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JOS. P. OWENS, THE BRAVE AND HEROIC COLORED POLICEMAN Should Be Presented With A Diamond Medal By All the Citizens of Chicago for Risking His Life in Attempting to Rescue the American Flag from the Hands of the Rank Enemies of the Colored Race and the United States Government Rev. R. D. Jonas, or Jonah, Should Not Be Permitted to Mingle Around With the Colored People at Their Public Meetings and Assist to Stir Up Strife and Agitation Between the Races, Which Generally Ends in Serious Trouble and Bloodshed. Several Years Ago He Was Connected With a Chain of Grocery Stores on the South Side, and After Many Short Sighted Colored People Had Bought Stock in Them They Suddenly Closed Up, Enabling Some One to Make Considerable Easy Money Out of the Deal. The Formal Opening of the Beautiful Appomattox Club, 3632 Grand Boulevard, Monday Evening, Was a Very Home-like and Brilliant Affair. Dancing Followed the Reception. A Long Line of Autos Conveyed the Cream of High Society to and From the Club. Monday evening the more than six hundred members of the far famed beautiful Appomattox Club, 3632 Grand boulevard, celebrated its formal opening and from start to finish it Benjamin E. Mitchem, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Babb, Mr. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Watkins, Hon. A. H. Robb VOL. XXV JOS. P. OW Should Be Presen ing to I Rev. R. D. Jonas, or Jonah, Sh gle Around With the Color ings and Assist to Stir Up the Races, Which General Bloodshed. Several Years Ago He Was Co cery Stores on the South Sighted Colored People Ha Suddenly Closed Up, Enal siderable Easy Money Out There are always any number of thoughtless Colored men and women, the same as there are always any number of thoughtless white men and women who are always dissatisfied with their condition or position in life, who will not raise their little finger to improve it in the slightest degree, and that class of Colored and white men and women always labor under the false impression that if they could only be transferred five or ten thousand miles from where they are then existing to some new state or country, that dame fortune would easily and readily smile upon them without the slightest effort on their part. It is that class of white and Colored people who never entertain the idea for one minute of "casting down their buckets just where they are." It seldom enters the heads or the shallow minds of that class of white and Colored men and women, that the vast majority of the people in this country were not born with silver spoons in their mouths, that comparatively speaking very few people are able to float through this grand old world on flowery beds of ease; that it is up to each and every human being to carve out their own pathway through this life and to make the best of their present position in life. This brings us to the subject under discussion which has been upermost in the minds of all the people residing in this city and throughout the country for the past week, namely, "the Star Order of Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian missionary movement, back to Abyssinia." for some time past under the directorship or the leadership of Dr. R. D. Jonas or Jonah, a white man, who has been for some years engaged in hanging around with or among colored people, stirring up bitter strife between them and the whites, the leaders of the above mentioned movement have been holding meetings in the various colored churches in this city in the interest of the back to Abyssinia movement, near the first of January, 1920, the writer attended a meeting at Bethel Church which was addressed by several of the ring leaders of the movement and the way they flouted the American flag and held it up to contempt caused our two hundred per cent of Americanism to boil to fever heat and we did not hesitate in withdrawing from the meeting long before it had come to an end. In wending our way to our humble little home we concluded that it would only be a question of time before the leaders of the Abyssinian movement and the Abyssinian Princes would get themselves into serious trouble as well as many colored people who followed them and on last Sunday afternoon they held their second parade along on State street, it seems that Dr. Jonas or Jonah was not in the Sunday parade but that he marched in the one held on Sunday afternoon, June 13, and just as the parade wound up at Entertainers Hall, 35th and Indiana avenue, where they intended to hold another meeting Grover Cleveland Redding the head ruler of the back to Abyssinian movement to show his utter contempt for the American flag, produced one and started to burn or damage it right in the presence of thousands of colored people, at that point Police Officer Joseph P. Owens, colored, rushed forward to save and defend Old Glory, and for his bravery and true Americanism he was fired upon and severely wounded, and all the citizens of Chicago should hope and pray that his life will be spared so that he can be amply rewarded for his brave and daring deed, Robert L. Rose, a white sailor, was the first person to rush to the aid of Officer Ciarlo, in an effort to save the American flag and he was shot dead for his bravery and trouble, Joseph Hoyt, also white, was shot down in cold blood in the United Cigar Store at 35th street and Prairie avenue, where Sailor Rose had run for protection William Carter, colored, was wounded ```markdown ``` THE BROAD AX and several other persons received a few stray shots from the short rifles of the high chiefs of the Abyssinian movement. Grover Cleveland Redding, the real head and front of the Abyssinian movement, generally collects a dollar a head from all the men and women who join it, contends that he fired the shots that killed Sailor R. L. Rose and wounded Police Officer Joseph P. Owens, Prince or Grand Ruler Redding, also claims that he had bought one thousand rounds of revolver and rifle ammunition, but insisted that this was to be used, according to the original plan, for defense purposes only, after a riot had been successfully started. He said that the purpose of the riot was to lead to the deportation of Negroes and that the skilled members of the deported group would be induced to select Abyssinia as a place of permanent residence. In concluding it must be borne in mind that the whites did not start the riot against colored people but that it was a few colored men who are rank enemies of the colored race and to the American flag who attempted to start a race riot for selfish purposes. The city officials of Chicago, the state officials of Illinois and the United States government officials should see to it at once that all persons, white or colored, who express or display their outward contempt for the American flag should be regarded as rank and archists and enemies to society, law and order and they should at once be deported from these shores, for Old Glory must at all times be respected on land or on the seas. HAMPTON CURIEIBULUM BE MODELED-BETTER TRAINING OFFERED PROSPECTIVE TEACH. BBS-COLELEGIATE COURSE IN AGRICULTURE-TRADE SCHOOL AIMS-COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOLS MAKE PROGRESS. Hampton, Va.—The chief task of the year has been the revision of the courses of study, in pursuance of the recommendations and suggestions of the survey made in 1917 for the General Education Board by Prof. Paul H. Hanus and his corps of expert assistants. The several chapters of this report have been transmitted as fast as they were finished; and all have now been received except those on the administration and the graduates of the school. The successive chapters, in most cases prepared by the various specialists employed, and their recast by Dr. Hanus himself, are as follows: (1) The Academic-Normal Department. (2) The Trade School. (3) The Business Course. (4) The Agricultural Course. (5) Music (Professor Davison of Harvard). (6) Play and Physical Training. (7) Home Economics. (8) Administration. (9) The Graduates. All these reports have been illuminating and valuable. Some, naturally, have been more serviceable than others, but the school has been benefited by all. Friendly criticism, provided it is really friendly and really critical, is always wholesome and stimulating; and the more interested and the keener it is, the better. As Dr. Frisell evidently perceived, a remodeling of the Hampton curriculum was desirable; and the advantage of having such a wealth of expert advice for the task is inexpressible. The Institute owes a large debt of gratitude to the General Education Board, to Dr. Hanus, and to his coadjutors, for the new impetus which they have given to the work of this school, to Negro education and to rational educational progress everywhere. In recent years the Institute has offered (besides the preparatory courses, covering two years for those not yet ready to enter the regular vocational course), an academic-normal course CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1920. ATTORNEY VIOLETTE N. ANDERSON. The first colored woman graduate from any law school within the State of Illinois, and she has been admitted to the bar of this city and state. The graduation exercises of the Chicago Law School was held Sunday, June 20, at the Oriental Consistory. Among those receiving the degree of Batchelor of Laws was Violette N. Anderson who passed the Spring State Bar examination and is now a licensed practicing attorney. Miss Anderson was the recipient of many valuable gifts and showered with innumerable bouquets of flowers. She received two honorariums one for scholarship and one for a thesis on Marriages and Divorce and was the only woman member of the class of 1920. The following program was rendered on that auspices occasion: Invocation, Rev. Wm. R. Wedderspoon, D. D.; Greetings, Mr. William L. Sharp, Commander-in-Chief, Oriental (for those intending to teach), a matron's course, courses in agriculture, home economics, and business, and a trade course in any one of thirteen trades. All of these covered four years. There have also been several short courses of twelve months or less in various mechanical and agricultural branches, and a special course in library methods Beginning next autumn, the Academic-Normal Course will be replaced by a six years' course including four years of secondary work—corresponding to the ordinary high school course—followed by two years of more distinctly professional training. The lenthening of this course is due to the necessity, emphasized by Dr. Hanus and increasingly recognised by the graduates and friends of the Institute, of giving to students intending to teach, thorough training, such as will enable them to take charge of classes above, as well as below, the seventh grade, and also to be principals of county training schools and similar institutions. Collegiate Course in Agriculture Collegiate Course in Agriculture. The present four-years, Agricultural Course will be replaced by a collegiate course of three years (36 continuous months) based on four years of secondary work, and intended specifically to train teachers of agriculture and county farm-demonstration agents. The demand for colored men qualified for these positions has been much increased by the operation of the Smith Lever and the Smith-Hughes Aces. There are probably no other institutions in the South except Hampton and Tuskegee which have the teaching personnel, land, buildings, machinery, live-stock, and other facilities for giving Negro students this kind of instruction. The undertaking of it seems to be for Hampton a peculiar responsibility, a wide opportunity, and the next duty. The Trade-School Course has been revised so as to distribute the time more satisfactorily between "academic" and "vocational" subjects. The aims of the Trade school are; (a) to train competent artisans; (b) through the academic, religious, and social influences of the school to train citizens Consistency; Aesthetic Chiego, Hon. Charles H. Wacker and Mr. Walter D. Moody; Sculptural Portrait Art, Mr. Edward Edstrom, Swede-American Sculptor, New York; Glandular Transplantation, Dr. John R. Brinkley, Director-in-Chief, Gland Transplantation Laboratory; Address, Dr. H. W. Ballou, Editor Science News Service, New York; Valedictory Center, Cecil Emery; Honor Awards, Prof. W. W. Schmaugh; Presentation of Candidates, Dean Howard Henderson; Honors Conferred, Chancellor J. J. Tobias. The graduates, Bachelors of Laws, were as follows: Louis Ames, Violette N. Anderson, Rudolph Borkenhagen, Joseph B. Caracei, John J. Collins, Antonie J. Dupont, Edwia A. Gabel Blaine B. Gernon, Lawrence B. Geman, Harry W. Graham, Melville T. capable of community leadership; (c) to enable those suited to the work to prepare for teaching." This statement, it will be observed, is in accord with Dr. Hanus's dictum: "While puising its dominant aim—to train skilled artisans—it should not fail to provide for all its students training for citizenship and for participation in the extra-vocational interests of educated men." The Business Course has been strengthened by the requirement of two preliminary years of secondary work, and by a careful revision of the commercial subjects offered in the four following years. The rapidly increasing opportunities in business that are now being opened to Negroes, and the demand for teachers of business seem likely to make this a popular and thoroughly useful course. The Home-Economics Course, like the new Academic-Normal Course, will henceforth cover six years, including four years of secondary preparation and two years of advanced special training. It is designed to fit young women to be teachers of home economics, home demonstration agents, and supervising industrial teachers. Trained colored women in these and similar fields of service are immensely needed. Preparatory Courses Offered The "preparatory" courses—now covering two years below the trade courses and below the four years of secondary or "academic" work—will be continued as long as seems necessary, in order to provide for students coming from communities where the public schools do not yet extend through eight grades. But it is hoped that before many years the improvement of the colored rural schools will be such that these two "preparatory" years—or at least the lower one—of the高中 curriculum can be dropped out. Such a general lifting of the level of Hampton's teaching may seem bold, but the members of the staff, as well as the graduates and many authoritative counselors believe it to be warranted. Other colored schools throughout the South are raising their stan- Haggerty, F. Alexander Koehn, George J. John, William F. K. Compare, Justus G. Lamson, Joseph A. Landberg, Simpson Maxwell, Edward J. Maxwell, Edward J. Marke, Herschel I. McKinley, James K. Miller, Karl Monte, Samuel R. Rappold, Robert A. Reid, Hiram Ross, Lewis Scharf, Edward S. Seymanski, Demetrius A. Tasiopoulos, Herbert W. Witte and John Yusim. Class officers: John J. Collins, President; Louis Ames, Vice-President; Violette N. Anderson, Secretary; Robert A. Reid, Treasurer; Cecil Emery, Valedictorian. Attorney or Judge Anderson has the honor and the great distinction of being the first colored woman to graduate from any law school in the State present to the afternoon conference a of Illinois. dards, and Hampton cannot afford to lag behind. The "county training schools"—rural schools extending at least through the eighth grade and emphasizing industrial training—with the stimulating help of the Slater Fund and the General Education Board, are rapidly multiplying, there being this year 108 against 71 in 1918-19. These schools should not only turn out grade teachers with rudimentary training; but, so far as their more promising pupils are concerned, they should become sources of supply to Hampton, Tuskegee, and other higher institutions. As time goes on and the county training schools add grade after grade, they will approach the standards of the city high schools. Hampton should not seek to duplicate or to compete with their work, but rather to stimulate, develop, and complete it. The establishment of the advanced courses which have just been described is, therefore, we believe, a timely step in the right direction. CARDINAL GIBBONS HONORS RACE NUNS. Baltimore, Md.—With Cardinal Gibbons and other notables present, Sister Mary Bonaventure Lee celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of her career as a nun at the Sister Sisters of Providence Thursday of last week. At the same time Mother Mary Elizabeth Dowmain, Mother Mary Juliana Beckans, Mother Mary Petra Boston, Sisters Mary Dolores Swann, Mary Irene Jackson, Mary Gerard Morris, Mary Johanna Osborne and Mary Lawrence celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their novitiate. The Oblate Sisters of Providence is a Colored order with a branch in St. Louis. LEAVES FOR HOME. After attending the National Republican convention and visiting some of the local lodges in the city, Hon. William H. Fields, National Grand Master of A. U. K. & D. of A., off the city a few days ago for his home in St. Louis, Mo., by the way of Indianapolis, Ind. The Formal Opening of the Beautiful Appomattox Club, 3632 Grand Boulevard, Monday Evening, Was a Very Home-like and Brilliant Affair. Dancing Followed the Reception. A Long Line of Autos Conveyed the Cream of High Society to and From the Club. Monday evening the more than six hundred members of the far famed beautiful Appomattox Club, 3632 Grand boulevard, celebrated its formal opening and from start to finish it was by far the most home like, and brilliant social affair ever held among the very best class of colored people in this city, plenty of rare and beautiful flowers were in evidence in the spacious parlors on the main floor and throughout the evening or the reception sweet strains of soul enchanting music from a string orchestra flotted out over the hundreds of the most charming ladies who were most gorgeously arrayed in the most costly gowns and bedecked with diamonds and pearls, causing them to resemble fairy queens of the first magnitude and the gentlemen in full dress suits with high standing collars forcing them to hold their heads erect or aloft. Like military chieftains presented a most bewitching and fascinating scene long to be remembered. Benjamin E. Mitchem, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Babb, Mr. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Watkins, Hon. A. H. Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. J. Frank Armstrong, Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis and their daughter, Miss Caro Lewis, and their Mrs Robert H. Hardin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Wright, Mr. Charles E. Morrison, Mr. John N. Blackshear, Mr. James W. Woodlee, Major and Mrs. Adam E. Patterson, Mr. F. P. Edwards and Miss Ruth McCoo, who resembled a charming new bride or a prospective charming bride, Mr. and Mrs. Herman K. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Dellie Young, Mrs. Harry Boger, Mr. A. L. McBride, Mr. and Mrs. James Newsome, Mrs. Dolly Jennings and her sister, Mrs. Alone Townsend Williams of Jersey City, N. J., Mrs. Belle Patton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wilson, Mr. Julius F. Tailor and special guest Mrs. Ice cream, cake and other choice cool refreshments were served in great abundance and no pains nor expense was spared to entertain the wives of its members, their lady friends and the invited guests from afar in the most home like and hospitable manner. President and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. David B. Hawley, Mr. F. S. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cornwell, Mr. and Mrs. Marek, Cowan, Mr. David M. Manson, Mr. and Mrs. NEWS ITEMS FROM BILLINGS, MONTANA. (Special to The Broad Ax.) Mrs. Lottie J. Gamble, Worthy Grand Matron, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in Billi.gs last Saturday evening and was the guest of Mrs. Edith Baker, South 26th street. Mrs. Gamble is touring the West in the interest of the Eastern Star Chapters and will visit Helena, Montana, before returning to Kansas City. Miss Alice York, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles York of Helena, Montana, spent a day off in Billings last week en route home from Kansas City, Mo., where she has been the last three years taking a course in nursing in one of the Race hospitals of Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Baker, Miss Marie Baker and Master H. J. Jr., were recent visitors to Billings via Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. E. E. Major has gone to Fargo, N. Dakota, to visit hen husband. Mrs. Liza Miles and daughter Lillian and Bernice Weeden of Townsend, Montana, have moved to Billings. Mrs. Minnio Marshall ad son Leon of Fargo, N. Dakota, passed through Billings en route to Thermopolis, Wyoming. See D. H. Harris, 2604 Minnesota avenue, and get a Race Journal, weekly. NEGRO NEWS PICTORIAL A very interesting, inspiring and educational occurrence has been taking place in Washington during the past week. The Camera Man of the Monumental Pictures Corporation, recently organized by Lieut. J. Williams Clifford for the purpose of portraying in its true light the Negro's progress before the world, was photographing the many institutions of learning and places of business which stand as monuments to the achievement and progress of the Negro in the Nation's Capital. Among the scenes taken were the Howard University Commencement and the Competitive Drill of the Washington High School Cadets. This picture will be similar to the Pathe News, and it is hoped that it will be shown in Benjamin E. Mitchem, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Babb, Mr. and Mrs. Cary B. Lewis, Mrs. B. F. Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Watkins, Hon. A. H. Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. J. Fmkn Armstrong, Dr. and Mrs. G. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis and their daughter, Miss Caro Lewis, Mr. and Mrs Robert H. Hardin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Wright, Mr. Charles E. Morrison, Mr. John N. Blackshear, Mr. James W. Woodlee, Major and Mrs. Adam E. Patterson, Mr. F. P. Edwards and Miss Ruth McOo, who resembled a charming bride, Mr. and Mrs. Herman K. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Dellie Young, Mrs. Harry Boger, Mr. A. L. McBride, Mr. and Mrs. James Newsome, Mrs. Dolly Jennings and her sister, Mrs. Alone Townsend Williams of Jersey City, N. J., Mrs. Belle Patton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wilson, Mr. Julius F. Taylor and special guests A. C. Richardson, Los Angeles, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas, and Mrs. E. Benfrowe, Mrs. George W. Holt, Col James H. Johnson, Mr. James N. Simms, Attorney Violente N. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mitchem, Mr. Nathan E. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Booker of Little Rock, Ark., and M. Othello Collins, were among those who were in evidence during the delightful reception which was the top notch social function among the most up-to-date colored people residing in Chicago. every colored theatre in the United States because of its inspirational and educational value. The Monumental Pictures Corporation has not been organized more than two months and yet the men at its head are putting out this one reel picture along educational lines. Shares in the Corporation are now selling for $1.25 each, and it should be the duty of every race loving Negro to give this corporation his financial and moral support. THE LATE PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WAS SOLD FOR FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS WHEN HE WAS SIX YEARS OLD. The report is going the rounds that when Booker T. Washington was six years old he was quoted at $400. His mother was valued at $250 and his uncle at $600. His brother John' was set down at $550, being a few years older than Booker. His uncle must have been considerably along in age at the time as he was worth only $50 more than the ten-year-old boy, John. It is said that this inventory which has been kept in a good state of preservation, is now the property of S. O. Burroughs, of Boanoke, Va. Mr. Burroughs, some time before Dr. Washington's death, supplied the noted Negro with a copy of this record. THE ILLINOIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK IS ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST SOLID BANKING INSTITUTIONS IN CHICAGO. This great city has more solid banking institutions than any other city in the United States, or in any other part of the wide world, and none of the great banking institutions in this city are more solid or stand on a firmer foundation than the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and hundreds of the thrifty Colored citizens residing in Chicago transact their banking business with the old reliable and solid Illinois Trust and Savings Bank—La Salle at Jackson. The National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will meet at Tuskegee Institute in July. A large delegation of officers, members and friends from this city will leave July 10 over the C. & B. L. in special trains. They will be joined at Cincinnati by a large eastern delegation. This is destined to be a great meeting and every effort is being made to make it a pleasant [Name not visible in the image] THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899 without missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholic, Protestants, Single Taxes, Priests, indols or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fired. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 So. Elizabeth St., Chicago, Ill. Phone Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher DR. M. A. MAJORS Associate Editor 4780 South State Street Phone Drexel 1416 Vol. XXV June 26, 1920. No. 40. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago, IL. Under Act of March 8, 1879. SHINE JUST WHERE YOU ARE Don't waste your time in longing, For bright, impossible things; Don't sit supinely yearning For the swiftness of wings; Don't spurn to be a rush-light Because you are not a star, But brighten some bit of darkness By shining just where you are. There is need of the tiniest candle, As well as the garish sun; The humblest deed is ennobled When it is worthily done; You may never be called to brighter The darkened regions afar; So fill, for the day, your mission By shining just where you are. —John Hay. HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT ELEV- ED EXALTED RULER OF FORT DEARBORN LODGE NO. 44, OF ELKS. Last week all the members of Fort Dearborn Lodge No. 44, of Elks, held their regular meeting for the election of new officers for the next six months, and every member, more than six hun- dred in number, without one dissenting vote or voice, voted for Hon. Ed- ward H. Wright for Exalted Ruler of that Lodge, which simply proves that he stands ae high with all of its members. EXPECTED HERE Miss Maggie Townsend, of Finchley, Va., who was graduated from the V. N. & I. I. ut Petersburg, Va., in May, is expected to visit her aunt, Mrs. L. M. Canada, 602 E. 41st street, as well as other relatives. 1 HON. S. B. TURNER Member of the Legislature f of Illinois, attorney-at-law, who Society at Bethel Church, More Future of the Colored Race in Member of the Legislature from the First Senatorial District of Illinois, attorney-at-law, who will address the Bethel Literary Society at Bethel Church, Monday evening, June 28, on "The Future of the Colored Race in Illinois." E. H. WILLIAMSON, THE PROGRESSIVE FUNERAL DIRECTOR, WILL SOON HAVE ONE OF THE MOST MODERN UNDERTAKING ESTABLISHMENTS IN CHICAGO. Ernest H. Williamson, the progressive and enterprising funeral director at 5028-5030 8. State street, is constructing a new funeral establishment of his own, on the east side of State street, between 51st and 52nd streets MR. D. H. HARRIS, BILLINGS MONTANA, HANDLES THE BROAD AX IN HIS HOME TOWN For the past six weeks Mr. D. H. Harris, who is full of Race pride and greatly interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the Colored race, who is one of the successful business men of Billings, Montana, represents The Broad Ax in his home town. At the present time he disposes The building is three stories high and basement, bright red pressed brick front, which makes it very attractive. Mr. Williamson owns almost seventy feet of frontage on State street at that point and when his new under taking establishment is fully completed, it will be the most modern of any establishment in his line of business in Chiang. Mr. George Walker, of Pittsburgh Pn., is visiting relatives in the city and is stopping with Mrs. Nettie Anderson. 3224 Vernon avenue. Mrs. Anna L. Edwards, of Evanston, Ill., in company with Mrs. Mims, has gone to Staunton, Va., where she will spend several months with relatives. Modern usage recognizes four continents—Eurasia, Africa, North America and South America—and is divided as regards Australia, which is variously styled a continent and a continental island. The title, Antarctic continent, is sometimes given to a great body of land supposed to occupy the south polar region. Formerly Europe and Asia were accounted as two continents. Nails are driven through two boards at once at an angle and clinched into the second board by an English inventor's boxmaking machine. Of course there are others, but one kind of a simp is the girl who carries a muff in the summer and marries a muff in the winter.—Dallas News. VISITS RELATIVES TO VISIT VIRGINIA The Continents. Boxmaking Facilitated Muff and Mutt MR. D. H. HARRIS, BILLINGS MONTANA, HANDLES THE BROAD AX IN HIS HOME TOWN For the past six weeks Mr. D. H. Harris, who is full of Race pride and greatly interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the Colored race, who is one of the successful business men of Billings, Montana, represents The Broad Ax in his home town. At the present time he disposes of ten copies of the paper each and every week and in the near future expects to easily sell fifty copies per week. The Broad Ax can be found on sale each week at his South Side modern barber shop,2004 Minnesota avenue, Billings, Montana. Interesting facts concerning the earth's crust were disclosed by Col. Sir Sidney Burrard recently. "Isostasy" is the particular science which deals with the structure of the earth, and Sir Sidney told how all mountains and heights standing above the sea level are compensated by deficiencies of matter underlying them below sea level, and that all oceans and surface hollows dipping below sea level are compensated by excesses of matter underlying them in the crust. Trees Valuable to Farmer The value of trees on a farm can hardly be overestimated. A principle laid down by wise observers is that 5 per cent of all areas of plains and prairie states should be put into trees. The forest waters the farm. This is a patent fact in all regions where irrigation is practiced; it is not less true in all the rest of the country. Alwava the Silver Lining. We'll admit that the future of the so-called civilized world unfolds no radiant prospect to the vision of the student. Still, the sky can never become so black, but that a 60-pound watermelon will spray the frowning archway with rainbows and spangle the horizons with flashes of gold.—Houston Post. Atmosphere Above Earth's Surface. The atmosphere is believed to extend much more than 100 miles above the earth's surface. Its density decreases rapidly for the first few miles of ascent, then much more gradually. From the phenomena of twilight, due to refraction of light, it may be demonstrated that the air extends up to a height of 45 miles; but other phenomena, such as the behavior of meteors and the aurora, show that rare air exists at a much greater height. Spencer Popular in America. Herbert Spencer, the great philosopher, was more popular in America during his life than in England. When Spencer visited the United States, in 1882, his fame and influence were so securely established that one admirer offered to pay all the expenses incurred by the philosopher on his trip, and heads of railways offered him the most luxurious traveling facilities, while other friends vied with one another to make the tour comfortable, interesting and instructing. Fans In History In India the fan is most common and there are servants that do nothing else but follow their masters about with a punkah, a kind of large screen, with which they attempt to cool the atmosphere. In the early ages there were ecclesiastical fans, used to keep the files from the sacred bread and wine and when the pope of Rome goes forth in state large feather fans are carried, but are not used in the mass as they were in the Middle ages Something Like Cold! A commercial traveler gives a terrible account of the intense cold in Sweden: "In Haparanda, the day before I left, I attended a performance at the theater. It was a tragedy. Everybody wept; but it was so cold that the team of the spectators in the gallery fell like hallstone among the occupants of the stalls." Precursor of the Piano. The harpichord, comparatively modern, represented an attempt to construct a horizontal harp that was played upon by means of oblong wooden keys called "Jacka." Our plane is a modified and improved harpichord, invented in 1711 by Bartolomeo Olivarello of Pidauna. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE 28, 1920. The Earth's Crust. uHICAGO MUSIC ASSOCIATION. The Chicago Music Association met last Monday evening at the Wabash Ave. Y. M. C. A. After the transaction of the business, the following program was rendered: Prologue from Pagilacei, Mrs. Maud Sulzer; Debus y's Arabesque, Mrs. Maud Bousfield; Aria from Mascagni's Cavaleria Rusticana, Mrs. Annis Hackley; Sixth Rhapsody of Liszt, Goldie Guy; Gray's Mountain Shepherd Boy, arranged for Saxophone, Mrs. Hattie Hargrove accompanied by her daughter, Leona; Air from Pucini's Madam Butterfly, Mrs. Clara Hutchinson; and a piano solo by Mrs. Martha Mitchell, Mrs. P. S. Baird and T. Theo. Taylor accompanied the singe Mrs. Lena Holt, the president was elected to represent the association at the annual convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians which convenes in New York City, July 27-29. The Chicago Association has a membership of seventy-five of Chicago's most prominent musicians, many of whom are planning to attend the National Session. Berean Baptist Choir in Concert Director I. T. Yarbrough - and his choir set them no small task when they essayed to give two big works in one evening's program. Their efforts, however, came to fruition on last Tuesday evening when they presented Gaul's Holy City and Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Coleridge Taylor at Lincoln Center. When we arrived somewhat tard, we found these enthusiastic singers giving a good account of themselves on the latter part of "The Holy City." Mrs. J. A. Weathers was holding forth in the air "These are They." Mrs. Weathers possesses a soprano voice of rare quality and sings with a degree of earnestness that begets commendation wherever she appears. In the chorus "Great and Marvelous" the chorus acquitted itself nobly making the attacks with a clean cut precision that was refreshing. In Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, there was some uncertainty as to the entrance of the various sections and at times a slight variance as to pitch. Throughout the soprano section proved to be the most reliable, thanks to Mrs. Weathers and a few others. The tenor soloist, Mr. J. T. Myers, disclosed a pleasing voice. The chorus was supported by Mrs. Cordelia Yarbrough at the organ and Miss Eatella C. Bonds at the piano. On the whole it was an evening well spent and Director Yarbrough and his co-workers deserve great credit for the enthusiasm and earnestness exhibited in holding up the standard of good music in our community. Goldie Guy, who graduated from the high school this week received honorable mention from the faculty of the Chiano Piano College for her splendid work on the piano. She is one of our most promising musicians of the younger set. Mabelle Hill, organist of Bethesda Baptist Church, graduated with high honors from the Englewood High School on Wednesday evening. Mr. H. P. B. Johnson, of the Nati- onal Baptist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn., was in the city for a few days this week. He returned south Tuesday night. All friends are cordially invited to the Wabash Ave. Y. M. C. A. tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3 o'clock to hear Olva Jordan in Song Recital. Dreaming of Old Age. To dream of old age is a sign of coming good news. To see an old man is a sign of love for the young dreamer, a sign of success for the mature person. To see an old woman in one's dream foretells an immediate pleasant surprise.—Chicago Herald and Examiner. Alfalfa receives its name from an old Arab word which means in English "the best kind of fodder." The plant looks something like clover and grows very rapidly. In fact it grows so quickly that three or four crops can be harvested during the summer. Taking Chinese Census. The inhabitants of China are counted every year in a curious manner. The oldest master of every ten houses has to count the families and make a list, which is sent to the imperial taxhouse. Actions That Count. Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air until it eclipses the sun and the moon.—Emerson. "Safety First" Better Known. Today "safety first" is one of the most common expressions in the English language. Every one knows what it means and the principles it stands for. Daily Thought: As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor—Honor Bailman. BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY Hon. S. B. Turner will address Bethel Literary next Monday evening June 28th, at 8:30 o'clock. Subject, "The Future of the Colored People of the State of Illinois." Everybody in vited. Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D., Pastor. Sandy W. Trice, President. J. W Bell, Secretary. BAILEY BUSY M. T. Bailey, President. Bailey Realty Co., 3638 State street, is very busy selling lots in Morgan Park as well as property in Evanston, Glencoe and other suburbs to people coming from other states and who want to get away from the noise of the city. Many Reasons for Insomnia Many Reasons for Insomnia. Whenever sleep becomes coy and must be wooed it is a sign that something has gone amiss and must be remedied. To obtain sleep then becomes a search for a complex mental, emotional or physical thorn in the side. Loss of sleep may be due to some physical amiss such as an overburdened intestine or stomach, an abscessed tooth root, thickened tonsil, a skin irritated or cold, or an infection in some hidden, walled-off area of the anatomy. Equally as often some unconscious memory of financial reverses or difficulties, domestic complications or some other work banishes sleep. Carlsbad Always In Danger Carlsbad, the famous health resort, is built on a crust, underneath which is a subterranean lake of boiling water, and all the hot sulphur springs have to be ceaselessly watched and the pressure kept down lest the town be destroyed. Soul Vision. There's no monopoly of soul vision. It's not particular about the residence of its beneficiary. It finds the simple Maid of Orleans and makes her a great factor in history. It takes the youth, Luther, and makes him the reformer of religion. It has taken men from the plow, the garret, the sculery and raised them to eminence. It has also used the son of the mansion. It knows men as fit expressions of its purpose and not as individuals. It is limited only by the power of the soul to match itself with the great need.—Exchange. Found Out What Ailed Him. Billy's mother had bought some apple tarts for company, and when Billy spied them he said to his mother: "I have such a funny feeling in my stomach. I don't know whether I am thirsty or hungry." His mother said, "Take a drink of water," after which he said, "No, that isn't it. I still feel that way." Whereupon his mother gave him one of the tarts, and after eating it he said, "That was it, mother, I was hungry." Relecting 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 accosted 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-Bits. Remarkable Flight of Pigeon. A homing pigeon bearing the name of Ben Bolt was announced as having established a new long-distance flight recr' of 2,200 miles in the summer of 1915, from Norwalk, Ohio, to Los Angeles, Cal. The bird made the trip in five days nine hours and thirty-one minutes, arriving at Los Angeles August 30. 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 ear. A "common" voice slams tight the door of many social and business opportunities.—Indianapolis Star. Champlon Meanest Man. 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. Sickening Discovery. The teacher had read a chapter from "The History of the American Revolution" and Raymond had then heard the word "breastworks" for the first time. Telling his mother the story when he got home, he said: "When the British got up in the morning and saw the Americans on the opposite side of the hill, they threw up their breakfasts"—Boston Transcript. About Ideal Small Boy. There is something that always makes me feel good—that is a red-haired, freckle-faced little boy that can why all in his gang and at the same time is not a bully—Exchange. H HON. SHERIDAN E. FRY. One of the most extremely a Court, who may in the near fr late Judge M. W. Pinckney a Cook County. CHIPS. One of the most extremely popular judges of the Municipal Court, who may in the near future be selected to succeed the late Judge M. W. Pinckney as Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel, attended the graduating exercises of the Chicago Law School at the Oriental Consistory Auditorium, N. Dearborn street and Walton place, Sunday afternoon and they rode to and from it, in their beautiful new car . . . Harry Malone, who conducts a news stand and shoe-shining parlors at 3156 8. State street, has The Broad Ax en sale cach Saturday and on Sunday. Spencer Watts, the tailor at 1236 Indiana avenue, is kept busy all the time in repairing uniforms of the colored railroad men who hold forth around the Illinois Central 12th St. Station. Mrs. Mattie Alford, 3423 Wabash avenue, is able to be out again after an illness of several weeks which confined her to her home. An Apt Illustration. The teacher was quoting wise saws to the class and getting their opinion about them. She said: "A discreet silence is better than the truth spoken without charity.' Can any boy give a practical interpretation of that maxim?' Somewhat to her consternation, a freckle-faced lad made this homely application: "If you see a cockroach on the table, don't say anything about it."—From the Outlook. 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 Paint Dealer, Boiling Tin Cans. After trying many other processes of recovering tin from old cans, there is now, according to La Nature, a return to the old-fashioned method of boiling the scraps (well cleaned) in a solution containing an excess of free alkali and saltpeter. The tin is recovered as crystals of stannate of soda, and the alkali and saltpeter can be used over and over again. Daily Thought Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.—Emerson. High-Sounding Titles. Chinese emperors are never mentioned by name from the moment of their accession, and are generally attributed to by some such title as "Lord of a Myriad Years," or "The Son of Heaven." 一 DR. J. FRANK ARMSTRONG The new President of the Physicians', Dentist of Chicago. CHIPS popular judges of the Municipal future be selected to succeed the Judge of the Circuit Court of RACE STUDENT GRADUATES FROM UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA Omaha, Neb.—A Gerald Edwards, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Edwards, 2469 Erskine street, is a graduate of the college preparatory course, University of Omaha. He is the first colored person to graduate from this institution. He will enter the dental department of Northwestern University, Chicago, II. The suburbs of the city are growing rapidly in population with members of the Race from the city as well as other states who are desirous of getting out from the city and enjoy suburban comforts. GOES TO DETROIT A large delegation headed by Bishop G. L. Blackwell, who has been returned to this conference for the next four years, left the city Tuesday for Detroit, Mich., where they will attend the Michigan conference in session. After spending several days in Cincinnati and other cities in Ohio on business, Mr. George H. Jackson, pres. Pyramid Building & Loan Association, 3539 State street, has returned to the city. THE INSTALLATION OF THE NEW OFFICERS OF THE CHICAGO PHYSICIANS, DENTISTS AND PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION Tuesday evening the newly electo-officers of the Chicago Physicians and Pharmacists Association were duly installed at Unity Club, 3140 Indiana avenue. The officers for the coming year are as follows: Dr. J. Frank Armstrong, President; Dr. William W. Bradley, Vice-President; Dr. William W. Gibbs, Secretary; Dr. John W. Burrell, Assistant Secretary;; Dr. D. E. Burrows, Treasurer; Dr. H. Reginald Smith, Delegate to N. M. A. After their introduction into office the annual ball followed and danced was inulged in until 12 o'clock sharp. The affair was stricty formal and seldom in the history of Chicago have such an elegantly costumed assemblage of ladies and gentlemen been brought together on a similar occasion; in short the best and the thickest of the cream of the four hundred was present and it was a highly enjoyable affair from every view point. ysicians'; Dentists' Association SUBURBS GROW RETURNS CORRECTION HON. PAUL A. HAZARD. Able and popular lawyer, publican candidate for one Courts of Chicago. Able and popular lawyer, who would make an ideal Republican candidate for one of the judges of the Municipal Courts of Chicago. The Modern Mrs. Malaprop. A Washington newspaper correspondent tells of a Mrs. Malaprop who once amused the capital with her mistakes. She went around assing people to sign a "red robin" (meaning a round robin); spoke of her trix through the "Valley of Gethsemane" when she meant the Yosemite; and said, "I've been in the mountains, and, do you know, I jumped from rock to rock just like a shamrock"—From the Outlook. Hair For the Bald A French surgeon of the Pasteur institute claims to have discovered a process by which he can graft half to the scalp and so make the heads of the bald to blossom like the Seven Sutherland Sisters. He declares that he has already positively and permanently cured six bachelors of baldness through a slight surgical operation which is painless and leaves no ill effects. Greenland Source of Icebergs The source of practically all the icebergs of the arctic and sub-arctic regions is Greenland. Owing to the northward set of the West Greenland current the bergs of this side are carried first to the north and it is only at about the seventy-fourth or seventy-fifth parallel of latitude that they begin to make their way westward to come down on the American side. Had Many Sleeping Dizziness Had Many Sleeping Places. The average man probably sleeps in 100 beds or so during a long lifetime. A veteran commercial traveler whose home is in New York, can afford to smile at this record, for, he says, "I calculate that I have slept in at least 8,000 beds during my forty-odd years on the road, and I have slept in them all." Human Stepping Stones. There are said to be many "Raleighs" in China. When a Chinese lady comes to a muddy place in the road she usually gets over it by employing a human stepping stone. Beckoning a boy she gives him a small coin, in return for which he drops on his hands and knees in the mud for her to step over. "The Three Kings of Cologne." This refers to the three wise men of the East who followed the star to the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Their names are usually given as Malthazar, Gaspar and Melchior. Their bones are supposed to be preserved in the cathedral of Colgate. Admiration Goes Out to Him Admiration Goes Out to Him. We may say a fellow shows bad taste in devoting his life to painting or sculpting, but at the same time most of us have a speaking admiration for the one who can naturally do things we can't. Curtous Sea Charts A sea chart made of sticks and shells forms one of the curious exhibits to be seen in the South Sea Island hall of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. They were formerly used as guides by the skiffle and daring navigators of the Marshal Islands. Preserving Spider Webs Naturalists employ an ingenious method in order to preserve the web of the spider. The webs are first sprayed with a thin solution of artist's shellac and then, if of the ordinary geometric form, they are pressed carefully against a glass plate, the supporting threads of the web being severed. After the shellac solution has dried the plates carrying the webs are stored in a cabinet for later use in scientific work. who would make an ideal Re of the judges of the Municipal Beetles' Blood for Warts. Dr. E. Escomel describes in Anales de la Facultad de Medicina (Lima, Peru) certain psuedo beetles the blood of which has from time immemorial been used by the natives for curing warts. Under it these growths turn white, as if cauterized by an acid. Hanged for Not Drinking. Hanged for Not Drinking An old English story tells of "the saddler of Bawtry who was hanged for leaving his ale." It arises from the story that on the way to the gibbet where Bawtry malefactors exploited their crimes it was the custom to halt the procession at one spot, and give the criminal a farewell drink of beer. A saddler, marked for death, contemptuously refused the proffered draught and was promptly hanged. By just as many minutes later as he had declined to daily a breathless horseman arrived with a reprieve! When Sleep Will Not Come Don't hate the world and kick all night just because you don't happen to go to sleep. It damages your own nervous system, and any tender regard in which your roommate may have held you. Anger eats up energy and is responsible for next morning's very unpleasant day-after feeling. The lack of sleep mattered not at all. If instead of thrashing about viciously you had curled up cozily and day-dreamed, your night might have been salvaged, all might have been well—Exchance. The manner of "picture bride" marriages in California is this: A Japanese sends his picture to his relatives in Japan who select a suitable maiden and in turn forward her photograph to the waiting suitor in America. If satisfactory, the relatives on both sides meet, hold a banquet and the marriage is considered a fact. The wife then joins her husband in this country. His idea of Train's Action. There is a story of a Suffolk (England) yokel who, having lived some distance from a railway station, and being content with the society around him, had never had need of a train, and being brought into contact with a railway, stood watching this new wonder not far from a tunnel. His description of it afterward was that a train was more or less like a rabbit—"he ran up to the hole, let off an awful screech and bolted into it." When man Weighs Nothing. Prof. Edward V. Huntington of Harvard university showed by an elaborate mass of figures printed in Science that a man on a train moving along the equator westward at 18,700 miles an hour, or eastward at 16,700 miles an hour would weigh nothing, as measured by an observer on the train. Italian "City of Crime." Italian "City of Crime." The only town in the world which can boast of possessing more criminals than law-abiding folk is the Italian city of Artena, which is known as the City of Crime. For several hundred years nearly every criminal who has escaped prison or done time in Italy has emigrated to Artena, and today practically every inhabitant of the place is a criminal or the child of a criminal. Still Hope. Betty was talking with her mother about her little brother, and her mother said: "Betty, isn't it funny, Stuart and daddy have blue eyes, while you and I have green eyes!" Betty, thinking deeply, finally said: "Mayer mind, mother, ears will get rise some time." ```markdown ``` Charles E. Stump, Special Farmer Traveling Correspondent for The Broad Ax, Landed in Savannah Georgia, Where He Attended the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Masons of That State and Parted With Eighteen Dollars To Have Some Bogus Degrees of Masonry Conferred Upon Him. Savannah, Ga.—Have you ever been made a Mason? I tell you it is a great thing and you will just have to listen to me this week for I have a few real experiences to tell you, and I want to thank God that I am left here to tell the story and still I am moving around the world and will have so many more things to tell you before I get through with this world. do know when I came to myself I was given the real pass word, "Onions cabbage and potatoes," and on that I was permitted to rank with the brethren. When the lodge was opened, the next day I was there, and I met Grand Master H. R. Butler, who is a regular medical doctor and one of the finest men I have ever met. He is a You will recall when I wrote to you the last time I was looking after the next man who is to be president of the United States, and I am told that his name is Harding. Henry Lincoln Johnson was made a committeeman from Georgia and he is going to serve his people well, although there are some people who seem to be having the cramps over the thought that they have a Negro from Georgia. It may be a bitter pill, but sugar coat it and swallow it down. Now that Mr. Harding is nominated, and all things did not go to suit us in the convention, we are just going to fall in line now and help to elect the next president of the United States, for that man named in Chicago is the man the people are going to have serve them. Of course all the people are not satisfied, and it is not expected that they would be, but there are enough pleased to make a choice and it is going to be made. I have read many editorials in the Savannah, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., and other southern papers about the ceflection of Henry Lincoln Johnson, and saying that the Republican party can never build up a strong party in the South with the Negro in it. The white folks of the South have had an opportunity to join with the party and help to make it, but all that the Republicans have ever been able to get are a few white men who desire to hold the fat offices when the Republican party is in power. That is all the love the white South will ever have for Republicanism and you may say I told you so. I believe that if the Republican should come together and name Jesus Christ to run for an office on the Republican ticket, he would not receive any more votes than will Harding next November, and his real southern vote will be just us few who will be left to tell the tale. But I am not to talk politics this week, for I have a few other ticks I wish to talk to you about. I beat it from Chicago to Cincinnati then to Atlanta, and from there I got with a big crowd of men, occupying two cars going from Atlanta to Savannah, to attend the session of the Masonic Grand Lodge. This body having finished 50 years, decided to have a Golden Celebration, hence they called them together from all parts of the country—especially in Georgia. They wanted them to come together and thank God for fifty years of success. A fine program was arranged for the occasion, and I heard of it, and thought that I would get myself together and go down and see it myself. A body of men having agreed for the years. It was worth seeing, and you will believe me when I tell you it was an intelligent body at that. I may not get everything just straight, for I do not know much about the masonry business, but it is a dream, and a wonderland, a myth, and I wish I could say all the other things. I was there the first night when they had addresses of welcome, and let me tell you right that night the only people called up to make them Masons welcome were people who could truly make a welcome. There was not a man who said we welcome you to the homes of your people, and then lecture us about our morals and good conduct. The white man was not called upon to make a welcome address, but they were all of us. Sol C. Johnson, Editor of the Savannah Tribune, presided, and he is some presiding officer. They speakers spoke to the line, and and when it was all over every fellow felt that he was truly welcome. After hearing the addresses, the next thing that night was to find a nail on which to hang your hat, and that was not hard to do, because Rev. and Mrs P. W. Wrenn, throw open their doors and bade me walk in. Now the next thing was to get in shape to get in the grand lodge the next day, and it was worth all the trouble I had to go to in order to get there. I met three men who agreed to heal me for $18. I informed them that I was not sick, but they said it was a term used in order to make a man a clandestine Mason or something like that. I planked down the amount of money required and they carried me up in the attack of some old house, and there they proceeded to make me a Mason. They had me to get in the position I was when I entered the world. I did not want to undress in the presence of them men at first, and they tore off my clothes, and stuck spears in various parts of my body, caught some blood, made it hot and caused me to drink it, and each man dipped his finger in it and touched his tongue. Next, I was dipped in a barrel of oil, and when I was out, I was forced to climb a slick pole and they applied the lash to me as I went up. I don't know what happened when I fainted, but I do know when I came to myself I was given the real pass word, "Onions cabbage and potatoes," and on that I was permitted to rank with the brethren. When the lodge was opened, the next day I was there, and I met Grand Master H. R. Butler, who is a regular medical doctor and one of the finest men I have ever met. He is loved by the men of the craft, and I don't know why they call them Masons men of the craft, and I don't care, I have fallen in line. The Grand Lodge was duly opened, and the committees appointed. They handle in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars every year and just to think they met on Tuesday, having had the welcome addresses Monday night, and by 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon they were through with their business, officers elected and installed, and ready to finish up the celebration part, and those who did not want to go to Beaufort on Thursday, went home. Tuesday night was the program for the jubilee, and I wish you could have heard that great big program. Sol C Johnson was again in evidence. He gave the history of the order in Georgia, and it was inteersting, and then I heard other men, but the great address was delivered by Dr. H. R. Butler, the Grand Master. He is a man with a vision, and it seems that he was just born to inspire men, and to have men love and follow his lead. He is conservative, and above all he is truly a Christian leader, and that is worth so very much to the order. I was glad to be able to shake his hands. I had the pleasure of meeting Bishop W. D. Johnson, who is to have charge of the work of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Texas, and who is a great man in his part of the world. Then there were others who shook hands with me, such as Grand Chancellor Hutto, Dr. W. P. Wrenn, Dr. T. J. Goodall, of the First African Baptist Church, and some others. I never heard of men being converted in a grand lodge before, but such is the Christian influence of Grand Master Butler. He had been advocating home getting during the session. He had polled the house, so to speak to see the number of men who had purchased homes, but on that last day, they opened up in the afternoon, had one or two songs, and it seemed that Dr. Butler was seized by the Holy Spirit, and the fire broke out. He spoke of the earthly homes, and what they meant to the race, and then he wanted to know how many had fitted their souls for the home not made with hands. How many of them had provided for the Great Beyond. I wish you could have seen that host of men stand, but some did not stand. Now what happened? The Grand Master asked those who were not on the Rock to stand, and then it was that men wept like children, and some even got happy and shouted right out. For a few minutes the Grand Lodge was in an old time revival and special prayers were offered for those who were not converted. I am told that some men returned home shouting "I have found Jesus precious to my soul." Wonderful indeed. I just had to look at those men, and I want to congratulate the Masons of Georgia upon having a man like Dr. H. R. Butler. They have now started upon another half century. They have a fine orphans' home in Amerieus, and the children there do not suffer, but are provided for in great shape. They are doing some real things. Not talk but work, and this is the thing that counts in a world like this. I will have to bring this letter to a stop. While there, I met Charles Stewart, and he got a telegram announcing the death of his father, Henry Stewart, who died at the Soldiers' Home in Dayton, Ohio, at the age of nearly 89 years. He had been a slave, a soldier, a father of a number of sons and daughters. I am acquainted with John H. Stewart, Clifton Stewart, and we will know Charles Stewart, and there are Julia Morton, whose husband is sick in Chicago, and Louise Lewis, who lives in Indianapolis. The whole family will meet in Frankfort, where their father will be buried. I hope to be able to go to the funeral because of my love and respect for the family. I am going to wire Miss Martha E. Williams, of Frankfort, to look out for me. She is one of the great characters of our race. I shall not have more to say at this time. Look out for my next letter. Signs of Consumption Signs of Consumption. What are the early symptoms? The patient may have neither cough nor expectoration. He feels tired in the afternoon, and wakes tired in the morning. His appetite is poor, and he begins to lose weight or to stop growing. He is easily exhausted after exercise. Anyone who notices these symptoms in himself should consult a doctor. In any family, rich or poor, in which one member is known to have consumption, all the others should be examined by specialists. THE CHIC BLOUSE Garment Essential to Complete Spring Wardrobe. Short Sleeves Preferred and Mode Is Collarless With Neckline Deeper at Sheldera. Your task of buying your spring suit is not really completed until you have invested in at least one blouse to go with it, observes a fashion correspondent. And, although there is no further doubt concerning the return of the lingerie blouse to favor, still you know that this type of blouse is not the one to select to be worn under your suit jacket. It is sure to show creases when you take off the jacket. Moreover, if you do take off the jacket you want a blouse that gives an unbroken line with the suit skirt, and this cannot be accomplished if you are wearing a white blouse. It really is wise to have one blouse that almost exactly matches the suit, and the new material selected for such a blouse is tricotile or some other sort of knitted silk fabric, which seems proof against wrinkles. This season the short sleeve, elbow or shorter, will be the preference for these blouses and usually the mode is collarless with a neckline open at the neck, sometimes deeper at the shoulders than from front to back. However, the handmade batiste linen or volle blouse is in high favor and will be worn for summer and resort wear. It reminds one of a decade ago, for now as then the well-dressed women are ordering these handmade blouses in numbers, many women having laid in as large a supply as a dozen, all hand made, for the spring and summer season. They will be worn with the separate sport skirt. Then there are colored wash blouses, flame and green and toast, and these are to be worn often with the separate skirt of white. The blouse that extends far below the waistline is little in evidence. However, most of the blouses, save the conventional sort of lingerie blouses that have made their appearance and. SINCE 1910 SINCE 1910 Satin Blouse, Flowers in Appliqué. of course, the regulation skirt which is still worn for sport wear—most of the blouses have something below the waistline. Sometimes they terminate in a wide girdle that extends to the hips. CLOTHING FOR YOUNGER SET Materials Include Cotton Poplin for Dresses for Girls and Suits for Boys. The time is certainly past when children's clothes can be purchased ready to wear for a mere song. Making them at home is a great saving this season, especially if the stores are carefully "shopped" for bargains in materials. Fortunately no one style dominates the style field for children (for the matter of that, great leeway is admitted in fashions for grown-ups as well) and variety is really the important point to achieve. Cotton poplin is in high favor for sturdy service dresses for little girls and for suits for small boys. Cotton crepe is another fabric that is a favorite when clothes for everyday wear are under consideration. The small girl will be becoming outfitted in voile, organelle, swiss and similar transparent fabrics when really warm weather arrives—that is, for some what dressy occasions—but the sturdy percales, poplin, chambrays and cotton crepes will be selected for play hours. Vivid, rather dark, or at least medium shades are in great favor for service clothes for members of the younger set. Jade green is liked and is very smart when becoming. Marigold yellow and a medium blue are also much used. Coffiture Favors Oriental. The Spanish influence and the oriental is noted in hair-dressing as in gown; the Spanish in the coft that piles the hair high on the head; the oriental in the coronet effects which have returned. Though shops are showing many lovely hair ornaments, it is only with most formal evening dress that these are being worn. Ancient Musical Instrument. It seems not unlikely that the earliest form of the harp is the instrument we call a lyre. The latter was possibly the first of all stringed instruments. One finds it represented on the monuments of ancient Egypt and, though so long obsolete, it often appears in modern architecture as a decoration. R. H. DR. WALTER N. THOMAS. One of Chicago's most prominent physicians and surgeons who can number his clients by the hundreds in all parts of this city. Quite Sure of It. "Do you believe that the thoughts of a husband and wife become identical?" asked Bounder. "I do." answered Jaggsby. "For example, my wife is waiting for me now, and she knows just what she is going to say to me, and so do I."—Brooklyn Citizen. Remember the Small Things. It is easy to talk glibly of serving humanity and to forget to pass the salt to the man who sits next us at table, to think of placing our lives at a world's disposal and neglect the small attentions which mean so much to our own home.—Henry Sloane Coffin. To Restore Faded Ink. When the ink of old documents has faded and it is desired to restore it, this can be done by washing with any of the substances that blacken on mixing with iron—infusion of nutgalls, sodium-sulphide, or acetic ferro-cyanide of potassium, for instance. Why She Would Change Faith. Mary Jane is a member of the Episcopal Sunday school. One Sunday when she came home she told her mother she thought she'd like to change churches, as their's was so hard on white stockings. How to Test Set Diamond. A set diamond may be tested by placing wax on its back. The luster of a true gem will not be affected by this operation, while the spurious brilliance of paste imitations will be totally destroyed by it. S—sh! Keep It Dark! At a recent bar examination a candidate defined law as follows: "Law is the means by which we acquire legal possession of property belonging to another."—Boston Transcript. Vain Acquisition. "Some men gets a heap of education," remarked an old colored philosopher. "just as some people gets a whole lot of bait without ketchin' any fish."—Boston Transcript. The Worthy Citizen He who possesses worth and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.—Dhammapada. "Mapping" the Alr. The greatest discovery yet made in exploring the air is that the atmosphere consists of two layers, the lower extending from sea level up to 10,000 meters, in which there is a steady fall of temperature with elevation. This is called the troposphere. Above this there is no fall, and up to 20,000 meters a slight rise. The upper layer is known as the stratosphere. It is actually possible today for an airplane to rise from the ground to the bottom of the stratosphere, say about six miles, in one hour. If we want to explore somewhat higher, say 20 miles, we install light instruments on a sounding balloon. Queer Little Isle. The smallest dependency of France is the Ile d'Hoëdle, situated at the east of Bella Isle. Its population is 238. They do not speak French, but Celtic. They are provided with food at an inn managed by the women. The town has no streets. Counting Has a Limit in China. Ten thousand is the largest number in the Chinese language. Therefore all large sums must be stated in multiples of this figure—the population of the country is four times 10,000 times 10,000, or 400 million.—Asia Magazine. Economy. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow—has anybody ever seen it? Will anybody ever return with it? Economy may mean the difference between living in a poor house and supporting one. New Use for Airplane Engine. A London factory owner believes himself the first to use an airplane engine as an ordinary power unit. Only a small part of the rated horse power is used. Added Percentages. A 50 per cent increase for an article that costs $1 would make it cost $1.50. But for the article that has doubled in price the new price is 200 per cent of the old. Giving Her Fair Warning. John had just been reprimanded by his mother for something he had done, when he went into the bedroom where his new little baby sister was lying in her crib. His mother overheard him say: "Sister, you ought to go back where you came from; you can't do anything you want to do here." Vain Acquisition Queer Little Isle. minent physicians and surgeons the hundreds in all parts of this Don't Be Too Curious A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity—Pope. Picturesquely Put Disgusted cop (at crossing)—Some chauffeur, you are! Say, if you were crossing the Sahara desert you'd run into a hydrant—Boston Transcript. The time seems to be coming when those who indulge in luxury and show will be regarded with quite as much suspicion and contempt as was formerly directed toward those who haunted the doors of chicken coops after dark. -Utica Observer. CHARLES A. WILSON. ATTORNEY has moved his LAW OFFICES to 3451 MICHIGAN AVENUE Room 6 Tel. Douglas 4177 You should get the new songs Composed by Marion Reeder Adams. "Love's Waiting," a beautiful, pathetic ballad, and "Only One Word" (Love), a brilliant waltz song. ASK YOUR MUSIC DEALER. No Chances at All for Joy. Junior had spent several weeks one summer visiting a favorite aunt who lived in the suburbs, and he was reminiscent of those happy weeks when he again paid her a visit. However, she had moved, and now lives in a flat. When junior came home he voiced his grievance to his father, saying: "There wasn't no room to move around in; why, they didn't even have any kids in that building to fight with." Have You A Surplus Fund? Put your idle dollars to work! Create a fund by starting a Savings Account here today. Deposit at least $1.00 each pay day. It may be an epoch in your life. You'll soon have the "Profitable Habit of Thrift." Capital and Surplus $15,000,000 BANKING HOURS FOR SAVINGS DEPOSITS. 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. Saturdays 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. ILLINOIS TRUST & SAVINGS BAN La Salle at Jackson...Chicago As the sun rises every soul is born again, and the new day gives us a chance to begin all over again. We can do and be what we will to do and be for the entire day. We can make it a red-letter day if we try hard enough. This is the way of growth. And if life does not mean growth, enlargement to us, then we have missed its higher meaning.—Orison Swift Marden to Chicago Daily News. On the Way. oneal POR SALE EEN REED eC Houses, Apartments, Buildings and Stores’ ‘For Rent and For Sale Se ” {a there is anything you need in the Real Estate fine on the South Side, call or consult Mr. Binga for Rea! Bargains. Southeast Corner 86th Place and State Street, Chicago The Gas Company's Ranges ee and Other Gas-Burning Appliances; age al carefully selected and odjesied for use with Chicago | Ranges Water Heaters Room Heaters Washers and Ironers Large variety of styles and sizes to meet all requirements. Some specially priced for early summer sale. Deferred pay- ments. June Brides Fare ore An got” bat cach piece tas « special purpose. This means kitchen comfort, economy and cooking success. * men REIOMBORHOOD STORES: Bee ee EE eae° °°" Be Exhibition Hall and Rest Room Wxts.’izu TELEPHONE ‘WABASH 6000 GEORGE F. HARDING, JR. REAL ESTATE, __ Up-to-Date or Modern Houses, Apartments and Stores to Rent 3101 COTTAGE GROVE AVE. | Corner 3ist Street, Chicago | + ‘Central S832 Fasibeace Dougan 2516 Mrs. Warner _ Painless {Chiropody 15 Years’ Experience Opposite Palmer House 120 So. State Street CHICAGO a Sn ee 6302 and 653 Phone ie cll Doass 10 - J.S. DORSEY Reliable Druggist Full Line of Fresh Drags and Toilet Articles Prescriptions Filled ‘With Accuracy. 434 East Sist Street Chicago, IL Grades of Witches, ‘In the olden times there were three asses of witches. The black witch ‘was « harmful affair, and the white ‘witch was 2 helpful spirit. Then there was the gray witch who was some times harmful and sometimes helpful Sas of witchcraft hed to state the com- chilies of tha mirtt that boutihad. ‘Yaluabie Fat in Alligator Pear. Among the fruits used for food, the Qiligator pear is remarkable for its Jarge proportion of fat, which runs as igh as 20 per cent, or about the same es that of common cream, states an article in Popular Mechanics Maga- gine. a ‘man system assimilates this fat very * readily up to as great a quantity as four and 2 half ounces a day. TELEPHONE | GEORGE F. H Up-to-Date or Moder and Store: ; Corner 31st St FROM THIS DATE ONWARD, THE BROAD AX CAN ALWAYS|| BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE}: FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS: Edward Felix, Notions, Gigare and| News Stand, 3002 S. Deatborn: street; George W. Boyd, News Stand,| Laundry Office “and Shot Shining) Parlors, 3620 S. State street ' eee 1 Mra 1: Myers, Notion Laundry Office and News Stand, S State street. =~ _ ies Bal, News Stand, tee}; . 4 and Lauadey Of 2 sites, near State. J AME Zion Se et eee = Pe aoe pda eee Spider's Silk. Experiments are in progress in Mad- ‘agascar as a result of which it ‘s hoped that a fine silk may be pro- @uced from spiders’ webs. According to recent reports, excellent progress ‘has been made by those in charge of the tests. The thread produced by spiders is declared to be finer in qual- ity, stronger, and more beautifully col- ored than that obtained from wilk worms, —_ Loss by Storing Pulpwood. Tt bas been found by observations made at a sulphate pulp mill that pulpwood kept in storage from two to three years yields, bn the average, 23 per cent less pulp than wood used when it is green, says Popular Me- chanics Magazine. Pulpwood stored even one year loses 14 per cent of ita value in pulp production. | DBDeuble Affection. ‘Eisie was proud and much excited over a pair of new shoes and while caflingpn 2 friend could think and talk of nothing else. Te get her in- terested in something else, the wom- an at whose home she was visiting tried to take her up to an elephant made of teakwood, about a foot high, looking rather real. Baby was much afraid at first, but went nearer trem- bling as she went along. Finally she put her little hand on his head and, finding him harmless, put both arms around him and cried out in astonish- ment and joy: “He loves me—he loves my shoes!” ‘Steste af tha Giecierde In the stillness of the night, what more beautiful or soul-elevating than the mournful music of a fiute? It was this Instrument which the shep- herds of Bethlehem were playing that memorable night, when the angels inm- terrupted to announce to them the birth of the Savior. —————— DOUGLAS 1 STATE, m Houses, Apartments s to Rent ; GROVE AVE. treet, Chicago ESM TRAE “RT. Kirby, Shoe Shining, Hat}. Cleaning Patlor and News Stand, 20 E, 35th street, near L Station. F. Bishop, Gigars, Tobacco and! News Stand, 8 W. 27th street, near State. AD. F- Cigars, Tobaceo, No}: 3640 S. State street asd es seein ema eae 3 5 at Sik tae. a ame nee AS so jay morsings of each week, will fad) wis way inte the columas of The ‘THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, JUNE. 26, 1920. “A. D. GASH _ aeroemet At eaw 118jN. La Salle Street CHICAGO JAMES .G. COTTER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 6 NORTH CLARK STREET suITs ar Telephone Centra! Git ‘CHICAGO Fermerty Assistant Attorney General ‘State of Minels Rages ae eg A ee | Res. 3636 Grand’ Sout. | ‘Doug. 297 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 129 E. 31ST STREET Suite 16-97 Phone: Dougtas 6351 CHICAGO F. Duna, J. B. McCahey, ‘Trostese ‘Tel: Oskland 1552, 1551, 1550 JOHN J. DUNN ‘Established 1877 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COAL Fifty-First and Federal Strests , -—scmicaco Residence, 1262 Macalister Place ‘Tel. Mouree 3714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT, LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLE. Clark and Washington Strests Phone Central 1239 | CHICAGO aie Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4751 Coneeiae Saar Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AND _COUN- SELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St CHICAGO Residence 2419 Sonth Park Ave. Phone Deagias 9854 WM. J. LATHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW (Office Phone: Calumet 875 2 RAST THIRTY-FIRST ST. Suite 7 caIcaco Aesidence 2855 Prairie Ave. Phone Dougias 9153 Phones: Main 2017 Auto 52-996 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Saite 706 Firmenich Bullding 04 W. Washington Street caICAGO ‘Telephone Oakland 246 E. K. CALDWELL Successor to Cc. E. KREYSSLER ‘DRUGGIST S201 South State Strect Near Sist St. ‘ot On the Comer ‘CHICAGO Reclanter ston ani ars West Englewood Ashland State Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $300,000.00 1610 West 63rd Street Chicago COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS FOR LAST SEVEN YEARS November 18, 1912.......$ 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....... 1,132,750.71 November 17, 1917....... 979,377.47 November 18, 1919....... 1,284,084.24 November 17, 1919....... 2,358,636.62 Se OFFICERS JOHN BAIN, President MICHAEL MAISEL, Vice President EDW. C. BARRY, Cashier W. MERLE FISHER, Assistant Cashier ARTHUR C. UTESCH, Asst. Cashier. Largest Labor Organization of Negroes ‘in the World Every Craft of Railroad Work Represented OVER 20,000 MEMBERS OVER 150 LOCALS OVER SIX YEARS OLD ‘This association has done more for the railroad man of color than all other labor agencies combined. ASK THE MEN WHO KNOW Now housed in the magnificent home formerly used by Railway Men’s International Benevolent Industrial Association General Headquarters, 3441 (Wabash Ave. Appomatiox Club CHICAGO, ILL. Office Phone: Dougias 8285 KERSEY, McGOWAN AND MORSELL CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE UNDERTAKERS Finest Establishment in the U. 8. GEO. T. KERSEY D.A.McGOWAN WM. J. MORSELL Proprietors 3515 INDIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. oe wet ee haan Pe — ey Se ae Pee Re Te ee | Be Poe 7 = eit q y 5) a Bre : hoe Y e: y “i iS Ts Xi 5 5 y / Lak 4 Pe Se os . s s ae Pena = ge F 5 Lbteties tx Weevies @ Shawl. ‘The Metropolitan museum of New ‘York bas « rare Persian shaw! said to be.165 years old. The shawl is 11 feet by 4 feet, worked io long flowing de signs of the palm jenf and the River of Life, with the stories of the mosques ‘The predominating colors are mellowed garnets and brown, with alternating sheens of steel gray and rusty brown.» An expert to whom the shawl was shown said {ts makeup prob- ably represented the lifetime of the weavers. ha nd > poh caer Oe Dr. Eitza B. Mosher of Brooklyn urged the members of the Women’s Medical society of New York state to drink a glass of water at 10 a, m. and others at 8, 4 and 5 p.m. This, she told them, would dilute the products of fatigue which were entering the blood and causing that tired feeling. Grain Quickly Ripened in Norway. It ts 9 curious fact that grains ripen ‘earlier In Norway than in the south of ‘Burope, an advantage due to the long Gays and short nights of the summer ‘tm the north. Steen’s Time fer Siass. A little girt of three, seeing 2 cloud ‘ef smoke enveloping the moon, said, “auntie, the moon Is going to sleep now; see "em pulling the sheet up over er ‘A coln in a slot machine has been ereoed by ca Segishmen tenants ‘a passenger to learn at what speed be ts traveling fn a train, Napoteon’s Marshals. Napoleon had ten marshals. They were Ney, Massena, Bernadotte, Mar mont, Murat, Davout, Soult, Bessiever, Angercan and Lannes. Phone Douglas 8629 * The Mission Buhard hall GEO. W. HOLT, Prope. 3504 SOUTH STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Phone Prospect 487 {JAMES H. RYAN & CO. WReal Estate, Renting Loans, Insurance 244 SO. ASHLAND AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. Cut out this Subscription Blank and Mail it to THE BROAD AX $100 FOR 6 MONTHS. 6206 S. Elizabeth St, Chicago, I. $2.00 PER YEAR JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Please enter my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD AX. I enclose herewith Two Dollars, the annual subscription to same, or One Dollar for six months. . e | ; ss HF The Cranford Apartment Bldg. 3600 WABASH AVENUE The fines building ever opened to Colored tenants in Chicago. Steam heat, electric lights, tile beths, marble entrance Phone Main 263 J. W. Casey, Agt. 133 W. Washington St. New Zealand. Discovery of the island of New Zea- land is attributed to Tasman in 1642, but exploration did not take place un- til the time of Capt. James Cook, 150 years later, while colonization was delayed until 20 years before the Amer- fean Civil war. Colonization resem- bled the settlement of the Amer- fean colonies in that settlements were ‘made in half a dozen places instead of being promoted from a central base, According to the usual British method. After Studying the Sparrow. We spend considerable time obserr- ing the English sparrows and study- ing thelr character and have about oan that, even tf that well meaning but misguided Brit- ish cousin had had sense enough not to bring them over, they would have got here somehow anyway.—Ohlo State Journal. Harvesting by Machinery. ‘The beginning of practical methods in the direction of harvesting by ma- chinery was not made until 1881. Nature’s Busy Workers, In the great office of nature there are innumerable departments with endless work going on, and the fine flower that you behold there, gaudily Attired and scented lke a dandy, 1s by ‘Ro means what it appears to be. but rather is like a laborer toiling in the sun and shower, who has to submit clear account of his work and has no breathing space to enjoy himself in a playful frolic. x ooo Powerful Home Influence. ‘The blessed influences that radiate from a home well ordered and happy ‘are countless and far-reaching; the un- selfish love there kindled and nour. {shed shines forth as a beacon light to encourage the world’s hopes and faith in bumanity—Madam Willard. —— A Good Trencherman. ‘The phrase originated at the time when people ate thelr food off trench ers. These were usually clean white wood, probably maple, and were often hollow on both sides, so that meat could be served on one side and pud- @ing on the other.