The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX The Social Equality Bug Bear Seems To Strike Terror Into the Hearts of Many White Persons Who Are Unable to Distinquish the Difference Between Civil Rights or What is Called Social Equality to Come Down to it; There is No Such Thing as Social Equality Still Many Well Meaning People in Other Directions Hide Behind the Words "Social Equality" in Order to Stab All Colored People in the Back and Make Them Feel at All Times; That They Belong to an Inferior Race: NO COLORED PERSON HAS EVER ATTEMPTED TO BREAK INTO THE HOMES OF WEALTHY WHITE PERSONS AND JOIN OR MIX UP IN THEIR BRILLIANT SOCIAL AFFAIRS OR FUNCTIONS WITHOUT BEING INVITED TO DO SO. SO THE WHITES SHOULD NEVER PERMIT THEMSELVES TO BECOME ALARMED AND TERROR-STRICKEN AT THE THOUGHT THAT THEY WILL LOSE THEIR SOCIAL PRESTIGE OR STANDING IN CASE THEY SHOULD HAPPEN TO RESIDE NEAR DECENT AND HIGHLY RESPECTED COLORED PEOPLE Since the recent riots in this city as on other occasions when the Colored people are unjustly and very harshly death with and treated as though they were or are nothing more than so many wild animals or baboons, many white persons have rushed into print and some Colored people, too, who aspire to be the leaders or the sole spokesmen for the Colored race and these so-called white friends, who are touted up by their Colored lackies contend that they earnestly desire to see the Colored people advance in certain directions, or just as long as they absolutely refrain in the slightest degree of attempting to place themselves on social equality or on the same social plane with the white citizens in this country. For some cause or other it seems very hard for many white people and colored people too, for that matter, to distinguish the difference between one's civil or natural or inherent or inborn rights and to come right down to the mik in the cocoanut there is in reality no such thing as social equality, than there is such a thing as intellectual equality, one is just as capable of being viewed from as many different angles or view points as the other, nevertheless many well-meaning people, who claim to be Christians, will on the slightest occasions run and dart and hide behind the meaningless words "social equality" for the advanced purpose of stabbing all the colored people in the back and cause them to feel at all times that they belong to an inferior race, that they are not entitled to even enjoy their civil or their natural rights unless they fist obtain the consent of every self-conceited low-bred ignorant white person who may happen to strut around in a soiled pair of blue overalls. In speaking of social equality, John Stuart Mill, who was one of the greatest and the most profound logicians that the world has produced, states that "social (L. socials, from soivs, a compion, akin to sequest to follow) of pertaining to society, relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as social interests or concerns, social pleasures, social benefits, social happiness, social duties, social phenomena, or in other words ten or ten thousand men must be equal in everything pertaining to life, happiness and equality, that ten men or ten thousand must all possess the same amount of wealth, must be either presidents of banks or railroads, that they must all occupy the same positions in life, the same rank in the army, the same titles either as noblemen or kings, rulers or potentates; in short, that they must possess the same quantity of everything, including education, culture or refinement, which is utterly impossible, before they have the moral right to prattle about social equality. It is understood of course that there is no such thing as social equality in barrooms, cafes, hotels, theaters, street cars, Pullman cars, public parks, bathing beaches or in any place of amusement where each and every person must pay a fee to enter, so it seems to us that it is high time for so-called white citizens in this country who have for ages been intermarrying with Chinamen and with all the other dark races of the old world to wake up and learn to distinguish the difference between civil and political rights and their old nightmare of social equality. The colored people were among the first settlers in Chicago and for over 75 years not one sane colored man or woman in this city has attempted in the slightest degree to break or bust into the homes of the welshy or even into the homes of the poorer class of whites and join in or mix up in their brilliant social affairs, unless they have been invited to do so, even though they may for many years reside next door to the whites. CHICAGO, ILL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919 It would seem that the social standing of the whites must rest on a very shallow foundation as long as they feel that one colored family is able to rob them of their social standing and overshadow them in every way. It is a well known fact that in the southern end of this country that many white gentlemen spend all of their time in harping on social equality and do you want your beautiful daughter to marry a big black "Nigger," and then those same white gentlemen will, when the evening shades prevail, tear away from their own fair dolls and spend their nights wrapped up in the arms of their real black and homely colored mistress. Such rank hypocrisy is more than sufficient to cause the holy angels in heaven to weap and the boss devil to crack his fat sides with laughter. HON. FRANCIS S. PEABODY, THE BIG COAL MERCHANT, STARTS HIS BOOM FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. The many warm friends and followers of Hon. Francis S. Peabody, residing in Du Page county and in this city, gave him a big blow out or dinner at the Sherman House the other evening and launched his boom for United States senator from Illinois and from now until the statewide primaries close in September 1920 he will be in the running. Many of the leading Democrats from all parts of the state and the following supporters of Hon. Roger C. Sullivan attended the affair or love feast at the Sherman House: Cook County Chairman James M. Dailley, County Clerk Robert M. Sweitzer, County Treasurer Harry R. Gibbs, Hon. Henry Stuckart, James T. Igoe, P. A. Nash, Judge Thomas F. Scully, Patrick J. Carr, George E. Brennan, former Justice George A. Cooke, John F. O'Malley, B. J. Mullaney, Joseph Rushkiewicz, Judge [Name] Extensive banker and farmer of Champaign, Ill., prominent member of Congress from the 19th Congress sional district and one of the national leaders of the grand old party; the father and founder of the Illinois Traction system and candidate for United States senator from this state in 1920. John J. Sullivan, Senator John Broderick, Judge John K. Prindiville, William J. Graham, James M. Whalen, William F. Quinlan, and John T. Connery. Mr. Peabody has spent the past week in hobbnobing with the farmers and the big politicans at the state fair at Springfield, Ill. POLICE OFFICER JOHN J. DOHNEY IS THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGT PLACE. Officer John J. Dohney, who has charge of the City Council Commit- tee rooms, is a fine fellow on every respect. He is quiet and unassuming and never seems to be horsing to show his authority, and that makes him very popular with all of the city fathers and the big and small fry politicians who are constantly in evidence around the council committee rooms. Once in awhile, when some of the aldermen become hotly engaged in a heated argument and the lie is being passed back and forth between them and they feel like walloping each other in the jaw, officer Dohney walks around among them with his magic wand and with a soft, pleasant smile he soon has them straightened out and they again all laugh and talk among themselves like hale fellows well met with no thought of ever attempting to pull off any rough house stuff in the City Council Committee rooms. A large delegation of officers and members of the U. B. F. and S. M. T., headed by J. B. Street and R. W. Wells, left the city Sunday evening in special cars for Mound City to attend the grand lodge which convenes there during the week. AGE TWO THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899 without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. 226 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597. ULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4700 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol. XXIV. August 23, 1919 No. 49 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of March 3, 1879 Suffer for Sins of Others. "There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself, and say that the evil which is in you shall not spread," says George Elliot in Adama Bede. It is only too true that we cannot bear punishment alone. And usually our mistakes entail worse ruffering on those who love us than they do on ourselves. Just as on the other hand our successes and rewards bring more joy to our dear ones than to ourselves. "No man liveth to himself alone." Arctic Light. At noon of December 21, the shortest and darkest day of the year, we could easily detect a faint glow of light in the south. The true darkness of night is a result of the complete disappearance of all traces of twilight, which occurs when the sun reaches a point of 18 degrees below the horizon. Our latitude was 78 degrees 20 minutes, therefore the sun at this time was only about 12 degrees below the horizon.—From "Four Years in the White North," by Donald B. McMillan. When Piano Was New. The first public performance on a piano was at Covent Garden, London, 152 years ago. The invention of the instrument is credited to Cristofall, an Italian; J. C. Schrofer, a German, and Marius, a Frenchman. The first crudely pianofortes were made early in the eighteenth century, but for many years they received no serious consideration from musicians. Johannes Zump, a German, established the first piano factory in England, and it was he who built the instrument that was used in Covent Garden. Mica. Mica, so named from its being easily divided into glistening scales, consists of silica and alumina, associated with magnesia, soda and lime in varying proportions. Thus we have potash mica, consisting of silica, alumina and potash; and magnesia mica, in which the alumina is partially replaced by magnesia, passing—as the proportion of magnesia increases—into soft talc, which is chiefly composed of silica and magnesia. The Office Boy's Trouble The office boy had been sitting for hours at a typewriter, gazing vacantly into distance, and the force was becoming worried. "He's sick," suggested the kindly, old, gray-haired bookkeeper, but the blonde stenographer insisted there must have been some tragedy at home. The suspense ended when the lad suddenly turned to the fat claim clerk and inquired: "Say, Mr. Jones, how do you spell Thelma?" On Life's Journey. We should rather be life's good comrades than its passionate lovers, neither easily offended, nor imagining evil, yet not taking its affairs too lightly. Let us hold Life faithfully by the hand, loving it through fair and ill repute; as good travelers, grumbling little, praising much, and sharing sun and shadow and wayalide inns.—Exchange. Rubber Easy to Cultivate After four or five years of semi-cultivation a rubber plantation requires practically no care, except to see from time to time that other trees which may have gotten a start, are cut out. The yield of rubber gum begins about the seventh year under favorable conditions, and continues thereafter indubitably. Too Busy for Gratitude. The quality for which we most frequently criticize the Japanese is one in which, with curious inconsistency, we particularly pride ourselves. That is their determination to be independent. If an American has something to teach a Japanese, the Japanese observes him very carefully while he performs the trick. Then, with a polite "Thank you. Goodby," the Japanese leaves the American and thenceforth performs the trick for himself—with improvements. He is far too busy to sit at anybody's feet in gratitude. Get All the Best Possible Remember always to relax when no activity is required of you. When you sit down, rest all over — do not choose a rocker and waste your energy propelling it to an invisible destruction; nor tap your fingers on the chaffarm, nor finger the buckle at your walst or the chain about your throat; nor tie your feet up in bow-knots, when they should rest easily on the floor. If you think about it you will be amazed to find how much real rest time you have always wasted. Pulque Trains in Mexico Pulque, the national drink of Mexico, is made from the juice of the maguey plant, large tracts of which are cultivated outside the City of Mexico. As a rule there are about eight hundred plants to the acre. The juice is extracted by the peons. It is shipped into town in long trains much like our milk trains here. The white liquid tastes like yeast and the consumption is so great that it is equivalent to two quarts a day for each person. Silverte a New Metal A new development in the alloying of aluminum with other metals has just been accomplished by the production of "silverite." This metal is something entirely new and is composed of a mixture of aluminum and copper, zinc and steel in varying proportions, according to requirements. The alloying of steel with aluminum is somewhat startling and at first thought seems to be impossible, yet it is successful. Ports on Chilean Coast Line. Chile has a long coast line which extends from about 18 degrees to 56 degrees south latitude. The so-called continental section of Chile extends from approximately the eighteenth to the forty-second parallel, while the insular or archipelago section extends from the forty-second to the fifty-sixth parallel. In this long stretch of const there are numerous ports. Excell the Nightingale The hermit thrush is declared to be the most talented and brilliant singer in the world, not even excepting the nightingale, says the American Forestry association. The tall of this little bird is of a reddish brown, much brighter than the back and head, while the breast is quite heavily spotted with black. It winters in the Gulf states. The Sea. Shakespeare tells us there is a tide in the affairs of men. Certainly there is a tide in the minds of men. He must be very unobservant of himself who does not know that the mind rises and falls, that it swells into fullness and strength and then fades into emotions and weakness. We know not how, we know not why.—Theophilus Parsons. Little Helen's idea Helen had a good imagination. One day, when playing blind man's buff, she was seen crawling on all fours. The "blind man" stumbled over her and when she uncovered her eyes and asked why Helen was down on her knees, Helen replied: "I thought you would think it was a dog." Grease on Wallpaper. To remove grease spots from wallpaper, sprinkle a piece of blotting paper with carbonate of soda and press it against the wall with a moderately hot iron. The blotting paper will absorb the grease, while the soda preserves the color of the paper. Punishment The whole of life and experience goes to show, that right or wrong doing, whether as to the physical or the spiritual nature, is sure in the end to meet its appropriate reward or punishment. Penalties may be delayed, but they are sure to come. Have Points in Common It is the general understanding that there are all kinds of people in the world, but at times we get the notion that they are all exactly alike, at that — Wilmington News. Were All There. "It wasn't fair to mark me down on that word in spelling." said Jane as she came in from school. "I had all its letters in but I didn't arrange them right." One's Too Many Sometimes "If we had two heads," remarked the man on the car, "we'd have more trouble getting them to truck than we have with our feet."—Toledo Blade. Optimistic Thought Optimistic thought A common grinchair is a more com- fortable seat than a throne. THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO, AUGUST 23, 1919 USED DIAMONDS AS COUNTERS Miners Who Found Them in Brazil in 1726 Considered Them as Merely Pretty Pebbles. The news from Brazil that a large company has been formed to work the diamond mines of that country on a more scientific scale in an effort to make Brazil once more an important factor in supplying the world's most popular gem, recalls one of history's richest jokes. Diamonds were first discovered in Brazil in 1725. But with their pockets full of diamonds, the discoverers were unaware for two years that they had made a discovery. Miners washing for gold in the Minas Geraes district picked up pretty pebbles from time to time. They thought them worthless and used them for counters in their card games. If they had no money they gambled for the pebbles, winning or losing. In blissful ignorance, a king's ransom in diamonds on the turn of a card. A penniless adventurer drifted into the gold fields in 1727. Some of the miners staked him one evening to a handful of pebbles that he might sit in at a card game. The others played with listless interest, but the newcomer played with care and skill. He had seen rough diamonds in India and knew what the pebbles were. As a result he won all the pebbles around the table. He did not remain in the fields to wash for gold, but next day hurried to Rio Janelro and took ship for Lisbon, where he sold his pebbles for a fortune and lived happily ever after. The rush of diamond hunters to Brazil which followed carried back to the miners in Minas Geraes the first intimation that they had been rich for two years without knowing it. NO REFUGE IN BANKRUPTCY In Olden Times Severe Penalties Were Metcd Out to Men Unable to Pay Their Debts. A curious custom was prevalent in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Anyone who found it necessary to liquidate his affairs was obliged to wear a green cup—a humility to himself and a warning to others. Those who made a hobby of getting rid of their indebedness by way of the bankruptcy court should at all costs steer clear of China. Bankruptcles are almost unknown in that country, as they entail immediate execution. A similar drastic punishment used to be meted out to delinquent in Japan. To come nearer home, one need only go back to a little before the Act of Union to find that debtors in Scotland were obliged to wear garments of diverse colors, a suit of gray and yellow being the most common. In Slam, a man unable to meet his liabilities was put in chains and compelled to work as a slave for his creditor. Should he escape, his wife, children, father or other relative were seized in his stead. At one time bankrupts were considered criminal offenders even in England. As a matter of fact, certain cases of fraudulent bankruptcy have incurred the death penalty in this country. Any concealment of books or the secreting of property by a debtor was so punished. Under this law a man called John Perrot was hanged in 1761—London Tit-Bits. Tailoring Ancient Art The art of tailoring, in the western hemisphere, appears to have originated in connection with skin garments rather than those of cloth. In the North, throughout the reindeer and curibou area, well-tailored skin garments were worn, completely covering the body. The Eskimos and the curibou-hunting Indians cut out pieces of skin and fitted them together in intricate patterns like a modern tailor. The tailoring art probably began in China, whence it spread to Europe, thence to the reindeer hunters in Siberia and across from Asia into the new world. Along the Pacific coast the aboriginal Indians were but scantily clad and the natives of Patagonia usually wore only a breechcloth, although sometimes a capelike robe hanging from the shoulders was used. In Mexico and the Andes region where the art of weaving reached its height, garments retained the angular form in which they came from the loom. Lord John Russell. During the years of my uncle's retirement I was much more in his company than had been possible when I was a schoolboy and he was foreign secretary or prime minister. Pembroke lodge became to me a second home; and I have no happier memory than of hours spent there by the side of one who had played bat, trap and ball with Charles Fox; had been traveling companion of Lord Holland; had corresponded with Tom Moore, debated with Francis Jeffrey, and dined with Doctor Parr; had visited Melrose abbey in the company of Sir Walter Scott, and criticized the acting of Mrs. Siddons; had conversed with Napoleon in his seclusion at Elba, and had ridden with the duke of Wellington along the lines of Torres Vedras.—G. W. E. Russell. The Right Way to Reckon. Matt—How does Skidley manage to stage so many successful auto accidents? Patt—He says he always omits tire chains as a prewreckquite.—Cartoons. Mort Famous Chinese Dish Most Famous Chinese Dish What has been considered by Oriental epicures as the daintiest dish in China, the birds' nest, is the product of the sea swallow, which constructs its nest of a gelatinous substance taken from sea moss. The Chinese method of preparing the nests for the table is to soak them and boil them in milk until they are very tender. Then they are placed in clear soup and are ready for use. On his trip to China, General Grant was much feted, and one of the dishes set before him was the birds' nest. Keeping Even Temper. Weariness, tired nerves, poor digestion, sudden demands, an overdose of perspiration and a dozen other things will unbalance the temper. You can't always regulate yourself, but you can do a great deal toward keeping the body in trim. You can see to it that the poor old back does not get a load too heavy to be borne. You can also try to guard against surprises that unbalance the mental mechanism and send the mercury skipping skyward. It's the best way to keep an even temper. Deadly Enemy of Mosquito. The so-called "water dog" of the Pacific coast of the United States is a newt five to eight inches long. Though quite immune to natural enemies itself, it destroys all mosquitoes within its range, and in the experiments of Prof. A. C. Chandler, of the Oregon Agricultural college, a single individual may devour 200 mosquito larvae in 4 hours, besides killing as many more. This harmless creature may be placed in pools and streams where no fishes could exist. Wheat in History The Romans introduced wheat into Great Britain. They did not have to carry it far, because before they invaded Britain they had conquered Gaul, the France of modern times, and the Gauls were growing large crops of wheat when the Romans crossed to the western islands. The Britons began to grow wheat, and the Saxons continued the work. Still, through the Middle ages the bread of the poorer classes was made of flour from the coarser grains. To Be of Influence If you can't swing things your way in life the sensible thing is to swing with things the way they are going. To be sure you can just abruptly cut away, but that leaves you out of touch with things. It may be a relief to your conscience to be beyond the reach of compromise. But you are also beyond the reach of influence. You can not hope to be able to mold character or even contribute anything toward bending it. Use Life's Powers Properly. There is no wealth but life; life, including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others—Ruskin. Opposed Brothers' Church There were three of the Wesleys, although only two of them had anything to do with founding the Methodist church. Sons of an English clergyman, and well educated, they were all plons men, but the older brother, Samuel, took no stock in "Methodism." In fact, he combated it, and wrote of it upon one occasion as "a spreading delusion." Life Not All Chance Events are shapeless except as personality shapes them. Birth and death and changing fortunes are common to humanity, but what different individuals make of them is a forever varying story. We cannot know what experiences await us, but may know tolerably well, by what we are making of ourselves, how we shall pass through them. Saved in Nick of Time Many wonderful bargains are recorded in connection with old books. The priceless Coverdale Bible in the British Museum library. for instance, was bought by an amateur book collector from a butcher who was delighted and astonished on being offered ten shillings for it. He was about to use its valuable leaves to wrap up his meat. "Inventor" of Pork and Beans An eccentric Englishman. Daniel Day Good, is accredited with the invention of pork and beans. The first Friday in each July he would assemble a party of friends under an oak in the forest and feast them on bacon and beans. From this festival grew the popularity of the dish. Concerning Names Sald the observing cuss. "When an actress starts out to make a name for herself she has to think up a good one to start with before she makes it." English Surgeon in Civil War. Sir Charles Wyndham, the famous English actor, served as a surgeon in the American Civil war. Optimistic Thought Many a one threatens while he quakes with fear. Cannot Photograph in Colors Cannot Photograph in Colors. It seems a remarkable thing, considering the progress of the science of photography and cinematography, the color photography is still an undiscovered secret. There are processes by which a very natural camouflage of Nature can be produced, but the plot is yet to be made which will produce a landscape in autumn in all its wonderful tints, or take a portrait of a lace with the natural coloring of the hair eyes, and complexion, with the various colors of her costume "in the manner as she lives." Pennilion Singing. Pennition singing is quite common in Wales, and peculiar to the principality. It consists of an instrument playing over a tune in stricter time and repeating it over and over again, while the singer or singers extemporize words to it in rhyme. The impromptu poetry must fit in with the music and is generally of an amusing character. The custom is quite common among the people, and the instrument used is their national instrument, the harp The Bible and Women Preachers Women preachers are taking comfort from the fact that one champion has discovered what they think is biblical recognition for them. In the prayer book version of Psalm lxviii, occurs the verse, "The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers." The revised version of the Bible translates the passage thus: "The Lord giveth the word. The women that publish the tidings are a great best." Never the Same Again. Friendship is a vise which, when it is flawed by heat or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Course stones, if they be fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never.—Walter S. London Botter Than Medicine Remember that medicine is, for most part, nothing but the substitute of exercise and right thinking. And it does not take a great deal of either right thinking or fresh air to enable you to throw off any ordinary symptom of illness. All that is necessary is for you to hold in your mind the thought that you are both healthy and cheerful. What Pewter Is Pewter is an alloy of tin and usually antimony, copper and bismuth for the best qualities of pewter, and lead for the inferior kinds. The tin always preponderates, and the proportion is largest in the best pewter. One hundred parts of tin to eight of antimony, four of copper and one of bismuth are given as the proportions of good ware. A Perfect Arm. The proportions of the perfect arm in a woman of about 5 feet 5 inches are as follows: The circumference of the upper arm should be about 13 inches that of the fore arm 9 inches and of the wrist 6 inches. The upper arm should be one-third shorter than the forearm. Incredibly Silly Order. Army orders regarding mustaches recall the fact that the Bank of England once issued an order forbidding clerks to wear mustaches during business hours! This remarkable order afforded the public so much amusement that it was soon canceled. Some Romance Needed. If life has never led you down the paths of romance, go in search of it. Find it in books—lose yourself in romantic plays. For, you need romance. Let it lift you out of the workaday world and refresh you. Man Who Moves the World The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.—Bernard Shaw. Who Could Indeed? English paper—"Miss Leitch played delightful golf up to the hole, but when once she had arrived there the result was almost ludicrous, as she could not hit the ball truly with her puttee." They Still Survive. Our young friend Clarence Snodgrass says he sent a dollar to Chicago for a "Never-falling Cigar Lighter" and received by mail a box of safety matches.—New Orleans States. Chums. Money may not bring happiness, but many people believe that the two travel in company.—Boston Transcript. Candle Factories in Africa. Six candle factories in South Africa have an output valued at $3,000,000 annually. Flexible Spout. A aew oil can has a flexible spout to reach places in machinery difficult of access without spilling. MAMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS Has Been Acknowledged One of the World's Wonders, Practically Since the Year 1803. The most famous cavern in America's Mammoth cave, in Kentucky, writes Niksah" in the Chicago Daily News. Mammoth cave was an old Indian refuge, and the story of redskin adventures is written plain in the skeletons tomahawks and reed toretes that have been found in the cavern depths. Then, in 1809, a white man, a bear hunter, followed a wounded bear into the mouth of the great cave, and from that time on Mammoth cave became in American estimation the eight wonder of the world. Almost as soon as the white man discovered the cavern he began to make practical use of it. Long before the era of Indian possession lords had inhabited the cavern halls and in the course of time their skeletons had as cumulated on the floor, especially near the entrance. These skeletons containing nitrate, played an important part in the war of 1812, for nitrate, so needed for making explosives, was scarce in the colonies and the Mammoth cave became the main source of supply. When the country settled down to a period of comfortable prosperity, Mammoth cave became, even more than it is today, a great show place of America. The cave's history is told in the names of the various rooms and galleries. Jenny Lind and other artists visited the cave and song or played the airs that had made them famous in "Ole Bull's Concert Hall" or other cavern corridors. In a room since named "Booth's Amphitheater," Edwin Booth was inspired to decalm some of the lines of Hamlet before a small and select audience. FIND UPAS TREE VALUABLE Natives of Java Procure Ready-Made Clothing From Its Branches, With Little Effort. One of the strangest myths is that which concerns the "deadly uproar of Java, whose poisonous exhalations were formerly alleged to kill any man or animal that ventured into its neighborhood. Doubtless it had its origin in some traveler's tale, for the tree in question—rather widely distributed in southern and southeastern Asia—has no terrors for the natives of these countries, who, on the contrary, find it extremely useful. It is the only kind of tree in the world that produces ready-made clothing. The inner bark is a natural cloth only requiring the removal of the soft cellular stuff in order to render it available for use. A cylindrical section of it from a small branch will furnish a leg for a pair of trousers or an arm for a coat, while from a bigger branch the body of the garment is obtained Copyright Acts The first act providing for the copyright of books and other publications in the United States was passed 12 years ago. The term of copyright was then fixed at 14 years, with the privilege of renewal for 14 years longer. In 1811 the period was extended to 28 years and providing for a renewal for 14 years. For nearly a hundred years after the passing of the first copyright law the protection was extended only to citizens of the United States. In England a similar injustice was practiced upon Americans although the British government did permit foreigners to take out a copyright, provided their work was first published in England and the author was at the time of publication anywhere within the British dominions. International copyright conventions now exist between nearly all nations. The first copyright act in England was passed in 1709, giving protection for 14 years and for the author's life if then living. In 1814 the English law was amended by extending the period to 28 years. Germ of Laughter Laughter, we are told by all authorities on the human emotions spills from a sense of satisfaction and superiority in the laughter over the laughe. If we may coin the word for the occasion. The Paris Rose Rouge publishes a hitherto unprinted essay on laugher by Stendahl, in which the following definition occurs: "What is laughter? It is a succession of pulmonary spasms accompanied by a peculiar facial expression which is so familiar that I need not describe it and by a pleasurable sensation around the chest. "This physical state arises from a sudden inspiration to compare our own worth with someone else's and resulting in a verdict favorable to ourselves. Laughter thus arises from the sudden recognition of our own superiority." Keep Mind Free From Rust. Keep mind Free From A rusty tool of any sort is a poor recommendation for the owner. It is doubly condemning when that tool is the master key of life. The weather and the carelessness of others may rust tools of steel. Only the indolence of the man himself can allow the mind to get rusty. It's a mark of senility or premature mental weakness when the mind that ought to be vigorous shows signs of rust. No man of good sense has a right to think he has reached his limit of usefulness. Each step upward should become the incentive to a higher step. As higher ground extends the vision so mental attainment should extend the scope of a man's influence—Pennsylvania Grit. OF DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN STYLE This New Bonnet Is as Gay and Charming as the Month of Flowers, With Tender Pink and White Buds. The Hat Is a Creation of Pink Georgette and Dancing Blue Ostrich Feathers That Curl and Cling to the Unusual Shane This New Bonnet Is as Gay and Charming as the Month of Flowers, With Tender Pink and White Buds. The Hat Is a Creation of Pink Georgette and Dancing Blue Ostrich Feathers That Curl and Cling to the Unusual Shane NEW HATS FOR AUTUMN WEAR Information That May Lead to Prospective Buyer Making a Wise Decision. TAM KEEPS ITS POPULARITY Father Trimming Is Employed on Model That Almost Every Woman Can Wear With Good Effect—Some Effective Turbans. What can stimulate interest in fashion at this season of the year like a little glimpse at new hats? For hats are always interesting and hats are the first new thing a woman buys at the beginning of a new season. In fact, we buy new hats regardless of seasons and wear them, too, without consideration for their fitness for a particular season; straw hats in January, velvet in July. And there are velvet hats and others, advanced models to excite your curiosity, stimulate your interest and help you to decide your first new autumn style. And my! what a good effect a new hat has upon the average woman, both from the material aspect of a pleasing appearance and the less tangible but nevertheless definite aspect of mental stimulus, of renewed interest in life in general, comments Edith M. Burts in the Philadelphia Ledger. Sometimes, as is usually the case with children, a woman treads life's path more gayly when she puts on new shoes, but more generally it is a new hat that helps over a period of mental depression, of world weariness, of disinterest, for hats don't hurt and new shoes do, more's the pity. Let me depart from the subject in hand, new hats, just long enough to ask why do so many girls foolishly buy shoes just a little too tight? Many Uls From Tight Shoes. Many Ils From Tight Shoes. This practice does not improve the appearance of the feet; rather is the effect deteriorating and the discomfort one suffers often distorts the face, always mars the poise and the walk and prevents the absolute attention to the conversation of a companion, the giving of the entire interest to the pleasure at hand that makes folks say: "There is an attractive and likable girl," the opinion of friends and acquaintances that establishes a girl as a favorite. There is never a season when some form of the graceful and generally becoming tam is not in vogue and this will be the case this season as in all others. There is one style especially attractive, a between-seasons tam on new lines and interestingly developed, of taffeta and soutache braid in two colors, to say nothing of an effective feature trimming that lends the last note of smart fashion to this time-established model. One excellent quality of the tam shapes is that almost every woman can wear one, all young girls can and most women of more mature years, provided they select the right model. Strikingly unusual is a hat of velvet with trimming of glycerin ostrich in a sort of shower effect over the upturned brim. This may seem an extreme model, not so much in shape as in arrangement of a popular trimming. And while not every woman can wear this hat or want to, nevertheless it portrays a certain new and interesting feature of autumn millinery that you should be glad to note. Ostrich Tip Trimming. Quite the reverse from the extreme fashion standpoint, yet nevertheless smart, despite its conservative tone, is the becoming turban of rich brocade, velvet and tiny ostrich tips, artistically combined. This hat illustrates still another use of ostrich, the regulation small curled tips. Not so new a treatment of ostrich but always a pleasing and satisfactory one, especially if one takes advantage of the modern process of shower proofing that insures the beauty of the feather against all moisture whether a fog or rain. If you are not familiar with this very commendable innovation in apparel insurance ask your milliner about it on the shop where you buy feathers for the hat you trim yourself. And here let me digress once more for a moment to register the suggestion that a technical knowledge of millinery is well worth the time and the small price it will cost a girl or woman to acquire this knowledge. Very smart and modish is a trim, close-fitting shape of velvet effectively trimmed with uncurled ostrich, and this hat is still another evidence attesting to the fashion value of ostrich as an autumn trimming of smart hats. Model for Autumn. Another new autumn hat, like most of the new models, is of velvet, turned up sharply in the front and trimmed only with a rich cluster of silk flowers and foliage. It is an excellent model for first choice in the development of your autumn wardrobe, for it can be worn now—right now—and that's what most of us want to do with new things—put them on and enjoy them immediately. A costume that has been much admired is a simple, dignified dinner gown of charmeuse, with underskirt of contrasting color, simply trimmed with ribbon in two widths and colors, modeled after the beautiful lines of the early Greek costume. This is the sort of gown that is not dependent upon any whim of fashion for its acceptance. It is the kind of gown that can be worn until it is worn out, and this is a feature that appeals to many women not entirely from the standpoint of economy, but because many of us must be well acquainted with our clothes before we are quite comfortable with them. Like old acquaintances, we must feel that our clothes wear well and not from the standpoint of actual wearing service, but from that of presenting us in the best possible light, of helping us appear at our best. BLOUSES IN WIDE VARIETY Wash Fabrics Figure Prominently Among Materials Employed—Pendant Decorations Highly Favored. The shops are really alluring in their display of overblouses in fabrics and styles suitable for summer wear. It is perhaps an interesting thing that wash fabrics have been made to serve so admirably for these blouses—for there was a time when it seemed that only chiffon and georgette and soft crepe would do for them. But now linen, organdle, batiste, ratine—lots of ratine, too, which is another of those interesting evidences of a return to favor of a fabric or style that has seemingly gone by—all these and other summer fabrics, heavy, homespun, crushlike-looking things, are used for the overblouse. One thing that marks many of the blouses is little tassels and hanging buttons and fringe. There are all sorts of these pendant decorations, from sleeve ends and hems and just hanging down from any other part of the blouse itself. Directoire Dress. A beautiful directoire dress is made of black taffetas with superb jet embroideries on the hem; there is a large directoire collar, high up under the chin, made of white organdie and caught in by a black taffetas ribbon, and a cabriole hat of bright green Japanese straw trimmed with a little wreath of blue hyacinths and jet ivy leaves. The dress is split up at the side—very high indeed—over a plaited underdress of fine black lace. The parasol, carried with it, is of bright green muslin, with an ebony stick and a carved ivory handle. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 23, 1919 IN SPORTS SUITS IN SPORTS SUITS Splendid Assortment for Woman Fond of Athletics. Pastime Apparel Very Much English In Cut and Fabric—Knitted Suit May Almost Be Called Indispensable. It is established that our most delightful fashions come from Paris, and it is becoming equally well established that our sport apparel is English in cut and fabric. We come to speak of the English walking hat, meaning the rather close-fitting hat with a tall crown curling up at the sides. English tweeds and fannings are a part of every sportswoman's vernacular, as suits of these materials are of her wardrobe. We differentiate between the onlookers and the real adherents, and recognize the rights of the latter to be as plainly and unbecomingly dressed as the most rigorous exercise demands. During the last year of the war the knitted sport suits made by hand appeared, first in Switzerland at St. Moritz and such places where winter sports abound. They were instantly accepted and were a boon to French and Swiss makers also, who could thus employ remuneratively their long winter evenings heretofore given over to lace making or the fine embroideries, the demand for which was interrupted by war. Now the knitted suit is indispensable. The great vogue over here for tricoulette and jersey cloth has further stimulated this demand. The wool jerseys are ideal, for they do not rumble or crush and come in such splendid colors that every taste may be gratified. Hunters' green is a favored color for some reason—it always looks well and does not always fade as do other brilliant and decided shades. Nothing is more picturesque than the fashion of topping white skirts with jersey coats of the most brilliant tones imaginable—green, yellow, and scarlet seemingly preferred. Undeniably they make gay color splotches on the landscape and add to the summer picture. Less serviceable than the wool jerseys are coats of fine faille and silk poplin. They are as delicate and refined as the most conservative woman could ask, and come in such pretty, soft colors as French blue and pale rose. The coat usually has rather wide sleeves which open over the blouse sleeve underneath and are not too tight. Deep revers cut away in front as a man's dinner coat rolls back at the sides and now and then one finds a sash finely fringed and belting in the waist—New York Sun. IN TRICOLETTE © Western Newspaper Union A Striking Combination of Black and White Is Successfully Combined in This Embroidered Tricolette Costume. IN FASHION LAND Small strings of beads are worn on every occasion. Deep yoke effects will be seen in the new fur coats. The hem of the smart frock is by no means regular. Light frocks are scattered with gay cotton flowers. Bold striped goods will be much used for trimmings. Many of the new sleeves end just below the elbow. A frock of chambray has a vest and hem of gingham. Some separate skirts consist of four tiers of pleating. Many suits feature belt and waist-coat cut together. The tailored suit autocratically demands a tailored hat. All-over stitching appears on the prettiest of fancy coats. Cost of Mail Tunics There are in the smart shops some interesting tunics made of a fabric resembling coat of mall—chain armor, really. These tunics are worn with skirts usually the same color but in a different fabric, one of the heavy silks. The fabric is in silver and gold, and the tunics are made with short sleeves, a plain neckline and a narrow belt to hold in the waistline a little. The tunics drop well over the hips. ADAPTED TO SHOPPER'S NEED Strong Bag That Will Hold a Variety of Purchases, to Be Constructed of Remnants. Nowadays it is absolutely necessary to take a strong and roomy bag when doing the daily shopping, and our sketch shows a very handy type of bag for this purpose. It can be carried out with a remnant of thin stair carpet or any other strong material, and can be made in any size to suit different requirements. The diagram on the right of the illustration roughly gives the shape of the piece of material that will be required; it is folded at the point ```markdown ``` Shopping Bag. marked by the dotted line, and sewn together at the sides. The opening of the bag is bound with braid, and just below this a number of eyelets are let in, and through these eyelets a piece of strong blind-cord is threaded, by which the opening may be drawn together, and also by which the bag may be carried. Sewn on in front of the bag and bound at the edge with tape is a small linen pocket, into which bills may be slipped. STRAIGHT LINES HOLD SWAY Good Thing to Remember Now That It Is About Time to Plan for Fall Things. Interest in summer suits is naturally waning somewhat at the present time, with fall so near 1; hand, and the woman who is planning a fall suit must bear in mind the fact that regardless of dress silhouette, straight lines hold sway in suits. No matter what material is used or what trimming embellishes it, the smart suit will have a straight, semi-fitted coat, thirty to forty-five inches in length, with narrow shoulders and long, tight sleeves. Suit skirts are shorter than those shown with spring models, and while by no means full they are a trifle wider. Soft vours are very popular and a great deal of fur trimming will be used. This fur trimming is usually only in the form of generous sized collars and revers and sometimes cuffs. Trimmed skirts or the elaborate fur peplums used on suit coats last season are not in evidence so far. Embroidery and fanciful braidings appear on many smart suits. For first fall wear strictly tailored models of cheviot and smart wool mixtures are being brought out. SASH KEEPS ITS POPULARITY Far From Passing, It Bids Fair to Become Even More Important Article of Dress. We keep hearing the rumor that the vest is passe—certainly it is passing, if we judge by the signs of the times, and unless it has a revival will not be here at all by fall. The sash, however, has taken on a new lease of life and is to play an even more important part in our costume than ever before. As to fringe, it is to be more extensively used than ever—in every depth and wherever possible. The fringe banding is often seen trimming satin capes, coats of camels' hair and dresses of taffetas and satin. This banding is made by stitching the fringe on a strip of satin at top and bottom, so that it has the appearance of insertion when used as trimming. Now and then one finds a color different from the dress or cloak showing through the threads, but this is not nearly so often used as the plainer colored banding in blue or black. Children's Fall Styles. Mothers are glad to see gulmpes coming into fashion again for the little folks. They give a dark dress a "dressed-up" appearance, and are a great saving in the laundry. They are decidedly fashionable this summer and autumn, being made simply and trimmed with either a bit of Val lace or a frill of plaiting of the sheer white material from which they are made. One mother has made a half dozen of these useful gulmpes for her small "tomboy" daughter who is in the second grade at school, deciding that it is easier to wash several gulmpes than several whole dresses, since it is the sleeves and collar that are soiled first. If you wish to make an otherwise miscellaneous costume harmonious, trim your smock in blanket stitch in lavender and use the same decoration for your hat, adding to both an appliqued design of leaves made of lavender or several smaller motifs will suit this scheme. PAINT FADED HAT Some Effective Hand Touches for Headgear. Any Number of Simple Designs May Be Worked Out by Woman Who Is at All Clever With Brush and Colors. If it's the old straw hat that is looking pretty much the worse for wear, but still has possibilities to carry it through the rest of the summer, you might treat it with the paint brush. Usually the hat that begins to look seedy so early in the race is a light hat. So the first thing to do is to give it a brand-new complexion. Cleanse it, and then let it go at that—as far as the background is concerned—or treat it to any kind of hat dyes on the market. The painted hat is most effective when it's first of all a black hat, as witness the stunning examples in the millinery shops. So you will do well to let the new coat be a black one, or at least a deep blue or purple. One appreciable thing about this fad for trimming a bit of headgear with oil colors is the effectiveness of big, simple, rather splashy designs as compared with the insignificance of more tedious decoration, particularly if the hat be sport and the straw rather of a coarse variety. Colorful conventional fruits and flowers are excellent choices. They may be placed precisely or with new art freedom on crown or brim, wherever you choose, or wherever they are calculated to be most becoming. Delightful in an entirely individual way are the bird and animal motifs for the brims of hats for the wee people. If you apply them where hat bands usually go, you can make a stencil band and expedite them with almost lightning rapidity. But maybe you would like to get a bit ahead of the season. In that case you will treat yourself to a chapeau in a pastel velvet and treat the velvet to some straight-stitch motifs, worked up in tinsel, or to a stunning embossed effect that is achieved by cording a design in all-over effect over the whole surface of the hat. PRETTY THINGS IN FOULARD Parisian Dressmakers Are Turning Out "Creations" That Are Much More Than Ordinarily Attractive. An excellent piece of advice for the summer is: "When in doubt, choose foulard." Foulard has again come into its own kingdom; never has this delightful silk been more lovely, never has it been produced in more delicate and original colorings. The Paris dressmakers are doing rather wonderful things with spotted foulards. They are using the spots as a groundwork for silk or wool embroideries and producing really amazing results by simple means. For example, a little chemise dress of black foulard was dotted over with large white rings. At the hem, for a depth of twelve inches, these rings were worked over on the outside with japonica pink silk and coverd—that is to say, the inner round—with a miniature lattice of silver threads. The same embroidery was applied to the front and back of the bodice and the sash was made of japonica pink satin ribbon with black and white tassels. It was charming, this little dress, and so simple; any one could achieve it. Rings or stripes may be decorated in this way with colored silks and metallic threads. Irregular designs, too, can be outlined or filled in. DAINTY BLOUSE A Navy Figured White Georgette Gives Us This Dainty Blouse of Ex- quilete Charm for Miss 1919's Summer Wardrobe. Dainty Frills of Lawn One and two-inch frills of lawn either hemmed or used in a double thickness is one of the daintiest trimmings that can be used on fluffy wash summer frocks. On the organdies so good right now, volles and ginghams, it is charming to edge sleeves, necks, outline boleros, pockets and trim skirts. For children's frocks particularly it is a simple appropriate looking trimming. And speaking of children, one can get a great many ideas that are just as effective and smart looking for grownups' frocks, blouses, smocks, sweaters and hats, by looking at the pretty hand-made dresses in both children's and babies' specialty shop windows. The embroidery used on hats, too, displayed in milliners' windows is often a clever pattern to adapt to dresses, for the stitches are nearly always the kind that make a show with little work. PAGE TH. EF IUST THE THING FOR CORNER Pretty Decoration for Holding Flowers or Fern May Be Put Together at Small Cost. Suggestions for filling up even the corner of a room in these days of high prices will be useful to many of our readers who may be furnishing, and the pretty corner decoration of which we give a sketch can be made at a very small cost. It is composed of eight pieces of bamboo arranged in the manner shown, and hung across the corner of the room by means of two picture rings screwed into the bamboo at the points indicated by the crosses in the sketch. Suspended from the top bar in the center is a small pot containing a fern; but if preferred, of course flowers could take the place of the fern. The bamboo should be fastened together with thin, sharp nails, and, where necessary, the ends of the bamboo should be plugged with little Pretty Corner Decoration. pieces of wood. The horizontal pieces, too, must be cut to fit against the sides of the upright pieces. Into the ends of the upright pieces small brass balls are screwed, and suitable articles for this purpose can be obtained from any hardware store at a small cost. The pieces of bamboo that are fastened across the corners of the frame should be about half the thickness of the other canes. The ends of these canes must be cut to fit into their places, but can be fastened in place without plugging them. The ends of all the other pieces must be plugged with wood. SMALL GIRL NOT FORGOTTEN Frocks for Little Maid's Adornment Are More Than Usually Charming and Practical. Frocks for the small girl, are both quaint and practical. The gingham are attractively combined with plain one-tone material, or have collars, cuffs and chemisettes of sheer white materials. Plain pink, blue, green, yellow or lavender chambrays are also made dainty and becoming by collar and cuff sets of white organdle, dimity, batiste or linen lawn. One Chicago house which makes a specialty of children's clothes shows numbers of quaintly charming frocks made from imported dimities, chambrays and swisses. Two of the models in an exhibit were made of chambray, one being in a clear apple-green tone. There is a plain short-walsted bodice belted with a two-inch band piped with black. The belt is embroidered with colored posies and green leaves. The sleeves and neck are piped with black. Another frock is of pale-pink chambray, with the sheerest of scalloped white collars and cuffs. The frock also has a short-walsted bodice and a very full skirt is attached to the plain little bodice, the joining line being defined by a piping of color. Embroidered posies, uneven in height, rise from the piping and embroidered lines to about one-third the bodice length. The skirt is also trimmed with embroidered lines. HAIL THE GEORGETTE GOWN Always More Popular Than Any of the Sheer Lingerie Materials and Launders Easily. A gown or blouse made of white or light-colored georgette, particularly if it is a one-fabric affair, will usually be found more serviceable than a similar garment made of one of the sheer lingerie materials, such as organdie, cotton volle, etc. The georgette garment can be washed with soap and water, but it does not require the vigorous treatment that a cotton fabric needs to make it look fresh and new, and certainly the amateur launder dress can handle the georgette more easily than one of the cotton fabrics. Tunic and tier effects are being featured in the styles now appearing for fall and winter. These will vie-for honors with the redingote and barrel silhouette frocks, but fortunately there need be no real rivalry, as the redingote dress especially is distinctly a style that belongs to daytime apparel. Godet Fullness in Frocks Godet fullness is being introduced into new frocks by Paris dressmakers. The bodice extends far down into the skirt in long godet points and the skirt flares out between these flat godets in the new bountiful manner. The underskirt is very narrow and slim. Such a frock is of turquoise blue faille, in bodice and godets, the flaring skirt of gold tissues and the narrow underskirt of lace flouncing. --- M. B. HON. AUGU3T LUDERS President of the Board of Election C eral in his views, who always t serving as judges and clerks of e tion. President of the Board of Election Commissioners, who is broad and liberal in his views, who always treats the colored men and women, serving as judges and clerks of election, with the greatest consideration. MEETING OF THE GRAND CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. By Elivie L. Stewart. The Eureka Grand Chapter, O. E. S., State of Illinois and Jurisdiction, held its thirtieth Annual Session at Peoria, Ill., August 12th to 14th. One hundred and seven delegates, representing fifty-seven chapters, were in attendance. Annual reports showed the organization had purchased during the year liberty bonds to the amount of $31,232.56. The total number of members was shown by reports to be 2,041, contributing the amount of $1,468.02. The following officers were elected and appointed: Worthy Grand Matron, Mrs. F. P. Monroe, Quincy; Worthy Grand Patron, J. R. Hicks, Rock Island; Associate Grand Matron, Mrs. Emma S. Kennedy, Chicago; Associate Grand Patron, R. G. Bell, Chicago; Grand Secretary, Mrs. Carrie Lee Hamilton, Mounds; Grand Treasurer, Mrs. Mattie Mayo, Chicago; Grand Conductress, Mrs. Nettie Johnson, Peoria; Associate Grand Conductress, Mrs. Clara Golden, Chicago; Grand Adah, Mrs. Harriet Fleming, Chicago; Grand Ruth, Mrs. Millie B. Davis; Grand Esther, Mrs. Anita Davis, Milwaukee; Grand Martha, Mrs. Lou Ella Young, Chicago; Grand Electa, Mrs. Mamie Slaughter, Springfield; Grand Lecturer, Mrs. Anna B. Dorsey, Lovejoy; Grand Organist, Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, Chicago; Grand Warder, Mrs. Mary E. Stearles, Bloomington; Grand Sentinel, Mrs. Laura Smith, Chicago; Grand Chaplain, Mrs. Parthenia Marshall, Rock Island; Assist. Secretary, Mrs. Rosa Fouche, Chicago; Grand Marshals, Mrs. Bertha Meyers, Joliet, and Mrs. Callie Vance. Quincy was selected as the next place of meeting. ANNUAL MEETING SEPT. 23rd of the Organization Which Got a Delegate to Parig in Spite of Government Ban to Meet at Washington, D. C., for 3 Days. Washington, D. C.—Last week, following the meeting of the local branch in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, which heard the details of the remarkable exploit of Delegate William Trotter of the League in outwitting the State Department by carrying the cause of the race to the Peace Conference, Executive Officers of this organization, headed by Rev. Bryon --- AGE FOUR Gunner of New York as chairman, held a 2 days session. The outstanding result was the decision to hold the 12th Annual Meeting of the National Equal Rights League at Washington, September 23rd, to 25th, 1919. One of the features will be the Colored Race and the Peace Conference, in connection with a full report by delegate Trotter. "Full Demacracy Now" is the slogan. Every existing branch league, every branch formed prior to Sept. 25 is eligible to send delegates, also all bodies which sent delegates to the World Democracy Congress conducted by the League. LIST OF ARRIVALS AT BEAUTIFUL IDLEWILD. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Woodland and baby, Washington, D. C. Mr. J. Graham, Boston, Mass. Mr. J. Bass, Washington, D. C. Mr. Brown, City. Mr. A. W. Lewis, Omaha, Neb. Mr. B. F. Preston, Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. R. Williams, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Warren, New York, N. Y. Rev. O. A. McCoy, New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Henry Bailey, City. Mr. R. R. Gilbert, City. Mr. Cliff Young, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Van D. Warren, Kansas City, Kas. Mr. Arthur Stevenson, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Howard Talley, City. Mr. W. H. Morris, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Prince Mysteria, St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. J. E. Thompson, Peoria, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Patterson, Benton Harbor, Mich. Mr. W. Collins, Joliet, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. W. Dunn, Richmond, Va. Mr. Walter Young, St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. George Eskredge, Jr., City. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Davis, Oklahoma City. Mrs. G. W. Clarly, Oklahoma City. Mr. S. A. Lyons, Oklahoma City. Mr. Wallace Hall and wife, Oklahoma, Miss. Mr. Hamilton, City. Mr. George Moseley, Quincy, Ill. Mr. Richard Gaines, K. C., Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Clark and son, New Orleans, La. IDLEWILD NOTES The Idlewild has as its guests Prof. and Mrs. G. W. Clark and their son of New Orleans, La., accompanied by Prof. Clark's nurse they are in route to Hot Springs, Ark., where the professor will take a course of baths. For a number of years Prof. Clark has been the Principal of Southern University, a state institution for the training of youths of Louisiana. The Idlewild has been crowded with out of town visitors. Mrs. Geo. W. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 23, 1919 JULIUS F. TAYLOR HAD AN INTERVIEW BY APPOINTMENT WITH HON. JOHN J. MITCHELL, PRESIDENT OF THE ILLINOIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, WHO IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FINANCIERS IN THE UNITED STATES. Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, the writer rushed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank building to keep an appointment at that hour with its president, Hon. John J. Mitchell, who is one of the greatest and most successful financiers in this country, as he had expressed a desire the day before to have an interview with us at that hour. As we entered the bank Rev. W. S. Braddan, pastor of Berean Baptist church and ex-chaplain of the old 8th regiment of Illinois, was conversing with Mr. F. T. Haskell, one of the vice presidents of the bank, who greets all of its thousands of customers with a pleasant hand and a glad hand shake and after being introduced to him by Rev. Braddan, Mr. C. F. Monohan the confidential man of Mr. Mitchell. accompanied us and Rev. Braddan, to the private office of the president on the second floor and a few minutes after entering it, Mr. Mitchell walked in and cordially greeting both of us with a hearty handshake, at the same time requesting us to be seated. Drawing up a chair right in front of us so that he could look us right square in the eye during the interview. Among other things, Mr. Mitchell said that he was very glad to learn that everything was settling down among the races on the south side, that white men who committed the crimes against the Colored people should be punished to the fullest extent of the law; that as the Colored people did not kill themselves that they must have been killed by the lawless element of the white race. Mr. Mitchell further stated that once more he desired to go on record as being friendly disposed towards decent, respectable and law abiding Colored people; that the best white citizens and the best Colored people must stand shoulder to shoulder on the side of law and order, that without law and order we would be in a state of anarchy and with such a state of affairs confronting us no person's life or property would be safe in Chicago. Mr. Mitchell was pleased to learn Jones of Jacksonville, Fla., and others from that state are guests this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. McKnight of Texas are delighted with their stay at the Idlewild. Editor B. W. Fitts, editor of the Chicago Searchlight, paid the Idlewild a pleasant visit last Sunday. Don't forget that the best meals and the most reasonable can be had at the Idlewild any day. Mrs. Henry Jones, Madame Dean, and Mrs. Felix Payne were guests of the management Monday night. Call again, ladies! You are always welcome. [Name] DR. ROBERT R. MORTON Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and the new President of the National Negro Business League. that the Colored men and women are eing rapidly re-employed at the Stock Yards and at other places in the city and expressed the hope that they will continue to save some of their earnings which they should invest in real estate and in high grade stocks and bonds which will enable them to enjoy their share of the great tidal wave of prosperity which will to continue to roll all over this country for many years to come. After conversing with him for fully fifteen minutes he extend his hand to us and to Rev. Braddan and said: "Mr. Taylor, any time that you want any information on public affairs, come in and see me." It is safe to state that Mr. Mitchell handles more money belonging to Colored people than any other, ten bankers in this city, for the Colored people have more than five million dollars on deposit in the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. It is a pleasure to state that all the time that Rev. W. S. Braddan was in France with the "Old Eighth Regiment" that Mrs. Braddan every week wended her to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and drew her 33 dollars allowance whether it had arrived or not which simply indicates that the head officials of the bank want to be more than fair in their dealings with worthy Colored people. The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and the Merchants Loan and Trust Co. are being merged into one Great banking institution it will take about two years to fully complete the deal and they will occupy a new building to be constructed which will extend from La Salle St. and Jackson Blvd. to Clark St. and Jackson Blvd. The capital stock of the consolidated bank will be ten million dollars with undivided profits or dividends amounting to between 30 and 40 million dollars, as some of the best and wealthiest business men in this city are the directors in the consolidated banks, more than one hundred and fifty million dollars would have to fade away before there would be the remotest chance of the thousands of depositors losing one dollar of their money for it will be one of the greatest financial institutions in the world. Mrs. B. F. Moseley is still enjoying her outing at her summer home in Idlewild, and will soon be joined by her husband. BANDITS BLACKEN FACES AND ROB BANK OF $31,000. South Carrolton, Ky., special—Three white men who disguised themselves as Negroes by blacking their faces, held up the cashier of the Citizen's bank and escaped with $23,000 in government bonds and $8,000 in currency. City Marshal Mack Ashby was slightly wounded in an exchange of shots with the robbers. PETER H. Late of Vicksburg, Miss., who is greatly interested in everything pertaining to the walfarge or the advancement of the colored race. W. E. MOLLISON, WELL KNOWN LAWYER, MAKES STATEMENT TO CORRECT SOME MISREPRESENTATIONS.ther. The idea of being afraid of my own people, for whom I have spent a life of labor, for the most part unrequited, would be unthinkable. many a home all over this country A representative of The Broad Ax called on Mr. W. E. Mollison at his office in the Firmenich Building, 184 W. Washington St., the first of this week to find out what his views were on the quotation made of his remarks some time ago in the Tribune on the riot question. We found him unusually busy, having just tried a riot case—one of the Sunday bathing beach crop. He said he had not had time to weigh the effect upon his business of the threats made by some of the thoughtless and ill mannered. He showed us resolutions passed by the ministers counseling in terms much stronger than those used by him. But on this subject he did not wish to be misunderstood. He has as his motto one of the beautitudes: "Blessed are the peacemakers." He said he had saved hundreds of lives and no end of property from the hands of rage and hate in the years in which he has been a factor in public affairs. He said he had often been denounced by people who finally came round to bless and thank him. He told of his effort to set himself right in the matter of the interview, but as an experienced newspaper man knew the difficulty of doing some things with a newspaper. On the subject of being afraid of colored people he hooted at the idea. To use his own words: "I have done nothing to either the white or colored people to cause either race to want to harm me and so I fear nei- WOMEN'S COMMITTEE TO RECEIVE FUNDS TO AID IN THE DEFENSE OF THOSE CHARGED WITH RIOTING. The following women's committee has been authorized to receive funds from those who desire to help in the defense of men and women of our race who are in prison charged with rioting. This committee was appointed at a meeting of the Negro Fellowship League and will be very glad to receive subscriptions or donations at this office, 3005 S. State St. Very truly yours, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Pres Committee: Mrs. Eva G. Wells, Mrs. Olive Clanton, Mrs. Mildred Williams, Mrs. G. P. Bradley, Hon. A. H. Roberts, Treas COLORED BOY SUES FOR $20,000 AFTER ATTACK. Owensboro, Ky., special.—Elwood Brackett, a colored boy of Harrisburg, Ill., by his next friend, Peyton Ruby, has filed suit for $20,000 damages in the United States Court in this city against eleven citizens of Greenville, Ky. It is alleged in the petition that while Brackett was in jail at Greenville in November, 1918, the defendants entered the jail and beat and bruised him to such an extent that --- ther. The idea of being afraid of my own people, for whom I have spent a life of labor, for the most part unrequited, would be unthinkable. In many a home all over this country there are young men whom I have helped to get a start in life. I have never stinted money nor time to help hundreds of those who otherwise would have been doomed to lives of drudgery and grossest ignorance. I have no regrets for any act of kindness that I have done, nor can I apologize for counseling peace in this community as I have done everywhere and always." Mr. Mollison was asked what the effect of all this had been on his business and he remarked that it had brought people to him who came to quarrel and who remained to employ him. He declares that the past three weeks had been decidedly the busiest he had experienced in Chicago. He did not find it necessary to be out of his office in the loop on a single day during the flurry and was able to learn much that appeared not to be known by his friends and neighbors on the south side. In closing he said: "Of course, I regret that the incident occurred, because my mail is burdened with the inquiries from sincere friends abroad who have been misled by the malicious and wicked misrepresentations made by the evil minded and small. I, of course, cannot subscribe to all that is in all the books, but I have found it best at times to do good to those who spitefully use me." "In a world of pain and death there is no time for hate." he suffered great pain and that his body has been permanently injured. Brackett claims that he made no attempt to escape from jail. He claims that the defendants placed a rope around his neck and threatened him with death. BETHEL LITERARY. On next Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, the annual election of officers of Bethel Literary Society for the ensuing year will be held in Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn sts. Mr. Geo. T. Kersey and Mr. Thomas W. Allen will speak. Subject some of the things the Literary Society stands for. Good music will be rendered. Everybody invited. Rev. W. D. Cook, D.D., Pastor Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Mrs. Bertha L. Henseley was so busy the past week in supervising the installing a new electric light fixtures and system in her comfortable home at 3528 Vernon avenue that she was unable to attend the meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs at Jacksonville, Ill. When the work is all finished she will have one of the most brilliantly illuminated homes in Chicago. . ee ae F Soe sit a ty eee he. ee | gee es SS Pre fe F . +a os Me eee f = - a et ~ 2 ; e ; Ss Bi eos ee Pe 5 aoe ee 3 —_ Pa a SZ “_ cl ae a. eee : ee ee , oe ae ae a se ING — oe we rm pe ie ear By a cal Beene COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON Late commander of the old “Eighth Regiment” of Illinois and Republican candidate who should be nominated and elected; one of the delegates to the constitutional convention, from the First Senatorial district of Hinois. COL. FRANKLIN A. DENISON TO} promoted colonel, trained and led his BE GUEST OF CHICAGO regiment to France. He is now as- CITIZENS. sistant attorney general of Ilinois. — This is quite a remarkable career By Dr. M. A. Majors. for any man and no matter of what For the citizens of Chicago to give to one of our eminent men a recep- tin is indeed a most fitting tribute te one so worthy as America’s only Nero Colonel, Franklin A. Denison. ‘The writer has known him for many yes and knows him possibly better than any one in Tllinois. And, know- ing him appreciates his stalwart char- acter and spirit to advance in spite of bis racial identity and the difficul- ties attendant thereto. Whst makes Colonel Denison dif- ferent in many things from most of the white and colored men one meets doubtless is a rich heritage of manly force bequeathed to him by birth. All of us are not born under auspicious skies. Our colonel apprenticed to the wheelwright and blacksmith trade, studied concert music and trained a Negro military band which could play martial music, but those. were merely the first whisperings of his obstruce nature to occupy his early years. It ¥as at a colored men’s convention in Texas and in the presence of its then governor Ireland that he became inspired with a promise of future use- fulness, seeing then for the first time 4 greater life great Nature had map- ped out for his rugged spirit. It was there, in the house of representatives of The Texas Capital at Austin, in 1883, that a determination fired him to goto college. © * It was Disraeli who said: “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.” Many men so handicapped, with only a meagre observation of big things, and confronted with none of those greater aspects of racial prog- tess to lure him on, with a humble Sart in the sphere of human know!- ‘age and cursed with poverty, there ust have been present in his com- Position the superman spirit to over- Hide obstacles and break down bar- Ners that seemingly everywhere were Present, In the year 1883 he Jeft Texas as * delegate to the Colored Men's Na- tional convention which met in Louis- Vile, Ky., and that fall entered Lin- University from which he graduated five years later. Coming to Chicago soon after his fraduation he entered the Chicago Law School from which he graduated With honors. He was appointed as ‘scistant city attorney, assistant cor- Poration counsel, served in the Span- ‘th-American war as officer for the United States Jand office, made = ‘elor of the 8th regiment, IN. hE LA i er promoted colonel, trained and led his regiment to France. He is now as- sistant attorney general of Illinois. This is quite a remarkable career for any man and no matter of what race. As to his worth in the mat- ters of race welfare, he has been a faithful servant, filling positions of such prominence with ability and such credit as to place him in the very front ranks of our most emi- nent men. He has shown by his devotion to whatever official duty assigned to him that men of our race can be trusted with important af- fairs. This unique distinction that all of Chicago feels and appreciates comes unsolicited, but is a happy cul- mination of a joyfal conscience that impels such sober thought and ac- tion. Col. Denison has distinguished him- self as an able lawyer and as a brave commanding officer of the 8th regi- ment, whose gallantry in arms was invincible on the battlefields of France. "He has a beautiful family and has managed by thrift and the proper kind of investments made their com- fort and happiness secure. ‘As‘colonel of the famous 8th regi- ment he conducted himself as a mar of military authority and dignity be coming his rank. His earnestness and great force of character is reflected jin the deeds of valor portrayed by ‘the brave soldiers under his com- | mand. ‘The work he mapped out in th ‘training and preparation of his regi ment through rigid and ardous, spoke chat of race history on the fight- ing front in France. At Fort Sam Houston and at Camp Logan at Hous ton, Texas, his diligent watchfulness and sober, earnest painstaking devel ‘oped a military ingenuity in the ranks of his men that caused the entire world to take notice Of their splen dor and gallantry in arms. So well did he train them and equip them for the rugged ordeals o! the world’s greatest war in the fines! points of military prowess that the press of the south, the north and the east was most flattering in ‘its praise of his regiment. And when they ha¢ ‘crossed the Atlanti¢ ocean and land. ed in France they were almost mobbe: with admiration and praise by the people of the French republic. Se well did they rank with the best of the gesoned troops of England and ‘France and America that Col. Deni- ‘son seemed almost a conquerer with the black troops, men of his own race _ Strange, indeed, was it when the Diack troops under their own off cers fighting against a well trained ce et Oe MEETING OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO LEAGUE AT ST. LOUIS, MO. DR. ROBERT R. MOTON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE. By CHARLES E. STUMP. St. Louis, Mo.—Dr. Robert R. Mo- ton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, has been placed in the sagdle at the National Negro Business League, and will take hold of the work with a de- termination to push it. Iam sure that this information will be pleasing to the world. It was done unanimously by the session which hag just closed out here—and the last act of Hon. J. C. Napier was to install Dr. Moton to the position, and declared the 20th annual session to a stop until 1920 in Philadelphia. Of course, you know Dr. Moton, and if you do not you will know him, but to say you do not is to argue your- self out of the race, and I am sure that you do not want to do this. He has been before the public for many years, because he has been doing something. For many years he wa: at Hampton Institute—in fact he was the leading spirit down there ever ee es ee ee at Hampton Institute—in fact he was the leading spirit down there ever holds and drove him back, sustain- ing themselves on the fields of battle against the flower of the German army, asking no quarter and giving none. This was quite sufficient to arouse the jealousies of the associate officers of command. They did not enjoy the chagrin such a condition set up by the gallant colonel whose command more than withstood the fury of the German army, achieving laurels, taking positions no white military force could hold against the Germans. This routine became an every day occurrence and white men who boast of their rich, red blood do not grow eloquent over their own lack of man- ly courage and weak forbearance. This, of course, made Col. Denison a mark of scorn and brought to him sleepless nights. God alone knows what hardships he had to bear because of the infallibility and advanced mil- itary training of his regiment. Hard words among military officials ‘find justice blind to the cause of a minor force. A colonel will maintain his rights and exercise military authority given him by hig official rank. But color is discredited even when right it seems sits on the throne. It was an awful day for the black man of the world when the allied mil- itary officials virtually stole the com- mand of the old 8th reziment, which became the 370th. . They stole from the Negro race of the world the right to promotion beyond the coloneley in the Amer- ican army and it was done to satisfy that morbid, insane nature of the rich, red’ blooded white man who dis- dains the Negro because of a superior physical force beyond his contempti- ble comprehension. The war was waged to save the world for democracy, and no element of the races fought more valiantly nor to more noble purpose than the black soldiers of the world. Ask the Germans who survived the awful war who made them bite the dust the hardest and there is but one answer, “the black devils.” This, too the plaudit of the press of the civ. ilized world. ‘Some fine day the virgin truth of al the diabolical trickery and intended humiliation to our officers and sol- diers will be written, and people of civilized America will wonder at the wholesale dare deviltry of the south which had its cohorts in the militis of the nation in the battle front in France. The south is in the saddle ‘and that was all the trouble. Col. Franklin A. Dennison will not be appreciated to a full measure for his rare achievement inf the mili- tary life of our nation until the facts are made known. At any rate, we are too near the huge undertaking and the colossal achievement of our men in arms is too recent for us, unused to sing of our own heroes, and write ‘the praiseworthy things that at this date are ours for splendor and world significance. But truth will not die it will live, it will outlast envy and al sapping time. since he came into the world almost —for he got all of his education in| this institution; exeept his higher up training, which has been in other in- stitution. | During the days of Dr. Frissell, he was the man with authority and I am told that he was just the man to run the institution. Dr. Pen put things in the hands of this strong intellectual giant. In this he became as well known almost as the wizard = Tuskegee Institate. He was known all over the country, because while Dr. Washington was speaking for the institution in Alabama, often in the same meeting Dr. Moton was speak-| ing for Hampton, and on all of his tours he had his friend Moton with him, so that when the Lord called Dr. Washington home there was much speculation as to who would succeed him, but is was not a question with the trustees, for they had been look- ing ahead, and had in mind and heart the man—hence the selection of this man. Right by the side of Dr. Washing- ton, was another noted man, Hon. J. C. Napier, and while he was not in |the school room, he worked with him |in establishing what is considered the greatest inspirational institutions in 'the world for our race, the National [Negro Business League. It is now called the clearing house of the Neg- Toes in business—it is the Commercial Club of the nation, on the Board of Trade in a way. Mr. Napier was chairman of the executive committe, |and while Mr. Washington presided tbe detail work fell in the hands of the executive committe, with that philosopher, Emmett J. Scott, as sec- retary. Mr. Napier was made presi- dent at Kansas City, while many thought that Dr. Moton should be. It was thought that the honor should be placed on Mr. Napier, and he has worn it/as honor and dignity, but at the session here he thought that he should take a seat in the con, gregation, but he could not get his friends to agree with him, hence while he is not active president, he is the honorary president, and a member of the executive committee and will be right on hand and hold up the arms of Dr. Moton. It means a whole lot to be a lead- ing man in this race of ours. It is then that you are in the minds of the people, and they can never be satis- fied. The whole world is made up of grumblers, so if it rains there are some who are not satisfied, if it don’t rain they complain of it being too dry, and if it snows there are some who will complain, and then it ig al- ways too hot or too cool—the days too long or too shot, but I thank God thit there is a man who can move the sun at will and have it to suit the people. Let the good work go righ: on. If you are a buginess man and want to get inspiration, or if you want to succeed in any line of business or profession, just get yourself together and attend the an- nual institue for business training, and you will return a larger man with ‘a larger vision. The next session is to be in Philadelphia, Pa. At this session I met men that I had heard of before, but did not know them, men who are doing things. It was worth my trip to the city of St. Louis to get in touch with Dr. Moton, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, who has just accepted position of secretary, treas- ‘urer and manager of Howard Univers- ity, Washington, D. C., and that re- minds me to say to you that the League has established national head- quarters which will be in Washington; then Perry W. Howard, the noted me MET SEO eee ea * SS eras Sodas ee oe : 2 AERTS gO ek. — 22 SPARS ee So ae ae ee Po Re ae = as ba ne Ja be : « BY eo iF . ¥ ——— a Fd : —_— wre iS . - = > 3 Re. = . e aa - | _— Bi ‘ —— : % | . B *, ) ~*~ 4 xr * oe i DR. FANNIE EMANUEL One of the most popular and sensible Agro-American women in Chicago, who is enjoying a two weeks’ vacation at her summer home at Idle- wild, Mich. DR. FANNIE EMANUEL WILL| in-law, Mrs. McKinley Emanuel, lef SPEND TWO WEEKS AT HER} for Idlewild, Mich., where they wil SUMMER HOME, IDLEWILD,| 214 two weeks vacation and enter — tain some of her friends at her sum Tecsday evening De. Fannel Eman-|™* heme, where they will be sil Juanita Emanuel, and her daughter-|to enjoy delightful rides on the lak Juanita Emanuel, and her daghter-|in her large-sized family motor boa! ballot for his people. I hope Col. C. H. Young will not get hold of this, for he will join with the white folks or will have something to say to them. Have you ever met Hon. Charles Banks, the financier of Mississippi, and that is putting it mildly. He is 2 man with a vision, and a man who har done something to etter the con- dition of his race in this world, and will help us in the world to come. He has taken hold of Mound Bayou, redeemed it, and put it in the manu- facturing world, or something like that, by building in that little town, Mound Bayou, the largest cotton seed mill in the South, raised the money ‘and its wheels will be going this fall, furnishing employment to thousands ‘of our people. I am willing to take off not alone my hat but my head to the man who is doing something. He is connected with the things in Mis- sissippi that mean uplift, and has been for years next to Dr. Booker T. Wash- ington, being first vice-president of the National League, but has refused to allow his name to be used as pres- ident. | R. E. Clay, of Virginia, is also ion hustler in this business. He is assistant registrar. I know he helps to write down al} the names of the [dgpertes or the men who attend the meeting. He is some pumpkins in this matter. I met « man from Memphis by the name of D. M: Roddy, who is without a doubt our Pigly Wisly man, for he is establishing a chain of stores all over this country, and what I tell you they are some stores. We are lesrning thé art of putting ‘our money togethér, and making big things, and if we fail get up and try again just like others. They have five stores, D. M. Roddy is president ‘and Thomas H. Hayes, that wealthy undertaker, is the vice-president. They call it the Citizens’ Co-operative Store=, with authorized capital stock of $15,000. You can buy only ten shares in this store project, but it is ‘not mine to tell you the cost. It is a big thing to meet repre sentative men and, believe me, honey. I am going to another meeting. Johr L. Webb came to my attention, and he is a great big man, and you may ‘say I told you this if you desire to He is at the head of the Woodman of Union, which is fraternal organ- ization doing one hundred thousand PAGE Five in-law, Mrs. McKinley Emanuel, left for Idlewild, Mich., where they will spend two weeks vacation and enter- tain some of her friends at her sum- mer home, where they will be able to enjoy delightful rides on the lake A her large-sized family motor boat. dollars worth of business every year. He lives in Mississippi, and that tells you that he is a man. He is also president of the National Insurance ‘Association, connected with the bus- iness league. He brought along with him his family to cateh the inspira- tion, Mrs. John L. Webb, his daugh- ter, Miss E. E. Webb, and then he went above the ordinary by bringing along his mother-in-law, Mrs. E. Bran- son of Marinnna, Ars. Who will be the next to do something great? - Lheard that youn: intellectual and financial giant, E. C. Brown, of Phila~ delphiv. who is establishing a chain of theatres over the country, and I am sure that you have heard of that great one in New York, and the one being erected in Philadelphia, the one in Baltimore, Savannah, and other places. I will ‘alk about them later, and I am going to tell you a few things about R. E. Clay in my next letter, or just as soon as I can go down in his country and see about the hospital they are building. Mr. | Brown is a wonder himself, and I am proud that I met him. T have seen the light of a new day for you and for me. I am just full this week, and it would take a whole paper for me to express myself. I will tell you about the Supreme Lodge in my next letter. Keep your eye on me, for J shall say something to you from time to time. I heard Mrs. Ma- tilda Andrews, of Denver, Colo., tell ‘them: =bout raising hogs. She said ‘that she did not make a hog out of business, but business out of the hog. ‘She told the people who desired to. raise hogs if they would be kind to ‘the hog he would be kind to them, and give great returns. She did not permit her hogs to wallow in the mud and filth, but kept them in a dry ‘pen, giving them plenty fresh clean water to drink. In 9 years she had never had any disease among them, cand when asked by gome one con- cerning lice, she said her hogs did not have them because she kept them clean. I think I had better stop here for 8 while and turn my attention to other things. Mail will reach me for the Rext two.weeks at 2323 North 27th street, Philadelphia, Penn. Thad the ae Bishop W. H. Heard down in this part of the world. PAGE SIX Really Not Their Fault Marjorie and Clea are prim little sisters, and as there is a baby brother mamma has some trouble putting on the last touches and getting them away to school mornings. In the interest of discipline their teacher was obliged to lecture them on tardiness and next morning they were late as usual. She waited for them at the door, trying to look stern, but Clea upset all her dignity and cut her lecture short by observing: "Well, we can't help it if you ring the bell too soon." Oil Well Flow Increased. An electrical method of carrying warmth to the bottom of oil wells has been found in many cases greatly to increase the flow of oil, according to Popular Mechanics magazine. The heating process decreases the viscidity of the oil, usually occasioned by the admission of air to the well and the cooling of the rock bed. Minute crevices and capillary channels which afford easy passage to warm thin oil become quite impassable if the oil gums. Livingstone Memorial. One of the most curious memorials of Livingstone is the "Name Tree," near Victoria falls, on the Zambesi. On the trunk Livingstone' cut his initial and the date 1855 on the day of his first visit to the falls. In his book, giving an account of this, Livingstone says: "This was the only instance in which I indulged in this piece of vanity." Auto Service in Porto Rico AUTO SERVICE in Porto Rico. Porto Rico is about 100 miles long by 40 miles wide, and autobus lines furnish satisfactory service in covering the parts of the country where railways are not available. For the benefit of tourists and others a daily automobile service connects San Juan, on the north, with Ponce, on the south of the island, a run of five hours. Painful Insinuation. Little six-year-old, to young aunt showing him a family portrait: "What a funny way that gran'pa is dressed, auntie!" Auntie: "That is the way gentlemen dressed more than a hundred years ago." Six-year-old: "And when gentlemen dressed that way what did you wear?" Forbears of the Seal It is a curious fact that the fur seal was once a land animal. The baby seals are actually afraid of water; they would drown if thrown into it, and have to learn to swim by repeated efforts. When once they have been taught to swim, however, they soon forget to walk. First Private English Phone The first telephone ever placed in a private English residence is still to be seen at Morborth house. It was made in 1878 on board the warship Thunderer and was subsequently set up between the schoolroom and the bouncer of the princess of Wales. Laying a Carpet In laying a carpet in a room where there is a fireplace, the section covering the fireplace or hearth should be cut down its center by the shears, and then the carpet should be cut toward the sides, so as to form two flaps, which should be turned under. Hadn't Fooled Helen. Mo'her could not take Helen with her when she went downtown and was trying to slip away without her knowing it, so father called Helen to come to him, when she said, "I has to watch muvver, 'cause she's tryin' to run'd away." Life Much as We Make It No person is ever condemned to a small life. Many are assigned to small circumstances, but our lives may be as large as we want them to be. For the only limits of life are aspiration, sympathy and interest.—Selected. Prison His Safety When the West Indian city of St. Pierre was destroyed by the eruption of Mont Pelee some years ago all its inhabitants except one lost their lives. The sole survivor was a prisoner in an underground dungeon. Reason for Optimism "Some men are optimalists," said Uncle Eben. "foh de reason dat it's most times easier to sell a man sumpin' by tellin' him a funny story dan it is by tellin' him de truth." Perplexing. One of the mysteries of this life is why they call it a tanning when every kid knows that the area affected by the performance doesn't get tan at all. Beware First False Step. step. Honor is like an island, rounded and without a tanding place; we can never more re-enter when we are once outside of it—Silver Threads. Spasmodic Sermon Next to the woman who will slap a baby, the most disgusting creature is the one who will talk baby talk to a dog.—Indianapolis Star. Daily Thought. Worth makes the man, and wants it the fellow.—Pone GREAT LAW MUST BE OBEYED Mankind Helpiecs Before the Irresistible March of Progress Known as Evolution. The old sailing packet crawled along, tacking and trimming, that its yards of unfurred canvas might catch the freshening winds. The skipper, his leathern face seamed with the heavy lines put there by years of buffeting struggle with wind and wave, watched the great engine-driven liner race past him. A dark bitterness welled up in the old sailing skipper's heart. For that engine-driven liner represented a relentless progress that would not be stayed or denied. It had driven most of his kind from the face of the waters; it had made cargoes for the few of his kind remaining difficult to obtain and obtainable only at rates that meant at host only a pittance. On the bridge of the steam-driven liner the captain, as he gazed at the crawling old sailing packet, caught the hum of a mighty motor overhead. His glance turned from the miserable old packet to the swiftly approaching outlines of a giant aircraft. It came from behind and it passed the racing liner even as the liner had passed the packet. And in the heart of the liner's captain welled a dark bitterness. For he understood. The workings of the Great Law were written clearly in the air and sea before him. Even as the day of the skipper of the sailing packet had ended so his own day was nearing its end. A progress that would not be stayed or denied was overtaking him and his kind. There is a sadness like unto no other for they who watch and give way before the changing eras, for they represent life's helpless discard. PUZZLE FOR LEARNED MEN Figures of White Horses, Cut in Eng lish Cliffs, Have Never Been Satisfactorily Explained. Every now and then, naturally enough, a little wave of popular interest eddies around the mysterious white horses cut in the hillsides in various parts of southern England. Sometimes, owing to the encroaching habits of the brush, the chalk which constitutes the lines of the animals fades from view and almost from memory. This process had well-nigh happened to the Westbury White Horse at Brattan, Wiltshire, when the clearing of the bushes laid it bare, and revived inquiries as to its origin, and solicitude for its preservation, as well as for the upkeep of its various counterparts elsewhere. Well-known authorities have it that the horse was cut out to commemorate the victory of King Alfred over the Danes at Ethandune, the site of which is not far distant. Uffington, however, has a better specimen as white horses go, though abnormally lean and scraggy in proportions. In size it is nearly 350 feet in length and the same in breadth. It is mentioned in the records of 1571 and was long the scene of annual festivities known as the "scouring" festival. The existence of these and the other white horses with which may be included the Cerne Abbas Giant and the Long Man at Wilmington, have been the object of much learned and largely unfruitful discussion. Proof That Seeds Breathe It is easy to demonstrate that germinating seeds take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide, according to the following experiment, described in the Scientific American: A score or so of peas are placed in a close-fitting jar with a small amount of moisture. After a while the peas start to germinate, but soon they cease all development, because the oxygen in the jar is exhausted. A single pea in a jar of the same size, however, will develop and grow up into a little plant. There is evidently oxygen enough for the needs of the single specimen. To prove conclusively that there is no oxygen left in the jar in which the number of seeds germinated it is only needful to plunge in a burning match. This instantly goes out. The presence of carbon dioxide in this jar is clearly shown by pouring into it lime water, and then shaking. The lime water becomes milky in appearance. This would not happen in a jar in which there had been no germinating seeds. Sought to End Civil War On the 18th of July, in 1864, Horse Greeley, one of the most famous of the Abolitionists, received a letter from George Saunders of Kentucky, suggesting that Clay of Alabama and Holcombe of Virginia, would, with himself, meet Greeley and negotiate peace terms for the ending of the Civil war. Greeley was commissioned by Lincoln to take the matter up, but the negotiations came to nothing, as the Confederate delegates did not have the full backing of their government, and the war lasted nine months longer. Greeley was a rabid anti-slavery leader, but he was not in accord with Lincoln. He was always of the opinion that the slaves could be liberated by reimbursing the southern states for their value. The Main Thing "My poor man," said the sympathetic prison visitor. "Do let me send you some cake." "Thank you, mum. Dat would suit me fine." "What kind would you prefer?" "Any kind, mum," said the prisoner, lowering his voice to a whisper, "just so it's got a file in it."—Birmingham Amc. Herald THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 23, 1919 Outspoken Athenian More than twenty-three hundred years ago a young Athenian, speaking of his wife, said to Socrates: "When I saw that she had powder on her face to make it whiter and rouge to make it redder, and that she wore high-heeled shoes to appear taller. I told her it was as dishonorable for her to try to deceive me about her beauty as for me to try to deceive her about my property. I added that, although her arts might impose upon others, they could not impose upon me, who saw her at all times."—Youth's Companion. Jelly Little Chipmunk The place the chipmunk fills is small and inconsequent but his sylvan chirpur" plays a minor strain in the wordless diapason which the mighty blue soul of nature is forever singing in her forests; solemn and consoling to heal earth's scars; jubilant and glad for the free of heart. Intonating ever some clear sweet note of mystic melody for those who listen, to awaken a dreaming bliss or to thrill an untried fiber into quivering life. Peruvian Flower Festival. Peru celebrates a custom which dates from soon after the Spanish conquest. All soldiers' graves alike are decorated, including those of peons and Indians, individuals little regarded in Peru, at all events during life. In the evening the populace gives itself over to feasting and merrymaking. This particular flower festival is held annually on November 1. Satisfaction in Doing Right Imagination is the father and mother of trouble when we let it run loose in a time of stress. But in the end the will and the heart are what determine our fate. After all, when we do right we have some satisfaction even if we suffer. But if we do nothing but drift along we have not even the satisfaction of knowing we deserve to come out right. Battles on Sundays The date of the battle of Salmanca was Sunday, July 2, 1812; Vimiero, Feuntes d'Onor, Orthez, Toulouse and Vittoria were also contested on what were known as "Wellington's Red Sundays." Waterloo was won on a Sunday and the greatest attack on Cronje's trenches at Paardeberg was made on a Sunday—Feb. 18, 1900. Waiting in Agony. At a recent wedding the bride was delayed a little in making her appearance. When at last she did appear she breathtlessly ran up to the embarrassed bridegroom, who had been waiting for her in agony and putting her arms around his neck exclaimed: "Oh. John, dear. I am so sorry I am late." Value of Uncooked Food Man cannot digest and assimilate the mineral elements in rock; hence it is necessary for him to get the elements for structural work from fruits and vegetables, in their fresh, uncooled state; for cooking destroys the chemistry—the chemical synthesis with albumin is lost.—J. H. Tilden, M. D. Paste for Brown Leather An excellent paste for brown leather is made of two ounces of soft soap, four ounces of beeswax, two ounces of turpentine and half an ounce of neat's foot oil. Melt soap, wax and oil together, then remove from fire and add the turpentine. Stir well. When cold apply with a brush. Floor Bleach. If an unfilled or undressed hardwood floor becomes gray apply a solution of two ounces of oxalic acid dissolved in just enough water to wet it well all over. Let stand fifteen or twenty minutes; then rinse in cold water and proceed to wash without suds as usual. Confidential Communication "I promised Matilda not to mention this to anyone, because she got it in strictest confidence from some one who was pledged to absolute secrecy, so before I tell you you must give me your word of honor you won't even breathe a hint of it." First Translation of Bible. The first translation of any part of the Bible was that by Bede of the Fourth Gospel, in 735. The first complete translation was that of Wycliffe about 1388. Luther was not born until 1488. Something to Think About. Contending to Think About "I reckons," said Uncle Eben, "dat a candidate has to be right keerful not to let de handshakin' sociability git to be so much of a habit dat it interferes wif his office work when he gits de job." New Labor Saver An inventor has patented an electrically driven machine which makes the rough clay boxes in which pottery is subjected to heat in kilns, work heretofore done by hand. One Value of Silence. Silence doesn't mean wisdom, but the fellow who keeps his mouth closed can at least hold in what he doesn't know. LIKE THE BOOK OF GENESIS Description of Flood of Time of Noah Found Among Ancient Records of Chaldea. Perhaps the tracing of the story of the book of Genesis is the true fascination that Mesopotamia has for those who have time to read. The great bouts of the Euphrates have the identical lines of the toy ark that can be bought in London. Where a pent roof has been added for our purposes the two are one in shape. A Euphrates "bellum" arranged as a siskenge is the toy ark of childhood. Is that toy ark an authentic tradition in its shape? It is almost certain to be. The Euphrates bonts are pitched inside and out with pitch, as was that ark. In these some bellums, some as large as 70 tons, we may find British batteries sailing the Euphrates and a modified menagerie could easily walk on board. One more suggestion of the toy shop tradition strikes the casual observer. The tribespeake from the hills who work on the Tigris and Euphrates wear high black felt bots, a topper without a brim. Are Mr. and Mrs. Noah really correctly dressed? Then on top of the discovery of the ark comes the more serious reading of a parallel version of the Bible story of the flood found in the canopiform in Layard's tablets from the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, copied or collected possibly from Sargon's Library at Acacus or Erech, older than Ashurbanipal by perhaps 1,900 years. Were the stories of Genesis the household stories of Chaldea 4,000 years ago? It would seem so, when from Babylon is unmerthed a seal with the representation of the temptation, Adam and Eve, the serpent and the apple tree. HAVE TO SEARCH FOR POET Great Mind by No Means Easy to Find, and Some Can Never Dis- There was once a small but mighty nation, now numerous as the sands of the seashore, and no longer so interesting. To this nation was born a poet, and they made him the poet of all time. They took him and taught him all they knew—and they had great things to touch; and when, at their command, he made great dramas, they stood at his elbow; and everything they gave him he gave back to them tenfold. England was then Shakespeare's land. The poet is always amongst us; the difficulty is how to find him; he is like the proverbial needle in a bundle of hay. But one thing is certain—logicians without love will not find him; they leave a desolation, and call it peace—ny, they call it culture. Critics of this sort will allow nothing to exist except themselves. No; I am wrong. There is one thing they admire more even than themselves—the fait accompli a mundane success.—John Luther Yeats. Health in Transhooting The great and popular detective of fiction, Sherlock Holmes, once admitted that a man's knees were the seat of great enlightenment and from this source he drew many of his deductions. He may, therefore, scrutinize with interest a trapshooter's knees while he is in action. Do they wabble not? He is a seasoned shooter in good physical condition. Do they wabble? He is anxious, perhaps a little new at the game but so happy and willing to get that next target he cares little whether the sun shines or the equinoxial is on. It is a fascinating sport without placing any strain on the nervous system, in fact, trapshooting strengthens the nerves. It combines sport with fresh air and sunshine and saves many doctors' bills. Physicians and nurses recommend the sport as a health tonic, and if the patients follow the advice given there will not be much need for the physician and the nurse.—Forest and Stream. Homer. Homer is an epic poet and not a historian, so it is quite natural that he should have exaggerated everything with poetic license. Moreover, the events which he describes are so marvelous that many scholars have long doubted the very existence of Troy and have considered the city to be a mere invention of the poet's fancy. I venture to hope that the civilized world will not only not be disappointed that the city of Priam has shown itself to be scarcely a twentieth part as large as was to be expected from the statements of the Illad, but that on the contrary, it will accept with delight and enthusiasm the certainty that Illum did really exist, that a large portion of it has now been brought to light and that Homer, even although he exaggerates, nevertheless sings of events that actually happened.—Robertson. You May Bet on It. When you see a young man sitting in the parlor with the ugliest four-year-old boy that ever frightened himself in a mirror clambering over his knees, jerking his necktie out of place, ruffling his shirt-front, pulling his hair, kicking his shins, feeling in all his pockets for coppers, while the unresisting victim smiles all the time like the cover of a comic paper, you may safely say that the howling boy has a sister who is in a room not 20 feet away, and that the young man doesn't go there just for the fun of playing with her brother. FRAIN DE CION. Few persons use this classroom visit the forbidden shores of rockbound Penon de Chua. The rugged beauty of its towering cliffs, with their dark and jagged outlines against the southern sky, is lost upon the natives, who see them only as a source of revenue. By swinging from ropes or climbing ladders they scour these rocks for the tiny nests from which are concocted the famous bird nest soup. These nests they sell to oriental traders by thousands, who come regularly to barter for this delicacy of Chinese fare. Trees of Sorrow. The Persian "Trees of Sorrow" are so called because they bloom only at night. When the first star appears in the sky the first flower opens and as the evening advances more and more buds burst into bloom until the lovely tree appears to be one vast flower. It has a delicate fragrance not unlike the scent of the evening primrose. As the dawn approaches the flowers begin to fade until by sunrise not a bloom is to be seen. Unique London Club. Of the many clubs in London, perhaps the newest and most exclusive is the Thirteen Club, which meets at the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of every month. It owes its inception to a lunch held to celebrate the armistice during the world war, at which it was found that 13 were sitting down. The membership is restricted to 13, and at a recent lunch every member made it a point to upset the salt. Where the Grocer Was. Doris' mother was in the habit of ordering her bread at Smith's grocery. One day while entertaining they heard Doris in the next room talking through her toy telephone, asking Central for Smith's grocery, when she called: "Mother, Mr. Smith isn't at home." "Where do you suppose he is?" replied the mother. Doris answered: "Why, he's up in heaven getting our daily bread." Condition to Avoid. The dangerous moment in life comes when men begin to over-value the past at the expense of the present. It is the moment of religious controversies, for ancestor worship, for narrowing in, for exalting one set of people and excluding another. When we reach it, it means that we are growing old. But we need never reach it.—Exchange. Almost Universal Symbol. The swastika symbol has been found depicted on tombs at Hissarlik, near ancient Troy; on Buddhist inscriptions in India, in Etruscan necropolises, on coins of Gaza and Corinth; on rock carvings in Sweden, and on Celtic stones in Britain. In America in pre-Columbian times, it was in common use by the aborigines. To Preserve Letters The following method of preserving the legibility of pencil writing is valuable: Steam the letter until quite limp, then brush over with a solution composed of equal parts of milk and water. Hang it up until nearly dry. Then press it between two sheets of blotting paper with a hot iron. Art of Chinese Gardeners Chinese gardeners sometimes plant statuettes of tiny men firmly in posts, just like real plants, and then train live evergreens to grow up over these statuettes. The vines thus form a kind of robe for the statuette men, their white faces and hands protruding from the green leaves. Madness of the Moon So far as we can gather, there is no foundation for the old belief that the moon affects the mind and brings about madness in some people. The idea may have originated from the word "lunatic," which is derived from "luna" the moon. Kind of a Mixture. At the dinner table Robert was telling us that "a new kid came to school today." As I always take an interest in his school affairs I asked, "A boy or girl?" "Well, I don't know, 'cause it wears pants, but it's got curls."—Chicago Tribune. Tuberculosis Among Chickens Two French scientists contend that 10 per cent of the chickens in that country have tuberculosis and that the disease runs as high as 28 per cent among poultry in some other countries. Carville's Wise Advice Remember now and always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality based upon eternity and encompassed by eternity. Find out your task; stand by it; the night cometh when no man can work.—Carlyle. Must Have Something to Feed On. Affection can withstand very severe storms of strife, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. Intrusion of Willie "Scuse me, aunt! I hate to bother you—but I really think you are sitting on a little snake that I've mislaid." — Life Often the most important thing during the war was to be Tiahuanaco news. Later in Bolivia. A thousand years ago the scientists, Tiahuanaco was as dead as it is today, and that is precisely all that anybody knows of its history. Even the Ineses, who hold a record for antiquity in South America, admitted to their first Spanish visitors that they knew nothing about Tiahuanaco, except that it was very probable that the stone images scattered over the ruins were the people of the city turned into stone by some angry god. There would be nearly as much of the old city visible today as there was in the time of the Incas, had not the stones been so attractive to the Indians of nearby villages. As it is beautifully carved idols have gone to decorate the door fronts of humble cottages, and polished stones to prop up chimneys and pave floors. The little modern village of Tiahuanaco, near the ruins, is full of stolen souvenirs. Whole houses and churches are built of the After several centuries of this plunder the government of Bolivia put a ban on removing stones from the rulers, but there was then little left of old Tiahuanaco. A few stone gods are huge and angular as any deities of Egypt, the sites of a fortress, a palace and many tombs, all vaguely marked by worn carved stones are scattered over a great desolate plain. Yet from these battered palies with their cryptic carvings the archeologists hope some day to reconstruct the story of a mysterious people. Or Else It Was First Time This Man Had Ever Gone After Forgotten Umbrella. Oh, ye, of little faith, listen, for I would a tale unfold. A man come down the street the other day, looked like Aesop with the world on shoulders. He seemed bent on getting somewhere and getting there quickly. A friend near him and said, "Why this hustle? There must have been a still churn as I didn't hear any whistle. Where goes them?" The March in post-traumatics. Yes, I am in a little hurry. I was down street shopping a couple of days ago and went into a department store and when I got home I found I had let my umbrella. I know just where I left it. The south side of the store, standing up against the counter. I thought I would run down and get it before another shower come up." Just think of it. Why, if I had that man's faith I could not only turn a mole into a mountain and sell the gravel to the government to make concrete ships, but I could move the mountain with a broom handle. After parting with that old rain shodder he had blind faith that he would feast his eyes on it again. Forty-four hours of golden moments had dived by, and he had the idea that all he had to do was to stand in front of the store and whistle, and that umbrella would come to meet him bringing a flock of little umbrellas with it. I doubt wonder the gold-brick factories are running overtime. Why that innocent mortal must have at this writing enough nice, shiny bricks on hand to top out a chimney. Kennebec Journal The Lucky Horseshoe It was about the middle of the seventeenth century that the superstitions use of horseshoes as emblems of good luck originated in England. They were at first deemed a protection against witches and evil spirits, and were nailed on doors of houses with the curve uppermost. It was the belief that no witch or evil spirit could enter a house thus guarded. The custom of nailing horseshoes to ships and other sailing craft is still in vogue in all English-speaking countries. To find a horseshoe with an odd number of nails attached to it is considered the forerunner of good luck, and the more nails the greater the good fortune that is likely to attend the finder. A person about to be married who finds a horseshoe believes that a happy matrimonial career awaits him. Joy in Conquest. Life's master-key does for its possessor what is impossible to those who do not have it. No future is too forbidding for men of the right mental fiber to fear. Weaklings falter and turn back. Men of talent turned to right channels delight in meeting what has brought failure to the many. It offers to them a chance to try the really hard things. They alone test the skill and prove the mettle. Such men bring wealth out of defeat, and rejoice in the struggle. It's no wonder they step forward and try what has brought failure to others. It's the mental sense of conquest that crowns effort with success and makes manking in the world. It's your right.—Exchange. Rapid Heat Changes in Leaves. As Near As Your Telephone DISTANCE IMMATERIAL IN a Metropolitan City of this size, death knocks every thirty minutes at some door. Too often that death not only brings sorrow, but misfortune as well. Let the price you pay for a funeral be a business proposition and you will benefit by it in service, quality and cost to you in dollars and cents. The result of my campaign has built for me one of the largest and most magnificent Consult mc, I can save you Worry, Shipping to all parts of the Country Funerals a Specialty. Central Dis Chapel. Call promptly answered da Ernest H. Willia KENWOOD 455 Undertak 6028 and 5030 S. State St., Consult mc, I can save you Worry, Time and Money. Shipping to all parts of the Country and Automobile Funerals a Specialty. Central Display Rooms and Chapel. Call promptly answered day or night. 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CHICAGO The term "At the list" was first applied to Charles Wesley, and not to John Wesley, the real founder of Methodism. And it was applied as a term of ridicule, or as an epithet. Charles Wesley was a student at Oxford, where, as he says, he began "to observe the method of study prescribed by the university." He must have been a stickler for "method," for he was always using the word. "This gained me the nickname of Methodist," he says in one of his letters. First Safety Bicycles. The first of the safety bicycles was put on the market in 1880. In this the high front wheel was reduced and the rear wheel was about two-thirds the height of the front one. The machines with wheels of the same size appeared in 1885. Bicycling began to be popular about 1891, and the "craze" reached its height about 1895, when wheels had become low enough in price to be within the means of the multitude. Wise Relaxation. 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Personal or social items such as marriages, births, deaths and everything of a general interest, published free of charge. Entered as Second-Class Matter, August 19, 1922, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., Under Act of Marra 3, 1879 ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL We have suffered a great loss from the riots. It will take quite a time to stableize things, and becon back with tempting promises the good times we were enjoying before that Sunday afternoon at the 29th street bathing beach. Certainly the race will fight back when insolence rears its naddening leer, and essays to own the earth and the sea. This is what Dr. Frank Crane says. Now, if you choose to go a little further, you may reach a conclusion that the least brains one has the more they are prejudiced to Negroes. What we have suffered no doubt was matured in a crusible of fate, some things it seems have to be. Haughty devilment often cankers the human heart, and the worst of mischief becomes the result of the thoughtless. The daredevil had to be told that his wanton lust for human blood would meet a stubborn resistance, and if to die this lesson should be taught, then in the name of thousands of our helpless kind, in this great free city, death would be counted sweet. We never had undertaken to reason thus until we got by ocular demonstration the definition of a mob. Of course, you can never easily tell what the meaning of mobocracy is unless you see the thing working. So, also, you see the operation of prejudice against color, and you readily conclude that people who act hatefully without any reason whatsoever are shallow-minded or crazy. Now that it is all over, we can contemplate the consequences of the rash action of the wanton reckless among the races. Do such things pay? Time alone can tell. SERVICE EVERY NIGHT IN THE YEAR. Rev. H. Franklin Bray, D.D., Supt. Under the leadership of Mr. C. C. Briscoe, the Assistant Superintendent, the Rescue Mission has been moving on nicely, performing the task assigned her of God while the Superintendent, Dr. H. Fanklin Bray, has been in Iowa in revival meetings. THE SOBER SENSE OF CHICAGO. In the language of the old "saw" would it be proper for the "pot to call the kettle black"? Fortunately, that principle that teaches "Let him who is innocent cast first a stone," is doing a deal of good. We find numbers of people of the white race disavowing race hatred, and adding their great force of decency and respectability to the fair and impartial settlement of that holacust of crime that has run rampant in our great city. Some of the refuges from sections of the South, where lynching and bloodshed have predominated lately, are being cared for at the Rescue Home and there are many more who are in need of and deserve our assistance if we only had larger quarters and a little money. Contributions to the coal fund have been received from Alton and Chicago, Ill.; De Soto, Missouri; Hutchinson, Kansas; Ft. Madison, Iowa, and Cleveland, Ohio. God bless each of them and give them a peculiar joy in their hearts as they minister to the unfortunate and, in some instances, misguided and overlooked men and boys, whom we must shelter and keep warm this winter. Justice should be the handmaiden of decency and sense. This is of course the forerunner of good order and a proper adjustment of the conditions. First fair-minded people think, and after needed reflection determine what is a proper conclusion, then base their action on right thinking. There is much good in all of us, and the bad should not be emphasized to the detriment of any particular class or race Mrs. Ava Vingar and Mrs. Ella Brown are having tremendous success in gathering the children from the streets and alleys into the Sunday school and religious services. Mrs. Vingar is supeintendent of the school and Mrs. Brown is the organist. Many of the children whom they have gathered in were never at a Sunday school before. THIS ENTIRE INSTITUTION IS SUPPORTED BY FAITH. Contributions are always thankfully received and acknowledged. RIGHT AND WRONG By Dr. M. A. Majors. You somehow cannot always tell Why things get out of joint. You kind of feel that all goes well. Just pleased with every point. But somehow peoples' minds are weak Their hearts seem evil bent. And awful things are done with cheek That seems not wholly meant. Dr. Bray will speak to the children at 2 o'clock and to everybody at 8 o'clock Sunday. Mrs. Mattie Alford, 3423 Wabash av., returned to the city from Peoria during the week much pleased with the results of the meeting of the Grand Chapter. But peoples' hearts aint always right And maybe not to blame. For all can't have the brightest light, Some just a little flame. av., returns during the result Grand Ch --- RACE FIGHT So I reckon when it's understood Between the weak and strong, People just can't be always good And they can't be always wrong. DR. FRANK CRANE "It doesn't take an ounce of braing to hate a Negro." SUNSHINE RESCUE MISSION 2830 S. State St.. No.49 --- THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, AUGUST 23, 1919 EDITORIAL PAGE Coal Miners and Loaders FOR KENTUCKY Average Wages, $5.00 to $8.00 a day. (All piece work) Board (Maximum), $40.00 a month. NEW CAMP New Modern Buildings, With All Conveniences. Commissary the Best. Prices Reasonable. STEADY WORK BUREAU FOR SOLDIERS, SAILORS & MARINES 120. W. ARAMS. ST. CHICAGO, ILL. TO COLORED LABOR SEEKING HOMES This is to advice that at a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Coahoma County, a body representing the County of Coahoma and State of Mississippi, a committee was duly appointed to notify all colored people regardless of where they may live that Coahoma County offers a home and great opportunities to those who care to come. For further information address Chamber of Commerce, Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Miss., or call and see A. S. Terrill & Co., 832-30 N. La Salle St., Chicago.— Mrs. Harriet Pharim, Evanston, Ill visited the office of the Bailey Realty Co., 3638 State street, during the week, with the expectation of obtain- ing some holdings on the north shore. * * * Mrs. Ika Rhymes, 544 E. 44th st., is visiting relatives and friends in Mississippi. * * * Miss Stella Morgan, 34th and Forest av., is with the W. A. Wallace Bakery Co., 3600 State st., again, as clerk. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, superintendent of the Louise Training School for colored boys at Parish Lawn, Ill., has been confined to her home the past month seriously ill. Her many friends sincerely hope that in a short time she will again enjoy her usual good health. M. T. Bailey, 3638 State st., has been elected as president of the Bailey Realty Co., with office at the above address. Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 184 Washington st., will act as attorney for the company. Small loans, insurance and property may be bought and obtained at the lowest rates possible. Rev. W. D. Cook, pastor of Bethel church, made an inspiring talk Sunday evening on race enterprises and why we should patronize each other at all times. Rev. Cook paid special attention to the rapid progress made by the Wallace Baking Co., 3600 S. State st. Mrs. Jennie B. Tyler, 2828 Federal street, has left the city for Atlantic City, where she will attend the encampment of the K. of P., returning by the way of Pennsylvania, her old state. Dr. M. R. Bibb, a leading physician of the race, left during the week for Atlantic City to attend the grand lodge of Elks and also the medical association at Newark, N. J. Dr. Bibb will spend some time in Washington and Pittsburgh. Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, in company with her sister, Mrs. Theresa Johnson, left the city during the week for Kansas City, Mo., to visit her father. The fall season of the United Civic League of which Hon. Warren B. Douglas is president, will open Sunday, Aug. 24, at 5:30. Good speaking and music. The public is invited. CHIPS * * * * * * . . . * * * --- * * * . . . (COLORED) Miss Ruth C. Baskin, 3234 Vernon av., one of the most prominent nurses, has just returned to the city after completing a post graduate course at Lincoln hospital, New York. Mrs. John Kale has removed from 6211 South Wabash avenue to 5232 South State street. Madam Clara McAdams, 4806 S. Dearborn st., secretary of the South Side Woman's Club, owing to a high nervous state and being fearful that the railroad strike would prevent her from returning home if she should venture away from it, failed to attend the meeting of the State Federated of Colored Women's Clubs at Jacksonville, Ill., the past week. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Gibbs, 2008 Walnut st., are among the most thrifty and prosperous Afro-Americans on the west side. For years Mr. Gibbs has met with success as a carpenter and contractor. They own several pieces of good income property and reside at their own home at the above mentioned number. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs are warm supporters of this paper and reflect much credit on the colored race. Mrs. David M. Manson, 4406 Grand blvd., is still spending her vacation at Idlewild, Mich. She is regaining her composure after her nerve racking experience in the race riots in Chicago. Miss Viola Miller, teacher of vocal and piano, 4341 Prairie avenue, will give a recital Tuesday evening, September 2, at Berean Baptist church, 52 and Dearborn Sts. National Grand Master William H. Fields, St. Louis, Mo., grand master A. U. K. D. of A., is expected in the city on the 27th to attend to some important matters pertaining to the local organizations. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, matron of Elector Chapter No. 1, O. E. S., is company with Miss Rhoda M. Johnson, Quincy, Ill., left Peoria during the week for Mound City, where they will attend the grand lodge of the U. B. F. & S. M. T. Mrs. L. C. Graves, president Provident candy store, 15 W. 36th st., treasurer, Virginia society, has returned to the city after several months' stay in the northwest with friends. Mrs. Pearl White Newborn, 51st and Wabash ave., is spending a pleasant trip with relatives in Tennessee. --- * * * * * * --- * * * . . . shina Tourism resources in Chefoo, jiancha, Yueche, Aiyang and Swallow have helped in a banking among the Chinese women and considerable per has been exported from time to time. Nik Chuen and cotton thread is used in Chefoo and linen and cotton in the other places. The mace is made more cheaply than is possible elsewhere because of the low wages paid in China, but a link of enterprise in enquiries patterns to meet changing tastes and fashion abounds prevents the industry from assuming larger proportions. St. Botei's Town Boston or St. Paul's Town is a seaport in Lincolnshire, England, on the River Waltham, and four miles from its mouth, with a wharfage of 23.0 feet. In the days of the Plantagenets it was one of the chief British seaports, but the sitting in of the river has been an obstacle to its growth of late years, almost continual dredging being necessary to keep a passage to the sea, even for small vessels. Its church tower, St. Paul's, is a well-known conspicuous landmark, depended upon also by mariners at sea. Issuing an "Extra" in Bane The editor of the Bano Daily News (Africa) does not have to trouble ever such matters as circulation or the high cost of paper. When he gets a piece of news, he smooths off some slabs of wood, writes up the story in his best editorial style, and then gives the slabs to his office boy, who runs off with them and hangs them in conspicuous places so that he who runs may read. Good Taste. Good taste is the conscience of the mind. Lowell's definition is compact of thought and is worth dwelling upon. Good taste is a trait we all agree in valuing, though its meaning as a rule is rather vaguely felt; we urge its cultivation and admire its exercise but the quality itself is generally less analyzed than desired.—Hartley Alexander. Floor-Crack Filler This is made from one pound of flour rubbed smoothly in a little water. Add three quarts of boiling water and set on stove. Stir in one tablespoonful of powdered alum, together with bits of torn newspapers, and cook until the mass is smooth and thick as putty. Use to fill the gaping cracks between the boards of old floors. "What's in a Name?" The French island of Reunion has changed its name four times in 50 years. In 1793 it was Bourbon, as it had been for a century and a half, but the convention changed it to Reunion. Under the empire it became Isle Bonparte; at the Restoration it reverted to Bourbon. Finally, in 1848, it became Reunion once more. History and Material Wealth History and Material Wealth. It is time we remembered that history does not concern herself about material wealth—that the life-blood of a nation is not that yellow tide which fluctuates in the arteries of trade—that its true revenues are religion, justice, sobriety, magnanimity, and the fair amenities of act.—Lovell. Got It Printed. "So, you got your poem printed?" "Yes," replied the author. "I sent the first stanza to the editor of the Correspondence Column with the inquiry, 'Can any one give me the rest of this poem?' Then I sent in the complete poem over another name!" Practice Cheerfulness A sunny, cheerful view of life, resting on truth and fact, co-existing with practical aspiration/ ever to make things, men and self better than they are—this is the true, healthful poetry of existence.—Robertson. Really a Cut Price. Charles had just been vaccinated, and as a reward for his bravery the doctor gave 'him a quarter. "Thank you for the quarter," said Charles, winking back his tears, "but it was worth a dollar." Honesty First Requisite It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private; if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.—Sir Walter Raleigh. For Hearness Hourseness can be relieved by mixing one teaspoonful of glycerin to the well-benten white of an egg, the juice of one lemon and enough sugar to make it palatable. Most Valuable D'amonde. Most valuable Diamonds are found with a wide variety of coloring but those that are virtually colorless but which are spoken of as being blue-white are most valuable. the stairway. In the corner of the stairway is the ear window a fine piece formed by the trapezoid case in the ground and flow away "O. amity" elected Joan exerted "both what a large family those kids here" New York's First Railroad New York Post Railroad. The first railroad in New York state and one of the first passenger railroads in the United States was constructed of wooden rails from Albany to Schoenectady, a distance of 17 miles in 1831. Ten years later the Little railroad was opened from Port-au-Prince to Goshen. Most Valuable Plant No plant renders more greater service than does the wheat, because it supplies to the greater part—and the better part, too—of the western world in staff of life. From wheat the leading nations of the earth obtain their bread. Some Grownups Have Same Idea. Mirlam had been over to a neigh- bor's to see the new baby, and on her return I asked her what she thought of it. She replied: "Oh, I don't like 'em so fresh; I like 'em better after ward." Life's Little Reeves Life is just one thing after another, but chiefly it is getting up to do something you have forgotten after being comfortably, settled in your chair for work or reading. For Social Success Whenever you see a man who is so successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing and, if possible, adopt his system.—Beaconfield. The Meanest Man The meanest man in the world put fishhooks in his change pocket when he took off his trousers at night. It would be difficult to convince the average man that greenbacks are printed on flipper. He hears but butt who hears one carry only.—Aeschylus. FROM THIS DATE ONWARD THE BROAD AX CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Mrs. L. Graves, The Provident Candy Shop, Notion Store and News Stand, 15 W. 36th Street, near State George I. Martin, Cigar, Notion Store and News Stand, 18 W. 31st St., near State. Edward Feix, Notions, Cigars and News Stand, 3002 S. Dearborn St. F. Bishop, Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 8 W. 27th Street, near State. A. D. Hayes, Cigars, Tobacco, Notion, Stationery and News Stand. 3640 S. State Street. Dodson's Shoe Shining Parlors and News Stand, So. West Corner 35th and State Streets. Lawrence M. Heard, Traveling News Agent, with news stands st 3129 S. State St. and So. East Cor. 35th and State Streets. Charles F. Mallory's Barber Shop and News Stand, 313 E. 35th Street. W. D. Scott's Lunch Room and Restaurant, 248 E. 35th Street. Louis Wimbley's Shoe Shining Parlors and News Stand, 2946 South State Street. Mrs. S. F. Peyton, News Stand, Confectionary Store, 5012 S. State Street. News item left with any of the above news agents prior to Wednesday mornings of each week, will find their way into the columns of The Broad Ax.