Chicago Defender

VOLUME VII. NUMBER 2. EMANCIPATION DAY AT HAMPTON The Forty-Seventh Anniversary of the Ex- notable Event at This Famous Scho- resentative People Gather to Hear Negro Progress. DAVID OWL, A CHEROKEE INDIAN IN PLAIN TALE President J. A. Cotton of Henderson, N. Dr. H. B. Frissell, Principal of the Sums Up Idea by Saying Where Mem- for Freedom the Race Must Consecra- Service. The Forty-Seventh Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Notable Event at This Famous School—Two Thousand Representative People Gather to Hear the Wonderful Story of Negro Progress. DAVID OWL, A CHEROKEE INDIAN STUDENT, PLEASES IN PLAIN TALK. President J. A. Cotton of Henderson, N. C., Principal Speaker—Dr. H. B. Frissell, Principal of the Institute, Also Spoke—Sums Up Idea by Saying Where Men Have Given Their Lives for Freedom the Race Must Consecrate Their Lives to Noble Service. --- 1. Hampton, Va., Jan. 12.—Over two thousand representative colored people of Hampton and vicinity gathered on New Year's Day in the Hampton Institute Gymnasium, at two-thirty, to celebrate the forty-seventh anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Rev. A. A. Graham, pastor of Zion church, Phoebe, Va., was the presiding officer. The best white and colored people came together to hear the wonderful story of Negro progress during the years of his freedom. The audience was made up of prosperous-looking, intelligent, attentive, and responsive people. The chief address was delivered by President J. A. Cotton, of Henderson Normal Institute, Henderson, N. C., who spoke on "The Negro's Opportunity for the Future." Address of Dr. Cotton. Dr. Cotton grouped his remarks about four topics: cash, culture, character and Christianity. He emphasized the importance of training Negro men and women who will prove themselves dependable and fearless in the colored people. He urged the colored people to serve God might by helping their fellow-men. He declared that the Negro race and the nation are dying for the want of love—love that means self-sacrifice and service which is Christlike. Dr. Frissell Speaks. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, spoke eloquently concerning the fitness of celebrating he anniversary of the Emancipation proclamation on ground which has been denounced for over forty years to the upholding of the Negro and Indian races through agricultural and industrial training. He referred to the excellent work which is being done by Hampton students who have gone out like Christian soldiers to fight against ignorance, superstition, and sin. Where men had given their lives for freedom, it was fitting, he declared, that Negro men and women should reconstrate their lives to noble service. Dr. Frissell expressed the hope that year by year the colored people would gather at Hampton Institute and learn MOLER COLLEGE DRAWS COLOR LINE—NO! The Chicago Defender Investigates Rumor of Discrimination in Famous System of Colleges—Mr. Moler Admits Segregation But Says It Was Brought About by Students Themselves — Trivial Complaints, Petty Jealousies — Women of Both Races Had Chip on Shoulder. COLORED GIRLS SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN BEST ROOM—KEEP THEM TOGETHER. The Managers of Moler. College Make Big Mistake in Separating Races—Growling on the Part of Anybody Should Be Met with Prompt Expulsion—Only Manifested in Manicuring Department—Students in Other Lines Have No Trouble—Side by Side—Colored Students Who Like Separation Should Be Drummed Out of Town. Like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, came the rumor of discrimination on account of color. The Moler System of Colleges 738-740 So. Wabash Ave., for among the institutions in manicuring, hairdressing and the other allied lines of beauty culture his institution has always ranked first. Many of our leading men and women in the various lines taught by the Moler College have been graduated from there and have always been loud in the praise of the management for their careful attention to all classes of students and its broad desire to assist the message them who could not assist themselves. Prompt and careful investigation show this result. In the manicuring anew that through great tribulation men come to their best. Negro Progress. Rev. A. A. Graham said that he was glad the young people of Hampton Institute, who are the hope of their race, could face the older people and hear the story of emancipation. He outlined the Negro's uphill climb and the marvelous transformation in the colored people through less than fifty years of freedom. It was significant, he declared, that the old battlefields there had sprung up for the proper education of Negro youth. He referred with pride to the handwork of colored women which was on exhibition at the Hampton Institute Gymnasium and to the thirty-horse power automobile outside of the Gymnasium which had been built "from the ground up" by a Negro youth of Hampton. David Owl, a Cherokee Indian, who is a Hampton student, brought the people a simple, straightforward, many message of congratulation on their progress. Tandy W. Coggs, a colored student at Hampton Institute, spoke on "Negro Education." He declared that the education been showing the people that thinking and living together. He showed that General Armstrong's belief in the capacity of the Negro for progress, which led to the founding of Hampton Institute, had been well grounded. Interesting Program. Mr. Tressler Scott, of Hampton Institute) led a chorus of fifty voices in the singing of three selections, including "Fairy Land" and "Native Land." Rev. J. W. Patterson, of Hampton, offered the invocation. The Emancipation Proclamation was read by Nannie Williams, of Hampton. The Hampton Institute Band played a selection and a medley. The audience sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "O Freedom." The benediction was pronounced by Rev. John H. Gray, of Hampton. The Hampton Institute Battalion, commanded by Capt. Allen Washington, associate commandant, met the large gathering of colored people in Hampton and escorted them to Hampton Institute. department the White and Colored girls are separated. Mr. Moleer was interviewed in person and puts the blame for this condition upon the girls themselves. What Mr. Moler Said. He said that they were constantly at war with each other and always kept running to the office with tales of petty jealousy and trivial complaint. First he said it would be a white girl complaining what a colored girl said about her dress and manner. Next it would be a colored girl equally as serious about what some white girl said about her hair or name. It became so aggravating that we had to make this change. It occurs nowhere else throughout this establishment and we have tried to favor the colored girls by giving them the best quarters. Then followed on a trip throughout the entire establishment and this fact was verified. Mr. Moler suggested that the reporter interview any of the students but having heard the students' side on the street, it was not necessary. What the Defender Has to Say. As a part of this investigation the Defender finds that some of the colored students were authority for the statement that "they were glad to be separated." We hardly give it credence but should it be true the parties making such a remark display very little love for their race and should be run out of town. Mr. Moler and the management of this college are to be commended for their good work in the past but the Chicago Defender cannot countenance segregation of the races for any reason, whatsoever. An establishment, the size and influence of the Moler system of colleges should surely be able to put down any petty rebellion among its students. If they cannot refund the money or expel outright the guilty ones but the segregation of a lot of girls who pay to learn a trade just because they talked a little too much is ridiculous. The Chicago Defender will continue this investigation and keep its readers advised. PLEASING "SIGNS OF THE TIMES." Miss Grace Kelly, daughter of Mr. J. Z. A. Kelly of the department of finance, has been appointed to a lucrative position at the board of education. Costly Knowledge. Every tailor knows a lot of promises young men—New York Tribune. Chicago Defender. CHICAGO, DLL., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1912. STUDIOUS-GETS REWARD. Mr. F. J. Williams, District Manager of the Great Eastern Casualty Company of N. Y., at Work on Train When Insurance Man Noted His Business Ability and Offered Him a Better Position. Mr. F. J. Williams, district manager of the Great Eastern Casualty Company of N. Y., with offices at 3101 State St., Room I, little thought a short while ago while railroading that he would be occupying his present position. The story is an interesting one and came about in this way: While at work on his train on a long trip to the coast an insurance man, one of the heads of the company, that he now represents, noticed his executive ability and studious ways Mr. F. J. Williams. and after a short talk offered him his present position. You Don't Have to Die to Win. Mr. Williams now represents one of those progressive companies whose chief recommendations are a splendid record in payment of claims and its broad-mindedness in business dealings with all the people and the advantages the policy holders get for a small outlay. The Great Eastern Casualty Co. offers a health and accident insurance in six forms of from $1 to $10,000 per year. One peerless accident policy offers $1,000 for an accident death, $7,50 as a weekly indemnity—total cost, $1,00 per year. The claims is in full charge of his district, hive, law enforcement jurisdiction Cook, Kane, Lake, Will, Duncan McHenry county. In his endeavors to enlarge the scope of the company he represents, Mr. Williams will give employment to good energetic men. His office is open during business hours every day and a postal or telephone call will bring an agent promptly with full information. Telephone Call Aidine 3952. Auto 79-561. CITY FIREMAN HAS FEET FROZEN. Mr. Charles Ellington, a popular member of engine company No. 21, Taylor and State streets, had both of his feet frozen in the terrible ordeal through which the fire department went through the Arctic weather of the last two weeks. At his home, 3315 Rhodes avenue, he was reported better on Wednesday. Engine company No. 21 acquired its equipment manner in the recent fire epidemic that taxed the ability and endurance of the fire department. They were at the stock yards at the Transit house fire and moved up as far south as 31st street several times during the week. DR. GEORGE CLEVELAND HALL HIGHLY PRAISED BY ST. LOUISANS. Mrs. Sayde Campbell of St. Louis, who has been a patient in Provident hospital for the past few weeks, leaves for her home Wednesday entirely well. Mrs. Campbell's operation was of a most serious nature and her hosts of friends both here and in Chicago are familiar of the outcome. Dr. Hall, Chicago's chief surgeon performed the operation, has been the recipient of many congratulatory letters and telegrams from her friends in St. Louis. TRIO OF CHARMING WOMEN RETURN FROM IOWA Mrs. J. W. Allen of 3160 Wabash Ave, Mrs. Julia Middgett and Miss Etta C. Ross of 6528 Wabash Ave, are home again after a very enjoyable visit to Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Ill., where they visited a host of friends during the Christmas holidays. They were the guests of the Phoenix and Terrell families. Among the swell affairs given was the New Year's ball in their by the young folks of Rock Island. MEETS DR. ANNA R. COOPER IN WASHINGTON. Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.—(Special.) Your correspondent has just met Dr. Anna R. Cooper, who in a short talk expressed herself as being highly elated over the encouragement and support given her work. She especially emphasized the interest of the Chicago physician. The popular Chicago physician was coming out of the Y. M. C. A. when your correspondent met her. OSWALD GARRI- SON VILLARD SPEAKS The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a Country-Wide Effort for Support Present Noted Editor in Chicago Meeting—Mr. Villard Also Represents the Associated Press — Subject, "Political and Legal Discrimination Against Race"—Arouse Interest by Literature. MISS MARY WHITE OVINGTON, SECRETARY, EXPLAINS WORK IN INTERVIEW. Stand Up for Your Rights—The Passive Days of the Negro Race Are Past — Aggressiveness Must Take Its Place—The Radical Movement for Race Betterment Has Struck a Popular Chord—One of the Pertinent Remarks to a Chicago Defender Reporter at Hull House Wednesday Night. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, chairman of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of the New York Evening Post, addressed a large audience at Handel Hall Thursday night on the Political and Legal Discrimination Against Colored People. This meeting was one in a country wide effort of this association to interest the public in their efforts as explained by speakers and publications. Miss Mary White Owington of Brooklyn, N. Y., official secretary of this association, has been at Hull House for the past week. Wednesday night she talked freely of the objects and result of the organization's work to a representative of The Chicago Defender. After showing the representative several illustrated circulars illustrative of the Reign of Terror, better known as lynching, Miss Owington said: "Stand up for your rights. The massive days of the Negro race and Aggressiveness must take its place. The radical movement for race betterment has struck a popular chord." Yes, we are satisfied with the work so far, at present we are actively interested in the recent outrage at Coatesville, Pa. Later we no doubt will take up the horrible crime in Georgia. We have many applications for assistance, especially along legal lines, but we have adopted a system of careful investigation. Mr. Wm. Werry, Jr., a white attorney of more than local prominence in the state of New York, is continually engaged along this line of our work. Asked relative to the feeling of satisfaction derived from the work by herself and the other officers, the replied, the same spirit that characterized Stewell Phillips and Harriet Becher Stone simply is the incentive in this work. Personally my introduction to this association came after many years of active work among the Negroes in the tenement and the poorer districts in the city of New York. Thursday Miss Ovington spoke at Bethesda Baptist church, sharing a part of the time allotted to Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley. Friday night she spoke on "The City Negro," at the Frederick Douglass Center. Wednesday foroonem Miss Ovington was the guest at luncheon at the Chicago Woman's Club. Circulars with pictures of horrible lynchings are freely distributed as part of the propaganda. One picture, a post card stamped and counterigned by the postal authorities, was sent to one of the members of the committee to his home in New York. The Chicago Defender always understood that obscene literature should not be sent through the mail. JACKSON GORDON FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. A large delegation of colored-and white citizens called on Mr. Jackson Gordon last Saturday evening and also on Sunday and tried to persuade him to become a candidate for the office of county commissioner on the Republican ticket this fall. They offered their united support in behalf of his candidacy. Mr. Gordon told them that he was a party man and could not say whether or not he would be a candidate; that he would require the party endorsement. The delegation of citizens is going to wait upon the leaders of the Republican party and urge that Mr. Gordon be endorsed as the party candidate for county commissioner, representing the colored people of Chicago. The delegation was composed of representatives from the west, north and south sides. Several of the leaders of the Republican party have spoken very favorably of Mr. Gordon and his chances seem bright. BOUNTEOUS FEAST MARKS INAUGURAL Elaborate Banquet at Appomattox Club Saturday Night When New Officers Are Installed—President Cowan's Address. Saturday night-last the Appomattox Club was "at home." Its spacious club house at Wabash Avenue was all aglow with light and color. It was "the night of nights"—the inducting into office the recently elected pres- ident, Mr. William R. Cowan, and his cabinet. Amid the splendor of the rich service that is always used at formal dimers the members and their friends enjoyed "a feast fit for a king." Mr. W. R. Cowan became pres- ident for the second time. The other officers installed were; first vice-pres- ident, R. Collin; second vice-pres- ident, W. T. Johnson; secretary, Col. J. H. Johnson; corresponding sec- tary, George Patterson; treasurer, H. S. Anderson. The board of directors is as follows: Two years—Col. John R. Marshall, M. C. Cowan, A. L. McR- ride. One year—J. T. Morton, F. L. Hamilton, Geo. H. Walker. President Cowan's inaugural ad- President Cowan's inaugural address was as follows: We are met tonight to inaugurate the new building and the re-elected officers of this club. It seems to me that it is eminently fitting and proper, at this particular juncture, for me to publicly express to the members of the club, my keen appreciation for the very high compliment which is implied, in the unanimous re-election of your humble servant to the high and honorable office of President of this splendid organization. The progress of the club along material lines, and especially with respect to its numerical strength, is indeed a source of profound gratification, me, but I would be a supreme egoist, for personal claim for the credit of this progress. On the contrary I would be less than ungrateful were I indisposed to attribute the credit for this fine showing, to the active co-operation and support of our officers and members, and to their initiative as brought to me in the form of suggestions. As I approach the threshold of another year of "labor of love," in the interest of this club, I appeal to you, with full confidence that the appeal will be granted, for the same support and co-operation which you so cheerfully gave throughout the year just closed, and no less earnestly do I ask for your frank opposition to proposed plans and policies which you do not approve. At the last similar exercises of this club, as many of you will recall, I took the position in my inaugural address, that to my mind there was not a single substantial reason, why the best hearts and minds of our race, should not meet here as fellow members of the club. Candidly, I was dreaming at that time, of a membership which would include worthy representatives of every honorable calling, whether professional or otherwise, in which our people are engaged, and I think in this connection, that the recent additions to our membership list, is at least a partial realization of that dream. It goes without saying that I am personally proud of every member of this club, nevertheless we are strong believers in the infusion of new blood into our club life, and the policy of soliciting new members, will be continued as long as we find, outside of the club, self respecting men who think and feel as we do, and whose influences for good we need or would profit by. To those of us who have even casually observed the various phases of our social club life, the importance and necessity of new members is so well established and known, that it is scarcely profitable to dwell upon it further, might be by way of emphasis, that new members mean new ideas; new ideals and a continued filling up of our membership list, all of which I esteem to be necessary, absolutely so, to the perpetuity and proper maintenance of this organization. The treasurer's report, which is submitted in due time, will disclose very healthy and creditable condition, on our financial view-point, while the secretary's disclosure of the names of the additions to our growing membership. That the physical condition of the club has been improved is apparent to the most casual observer, and I assure you that our policy shall be to spare no reasonable expense, to make the club attractive, and in this behalf I indulge the hope that I voice the sentiment of the entire club. I see around our festive board, several public speakers of renown whom I shall call upon for short talks, and who in turn I have no doubt will both edit and instruct us. CHICAGO BEACH LITERARY TO MEET. The Chicago Beach Literary society will give a musical and literary recital at Jefferson Avenue Baptist church, 5359 Jefferson avenue, Friday evening, Jan. 26. The young men in the recital will be the greatest in the history of the "C. B. L." We invite you all. Admission free. Rev. Noard, pastor. Miss Irene Hillard of Detroit, who is visiting her aunt, will take part in the recital; also Prof. O. J. Buckner, who has just returned from the northwest. Our well known planist has been engaged for the evening. Prof W. H. Tibbs, violin and cornet; Mr. F. D. Mauney, dramatic reader, and Mrs. Bessle H. Hicks, soprano. Mr. S. Smith, who will make the closing recital, will be all pleased to hear. We invite public to attend this recital—Mr. R. Anderson, president; Mr. J. Young secretary. PRAISE FOR OUR FRATERNAL ORDERS PRAISE FOR OUR FRATERNAL ORDERS The Benefits of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, K. of P., U. B. F.'s and Our Many Other True and Tried Orders That Aid in Sickness and Death Compared with Insurance Companies Whose Agents Don't Even Treat You with Respect—Our Own Orders Give Larger Percentage of Benefit for Money Paid. FINGER PRINTS OF THE COLOR OF THOSE WHO PAID IT NEVER FOUND ON THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. From Your Childhood to the Grave These Splendid Fraternal Organizations Take Care of You—Tired Out After a Hard Day's Work, Some Member of Your Order Watches Over and Gives Aid to Your Loved Ones—If You Are of the Right Caliber There Is No Need to Be an Object of Charity. The article appearing in The Chicago Defender last Saturday under the caption "Imprudent Insurance Collectors" gives rise to considerable thought. If the story as published propores conditions in Chicago I would like to see it. It is not necessary in this time of enlightenment to suffer any disrespect when the matter especially along this line can be so easily remedied. Life insurance we must admit is the poor people's salvation, but this salvation costs so much per in the coin of the realm, and the coin of the realm handed to collectors or at the office by you, does the stockholders as much good in dividends as the other fellows. So if you pay, you expect and should get good treatment. But fortunately we can go a little farther—we have our own reliable organizations that care for you when you are sick and bury you when you die. No man and no woman, no youth or no child need be an object of charity in these days and times. Every man and every woman and their offsprings can be provided for both in sickness and death in any of our splendid orders that have never been the cause of litigation when the person in question has been of the right caliber and in good standing in their orders. Along this line I would like to mention: The Masons and their Courts. The Old Fellows, their Households and Juvenile Departments. The Knights of Pythias and their Women's Department. The U. B. F.'s and the S. M. F.'s. The True Reformers. The Foresters and their Lady Circles. The Elks and Lady Elks. The Independent Sons of Honor and their Tabernacles. The Daughters of the Union and many other substantial fraternal organizations that do not occur to me at this time. Competition has reduced the cost of burial, and any and all of these organizations provide enough for a decent burial. Anyhow they are our own organizations, if the concerns of the other race don't think enough of our patronage to at least treat us with respect, they will probably see their mistake. The organizations mentioned above are factors in fraternal activities to be reckoned with. If the guilty companies don't think so let them continue their present methods. The yearly reports of many of the orders mentioned show considerable increase. This increase is very pronounced in the various households of the S. U. O. of O. F.'s, the U. B. F.'s and S. M. T.'s are also proud of their year's record. Everybody takes notice when a prominent member of any of these orders dies and is buried with pomp from one of our large churches. The uniform rucks turn out and the desire of the populace is to at once become a member. This, however, is the least of these unpleasant work for the majority who receive the honors and assistance of these orders are buried from home or quietly from the undertaker's chapel. As a rule if one of the children are ill "Mother" is able to be at home and nurse it. But there are times when "Father" is ill and "Mother" cannot be the bread-winner. Again there are periods when Mother and children are both ill and Father fatigued when he comes home after a hard day's work can not give the sick the careful attention that the physician has prescribed or that his heart will offer. Here enters our own organizations. Men and women watchers are provided to care for you while the parents sleep. Some organizations have advanced as far as to provide the services of a trained nurse when needed. Those who gather to aid you in the hour of need are not only bound by the obligations of their particular orders but oft-times prove to be the real "friend in need." PRICE 5 CENTS I am not antagonistic to the insurance companies or any other ald society but I am opposed to any company, any person who is connected with that company who does not realize that all men and women were created equal. If money is the object I have never seen a dollar that displayed finger prints of the color of the person that paid it. Throughout the country we have some banks, and if you do not favor this kind of investment you can open an account there. The directors of these various institutions may act as administrators and executives of tates and will pay all of your bills. Then you can provide against the grim monster "death" in many other ways. DEATH OF MR. R. B. JACKSON Another Old Resident of Chicago and Prominent Member of Bethel Church Buried with Imposing Ceremonies — Forty-Seven Years a Christian, Twenty-Three Years a Mason, and Worked for Pullman Company for Twenty-Eight Years. Mr. Robert B. Jackson, aged 54, 3646 Indiana Avenue, who died Friday, January 5th, was buried from Bethel A. M. E. church, Monday, January 8th, at i.p. m. In the death of Mr. Jackson, which occurred after an illness lasting since June 13th the city has lost another substantial resident and Bethel church a faithful member. The funeral services were unusually impressive. Pastor Roberts assisted by Rev. J. F. Thomas of Ebenezer Baptist church, and Rev. Fisher of Olvet Baptist Church, officiated. The divines were eloquent in tribute to the worth and character of the deceased. Like Brother Fletcher, an open and upright life marked him as an exemplary friend and citizen. He was a Chris-fer or 47 years and his residence in Chicago which dates back to the early part of 1883, he has been a member of Bethel Church, joining under the pastorate of Rev. Graham. He was married for 23 years. A continuous record of 28 years of faithful service with the Paulman company enabled that conservative corporation to say in a special letter that, Mr. R. B. Jackson's record with that company was without a flaw. He had never been disciplined nor laid off for any cause, but by his consistent and faithful service won the regard of every official of this company and every employee." The funeral, in charge of Understaker Daniel Jackson and his able assistant, Mr. Fred Adams, set a new precedent in modern funeral arrangements. Engraved cards announced the death of the deceased to relatives and friends, together with the desire of the family that they attend the funeral. Automobiles were provided and the mourners were brought directly from their homes. The Masons (Hiram Lodge No. 14), of which Mr. Jackson had been a member for 23 years, were in charge of the remains. The deceased was born in Columbia, S. C., and is survived by a devoted wife Allie and her sisters. The expression of sympathy for the desigus was another noticeable part of the solemn services. The members of Venus Chapter No. 69, O. E. S., of which Mrs. Jackson (the widow) is secretary, sent several large pieces, Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery.—J. H. S. SECRETARY OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE BURIED Rev. R. C. Bedford, Well Known English Divine Who Was often Ostracized for His Work in the Interest of the Race, Dies at Los Angeles and is Buried at His Home in Beloit, Wis. Rev. Robert C. Bedford, secretary of the board of trustees of Tuskegee Institute and a trustee in many of the affiliated schools of the Institution of which Dr. Booker T. Washington is president was buried Tuesday at Beloit, Wis. Mr. Bedford died of heart disease at Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 30 last, the body being brought east for burial. His death was a shock to persons interested in the negro institution, with which he had been connected almost from the time of its foundation. Mr. Bedford was 66 years old. He was born in Hadden, England, and came to America when 8 years old. In 1872 he graduated from Beloit College. Later he graduated from Andover Theological School and attended the Chicago Theological Seminary. While pastor of the church at Montgomery, Ala., thirty years ago, Mr. Bedford became interested in the Booker T. Washington school. The Tuskegee Institute was a year old and Mr. Washington asked the governor of the state if he would find a white man who would give an address at the commencement exercises. The governor referred the matter to Mr. Bedford, who accepted the invitation. From that time Mr. Bedford attended every commencement of the school, and knew personally every graduate. Mr. Washington characterized him as "a friend whose value was beyond eschelment. Mr. Bedford suffered outcrimin in the South, and of his interest in the struggling new schools. AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest Speakers. Dr. C. L. Jefferson, pastor of Hope Presbyterian church, addressed the meeting Sunday afternoon. Dr. Jefferson's remarks were very forly put. Chicago is to be congratulated in having a minister of his worth and achievements accept work here. He has had many years of experience with the Y. M. C. A. and says that he is glad to become one of us in our efforts to get one of the best Associations buildings of its kind anywhere in the world. The office collector was called to Evanston, Illinois, early during the week when the thermometer was down below the zero mark and reported that several subscribers paid on their accounts. A telephone message, postal card, letter or a notice to call for your payment will always get blink. Patrolman J. C. Igou, who has been spoken of several times through this column, continues to do good work for our, building fund. During the last week he was successful to get another name added to our subscribers' list. Mr. C. E. Kreysler, druggist, 5058 State St. st. in a cash subscription through Mr. Igou's activity. Mr. Frank R. St. captain of team number 1, another of our patrolmen, was around on Sunday and expressed the faith and confidence that he had in the subscribers to his and the other teams to make good their pledges. Mr. Stark has consented to speak to the meeting on Sunday afternoon. Jan. 21st at 4 p. m. Invitations have been sent out from headquarters announcing the first anniversary session and banquet of this department, to be held on Tuesday evening at headquarters, 3330 State St., at 8:15 p.m. This banquet is being held in order that the reports covering the year's work may be made and plans be announced: for the speedy collection of the moneys subscribed during our ten day campaign. Dr. A. J. Callis, pastor of Walter's A. M. E. Zion church, will be our speaker for next Sunday's meeting. The annual banquet and open session of the board of managers of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago will be held at the Auditorium Hotel Thursday evening, January 18, at 6 o'clock. Following the dinner the newly elected officers of the association will be installed and the general secretary will present his annual report to the board of managers. Lawyer T. G. Maxwell called in a few days ago and left payments on the subscriptions made by Mrs. T. G. Maxwell, Chas. Jenkins Maxwell and T. G. Maxwell, Mr. J. M. Higginham, who is collecting from subscribers of Olivet Baptist church, sent in a check covering the payments on several subscribers from this church, Team Captains Chas A. Griffin, Joseph Snowden and Frank R. Stark were among our callers of the week. Dr. C. D. Trice keeps up the record by sending in another payment on his subscription. Mr. Ernest A. Bunn, 6220 Morgan St, helps out the ledger page on which his name is placed, by making a payment in full on his generous subscription. Mr. Frank H. Lawson, 3649 Forest Ave. made his final payment on his subscription to our fund. He also received receipt in full for Mr. Virgil B. Lawson of the same address. Mr. John H. Zedricks, clerk in the post office, called in early during the week and made payment in full on subscription of a west side friend. Mr. Chas. H. Davis, captain of team number 7, has the honor of having the largest percentage of the subscribers who have paid in full their pledges during the year. Mr. Davis was agreeably surprised to learn of this distinction and honor. The office has been fortunate in getting another lot of the November Bulletins, the official magazine of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago. This number has a full account of the Taft meeting. The following persus have paid on their accounts since our last announcement: Chas. S. Bell, 1540 Wieland St.; Maurice H. Bell, Jr., 6220 Morgan St.; Ernest A. Bunn, 6220 Morgan St.; C. E. Krysselman, 5059 Morgan St.; C. H. Lawson, 6494 Forest Ave.; Virgil B. Lawson, 3649 Forest Ave.; Chas. Jonkling Maxwell, 3672 Wabash Ave.; Mrs. Francis Nichols, 3728 Armour Ave.; James Overton, 3831 Washington Blyd. Paid on account subscribers: D. C Austin, 3804 State St.; Jas. H. Dun can, 1619 Armour Ave.; Robert G Hall, 4338 Wabash Ave.; T. G. Max well, 3738 Wabash Ave.; Mrs. T. G Richey, 4534 Evans Ave.; Dr. G. D Drice, 2902 State St.; A. J. Walton 4712 Bornstert. WHEELER & CO. MAKING EXTEN SIVE REPAIRS. Great will be the spring opening of the Wheeler & Co. clothing house. They have begun already to pull down and tear out the entire inside finishings of their already beautiful store and are placing instead more elaborate and expensive furnishings to meet the increasing demands of their customers. From this spring on their ladies' department will be the best equipped and most complete spot in the loop. Mr. Wheeler, Jr., as well as his sire, invites you to inspect his house after March 1, on the fourth floor, directly over Peacock's, 135 South State street. FEET FROSTED—CANNOT DANCE Mrs. Ray Sexton-Ellison, 3753 Forest avenue, is lamenting the constant attendance of several physicians, brought about by the recent Arctic conditions in Chicago that resulted in Jack Frost severely freezing her dainty Cinderellas. If the treatment for a cure is not swift several delightfulences will miss its most ardent devo- The Office Boy Left "Higgins" No Alternative but to "Beat it," and He Did. During the recent visit to New York of Robert S. Hichens, the English novelist, he wished to call upon the managing editor of a Park Row paper. Just at that time any paper one picked up had an interview with Hichens. Beadles, the editor and he were friends. So that Hichens—not having experienced the Park Row office boy—thought he would have no difficulty in invading the sanctum. "Take—haw—my card to the managing editor," said he to the office boy. That griring functionary holds his job by seeing to it that not one card in ten presented to him ever gets anywhere. He casts a coldly suspicious eye upon the novelist. The latter was dolled up in his Piececled clothes, carried a cane, wore spats and shot a monocle from his right eye in astonishment at the urchin's importence. "Whadda yu wanna see him fur?" asked the boy. Mr. Hichens tried to wither the boy. Only unwinterable boys last on Park Row. He ordered the boy to go in with that card. The boy said in New Yorkese that there would be nothing 'doin' until he found out why Hichens wanted to see the editor. Mr. Hichens had an inspiration. "I am an English journalist," said he. "Give my card and tell him that I wish to write a series of articles on New York for his paper." The boy disappeared behind a screen. Mr. Hichens smiled happily at the thought of the merry laughter with which his friend, the editor, would receive the statement. Pretty soon Mr. Hichens heard the voice of the office boy. "Guy out here named Higgins," said the boy, "says he wants a job." The voice of an unseen and hard worked man replied that no jobs were open to any Higginses. The boy handed a thumb smudged card back to Mr. Hichens. "Nothin' doin'" said he, indifferently, and burked himself in his late edition. "But—" began Mr. Hichels, indignantly, "an man, sow," said the boy, brusquely, "Beat it, Hirgus." And so Mr. Hichels did. Women Pearl Divers The pearl divers of Japan are all or nearly all—women. Along the shores of the Bay of Ago and the Bay of Kokahso, says the Oriental Review, the thirteen and fourteen year old girls, after they have finished their primary school work, go to sea and learn to dive. They are in the water and learn to swim almost from, babyhood, and spend most of their time in the water, except in the coldest season, from the end of December to the beginning of January. Even during the most inclement of seasons they sometimes dive for peach. They wear a special dress, white underwear, and a twisted up into a hard knot. The eyes are protected by glasses to prevent the entrance of water. Tubs are suspended from the waist. A boat in command of a man is assigned to every five or ten women divers to carry them to and from the fishing grounds. When the divers arrive on the grounds they leap into the water at once, and begin to gather oysters at the bottom. The oysters are dropped in to the tubs hung from their walsts. When these vessels are filled the divers are raised to the surface and jump into the boats. They dive to a depth of from 5 to 30 fathoms without any special apparatus, and retain their breath from one to three minutes. Their ages vary from thirteen to forty years, and between twenty-five and thirty-five they are in their prime. From Behind Prison Walls. Not long ago a story drifted down from Sing Sing about one of the colony of local bankers now doing time, says the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times Star. The banker had a caller, who had been of service during the trial. The caller had then learned to regard the jugged financier with an affection which was not reciprocated. "I want to see Mr. Banker," said the caller to a keeper. "I wrote a name on a card and I'll take it in." I said the keeper. "And what do you think?" said the caller to a friend, on his return to the city. "That keeper brought my card back to me. 'Sorry, sir,' said he, 'but Mr. Banker isn't at home today.'" A complementary yarn is the one now told of "P. K." Connaughton, who for years has been principal keeper at Sing Sing. The other day Connaughton told a prisoner to drop a bag of onions he was carrying at the door, and come into the keeper's office to be questioned about some recent offense. The prisoner stood the cross-examination well. When the prisoner and "P. K." came out the bag was there, but the onions had disappeared. "By thunder," said "P. K.," "there's a thief in this place." Hla Wife Know. "Strange," mused a north side man when he was more or less dexterously fishing clinkers out of his furnace with a poker, he spearheaded a bright, silvery fused mass about the size of a No. 8 shoe. "Extr'ord'nary, in fact," he exclaimed as he examined the metal, the identity of which he did not fix at once. He glanced with interest at his coal pile, for this N. S. man is of a sort of scientific turn of mind, and he was somewhat pleased with himself as he figured that some kind of ore had been mixed up with his coal, and his furnace acting as a smoker, and he was suddenly mass theremef. It tickled him that he had explained the matter so easily and he thought he would modestly show his wife how he had solved the strange occurrence. "Look here, dear," he began. "I don't suppose you could tell me what this is, could you? "Yes," she snapped. "That's my aluminum skillet." NOTE—She put the skillet in the furnace to burn off the dried particles of turkey hash. No trace of the turkey could be seen. Cleveland Leader. New Regulations Put in Force in Austria are Much Resented by Ardent Swains. New laws and regulations limiting the activity of Cupid have recently been proclaimed by the Australian government. They provide fines and imprisonment. New laws and regulations limiting the activity of Cupid have recently been promulgated by the Austrian government. They provide fines and imprisonment for those who follow the old-fashioned custom of country court ship known by the name of "Fen sterlin." Oddly enough, the new laws were enacted to aid in suppressing the foot-and-mouth disease, which is affecting animals in the upper provinces. The disease has spread in spite of all precautions. Some time ago a medical man expressed the opinion that the microbe of the disease was distributed by human agency. "Stop the courting in the ancient way and the disease will not be carried from farm to farm," he said. The authorities immediately sent orders to police and constables to put a stop to "Fensterlin." From immemorial past the country folk have made love with "Fensterlin," which is a form of serendibing both romantic and picturesque. After the day's tolle the love-sick young peasant throws off his smock and farm boots and arrays himself in his best clothes and after nightfall slips away to the farm where the rosy;cheeked maid of his affection lives. There, standing beneath her bedroom window, he sings old folk tunes. The girl's parents sit behind closed shutters. They understand it. If the girl is favorably inclined toward the rustic serenader she appears at the casement and allows the swain to kiss her hand. That constitutes the first and most important engagement. The others are more formal. Among the lassies of the mountain side there is a great feeling of resentment against the new regulations. Many sturdy young peasants have declared themselves as willing to become martyrs to preserve the ancient custom. AN ARMOR-PIERCING VOICE New Instrument Projects Voice Through Material Which Biggest Gun Could Not Penetrate. With the aid of a $48 instrument known as the aerophone Grindle Matthews, an English inventor, has just succeeded in projecting the sound of his voice through material which the biggest metal projectile on earth would lish inventor, has just succeeded in projecting the sound of his voice through material which the biggest steel projectile on earth would fall to penetrate. United States Consul-General John L. Griffiths of London in a consular report says that Mr. Matthews was placed in the strong room of a big London commercial house and locked in, with nine inches of armor steel, nine inches of brick, and six feet of concrete between him and the apparatus. By means of his small portable apparatus he carried on a conversation with the operator in another room on the farther side of the building. So distinct and faithful was the transmis sion that the experts in attendance were actually able to hear the tick of his watch, notwithstanding the almost impenetrable mass between the two instruments. The inventor contemplates a further er test through five miles of solid rock. In speaking about the aero phone he said that vibrations produced in the air by his apparatus denote take the form of the Hertzian waves, as in the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy. In fact, they are not waves at all, inasmuch as the disturbances are of such high frequency that there is no appreciable break between them, and their action is rath er continuous than fulfil and separate as in the case of Hertzian waves. It is estimated that a complete set of instruments by means of which it will be possible to carry on a conversation through walls, mountains or any other objects within a radius of five miles will cost $48. This Small World. "This is getting to be a mighty small world, compared to what it used to be," said a telegraph operator. "I'm handling a cable wire now. The other night the cable editor of one of our daily papers called me up over the telephone and asked me whether his correspondent down at Cape Haytien filed anything. The wire from Cape Haytien had just called and I told him to wait a moment. Then I went to my key and in an instant learned that the correspondent had just filed a thousand words. I went back to the telephone and reported the fact to the editor. It didn't take nearly as long for him to get that information all the way from Cape Haytien, more than a thousand miles distant, as it has for me to tell you about it." HORSELESS AGE ONLY MYTH With the introduction of the automobile, the taxicab and the motor truck a great deal was said and written about the impending doom of the horse and the approaching pro- the "horseless age." In accordance with truck a great deal was said and written about the impending doom of the horse and the approaching of the "horseless age." In accordance with the natural law governing the survival of the fittest look as if the horse had almost outlived its usefulness and soon would be practically extinct. But, according to the Harness World, there are today more than twice as many horses in the United States as there were in 1900, the very year that the motor-driven vehicle began to demonstrate its independence of the horse. "What are you embroidering, Virginia? Each stitch you take seems a labor of love," said Mrs. Haynes. "Only a little gift for dear Mrs. Mofet. She has the most charming personality, and I'm glad to do it for her." "How strange I never discovered it. To me she is one of those women who think it more blessed to receive than to give." "How about her son?" asked Arline. "Only the other day she said that 'she only hoped her son would marry a congenial girl of good family some day.' Do you know the young man?" asked Mrs. Haynes. "No, but I hope to meet him in the near future. She is so proud of him. He must be a splendid fellow." "Isn't she beautiful with your youthful face and that crown of snowy white hair," said Arline. "It's impossible to discover whether she's an old young looking, or young old looking person." "Girls," said Mrs. Haynes with an alr of wisdom, "don't ever try to judge any one's age who lives in a hotel. If she had the trials of housekeeping and a big family to look after, maybe she would be smiling all the time." Later when Mrs. Moffet and Mrs. Haynes were seated opposite each other at the dining table, Mrs. Moffet said "there isn't any pleasurable reason why all the young girls should be so attentive to me." "Arent you fond of young people's society?" asked Mrs. Haynes. "Surely, I'm still young in my ideas and can enter into all the feelings and emotions of a young girl's heart." "The maidens are not so innocent now-a-days. The way the girls try to coerce the boys into showing them a good time amuses me. In my time it was the youth who courted the girl. As to respect to their elders it is "Parents thou shalt honor, your children." The father is looked upon as a perambulating check book, and the mother as a prospective mother-in-law to some eligible young man." "You're too cynical, Mrs. Haynes. You never had any children, that's the reason you are so harsh in judging other people's children. Ever since I arrived at this hotel I have been the recipient of kindness from all the young ladies." "I thought," answered Mrs. Haynes, "that I overheard Arline and Virginia say you invited them to stay a couple of weeks at your home in the country." "Yes, they accepted my cordial invitation instantly. Could I do less, when they devoted their whole time graciously to me? Each vided with the other in showing their real friendship." "Then they will have a chance to meet your son," interposed Mrs. Haynes. "Only once or twice have I mentioned my personal affairs, but believe I told them that Clarence will be delighted to meet them and what a lovely charming son he is." "They were wondering whether he was a professional man or in business." "Absurd—I told them Clarence was nearly six feet tall and weighed 160 pounds, but I thought they knew he would be fifteen old." After dinner Mrs. Moffet said, "Just received the latest novel. If you see any of the young ladies will you ask them if they care to read aloud to me for an hour or so." When Mrs. Haynes repeated the request to the girls each one offered their services. "I'd just love to oblige Mrs. Moffet," said Arline. "Since when are you so obliging. I thought you said you were so fatigued," inquired Virginia, "now don't trouble yourself I'll read tonight as I have nothing else to do." "But before you tecide which shall have the coveted honor, let me announce to you that the grand young man whom Mrs. Moffet has been raving about is only a lad fifteen years old." "The idea! I'm sorry, but I can't read aloud tonight," said Arline, "I have a previous engagement." "Don't count on me," said Virginia, "I'm going to try some new music. Even will be glad to accommodate her." Coerced not," marked Eva, "she's fooled us all long enough with hints and suggestions about her charming son." Just then Mrs. Moffet glided in with a telegram in her hands. "Goodness!" she exclaimed, "my son just wired that he is going to spend the holidays with me here. I feared it was too far for him to come during vacation." "Who will help me plan some surprise for him, and I know he'll show his appreciation to you all when you visit me next summer." "Really," commenced Virginia, "I've other plans for next summer. So Agnes cancele your invitation." "Oh dear, I'm so disappointed, but then Arline you must stay all the longer," returned Mrs. Moffet. "She's been so enthusiastic about the rustic country life." "I am so sorry, Mrs. Moffet, but I am going to stay home this summer, and will have to look upon this visit as a deferred pleasure," replied Arline. The Glorious Future "Thank heaven my children will soon be old enough to take care of themselves." "Do you expect to give up working when they are able to do that?" "No; but I am looking forward to the time when I can use some of my earnings to have my trousers pressed and get my hair cut at least once every three months." Logical Progress. "The new show went like a breast" The hackers had to send a lot of drafts. --- Monarchs of Great Britain and Russia Find They Must Modify Their Ideas. Queen Mary on her husband's accession to the throne caused it to be known that she intended to revive the rules and regulations of Queen Victoria. She even went a step further, says the Metropolitan, and intimated that the men concerned in divorce cases, as respondents or as correspondents, would be regarded with disfavor in the highest quarters. Queen Victoria never visited her displeasures on the men implicated in divorce cases, save in the solitary instance of Sir Charles Dilke. Indeed several of her most famous and most trusted ministers, such as, for instance, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston and the now octogenarian Lord Llandaff, were mixed up in all sorts of divorce cases, without ever forfeiting either their office or her good will. Both King George and Queen Mary, however, found that it was quite impossible to put their avowed intentions into practice. They could not exclude 'divorced women from their court unless they barred therefrom the king's own first cousins, Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia and Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, as well as a host of other royal and imperial foreign personages more or less closely related to them by ties of blood. In Russia divorce was 'condemned formerly both by the court and by society. Moreover, it was extremely difficult to accomplish, being granted only on the grounds which would suffice to secure a degree of nullity from English and American tribunals, or else for infidelity. But in the latter case the legal conditions were exacting and the cost of a suit so expensive that demands for the dissolution of marriage ties were few and far between. Now, however, the situation has entirely changed. Divorces have become frequent in Russian society, and despite the objections of the emperor and of his Hessian born but English bred consort, the court has had to open its doors. Thus the wife of General Soukhlinomilin, the minion of war, one of the most popular figures and in the court of St. Petersburg and in the great war of St. banks of the Neva, was first married to the Butewitch, with whom her union was legally and ecclesiastically severed in 1909. A GREAT BARGAIN READY TRIMMED We want your trade. Will you pay which we offer to get your business are of Trimmed Hats that are sure to please satisfaction for our future business. SCHAFFER & JOHNSON, Phone A1 PHONE ALDINE 3458 IDA M. DEMPCY Stenographer and Typist 3716 Dearborn St. Chicago, M. Res. Phones: Doug. 2588 Auto 72-607 Dr. G. WILLIAM MILLER, Physician and Surgeon Office, 4709 State Street Hours: 8:41 A. M.; 1-3 and 6-8 P. M. Residence, 3552 Forrest Ave. Countess' Witte, wife of the former premier who represented Russia at the peace conference at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1905, and who is still a minister of state, is also a divorcee and is received at court. Moreover, there are a number of divorces in the imperial family itself, something wholly unknown until the present reign. Nile and Lake Once Connected. Geologists are not confined to the testimony of fossils in ascertaining the changes that have taken place on the earth's surface; sometimes living animals are equally good as evidence, and sometimes the vast and almost unexplored parts of the vast and almost the Sahara lies Lake Chad which now is the goal of many scientific expeditions. In several parts of this lake there have been found specimens of a fresh water shrimp of a variety found nowhere else except in the Nile. Seeds may be carried by birds for long distances, but the eggs of this shrimp are too fragile for this. The conclusion is that there must at some time, not too far away as geologists reckon, have been a junction between Lake Chad and the Nile or at least that the two must have been close enough so that in time of flood the waters mingled. Now they are separate by many miles of desert. This has been imperfectly explored, but it is known that for a lake of miles or more to the east of the lake there extends a series of depressions that might easily be the arm of an ancient arm of the lake. This region is almost flat, and the lake even now has a habit of shrinking for miles from its banks during the dry season. Possibly engineers of the future may reopen the old course. One of the members of the school committee undertook to sharpen up the wits of the boys by proponing the following question: "If I had a mince ple and should give two-twelths to John, two-twelths to Isaac, two-twelths to Harry, and should keep half the pie for myself, where was a profound study among the boys, but finally one lad held up his hand as a signal that he was ready to answer. 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 ha scalp trouble. And also carry a line o Mrs. J. Wallace. "Well, sir, what would there be left? Speak up loud so that all can hear," said the committee man. "The plate," shouted the hopeful fellow. The committee man turned red in the face, while the other members roared aloud! Too Much Continuous Performance. Little Madge contracted appendicitis, and had to be sent to the hospital to have an operation performed. She bore it all very coolly and pluckly. When she became convalescent, the surgeon came to remove the sutches that had been put in the wound. The child's plea of dignity was very much upset, and she demanded, indignantly: "Do you s'pose I come here to be all stitched up and then unpicked again?" FOREMAN'S II OPEN DAY WE PROMISE Good Home Prices, 20 LUNCH C. UNTIL We cater to dinner parties and serve all k Biscuites and home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th Street Harvey's South Handling all leading Colored Newspaper want to hear from home. Annual Subscription for Any Paper All of Chicago Paper Age.....New York The skate, when caught, grunts, groans and gasps pretty much after the manner of a human being in distress. Carp and gold fish frequently utter curious sounds, but hardly sounds in the meaning of the term here used, inasmuch as their sounds are produced by approaching the surface of the water and blowing out air in bubbles until a rippling noise is heard. The Main Reality. Critic—How the public flock to that play! And yet there is nothing real in it. Manager—Oh, yes, there is. There's real money in it. Questioner Floored Sounds Made by Fish The Main Reality 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. MRS. J. 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The North Shore Men's club will give their first complimentary party of the year at Phoenix hall, Division and Sedgwick streets, Monday evening. Mrs. Alling, who has been ill at the Lakeview hospital for the past two weeks, is reported better. All north side news should be sent direct to E. Gordon, our correspondent. Telephone water 8656. MISS LUVENIA CASWELL DANCES THE GOLDFISH GLIDE. Miss Luvena Caswell, 3001 Armour avenue, was given a birthday party on Thursday evening by her aunt, Mrs. C. M. Day, 6424 Vincenten avenue, in honor of her ninth birthday. Attorney Joe Bowles' household was to the little Miss Turnley, to do honor to the little Miss Carlo. Miss Caswell danced what she termed the goldfish glide—what she saw her fish do in the water. In the Sporting World. A little over a year ago a big strong athlete came over to this country from Germany with six other athletes. Among those six were Sampson, Mahmout, Billy Schutz, Hackenschmidt and Illa Vincent. These wrestlers were all friendly. They all wrestled in the same gymnasium in the European countries. Vincent was one of the leading athletes of the six. He came here peniless and told the Chicago sporting public that he could wrestle. A few unkind remarks were passed then by other colored friends that there was a man who thought he knew something about wrestling and who was to be seen on the Pekin stage. Many of the athletes went to Mr Robert Motts, who was handling Vincent's affairs at that time, telling him that they could throw that man any time, but he was never able to find the man that could do it. Later on the word got out that Vin- DR. A. BAILEY WILLIAMS, PHYBICIAN AND SURGEON. Hours: 11:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 3:30 p. m. 7 p. m. to 8:30 p. m., and by Appointment. Provident Hospital Daily, 9-11 a. m. 2329 State Street, Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` Phone Aldine 1050 cent was o long man at nothing about the tricks of wri After this gossip had gone a among the colored sports of Chica Mr. Motte made a statement on th stage that there had been so much talk about who could throw Vincent that he would give $50 to any colored man that could come up on the stage and stay five minutes with Vincent. Well, many of them tried it but not one of the bunch stayed any longer than two to three minutes. All you can hear around sporting circles today is that he is a man among men and he has a chance to wrestle any man in the game today. The sporting public have their eyes on Vincent and they see he is as good a wrestler as there is in the game today. They see that he is as fair and square as any one who ever entered the ring. Vincent has thrown as many as three men in one night, weighing from 150 to 300 pounds. This wrestling season Vincent has been in great demand. The public really wants to see what is in him. been in great demand. The public really wants to see what is in him. On New Year's night Vincent showed up as a great surprise to the wrestling fans at the Colseum by staying 3 hours and 5 minutes with Brox, the East Indian. The crowd was not with Vincent at the start but after showing his strength the crowd soon switched and began to cheer Vincent until the finish of the match, which proved true. Jess Pederson, the strongest of all the European wrestlers, thought that he would be able to down the colored wonder in 20 minutes and put up a forelt. The Empire club staged it on Friday, Jan. 5, at the Empire theater. The strong man failed to throw Vincent and Pedersen lost his forelt. Vincent now has Chicago with him and he will show the public just what he can do. MASTER HAND PREPARED NEW YEAR'S DINNER. A few men by the was some- was to Mr. Vin- him in any and the Vin- Mrs. Cross, 6418 Champlain avenue, who was ill at Provident hospital for some considerable time, returned home restored to health and celebrated the occasion by preparing a splendid New Year's dinner. Those at the dinner, of course, rejoiced at her recovery, but her many friends who were not there rejoice also. Burden-Sharing a Duty. It is the duty of each generation to bear its own burden. GAIN SALE OF FEED HATS you pay us a visit next time? The inducements less are LOW PRICES and surpassing VALUES to please you. We depend on your completeess. SON, :: 3247 State Street Some Aldine 1060 Phone Calumet 2822 Established 1924 DAYNE'S HAND LAUNDRY 2409 Webash Avenue. Keep your linen in repair. Wagons call everywhere. Smith & Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Extra Fine Home Cooking Private Dining Room 6286 State Street Chicago Telephone Main 2017 J. A. 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Any Paper, mailed direct from any of these offices. --- City Churches—Religious News Frederick Douglas Center. Sunday afternoon, January 14, at 4 p. m., Rev. H. E. Peabody, of the South Congregational church, will give an address, subject, "David Livingston." Mrs. H. B. Stovel will give a piano solo. A Ladies' Quartette will give several vocal numbers. Bethel Literary Club Sunday, January 14th, at 4 o'clock, the Bethel Literary Club will be addressed by Mr. Geo. P. Smith, manager of the C. H. Green Mfg. Co. The meeting is held in the interest of the colored business men. Fine musical program for the occasion. General discussion after the address. Grace Presbyterian Church. Owing to the illness of Rev. Jackson the service of the Men's Club was postponed until next Sunday evening. There will be a meeting of the club after the morning service. Mr. Roger Williams, husband of one of our former members is ill. The Williams reside in Glencoe. Mrs. J. Moore, Mrs. J. E. McKinney, Mrs. Mamie Hancock, Donald and Rev. M. H. Jackson are on the sck list. Mr. E. A. W. Johnson, president of Bethel C. E. Society visited our society Sunday evening and spoke a few words of encouragement to us. He as accompanied by Miss Irene Mcay, secretary of the society. The Endeavors will hold their monthly business meeting and social at the residence of Miss Blanche Shelton, 3425 Dearborn St., Jan. 19th. 2023 The Volunteer Workers' Club. The Volunteer Workers' club held their installation of officers, Wednesday, Jan. 10, at the home of Mrs. Jones, 5138 Indiana avenue. Mrs. Virginia Wills, the vice president, was hostess. The installation exercises were opened by singing "A Charge to Keep I Have." Prayer by Mother Wills. Mrs. Lewis, state organizer. Installed the officers in an impressive and dignified manner, after which each officer made brief remarks. Visitors were Mesames Cook of Sparta, Ill., Irene Lewis, Bell, Michan Jones and Frice, president of the King's Daughters. Each made short addresses in behalf of the club. After routine business the club closed the meeting by singing. The hostess invited the guests to the dining room which was decorated in pink and green. The menu was stewed chicken, peas, potatoes, hot biscuits, coffee, ice cream and cake. Meeting Jan. 17, at Mrs. Laurella Chandlers, 6353 Rhodes Avenue. ```markdown ``` On last Sunday two very eloquent sermons were delivered by the pastor, as follows: Morning, Text Psalm 12. "His delight is in the law of the Lord." Subject, A Metropolitan Representation of the Scriptures. Night, Text, St. Luke 12-20. "How readest You Subject." "Reading the Scriptures." Next Sunday is Quarterly Meeting day. Rev. W. A. Jackson, presiding elder and editor of the C. M. E. Indicator, will be present and will preach for us morning and evening. Communion at 3 p. m. The Epworth League is succeeding nicely under its most excellent president, Bro. Wm. Y. Bell. Dr. Dr. Callis adds the League on last Sunday evening. We are doing exceedingly well under our new pastor, Rev. T. L. Scott. Since coming to us the church has taken on new life. He has been with us only six weeks during which time there have been 30 new members added to the church. A little baby daughter has made her appearance in the pastor's family. Both mother and daughter are getting along nicely. Preaching Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening and class meeting Friday. Epworth league, Sunday, 6 p.m. Walters A. M. E. Zion Church. revival services closed on last day night, the extreme cold kept away from the services on Sunday and Monday. During the meet 60 persons have been brought in church. sunday services: Early morning er meeting at 6:00 a.m. At 11:00 a. the sacrament of baptism by nanking will be administered, canutes are requested to be prompt in endance. At 12 o'clock the sacrament of baptism will be administered immersion. Candidates please be impt. sunday school at 1:00 p.m. W. J. ridge, superintendent. At 2:30 p. m., all of the men of the church whether members or friends, e requested to meet the pastor in the vestry of the church. Please don't al to come. At 3:00 p. m. Mrs. E. L. Howard will reach a special sermon to the young people of Chicago. All are invited to his service. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. C. J. Jackson, pres. Rev. H. J. Callis will preach at 8:00 p. m. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society was delightfully entertained by Miss Nellie Inman last Wednesday night. They will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. Mattle Bell 3617 Dearborn St. Presiding Elder T. H. Tipton closed up the work of the adjourned quarterly conference on last Thursday night, the reports showed the church in a splendid condition and the presiding elder was much gratified with the work done during the quarter. ST. THOMAS' DORCAS CLUB. This organization of S. Thomas' church will give a unique entertainment next Wednesday evening. Jan. 17th, in their Guild Hall at the church. It bears the title of "The Peddler's Fair." The audience will be seated in rows along the streets and avenues, and as the peddlers pass by may make purchases of whatever eatables they have. The characters will represent Italians, Greeks, Germans, Gypians, and even Aunt Jemima will be "in town" with her pancakes. All side streets have been discarded. These peddlers won't call their wares on no less popular streets than State, and Wabash and Michigan Ave. Every chair will represent a dwelling. When they strike the Armour residence they expect to sell out everything on hand. We wonder who is going to be Armour. There is no admission fee. All are invited to attend, and bring a few nickels along for popcorn, if you do not care for weiners and sauer kraut, ice cream, coffee and pancakes. OUT IN ENGLEWOOD Weekly Letter From This Thriving Section of the City—All the News. Mrs. Will Hill of 6045 Loomls street gave a birthday party in honor of their little daughter Sadie last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Prier of 1346 61st street gave a party Friday evening in honor of her mother, Mrs. Fisher. Rally at Shiloh Baptist church the last Sunday in this month. The officers of the Sunday school were installed Sunday by the pastor, Rev. Harris. Mrs. Ruth Jordan of 6215 Throop street, who has been sick for the last few months, has gone to Louisville, Ky., to live with her brother. Mrs. F. H. Smith of 6024 Aberdeen street met with a little accident last week but is getting along all right now. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of 6029 Loom street have as their guests his sister and nephew of Ohio. Mr. D. W. Johnson, 6024 South May street, is still suffering with a bad cold. ROMEO CAUGHT IN CHIMNEY Curious Antics of a Breton Lover Arouse Excitement in Village in Brittany. This story comes straight from Morlalk, a very modern place in Brittany. Our Romeo, like Chaucer's hero, was caught in the chimney. He was going to his sweetheart, instead of running away from her. The pretty Juliette was a distance of some seven miles from his home. The enamored Romeo tramped it on foot all that distance. At night he reached the house, and called, but got no answer. As the door was shut he decided to try the roof. On the roof he found the chimney, and it seemed to him that was quite wide enough to let him down. He descended for some distance, but then, as he came near the fireplace, the chimney narrowed. He slipped and got in a narrow neck. Here he was caught, unable to move up or down. Before long he felt a suffocating sensation. If the thing lasted much longer it would be the end of him. He could stand it no more. After groaning he yelled, and he bellowed so well that not only was his sweetheart disturbed in her slumbers, but the whole village was excited. The nearest chimney-sweep was called, but he could not help him out. The gendarmes woke up the mayor, and he, with all the notables of the place, went to look. They consulted among them, and the only way to liberate the captive lover was to pull down part of the chimney. This was done by some masons, and he was presently released, but before being allowed his freedom a police report was drawn up, with a view to inflicting a series of fines for breaking into a private incostume, damaging other people's property, waking up the authorities unnecessarily, and causing a public scandal. Poor Romeo was very sad when it was all over—Paris Correspondence, London Telegraph. Walnut High in Food Value Walnuts High in Food Value. The food value of walnuts is very high. They are very rich in fat, containing as much as 63 per cent, while the proteins amount to nearly 15 per cent. It has been calculated that 30 large walnut kernels contain as much fat as 29 pounds of lean beef, and yet the walnut is used as a supplement to a square meal. Added to this the glass of port, say two fluid ounces, contains besides 180 grains of alcohol, 70 grains of grape sugar. In the combination, therefore, we have all the elements which make for a complete diet—viz.; Fat, protein, carbohydrate, to which may be added mineral salts. Port and walnuts after a meal are therefore, from a nutritive point of view, "ridiculous excess," and may lead to digestive disturbance. Both walnuts and port wine contain tannin, which is unsuitable to some constituations. Home of the Lima Bean About half the lima bean crop in the world is produced by a coastwise strip of California, including Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. Peculiar climatic conditions are required, and the only other section where the bean has been grown successfully is the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. England takes the entire island output. Daily Thought. Nothing in the world is so hard to counter as suspicions that cannot in the nature of things be disproved or brought to the test of fact, that relate less to the present than to some indefinite future, and that tend through infinite repetition and by their very uselessness to acquire a certain credibility.—Sydney Brooks. Music of the Hawk There is not much to be said for hawk music, yet the voice of the forest would lose the charm of its wildest note were this great bird extinct, and it is because it is wild and different from sounds of every day that we love it. Then, as a picture seen from afar, the forest would never be complete without these birds of tireless wing hanging over it, and reigning upon their thrones of air. Charming and Gifted Helpmeet of the Dominion's Distinguished Prime Minister. Ottawa, Can.—In Mrs. Robert Laird Borden, wife of Canada's prime min- lister, the Dominion has a society leader who is famed not only for her tact and charming disposition, but for her intellectual qualities. Her knowledge of public affairs would do credit to statesman an it is said that her distinguished husband places the utmost confidence in her judgment. She is an exceptionally well-read woman, being especially interested in books which deal with the lives of men who have made the world's his- Mrs. Borden. tory. But it is not to be presumed because Mrs. Borden's tastes lie along serious lines that she is in any way lacking in the grace of manner and interest in purely feminine matters which distinguish the true woman. On the contrary she takes the keenest delight in society affairs, having for years been the central figure in the winter festivities for which Ottawa is noted. She has gathered about her a coterie of distinguished and clever friends and her entertainments are considered the most brilliant as well as the most informal given in the capital of the Dominion. Sympathetic, gracious and thoughtful for the comfort of her guests, no woman in Canada's public life is more deserving of appreciation than the wife of the prime minister. Before her marriage, Mrs. Borden was Miss Laura Bond of Halifax. She was married in 1889, seven years before her husband first entered parliament. She takes a deep interest in women's work and for years was president of the Halifax Women's council. She has also been president of the Aberdeen association, vice-president of the Canadian Women's Work exchange and corresponding secretary of the Associated Charities of the United States. KANSAS TAR PARTY Where Several Members of the Crowd Who Mistreated Mias Chamberlain Now Reside. Lincoln Center, Kan.-The jail on the court house common at Lincoln Center, Kan., had been without a single prisoner and the county authorities were about to convert it into an engineercom when the now famous "tar party" at Shady Bend occurred. Ed Ricord, the decoy, who rode with Miss Mary Chamberlain to the rendezvous for the tarring, and several others of the party now occupy the building. The front widow seen in the picture lights the cell where Ricord now reads law. The stone of which the jail and the court house of Lincoln county were built is native to the county. It was quarried for the two buildings from the hillsides near Lincoln Center. Miss Chamberlain intended to bring suits for damages against all the participants in the tarring, but proceed- Jall at Lincoln Center, Kan. ings were started for a compromise and it is said that $25,000 is the least her attorneys would agree to accept in settlement. The three men, E. C. Clark, Jay Fitzwater and Watson Scranton, who pleaded guilty, and John Schmidt, who was convicted, are worth in the aggregate more than $100,000. Clark alone being rated in excess of $50,000. Their pleas of guilty and the conviction of Schmidt leave them exposed for damages, and, it is said, that upon the advice of their attorneys they would compromise rather than to go into court where they might be stripped clean. YAWN DISLOCATES HER JAW Pennsylvania Young Woman Suffers Second Mishap Before She Recover From the First. Scranton, Pa.—When Miss Nina Fralley, who is prominent in Honeysuckle society, arose this morning she yawned so hard that she dislocated her jaw. Members of the family heard Miss Fralley groaning and rushed to her room, where they found her in great pain. Miss Fralley could not explain. She could only groan and point to her extended jaw and wide-open mouth. Dr. L. W. Powell placed the patient under ether and reset the jaw. As Miss Fralley was recovering from the effects of the anesthetic she again attempted to yawn, with a similar result. The physician performed the second operation and advised her to indulge in outdoor exercise, but to forego the dangerous indoor sport of rawning. Father's Joy Unabated Guthrie, Okla.—At sixty-four years of age, W. W. Elam, a farmer living living east of Blanchard, Okla., is the father of his twenty-four child, which made its appearance at his home a few days ago. The mother of the child is Elam's third wife. Of his twenty-four children, eighteen are living. GUESS WHO? The new geezer of 39th St. is. Beauregard, the best of fare at Dude M's party, for Beanacaters only. The bums are. They are that the little girl can join the Beanacaters if they ask the King. The bugging bug is quite buggy. The pot is not. The King says that an optimist is one the lemons to nibble on the lemons that are handed to him. Some King. I got you. Mamie. The laughing stock of Chicago is. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS FURNISHED ROOMS. For Rent. STATE ST., 3218—Elegant furnished front room and two other light rooms for rent. Light room in every room, including gas and all conveniences. M. Baldwin, top lat. Automatic 72889. 64 VERNON AVE., 3715—A nicely furnished, light room for steam heated. Telephone 32892 Douglas. 6-13 VERNON AVE., 3817, 2nd lat.-Large, light, furnished room to rent; steam heated, modern conveniences. Phone Aldine 1007. INDIANA AVE., 4046, 2nd lat.-Nearly furnished room to rent, steam heated, near express "L" trains and Indiana Ave. car line. Phone 6248 Drexel. 6-13 FOR RENT - Furnished large front room, RENT heat, kitchen privilege; married couple preferred. 3306 Vernon Ave. 6-13 19759. TO RENT-SECOND FLAT AT 6544 Vinegines ave.; 6 rooms; furnace or light; 6 rooms; all light; 23. Apply to 6501 Rhodus VERNON AVE. 3420-First class large furnished rooms to rent, with modern conveniences and kitchen privileges Phone Aldine 1246. al RHODES AVE. 3263-Neatly furnished room to rent, all modern improvements. NEATLY FURNISHED or unfurnished room for food, for wife and or gentleman, for children, in room. 3324 Vernon Ave. near 35th St. car line. Phones Douglas 2093 or Auto. 72-007. WABASH AVE., 3308-Large front room, hot and cold water. 3218 STATE ST.—Beautifully furnished room, with heat, light, suitable for light housekeeping, with gas and all conveniences; top floor. Phone Auto. 72899. WABASH AVE., 3128-2d flat, furnished room, with heat, light, suitable for light housekeeping or two gentlemen or two young ladies. 36TH ST. 65 EAST-2nd flat, neatly furnished rooms, well heated, hot and cold water, all modern improvements. Phone Auto. 78553. FOREST AVE., 3640-For rent, well furnished rooms, including 2 front rooms; hot and cold water, steam heat; exten- sionally comfortable. NEATLY FURNISHED room with mod- ern improvements. 3851 Aldine St. 5250 Douglas. Steam heat, hot and cold water. CALUMET AVE., 3611½-Nearly furnished rooms, furnace heat, hot water. Automatic phone 71-745. VERNON AVE., 3406—2nd flat, light, warm rooms for married couples; run warm rooms two closest kitchen, private legs, coal and wood furnished. $3.50 per week. FOR RENT—3 rooms for light house- ware. AVE. or flat, them separately. Apply Mrs. J. Hadley, 1917 Jackson Ave. Evanson. FOREST AVE., 3753—Furnished rooms, modern conveniences. FURNISHED or unfurnished rooms for rent; steam heat. 3602% Forest Ave. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—One room. Apply W. H. Htwigg, 1621 Sherman Ave., Evanson. nl. 6-12 VERNON AVE., 3533—To rent, nicely furnished room, for man and w/ or w/ guestman; steam heat. 3d flat. Phone 115 Douglas. FLAT FOR BENT VINCENNES AVE., 6544, 2nd flat--Sixt large, light rooms, toilet, bath, furnace or stove heat. Apply to 6501 Rhodes Ave. GOLD MATCH LOST. LADIES GOLD WATCH LOST between the Y. M. C. A. headquarters and 32nd and Wabash. Finder will please return to Y. M. C. A., 3303 State St. CLUBS AND SECRET SOCIETIES. Unique Temple, Lady Elks, meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each week. The Temple is located on bash avenue; Mattie Taylor, Fin. Sec. 2024 Dearborn Street, No. 43, I. B. P. O. of E. W.—Meets the 1st and 4th Friday Hulette's Hall, 2712 State street. H. W. Rhea, Secretary, 6430 Vincentnes avenue; Hulette, Exalted Ruler, 2712 Calumet avenue. St. Monica's Church Dearborn and 30th streets. Rev. John S. Morris. Residence 3622 Wahab. Washah. presentation, 4 p. m., Sunday. Instruction for converts. Monday and Friday evenings in church at 8 p. m. COURT GENERAL ROBERT ELLIOTT. No. 7395. Ancient Order of Foresters; meets second and fourth Monday night in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 3435 Sullivan street. Edge Guild. Chief Ranger, F. W. Babb, 5345 Dearborn street, phone 6510 Drex. Neville Street, phone 3422 Dearborn street, phone 1830 Alden. Treasurer, Frank L. Crittenden, 2414 Dearborn street, phone 3219 Calumet. Queer Monument A monument erected in the Straglieno cemetery has a very curious history. It is that of an old woman of Genoa, who made a living by selling strings of nuts in the streets. By frugality and industry she succeeded in amassing a small fortune in this way, and then commissioned a well known sculptor of Genoa, Luigi Orengo, to make a life size portrait of her in marble just as she appeared at her pitch in the street. This statue she ordered to be placed in the famous Straglieno cemetery, probably the largest in the world.—World Wide Magazine. Outlook for Peace. "Scientists tell us that the sea is gradually cutting the continents away." "That being the case, I suppose the time will come when there won't be any land left above the water." "It would seem so." "Peace may some day be established after all." BUESS WHO FROM EVANSTON. "No, I'm not," the woman grown is then walled calling to "Abbey's" in Abbeyville, his ears. Better borrow mother's shawl, the one that is lost her husband Sunday night. The brown is that will be the "Prince" of the Leap Year party. Oh, you Clark Street. Is wondering how it all came about. Is wondering how it still is recyling Christmas presents. DEATHS OF THE WEEK DEATHS OF THE WEEK Atkins, James, 33 years, 1237 State St.; Jan. 3. Bristol, Marshall, 21 years, 3832 Dearborn St.; Jan. 6. Britt, Melvin R., 3 mos., 6208 Ada St.; Bradley, Rebecca, 34 years, 3238 State St.; Jan. 4. Carter, Robt., 7 mos., 6951 Monroe Ave.; Darvey, Lydia, 55 years, 1019 Franklin; Dan, Hattie F., 34 years, 4001 Grand Blvd.; Jan. 4. Dickenson, Edw. A., 18 years, 5744 Grove; Early, Luther, 3800 Armour; Jan. 6. Hickey, Peter, 50 years, 5781 Dearborn; Jan. 6. Jackson, Robt. D., 53 years, 8846 Indiana; Early, Henry, 166 So. Ann St.; Jan. 1. Mapp, Whitfield F., 48 years, 4282 Cottage Ave.; Jan. 4. Murdock, Letha, 35 years, 2839 Armour; Jan. 1. Meyers, Taylor, 56 years, 3516 State St.; Jan. 3. Martin, Perry M., Jr., 32 years, 2161 Waplecket, Chas., 61 years, 1374 Fulton St.; Jan. 4. Pearlman, Eva, 34 years, 1108 W. Randolph; Jan. 8. Roas, Mary, 54 years, 2956 La Salle St.; Jan. 5. Smith, Lucille, 21 years, 3849 State St.; Jan. 8. Shore, Betsey C., 35 years, 5400 Armour; Shilcup, Chas., 4013 Armour; Jan. 5. Sillars, Ebhel H., 3 mos., 3983 Dearborn; Jan. 4. Williams, Wiley, 28 years, 2830 State St.; Wheeler, Woody W., 2 mos., 48 W. St.; Jan. 4. Wiley, Eunice, 39 years, 26 E. 24th St.; Jan. 4. Mrs. Ellen Freeman departed this life Saturday evening, Dec. 30, of pneumonia Mrs. Mabel Roun. Her remains areaughed Mrs. Mabel Roun. Her remains areaughed her old home, Jacksonville, il. for dural. Services were held in Mount Emery Expedition member, Rev. John Kirk officiating. His text was Job, chapter 23, 10th verse. The celebration expressed in the sermon was. Mrs. Kirk presided forth as gold. Jr. Mrs. Kirk presided at the organ. The congregation joined in the celebration. And other favorite songs that she loved. She fell asleep in the arms of Jesus. HUMOR OF THEIR OWN MAKE No Profession, Trade or Industry But Has Its Own Technical Jokes. There is hardly a profession, trade or industry nowadays that does not have a periodical or organ of its own. And few, indeed, are the publications of this kind that do not devote a weekly or monthly page to the "lighter side" of the branches of human activity to which they are devoted. This technical humor has a twofold interest for the layman, that of the jokes and anecdotes he can appreciate on the one hand and that of those which are incomprehensible to him on the other. He finds no difficulty, for instance, in the familiar anecdote of the bank president's daughter w/o, on being informed that her account was overdrawn, severely told the paying teller "not to let it happen again or she would have to speak to papa about it;" but he would very likely be unable to see the humor of a banking story whose point lay in some detail of the routine of the clearing house. And yet the latter might be by far the better of the two. The fun of the story of the new boy in the machine shop who is told to fetch a bucket of steam from the engine room is obvious enough, but that of an anecdote turning on some technical point of machine construction will appeal only to the institute. Medicine has its strictly professional anecdotes of sickroom, consulting room and operating room, many of which would be grisly to the layman if he could grasp their meaning; but it has also, for his amusement, its tales of the amazing misinterpretations of medical directions by the unsophisticated patients, chiefly of Irish and German nativity. The church and the law, the arts and the sciences all have this double form of humor. No doubt even the undertaker's shop has its fund of anecdote. One willingly takes it for granted. The body of humor keeps close step with progress and development in all the professions, trades and industries. The humorous columns of their organs are there to prove it. No doubt aviation has already developed a fund of technical anecdotes of its own. Origin of the Stocking A writer in a French newspaper has been investigating the origin of stockings. It appears that Henry II. when preparing for the marriage of his sister in 1559 first conceived the idea of silk hose, and was the first to wear silk knitted stockings at that epoch-making event. A hundred years later one Hindra established a factory for stockings in the Bois de Boulogne. This was the first hosiery factory in France. It was a success at the start, and, when it received protection from the then ministers, it was a kind of gold mine. In 1663 the venture was turned into a company. From it arose "the Society of Silk Stocking Makers." What Was In Her Heart: "Tell me," he sighed—"tell me, beautiful malden, what is in your heart?" The girl gave him a look of lecy disdain, and then vouchsafed the monosyllable, "Blood!" F M. The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M FINEST THEATRE 3110-12 State St., Performers Send tr The New Gran ious Vaudeville and Moving Stage of Program Monday and The NEST THEATRE IN AMERIC State St., Chicago Performers Send in Your Open Time La Verdo Cafe and B (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. American Restaurant in Connection. High Class HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors. ar.. ment Office Want The New Grand 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 The LaVerdo C (Cafe New) 3100-2 South Chicago Chinese and American Restaurant in Coun- HARRY J. KEL ..Star.. Employment Office Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection. High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors. Private Waiting Parlor for Ladies Lounging Room for Men M. WINCHESTER 3223 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 2411 THE NEW CAFE AND 3030 STAT PHONE THE NEW ELITE FE AND BUFF 3030 STATE STREET THE NEW ELITE CAFE AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET 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 HARRIS Palace Restaura ace Restau 1701 State Street. (Opposite Mott's Pekin Theater.) C. T. Street, Proprietor. Home Cooking a Specialty. of Fare. Best Crea Modern Bill of Fare. NELSON PEPPERS ONE WORD ADV ADVERT ONE WORD ADVERTISE Phone Douglas 4482 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 New Grand Mall and Moving Pictures Monday and Thursday CINEMA IN AMERICA Chicago, Ill. In Your Open Time Automatic Phone 71001 Cafe and Buffet (Newly Opened) North State Street Chicago, Ill. Connection. High Class Entertainers KELLY, Proprietors. Wanted! Men and Women for All Kinds of Laboring Work. Butlers, Porters, Walters and Cooks. General House Work for Women Cooks, Malds, Laundresses. IN AND OUT OF THE CITY Phone, Douglas 8256 NEW ELITE D BUFFET STEET STREET Iiquors and Cigars Specialty CASS HARRIS, Mgr. Restaurant State Street. It's Pekin Theater.) Steet, Proprietor. King a Specialty. Best Creamery Butter. Phone: Cal. 2082 Automatic 63237 NELSON PEPPERS Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting 56 E. 30TH STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Automatic Phone 71001 Phone, Douglas 8256 Automatic 63237 1 HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES Find Petrified Daddy of All Lobsters ARE YOU FOND OF LOBSTER MISS HIGHKICK? CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The progenitor of all the lobsters and the original oyster that existed eons before the first man who was brave enough to swallow one, have been added to the geological collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and they are only two of 2,000 specimens of petrified remains of prehistoric creatures gathered by Prof. Hervey Shimer and Mrs. Shimer during a six months' tour of Bohemia, France, England, Ireland, Wales and other countries. The lobster, a fine specimen, existed about 50,000,000 years ago, the geologists calculate. It was found in the mountains near Bohemia and many miles from the sea. This is not to say that lobsters grow on trees in those remote days; the water, receding in the course of ages, left the lobster stranded and he got petrified. Similar but much more modern phenomena are not unknown here. Harvard and "Tech" students are sometimes left stranded. --- PHILADELPHIA.—Through the recent death of Miss Jane R. Haines, after a lifetime spent within its rambling, tradition-hunted halls, Wyck, the ancestral Haines mansion, at Germantown avenue and Walnut lane, is threatened with possible destruction, should the historic ground on which it stands be sold. Under its weather-beaten caves repose perhaps, more sturdy mementos of Philadelphia's history than in any other private mansse of the many for which the city is famous. Flooring upon which the blood of British and American soldiers mingled during the battle of Germantown, is stored for keepsake in its cobwebbed old attic. The chair in which Lafayette sat when he visited Germantown in 1824, and when he was given a reception at Wyck, is still to be found in the midst of the silent quietness of the now untenanted old homestead. The nucleus for the old structure was first built in 1698, by one Dirck Jansen, whose daughter married one Caspar Wistar; through the marriage of Wistar's daughter to Reuben Halnes in 1760, and by subsequent inheritance through direct kinship, Miss Haines came into possession of the long, white, hospitable-seeming old structure, which took its name from an old English residence belonging to the family. The Germantown road, when the Farm Waif Wins Fortune in the City KANSAS CITY, Kan.—There is in this city a woman, still young, whose ambition was born when she was an unsophisticated country girl of 13, who did not know what failure meant, and who came to the city and made a fortune. In open competition with shrewd financiers and daring speculators. Annie J. Scott, a penniless orphan, was sent to a farm in Lafayette county, Mo., when she was 8 years old, as nursemaid and "help." The success of a neighbor's child incited her to study and save money, so that she might attend the Warrensburg Normal school. She milked cows, butter and saved $50. Then she went to Warrensburg and worked her way in three years through the normal school, graduating in 1894. Her first ambition was to become a missionary, but she became ill and was cared for at the German Hospital in Kansas City. There she determined to be a doctor, and in 1897 en-force her health was Aged Newsie Leaves Hoard to Church ST. LOUIS.—Lawrence Ring, for years a familiar character in the vicinity of Third and Chestnut streets, where he sold papers, died at the City Hospital of anoplexy. Recently his will was filed for probate, and after that tales of fortunes deposited in various banks were heard. "Larry" lived the life of a recluse. His home was a single room in the antiquated structure at 6 North Third street. There he came of an evening, cooked his modest supper, smoked his pipe and pored for hours over the news of the world. He was believed to be about 75 years old. He was a veteran of the civil war and a pensioner. He was on the vessel which was blown up at Fort Fisher. Of often it was his greatest pride to tell. Of often he declared that Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila, had been his captain. But he never told anyone he had a bank account. In his will he leaves to the pastor of the old cathedral on Walnut street $50 for masses for the repose of his soul and the rest to the church fund. He named the Mississippi Valley Trust Company executor. Just what the "rest" will amount to no one knows. However, his deposit at the trust company was but $100. He also had a safety deposit box in his name at that institution, which has not NINGS dly of All Lobsters after buying many lobsters of a night, but they do not get petrified, of course. Millions of years after this particular lobster passed away the sporty young men of the stone age cracked its descendants with their flint hatchets and treated the stony show girls of that period. Indeed, some geologists claim that the term "lobster" as applied to sporty young men who do that sort of thing lies descended from the stone age; they have been doing so ever since. The petrified oyster is much more ancient than any ever found in a church stew. It also lived and breathed and had its troubles and joys 500,000,000 years ago. Prof. Shimer found it atop the Jura mountains in north Switzerland. How it got there only geologists can tell you; perhaps oysters carried alpinstocks in those days. In the collection are relatives of the nautilus family estimated to be 9,000,000 years old. They were found, too, in north Switzerland. Nowadays the nautilus exists only at the bottom of southern seas, so the family seems to have come down... bit in the course of time. But so have other families. The learned Shimers picked up the internal skeleton of an extinct squid; it is of about the same age as the nautilus ancestors. 9,000,000 years. original house was built, was nothing but a winding woodland path, and an Indian trail diverging from it passed where now stands the conservatory on the Walnut land side of the house. So much did the early settlers respect this Indian right of way that it was temporarily arched over in the enlargement of the building, and so remained until long after Germantown avenue was opened. Apart from its historic significance this fine old haphazer bit of progressive building, between the dates of whose earlier and later* portions runs the span of more than two centuries is a favorite object for the artist's brush to capture for portrayal or surround. Surrounded by a high pickle fence, and facing on a primarily roman tic old garden, this veteran of aule lang syne stands lost in an atmosphere of bygone reveries, waiting the sound of strange voices which shall say whether or not it is to remain or go the way of so many of the long forgotten mansions of old German town. tered the medical college of the University of Kansas, where on graduation she finished third in a class made up almost wholly of men students, was the winter of the first smallpox epidemic in Kansas City. She was employed by the city and cared for 2,000 smallpox patients. When she left her position with the city in 1902 she had $2,000. With two partners she invested it in an 11-acre tract near Forty third, street and the State line This tract was platted in city lots and marketed, and in a year she had her $2,000 back and $5,000 more. Then she put the $7,000 in an adjoining tract of 22 acres, with the same partners, and they cleared $55,000. In the succeeding five years she built and sold 200 houses and cleared more than $100,000. She draws her own plans, buys her own material and personally "bosses" each job she undertakes, overseeing every detail of the work. In 1908 this young woman of 33 who a few years before had been an ignorant country girl, without money, friends or relatives, paid the penalty of her success by breaking down in health. She was in a nervous collapse and had to cause working. She lost more than half her fortune before her health was restored. LAWRENCE RING been opened as the key could not be found. Father Eugene Coyle, pastor of the old cathedral,' said Ring had been a regular attendant it early mass Sundays as long as he could remember. An Italian grocer at Third and Chestnut streets said Ring was well to do and said the old man had told of a saving of $4,000. His room was modestly furnished and orderly, but there was nothing of value to be seen. Ring had been slick a week, and was taken to the City Hospital a few nights ago, friends having telephoned the dispensary that he was unconscious. It is said by some Ring had no relatives; others declare he visited some of his kin at Rochester, N. Y., three months ago, and had stated the trip cost him $150 Her Preference Consistency, thou art a jewel, but the average woman would rather have a diamond.—Washington Post. HOTEL NEWS All Up-to-date Hotel News and News of Bell Hops. James Pangburn, the well known and popular captain at the Palmer House restaurant, received a most flattering offer to accept a position at the Seelback hotel in Louisville, Ky. Wm. Matthews' report on the furniture season in Grand Rapids, Mich., tells us it was the greatest in years. Matthews is one of our boys but want to G. R. to work at the Pantlid hotel during the furniture exhibition. Mr. Lester, the head waiter at the Palmer House cafe, informed the reporter that Saturday, Jan. 6, was the largest business day the cafe has had during his 10 years of service there. News from Richard Fletcher, one of our best men in the business, is to the effect that the Park hotel in Hot Springs, Ark., where Dick is now camping, is now filled to overflowing. Many eastern guests are there and more coming. He expects a large season and will no doubt need extra men. The Pantilind hotel, one of Grand Rapids, Mich., old land marks, will be demolished in the spring to make room for a new hotel on the most approved style. More information concerning same later. The Plaza hotel, situated on North avenue and Clark street, is to all outward appearances one of the best hotels of its size in the city and as far as apartments go it is all O. K. But the dining room service is undoubtedly the poorest yet encountered. Carl Morine, an excellent man, is handicapped because of lack of sufficient men. The number allowed him cannot possibly handle the guests. They are fine fellows, understanding their work thoroughly. But in many instances they are compelled to wash their silver and dishes before they can serve and in consequence they are seemingly slow in their service and are fined for something which is not their fault. If these men would but stand together and demand their rights it would be better for all parties concerned. No, they would rather play bus, buy receive no more salary and have part of that taken from them because of something they could not help. It is the place of the management to furnish sufficient waiters, including bus boys, in order that the head waiter will not be compelled to forget his dignity and dash across the dining room with water bottles or any kind of table necessities. If the managers wish you to work like dogs, doing twice as much as your position calls for, then, for the benefit of future waiters, demand your rights and in the end you will gain the respect of your employers, which you can never hope to have if you remain a "mutt." Mr. William C. Casey, head waiter of the Del Prado hotel, writes that he is still in the hotel business, holding down the position of head waiter and general supervisor of service in that hotel. He reports that the management has spent $125,000 in improvements within the last year and the hotel is now up-to-date in every way. Wednesday evening dances, and dinner parties nearly every evening, but as Mr. Casey supervised the service in the Del Prado about seven years heretofore, he finds the task an easy one. He became head waiter in the Hyde Park hotel during the World's Fair and has since that time filled a similar position in such hotels as the Windermere hotel, the Stratford, formerly the Leland hotel, Jackson and Michigan avenue; the New Southern hotel, 15th and Michigan avenue; the Del Prado hotel, and the Aberdeen hotel, St. Paul, Minn. All of these hotels gave Mr. Casey a flattering recommendation, which will show the excellent service rendered therein. Furthermore, Mr. Casey is unlike most men, not being merely satisfied with the position of head waiter. He is ambitious, studious and progressive, having qualified as a stenographer, took a course in real estate and qualified as a notary public. IN THE RAIL ROAD CENTER By J. R. Winston. Happy New Year, Boys. "Old Fifty" is still on the job and hoping that you will do better by him this year than you did last year, in the way of subscriptions to The Chicago Defender. Mr. W. Payne, 6424 Vincennes ave., is in the Pullman service over the Chicago Great Western Ry. Co. lines to Minneapolis. Mr. C. Smith, 2609 4th ave., south, Minneapolis, Minn., is in Pullman service to Des Moines, Ia. W. A. Bell, 245 Henderson St., Jersey City, N. J., and crew, were in Chicago, June 7th, in service of the Erie Ry. Co., from New York City. Edward Brooks, 3032 State St., who is in the service of the Chicago Great Western Railroad company, between Chicago and Minneapolis, Minn., got his ears, nose and foot frozen from fagging on a hand car between Hampton and Empire, Minn., Jun. 5th. Mr. John R. Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove Ave, is again on Trols No. 1 and 2, Chicago Great Western Ry, in passenger service to Minneapolis. Keeping a Fortune. It is one of the significant signs of the times that there is an ever-increasing business of "looking after" estates, insuring and dispensing incomes to the idle heirs and the incompetent. The question is often asked, "Why should he work? His father left him rich." The work of "keeping a fortune is, in reality, a business in itself, and sometimes it is more difficult than the making. To be employed in that business is nobler than haunting hotel lobbies or sitting in club windows.—New York Mall. English Scientific Authority Declares That Colored, Races Will Eventually Rule the Earth. If we are to take seriously the predictions of Professor Lionel W. Lyde of London University the outlook for the white man on the face of the earth is If we are to take seriously the predictions of Professor Lionel W. Lyde of London University the outlook for the white man on the face of the earth is gloomy indeed. Much has been written at one time and another, regarding the ability of the white man to live in the tropics and to retain his bodily and mental vigor. The consensus of opinion, as pointed out by the Medical Record, has been that he cannot do so, but that after a time he will surely deteriorate, physically and mentally. Furthermore, white natives whose ancestors have lived three or more generations in the tropics are not, with rare exceptions, the peers either in body or mind of their relatives living in the temperate zone. Prof. Lyde not only insists that the white man cannot live in health in tropical countries, but he also professes to believe that the white man is doomed to vanish from the face of the earth, giving way to the colored races. The English professor bases his belief on the theory that the original color of the human skin was dark brown, the variations of that color being the results of the weakening or strengthening of the plum under different climatic conditions. Taking ordinary precautions, it may be possible for the white man, after two years of acclimatization, to live in the tropics even more immune from tropical diseases than the black. But this period of immunity lasts for only about seven years, after which the deteriorating effects of the strong solar light and heat begin to show themselves on the white skin, and render the possessor thereof peculiarly susceptible to tropical diseases. In consequence the permanent settlement of the tropics by white men is impossible. But while the pigment with which the colored races is provided is indispensable for life in the tropics, it is a source of no danger in the temperate or frigid zones; therefore the dark or yellow man can intrude upon the domain of the man o flair skin with little or no danger. MAKE BREAD FROM SAWDUST Mixed With Rye Flour After Chemical Manipulation and Turned Into Loaves. Sawdust may not appeal to the palate as a digestible or appetizing sub- situate for flour in the making of bread, but all the same there is a large bakery in Berlin turning out 20,000 loaves of sawdust bread daily. flour in the making of bread, but all the same there is a large bakery in Berlin turning out 20,000 loaves of sawdust bread daily. The sawdust is first subjected to a process of fermentation and various chemical manipulations. Finally it is mixed with one-third part of rye flour, formed into leaves and baked in ovens like any other bread. Although this new "pain de bois," as the French call it, is meant for consumption by horses only, claim is made by the manufacturers that in case of famine it would furnish a nutritious and highly satisfactory food for human beings. Sawdust bread may not taste so bad as it sounds. In various parts of the world bread is obtained from trees. For example, in the Molucca islands the starchy pith of the sago palm furnishes a white, floury meal, which is made into flat, oblong loaves and baked in curious little ovens divided into small oblong cells just big enough to receive the loaves. In Lapland the inner bark of pine trees, well ground and mixed with oat flour, is made into cakes, which are cooked in a pan over the fire. In Kamchatka pine bark and birch bark are used for bread without the addition of any other substance, being reduced to powder by pounding, made into loaves and baked. Along the Columbia river bread is made from a kind of moss that grows on a species of fir trees. After being dried it is sprinkled with water, allowed to ferment, rolled into balls as big as a man's head and baked in pits, with the help of hot stones. Travelers who have tasted it say that it is by no means unpalatable. The Californian Indians collect the pollen of cattails in large quantities by beating it off the plants and catching it on blankets. They make bread of it. But as a delicacy they prefer bread of grasshopper flour. The One Thing Necessary. "My lightning rod certainly works well." "Yes, and because of the same reason that you can get any good service." "What's that?" "It was well tipped first." "According to the latest statistics there are more than 32,000,000 horses—one horse to every three individuals in the United States. Their total valuation, in round figures, is three billion dollars. In 1900 there were 14,000,000 horses in this country, with an average value of $44.61 each, a total valuation of $25,000,000. In 1909 there were 30,000,000 horses, average value $95.64 each. It is interesting to note that the horse makes and maintains the market for nearly all the oat crop, worth $334,000,000, most of the hay crop, worth $743,000,000, and a large part of the corn crop, worth $1,337,000,000. If we also consider the horse equipments—carriages, wagons, harness, clothing, saddles, bridles, shoes and bits, private stables, blacksmith shops and horse repositories, it will be readily understood that the horse creates business interests ranking with the railroads and agriculture and other colossal affairs of the country. An engagement ring may be defined as a round of pleasure before the wedding and a fistic arena after it. --- His Time-Saving Plan "I rarely read a letter through," Grampel has said many times. "If it is from a girl, I can always gather from the first three lines what she is going to tell me, and I let the imagination do the rest. This plan works particularly well if the letter is in reply to an invitation. If I see that the note is short I know she accepts. If it is long, I know she can't go and is wasting four pages explaining why. Usually I don't care why—and think of all the time I save by not reading explanations!" Gramplen found his plan excellent when it came to dealing with Jeanneette Tripps. She was an especially nice girl, but she possessed a superabundance of language. Jeanneette always took 500 words to tell one 20 words of news and when she had paper and pen before her she rioted in her verbal wealth. It was after she wrote Gramplen six large pages conveying the regretful news that she was unable to go to the theater that he inaugurated his plan. Gramplen never did more than tear open the envelopes of Jeanneette's notes. If the writing was of formidable length he merely threw it into the waste paper basket and asked himself: "Who'll I ask now to go with me?". Gramplen invited Jeanneette to join an opera party recently and when her answer came he knew it was short before he opened it. "Good!!" he murmured, pulling out the sheet. He lingered over throwing it away, because for some reason of late Janeette had grown to interest him a good deal. But Grampoll hates to break a habit. There were about six lines on the front page and he tossed the missive; away cheerfully. It was eight o'clock when Grampoll in full regalia drew up at Janette's house and mounted the steps. The maid delivered her message as soon as she opened the door. "Miss Trippa," she recited, "said when you crime you were to go to Mrs. Smith's if you please." "Oh," said Grampoll blankly. Then he decided that she must be dining out. The only Smiths who gave dinners were the Algernon Smiths, and they lived 20 blocks away. Three policemen strained their voices shouting after Grampell's taxi he shot through the streets. He was host at the opera party and would be late as it was. Dashing up the steps of the Algeronni Smiths, on whom he had not a calling acquaintance, Grampell was ushered in. From the dining room came the click and hum of a large party. Presently Smith appeared. He was polite, but decidedly curious. Most evidently he could not recall having invited Grampell to dine: Also Miss Tripps was not there. It was very awkward. Grampell had the consciousness that Smith would tell the servants immediately on his departure to watch the upstairs windows and the silver safe. Once outside Grampell wiped his wet brow and gazed wildly about in the cold night. Where in creation was Jeanneette? Finding a drug store he called up her house. Nobody was at home. The maid he had talked with was out. The other maid didn't know anything about it. Grampell arrived at the theater pate and meted as to collar and he slunk down to his block of six seats like a criminal. The four persons already greeted him with becoming hauteur and sald: "Sh!" when he agonized started to apologize. Something was happening on the stage, but Grampell never knew what it was. He was picturing the wrath of Jeanneette waiting, hopelessly waiting for him at some mythical Smith's, Waiting and growing to hate him. Then the curtain fell and the lights went up. Directly across the alley from him, two rows down, sat Jeanette! Turning her head she saw him and smiled sweetly. It was not at all a look of indignation. Jeanette's mind seemed quite at peace. Grampel reached, her side in three strides. "Where were you?" he inquired, "Why didn't you wait for me? And what Smiths were you at" "What are you talking about?" demanded the young woman. "Didn't you get my letter? I wrote you that I had already promised to go to the opera tonight. The Smiths? That was a message I left for the superintendent of my mission—he was to go to the Smiths for some books we had collected for the children. Isn't the music lovely tonight?" Ancient Fountain Pen An illustration of an "everlasting" pen found with description in a manuscript dated 1725, and signed by Sleur Blon, "purveyor to the king and maker of mathematical instruments," Paris, appears in "Popular Mechanics." Like the modern fountain pen, it was made with three principal pieces. The central section contained the ink, which flowed to the pen through a perforation. The lower cap had a threaded rod in its center, which closed the perforation in the ink container when screwed into place. The upper end of the ink container was closed by a threaded cap provided with a lead pencil point covered by still another cap. Lure of Golf. A military gentleman, who could sweat better than he could play golf, was flattered, one day, to find quite a crowd of well dressed strangers following him round. "I hope," he said gallantly, "that I'll play well enough to reward you." "Oh, it isn't that, major," replied one, "we came out to listen."—Golf Illustrated. Editor Evidently Not Musician. Cristofalo, a native of Padua, produced the first piano in 1710. Now that we know the miscreant's name we feel easier—Exchange. And Interesting Happenings from Nearby Towns. A GOOD LESSON. Let All Who Wish to Keep Abreast with the Society News Watch this Column. By J. H. Arnold, G. N. D. By Special Correspondent of Chicago Defender. Lexington, Mo., Jan. 12—Mrs. Hattie Arnold, wife of Jackson Arnold and mother of J. H. Arnold, departed this life Wednesday morning, Jan. 3. She had been suffering for over three or four years with paralysis and received the second stroke Wednesday, Dec. 29. She became so helpless that she was confined to her bed for over a week without food or water. She was an honest Christian mother and was a member of the Zion Chapel A. M. E. church for over 30 years from which place the funeral was held at 2:30 Thursday, Jan. 4. Rev. J. H. Allen, assisted by Revs. Wm. Thirkles and Chinn, officiated. Mrs. Arnold leaves a husband, two sons daughter-in-law, relatives and a host of friends. Her oldest son, Mr. J. Patrick Smith, was not present at her death, as the family was unable to locate him. He was in Hamilton, O., when last heard from. Anyone knowing his wherebouts will do a great favor by writing to J. H. Arnold, 15 Clinton street, Lexington, Mo. His Birthday. Jackson Arnold, father of J. H. Arnold, celebrated his 79th birthday Monday, Jan. 8. He is an old solider and served two years and one month in the Civil War. Long may he live to celebrate many more birthdays. His son, J. H. Arnold, celebrated his birthday Monday, Dec. 25, at which time he was 28 years of age. Unkind. "Bliggins thinks he is keeping his light under a bushel." 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If four fortunes and heaped her treasured store, On my bachsebeling I'd not rejoice, But take another sweet addition more, To hear your voice. Foraught of these my heart would scorn to ask But God's holiest passion from above. For me, my treasured soul without the love, I'd ask your love.—W. M. O'Neall, Jr. Blanket your horse. Plenty of real weather lately. The only thing Jack Johnson has to fight against now is the cold weather. Rosevelt objects to another term—but, of course, if you insist, etc., etc. Baltimore gets the Democratic convention. Well, we're going to be busy this summer, anyway. The man with the derby hat nowadays looks as much out of place as a fifth wheel to a balloon. We go to press promptly every week. Our forms close on Thursday, so get your matter in on time. After all, water doesn't make a bad drink after 1 a.m. Anyway, you can get a bite to eat and wash it down with a bottle of brown pop. If we could only induce Bryan to imitate Halley's comet and come into view every seventy-five years—oh, wouldn't that be a dream? Politics from now on will fill the papers so full that little space can be devoted to the southern pastime of burning and lynching negroes. Miss Hazel Hogan was fined $1,700 because she wouldn't talk. Is the world coming to an end or are the women becoming more like the men every day? If there is anything still left unsaid about Peter Bartzen will somebody please rise and get it out of their system. It is getting as nauseating as the Lorimog affair. Bryan is to be a candidate again. He has a happy faculty of hobbing up serenely four years and the dear public gently but firmly send him right back to the state he made famous. Some of our disappointed politicians might emigrate to China and run for office, now that they are to have a Republican form of government. We don't wish China any bad luck but we would like to have a hand in the selection of the graffers we could spare them. If your name does not appear on the subscription lists of the Wabash Avenue Branch of the Y. M. C. A. you are not considered a progressive citizen. The amount doesn't matter, it the principle. What you contribute will not be published unless you desire it. Again we are compelled to caution the readers and correspondents of The Defender about getting their matter in prompt. Correspondents are allowed up to Thursday noon, other articles must reach this office not later than Wednesday. After 4:30 every Thursday we receive no matter for the current issue. A number of letters, presumably from 'old maids, have been received at this office making inquiries as to what has become of the young men. While we are not in a position to answer them, we believe the opinion that they are in hiding owing to the fact that this is leap dog. Wise bunch of boys, eh? --- Skating in Washington Park is getting to be quite a fad. Great numbers of our young people can be seen there nightly. It is a pastime that should be more encouraged. The park policemen are careful that no accidents occur and the vigorous exercise one gets in skating makes you take a new lease on life, to say nothing of the leftofs derived from filling your jugs with fresh, pure air. Keep it Don't forget your poor neighbor. If you are fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood where there are no poor, bundle up and go out and seek some poor unfortunate who needs your aid when the thermometer is hovering around the zero mark and your crown will be all the brighter. The Defender would appreciate your subscription as a New Year's present. In 1912 we expect to be bigger and better in every way and we need your encouragement and support. Our patience is bright, hearty and is always. abreast of the times. It is a family paper. The oldest and the youngest can find something of interest in it. May we not have your support? OLD GLORY. What a funny term. Now, with forty-seven stars in that attractive corner what does it mean to the millions of citizens of a dark hue who shelter in their folds? It is perfectly right and proper to flaunt the expansion and progress of the great U. S. A. to the utmost parts of the world, but the most important is the mighty will fall. The hosted freedom of all its people must be the trouble, its constitution must be its foundation. Toying with these things makes acceptable vaudeville now, but the like for vaudeville generally turns into love for the drama. The whole world being a "stage" the point is that the stars will still wave over cabin and palace—but those living beneath would like Uncle Sam to tell them of what good it is to them. "GUESS WHO." Recently we have received several letters of complaint about our "Guess Who" department. It seems that some of the ardent contributors to this column speak about the same persons each week. In explanation we have found that the writer is intended for the younger readers of The Defender alone. In fact the editor of the department is one of the youngest members of our staff. A strict censorship will at once be placed over this interesting portion of our paper and there will be no need of further comments or complaints to this author or the department of The Chicago Defender will not be given any consideration. RACE PRIDE CAN ONLY BE EX HIBITED BY THE OTHER FELLOW. If colored men holding clean, respectable positions with corporations or individual firms, if you please, would go out of their way in order to help the other fellow, particularly when the slightest opportunity comes—and it is not always necessary to wait for an opportunity—make the effort on general principles, that is, if you are recognized as a man with the concern, as nothing can be said, other than it is not consistent to employ another colored man. But on the contrary, if you are a George, and satisfied and afraid ao even recommend a colored man, then don't claim as you get in company of a few friends that you are a race man. Admitting that self-preservation is the first law of nature, we are expected to construe that as meaning our own individual self and self alone. Every decent employer respects intelligence, neatness and manliness. WHAT'S IN A NAME? Through a slight mistake in our mailing department Mr. John Cabell's name, 3524 Calumet avenue, was misspelled and his paper went astray several times. So anxious was he about the paper that on Thursday when he spied a Defender reporter he chased him several blocks in order to make the correction. Say! it was made all right, and Mr. Cabell is now on speaking terms with the reporters once more. "Dad." "Dad" and "dadda" were well known in this country in the sixteenth century; "papa" did not come in, borrowed from abroad, until the seventh century was well advanced. Florio, at the end of the former century, defined the Italian "papa" as "the first word that children are taught to call their father, as ours say 'dad', 'dadda' and 'Dad' seems to be the commoner to the two Nausicaa in the "Odyssey" her father "papa philie", dear pans but Greek has "tata" also, and Welsh has "tat", and Irish "idaid". Infant Mortality. Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions. A heavy infant mortality implies a heavier death rate up to five years of age; and right up to adult life the districts suffering from a heavy child mortality have higher death rates than the districts whose infant mortality is low. Neusholme in the National Food Magazine. Prize Steers Not Good Meat The meat of more than one prize steer has proved disappointing in the eating, though fine to look at. In the development of the animal for competition his flesh is sometimes, if not always, seamed with small veins of fat which are dilated by cooking into tough strings. Hence, the range-fed steer, not nursed into prominence, affords the better steak or roast. Editor's Mean Revenge An editor who was courting a woman of uncertain age, but positive bank account, was cut out by a gentleman from a neighboring town, who married her and took her home. Whereupon the editor sought a mean revenge by heading account of her wedding: "Another Old Resident Gone." This Age of Nature The tendency of modern civilization has been to transfer the burden of breadwinning from the muscles to the nerves—Exchange. --- IN CHICAGO AND ITS SUBURBS Our Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social and other short paragraphs—Read it over carefully, somewhere you will find a line or two about yourself or your friends. THE SECOND ANNUAL Masquerade Dancing Party of the Douglas Dancing School FRIDAY, JAN. 26 Garfield Wilson's Orchestra in Full Attendance Mrs. Lula F. Edwards of St. Paul, Minn., was called to the city because of the illness of her mother, Mrs. Ford of 3539 Dearborn street. The Douglass Center Woman's club meets Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m. An interesting literary and musical program will be given. Miss Ida Palmer, who has spent the last two months in our city visiting relatives and friends, departed last Saturday for her home in Burlington, Iowa. Mrs. H. McDougall, 3400 Wabash avenue, in their bungalow, gave Christmas dinner on Thursday in her or of her husband. Mr. McDougall just returned from a three month trip through the northwest. The guests' were Mr. and Mrs. Bowser, A. C. Brown, Dr. Regg Smith and E. R. S. Abbott, the spread known as a one piece dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Tilley, 34 Calumet avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jal Messrs. R. and H. Pepper, 66 East 30th street, entertained the Wiltro Trio at luncheon Saturday. Chef Laurence Scott, late of New York, served. Dr. R. M. Hall, Jr., of Baltimore, passed through the city en route to the northwest. He was the guest of Slayr. Sayr. Mr. Expressman, give your horse a chance. Your shoes are good. Why not sharpen up his a little? Miss Cecilia Johnson was at home to a few friends Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 8 o'clock. Whist was the feature of the evening and later the guests had a musical treat and heard nearly all of the operas rendered by famous artists. Those present: The Misses Kennedy, Garnette Tibbs, Ada Lom Mitchell, Mae Coleman, Mr. Earl Ward of Columbus, O. Dr. U. Grant Dalley, Nathan Caldwell and Taylor. Mr. Coat Man, why don't you blaze Do you want good plain励 Ask Mr. Harrison Emanuel's recital at Kimball Hall Jan. 29, with Mrs. Marie Burton Hyrum assistant artist, promises to be the aime of society. General admission is 25 cents. Mrs. Amondie Randall, mother of Mrs. D. W. Johnson, Mrs. William De Moss and Mrs. Ben Carter, who is visiting relatives in Nashville, Tenn., writes to her children that "home is nothing this and I don't know what it is." If Arthur Allen, actor, is in the city, he will please call at 3150 State street, second flat. We Repeat It. A dozen photographs will endear you to twelve friends. Make an appointment today for your Christmas photo. Peter P. Jones, 3519 State St. Mr. Robert DeLaney, 3632½ Forest avenue, made his first trip to St. Louis on the Daylight Special. He is in fine trim now. Mr. E. Fitzgerald, 3433 Wabash avenue, made his birthday trip for Mrs. Herschel. Those prizes are for Mrs. DeLaney, Mr. and Mrs. Raney, Mr. and Mrs. Tom and Susie Allen, Dr. J. C. Buckner, Miss Key and others. Mrs. Annie Sadler, 2420 Wabash avenue, district ruler of Unique Temple, Lady Elks, is nursing a severely sprained ankle. Mrs. O. G. Lightfoot and daughter Helen returned on the 5th inst. from a most delightful visit to Mound City, ill., where they had gone Dec. 26. Mrs. Lightfoot is one of Chicago's most prominent social lights and has one of the prettiest homes on the south side of the city. Friends were highly elated over her retinue. The best furnished rooms are advertised in The Chicago. Defender. Mr. Jefferson Holmes, 3327 Wabash avenue, in renewing his subscription said that "The Chicago Defender was a newspaper deserving of unusual support and that it weekly supplied him with information that he could not get otherwise." Miss Sophia Bonz, formerly a graduate of Fisk university, is spending the winter in our city attending the School of Civics and Philanthropy, making her home at Hull House. On the completion of her work she will work at the Wendell Phillips Settlement. Mrs. D. Henderson, 5405 Dearborn street, a prominent member of Unique Temple of Lady Elks, who has been ill, is reported better. Dainty Compliments. The daintiest 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. Mr. W. S. Cole, 34 West 31st street, the hustling Defender agent before entering this line of work, is one of the most famous people in the city. The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca Bradley, 3236 State street, was held from Charles Jackson's chapel Sunday morning. Rev. Cook officiated. The services were under the supervision of the Unique Temple, Lady Elks. Mrs. Connie Curl represented the M. T. Interment at Lincoln-Oak Hill cemetery. Col. R. D. Ruffin, whose splendid address at Aurora on "Emancipation", which was featured in the Chicago Defender last week, begs the indulgence of the associations that have asked him to speak. His idea of the politicization of the Negro will be finished in a day or two. Consult your physician about that aliment. Don't wait. Everything can be cured or relieved nowadays except the leakage of the pocketbook. The way to get good brood, ask for the "Kentucky .oat." Hereafter furnished rooms to rent and贮仓s furnished贮仓s will not be accepted over the telephone. If sent by mail accompany by P. O. or express money order. --- DID ITS SUBURBS Annual Mention—Religious—Social and it over carefully, somewhere about yourself or your friends. ND ANNUAL Dancing Party the Dancing School JAN. 26 estra in Full Attendance Mrs. H. McDougall, 3400 Wabash avenue, in their bungalow, gave a Christmas dinner on Thursday in honor of her husband. Mr. McDougall has just returned from a three months' trip through the northwest. The guests' were Mr. and Mrs. Bowser, Dr. A. C. Brown, Dr. Reg. Smith and Editor R. S. Abbott. The spread was known as a one piece dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Tillery, 3525 Calumet avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson of Omaha, Nebr., who were formerly of Chicago. Mrs. Johnson has been away for eighteen years. Others present were Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Coall. The nonappearance of our South Bend news letter last week is explained by the visit of Miss Hickman to the office. Miss Irene Hickman spent the holidays here as the guest of Mrs. S. Cary, 3601 Forest avenue. She returned home last week and her interesting letter will be received as usual from that point. Mr. Coalman, Iceman, and other owners and drivers, the money spent in whips would bring better results if spent in shoes and blankets. Can you see the point? Mrs. Lucille Smith, 3849 State street, daughter of W. B. Burins, chef for the first vice president of the Rock Island, who died Jan. 8, was buried Thursday morning at Mt. Glenwood cemetery. Mrs. Smith was 21 years of age. Do you read the "Guess Who" column to the children? Mrs. Almer Simpson of Fond du Lac, Wis. and Mrs. Bessie Richie of Houghton, Mich., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughes, 3644 Vernon avenue. They left Thursday to spend a week in South Bend before returning home. Mrs. Hughes is the sister of Mr. Hughes. A small ad sold a large roaming house last week. Our classified ads bring results. Try them. Mrs. Monroe Manning, 3524 Calumet avenue, is seriously ill with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. George Holt were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. Hudson Thursday, Dec. 29. R. A. J. R. Show, our ambitious young politician, is spending a great deal of his time in Evanston, ill, these days. Col. William Rudolph Covain's inaugural address on last Saturday evening as president of the Appointment Club was the hit of the evening. Some one said he read it! There will, no doubt, be some political interest in the Appointment Club within the next year, when all now on the membership roster get together. Office holding is a great attraction—that is, for some. The "white way" has evidently lost some of its attractiveness, judging from the conspicuousness by their absence of some of the regulars. Arlene C. Harris, Mrs. Hudson, Mark Cowan, John Morton, C. S. Washington, Will Carroll and Alonza Thompson. Mr. Coalman, why don't you help your horse to keep warm by filling his stomach as full as you do your own? Dr. Herbert Anderson has been appointed by the city health department as hospital inspector on the city staff. N. Harvendorph, Jr., says the kids in Chicago don't know anything like a snowstorm. They ought to see that like they have in Marquee, Mich. Anderson R. Brodle says he has about outlived his usefulness in the society world, therefore he has retired with the other old members, such as Harry Duncan, Henry Cole and Phil Miller. Will Weller, who has been confined to his home for an indefinite time, on account of illness is, we are glad to say, doing nicely. Frederick L. McGhee of St. Paul, Minn., is expected to pass through the city on Sunday, en route to St. Louis on business. The W. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Loaf" and Wallace Rolls. Our congenial little friend, Alfred Anderson, met with a very painful accident last week by falling and cutting his head very badly. While it was not a dangerous accident it was, nevertheless, painful. W. R. Sobers, our popular tailor, was forced to his apartments for several days last week on account of a severe cold. William Whorton is considered an expert on fowl. Mr. Whorton has the selecting of three thousand turkeys every year for the employees of the Gas Company. Browning Temporarily Forgotten Professor Underdent (at the Boston Browning Club)—No, my hearers, we can not linger too lovingly on the grand words and refining thought of our friend o'-Child of the House (entering suddenly)—John L's goin' by, if 'yer wart see him" (Club suddenly adjourns to the window)—Puck. Not to Speak Of "Has anything ever been discovered on Venus?" asked the student of astronomy, "No," replied the old professor, whose mind had slipped a cog and transported him into mythological fields; "not if the pictures of her are authentic."—Chicago News. FROM OUR EXCHANGES Regiment Up to Dix Again. (Amsterdam News.) A colored regiment in the National Guard of New York state is again up to Gov. John A. Dix, who has full authority to authorize the enlistment of regiments of the state to serve ice up to the number of 18 regiments. The Legislature at its last session voted almost unanimously for the colored soldier*bill, but it died somewhere in the Governor's possession or en route to him. The second objection to the colored regiment aside from the proven opposition to it which was proved could not be organized in New York state. Colored men, as well as white men, made this statement. That objection has been answered by the complete organization of a provisional regiment with one thousand men, officers, signal and hospital corps and armed men. They have sent a monster force to making for instalment in the National Guard. The muster roll follows. Regimental staff: Colonel, Chas. Willmore; lieutenant colonel, J. Frank Wheaton; major and surgeon, Gustav v Henderson; captain and adjutant J. Albert Jaxon; captain and assistant surgeon, Engene P. Roberts; captain and quartmaster, Paul H. Bray; captain and commissary, James C. Thom; as captain and inspector of riffe practice, Virgil H. Parks; captain and sign officer, Lee A. Pollard; captain and ordinance officer, W. T. R. Rich ardson; captain and chaplain, Price S. James. Non-Commissioned Officers: Sergeant major, Herbert E. Gee; chief trumpeter, Richard C. Wendel; quartermaster sergeant, Joseph Watts; commissary sergeant, Major Hart; senior color sergeant, Alfred Frye; junior color sergeant, Herbert Payne. Band: Chief musician, Edward E. Thompson; principal musician, Robert F. Dodge; drum major, Moses Mimms; Antonio Rivera Bunn Glenn Yearale, Peal Dr. corporals, Frank Woodson, Major Jackson, Alfred T. Downs, Joseph Mahood, Numa A. G. Adams, John Burroughs, Henry H. Austin, Clyde D. Carter. Capt. Young and Lieut. Davis Exchanged Places. Washington, D. C., Jan. I—Capt. Charles Young of the Ninth Cavalry, is to succeed Lieut. Benjamin Oliver Davis as military attacker of the United States at Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. The latter has served his quota on foreign soil and will be stationed at Fort A. R. Russell, from which Capt. Young is to be detached. Capt. Young has served with distinction in the army here and during the Spanish-American war in Cuba. He was military attaché at Port au Prince, Hatti, for a period, and then mastermaster's department at San Francisco, where a military instructor at Wil伯沃森 university is remembered with pleasure by the faculty and students there. It is rumored that the post of military attache at Monrovia was tendered to Major Arthur Brooks, the very capable commander of the District National Guard, military instructor of the High School Cadets and custodian of property at the White House but the Major, not caring to leave President Taft and his numerous quite congenial duties here, is said to have declined the honor with thanks. REV. J. F. THOMAS SLIPS ON ICE. Tuesday morning Rev. J. F. Thomas, the popular pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church, slipped on the sidewalk and fell so heavily that he sustained severe bruises and wrenched his back painfully. Although the brave old veteran made light of his injuries he was compelled to take to his bed. Tunnel service at the church on Wednesday morning awaited his arrival but Rev. Wm. Gray was compelled to take his place. Thursday morning he was reported better at this office. ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR INSTALLATION. St. Monica's Court No. 279, Catholic Order of Foresters, is making elaborate preparations to entertain its guests at the public installation of officers Tuesday evening, January 15 at the Nassau Hall, 3956 S. State street. The officers to be installed are: Robert Lincoln Hall, Chief Ranger. Richard J. Cope, Vice Changer Ranger. Arthur A. Wells, Past Changer Ranger. W. Arthur Salis, Recording Secretary. Jesse Binga, Financial Secretary. Ellis E. Smith, Treasurer. Wm. H. Haywood, Senior Conductor. Edw Tenn, Junior Conductor. Walter Robinson, Inside Sentinel. Harry P. Everette, Outside Sentinel. George Oliver, Speaker. George Oliver, Speaker Trustees—Ulysses J. Blair, Phelix E. Dodge and George Holland. A Beggart's Luggage. When Bridget Flanigan, who described herself as "a poor lone Irish widow woman," was arrested for begging at Wells she had the following articles distributed about her person: Tea, sugar, fresh cut beefstew, piece of bacon, two boilers, bread and cheese, four buns, bag of biscuits, beggot to the table, two clay clay dishes, cigarettes and sand—London, Evelyn, Staudard. A tourist in rural Scotland took refuge for the night in the cottage of an old lady. He asked her to wake him up early in the morning, warning her that he was quite deaf. Upon awakening much later than the appointed time, she was able to strict regard for the proprietors, had slipped under the door a slip of paper upon which was written: "Dir, it's half past eight." --- --- A Beggar's Luggage. Scotch Alarm Clock IN THE PUBLIC EYE PROSECUTED THE M'NAMARAS attended a meeting of the Los Angeles "Votes for Women" club. Mr. Frederickls was invited to attend and speak on "Woman's Sphere on Politics," which he did, but first he got into the program in a very unexpected manner when the members were asked to sing a sort of parody on "America," Mrs. Bertha Wilkins Starkweather declining to sing the recognized version on the ground that America was not the "land of liberty." She proposed a whistle call for women's votes and other things before admitting the land of Liberty. "You are making history here tonight." Mr. Frederickls protested, "in refusing to sing the national anthem. You are asking the right to vote, but you'll never get it by that sort of tactics. I am in favor of giving you suffrage, but you'll never get my vote by that attitude. There is a feeling in your attitude the whole world will resent." 7. was a poser to most of the women, who speedily "reconsidered," and the al anthem was read aloud and then sung with enthusiasm—although then was pretty "No" vote on the motion. Women will look at the investigation in the present complicated case of labor and the dynaming outrages, it may be expected that Mr. Frederickls will look energetically after such of the work as may fall properly to the district he represents. PUTS CONVICTS ON HONOR The system has worked admirably whether the men have been employed at farming, roadmaking, brickmaking or in the shops. The men are forgetting earlier lessons in law-breaking and learning fresh ones in citizenship. Suitable employment is obtained for them when they leave and the farmers about Salem are clamoring for them, ready to pay good money and serve good fare. No man is turned out with the feeling that he is to become the prey of the first detective or deputy sheriff who hears of his release, a conspiracy to scapegoat upon whom to fasten a fresh offense. He is made to feel that the figure he found at Salem are to be relied on from first to last. The convicts themselves are the wolfings of the honor system very seriously. One farmer complained that he taught a road gang at work near his home was a menace to his property and safety, a gang was withdrawn, but all that man's neighbors and their wives got together and gave the convicts a dinner, with Governor West in the chair and many state officials among the guests. WINNER OF A NOBLE PRIZE OUR WOMEN BY SABINE That woman's creation was from a man's rib is the biblical theory, but it remained for Miss Verna Decker of Wayne City, Ill, to wear a portion of her own rib as a personal adornment. When Miss Decker was a child she was stricken with pneumonia, which brought on complications that necessitated the removal of a portion of a rib. The young woman in after years there could be induced to look upon a "worried bone," but it was treasured by her parents. The girl's twenty-first birthday was considered an occasion for an unusual gift, of the "rib" was mounted in a gold brooch, which was presented to Miss Decker at the family gathering Thanksgiving day. Age has its beauty as well as youth and we should all study the art of growing old gracefully, that we may be loved to the last by those who love us, says a writer. On the stage of life we have our part to play. It would seem that religion has taught us better things than socialism and helped us to bear and forbear. There is a great bitterness in the discovery that the treasures worshipped in our IN THE P PROSECUTED T PETER H. attended a meeting of the Los Angeles encliffs was invited to attend and speech which he old member was added to the ner when the old member got into Mrs. Bertha Wilkins Starkweather de on the ground that America was not substitute which called for women's w the land of liberty clause. "You are making history here tonight to sing the national anthem. you'll never get it by that sort of tactic, but you'll never get my vote by that a tude to the well orded 1. was aoser to most of the and the anthem is read aloud and there w, pretty strong "No vote c Whatever may be the trend of the cated case of labor and the dynamiting Fredericks will look energetically affect to the district he represents. PUTS CONVIC An interesting experiment in the humane treatment of convicts has met with the success that it deserves and its author, Governor West, of Oregon, at first regarded as a sentimential enthusiasm on prison reform, is now receiving the plaudits of those who would be doing something for the under dog." Soale the center for a number of the state institutions, all of which have considerable tillable ground surrounding them—hundreds of acres of rich arable valley land ready to return to its cultivators abundant harvests of golden wheat. It was Governor West's self-imposed task to bring to this work the hundredde of strong, naturally active men up in the penitentiary, and at the same time to establish a system which would be of mutual benefit to state and to the convict. The government desires that sentiment had nothing more to do with the "honor system." The system has worked admirably at farming, roadmaking, brickmaking, tingler lessons' in law-breaking and Suitable employment is obtained for two about Salem are clamoring for them, good fare. No man is turned out with prey of the first detective or deputy a venient scapegoat upon whom to fasten that the friends he found at Salem are convicts themselves regard the workin. One farmer complained that he thou home was a menace to his property but all that man's neighbors and their victs a dinner, with Governor West among the guests. WINNER OF A the Norwegian Storthing. --- youth are at best but clay foot clobbers; yet if we cultivate a gentle soil we are likely to forget that the years as they lay stealing many of our best illusions. A Gypsy queen is dead. She was a child of sorrow and her life was full of grief. Her name was Lika Michele, daughter of Jessie Kiley Habersham and Georgeas Michele, her husband, king of a Romany band, with whom she lived a roaming life until she died in a Cincinnati hospital last year. The death of his wife affected the Romany very much, and he thought it wisest to give little Lika into the care of her mother's Baltimore relatives. Jessie Kiley Habersham was a Baltic society girl, and clooped with theopsy king in 1906. She was a defendant of Francis Scott Key, the poet. She did not regret the society life she shared in one of her last letters to her family. It have read the lives of many people have tried to tell them of the future yet I know that in the future we have but one real thing to count upon: the infinite blessings of the great Jehovah! PUBLIC EYE THE M'NAMARAS In the quest of the "mon higher up," said to be involved in the Los Angeles dynamiting plot that resulted in the confession of the McNamara brothers, John D. Fredericks, district attorney, is pretty certain to be a looming figure. All through the trial of the brothers Mr. Frederickls showed an unmistakable brand of judgment and energy. He and his associates were opposed by the cleverest counsel that could be obtained, but the trial was a regular occurrence for prosecutors, even before the later stages when outside events began to underline the case of the defense. Added to Mr. Frederickls' legal acumen is a large fund of personal popularity in California. In addition to being a stern and brave compromising individual, Mr. Frederickls is a member of tion and distinctive sentiment. A little more than a year ago, when he "Votes for Women" club. Mr. Fred peak on "Woman's Sphere on Politics," the program in a very unexpected man- sion, so sing a sort of parody on "America," declining to sing the recognized version of the "land of liberty." She proposed a votes and other things before admitting right." Mr. Fredericks protested, "in re- sult You are asking the right to vote, but votes. I am in favor of giving you suffrage, attitude. There is a feeling in your atti- tude, the women, who speedily "reconsidered," and then sung with enthusiasm—although on the motion. The investigation in the present compil- ing outrages, it may be expected that Mr. such of the work as may fall properly ITS ON HONOR --- A. H. w whether the men have been employed or in the shops. The men are forget- and learning fresh ones in citizenship, them when they leave and the farmers are ready to pay good money and serve in the feeling that he is to become the herder who hears of his release, a con- en a fresh offense. He is made to feel to be relied on from first to last. The age of the honor system very seriously, though a road gangs at work have and safety. The gang was withdrawn, wives got together and gave the con- in the chair and many state officials NOBLE PRIZE Prof. Wilhelm Wein, whose picture appears herewith, was recently awarded the Noble prize for Physics. Professor Wein is only 47 years old. He studied at the University of Gottingen, Heidelburg and Berlin, and is the author of a number of books on Roentgen rays, hydrodynamics and electricity. The awarding of the Nobel prizes is an annual occasion of great interest throughout the world. It takes place on the anniversary of the death of the founder of the fund, Alfred Bernhard Nobel. The fund amounts to over $8,000,000 and the five prizes closely approximate $40,000 each. Those for physics and chemistry are awarded by the Academy of Sciences of Sweden, that for medicine, and the Caralus Institute of Stockholm, and the Literary, prize by the Swedish Academy. The peace prize is awarded annually at Antonia, Norway, by a committee of five chosen from THE CITY OF EVANSTON Personal and Otherwise. There will be a parents' meeting Sunday, Jan. 14, at Ebenezer A. M. E. church at 4 o'clock. Dr. Mary Waring of Chicago will address this meeting. The public is cordially invited and all parents are urged to be present.—Lola Y. Downs, chairman. Mrs F. E. White, 621 Grove street, was hostess to the Dunbar Woman's club on Thursday afternoon. A dainty repast was served. The Dunbar Woman's club will give a "chitlin" supper at the home of Mrs. Willis Brown, 1726 Oak avenue on Thursday, Jan. 18. Other refreshments of the season will also be served. Mrs. George Cannon, Greenleaf and Forest avenue, entertained the Dorcas guard on Thursday afternoon. A swell repast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris, 1800 garden at entertained at dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Richardson and Mr. and Mrs. Preston Beck. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simpson, 1506 Elmwood avenue, left Friday for a visit throughout the south. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson will be absent all winter. Mrs. W. F. Cromer, 1414 Florence avenue, and Mrs. W. H. Twiggs, are on the sick list Mrs. James Osborn is visiting in Indianapolis, Ind., instead of Detroit, Mich., as reported last week. The Court of Calanthe will give a "snow ball cottontion" at Auditorium Feb. 23. Georgiana Frances and daughters, Mrs. Edna Snowden and Mrs. Lucille Gladden, arrived home from Ypsiallian, Mich., where they attended the funeral of husband and father, Mr. Henry Frances. Mr. Frances had been an invalid for six years but was a patient sufferer until death came to relieve him of his pain. Mr. Frances was a patient at Wayne hospital, Detroit, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Garnett are now residing at 1462 Elmwood avenue. Mr. Hunter Keene, 1120 Clark Street, in Preston Beck, 210 Colfax street, are confined to their homes by illness Miss Margaret E. Wiley and her sister, Mrs. Hattle Payne, 1502 Elmwood avenue, royally entertained at a four course dinner on last Sunday afternoon Dr. A. B. Schultz and Mrs. French of Chicago, Messrs. C. H. Bell, R. Bronce of Evanston, and Mr. C. H. Pope, ex-delicet of London, Can. A more delicious dinner has not been offered. Hence Graves Jr. is able to be about the house at this writing, to the joy of his many friends. Miss Irene Barber, 1734 Oak avenue, who underwent an operation at St. Francis hospital, is doing nicely at the present time. Mrs. John Griffin, 1621 Lake street, is a patient at St. Luke's hospital, Chicago. Mrs. Griffin will undergo a slight operation. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Q. E. Woods of Escanabn, Mich. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Breckenridge, 1109 Clark street. Mrs. Curl, S. G. D. of Court of Calanthe of Chicago, assisted by Miss Triplet, installed the officers of the Court of Castle Hall Tuesday evening. Light refreshments were served. Mr. Frank Davenport, 463 Elmwood avenue, spent Sunday with his wife in LaGrange, ill. Mrs. Charles Lindsay, 1333 Benson avenue, who has been ill at St. Francis hospital, is expected home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bush of New York, N. Y., former residents of Evanston, are now living at 1932 Asbury avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Bush are first class tailors. Robert S. Bryson, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bryson, died Jan. 4 at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barley, 814 Church street. Robert had been ill for three months. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. Robert Bryson was born in Evanston May, 1901, and was 11 years and 7 months old. He was a bright little fellow and will be greatly among his many little friends. Funeral was held Saturday from the house. Interment at Rose Hill. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The severe cold weather last Sunday, Jan. 7, affected the services at Mt. Zion church. The evening services were fairly well attended. Sunday services for Jan. 14—11 a.m., sermon by the pastor; 12:30 Bible教会, sermon with superb presentation; 6:45, the B.Y. P. U will render a program; Mr. Samuel Gosh, president; 8 p. m., sermon by the pastor; subject, "Bible Bells"; text, Zech. 14:20. Eubnerer A. M. W. Church. No weatherstaking is severe cold weather. The Honoree receives prescheduled to fair-sized audiences at each service Sunday. The auditorium was not as comfortable as it might have been and accordingly the services were held in the lecture room. Six persons united with the church. This is indeed a good showing. The deaconsess will give a leap year entertainment at the church on Monday night. The young ladies will escort the young men there but we do not vouch for the homegoing. Mrs. Mayme Pressley Wilson will have charge of the program. All are cordially invited to attend. Tuesday evening the annual church meeting will be held, at which time the election of trustees and officers of church will take place. The members and friends are urged to be present. Real Life. The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter and work—Elbert Hubbard. LOADED CIGAR WAKES UP HOTEL LOUNGERS Guest's Fragrant Perfecto Explodes With a Bang That Starts a Panic. Sau Francisco, Cal.-W. B. Viers, a mining man of Australia, who has been at the Palace hotel for several days, caused the lobby loungers, bellyboys, porters, clerks and even the service manager, to make a break for liberty and safety one day. Some wondered if the hotel had been dynamited, while others went scurrying to get out of reach of the man with the gun. It was all over a loaded cigar which a friend handed to him in the lobby. After the good-bys and the donor of the cigar had got away, Viers lighted the perfecto and was enjoying its moment when suddenly a noise was emitted from the cigar which sounded like three steam whistles blowing in unison. This caused the tint to fuel for shelter and the bellyboys A Loaded Cigar Lets Go. to move faster than they had in an hour previous. The cigar whistle kept up for a minute, but Vlors was game and he held on to the perfect, although his face showed he would have liked to let loose. He started to smile, when what remained of the cigar exploded with a bung that could be heard a block away. The panic then ensued. The canes between dishes and asterisks and other typographical cuss words that he would even up on the friend. MAN KIDNAPED BY BABOONS Midshipman Attracted by African Moonlight and Kept Walking Until He Was Surrounded. New York—According to the crew of the British freighter Kassenge, which arrived here from Calcutta, a midshipman named G. W. Greggs had a thrilling adventure with baboons in East Africa that will make him careful about walking at night in tropical jungles in the future. While the ship was lying alongside the pier at Mombassa Greggs took a moonlight walk inland one night. He heard the zebras calling to their first born and the secretary birds high up in the palm trees. The sailor had a small revolver with him and did not feel afraid. The fascination of the moonbeams shining through the rich tropical foliage THE LION AND THE CAT Kidnaped by Baboons. lured him to go further from the shore than he had intended. He was about to turn back when to his astonishment he suddenly found himself surround by a small army of baboons of all sizes and pulled and pushed him through the dense undergrowth into the thick of the jungle to what appeared to be their camp. There they were met by more baboons, which swung down by their tails from the mango trees and peered into the midshipman's face to see what he was like. For two days and two nights he was kept captive in the jungle village. He was finally rescued by his skifmates. NERVOUS IN PUBLIC MANY WORLD-FAMED SPEAKERS NEVER OVERCOME THIS. With Some It Persists as Mannerlama —Yawn and Handkerchief of Late Duke of Devonshire—Gladstone's Peculiar Actions. Persons who are unacquainted to speak in public believe that, their nervousness is solly due to their inexperience, and that public men can make speeches as coolly as they make conversation. In some cases this may be go, but few speakers are ever able wholly able to cast off their nervousness. Sometimes it persists in the form of a mannerlism, attributive or otherwise, but some old parliamentarians never escape from the tremors and terrors which shook them when their maiden speech was delivered. The late duke of Devonshire is usually spoken of as the perfect type of the impassive Englishman. When he entered the house of commons as Lord Cavendish, he distinguished himself by prefacing his maiden speech with a prodigious yawn. But he was by no means as languid in fact as he was in appearance. When he rose to speak he would lean one arm on the nearest of the two iron-bound boxes on the table between the front benches. After a slight hesitation and a few quiet words, the other hand would steal to the tail pocket of his coat and emerge holding a neatly-folded white camcich he would gently unfold it the hand, mouth, and this done, the hand, still holding the handkerchief, would rest on the hip or be thrown back. Sitting near him, one could observe that the grip on his handkerchief tightened, and that the muscles of the hand were in continuous action. At the close of his speech the hand opened, and one-saw not the clean, folded camcich handkerchief, but only the hand, which was quickly returned to the object. Here was the safety valve for the impassive no-bleem's nervousness. Gladstone was one in whom nervousness had become mannerism. When he rose to speak he began with a few gracious words on the speech which was about to follow, or some pointed remark as to the character and importance of the subject. In his earlier days this was, no doubt to "get his breath." His next act was to raise his right hand over his head with the thumb bent down and gently scratch his skull. That is rather common among public speakers. The third action of Mr. Gladstone was his peculiar and individual sign. Throwing his arms downward by his side, he would with his fingers seize the cuffs of his coat and draw these down over his shirt to conceal them completely. The ordaining officer just the reverse, the desire being to expose and not conceal the white linen of the shirt cuffs. These were the invariable preludes to the great commoner's speeches—Pall Mall Magazine. Not In the Library Mr. Clapstrap arrived at the circulating library the other day with his hands full of small packages and as cross as two sticks because his wife had asked him to fulfill some commissions for her while he was out. With a look which was just as disagreeable as he felt he handed to the little librarian a list which he had made to aid his memory. "My wife wants these books," he said firmly, "be quick about getting them, if you please. I'm in a great hurry." The girl, who was a trifle shy and inexperienced, fushed, and, saying that he should have the books directly, went to look for them. She was gone some time and when she returned he glared at her indignantly and asked if she expected him to "wait all day." "I'm very sorry," she apologized, "but I've been looking for the last book on the list. Here are the other three, but 'Hairpins and Castor Oil' I can't find and—and I'm afraid it isn't in the library." "Good heavens!" gronned Mr. Clap- ter, who stared at those things down in the book. "I'll be there." In Praise of Modesty Reginald De Koven told at a musicale in Chicago a pretty story in praise of modesty. "A group of tourists," he said, "visited Beethoven's house in Bonn. One of the tourists, a girl of twenty or so, sat down at Beethoven's piano and played the "Moonlight Sonata" none too well. Beethoven's own work, in his own room, on his own piano! "When the girl had finished, she rose and said to the old caretaker: 'I suppose lots of famous musicians have been here and played on this instrument!' "Well, miss,' the caretaker answered gravely, 'Padegrenski was here last year, and his friends urged him to play, but he shook his head and said: 'No, I am not worthy.'" Work of Real Forster The modern forester undertakes to make orchards profitable. There are orchardists, to be sure, who know very well how to care for their trees and who do care for them; but there are also orchards that are neglected or handled unskillfully. The forester will take a run-down orchard and by intelligent, scientific treatment of the trees, with systematic care, make it produce big and handsome apples "I brought two handkerchiefs," said the girl whose hair was done up in an exaggerated psyche knot. She spoke proudly as one who makes it known that she has thoughtfully prepared for all emergencies. "Wish't had," said her friend, enthusily, as she jinged her chalisette bag into a safe place. "Eva said this there wasn't a dry eye. In the house though how she could sweat to that I don't see, for of course she couldn't go around looking at everybody, could she? That's what I don't like about Eva, you can't depend on what she says." "I really oughtn't go see a play like this," said the girl with the psyche knot, shaking out handkerchief No. 1. "I'm too sensitive! I sympathize with others and it just breaks my heart to go Saddle." said her friend in a shrill whisper, clutching her arm. "Down the side盟—with the feather. Doesn't she know that willows have gone out? Who's with it?" The girl with the psyche knot turned solemn eyes upon the questioner. "If it isn't Tom!" she got out. "And the last time I saw her she said that she'd never have anything more to do with him if he was the last man on earth!" "Wait till I get hold of him!" gurgled the girl with the chateleine. "Didn't I call him up yetdidly and ask him to drop in this afternoon and we'd take a walk—and didn't he say he was sorry, but he to work? Slighting me for Sadie! I bet she asst him to bring her to the matinee today! I'd never hilt such a thing if I died for it! Of course, most any man if you asst him to go walking would suggest dropping in to see a show of something, but that's his business." "I'm going to get some chocolates," said the girl with the psyche knot. "Yes, I am—you got some the last time. I like those soft, squishy ones, don't you? There goes the curtain!" "I simply can't talk," declared the girl with the psyche kid, at the end of the first act. "I never was so affected in my life. It was all I could do to keep from crying and I didn't want to because "I knew this act couldn't be half as sad as the rest and I didn't want to get started so soon! "It's the next act that's the worst," explained the girl with the chalteau. "Isabel went and she said she just crieed on Harry's shoulder. She said she couldn't help it and she didn't care if people did see him put his arm around her to quiet her! "Pooh! Isabel would weep at a plate of breakfast food is she could get Harry to make love to her," commented the girl with the psyche knot. "It's all make-believe with her. It's different with me—I feel so intensely makes me downright ill. I all used it like this—there goes the curtain!" "What'd I tell you!" trumpantly whispered the girl with the chalteau five minutes later. "Ain't it just heartening?" "D-don't t-talk!" sobbed the girl with the psychie knot, snooping her eyes. "It is perfectly awful, it is so sad! I can't stop the tears!" "I knew you'd like it," pursued her friend in a satisfied tone. "Listen to that!" "It's just dreadful!" wept the first girl. "W-w-w will you g-get m-m-y other handle-erchlef-f, dear? I am so blinded I can't see!" "Try to control yourself," said her friend, sympathetically. "Mim-most people c-o-could," replied the weeping one, "but I am so tender h-b-hearted! isn't it nearly over? I simply can't stand much more of it! I never saw anything so beautiful sad, did you?" "Aren't you glad you came?" demanded her friend. "If it hadn't been for me you'd have gone to that old comic thing instead of to something where you really could enjoy yourself." "Mercy, I'm glad that act's over!" said the weeping one, giving her face a final dab. As the lights went up there was a startled scream from the girl with the chatelaine bag and every one near turned around to look. Then they tugged. The girl with the psyche knot sat red eyed and unconcerned. "I thought something awful had happened to you at first," said the girl with the chatelaine bag. "People's hair turns white from grief or shock, so I thought complexions might change the same way—in your excitement you've been mopping your face with the hand you held the chocolate creams in. instead of the one with the handkercheff!" Heavy Annual Rainfall The rainfall of a village among the hills of Assam, during the ten weeks from May 1 to July 9 this year, was 250 inches. The village is Cherrapunj, the rainiest spot in Asia and presumably in the world. Its annual rainfall is something over 50 inches—say, fifteen inches. Cherrapunj stands on a plateau, overlooking the plain of Syilas, and it is 4,455 feet above sea level. NO HANDCUFFS IN FRANCE Some Ingenious Methods by Which the Police There Keep Prisoners From Escaping. Scarcely a day passes without a picture appearing in the French press of a prisoner being led off to the station by a policeman and the description "The Apache being taken away handcuffed by the agents." As a matter of fact mancuffs are altogether out of date in France and are never used. Instead of the bracelets every policeman carries a "cabriolet," which is a very rough and massively made article resembling a huge watch chain some ten inches long with a stout wooden crossbar at either end. An expert can slip this over the hand of an offender in a twinkling and the crossbars in his hand has only to give it a twist to inflict the most exasperating pain and compel instan and lamblike submission. Another common method of preventing escape is to make the prisoner place both his hands in his side trouser pockets and then pass a string round his wrists and round his waist and bid him march. He can walk at a very smart pace, but any attempt to run out of a shambling trot immediately brings him down, and no movement. No string is used till the brace buttons of the trousers are cut off and the culprit is made again to put his hands in his pockets. As in the former case, he can only walk, since so soon as he fells his hands his neither garments fail on his legs and he is "entrave" in the latest fashion. Few of these devices are apparent to the casual passerby, who often wonders at the passive docility with which some villainous looking individual under arrest follows his captor station. Sometimes on a country road you may meet a couple of gendarmes on foot or on horseback, leading a prisoner on horseback. This is in obedience to a quintet regulation whereby prisoners are never sent by train from place to place, as there are no funds set apart for railway fares. Consequently four or five times as much is spent in food, drink and lodging for the escort as would be for the ticket; but the regulations are observed. In such cases the police often use the "pouettes," though strictly speaking this instrument is not legal. It is a sort of loose thumbscrew when asked to as to keep the two thumbsticks together so long as the man does a juggle, but a twist of the string held against the police is enough to destroy any wish to escape—London Standard. Japanese Custom A common complaint made by tourists in Japan is that they are obliged to pay for everything far higher prices than the natives are charged; or, in other words, that because they are foreigners, they are feebled. But a glance at the social conditions by which the people have been educated would reveal the curious fact that throughout Japan's long period of isolation it was an accepted principle that the rich must live for the sake of the poor, and prices have always been based upon the purchaser's rank in society or upon his presumed ability to pay. This understanding remains largely in force today, being fully recognized and acted upon by all favored classes throughout the empire. The occidental, coming from lands where the reverse practically holds good—the poor living for the sake of the poor, the complaints of being robbed, as from its point of view he really is; but it is the he is a foreigner, but because, being too large, he is presumably wealthy, and must, therefore, conform to the custom of the country which permits the poor to levy a tax upon the rich without thereby incurring the slightest imputation of dishonesty. — Arthur. May Knapp, in December Atlantic. George Junior Republic. The George Junior Republic is a community established in 1895, near Freeville, New York, by W. R. George as a method of reform in the treatment of dependent and delilquent children. The organization is similar to that of a miniature republic. It has a constitution based upon that of the United States, and the government of the community is carried on in the same way. At first the founder was president with other adults holding the most important offices, but from 1896 all offices have been held by citizens. Each citizen may work for the founder or of other citizens no contract for job. The founder is the republic's aluminum coin, later redeemed by United States currency. School is held and farming, carpentry, printing, care of the establishment, dressmaking, domestic service and cookery are the other activities followed. The entrance age is from twelve to eighteen. Bostonian Learns Something. The folly of interfering with a newboy was illustrated on Hanover street. A well-dressed man took to task a newboy who was crying a fake extra and read the riot act to him in fine style. The boy said nothing, but when the man started to run for a North Station car he raised the cry of "Stop thief!" which was at once taken up by several of his companions, and in a moment an angry crowd was at the heels of the luckless one, who was forced to take a trip to the station house before the matter was cleared up—Boston Journal. Fifty Thousand Dollars Saved CHARLES S. JACKSON Funeral Director 3249-51 STATE STREET Reel. Phone PI once. Ald. 2443 Douglas 5998 Auto. 75-341 Calls answered promptly anyhour of the or night. Automobile Livery if desired. HER DINING ROOM FURNITURE How the Kind-Hearted and Gifted Rosa Bonheur Helped a Young Wife. "We are not brothers for nothing," Rosa Bonheur once wrote in jeeting affection to her brother Isidore; and in truth the wonderful, quaint, boyish little woman, with her bright eyes, cropped curls and breezy ways was almost a brotherly chum than a sister to the "Dodore" whom she so dearly loved. Much of the time on her country estate, in her studio and among her animals, wild and tame, she-wore the masculine costume which her manner of life required, to wear which she had—with one other woman, a famous explorer and archaeologist received permission from the French government. Yet this very mannish little person was far from unwomanly in her sympathies; and her latest biography records a pretty incident related by her friend, Joseph Verdier, the landscape painter. "One evening she was dining with me and some friends. Among the friends was a young lady recently married, who gave us an account of the furnishing of her house. All the rooms were furnished except the dining room; for this last her husband could not yet give her the money, and the room had little receptions in her sleeping room. "After dinner Rosa asked me for a large sheet of drawing paper, and while we were talking she sketched a delightful hunting scene, which she signed with her full name. Then, under cover of a general conversation on music, while tea was being served, she approached the young wife, and said to her: "Take this picture to Tedesco on your return to Paris and he will give you at least 1,500 francs for it. Then you will be able to furnish your dining room." "Youths Commandant." A Modern Type They are usually of a willful fairness, with flesh kept firm by the masseuse; their brows are lowering, and there is the perpetual hint of hardness in their faces; their apparel is exceedingly good, but their manners are ungent, their voices harsh and amber; there is no light in their eyes, and no darkness in their presence. They are fitting nurses, perhaps, for the able-bodied pages are overrunning the earth, but hardly suitable nurses for a generation which must redeem us from materialism, if indeed we are to be redeemed. Facing them, one wonders if race suicide is not one of nature's merciful devices. How should they or their offspring replace our old-fashioned lady? They are the natural product of much time, and the product as she was the natural product of the comfortable life of a generation of two ago.—The Atlantic. Large Enterprises Essential. "Large personal fortunes acquired legitimately are in themselves an honorable testimony to talent and to toll; and without large aggregations of capital, whether personal or corporate, great enterprises, are not possible. And without great enterprises will the country show the marvelous growth which we deem an essential characteristic of American life, and will the masses of the people have the opportunities now so abu-santy set before them to find employment and to develop their own fortunes, however relatively small those may be?"—Archbishop Ireland. 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. 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-striken 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. CURIOUS WORK OF PENANCE Ancient Buddhist of Japan Writes 126,000 Words on Piece of Paper 13 by $7\frac{1}{2}$ Inches. For some time there has been shown in San Francisco a piece of paper 13 inches by $7\frac{1}{2}$ inches, on which there are written 126,000 words. This writing is the work of Kobo Taishi, a Buddhist of Japan, who lived 1,100 years ago. Before his time his countrymen used only Chinese characters in writing and he evolved the idea of the Japanese alphabet. The writing on the paper is so fine that a microscope has to be used to declipher the intricate Japanese characters. It is an exact copy of eight books of the Buddhist Bible, and was written by the author as a sort of penance to purify his spirit. It is the property of a descendant of the writer, and has passed as a sacred heilloom from father to son for a thousand years. Every precaution has been taken to insure the safety of the document. In a case of white wood is a beautiful laquered box wrapped in green silk. Within the laquered box is another made of a very light porous wood that is extensively used in the manufacture of cabinets in which to store treasures. In this box is the precious writing. Gift for Business. Wille's father conducts a boat renting business on the Jersey side of the Hudson. "I'll give you a dollar if you'll ball out the boats, Wille," said the father one morning after a rain. There were 25 boats and Wille wasn't keen. So he was non-committed. He later his friend Albert came over. "I give you a quarter if you'll ball out the boats," said Wille to Albert. "Gee! What dye take me for?" returned Albert as he surveyed the fleet of rowboats. "It's worth 35 cents, anyway." "Well, all right, 35 then," said Wille. Albert got buoy and did the bailing, while Wille looked on and, the Tom Sawyer-like, jobed the job. The work done, Wille collected, paid Albert and pocketed 35 cents. "That boy'll be a business man," remarked the father to Willie's mother later, but not in the boy's hearing—New York Herald. Really Interesting Item "A newspaper receives daily for publication," says the Berliner Tageblatt, "a lot of stuff which has about as much literary value as a laundry slip. But occasionally something comes along which, unknown to the writer, is so funny that it sees the light of publicity. Thus, a correspondent calls attention to the fact that the Royal Love, which was seen for the first time at the Theater, is by Baron Rosenkranz, who is a direct descendant of Rosenkranz and Galdenstein, known to the world through Shakespeare." How Opium Is Secured Opium is got by cutting the capsule of the poppy flower with a notched iron instrument at sunrise, and by the next morning a drop or so of juice has oozed out. This is scraped off and saved by the grower, and after he has a vessel full of it, it is strained and dried. It takes a great many hours to dry it, and it goes through a number of processes before it is ready for the market. In a liquid state it looks like dark strawberry jam. 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. --- USICAL AND DRAMATIC "ALL PASSES, ART ALONE ENDURES". Week at the Chicago Theatres—Notes of the Profession All Around the World.—By Minnie Adams. jopeg the gracious par- pengers of the Defender appearance of news in last week. Interesting pre- tender, knowing the my excuse, I feel con- tainment will be accepted. the Pekin. sky Minstrels, who an- k are dandy. No pro- sessed, so to enumerate a impossible. However, several acts were well as and of them we can and foresee, the great very good; his every expression cled, only his voice was a little steady. The most forcibly port- tive voice. The most forcibly trader, played by S. S. Bruce one of the finest actors ever see the Pekin stage. Rev. Pinchback well done in the hands of Mr. Gra- George Madden, our brightest vera- ctor, exploited in black face Cato, and the audience was in lil- nent danger of hysteria all the George Hutchinson played Graham and showed himself as al- fine worker. The play was **Donist,** Marsh Craig — and **Great** is a good word when used as an adjective to describe the noun contortionist in this case. Craig's body is as pillant and flexible as india rubber. As an actor once said, "too much is too much to it is really right, as he enough and then some. This big yellow weighs over 700 pounds and he states that his wife weighs 145 pounds. Can you beat it? The Clarks are holding their own with their singing, dancing and explanation of the game "baseball." May I ask Mrs. Clark why she frowns so in the first part? I am sure she knows it detracts from her performance. Appearance and quartet do good well. Charles Glinp on the bass does well. The second tenor sings too loud for beauty and proper blending of tone. However, they sang nicely and were well received. The first part of the bill is the usual minstrel stunt and makes an excellent impression. The Pekin orchestra, of which we are proud, played exceedingly well. The closing act is one howling success, introducing childhood game of "blind man's huff." The Grand. The policy of Director David Peyton to give the public music of the highest order should meet the approbation of every one. The orchestra is handling music that organizations twice as large are using and it is their due when we say "Peyton and his men are all O. K." Notice when at one of the downtown theaters the ovation received by the entrance of the spontaneous applause which boy is at the end of their overture. Do we think less of our own? I trust not. Please let a "hint to the wise his sufficient," not only in this instance but in regard to all our orchestras. A most wonderful collection of brilliantly plumaged cockatiles are those of Prof. Swain. They are trained to almost human intelligence and are all very obedient, with the exception of the parrot, and as is usual with this peculiar bird he wishes to do the opposite of what is requested. Valce is one of the most gifted of musicians and he displays his art in most music, including popular as well as classical music on the accordion. Ellsworth and Linden give a fairly good playet entitled *Hilsa Hill Day Off*. Carta Day, Hilly by name and face, engrains in manner, dress, singing and dancing, is the hit of the bill and we look for a holdover in her. Carter, Willis and Cox do some excellent singing and dancing and close an altogether fine bill. The Monogram. This week is a "scream." Goodie and Goodieoe need no introduction, as their names are sufficient guarantee of their work. Peewee and Toliver are the crowd, the they dress the people on the circuit, they dress on everyone's satisfaction. Chicken Charlie is a good cure for the blues. "Nuff said!" Mayo, Lewis and Co. in their act of juggling and dancing on roller skates give to the audience an act unique as well as entertaining. The work is done with wonderful dexterity. Notes. Madame Sallo Jones Downs, the pianist, who is having remarkable success in her southern tour, will return to us in the spring but sends greetings ahead to all for the new year. The Ten Dark Knights are touring Coney and Hart are taking things by storm around New York City. The Six Musical Spillers are being made the center of attraction through our tour. Last week they were the big guns at the Penn theater in Philadelphia, Pa. Meredith Sisters will be at Poll's theater, New Haven, Conn., the week of July. The city is full of our good theatrical people taking a rest (2). Why? Look out, booking agents! Those of us who saw the play, "A Slave's Revenge," witnessed scenes which happened during slavery's painfully remembered days and in consequence of same we saw an historical drama. "Tis true the depicting of the southland scenes did not appeal to the more fastidious but the hard the more painful the more fierce at heart we saw the play from an national standpoint and deducted therefrom many points that will benefit all. The play we realize was acted by amateurs or less and many parts needed an overhauling. Still, the theme is beautiful and it, above all, showed many virtues in our race. It is well that we learn the reason why the other men are ever ready to lynch the men of our race and in the "Slave's Revenge" we plainly given Mrs. Jennie Lacey in the character of Mrs. Graham, made clear that the women of the other race in days gone by, if not in these, were well supplied with streaks of cruelty and chicanner in their dispositions. Mrs. Fannie Hall Clint as Malina worked well. It has been stated before that this lady is only adapted to sad and serious moods in art and she was sweet and dear in her Johnson as Hannah was very good and her rendition of "Suwance River" was excellent. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson as the free girl, Tapica, was most pleasantly cast. The little lady deserves much praise for her work though the part was small. Ed. McCoo as Glen, a slave boy, was one of the hits of the play. His work was very good; his every expression counted, only his voice was a little unsteady. The most forcibly portrayed character was Thompson, the slave trader, played by S. S. Bruce, who is one of the finest actors ever seen on the Pelik stage. Rev. Pinchback was well done in the hands of Rev. Graham. Geo. Madden, our brightest versatile actor, played the face as Cate, and the audience was next danger of hysteria all the time. George Hutchinson played Dr Graham and showed himself as always a fine worker. The play was good, all told, and the old time spirit of merriment was worth seeing. The Wilson trio, consisting of a mother and two daughters, is one of the cleanest singing and dancing sketches yet seen. The girls are modest and graceful; they are pretty and sing sweetly. Mrs. Wilson possesses a charming voice, and she handles to a nicety. We have our stages so much of the lifting high of skirts and the singing of "brusque songs, which all tend to cause "enault," that it is worth the price of admission to see and listen to this trio. With every expression of thankfulness we greet the return to our teacher, the great Dr. Jerry Mills, one of the greatest art teachers of the theatrical art the race has ever known. He is also one of the clearest cleverest dancers we have. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY Will Present "The Princess," by Ten nyson, from Oak- land Music Hall. The University society, organized to promote the arts of literature, music and drama among its members, will present the drama, "The Princess," Feb. 7, 1912, at the Oakland University organization is composed of students of student organizations of the various institutions of learning, including Oberlin, Fiske, Wilberforce and many other reputable schools throughout the country, and the occasion promises a rare educational treat. Wesleyan's orchestra and two hours of dancing will conclude the program. Admission 50 cents. MISS ETHEL THOMAS ENTER TAINS. Leap Year Reception. The home of Miss Ethel M. Thomas was the scene of much gayety on New Year's afternoon. Miss Thomas was the hostess of a leap year reception and was assisted by five of Chicago's fairest buds in receiving the many callers. At eight o'clock Miss Thomas entertained the young ladies, who so charmingly assisted her, and their company at a dinner, followed by dancing. The house was decorated in holly, mistletoe and Christmas bells. Miss Ethel C. Mitchell, Miss Norma and Miss Mildred Kennedy assisted in the reception party being composed of Miss Ethel M. Thomas, Miss Cecilia Johnson, Miss Gandetta Tibbs, Miss Mäd Coleman, Miss Berenice Kennedy and Miss Ada Lou Mitchell. Miss Thomas was becomingly grown in cream foil over blue silk. Miss Johnson, green satin draped in white chiffon. Miss Ada Lloyd Mitchell, pink crepe meteor. Miss Garnetta Tibbs, blue crepe du chien. Miss Mae Coleman, red chiffon over red silk. Miss Berenice Kennedy, yellow silk. Mr. Logan Thomas was at the piano during the evening. Those who called her "the most entertained that they wished leap year" year instead of once in four. Cupid worked overtime and disposed of all of his arrows. HYDE PARK NEWS The Drexel Whist club met at the home of Mrs. Napier, 5510 Ingleside avenue. The club was elaborately served by the hostess. There were several visitors and the club had a very pleasant time. The Hyde Park Woman's club held its first meeting of the new year at the residence of the vice president, Mrs. M. Jones, 5510 Ingleside avenue. The meeting was well attended and was the most enthusiastic one ever held. The charity section decided to have a bazaar and entertainment at 5526 Ingleside avenue. Mrs. Frederick Bryon, January 31, for the purpose of fund for a "Young Social Center of Hide." C. Tanner, secretary. H. F. Caybay, president. New York Uses Much Water In the whole world there are only about 1,500,000 people. An afn of rain on our watershed normally would give two gallons of water: for every man, woman and child on the surface of the earth. Put it another way: If every man, woman and child on the face of the earth should walk: up to to the lakes, reservoirs, etc., which city's water supply, and each pour in two gallons of water, it would not be enough to last that city ten days. The Man That Counts "Remember each of you that the chance for heroic endeavor of a rather spectacular kind does not often count; that the man who really counts in this life is not the man who thinks how well he could do some bit of heroism if the chance arose, but the man who actually does the humdum, workday, every-day duties as those duties arise." —Theodore Roosevelt. Turn to Wooden Flooring The use of wooden flooring is on the increase in Italy, taking the place of the former extensive demand for marmel, tilting and cement. Oak, larch and pitch pine are mostly adopted, and butt wood is the most popular beech has been brought to the market. REBELS' TRIAL IN PARIS Working of a Conspirator' Institute is Laid Bare in the Fn 'oh Capital. Extraordinary things are coming out at the trial in Paris of seven revolutionists on the charge of having threatened and sequestrated three of their comrades whom they suspected betraying them, the one for the one of 63 hours, another for 48 hours, and the one for 62, with the result that their captives signed confessions. The story of two of these affairs having been related in some of the newspapers, the judicial authorities instituted an inquiry, with the result that warrants were issued for the arrest of nine men. Three only could be captured, as the rest had fed, but four of the latter nurrendered. Meanwhile, it had been ascertained that a third revolutionist had been drawn into a trap and also sequestrated, his papers being even seized at his burglary. When questioned he and his fellow prisoners assumed full responsibility for what they had done, and soon the presiding judge remarked: "You have, like us, a detective departement, thanks to which you have been able to intercept correspondence to shadow people, and to lay traps for them. You have employed the classic methods of the police, and you have also gendarmes, the jeunes-garden revolutionaires. You have, too, your magistrates, but there is this difference, that the accused are not assisted by counsel." The person to whom this was adressed coolly replied that they left brutal methods to the regular police. Do the man who had undergone the longest sequestration complain? "No poor fellow was only too glad to get off so cheaply. It might perhaps have been different. With the war cans of former days, who did not hesitate to use daggers and revolvers when they got rid of spies."—Paris Correspondence London Telegraph. An Inventor. When interested and disinterested persons tried to extract from Molly Hobart anything except praise of the man whom she had chosen from among her village sutlers, they soon found that it could not be done. "I went over to see Molly this afternoon," said Mrs. Ransom to her husband at supper one evening. "I declare right about one thing. Jake has plenty of invention if he is shackless in his way. Do you believe that I asked her last time you were over to the farm what Jake was keeping those old wheels right out in the yard for, with most of their spoken gone?" Mr. Ransom nodded. "Well, his wife chuckled, as she went on with her story," Molly told me then that Jake would find a good use for 'em, and he has. He's took and knocked away all the spokes that were left, and he's run those two down onto two stakes out in his mansion, and rope round in his mansion, and hitched the other ends to two cows of his. "And when I was over there today, there they were, walking round and round, free as you please, and the hub slipping round and round with the rope, and not a chance of their getting twisted nor tangled!" "Molly says Jake has some thoughts of getting out a patent on his idea. Spouse he could?"-Youth's Companion. Woman and Justice to Man In the past, because of what we commonly call chivalry, men have been at a disadvantage in many emergencies. It sometimes happens, for example, that a man, in spite of his nobler desires, is compelled to go to law with a woman. She commits trespass or fails to pay a debt, and there is no need to pay in court. How does it stand with the chapman who brings the action? All his follows denounce him as a brute. The lawyers make him the butt of their antediluvian jokes and the jury give a verdict against him without leaving their seats. Will it be so now that women can vote? There will soon be female women who are not the woman fare quite as well with a dozen of her fair sisters to pass upon her rights and wrongs as she does now. Perhaps she will have a more difficult road to walk, but there will be compa-ments. Men will stand a far better chance of obtaining justice when women are concerned than they do at the court. More pervasive with a jury of males than they are likely to be with women.—Portland Oregonian. In a Tree-Top. It does not fall to the lot of everyone to see a donkey and cart perched on the top of an oak tree nearly thirty-five feet from the ground. During the winter of 1909 a large limb of an oak tree, near Stirling, was almost torn from the stem, and was overhanging a glimpsehouse where the foresters had planted plants. The foresters had climbed a tree and fastened a long rope on the limb, with the intention of cutting the branch away and lowering it gently, and so saving a disaster. The limb, however, was heavier than was thought, and when the saw had done its work away the limb went with a crash, and a loop in the rope caught a hook in the donkey's cart (which was there to remove the limb when saw in pieces), and in a twinkling moment on the tree-top, and jerked up on to the tree-top, and there were entangled amongst the branches. It is satisfactory to learn that the donkey and cart were got down in safety.—London Tit-Bits. 'Twas Ever Thus "Now, by me halldome!" stormed Sir Michael Do Byte, passing in the doning of his clothes, "twas a negeful and slatterly housewife I got when I wed thee!" "What ikthek thee, Mike dear?" asked his trembling spouse. "What ikthek, quotha! There be three rivets out of my clean shirt of mall!" And she was pain to weep sootly as he snouted her with his mace. --- That Invitation "That's funny," said Mrs. Crockett. "Mrs. Hamilton Hurlbut Dickson requests my presence at bridge Monday afternoon and she requests it in the most expensive engraved old English too." "Funny?" inquired Crockett, temporarily suspending the reading of the sporting page. "Did you expect you to pick the letters in a pin or make a transparency of it?" Mrs. Crockett uped her nose at him. "It is funny," she said, "because I have not the slightest idea who Mrs. Hamilton Hurlbut Dickson is—have you?" Crockett laid down his paper. "Never heard of her," he said. "But think, Jimmy, begged Mrs. Crockett. "Was she on your list when we sent our announcement cards?" "She was not," sang Crockett in descending scale. "To the best of my knowledge, she isn't the sister or relative of anybody I know or ought to know. Why should she invite you?" "Well, as to that, why shouldn't she?" bristled Mrs. Crockett. "And it's to, be at the Northedge club, and I'm dying to see the inside of that club. It's two weeks off, so it must be a big party." "Well, why don't you go?" asked Crockett. "You've got the ticket letting you in." "Go to a party given by an utterly strange woman?" demanded Mrs. Crockett. "I have heard of women who were social climbers inviting women they wanted to get in with, even if they hadn't ever met them." "Darling," interrupted Crockett, "I am loth to blast your sweet illusions, but why should anyone as expensive as Mrs. Hamilton Hurburt Dickson looks to be from her initiation card be sitting up nights planning how to get acquainted with a sweet lady living in a $45 $at and able to afford one taller gown a year." "All this," said his wife, "comes from having a legal mind! But I simply don't understand! It is addressed to my full name and the address of Mrs. Crockett stuck the card in her dressing mirror so it would be handy to ponder over. By diligent search she found that Mrs. Hamilton Hurbilt Dickson lived on a boulevard quite near, and she walked by the house without getting any further news. Every night she told Crockett that the man hunted out about the invitation, so she could either accept or decline it. "I'd hate to offend her by declining it. If it really is some one I ought to know," she wailed. "But, of course, I don't want to thrust myself upon her if she doesn't know me! Consider she would be, Jimmy, for a perfectly strange guest, and perfectly strange guest, and neither of us have the slightest common ground to stand on! We can't even ask how each other's families are, because we don't know who belongs to the families! They say that Northbridge club is truly beautiful. Of course I'm not so scary, but I accept this invitation, still—and thereby my new velvet dress, and this would be such a good chance to wear it." "Well, go on and go!" urged Crockett. "Oh, I wouldn't dream of such a thing!" cried his wife. "But do you think it would be awful if I did? If she's asked me she should take the consequences, shouldn't she? Of course she isn't—but, then—don't you think that last hat I got looks particularly with the tie. I just dying for a good name of bride, I've got to write my acceptance or regrets today, that's all there is to it!" That afternoon, as Mrs. Crockett sat down at her writing desk, her sister-in-law came in. She saw the card from Mrs. Hamilton Hurburt Dickson, and reached out a casual hand, when Mrs. Crockett told its story. "Oh, that's meant for me!" she said, "Mrs. Dickson is a bride, and I'm a friend of her mother's and her mother is in Europe, and she knew not the name, so she looked in the telephone when she found a Crockett on this street, and the first one must be I. I wouldn't have missed that party at the Northedge club for anything!" Crockett heard about it that evening. "I am awfully sorry," he symphorized, "when you wanted to go so badly!" It was then that his wife exploded. "What was Crockett?" she cried. "As if I ever dri-raised of going to her old party! The ideal. I should say not!" LATER PARTICULARS Sitting on a kit of mackerol with her feet on the coal box in the cross-roads grocery store, Darius Green was arising his lifelong grievance. "A thousand times, I reckon," he said, "we've denied that I met somebody about my life, but I put somebody always pokin' if at me. Everybuddy 'at me knows I've run a thrash-ing machine ever since I was a boy an' I hain't never done nuthin' else. I wunnett licked a elocutionist fur gettin' off that pome at a little entertainment in the red school house back there where the road rorks, an' I if I could have done it, I would have thing 'd' made his head look like a hubbard squash, by juckles! I'll take about a pound o' cheese an' a quarter's o' green tea, Hawkins." Difficult Alternative "What I want to see," said the economist, "is a system which will compel these big enterprises to get out and enter either to finish." "In other words, your idea is that the only way to prevent collusion is to arrange a collision." THE BINGA BLOCK, 4712-4752. State street (Inclusive). The longest tenement row in Chicago; desirable flats, low rents, newly decorated. Boulevard, electric lights the entire premises—without cost. JESSE BINGA, Banker. Main Office— S. E. Cor. State and 36th Place. Telephone—Douglas 1565. Branch Office— 4732 S. State Street. Telephone—Drexel 8797. FUNERAL WOULD COST MORE Reason. Why Farmer Agreed to Pay Bye Fee to Elderly Physician With Established Record. A medic tells of two physicians in a certain town, the one elderly, with a long record of cures, the other young, with a short record of cures. The older doctor, it appears, was inclined to surrender some of his night work to the younger man. One bitter night in winter the veteran was aroused by two farmers from a hamlet eight miles away, the wife of one of whom was seriously ill. The doctor at once referred them to his young colleague; but they refused the advice. "Very well," replied the doctor, thinking to put a convincing argument before them, "in that case my fee is two guineas, payable now." Whereupon there ensued a remonstrance, on the part of the farmers; but the doctor was obdurate. Finally one of the men asked the other: "Well, what do you think I ought to do?" "I think you better pay him the two guineas," said the other. "The funeral would cost you more." -Fit-Buits. THE FAMILY JAR. Miss Quick—There's no fool like an old fool. Mr. Easy—Really, dear, you need'a begin to fret about your age yet Not Interested "Oh dear," remarked a pretty school teacher, who has been spending the summer in Canada, "it soon will be time to go to school." "I will be her mother," what a noble thing it is to teach the children how to live useful lives." "Yes, but some are so terribly stupid," continued the teacher. "Take the case of little Johnny, he never will know much. I asked little Johnny, "Oh, I dumbo, dear. Columbus died." "Oh, I dumbo, dear. Columbus died." "Didn't even know dey be wicked." And He Didn't Crack a Smile "Under the new law, friends," announced the pastor of the progressive, up-to-date church, "the young men of our gymnasium have been compelled to discard the old roller towels that have been in use so long, and have gone in debt for a supply of new ones of a different kind. I hope that those who feel able will contribute liberally to their towel fund and thus enable them—or to wipe out that debt." His Motive Divulged at Last His Motive Divulged at Last. "Do you remember that evening when you to be my wife" he began, when you met after the lapse of many years. "Yes," she replied. "The moon, I remember, was at the first quarter." And I was down to my last quarter. "Your father had lots of money then." After he had turned she made up her mind that he was a brute. Refunct Arithmetical "Oh didn't say that, I could you he was half kilt from a blast in the quarry." "Well, an' wasn't he half kilt only last month fallin' down an elevator? How many halves has he got to be killed?" Just as Good. "Ma, have you any saccharine com biscuits for gastrocnemius use for supper?" "No, Marla, but I've got some sweet stuff for cats." --- PITTSBURG MERCHANT HAS ONE THAT COST HIM $75. Tella of the Time He Bet With Aif fable Stranger in Kansas City— Keepsake From Young Man's Grundmother. "See that three-cent piece?" said John M. Gardner, a retired Pittsburgh merchant, who formerly lived near Kansas City. He was at the Union depot the other morning on his way to friends in Wichita, says the Kansas City mayor. "I got $16 right here in front of this depot, and I would not take a hundred for it. "Twenty years ago this month I was waiting for a train here. Along came a stranger, with a smile, and held out his hand. He said he knew me, but I convinced him he didn't, and held out his hand. We wanted to get a drink. We took him to a young man directly in front of us pull out a handkerchief, and as he did so something fell from his pocket. The stranger, who we will call 'Bud', called my attentioon to it. He picked up the article, which proved to be a heavy piece of cardboard folded several times, and filled with pink ribbon. Bud unified the piece inside was three-cent piece, the inside was here. Bud told me to put it in my pocket and tie the paper again without the coin inside. We thought we would have some fun. We went over to the depot and found the fellow. "Lost anything, stranger? asked Bud. "Not that I know of,' was the reply. "We insisted on him searching. Suddenly he looked up with disappointment written on his face. "Yes, boys, I lost a piece of paper tied up with ribbon, have you fellows seen it? "Is this it? I asked, holding out the paper. "He made a grab for it. Bud asked him what he had inside the paper. The fellow did it was a keepsake, a three-cent piece which his grandmother had given him. Bud nudged me and laughed. "You mean to say you carry a three-cent piece in that paper?" said Bud. Bud then offered to bet there an extra coin in that paper. They bet $20. Bud not have any move to bet, he said. He had a chance to make some easy money, so I bet the follow $10. He raised me $20, and we argue back and forth until I had $75 up. I knew I couldn't lose as I had that three-cent piece in my pocket. Then the fellow took my paper end, without untie it, to tore it. I knew a three-cent piece come out of my paper. I was madder than a hornet. Bud was holding stakes. "Several years after I learned that these two were working that game as a regular business. Now, every time I approaches me with a scheme I will much about. I reach into my pocket and rub this three-cent piece, just as a matter of precaution, you know." Money's Fart In Marriage Scores of persons lose their chances of being happily married through making an unnecessary obstacle of money. The importance of it is often exaggerated. Many a man hesitates to propose to a girl because of his small income. Very often much misery, understanding and tangled lives result from violence. More unfortunate love affairs result of what has not been said to spoken words. When a man has a small income, and a prospect of increase, there is no legitimate reason for his not speaking of his love; no reason, for that matter, to prevent marriage. People are so desperately afraid, though, of beginning married life in a small way. They fear the sacrifices which they will be called upon to make to clash with which they will be subjected. Many years of happiness are lost in this, and is such a mistake for young people to want to start marriage in the state that their parents are ending it. To delay marriage until a "comfortable" income is available is to prove something lacking in the love.—Answers, London. Is it not about time for the ice crop to begin falling? RECENT DISCOVERIES IN ENGLAND ARE INTERESTING. Flint Implements Made Before the Glacial Period of Europe Are Found by an Eminent Archaeologist in Suffolk. The new discovery in regard to ancient man (of which I am able to speak with full confidence since I have studied the specimens and the localities myself, and have just sent an illustrated account of the implement to the Royal society) is that of flint implements of very definite and peculiar shape, in some abundance, in a bed at the base of what geologists class as a Pliocene deposit (that is, before the Pleistocene), namely, the "Red Craq" of Suffolk. We owe this most important discovery entirely to Mr. J. Reid Moir of Ipswich, who first his first specimens in October, 1090, after a year's careful examination of the district in urg pl. pl. am miles and more around Ipswich, announced it in a letter to the Times in October, 1910. Now that another year has passed more specimens have been found and the matter is beyond dispute. Two distinguished geologists, past presidents of the Geological society, have certified that the bed in which Mr. Moir's flints are obtained is certainly the undisturbed basement bed of the Red Craq, so that they may be justly spoken of as due to the work of pre-craq man. The implements are not at all like those previously known. They are not flattened, almond-shaped, or lite-like (elongated, triangular or leaf-shaped), as are the large Paleolithic implement (the Chellane, Acheuillan and Mousterian) hitherto known. But they are shaped like the beak of an eagle, compressed from side to side with a keel or ridge extending from the front point backward. Their shape may be compared to the hull of a boat with its keel turned upward and its beak-like prow in front. They are large to ten inches in length, and all have flattened beaks to a awe well-directed blows given to a piece of flint so as to knock off great pieces right and left, leaving a keel in the midline, while the lower face is trimmed flat. These implements are, in fact, beaked hammer heads—probably used in the hand without hafting—and applied to the smoothing and "dressing" of skins, as well as other purposes. Some are more symmetrical and carefully "trimmed" than others. With these, which I call "eagle beak" imitations of the "rostro-carrinate type" are found for other large and heavy sculptured flutes of rious shapes (like plucks and axes) unlike any hitherto known, but certainly and without the least doubt chipped into shape by man. The film, implements—our eagle's beaks made by men in the relatively warm Coraline, Crag days—were actually carried off the land by an ice sheet and deposited in the earliest layers of the Red Crag deposit. The irrefragible proof of this is that very many of the eagle's beak flints are scratched and scored on their smooth surfaces by those peculiar cross-crunning grooves which we find on a pebble of the stones, the "moraine," or stone heap. Nothing but the immense pressure of the stones embeds one sheet of ice, rasping by slow movement other stones embedded in another sheet of ice over which the first very slowly advances, can produce these markings. The Red Crag marks the beginning of the Pleistocene and of the glacial condition of North Europe. A great question, difficult of decision, is whether the earliest river gravels of the Pleistocene and France were as early as the Red Crag overlying which are vast marine deposits of glacial sands and clays. In any case Mr. Moir's flint implements are pre-Crag; they were made before the glacial conditions set in, and are those found in the river gravels. The Red Crag will profoundly interest the "praebtorians" of France and Germany, as well as English archaeologists and geologists—London Times. We must, of course, expect a little cold weather now, and then. A WEEK WITH "THE WOLVERINES" Michigan in the Limelight, by Our Special Correspondents—Detroit, Kalamazoo, Dowagiac and Benton Harbor. THE RACE MAKING GOOD. The Race Making Progress—Personal and Pertinent Paragraphs About the People—What They Are Doing in Religious, Business and Social Circles. DOWAGIAC NEWS Dowagie, Mich., Jan. 12—Nothing doing with the Michigangenders of Doe-Wah-Jack. The three days' blizzard has closed them in. Rev. G. W. H. Hill has taken for his subject on Sunday morning, "His Blood Shed for Me"; even subject, "Christ Seeking Sinners." The W. H. and F. Missionary society will meet at the parsonage on Wednesday afternoon. Convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity During Holidays. (By F. P. Johnston.) Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 12—December 27, 28, 29, 1911, the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity assembled in annual convention at the seat of the Epsilon chapter, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This fraternity springs from the desire of a number of Negro college men that college men of color be bound in closer ties of brotherhood. It was organized in 1906 at Cornell University ٥٠٠٠٠٠٠٠٠٠ The convention just closed which was its fifth annual one, was marked by good cheer, and the reports of the delegates were inspiring. A particularly encouraging feature of the convention was the extension of fraternity interests toward the West by deciding to make chapters at the University of Kansas and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Chas. Mahoney, an attorney of Detroit and an alumnus member of the Epsilon chapter, delivered an interesting address and the delegates were entertained at a smoker and banquet. The officers elected for the coming year were: Chas. Garvin, Beta Chapter, Howard, President; Jos. F. Fugget, Alpha Chapter, Cornell, vice-president; Leon S. Evans, Epsilon Chapter, Michigan, secretary; Clarence A. Jones, Kappa Chapter, Ohio State University, treasurer. The next convention will meet at the seat of the Kappa Chapter, Ohio State University, Dec. 6, 27, 28, 1912. BURNED JUDAS IN EFFIGY In That Way the Guides Showed Their Love for the Christian Religion. We hanged Judas Iscariot today. Having expressed our joy over the resurrection of Christ by gorging ourselves with roast lamb and bitter wine, by firing guns, rockets and torpedoes and by lighting bonfires, we gave vent to our remaining enthusiasm in one grand burst of mock vengeance directed against the unfortunate mortal who was destined from the foundation of the world to figure as a cat's paw in the plan of salvation. The burning took place in the front of a little church of the Virgin, situated on the highest part of the city. From a pole erected before the door hung a crude, wretched, melancholy figure stuffed with straw, and ridiculously suggesting the image of a man. Within the church the priest was conducting the regular Sunday service. At last the doors were thrown wide open and the whole congregation gushed forth like water from a broken dam, and immediately thereafter every man and boy in the square was shooting away at the effigy. Poor Judas whirled about and danced in the air as the bullets papped him, and suddenly burst into flames. When a Greek feels particularly happy, or wishes to express his enthusiasm he produces an old musket or pistol and discharges it. Resurrection Day in Greece resembles the Fourth of July in the United States.—George Horton in Argolis. Stevenson's Kean Comment The hit that "Treasure Island" made is one of the most pleasant episodes in literary history. The story that Gladstone got a gimple of the book at Lord Rosebery's house, and spent the next day hunting over London for a second-hand copy, is good enough to be true. Stevenson's own comment on his success is levelheaded, if pointed: "This gives one strange thoughts of how very bad the common run of books that the wise-acres think too bad to print are the very ones that bring me praise and pudding." One Hair's Breadth." A "hair's breadth" is 17-10,000 of an A. For the purpose of such fine and delicate measurement tool makers use what is called a micrometer caliper. The hair's breadth is something that has to be taken into consideration in the manufacture of a thousand and one things in the machine maker's art. Close calculation of this sort must be done on the doors of bank vaults, for example, where every part must fit to the nceest degree.—Harper's Weekly Purse With Money In a Cod. A housekeeper at Queenstown, Ireland, constabulary barracks while cleaning a codfish about 30 pounds in weight discovered inside the fish a purse containing a number of silver colts of the reign of Queen Victoria. The purse was of leather, steel bound and in good preservation. It also contained some inscribed paper, which was reduced almost to pulp. UNCLE JOE'S PLAN By M. DIBBELL Mercy Schuyler wandered about the familiar rooms with sorrow tugging at her heart strings. Just three months ago her half-sister had been laid to rest, but it seemed like years to Mercy. Peace Schuyler had been fifteen years her elder, and had taken full charge of little Mercy left motherless when hardly old enough to walk. Peace was a quiet, self contained person, and faithfully performed her duty toward the small sister who truly loved her. Now Peace was gone, and Mercy must take up the old life alone after her long visit to distant relatives. This was the first day without her sister, and Mercy could not seem to settle down at her accustomed duties. When a timid knock sounded at the door she answered it gladly, to be confronted by a chubby youngster holding a ball of gray fur. "Come in Annie, I am delighted to see you," said lonely Mercy, but the little girl answered: "Thank you, Miss Mercy, I can't come in, but mother thought you must feel lonesome and she said I might bring you one of my kittens," and she carefully passed over the gray ball, which gave a soft purr as it was pressed to Mercy's cheek. "Thank you a thousand times, dear." Mercy stooped to kiss the child. This was the very first kitten Mercy had ever possessed. The mite seemed to know that its task was to cheer up its new mistress, and played all sorts of pretty antics for her benefit, until at last it fell sleep in her lap. As she sat with the kitten's head smuggled against her hand, annot.'r knock sounded at the door; and gently placing her little pet on a cushion Mercy started to find who was her second visitor. A very small girl, dressed in a slimy black rock, stood on the doorsten. Mercy recognized her as a C. W. H. Holding a Ball of Gray Fur. daughter of a young widow who had been supporting her child and herself by dressmaking. The little one spoke at once. "Oh Miss Mercy, won't you let me stay with you? Mother died last week, and they are going to take me to the orphan asylum tomorrow. Annie just came to tell me good-bye, and she said that she had given you a kitten; so then I thought maybe you might take me, too. I'll be as good as ever I know how—and I don't want to go way off to the awful asylum." She poured all this out in one breathless stream, and ended by breaking into a storm of sobs. Mercy gathered the child into her embrace, and fairly carried her indoors. "Don't cry so, dearle," she said softly, as the tears continued to flow and a pair of arms were flung about her neck as if their owner never intended to let her go. "I am sure there is something better than the orphan asylum in store for you." After much soothing she succeeded in calming the child, and heard the sad story of her bereavement. She had not a relative in the world so far as she knew. To Mercy Schuyler it seemed as if Providence itself had guided this little one to her door. She had liked both the brave young widow and small Grace ever since she first met them. For a moment she pondered the matter, gently rocking back and forth in the big chair, white Grace with one arm still clasped round her friend's neck, regarded her with anxious eyes. At last Mercy spoke. "Yes, dear, you shall stay with me. Why just see, it makes a trio from the Bible—Grace, Mercy and Peace—only Grace came last this time instead of first," and she kissed the little face, whose look changed from fear to happy relief. Grace did not understand Mercy's scriptural allusion, but she fully comprehended the fact that she had found a home, and was saved from the dreadful asylum. "Dear Miss Mercy, I love you," she whispered with a squeeze, "and you will like me a little won't you—I haven't anybody but you." "I love you already, my little Grace," assured Mercy. The village authorities were well satisfied that little Grace Scranton should be given over to Mercy Schuyled's keeping, rather than bundled off to the asylum. Mercy felt that she had a real interest in life now, and the household of three entered upon a quiet but far from unhappy round of existence. When Grace had been in her new home for over six months, a letter came addressed to Mrs. Mary Scranton, and was handed by the postmaster to Meryc Schuyler. Great was her surprise on reading it to Grace to find that the letter was from Mrs. Scranton's brother, informing her of his arrival in the United States, and that he should come at once to his sister, "So look for me just as soon as you receive this. I have lots of good news to tell you. Your long lost, but found forever and ever, brother, Joseph," the epigrite concluded and Grace cried as Mercy read the name. "Why, it must be uncle Joe, who was drowned in a shipwreck more than a year ago!" Mercy smiled feebly. "It looks as if uncle Joe were not drowned after all," she said without much enthusiasm. Her face grew grave as she asked. "What shall I do if your uncle wants to take you away from me?" "Oh, I just wouldn't go," answered her small adorer, twining both arms about Mercy's neck. "You are the one I love." Mercy felt the joy of that childish cares, but a fear began to shape itself in her thought. What right had she to refuse him, if this new found uncle should claim his little niece? The morning after the letter there came a sharp knock at Mercy Schuyler's door, and she opened it well knowing who it must be. A tall, fine looking much-bronzed man stood before her. "Is this Miss Mercy Schuyler?" And, upon being assured that it was, he continued: "I am told that you have by little niece staying with you—can I see her?" Following Mercy into the house he spied Grace standing near the window. He at once caught her up in his arms. "You poor baby," he said in a broken voice. "To think you are all that is left to me on earth—but how glad I am that there is you," and he kissed her so lovingly that small Grace could not help giving him a small hug in return. Then there followed the whole tale of his having been cast away on an uninhabited island with the half dozen others who were saved from the wrecked ship, as helpless prisoners, until their rescue only a few weeks back. His all ventures had proved successful, and Joseph Granville had been hastening home to gladden his sister's heart with the news that she should live with him in ease and comfort. Later the subject which Mary Schuyler dreaded was broached. "Grace will have to take her mother's place now, in caring for her lonely uncle. And believe me, Miss Mercy, you have my life long gratitude that you have so kindly cared for the baby." His sincerity was evident, but Mercy's face showed only sorrow, while Grace began to cry and cling close to her beloved guardian. "I don't want to leave Miss Mercy," she sobbed. Mercy asked: "What shall I do without my little girl?" At first Joseph Granville looked nonplussed, then he took heart and said: "It would not be showing much gratitude to rob you of the youngster if you want her; so perhaps it will be best for her to stay with you at present, and I will see if I can't win some of her affection for myself." Mercy thanked him. "I should be simply desolate without Grace," she concluded. Uclee Joe settled down as a boarder in a comfortable farm house near by, and spent most of his waking hours in the company of Mercy Schuyler and Grace. Late one afternoon as they were returning from a walk, Grace running on ahead, Joseph Granville said to Mercy: "I have thought out a perfect plan to make Grace and myself happy, if only you will consent to it." "Tell me what it is," commanded Mercy in quick alarm, and Joseph answered: "Grace is beginning to like me, but she would never be content away from you; and I have followed Grace's example and fallen in love with her guardian. Won't you take us both for life? You are the dearest and best woman on earth," he ended fervently. For a little space there was silence, then, "I think your plan is a good one," said Mercy at last, giving him a shy smile. "And I am willing to try it for all our sakes." To Store Living Tissues The John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, has installed in its clinics the transplantation of animal tissue from one body to another. Experiments have convinced the experts that life can be saved by using part of a body, living or dead, of man or animal, on a patient. The most striking feature of the method is that living material taken from one patient may be stored away and kept until there is need for its use in an operation on another. It has been found that tissue from a dog, stored away in an ice chest for eight days, grew successfully when grafted on the leg of a cat. In other experiments the material was kept for fifty days and grew when transplanted to another body. Much human material, got in operations, is now thrown away. This will now be kept for use in the operating room. In 62 experiments on dogs the Hopkins physicians transplanted parts of the bodies from one animal to another and to animals of another kind with remarkable success. New Englander on Suffrage. While in Richmond recently for the performance of "Brebcca of Sunnybrook Farm," Kate Douglas Wiggin was asked how she stood on the question of votes for women. Replying with a laugh that she didn't stand at all, she told about a New England farmer's wife who had no very romantic ideas about the opposite sex. She was hurrying from churn "o sink, from sink to shed, and back to the kitchen stove when asked if she approved of woman's suffrage, and if she wished to vote. "No, I certainly do not," she exclaimed with a vigorous movement of the churn dasher; "I say if there is any one little thing that the men folks can do alone, for goodness sake let 'em do it." Stump Speeches. Andrew Carnegie was talking about the horrors of war. "Once, at the height of the American civil war," he said, "two men at a railway station saw a cartload of wooden legs depart for a military hospital. "Those wooden legs," said the first man, "are a rather elequent protest against war aren't they?" "Yes," agreed the other; "they are what you might call stump speeches." -Tit Bits. Practically Indestructible, but Vibra- lon Proves Handcap to Range Finders and Diminishes Accuracy in Gunnery. Washington.-The skeleton masts on the United States battleships, distinctly a feature of American warcraft, are said to be doomed for the scrap heap. There is a great deal or discussion in naval circles over the apparently well-founded report that the navy department intends to abandon the skeleton masts with which all battleships, are now equipped because they have not come up to expectations, and from the viewpoint of naval experts are a hindrance and a handicap to efficient marksmanship. The vibration of the mast, due to its slender mechanism, is said to be the chief defect. For this reason the range finder, whose duty it is to pick up the object and communicate the distance to the gun pointers, is unable to do so with the celerity and accuracy that would be demanded in a naval engagement. When the skeleton mast was introduced on American battleships it was agreed generally a great step had been taken in advance of other nations. It was the belief then, and still is, that the mast is indestructible, which gave the ship in time of action a advantage, for if the mast could not be shot away the fire control system of the vessel at no time would be threatened. The position of the range finder is at the top of the mast. He is the pulse of the ship, and mistakes made THE BATTLESHIP Masts of the South Carolina by him may mean the destruction of the vessel. Naval experts figured a 12-inch shell would pass through the skeleton mast without destroying it, whereas one shot in the old style hollow steel mast would bring it down and with it the whole fire control system. It was calculated several shots could go through the skeleton masts and it still would stand. But from all indications those who advanced the skeleton mast theory evidently were carried away by their enthusiasm and overlooked the drawback in another direction that would be caused by the vibration of a battleship steaming at full speed. How much depends upon the range finder can be understood only by men who make a study of fighting at long range, as was pointed out by an expert who says the skeleton masts are a failure. It was expected that when the lattice work masts first made their appearance other nations would be quick to adopt them. It was a surprise to advocates of the new type of mast that this was not done. The skeleton mast is typically an American naval idea, but from all indications the defects now seen by experts here were foreseen by experts in other navies, and the American mast let alone. Those in favor of the skeleton masts point to the excellent gunnery records made in target practice since their adoption as proof of their success, but the counter argument is advanced that if the range finders were placed on more substantial posts the marksmanship of the navy, increasing in excellence as it has done year by year, would be still better and all records for speed and accuracy would be smashed. The unpopularity of the skeleton masts has been growing steadily. It is said the change is not far off, and any day may see orders issued doing away with what a year or two ago was thought to be great stride forward in naval construction. Dies of a Broken Heart Hempstead, L. I—Extreme grief over the tragic fate of her little girl caused Mrs. Kate Bloweski to die of a broken heart. Last week the little one was fatally burned at a bonfire in front of her home here and as she was carried into the house the mother collapsed. She remained in a semi-conscious condition until her death. 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