Chicago Defender

X THE HAMPTON EXTRA XX ,000 ATTEND BIG HAMMETING AT ORC r. Hollis B. Frissell, Principal, and Majors Draw Larger Crowd for the Chicago Than Any Heard Recently—Hundreds DR. FRISSELL ON "RACIAL CO-OP MOTON IN HAPPY V The Hampton Quartet in Pleasing Melodies presented and Friends of the Renowned Institute Give Encouragement by Pres ,000 ATTEND BIG HAMPTON MEETING AT ORCHESTRA HALL ,000 ATTEND BIG HAMPTON MEETING AT ORCHESTRA HALL r. Hollis B. Prissell, Principal, and Major R. R. Moton as Speakers Draw Larger Crowd for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club Than Any Heard Recently—Hundreds Turned Away. DR. FRISSELL ON "RACIAL CO-OPERATION"—MAJOR MOTON IN HAPPY VEIN: The Hampton Quartet in Pleasing Melodies—Alumni Largely Represented and Friends of the Renowned Normal and Industrial Institute Give Encouragement by Presence. m., Hylde Park Presbyterian church (stereotype); Dec. 4, 7 p. m., McCormick Theological Seminary; Dec. 6, 8 p. m., Oak Park Congregational church; Dec. 7, 8 p. m., Fourth Presbyterian church; Dec. 10, 7:30 p. m., Second Presbyterian church. The cause of Hampton, including its history, present work, and needs, will be presented by Dr. Hollis Burke Prissell, principal of the school since 1993, Dr. Herbert B. Turner, the institute chaplain, and Major Robert R. Moton, the school's commandant of cadets and one of Hampton's most distinguished Negro graduates. Co-operation of Chicago. For a number of years Hampton institute has received the co-operation and support of influential Chicago families. A number of Negro boys and girls, for example, are now being assisted by funds which have been thus furnished for their scholarships which Birdse in turn are assigned, according to merit, by the school. Metso A. Burney, Tenville, Ala., has finished his course in agriculture and is now one of the assistants in the horticultural division. He is as "good as gold," his teachers report. David Hill, of Beacon, Ga., spent his work year on the school farm and made a good record. He is now in the Hampton day school getting a foundation for his trade course. Charles C. Miller, of Valdosta, Ga., is a first-year bricklayer. He is a good boy and has done well thus far in his course. Benjamin L. Davis of Palmer Springs, Va., finished his agricultural course and is now an assistant in the school barn. He is good and steady. Vernal S. Brown, of New York city, who took the regular trade course in carpentry, is now studying business methods. Another good boy, who has been assisted by Chicago friends, is James P. King. He is finishing the business course. Results of Hampton's Work. For more than forty years, under the leadership of General Armstrong and Doctor Frissell, Hampton institute has been training selected Negro and Indian youth for efficient, Christian leadership in agriculture, in industrial education, in business, in homebuilding, in improving church and home life, in public school work. Hampton has sent out over eight thousand people "fitted for life." This number includes one thousand two hundred and forty-eight Indians. Hampton has always emphasized the importance of self-sacrifice and service. Indeed its students have lived for others. Throughout the south and west, especially, there are communities that have been literally reconstructed through the patient, thoughtful, persistent work of Hampton graduates and ex-students. Dr. Frissell, in his annual report to the trustees for 1911, cites the interesting case of James S. Russell, colored, who at Lawrenceville, Va., as principal of St. Paul's school, "has well high reconstructed the agricultural, industrial, social, religious and moral condition of the Negroes in Brunswick county." "Many of the best buildings in the town of Lawrenceville," he says, "have been constructed by his students; its streets are lighted by electricity generated by his school plant; the most and the best work in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting and sheamaking in the community is performed by students and graduates of his institution. The school farm of fifteen hundred acres has revolutionized the methods of the Negro farmers in the community. Farmers' institutes have encouraged them to buy land and cultivate it properly. In 1910 the Negroes of Brunswick county owned 54,000 acres of land, and real and personal property (Continued on Page 2.) --- --- the Home Edition --- Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of Impton Normal and Agricultural institute, and Major R. R. Moton, commandant there for many years, addressed the Chicago Sunday Evening club at Orchestra hall Sunday night and were rewarded with a crowd that was exceptionally large for this famous organization whose drawing card is the notable orators of both races. It was extremely pleasing to note the large number of Negroes in attendance and the prominent part that the alumnus took in the program. The Hampton quartet, the club's augmented choir and Mrs. Katherine Howard Ward's organ selections made up a varied and enjoyable adjunct. Dr. Frissell, no doubt inspired by the increasing interest in the Hampton work in northern cities, spoke on "Ridical Co-operation." With a master knowledge of the "Negro Indian" work, this broad minded educator discussed the question in that convincing manner that wins interest and oftimes support. Dr. Frissell is considered one of the best authorities upon educational and industrial conditions and has always championed the cause of the Negro in every way. Major R. R. Moton spoke on "Some Phases of the Negro Problem." Although not laying any claim as an orator the popular commander entertained the vast assemblage with the simple story of his race, interspersed here and there with a telling story or anecdote. He was applauded again and again and shared with the distinguished principal all the honors of the evening. Dr. J. anthaniel Butler offered theayer and the scripture reading was by Mr. Abram W. Harris, president of Northwestern University. Mr. R. S. Abbott, editor of the Chicago Defender, occupied a prominent seat upon the stage. The Hampton Quartette, composed of Messrs. J. H. Wainwright, second bass; P. W. Crawley, second tenor; P. L. Lancaster, first bass; C. H. Tines. Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, Principal of Hampton Institute. first tenor, has taken Chicago by storm at all their engagements. They have proven that they are past masters. Hampton's Story of Negro and Indian Education. During the week beginning Nov. 26 ten or more meetings will be held in the interest of Hampton institute, the well known industrial and agricultural school for Negro and Indian youth, which was founded in 1868 by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong at Hampton, Va., near Old Point Comfort. From two teachers and fifteen students, this school has grown steadily now it is an industrial village fourteen hundred students, two ed workers and over a hundred rigs. program of the church and school igs follows: Nov. 26, 8 p. m., y. Evening club; Nov. 29, 8 p. m., first Street Presbyterian church; 10:30 a. m., New England Conn al church; 4:30 p. m., Evans ngessational church; 7:45 p. The Chicago Defender. ```markdown ``` Co-operation of Chicago. Results of Hampton's Work CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911. Birdseye View of the Great Hampton Institute Where Booker T. Washington Was Graduated. MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR THE LATE J. M. HARLAN. Hon. E. H. Wright Presides at Citizens' Meeting—The Frederick Douglass Center Holds Other Meetings—Singing a Feature—Full Program. The late John M. Harlan, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, was praised in two memorial meetings Sunday night last, and the large audiences that gathered at the places of meeting, Quinn Chapel and Bethel A. M. E. churches, attested the fact that reverence for men of his calibre is a pleasure. Prominent speakers of both races made up the programs. Singing was also an inspiring feature. At Quinn Chapel the meeting was held under the auspices of a committee of citizens. Hon. E. H. Wright was the chairman. The program follows: Introductory Remarks.... By the Chairman, Hon. E. H. Wright Soprano Solo (Selected)..... Mrs. J. W. Fisher Piano and Organ Accompaniment, assisted by Mrs. Dr. Cook. Prof. Elgar at the Violin. Oration....Attorney W. G. Anderson "John M. Harlan, Our True Friend." Quartet....Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Thomas and Mr. J. Anderson Oration....Attorney Albert B. George "John M. Harlan." Oration.....Attorney J. A. Scott "John M. Harlan." Selection ..... Choir Under direction of Edward P. Morris, Organist and Director, Oration...Attorney Walter M. Farmer "John M. Harlan." Remarks.....Dr. W. D. Cook, Pastor Quinn Chapel Church Benediction. The Frederick Douglass Center held View of the Great Hampton Institute the meeting at Bethel Church. Program: "America" .. Audience Address .. Prof. Richard T. Greener "Servants of Freedom" .. Audience Address .. Ex-Sen. Wm. E. Mason "The Choice" .. Audience Address .. Jasper T. Darling "On the Field" .. Audience PLEADS FOR HIS RACE PLEADS FOR HIS RACE A Former Slave in Impassioned Talk Asks That Race Be Freed From Bondage Worse Than Slavey — Anti-Age League Goes on Record in Behalf of the Negro. MR. J. H. LAWRENCE WAS A CLASSMATE OF EX-SEN-ATOR BEVERIDGE OF INDIANA. New Laws to Be Asked—Protection For Old Men Seeking Employment—Will Be Urged On Legislature—The Most Beneficial Aid to Our Unemployed in Many Days. Membership in the Anti-45-Year-Age-Limit league was extended to the Negro race Tuesday night. The plea of a former slave that his fellow sufferers be recognized in the movement to win old men the right to honest employment and be freed from a bondage more cruel than existed in their days of slavery, brought the coalition of races. Mr. J. H. Lawrence of Indianapolis, at the organization meeting of the league, swept aside any possible thoughts of a color line in the organization when he declared the brotherhood of man would be ignored at, the peril of the movement. After listening to old soldiers tell of their inability to serve the government because spurned by civil service commissioners on account of their age, Mr. Lawrence arose and asked permission to speak. "I am for the colored man whom you old soldiers freed by bravery and sacrifice. His plight today is the same as yours," said the speaker, who was educated at Depauw University in Greencastle, Ind., a classmate of ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge. "You have to recognize the brotherhood of mankind," he almost shouted. "Your politics have placed the Negro in the position he is today. The movement will be useless unless you join hands with your colored brother." Anti-age enthusiasts crowded about him as he closed, assuring him no color line was drawn in the movement. CHICAGO FACTORS IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD Geo. F. Leibrandt, President, and W. H. Bowers, Cashier, Doing Business as W. H. Bowers & Co., Organizers of the Lincoln State Savings Bank, Our Coming Young Bankers—Careers Watched With Interest. NEW BUILDING TO BE AN ORNAMENT TO NEIGHBORHOOD. Commercial Uprightness, Circumscribed Business Conduct, Clean and Fair Dealings the Winning Points in the Business Life of This Firm That Treats All Men Allike—List of Officers and Directors. With "The National Banker" we take pleasure in joining the host which now is paying homage to the commercial uprightness, circumscribed business conduct, clean and fair dealings possessed by one of Chicago's rising young bankers and real estate men in the person of Mr. George F. Leibrandt of the banking firm and realty dealers now doing business under the firm name of W. H. Bowers & Co., located at Thirtyfirst and State streets. Mr. Leibrandt was born Sept. 27, 1877, in Chicago, where he received both his academic and commercial education. He entered the employ of the real estate firm of W. H. Bowers & Co. in a humble capacity, and by his unaided efforts, save those of uprightness, morality, accuracy of judgment and right living and atten- Where Booker T. Washington Was Graduated to business for a period of 18 years he has risen to a place of supreme responsibility in his chosen profession. On the 29th day of July a permit was issued to Mr. Leibrandt and others to organize the Lincoln State Savings Bank of Chicago, capital two hundred thousand dollars and a surplus of twenty thousand dollars. Mr. Leibrandt will no doubt be called to the presidency of the new bank, and with this in view the new bank will be assured of at least the confidence, support and patronage of the best business interests lying within the boundaries of that part of Chicago to be served by the new institution. The organization of the Lincoln State Savings Bank will be pushed to completion, and already options are secured for a permanent home for the bank which will occupy its own building and its departments will include safe deposit vaults with a three thousand five hundred box capacity, a savings department, women's department, foreign exchange, real estate, rending, insurance and legal counsellors. The building to be erected for the new institution will be ample for fostering the rapidly increasing business of the district, will be modern in every respect and will be used exclusively for the business of the bank The move by Mr. Leibrandt and his colleagues was brought about by the fast increasing banking business of W. H. Bowers & Co. and a desire on the part of the principals to induce men of known ability in the banking field into the organization and for the establishment of banking relationships which will be on a par with those of the other high grade banks throughout the city. Following officers and directors elected: George F. Leibrandt, president; Joseph Schwartz, vice president; Wm. H. Bowers, cashier; Harry E. Hobbs, assistant cashier; Wm. H. Bowers, George L. Leibrandt, Theo. W. Cole, Edw. H. Ayer, Wm. S. McClelland, Daniel Gawne, Chas. Sorge, Chas. A. White, Joseph Schwartz. IDEAL WOMAN'S CLUB DISCUSSES SUFFRAGE. Mrs. W. D. Bowden, of 4402 Langley avenue, entertained the Ideal Woman's Club, the topic of the evening being "Woman Suffrage," which subject, Mrs. I. B. W. Barnett talked on interestingly, after which it was open for discussion. Each person in the house talked on the subject. Mrs. Jones, the vice president of the State Federation, was present and gave an instructive talk on the "Woman of today." Mrs. Thomas presided at the piano. A PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE COMPANY. The Western Life Indemnity Co., Send Mr. Chas, A. Griffin, Its Dis- agency Manager, to Philadelphia to Establish Office for Race There. The Western Life Indemnity Company of Chicago has sent Chas. A. Griffin, its district agency manager on the South Side, to Philadelphia to establish an office there to be operated and managed by colored agents in conjunction with the white agents in that city. The broad principles of this great company are bound to make it the leading insurance company in America. Not only are they fair in dealing with all nationalities alike, but they do not discriminate against women. Mr. Griffin, with his strong corps of agents, has made wonderful progress here in Chicago. Many of the best citizens are large policy holders. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH BURNS $6,000 Damage; About $2,000 on Their $8,000 Organ. It was laughable to hear a little newsboy say on Thanksgiving Day while the church was burning and the engines were at work trying to save Rev. Dr. Carey's church at 3821 Dearborn street, "Let her burn; we got our turkey out there last night, all right." Of course they did, for a big spread was laid for them on Wednesday evening. When seen by a Defender reporter Dr. Carey said: "I can't see how the fire started, but the furnace is the only thing that I can attribute the conflagration to. We are insured, and I think it will cover our damages." Children's Page An innovation in the Defender will be the children's page of the Christmas issue of this paper. All parents wishing to engage space for pictures of their little ones can receive further information and rates by calling at the Defender's office. 3150 State street. Write-ups and photos of all babies and children to 12 years of age will be accepted. THE K. P. CHRISTMAS JUBILEE The First Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, will give their annual Christmas ball at the Coliseum and the Annex Monday night, Dec. 25. This ball is the holiday event of the season and will be managed by your old time friend, Major R. R. Jackson. WE WANT ALL THE CHILDREN. Our children's page in our Christ- mas issue will be made up as an announced elsewhere, but we will also publish the photos of many of our young friends who are over 12 years of age. Remember, we want all the children. 500 COMPLETE DUNBAR BOOKS The Defender has been successful in securing 500 complete works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, complete in the truest sense of the word. All of his poems and stories. To be given away. Good Christmas present. The Chicago Defender for one year and one Dunbar book for $2. Don't delay, as our last lot was soon sold out. He Would Join Him. Hostess—"Why, Mr. Smith. I've hardly seen you all the evening! Now, I particularly want you to come and hear a whistling solo by my husband."—Smith (whose hearing is a trifle indistinct)—A whisky and soda with your husband? Well, thanks, I don't mind if I do have just one!"—Punch. His Need. A Hlawatha, Kan., man told a young woman that he would marry if he could find a helpmate who would be willing to do all the washing and all the other hard work around the house. "What you want is a woman with a weak mind," said the girl. THE SOUTH The Three Vital Issues of the Day "Are All Combined in the Jeanes Fund Board, the Most Remarkable Board in America," Says Major R. R. Moton of Hampton Institute—Interest on the Million Dollar Fund Amounting to $50,000 to Be Voted Out—President of the United States, Noted Educators and Millionaires Compose This Board. "SPEND IT ALL, SAVE NONE."—ANDREW CARNEGIE Meeting of the Trustees of the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation of the Fund for the Benefit of the Negro Rural Schools to Be Held In the White House Dec. 14—Bishop Grant's Successor to Be Elected—New Member to Be a Negro—Interview for Chicago Defender. Tuesday morning Major R. R. Motton, commandant at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, who will bg here a week or ten days in the interest of his work, stopped long enough for a brief interview. Still elated over the large audience at Orchestra Hall, Sunday night when Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of the Institute and himself were the speakers before the famous Sunday Evening Club, the major was loud in his praise of Chicago and of the interest in his work here. The Jeanes Fund Board, the million-dollar fund called by some the Anna T. Jeanes foundation for Negro rural schools was what he cared to talk about. "This board is the most remarkable board in America," said the major, "embracing as it does the three most vital questions of the day, The North, the South and the Negro." Meeting at White House. According to the by-laws of the fund the meeting is held once a year. The president of the United States being a member, the date is set to suit his convenience. This year we meet Thursday, Dec. 14. Last night I received letters and telegrams from the following members of the board who will attend this meeting: The president, of course, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, S. C. Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, Hon. Geo. F. Peabody, of New York; Hon. Walter Page, editor of The World's Work; Hon. Robert C. Ogden, of New York; J. H. Dillard, of New Orleans; S. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute; Hon. Geo. McInnery, of New York; Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskogee Institute; Hon. J. C. Napier, registrar of the treasury; Hon. R. L. Smith, of Texas. Eight constitutes a quorum. This meeting will be a good one. New Members to Be Elected. Interest centers in the election at this meeting of a successor to the late Bishop Grant, and the $40,000 or $50,000 interest that has accumulated. Mr. Carnegie says "spend it all, save none." The meeting will be of considerable interest to all concerned. "Who will succeed Bishop Grant?" was the next question. "I-Jcan-not say," replied Major Moton—"but you can quote me as saying 'that the new member will be a Negro to fill up the number generally on the board.'" Officers of Board. Major Moton is the secretary of the board, Hon. J. H. Dillard (white) of New Orleans is president, and Dr. Booker T. Washington chairman of the board of directors. This representative body meets with an eye single to the purpose for which it was created and no member has ever been embarrassed by the contact. Major Moton with his six feet of brawn and muscle is an attractive figure wherever he goes. His friends call him genial but dignified and I think that it was the latter term that impressed me most, in my short talk with him, that real simple, quiet dig MAJOR R. R. MOTON. Major Moton. If you see it in The Defender it is so XX THE NEGRO "Are All Combined in the Jeanes Markable Board in America," Says an Institute—Interest on the Million 0,000 to Be Voted Out—President Educators and Millionaires Compose ONE."—ANDREW CARNEGIE Anna T. Jeanes Foundation of the Negro Rural Schools to Be Held—Bishop Grant's Successor to Be a Negro—Interview for Chicago ley Smiley. unity that stamps all men of affairs. While in the city the major is a guest at the Hotel Washington. SINGLE TAXERS STAND BY COLORS SINGLE TAXERS STAND BY COLORS Take Banquet From Hotel La Salle When Color Question Arises — Denounce Narrow-Minded Management In Ringing Speeches—Prominent Guests Uphold Stand Against Hotel Barring Negroes. Hon. Joseph Fels, Millionaire Founder of the Fels Fund; Louis F. Post, Editor of "The Public" Around the Festive Board—Action In Strict Violation of the State Laws. Three hundred single tax advocates showed their disapproval of a "color line" at the banquet of the National Single Tax League at the Kimball Cafe, South LaSalle and Monroe streets, Saturday night after the management of the Hotel LaSalle had refused to allow the banquet to be given in that place if negroes were to be present. The applause over the attitude of the speakers reached its climax when Susan Lake Avery, 94 years old, widow of a Peorla manufacturer, addressed the gathering and praised those who declined to recognize racial distinctions. Conference is Removed. The conference of the league with the Fels Fund Commission last night moved from the Hotel LaSalle, where it opened Friday. Louis J. Post, editor of "The Public," began the speaking after the banquet with comments on the reports in the newspapers over the affair at the hotel. "The papers said the hotel management denied it drew the color line," said Mr. Post. "If it is not an error on the part of the management, but an error on the part of the papers, we ought to assist in galuing a correction from the papers. "We were told the hotel people would rather not have Negroes at our meetings in the hotel, but would say nothing about it if they came. However, they said they positively would not allow Negroes at a banquet in the hotel, and asked if we would not request them to remain away. All Men Equal. "We do not draw a color line. We meet all men as men on common level, as I hope to meet every man in this world. We either had to take the onus upon ourselves and tell our colored guests we did not want them to come or get another place to hold the banquet. We got another place. This is the truth of the change." In her speech Mrs. Avery aroused enthusiasm by saying: "I am overjoyed that the attitude has been what it has in this color line controversy." Joseph Fels, millionaire founder of the Fels Fund; Louis F. Post, Chicago editor; William S. U'Ren, Oregon political reformer; William Marlon Reedy, St. Louis editor; Bolton Hall, Socialist, of New York; Judge E. O. Brown, of the Appellate Court; Herbert Quick, editor of "Farm and Fireside," and P. A. Stockwell, of Minneapolis. Foundations of Empire. The foundations of the British empire ar laid in the cottages and kitchens of the people of England.—London Daily Mall. --- PRICE 5 CENT All Men Equal. Young Ladies Learning Landscape Gardening at Hampton Institute, Va. THE RAILWAYS The Coming Brick Masons at Hampton Institute, Va. --- 4,000 ATTEND BIG HAMPTON MEETING (Continued from Page 1.1) to the amount of $515,209.15. The sheriff of the county and numerous other white citizens bear willing testimony to the moral effect of the school upon the community. Kindly relations between the races, an improved standard of morals, the disappearance of crime, a more rational religion, better homes—these are the witnesses to the value of the work of this Hampton student." Rank and File. Hampton is proud of the excellent record that has been made by the rank and file of its students. Its women graduates and former students are engaged in work which aims to elevate the home, the school, and the community in the vital things of life. Many of the men from Hampton have gone into agricultural and industrial sections and done splendid uplift work among Negroes and Indians. Academic Courses. Since Hampton aims to train young men and women to earn an honest living and help their respective races, the courses of study combine industrial training with academic studies Young Ladies Learning Landscape G The academic course of four years includes the following studies: Agriculture for two years; arithmetic, two or three; art, three; business methods, two; economics and sociology, one; elementary science, one; English, four; geography, two; geometry, one; history (Bible, American, general), three; home economics, which aims to train young women to make good homes and to enable them to teach others to make good homes, four years; manual training, which trains men to become more resourceful in meeting certain emergencies that constantly arise in the home, on the farm, and in the school room, four; physical training, four; physiology and hygiene, two; training course for teachers, including psychology and one-half year in practice teaching one year; and vocal music, four years. The advanced academic course of two years is designed to give special preparation to young men and women who wish to become teachers of higher grade schools. The course includes algebra as far as higher equations; applied chemistry, such as can be used in cooking; soap making, iron work, bricklaying, painting, and farming; etymology; English history; literature (American and English); English composition; geology; geometry; physics; psychology, and social studies. Agricultural Work. Three courses are offered in agriculture. Course I, three years, aims to give the student such knowledge as shall be of immediate use to him on the farm. It offers the best modern practice in field, garden, orchard, greenhouse, horse barn, dairy and poultry houses. During three months of the second year of the course the agricultural students receive instruction The Coming Brick Masons in the Hampton Trade school in wheelwrighting, bricklaying, carpentry, tinsmithing, pipefitting, painting, drafting and harness repairing. Course 2, one year, is designed for those who wish to teach agriculture. Course 3, six weeks, is intended for farmers and farmers' sons who have not had time to take the longer course of three years. A two year business course is offered for those who wish a practical preparation for actual business life. Hampton has arranged to give an advanced home economics course, two years, for those who wish to become supervisors, housekeepers, matrons and homemakers. A library-methods and a matrons' course are also offered. An advanced teachers' training course prepares students for more responsible positions in either public or private schools. Trade Work at Hampton Institute The Armstrong-Slater Memorial Trade School, which was opened in November, 1896, is a two story brick building on the plan of a quadruple cross with an interior courtyard. It has a floor space of about 52,000 square feet. The trade school offers thirteen three year courses: Blacksmithing, bricklaying and plastering, carpentry, cabinet making, machine work, painting, printing, shoemaking, steamitting and plumbing, tailoring, tinsmithing, upholstery and wheelwrighting. A trade certificate is given for attainment in skill and knowledge, rather than for length of service. Through trade teaching Hampton has secured in its students increased perseverance, exactness, promptness, thoroughness and earnestness. In order to give trade students the best experience in their work, a certain amount of commercial business is carried on in each department. Dr. Frissell was able to say in his latest report: "The manager of a New York company declared he knew of only one firm in the United States that is producing as good trucks as the Hampton trade school." The week's program of a trade student is as follows: Trade work, forty-three hours; trade lecture, one hour; drafting, four; academic, ten; study for academic work, five; military drill, two and one-half; compulsory religious services, four and one-half. Hampton's underlying thought of providing an education which will make a man helpful, not only to him himself but also to his race is worked ardening at Hampton Institute, Va. out very successfully in the trade school. Carpentry and Machine Shop Work. The young carpenter is made responsible for the care of a good and complete kit of tools. He learns how to do general construction and repair work. He is also made acquainted with the allied trades—bricklaying, plastering, painting, tinsmithing and wood-turning. In the machine shop an Indian or Negro boy learns to handle vises, engine lathes, drill presses, shapers, planers, and milling machines. The Hampton shop is well equipped and has facilities for handling a large variety of work. Student Life at Hampton. In the dormitories, on the parade ground, in the dining room, on the football field, in the cabins of the old and lowly, at the student parties, in the hall corridors, over the great kitchen ranges, indeed at every turn, fortunate Negro and Indian youth who reach Hampton are receiving training in self-control, in obedience, in courtesy, in team work, in sympathy, in resolution, and in faithfulness, which is making all-round, useful, worthy Hampton boys and girls. From the rising bell which sounds at five-thirty in the morning, until "taps" at nine-thirty at night, the Hampton boys and girls are being trained in the value of promptness, alertness, self-control, endurance and respect for authority. Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, has said: "The Hampton spirit is a little hard to define. It is no confession of any creed, but there is a deep spiritual and religious feeling developed at Hampton that makes possession richer far than knowledge of trades and books." The Hampton boys at Hampton Institute, Va. and girls who have done the best work among their people showed during their Hampton school days an interest in and sympathy for their people living in the Hampton community. Hampton's Needs Hampton institute is neither a state nor government school, and must depend largely upon voluntary contributions for its support. Indeed $125,000 must be raised annually in donations for scholarships and general expenses. A four million dollar endowment fund is also needed. Academic and industrial scholarships of the following classes can be put to excellent use: "Academic," permanent, $2,000, and annual, $70; "Industrial," permanent, $800, and annual, $30. The treasurer of the school is Frank K. Rogers, Hampton, Va. Dr. Charles W. Ellot has said: "If any man is loking for a sure way to benefit the Negro race or the Indian race in the United States, let him send money to Hampton institute, making no restrictions concerning its use. He will surely get there a large return for his money in beneficence." WM. ANTHONY AERY. --- THE CATTLE Class In Dairying at Hampton Institute, Va. QUEER TRIO OF BIRDS QUEER TRIO OF BIRDS TRUMPETER, SECRETARY AND KAMILI ALL USEFUL. Feathered Destroyers of Snakes, Scorpions and Other Noxious Creatures That Infest South America and Southern Africa. The trumpeter bird is the raplucker of the woods and swamps of Guiana, where he is always at work at his trade, with his stomach for a pack and his bill for a hook. He performs a most useful but most extraordinary service, devouring a perfect multitude of snakes, frogs, scorpions, spiders, lizards and the like creatures. But this terrible bird can be made perfectly name. On the Guiana plantations he may be seen fraternizing with the chickens, ducks and turkeys, accompanying them in their walks, defending them from their enemies, separating quarrelers with strokes of his bill, sustaining the young and the feeble and waking the echoes with his trumpet while he brings home his flock at night. The trumpeter is as handsome as he is useful. Noble and haughty in his aspect, he raises himself up on his long, yellow gaited legs and seems to say, "I am the trumpeter, the scourge of the reptiles and the projector of the clocks." In southern Africa there is another great exterminator of reptiles, the snake eater, or secretary bird, a magnificent creature that attacks the largest serpents, making a shield of his wings and a sword of his beak. The name of "secretary bird" is derived from the plumes projecting backward from its head, which look like quill pens carried behind one's ear. In South America, in the very neighborhood of the trumpeter's home, there lives the Kamhlchi or Kamkli, which wears a sharp horn projecting from its forehead and a murderous spur upon each of its wings. With these three weapons the serpents that he attacks are powerless against him and are easily put to death. The secretary bird, the Kamichi and the trumpeter form a valiant and useful trio. The trumpeter has two merits above the others—the ease with which he can be domesticated and his musical talent. The natives have a saying that he has swallowed a cornet. Whether promenading or war making, he fills the air with his trumpet calls, and at the sound of his voice of brass the reptiles take to flight. Sentiment. The baseball fan was feeling sentimental. The game was over and the sun had set and the moon had risen, and now the fan was with his lady love, trying to hand her a few hot ones. "I feel," he remarked on passant (he got this stuff from a summer novel), "that with you to cheer me on, I could—er—" (there he lost his lines and had to take), "that I could grab off any pennant the big league was offering." "Let me get you right," interrupted the lady. "You want me to sit in the bleachers and yell 'white, you line 'em out, ch?" "That's the dope," he answered, rather surprised that she got his knightly idea so rapidly. She was to cheer him on to victory, and a glance up to where her dear eyes were shining—well, you get it. "If that's the case," continued the fair dame, "the grounds will have to be laid off in a little better shape. So far I haven't been able to see the diamond." He wised up and, was there with the spark the next night. And the game wasn't called on account of darkness, believe us. THE MACHINE-WORKING AREA In the Hampton Blacksmith Shop, Hampton Institute, Va. --- Sentiment. LOTS OF HUNTING IN SPAIN Use of Firearms Very Extensive, Owing to the Sporting Proclivities of the People. The use of firearms is very extensive in Spain. Hunting is so popular that 20,000,000 empty sporting cartridges were imported into Spain last year, and of these 2,300,000 entered the port of Valencia alone. More than two-thirds of the total are of ordinary and low grade quality, costing about 55 cents a hundred unloaded, but there is also a limited market for very high grade sporting cartridges with deep metallic lining, adapted for heavy charges of smoke-less powders, which are imported from Great Britain and the United States and are retailed at from $1.45 to $1.98 a hundred according to length and finish. The natural sporting proclivities of the inhabitants of Valencia are fostered by the proximity of the Albufera, an extensive marshy lake visited in the fall and winter by myriads of wild duck, coots and other water fowl that migrate from northern Europe, while the forest wastes and arid brushwood hills of the interior are moderately stocked with red partridge, hares and rabbits. All the moist, cultivated valleys following the course of streams are also visited in the spring and summer by migratory quail that come over from North America. Trade in sporting guns, pistols and revolvers is of considerable importance, but only the very high grades are imported Nearly all medium quality, ordinary and low price products are manufactured in the country, mostly at Eibar, in the Basque provinces in the north of Spain, where excellent workmen, many of whom study at the leading arms factories of Birmingham and Liege, make almost every form of gun, rifle, pistol and revolver. The barrels are usually imported in the rough from Great Britain or Belgium, and are bored and finished at the Spanish factories. Pinning Him Down In a little sequestered country town, where the court of justice is over the general store, and where the judge is an old, grizzled farmer, thoroughly familiar with pitching hay and milking cows, but having a very limited knowledge of the law, the prisoner had pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of burglary. The lawyer for the prosecution was endeavoring to show the court that the accused was a man of low character. "What were you doing the night before the robbery?" he questioned severely. "I was playin' pinchole with Jed Parker and another feller," answered the prisoner evasively. "Ah, I thought so!" shouted the lawyer triumphantly. "Playing cards, and with that loader, Jed Parker! Gambling and in bad company! But you mention a third party, sir. Who was the other good-for-nothing? The prisoner hesitated. "Answer me!" bellowed the lawyer. "Wa-al, sir, if ye must know," said the accused. "it was the judge here." —Judge's Library. Dig Up Buried Treasure Spanish coins and jewelry, upon which a valuation of $20,000 was placed by the men who took possession, were dug from under an old Spanish fort at Aunhuac, a small settlement in Double Bayon, which empties into the upper Galveston bay. Three men appeared some days ago, and announcing themselves as old prospectors, sank several holes with drills, then began digging under the ruins of the old fort. They found and removed a metal chest about three feet long and 18 inches deep, which they said when about to be arrested was the property of the father of one of the men in the party. Society News and Doings From the Benders. By Irene Hickman. South Bend, Ind., Dec. 1.—Mrs. Hill, of Indianapolis, has been visiting her brother, Mr. George Bland and her sister, Miss Dayse Bland, for the past week. Mrs. Emma Hines entertained last Sunday at a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Mr. Bland's guest, Mrs. Hill. Seventeen ladies were present. Mrs. Hill was entertained Monday afternoon at a luncheon given by Mrs. William Manning, at her home on Portage avenue. The following ladies were present: Mesdames Steward, Hincs, Bland, Price, Roberts, Hickman, Barten, Hill and Miss Dayse Bland. An elaborately decorated table held the numerous dainty viandes. In the evening Mrs. Hill visited the Odessa Chapter, the regular routine of the order being carried. Following the meeting the ladies assembled in the spacious dining hall and enjoyed an elaborate spread. The St. Pierre Ruffin Club held its weekly meeting at the home of Mrs. E. J. Hickman. Do not forget the Baptist bazaar to be held during the first week of December at the K. of P. Hall. The O. D. T. Club met at the home of Mrs. Lorcy Gloe Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. Wade was hostess at a 6 o'clock dinner last Tuesday evening at her home on Thomas street, in honor of Mrs. Hill. Fourteen ladies were present. The table was decorated with fruit in a large pumpkin as a centerpiece. The dinner was served by two able attendants. After the dinner the rest of the evening was spent in music. Mr. Weaver has opened his new harber shop on Main street. Don't fall to patronize him. The D. D. W. Girls will give an Indoor picnic for their boy friends Thursday evening, Nov. 30, at the home of Miss Valetta Snead. The D. D. W. girls held their weekly meeting at the home of Miss Fannie Bridgeman Thursday evening. Mrs. G. C. Clay entertained Wednesday evening at 7:30 in honor of Mrs. Hill. The house was beautifully decorated with chrysanthemums. At 9 o'clock the gentlemen arrived and were served. Several selections were played by Mrs. Lindsey Jackson. The A. M. E. Church will hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner Thursday. The A. B. C. girls were entertained by Mrs. Gertrude Clark at her home on Williams street, Wednesday evening. I wonder if the girls will ever tell what "A. B. C." means? The S. B. C. of M. A. will meet next Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Evangeline Kiltrell. Miss Irene Hickman entertained a few of her girl friends at a luncheon Sunday evening at her home on Walnut street. Miss Pearl Powell left today for an extended trip to Louisville, Ky., to be the guest of Mrs. G. P. Scott. "EAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD." We call your attention to the advertisement of the Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association which appears in another column. You have but a few days left to secure a lot at the present low prices and easy terms. Two dollars cash and two dollars per month. This is an opportunity that will probably never come again to the colored families of Chicago. The prices are so low and the terms so easy, that there is hardly a family in Chicago who cannot afford to secure a lot, as the payments are only fifty cents a week. It would be wise to secure two lots if you are able to make the payments; one for use and other as an investment; as lots in the Chicago cemeteries have been the safest and most profitable investment in the past and as the city grows in population this investment will be better each year. It would be well for you to call at the office of the association, 3125 South State street, where they will talk the matter over with you and show you photographic views of the cemetery. For Baby's Eyes Mothers, please do not send your babies out without any shade for the eyes. Even though it is not summer time, they should not be allowed to lie with the sun shining in their eyes. All sorts of troubles result from this, eye infirmations of many kinds, often defective vision and nervous conditions, which remain for life. If you would try lying with the sun shining in your eyes for an hour or so you would soon realize how disagreeable it is for a baby in a goocat or carriage to be subjected to it. The Turbine. The first steam turbine-fitted vessel was constructed by the Hon. C. A Parsons at his works at Newcastle-on-Type. The Turbinia, a small vessel 100 feet in length, made her trial trip November 4, 1894. The system rapidly developed owing to increased speed of the vessels fitted with turbine engines and the economy effected in coal; improvements were made in their construction, and today the turbine ship is popular the world over Scripture Comforted Her- As to Scripture quotations, writes a correspondent, many years ago there was living at Britton Hill an old woman, whom I knew well, and in conversation with a friend on the benefits to be derived from a knowledge of the Bible she made this remark: "I have often been comforted with that blessed Scripture, 'Faint heart never won fair lady.'" For Perfect Peace: Nothing can bring peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.—Emerson. Rooms by Day. Prices: 50c, 75c, $1.00 By the Week, $2.50 and U1 Baths Free to Daily and Weekly Roomers. Furnished Entirely New With Modern Improvements and Conveniences. A GREAT BARGAIN SALE OF READY TRIMMED HATS We want your trade. Will you pay us a visit next time? The inducements which we offer to get your business are LOW PRICES and surpassing VALUES of Trimmed Hats that are sure to please you. We depend on your complete satisfaction for our future business. SCHAFFER & JOHNSON, :: 3247 State Street Phone Aldine 1050 IDA M. DEMPCY Stenographer and Typist 3716 Dearborn St. Chicago, M. Res. Phones: Doug. 2586 Office: Oak 3126 Auto 72-607 DR. G. WILLIAM MILLER, Physician and Surgeon Office, 4709 State Street Hours: 9-11 A. M.; 1-3 and 6-8 P. M. Residence, 3562 Forest Ave. Stenographer Typist 3716 Dearborn St. Chicago, M. Res. Phones: Doug. 2586 Office: Oak 3126 Auto 72-607 DR. G. WILLIAM MILLER, Physician and Surgeon Office: 4709 State Street Hours: 9-11 A. M.; 1-3 and 6-8 P. M. Residence: 3562 Forest Ave. DR. A. BAILEY WILLIAMS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Hours: 11-30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 3-30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and by Appointment. Provident Hospital Daily, 9-11 a.m. Smith @ Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Extra Fine Home Cooking Private Dining Room 4286 State Street Chicago Telephone Mala 2017 J. A. TRIBUE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 171 Washington St. Room 706 CHICAGO Special Holiday Offer Your hair washed and straightened FREE to every lady buying the Thomas Magic Hair Grower A. THOMAS BEAUTY SHOP Auto. 73-284 2937 State St. J. WALLACE, Hair Expert Pomade and Turkish Oil Manufacturer see our great offerings in popular and medium-priced switches There is no store that will give you bigger and better bargains ering at this time. We carry a full stock of French pomade, the growth of the hair and removes dandruff and cures any And also carry a line of Turkish Oil, manufactured, and sold by MRS. J. WALLA French Pomade and T Come and see our great offerings and hair goods. There is no store that than we are offering at this time. We which promotes the growth of the hair scalp trouble. And also carry a line of Mrs. J. Wallace. MRS. J. WALLACE. Hair Expert Come and see our great offerings in popular and medium-priced switches and hair goods. There is no store that will give you bigger and better bargains than we are offering at this time. We carry a full stock of French pomade, which promotes the growth of the hair and removes dandruff and cures any scalp trouble. And also carry a line of Turkish Oil, manufactured, and sold by Mrs. J. Wallace. FOREMAN'S II OPEN DAY WE PROMISE Good Home Prices, 20 LUNCH COUNTER We cater to dinner parties and serve all k Biscuits and home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th Street THE NEW CAFE AND 3030 STAT MAN'S IDEAL KITCHEN OPEN DAY AND NIGHT WE PROMISE AND GIVE A Home Cooked Meal Prices, 20c, 25c, 30c CH COUNTER IN CONNECTION Other parties and serve all kinds of salads. Try our Corn, Wheat Cakes, Hot de Country Sausage. Street CHICAGO, ILL. Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 Phone, Douglas 3250 THE NEW ELITE LIFE AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION We cater to dinner parties and serve all kinds of salads. Try our Corn, Wheat Cakes, Hot Biscuites and home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th Street CHICAGO, IL Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 Our newly equipped dining room and quick service is unexcelled by any Cafe in the city. Theatre parties are solicited. Good music by the highest paid artists. Any neglect by any of our help will be immediately looked into. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Our Specialty HENRY JONES A.F. CODOZOE Prop. CASS HAR DON'T HESITAT The columns of THIS PAPER are filled with advertisements of main e Wines, Liquors and Cigars Our Specialty JONES DOZOE Prop. CASS HARRIS, Mgr. N'T HESITATE! The columns of THIS PAPER are filled with advertisements of satisfied customers—our clients for years. It pays them; it will pay you. :: :: :: PHONE ALDINE 3458 Phone Aldine 1050 Bright Phone Calumet 222: Establishes DAYNE'S HAND LAUNDRY 2409 Wabash Avenue. Keeps your linen in repair. Wagons call everywhere. Telephone Mala 2017 J. A. TRIBUE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 171 Washington St. Room 706 CHICAGO which is the finest, most satisfactory preparation on the market, because each case is treated individually as no one would want to receive one would not reach another. Price SI Special Hair sale, finest hair in the city at astonishing low prices. 3247 State St., Chicago, Ill. —Exchange. The Defender THE DEFENDER CO., PUBLISHERS. R. S. ABBOTT, LL D., Founder and Editor. Issued Weekly by Chicago Defender Pub- lishing and Printing Company. Founded May 6, 1805. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One Year $1.60 Eight Months $1.90 Three Months $0.75 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT. One Inch, ore time $1.50 Special rates given on large or long stammer add. Julius N. Avendorph, Society Editor. Fon. Holly, Cartoonist. OFFICE, 3159 State Street CHICAGO, ILL. Telephone Douglas 3333. Entered as second-class matter, February 1, 1906, at the Postoffice in Chicago, Ill., under act of March 3, 1879. Larger Circulation than all the other weeklies combined. RATES OF ADVERTISING Births, Betrothals, Marriages and Deaths Competition and Obituary Resolutions, each Widow's贴, each Rates, Deaths per line Rates for Display Advertisements fur- ١٤٠٣ Change of Address—Please give both be old and new address; and in writing > the paper always be careful to give both; the State and Postoffice, as well as sign name. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911. Get enough turkey? And the next day it snowed. The careass, to be sure. Pajama parties are the latest society stum. The Choral Study Club scored again; still they always do that. June isn't the only month that captures all the weddings. November, as cold as it has been, isn't far behind. What did you do toward making your poor neighbor's Thanksgiving pleasant? That "it is more blessed to give than receive" is a true saying. Our story of the Jones-Stevens wedding last week was indeed a surprise. Even the "Press Gang" gave us credit for a newsy issue. Oh, you Jolly Bean Eaters, but they went to Dudley later and found in "Dr. Beans from Boston," and found in him "a friend from home." You thought when our reporter ap proached you the other day he was going to ask you to subscribe for the paper. No, gentle reader, he was only going to ask you "What's new?" --- The announcement that the Chicago Defender would have a Children's Page in its Christmas issue has met with considerable favor. Space has been secured by eight or ten fond parents and we advise those who contemplate a "write up" in this unique idea to consult us at once. No doubt the Chicago correspondent of the Indianapolis Plaindealer read Mr. S. Lain Williams' statement in last week's issue of that paper. The Phyllis Wheatley Home and the Frederick Douglass Center are two good and well managed institutions and we are surprised at his mistake. Herman Spalding, chief of the bureau of medical inspection, claims the dress of the women of today has a tendency to deform the most perfect figure. That doesn't mean, however, that they should go back to the Mother Hubbard again. The managers of the La Salle Hotel are liable to be taught a lesson they will remember a long time if they persist in making it unpleasant for a Negro to be served there. The little incident that happened the other day shows that we still have some good and loyal friends among the other race. --- Not only the members of Grace Presbyterian Church but all Chicago should be proud of the record made by that excellent baseball team. Holding the championship in a big city like this means something. Every encouragement should be given them financially and otherwise, and when next season rolls around we want them to again bring home the trophy. "Chicago's citizens of Irish birth or descent are less sensitive or more sensible than those in New York who mobbed the Irish players in Maxine Elliott's theater Monday night on the first production there of "The Playboy of the Western World.""—Daily Paper. The Negro citizens here have always been "sensitive and sensible" but they must be determined and lawful when "The Clansman," "The Nigger" and other objectionable plays are produced here. We trust the managers of the Pelin Theater will give us some of the good old shows of the past. There is every reason to believe the public would generously support this playhouse if the productions warranted it. Since so many of our road shows disbanded there is talent galore. New faces, new ideas and new plays interspersed with the old and tried ones, would mean that Chicago, with its original and only colored playhouse of its size, stood pre-eminent in the show world. There is a tendency to crowd the Negro from the legitimate stage. Whether this is due to prejudice, or whether it is due to the fact that he does not keep abreast of the times, is a question. Very often one hears, "I've seen that team do that same two years ago." This is an age of novelties, and one would think the professional would be the first to real- --- THE PROCLAMATION OF BYGONE DAYS. It is not hard for us to remember the proclamations of recent years, but can we recall the first proclaiming of thanksgiving to our Lord? Some might say, "Why, Thanksgiving has passed, why speak of the proclamator now?" But let us ask, Is it ever past, is it not always our duty to thank God? Man made a special feature of our thanks in commemoration of God's goodness and we herein give to you the first proclamation ever issued: "Therefore I, William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, say: Through virtue of vested power ye shall gather with one accord and hold in the month of November, Thanksgiving unto the Lord.—William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, 1621." THINGS I AM THANKFUL FOR. By M. A. Majors, M. D. Evidences of race progress along all lines. The general spirit of race uplift manifested throughout the country. The courage and determination on the part of the race to acquire homes, to educate the ambitious and aspiring youth, to foster the church and all other ennobling forces which challenge the admiration of mankind, and lastly the rapidly growing tendency towards race patronage. In the face of obstruction and the brutal usages of a horrible tyranny we are making rapid strides in every walk of life and in every form a persistent spirit to push forward manifests itself. In public places better conduct. The real manly man and the womanly woman is increasing. Race honor has never been wholly discounted, and our women are getting prettier and the men more debornair. God seems yet to favor us with his beneficent smile. All the prerequisities of a well behaved people seem to be getting under full swing. Nothing in the form of a destructive storm looms upon the horizon of our race hopes, and yet we must not forget that under our feet are the frettful humors of a race prejudice more formidable than armies. We should be thankful for the gradual invasion of science in the field of pestilence and disease, as it is the great white plague, consumption, that raises its awful form alas! too frequently, cutting down our lives just at the period of individual life where manhood and womanhood touches noon. Our friends are not all dead but multiplying. Our enemies are becoming less potent and less boasting, if not fewer in numbers. Ben Tillman is silent, mercenely though paralyzed in the grip of a pernicious helplessness, suffering the "swift and certain condemnation of an avenging God." But while we may transfer our joys and grow eloquent in the use of verbage, there is no race of people under the sun more prayerful or more thankful in the spirit and truth of things than our race, who get so little out of life to be thankful for; and yet it is something to be living in a country like this, with opportunity, some oppression to urge us out of lethargy, some small favors, free to act, and free to will. The civilization can be trusted, if not altogether, in part, to herald the dawn of the brotherhood of man. --- Wise Servant A woman in Trenton, N. J., who has been having a lot of trouble with her domestic help, was obliged recently to accept the temporary service of a raw recruit in the shape of an Irish girl just landed in this country. After a preliminary survey of the girl and a dejected sigh, the lady of the house asked: "What can you do?" "Shure, most anything at all, num," responded the newcomer. The lady of the house glanced about the room. "There was everything to be done. "Could you fill the lamps?" she finally ventured to ask. "Shure, I kin fill the lamps!" exclaimed the enthusiastic Celt, as she grabbed one and started out. Then, with the air of one wishing above all things to suit the possible caprices of a new employer, she paused to query: "An' it is gas or oil yed be wantin' thin filled with?" Brother Dickey Explains "I got no sarmont tme preach to gay," said Brother Dickey. "The last time I put my presence in dis yer yer pulit I preached a sarmont whan wuz so powerful hit son six sisters off in a trance, an' dey dint' come to not yit, causin' de law ter git after me, kaze dey nint' conscious enough ten rise up an' make a livin' fer dey husbands. Tongues er fire come down on me at at dat lume f'um de glory-lan, an' now some er you is cochairable enough ter say dat fer de dire otter scorched me ter a frazzie! Dis is no time fer a powerful preacher tak' me!" —Atlanta Constitution. Karned From House of O Carred From House of Commons. An Irish peer was expelled for directing a lottery, while for organizing a "Charitable Association" of shady habits Sir Robert Sutton and two others were shut out in 1730. Steele of the Tatler was prohibited the house for "mallocously insinuating that the Protestant succession in the house of Hanover is in danger under her majesty's administration." But perhaps the oldest reason for closing the doors of the house of commons upon a man is to be found in the case of Mr. Asgill, whose sin was that of writing a treatise "On the Possibility of Avoiding Death."—London Chronicle. What They Both Said. Horace Greeley once wrote a note to a brother editor in New York, whose writing was as illegible as his own. The recipient of the note, not being able to read it, sent it back by the same messenger to Mr. Greeley for elucidation. Supposing it to be the answer to his own note, Mr. Greeley looked over it, but likewise was unable to read it, and said to the boy: "Go take it back. What does the damned fool mean?" "Yes, sir," said the boy; "that is just what he says." As Yet Inexperienced The husband who has not yet learned to wear a smile ove' an aching heart still has rice in his pockets. —Exchange. PERSONALS. HAND PAINTED CHINA at reduced prices for one month only Holiday, Wedding and Gifts for all occasions Studio of MARGURITE H. ANDERSON TELEPHONES-ALDINE 2600 AUTO 71-773 3711 State Street Mrs. W. W. Barnett of Evanston, Ill., has returned home after three weeks' confinement in Provident hospital, where she was successfully operated upon by Dr. George Hall. Mrs. C. C. Lewis, sorry to announce, is not doing at all well. She is still in Provident hospital. Will Weller, our congenial "mixologist," is, we are glad to announce, improving and expects to be out again soon. Mrs. Luckett of Indianapolis, Ind., is expected to return home on or about Saturday carrying with her her two grandchildren, Ruth and Theodore Bronston, with whom they will make their home. Mrs. Matilda Dunbar, the mother of our late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, is in the city for an indefinite stay as the guest of her son, Robert Murphy, 5636 Grove avenue. Mrs. Alonzo Thompson, who has been seriously ill for the last two weeks, we are pleased to announce is improving nicely. One of the most unique affairs of the season was the pajama party given by Miss Mae Coleman and Bernice Kennedy on Saturday evening, Nov. 25, at the residence of Miss Coleman, 3517 Vernon avenue, Games, Dutch lunch, including cigars, cigarettes and pipes were the features. Those present were: Ethel Thomas, Pearl Mayo, Naomi, Bernice, Winifred and Mildred Kennedy, Ada Lou Mitchell, Bertha Young, Garnetta Tibbs and Mae Coleman. The v. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Ken-ucky Loaf" and Wallace Rolls. La Tempa, Spanish schottische, will be Prof. Garfield Wilson's new dance at the Doughass dance school Friday evening, Dec. S. Mrs. Emma W. Chandler, 6504 St. Lawrence avenue, has returned to the city after a visit of five weeks with her daughter in New Haven, Conn., and friends in New York city. Mr. Edward Wimpf, formerly of Chicago but now of Buffalo, N. Y., is in the city for a few days. Read "A Little Sermon for the Bride"—Can you see the point? Editorial page. The San Francisco Bulletin in its issue of Nov. 18 spoke very highly of Mine, Anita Patti Brown. Do you want good plain rollie? Ask for Wallace's. Mrs. Louise Terry, 2623 Michigan avenue, has returned from Springfield, Ohio, where she was for the last four weeks caring for her sick sister, Mrs. Mable Hmley White. Dr. and Mrs. Howard M. Smith are now living in Kansas City, Mo. Their new address is 1418 East 24th street. Mrs. Emma Jacobs is ill at her residence, 25th and Deaconch streets Mrs. C. Smith entertained a box party at the La Salle theater in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mason. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. C. Smith, Madam Oliver and Prof. Dean. Owing to Illness Madam M. Adams could not attend. We Repeat It. A dozen photographs will endeavor you to twelve friends. Make an appointment today for your Christmas photo. Peter P. Jones, 3519 State St. Mrs. Nellie Gray, Detroit's popular soprano, will sing at the Institutional church Sunday morning. Mrs. P. A. Bröcks entertained the Cliffsonians Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Theodosia Walls won first prize, a beautiful hand painted motto, and Mrs. Marguerite Hudson won the second prize, also a hand painted motto. Mrs. Robert Bacon will entertain these young malrons at their next meeting. The old Twenty-second street subpostal station has passed into history. The new station at 1927 Indiana avenue opened Monday and after Dec. 1 will be generally known as the Twentieth street station. The way to get good bread, $r$ 'x for the "Kentucky o.f." The Fellowship club will entertain again Dec. 12. The list of speakers includes several men of note. Mrs. S. S. Griffin, 3022 Wabash avenue, who has been spending three weeks in New Orleans, returned to the city in time to spend Thanksgiving. Mrs. Carrie Harper, 318 West 13th street, Indianapolis, Ind., and Miss Lula Johnson, 455 West 10th street, Indianapolis, Ind., who are the guests of Miss Marie Hamilton and Mrs. Newton, 5206 Armour avenue, will leave for their home on Monday. Dainty Compliments. The daintest compliment you can pay a near and dear friend is to send a picture of yourself as an Xmas greeting. Peter P. Jones, 3519 State St. Garfield Wilson will play the new waltz, a "Ball of Fire"—something Oriental—at Grace baseball social. Mr. C. E. Williams, formerly of the east but now making his home In Admission 35 Cents Chicago, while in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago was stricken with a nervous breakdown. He is improving and we hope that in a few days he may be among friends. Mrs. O. P. Berry and daughter Dapellion, Miss Janette Berry and Miss Florence Todd of Springfield, Ill., came to the city to attend the wedding of Miss Lutie B. Jackson. While here they were the guests of Mrs. S. Beatrice Manuel, 3612 Rhodes avenue. The Reveliers have issued attractive invitations to an informal dance Wednesday evening, Dec. 6, at Oakland music hall. Mrs. Fon Holly, 3605 Forest avenue, is spending two weeks in Springfield, Ill., the guest of her sister, Mrs. Morgan, wife of Lieut. Morgan. Mrs. William Krampton of Niles Mich., is visiting Mrs. H. Swift, 2232 Calumet avenue. Mrs. Julia Thompson has been ill at her home, 3726 Calumet avenue, for the past three weeks. Have you a little fairy in your home? If you have put their picture in our Children's Page in the Christmas number. Mrs. Hattie King is spending Thanksgiving in Galesburg with her mother. Mrs. M. J. Bowles, Columbus, Ohio, is expected in the city next week as the guest of Mrs. Benj. G. Johnson, 3617 Forest avenue. Mrs. R. T. Cole, Kansas City, M.o., sister of Mrs. Henry Browne, Sr., and aunt of Mr. William and Richard Browne, the beneficts, is in the city for a few days to attend the marriage of her nephew, he will leave the city tonight. Mr. Henry Daniels, 3211 Rhodes avenue, returned from Two-too, Ky., on Wednesday, where he went to visit his mother. Mr. Chas, Mackey, 3150 State street, left Wednesday night tor Louisville, Ky., to the bedside of his mother, who lies very ill. Mr. Louis Hoggatt, his mother, sister and father, are over from Benton Harbor, Mich., to attend the Foresters' ball and the two society weddings. The Phyllis Wheatley Home Pekin benefit was a huge success. The Foresters' ball was all that could be expected of it. Brother Fletcher of Bethel A. M. E. Church died Thanksgiving morning at 6 o'clock. Funeral from that church on Sunday. FROM OUR EXCHANGES "Didn't I see you in church last Sunday?" asked Paul Porter of Harry Giffoll in the same piece. "No I slept at home," Mr. Giffoll replies. John Pierpont Morgan, the partners in the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the men closely associated with the uncrowned king of American finance, represent practically $17,000,000,000. Some, put if nearer $20,000,000,000. Different You Know In Louisville, Ky., a few days ago the janitor refused to open the court house to three well known colored orators who had been billed to address the colored voters of that city. Had it been a case of opening the jail doors the hinges would have been greased and no doubt the jailor would have responded with alacrity. The "Boss" is sick. Her tonsils refused to accept the recent violent fall in temperature in good taste, and as a result the "Boss" is home wrapped in flannel and heaping mild anthemas upon the head of the doctor who refuses point blank to let the "Boss" out of doors. In consequence of said indisposition our print-shop is in gloom and the editorial sanctum will not be comforted. The "Boss" is the rudder of our mental airship where we are kept in normal currents. Without her we would find ourselves swinging aimlessly through space colliding with all the troubles ever invented to grove the soul of man. With her the sun-gleams are full of fairies; even the clouds are inhabited with the merriest of merry elfs; for the "Boss" is seldom cross, never irritated and always the soul of genial hope. Everything loves the "Boss," from all the stray dogs and cats upon the streets, to the ubiquitous beggar who meets her every morning to solicit a couple of cents to see his dying mother across the river. Notwithstanding that the same mother has been dying, in these many moons, the boss "falls" CAN YOU SEE THE POINT? SAVE $5.00 to $50.00 The Board of Directors of the Mt. Glenwood Cemetery Association have ordered an advance in the price of lots to take effect December 10, 1911, in Again and again the question has come to me, why do not the worthy reforms of the country meet with better success? Why does not the temperance cause gain more advocates and more influence? And why do not the decent people of the towns and rural districts array themselves more formidably against vice? And the answer is: The people generally are so busy with their own affairs that they have little thought or time to give to reform movements. The men are working hard to support their families; the women are busy keeping house and rearing their children. They all are living their own lives, so interested in the happenings of their immediate small world that they take little interest in the events of the world at large, and so busily engrossed with their own business that they can find little time to participate in the affairs of the world. It is right and normal for people generally to live in this way, following their own pursuits. It is only exceptional persons who, not burdened by family cares or by the press of having to make their living, are able to devote themselves to the batterment of humanity. Such unattached and independent persons are able to be altruistic, but the bulk of men and women in the world have to be egotistic if they are to support and rear their families. If all the people in the world should become reformers, if they all should turn perfectly altruistic, the human race would be soon extinct. If, then, that universal altruism is an impossibility, and that through it the world cannot be freed of its sin, disease and injustice, there remains for the game just because she fears that perhaps some day he will tell the truth and then should she refuse, oh, horrors. The "Boss" has legions of friends—friends who would come very nearly committing homicide on those who might offend her. In fact the "Boss" might have been a most successful queen in the chivalric days when men considered it a duty and an honor to die for their sovereigns. Her subjects would be her friends, and what a glorious and numerously populated nation would hers be to rule. The "Boss" mends slowly; but here's to the rapid and complete recovery of the best girl in the world, my chum, the "Boss," Sara Elizabeth Anderson, the editor's wife. Judge's Severe Comment Sir Matthew Begieh, chief justice of British Columbia, once had before him a man charged with having killed another man with a sand-bag. The evidence was conclusive, and the judge charged the jury accordingly, but a verdict of "Not Guilty" was promptly brought in. The judge was astonished. "Gentlemen of the jury," he said, "this is your verdict, not mine. On your conscience the disgrace will rest. Many repetitions of such conduct as yours will make trial by jury a horrible farce, and the city of Victoria a nest of crime. Go! I have nothing more to say to you." And then, turning to the prisoner: "You are discharged. Go and sand-bag some of those jurymen; they deserve it." Expensive Tree. We do not think much of trees in the United States, and let several million acres of them burn without getting excited, in England small forests, and even individual trees, are maintained at great expense. If there is not actually an outlay of money, the trees occupy land that could otherwise be profitably employed. Probably the most noteworthy tree in the world, so far as expensiveness is concerned, is a plane tree which grows in Wood street, in the city of London. This tree occupies a lot which would bring in ground-rent to the amount of $1,200 per annum. It says much for the nature-loving qualities, and, incidentally, for the fortune, of the owner of that lot that the ancient tree flourishes safely year after year. Respect Due to Bank Alice Wenhan is a cliff dweller and, as such, accustomed to the whereabouts of the lordly janitor by whose kind permission her people live and have their being. Right across the street they are building another apartment, an activity which greatly interests the young lady. She spends many hours in the contemplation of the job. The excavation filled her with breathless interest. The foundation proved even more exciting. And now, that the building is in a fair state of progress, she is quite beside herself. And she wants to know you know, "Mother," she asked when the bricklayers began on the ground floor work, "they've built the janitor's house first. Isn't that funny?"—Cleveland Lender. An Exception: The Foundling. Every mother's son of us has relatives he does not like.—Chicago News. Hand This Notice to a Friend! --- SEE THE THE POINT? but the alternative, that humanity will become bettered through the improvement of its individuals. The world cannot be made righteous, by great reforms sweeping the country, but will grow better through the slow evolving righteousness of its individuals. However, the reformers do not work in vain; they guide and direct; they are the generals in the great battle for goodness. But they cannot win the battle; success can be achieved only when each and every private soldier is doing his own particular duty toward the accomplishment of the great task. As the salvation of the world is to be wrought by the salvation of its individuals, so is the salvation of men and women to be wrought by their mothers. When mothers for many generations will have been wise and careful in the bearing and rearing of their children, when the mothers of many generations have brought up their children to be clean, honest, strong and kindly, then will the reform of the world be accomplished. More far-reaching than the influence of any reformer is the influence of every mother. Therefore let every mother, and every woman who may some time become a mother, be sure that her influence is of the right sort. One of the hardest lessons for the young wife to learn is that her husband cannot appreciate her, understand her or sympathize with her perfectly. Some wives never realize this fact, but go through life lamenting their husband's lack of sympathy. The truth of the matter is that a husband and wife usually understand each other better than the rest of the world understands them. And yet even they Where the Young Men Learn Men Learn Tailoring at Hampton, Va. Where the Young Men Learn Tailoring at Hampton, Va. A wise old financier confides he has often found it valuable to put a stupid man on a promotion scheme. He understands baseball, and this is the way he explains it: A great batter doesn't expect to see a ball come to him straight over the plate; when the dull promoter puts his straight over the plate it catches some of the keenest of 'em napping. Children who suffer very much from headaches without any apparent cause should be taken to an oculist to have their eyes examined. It may be that they are overstraining them without being conscious of the fact. Defects of the eyes can be cured in so many cases if glasses are worn for a time, and even the thief children soon become accustomed to wearing them. Tones of Insects. An investigator, given to the collection of curious data, has observed that there are at least three different tones emitted by insects; a low one during flight, a higher one when the wings are held in such manner that they do not vibrate, and a yet higher tone when the insect is held so that none of its limbs can be moved. This last, it is pointed out, is the "voice proper" of the insect. In some cases it is produced by the stigmata of the thorax. THE FIGHT ```markdown ``` The Way Your Sons Learn Carpentering at Hampton Institute, Va. Promotion Shoots Fault May Be in Eyesight Tones of Insects cannot accurately read one another's natures. The Quakersumed up the situation aptly when she said to her husband: "John, it seems to me that all the world art queer, except thou and me, and sometimes even thou art a little queer." We cannot completely understand another person's character. We cannot see the inner workings of his mind; we cannot see the silent battles of his soul. We cannot feel his anguish. Nor can another accurately fathom the depth and breadth and bigness and smallness of our character. No doubt this is a wise plan of Providence. If we all were not more or less of a puzzle to each other, life would lose half its interest. And then, could we comprehend each other perfectly, we could so much more exactly imitate each other, and would tend to become hopelessly alike, thus defeating nature's plan of development through differentiation of species. It is a blessed revelation when it comes home to us that no one can really understand us, and that we cannot perfectly understand another person. We begin to do things, not for the praise, but because it is what we should do, and because our conscience directs us to do that particular duty. Our satisfaction is in work and accomplishment, and not in being praised. We judge others less harshly, because we realize that we cannot see their motives or know of their struggles. Then there is less rancer in our hearts when others misunderstand us, for we know they cannot thoroughly comprehend us. Wanted to Patent a Circus. P. T. Barnum once came to the office to know if he could patent the three-ring circus. In technical parlance his threering circus was an aggregation and a combination to produce a new result. It was not patentable, which information highly incensed the showman. "It will be adopted by every circus just as soon as I make it known," he declared. And it was—From the Scientific American's "Ten Stories." Something From Nothing Some children were once asked by an inspector at a school examination whether they knew the meaning of the word "scandal." One little girl, holding her hand up attracted the notice of the inspector. He desired her to answer the question, upon which she gave this definition: "Nobody does nothing, and everybody goes round telling it." Pieces for Quilt. I have found the following method of cutting pieces for a quilt to be a saving of time and labor, says a contributor to Needlecraft. Have the pattern cut from cardboard and a piece of beeswax pressed on each corner; then press the bit of cloth to the pattern, cut it out, remove it, and you are ready for the next without the trouble of putting in and taking out pins. --- EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH. Notes of Its Various Activities—The New Church Assured—Personal Mention of Its Many Members. By Mrs. M. Alexander. We cordially thank all who contributed towards our parent and pew day rally. We thank you for a collection of more than $20. Given by Primary department. Although being forbidden to come out on account of illness Mrs. R. Howard came out anyway in interest of the Sunday school rally. Dr. Callis and congregation came down Sunday afternoon. The Rev. preached a grand sermon for us. Don't forget the 30th of November. "The church of yesterday and today." Dinner will be served also. Miss Ella Ratcliffe has returned to her home in Evansville, Ind. Mrs. Anna Wright Hall, who has been on the sick list, is with us again. Mrs. Letttia Hess is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Junita Ware is confined to the house but is much better. Mrs. Gertrude Emerson expects to be with us again very soon. Dr. Carter of Memphis, Tenn., will preach for us morning and evening the second Sunday in December and Monday evening will give a lecture, subject. "The Results of Evil Thinking" THREE NEW CARDINALS. Catholic Church in America Honored by Elevating Three Prelates to the Sacred College. Rome, Nov. 27.—In the Hall of Consistories at the Vatican today the formal ratification of the pope's nomination of eighteen new members of the Sacred College was carried out with simple ceremonial. The striking feature of the consistory, which was attended only by the pope, the cardinals resident in Rome, and the visiting cardinals, was the elevation of three American prelates, Mgr. Farley, archbishop of New York; Mgr. O'Connell, archbishop of Boston; and Mgr. Falconio, the apostolic delegate at Washington, who now retires from that office. The actual bestowal of the red hat has been reserved for Thursday, when the public consistory will be held in the Hall of the Beatification and a much more stately ceremony will mark the occasion. WALTER'S A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. The evangelistic services at this church are being well attended. Mrs. E. L. Howard, the evangelist, is attracting large crowds. Her sermons are earnest and straightforward gospel truths, and she delivers them in a way that is pleasant to listen to. These services will continue until further notice. Sunday services will be as follows: At 11 a. m. the holy communion will be celebrated; Sunday school at 1 p. m. The Sunbeam club will have a sacred concert at 2:30 p. m. A splendid program has been prepared and will be rendered under the direction of Mrs. George Cone. The pastor will lead the Christian Endeavor at 6:30. At 7:45 p. m. an evangelistic service will be held. Mrs. Howard will preach. These services will be held every night during the week. THANKSGIVING RALLY AT GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sunday, Nov. 26, the section captains made the following reports at the rally: Miss Maggie White $ 34.75 Miss Wilhelmina Burton 37.50 Mrs. Anna Lee 41.50 A. J. Williams 33.75 Mrs. Anna E. Lewis 33.50 Mrs. Rachael Allen 31.50 Thos. F. Jackson 44.50 Mrs. Mary McCutcheon 26.50 Mrs. Martha Mitchell 35.00 Miss Cora Willis 32.60 Wm. Farrow 36.50 Rev. M. H. Jackson 63.75 WAYMAN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. The sermon for next Sunday morning will be on the subject of "The Golden Candlesticks," and at 7:45 p. m. on the subject, "The Sublime Choice." Special services are being held every Wednesday and Friday night preparatory for the meeting which will be held the first of the year. The pastor has made a call for the reorganization of the Sunday club. All persons desiring to become a member of the Sunday club are asked to meet next Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. ENGLEWOOD NEWS Weekly Letter From This Thriving Section of the City—All the News. Mr. Alvine Gibbs, of 1344 61st street, is on the sick list. Mrs. Mary Stacker, of 511 56th place, was operated on in Provident Hospital last Thursday. She is doing nicely. Mrs. Ruth Jordan, of 6215 Throop street, is slowly improving. She is able to be around the house. Wedding bells rang for Mr. Brown and Miss Ruth McKemay. Full account of the wedding in next issue. November weddings in Englewood are very popular, several having oc CARD OF THANKS. Solomon Taylor, 3263 Rhodes desires to express her thanks recitation to the many friends ernal members for the nucts of kindness and sympathy to her through the loss of ed husband, Mr. Sol Taylor, 911. To the many friends itters of condolence and rel designs from various AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest—Speakers. Mr. Deliquent Subscriber: Please note the following letter and call at Y. M. C. A. office and pay upon your pledge to the building fund: The final installment of subscriptions to the Y. M. C. A. building fund will be due at this office on Dec. 1, 1911. We very courteously call your attention to the fact that we have not received any payment on your subscription to the fund. May we urge you to pay your account in full or as much as possible on your pledge on Dec 1, or as soon thereafter as convenient? Perhaps you have been waiting for this, the final notice, and contemplated paying in full then; if so, we will be pleased to have you make remittances to the office by check, draft, or money order, payable to James B. Porgan, treasurer, or a collector will call upon you if you will so notify this office. The receipt of funds to date assures us of the financial success of the movement, and we are now certain of erecting one of the largest and best equipped association buildings of its kind anywhere in the world. The lot has been purchased, plans drawn, and we now await the final payment of subscriptions. We urge you, therefore, to kindly give this your most sincere consideration. Thanking you in advance for your payment, Respectfully yours, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, South Side Department Y. M. C. A. Chicago leads the cities of the United States and the world in the amount of money subscribed and the cost of building that will be erected for Y. M. C. A. purposes, as shown by the following statistics: Chicago colored people subscribed $68,000 for a $150,000 building. Philadelphia subscribed $23,000 for a $100,000 building. Indianapolis subscribed $20,000 for a $100,000 building. Living. Atlanta subscribed $53,000 for a $100,000 building. Los Angeles subscribed $38,000 for a $100,000 building. Atlantic City subscribed $16,651 for a $35,000 building. a $35,000 building. Dayton, O., subscribed $12,000 for a $20,000 building. Columbus, O., subscribed $7,000 for a $18,000 building. Chicago leads the world in the amount of money subscribed, the cost of building. "We should lead in the amount of money collected of the original subscriptions. Are you doing your part in helping Chicago to keep in the lead? Mr. J. M. Higginbotham of team No. 11 leads in the amount of money collected during the last week. He made report on seven subscribers to the amount of $18.75. Mr. James Sims, 4610 Dearborn street, attended the Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday afternoon and became a subscriber to the fund. Dr. J. W. McDowell called at headquarters early during the week and left his final payment on his liberal subscription to the Y. M. C. A. building. He expressed his pleasure in paying what he had promised. Senior C. S. Estrada, a Cuban financier with offices at 17-72 Republic building, will address the Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday at 4 p. m. Come out and hear him. "RICHARD IS HIMSELF AGAIN," Mr. W. W. Talley. Of course you know "Talley?" A lack of acquaintance is your loss and shows that you are a newconer, Mr. W. W. Talley, 3724 Street street, who has recovered from a stroke of paralysis, is one of the courty Bae that has made Chicago famous. "I can talk as much as ever," said he the other day, "and I want all of my friends to call and see me." Sleeping With Children When it is necessary for an adult to sleep in the same bed with a young child, the following method will be found quite satisfactory, and insure comfort to the adult at least. Make the bed with three sheets instead of two; then have the child sleep between the middle and lower sheets, and the adult between the middle and upper sheets. This prevents the child from rolling around and also holds the sheet tightly about its shoulders.—Good Housekeeping. Dickens' Real Home For 14 years Dickens made Broadstairs his principal summer home in England. London alone held a superior place in his affections. He felt his powers at their amplest when he was at the little channel coast town. Orthodox. "If St. James' Bible was good enough for St. Paul, it is good enough for me." This was the emphatic protest of a New England deacon against the reading of the Revised instead of the King James version—Congregationalist. DELTA ATER TR CONGERS LANCASTER NEW YORK TOWN Fine Art, Carriage and Auto Painting as Well as Wall Papering at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. A Corner in the Machine Shop at Hampton Institute, Va. FOOTBALL IN UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN AND OUT . OF CHICAGO. By Julius N. Avendorph. Two years ago when a universal demand was made for a change in the football rules by the various athletic boards as well as members of families who had a relative on some team, prove a serious question as to what change could be made, other than the mass plays without seriously affecting the game, but something had_to be done for the protection of the game as well as lives, therefore, when the changes were made they proved so radical that the general impression among the coaches was, that it would be necessary to organize a lightweight team, as speed was essential, but of course, to hear such predictions was expected as the whole thing DELTA ATER TR Fine Art, Carriage and Auto Painting Institute, H was problematic. But after a season's experience with the mass plays and flying tackle eliminated, it was discovered the idea of a light-weight team was a mistake, as it was absolutely necessary to have weight in defensive work, which of course, brought about another phase of the all important question, whether the weight in the line or in the backs would produce the best results, but that soon worked out itself, the results of which, the line today is as heavy as ever. Of course, there is very little line plunging done in the game of this season, as the formations do not call for it, but it is safe to have it as an emergency, to break up plays on the offensive side. The new plays permitting so much strategy and deception, it is very necessary for the ends and half backs to be speedy men in order to get away with the snap of the ball, and down the field on kicks. There must be every confidence in the man directing the plays. The quarter back must be a man equal to all emergencies in order to insure that confidence, as a mistake on his part would most likely result, so to speak, as a head-on wreck does on a railroad. The fullback is brought into prominence more than ever under the new rules, and particularly in the formation of the forward pass. Every coach works hard to develop a kicker, which is a necessary adjunct to a winning team under the present rules. The 1911 season is now history, and unfortunately we are without a representative on the all-star team selected from the conference teams. Alexander, right tackle on the University of Iowa team, was the only possibility, as he is the only colored man playing on a conference team this season, but he was not deserving of a place on either A Corner in the Machine Sho first or second teams. I predict when the conference officials get together on next Saturday there will be a few more changes made in the rules which will allow more scoring than has been the case in the last two years. Fred Pollard, right half-back on Lane High school team and the idol of the league, was as usual given a place on the first all-star high school team. An honor he is deserving of and has held for the last two years. Pollard has one more year at Lane. The defeat of Wisconsin by Chicago on last Saturday was a big surprise to the closest followers of the game, consequently I felt ratter puffed up over my prediction. Below is my selection of an all-star Defender high school team: John Barrett, left end, Oak Park. R. Cotton, left tackle, Oak Park. Fred Rice, left guard, Oak Park. R. Presnell, center, Lane. R. Delaney, right guard, Lane. Charles Cory, right tackle, University high. Al. Vinnedge, right end, Hyde Park. Leslie Hart, quarter back, Hyde Park. Fred Pollard (captain), left half-back, Lane. Paul Russell, right half-back, Oak Park. Wm. McDonnell, full-back, Lane. THE BRIDE WAS FROM CHICAGO Mr. A. T. Bradley and Mrs. Emma Bradley were quietly married Tuesday evening in his beautiful home, 2121 Rural street, Rev. T. A. Smythe officiating—Indianapolis Plaindealer. as Well as Wall Papering at Hampton hampton, Va. ALL ROADS LEAD THERE. The Masons, and the Eastern Star; the Odd Fellows and the Household of Ruth; the Foresters and their Lady Companions; the Knights of Pythias and the Clanthians; in fact, every social, secret or other organization are invited to be the guests of Rev. A. J. Carey at the Sunday Evening club at the Institutional church tomorrow (Sunday) night, or any other Sunday evening that suits their convenience. Elixir of Life for Steel For mankind, as yet, the olixir of life remains undiscovered; but for steel it has been found. The element vanadium, when added in certain predetermined and small proportions, gives to steel the combined properties of increased tensile strength, higher elastic limit and greater ductility. Strength, toughness, elasticity, united with freedom from crystalization—these are the life-giving properties which vanadium imparts to steel, properties which raise its endurance to meet the burdens which are dally increasing upon it. The Accompaniment. Rubinstein once declared to some one that he was descended from one of the Crusaders who accompanied Richard Coeur de Lion to Palestine. "On the piano, presumably," was the smiling response. Expenditure Explained: Question—Don't you know that the amount charged you for postage by your campaign manager would buy enough stamps to paper the side of the great pyramid? The Answer—By George! Is that what he did with them?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. op at Hampton Institute, Va. Importance of Being Correct. The Sunday school teacher was telling her class about the wicked children mocking the good prophet, and how two she bears came out of the mountains and "ate up" over forty of the wicked children. "Now, boys," she concluded, "what lesson does this teach us?" "I know," said one youngster; "it teaches us how many children a she bear can hold." Showing the Englishman Englishman (patronizingly)—"Your school faculties are excellent, I am told." American (suavely)—"Well, I should say. See the Smithsonian institution over there? Think of a building like that, just to educate the Smiths"—Vorne. Plan of Campaign In high social circles the girl who wants to cut out another girl orders new dresses and more hats. Among savages she sticks on a few more beads and feathers. But in some middle western towns she rolls up her sleeves, opens the flair bin and cooks something calculated to knock the spots off anything culinary the other girl ever dared dream of. That was why Mrs. Fruby said to her daughter with a hint of excitement in her voice, "Try him on beaten biscuits, Sadle! And your chocolate marshmallow pudding!" It had been hard enough all her life for Mrs. Fruby to be outdone by Mary Sandler without having to endure seeing Mary Sandler's daughter get ahead of her own Sade. And of late Rosa Sandler had asked Peter Vernon to dinner entirely too often to suit Mrs. Fruby's plans. So had half a dozen other girls. For Peter Vernon was a matrimonial prize, the like of which a small town does not see more than once in a generation. He had an interest in the big engine works, which made money so fast that it gave the populace the hiccughs trying to count it. Natural jealousy of Mary Sandler made Mrs. Fruby consider Rosa a deadly rival. Rosa was nearly as pretty as Sade and, moreover, she was a good cook. So were Margaret and Agnes and Carrie, other aspirants Louise—Mrs. Fruby merely smiled at the idea of Louise. Being built on solid lines herself, Mrs. Fruby had an imagined contempt for ethereal creatures like Louise. who looked as though a puff of wind might easily remove her from the scene. Louise was of the ethereal, useless kind and Mrs. Fruby knew that no sensible man wanted a helpless wife. Men, she often told Sadle, liked energy and ability in a girl. As for cooking, it was doubtful if Louise could even cook a pan of fudge without burning it. Peter Vernon was a tall, thin young man with a well set head and a kindly, if shrewd, smile. "He's not the sort to get taken in!" Mrs. Fruby said thankfully as she superintended Sadle's work making the beaten biscuit for that night's supper, to which Peter Vernon was coming. "Does your arm ache? Let me beat awhile!" Peter Vernon liked the beaten biscuit immensely. He ate six. And he had two helpings of the chocolate marshmallow pudding. "She nearly beat her arm off making those," Sadie's mother confided to him. "But, I tell you, nothing daunts Sadie! When she does a thing she does it!" "They certainly were mighty good," repeated Peter Vernon. "We always have 'em Wednesday evenings," said Sadie's mother with a sudden inspiration. "And you drop in that night without waiting to be asked, since you're so fond of 'em!" "Yes doll," echoed Sadie. Beaten biscuits are hard to make. Many were the weary hours Sadie Fruby put in over them, because they had to be made regularly on Wednesdays. Sometimes Peter dropped in, and if he did not be was certain to be met on the street the next day by Sadie or her mother and pinned down to another date. Mrs. Fruby took his fondness for the marshmellow pudding as an especially good sign. "You keep it up, Sadie," she told her daughter the evening Peter had stayed a half-hour beyond his usual time. "I can begin to see that you're winning out!" "I don't know," Sadie said dubiously. "He goes to Isabel's and Margaret's, too—and Louise's!" "I wouldn't worry," declared her mother. "I guess Isabel can't make biscuit like yours and Margaret's cake is a joke. And you know Louise! Why, you've got 'em all on the run!" "But he never says anything," Sadie protested. "I mean anything that I could take as—" "He 'ain't that kind," declared Mrs. Fruby. "He ain't going to make love to a girl till he's engaged to her! You beat those biscuits longer next time!" Shortly after that the local newspaper contained the unexpected announcement of the quiet marriage of Peter Vernon and Louse, the etheral. Mrs. Fruby, after a hysterical scream when she read the news, told Sadie plainly what she thought of Peter. She talked so vehemently that she did not notice how pale Sadie chews were. Sadie usually was stolid and unmoved. "Well," Mrs. Fruby said at last, wiping her eyes, "it can't be helped. You'd better stir up some beaten biscuit for supper tonight—it's Wednesday!" Habit was strong in her. It was then that Sadie voiced a brand new theory of life. "Beaten biscuit!" she echoed grimly. "I never want to see one again! I guess what you cat doesn't count for much, after all!" Remedy for Cramp. A sufferer from cramp during sleep writes that he found a remedy. He noticed that he never became cramped no matter how long he napped in a reclining chair. These facts, in connection with some physiological considerations, induced the writer to put into practice the following plan, which has proved decidedly successful: To sleep upon an inclined plane. This is effected by taking care that the bed or mattress should incline 12 inches from the upper to the lower part of the bed; and for this purpose the lower feet were cut down so as to form this inclination. Not Looking Too Far Ahead. "What is your boy going to be when he grows up?" "I don't know. We've not got that far yet. We've devoting all our time to ways aid means of bringing him safely through his college football period. After that we'll probably choose a carrier for him." 3142 STATE STREET g. Work called for and delivered. The New O Continuous Vaudeville and Change of Program Monday FINEST THEATRE IN A 3110-12 State St., Performers Send in Your O WHY PAY FOR ANOTHER MAN YOUR RENT WILL BUY ONE Do you contemplate buying a house or a f sell you either, on easy terms. Payments f and the balance like rent are the terms on w class South Side houses and flat buildings. See Us Before Buying Else MURRY-ANDERSON South East Corner State & 31st Street The New Grand Famous Vaudeville and Moving Stage of Program Monday and Thursday NINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA State St., Chicago Performers Send in Your Open Time BY FOR ANOTHER MAN'S HOUSE MENT WILL BUY ONE FOR YOU contemplate buying a house or a flat building? either, on easy terms. Payments from $200 to $500 balance like rent are the terms on which we are sell with Side houses and flat buildings. See Us Before Buying Elsewhere. RY-ANDERSON-TER Enter State & 31st Street Phone 82 Automatic LaVerdo Cafe and B (Cafe Newly Opened) New Grandville and Moving Pictures On Monday and Thursday CENTRE IN AMERICA Chicago, Ill. and in Your Open Time HER MAN'S HOUSE WHEN BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF? a house or a flat building? We can Payments from $200 to $500 down the terms on which we are selling first flat buildings. Buying Elsewhere, PERSON-TERRELL Street Phone Aldine 3592 Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 3110-12 State St., Chicago, Ill. Performers Send In Your Open Time WHY PAY FOR ANOTHER MAN'S HOUSE WHEN YOUR RENT WILL BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF? MURRY-ANDERSON-TERRELL South East Corner State & 31st Street Phone Alding 3592 The LaVerdo Cafe and B (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. Chinese and American Restaurant In Connection. High Class HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors. American Restaurant In Connection. High Class HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors. Connection. High Class Entertainers KELLY, Proprietors. Wanted! Chinese and American Restaurant In Connection. High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors. ..Star.. Employment Office Men and Women for All Kinds of Laboring Work. Private Waiting Parlor for Ladies Lounging Room for Men Butlers, Porters, Waiters and Cooks. General House Work for Women Cooks, Maids, Laundresses. M. WINCHESTER 3223 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 2411 IN AND OUT OF THE CITY Chicago Cemetery A OWNERS OF Lincoln Cem Entrance 125d St. and Kedzie Ave. on the For beauty, location and railroad facilities, no other Chicago Cemetery has a new Vault; fine entrance and office. Spacious shade trees, a boundful natural shrubbery and a most perfect Each grave having a separate drainage. A commodi where refreshments are served. Family lots $22.40 and up. Easy payments, no taxes, no taken care of FREE. Now is the time to buy. Buy now. A Regular Funeral Train Daily, Leaving Polk Street Sta. A Special Train Every Sunday Leaving at 2:00 P. M. Cago Cemetery Association OWNERS OF Lincoln Cemetery The 125d St. and Kedzie Ave. on the Grand Trunk location and railroad facilities, no other Chicago Cemetery is new Vault; fine entrance and office. Spacious Driveways and natural natural shrubbery and a most perfect drainage system, having a separate drainage. A commodious Station Hou- ses are served. 12:24 and up. Easy payments, no taxes, no assessments, no BEE. Now is the time to buy. Buy now. General Train Daily, Leaving Polk Street Station at 12:62 P. Cain Every Sunday Leaving at 2:00 P. M., Making Regular Cemetery Association OWNERS OF Cemetery Jessie Ave. on the Grand Trunk R. R. Politics, no other Chicago Cemetery is its equal. Lincoln and office. Specious Driveways and Walks, beautiful and a most perfect drainage system.] Vacation. A commodious Station House and Rest Room ments, no taxes, no assessments, no interest. All lots buy. Buy now. Bing Polk Street Station at 12:02 P. M. at 2:00 P. M., Making Regular Stops. Chicago Cemetery Association OWNERS OF Entrance 125d St. and Kedzie Ave. on the Grand Trunk R. R. For beauty, location and railroad facilities, no other Chicago Cemetery is its equal. Lincoln Cemetery has a new Vault; fine entrance and office. Spacious Driveways and Walks, beautiful shade trees, a bountiful natural shrubbery and a most perfect drainage system. Each grave having a separate drainage. A commodious Station House and Rest Room where refreshments are served. Family lots 82.4 and up. Easy payments, no taxes, no assessments, no interest. All lots taken care of FREE. Now is the time to buy. Buy now. A Regular Funeral Train Daily, Leaving Polk Street Station at 12:02 P. M. A Special Train Every Sunday Leaving at 2:00 P. M., Making Regular Stops. Fare for the round trip 25 cents—via Street cars 20 cents. The management is desirous that all shall have the op. co. and shall use every effort to that end. Persona leading to wi kibly notify us and we will gladly take them out free of e. cordial invitation to visit our office and learn more particulars 3101 State St., S. B. Cor. 31st St., Chicago. Louis Olsen, Blue Island 132. J. L. Patton, Sales Manager. ment is desirous that all shall have the op. ortunity to visit it for any effort to that end. Persons desiring to visit the Cemetery and we will gladly take them out free of expense. We also wish to visit our office and learn more particulare about beautiful B. Cor. 31st St., Chicago. Louis Olsen, Suggs, 122d St. K. J. L. Patton, Sales Manager. J. H. Moedy, A. all have the op_ortunity to visit its beautiful grounds on desire to visit the Cemetery at any time will earn out free of expense. We also extend to all, earn more particlare about beautiful Lincoln Cemetery Louis Olsen, Supt., 122d St. Kedzie Ave., Phone Manager. J. H. Moedy, Ast. Sales Manager. The management is desirous that all shall have the op. orientation to visit its beautiful grounds and shall use every effort to that end. Persona desiring to visit the Cemetery at any time will kindly notify us and we will gladly take them out of expense. We also extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our office and learn more particulars about beautiful Lincoln Cemetery 3101 State St., S. E. Corr., 31st St., Chicago. Lois Olson, Sugi, 1224 St. Kedra Apt., Phoenix Blue Island 1323. J. L. Paote, Sales Manager. J. H. Moss, Assist. Sales Manager. 2701 State Street. (Opposite Mott's Pekin Theater.) C. T. Street, Proprietor. Home Cooking a Specialty. of Fare. Best Cream Modern Bill of Fare. Phone: Cal. 2082 Automatic 63237 WILSON PRESS Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting VERTISE ONE WORD ADVE ADVERT ONE WORD ADVERTISE Pressing and Repairing. Phone Douglas 4482 Best Creamery Butter. NELSON PEPPERS 2103 $ \frac{1}{2} $ STATE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Automatic Phone 71061 --- AL AND DRAMATIC sessing every requirement of a solo voice. They can rightly be called nightingales. 'Jennette Adler is something of the flay Irwin style and is good, only a wife mite too vulgar. However the masses like her and she is popular. He Grand Minstrel show, giving a first part, is the "candy." Three of our favorite vaudevillians—Brown and Dalk and Lizzie Wallace are in the cast. All the up-to-date songs are used, such as "Lovie, dear," "Honey man," "Oh, Mr. Dream Man," etc. The act contains nine people and is great. The Monogram. Have you seen him? Who? String Beans. Well, he is still with us and his little act is cleaning up with the song, "Piano Man." Chicken Reel Beamon is on the list and tells some funny jokes and does his, well I guess he calls it a disjointed dance. Anyway he is as limber as the best of them. Lucretta Knox is singing "The Garden of My Heart," and singing it well, only Miss Knox is inclined to give too much of her voice to the public. Her tones lack the round covered beauty of an artist, they are much too open. A little, more control of the respiratory organs and a higher placement of tone will give to the hearers more quality and less quantity of an otherwise beautiful voice. Immons and Payne are all O. K. a I Miss Payne does a Spanish dance b. the most creditable style. The Phoenix. The pictures are priceless this week and the crowds are flocking to see them and to hear Mrs. Hattie May Patton's sweet voice in "The Rose-bud." The thirty-fourth concert of the Choral Study club on the evening of Monday, Nov. 27, was a musical treat in every sense of the word and covered the artists and director with much glory. Every number was rendered with precision and beauty. Mr. Gerald Tyler, the soloist, is a baritone of great worth. His every tone is that of an artist, liquid, full and resonant and under perfect control. His breathing is deep, full and calm and his understanding of the solo parts in Bon Bon Snite, by Coleridge Taylor, was excellent, as were also his first two songs, selected by himself. Mr. Wm. Fields, the bass soloist, was another singer of marked ability who is leaving nothing undone which will make him what he is capable of being—one of our foremost bass singers of today. The concert was grand and the many who attended were well repaid for going. The S. H. Dudley Smart Set in "Mr. Beans from Boston" will be the attraction at the Alhambra the week of 2. In the cast is Miss Daisy Peters Martin. Much has been said of this lady and we will look for the best. "The Bogus Prince," from the pen of J. Lincoln Harris, played to a crowded house in Gary, Ind., and were enthusiastically received. In the 12th they play in Evanston, Ill., and the 14th in South Bend, Ind. Good luck to you. News has been received from Madam Gertrude Johnson, nee Garnett, formerly of Chicago but now a resident of Des Moines, In. Mrs. Johnson was one of our most brilliant contralto, having been a member of Bethlegh church choir for a number of years. She writes regards to all friends and says her musical work for the season is extensive. Madame Sallie M. Jones Downs, Chicago's concert pianist, is giving such brilliant satisfaction in the south that it is all that she can do to depart for home. She has been requested to remain away until the first of the year. She was warmly greeted at her old alma mater, Fiske university, by the faculty and the student body, favoring them with a piano selection which was followed by an outburst of applause. She reports a pleasant visit at the Mehassy Medical college, of which she gives the credit to Dr. F. A. Stewart, who kindly escorted her to the buildings and also her nephew Dr. Herman G. Claybourne, the husband of her niece, Mora D. A. Jones Claybourne. On visiting the junior and senior classes, of which Dr. Stewart is instructor, Madame Downs gave them a few remarks, as follows: "Gentlemen: I am elated over the opportunity to be present with you this morning. Nashville is my native home, but by some means I have never had the experience of entering the Mehary college before. I am indeed glad to see so many of you this morning preparing for the future to serve the sick and the needy for I have traveled quite extensively, finding wide fields CREDIT WHEELERS CLOTHING That Overcoat or a suit bought from Wheeler will give you better satisfaction were appearance and all round good value than any garment you have ever owned. We give you real live Credit. You pay a little at a time and get genuine $20 cash values in credit or LADIES, we are just as good in our Clubs and used Dresses o qualify, regularly priced for cash at $25. on credit with an time to pay at ALTERATIONS FREE High-Grade Furs and Pony Coats at bargain Cash Prices on Credit. Open From m. till Unt. Ymrs REAL CREDIT EASY PAYMENTS We Give Fishs Stamps Good Acts are Com- stroll and Every Act II Share of Applauses. "peaches" along the Every house has a "speed limit," and a enjoyment should tra change and "beat e Pekin. difficult, thrilling and imma- in in which the mass- sive composer has dis- pleasant perceptions. The has been given in this a southern slave after a bondage reached the West Indian Islands, by a rich native, whose ed later to elope with he did, leaving an only with his father, who related to his boy the wrongs. The boy vows meets his father's bore York city where the under an assumed name. x-slave to destroy him. . . lies the beauty of the angel to the depths and so which a slimmer can go is Douglas in the role of R. Abe Jones, causes aulsion and hatched, a descentribution swift and sure him takes possession of later in the character of August, when he has been the hand of death of her loved and remorse has a very soul, then one beats the man and loses sight of or, and when in the last act accounted with his crime they God-like soul shake off the sin and shame and rise to of renunciation and expire regrets the death of the releases a soul so purified se and love. But "as you call you reap," Mr. Douglas the character every emotion filled, intelligent as only clear insight into the drama. Junius H. Sayre is Thadol. 11. 11. pronounce is good, and his emotional lines are given with excellent effect, his acting is well done and, as to personal appearances let me whisper, he is decidedly handsome. Miss Nellie Miller in the role of Virginia Lengston was sweet and canvassing, the does some very good work although she shows in hurried speech a sire to finish each phrase, otherwise is fine and as she becomes more miliar with the part this fault will doubt disappear. R. G. Barnett was adolph was well acted, only a nervousness was displayed that somewhat distracted from his good work and just little more excitement on learning is friend's history will improve the art. Albert Woodfuff by Morris Francis and Mildred Woodfuff by Selina reckenridge were delightful, the masing brother and indignant sister characters were true to life and were the play. by Mrs. that ex- us. Her order and Childress, in Chicago t little foot uses mank, and he is he big name All the other iced and the ow much pro- The play is a long run. It by one. Long scintillates with Mutt and Jeff photo play, and live me. in a military travail. Dog" is a peach. lit your sides, see possesses a speak- is music itself and ling enough to have ment of 10,000 men, no poor little fellow unny work. Trio are three ladies dious voices and the some of the popular artistic taste. Their cutifully and not only is a trio but excel in I work, each voice pos- of Skunk Oil. virtues are ascribed to those in the mountains. It to conceal all odor of or tyx or other animal. In case of croup, of or lung trouble, it rubs With physicians at times away, a bottle of skunk is present in a mountain- icent Work of Nature the assisted immigration of timber resources of Ameri- cen enlarged and its orchards rendered more productive Grain crops have been older and larger and food for animals has become more did more satisfactory. ucational Advancement children at an Erith school taken the other day to a travengerager and circus in order to them a practical lesson in nathistory. Later on, we underthey are to be taken to see a dancer in order to learn my—London Punch. possible Cause of Leprosy, the const-living people in the disease of leprosy is ent the eating of raw fish v. and germs which would the fish were cooked nuncled. The Monogram. The Phoenix. Notes. here crowded thrills. THE FIGHTER Mr. S. H. Dudley. Mott's Pekin Theatre STATE AND 27th STREETS Phones Calumet 126 Auto 73-251 COMMENCING MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 27th Terrevous L. Douglas -PRESENTS- AT LAST THE NEW SMART ...WITH... CHICAGO'S OWN COMEDIAN 8. H. DUDLEY In His Latest Success DR. BEANS FROM BOSTON Free List Suspended THE DEFENDER begs to an- nounce the sus- 29. Mar- k.; 31. e," man- 001 Times for the physician who is greatly needed. By this means, I advise you to struggle on with courage that it may enable you to give brilliant satisfaction for your own future benefit as well as for the sick. I assure you you have an able instructor here, Dr. F. A. Steward (applause), who at one time was my family physician, and I shall always believe that he at one time saved my life (applause). Thank you. Mr. S. H. ton." The offering, with original music and other features, is up to date in every respect. It is a pretentious and ambitious production entailing an expensive cast, scenic adornment and other commendable accessories. The locale is at Buckroe Beach, Virginia, a popular watering place. Superstition of "The King's Evil," "James L. when he was brought to England, had strong theological objections to the old superstition of the royal gift of healing, and requested to be spared from performing the traditional ceremony. His English advisers, however, were well aware of the peculiar value set upon it in the southern kingdom, and urged that to relinquish it would rob the crown of a portion of its dignity. James prudently resigned himself."—"The King's Evil," by Raymond Crawford. His Economy. The children in the Blank family were taught habits of neatness at the table by being compelled to pay a fine of 1 cent for every spot they put on the tablecloth. One day Harold, a boy of seven years, was discovered rubbing the overhanging part of the cloth between his fingers, and, when taken to task for he said, "Why, Mummy, I was just trying to rub two spots into one!"—Woman's Home Companion. Castor Oil for Palms Four or five drops of castor oil allowed to trickle down into the heart of a palm will remove the scales. Apply the dose about once a week. Lukewarm soaps should be used to wash off the dead scales. Then rinse in cold water. This is an excellent remedy for a common plant ailment.—New Idea Magazine Restoring Burnt Steel The following process will restore burnt steel. Mix well together four pounds of fine white sand, half a pound of sal ammonia, a quarter of a pound of copperas, and half a pound of resin, all pulverized. When the steel is hot, sprinkle with this mixture and allow to cool. This process will restore any burnt steel. His Was Laziness. When an Indian candidate for the ministry was asked to define original sin, he said he didn't know what other people's might be, but he felt sure he was laxness SOME BALL—THAT'S ALL. The 8th Regiment Will Give the Only Society Ball of the Season. --- The 5th Infantry, Illinois National Guard, will give a ball at the 5th Regiment Armory on New Year's night, January 1, 1912. It is planned by the officers to make this one of the biggest social affairs of the season, and contrary to former balls given by the regiment no ceremonies will be had, thus giving the patrons ample opportunity to dance from early eve until the wee saa' hours of the morning. The famous 5th Regiment band with its full quota of ninety pieces will dispense music to which the merry New Year dancers will trip the light fantastic toe to their heart's content. Tickets are out and in the hands of any officer of the regiment and at Rankin's drug store, 30th and State streets. No charity ball will be given on this night, so be in readiness for this big ball. Tickets: 50c ROUTE CARD NO. 2. The Black Patti Musical Comedy Co. Route for November and December. December—1, Ft. Worth, Tex.; 2, Sherman, Greenville, Tex.; 6, Waxahachie, Tex.; 7, Corsicana, Tex.; 8, Mexia, Tex.; 9, Calhoun, Greenville, Tex.; 10, Dallas, Tex.; 12, Marlin, Tex.; 19, Waco, Tex.; 16, Temple, Tex.; 15, Austin, Tex.; 16, Smithville, Tex.; 19, Yorkum, Tex.; 20, Cuero, Tex.; 21, Vic- ness, Tex.; 22, Warton, Tex.; 23, Bay City, Tex.; 24, Sandy, Tex.; 25, Palmetto, Tex.; 26, Houston, Tex.; 27, Palmetto, Tex.; 28, Longview, Tex.; 29, Mar- sfield, Tex.; 29, Tazarkana, Ark.; 31, Shreveport, La. Address all multi care "Theatre" man- agement. R. Woolley, State No. 601 Times building, New York City. Made Sure of Death. A grusome incident was reported at an inquest at Biggleswade. England, a few days ago on the body of Horace Endersby, aged 20. After a quarrel with his sweetheart the youth cut his throat, having first written the girl's name in blood on his bedroom floor. He then bound up the wound in his throat, walked a mile to a lake, and there drowned himself. S. H. Dudley, the noted colored comedian, who is a whole laughing trust himself, heads the popular "Smart Set" Company at the Alhambra Theater commencing Sunday matinee, Dec. 3. He will appear in an entirely new musical comedy in three acts, entitled "Doctor Beans from Bos The Grateful Heart Cultivate the thankful spirit. It will be to thee a perpetual feast. There is, or ought to be, with us, no such thing as small mercies; all are great, because the least are undeserved. Indeed, a really thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from everything, making the most even of scanty blessings.—Robertson. Shame. Our idea of shame is to ride back to town in an automobile hitched to a farm wagon.—Galveston News. CARIB A REAL DRAMA IN 3 ACTS A STORY STRONG IN EVERY DAY LIFE A PICTURE OF RACIAL PROBLEMS RESERVED SEATS AT USUAL PRICES ALHAMBRA Com. Sunday Mat Dec. 3rd Mat. Sun., Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat. NOTE—This Is The One and Only Colored Show Playing Chicago This Season. THE DEFENDER begs to an nounce the suspension of the free list for all notices that come under the head of advertisement. All subscriptions for papers must be paid for in advance. THE BINDA CLOSK CHURCH WILLIAM WRIGHT, The Talier, Cleaning, Pressing, and Repairing, "Nana" Suite 201 Special Attention Given to Ladies' Work Work Woman and Delivered. 3158 Pearl Street A DOLLAR HERE Will go twice as far as an two elsewhere. We carry the finest line of beds, springs, mattresses and rugs for your comfort and do renovating. Hotel work a specialist. Satisfaction guaranteed. Give us a chance; one factory, 3630 SOUTH STATE ST. FACTORY, 3630 SOUTH STATE ST. Tel. Douglas 4230. MRS. A. STEPHENS, Restaurant and Lunch Room, 2913 HOLLY STREET, Chicago. Phone Aidine 566. "The Perfecto" THE PERFECTO. GEORGE SCHAEFER, Proprietor, 3201 State Street. Telephone Aidine 138. BE YOUR OWN DRESMAKER. Or know what the future has in store, where it will become a necessity, but it always is a useful accomplishment. SPOTT'S LADIES TAILORING COLLEGE, 3637 STATE STREET. Teacher's art of Dressmaking and Ladies' Tailoring. More close work, but undivided instruction of each pupil according to her needs. THE LITTLE STAR BARBER SHOP ROOM. John Merriwether, Prostitute. Cigars and Tobacco. 3231State Street. Hair Curlers. 10c, Sea Foam 15c, Shampoo 15c, Shampoo 25c. Phone Calumet 699. J. H. COLLEMAN & CO., Vans for Moving. Three Trips Daily to All Depots and 2540 State Street. LA BASTIDE'S PRESCRIPTION DRINK STORE, 2142 Dearborn St., Cor. 27th. Buy Irene Drugs, Toll Articles, etc., and have your drugs properly filled at prices to defy competition. Phone Calumet 2219. MRB, H. M. HICKS-LAMBKIN, HAIR DRESSING AND MILLINERY. Phone Douglas 3818. A WIFE, BABY, AND GOOD, COAL. MAKE ME SMART, GUARANTEE. We are prepared to handle your order for the best grades of hard or soft coal on short lengths. We guarantee. Moving and Expressing by experienced men only. Phone Calumet 2219. Opposite Pekin Theatre. Office Phone Calumet 1481 Office Phone Calumet 8242, R. D. DURRETT. Phone Yards 227. P. C. NIELSEN-ESKELUND, Dailer in Ceal, Wood, Gosline and Oil, 8142 La Salle Street, Chicago. WERVEKE BROTHERS, Fancy Groceries and Meats. Telephone Douglas 3273. 83 West 51st Street. Phone Calumet 634. MRS. BUSIE NEWTON, Hair Dresser, Shampooing and Manicuring. Manufacturer of Wigs, Permanent Hair and All Kinds of Hair Goods. 2801 State Street. E. Johnson, Mgr. F. A. Gilliams, Agt. HATCH & HATCH, Elegant Brocade and Shipping. Moving, Packing and Shipping. 3558 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Office Phone 3375 Pacific, 4738 Evans Ave.; Phone, Drexel 826. HERMAN G. THEILE, Greecees and Meats. Fresh Vegetables, Eggs and Butter. 5255 Office Street. Phone Calumet 826. Your Old Hat Which You Are Ready to We Throw It Up, Stand and We Throw It Up. Make It New THE PEKIN HAT CLEANER, Next Door to Theatre. Telephone Douglas 1729. DORTCH BROS. Expressing and Moving Van Furniture and Packing and Shipping a Specialty. Three trips daily to and from all Depots, Street Wright and the Avenue. $144 State Automatic 77815. Phone Douglas 4083. Laundry Office, 1, Way Service. THE Fashion Newspaper, Rattail Newspaper, Bookeller, Stationer, Notions, Novelties, Cigars and Hunting Library, Books Rented on a Day. E. H. FAULKNER, Pres. 810 Storm Phane 1850. Chicago. Phone Phane 1850. CHICAGO FLORIST. 14/9 West Stet Street (nar La Lune) Weddings and Furnishers are speciality, parties. Designs, $1 and up. You will orders carefully and promptly attended by MRS. HATTIE JONES. Ladies' and Children's Clothes Made to Order at Reasonable Price. 44 West 80th Street. C. & TWITTY, Auto. Phone 72841. The Shoe Man. Repairing of All Kinds. Hand Sewed Work a Specialty. 38 West 81st Street. Chicago. Meals 15 & 26. Sandwiches of All Kinds. W. L. CORPELAND. Lunch Room and Home Bakery. 107 W. 82nd Street. Telephone Douglas 1144. L. C. EWING. Expressing Coal, Wood and Ice. Baggage Transferred and Checked to All Depots. 26 W. 89th St., Chicago, Ill. MRS. MARTHA BROADUS-ANDERSON TEACHER OF VOCAL AND PIANO WM. H. HACKNEY. Tenor. a pupil o one of America's most eminent vocal teachers will take a limited number of pupils in voice beginning October 1. Call or write today. STUDIO 514 E. 33rd St. Telephone Aldine 54. SAINT FOR THE JOURNALISTS Pope Plus IX. Fifty Years Ago, Selected St. Francis De Sales as Their Patron. It will be news to many journalists to learn that they have an officially selected patron saint. But the Manchester Guardian points out that they have, and have had for the last fifty years. Plus IX, at the request of a number of continental journalists, issued a decree on the point. He recommended journalists to seek the help of St. Francis de Sales, whose body has just lately been transferred, with great pomp and amid popular rejoicing, to a new church at Annecy, in Savoy, his native place. The choice, our contemporary thinks, was an apt one, for St. Francis was a man of letters. His famous work, "The Devout Life," is still popular, "no doubt because of the lightness of touch with which it is written and the unerring journalistic instinct (if one may put it so in writing of the work of a saint) with which he compels attention to serious questions by the skillful use of anecdote and illustration."—Westminster Gazette. CLUBS AND SECRET SOCIETIES. Unique Temple, Lady Eks, meets on the front of the Rehman month, Mrs. Joe Sadler, D. R. 2420 Wash avenue; Mattie Taille, Fin. Sec. 216. CHICAGO LODGE. No. 43, I. B. P. O. of W-Meets the 1st and 3rd day at the 43rd State street. H. W. Rhea, Secretary, 6420 Winston avenue; J. W. Johnson, Excited Ruler, 2347 Calumet avenue. St. Munch's Church, Dearborn and 30th streets, Rev. John S. Morris. Residence 3222 Mwhah. Sunday, 8:30, 8:30, 10:30: benediction, instruction for conventions, Monday night in each month at old Fellows Hall, 3337 State street. COURT GENERAL ROBERT ELLIOTT. No. 7355, Ancient Order of Foresters; matriculation for old Monday night in each month at old Fellows Hall, 3337 State street. Chief Ranger, Edge Rivers. Chief Ranger, phone 5016 Drex. Chief Ranger, phone 3422 Dearborn street, phone 1510 Altobrien. Treasurer, Frank L. Crittenden, 2414 Dearborn street, phone 3215 Calumet. Facial Massage, Mantouring, Hair Goods Made to Order. PEKIN BEAUTY PARLOR. Electric Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Apricot Cocoa Made to Order. MRS. JAMES T. HENRY. 15 West 27th Street. Telephone Yards 1803 Jackson & Davie, Preps Old Style Hand Laundry We Laundry Your Clothes as Mother Doe. We Wash Your Clothes as Mother Doe. Try Us. Domesticate Finish Good. Cleaning and Dyeing a Specialty. 331 W. 31st Street Corner La Salle Furnished Rooms Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Bath Meals if Desired Up-to-date Service Mrs. M. Wilson, Prop. 3518 RHODES AVE., 2d Flat Phone 2629 Aldine Tribal Warrior Masks, Grease Palette and Alkebake Oil Measures, WL Armor, Jewelry, Scenery, Specialties, Etc. Theatrical Woodblock all kinds bought vote as trusted STUDIO OF MU MRS. MARTHA BR TEACHER OF FALL PHONE NORMAL 3316 RESID WM. H. HAG a pupil one of America's most em- number of pupils in voice begin- STUDIO 514 E. 33rd St. Telephon FURNISHED ROOMS For Rent VERNON, AVE., 3125-2nd floor, neatly furnished rooms, steam heat and phone service. Doug. 4714. 533rd ST., 1546 EAST-Near J. C. R. Hyde Park. To rent, two nice rooms for light housekeeping, kitchen privileges, price very reasonable to nine couple (man and wife) call after 7 o'clock of evenings or any time Sunday. Top flat. -25-2 FURNISHED or unfurnished rooms for rent; steam heat. 3402/ Forest Ave. CALUMET AVE., 3525-Large, beautiful room at flat steam heat, modern improvements near 35th St. car line. Call or write. 35th St., 726 EAST-2nd flat. To rent, a small furnished room for one or two ladies or married couple, home privileges, $1.50 or $2.00 per week. Near Cottage Grove Ave. FOR SALE-A two-flat brick building, $150 Evans Ave., 3 and 6 rooms, separate furnaces, hardwood finish, stationary wash tubs; rent $50 per month. Price $5,600. Phone owner, Normal 5056. 11-2 LANGLEY AVE., 3917-3 rooms for rent, respectable couple; no children. 2-9 VERNON, AVE., 3522-Two large neatly furnished, light rooms, 1st flat, steam heat. 2-9 VERNON AVE. 3817—2nd flat, furnished rooms, steam heat. Telephone Aidine 1867. 2-9 Large light rooms, beautifully furnished with all conveniences for light room, gas and all conveniences for light room, telephone 3215 State St., top flat. Automatic 7269. FLATS TO RENT. 2925 VERNON AVE. 2930 VERNON AVE. 2936 CALLMART AVE. 2912 CHICAGO AVE. Chicago Realty and Renting Co., 69 W. Washington St. Randolph 2237. ALL KINDS OF HELP WANTED. HELP WANTED—Porters, Chefs, Driv- ers, Cleaners, all kinds of help wanted at once. Those at present em- ployed and seeking better salaried pos- itions, write Chicago Defender, C. O. 145. GLAZEBROOK, Merchant Tallon, 2803 State Street. State Media Orchard. Cleaning and Repairing a Specially. THE SHOOTING GALLERY at 2052 State St. Also Make Your Own a Post Card 3 for 200 All Work Guaranteed to Be the Best Phone Aldine 2161. SHOLLING, Auto. Phone 7082 Oyster and Fish Market. Retail at Wholesale Prices. 44 W. 89th St., Chicago, H. Phone Aldine 1774. CRESENT MARKET, H. Woolenstein, Prop. Fancy Nail Salon, Groceries. 48 and 80 West 89th Street. E. MURRAY. Expressing, Van and Storage Co. Furniture and Plano Moving. Baggage Packing and Shipping a Specialty. Three Trips Daily To and From AW Depots, Freight and Warehouse. 2153 STATE STREET. Phone Douglas 4031. Phone Automatic 72211. TENNESSEE CAFE. Mrs. Woolfok, Prop. Regular Dinner, 25c. Home Cooking a Specialty. Profit in Seaweed. The same species of seaweed used in Japan for the manufacture of kanten exists in inexhaustible abundance on our Pacific coast and at numerous places along the Atlantic coast, while related species, of equal value, are abundant almost everywhere in temperate waters. In this country the product commands high prices, so that the manufacture of seaweed insignia glass ought to prove a highly remunerative industry. Story of Chicago Physician. A prominent physician tells this story: A poor woman went to a near-by dispensary to ask aid for her little son who had one of his fingers smashed with a baseball bat. At the first room where she applied a curt attendant told her that the boy could not be treated there. "Wrong place," he explained. "this is the eye and the ear department." "Were is der thumb and finger department?" inquired the woman, simply SIC LOADUS-ANDERSON VOCAL AND PIANO TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1ST ENCE, 6450 CHAMPLAIN AVE., CHICAGO, IL. CKNEY, Tenor, front vocal teachers will take a limited HELLO BOYS, I AM GOING TO HAVE A THANKSGIVING DINNER AT MY HOUSE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU BOTH TO WAIT ON THE TABLE. I WILL GIVE YOU A DOLLAR A PIECES AND ALL THE TURKEY YOU CAN EAT. WE ACCEPT JUST ONE MORE COURSE STARLIGHT, JUST THE COFFEE, THEN THE BIG EATS FOR OURS? YES OLD TOP, YOU MAY HAVE THE DRUM STICK THE WING IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. Fon. Holly. ROAD CENTER By J. R. Winston. Mr. Duke Blackman, 414 West 36th street, New York city, is holding a position as chief in the service of the Erie Railroad Company to Chicago, M. Samuel Perice, 438 William street, Madison, Wis., is in the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, on parlor car to Chicago and other points. The Railroad Men's Clover club held their anniversary dinner at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. Hamilton, 620 Pine Avenue, Friday evening, Nov. 24. Meeting J. A. McDonald, J. Bates, Boston Vanwinkle, L. H. Abel, Reporter J. R. Winton were among the club members present. Mr. J. Bates of New York furnished the music. The officers are L. H. Abel, president; J. A. McDonald, vice president; Boston Vanwinkle, treasurer; J. Bates, secretary; J. R. Winston, corresponding secretary and reporter. This is the only Colored railroad men's club that is really organized and we will endeavor to bring all colored men together who depend upon railroading for a livelihood. Arthur Martin, better known as "Six" the boy from "Bam," ex-buffalo porter, late of the C. E. I. Railway Company, on the early trains, 25 and 26, is now in the service of the Pullman Company to Oakland, Cal. C. Hamilton, 3628 State street, flat 27, is running to Buffalo and Boston in buffet service of the Pullman Company. Mr. George Owens, 4744 State street, is in the service of the Pullman Company to New York, out of the Dearborn station station. MADE TARGETS FOR ENEMY Chinese Soldiers in Battle of Ping Yang All Opened Parasols When It Rained. No one who has studied the military methods of China will be surprised to learn that "shells" of painted wood have been pieced up in the German concession at Hankow. This is truly Chinese. Not long ago each soldier was supplied with an eichhulb parasol, and a fan which he tucked up his sleeve. During the battle of Pling Yang, when the rain came on, the parasols were opened and the enemy found the men easy targets, especially as each one wore a large white disk bearing the number of his regiment on his breast and back. At the arsenal at Sankin it was once decided to shunt an Krupp cannon which had arrived there because it was too long, and to make "solid shells" which would not burst. Green sprouts were also seen on the logs from which gun stocks were to be made. But the "limit," as one may say, was reached at Hankow when an Austrian warship entered the port and saluted the fort. The Chinese attempted to return the courtesy, but stopped short after five or six discharges. As the Chinese commander afterward explained, "When the third artilleryman had been killed we decided to stop firing." ```markdown ``` GRIM STORY OF MISSIONARY Converted Dyak, Forced by Sweetheart to Hunt Heads, Brought Those of Her Relatives. The missionary ligated a fresh cigar. "Yes," he said, "I have seen grim happenings in my time. The grimest, I suppose, occurred among the Dyak head hunters. "We had converted a young Dyak, and the lad had abaroned head hunting forever. But he met a girl, a beautiful girl, and then—" The missionary shook his head and sighed. "The girl listened to his wooing, for he was a handsome lad, but smoked heads to a Dyak maid are what jewels are to a chorus girl, and with a curl of the lip she said: "You vow you love me, but you bring me no heads to prove it." "But I am a Christian," he replied. "When did a Dyak wooer ever go a-wooing without heads?" said she. "You are not a man; you are a girl." "The young convert ground his teeth and left her. The next morning early he staggered into her presence with bloodshot eyes. There was a bag on his shoulder. "You asked for heads," he said, Look!" "And he emptied from the bag onto the floor the heads of her father and her two brothers!" The missionary smiled sadly. "That wasn't playing the game," he said. "It's the heads of enemies that the head hunter must bring in, not the heads of one's own brother tribes. They shut the young convert in a slatted cage of bamboo to starve to death. He died under his sweet-heart's eye." Grumbler's Power Small. Rarely is the grumbler a mender of methods. CLEVER ESCAPE OF CONVICT Prisoner in the Conciergerie Daringly Galna His Freedom and As- tonishes All Paris. A prisoner seateden the other day at the Solne Auszies to eight years' penal servitude made a sensational escape from the Concergerie early this morning. When the cells were opened about 7, and the prisoners emerged for exercise, Romeuf came out with the rest. Taking advantage of the warden's back seeing turned for a moment, he got a fellow prisoner to let him mount on his shoulders, and then, with marvelous agility, he managed to reach the top of the wall, nearly twenty feet high. The top of this garnished with a 'chevaux do frise', but Romeuf, who is a plumber by trade, thought nothing of getting over it. By smashing a wristow, he made his way into a corridor, and thence into the Palais de Justice, which adjoins the Concergerie, and in a minute he was a free man. The utmost astonishment is expressed at any one escaping from the Concergerie. It is famous as the prison Marle Antolnette and many other of the illustrious prisoners of the Reign of Terror were imprisoned before being led to the scaffold. In more recent times Prince Napoleon, in 1883, and the Due D'Orleans, in 1890, were detained within its walls—Paris correspondent London Telegraph. CALLED HER HIS ANGEL PIE Negro Cook Didn't Permit Use of Such Language to Her, Especially Over Phone. The telephone bell rang yesterday afternoon in a South Side apartment. The negro woman cook answered it. "Hello," she said. "Is that you, cookie?" asked a man's voice at the other end. "I'm Mr. B——'s cook, but I ain't no cookie." "Don't try to fool me, cookie. I know your voice. "Look heah, what you talkin' about? "Now, angel pie, you fooled me once, dear heart, that way, but you can't do it again. You are by little sweet cookie, aren't you?" "You get away from that telephone. You she talkin' like a fool." With that the receiver was slammed on the hook with all the virtuous indignation of an insulted maiden. The head of the house was standing near. Turning to him she said still fuming: "Some man wanted to know of I wuz cookie. 'An' he called me somethin' like angel pie. 'I don't let my man call me them' names—specially oveh the telephone."—Kansas City Star SOME ODDITIES IN SIGNS They Do Not Mean Just What They Say, but Certainly Attract Attention. "Teeth extracted while you wait," is the rather superfluous announcement of a dentist; while another advertiser appeals to ladies in this seductive manner: "Ladies having old feathers can be reedy and made equal to new." Equally open to misconstruction are the following notices: "All gloves in this window 500 per pair. These won't last long at the price." "Dine here once, and you'll never dine anywhere else;" and "A competent person wanted to undertake the sale of a new medicine that will prove highly incentive to the undertaker." But perhaps the best of these ambiguous advertisements is that of a Japanese laundry, which runs thus: "Contrary to our opposite company, we will most cleanly and carefully cheap prices as follows: Ladies. $2 per 100; gentlemen. $1.50 per 100. After these one reads without a shock such notices as the following: Under a pair of hob-nailed boots—Unwearable, $3." in the window of a snow-land—"New milk," and on a card immediately underneath—"our own make." WARM REBUKE FOR SARCASM Western Senator Who Made Many Enemies Was Given Good Advice by a Friend. For many years there served in the United States senate, from the west, a man of brilliant mind and fine qualities, but who was forever estranging many with whom he desired to be friendly by reason of his incurably sarcastic manner both of speech and action. Once an intimate friend wrote the senator urging the appointment of another friend to a minor position in the government. The senator returned a most sarcastic reply, declining to recommend the appointment. It is said that he never forgot the merited rebuke he received from the friend who had suggested the appointment. "My Dear Senator: I think it would be well for you to reserve your sarcasm for the rapidly increasing number of your enemies, instead of offering it to the decreasing number of your friends, of whom I am one." All Up-to-date Hotel News and News of Bell Hops. By S. Adams. Mr. St. Claire Abel left hurriedly from his position at the Burlington hotel in the city of same name to be at the bedside of his wife, who has been seriously ill at her home in Kansas City and is now to undergo a serious operation. Mr. Abel has many friends in Burlington and they, with the crew at the hotel, extend to him their sympathy, hoping for his wife's speedy recovery and his early return to his position. John Timberlake, a popular citizen of Chicago who is in the employ of the Graham and Morton Steamship Company has just returned from his vacation in the hills of Iowa, where he has been hunting for everything from a lion down to a chestnut. He said his trip was great and in all probabilities he would return to the hills after his busy season was over. Tim is from the Buckeye state and can close his eyes and ring the bell every time. The first day of the hunt he bagged a jackrabbit. It was the nearest thing he could find to a bear or an elk, so he got disgusted and beat it back to camp. But he managed later during his stay to shoot several large animals, such as squirrels, birds and tree frogs. Some sportsman, eh, Tim? Go on, we all wish you luck. Tom Sellers writes the reporter from Des Moines, la. Mr. Sellers is of the crew at the Savoy hotel, one of the finest in the city. Tom sends best wishes and regards to all and says business is of the very best and he intends to stick. That's right, Sellers, "a rolling stone gathers no moss." The Chicago Beach Cafe has undergone many necessary improvements and now presents a most beautiful sight. It is situated on the famous Lake Michigan and the view from the cafe balcony and dining room of the lake is grand. The excavation of the new annex now completed on the New Southern hotel to that of the Blackstone hotel is seriously considered. Say, boys, that will be "going some." I mean it will be among the largest hotels under one management in the U. S. A. What we want then is a crew of our best boys to enter there. Work for it and we will come out ahead. --- Out-Romancing Romance The diver prowls over the ocean bed bearing a water-tight searchlight and a water gun, one shot from which will blow the liver out of an octopus. His helmet telephone (more convenient and clear than yours) keeps him in constant communication with the surface and directs his boat. Science has equipped him with a kit of deep-sea tools, operated by pneumatic pressure, with which he can accomplish prodigious amounts of work. Altogether, he has a very comfortable and interesting time of it. And to think that Jules Verne was considered a hair-brained dreamer! Unimaginative romance! How weak and short are threads of your fancy.—Woman's World. Primogeniture. The law of primogeniture sends back its roots to the most ancient times. Away back in the pariarchical ages the first-born son had a superiority over all his brethren, and in the absence of his father was in every important sense the head of the house. Upon the death of the father he became, by the unwritten law, which could not be questioned, the priest and lord of the family, and naturally to him fell the property as well as the honors of the household. Primogeniture, wherever it is found today, is the lingering remnant of the ancient custom—a custom which common sense and justice pronounce to be as unfair as it is superstitious. Mere Details. A writer was describing a forthcoming work of his. He spoke most enthusiastically of the progress he had made on it. The idea, he said, was clear in his mind—clear as crystal. All the situations were sketched out, everything that was to happen in each chapter decided upon. Why, even the titles of the chapters were written! Just as he was riding astride the high-water mark of his enthusiasm one of those clammy, literal friends that all men have suddenly remarked: "I see. You have everything about that novel completed except the writing and the selling of it." No. Soft. Winter. "It's going to be a hard winter," said Mr. Growcher. "I hope so," replied the cheer citizen. "Let it freeze up and stay that way. I have no use for one of these mushy, thawing winters." All Is Character: "Behind every foreground of action lies the background of character on which the action rests and from which it gets its life and meaning."—Phillips Brooks. GREAT ROW OVER BEAN SOUP Put on Menu of Banquet to Visiting President, It Was Denounced as Plebeian. Denver has been stirred to its depths by the disturbance over the menu for the president at a banquet. Seven hundred citizens have put up their dollars and taken their dress suits out of storage. As incense rises from mothballs and tar paper, the clangor of controversy fills the air. As the banquet is to be held at night, the arbiter elegantiarum is not called upon to decide whether full dress suits shall be worn in the daytime. Discussion rages around the soup. The rest of the menu is settled. So far as we can learn, it includes celery, cigarettes, olive oil, cigars, cake, "mile-high" cocktails, oysters, ice cream, lettuce salad, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cheese, radishes, nuts, broiled squab, beefzak, crackers and champagne. So far so good. But when the husky, hearty mountainineers proposed to serve bean soup certain mollycoddles who had crept into the committee objected on the ground that it was distinctly plebian. That is considered a terrible accusation in Denver, where recherche is an insult and creme de mouthe a crime. "Beau soup is good enough for any man," spoke up the natives, "and no one who turns up his nose at it is fit to be the president of the plain people." At first, we gather from the confused accounts, the tenderoots insisted on consume royale' aux petit pois but at last agreed to compromise on cream of tomato. Do they contend that the tomato is more aristocratic than the bean? It is an insult to Boston, a blow at Beervly. Look at Massachusetts—there she stands, with a president on the one hand and a pot of beans on the other. If this he plebeian, make the most of it!—Baltimore Sun. WHY THE PRICE WAS HIGH Sir Joshua Reynolds' Notice of Sketch Made It Worth Vastly More, Said Dealer. "What do you ask for this sketch?" said Sir Joshua Reynolds to a picture dealer whose portfolio he was examining. "Twenty guenins, Sir Joshua." "Twenty pence, I suppose you mean." "No, sir; I would have taken twenty pence for it this morning, but if you think the drawing worth looking at all the world will think it worth buying." A London dealer who had made a few trifling purchases at a second-hand furniture shop in the country was leaving it, when he caught his foot in the string of a picture and fell. Having picked himself up, he examined the picture to see if it had been damaged. It had escaped injury, and he found, to his surprise, that in thus tripping he had—literally—stumbled upon a print of the duchesse of Rutland, after Reynolds, by Valentine Green, in its first state. The dealer bought the print for £4 and afterward disposed of it for £1,000—From Jennigham's "Barram Book." Spencer and Free Libraries Spencer and Free Libraries. Ruskin's dislike for public libraries was shared to the full by Herbert Spencer. When the trustees of the British Library of Political Science asked Spencer to present his works to the library, he replied: "From time to time I have had various applications akin to the one you make, and have in all cases declined compliance. I disapprove of free libraries altogether, the British museum included, believing that in the long run they are mischievous rather than beneficial; as we see clearly in the case of local and municipal free libraries which, instead of being places for study, have become places for reading trashy novels, worthless papers, and learning the odds. I no more approve of free libraries than I approve of free bakeries." What the BeikIn Is A new stringed musical instrument is reported to have been devised by a Japanese violinmaker in the city of Nagoya. The invention is named the reklin, and seems likely to supersede the samisen. It has the shape of a guitar, save in the neck, that is the only part resembling a samisen. There are four strings to it, and by manipulation of the keys the instrument can be made to do the work of several samisen. The inventor has played his reklin in an orchestra of Japanese instruments and showed that it is a success in every way. He says that the idea came to him when he was touring through Europe last year. Not a Real Genius A Connecticut man has an alarm clock which arouses his hens and feeds them at the proper time. Time wasted? A real genius would have spent his time inventing an alarm clock that would lay eggs and cackle at the completion of the feat. He is an enemy to the young who makes an innocent amusement appear to be sinful. Natural and wholesome impulses may easily be made to appear as temptations to wrong-doing. —Christian Register. MADE SOME GRAVE BLUNDERS Embozzling Banker Admits He Overlooked Missionary Fund and Property of Orphan Child. The embezzling banker's friends were congratulating him. "How in the world did you keep it up so long without being discovered?" they asked, breathlessly. "My friends," came an anguished voice from the other side of the bars, "I am unworthy of this laudation. I have been guilty of grave tactical blunders. I failed to have myself elected Sunday school superintendent, and I did not show myself at prayer meeting more than once a month. I could have landed a $700 missionary fund, but he headlessly I allowed it to slip through. my fingers and go to another. "Besides, I might have become the guardian of some poor, dead millionaire's child. I am ill-deserving of your well-meant, but misdirected, praise. My work has been coarse and amateurish, indeed, or I could be free this evening to join you in our tr-weekly poker fest. Woe, woe is me!" And they left him weeping bitterly. —H. M. Silvers, in The Sunday Magazine. Money Question from Woman's View. Most men trust their wives with their hearts, but draw the line at their pocketbooks. Some day I am going to write a book on the righteousness of a husband giving his wife a regular allowance an never asking her to account for it. Better still, a common purse and let her help herself. As long as any woman works for her clauses and board and lives on bounty she is a serf—Exchange. The Mote In Your Own Eye If you find yourself thinking more of the bad points of you friends and relatives than of their good ones, just stop a moment and ask yourself how you would like people to get into the habit of doing the same with you. Then start again right away and do better next time. Everybody has good points. Try to see them—Argus. Interesting Point At a spiritualistic meeting in Wichita the spiritualist of Elijah Crosser was called for. Elijah Crosser had died there many years before, but was remembered for his immense stature, six feet five inches. A voice in the darkness said he was Elijah. "Are you in heaven?" asked an old-timer. "Yes," came the answer. "Are you an angel, Lige?" "Yes." The questioner paused, evidently having exhausted his fund of questions, and then suddenly inquired: "What do you measure from tip to tip, Lige?" Cure for Steeplechase If one is restless and cannot sleep at night, take a common towel, double it four times, dip in cold water and pin around the waist with a dry towel on the outside. For croup or sore throat, put the towels around the neck and they will give almost immediate relief. The earliest mention of tea by an English-speaking writer is probably that contained in a letter from Wickham, an agent of the East India company, written from Firando, Japan, on June 27, 1615, to Eaton, another agent of the company, resident at Macao, asking for a pot of the "best sort of chaw." It was not till 1650, or thereabouts, that the English began to use tea to any considerable extent—and with reason, the price of tea in England ranging from $30 to $50 per pound. Church For Funerals Only Church for Funerals Only. New York has one church which is devoted entirely to funeral services. It is called the Funeral church, and its usefulness comes from the fact that many families living in small apartments in the city desire to have the last services for their dead conducted in a larger place than is provided by their home. Having no fixed church affiliation, they seek this place for the services. Work of Gothic Sculptors The Gothic sculptors produced crude and grotesque carvings from a technical standpoint, but they were the first to attempt intimate speech in art addressed to the common people, and both Rosellino and Glotto with their clever followers are heirs of the humbler craftsmen who broke the bonds of convention to immortalize the homeliness and variety of daily experience and common types of human nature. Faithful to Duty. When the army of Pompey stormed and took Jerusalem, at the moment the temple was taken, the priests were engaged with the daily sacrifice, and amid all the horrors which surrounded them, they continued their solemn duties unmoved thinking it better to suffer whatever came upon them at their very altars than to omit anything their law required. Ideal Womanliness True womanliness consists in women adapting themselves to the world's greatest need. --- Fifty Thousand Dollars Saved SHE HUSHED KING EDWARD How Alice Nielsen Reproved His Majesty for Speaking While She Was Singing. One evening the duchess of Manchester entertained in honor of the late King Edward. Miss Alice Nielsen, the American opera singer, was present and sang. Among others there was a request for Tosti's "Goodby to Summer," then in the first flush of its great popularity. With the composer at the piano, the first stanza went with no strange or unusual occurrence, but while Tosti was playing the soft intude to the second stanza, the king turned to one of his party with some remark, and his sonorous bass sounded on sharply through the room against the soft harp-like chords of the piano. With exquisite daring, Miss Nellson looked straight at his majesty and began the line: "Hush—then an amorous pause—" "tis a voice!" By this time the royal listener was all attention and looking straight into a pair of eyes dancing with ill-suppressed merriment. There was a moment of suspense, when the king saved the joke by starting the laugh in which the company joined. The royal guest took his gentle reprimand with true gallantry.—Joe Mitchell Chapple in National Magazine. Get Out of the But "The dull man is man" not by nature, but by the immerson in a single business, and all the more if he be sedentary, uneventful, and in moriously safe. More than half of him will remain unexercised and undeveloped; the rest will be distended and deformed by over-nutrition, over-cerebration, and the heat of rooms."—Rober Louis Stevenson, in "The Wrecker" Real "Tumblers." Originally a tumbler was far from what it is today, and its true meaning has been lost in the many graceful forms in which it is to be seen. What a "tumbler" really is may be inferred from an extract from a gentleman's diary, written in 1803, which also throws light upon the social customs of the times. The entry is as follows: "Had a a few friends to dinner. Try my new tumbling-glasses. Very successful; all got drunk early." These tumbling-glasses, soon called "tumblers" for short, were made with a round or pointed bottom so that they could not be set down when they contained liquids without falling over and splitting their contents. They were made as a sort of joke to conduce to rapd drinking. Irreverence You know how it is when a man grows fat and the rolls of fat at the back of his neck are sort of piled one above the other, until stopped by the base of his skull. Well, a man with the rear of his neck disposed that way was sitting at the theater one evening in a sent just in front of one who isn't reverent. The latter contemplated the exuberant layers of flesh surmounting the fat man's collar. Then, pointing to them, he remarked, sotto voce, to the companion beside him; "Look at the plate of buckwheat cakes!" Her Idea of Americans A little highland Scotch girl had looked forward eagerly to the coming of an American cousin. She had never seen an American, but she had her own ideas about them. Her mother had to demonstrate with her for looking so hard at their guest after the American girl had arrived. "It is very rude," she said. "Why do you look at her like that?" But, mother, her hair is lighter than mine. "Yes." "And her skin is white." "Yes, but what of it?" "I always thought that Americans were black." The man who is "never at his best until he has a few drinks in him" must be very poor at other times.—Exchange. DURING the past year and a half as a result of my fight for lower prices and against extravagance in funeral services, I have saved the colored people of Chicago thousands of dollars. Before my advent into this war, widows and bereaved relatives were burdened with enormous exorbitant funeral bills. To remedy this condition I have waged a lone fight with great success. I have been encouraged by the support and co-operation of many of our best people, besides earning the thanks and good-will of grief-stricken relatives, to whom I have given service at a reasonable price. I have been censured and criticized by some misinformed persons for my attitude and position, but I have done "The greatest good for the greatest number," with regard to the "Other Fellow." Excellence in Service I have strived to make my service perfect in every detail. Up to date livery with courteous drivers, capable and experienced assistants and personal attention to every part of the funeral service, Grave of Five Who Died of Smallpox In 1811 Found in Bellerica, Mass. Closely adjoining the site of the Boston & Maine car shops in Billerica, the surveyors discovered a gravestone marking the spot where 100 years ago five persons, victims of smallpox, were buried. The stone is still in good condition, although mossy with age. The foot stone as well as the headstone is solid, giving evidence of careful work on the part of the ones who placed it there. The grave was evidently chosen a century ago as a secluded spot, and when found trees, underbrush and shrubbery nearly hid it from sight. The words on this headstone are: Erected in memory of and to designate the place where Asa Grost, Jr. Levi Frost, Eleanor Farmer, Sarah Hodgman and Samuel Batecheler were buried, who died of smallpox, August, 1811. At first the Boston & Maine considered getting the consent of the state to remove the stone and the dust of the bodies, but it has been decided to let the grave remain where it is. So these five persons will rest where they are and their bed of the last century will not be disturbed. No relative of the ones buried seem at all concerned about the grave and it is doubtful if any descendants of them are living in Billerica or Lowell at the present time. TRUE ART OF ADVERTISING Man in Burglar's Mask Was Only Introducing Patent Safety Alarm and Preventer. As I opened the door I saw a man with a burglar's mask kneeling before the safe. The next moment he had turned and shoved a revolver into my face. "Throw up your hands!" he said. I did so. "You understand," he remarked pleasantly, "that I can in the present circumstances loot the premises at my pleasure?" I confessed that he could. "You realize that you are at my mercy?" "I do," I replied. "You acknowledge that I can blow you to kingdom come if I like?" he persisted. "Certainly," I admitted. "Well, then," he said, "you will be interested to know that I got in without difficulty through your parlor window. Had it been equipped with Smith's patent safety burglar alarm and preventer this could not have happened. Installed, complete with batteries, for $25. Allow me to hand you a circular. Good night, sir." Then, pocketing his revolver, he withdrew. Performance Coordination Perfume Compounding an Art. The compounding of perfumes is a distinct branch of chemistry—a perfume maker may be regarded as an artist of chemistry, blending his ingredients with the care of one and the taste and skill of the other profession. Almost all perfumes have as a basis ambergris or citvet, and while these materials are most necessary, great care must be exercised in their use, for a grain too much will make the perfume distressingly irritating to the user. The same is true of many combinations of scents, such combinations even producing hysteria in a mild or severe form. If indulged in at all but one distinct scent should be used. Professional Chaperons In a girls' finishing school in New York they have professional chaperons who do nothing but take young women out, walk them around and fetch them back again. They take their charges to trains and meet them at trains. They are paid, not by the week or month, but by the job, so much an assignment. And the curious thing about it is that they are bonded. They are actually bonded. The girls themselves have never been able to find out why they should be bonded. from the embalment to the final disposition at the cemetery. Chapel and Show-Room I boast of the most complete and elegantly appointed establishment for colored people in the country. A large chapel seating 150 persons, with organ and other conveniences which is at the disposal of our patrons free of charge. A large and most complete show-room, showing all grades of caskets and funeral furnishings. One Price to All All goods are plainly marked with price, thus eliminating the padding of the price of caskets to suit the pocketbook of the purchaser. Your attention is respectfully called to my prices and I invite a comparison of the quality of our goods. Black caskets, cloth covered, our price, $15; other undertaker, $50; colored plush caskets, our price, $30; other undertakers, $75; couch caskets, our price, $60; other undertakers, $125. I make no extra or unnecessary charges. THE CITY OF EVANSTON --- Starting at once, no papers will be left at any residence in Evanston or elsewhere unless the paper is paid for as it is received. R. S. ABBOTT, Editor. Mr. G. H. Bryant Dead. (Special to Evanston Branch of Chicago Defender.) Lake Forest, Ill., Nov. 25—Mr. Geo. H. Bryant of this city died at his home about noon Saturday after a short but painful illness of two days. A few hours before Mr. Bryant died he told his wife and those who surrounded his bed that death had struck him, but that he did not fear, for he was all right with God. Mr. George H. Bryant was born in Knox County, Missouri, Aug. 31, 1864, in 1891 he settled in Illinois, and in 1891 married Mrs. E. Williams, who now survives him. Besides a wife, Mr. Bryant leaves a daughter, Miss Viola. Williams; three brothers, Messrs. P. Bryant, Knox County, Missouri; A. Bryant, Peoria, Ill.; C. Bryant, Chicago; four sisters, Mesdames B. Pressley, Maywood, Ill.; D. Robinson, Knox County, Missouri; Nora Buly, Evanston, Ill, and S. Johnson, Quincy, Ill., a number of relatives and a host of friends. Mr. Bryant was a steward and local proacher of the Lake Forest A. M. E. Church, a member of the Eighth regiment and several other organizations. He was best known in his church work as the District Superintendent of Sunday Schools of St. Paul district. He was an honored citizen, loving husband and a kind father. His death is a severe loss to the entire north shore. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Lake Forest A. M. E. Church, Rev. H. E. Johnson officiating. Interment at Lake Forest cemetery. MY PLEA Advantages in Subscribing by the Year for the Chicago Defender. It costs $2.60 to buy your paper by the week for one year. It costs you nearly four cents a copy to subscribe by the one-half year; but it costs you a very little more than two cents a copy to subscribe by the year. Our Evanston branch will send out agents next week to visit you at your home. Start your subscription at one and learn what the race is doing all over the world, and at the same time save yourself $1.10 per year. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The most successful meeting of the Missionary Society was held Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. C. Norris, 1450 Elmwood avenue. A very large number of people were present and a delightful evening was spent. Thanksgiving Day exercises will appear in next week's issue. Echo meeting of the quadrennial convention of the Parents' Mite Missionary Society will be held at Ebenzer next Thursday evening. Eperybody is invited to be present. Mrs. Blanche Gaston and Mrs. Ella Ward Saunders of Chicago were entertained at breakfast Wednesday morning by Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Graves. Master Horace Graves, Jr., was presented with a gold watch and signet ring for his fourteenth birthday presents. The birthday was Wednesday, Nov. 29. Miss Mae Smith of Cheyenne, Wyo., who is a student at the Boston Conservatory of Music, was the guest of Mrs. B. Depugh, 1921 Benson avenue, a few days this week. Miss Smith has given several recitals throughout Iowa and is en route to Boston to resume her studies. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Twiggs were entertained at Thanksgiving dinner by Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Harriston, Edgewater. --- The regular services were well attended Sunday; especially was there a large gathering at the evening services. The missionary society met at 6:45 p. m. and carried out a very interesting meeting. The sewing circle was entertained at the home of Mr. and rsM. E. H. Fletcher, 1719 Benson avenue, by Ms dames J. Witts and S. Trent. A delightful time was had. Sunday services: 11 a. m. covenant and praise service; 12:30, Bible school; 3:30, Young Men's Progressive Club; address will be delivered by Mr. T. W Stringfeller; 6:45, B. Y. P. U.; 8 p. m. sermon by the pastor. Don't forget her "Busy Day," Dec. 7, at M. Zion Church. Two prizes will be given to the two persons selling the highest number of tickets over $10. Meets with Accident. Mrs. M. Washington, 319 Demuster street, meet with a very serious accident last Saturday evening while getting wood from under her house. Mrs. Washington, trying to evade a pool of water, jumped over it and landed on a nail that lacerated the left foot. Mrs. Washington is unable to leave her home. Rev. H. J. Johnson, 703 Greenleaf street, was entertained at dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thurman of Dodge avenue. A very pleasant afternoon was spent. Rev. Johnson leaves Saturday night for Champlain, where he will preach Sunday at the A. M. E. Zion Church. Woman's Club. The Julia Gaston Woman's Club id its fourteenth anniversary Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the home of Mrs. J. Webb. Quite a large number of people were out and a fine time was bad. A large number of silver presents were given by the guests. All the refreshments were served free. Quite a number of ladies came out from Chicago. Everybody enjoyed themselves to the highest. Second Baptist Church Rev. W. Alexander preached a very acceptable sermon last Sunday morning. Text: "Christ, the wisdom of God and the powr of God." The sermon was appreciated by the large congregation which heard him. Brother Alexander is a welcome visitor. The Missionary Society held a splendid meeting on last Friday evening. The society means to do real work. It should be encouraged. Our Sunday school is looking forward to a grand time during the Christmas holidays. Praise services will be concluded by Deacon Cullars and Brother Simpson, Sunday, Dec. 3. Members and friends are expected to be present and speak for themselves. News Stands. F. E. White, 1912 Railroad avenue. G. Wilson, 816 Church street. C. McKay, 1008 Davis street. J. E. Priestly, 1517 Elmwood avenue. Branch office, 621 Grove street. Chicago Defender always on sale at the above named places. For Rent—3 rooms for light housekeeping, or will let them separately. Apply Mrs. J. Hadley, 1917 Jackson avenue, Evanston. Mr. and Mrs. M. Short, 2242 Orrington avenue, entertained at Thanksgiving dinner Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Petitt. Margaret Robinson, 514 Rhn street, entertained twenty of her little girl friends at a masquerade party on last Saturday. The little folks enjoyed themselves to the highest. Those who have visited the A. M. E. parsonage of late will agree with me that the Rev. H. S. Graves is some painter. The report that Mrs. W. F. Garnett had returned home last Thursday was a mistake. Mrs. Garnett is still at Provident Hospital in a very much improved state, but not ready to return home. We wish her a speedy recovery. Were you really thankful last Thursday? Did you make known your thanks unto Him from whom all blessings flow Mr. W. H. Twiggs, 1736 Oak avenue, was confined to his home with neuralgia the early part of this week, but is able to be about his duties at this writing. Miss Nora Taylor, 1730 Oak avenue, was called to her home in Galatin, Mo., last week, owing to the serious illness of her father. Mrs. Eliza Harrison of Indianapolis, Ind., visited two or three days last week with Mrs. Ella Lewis, 1414 Chicago avenue. Mrs. Robert Petitt, 318 Dempster street, is on the slick list this week. Mrs. M. Short, 2242 Orrington avenue, will entertain the Palm Leaf Club at her home on next Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Estelle Johnson, 1730 Oak avenue, who has been ill with rheumatism at St. Frances Hospital for some weeks, is able to be home at this writing. Mrs. L. H. Owens, Jr., and son Harold of Chicago visited with friends and relatives Saturday. Conscientious. An editor of a New York magazine recently received a story of which the scene was laid in the state of Washington. He wished to have the story illustrated, and in order to obtain the best local detail he sent the manuscript to a young artist out in Washington. Before doing so, how ever, he scrawled hastily across the top of the first page the address of the writer, which did not otherwise appear on the manuscript. It was "Shelton. Wash." With the story the editor sent a letter asking the artist to make a wash drawing of a certain effective scene and forward it as soon as possible. By return mail the editor received an anxious reply from the youthful artist, saying: "I note that you wish me to use Shelton wash. I do not know of any such wash. nor do any of the dealers out here. If you can send me a tube I shall be glad to make the drawing." To Clean the Coffee Pot Never wash the inside of tea or coffee pots with soapsuds. If they be of grunite or agate ware, and become discolored, nearly fill the pot with cold water, add one teaspoonful of borax and heat gradually until the water reaches the boiling point. Rinse with hot water, wipe and keep on back of range until perfectly dry.—Suburban Life. "That chauffeur was a great disap pointment." "Of course. And I advise you to do the same. It's the only way to get him to go peaceably." Hi Scholastic Progress. "Yes, Johnny's doing nicely at school." Mrs. Lapsaling said; "and he remembers everything he learns, especially in history. He told me the story the other day about Alexander cutting the accordion knot." Not Always. Opportunity doesn't always present an engraved calling card. FIXING UP GIRL'S DEN CLEVER YOUNG LADY PRODUCES CHARMING EFFECT. Artistic Taste Enables Her to Work Wonders With Materials of Trifling Cost—Any Girl Can Do as Well. Brown, or rather natural colored, linen, very coarse in quality, and therefore the more effective, has been manipulated into window hangings and upholstery covers by a clever girl who was given a generous amount of money with which to do over her own den in the country house. Belong clever with her fingers, the girl decided to do her room herself, and, having an economical turn of mind, she wished to have the best effects for the least money. The result is most charming in tan and pink, with touches of green, and the hang- ings are likely to wear forever. The linen she bought by the piece of 60 yards at wholesale, and because it was cheaper she selected that which is stiffened and is used in the making of men's clothing. The home laundress washed the stiffening out, and the girl had a material not unlike Russian linen, but costing decidedly less. On the walls of this room, which is high among the treetops, she had a paper covered at regular intervals with very small bunches of tiny, round, pink roses, showing the merest suspicion of foliage. The door was of plain hardwood. The linen was made into straight draperies, with four inch hems that fall, unlooped to the sill. There is a shallow valance, with similar hem, but no heading is used above that through which the small brass rod is run. The object of having a shallow valance is that the view of great trees shall not be destructed. A box 12 inches high, 100 long and 25 wide serves as a receptacle for infrequently worn dresses and a window seat. It is done with the linen. The sides and ends are concealed by the material hanging in box pleats. On the top is a separate cushion, the case for which the girl made, but the cushion itself, that it might be even and nice, was done at an upholster's. The box is placed beneath two windows together, and near it is a round mahogany table on which are books, a jar of flowers, a lamp and the other etceteras one would have in such a room. An old wing chair, discarded by her mother for several years, the girl had bought from the stables and covered it herself, using brass tacks as a finish. The work took time, but was not difficult, for the old cover was used for a pattern in cutting out the new. A mahogany side chair and a steamer chair were given linen cushions, made on. The necessary color was introduced by pink and green figured cretonne cushions on the window seat and in the chairs. The paper lamp shade is pink. On the floor are pink and green rag rugs. The room is restful and cool for summer, and the cost of doing it over was so slight as to make it possible for any girl whose income is small. LATEST IN VELVET SHOES Louis XIV. and Louis XV. Lead the Way in This Season's Styles. In house and evening shoes there are the most exquisite things. Louis XIV. and Louis XV. models lead the way, with beels so high that it is dangerous to make a brusque movement. They must be in exactly the same material as the dress with which they are worn, and they must have exquisite buckles or buttons in fine silver, paste or enamel, with one's monogram, as one likes. A violet velvet frock trimmed with fur and lace would have violet velvet shoes and real lace stockings like the lace on the frock, and so on through all one's wardrobe. Naturally, women with small incomes cannot do this sort of thing to any extent, but they can follow modestly, and it is quite well worth while to give some attention to the detail of having the right shoes and stockings for each gown. PICTURE HAT Ol black velvet completely trimmed with buff-colored plumes. The Black Gown. The woman who wears black will delight in the new crepes de chine and crepe meteors, which seem lovelier than ever this season. The crepes de chine may be bad with either the dull or satin finish. They are fashionable and well liked for whole gowns. 'HAVE NO MANNERS' Young German Prince Says This of Americans. Adelbert, Third Son of the Kalser, Says We Are the Rudest People in the Whole World New York.—We are the rudest people in the third world. Prince Adelbert, aged 27, third son of the Kaiser, says so and when a prince makes a statement it is never quite polite—nor safe—to contradict him. The fact that recently two young Americans did refuse to acknowledge his royal prerogative to "boss" is the reason for his conclusion that "Americans have absolutely no manners." The young man has been spending the summer at a famous European pleasure resort, also patronized by a large number of society folk from this country. Tennis has been the favorite sport of the young folks from "the States" and the prince, who is a splendid player, made a great many friends among them. One Saturday afternoon he had been watching with great interest the brilliant play of Bernard Dell, the well-known athlete of Princeton University. The game over, he asked Mr. Dell to play a single with him on the morrow. "Sorry," said Mr. Dell, "but I never play games on Sundays." "But I ask you," insisted the prince. "Sorry again," replied Mr. Dell, "but I cannot go against my religious principles—not even for you." Well, this was a situation with which the prince had never had to cope before in the whole course of his life, for when royalty says "I ask" it means nothing else but "I command" and here was a person who refused to be commanded. There was nothing he could do so "he done it," but it was a wryly young prince who strode away from the firm-jawed American. Not long after that most astonishing experience Prince Adelbert, intending to give a dinner to some of the German nobility passing through Prince Adelbert. the resort, suddenly made up his mind that his American friends should be his guests as well and, forthwith, he walked to the tennis courts and "asked" all of them. Now it happened that a Philadelphia girl was also to give a party on the day the royal Germans were to be in the place and, as the prince knew, the Americans were to be her guests. So when the invitation to attend his dinner was given the Americans politely declined it, saying that they "would not disappoint Miss Blank for worlds." Then they resumed their game as if nothing had happened. The prince was astounded. Could it be possible that any one should dare to turn down a last-minute invitation issued by one of royal blood? That ordinarily untitled human beings should not be willing, yes, should not jump at the chance to cancel any other engagement for the honor of sitting at his table was most amazing. But what could he do about it? Nothing, obviously. He tried to work off a little of his indignation by giving out the statement that we were rude and unmannerly, but the Americans, who had treated him quite as if he were a somewhat too haughty young society man, didn't seem to mind greatly. European society, however, is much excited over the affair, one section sliding with the prince, maintaining that the invitation of a member of a reigning house should be regarded as a royal command by everybody, without distinction of nationality; while on the other hand, all the Americans and a great many Europeans are taking the part of Mr. Dell and the girl, arguing that they were not impolite and only acted quite as sensible young Americans should. Prince Adelbert, who, like the rest of the Kaiser's sons, is rather prepossessing in appearance and manner, was married three years ago to his cousin, Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Sonderburg. Bottle of Catsup Blew U Bottle of Catsup Blow Up. Springfield, Mass.-Mrs. Herbert Morgan will lose the sight her left eye as the result of an explosion of a bottle of catsup. A bottle of catsup was on the table when it blew up, and a fragment of glass was imbedded in Mrs. Morgan's eyeball. Drown Trying to Capture Pig. Akron, O.-While attempting to capture a pig on the banks of the Cuyahoga river, near Boston Mills, Antonio Moravil and John Argus fell into the stream and were drowned. Chairman of Committee Receives List of Regulations. Amateur Is Defined and Description of Suits That May Be Worn Is Given —No Attendants Allowed The rules which will govern the Olympic games at Stockholm, Sweden, next summer have been received in this country. They were sent to James E. Sullivan, chairman of the American Olympic committee, by Kristian Hellstrom of the Swedish Olympic committee. The executive committee of the American Olympic committee, which will go over them carefully, and such parts as require further explanation or interpretation will be taken up with the Swedish committee so that every one of them will be clearly understood here before the American team leaves for Sweden. Under the general regulations the committee defines an amateur and also describes what kind of suits the athletes shall wear when in competition. Each contestant must wear a jersey, with short sleeves and drawers to the knees and shall also have on back and front during competition a distinctive number corresponding to the number on the program. To prevent a repetition of the Dorando flasco of the London games no attendant will be allowed with a competitor during a race. The rule on this subject says: "No attendant shall accompany any competitor in the arena or during any race, nor shall any competitor be allowed except with permission of judges to receive assistance or refreshment from any one during a race." It is said an athlete who takes so-called drugs will become disqualified. Differing from the other Olympic races, the running will be against the sun, as it is in this country. In the hurdle races the hurdles will not be collapsible, such as are in use in this country. The rules state that the top rail or the hurdles shall be fixed fast to the upright supports. In the relay races a round baton of wood about four inches in circumference will be used and must be passed from one athlete to another within 20 meters, 10 meters on either side of the starting place marked out for each competitor. This is different from the American rules, which merely require a "touch off." The cross-country run will be held in diversified country over a course unknown to the competitors. The contestants will be forced to follow a marked course. It will start and finish in the stadium. The rule pertaining to the standing high jump is somewhat different from the American rule. According to it a competitor may rock back and forward, tilting heels and toes alternately from the ground, but he may not more than once lift either foot clear from the ground nor more than once slide it along the ground. The rules governing all the other jumps are similar to the rules in universal use, with the exception of a clause which says: "If any competitor swerves aside at the taking off line or crosses the taking off line and touches the ground in front of it with any part of his foot such jump shall not be measured, and it shall count against the competitor as one jump." MERZ SETS NEW WORLD MARK Covers 151.506 Miles in Heavy Car at 74.4 Miles an Hour at Santa Monica (Cal.) Track. All American road race records were broken in the Santa Monica (Cal.) automobile races the other day when Charles Merz won the heavy car A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. race at 151,506 miles with an average of 74.4 miles an hour. His time was 2:02:38.45. Merz's record of 74.4 miles supplanted that of Navarro, made in Paris in 1910. Three Good Indians. *Jack Wheat's an "Indian." Bender's an Indian and Thorpe's an Indian too. Mr. R. G. Bruce. Editor. "House Estate We Have the Chicago—Mo- as a A good funeral fitting memorial I furnish a com- tion, for $65.00. also have the fines are manufactured to an eternal br hundreds. I am in no way connecte am not interested in the organ persons and firms engaged in th in Chicago and the manner an for building up for co-operat advertising that I alone do right smallest pay of any place in statement at any time. EMANUE DAN'L M. JAC ERNEST H. Only Place 2959 and Phone 727 Do Bonus Thomas DEALER IN We do roofing work. Stoves House of Quail Established 1865 We Have the Most Select Town in Chicago—Most of the best fares as our patrons. Good funeral appeals to the living memorial of respect to the furnish a complete funeral—one for $65.00, or money refund have the finest goods and furnish manufactured for the undertaking on eternal bronze casket cost rreds. In no way connected with the Casket and Understory interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My man and the manner and way my business is conducted up for co-operation between honest business and that I alone do right, but happy to say that we give pay of any place in America today. I stand ready at any time. MANUEL JACKSON MAN'L M. JACKSON, Expert Engineer ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago 1959 and 2961 State Street Phone 727 Douglas—Automatic 727 hus Thompson Hardware DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE We do roofing, guttering and all kinds of the work. Stoves and furnace repairing especially Phone 3059 Evanston "House of Quality" Established 1865 We Have the Most Select Trade in Chicago-Most of the best families as our patrons. A good funeral appeals to the living as a fitting memorial of respect to the dead I furnish a complete funeral-one of satisfaction, for $65.00, or money refunded. We also have the finest goods and furnishings that are manufactured for the undertaking business, to an eternal bronze casket costing many hundreds. I am in no way connected with the Casket and Undertaking Trust and I am not interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and vilify other persons and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My many years in business in Chicago and the manner and way my business is conducted proves that I am for building up for co-operation between honest business and the public, not advertising that I alone do right, but happy to say that we give the best for the smallest pay of any place in America today. I stand ready to prove this statement at any time. EMANUEL JACKSON DAN'L M. JACKSON, Expert Embalmer ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago 2959 and 2961 State Street Phone 727 Douglas—Automatic 71-629 1910 W. Railroad Ave. We are rea Jackson Bro Fresh Meats, H All strictly f Goods, F Give us a trial 1821 Ridge A We are ready for your patron Jackson Bros. Grocery & Co. fresh Meats, Hams, Bacons, Lams All strictly fresh Groceries, B Goods, Fruits and Vegetable to us a trial Phone 3711 1821 Ridge Ave.. EVANSTON Fresh Meats, Hams, Bacons, Lards, etc. All strictly fresh Groceries, Bakery Goods, Fruits and Vegetables. Give us a trial Phone 3711 Evanston 1821 Ridge Ave.. EVANSTON, ILL. EDWARD FELIX ICE CREAM PHC Milk, Cream, Station Newspapers, Bread. We give Fish and W and Sodas. A First EDWARD FELIX E CREAM PAR PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buyi We give Fish and Weber Stamps with Groceries, Ice and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Co VARD FELIX :: :: 52 V Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying C Me. We give Fish and Weber Stamps with Groceries, Ice Gream and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connection Mrs. Edw. Felix's Hairdressing Parlor Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Treatment, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of the hands and nails. A complete line of toilet articles. Tel. Douglas 2928 General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country 52 W.30th St. Western Life Indemnity Company Our Combined Annuity Pension Policy provides a pension for you in old age, permanent total disability or to your beneficiary in the event of death. This Company issues six different policies which give the GREATEST protection for the LEAST cost. All Meals 25c. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. A la Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Breakfast. < 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. Evanston, Ill.