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THE ELKS, OF GREAT LAKES LODGE No. 43, I. P. B. O. LESLIE T. ASH, EXALTED RULER OF THAT LODGE and Fort Dearborn Lodge, No. 44, With Two Bands, Gave Its Grand Street Parade, Last Sunday Afternoon; All the Members of Both Lodges Were Togged Up In Prince Albert Dress Suits and Wore High Silk Hats. Attorney A. W. Scott of Washington, D. C., Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks of the World, Joined in the Parade. The Annual Sermon Was Preached by Rev. Gloster R. Bryant, Pastor of South Park, M. E. Church, Thirty-third Street and South Park Boulevard. Monday Evening Great Lakes Lodge of Elks No. 43 Held Its Sixteenth Annual Ball at the Eighth Regiment Armory, The Famous Elks’ Celebrated Military Band Furnished the Music. In Every Respect the Ball Was a Very Classy Affair. Rev. Archibald J. Carey, Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, Rev. William A. Fountain and Rev. William D. Johnson Are the Five New Bishops Elected by the General A. M. E. Conference at St. Louis, Missouri. The A. M. E. General Conference will wind up its three weeks session at St. Louis, Mo., the end of the present week; the greatest attraction of the Conference was the election of five and Fountain were ushered into this grand old world in the State of Georgia. The new Bishops were consecrated By W. G. ANDERSON. Last Sunday's Elk's parade will get down in Elkdom history as it greatest day. Although the Elks of Chicago were not favored, with such peret weather as on the preceding Sunday when the Odd Fellows turned out only one thousand Elks of the Great Lakes Lodge, No. 43 and the Ft Dearborn Lodge No. 44, and Daughters of the various women's organizations of Elkdom, met at Wright's Hall, 44th and state streets, and, accompanied by two of Chicago's greatest bands, preceded by Prof. J. W. Hall, marched south to 55th street and Wabash avenue North to 43rd and Vernon avenue, hence South to 33rd and South Park avenue and into the South Park Church where a most brilliant annual sermon was delivered by Rev. Bryant, Pastor of the park by Rev. Church, who in the most flowy language possible extolled the great success achieved by the Great Lakes and Fort Dearborn lodges of Chicago. Preceding the distinguished and eminent divine, Attorney A. W. Scott of Washington, D. C., the Past Exalted Buler of the World, delivered one of his greatest oratorial efforts of his life. He reviewed the history of the Negro on American soil; showed how he had been forcibly brought to America from Africa several hundred years ago; how he was drafted into the institution of slavery and kept in bondage until 1865; how he distinguished himself on the field of battles, from the war of the Revolution down to and including the Great World War, reciting the glorious acts and deeds performed by him; that the first blood spilled in the Great Revolutionary War was that of a Negro -Crispus Attucks; in the war of the Rebellion was that likewise of a Negro and that the two greatest heroes in the recent World War were Negroes. Attorney Scott's oration was warmly received and upon concluding his masterful address he was applauded with great vigor. Great credit is due to C. C. Atkinson, the Marshal of the day, and to the ladies who took part in the parade for its magnificent and brilliant success, and the church exercises. More than 125 automobiles containing some of Chicago's brilliant women, neatly gowned and with sparkling diamonds followed the one thousand Elks, all attired in Prince Albert coats of the latest fashion and milk hats, in the line of march, and more than twenty-five thousand of Chicagoans reviewed the magnificent parade of the Elks. Sunday, May 16, 1920, will go down in history as a great day in Elkdom. Some of the leading officers and members of the Great Lakes Lodge who were observed in the parade and who made its success possible are the following: Leslie T. Ash, Exalted Ruler, of Great Lakes Lodge No. 43. L.P. B. O. Elks of the World; Joseph R. Dunn, Past Exalted Ruler and founder of the Great Lakes Lodge No. 43; O. C. Atkinson, the Marshal of the day; Miles Dotson, Charlie Jones, Assistant Marshal of the day; Prof. J. W. Hall; Henry (Teenan) Jones, Past Exalted Ruler, of the Great Lakes Lodge; J. J. Jones, Past Exalted Ruler of the Great Lakes Lodge; George Hight, Lawrence A. Newby, Exalted Ruler of Fort Dearborn Lodge No. 44; Hon. E. H. Wright, W. G. Anderson, George W. Blackwell, Trustee and Attorney for the Great Lakes Lodge No. 43. On Monday evening the Elks composing Great Lakes Lodge No. 43 gave its sixteenth annual ball at the 8th Regiment Armory, it was by far the best and most fashionable ball so far given by the Elks, Leslie T. Ash, Exalted Ruler of thatadge; James T. Copper, Financial Secretary; L. H. THE BROAD AX Piper, Chairman of the Ball Committee were on hand smiling all the time and making it pleasant for all who attended it; Hon. Amond W. Scott of Washington, D. C., Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks of the world, was the most distinguished guest of the ball and Exalted Ruler Leslie T. Ash, escorted him around the hall and gallantly presented him to many of the most beautifully and costly gowned ladies present; Master Arthur Samuel who was dressed in a pure white duck suit, walked at the head of the grand march and he was followed by more than five hundred men and women who deported themselves in the most up-to-date manner in every way and reflected much credit on the Elks and upon the others belonging to their race. The following were among the most elegantly costumed ladies who were present at the hall: [Name] Who received the highest vote cast for the honored and distinguished position which he was elected to at the general conference at St. Louis, Mo., and his thousands of loyal friends in all parts of this country freely predict that he will have no superior as one of the new bishops of his church. NEGEO YEAR BOOK GIVES FACTS Many students of race relations, not only in America but also abroad, have come to look with returning satisfaction to the reports on Negro progress which have been compiled by Monroe N. Work, Director of the Department of Records and Research at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., and published under the title, "Negro Year Book: an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro." The newest edition of the Negro Year Book, which gives in detail the facts concerning Negro life for the years 1918 and 1919, contains comprehensive reviews of such topics as "The Church and the Negro;" "The Negro's Economic Progress;" "The Migration of the Negro;" "The Negro and Trade Unions;" "The War-Work Activities of Negroes;" "The Negro in Politics;" "Racial Co-operation;" "Race Biots;" "Lyaching;" "The Race Problem." The material in the Negro Year Book, 1918-1919, fulfils the statement made in the preface that "the editor has made extended researches and has spared neither time nor pasina to make this new edition of the Negro Year Book in every way more comprehensive and authoritative than any of the previous editions." Indeed, the Year Book covers every phase of Negro activity and should be read and studied carefully by all those who wish to see clearly the relation, not only of twelve or fifteen million American Negroes to the progress of the United States, but also the relation of hundreds of millions of Negroes to international adjustment and progress. Within 500 pages Professor Work gives a satisfactory bird's-eye view of the work and aspiration of millions upon millions of disadvantaged people, who, whenever they have been given the opportunity, have emerged from ignorance and have performed most skillfully and successfully important work on the farm, in the home, in the church and school, in the professions of law, medicine, and engineering, and in business. than a mere compendium of important facts concerning the relation of Negroes to their complex environment. It furnishes ample testimony to the range of Negroes' interests and abilities. It tells unmistakably and effectively the story of Negro aspiration and accomplishment. It will be read widely in proportion as men and women learn to respect the truth and become willing to be guided in the construction of new policies by that newly-found truth. So accurate and painstaking have been Professor Work's researches, particularly in the field of lynching, that people everywhere-North and, South, white and colored—have come to accept at their face value the statistics which are issued from time to time by Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Taukegee, who, in turn, depends upon Professor Work for important facts with which to wage the campaign for economic and social justice for his race. Facts are more than stubborn things. Facts constitute the foundation and superstructure of social justice. Facts—accurate, interesting, vital facts—are presented in the "Negro Year Book" and these facts will eventually make men think and act like Christians towards all Americans, regardless of color, class, or creed—Wm. Anthony Aery, in The Southern Workman, published by Hampton Institute. NEGRO ELECTED Akron, O., James Miller, Negro, once time dining car waiter, is a member of the "House of Representatives" of the Industrial Republic of the Good year Tire & Rubber Co. plant here. Mr. Miller was chosen over two white opponents in open primaries, and ran for the office under protest. He now helps to guide the business destinies of 25,000 Goodyear employees, most of them white. The "legislator" introduced a cooperative store bill as one of his first official acts, and later backed a plan for better education of Negro employees. He is a member of several important committees, including plant sanitation, wage scale and factory education. He is 31 years old. ACTIVE PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE BY THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE OF THE APPOMATOX CLUB, TO ENTERAIN THE DELEGATES AND VISITORS TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Arrangements for the entertainment and comfort of the delegates and visitors to the National Republican Convention in June, in charge of the special entertainment committee of the Appomattox Club are rapidly being completed. Col. William R. Cowan, chairman of the Decoration Committee, is planning a real riot of patriotic colors for both the interior and exterior of the club. He submitted his plans at the meeting of the general committee Wednesday night, and if carried out the beautiful club will rival the Coliseum in artistic beauty. It is expected that a large number of the contesting delegations from the southern states will arrive in the city during the latter part of next week. The requests for reservations in private homes greatly exceed the supply, hence the Housing Committee, Benj. E. Mitchem, chairman, is sending an S. O. S. for additional accommodations. The committee calls the attention of the good citizens of Chicago to the urgent need for accommodation for at least 500 visitors who are expected to visit the convention. The Publicity Committee is preparing a calendar of entertainments for convention week. Clubs, churches and societies who contemplate providing affairs for the entertainment of visitors are requested to send in their data to the chairman of the Publicity Committee, 3632 Grand boulevard, at once. PINED FOR HAVING COLORED WIPE. Richmond, Va. Fred Grant, white, and Carrie Fife-Grant, colored were fined $30 each for living together. Grant is very white and Mrs. Grant is very black. They were married in Maine some time ago. The Virginia law prohibits intermarriage but cannot prohibit colored and white while living together. They appealed the case. Rev. Archibald J. Carey, Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, Rev. William A. Fountain and Rev. William D. Johnson Are the Five New Bishops Elected by the General A. M. E. Conference at St. Louis, Missouri. The A. M. E. General Conference will wind up its three weeks session at St. Louis, Mo., the end of the present week; the greatest attraction of the Conference was the election of five new Bishops and well onto fifty candidates consisting of many of the most prominent preachers in the connection had for the past year been engaged in log rolling for those life long and honored positions in the church for the Bishops receive four thousand dollars per year as salary and all expenses with a whole lot of free doings on the side. After much cool deliberation on the part of the wise leaders of the Conference it was finally decided to elect the following five divines as the new Bishops of the A. M. E. Church, Rev. Archibald J. Carey, Rev. W. Simpson Brooks, Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, Rev. William D. Johnson and Rev. William A. Fountain. It seems that Bishops Brooks and Vernon were both born in the "show me state," old Missouri, that Bishops Carey, Johnson and Fountain were ushered into this grand old world in the State of Georgia. The new Bishops were consecrated last Sunday morning at St. Louis, Mo., the sermon of the occasion was preached by Bishop Evans Tyree. It has been freely predicted in the columns of this paper in the past that Rev. A. J. Carey, Rev. William T. Vernon and Rev. W. Sampson Brooks would be among the new Bishops to be elected in 1920, and their thousands of friends in all parts of this country are greatly rejoicing that they went over the top. It is said that for the next four years that Bishops Brooks and Vernon will have charge of the work for their church in South and West Africa; that Bishop Carey will preside, over the Fourteenth Episcopal District which includes Kentucky and Tennessee, and that he will still make his home in Chicago. GIRLS—GOD BLESS 'EM! $25,000 Needed for Chicago's Colored Girls. Help the colored girls of Chicago by subscribing to the drive for the Y. W. C. A. May 14 to 25. Thousands of colored girls in our city need your protection. We want the work extended. It is therefore necessary that we as a race, do our part. Self-ride will not let us accept without assisting. We are quite certain that from 150,000 Negroes in Chicago, this amount could easily be obtained if each one would do his bit. Other cities have reached their quota, and many have gone over the top. What is Chicago going to do? Chicago ranks second along industrial and other lines, but we are sorry to say ranks far behind when it comes to helping the girl. We must remember that no city can go higher than her womanhood. Make your contribution, then influence others in your church, in your club, in your lodge, in your neighborhood, and in your work, for the Y. W. C. A. is playing and will play a great part in helping Chicago solve one of her greatest problems, "the girl." You that have faith in girlhood, subscribe! Our first report sent in to headquarters for May 15, amounted to $656.92. May 17, the second night of our drive, our captains brought in $948.90. One most encouraging feature of the procedure is: Our ministers are helping. The Liberty B. Y. P. U. gave a contribution of $100,000. Rev. Martin of Bethesda Baptist Church gave his personal cheque for $20 and a collection of $21 from his congregation. The Olivet Baptist Church is also numbered among our contributors. Will not every church of the race in the city of Chicago give up next Sunday to the Y. W. C. A. and thus show its loyalty to your womanhood!—"C." ATTORNEY CHARLES S. GIBBS IS ONE OF THE LEADING LAW YEARS OF SPRINGFIELD, ILL. The Capitol City of this State, has some able and prosperous lawyers, who rank very high in their chosen profession; but very few of them, have any edge, on Attorney Charles S. Gibba, who is well and favorably known by all classes of its citizens and at all times Mr. Gibba, has more law cases pending in the various courts in Springfield and Sangamon County, than any other lawyer in it. On several occasions in the past, he has appeared as special Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, in some important litigation and many lawyers in his section of the country, do not hesitate in consulting him, when they come in contact with some knotty legal problems or questions. It is a great pleasure to state, that Mr. Gibba, is a shining example, of and Fountain were ushered into this grand old world in the State of Georgia. The new Bishops were consecrated last Sunday morning at St. Louis, Mo., the sermon of the occasion was preached by Bishop Evans Tyree. It has been freely predicted in the columns of this paper in the past that Rev. A. J. Carey, Rev. William T. Vernon and Rev. W. Sampson Brooks would be among the new Bishops to be elected in 1920, and their thousands of friends in all parts of this country are greatly rejoicing that they went over the top. It is said that for the next four years that Bishops Brooks and Vernon will have charge of the work for their church in South and West Africa; that Bishop Carey will preside, over the Fourteenth Episcopal District which includes Kentucky and Tennessee, and that he will still make his home in Chicago. what a colored man can accomplish, when he makes up his mind to forge to the front, in any field of useful endeavor. For years Mr. Gibbs has been a constant subscriber to this paper. FIRST RESEARCH GRANT TO NEGRO UNIVERSITY. Signal Honor Accorded Dr. Ernest E. Just, Recipient of Spingarn Medal. Washington, D. C.-Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard university, announces that the National Academy of Sciences, operating under the congressional charter the highest scientific body in America, has just notified the authorities of Howard university, an institution for the training of Negro youth, that beginning with the school year 1920-21 it will provide a grant at the university for Dr. Ernest E. Just, that the latter may be free for teaching and for research wholly in the field of the physiology of development. Honor to Colored Race. Honor to Colored Race Dr. Scott made the above official announcement in an address on "The Progress of the American Negro in Science, Art, and Literature," at the meeting of the Southern Sociological congress, hed here in Washington this week. He said: "This is the National Research council's first grant in the field of biology; in fact, the only grant so far made by the National Research council in any of the fields of scientific research. It is a very great distinction to come to any member of any race. To the Negro people of America it is an honor and a distinction greatly prized, for it serves once more to remind us that the competitions of intellect know no color line." Dr. Just was born in Charleston, S. C. in 1883. He was graduated from Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., in 1903, and from Dartmouth college, Hanover, in 1907, being the only Magna Cum Laude man in his class. He received his degree, doctor of philosophy, from the University of Chicago in 1916. For ten years he has been a student at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Washington, D. C. Senator Warren G. Harding's presidential headquarters were opened officially Monday in room 1120 of the Congress hotel. A full force of Harding boosters from Ohio arrived on that day. It is contended that Senator Harding stands very high in the estimation of the Colored people residing in all parts of Ohio, that many of its leading colored men are working hard to secure his nomination for President of the United States. Vol. XXV. May 22, 1920. No. 35. Entered an Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, IL, Under Act of March 8, 1879. THE GILES CHARITY CLUB AND The Giles Charity Club has again shown its charitable spirit by assisting the Advisory Board of Provident Hospital. The occasion was a splendid program given by the small children of the class of Prof. S. I. Lee of the Coleridge Taylor Music School in the blue triangle room of the Y. W. C. A., for the benefit of the Baby-Ward of Provident Hospital, and saying it was a huge success, is putting it very mildly indeed. The house was filled to overflowing and the program was excellent. Those who appeared were Master Zinker Cohn, Oscar Gillam, Casino Simpson, Lillian McDain, Gladys Smith and Carroll Chilton. Miss Caroll McCoy, a pupil of Mrs. Fannie Hall Cimp, gave a reading, showing splendid training, Miss Miller, the sweet singer of the Giles Charity Club, sang, accompanied by Miss Stella Bonds, also 'of the Coleridge Taylor faculty. Madam Carter, president of the Giles Charity Club, presided with her usual grace. Her women never fail to go beyond the mark she sets for them which proves their love and confidence in her ability to direct them. She hoped to raise not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the babies but at this writing one hundred and sixty-four dollars ($164.00) has been turned in to the superintendent, with all the tickets not in. We hope to get them all in by the next issue. We thank the loyal friends who helped in this grand work of charity and are quote sure that they feel they have done something worth while. The Giles Charity Club is assisting Mrs. Lowe who is one of the Captains of the Y. W. C. A. drive to raise her quota. Their amount given last Tuesday evening was seventy-five ($75.00) dollars, leaving just twenty-five ($25.00) more to be raised, but as we always do nothing by halves. She will have the one hundred dollars ($100.00) pledged and over. Giles Charity Club is what its name implies. We give because it is a pleasure to help others knowing that in helping others we help ourselves. The salesmen and women of the south branch of the Co-operative Society of America held their monthly banquet at the Y. M. C. A. last Wednesday night. It was indeed a pleasant affair and enjoyed by all present. Mr. Zinn, general manager of the entire organization, was present, also Mr. Fitzgerald of the South Park division. Both spoke of the pleasure it gave them to met so many intelligent young men and women who were really doing much for the race and community by being members of this the largest and best organization in America. It is helping to knock the high cost of living and making it quite interesting to the grafters; we are making up and learning to take a hold of the good things in life. Birds of a feather will flock together. Lets not forget that. Intelligent people look for the same as associates. We are tired of associating with the "knoockers" so have joined the club of "boosters". Come and go with us we will do you good— HON. FERDINAND W. PECK Chicago's oldest native born front ranks in every movement, advancement of its citizens, was last Friday evening by Hon. W served in that distinguished call. HON. FERDINAND W. PEOR MAYOR FOR DAY, TILTS CITY'S LID. Who to himself is law; no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a King in deed. " " " Commodore Ferdinand Peck, Chicago's oldest native citizen, was mayor for twenty-four hours ending at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. When Mr. Peck locked the mayor's office Saturday afternoon he had satisfied a life-long ambition. His reign though short, was very, very sweet. When Mayor Thompson left town he told Chief of Police Garrity: "Chief, you're taking orders from Mayor Peck today and tomorrow. Got me?" oldest native born citizen, who is in every movement for the benefit of citizens, was appointed May evening by Hon. William Hale The distinguished capacity for twenty. AND W. PEOK, DAY, TILTS S LID. Chief Garrity. "Well, now you plied the 'mayor.' Chicago's oldest native born citizen, who is always in the front ranks in every movement for the benefit and the advancement of its citizens, was appointed Mayor of Chicago last Friday evening by Hon. William Hale Thompson, and he served in that distinguished capacity for twenty-four hours. law, no law doth and is a King in Chinand Peek, Chi- citizen, was mayor ours ending at 4 afternoon. locked the mayor's armenion he had satis- bition. His reign, very, very sweet. When the chief h Peek telephoned two- ing clubs and asked "Anybody drinki- Why not? This is I've got 5,000 cop- patrol wagons that thing. "Maybe you can but if I thought ball there, I'd be a couple of patrols to Instructions to Garrity. At 4:01 Friday afternoon Chief Garry was summoned to the mayor's office, and Mayor Peek said: "Now, chief, this vice reform stuff may be all right. But not while I'm mayor, Savvy! "I'm pretty broad in my views, chief, I don't believe in prohibition at all. "Of course, we've got laws. But all of us have to be a little liberal, sometimes. Depends on how you define the word 'vice.' I think it's overdone a little. "The constitution is being defied. Personal liberty is being buried in a mass of severe laws. You get what I'm driving at? Ease up, loosen up, go slow, see? Got any opinions? "Nope, I'm taking orders," smiled --- --- [Name] an citizen, who is always in the cent for the benefit and the ad- dies appointed Mayor of Chicago, William Hale Thompson, and he acility for twenty-four hours. Chief Garrity. "Well, now you've got 'em," re- plied the "mayor." Regulations for Clubs. When the chief had departed, Mayor Peek telephoned two of Chicago's leading clubs and asked: "Anybody drinking highballs there? Why not? This is the mayor's office. I've got 5,000 coppers and a lot of patrol wagons that aren't doing a thing. "Maybe you can't use the coppers, but if I thought there was a highball there, I'd be glad to loan you a couple of patrols to ride around in. "Only two vehicles a mortal can ride in free. One is a hearse, the other is a patrol, and I'd like to fix up any of my friends that might want to take the air in the official blue wagon. The driver is not allowed to accept tips." The clubmen declined the use of the blue chariots with liveried drivers. Mayor Peek made a tour of the City Hall departments and found that everything was in order. Quits "Tough Job." As he was leaving the building after a strenuous day, he sighed: "Though job. I wouldn't want it permanently for anything. Along- THE MUSIC CARINET. By Martha Broadus Anderson. Articles pertaining to music and musicians will be found in this column each week. Matter intended for publication must be in not later than Tuesday. Address all communications to the Music Cabinet, 6450 Champlissie avenue, Chicago, Illinois. amounts dupois heavier, and the power haition. Another by the S called a fratio vibrate strengthen THE PIANOFORTE It is impossible in a limited space to trace all the steps through which the piano has passed to reach its present state of perfection. Suffice it to say, however, that it is the direct descendant of the Spinet, in Italy called the Espinetto, in Germany, the Clavier, a small instrument shaped like a square piano, and with about three octaves. The wires were of brass and very small. The instrument was placed upon a table or stand and was small enough to be carried under one's arm, (a fact which I imagine would be a boon to householders in these May days of high cost of moving). Then came the harpsichord which was the forerunner of the grand piano of today. The pianoforte proper was invented in 1711 by one Cristofori, a Florentine machanie, and was called a Fortepiano from its capacity of being played loud or soft. The essential feature of the pianoforte mechanism is in the use of the hammer to produce the tone, and the necessary provision for doing this successfully is to secure an instantaneous encapement of the hammer from contact with the wire, as soon as the blow has been delivered, while at the same time the key remains pressed in order to hold the damper away from the strings and allow the tone to go on. These features were all contained in Cristofori's invention. Cristofori's invention was taken up almost immediately in Germany and a Dresden piano maker, Silberman became very celebrated. Frederich, the Great, made Bach try his pianos in the palace at Potdam. The square-formed piano began to be made about 1750, but the instrument involved no new principals, being merely a Clavier with pianoforce mechanism. The new form so compact and inexpensive began to be popular and was soon the standard form for private families, as that of the Clavier had been before, and as the square piano remained until about 1870, when the inherent mechanical difficulties of the upright were for the first time satisfactorily overcome. Pepys, in his diary tells of having purchased a virginal which pleased him very much at the cost of five guineas—about $26.00. Imagine the prices! Although the instruments were still small and strung with small wires, there was a tendency toward incarcerated compass, which by the beginning of the 19th Century led the Boradwoods of London to attempt a grand piano with six octave compass. But they found the wrest plank (in which the tuning strings are placed); was so weakened by the extension that the treble would not stand in tune. In order to strengthen the instrument they introduced the iron extension bar. This was in the direction of greater solidity, and better resisting power to the pull of the strings. In 1808, Sebastian Erard patented his grand action, which, with slight improvements, still remains the model of what a piano action should be. Between 1808 and 1832, the instrument was the subject of a great number of improvements in every direction. The damper mechanism was perfected, the stringing had been made heavier, the hammers proportionately stronger, and the power of tone had become greater so that the instrument had become ready for the great pianists, such as Liszt and others. Meanwhile improvements were carried on for the purpose of rendering the instrument impervious to the attacks made upon its stability by these great virtuosus. In the early appearance of L'art, it is said that it was necessary to have several pianos in reserve upon the stage, so that when a hammer or string broke (and that was frequently), another piano could be moved forward for the next number on the program. The most important in the solidity of the piano came from the invention of the iron frame, which was invented and tried out by several Americans, but it remained for Jonas Chickering, of Boston, to perfect the iron frame by including in the single casting the pin bridge and damper socket rail, which improvement still remains at the foundation of piano making. The first overstring scale was exhibited by Steinway & Sons in which the bass strings were spread out and carried over a part of the trouble strings thus affording them more latitude for vibration, without interfering, and bringing the bridges nearer to the center of the sounding board. The idea was not new at this time but the Steinway system of overstringing, was more extended, and solved acoustical difficulties of what are known as cross vibrations more successfully by spreading the long strings and this is the system now generally acknowledged followed by most piano makers of the world. The solidity of construction is such that with a compass of seven and a blunt axe the position of the strings amounts to about 50,000 pounds avoid dupoia. The hammers are larger and heavier, the action more responsive and the singing quality and sustaining power has reached remarkable perfection. Another important improvement made by the Steinway Sons was what is called "the duplex scale" in which a fristion of the string is made to vibrate sympathetically, thereby strengthening the super-octave harmonic, and imparting to the tone a brightness and sweetness not so well secured in any other known way. These improvements have been worked out in the upright piano with a view to as much of solidity of the instrument, then prompt action together with as much of the tone quality of the grand as possible. Attempts have been made to increase the stability of the tuning of the pianoforte by a different system of stringing, the tension of the strings being regulated by means of a tuning pin of set screw pattern working through a collar of steel, instead of being thrust into a wooden wrest-plank, where it holds fast by friction alone, as has been the universal way previous to these inventions. The American pianoforte today is the strongest, the fullest-toned and the most expensively constructed of any in the world. The pupils of Miss Estella C. Bonds will give their annual recital at St. Mark M. E. Church on May 27. The four choirs of Englewood will give a Sunday afternoon program, "Echoes of Easter," Sunday, June 6. Each choir will sing numbers from their Easter programs, and the united choirs will sing Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, Maunder, and he Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah, directed by George E. Duncan. Mr. W. D. Williams is the president. Miss Naomi Williamson will be the reader on the program to be given by the pupils of Mme. Martha B. Anderson, on June 1 at Bethesda Baptist Church. Grace Presbyterian choir is to sing the Infirmatus at the Lyceum Sunday afternoon, June 6. The obligato will be sung by Mme. Martha B. Anderson. Every night commencing May 10, Tallaboo, a drama in five acts has been running at the Royal Gardena. We were fortunate enough to attend a Friday night performance. By some strange misfortune, the play was not well advertised so that few Chiecaigans knew that this production had been revived and was in our midst, we are informed by the management for an unlimited stay. The play possesses some very interesting and highly dramatic moments and is deserving of larger audiences. It is well staged and costumed. The cast of characters is made up of local talent including several who have appeared in it on former presentations. Space will not permit us to make comment concerning each individual, but among those who are especially good in their respective roles we mention Mrs. Ollie Robinson pupil of Fannie Hall Clint who assumed the title role, Mr. George Hutchinson, as the Banker Smithford, Mrs. Jennie Mills Lacey, his wife, Solomon Bruce, son, Carol McCoy, daughter, Fannie Hall Clint, the housekeeper, and she is always good in whatever character she assumes, Carrie Smith, the cook and Floyd Caldwell, who was a scream as the Chanffer who "suttin'ly lube his white folks." The play is under the management of J. L. Harper and others. APPOMATTO CLVUB NATES. By Othello W. Collins. Our beautiful costly draperies are in position and the new lights and furniture will be installed this week. A grand banquet was held in the dining room Monday evening by the Amateur Minstrel Club. Pres. Wm. H. Jackson announced a donation of $1,500 to be given to the Old Folk's Home. This money was the proceeds from the grand Easter which was held at 8th Regiment Armory Easter Monday. BISHOP WILLIAM TECUMSEH VERNON. One of the most powerful preachers in the A. M. E. Church Connection, who will from henceforth shine forth in all his splendor as one of the new Bishops of his church. J. For seventeen years he was one of the most eminent and most honorable judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County. He always endeavored to weigh out even-handed justice to all litigants who appeared before him. He was never swayed by color nor race prejudice. He was always held in the highest esteem by all classes of his fellow citizens. He always conducted himself like a high class or polished gentleman. From October 1, 1899, down to the day of his death he was a constant subscriber to this paper, and in his passing its editor has lost one of his tried and true friends of twenty years' standing. DR. R C. RANSOM TO SPEAK AT BETHEL CHURCH. On next Monday evening, May 24, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of Bethel Literary Society, Dr. R. C. Ransom will deliver an address. The Society will have as an added attraction an address by Hon. Patrick H. O'Donnell. A special musical program has been arranged by Prof. Jas. A. Mundy. Admission 25 cents. Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn streets.—Adv. GROWING DAILY. Efficiency in the handling of collections and adjusting claims is making a growing business for the Milton Mercantile Agency, 3638 State St. where bulks of matter are coming into the office daily lormfpalaltrs9(B) into the office daily from all parts of the United States. LEAVES FOR SOUTH. Mrs. Cora Franks of Lake Forest, Ill., left recently for the South where she will attend the graduating and commencement exercises of her three daughters at Lincoln Ky., Raleigh, N. C., and Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Franks will spend some time at Ashville, N. C., her odl home town. INCREASED POPULARITY The Idlewild Hotel, 33rd and the bash Ave., is becoming more popular under its new management. Visiting to the city are stopping them and delegates from various states are making reservations at the hotel. GOES TO MURPHYSBORO Mrs. Eliza Jackson, 37.39 Elm Ave, national organizer of A U I and D. of A. left during the week Murphysboro, III., where she will tend the Baptist state convention a delegate. ANNUAL SERMON HEARD The annual sermon for the other members and friends of A. U.K. D. of A. was delivered Sunday evening at South Park M. E. church, large number were present desiend rain fl. This Organization is given rapidly and has done a splendid in the past year under the present ministration. EXPECTED WEST. After delivering the principal address before the meeting of theumni Association of the V. N. & L. at Petersburg, Va., May 27th, Hau J. Thomas Newsome, Newport News, Va., a well known attorney and orator will come to the national republican convention in this city as delegate. 1 MRS. BERTHA L. HENSLEY FOURTH ANNUAL TAG DAY, MONDAY, MAY 24, FOR AGED AND ADULT CHARITIES. This coming Monday, the fourth annual Tag Day in which the Phyllis Wheatley Home, 3256 Rhodes avenue and the Old Folk's Home, 510 West Garfield Boulevard will share in the proceeds, will be observed throughout Chicago. Mrs. Gertrude Moore, is president of the home and Mrs. Elizabeth L. Davis chairman of the Board of Directors. Mrs. Bertha L. Hensley, chairman of the fourth annual Tag Day Committee, who is being ably assisted by a special committee, composed of the following ladies: Rejecting a Compliment: A well-known member of the stock exchange, who is now giving up the close of a strenuous life to philanthropic efforts, was in his heyday a tremendous gambler in stocks, and, incidentally, he and his partner were rather expert in the gentle art of making enemies. One of these accused him with the pleasant remark: "Look here, you are the biggest thief on the stock exchange." "Ah," was the answer. "it is evident you do not know my partner."—London Tit-Bita. Decisive in Refusal. When you do not intend to pay a bill there is nothing like being decisive in your refusal. The other day a book-seller had an "account rendered" returned to him with the following reply scrawled across the billhead: "Dear Sir: I never ordered this beastly book. If I did, you didn't send it. If you sent it, I never got it. If I got it. I paid for it. If I didn't I won't. Now go and hang yourself, you fat-head. Yours very respectfully, John Jones." Batteries Well Loaded. Ralph enjoyed riding in the machine and heard his father often complain of the batteries and thought they made it squeak. When baby sister kept up her continual crying one evening he said: "I bet her batteries will never run down." Emerson and Argument. I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of any thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so. I am the most helpless of mortal men.—Emerson. ```markdown ``` P Mr. GEORGE W. BLACKWELL Sir Knight and Attorney and Trustee of Great No. 43, Elks of the World. Mrs. Fannie Bowers, Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, Mrs. Eliza Holliday, Miss Charlotte Tervallon, Mrs. Marjorie Harper, Mrs. Sadie Adams, Mrs. Eva C. Hooper, Mrs. Florence Jones, Mrs. Janie Walker, Mrs. Nora Douglas Holt, Mrs. Minnie Collins, Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, Mrs. Marilla Jackson, Mrs. Eliza August, Mrs. Wm. F. Lawton, Mme. Bertha L. Hensley, Chairman Tag Day Committee. All charitable inclined persons should on Monday, May 24, feel themselves morally bound to be liberal with their Tag Day contributions and assist the above institutions and other worthy institutions of a similar nature: Touch iron instead of Wood. Investigation discloses the fact that in many districts of England the custom of touching wood still prevails just as it did among past generations. In Scotland the superstition of the touch is not unknown, although in their case it is iron that is believed to possess the charm of averting evil. For instance, the fisher people of Scotland, who regard the sight or mention of a pig as a bad omen, are accustomed to touch iron. Sparing Grandma. A little miss was clawing around in a forbidden box one day in the absence of her mother when her grandmother, who saw what was going on, accented her rather sharply: "Gussie what are you rummaging around in that box for?" And little Miss Gussie answered: "Now, grandma, it will probably be just as well if you don't know what I am after." The Muggletonians This peculiar sect, founded by an English tailor named Muggleton in the seventeenth century, is not extinct. Muggletonians, one of whose chief beliefs is that the "place of hell will be this earth when sun, moon, and stars are extinguished" still meet in London and Dyershire. Playing Safe. Playing Safe. Percy Noodles says that when he asked the capitalist's daughter if she thought it would kill her to give him a word of encouragement, she said she didn't, but there was no use taking a foolish risk—Dallas News. 100 Trustee of Great Lakes Lodge CHARLES E. STUMP, THE KANSAS FARMER NEWS PAPER CORRESPONDENT, VISITED STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, AND OTHER POINTS IN THAT STATE WITHIN THE PAST WEEK. Staunton, Va., Do you know that things have been moving along smoothly in this country, and I am proud of it. The general conference will soon be over, and there are some happy hearts and some sad ones, and I am glad to say that my friends got over the fence except Dr. J. C. Caldwell, yet he is a young man, and I believe that he would have made it, but some of them thought that he was real young and could wait four years, and he will have to wait, believe me honey when I tell you that I am going to keep him before the church. In a telegram from Aaron E. Malone, president of Poro College, I am told that A. J. Carey and W. D. Johnson got over the fence on the first ballot. W. Sampon Brooks made it over on the second ballot; W. T. Veron and W. A. Pountain, on the third ballot, and the next day they would go into election of general officers. Of course you know Dr. J. C. Caldwell was not the only man who was left out, for there was Rev. Edward H. Hunter, of Portsmouth, and R. C. Ransom, J. R. Ransom, J. W. Rankin, E. J. Howard, W. G. Alexander, W. A. Williams, A. L. Gaines M. W. Thornton and a number of others whose names I do not recall. I wish I could tell you just where these men will be assigned but it is not possible for me to do it now. But there will be some changes. Let us hope that all of the new men will make good. I am sure that Dr. A. J. Carey will do his part. Dr. William Decker Johnson, is going to be a bishop of the common people, and I am of the opinion that he is going to Georgia or to Mississippi. The men are asking for him in Mississippi, and he should be given that work. Dr. W. A. Fountain, in case Bishop Flipper is changed should have Georgia, for he would be in position to take up the educational work there and carry it right on to perfection. God grant that this be done. I know something of the work that he has done there and will be able to do even more. If I had it in my power I would send Dr. J. C. Caldwell, to Baltimore, in case he is not returned to the Endeavor League and I am sure that he would make good there. He is a good preacher, a good pastor, and knows how to do things, but this is a mere suggestion. He will be provided for I am sure, and I am too far away to say whether or not he will be returned to his post. Now the world is looking at the A. M. E. Zion Church, and the question is what will be done there? I am not in a position to say, but there is a matter of state that must claim attention, and we are looking forward to it. Our people are getting busy, for we are coming back in the banking business, and we understand it just a little better now and we are getting a different class of men into it. Of course you know of the now bank in Durham, N. C., and one is soon to be launched in Richmond, Va., and still the good work goes on. We are just doing things, that's all. It is to be the Commercial Bank and Trust Company, and is now being financed by perhaps the only finance company of our race in the world. The leading men in it are: T. C. Erwin, M. C. Clarke, W. J. Pettis, M. D. John A. Hines, A. M. Holmes, C. S. Cowan, M. D., C. A. Wright, C. A. McKenzie, and A. B. Brown, M. D. It is known as the Melvin Finance Corporation, with offices in the Mechanic Bank Building. I have read with much interest the address which Dr. W. H. Jernagin, president of the National Race Congress, 430 Que street, N. W. Washington, D. C., has issued to the public and to the Republican party. Among other things he says: "As a nation we are confronted with the most perplexing problems the world has ever experienced, and in this world crisis there is but one stand to take that will insure nations permenancy and world peace and that is the stand of world democracy based upon, corporated upon and carried out upon the doctrine of the Golden Rule with reference to mankind. Democracy knows no creed, nor color, and makes no distinction in its rules of procedure touching the human family. We are members of one brotherhood. "In all of our great national controversies, in every real national crisis the people have looked to the wisdom and justice of the Republican party as our National Saviors. Will the party in this crisis-such as was never before confronted-rise to the demands and save the day? That is what the National Race Congress wishes to know. Will the party vitalize every provision in the Federal Constitution and see that every provision is carried out in spirit and in truth or will the party stand by-participe criminus—and allow any person or group of persons to treat any person or group of the Constitution as more scrape of paper? "What will the American Negro do for himself in this crisis? Will he sit supinely by while every vestige of his constitutional rights are being violated or wholly taken away from him? Will he barter and trade his birthright for a mess of potage? Will he awake to the realization of the fact that this is the hour—this zero hour—to strike for his voice in the affairs of his government! Nothing will accomplish these ends for the American Negro except racial organization, racial cooperation and racial understanding. Arise, let us be going—"Quit you like men—Be strong."" This seems to have the right ring be it, and I congratulate Dr. Jermagin. I am here attending the meeting of the Virginia Missionary Baptist State Convention, and it has been a convention believe me honey. They have collected here this week $25,000 for education and missions, and it doth not yet appear what it will be. Now comes the latest news, we are going to have a real bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and I take off my hat to the church. I don't know who he will be, but I am sure that we are going to select a good man, and I hope that it may fall my lot to see him hold a conference. I am going to keep my cys open, and as soon as he is elected invite him to invite me to come the conference. I am not going to leave Old John and Jordan, yet I can see him at work and tell our people about them. It looked at one time as if the Methodist Episcopal Church would get rid of our people, by marrying the Methodist Episcopal Church South. I had no objection, yet I am glad that we are still to be represented in this great Methodist organization. We need to be there for some time to come yet. I have been very much impressed with the work being done in this town by a brave little woman, Olive Houston-Banks, a widow, but a business woman. She owns and operates a drugstore and is kept busy all the time. Associated with her is a brilliant young woman, Miss Ernestine W. Derritt. I have had the pelasure of meeting R. C. Mitchell, of Richmond, president of the State B. Y. P. U. Convention, and a scholar. I will have to bring this letter to a stop, and do it right now. CHARLES E. STUMP. CHIPS Hiram W. Johnson, Jr., has arrived in Chicago from California, accompanied by a body of Johnson supporters from the senator's home state, and assumed charge of ojhson headquarters in Presidential Row near the shores of Lake Michigan. Mrs. C. N. Langston and her little son have arrived in Chicago from Nashville, Tenn., by the way of St. Louis, Mo., where for three weeks she visited with some of her friends and with the relatives of her husband, Mr. C. N. Langston, who has become associated with Mr. Jesse Binga, the banker. Mr. and Mrs. Langston are setting up house keeping in the 64th block on Evans avenue and they will go on at home to their many friends. Dr. Stork recently presented Mrs. and Mrs. Preston McAdams, 4806 S. Dearborn Street with a fine baby girl and named it Julia Dorothy McAdams. Mrs. Cordella A. Winn, Secretary, Colored Work Cities, Field and Work Department, National Board, Young Woman's Christian Association, with headquarters in New York City, visited Chicago last week on her way to Los Angeles and Oakland. Cal. Saturday evening she addressed the workers in the twenty-five thousand dollar drive at the Indiana branch of the Y. W. C. A. Keeping the Birds Away. Keeping the Birds Away. The roof ridge of a Chinese house is usually decorated with an elaborate plaster ornament in the form of a design embodying the character "fu" signifying happiness. To prevent the ornament being damaged by birds the owner of the house sticks numerous ordinary sewing needles point outwards into the soft plaster. Traveling. To any person who has all his senses about him, a quiet walk along not more than ten or twelve miles of road a day is the most amusing of all traveling; and all traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as traveling at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.-Ruskin. Danger In Overweight. Overweight, within ten pounds, under thirty years of age is considered a favorable sign and indicates resistance to tuberculosis. After thirty years it is an unfavorable sign, signifying over-eating, auto-inflammation and danger of hardening of the arteries, apoplexy, heart failure, and Bright's disease. Unlucky Day for Spain. April 5 is the anniversary of the compromise of Breda, in 1568, when the nobles of Holland presented a petition against the Inquisition and the Spanish outrages perpetrated in its name. The revolt of the Netherlands, following Philip's determination to wipe out Protestantism, ruined Spanish prosperity. Ape Pur Very Useful. The black apes of Guinea have long silky hair, and their fur is used for musk and capes. One of the founders of Great Lakes Lodge No. 43, I. P. B. O. Elks of the World, and its past exalted ruler, who is still conducting the Elite No. 2 at the same old stand, 3445 South State Street, and his hundreds of friends who will attend the Republican National Convention in this city in June will find him on hand to extend the glad hand to them. 1910 India Rubber Strangely Named. Few articles seem more strangely named than india rubber. It gets its name from the first use to which it was put—that of erasing pencil marks by rubbing. Nor should it be associated with India. The tree was first mentioned by an explorer among the Mexican Indians three centuries ago. Difficult Course. There are golfers so engrossed in the game that they can think and talk of nothing else. Such a one was taken by an astronomer to look at the moon through a telescope. Asked what he thought of that satellite, the golfer replied: "It's a right, but it's aufu fuf' o bunker!" -Boston Transcript. The Old Way Was Cheaper. The Old Way Was Cheaper. The good old days of the rheumatic are gone. He no longer totes a raw potato in his pocket. He goes to his doctor, his doctor sends him to the tonal expert, the tonal expert sends him to the X-ray expert, the X-ray expert sends him to the dentist, and the dentist returns him to the doctor, and the doctor sends him to the drug store. It's the life, boys—Houston Post. Hair-Net Construction. Human hair goes through many processes before reaching the user in the shape of a hair net, and the best are claimed to be made from hair prepared in England. The hair is bleached, chemically treated to reduce its thickness, and then dyed and combed into lengths ready for netting. After being thus treated it is sent to China to be distributed through properly appointed agencies and made into nets by hand by natives. MR. HENRY (TEENAN) JONES. The founders of Great Lakes Lodge No. the World, and its past exalted ruler, who Elite No. 2 at the same old stand, 3448 his hundreds of friends who will attend. General Convention in this city in June we extend the glad hand to them. Body Temperature. Body temperature. The average body temperature is 98.6 degrees, but it varies within a few degrees with the time of day and various other factors. It is normally 97.5 degrees in the morning and 98.5 in the afternoon. Eating and exercise may raise it from one to several degrees. Nervousness may cause sudden changes either higher or lower. What is a Peddler? The word peddler is derived from an old English word, "ped," as in Spencer's "Shepheards' Calender." "A bask is a wicker pail wherein they use to carry fish." It has no connection with the Latin-pedis, a foot, as often reported. A peddler is, therefore, one with a ped, basket, or pack, and it has been held in law, one who has the identical article he sells in his. " ped." It is, simply speaking, incorrect, therefore, to call an finerant merchant, who simply takes orders for goods bought from seeing samples he carries, a peddler. Canine Altruism. The dog is not only a social animal, but has the rudiments, at least, of altruism. I once saw a dog jump into a river and swim down to another and younger dog, which had been swept along by the current and who was trying in vain to make a landing where the bank was steep and slippery. At every attempt his claws slipped; he was losing his head; he was growing weak. The older dog pushed him downstream to a safe landing, then went on his business, as if it were a mere detail—American Magazine. Open a Savings Account here today. You'll find it easy to accumulate a surplus if you deposit regularly a portion of your salary each pay day. If you spend all your money, some other person is banking it. BANKING HOURS FOR SAVINGS DEPOSITS. 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Saturdays 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. STRENGTH BUCKET ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK La Salle & Jackson ... Chicago FIRST REAL ESTATE MORTGAGES NEGOTIATED AND FOR SALE Houses, Apartments, Buildings and Stores' For Rent and For Sale If there is anything you need in the Real Estate line on the South Side, call or consult Mr. Binga for Real Bargains. Southeast Corner 80th Place and State Street, Chicago SPRING is a versatile time for house-heating. One day it is hot and the fire is allowed to go out, the next day it is freezing and you have to clean out the dead saushe and start a new fire. Then the weather turns warm again and the house gats over-heated. The only way to adjust this "seaward" of Spring temperature and saves all the discomfort, annoyance and expense is by having gas ROOM HEATERS. New design scientific and satisfactory. THE THERMOPOWER ROOM HEATER —An ideal heater for General purpose. HOT SPOT—An approved gas company room heater. Sizes and prices to accommodate your needs. RELIANCE—Hardy little portable eastern, hardy, durable. A very hardy, hygienic grate equipment. Design to furnish with all styles of interior decoration. GAS STEAM RADIATOR—Steam Heat without cool. Every Radiator an individual heating plant. Nojanhorneded. There are many other interesting modern appliances in the room. They over at our "Exhibition Hall & Customer Rest Room." People Gas Building, or any of our Neighborhood Stores: North Side 2071 Island Ave. 3845 Irving Park Blvd. 408 West North Avenue South Side 701 West Riley-Valley St. 2142 W. Millburn St. 180-5 East Third St. 1641 Milwaukee Ave. 408 Commercial Avenue 3724 W. Twenty-third St. 1185 Michigan Avenue 4053 W. Milwaukee St. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Telephone Central 5633 Residence Douglas 2616 Mrs. Warner Painless Chiropody 15 Years' Experience Opposite Palmer House 120 So. State Street CHICAGO Warblers of All Kinds Not taking into account the human beings who are sometimes referred to as warblers, you will find that there are many kinds of warblers. If you had a collection of them all together they would take in about all the colors of the rainbow, yellow, orange, cheat, black, white, green, gray, brown and other colors, with numerous shades entering into their beautiful plumage. Bellefa Concerning Sapphire. To the sapphire has been ascribed wicked thoughts; that it is such an enemy to poison that if put in a glass with a spider or venomous reptile it will kill it. St. Jerome in his exposition of the nineteenth chapter of Isaiah says that the sapphire procures favor from princes, pacifies enemies, frees from enchantment and obtains release from captivity. This gem was sacred to Apollo and was worn when inquiring of the oracle at his shrine. It was esteemed a remedy against fire. TELEPHONE GEORGE F. H REAL insist on Recognition. The best ideas in the world will not work themselves. Usually the best things have to be impressed upon folks. There's something in human nature that seems willing to fall for the nonsense of life much more readily than it takes on life's responsibilities. Call it what you will. The name you give it won't alter the facts. So the only thing left is to get under the load and carry it to success. You must not get tired. Let others grow weary and quit. The leader and reformer you must trudge on and by your dogged seal compel recognition for yourself and what you stand for—Grit. The Movies of 1718. On another page of this paper was printed recently an alleged newly discovered manuscript by Aristotle philosophising on the movies. Mr. Walkley was joking, of course; but there is no joke about this extract from Swift's "Journal to Stella," dated March 27, 1718: "I went afterward to see a famous moving-picture, and I never saw anything so pretty. You see a sea ten miles wide, a town on 'other end and ships sailing in the sea and discharging their cannon," etc.-Boston Transcript. The Alban Calendar. In the ancient Alban calendar, in which a year was represented as consisting of ten months of irregular length, April stood first with 36 days to its credit. In the calendar of Romulus it had 30 days, while Numa's twelve-month calendar assigned it to fourth place, with 29 days; and so it remained until the reformation of the calendar by Julius Caesar, when it recovered its former 30 days, which it has since retained. His Drawing Powers. "Can you draw?" an applicant for a private tutorship was asked. "Certainly," replied the candidate; "at ten years of age I could draw clerk; at twelve, a picture; at fifteen, a hand-cart loaded with cabbage; at sixteen, an inference; at twenty, a bill of exchange. If I were an actor I believe I could draw the largest house; but, being a teacher, I am content to draw a small salary!" Beautiful Birds. There are about fifty different kinds of birds of paradise, which are among the most beautiful of the world's feathered creatures, and their home is in the South seas, on the continent of Australia and islands and countries nearby. These birds live in forest treetops and are very lively and active, jumping about and hanging from the limbs of the trees. Cost of Producing a Diamond. To produce a diamond in the rough costs approximately $7 a karat, according to estimates of various students of the diamond industry. If this diamond properly cut were sold at $30, it would not a good profit. In the South African mines it is said the diamonds are distributed so evenly that 100 tons of the blush clay yields about 100 karats of diamonds. The production cost of a five-karat diamond is $35. If it is flawless and of good water it will easily net $3,500. The supply of diamonds is unlimited. Almost all of the world's supply comes from South Africa and complete control of it is in the hands of one British concern. PHONE MAIN 814 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118' N. La Salle Street CHICAGO Residence 4829 Wabash Ave. Telephone Boulevard 1800 JAMES G. COTTER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 145 NORTH CLARK STREET SUITE 407 Telephone, Central 2884 CHICAGO Formerly Assistant Attorney General State of Illinois Res. 3646 Grand Bobl. Doug. 4397 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 16-17 Phone: Douglas 6351 CHICAGO F. Dunn, J. B. McCahey Trustees Tel: Oakland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN Established 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Fifty-First and Federal Streets CHICAGO Residence, 1262 Macallister Place Tel. Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLK. Clark and Washington Streets Phone Central 1230 CHICAGO Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4183; Residence, 4753 Champlain Ave. Phone Draxel 8178. Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 8419 South Park Ave. Phone Douglas 5934 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Phone: Calumet 875 2 BAST THIRTY-FIRST ST. Suite 7 CHICAGO Audience 3885 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 6188 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 82-398 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 84 W. Washington Street CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 244 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to C. E. KREYSSLER DRUGGIST 5467 South State Street Near 51st St. Not On the Corner CHICAGO EXELENTO FOR KINKYHAIR "Every woman can have nice, long hair," says May Gilberts. "My body has grown 5 inches long by using your wonderful EXELENTO QUININE POWDER. Don't be fooled by the KINKYHAIR powder. You can't stand it until you smell it and long. Our powder removes control, feeds the skin of the hair and makes it grow long and silky. We make Exelento Skin Restorifier, an antimicrobial cream and skin. Used in treatment of skin troubles. PRICE OF EACH 25¢ 15 STAMPS OR COMMITMENT EVERYWHERE EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. ```markdown ``` Sensations of Heat and Cold. The feeling of cold or warmth is caused by sensations in the skin and has little significance as to the body temperature. On a hot day one may feel very hot when the body temperature is quite normal. Again at the beginning of a fever one may feel cold as in the case of a chill. This chilly feeling is caused by the contrast between the higher temperature of the internal organs and still normal temperature of the skin. You can if you can; make you gentle or an ant or a common appeal has been pleasant buffed harshly A Terrifier. A Terriner. An artist was sketching from the river bank near two friends who were fishing. The artist was at one time surrounded by cows which interfered with his view, and he tried to drive them away by throwing things at them, but they would not budge. At length one of the anglers cried: "Show them your sketch, old man!" He did so, and the offenders fled. West En Ashland S CAPITAL AND SU 1610 West 63rd Street COMPARATIVE STATEMENT LAST SEV West Englewood Fishland State Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $800,000.00 West 63rd Street RATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSIT LAST SEVEN YEARS COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS FOR LAST SEVEN YEARS November 18, 1912.....$ 836,605.23 November 17, 1913..... 988,386.38 November 17, 1914..... 912,005.69 November 17, 1915..... 1,059,400.64 November 17, 1916..... 1,182,750.71 November 17, 1917..... 979,377.47 November 18, 1919..... 1,284,084.24 November 17, 1919..... 2,359,636.62 OFFICE JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, VP EDW. C. BARRY, W. MERLE F. ARTHU Largest Labor of Negroes Every Craft of Railroa OVER 20,000 OVER 150 OFFICERS AIN, President HAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant C ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst West Labor Organiza- tion of Negroes in the Wor- ley Craft of Railroad Work Represen- tion OVER 20,000 MEMBERS OVER 150 LOCALS JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant Cashier ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. OVER SIX YEARS OLD This association has done more than all other labor agencies con- ASK THE MEN Now housed in the magnificent the Appomattox Club—recentiters. Railway Men's Benevolent Industry General Headquarters Appomattox Club Association has done more for the railroad man other labor agencies combined. ASK THE MEN WHO KNOW housed in the magnificent home formerly nattox Club—recently purchased as our L Railway Men's International Solent Industrial Association General Headquarters, 3441 Wabash Ave. Club CHICAGO This association has done more for the railroad man of color than all other labor agencies combined. Now housed in the magnificent home formerly used by the Appomattox Club—recently purchased as our headquarters. Railway Men's International Benevolent Industrial Association General Headquarters, 3441 Wabash Ave. Appomattox Club CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone: Douglas 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN CHICAGO'S REPLI UNDERT Finest Establishment GEO. T. KERSEY D. A. McG Propriet 3515 INDIANA AVENUE MURSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSEY CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. S. MURSEY D. A. McGOWAN WM. J. MC Proprietors MANA AVENUE CHICAGO KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE ARNEST H. WILLIAMSON UNDERTAKER BROAD-KENWOOD 436 021-5028-5030 S. State Street It's a dream to be a successful pro- grammer. How to be a pro- grammer? How to be a pro- grammer? How to be a pro- grammer? The Cunningham Car Trail Pointer. You can't make your face, Perhaps, if you could, you would make it different; perhaps not. But you can make your voice. You can make it gentle or harsh, you can make it pleasant or quarrelsome, you can make it common or refined, you can make it appealing or repelling. Many a job has been refused because of an unpleasant voice, many a friendship rebuffled because of tones that grate harshly on the car. A "common" voice slams tight shut the door of many social and business opportunities—Indianapolis Star. Devices on Old Playing Cards. In the seventeenth century English cards were embellished with heraldic designs. The king of clubs bore the coat of arms of the pope of Rome. Spades, diamonds and hearts were adorned respectively with the armorial devices of the kings of France, Spain and England—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Anglewood State Bank URPLUS $300,000.00 Chicago ENT OF DEPOSITS FOR EN YEARS CERS Sece President Cashier ISHER, Assistant Cashier R C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. Organization in the World and Work Represented MEMBERS LOCALS for the railroad man of color combined. 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A peculiar case which recently came before a London magistrate was that of a woman who applied for a separation from her husband, whom she denounced as the champion mean man of all England. She complained that her husband during the sugar famine kept his supply in a separate bowl, in which he imprisoned a fly. If the fly was still there when he returned home nobody had tampered with his hoard; if it was not, a lump or two had been taken. Cut out this Subscription THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL. Cut out this Subscription Blank and Mail it to JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter my name as a subscrib to THE BROAD AX. I enclose herewith Two Dollars, the annual subscription to same, or One Dollar for six months. THE HOTEL The Cranford Apartment Bldg. 3600 WABASH AVENUE The finest building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile baths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. 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