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25,000 Greatest Circulation OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE MIDDLE WEST. $1.50 A YEAR. VOLUME V-NUMBER 8. THE SMART SET IN SOUTH CHICAGO. S. H. Dudley and His Big Company with New Songs, Fine Costumes and a Fine Plantation His Buck and Wing Dancing Will Be Seen During His Stay. --- The bright, tuneful, mirtful musical comedy the public has been wanting is underlined as the next attraction at the Calumet Theater, commencing week Sunday, Feb. 20, with the usual matines. It is entitled "His Honor the Barber," presented by the famous "Smart Set" company, with S. H. Dudley, one of the foremost comedians before the public, in the stellar role. To tell the story of the piece in advance would be an injustice to the crowds of folk that are bound to see it, and no narrative of the events set down in cold type could rival the enjoyment of the actual presentation. Suffice to say it has set the whole country a-laughing, and when it comes to the Calumet Theater it will undoubtedly duplicate the success it has attained in other cities. Mr. Dudley's talents are too well known to need reiteration. He has been a favorite wherever he has appeared, and as Raspberry Snow, a shifttless, good-furred Negro, who aspires to shave the President of the United States, he has made the hit of his eminently successful stage career, Messes Burtton and Wisewell of New York, owners of the "Smart Set" organization, have selected an excellent company to support Mr. Dudley. There are sixty people all told in the cast, including a singing and dancing chorus, sure to be the talk of the town before the engagement is half completed. Edwin Hanford wrote the book and Messrs. Brim, Smith and Burris contributed the lyrics and music. Fifteen musical numbers and song hits will be introduced during the action of the comedy, while the other features, loveties, surprises and scenic adornment are said to be the best of fereed seabouts in seasons. Look elsewhere this edition for Mr. Dudley a r to reach the theater appear, take south-bound avenue, then the South n, or the Illinois Cent route on any line on EIR INCIDENT southern Life, or a Com- rence in the South. Correspondent.) 18—An incident occurred a town called Whistle goes to show the marsh. A white girl 14 saulted and shot in the scribed her assailant as og trousers. Yet three arrest a little boy 15 was sawing wood at his when arrested, and the mob that followed wished to lynch this little fellow. The girl had stated that the culprit were long pants, yet because this boy was a Negro it was sufficient reason that he should suffer; not being able to get sufficient proofs of his guilt they shot him anyway, but thanks to Providence not fatally. We cannot help but think of our own girls. Oh, few know the real conditions here except those who live here. Our girls are ruined by these same white skunks who would lynch an innocent boy for a crime that he had never committed. Yet where have you read of a colored mob trying to lynch one of them? No, the Negro as a citizen is a worthy example for all to follow. He believes and trusts in God and feels that He will right all things in His own way even though there is no justice now for him in the south. This little boy, "as torn" from his mother's arms mob is only one of es we have to suf STUDY CLUB Dubois' "Seven rist" in March. score of the "Seven rist" is grousing ing music which and music learnt. One ur of. t muc. city. of of purpose and of This espe- for the sic lovers the oppor- ILUB. The Chicago Defender. WAYMAN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH, 912 N. Franklin Street. Second block north of Chicago avenue. Take any through car from the South Side, get off at Locust street, go west to Franklin street. Inspiring and helpful service. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Class meeting at 12:45 p.m. Sunday school at 2 p.m. Sunday Club at 4:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Prayer meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday night. Class meeting Friday nights. Official board Monday nights. Phone, Douglas 5878. Pastor's residence, 3600 Wabash avenue, flat 36. The Revival choir, led by Mr. Harry Haley, sang last Sunday night. They are making special preparations for Passion week, at which time 40 or 50 voices will sing, beginning on Palm Sunday. Mr. Haley is to be congratulated on the success of the chorus. Mrs. Henry Williams is on the sick list, 364 Edgecomb Place. The Culture Club will give an entertainment on the 24th at Mrs. Miller's, benefit of the Wayman Chapel church. A Personal Workers' class has been organized by Mr. Wilson. The Culture Club met last Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. F. Scott. Rev. John Friberie was in the city last week, visiting his family and friends on the North Side. The Sunday Club was very well attended last Sunday. President G. W. Ramsey invites all to be present next Sunday afternoon. Program, Scripture reading, Mrs. Miller; paper, Mrs. F. R. Scott; address, Mr. S. Hoy, subject, "Tainted Money." Trio, Mrs. Ramsey, Gramery, Scott. Mr. Haley and the chorus did splendid service at St. Stephen's last Thursday night, February 10. Presidents of various departments: Stewardess No. 1, Mrs. E. Moody; No. 2, Mrs. Abernathy; deaconess, Mrs. Fannie Thomas; Pastor's aid, Mrs. Ida Pool; Wayman Chapel Choral Club, Jesse Maud Butler; Thimble Club, Mamie Hunt; Girls' Industrial Club, Mrs. S. E. Cooper; Flower committee, Mrs. Elta Watson; Sewing Circle, Mrs. H. E. Stewart; Young Men's Social Service Circle, Mr. Walter Jackson; Sunday Club, Mr. G. W. Ramsey. "Lord, in the morning Thou shalt hear My voice ascending high. To Thee will I direct my prayer, To Thee lift up mine eyes." HENRY SLLAUGHTER. CHICAGO PRINCESSES GETTING BUSY. The "Workers for the King" Circle of the King's Daughters met at the residence of Mrs. Sol Taylor, 3255 Rhodes avenue, Feb. 8, 1910, at 2 p.m. to do honor to their departed sisters, Mrs. George F. Ecton and Mrs. John Jones, in the way of a memorial service. The program was as follows; Devotional services, conducted by the leader, Mrs. Ada McKinley; instrumental solo, Miss M. Boyd; poetry entitled "Sometime," Mrs. W. H. Curd, favorite poem of Mrs. G. Ecton, hymn, "Abide With Me"; paper prepared and read by Mrs. W. H. Curd on the deceased, Mrs. John Jones; memorial greeting, Mrs. J. E. Johnston; vocal solo, Miss M. P. Boyd; remarks by Madames S. D. Brown, J. S. Anderson, Sol Taylor, Gertrude H. Carter, R. E. More; vocal solo, Miss Boyd; poem, Miss Connie Hancock; hymn of the order; reminiscences and poem, "Growing Old," read by Miss Connie Hancock; all repeated the Mizpah Benediction. The meeting was adjourned. Mrs. Ada McKinley, leader; Miss Connie Hancock, Recording Secretary. LINCOLN CELEBRATION AT BETHEL Church Great Success—Hon. A. H. Roberts Waxes Eloquent. The Lincoln day celebration which was held last Sunday at Bethel under the auspices of Bethel Literary and Historical Club was the greatest meeting ever held in the church during the year. Long before 4 o'clock, the time of the meeting, the church began to fill, and by the time the president, Mr. L. W. Washington, called the meeting to order every seat in the auditorium was filled. Mr. Adelbert H. Roberts, the speaker of the day, made one of the finest speeches on Lincoln that has ever been made in Chicago. All through his entire discourse he was interrupted by applause and loud cheers of "Go on!" and "That's right!" and numerous other expressions. For one hour and a half he held his audience spellbound. Both white and black gave vent to their delight at the conclusion of his speech. Hon. B. W. Flits deserves great credit for the great advertising feat he did in his effort to make the meeting the success that it was, sparing neither time nor money. The program was long, but well rendered. MRS. CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY'S MOTHER PASSES AWAY. ends of the Douglass wished to learn of the her Mrs. Parker who passed daily. Dr. Sunday CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1910 MR. WHITE AND MR. BLACK DADIY BANK Lou Waggon "Good morning, Mr. Black; how's your health this a. m.?" Mr. Black; fine as frog-hair, thank you; if I felt any better I'd consult a doctor. "Was just reading another absurd article about privileges to which your people bill that one of the Southern institutions is trying to push through, regulating certain privileges to which your people bill that one of the Southern whites and their sad conception of justice towards the colored people are deplorable." Not are about right, Mr. White, indeed. "Further, Black, I can't possibly understand the true freedom-loving Americans who are under the foreigner's nose and into his ribs, pretending to be so wrapped up, stuffed THE 8TH REGIMENT BALL MOST BRILLIANT IN YEARS THE 8TH REGIMENT BALL MOST BRILLIANT IN YEARS 3,500 in Attendance and $1,500 Made Clear of All Expenses. Monday night last the Eighth Regiment made assured their new armory by packing the Seventh Regiment Armory to the very doors. Fully 3,500 people attended; every ticket paid for and money turned in. On Tuesday morning Colonel Marshall was all smiles; even the officers and men were jubilant and there is an era of good feeling all about the Eighth camp. By a count of the Defender's representative 500 white men and women were present to help the Eighth build their monument which will ever stand as a mark of progress to the race and to the nation. To Colonel Marshall will be the praise—he the only man in America who has labored night and day, denying himself of many advantages which he could enjoy for his personal gain, ever kept in mind his race, his honor, and his country, and are the watchman on the tower cries the hour for 1911 he will have come in Chicago something that no other man in America has done—an armory for Negro State troops. Let us all cheer the colonel on, let us all give him the glad hand, and let us see to it that none but the best blood of the race have entrance into this grand body of fighting body—the Eighth Illinois. We are now beginning to see the dawn of day, and let us hope that when the citizens are called upon to furnish the armory every society, secret and civil, men and women, will join in and make it the Mecca where the oppressed may come and give praise for the noble work done by the boys in black. JACK JOHNSON Heavy Weight Champion of the World, Praises the Defender. Mr. Jack Johnson was in the city for a few days this week on business. He called at our office and was very hearty in his praise for the Defender. He stated that the Defender was the paper that the people needed and that he was proud to see a public organ so qualified to give real new and good advice and ever ready to defend those oppressed. He left wishing the Defender a long and glorious life, after paying for a year's subscription. MAJOR DENNISON Addresses the Appomattox Club. At a Lincoln and Douglas memorial meeting held in the spacious club, Major Dennison made an address in which he urged ever well thinking Negro to try and dully help to better the condition of race, and that he could better than at home up, and all bound 'round with Christianity, benevolence and other admirable features, can consistently despise a people who have faith, faithful and true to them at all times.' "It is inconsistent with the customs of a cultured notion, to say the least, Mr. Wheat." "It must be due to the infatuation they hold for my people in the South that concludes all their missions. I debilitates devoting all their missions. I devoting for the colored citizens—yes, even provide separate modes of conveyance for colom- travelers from the impatient, embarrassed, rude, and insoluble presume. My people, I'm sure, have no objections of drinking from public foundations, working alongside of their white brethren, but seemingly the whites regard it as lattery. CLARKSVILLE, TENN, PRAISEI OUR DR. DANIEL H. WILLIAMS. THE CHICAGO POSTMAN. Mr. James Miller, postal clerk at the Englewood station, died last week, to the great surprise and chagrin of his many friends. Mr. Henry R. Wilson, formerly of the New Orleans post office, has transferred to the Chicago post office. Mr. Wilson is a fine young man of splendid ability, having built up some practice as a lawyer in that city. He will no doubt make good even here in "the windy city." The addition of 100 men to the clerical force in the Chicago post office will make the work much easier for the now overworked clerks. All postal employees wishing to contribute news items for this (the Postman) department will please send same to the editor of the Chicago Defender not later than Thursday of each week. THE CENSUS FOR 1910. Must Be Signed American and Not Afro-American. During the coming spring the United States census will be taken of all the inhabitants that are citizens and those who are naturalized. The Jews have decided to state that they are Americans and worship a religion known as the Jewish religion. If the Jews can do this, then the Negro should do the same. Just simply say you are an American, nothing more. It is important that this is done and we trust that all will leave the word "Aro" off, for you are citizens of the United States just the same as the Irish or any other nation. The Irish has never place his name as such and why should he improperly or something perhaps. And to you know, Mr. White, the Georgia vowtent woman from wearing satins and silks! My white brother's love for that fabric so much so most腻 that such fabrics are so look out for the radium gowns or something along the Is-karat line, while the American people say "Yes, Mr. Black, the American people "Yes, Mr. Black, the American people are demonstrating morally it seems." "One may conclude, Mr. White, that the white people down South were the fruit of the children of God, Creator of all that's good. Anyway, they can't get along with each other, they can't get along with each other. Will you see again, Mr. White, Good-by." L. N. HOGGATT. THE 25TH INFANTRY STILL HOLDING THEIR GOOD NAME Seattle, Wash., Feb. 19.—On Feu, 14 one Mrs. C. E. Aiseda (white) made charges against members of the 25th Infantry, U. S. A., and when the men with their officers and newspaper reporters confronted her those who were out on that night, she positively declared that they were not the men. It has come to our notice that it is a ruse put up on the men because of their presence recently on the streets of this city to quell a riot, and it is thought that members of the mob are trying to mar the fair name of the gallant boys who saved the nation from disgrace in Cuba and the life of ex-President Roosevelt. It will be remembered that ever since the Brownville incident there has not been one incident to disgrace one of the men of this command, and although they are scattered all over this country, not one has been arrested for any crime or misdemeanor, which speaks volumes for these men. Still there are enemies among the white race who are trying daily to bring disgrace on their heads. Let all liberty loving Americans stand by these men and encourage them, so that when April comes them will not have been one to stain the record that has stood since '61. THE VOLUNTEER WORKERS PRESIDENT SPEAKS. Chicago, Feb. 15, 1910. To the Editor: Dear Sir: In an article of your issue of February 5, you quote me as announcing myself in favor of "furnishing innocent amusement" for the young folks, meaning the two-step; which is entirely erroneous. I have never found it necessary to declare myself an advocate for or against the two-step, but you may rest assured as long as I am in the chair, I will enforce the ruling of the members of the organization. MRS. A. J. CALDWELL, President Volunteer Workers. WASHINGTON ON LINCOLN. Lincoln was not ashamed or afraid to come into contact with the lowly of the races. I always pity from the bottom of my heart any man who feels that somebody else must be kept down or in ignorance in order that he may appear great by comparison. It requires no courage for a strong man to kick a weak one down. Hon. Booker T. Washington at Springfield, III. We wish to express thanks to our kind friends bors for their sympathy since during our recent be occasioned by the death o husband and father. Also fo tiful floral offerings. MRS. WRIGHT AND CHILDREN MISS CLAUDE BELLE HALL Praises The Chicago Defender. Editor Defender: Dear Sir—I have intended writing to you for some time and thank you for not making public in your paper my private personal sorrows. It has been very considerate and kind in you and I do wish we had more broad-minded men like you who would try to protect and shield their girls and young men instead of making public gossip of their affairs. But now if you want to and it will make any news for your paper you may say that I have secured my divorce with my maiden name fully restored to me and I am now Miss Claudebelle Hall again, for which I assure you I am most proud. Send us the Defender, the best little paper in Cheingo and the Northwest. With best wishes, I remain yours sincerely. CLAUDEBELLE HALL. GOV. CHAS. S. DENEEN. The "iron Hand," who again successfully averted another lynching in Cairo, Ill. All praise is given Sheriff GOV. CHARLES S. DENEEN. Nellis and the Governor for their stand of law and order and the citizens at large should not forget them at the voting time. MRS. HELEN C. JONES WINS CASE. In the case of Helen C. Jones against Theodore W. Jones, which has been pending in the District Court for nearly two years, a judgment was awarded the plaintiff, yesterday. J. C. Newell, of Topeak, and Charles F. Vogel, of Chicago, were the attorneys for the plaintiff. The judgment ends a long, hard-fought controversy. Through the fact that this couple have fought in so many States, it is a case of widespread interest. The Defender regrets that it cannot publish the full details of the case, but owing to the fact that so many young people read this paper it would be too poisonous to their minds to spread such matters before them. By the verdict of the Topeka (Kan.) court Mrs. Jones comes into possession of a half interest of $150,000. DR. FISHER TO GO TO BERLIN. Rev. E. J. Fisher, D. D., pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, is spending February in Nashville and Louisville, where he meets a committee for the purpose of appraising the denominational property prior to his attending the World's Eclectical convention at Berlin in May, where he is sent as a delague to represent his denomination for North America. If the doctor's plans carry, he will return to his congregation the first Sunday in March. The work of the church is being meritoriously carried on by his competent corps of assistants. COULDN'T LOSE THE COOK Ment being high, pork in particular, Mrs. Lena Stevenson, a cook, assembled a collection of pork chops, several pounds of bacon and half a dozen eggs and carried them from the home of Mrs. D. E. Bonfer, 4339 Oakenwald avenue, Monday in lieu of a week's wages. The cook had quarreled with her mistress about the aforesaid wages and to facilitate matters took the valuable chops to the Hyde Park police station. After her ing the testimony Judge Fry fined Mrs. Stevenson $1 and compelled Mrs. Bonner to pay her former cook her wages. HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. The tenth anniversary of the death of Frederick Douglass will be celebrated at Institutional church, 38th and Dearborn streets, Sunday night, February 20. A splendid program has been arranged with Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the race's greatest advocate, as orator of the day. She is well posted on this great character, and will bring out some features of his life hitherto unspoken of. There will be other great speakers and some fine musical numbers on the program. You cannot afford to miss this treat. "Have you an ear for music, Edna?!" sked a caller of a little 5-year-old. "Yes, indeed!" was the reply. PAPE If You See It In the DEFENDER, IT'S SO! PRICE 5 CENTS RAMBLING ABOUT CHICAGO Items of Interest All Around the Town, and a Line or Two Elsewhere. Last week several of our undertakers used the columns of the Defender to announce a decided reduction in the cost of caskets and other requisites for funerals. One undertaker took occasion to tell his patrons how he could conduct a funeral complete for less than $100. The Western Casket and Undertaking Company (a white concern) also told of how much cheaper your loved ones could be placed in their last resting place than heretofore. The writer of this column read these advertisements with interest. I will be pardoned, no doubt, when I say that said announcements were read with considerable satisfaction, for only a few weeks ago I devoted considerable space to the same subject. At that time I told of the very reasonable prices for entire funerals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other eastern cities, and asked "how long would it be before the same prices prevailed in this city?" At that time I quoted the following from an advertisement appearing regularly in a Philadelphia exchange: "What I can furnish for $75: Black cloth casket, steel gray, rosewood or white embossed velvet; five carriages, black or white hearse, grave, to Eden or Merion Cemetery, embalming body, case and shroud. This funeral complete for $75." No comment was offered. Even at this time it is unnecessary. I would mention, however, that the same undertaker will furnish a casket for the same selection as printed above four carriages, grave, case, embailing, blanket, black or white hearse to Eden or Marion Cemetery, for $65. The only difference in the two lists is one carriage and a shroud. The use of a funeral parlor is also included. Chicago welcomes this new era in things funeral and burials why it was delayed so long. Both the undertaker and the starry-living relatives will be benefited by the chans. Defender is pleased because its talk about the matter bore so quickly. The fight now being waged against the peddler crying his warres brings to notice the latest idea of Chicago's large army of "matoriety seekers." Evidently those who are behind this foolish idea don't realise that the majority of those who patronize the peddler live three and four stories up and many of them in the rear. To such the cry of the peddler with patties and other vegetables the peddler, the coal man and the man is an absolute necessity. In the discharge of her everyday duties the housewife or maid, as the case may be, cannot always be on the lookout for the dispensers of these nutful commodities, and they go about their work with cars alert for the familiar cry. When these would be reformers "run wild" as they are doing in this case, they should consider the average householder who will suffer the most. Those who are fortunate enough to live in the swell residence sections and are able to order in large quan titles are never troubled by peddlers. This all-wise individual knows his place and travels therein. Those living in the districts where he travels and who need him don't complain, and why should the other fellow? Away with such rot. We want to hear the peddler when he goes by, also the ragman. GRACE TO HAVE REAL TEAM THIS YEAR. No Grand Stand Players Admitted. The Grace Presbyterian baseball team has organized for the season of 1910. A great team is looked for, as the material is fine. In order to make the team the equal or the superior of their rivals, not only in athletic fliy but also in appearance, they need new outfits. A grand musical will be given Monday, March 7th, at the church. All are invited to attend. Admission 15 cents. Program announced later. She Spoke Truth. "I am undone!" shrieked the Tragedy Queen as she threw her arms upward with a wild gesture. "Yes," agreed the villain, as he stole a surreptitious glance behind her back; "two buttons at the top and three at the bottom."—Smart Set. Of the 5,000,000 horse sented by Niagara Falls 5.5 per cent is being仕 126,800 horse power is electro-chemical process power for railway servi power for locating, 4.5 for various mustral horse power is transmit than one hundred m power betw event hundred m miles 79.6 R. S. ABBOTT, LL. B., POUNDER AND EDITOR. Issued weekly by Chicago Defender Pub- lishing and Printing Company. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 75 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS. One inch, one time ..... $0.75 Special rates given on large or long standing ads. R. F. Spriggs, Associate Editor, Louis Hoggatt, Cartoonist, Julius N. Avendorph, Society Editor. 3159 State Street Telephone, Douglas 3339 Entered as second-class matter February 1, 1908, at the Postoffice in Chicago, Ill., under act of March 3, 1875. Larger Circulation than All the Other Weeklies Combined. No. S. Vol. V. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 1910. Was it cold yesterday? Governor Deneen still lives in Illinois. Colonel John R. Marshall is the man of the hour. If you are not observing Lent, kindly respect those who do. Miss Essie Arnold, the daughter of the Eighth, led the grand march with her uncle, Colonel John R. Marshall. The Defender is still in the head of all other journals. Let us all help make it the journal of America. Kernit Roosevelt has shot a bongo. Kernit goes right ahead shooting things, notwithstanding he doesn't get a dollar a word for his hunting stories. Professor David Starr Jordan states that courtship should be conducted along serious lines. It is, at times then a tired father has had All That die Can Stand of it. A man is soon to be released from the Connecticut penitentiary after having been for fifty years a prisoner. He will find that there are many more things to be dodged than when he went in. Mr. Klox, of the Freeman, in speak- the Defender to the advance of the "Smart Set," said it was best paper in Illinois and the lowest. So we've got the goods to snow for it in this issue. If Andrew Carregle were to contribute enough money to make the Latin American republics peaceful he would rob them of their chief source of amusement, and, as we understand it, Andrew's chief desire is to spread en- newswire in this issue we publish the story of the latest force fostered and ended by the gallant Twenty-fifth trantry, U. S. A. So flimsy and radicly was the charge that even the manactor lost heart. Let the truth be old and the Brownsville case will fall through in less time than it takes to tell it. Complaint is made nowadays that many of our prominent physicians are so busy that their patients have trouble in securing their services promptly and regularly. Remember there are many others competent in the same line who some day, if you give them a chance, will be as popular as your own physician. ```markdown ``` A unmained workman is as much entitled to assistance from the community he has served as a mained soldier. He should need no lawyer to secure it for him. He should get it without delay, in proportion to the gravity of his injury. There would be fewer accidents if industrial damage awards were certain and prompt. Louis F. Swift of Chicago, president of Swift & Co., in his annual report to stockholders says: "I feel that one of the talk about the high price beef is due to the great demand for the rib and loin cuts, which are only about 26 per cent of the total. The proper preparation and cooking of the cheaper cuts (or 74 per cent of the beef) is being given considerable attention by domestic science authorities, with a view of increasing the use of cheaper cuts, which are just as nutritious as the rib and loin cuts, thereby effecting a saving in the cost of living. This work is commendable and should be continued." A local butcher in the old days once demonstrated to an importunate customer: "Ma'am, no cow is all tenderloin from horns to hoofs." Cookery is capable of making a more appetizing food from an inferior cut than inferior cookery does from the best sirloin. We Americans as a people live two things to learn, how not to waste. What moon could feed France, and of some dishes as our best cuts afford those of us and them. If, as packers really a scarcity of cat on the market, it foll- ust be a proportionate finer cuts, such as peo- re ed to demand. ment regula- trusts can thing, or TRADE SAFE IF LEGAL IS AS TAFT VIEWS IT President in New York Speech Says Policy Toward Corporations Is "Live and Let Live." SEES FERIL ONLY IN HYSTERIA Executive in Valeent Talk Says He Will Safeguard Prosperity and Fulfill C. G. P. Fledges. President Taft, speaking at the Lincoln day celebration of the New York Republican Club, made defense in detail of the policies of his administration. He declared himself "stateria," due to agitation and fear of disastric action against corporations in general, to bungishified, and to abuse his talc pleaded for the slamming of tactical differences owing to the nature of the Republican party and the carrying out of his pledge. "If the enforcement of the law is not consistent with the present method of carrying on an illness, then it does not speak well to the present methods of conducting business, and they must be changed to conform to the law," declared the President, and his audience at the banquet tables in the Waldorf-Astoria cheered the utterance. (Governor Hughes, who shared the honors of the evening with the President, joined in the applause.) Mr. Taft adhered to his purpose of discussing platform pledges and how they should be kept. It was at the conclusion of a detailed argument as to how the Republican party is redeeming its pledges that he came to a discussion of the anti-trust law, and Wall street, on which his utterances had been awaited with the greatest interest. The President declared that the administration would not "foolishly run attack in business and destroy values and confidence just for the pleasure of doing so." Its policy was "Live and let live." "No one," he continued. "has a motive as strong as the administration in power to cultivate and strengthen business confidence and prosperity. "But there was no promise on the part of the Republican party to change the anti-trust law except to strengthen it. Of course the government at Washington can be counted on to enforce the law in the way best calculated to prevent a destruction of public confidence in business, but it must enforce the law." The President declared there were signs which, many construed to indicate that U. Republican majority in Congress might be rephased by a Democratic majority. The cause he asserted to be dissensions in the Republican party arising out of differences of opinion in regard to the rules in the House and to the personnel of the leadership in the Senate. He declared there existed a growing tendency to the assertion of individual opinion and purpose at the expense of party discipline. The movement was toward factionalism and small groups. All this, Mr. Taft said, should be forgotten in furtherance of the one great aim—party success. To this end, he asserted a campaign of education was required. "I am far from saying the Republican party is perfect," declared the President, and then he gave a warning that party insurgents should be punished. The high cost of living, Mr. Taft asserted, primarily was due to the "increase in the measure of value of gold and, in some measure, to combinations in restraint of trade." FAMOUS SEA FIGHTER IS DEAD Brigadier General Robert Leamy Meade Succumbs to Illness. Brigadier General Robert Leamy Meade of the United States Marine Corps, retired, died at his home in Lexington the other day after an illness of several months. Gen. Meade was born in Washington, D. C., Dec. 26, 1841. The son of Commodore Richard W. Meade, United States Navy he came of fighting stock. Educated at St. Mary's College, and at the United States Naval Academy, he entered the navy as a midshipman in 1856 and resigned in 1858. Reappointed in 1858, he served continuously until his retirement in 1906. At the breaking out of the civil war he was assigned to blockade work and commanded a battalion when Norfolk was rescued from the Confederates. In 1883 he commanded a company in New York during the draft riots. In a night assault on Fort Sumter he was captured and made a prisoner of war for fifteen months at Libby and Richmond prisons. After the war he remained in the marine service and was one of the party from the Shenandoah that invaded Korea and captured its capital in the cruise of that vessel between 1865 and 1869 in the waters of India, China, Japan and Korea. At Nagasaki he commanded both the American and the British marines. In the Spanish war he was fleet marine officer of Admiral Sampson's fleet and led the marines in Cuba. In 1900 he participated in the Chinese expedition and for a time he was in command at the Brooklyn mary yard. For his service at Tientsin, China, he received a medal from Congress. $1 FOR "CHEAP" BROOM SOON. Three Times Normal Price Offered for Factory Material. the Factory Material. Housewives may within a few months be compelled to pay a dollar for an ordinary broom, is the discounting prediction of the large manufacturers of this commodity in south Indiana. Evansville factories are used to be offering three times HIS VALENTINES. SWEETHEART SHOES COME HIGH Louther Trust I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR - IN MY BUSINESS MY HEART BEATS THIS FOR EGG YOU LOVEY YOUR SOCKS WILL COST A LITTLE MORE LOVE LIKE OURS CAN NEVER DIE BESIDES - I NEED THE MONEY -MILK T OH YOU LUMP OF SUGAR! PAY ME! Sugar Trust DEAD ONE! HANG YOURSELF ON THIS ROPE! HEMP TRUST DEAR HEART THE PRICE OF STEAK IS RAISED 2¢ DEVOTEDLY THINE Beef Trust --Chicago Journal. Found Guilty in Navy Case, but Penalty Is Light. Action was taken by the Navy Department the other day on the recommendations of the court martial in the cases of Paymaster George P. Auld, U. S. N., and Passed Assistant Surgeon A. H. Robnett, U. S. N., and in both cases the department held the sentence of the court too severe, although Paymaster Auld and Surgeon Robnett were sentenced only to loss of five numbers. Paymaster Auld's sentence was entirely remitted by the Navy Department and he is ordered restored to duty. Passed Assistant Surgeon Robnett had his sentence mitigated to loss of two numbers. It was made known today that the Navy Department found much provocation for the assault on Dr. Cowles by Paymaster Auld on the night of the navy hop on Dec. 11. FEARS LAW; LEAVES KIN TO DIE Cleveland Man Hunts Coroner White Father-In-Law Hangs, Alive. A misconception of American law on the part of Otto Pich gave John Zahour, his father-in-law, ten minutes extra in which to die. Pich found the old man hanging in the pantry of his home in Cleveland. He was still alive, but Pich says he believed him dead. Pich heard that it was illegal for anyone but the coroner to disturb a hanging man, and he left at once in search of somebody who could summon that official. Meeting a policeman he explained the case to him. The policeman made a quick run for the Zahour home and succeeded in cutting the father-in-law down before life was extinct. Zahour died in an ambulance, however, on the way to a hospital. FROM THE FOREIGN WILLIAMS Germany and Prussia have asked for a joint loan of $120,000,000 on 4 per cent government bonds. The new Catholic cathedral in St Paul will be occupied for public services before the end of the year 1911. Arabs recently raided nine convents near Jerusalem, evicted the nuns and monks and established themselves in the monasteries with their wives and children. Troops arrived in time to prevent their entering the tenth and largest convent. The first Canadian conservation conference, which came to an end in Ottawa recently, has developed a sentiment in favor of the prohibition of all pulp wood export. This may have a serious effect on the situation now existing between the United States and Canada. With the giving of bail of the five men caught in the dragnet of the latest graft probe, Pittsburgh has settled back to wait for her municipal government to again be dragged forth and hear evidence charging multi-millionaire bank officials with bribery, city councilmen selling out the city and see the strange intermingling of her local banking business with politics. There is a proposal in London, Eng. to amalgamate three important tube railways, namely, the Baker Street & Waterloo, the Charing Cross & Hampstead and the Great Northern & Piccadilly lines. The total capital will be $80,000,000, of which $74,250,000 is to be in ordinary stock, $21,000,000 in debentures and the balance in preference shares. The name of the new company will be the London Electric Railway. The non-Christian population of the world was converted at the rate of 377 souls a day during the past year, according to the summarized statistics of workers from virtually every mission on the globe, who addressed the nation of the laymen's mis- movement in New York. Unish cabinet removed Count as captain general of Madrid with the arrest of army officers with being connected with the government. The pounded the military club and the officers were taken into HOGS HIGHEST SINCE THE WAR Average Price Reaches 80.14. Break- ing Holl Counts, Mark Packers at the Chicago stockyards paid more money for hogs Tuesday than on any day since the Civil War, the average cost being $9.11. The previous record day since 1865 was Monday, when the average price was $9.06. In May of 1870, when cattle were selling at unprecedented prices, hogs sold within a range of from $8.35 to $9.35, topping at 10 cents higher than the most recent figures, but showing an extreme range of $1, while all of Tuesday's hogs cleared within a range of 35 cents, the inside figure standing at 55 cents higher than in 1870. In 1869 hogs reached $9.50, but sales were made at $8.50 for light hogs. Piles of the Tribune for 1865 show that in that year sales of hogs were made at $12.75, with $10 as the lowest price. POSTOFFICES ARE PROSPEROUS. Increase In Receipts Reflects Improved Business Conditions. An unusually heavy increase is reported at the fifty largest postoffices of the country during January. Fortynine of the fifty offices reported an increase in receipts as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The increases varied from 1.72 per cent at Dayton, O., to 27.81 per cent at Hartford, Conn. The five postoffices showing the greatest percentage of increase in receipts over January of last year were Hartford, Conn.; Springfield, Mass.; Portland, Ore.; Denver Colo., and Chicago, Ill. The general increase over the same period of last year is 11.27 per cent. This is taken as evidence of a decided improvement in business conditions throughout the country. SAWMILL EXPLOSION KILLS SIX Disaster Near Bay City, Milch, Fatal Meeting Written for Work Call. While a score of workmen were warming themselves in the boiler room of Princing's sawmill at Crump, Mich., waiting for the whistle to start the day's work, the boiler exploded, instantly killing six of the men and injuring all the others. The mill was wrecked, debris being scattered 100 feet in every direction. It is believed that cold water was forced into the boiler when the water was low, causing an excess of steam. BURN UP AS MUCH AS BUILD. Figures Lead Brick Men to Launch "Safe and Sane" Campaign. Building brick manufacturers, members of the National Brick Manufacturers' Association, have formed an organization to move for the construction of "safe and sane" buildings. Statements and figures showing that the people of the United States are burning up as many buildings as they construct each year brought about formation of the under organization. Singer Buyx Western Land. Mme. Schumann-Helnik has purchased 500 acres of San Diego County, California, land for $20,000. The property is in the El Cajon valley and includes lemon and orange ranches. The singer will build a home for her children on the property. Cures All Pneumonia. Six cases of pneumonia, ordinarily fatal, were cured by means of inoculation with a vaccine of killed pneumococci, it is announced by Dr. Henry A. Craig. He is assistant physician at the Sailors' Sung Harbor Hospital, New Brighton, Staten Island. Cleara Mystery of Death. Mystery of Patrick Gavin's death was cleared by John Culkin; of Roxbury, Mass., who stated Gavin, a total stranger, grabbed him by the arm and that he pushed him violently into the street. Culkins was eld on a charge of manslaughter. Nebraska Bank in Rolbed. The bank of Memphis, Neb., waived bed and all the cases in the vaults curled. The amountken has not THEODORE, JR., TO WED. Oldest Son of Former President Engaged to Miss Eleanor Alexander. Theodore Roseveck, Jr., oldest son of the former President of the United States, has won the hand of Miss Eleanor Butter Alexander, daughter of Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander of 42 West Forty-seventh street, New York. Their betrothal was announced by the mother of the bride-to-be. The wedding, which is to be celebrated on an elaborate scale, will be deferred until the arrival in America of the bridegroom's father next June. The announcement came as a surprise to even the close friends of the couple, for recently young Mr. Rosevelt has been attending strictly to business and so he has had small opportunity for those social excursions in which he might meet the young lady. "Teddy Junior," as his friends call him, is slightly more than 22 years of age. Since he was graduated from Harvard in 1908, taking the four years' course in three and graduating with high standing, he has been at work in the factories of the Hartford Carpet Company at Thompsonville, Conn., just outside the State capital. He has been thorough and diligent in his work and his trips to New York have been few and far between. BLAZE ROUTS HOTEL GUESTS. Three Seriously Hurt Leaping from Windows in Washington. Fire in the Hotel Harris near the Union station in Washington, at 2 o'clock in the morning threw the hundred guests into a panic. Three of them, Orville A. Henry of Berwick, Pa., and his wife, and child, leaped from a third story window. They are in the Casualty hospital seriously injured. The origin of the fire is unknown. PLANS FOR CANADIAN NAVY. New Naval College, to Be Built, WILL Be Located at Halifax. The new naval college, which is to be built in connection with the Cana-dian government's navy, will be located at Halifax, as the Atlantic station of the two new Bristol cruisers the six destroyers and the cruiser Niobe, which is to be purchased at a cost of $2,000,000. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Charles Guerney, of Red Cloud, Neb, sold $240 worth of cattle in one day. He says he fattened a large herd of cattle on alfalfa, sold $300 worth of hay and has 500 tons left. Carl J. Calvin, Lancaster, who was graduated from the University of Wisconsin department of civil engineering in '06, has been made chief engineer of the Consumers' Iron Mining Co., of Virginia. A lad near Waverly, Mo., sold $280 worth of sheep, the product of one ewe lamb given him several years ago. He sold his wool to buy another ewe, sold the buck lambs, bought more ewes and developed a large flock. John Kurtz, a farmer in Colorado, with a shotgun and two dogs stood off 100 men and teams of the railroad grading outfit which attempted to go through his crops without paying for them. He forced the railroad company to settle. The principal speaker at the recent annual meeting of the Moorhead, Minn., Commercial Club was President Hunton, of the First National Bank, who made a strong plea for the club to get busy after cars to move the potato crop. He said that no less than 1,300 refrigerator cars would be needed to move the crop from that vicinity. He said upon the crop being sent East it would mean $260,000 to be distributed in the vicinity. If the plans of William Burke, a wealthy resident of Witoka, Minn., materialize, La Crosse, Wis., may be the terminal point for a new interurban railroad; connecting the towns and villages of Southern Minnesota, which are now practically without railroad facilities. An increase pounds on first, hundred New York to Chicago has been agreed to be An increase pounds on first York to Chloe been agri Watch Inspector for the C. & E. L. R. R. Phone Douglas 8308 EYES TESTED FREE MOST COMPLETE OPTICAL ROOM IN THE CITY WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, OPTICAL GOODS Cut Glass, Hand-Painted China, Musical Instruments, Manufacturers of Lodge Pins and Charms. Diamonds Re-Set, Plain Rings Made to Order While You Wait We Positively Do Our Own Work. LOUIE USSELMANN 3150 STATE STREET "Our students are brilliant successes."—ADELLA B. BLACK Black's Hairdressing of Quality WE TEACH THE TRADE COMPLETE 18 EAST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS EDWARD FELIX Is Your Hair Beautiful Soft, Silky and! 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McGowan will enter gentlemen at a whist stag day, February 26. Jex. Manning of 5135 Lake s spending several weeks at old home, Mobile, Ala. En route ne sae, will stop, off at Huntsville visit her husband's people. The criticism on the Negro's support of places owned by white men whose only aim is to get your money by the road Ax last week, was timely when save such men as J. L. Fry, Geo. and Jessie Golden in the same ness. end the wunt ud. columns; there some good bargains. te attractions at the Chateau De Plaisance are growing more and more popular. Last Thursday and today the rink was crowded with e patrons and all seemed to have splendid time. The First Regiment K. of P. Band was at their best. Mrs. R. A. J. Shaw and son and Mrs. Marie Taylor left Sunday for Mariage, W. Va., where they will be the guest of their mother for six weeks. Mr. Wm. Bronston of 6524 Vincenten avenue has been confined to its home for several weeks on account of pneumonia. He is able to Leap up and around the house. Mr. W. R. Cowan's sister, Mrs. mean of Danville, Ky., was not expected to live for several days, but are glad to note that she is much cherved. see that your lodge meeting rights are placed in the Defender, like the Foresters and Daughter Elks, under Secret Societies. Roller skating, dancing and racing every Thursday evening at the Chateau Rink, 5324 State street. Orchestra music. Mrs. C. D. Jones of Toronto, Canada, is stopping in the city for a few days. She is the guest of Mrs. S. Beatrice Manuel. Mrs. E. S. Randolph, 3254 Wabash avenue, who spent two weeks in Chillicothe, O., at the sick bed of her mother, returned on Monday much pleased over her condition and says that she had fully recovered. Mrs. Constants Johnston, trained nurse, of Boston, and Miss Lillian Ball of Jamalen, W. I., trained nurse, graduate of Battle Creek, Mich., attended the 8th Regiment Ball on Monday night. The Kentucky Loaf can be had at all reputable grocery stores, as well as at 19 W. 35th street. The First Regiment K. of P. Band is still drawing large crowds at the Chateau Rink. Come out and hear the latest music and encourage the boys. A good time in store for all. Mrs. Henry Jones, the dashing Evans avenue belle, will leave for Watseka, Ill., to spend a few days with her mother. Mrs. E. Emory, of Park Ridge, Ill., called in the city on Thursday. After visiting a few friends she took dinner at Pekin Inn. She is looking fine and says the Defender is her whole comfort. Mr. Charles A. Williams, who has been on the list for the past three weeks with la gripe, is very much better and left for an extended visit to his sister and relatives in Baltimore, Md. Will remain for the Easter tide. I teach the trade complete—hair dressing, manicuring, facial massage, etc. Call and see me. 29 'ongress street; phone 155 Harrison, 76 East 47th street; phone 1914 girlland—Mine. G. Graham. Dr. Anna Cooper, who has been spending some time in Boston, taking a special course in surgical diseases of women and children, has taken up her work as a specialist in diseases of women and children. Office and residence, 3749 Cottage Grove avenue. Hours until 11 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m. Phone 2419 Aldine. If you are a skater get in the money *entring the contests at the Chateau run every Thursday evening. Free for all. Cash prizes. Mrs. Laura Williams, of Edgecombe place, North Side, is rapidly recovering from quite a difficult operation at her home. Dr. Anna Cooper, our new surgeon, did the work, with Miss R. A. Smith as nurse. Our women are coming to the front. Mrs. Luella Duncan, of Armour avenue, is improving after several days' severe illness. The Douglass Center will meet at Quinn Chapel to unite with them in the Frederick Douglass celebration next Sunday afternoon, Feb. 29. The Kentucky Loaf Co. has employed two high school graduates to clerk in its stores. The Chateau De La Plaisance is more and more popular for entertainments for churches and lodges. Sylvester Russell. it is understood, has retired indefinitely from the "Indianapolis Freeman" and will probably retire from the "Norfolk Journal and Guide" to devote all his time to Chicago. Don't fail to attend "Fete of All Nations," presented for the first time at St. Mark's Church, 50th and Wabash avenue. Miss Beulah Smith, of Cosmopolitan School of Music, will also make her first appearance before Chicago music lovers as a soloist. Hear her. Alden 24. Mrs. L. A. Brown. Miss Dennis, 6123 Ada street, is on the sick list. Mrs. W. D. Bowden entertained the Ideal Woman's Club at her residence, 4102 Langley avenue. Cull on us first and examine our line of hair goods, and if our prices do not appeal to you as fair and reasonable as others, look no further, for no where in Chicago can you do as well. Mme. Wallace, 3247 State street. Mr. Winston, 1201 61st street. is able to be out among his friends again. Mrs. McKenna, of 6029 Loomis boulevard, is able to be out again. Miss Edith Bowman, of 6033 Loomis boulevard, is on the sick list. Mrs. Fisher, of 1348 61st street, has returned home after a six month's visit at her home in Topeka, Kan. 3339 Mrs. Woods is able to leave the hospital. She is getting along nicely. Miss Dora Morris was the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Hunter, Smith and Lewis and grandmother, 6009 Ada street. Mrs. Bell, of 6211 Loomis boulevard, is improving. The Douglas Dancing Academy which meets every Friday evening at Masonite Temple, 3956 State street, is the guest in the city only Chicago's cream attend. Wilson's orchestra. On Saturday, Feb. 26th, the ladies of the G. at U. O. of O. F. will give a benefit at the Chateau De La Plaisance, 5324 State street. The afternoon will be devoted to school children from 2 to 5 o'clock. Prizes will be given to the little ones and the evening will be given to the older persons, from 8 to 12 midnight. Many valuable prizes will be given to the best skaters showing grace on rollers. The Ideal Woman's Club elected the following officers for the year; Mrs. I. B. W. Barnett, president; Mrs. Moss, first vice president; Mrs. Hall, second vice president; Mrs. Lennie Jordan, secretary; Mrs. T. H. Smith, treasurer. The Ideal Woman's Club celebrated Frederick Douglass' birthday Friday evening, Feb. 18, at Shiloh Baptist Church. A fine program was rendered. Mrs. Skirry of 6120 Ada street gave a birthday dinner in honor of her husband. A good time all the time at the Chateau for all good people. Come now and bring your friends. Mrs. Nancy Green, 5015 Dearborn street, demonstrator for the Davis Milling Company, St. Joseph, Mo. is enjoying a much needed rest prior to a trip to Omaha, Neb. Miss Georgine Phillips of Boston is a visitor to the city. It is said that the marriage of Capt. G. M. W, Speer of the Hotel Del Prado and Miss Alice Gillespie of New Orleans will take place Monday, May 2. Elaborate preparations are being made for the event, and the honeymoon will be spent at Atlantic City, N. J. Champion Jack Johnson was in the city for a few hours on Monday. Mr. Johnson was in a happy frame of mind and said that he knew of nothing to worry him. Mr. Wesley Barley, Architectural Works, drawing plans for cottages, flats, churches; remodeling and building of all classes. Will call and give approximate estimates as to cost free. Call or address, 1730 Michigan avenue, rear entrance. The Volunteer Workers' Club met at the residence of Mrs. M. H. Brown, 3237 Forest avenue, on Wednesday afternoon last. A large number of ladies were present and were presided over by Mrs. Caldwell. A delightful collation of edibles was served. Dr. Walter Caitler paid a brief visit this week to his mother, at his old home, Evansville, ind. Mrs. Addie Crawford Minor, of St. Paul, Minn., is visiting in our city. Mrs. Kenneday, of 3237 Forest avenue, is quite ill this week. Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, mother of Hons. E. H. and Wm. R. Morris, died in Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 14, at the home of her son William, and was buried from the home of E. H. Morris, 3712 Dearborn street, on Wednesday. Read in next Saturday's Defender the great speech delivered by Hon. E. J. Bowles, entitled "Still Away," one of the masterpieces of modern times, and at the same time will appear Hon. Edmond II. Smallley, which was forced to give way for that of Mrs. Jones' fight in Kansas for an interest in Hon. Theo. Jones' estate of $100,000. The Foresters buried Mr. Fafayette Nelson on last Sunday, from his residence, 3417 Armour avenue, and held funeral rites over the body of Mr. Miller at Mr. Chas. Jackson's undertaking establishment, 3249 State street, thereby making a double funeral for Feb. 13, which will long be remembered by the order. Mr. J. L. Parks has just returned from a trip to his home, on Thursday, in Columbia, Tenn., to see his oldest brother, who is very seriously ill. Little Bernice Parks entertained at luncheon several of her little friends, Friday, Feb. 11, 1910, at 4 p. m., the occasion being her 3d birthday. Among those present were: Myrabelle Wimp, Andrew Smith, Jr., Ruth and Josephine Shoecraft, and Edith and Florence Larden. The decorations were pink and white. The little tots had a good time. It seems such a pity that the Defender is forced to beg its subscribers each week for its hard-earned money. If we did not do our part we would expect such treatment from your hands, but we have been to your door regularly each Saturday the entire year; still we can hear of helping the race—at this rate you are helping it to its death; you will readily pay a concern that will bunk you and send you three or four papers a year, and one that will deliver the goods you try to annihilate. If you don't want the paper, please send us word; if you do want it, please pay for it by or before March 1. At that time we drop all delinquents. Office 3159 State street. The Chicago Defender is all that is necessary. All work for publication sent into this office, as well as subscription, must be paid for in advance. Mrs. B. W. Flitts, who has been indisposed for the past two weeks, is able to be up once more. Miss Carrie Valrin, of Henderson, Ky., a school teacher, retired, will be entertained on Monday evening by Mr. and Mrs. S. Hudson, 3637 Dearborn street. The birthday party of Mrs. J. Peeple, 3606 Wabash avenue, last week, was a brilliant affair. Mr. Peeple laid off from his work to attend and numbers of friends who brought presents. Mr. R. F. Reed, Milwaukee, Wis.; Miss Ball, Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. J. R. De Mercer, Mrs. Gabe Robinson, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Miller and Mr. Wm. Hobbs, were among the noted guests. Miss Deborah White sprung a surprise on her friends on last Sunday by making a visit to Provident Hospital. Her many friends were glad to see her, and especially looking so good after such a long siege of illness. Mrs. Ida Hayes, 3322 Wabash avenue, the champion whist player, cleaned up a party of ladies the other evening at Mrs. J. Gray Lucas', laughed at the bunch, drank a cup of cocoa and beat it for home. Mrs. G. W. Parker, 3626 Vernon avenue, entertained a few friends at a dinner party on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Corene C. Eggleston, 3611 Vernon avenue, who has been confined to her bed for the past two weeks, is able to be about once more. Mrs. Chas. W. Harrison, 3611 Vernon avenue, the expert pianist, is now taking a course on the violin. Her professor speaks encouragingly of her. La Fayette Nelson, deceased, was born in Palmyra, Mo., on May 4, 1865, and departed from this life February 10th, in the year of Our Lord, A. D. 1910, at 7:49 p. m. He is next to the last to go out of a large family. He was married in 1883 to Lucinda Morgan, of Springfield, Ill. He came to Chicago the following year where a son was born. The Chicago Defender was the first newspaper to advocate a reduction in prices for funerals. When attention was first called to this matter no attention was paid to it, but that we were again right is now proven. The Rambler talks about the matter on page 1 of this issue. It was small Helen's first trip across the lake and she was ill. "How do you feel, dear?" queried her mother. "Oh," answered Helen, faintly. "I feel like I wanted to unswallow my dinner." 50..Singers, Dancers and Comedians..50 Just One Public Verdict everywhere— GO SEE IT IMMENSE GO SEE IT SPECIAL NOTE-This is MR. DUDLEY'S Last Appearance In Chicago this Season J. L. PARKS UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER EMBALMING A SPECIALTY It is very grewsome and also very unpleasant to me to be compelled to advertise our prices on funeral goods through the press, but owing to the competition of today I feel it my duty to inform my patrons that I will meet any of the prices quoted by my competitors. Use of my large chapel free of charge. I have adult cloth covered caskets from $14.00 up and also an elegant couch case for $50.00 and up. No extra charges for distance. All work car fully and promptly attended. THE MARTHA TEA PARTY Martha Washington tea party given by the social committee of the Union Mason Temple Association at Union Mason Hall, 3956 State street, Tuesday evening, Feb. 22, 1910. A first and second prize will be given to the lady and gentleman wearing the most unique dress. Admission 25 cents. Music by the Eighth Regiment Orchestra. Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, chairman; Miss E. McGowan, secretary. ELITE FACE GREAM. For Cleaning and Purifying the Skin There Is Nothing Like It Under the Sun. Its great affinity for all soaps and its power for taking up and neutralizing the harmful elements that exist in all soaps are unsurpassed by anything known to the chemical world. The alkali is taken up by some of the properties of the cream, forming a new compound called cream sooleate. This newly formed compound electrifies and purifies the skin; removing every trace of grease, paint, varnish, or any foreign elements, leaving the skin in perfect condition, pure and white. This makes possible the arterial circulation which brings the desired nutrition to the very outer layer of the skin. Rejuvenating the cellular elements and thereby bringing back the youthful appearance. Full directions on every bottle. Ask your druggist for THE ELITE FACE CREAM and take no other. Manufactured by E. J. BOWLLES & CO. 2019 Armour Ave. Phone Douglas 3081. Watch the Defender for our big ad. AMATEUR MINSTREL SHOW AND DANCE For the Benefit of the Old Folks' Home. The Amateur Minstrel Club will give its initial performance and dance on Monday evening, March 28th, at Oakland Music Hall for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home. The needs of the home are well known, therefore we are desirous of making this a big success, and we ask the support of our friends. Admission 50 cents. David R. Lawrence, pres.; Wm. G. Carroll; see'y. Unique Temple, Lady Elks, meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Miss Jennifer Annoy, D. R., 2422, Mrs. Maggie Kendrick, Fin. Sewick, 5205 Grove av. Court General Robert Ellott, No. 7895. Ancient Order of Foresters, meets every second and fourth Monday in each month. Street D. B. Hawker Chief Ranger,idence 5131 Dearborn street; F. W. Traylor, Financial Secretary, 5124 Dearborn street, phone Aline 1810. Court General Robert Ellott, No. 7895. Ancient Order of Foresters, meets every second and fourth Monday in each month at Old Fellows Hall, 3337 I. F. Smith, Chief Ranger, Residence, 4764 Dearborn st. Phone Aline 2118. F. W. Traylor, Recording Secretary, 3422 Dearborn st. Phone Aline 1810. CICAGO LODGE, No. 48, I. B. P. O. E. Secretary, 6430 Vincennes av.; H. W. Rhea, Secretary, 6430 Vincennes av.; J. W. Johnson, Exalted Ruler, 2947 Calumet av. Within a year after the average woman gets her life insurance, you hear that some man has borrowed her money, and is slow in paying it back. 24 His Honor, 50..Singers, Dancers Just One Public Verse GO SEE IT IMMEN SPECIAL NOTE--This is MR. DU Chicago th J. L. P. UNDERTAKER AN EMBALMING A It is very grewsome and also we compelled to advertise our prices the press, but owing to the compduty to inform my patrons that quoted by my competitors. Use of my large chapel free cloth covered caskets from $14 couch case for $50.00 and up. No All work car fully and promptly ANNOUNCEMENT. Mrs. Frank W. King, 3604 State street, widow of the deceased, will continue the business so well established by her husband at the same place and number. The patronage of all the old customers and new ones is solicited. We wish to call attention to our advertisers. Are you dealing with them? They are the ones who are making this paper possible and are demonstrating in the only way practicable that they want your trade. They deserve it and should get it. Are you trading with merchants who refuse to patronize these columns? If so, you are defeating the purpose of the paper which is to aid you in keeping fair living conditions. If a merchant wants your patronage we know of no better way to demonstrate it than for him to say so through these columns. Please keep this matter in mind and watch the regular change of advertisements. Our advertisers are giving you the best of goods at the lowest rates. We pride ourselves on the select quality of our advertisers. 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DUDLEY and the SMART SET COMPANY in The Barber s and Comedians..50 dict/ everywhere— ENSF GO SEE IT BUDLEY'S Last Appearance In this Season A.R. BROWN THE DUMAS HOTEL AND GRILL R.S. GILLSPIR timer our special feature, 40 cents. Weekday Dinner, 25 cents. After Theatre and Hall Parties are especially solicited. Cafe open at all hours. Music from 6 to 11 p.m. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Parlors are always open for the convenience of our patrons. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR FACE LIGHTER COLORED FOR EVERY IMPORTANT OCCASION? YOUR SKIN CLEAR SMOOTH FINE? YOUR HAIR LONG THICK DRESSY? YOUR PERSONALITY MORE ATTRACTIVE! SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE OF WONDER HAIR GROW ANOTHER 10c FOR 2 SAMPLES OF COMPLEXION WONDER. These samples and our information book and the private letters we will write to you will show you how to have all these improvements. We cannot overcome nature, but as far as your individual characteristics will permit, we can make you prepossessing, presentable and attractive. The editors of colored newspapers will tell you we are responsible. We are doing more for colored people than any business concern in this country. Our mission is not a lofty one like that of Dr. Booker Washington, but in our way, we are trying to do for their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. We Represent the Chemical Wonder Company of New York We WILL BE GLAD TO CORRESPOND, WITHOUT CHARGE, WITH COLORED BENN AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PRIDEN IN THE COLORED ENERGY DESIRE TO BEINFORMED OF DISCOVERIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SEND 2014 FOR THE THREE SAMPLES IMMEDIATELY THIS LITTLE EXPENDITURE WILL BENEFIT YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW the samples are received, watch for the postman. He will bring you letters very often. WRITE YOUR NAME AND STREET ADDRESS VERY PLANLY M. B. BERGER & CO., 2 Rector St., New York WHAT IS MECHANO-THERAPY? MECHANO THERAPY is the art or science of treating diseases without drugs. It is similar to Osteopathy, but far superior, being the latest up-to-date method of treating diseases by the Natural Method. It heals as Nature heals, in accordance with Nature's laws. The Mechano-Therapist is a drugless physician. His medicines are not drugs, but scientific combinations of air, water and food, circumstances, idea and motion. He is silled in compelling the body to DO IT'S OWN HEALING, with its own force, in eliminating through the circulation of the blood. rather than with the usual drugs of the old school practitioner. Hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. DR. COVEY HOOD, M. T. Phone 3151 Douglas 3252 Wabash Avenue, Chicago CUT OUT AND SEND Application Blank To Mr. L. W. Cummins, Sec'y 6554 Champlain Ave., Chicago Choral Study Club OF CHICAGO (Inc.) PREPARING FOR "HIAWATHA"! in June REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION 1. A voice of fair effectiveness, a correct ear, some knowledge of musical notation, and regularity in attendance of the rehearsals. 2. An annual fee of $1.00 is charged to active singing members, which amount must accompany the application. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP To Music Committee of the Choral Study Club: Please find enclosed S..... for membership, and kindly notify me when to appear for examination, and oblige, Yours truly, PHONE OAKLAND 3902 MME. BRIDGE'S SCHOOL DRESS CUTTING DRESS MAKING LADIES' TAILORING AND MILLINERY McDOWELL SYSTEM DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOL Night School $1.00 Per Week INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTIONS DIPLOMAS GRANTED Satisfaction Guaranteed Call or write for information 5037 STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. GOOD FOR EVERYBODY — CLEAN-U-TEA — CLEANS THE Best remedy for Headache, Constipation, Billiousness, Indigestion and B cache. Clean-U-Tea is composed of pure. fresh herbs, so combined to act wonderfully on the four chief organs of the body. A warm cup of Clean- U-Tea taken at night will overcome loss of appetite, relieve bad cold and feverish conditions and reduce freaks, steep. At all drug scores, price 10; [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. CHICAGO TO 9 p.m. Sunday Dinner Weekday Dinner, 25 cents. especially solicited. Cafe open at Ladies' and Gentlemen's Parlors convenience of our patrons. ICE LIGHTER COLORED EVERY IMPORTANT DECASION? IN CLEAR, SMOOTH, FINE? IN LONG, THICK, DRESSY? PERSONALITY MORE ATTRACTIVE? LEASE OF WONDER HAIR GROWTH OF COMPLEXION WONDER Private letters we will write to you will show you overcome nature, but as far as your individual accessing, presentable and attractive. The edi- sible. We are doing more for colored people session is not a lofty one like that of Dr. Booker their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. people, white or colored, to improve their appear- ance and who are prepossessing and positions commercially and socially and get TO CORRESPOND, WITHOUT CHARGE, AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PERSONAL, APPEARANCE AND DESIRE TO OVERVIEWS WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SAMPLES IMMEDIATELY. YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW life will bring you letters very often. GET ADDRESS VERY PLAINLY CO., 2 Rector St., New York ANO-THERAPY? science of treating diseases without but far superior, being the latest by the Natural Method. It heals with Nature's laws. The Mechano- His medicines are not drugs, but and feed, circumstances, idea and the body to DO IT'S OWN HEAL- ting through the circulation of the burs of the old school practitioner. KEY HOOD, M. T. Wabash Avenue, Chicago Blank To Mr. L. W. Cummins, Sec'y 6554 Champlain Ave., Chicago Study Club NO, (Inc.) AWATHA"! in June FOR ADMISSION is, a correct ear, some know- and regularity in attendance is charged to active singing must accompany the MEMBERSHIP Choral Study Club: Please for membership, and kindly for examination, and oblige, ly, address ..... high or low ..... FOR BY address ..... address ..... at Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn St. Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 E'S SCHOOL MAKING LADIES' TAILORING LINERY L SYSTEM Night School $1.00 Per Week DIPLOMAS GRANTED Guaranteed STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. GUESS WHO? (Copyright applied for.) NOTE—The Guess who columns were never inaugurated to vifify or to decry the fair name of any person, be they what they may. The motto of The Defender is to protect and lift up all mankind and to be a source of pleasure for our women, especially. When we have unpleasant things said about little jokes that appear in this column we can only ask you to think of the column and its meaning. Don't become serious over things meant for jokes, and you will be happy all your days. So cheer up, smile, and we will smile with you and feel kindly to all people. The fair damned is who says, "Now, you stop," so cunning. E. M. is that fair kid. The young lady is who says she would like to see Punky. P. D. is anxious. The young lady is who says, "I would have liked to go to the Eighth Regiment half, and when asked why she didn't go, 'Jopa wouldn't let me.' E. K. is right. The young lady is who says, 'Gee, but I'd give anything to W. C., or his The doll is who Denies that her infants are G. T., You can't foul us all. We know you and your brother, too. **The G. O. Dude** is who passed up and decided to cast out of State) so after Monday, carrying a doll to school, One of the "Beechwood Boys" is who has such an excellent memory. B. C. is the smart young fellow. ```markdown ``` An Important Matter To Investigate A fitting testimony of respect and love to the departed is no longer connected with exorbitant prices. Richness need not involve extravagance. The very best, both in caskets and service, may now be bead at a reasonable and legitimate price from The Western Casket & Undertaking Company, the only funeral directors who manufacture caskets and furnishings and deal direct with the people. What Can Positively Be Saved Western Casket & Undertaking Company Temporary Central Office: 516-518 Wabash Av. The first and only manufacturers of cankels and forestalinks dealing direct with the people. D. S. SATTLER - President and Treasurer W. B. GERRY Y - Vice-President and Gen'l Mgr. CHAS. S. JACKSON Manager of Branch 3249 State St. Telephone Aldine 2445 Why Men Leave Home. A large per cent of wife abandonment and divorces is due to Female Weakness. Why have this condition of the female organs, which causes a tired, exhausted feeling, vertigo, loss of appetite, neural backache, your stomach, one of the pains of heart disease, when you can be relieved by using Glyco-Ioline. Glyco-Ioline is a scientifically prepared remedy for Leucorhea and its allied diseases peculiar to women and is guaranteed by us. A six week's treatment will be sent on receipt of all orders order or draft on Chicago made payable to GLYCO-1OLINE COMPANY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. FOR SALE: EVANS AVE., near 45th St. 8-room frame house; lot 25x170; house detached on both sides, furnace heat, open plumbing, hardwood finish. One block from Cottage Grove Ave. car line, and one block from school. WILL TAKE $500. cash, and balance same as rent. Price only $3250. W. H. BOWERS & CO. TEL. DOUGLAS 986 1st St., N.E. cor. State T O W. S. McCLURE'S stationery, fine Candies, all kinds acco, Cigars, New papers, All kinds of Post Cards, ty. Take a look in at ST. Visit our store and let us SHOW YOU OUR GOODS. Chicago Telephone Harrison 4487 The "young" lady is who has decided to be chased along with young folks and look he town over in an automobile. Not that he is the King K. he can recommend a good doctor. The young dude is who delights in trying to "kill" the "child" by wielding them flowers, candy and talking them out in taxis. Ask K. L. J. If he knows who it is. (R. O. J.) who is visits on 57th street and almost missed his supper, dancing the "bongas" "club" schittische and the "Merry Widow" waltz. Gilbert is it. The "bongas" J. is who greets the 57th street people with "Hello, Nigger." It shows bad training. The thousand-air lawyer is who lives on liver and onions. Ask the Jew. R. cook is who forced himself on a lady on the liver on the I. C. R. R. and got stung. The 35th and State street photo dude is who is a one week bachelor. P. J. is our correct. The fair madden is who lives in the village of 374th and Dearborn streets, who says, I love my A. M., but oh, you W. C. The two old ladies who refused to accept company Thursday night. L. E. McFish is one. So it is that fell out with his dall at dancing school. Oh, it's awful, Sam. Missed his Gladys. 5832 Wabash is right. Tried to take another doll's bean. Now, Mattie, that isn't right. It is that is sorry his name is Tom. Loses her temper. The milliner is right. As Done by F. A. Rawlings. F. A. Rawlings, the popular and up-to-date undertaker, 4817 State Street, will furnish a funeral complete for $75—embalming service, black broadbread casket, outside box, hearse, two carriages and grave to South Side depots; also caskets $15 and up; colored plush caskets $50 and up; couch caskets $50 and up. Whenever you call you will receive honest treatment for your money. After the excitement of advertising funerals are over prices will go up, but my prices will remain the same. Calls answered day and night, any part of the city and suburbs. Phone Oakland 1328. A large chapel free and sanitary morgue. Special care taken of loved ones sent out of the city. Others have told you the prices of caskets, but they fail to tell you the price of a complete funeral; that is the hait. so that when you get to their office you will pay more than you expected. However, I have told you the price of a complete funeral. 2-12-3-12-ad. A scientific cause of, and remedy for, the Race Problem, constituted the theme of an original and masterly address, under caption of "Race Ideals," delivered to the Star Literary of Ebenezer Baptist church, 35th and Dearborn streets, on Sunday last by ex-Congressman Murray, who so aroused his audience that it immediately rose in a body and unanimously voted a request to have him repeat the address to the same body at 4 p. m. on Sunday next, February 20. Persons wishing to gain a scientific understanding of the cause, effect and remedy for the vexatious race problem, cannot afford to miss this lecture, as it is the first scientific lecture of its kind ever heard in Chicago. "Move inside, gents," cried the conductor on the crowded trolley; "ye're breakin' the rules standin' on the platform here." "Some o' them ain't," piped up a little man; "they're standin' on my feet."—Catholic Standard and Times. Nothing pleases a woman more than to say, when you admire something she has on: "I made it myself." "Papa," said 5-year-old Johnny, "please give me a dime to buy a toy monkey." "You don't need a toy monkey," answered his father. "You are a monkey yourself." "Well," continued the little fellow, "then give me a dime to buy peanuts for the monkey." Cotton growing has been resumed in Palestine. An extensive suitable area is available. During our Civil War cotton was cultivated there on an extensive scale, of which several old cotton presses still bear witness. It is said that the cotton was of very good quality. Companies are being organized. In Turkey of late years a distinct revival of the cotton industry has become manifest. Pawnshops in Chile are under special regulations of the general government, enforced by local authorities. UNDERTAKING RACE IDEALS. Not All Guilty. SMITH & SONS. [Name] Who Successfully Managed One of the Greatest Military Balls of the Season, Thereby Cinching the Deal and Assuring Chicago Citizens of an Armory for the Eighth Illinois Regiment, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC By Sylvester Russell. The Abraham Lincoln-Frederick Douglass day was a big day in sacred musical circles last Sunday. Madam Anita Patti-Brown once more bowed to a solemn calling, and for the second time in one month the people of Chicago have had cause to thank her for her loyal devotion to offer all that is soothing to sweetly cheer our drooping hearts in funeral and memorial services. In this spirit of hospitality, which Madam Brown has presented we will be duty bound to return the compliment in the same measure of cordiality when the greatest coloratura singer of her race gets ready to make her next professional appearance. It may seem a strange wonder to a great many readers why it is that a special writer must pick out one special individual in musical circles to dwell upon as a singer, and yet music is an art wherein great artists can only find favor through real critics. 本 本 本 The Musical Vers top the bill at the Grand Theater this week. They are very good instrumentalists, and the comedy work of Mr. Ver was also entertaining. The blacks were given a good reception. Richard Lewis, the famous contra-tenor singer and protean specialty artist, made his reappearance for the first time alone, and made a very good impression. He has an extra good voice and his costumes were rich and tidy. Mr. Lewis should glide across the stage in his songs and not remain too stationary. The Webbs, still popular on State street, once more entered into favor as dancers, and their act is very neat. * * * The Monogram has the strongest cards on the scroll for the week. Shelton Brooks heads the bill. Mr. Brooks is a very clever comedian who is gradually winning his way to the front. His likeness unto that of Bert A. Williams seems to be the greatest basis of his encouragement. Now is the time. If Mr. Brooks can manage to get completely away from the Williams imitations of songs and dances and convert himself to those different and original he will probably become a wonder, but not until then, and not until he ceases to show his concept by making mention of his own name in his own monologue. Next! Miss Nettie Lewis is next in turn. Miss Lewis has partly changed her act and wears a longer skirt. One thing about Miss Lewis is that she knows how to "make up;" she never dobs her face up like a red withered rose and all shades of cheap actresses for miles around should come hither and learn of her. She is just a little shy though of the critic man. I met her the other day in a music store. She was conversing with the Original Rags when I entered, and they both saluted me. "Is it true that you were stranded in the South with the Pekin Stock Company?" I asked. "Why, no," she said. "Money." And then she told how she was first to skiddoo and how Chas. Gilpin said he would "nebber" come back. The Griffin Sisters were billed as headliners this week, but Brooks—well, they have proved to be clever girls, who know how to dress and act and also sing. The heavy sister made up white for a change, and she knows how; her neck and arms did not remain black like so many other girls. Stewart and Wallace moved down from the Grand to the Monogram. They are both excellent singers and dancers in the comedy line. Miss Wallace is the actress I criticised last week. She excused herself from the immoral features of her dance, but it will be up to the manager to see that she really cuts it out, even when not being watched. Woe unto the World's Fair of the past for the limit will not be reached until the mayor of the city goes and takes a seat in the gallery of the Folly Theater and listens attentively to the expressions of the 14-year-old degenerates who attend the performances. Now what is the use of people turning out several thousand strong against saloons when their children can sit in certain theaters and look openly at the worst immoral crime of civilization? And the answer is that Chicago is still a living city of the dark. TRUE FRIENDSHIP. Bv E. C. Do not keep your alabaster boxes of love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are all dead. Fill their lives and minds with sweetness. Speak approving and cheering words while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier; the kind words you mean to say when they are gone, say them before they go. The flowers you mean to send to cover their coffins, send them while they are yet alive. If any of our friends have any alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, we would rather have them bring them out in our weary, troubled hours, and open them, that we may become refreshed and cheered while we need them. I would rather have a plain coffin, without a flower, a funeral without an ecology, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy. Post-mortem kindness does not cheer the burdened heart. Flowers placed on a coffin cast no fragrance back over the weary pathway. A GRAND BALL AT MASONIC HALL. The Lady Order of Foresters, St. Augustin's Court, 391, C. O. F., gave their annual ball at Masonic Hall on last Monday evening. Those that did not attend missed a very enjoyable evening. Music by Boardman's orchestra A REAL EDUCATION David Swing, one of the most distinguished preachers of his time, was a farmer's boy, and knew the privations common to the settlers of the early West. J. F. Newton, one of his schoolmates, writes of him as follows, in a recent book entitled, "David Swing, Poet-Preacher": "The pages of my memory contain no more delightful records than those made by David Swing, when we both attended the district school at Williamsburg, Ohio. "Those who were intimate with him in boyhood can trace the beginnings of his worth and eminence to his lovable disposition and bright, intellectual traits as they appeared in his youthful sports and earliest occupations. "He could run and skate and swim with any of his set, but he could not bear to take the life of any living thing. "There was a vein of stillness in him, a droll, dry humor, made the more comical by a slow, drawing voice, which always caused a titter from the long reading class which wound all round the old log schoolhouse. I have often thought that for one born, as David was, to feel the hardness of the world, his humor was a saving grace. "He was eager to know and. quick to learn, excelling in mathematics, history and composition, and, I must add, in every kind of innocent prankishness. One day, left to act as monitor of the school, he solemly called the roll in rhyme, using all the nicknames and inventing others to suit his single. Some of the names coined by him that day were so apt that they followed their wearers for many years. He was a good story-teller, and there was no end to his making puns." Of his own boyhood Mr. Swing wrote: "I never swore but once, and the oath made so loud a report that it frightened me. It was on the Fourth of July, and I was walking to a big celebration. There had been a rain the night before and the road was muddy. I fell into a puddle and was obliged to return home and have my trousers dried. I had only one pair. "I had no overcoat till I was a member of the senior class in college. Was I cold? No, I went without one and did not get cold. Nobody got cold then. "Plowing and hoeing, sowing and reaping, mending fences and going to mill filled the year with toil, and only a few months in the winter were left for school. But I studied nights, kept my own grade, and voted myself the honors." Such is fame. the ascent of Mt.covery of the nqtired from the tief tension shelves of. Dr. Cook's books on Kipling, and the dis- tinctive being reserves to the public libraries. DEATHS OF THE WEEK LEACH'S EXPRESS Only Published in the Chicago Defender—No Other Has It— Our Own Idea. BY MAE COLEMAN Wilms S. Freeman, 20 years, 6244 Teeson 16 years, 15 William H. Stewart, 60 years, 6005 St. Louis roll, 16 years, 3484 Armour av., Feb. 14; Samuel Gibson, 42 years, 2152 West Lake St. Louis roll, 16 years, 3484 Armour av., West 30th st. Feb. 15; Mrs. Mary Smith, 36 years, 6332 Cottage Grove av. Feb. 11; James McCarthy, 36 years, 6332 Cottage Grove av., Feb. 11; Milnie Curtis, 37 years, 761 Carrull av.; Feb. 11; Lafayette Nelson, Years, 3417 Armour av. Feb. 10; James Years, 3417 Armour av. Feb. 10; 4903 Dearborn st. Feb. 11. THE SICK Mrs. Florence Titus, 5294 State street, is ill at her residence. Mrs. Titus is a prominent member of Rebekah Household of Ruth, 1277. Miss. Georgia Moore is still confined and held at her residence, 6329 Stewart Wyoming. Mr J. Hockey Smiley, who has been ill around his group, is able to be up and around his group. Mrs. H. Ward, 5014 Dearborn street, is under the care of a physician, having suffered a severe fall on an icy sidewalk one evening last week. AN INVITING FIELD There are very few trades and professions among our people that are overcrowded, but one of the most inviting and remunerative is photography. For terms inquire at Enterprise Institute, 3711 State street. What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to say, on a very bad day: "It's a nice day, if you don't care what you say?" BOWMAN'S HAIR POMADE The Bowman Hair Pomade is undoubtedly one of the best HAIR GROWERS ever manufactured. Anyone who will use it will be amazed at how much better it makes hair rapidly and beautiful. Hundreds of people with Washable Hair will use it much interested in this wonderful hair grower. The demand in Chicago has become so great we have found it necessary to place the DRUG STORES that ARE HANDLING THE BOWMAN HAIR POMADE. Dr. Robert Levinson Pharmacy, 109 W. 47th St.; John Dixz, 4446 State St.; A. E. Hiss, 39th and State; W. E. Wallace, 35th and State; Pharmacy, 109 W. 47th St.; Leviathan Pharmacy, 109 W. 47th St.; Rankin & White, 36th and State; H. K. Holtfer, 22d and State; W. K. Forryth, 21st and State; E. H. Stack, 29th and State; Pharmacy, 21st and State; Relief Pharmacy, 21st and State; Montgomery, 26th and State; C. J. Snyder, 2459 State; W. W. Kloore, 2544 State; E. Von Hermann, 297 31st; George Porse, 297 31st; Relief Pharmacy, 2704 Birch St.; C. J. Snyder, 2704 Birch St.; S. Lessee, 22d and Dearborn; Henry F. Thomas, 29th and Dearborn. CENTRAL DRUG CO., Washington and State. GLASSIFIED COLUMN. GLASSIFIED COLUMN. WANTED WANTED) - A FEMALE MODEL, COLORED girl, with regular features and good figure, to pose about three hours, afternoons. Address X. Defender. FOR SALE. FOR SALE AT A BAI GAIN—ESTABLISHED manicuring and hdressing dressing 47th street, near "L." Mrs. G. Graham 24 congress st. telephone Harrison 133. FOR RENT. ONE UPHIGH PLANO FOR IENT TO Address X, Dolender Furnished Rooms. FOR RENT—$22 for 4-ROOM FLAT, furnace heat, bath, large airy and well lighted. 3751 Vincennes av., Mrs. Sturks. FOR RENT—TWO FRIEND ROOMS, good for doctor's office or married cow ple. 315 State st. Apply 3153 State st. Murry's Express office. FOR RENT—FRIEND PARLOOR ROOM, furnished or unfurnished. 3237 Forest av. Phone 2394 Douglas. NICELY FURNISHED ROOM TO RENT; all modern improvements. 4521 Evans av. Phone Kenwood 464. TWO NICELY FURNISHED FRONT GENTLEmen; steam heat, for $10 and $12; take from surface car and two from "L" station. 4928 Aberdeen st., 3d flat. LARGE FRONT ROOM FOR TWO GENTLEmen; fine for students; all modern conveniences; hot and cold water the year round. 3215 Vernon av. FOR RENT-A NICELY FURNISHED front room; hot and cold water, steam heat. 3715 Forest av. 2d flat. Phone 3220 Douglas. LARGE FIRST-CLASS ROOMS, FRONT and back, with private kitchen; all modern improvements. 3524 Calumet av. NEARLY PURNISHED ROOM. WELL lighted, steam heat, hot and cold water year round. 3d flat. 3628 Vernon av. Phone Aldine 2563. TWO ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN, steam heat, plumbing, water and all conveniences; reasonable; convenient to all car lines, near 33d blvd. and Indiana av. Apply at Defender office. FOR RENT—LARGE FRONT ROOM, all modern conveniences, for man and wife or two gentlemen. 3512 Calumet av. Phone 5669 Douglas. LARGE FIRST-CLASS ROOMS, FRONT and back, with private kitchen; modern improvements. 3525 Calumet Ave. TO LEFT—TWO NICE FRONT ROOMS, convenient to car lines. 3445 Wabas h av. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—DECIDED BARGAINS. Three Flats—Near 61st st. "L" station; 3-story stone front, 6, 7 and 7 rooms and baths; hardwood finish throughout; steam heat. Rent $1,080. Price $7,500. Two Flats—Near 61st and Cottage Grove "L" station; 2-story stone front, 5 and 6 rooms and baths; oak throughout. Price $5,700. Steam heat. Two Flats—Near "L" and Ogden Park, RW5 5 and 6 rooms and baths; hardwood floor; up-to-date in every respect. Price $5,300; mortgage $4,300; $1,000 for equity. COTTAGES. 6833 Elizabeth st.; just completed; contains 5 rooms, oak finish throughout; large colonial porch. Price $2,200. $500 cash, balance same as rent. 4816 Armour av.; just completed; contains 5 rooms, oak throughout, colonial porch extending across entire front. Price $2,200. $500 cash, balance same as rent. P. F. McCARTHY & CO. State and Thirty-ninth Streets. LEACHS STORAGE WARRIOR PRIVATE ROOMS FOR FURNITURE, HEATED PIANO ROOMS MONEY LOANED ON FURNITURE IN STORAGE Main Office 3228 State St. Warehouse 4430 State S Offers for the Winter Unique and Super Rite: Skate Program Every Night in the Week from 7 to 12 P.M., with the following Variations: Skating from 7 to 10:30. Dancing from 10:30 to 12 every Tuesd y, Friday and Saturday night, with the best Orchestra Music. Cast Skate Party. Christmas with Wednesday, Sunday and Monday night. (2) where you will, pay what you owe. UCHATEAU. (2) where you will, pay what you owe. UCHATEAU. (2) where you will, pay what you owe. UCHATEAU. Come away from the stuffy, tubercurise death-giving, cheap threate and enjoy the invigorating health-giving a mosphere of the CHATEAU. Admission One Dime, 10c. Leland Giants Baseball and Amusement Ass'n CHAS. S. JACKSON FUNERAL DIRECTOR MARTIN Meat My goods are fresh and Chicago. SPECIAL and RESTAURANTS to any part of the city. Phone D MARTIN ORLE Meat Market goods are fresh and my prices the low so. SPECIAL PRICES FOR HOME ESTAURANTS. Their goods deli part of the city. Phone Douglas 1828 My goods are fresh and my prices the lowest in Chicago. SPECIAL PRICES FOR HOTELS and RESTAURANTS. Their goods delivered to any part of the city. Phone Douglas 1828 3814 State Street, CHICAG 7,000 Found Employment in 1909 out of The Star Employment Bureau 3223 STATE STREET PHONE 2411 DOUGLAS CHICAG O Found Employment in 1909 o Star Employment B 3223 STATE STREET 1 DOUGLAS CH 7,000 Found Employment in 1909 out of The Star Employment Bureau 3223 STATE STREET PHONE 2411 DOUGLAS CHICAGO Pictures by Electric Light No More Dark or Cloudy Days or Even Nights in The Peter P. Jones STUDIO Photographs made under any conditions at 3519 STATE ST. --- ```markdown ``` Bellman to Answer All Calls PHONE DOUGLAS 3151 ue, CHICAGO ence Douglas 6998 3249 State Street FOREST market or leases the lowest in S FOR HOTELS fir goods delivered 1828 CHICAGO in 1909 out of ment Bureau STREET CHICAGO YOUR PRINTING Promptly Executed High Grade Printing for people in made, business or profession, at loc on good quality stock. Fine and Church Banquet. By La- institutions. By Belfast. AS. V. W. TT 1000 Printed Car $1.50 1000 Printed Bill $1.75 Latent Style Types He Tells President Taft Just Where the Fault Lies and How to Remedy It. Chicago, 11L, Feb. 25, 1910. Dear Sir—I read with great interest an editorial in the Chicago Journal denouncing the grand jury of Alexander County, Illinois, in failing to take action in regard to the lynching of William James and Henry Salzner. It suggests "If there is any possible means of punishing the grand jury, which has become accessory after the fact, the decent people of Illinois will be glad to see it set in motion." Matters have reached such a point in this country that the writer regards it as absolutely essential to enact a remedy for lynching. The taking of human life without trial or any pretext of a hearing cannot be sustained in a civilized community. Our Constitution provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. It guarantees that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a right to a fair trial. This is in substance the organic law of the United States and of every State in the Union. The insistence on a fair trial and lawful conviction is no defense of the atrocious crimes which merit prompt trial and speedy execution. Usually the turning of a body of law-abiding men into a mob for the purpose of lynching an alleged criminal is the feeling in the heart of men for justice. It is a protest at the dilatory process of the law in dealing with such crimes. Nevertheless, the writer is of the view that the public interests demand that lynching must be stopped in this country. In Canada or the United Kingdom and in most countries in Europe, no body of men would dare even attempt lynching, for the reason that each individual knows that if the lynching be successful, the result would be a trial for murder and probable execution by the powers of the general government If the local authority neglect to act. So long as the punishment for the offense rests solely with local authority there is little danger of any one being punished if the party put to death by the mob has committed any offense which has apparently justified summary execution. The writer has long urged a remedy for lynching which he believes merits consideration, viz. to grant to the Federal courts at least concurrent jurisdiction in trials for lynching. This is the only civil-christian man, so far as the er is advised, that has omitted to pro- that the general government shall the power to punish persons guilty of violating the treaty rights of aliens and for summary and unlawful taking of life of a citizen by mob law. Since the organization of the government our great nation was always compelled to admit that while it made treaties it was utterly powerless to punish offenders against treaty rights and apologetically tendered to foreign powers a pecuniary compensation for such violations of the treaty rights of an alien. I enclose extracts from my letter to the Hon. William H. Taft, Aug. 14, 1998, and copy of his reply, bearing on this topic. The writer believes that an organized movement should be made throughout the country to grant at least concurrent jurisdiction to the Federal courts in matters involving the rights of aliens, also for lynching. At the same time the necessity for prompt and lawful punishment of the criminal whose atrocious, brutal act has aroused the community must not be overlooked. As the writer stated to Judge Taft, granting concurrent jurisdiction to the Federal courts to punish lynching may require a constitutional amendment, but granting such power to the Federal courts to punish violations of the treaty rights of aliens, the writer believes would require no change in the organic law. The power granted to the Federal government to make treaties must imply the power to properly enforce them. It is strange that since the days of Washington, this government alone of modern civilized nations has left exclusively to local authority the power to punish for infraction of treaty rights. Granting concurrent jurisdiction to the Federal government to punish lynching would take trials for these offenses away from local influence. If these propositions are crystallized into law and such law be enforced, each alien within our borders and each citizen has in fact as well as in name the protection of this great nation in all his lawful rights, instead of being dependent upon local influences solely. In many localities in this country no man dare express his sentiment if it happen to be contrary to some existing public sentiment, because in case lynching follow that freedom of speech, each individual of that mob thoroughly understands there is slight danger of punishment. One important principle was never lost sight of in the Roman government, that each citizen was entitled to the entire power of the empire in the protection of his lawful rights. And it not been that St. Paul claimed the rights of a Roman citizen he would unquestionably have been executed by the mob. We have recently seen the efforts of this administration to punish Zelaya for, as we claim, the unlawful killing of two Americans. Public sentiment has always supported this government in the protection of any American citizen in any part of the world, but we have utterly failed to use our national power to protect the same citizen within the borders of the United States. We have provided that the national power can be invoked on rare occasions. While by Section 4, Article 4 of the Constitution, the Federal power can be invoked to protect the State against domestic violence on the demand of the Executive or the Legislature of the State, this does not meet the general subject of lynching. The great Law Giver, Moses, provides 'or the contingency of taking of life on charge of murder without fair by designating cities of refuge, in the opinion of the writer, concurrent jurisdiction to the arts for the punishment of the individuals charged with have been made through to meet the evil of lynchers, making the municipal in damages to the am office of sheriffs so far all of these insufficient. Theinating concurrent courts authoritarian power to go a long way vil. its great influ-this remedy andwer to that grand y. Illinois. Yours H. SMALLEY. Letter of August Vm. H. Taft. the question have that concurrentated to the Fed-punish on theplicated in suchpower should befringement ofis strange thatrm no serious --- CARNATION SOCIAL CLUB For the very first time in the history of the Carnation Club they gave their first dance to the enjoyment of their many friends, and, strange to say, the young men represented the extreme ends of the city, although the members of the club live between 26th and 39th street, on the South Side. Miss Mayme Jones, the president, spoke in glowing terms of her club and spoke of the able assistance rendered her by the other officers and members, and what work they hope to do for the good of the community. The following are the other officers: Miss H. Richardson, vice president: Miss Ida Jones, treasurer; Miss Myrle Goins, secretary. They say the Dumas Hotel is just the place for such parties, and that Feb. 22d will be well remembered by all who gathered there on that evening. The club made one mistake; by not having a chaperon for the young ladies. NEW ORLEANS HAS ONLY 1,000 WHITE FAMILIES NEW ORLEANS HAS ONLY 1,000 WHITE FAMILIES New Orleans, Feb. 25. There is great excitement here since the recent articles which appeared in Pearson's Magazine as to who is who, and it was found that there are only 1,000 pure white families in the city of New Orleans; all the rest have colored blood. Many are leaving the state, and the Catholic Church record books are being closely watched to keep them from being destroyed by colored families who have been passing for white for more than nine generations. Three more men have gone crazy over the episode and many young women who have been raised in convents and have been adopted in white families have found that their mothers were colored and they have left ostensibly for various European ports. SPELLING BEES North Dakota's Plan to Get School Children Into County Contests. North Dakota is going to learn to spell if the plans worked out by the educators of the state for a revival of interest in correct spelling work out. Arrangements have been completed, says the Boston Herald, for a series of old fashioned spelling bees, to be inaugurated in the district schools all over the state under the auspices of the department of education, and it is proposed to continue the new departure for some years to come, if sufficient interest can be maintained. Just what attractions will be used with this end in view have not fully matured, but the promoters of the scheme believe ways will be found of making the spelling matches as popular as they were in many sections of the country half a century ago before the spelling "reforms" of various brands broke out. The county superintendents in nearly every county in the state are already mapping out the preliminary matches in their respective counties. These will take the form of county contests between representatives of the different schools, to be held as soon as the different schools shall have had an opportunity through spelling bees to enthuse the boys and girls and to pick out their best spellers. Official lists of words will be sent out in order that all contestants may have an equal chance. Business men, professional men and farmers will be asked to offer prizes for the first, second and third best county spellers. The county champions will participate in a final state championship contest, when prizes aggregating at least $100 will be offered. Any pupils of the eighth and lower grades will be eligible in the primary contests. The late Joseph Dorsey of San Jose. the detective whose best feat was the capture of Canon Bernard, after a chase from Alaska to Cape Horn, used to impute his success to his knowledge of men. "A detective." he would say, "should know the habits of every class. Then no disguise can deceive him. All men, even the most unmethodical, have their habits. Even the tramp has his. 'You great big, lazy loafer,' I said to a tramp one December day, 'you ought to be in jail.' 'Yes, Algie,' the tramp replied, as he pretended to fix it monocle in his eye. 'Yes, I know it's the correct thing for our set at this season. Algie; but, deuce take it, it's such a mild winter, don't you know!'" In Which the Speaker, Orator of the Day, Won Hundreds of Friends. BY E. J. BOWLES. Yes, there is still a way. Scorn the idea of impossibilities and annihilate the I can't, then I wills will prove themselves more powerful than the locomotives which seem to dare the world with their strength. Why will we doubt? The earth is not sheeted with iron, nor the heavens lined with brass. When Rome had covered the Mediterranean with her proud vessels and made the eastern coast impregnable by strong garrisons, then she turned to the north, and behold nature had built a huge wall larger than that of China, higher than that of Babylon, and ancient as the beginning. With the gateway watched day and night, they rested with satisfaction. But France had given birth to a son who was to demonstrate to the world that matter is subject to mind. He declared that there is still a way, and when he was surrounded by his thousands, with nerve of steel, governed by that strong mind, the gigantic hills which had for ages towered above the clouds and had been penetrated only by the eye of the eagle, now became a great plain and a gateway to the great Roman world. Is it not true that the great Creator, when He had brought into existence all things and put those colossal powers under subjection, said, "Let us make man"? Then into his hands were given the reins by which to govern the world. And now we say with confidence that there is a way. When America's coming greatness was furled behind a hundred years, the British clouds of oppression hung low over our heads; but America, not unlike France, had her Napoleon, too, who wrenched the staff of victory from the—hands of the British. Then from the heights of patriotism he pierced the dark clouds of oppression and the storm was over. Then he began to unfurl America's greatness and behind that cloud was a sun waiting to turn nature's wild woods into a green pasture. But, hark! a sound of distant thunder. Look toward the south; a distant cloud is rising, which is destined to cover our American sky. The shrieks of disunion are heard throughout the land, until at last they were arrested on the bloody fields of battle. Grant, who knew no Alps, rose at Vicksburg and plodded his way through the bloody conflict to victory, and reached his noonday at Appomattox and pointed out a clear sky to the Americans, saying: "There is still a way." The Christian pilgrims, with hoary locks, crowned with seventy years of experience, plods steadily along up the hill of Zion; and when he looks to see whence he came, he beholds the great mountains of intemperance and in once reaching from sea to sea and a gulf far beyond the Strait of But shall we despair? No encouragement are constant, ruling from the loss of the bones, veterans of the cross, saying that the monster of ignorance and intemperance must fall to the ground, and the glory of God must fill the whole earth. There is still a way. ARE YOU A FARMER? Here Is a Job for You at $1,200 a Year—No Color Line. Have It Under the Hat Is All That Is Required. Persons who want government positions as expert farmers in the Indian service will be given examinations in the government civil service headquarters in the federal building on March 30th. There are several vacancies in the service, and the positions pay $1,200 a year, with quarters. Persons appointed as a result of the examination will be expected to develop and manage model demonstration farms on Indian reservations. Make application at once on the 13th floor of the postoffice. If you don't know farming take it up at once. Old Boeker is right—if more of our dudes had more sense than clothes they could get the majority of these jobs. Didn't Know Truly. She—Where are you going? He—I don't know. "You don't know where you are going?" "No; you see, I'm going up in my dirigible balloon!"—Yonkers Statesman. The more gold is hammered the brighter it shines. Nelson ably would had not Re and awarded the fight gast. When the battle Dane was in a pitiable of his eyes were comple the other parts of his h len to twice their size. tottering around the rin hold up his hands. This time that Nelson, since the limelight in 1903 Memsic in Milwaukee, standstill at his own g. He met his master at style which won him the championship of the world made him famous. Wolgast's victory was comp. decisive. Had Referee Smith no ped the contest and it had gor limit he would have been give verdict. He had the better of 1 every round and during the course the forty rounds struck probably blows to Nelson's three in every session. Wolgast has been fighting exactly four years, having entered the gam in 1906 in Cadillac, Mich., where he was born Feb. 8, 1888. YOUNGSTOWN CONVERTED. "Billy" Sunday Brings 6,500 In Fold in Ohio's "Toughest City." One of the most remarkable religious demonstrations ever witnessed occur at the Youngstown (Ohio) tabernacle Sunday night when Evangelist "Billy" Sunday closed his six-weeks' campaign in what was conceded to be the most wicked city in Ohio. The thousands who heard the evangelist deliver the most hair-raising addresses that ever came from his lips became almost fanatical. Men and women leaped into the air, screamed, cried, hugged each other and prayed in a most beseeching way. The evangelist himself, carried away by the great demonstration, invoked them to continue, and at the end of the services was accompanied to his hotel by thousands of enthusiastic converts, where there was another demonstration. It is estimated that over 5,000 people, anxious to hear and see the evangelist, were turned away from the tabernacle. More than $10,000 was raised Sunday for Mr. Sunday, the only collection taken during the revival, for his personal use. TIME SAVES §173,000 THIEF. Statute of Limitation Now Applies In Chicago Spheresury Care the mystery of who stole $173,000 from the United States subtreasury in Chicago three years ago may be solved some day, but never in a criminal court. The statute of limitations has run against any sort of criminal action, and the much-sought thief is now free to come out and tell all about it without fear of being sent to jail. All that is now left of the famous case is a libel suit instituted by George W. Fitzgerald, the former cashier in the subtreasury, after he had been arrested and dismissed without trial on the charge of having stolen the money. The defendants to this suit are William Boldenweck, subtreasurer; H. F. Young, manager of a Chicago detective agency, and a morning newspaper. DR. COOK ADMITS HIS IDENTITY. Explorer Calls on Old Friend at San-tingo, Chile. Dr. Frederick A. Cook the other day admitted his identity. He visited his old comrade, the Belgian engineer, Rysselberghe, in Santiago, Chill, and the two were together for some hours. The two men were members of the Belgian antarctic expedition of 1897-98, and the engineer recognized Cook when they were fellow passengers on the steamer from Valdavia. Until now, however, Cook had refused to recognize his former companion. Cook told Rysselborghe, it is said, that he is preparing a complete account of his polar explorations which, he maintains, will prove that he reached the north pole. GIRL CAPTURES TWO ROBBERS. Sees Them Rob Father, Chuses Both and Aids in Arrests. To the courage of Carrie Montgomery, 17 years old, is due the capture of two highwaymen who had assaulted her father, Joseph, and robbed him of $60. From the window of her home on the outskirts of Kansas City Miss Montgomery saw her father struck down. Rushing out, she pursued the robbers. One highwayman turned and felled her with a blow. She was threatened with death if she persisted in following. Undaunted, the girl resumed the chase until detectives, who had been notified by neighbors of the Montgomerys, took up the pursuit and captured the men. What good eyes we all have for the blunders of others. On Writing Write. Write, we know, is written right When we see it written "write"; But when we see it written wright, We know it is not written right; For write, to have it written right, Must not be written right or wright; Nor yet should it be written rite, But write, for so 'tis written right. and peacefully the hospital recovery when tacked by a pain relief and pos failure to further cal treatment in recovery by Chris Green was born. He was a high school graduate first entered the profession as tette singer; later he became interlocutor while serving as to the late Ernest Hogan, whom he to become a stage man later joined Oliver Scott's Green was a fine baritone that time, but his voice was weak and limited in range. A had married Jeanette Murphy tralto of Quinn Chapel church he went to Memphis as a conductor, but later joined his wife member of Black Patti's Trouble the same capacity. Green's fi of promise as an actor was appeared with the "Smart Sean pany. When Ernest Hogan started in "Dus Rastus," un management of Hurtig & Secured J. Ed. Green as l manager. Green has already rated with Hogan as co author play, but through some mining he soon retired from and was next secured l Motts as stage director at the Pekin theater, when his own plays were produce which was "Captain Rufus met with success in Chicago, it reached New York it was d that the play was not or built upon the piracy of sc Cole & Johnson's "Shoo lment," but Green was progress useful and his labors were not When the Pekin stock company its last repertoire of comedie out music last winter it was comedy "The Pet Dog" that demonstrated without a doubt th was really a gifted actor, and in title role of that play he won dramatic success of his life's ce The Chester Amusement company Green's last venture in the showness. He had formed a small prise controlling three picture t engaging as his partners Brooks and Johnson. Little was named after Green's trai the "Bronze Chesterfield." house was an immediate suowing to the fact that an actor of "William Goats" was org Green booking agency establi two more houses added, n circuit of three, immediate cor ensued between the Green en and the Grand and Pekin t which, as a matter of fact, was natural, as the weaknesses of Green's partners in dealing with formers indicated that the Green cern was trying to control the colo actors. In the meantime, business complications ensued, the Green enterprises failed, and J. Ed. Green fell ill under the mental and physical strain which later resulted in his death. Mr. Green is survived by his wife, who was present at the funeral, and his little son, now in New York, as well as his sister, who resides in Indianapolis, and a younger brother in this city. The funeral, which was private, being the request of his wife, took place at the residence of Mrs. A. W. Baker, 3213 Wabash avenue, on Washington's birthday, at 2 p. m., and was conducted by Dr. Roberts, after which the body was conveyed to Polk street depot by Emanuel Jackson, the well-known undertaker, where the funeral party left for New Albany, Ind., on the 9 p. m. train to arrive in time for services at the First Baptist church of that city on Wednesday, Feb. 23, being in charge of the Masonic orders of each city. Among prominent actors ous speech sty outlined erial campaign ords as follows: as disclosed seo recurring diflion between the legislature/ Proforce you with all c, speed to define the rela- tween the houses of parlia- as to secure the undivided of the House of Commons ce and its predominance in These measures. in the my advisers, should provide house should be so constitut- mpowered as to exercise im- in regard to proposed legis- functions of initiation, re- l subject to proper safedelay." Edward was accompanied by texandra, and the state openmarked by all the pomp and y associated with these occaice the accession of Edward II. IL BURGESS DEAD. own Actor Expires at His me in New York City. argess, tie actor, who died at in New York, after a year's his greatest success on single play, "The County was first produced in comedy, with Mr. Burgess had a phenomenal run of four years at a New York SCHOOLS AD. COLLEGES Miller, S. D., a school election to 122,000 bonds for a new school resulted in 302 for and 86 against project. About 150 women voted. President Charles R. Van Hise, of university of Wisconsin, was electe president of the Association of van Universitiles at the meeting lison. United States Department ofure recommends the establisnnovable schools of agriculture State experiment stations fifteen farmers can be se-students, and the school may need for a year or longer. The instruction should depend on of the section. superintendent C. P. Cary of has issued a letter to supersi, principals and teachers, in deplores the tendency of high school courses chiefly to nts for entrance to the State city. He also assails the com- plan of supervision suggested university educator. ing to a disagreement about the litions imposed by William C. Procef Cincinnati on his offer of $500- OF CINCINNATI on his offer of $500, 200 for a graduate school at Princeton, that gift has now been lost, and with it nearly as much more which had been raised for a simipar purpose. President Wilson had insisted upon maintaining the right of the university to carry on the grade work in any way that might seem best to himself and the trustees, and in this attitude the board sustained him. Mrs. Fannie French Morse, for eight years superintendent of the State Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster, Mass., has resigned. Mrs. Morse is to establish and superintend a similar school for girls in Sauk Center, Minn. Andrew Carnegie has given St. Thomas College, of St. Paul, $25,000, which will be applied on the $300,000 endowment fund, a start on which was made last spring. Pledges amounting to more than $200,000 have been received by the school authorities, which includes a gift of $75,000 from the general education board of New York, given on the provision that the college raises $225,000 more. Little pig came along, with a shout and a song, Vaulted comet and planet and moon; Doggie no longer laughed at that kind of graft, For sausage he might be, so soon. nolsan's Suit In Indiana Reveals Gas Company's Holdings. prevent the disposal of land which deeded in connection with the purchase of $75,000 of bonds issued by the Rushville Gas, Heat and Water Company, has developed some sensational facts in respect to that corporation. It has been found that the total holdings of the company are worth not to exceed $720, yet on the plant of this alleged value it issued $200,000 of bonds and sold $75,000 of the issue to Brooks, taking in exchange real estate in Chicago and some farm lands in Illinois. The corporation was formed with Owen L. Carr as president and Fred Carroll and John and Henry Walters as directors. Bonds were issued and a mortgage-covering the $720 gas plant in favor of the Farmers' Bank of Rushville for $100,000 was made. The Farmers' Bank became merely the payer of the interest. Brooks bought $75,000 of these bonds on the supposition that the bank was the trustee. He now wants the court to prevent the sale of the property he traded. KILLED AND HURT IN THEATER Floor Suddenly Collapses Because of Flames in Basement. Five hundred persons attesting a small theater at Patton, Pa., were precipitated into the basement of the building when the floor collapsed during a fire, and one person was killed. The fire started from an unknown origin, in the basement of the building, while the theater on the first floor was filled with persons watching a moving picture show. By the time smoke began to appear in the room the floor had already been weakened by the flames, and when the rush for the doors began the floor collapsed, allowing the struggling crowd to drop in a mass to the basement. The entire structure was burned. A score are injured seriously, several of them fatally. Die in Series of Accidents A whisky warehouse in Cincinnati was burned Wednesday preceding Christmas. On a recent Wednesday a wall of the ruined building collapsed on a small frame building and three lives were lost. Later the fall of a derrick in the ruins killed two men and seriously injured four. Persons residing in a rooming house beside the ruins are preparing for a hurried exit. Stand Pat on Marine Wages That the wage scale of the five marine labor organizations which have been in conference in Detroit with the executive committee of the Dredge Owners' Protective Association will remain unchanged during the coming season was practically agreed upon by the owners and representatives of the labor organizations. Killy Mahum Franchising Pty. By declaring the franchise tax law of Alabama unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of the United States knocked out another one of the anticorporation acts of the radical Comer Legislature, and loses to the State $136,945. Killed in a Snowstorm. Bewildered in a heavy snow storm, Reuben Collier of Waterford, N. Y., fell exhausted on the tracks of a suburban electric line, where he was hit by a car and instantly killed. Mother at Theater; Babies Burn. While Mrs. George Nydes was at the theater in Pittsburg, her home caught fire and an 8-months-old baby was burned to death, while one 20-months-old was so badly burned that it is dying. The father, who is an invalid, was overcome by smoke. Town Saved by Volunteers. Town Saved by Volunteers. After a desperate battle with the flames, volunteer fire fighters in Edison, Neb., saved the town from destruction. The loss is estimated at $125,000. CANADIAN TARIFF UP. Secretary Knox Tries to Straighten Out a Complicated Tangle. Officials in Washington are now deeply interested in the question of the application of the maximum or the minimum tariff to Canada. Secretary of State Knox has summoned John G. Foster, United States consul general at Ottawa, to Washington for conference. Ambassador Bryce has, it is stated, entirely misunderstood the friendly expressions of President Taft with reference to Canada, and the United States has been represented as "easy" to Sir Wilfrid Laurier. As a result Canada seems to have adopted a close understanding with France that neither is to make any concessions, in the belief that if Canada evades the maximum France will also be able to evade it. If the United States government had formal assurances from Canada that the Canadian government would countenance no concessions to the United States the situation would be regarded as very critical indeed. That is to say, the American maximum would almost certainly be applied to Canadian products and the Canadian surtax of 331/4 per cent would be added to American imports into Canada. The Political Pot Corporations all over the country are being urged to make a heroic effort to secure the repeal of the corporation tax law. To secure the enactment of a law requiring the teaching of scientific motherhood in the public schools of Iowa, Mrs. B. F. Carroll, wife of the Governor of Iowa, will appeal to the legislators in the interests of the girls at the next session of the General Assembly. A method of settling the women suffrage question in New York State is proposed by Senator Brackett, who has introduced a bill providing that on the day before next November election all the women of the State be invited to go to the polls and vote the same as men, yes or no, to the proposed suffrage amendment. The plan is not approved by the leading suffragists, who say that if the Legislature could grant women permission to vote on this question it could do so on others, which is impossible, so that the vote of the women, if passed, would be illegal. Gov. Shafroth and Chief Justice Steele of Colorado have issued a signed statement to contradict the assertion made by Rev. Dr. Underhill, of Denver before the City Club of New York. Underhill said he indorsed from observation an article by an unnamed woman aiming to show that suffrage had demoralized the women of Colorado. The Governor and the judge say these statements are untrue, and that the women of Colorado are the equal of any in retinement, education and feminine graces, none of which qualities have been damaged by their fifteen years of participation in public affairs, while the government has immeasurably improved by such participation. Otto T. Bannard, the defeated Republican candidate for the mayoralty of New York, in the last election, now mentioned prominently as a candidate for Governor to succeed Hughes, has presented a report on party conditions to the Republican County Committee in New York. The anti-saloon forces of Chicago have filed their petition, signed by 74,805 citizens, 14,000 more than necessary, which will require the submission of the liquor question to the voters of the city at the April elections. Charges are made by the liquor men that fraudulent signatures have been placed on the local option petition. "Our students are brilliant successes."—ADELLA B. 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