket and one for handkerchiefs. Any kind of skirt seems to do for these vivid blouses, and over them are worn satin mantels, short sealskin coats and rippling capes of horizon blue broadcloth. In the American resorts they will be the smart thing, worn as a substitute for a sweater, a shirtwait or a cuirass blouse. Women who have money have ordered six or eight of them in such colors as gold, henna, tomato red, French blue, English rose pink and Irish green. There is no attempt to have them demure, although it is considered quite smart to wear one of dead white edged with black over a white, plaited crepe de chine skirt, and with a white and black hat. Other women who try out this black and white scheme add a deep set sailor hat of lacquered scarlet straw. The Loose Back Panel. The present season has a fondness for loose panel effects, both on gowns and on suit coats. Sometimes, in connection with gowns, these panels will reach from the neck far to the bottom of the skirt, being caught just a bit at the waistline, in order to hold their shape. On coats, the panels occasionally widen out into almost military capes. JOHN B. WILLIAMS Dalinity and artistic is this dance frock for the young miss. It is in panental shades of shell pink with Alice blue ribbon. ALL-DAY FROCK OF TAFFETA CARLTON When milady desires to spend the day without changing frocks she will find this costume especially designed for her need. It has a Fisher neck piece and a stunning winged toque of tete d'Nigre straw and satin. Bloise is accordeon pleated tafeta. REVIVE SMOCK FOR SERVICE Loose Garment is in the List of Wearables for This Spring and Summer. Many, many years—centuries in fact—the peasants in France have worn the loose garment known as a smock and no one challenged their right to monopoly on that garment. Then some time in the last century artists—sculptors and painters—been wearing this type of garment in their atellers and studios until that shapeless, comfortable garment came to suggest all that one associates with French studio life. It was not unnatural that artists on this side of the Atlantic took to the smock as a master of convenience as well as because of association. Next the smock was borrowed for some rather extreme garden frocks. And it was considered really extreme when it first was worn out of the studio. But it became popular, and it was featured as a sport garment, and then every one went about in smocks. In fact, it went the way of all things popular to oblivion. Then—and the vogue of the smock had nothing to do with the tendency—the blouse that extends below the waistline came into being. It supplies to a certain extent the old-time blouse that is tucked into the waist of the skirt. And, so far from appearing extreme or outlandish, sloppy or grazeless, the type of garment known as the smock is the most natural thing we could don for garden wear and sport wear and wear about the house. So the smock is revived for the spring and summer. NEW CHIFFONS AND CREPE Corn-Color Taffeta Combined With Yellow and White Georgette Create Chic Spring Frock. Along with all the other blessings of the season, spring has brought with it the most delightful new chiffons and georgette crepes in quaint designs, notes a fashion correspondent. Corn-color taffeta combined with yellow and white georgette to create one of the loveliest little frocks I have seen for spring. The material was white and was plentifully sprinkled with yellow corn leaves, conventionalized into a clever design. Frills are frivolous, and this frock was indeed gay with its numerous ting taffetta ruffles set on several inches below the waist and continuing to the ankles. The bodice, too, was quantified with its square neck and long threep sleeves. Ruffles about an inch wide outline the neck and sleeves, and were set on three rows deep. And then to enhance the delicate beauty of the crepe there was a narrow blue grosgrain sash with long ends drooping in back. The butterfly daintiness of the frock appeals strongly to that delightful are known as the "teens." The New Embroideries More handwork is being done on frocks than ever, it seems, but this embroidery is not being confined to wools or silks. There is a lot of straw embroidery, the straw being the soft, silky kind of a pliability rivaling rafa. Particularly good for hats, bags and summer frocks generally is this straw work. Then one sees a lot of ribbon embroidery. Indeed, the ribbon for this work can be bought by the spool in all the new bright shades. It, too, is very soft and more like the bundle wrapping ribbon to be seen at Christmas time. Wide girdles on frocks are showing a single flower worked out with the colored ribbons either directly embroidered through the material or couched on with silk or other ribbon. Stop Thief! THE "Jumbo" gas burner shown here at the right, (actual size) is a robber on any gas lighting fixture in Chicago. If you have one, get rid of it! It makes high gas bills and causes a great many of the complaints that come to us. Claims that a "Jumbo" will give more light without using more gas are false. Use mantle burners to get more light with less gas. Burning five hours a day for a month, the "Jumbo" consumes $2.30 worth of gas; a "Junior" mantle burner, in the same time, consumes only 39 cents worth, or $1.91 less, and gives much more light. ```markdown ``` This Is the "JUNIOR MANTLE" Is the R MANTLE" Michigan Avenue at Ada Telephone Wabash 60 Telephone Calumet 602-3572 MORRIS, Pres. KIRBY W MORRIS-WA COAL CO. HUGH NORRIS, Pres. NORRIS COA NORRIS-WARD COAL CO. Incorporated 2545 SOUTH PARK AVENUE Chicago THE CR Apartment 3600 WABA The finest building ever open cago. Steam heat, electric light THE CRANFORD department Building 3600 WABASH AVENUE building ever opened to Colored ten- m heat, electric lights, tile baths, mar THE FORTY-FOURTH STREET The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance tise in the BROA Advertise in Advertise in the BROAD AX A lake near Biggar, Saskatchewan, has been found to be saturated with sodium sulphate, and the deposits under the lake and alongside the edge to be nearly 57 per cent pure sulphate. The mineral is used extensively in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, in photography and other industrial purposes. Cleaning Wallpaper. To clean and polish wallpaper, add two tablespoonfuls of ammonia to half a painful of water, and wash the walls down with a flannel dipped in this. Take half a painful of water and add two tablespoonfuls of turpentine. Wash the walls a second time with this and wipe as dry as possible. Good Rule for Life. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants; for if they be real wants they will come in search of you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy—Colton. --- Phone Main 263 to get more light with less gas. day for a month, the "Jumbo" of gas; a "Junior" mantle burner, insumes only 39 cents worth, or much more light. We sell "Junior Mantle" lights complete for only fifteen cents, (which is less than "Jumbos" usu- ally cost) or give one free, in ex- change for a "Jumbo," at our main office or any of these stores: West Side 2142 West Madison St. 1709 West 12th St. 1641 Milwaukee Ave. 3221 Ogden Ave. 4033 West Madison St. North Side 3071 Lincoln Ave. 3643 Irving Park Blvd. 408 West North Ave. South Side 731 West 63rd St. 3478 Archer Ave. 103-5 East 35th St. 9051 Commercial St. 11025 Michigan Ave. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Michigan Avenue at Adams Street Telephone Wabash 6000 The Calumet 602-3572 KIRBY WARD, Sec IS-WARD AL CO. CRANFORD ent Building ABASH AVENUE opened to Colored tenants in Chi- ic lights, tile baths, marble entrance J. W. CASEY, Agent 133 W. Washington Street the BROAD AX Great Alexanders. Alexander Bell was the great American who invented the telephone, which is still called the Bell telephone; and Alexander Humboldt was a German traveler, statesman and the most distinguished naturalist of all times. One of his most important discoveries was the decrease in intensity of the earth's magnetic force from the pole to the equator. His most important book, "Kosmos," was written in his seventy-fifth year. He did much in his long life to further the science of the world. Important Rivers. Just as Egypt has been made by the Nile, so Mesopotamia has been made by the Tigris and the Euphrates. The view put forward with some authority that the rivers should be kept exclusively for irrigation and not be depended upon for transport is challenged on many grounds, one of which is that irrigation and navigation can be effectively combined, and indeed made mutually advantageous for many years to come. 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MAJORS a Amsociate Editor ! 4700 South State Street, | Phone Drexel 1416 | IMPORTANT NOTICE . For resolutions, obituary notices, cards of thanks, write-ups, special snnouncements of events to bappen, when a charge of admis: sion is made, and the opening of new ess enterprises, etc., 15 cents per line; 6 words or fraction makes one line. | Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. | Entered as Second-Ciass Matter, August 19, 1992, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, | ‘Under Act of March 3, 1879. ee ial SS agate oa verte a j PAGE EIGHT THE TEXAS CLUB BANQUETS COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON -AND SOLDIERS Last Friday evening at the Sol diers and Sailors Club, 3201 Wa- bash Ave., the leading citizens of Chicago paid a glowing tribute to Col. Franklin A. Denison and soldiers. It was an evening never to be forgotten. . In song, music, and oratory few oecasions, if any, in Chicago have ever équalled it. The charm of fair women; the joyous happy frame in which Chicago found it- self surronded with every feature to warrant the holiest sincerety, and the deapest appreciation of friends, told the colonel more for cibly than the words of the Ne- gro confidence and esteem for him, because of the matchless re- cord of manhood and stalwart leadership for which he has ever stood like a sentinel on a watch tower. Every one on the long program evinced the greatest care and painstaking in preparation for this event, and whether singer, musician, or speaker all elicited the kind of applause that tells one their effort was such that warrants the keenest approba- tion. The evening was fine, the place decorated with the colors of the Texas" Club and fragrant with flowers. The leading doctors lawyers, bankers, editors, elerey- men, soldiers, and well establish- ed citizens of America’s second city were all there to-pay homa- ge to the Colonel, who trained their courageous sons for the fighting front_in France. | The oecasion was illustrious il- lumined by the presence of dist- inguished men high in the affairs of the army, the city government the state and here and there some Satelite of Negro blood that has given eolor to foreign lega- tions. A paymaster in the U. S. Army, a congressman, a minister plenipotentiary and-a consul ge- neral. A rare stage setting glit- tering with all the bright intel- lectual light at high noon brigh- ness. ‘The goreous splendor and beauty supplied the occasion by the ornate beauty and grace of sweet women supplied a picture ness at such a scene. Such a ree- ne brought forth the solid frank expression of many of the vast throng, “‘what an evening??””—| ‘well, merited reward”. — “a noble ‘tribute form the Colonel’s friends", and many others elo- _ Chicago should be proud of its one. assets so- Dr A A Major fe dings MA. Majors the dieting a die ieee a ot g'% danghier, Mrs, Edith | ‘Woodlee, Mrs. Edna Bunn, Mrs, Dora Lawton, Mrs. Mary Nash, Miss Adis Musgrove, Mrs Clara MeKinley, Dr. U. G. Dudley, Law yerr Ruhard Westbrooks, Doctor Frank W. Adams, Mrs Cora Smith, Mrs. Fisher, and Mr. J. W. McBride. . Tt has been in existence since 1911 and was organized by its present president, Dr. M. A. Ma- jors. About two years ago The Texas Club gave a mid—night benefit and used about one hundred dollars of the receipts to buy tobacco, cigars, and smo- kes for the Eighth regiment just before they left for Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. — ‘‘M.”” aap THE TIDE IS RISING The spirit of the race is be- ginning to be aroused. The wide sweeping migration of the Negro from the Southern States to the North and the East is being watehed both by the politician and the man of the farm and the store. The telling blow af the very vitality of the” Southern states and the well devined iow of the long disfranchised citizen of co- lor to move to-states that reco- gnize them as freeman with the right to cast a virtuolts ballot where it is duly counted is follow ing the line of least resistance — This is the only thing to do; the sane and safe conduct of sensible people of any race. What is not the fault of the race may become the tyrants misfortune. Too long already has patience with the tortured helpless Negro ceased to be a virture. The economic ele- ment hinges fiereely upon a de- termined spirit of self help, and ever ready willingness to earn, ones daily bread where a better market and a higher price for labor gloriously bristles for rea- dy and willing hands. Everything may be gained and 80 very little to lose by the phi- losophie respect for the woeful conditions that have hedged the rugged road of race strife. The tide is rising. Y THIS IS THE USA. —(By Dr. M. A. Majors)— Murder and outlawry appears to be rampant through out the world to—day. Of course, the U- nited States very easily goes into hysteria when an American citi- zen is killed outside of the coun- try, and if it be unfortunately done in some little country, why we blaze and shoot said little eountry to pieces. Now as in this ease it happens to be a big country, and Eight- een white men are slaughtered, we ‘will suffer ourselves to go into the “‘hesitation blues’” and send Mexico and Corransa a lit- ie nete soking thal not to-do it atiy more ple: THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, APRIL 19,1919 Why sakes alive United States citizens are killed every day, ro- sted alive with red hot chains about their bodies, and not a se- nator or Congressman has legal jurisdiction, or power to raise his voice against it, a hell of a coun- try is this. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to give them legal jurisdie- tion, and power tod. What is the difference in eighteen ‘citizens getting killed in Mexico, and twice or five times that number getting killed in Georgia, Texas or Mississippi? Why can’t a law be enacted in Congress that would render the Senators and Congressman from states: where wanton and reckless outlawry exists in burning and lynching Negroes without a trial (persona non grata), with the se- nator and house of rapresentati- ves, Why may not some effort’ be made to stop shooting a Negro because he has the manhood to resent insults to his wife or his daughter? Why can’t Congress get busy and do one or two things that will throw the mantle of protec- tion around law abiding men, wo- men who never go to Mexico or any where else to. get shot to death? DR. B. R. BLUIT HAS LOCAT. ED IN CHICAGO, ILL. Dr. B. R. Blaitt has located in Chicago, Ill, to practice medici- ne. — For thirty—one years he practiced in the city of Dallas, Texas, where he owned a hospi- tal fully equipped at which many of the leading surgeons of the race has operated. Dr. Bluitt is a progressive man, and a live wire in the profession. He is a high Mason and a Knight of Py- thias. Last Summer the doctor came to Chieago and bought a beauti- ful home at 3162 Lake Park Ave., where Mrs B. R. Bluitt has resid- ed.— Now the doctor has pulled up stakes and shook the red neck dust from his feet and east his lot with us. He chose 4700 State St., for his offiee with his old school mate D. M. A. Majors. Relics in Iceland Museum. The most valuable possession of Reykjavik is its museum, containing relies of northern history. Some of Iceland's historie souvenirs have been taken by DGhinark, but the museum contains a number of church relies, old Norse and Icelandic household goods and other exhibits which recall the days of Eric the Red, Hetgi the Lean and other northinen of fame. Novel Alarm for Mines. The United States bureau of mines has developed a novel means of giv- ing alarm of danger in all mines where compressed air ts made use of throughout the workings. An ill-smell- Ing substaace is injected into the com- pressed air line, and in a few minutes the odor has been spread through all parts of the mine, and will be instantly fecogmized by the workmen. Should Have Known Him. Robert has an uncle who takes great Gelight in teasing and asking questions of his little nephew every time he gets ® chance. One day he asked him if he knew who George Washington was. “For mercy sakes.” exclaimed Rob- ert, “don’t’ you know who George Washington is! Why, he’s the man that invented Americans.” Weight of Ice. A cuble foot of ice weighs 575 pounds, or 30 eubie inches weight al- most exactly one pound. A good way to estimate the weight of a rectangu- Jar block of ice is to multiply together the depth, breadth and thickness in inches and divide the result by 30, the answer being given in pounds. Pressure of Water. ~ ‘The pressure of water per square inch ts 433 pounds per foot of head. A fathom being six feet the pressure per square inch at five fathoms would be 12-09 pounds, at ten fathoms 25.98 pounds, at fifteen 38.97 pounbe abd of teeaty fithone 5130 pounds ———— _ Compensation for All vit. No evil ts without its compensation. ‘The less money, *the less trouble. ‘The tess favor, the less envy, Even Im those cases which put us out of our wits, it is mot the loss itself, bat the estimate of the loss that troubles ‘uws—Seneca_ THE DOMINANT WHITE OD gave you power to build and help and lift; But you proved prone to persecute and slay And from the high and noble course to drift , Into the darkness from the light of day. He gave you law and order, strength of will The lesser peoples of the world to lead; You chose to break and crush them through life’s mill, : But for your earthly gains to make them bleed : Peeause you’ve proved unworthy of your trust, God—He shall humble you down to the dust. eee You have betrayed the black, maligned the yellow; But what else could we hope of you who set The hand even of*your own against his fellow; To stem the dire tide that threatens yet? You called upon the name of your false god ‘To lash our wounded flesh with knotted cords And trample us into the blood—stained sod, And justified your deeds with specious words: Oh! you heve proved unworthy of your trust, And God shall humble you down to the dust. eee The pain you gave us nothing can assuage, Who hybridized a proud and virile race, Bequesthed to it a bastard heritage ~ And made the black ashamed to see his face. You ruined him, put doubt into his heart, You set a sword between him and his kin, And preached to him, with simple, lying art About the higher worth of your white skin! Oh White Man! — You have trifled with your trust, And God shall humble you down to the dust. ' eee You blinded go, afraid to see the Truth, Closing your eyes to and denying Beauty; You stultify the dreams of visioned youth All in the prostituted name of Duty. You place your Seers with. madmen, fools and rogues, Their words distort and twist, despise their creed: You choose instead the little demagogues That will uphold you in your shameless greed: Because you’ve proved unworthy of your trust, Ch, He shall humbie you! — down to the dust. . Claude McK: ‘The great enemy of youthfulness te the drying-up process, and this is why we should only keep as much as Possible with the young, but should enter into their joys, their plays, with zest und enthusiasm. We should romp end play with them, interest ourselves in the things that delight them, in- stead of pushing children away from ws and restraining them all the time, regarding them as a nuisance and a bore. Children were given us to keep us youthful; to keep our sympathies fresh. Here is a queer cause for a law ac tion. A man who was insane deter- mined to throw himself out of the win- dow of an asylum. He made several ‘attempts and was prevented by the servants. Put in a new apartment. he tried again, jumped out of the win- dow, fell on the lawn and injured him- self seriously, but, strange to say, the shock cured his mental disorder. At once he sued the officers of the asylum for negligence. The plaintiff was non- suited. Hat: ro ~ .rcom S'ippers. Old felt he's which ere too far gone to be worked. over into hats again are now utilizcd for bedroom slippers, “Let's colt tt off” seid the alionist as he finished # patient for insanity.— Boston Transeript. Don't put in too much time stand- {ne on dignity or riding a hobby.—De- troit News. Theres place and means for every man alive.—Shakespeare. Gray hair is often the result of too much blues. To the list of sources of musk must be added 2 kind of gnat, which 4s so common in the Australian bush at times as to fill the alr with » ‘musky odor. > ag arg + ppmahnyes paces rica about 1090. It was not known England till the sixteenth century, and ‘was rst planted in Australia in 1788, Saimon Swift Swigmer. For short distance the salmon is the swiftest swimmer of all fish. It can travél at the rae of 25 miles am Dour. se “Politeness costs nothing”—perhaps Wf It did there would be more of it— Toston Transcript. Sermons 'n stones end good In every | Wate eae | Te Keen *Youna. Becuiier Leunuit. Gaited 66 teen: Mactan Tien. * Daily Thoucht. ee Q@net Exudes Muck Qeread of hh Octane ‘Met Velues Dally Theuckt. = be aT tlt.) The ex'stenee of the bird which fs the erbter: ef Avicrica is threatened. An Alaskan law ploces a bounty of 50 cents on every beld enele killed. The result Is thet 'n 19 months over 5,000 eagles have been killed. The bald eagle Is charged with destrosing sal- mon, young deer and game birds. Said the observing cuss: “Phe kid who was the despair of his parents be- ‘cause he couldn't carry a tune usually develops into the kind of business man who raises the mortgnge off the old home place as soon as he gets in the harness.” A 200-Foct Dive. ‘The greatest depth ever reached by & diver Is said to be 204 feet. The greatest depth at which useful work has been done fs 182 feet. Sponge and pearl divers, working without armor, frequently descend to depths of about 150 feet. Christian Unity. He who takes hold of one end of the litter on which a kurt brother Is Prone must not pause to question the name and affiliation of the man who takes hold of the other end—The Christian Herald. Each Works to Same End. ‘The ease, the luxury, and the abund- ance of the highest state of civiliza- tion. are as productive of selfishness ax the difficulties, the privations, and the sierilities of the lowest.—Colton. There is ne man so goed, who, were he to submit al! his thoughts and ae tions to the Inw, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.—Mon- taigne. Hurt by Injudicious Friends. If a cause be good, the most vio- lent attack of its enemies will not In- fare it so much as an Injudicious de fense of it by Its friends.—Colton. The Bungier’s Way. To do evil, that good may come of It; fs for bunglers in politics as well as morals.—William Penn. Lest You Didn’t Know. A horse hide will make a dandy pair of shoes, but banana skins are un- equaled for slippers. | So Waas the World. | ‘The class poet sometimes becomes a butcher in after life—Loutsville Cou- rierJournal. Optimistic Thought. Popular sovereignty, when truly un- derstood, is 2 fountain of power. = | Spasmedic. Sermon. Many & fine aircastie has been built with gold bricks, fe sage ce = cs si as wae Strencth. Daily Thouchs. The Gidest Newspapen Benjamia Franklin coo hang fo the development 66 curate colonial days. An «, ¢ the ol Of 16 and ® prolitic wo “ye a Mentifed at some tine ur nother bis life with many of the gos which flourished durin. ja. a The oldest vewspainr is the tant States, which has been es: iseey pr @ut Interruption of feu or changes ame, te the New Iamstice Geant It was first published in Vortstuag, N. Hin 1756. ——_—__ Place of Fat Hen in History Fat and fame have wt very ‘fey been combined. werhips tnvanse ane men are generally inelinet io he easy Boing, and therefore tong in te Push whieh brings a nay yo the fore, says London Answers. OnIY greae statesman ove can re ho mg Feally a fat man was ¢scieg Jone Fox, as ean be seen con by yp efigy in the palace of Westmingse where he would make itr of iy Breat rival, Pitt the yoursor —_____ Deservedly Vatuahl+ De. One of the best-known pens in the United States tx owe jy Kase R Reed of New York, who st one tige Fefused to sell It for S75. Ite ake arises from the faet thot. sie thoy having been used hy bos Linens gap Grant, Mt was mede fron 9 carved bag fn which young Georsy Washing, kept parts of his survesing ina. ments. The dos Itself w= :s:ule frag the lid of a desk that belonced to te captain of the Mayflower. “The Eyeglass Glide. : Tt was at a formal dancing pom, and T was dancing with yousg nar who wore eyeglasses. 1 soon fe something cold stide down my baa and my friend said, “Panion me: glasses have fallen down your hed Needless to say I eseapes! 10 the Ing room and had the gin<<es and returned te hi®—Chieago une. Age of the Bacpine It is wrong to suppose thot the hae pipe Is associated owy with Scotland for this instrum®nt I< coiuries wf and has always been known in Ast People danced to the music of the bag: pipe in the thirteent! sy. the painter Raphael pictures » hagpiper, and didn’t the Pied Piper of Manele play this same fnstranwen!? FROM THIS DATE ONWARD, THE BROAD AX CAN AL- WAYS BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Mrs. L. Graves, The Providert Candy Shop, Notion Store and News Stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State George I. Martin, Cigar, Notin Store and News Stand, 18 W. Sis St, near State. Edward Felix, Notions, Cigars asi ‘News Stand, 3002 S. Dearborn St F. Bishop, Cigars, Tobacco af ‘News Stand, 8 W. 27th Street, neat State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Ne tion, Stationery and News Stasi 3640 S. State Street. - Dodson’s Shoe Shining Parlors asd News Stand, So. West Corner 35 and State Streets. Lawrence M. Heard, Travelist News Agent, with news stands # $129 S. State St. and So. East Cot 35th and State Streets. Charles F. Mallory’s Barber Sb and News Stand, 313 E. 35th Stret W. D. Scott's Lunch Room #) Restaurant, 248 E. 35th Street Louis Wimbley’s Shoe Shin Parlors and News Stand, 2946 Sos State Street. Mrs. F. A. Peyton, News Stax Confectionary Store, 5012 S. Si — | Samuel Taylor, 1728 Fulton News item left with any of above news agents prior to Wei day mornings of each week, will their way into the columns of ™ Broad Ax. . a