Chicago Defender

The Home Edition VOLUME VII. NUMBER 5. NEGROES DEAD AN ALD E. H. Wright, Candidate Name at Primaries— The Negro Voters of Chicago Are Out in Recognition in the City Council—E. Edw. H. Wright, the Candidate Repre- —Colored Republican Voters Compris- Ward's Voting Strength. CHICAGO A BACK NUMBER—BALT AND PHILADELPHIA H COLORED ALD Remember Barnett Would Have Been Elec- Campaign Against Him—Municipal V Representative Green—How Could Th the Jews and Poles, the Negro Want Besides Commissioner and Representa- man and a Judge. NEGROES DEMAND AN ALDERMAN E. H. Wright, Candidate, Submits Name at Primaries—No Excuse The Negro Voters of Chicago Are Out in a Determined Effort for Recognition in the City Council—Ex-County Commissioner Edw. H. Wright, the Candidate Representing the Second Ward—Colored Republican Voters Comprise Over One-Half of the Ward's Voting Strength. CHICAGO A BACK NUMBER—BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA HAVE HAD COLORED ALDERMEN FOR YEARS Remember Barnett Would Have Been Elected Judge But for Nasty Campaign Against Him—Municipal Voters' League Endorses Representative Green—How Could They Do Otherwise?—Like the Jews and Poles, the Negro Wants Equal Representation—Besides Commissioner and Representative, We Want an Alderman and a Judge. Mr. E. H. Wright has announced his candidacy for the nomination of alderman of the Second ward on the Republican ticket at the primary election to be held on Tuesday, the 27th day of February, and already his many friends are circulating and signing his petitions and intend to make a vigorous fight to secure this nomination, which is equivalent to an election in the new Second ward, where nomination because the colored Republican voters comprise fully one half of the total Republican vote of the Second ward and are entitled to one alderman. There is now but one Republican alderman in the ward—George F. Harding—and if Mr. Menden, Mr. Ettelson, Mr. Dewey and others who call themselves the Republican leaders in the Second ward want to do the fair thing by their EDWARD H. WRIGHT. Candidate for the Regular Republican Nomination for Second Ward at the Primary Election to Be Held on 27, 1312. WRIGHT. An Nomination for Alderman of the Tion to Be Held on Tuesday, Feb. 1912. Candidate for the Regular Republican Nomination for Alderman of the Second Ward at the Primary Election to Be Held on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1912. the normal Republican majority is at colored constituents they will support least 4,000 by a conservative estimate some colored man for this nomination. colored constituents they will support some colored man for this nomination. When Mr. Wright was interviewed in his law office in the Qunaha building by a representative of the Defender, he said: "When I ran for alderman as an independent in 1910 many white men and some colored men took refuge behind the subterfuge that I had not submitted my name at the primaries, as a reason for not supporting me. They will have no such excuse in this contest!" "I have long felt the crying need of a colored man in the Chicago city council. As citizens of this great municipality we pay taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars of property and there are questions continually arising in the council which require the closest scrutiny on the part of one who understands our necessities, shares our hopes and aspirations and who will be eternally vigilant to do those things which will aid in establishing and maintaining our status as citizens on the same plane as all other citizens. "And yet to show that I am not governed by a selfish motive, I will agree to withdraw my name before the primaries if the Republican leaders will put forward any reputable colored man as their candidate at the primary election; and I will give such a candidate my loyal support at the primary and at the election, should he be the nominee. Under such circumstances he could not fail of nomination and election if the said leaders were honest in their support, and we would then realize the hope of my friends and myself in this fight—a colored alderman in the city council for the first time in the history of Chicago." "Just a few days ago the city council passed an order directing the mayor to prohibit the production of the play called 'The Playboy of the Western World' because it was alleged that the play was a libel on the Irish race. "The colored people of this city held meetings and sent delegations to the mayor in an effort to prevent the production of 'The Clansman' and 'The Nigger,' but all their efforts resulted in failure because we had no representative in the city council to plead our cause. "The Poles, the Jews and all other nationalities are insisting on adequate representation in public affairs and my conclusion, drawn from history, is that no race or nation stands still—they must either go forward in the race for development or they must go back and lose what they have gained in the previous struggle. "I am a candidate for the regular of nominating leaders we and we of my friend—a colorful cell for the of Chicago. All vote state one day and at the maries (not register into thetration of manic praet at the cion or be can be of missioner floor. The stigma of disgrace which was so unjustly placed upon the Hotel Pullman and its worthy proprietor, Mr. J. A. Jones, has been completely obliterated and set at naught. Several weeks since malicious tales detrimental to the well being of said hotel were circulated and gained such credence that officers of the law made a most dastardly outrage on the hotel, without first investigating the stories told them. Well wishers of Mr. Jones' comprising members of both races were most indignant because of his treatment by the officers and gave him their assistance in the suit for vindication and damages. And Mr. Jones has fairly and squatelyaten his adversaries and stands completely exonerated from any base actions, purposes or ulterior mo- --- --- 1 The Chicago Defender. nomination because the colored Republican voters comprise fully one-half of the total Republican vote of the Second ward and are entitled to one alderman. There is now but one Republican alderman in the ward—George F. Harding—and if Mr. Madden, Mr. Ettelson, Mr. Dewey and others who call themselves the Republican leaders in the Second ward want to do the fair thing by their All voters who have been in the state one year, in the county ninety days and in the precinct thirty days at the time of the aldermanic primaries (Feb. 27, 1912) but who are not registered or who have moved into the precinct since the last registration day, may vote at the aldermanic primaries by filling an affidavit at the election commissioners' office on or before Feb. 7 on blanks which can be obtained at the election commissioners' office in the city hall, third floor. THE FAULT OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS. The Bean Eaters Cartoon had to be discontinued because of the lax way in which the subscribers have been paying for the paper. This always enjoyable feature of The Defender was an expensive one and we were compelled to stop it. The Bean Eaters and many other new features will be added during the year if our friends will only do their part by us. In order to verify a number of conflicting reports concerning the closing of the Pekin theatre and the reason for said closure, The Chicago Defender, in conversation with Miss Lucy Lindasy, one of the claimants, elicited the fact that it was owing to the unsettled conditions of the estate now in litigation. --- NOTICE THE EMANUEL RECITAL MUSICAL EVENT. Mr. Harrison Emanuel, Violinist, Supported by Marie Burton-Hyram at Kimball Hall Monday Night—Artistic Success but Poorly Attended. Monday night Mr. F. P. Mandy presented Mr. Harrison Emanuel, violinist, in recital at Kimball Hall supported by Mine. Marie Burton-Hyram, soprano, and Clarke Cudney Mandy as accompanist. Kimball Hall, the center of musical culture, was only comfortably filled. This splendid little hall, more like the music room in many boulevard residences, with its large pipe organ as PORTERS ARE NOT GRAFTERS Sensational Charge That Railroad Porters and Dining Car Waiters Substitute Inferior Goods Denied—The Porter's Side of the. Story—Company Never Made $1,000,000 in a Year—How Could Help Steal That Much?—Railroad Officials Demon Charge GRADUATE EN Mrs. Isabella Fowler Large Reception Saturday night la Fowler Wright elementary to her nie Brown, who was on graduates from the The affair was at the Dearborn street. The olive, green and white the decorations. The Misses Ruth Brown, Allne Hedges, Maud cienico Green, Sadie Mr. Harrison Emanuel. a stage background surrounded both artist and audience with the atmosphere so necessary in making complete such occasions. The program was of fashionable length—three numbers for Mr. Emanuel and two numbers for Mme. Hyram. It was an artistic success, deserving of repetition which should be encouraged by a packed auditorium. Chicagoans have heard Joseph Douglass, Clarence Cameron White and Felix Weir on the violin but the charm of the worlds sweetest instrument was enhanced tenfold in the interpretation by Mr. Emanuel Monday night. Mme. Hyram, suffering from a cold, sang remarkably well for one so afflicted. The audience numbered many of her friends who were generous in applause. In her second number she absolutely had to declare an encore. Claire Cudney Mandy was an ideal accompanist. Of pleasing manner and marked ability she was the true second to both principal and assistant. Among the audience were many white musicians. Their attitude was friendly but critical. "Mr. Emanuel is a youngster in years, but a master in knowledge and execution of the violin," said one admirer after the recital.—J. H. S. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Seven Foreign Countries, Eight Different States and Fifteen Missionary Societies to Be Represented in an Important Session April 17, 18 and 19. TUSKEGEE, Ala., Feb. 2.—Fifteen missionary societies and seven foreign countries will be represented at the international conference on the negro to be held at Tuskegge Institute on April 17, 18 and 19. In addition to the seven foreign countries eight different states or provinces of negro Africa, will send representatives. The purpose of the conference is to bring about an exchange of ideas among those who are working for the uplift of the black race throughout the world. The Venezuelan government will be represented as well as Jamaica, Porto Rico, the Danish West Indies and other West Indian groups. Among the distinguished guests will be Samuel D. Bawhon, manager of the industrial experiment station, Ongole Gunta district, India; Hon. F. E. R. Johnston, secretary of state, Monrovia, Liberia; Hon. S. G. Harmon, vice president of Liberia; Rev. Isiah Goda Sishuba, president Ethiopian Church, Queenstown, South Africa; Rev. Henry Reid, secretary of the Ethiopian Church, Johannesburg, South Africa, and William C. Terrill, superintendent inhambane district, Methodist Episcopal church, Portugese, East Africa. In calling the conference Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee, was animated by a desire to discover to what extent methods adopted at Tuskegee and Hampton might be successfully applied in other countries. GEORGIA KEEPS UP ITS RECORD. Mob Storms Jail—Hangs Alleged Assailant of Girl—Troops as Usual Cordale, Ga., Jan. 30.—A mob of 500 men to-day stormed the jail where Albert Hamilton, the negro assailant of a white girl, was confined, took him forth and nanged him to a tree. Troops ordered here failed' arrive in timeto save the man's life. Landmarks Gulde Birds The homing instinct in migrating birds consists of their wonderful ability in detecting changes in climate and direction of the compass, for their "home" may cover a huge area. The rest is all done by landmarks. PORTERS ARE NOT GRAFTERS Sensational Charge That Railroad Porters and Dining Car Waiters Substitute Inferior Goods Denied—The Porter's Side of the. Story—Company Never Made $1,000,000 in a Year—How Could Help Steal That Much?—Railroad Officials Deny Charge. RAILROAD MEN RESENT ACCUSATION—CAN PROVE EVERY STATEMENT. The Chicago Defender Takes Up the Fight on Behalf of Thousands of Railroad Men Centering and Entering the City—Railroad Men Considered Best Posted Employees—Contact With the Great and Near Great Sharpens Intellect and Leisure for Reading Brightens Mind. Our attention has veen called to a press report in the Inter Ocean of Saturday, Jan. 27, and also to the Chicago Examiner of same date, relative to losses the railroads entering Chicago and also the Great Northern Railroad of St. Paul are said to have sustained at the hands of dishonest porters on buffets and dining car waiters. The Inter Ocean says that "in steal from railroads operating out of Chicago amounting to $1,000,000 during last year was disclosed last night" coincident with the arrest in Pacific coast cities of a score or more of buffer and dining car porters employed on the Great Northern railroad. We are in position to show that the entire gross earnings of the buffet and dining cars of said railroad do not amount to a million dollars a year. Hence the fallacy of such a statement. We realize the fact that there are dishonest men engaged in all lines of work. But no reasonable man who is familiar with the operation of buffet and dining cars on railroads could be made to believe the above statement. Besides, we do not understand how Mr. A. G. Ray, employed as chief special agent of the Great Northern railroad, would be in position to correctly ascertain the losses sustained by the Pennsylvania, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. In fact, we feel that the entire situation has been grossly misrepresented and that thousands of hard-working and faithful colored railroad employees have been made to suffer a stupendous depreciation of merit in the minds of the traveling public. The colored railroad men are the most poorly paid class of working men, with reference to salary, employed by the companies in the country. "They depend largely upon the generosity of the public." It is highly essential that we always maintain the highest degree in our honesty and integrity, but this is utterly impossible if we are to be misrepresented in such a manner through the public press. Besides, if the public has been abused in the manner described in this report by having been sold inferior quality of goods in buffet and dining cars by dishonest porters, why not let us hear from the dear public on that point? Along the same line we clip the following from the Sunday Record-Herald: The Railroad Companies' Idea. Officials of railroads entering the Union station ridiculed yesterday a report that vast sums have been obtained by train porters and dining car employees through the substitution of cheap cigars and liquors for those of a superior quality in sales to passengers. It was admitted that this kind of "graft" has been in progress for years, but that it has been reduced to a minimum. One official declared that the total revenue to the guilty persons would not exceed $300 a year "We had about 100 cases last year of petty grafting of one kind or another in the train service," said P. S. Eustis, passenger traffic manager of the Burlington road. "Every time we caught a man at that kind of work he was summarily discharged. Among a vast army of employees a few are bound to go wrong, but I believe we keep that kind of practice down to a minimum." It was denied that plans have been made to arrest a large number of porters. It is charged that whisky was bought in saloons at the rate of about 85 cents a quart. The quality of the liquor is said to have been poor. From a quart of whisky, it was said, the porters would be able to give passengers about twenty small portions of "special stuff" at 20 cents per portion. A quart bottle would thus net a porter about $3.15. Husband Got Even. In Austria a woman was recently sent to jail for opening her husband's mail. She began a suit for divorce on evidence obtained from the letter and her husband, retaliated by sending her to jail for opening the letter. GRADUATE ENTERTAINED. Mrs. Isabella Fowler Wright Gives Large Reception for Her Niece. Saturday night last Mrs. Isabella Fowler Wright entertained complimentary to her niece, Miss Ruth Brown, who was one of the honor graduates from the Farren school. The affair was at her residence, 5332 Dearborn street. The class colors—olive, green and white, were used in the decorations. Those present were: Misses Ruth Brown, Jennie Wintrey, Aline Hedges, Maude Carper, Francisco Green, Sadie Green, Gladys Miss Ruth Brown. Johnson, Helen Mason, Josephine Peoples, Marcellena Watt, Mayme Thomas, Ruth Simpson, Louise Jones, Letitia Ballenger, Evelin Brown, Charlotte Tervalon, Mary Stewart, Hazel Jones. Messrs. Rutherford Richard, John Peoples, Elliot Simpson, Ben Thomas, James Hundley, Henry Lyois, Robert Johnson, Frank Meyers, Wm. Ashby, Lawrence Green, John Bailey, Ralph Foster, Herman Dixon, Thomas Brown, Edward Meyers, James Brown, Macer Tervalon, LeRoy Taylor, Elee Taylor. Assisting Mrs. Wright in entertaining the happy company were: Mrs. Grace Davis, Mrs. Emry Braint, Mrs. Jones Hundley, Mrs. David Hawley, Mrs. Molly Bone, Mrs. J. S. Tasker, Mrs. P. Ford, Mrs. Spenor Watt, Mrs. Blanche Beard. THE DEFENDER'S SUMMARY OF GREAT NEGROES. Our Gallery of Bright and Shining Lights in Many Lines of Endeavor —Twenty Race Leaders—What Do You Think of the List? In the Plaindealer of Indianapolis, Ind., of week of Jan. 27 appeared an article by their Chicago correspondent on the resolution adopted by the National Historical Association in their meeting Thursday evening, when was given the list of twenty-five members of our race and it was resolved that these men were leaders and the representative men of the twelve million of the race. With all due respect to the insight on the subject which the correspondent has shown we desire to call his attention to and submit the following list of names for approval: Booker T. Washington, Prof. W. T. Vernon, Hon. J. C. Napier, Prof. Scarborough, Prof. W. E. B. Dubois, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. G. C. Hall, Col. J. R. Marshall, Hon. H. T. Eubanks, Champion Jack Johnson, Hon. E. E. Ward, Hon. Ed. H. Morris, Dr. Daniel H. Williams, Artist Henry Tanner, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Prof. R. R. Motton, Prof. S. Coleridge Taylor, Sig. Harry T. Burleigh, Mr. Bert Williams (actor), Prof. W. E. Bowen, Mr. Thomas W. Chestnut (author), Maj. R. R. Jackson, Bishop Derrick, Chas. Banks (promoter), Jesse Binga (banker). We have given here a list of celebrated men now living and could go on indefinitely but do wish to conform with the number given in the article from which we quote. And we trust the above list will be of much interest to all who read. All communications should be addressed to The Editor The Chicago Defender 3159 State Street CHICAGO And not to any individual connected with this paper. Any personal matter to the editor should be marked "personal"; all other mail matters are opened by the city editor. All our work must be paid for in advance, because we have no collectors to go out to gather in monies. The paper, which is $1.50 per year, must be paid for in advance. When you say, send the paper always accompany it with the money. WHITES $25.00 NEGROES $37.50 FOREST AV.FLAT The Chicago Realty Company Has One Price for Negroes and Another Price for "Whites"—Two Advertisements in One Newspaper—Houses Long Empty But If Negroes Want Them They Must Pay $12.50 More Than "White People" Would Have to Pay—$12.50 Looks Like a Fortune Nowadays. "WE DON'T RENT TO COLORED PEOPLE," IS REPLY, "BUT WISH THAT WE COULD." So These Houses Have Been Vacant for Several Months—Writer Tells of Gross Injustice and Shows Remedy—"Over East" Means Large House at a Price Per Month That Would Buy a "Home" Somewhere Else or Pay Both Butcher and Grocer—Rents Will Never Be Cheaper As Long As You Submit to the Above. To the Editor: If you can find space in your columns will you kindly publish the following as a warning to colored renters? A Mrs. Brown, living in the Cranford, 36th street and Wabash avenue, in looking over the list of "houses for rent" in the Daily News saw some flats listed by the Chicago Realty Company, 69 Washington street, in Forest avenue, Nos. 3226-48, seven (7) rooms for $25. Washington street—"Seven rooms $25, phone Randolph 3237." In another corner of the paper there appeared: "Seven (7) rooms, 3226-48 Forest avenue, for colored people, $37.50; phone Randolph 3237, 69 Washington street." Mrs. Brown, on seeing this, called them up again and they told her if she wanted one of the flats she could have the same for $22.50. She politely told them she did not want it and that She immediately called up the Realty company and before she could say anything at all their reply was, "We don't rent them to colored people." She remarked, "How do you know I am colored?" The party at the telephone again stated, "We don't rent to colored people, but wished we could, as houses have been vacant for several months." A few days later the Realty company inserted two ads in the same paper; in one block they listed the flats under the Realty company. 69 Well Informed Race Leaders Declare Republican Party Losing Strength by Reason of Its Attitude Toward the Negro. Closely following our leading article last week comes a pathetic cry from the interior of Mississippi asking for help. "A Negro in the South," says the writer, "can be more effective in their national convention and the Negro in the North can be more effective at the polls by going hand in hand until they can help each other. "For the past decade the white office holders in the South, who in reality constitute about all of the whites in the Republican party in the South with the possible exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, have been crowding the Negro out of the state committees, filling his place with white postmasters and other office holders and off the Republican national committee. "There are some of us in the South who are awake and if you will help us we will regain some of the lost ground before the battle of 1912 is over. "When the movement was started to get the Negro off the front seat of the Republican party in the South those who advocated the plan claimed that it would be. I'd up the party and would attract other white people to it. Well, they have had a fair trial and, save where there is a split among the Democrates, the Republican party is weaker here and everywhere else than it has ever been before. "There is nothing to it," continues the writer, "save the unfair tactics of a certain class of office holders who, when it comes to favors or fair dealings, are always asleep. Then it is that the Democrats are our main alliance." MORE SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES NEEDER. The Jesse Binga Bank Increases Individual Depository—Due to Enlarged Patronage, Fostered by Confidence in Institution. The Jesse Binga Bank, State and 36th place, has added 500 additional safe deposit boxes to its already complete depository for papers and other valuables. The Binga Bank evidently fills a long needed want, for the demand for boxes in a convenient locality has exceeded Mr. Binga's supply. If you so The Defender it is so 25.00 S $37.50 AT AV.FLAT Has One Price for Negroes and "Two Advertisements in One Empty But If Negroes Want Them Than "White People" Would Have a Fortune Nowadays. FORED PEOPLE," IS "WISH THAT WE COULD." Incant for Several Months—Writer and Shows Remedy—"Over East" Price Per Month That Would Buy a Pay Both Butcher and Grocer— Or As Long As You Submit to the Washington street—"Seven rooms $25, phone Randolph 3237." In another corner of the paper there appeared: "Seven (7) rooms, 3226-48 Forest avenue, for colored people, $37.50; phone Randolph 3237, 69 Washington street." Mrs. Brown, on seeing this, called them up again and they told her if she wanted one of the fats she could have the same for $23.50. She politely told them she did not want it and that she sincerely hoped that they would not rent one of them. Prospective renters should know of this and continue to ignore them. One great fault today among us is that we are too anxious to pay exorbitant rents and the sooner we learn to buy our own homes for practically the same amount the better. We will never get cheaper rent, as long as we rush to get fancy houses "over east," matters not what they rent for. It is time to wake up to the situation and use strenuous efforts to eliminate such wrongful transactions.—F. B. P. THE PENAL LAW UPHELD New York Judges Firm in the Performance of Their Duty Severely Reprimand and Fine the Treasurer of a Broadway Theater for Refusing to Give Seats Reserved in Orchestra to a Number of the Race. Justices Hoyt, Duell and Melvery dealt discrimination a body blow when they sat in judgment and voted against the practice of barring those of the race from seats in the orchestra circle. The climax was reached when Louis F. Baldwin, a former Boston real estate dealer, purchased two seats in the much prohibited orchestra circle and was refused them when called for. He immediately plaked, his case in the hands of the penal courts and received judgment and a decision was handed down making the barring any person or persons from any part or place of a public amusement a penal crime. This will be the means of stopping many outrageous acts perpetrated on patrons of New York theaters and we trust the law will be come universal. Major R. R. Jackson, candidate for Representative to the Legislature from the Third Senatorial district. Soldier, orator, statesman and public spirited citizen. Endorsed by the committeemen of the ward, the Fraternal societies, the Head Walters and Hotel Mt. League, the Rev. Doctors Roberts, Carey, Cook, Thomas and Chavis, the Spanish War Veterans, the American Major Federation, o'Civic Protec Major Jacker of ita the 500 you The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest—Speakers. The department received three new subscriptions to our building fund during the week. Mr. A. L. Sharpe, 3567 Forest avenue, Mr. J. L. Anderson 4918 Dearborn street, and an employee of the North Western Terminal, who would not allow his name to be used. All of these subscriptions were voluntary. The office was informed some days ago that a gentleman living in the southern portion of the city felt slighted because no one had called upon him for subscription during the ten-day campaign. A letter was sent him to assure him that it was not the intention of the workers in the campaign to have slighted anyone but persons were overlooked because of the system by which the campaign was conducted. A pledge card was mailed to him. A few days thereafter the following reply was received together with a liberal subscription: "Yours received. Many thanks for prompt consideration. I shall remember this forever and try to do more." From the foregoing you may be informed that the office is still open to additional subscriptions to our building fund. Mr. Chas, C. Taylor, 6718 Rhodes avenue, called at the headquarters on Sunday afternoon and paid his subscription in full. Mr. Taylor recently had an accident which caused him much suffering, having been confined in the Provident Hospital for several months. In paying the subscription he stated that he was happy in meeting this obligation because he knew the good that would be accomplished through he Y. M. C. A. among our women. Mr. Pedro Tinsley, 6418 Dresel avenue, continues to bring in new subscriptions and cash from the employees of the North Western Railway. Several of the employees of the Chicago postoffice will visit the Sears-Roebuck department Y. M. C. A. on Thursday afternoon. These men will be escorted through the department by Mr. Herman A. Stotz, secretary of this department. The party consists of Mosss, L. Blanchet, G. Carter, A. Dozier, M. T. Galloway, J. A. Greene, Jau. Lander, J. R. Reid, Stevens, A. Warner and L. W. Wimby, Jr. W. H. Higgins, a team worker during the campaign, and who is so much interested in the movement, organized this week and will accompany them to the office. Other parties will be organized for inspection visits for each Tuesday and Friday evenings. Thursday afternoon. Any person sted in the Y. M. C. A. work come a member of one of these parties by making application at headquarters. Mr. R. B. Sims, 5297 Armour avenue, called in the office last evening and made inquiry concerning the subscription he made to our building fund. Mr. Sims informed us that he had not received any letters from headquarters but that he remembered having made the subscription to one of the team workers. When satisfied that we had made an error in his address and that he was upon our ledger he promptly paid his account. There may be others of our subscribers who are receiving no mail from the office because of an error in their address, if so we would be pleased to have you pay the pledge you made. Messrs. C. B. Hosner and R. D. Tailor, graduates of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, visited our department a few days ago and were pleased with the success we are having with our contributions. These young men are working as financial agents for their Alma Mater. They will be with us at some of our Sunday meetings, at which time we may learn something of their work. Rev. R. L. Darden, who was our speaker for last Sunday afternoon, found it impossible to be with us. The men who were present enjoyed the many excellent short speeches that were made by those present. The subject discussed was "The Power of Individuality." About one hour was used in the discussion of the topic. Every one expressed himself as pleased with the results of the meeting. Rev. Misaki Shimadzu, the secretary of the Japanese Y. M. C. A., will address the men of our department on Sunday, Feb. 4th, at 4:00 p. m. You are cordially invited to be present and hear him. Rev. Shimadzu is devoting his life to the service of his countrymen. We may learn much and be helped by hearing this address. Paid in Full Subscribers—John F. Barrett 59 Board of Trade, F. L. Hamilton 2821 Wabash avenue, W. L. Harilson 3000 State street, W. H. Liles 5922 Aberdeen street, E. O. Moore C. & N. W. Perminal, Jas. A. Mogris 3924 pearm avenue, Ch. S. Simmons 3247 mourn avenue, Chas. C. Shipman 3748 nodes avenue, 4715 Dearborn street, P. C. 2800 State street, Wm. P. Milt r 2973 Wabash avenue, A. B. Walk. 5234 Dearborn street, Chas. E. Ills 2007 Wentworth avenue. or two ago the Chicago De- lhi- an article on the l of Mr. Jackson cation of this arti- toks, of Columbus, Pindle, of South d a long lost ation was ob- inquiry direct German Ship's Crew Has Thrilling Encounter With Cobra Which Escaped From Crate. ONE SAILOR IS BITTEN Vessel Four Days Out From Calcutta When Poisonous Reptile Discovered on the Deck—Men Go to Flight, but Leave in Flight. Boston.—In the long voyage from Calcutta to this port the crew of the German steamship Esterturm have lived in hourly terror of death from a big cobra, whose sting is fatal. The deadly character of the reptile's bite was only vitriol proved on the fourth day out of the voyage when the men of the forecaste the officers heard a sudden sharp scream of agony. It came from a sailor who had been moving along the deck in the darkness. He was blitten on the leg and a few hours later died in convulsions, suffering most poignant agony. The man had only the most glimpse of the snake as it squirmed out of sight and into hiding. It is believed the cobra is still alive, coiled and hiding somewhere among the jute bags in the steamship's hold. But not a member of the nerveracked crew can be secured to volunteer to seek out and kill the poisonous creature. They are held back by the horror of the remembrance of their comrade's cry the night he was bitten and the spectacle of his agonized death. In closely boarded crates the Esterterum took 124 snakes aboard at Calcutta on an assignment to a New York animal dealer. The cobra had box to himself. The snakes were fed red rats to time by the rat rats into the crates, the rodents being caught by traps set in different sections of the ship. Such was the THE Cobra Shouting in Dread and Fear. sinuous strength of the cobra that it was able to rip open the stout slat that caged it within the box. No discovery of its escape came until the night that the sailor was fatally bitten. Officers and men made two or three hunts for the deadly creature, but as there were hundreds of places aboard the ship where it could collide in hiding the sailor became one of them to escape. Once the killing of the snake was almost effected. Half a dozen sailors armed with long clubs searched and beat every cranny of the superstructure of the ship, and finally started the cobra from under a coil of rope. Once or twice, as one or two of the men atmed the clubs and were ready to strike, the cobra reared and darted its fangs back at its pursers in rage and the men scattered, shouting in dread and fear. This time the snake disappeared down a ventilator, and it is supposed found its way down into the cargo in the hold. RECOGNIZES MASTER'S VOICE Tennessee Proves Ownership to Satiefaction of Judge When Common Pig Answers Call. Memphis, Tenn.—That even a common hog knows his master's voice and the way back home through the crowded streets of a city was clearly demonstrated in Justice Guthrie's court. Two farmers, James Williamson and Charles Stanton, were suing for a hog taken up by the poundkeeper. Williamson could not identify the hog to the satisfaction of Justice Guthrie. "Your honor," began Stanton, "that is my hog. I cut off its tail and marked the left ear with a swallow fork." "If the hog is yours, it will come to your call," replied Justice Guthrie. A constable took the hog to Confederate park and concealed it. Stanton, standing at one side of the park a block away, called, "Piggoole, pig, plg." The hog pricked up its ears, gave a couple of grunts and ran to Stanton. Chinese WILL Probated. Philadelphia.—A will written in Chinese has been admitted to probate here. It is that of Lee Nom Yet, who died several months ago, and his son, Lee Bennett, his heir and executor. The will is written in paper, apparently with a marking brush. Brookes had owned the big farm on the outskirts of the town for eighty years and Leo had had two years at an agricultural school to prepare him for his work on the farm when his father should step aside. But now he wanted to go away for good. "Just because," old Gideon had stormed, "the manager of a cheap theatrical company gives you a chance to starve to death tramping around the country, you think you're cut out for a matinee idol! A thrashing machine gives you a chill and a plow produces a nightmare! A 640 acre farm doesn't fall into the lap of every boy of twenty-two, I can tell you! I want you to marry Ellen Penrose and settle down!" Leo had opened his thin lips and thrown back his wavy hair. "I'm going on the stage," he said doggedly. "Ellen will wait for me." "Then she's a fool," pronounced his father, crisply, "with Frank Alexander only waiting for a chance to cut you out. And Ellen is a mighty pretty girl." Leo thought so himself when he told Ellen good-by. She had sat very quietly when he had unfolded his glowing future to her with all the vanity of youth. When he ended, flushed with excitement, he had not noticed that she was very pale. There had been in his voice no note of regret at leaving her. Almost unconsciously Ellen Penrose raised her small, beautiful head higher and something contagued about her heart. Her life had been so intertwined with his that she was dazed and hurt. She also was proud. Secretly Leo whisperly asked Ellen Teek took his departure so quietly, with no tears. In his absorption he had said nothing about her waiting for him. He took that as a matter of course. She watched him go down the path between the lilies and then she wont up her room with something throbbing in her brain. It was as though she had told Leo good by forever. Dimly she felt it was so. The hurt and surprise that were hers at the first realization that she was second in his thoughts did not depart. And she took up her life. Someone at Gidonon Brooke, meeting him from his anger stir afresh at his silt son. Letters came infrequently from Leo. As the mannequins they grew vague. He said not much about success, but a great deal about hard work. No girl as pretty as Ellen is left solitary long. Frank Alexander, graver, older than the boy who had held her heart for so long, developed attractions she had never before taken time to discover. There was for her a remarkable sense of rest and comfort in his mere presence—she could only upon him. The day finally came when he showed how she ever could have called her youthful fondness for Leo Brooke by her fond love. But that was nearly two years after Leo had departed, his head full of dreams, his self-love uppermost. It was one crisp October day that Gideon Brooke, standing in the barn door and glancing down the road, saw his son turning in at the gate. Some flitting memory of the prodigal son crossed his mind as he stood crushing down the instant leap of his heart. There was the same old defiant tilt to Leo's head as he came near, but there was bitterness about his mouth and a dogged look in his eyes. His clothes were threadbare. "I've come back," the younger man said, and his voice was oddly clear in the frosty air. "You were right—I was sick. I was a failure. I starved and shammered long enough. At first I vowed that I wouldn't come back, but—if you let me go work. Behind the plow, anything, it's what I know best. I've wasted two years. Do you want me?" Gideon Brooke's voice was husky. "Want you?" he repeated. "This is your home, boy. I—I guess mebue you've got more sense than you had two years ago. Mebue it was all for your good. We'll forget it. It's just about time to water the horses." "Where were all the neighbors going as I came out from town?" Leo asked a little later. Already his eyes looked clearer, his face less bitter. "You'd have thought it was a convention." Gideon Brooke leaned over and picked up a straw. "Going to the Penrose place," he said, shortly. "It's Ellen's wedding day—she marries Frank Alexander!" He slapped the bay horse smartly on its flank. "Get over he ordered. He had once been very fond of the idea of Ellen as his daughter-in-law. The oats spilled over from the measure Leo Brooke was filling. Instead of the barn wall his eyes were seeing Ellen Penrose's face as it was that day two years ago, when he had told her good-by. "A—a fellow's got to pay in this world, hasn't he?" he said at last a little harshly. "And now, what work do I start on in the morning!" Through the Swiss Mountains At Bevieux (Old, Bex), among the Alps, the railroad passes the rocksalt mines, from which the Swiss government procures most of the salt whose sale is a government monopoly, and often sold only by the local postmaster, who deals not only in stamps, but in salt. At this point a toothed rail is brought into play, and the gradient rapidly increases, as the cars pass roads of walnuts and chestnuts, here an important item of the diet and income of their owners. To Escape From a Burning House. If you are ever unfortunate enough to be in a house on fire, apply a wet cloth to the mouth and nostrils; you can get through the dense smoke easily. If possible, cover the whole head and face. Famous A. M. E. College in the Lime light—Interesting Items Concerning Faculty and Pupils. By R. G. Bruce. Wilberforce, O., Feb. 2.—Wilberforce news will appear in the Chicago Defender each week. This news will deal with the different religious organizations, literary clubs and the business and social sides of student life in our celebrated college. Community news will gladly be received and published. Persons desiring to have news put in our column must have same in Secretary Jenkins' office not later than 3 o'clock Tuesday evenings. We ask for the combined support of the teachers, students and of the entire community. Wilberforce Students Win Prizes. In the free and drawing contest that took place between several of the larger northern schools Charles Smith won the second prize on a drawing, W. Hunter won third prize and A. Alexander received honorable mention. These three young men are students at Wilberforce. Public rhetoricals were held in the chapel of Shorter hall on last Tuesday afternoon. Together four men and women took part in the program. The exercises were a success throughout. It was an evening with Tennison. Much praise is due Miss Hallie J. Brown for her very excellent work along this line among the students. Wilberforce Orchestra. The Wilberforce orchestra is fast pushing to the front. This musical band, under the leadership of Mr. Wm. King, is making wonderful progress along musical lines. The members: Lead violins, W. Still, H. Dorsay; second violins, A. Foster, J. Guy, W. Powells; cornet (lead), W. King, (second) C. Spivey; clarinet, O. Burnett; bass violin, K. Robinson; trumps, A. Brown; pianist, A. Simpson; W. King, conductor. Musical Association. The Musical association elected the following officers for the year: C. Simpson, president; W. Still, secretary; J. Guy, treasurer, and W. King, conductor. The contractors for the new girl's dormitory, which is being erected at a cost of $40,000, have given out the cheerful news that the building will be completed by May, and not later than the first of June. This building, when completed, will be one of the most handsome structures on the campus. Situated as it is near the Carnegie library it stands out prominently and will add a great deal to the already recognized beauty of this part of the campus. The senior cotage, which is now occupied by girls of the senior class, is another evidence of building growth. This beautiful building, which was erected by the state at a cost of $40,000, is a model of architecture. President Scarborough has just recently returned from the east in the interest of the college. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were included in his itinerary. While in Pittsburgh he attended a meeting of the Philological association. Word was received by the president that Professor F. S. Delaney, who was a graduate of this institution and who recently died in Louisville, had left the college $500 for the Science department. Prof. Delaney, time of his death, was superintendent of the Blind asylum at Louisville. Founders' Day. Founders' day, Feb. 24, will be celebrated this year on a large scale and preparations are being made to make this occasion long to be remembered. Dr. M. C. B. Mason of Cincinnati, secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, will be the principal speaker. We shall be glad to hear from all alumnus before that date. OUT IN ENGLEWOOD Weekly Letter from This Thriving Section of the City—All the News. Miss Annette Turner of 6012 Aberdeen street is from an Englewood's graduates from grammar school. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Wilson of 6116 Aberdeen street entertained a party at their residence last Saturday evening. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. L. Suggs, Mr. and Mrs. A. Meriwether, Mrs. A. R. S. Ballard, Mrs. L. Jones, Mrs. John Willis, Mrs. M. L. Smith, Mrs. R. M. Outlaw, Mr. Carl Meriwether, Mr. William Overton, Mr. Henry Whitfield and brother of Clarksville, Tennessee. The school given by the Hope Presbyterian Church last thursday night was a success. Everybody enjoyed themselves. May Bell Hill of 6045 Loomis street sold $36.20 worth of tickets and received a beautiful quilt as a prize for bringing in the most money. Shiloh Baptist Church Choir will render the Ten Virgins, a sacred cantata by Alfred R. Gaul. Watch for the date. Mr. Ernest Hanson made a flying visit in the city to see his sisters, Mrs. W. J. Thompson and Mrs. Linnie Jordan. The Waterfield home has moved from 61st street to 6209 Ada street. Mrs. Waterfield will be glad to see her many friends at her new home. PROF. GARFIELD WILSON. ideal dancing master. The many patrons of Prof. Garfield Wilson's Ski-Dancing School, which meets regularly every Friday night, resent in strenuous terms the remarks of a writer in the last issue of the Chicago Defender. Prof. Wilson conducts Chicago's ideal dancing school. His week end affairs are attended by the elite of the race and the so-called objectionable dances are never found on one of his programs. Prof. Wilson is considered an authority along these lines and his classes for individual instruction are filled with the children of our best families. TORY HEALJ RETIRES Balfour No Longer a Leader in British Parliament. Importance of His Position as National and Parliamentary Guide—Held the Post of Premier for a Decade. London.—It is difficult, for an American to understand and appreciate the immense sensation produced in England by the retirement of A. J. Belfour from the leadership of the opposition party in the house of commons, and in the whole country. The office of opposition party leader carries with it a recognition of authority that has no exact counterpart in the United States. Mr. Balfour, in addition to having been the chosen floor leader, combined with that responsible position one of greater responsibility—leadership of his party as a whole, both outside as well as in Parliament, a stewardship that came to him through having held the office of prime minister. He had been the tittular head of his party for 20 years, in office and out of office. Additional prestige was conferred upon Mr. Balfour's position as party and floor leader by the unquestioned certainty that should his political following regain ascendancy, he would be the most powerful personage in the British empire, possessing in that domain a combination of the authority possessed in the United States by the president, the cabinet, the speaker of the house of representatives, the majority leader on the floor and in lesser degree the functions of the vice-president as presiding officer of the estate. This great power, augmented recently by the right given the commons to nullify the veto privilege of the lords, would not depend on the sanction of any national convention—it would come to Mr. Balfour as his unquestioned right solely by virtue of his office as leader of the or position, just as he held the latter position because of his previous service as chief executive. No question of a "third term" ever arises in England to complicate the A.J. Balfour course of political power. Gladstone was premier five times; Lord Salisbury held that high office three times; Balfour was majority leader in the house of commons for ten consecutive years—a longer period of continuous leadership of the house than that of any minister since William Pitt. The exercise of such great political power continuously throughout the better part of a lifetime, requires a strong intellect and great knowledge of men and affairs. Mr. Balfour was undoubtedly brilliant, and started with the inestimable advantage of a thorough apprenticeship in foreign affairs under his famous uncle, Lord Salisbury. Mr. Balfour is politically the last of the great Ceilis, that wonderful family which has always taken a prominent place in the forefront of English political life from the time of Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's great minister, consistently and continuously until the present day. They belonged to the self-constituted and practically unquestioned ruling caste of the nation. Their energies were not expended for the gratification of material desires—they threw themselves willingly and whole-heartedly into the service of their country, partly because of their love of power, but mainly from a high-minded sense of duty as they saw themselves as the warer—benevolent as it may have been. Always. Radicalism and democracy have invaded the sanctum sanctorum of their dominance—the house of lords is no longer the invulnerable stronghold of their class. The leadership of the Unionist party in the commons has been given to a Scotch manufacturer, born in Canada, Bonar Law. Lights on Baby Carte. St. Paul—Baby carriages in Minnesota must hereafter carry warning lights when used after dark—two white lights in front and a red one at the rear. It's all due to a mistake, a kind o' "joker" that' somehow got in the new law just passed by the legislature, but it "goes," according to an opinion rendered by Attorney General Simpson. Childhood's velocipedes, wheelbarrows and kiddies' express wagons are also included in the provisions of the law, which really widened only to help automobiles and motorists, by compelling horse-drawn vehicles to carry lights. But the language was clumsily put: "the other users of wheeled vehicles." Use a Skull for Football. Cleveland, O.—Small boys played football with the crumbling skull from a human skeleton found under the sand in a lot on St. Clair avenue, while rumor spread through the neighborhood that the find had disclosed a long-hidden murder. Judge Thomas K. Dissette, living across the street, stilled the rumor by explaining that 65 years ago the lot was a township burying ground. 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. THE NEW ELITE CAFE AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET We eager to dinner parties and serve all kinds of salad. Try our Corn, Wheat Cakes, Hot Biscuit and home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th Street CHICAGO, ILL. Informer Baird received every Baird at Detroit, McGonico's, Birmingham, Ala. Informer I live in therefore paperhouse can be had at all Mich. Informer I live in therefore paperhouse can be had at all Mich. Mrs. E. Alexander has returned to Mitchell, South Dakota, Thursday, Jan. 25. Mrs. W. P. Harrison of 1726 Nelson street is at St. Lake's hospital and it is reported that she is getting along nicely. / Rev. Carnel is holding prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Don't fall to attend and hear him. Mrs. E. Gordon has returned from Lake View hospital with Master Earl William Gordon. Both are getting along fine. Robert Weaver, Jr., of Walton place, who has been sick for some time, is reported well. The North Shore Men's club has been invited to meet at Dr. Carol Robert's office Tuesday, Feb. 6. IN THE SPORTING WORLD Prize Fighting, Baseball, Football, Wrestling and Other Sports. By J. D. Harris II. Vincent won his match from Sampson, the German strong man in 40 minutes at the Pokin theater Sunday, Jan. 21st, Vincent weighing 190 lbs, Sampson 210 lbs. Vincent threw Sampson with a head lock hott. Sampson was forced to quit on account of a supraided arm. The match was stopped to allow Vincent to fix a broken supporter, but Mr. H. Robert threw another box of supporters on the stage. Calvin Respress won his match Sunday afternoon at the Pokin from "young hope." There is a little talk about Hugh Mcintosh bringing Sun Langford and Jim Barry together again. Jack Johnson won one more suit in court Jan. 31st, which was brought against him by a laundry company. "Babe" Adams, the Douglass Center lightweight, is making a good showing in the lightweight class. Illa Vincent won his match at the Star theatre Tuesday night with the Mysterious Horseshoe. Vincent is matched with "Bux," the East Indian, for a finish match Friday night at the Pekin theater. 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 plea satisfaction for our future business. SCHAFFER & JOHNSON, Phone Aldine PHONE ALDINE 3458 IDA M. DEMPCY Stenographer and Typist 3716 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Res. Phones: Doug. 2586 Office: Oak 3126 Auto 72-607 DR. G. WILLIAM MILLER, Physician and Surgeon Office, 4709 State Street Hours: 9-11 A. M.; 1-3 and 6-8 P. M. Residence, 3552 Forest Ave. DR. A. BAILEY WILLIAMS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Hours: 11:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 8:30 p. m. to 6 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 8:30 p. m., and by Appointment. Provident Hospital Daily, 9:11 a. m. 8:29 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Phone Calumet 293. THE NEW CAFE AND 3030 STATE Our newly equipped d service is unexcelled l Theatre parties are no the highest paid artist of our help will be im Fine Wines, Liqu Our Sp HENRY JONES A. F. CODOZOE Prop. FOREMAN'S IDE OPEN DAY WE PROMISE Good Home Prices, 200 LUNCH COUNTER We cater to dinner parties and serve all ki Biscuit and home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th Street Harvey's South Handling all loading Colored Newspapers want to hear from home. Anderson, Ruth, 40 years, 3121 La Salte; Jan. 26. Anderson, James W., 40 years, 3611 Armour; Jan. 12. Beverly, Grant, 25 years, 2110 La Salte; Bryan, Henry, 59 years, 4737 Armour; Burdenside, Maggie, 40 years, 46 N. Sangamor; Jan. 24. Carter, B. 68 years, 3436 Dearborn; Exaton, Augustus, 4 years, 246 Swann St.; Gates, Henry L. 25 years, 806 Orleans St.; Jan. 19. Jacobs, 18 years, 3658 State St.; Jan. 29. Jacobs, Sarah B. 68 years, 2446 Dearborn; Jan. 25. Jefferson, Wm. P. 40 years, 5247 Dearborn; Jackson, Elizabeth, Home of Aced; Jan. 24. Janson, Wesley E. 21 years, 3711 State St.; Jan. 25. Lalal, Jamie, 3568 Lake Ave.; Llindsey, Samuel D. 33 years, 3614 Prairie McFields, Albert, 68 years, 3151 State St.; Jan. 24. Melissa, Jamie E. 39 years, 5322 Dearborn; Jan. 21. Nelson, Mary L. 25 years, 3447 State St.; Parker, Louisa, 125 27th St.; Robinson, Lizzie, 43 years, 22 W. 29th St.; Jan. 19. Simpson, Chas, S. 42 years, 2900 La Salte; Jan. 28. Scott, Rachel M., 12 days, 4634 Armour; Sholton, Ray, 38 years, 1655 Walnut St.; Sholton, Sophia, 59 years, 3361 Forest Ave.; Jan. 20. Wilson, Eugenia, 48 years, 3732 Forest Ave.; Jan. 20. Wilson, Bennie, 7 months, 2963 Armour; Jan. 20. Ward, Carle E., 50 years, 2500 Dearborn; Young, Jasper, 25 years, 1173 So. State St.; Jan. 21. DR. GEORGE C. HALL FAITHFUL GUARDIAN. Mr. Chancey Victor Fainbanks and his mother, Mrs. Norah Fainbanks, of Denver, Colo., arrived in the city last Saturday morning to get the final accomodation. Mr. Fainbanks, Geo. C. Hall. The young man's father took his life in a Santa Fe wreck in 1992. Dr. Hall interested himself in the case secured $5,000 from the railroad people and had the young man thoroughly educated. DR Hall was able to place into his hands this week a neat sum of money. Wasted Time Hunting Trouble. "It's no time to go hunt!' fer Trouble," said Brother Williams. "EF you'll only stay still he'll save you do railroad fare by comin' ter whar you is at."-Attlanta Constitution. IN SALE OF HATS us a visit next time? The inducements LOW PRICES and surpassing VALUES so you. We depend on your complete :: 3247 State Street Value 1080 Phone Calumet 2223 Established DANNES HAND LAUNDRY 2400 Websh Avenue Keep your linen in repair. Wagons call everywhere. Smith & Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Extra Fine Home Cooking Private Dining Room 8286 State Street Chicago Telephone Main 2017 J. A. TRIBUE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 171 Washington St. Room 706 CHICAGO NEW ELITE BUFFET THE STREET Dining room and quick buy any Cafe in the city. Missed. Good music by mys. Any neglect by any immediately looked into Luors and Cigars Specialty CASS HARRIS, Mgr. DEAL KITCHEN AND NIGHT AND GIVE A Cooked Meal c, 28c, 30c IN CONNECTION bands of salads. Try our Corn, Wheat Cakes, Hot CHICAGO, ILL. Side News Stand mrs. Call at Harvey's News Stand if you Lavies treated with courtesy. mailed from any of these offices. Pinet... Richmond, Va. Ferguson... Wichita, Va. Solid Rock Herald... Philadelphia, Pa. Twin City Star... Minneapolis St. Paul Tribune... Savannah, Ga. Tribune... Philadelphia, Pa. MAGAZINES Crisis... New York McConico's... Birmingham, Ala. day. We make a specialty of Southern paper times. 3924 SOUTH STATE ST The Defender Issued Weekly by Chicago Defender Publishing and Printing Company. Founded May 6, 1906. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One Year $1.50 Six Months 1.60 Three Months 0.75 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT. One Inch, one time $1.50 Special rates given on large or long standing ad. Julius N. Avendorph, Society Editor. Folio, Holly, Cartoonist. Mattered as second-class matter, February 1, 1908, at the Postoffice in Chicago, Ill., under act of March 3, 1879. * Larger Circulation than all the other weekdays combined. RATES OF ADVERTISING Births, Betrothals, Marriages and Divorces $1.55 Complimentary and Obituary Reso. Litutions, each 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 25 Rates for Display Advertisements fur- ther than 10 cents. Change of Address. Please give both the old and new address; and in writing the paper always be careful to give both the state and Postoffice, as well as sign name. SATURDAY, FEBRIARY 3, 1912 CLUBS AND SECRET SOCIETIES. Unique, Temple, Lady Eliza, meets on the second and fourth Fridays of each month. Mrs. and Mrs. Sadler, of Wabash avenue; Mattie Taylor, Fin. Sec. 226, Chicago Lodge. No. 43, I. B. P. O. E. of W. Meets the 1st and 2nd Friday at Mrs. and Mrs. Rhea, Secretary, 6420 Vincennes avenue; Johnson, Exalted Ruler, 2414 Calumet. COURT GENERAL ROBERT ELLIOTT. No. 735, Ancient Order of Foresters; meets every second and fourth Monday of the year. Old Follows' hall, 3337 State street. Lodge Officers. Chief Banger, Abb, 5345 Dearborn street, phone 5010 Creek. F. W. Taylor, 3422 Dearborn street, phone 4136 Adkins. Trevor Frank, Attenden, 2414 Dearborn street, phone 3219 Calumet. February sounds a little more spring. This is a free country, you know, Run for President if you like. It was too cold for the ground hog to come and look for his shadow; hence, the doubt as to what's coming to us in the way of weather. American soldiers are on a voyage to China. Let us hope they will receive a warmer reception than do the Chinese when they visit our country. Wouldn't it be joyous if some scientist should prove that butter and eggs, especially while they are so high, were injurious? Overheard in a barber shop: "There are only two great men living—Bocker T. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt." The speaker evidently never heard of "hinky Dink." Feeding the Negro a little sap before election and starving him afterward has been the usual order of things. There is such a thing as reversing this order. WARNING. Oh, Tempores! Oh, Mores! President Taft has invited the most conspicuous of his colored office holders to a conference in the White House as to ways and means. But, gentle reader, just four short years ago Mr. Hitchcock of "steam roller" fame, inaugurated a gathering of the clans and painted a picture of rosette hue in event of Taft's nomination as in his heartfelt sympathy for the brother in black. Pre-election promises, rich in flavor and short as pie crust that mother used to make, albeit just as easily broken. The black phalanx to a man fought, bled and died for their illustrious countryman and was rewarded by this edict from the White House: "We deem it best for the welfare of our common country to appoint no man to public offices whose tenure would be offensive to the citizens of any community." Such an opinion was indeed a Magna Charis to the white south, still unreconstructed and unconstitutional, but blasted the hopes of millions of colored citizens there as no tongue can tell. Now again this conference, and heralded abroad by the Negro press as an omen of better days—the second emancipation. How timely, since the figure of Roosevelt stalks threatening in the near distance and the administration forces feel the need again of the Black Reserves. Shall we fall again and be sycophants in such a political crisis? Think of it, we ask the women who read history and mythology, who read their husbands "The Siege of Troy"—beware the Greeks who come bearing gifts. Surely history repeats itself, and we witness in this conference a renascence of the broken promises just four short years ago. We are happy to note the birth of a society international in character, which is to meet soon in Paris to consider the wrongs of every people. The platform of the organization is based upon the principles of the American and French revolutions. In an appeal published in three languages in its newspaper the committee says: "Even in Europe there are many oppressed people. Some are suffering from special legal disabilities, others from the violation of guarantees given in formal undertakings and others from a systematic attempt to exterminate their language or national form of civilization. Arbitrary methods, confusion of executive powers which have been surrendered into the hands of the police, the supposed right of conquest—in short, the whole system of statecraft by which the possession of man by man is supposed to be justified—are, in our onlu- ion, an anachronism which . stands condemned." Our wish is that the greatest possible number of our contemporaries shall pass from a condition of subjects to the dignity of citizens. We are hand in glove in sympathy with the projects of this society and wish it rapid and steady growth. But we wish to advise the promoters to confine their meetings until the movement gets herculean strength to those countries different from America and Russia, where the projects of Dr. Dylan, Villian and the Alameda and the occidental Tolstol are almost drowned by the noise from the shuttles of Tillman and Virdman and many other varmints of their tribe. A Review—Our Literary "Round Table." By D. W. Johnson. In an address delivered before the Southern Educational Association entitled, "Relation of Industrial Education to the Economic Progress of the South," reprinted in a pamphlet from the "Southern Workman," Mr. Thomas Jesse Jones, does himself much credit as a modern thinker; quite fair and impartial, as well as a lucid and very logical reasoner along the lines of industrial education. He paints a picture of the possibilities of the growing south in very attractive and glowing terms. After speaking of the importance of industrial education to both the white and colored youth of the south, he points out the amazing possibilities of its mineral resources, and of "a magnificent belt of pines stretching from Virginia to Texas, ranging in width from one hundred and fifty to two hundred miles." His statistics showing the difference between the north and the south in population wealth are quite interesting. The pamphlet also contains charts which illustrate the various subjects upon which he speaks in his address. Mr. Jones is very ardent in his commendation of both the Hampton and Tuskegee institutes. The central thought conveyed is that the economic development of the south, with all of its possible resources, depends upon the mutual interest and equal facilities afforded both the white and colored youth for their industrial education. THE EDITOR'S MAIL Chicago, Jan. 30.—To the Editor: Kindly allow me space in your timely column to say a word of approval about your editorial in last week's issue concerning the brutish way in which our people are murdered in the southern states and the cowardly manner in which our men stand around and see their women-kind mal-treated. Did you ever hear the like? MEN standing placidly aside and seeing the sex that gave them birth chained, shot and burned. What about the law! There is no law when a Negro is concerned south of Mason and Dixons line. The so-called enlightened south allows rowdies and arrows to make history for them. No NUN, brave or otherwise, with 20:05 of human life in his elfs would be guilty of such a crime. Those who participate in this disgrace pastime are not human—only beasts. MEN would sacrifice the last drop of their blood in defense of their woman-kind—others are only beasts—the dirt of the earth. R. D. Ruffin. MR. ECKERSALL, TRIBUNE RE PORTER. Several of the old high school boys got together by accident the other evening and began to talk over school days. One young man said, "Did you ever see such a change as has come over 'Eckie'? When he was in school he would fight for his pal, Sam Ramsam, but since he got to be a reporter the meanest things he can say about the race seems not too good. Not long since I saw him eat dinner at the table with Jack Johnson and his white wife, as Eckie would say, and the rest of Jack's household, and the next morning in the Tribune we would read under his caption, "Jack Johnson, the Negro champion." The point, Mr. Editor, I want to bring home is this: Aren't the Americans aware of Jack's race, or is there a white champion by the same name? Please let us know. In reference to the above we would say that Mr. Eckersall is forced to write his articles the way he does because the policy of the Tribune is to down the Negroes and never let anything of merit go through on him. You notice even our great educator, Booker T. Washington, is termed the Negro educator, as if it was a was a Booker T. Washington. Only the Western office point out the race of the individual, if it happens to be black. Out East it is, for you don't think hard of "Eckle," for if you did not please his editor-in-chief, as well as follow the policy of the Tribune, he would be canned. Man's Hard Lot: Gee, but it's tough to have to tell a bright, pretty, attractive, fascinating girl, the fervor of whose proposals show how undying her affection is, that you can only be a brother to her! —Boston Globe. Worst Thing About Them. Conceited people would not necessarily be obnoxious if they would only quit trying to take the conceit out of others. Seems Immune to Earthquakes. Earthquakes occur with considerable frequency in New Zealand, but no damage has so far been noticed in the case of re-inforced concrete. Tramp Not Wholly Lost A tramp stealing a ride on a train jumped off as it passed a burning hotel, aroused the sleeping lodgers and, his rescue work done, regained his place on the bumpers before the train came. A pretty full volume of comment on American human nature is contained in the brief report of the incident. 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. Mr. E. Young will leave for Washington, D. C. Feb. 15 and other points east. He will remain away from the city four or five weeks. Miss Gladys E. Edwards will reside in New York after her marriage to Mr. Charles L. Reese, which takes place on Olivet church Feb. 14 at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Isabella Hall and daughter of 3339 Vernon avenue went to Batavia Thursday last to attend the funeral of Mr. McKinley, the only son of Mr. James Stewart of Batavia, Ill. Do you want good plain rolls? Ask for Wallace's. Mrs. Phoebe Holmes and Mrs. Gertrude Frazier spent the entire day last Tuesday visiting many sick friends. Mrs. Cella Parker Woolley s Tuesday in Kenosha, Wis., lectu to church societies, leaving for neva, Ill. Wednesday to visit frie returning to the city the latter of the week. The Hyde Park Woman's club their first entertainment and be at the residence of Mrs. Byron. Haiti Chaybrook presided. The Wabash congregational church, Wabash avenue had sold her prayer service and social at church Wednesday evening with large attendance. The minister, E. C. Lawrence, is preaching a s of sermons each Sunday mornin 11 on the duties of the members Hon. E. H. Wright, alderman. This is not politics, just your Prof. Walter Carter, the popular manager of several concert companies, is very ill from congestive neuralgia at his residence, 3133 Wabash avenue. Chicago Defender is the people's paper. Everybody's news in promer form is welcome in these columns. 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. Noticed at the Emanuel recital Monday night were: Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall and Mrs. Tandy, Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Meade, Mrs. Jas. Nelson, Mrs. Joseph Brent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Washington, Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph and Miss Mitchell, Mrs. B. P. Moseley and daughter, Miss F. Stephens, Mrs. Joseph Brent, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hardin, Mr. John Raymond Auter and lady, Mr. Le Roy Hayes and Mrs. E. S. Miller, Mr. George Garnier, Jr. Although we have not succeeded in locating Master Earl Curtis, whose disappearance was featured exclusively in the Chicago Defender last week, his mother has received several encouraging letters. One in particular contains what we consider a positive clew. The second concert of the season of the Choral Study Club will take place Monday evening, Feb. 19, at Grace Presbyterian Church, 34th and Dearborn streets, at 8:15 p.m. The program will be Mendelssohn's Lauda, Zion and the seven last words of Christ. The soloists will be Miss Cora Springs, soprano, Mr. Wm. Hackney, tenor, and T. Theodore Taylor, baritone. This will be a pre-Lenten program that all should hear. Tickets 35 cents. Mrs. and Mrs. G. M. McKinley, 3342 Vernon avenue, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Wednesday evening. Mrs. Jennie Hamilton, 3216 State street, left for Springfield, O., Tuesday to the bedside of her father, who is seriously ill. We are not advertising the horse-shoers, but it is certainly good advice when we say, "Keep your horses well shed." Mrs. Lulu Jordon, 624 West End avenue, late of New York, who was in the city visiting for a week, has returned home. Mrs. Jordon will leave for Europe in June. The way to get good bread, z k for the "Kentucky Loaf." Mrs. M. Myrick, Council Bluffs, Ia., is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. G. W. McKinley, 3342 Vernon avenue, who celebrated her anniversary recently. Miss Alene Hedges, Louisville, Ky., was given a surprise party by her friends before returning home, at Miss Maude Carper, 3356 Dearborn street, Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Gibson have gone to housekeeping at 4723 Evans avenue. The marriage of Mrs. Louise B. Harderman and Mr. Robert Jackson took place Thursday afternoon, Jan. 18, at the residence of Mr. S. S. Paul, 3005 Forest avenue, in the presence of a small assemblage of friends, Rev. M. H. Jackson performed the ceremony. The W. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Loaf" and Waltice Rolls. Miss Nana E. Coates, expert nurse and massouse, graduate of Battle Creek sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich., and Freemen's hospital of Washington, D. C. is now located in this city at 3254 South Vernon avenue. Misser: Hattie and Carrie Fluellen of 3231 Dearborn street, who have been spending the past month visiting Atlanta, Ga., and other points South are expected to return in a fortnight. The Annie Walker Conscious club held a meeting at Bethel hall Thursday, Jan. 25, and admitted to membership 160 new members. On Wednesday evening, Feb. 7, a majority of Chicago's most cultured young set will entertain the public in drama at Oakland Music hall. The play selected is "The Princess," to be presented by the University so-called "Princess" organization will be a big success. The organization is composed of graduates and students of the leading schools throughout the country. Have you read our "Sick List?" Miss Hester E. Webster graduated last Friday from the Chicago Teachers' college. Miss Webster has the honor of being the youngest and stood among the highest in her class. She was also the only colored member of the February class. Miss Ellen Snyder, an experienced settlement worker, is spending a few weeks at the Douglass Center as a resident worker. Why keep house when you can secure elegant furnished rooms by reading our classified columns? At the James McCosh school last Thursday night,Slidney Armand, Ruth Scott and McKinley Emanuel finished the grammar course. You should need. There is no excuse. Get bored. Show your pride. Have a "duty father" of your own. Elect Edw. H. Wright alderman. Mrs. Cella Parker Woolley spent Tuesday in Kenosha, WIs., lecturing to church societies, leaving for Geneva, Ill., Wednesday to visit friends, returning to the city the latter part of the week. The Hyde Park Woman's club held their first entertainment and bazaar at the residence of Mrs. Byron. Mrs. Hattie Claybrook presided. The Congreational church, 3032 Wabash avenue, held its monthly prayer service and social at the church Wednesday evening with a large attendance. the minister. Rev. E. C. Lawrence, is preaching a series of sermons each Sunday morning at 11 on the duties of the members. Hon. E. H. Wright, alderman. This is not politics, just your plain duty—Edw. H. Wright, for alderman of the Second Ward. Mrs. Lulu Jordan has returned to the city from an extended visit to New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. P. W. Horn, 4529 Vincennes avenue, entertained the Young Matrons' Cliftonian club at her home last Saturday afternoon. A very delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Mrs. B. B. Craig won the first prize, a beautiful cut glass bonbon dish, and Miss Whitfield won the second prize. Mrs. M. Ackers won the bobby prize, a ring case. Dalnty Compliments The daintest compliment you can pay a near and dear friend is to send a picture of yourself as an Xmas greeting. Peter P. Jones, 3519 State St. A. A. Wells will leave the city on Wednesday for an indefinite stay in California. Dr. Henry C. Bryant, formerly of Provident Hospital, and now located at his home town, Birmingham, Ala., is in the city for a short stay on business. The Doctor will always be a welcome visitor to Chicago. Henry Cole has spent the most of the winter out of the city. Henry thinks Pasadena, Cal., is one of the garden spots of the United States. Charley Dorsey, just returned from Memphis, Tenn., where he spent several weeks, reports that from what he could observe the colored people were progressive in that section. John Trott will spend several weeks in the southern part of California this winter. Mrs. Erina Jones, Mrs. Ada Mitchell and Miss Ada Mitchell were all confined to their home for several days on account of severe colds. George Bond returned to the city last week after several weeks' absence in Tennessee and Indiana. Mrs. Alonza Thompson, after more than two months' illness, is again herself and able to be out. Mr. and Phil Green anticipate being among their friends soon, in the neighborhood of 37th and Prairie avenue. A very desirable location. Blame Mountain Railroads The Swiss peasants are of the opinion that the constant shrinkage of the Alpine glaciers is due to the building of mountain railroads. Favorite Hymn Translated. The hymn "Abide With Me" has been translated into Yiddish and Esperanto, and both of the translators are Baltimoreans. Triumphant Automobile. A Manayunk woman found a chunk of rubber, a piece of automobile tire, in a sausage. In every way the automobile is supplanting the horse. Makes Forgery Impossible. The forgery of all Bank of England notes is quickly detected, because of secret marks which are constantly being changed. They are visible only under the microscope. By No Means a New ad "I am afraid Mrs. Wapping is a ter-magant," remarked Mrs. Pilcher. "Indeed," said Mrs. Bluntsome, with a slight elevation of her eyebrows. "Some people take up every new fad that comes along." Cannot Endure Human Gaze. Wild animals are irritated by the gaze of man. If you are without arms, it has been found a good plan to pretend not to see the beast at all. He takes the gaze as a challenge. Perfected Alarm Indicator A new alarm indicator for firemen switches on an incandescent light at a point on a map corresponding with the place from which the alarm is set. Digestive Powers of Insects. Some insects digest their food first and eat it afterward. They are so built as to be able to take only liquid food and they inject a digestive fluid into their prey and thus gradually dissolve it, sucking in the liquid so formed until nothing remains but the dry skin. Bank of England Employees There are about 1,060 persons on the staff of the Bank of England, of whom 840 are at the head office in London and the remainder in the branches throughout the country. Five hundred porters and mechanics are also employed. The bank prints its own notes and Indian rupee notes, together with all postal orders and old-age pension orders; this work is done at the head office. Detecting the Chinese Two men have just been convicted of smuggling Chinamen into the country. The detectives adopted a plan marvelous in its simplicity and effectiveness. They wanted to be sure whether the four Cieelstiens in question had ever been in the country before. They were dressed in American fashion and the detectives took the coats off the men and required them to put them on again. They put them on backward. --- FROM OUR EXCHANGES FROM OUR EXCHANGES Last week the Master Printers' Convention and Cost Congress of the Middle Atlantic States met in this city. There were about eight hundred delegates, of whom represented our side of the house—Editor Jno. H. Murphy, of Baltimore, and the writer. The convention was most instructive and inspiring. The keynote was co-operation. While the men were all competitors each realized that the salvation of the business lay in combination, as well as competition. It was certainly an achievement to get these men together. The convention insisted that printers were more prone than any other class of people to fight one another. "It is hard for two men in the printing business to be friends," said one, "but this convention is to break down the old-time your competitor with your competitor for the little business that is available; but you two get together and develop 'more business.' Don't try to take what your competitor has, but join hands with him to get more. Then don't try to beat him by cutting prices; and by giving better quality." These were some of the wise things said at the conference. What About a Little Protection for Their Own? Chicago, Jan. 26.—To the Editor: I note in your paper of Jan. 25 that the Washington government is making an effort to head off a threatened revolution in Santo Domingo. This prompts me to say that, I have observed with pleasure the friendly attitude of the government toward the little, struggling negro governments of Haytay, Liberia and Santo Domingo. I know that the negro has suffered much at the hands of some of the American people, but the fact remains that our federal government has been friendly to the efforts of negro communities to govern themselves. America has acted as a peacemaker among the people of Haytay in times of disorder and has lent them money in times of financial stress. Liberia feels secure under the protecting arm of the American government. I believe that if the negroes ever achieve political power anywhere, it will be due largely to the help of America. For this, as a negro, I am grateful. T. REEVES. Presiding Elder Chicago District A. M. E. Church. What About It Gov. Dix? (The Amsterdam News.) "Will he or will he not, that is the question?" We Think So, Too. (Anael Kahn, Wagner, Osaka) We really think that an Oklahoma Negro should be one of the National Delegates to the Chicago Convention. Better There Than Here. (Afro-American Ledger, Baltimore). We think we would rather trust the savages of the South Sea Islands or the cannibals of the interior of Africa than the barbarians in Georgia. None of the tales of brutality practiced by the savages of North America in the times of the early settlement of this country could surpass that of the savage brutes of the State of Georgia in the civilization period of the twentieth century. Two hundred men gathered together and broke into a fall down there several days ago and took out one man and one woman and not only hanged them to a pillow but them full of holes afterward. Just think of it. Lynching women, the next thing will be the lynching of children, and then we suppose they will commence to eat them. And all of this in the United States of America, and the press and pulpit almost as silent as the grave. Somebody will pay an awful price for all this in the not distant future. Modern Finance Knicker-"Are you cutting down expenses?" Bocker-"Yes; I am paying only half the bills."-Puck. Daily Thought. Guard well thy thought; our thoughts are heard in heaven.—Young Science of Politics Science of Politics. Politics is the science of keeping citizens happy. Novel Method of Dusting. In Europe they dust the paintings in art galleries by means of air syringes. Barbarous Penalty Barbarous Penalty, Death by prevention of sleep is legal form of punishment in China. Why They Give it. Some people are always giving good advice because they have no use for it themselves. Nonsense That Decelves, "Nonsense when earnest is impressive and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense." -Disraeli. Daily Thought "All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up." Hardest Kind of Work "I want you to understand that I got my money by hard work." "Why, I thought it was left you by your uncle." "So it was, but I had hard work getting it away from the lawyers." Human Brain Not Perfect. Every man who holds a position supposably knows just how his work should be done. He has been taught every movement that is necessary. He works more or less by rule and he has the experience and the methods of every man who has ever done such work to guide him. Yet mistakes will be made. The brain is 80 per cent. water, after all. Can You See the Point? OUR WOMEN By SABINE Dr. Anna B. Coper, one of the foremost women of the race, is traveling throughout the south and east in the interest of the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Tuberculosis Sanitorium. The Doctor deserves every praise for her most creditable efforts in a worthy cause. In Philadelphia last week Mrs. Eda Hogan, the 22-year-old bride of Thomas P. Hogan, wholesale liquor dealer, threw a 200-pound desperado through a glass window and seized him a second time by a thumb grip, and made him lie on his back until her husband came to her old Mrs. Hogan, who is sleigh weighing We are often criticised for not printing "all the news." Now "all the news" embraces an area so broad, so diversified and so important that the careful editor is compelled to burn the midnight oil in an endeavor to determine what is "all the news. The Chicago Defender, like its other local contemporaries, finds much each week that would make good reading matter, but would not help elevate a struggling race or a progressive citizenship. Every Negro newspaper gleans in a weeks end enough sensational matter to fill several columns. The average reader would delight in the elaborate headlines and the "big" dailies would make capital out of every line. But the Negro newspapers are founded on different lines. In the "yellow press" the mistakes of the race are blazoned in flaming headlines—but our virtues are always set in brewier. We never condone doing, we never foster a fight against the law, we never promote illegal enterprises—but we do ask for justice. The City Press Association, backed up as it is by the Associated Press, distorts every item that concerns the Negro. There is no chance for the "small fellow" that only appears once a week. Long before The Chicago Defender or any other race paper reaches the news and race are formed, opinions are proclaimed broadcast and the work of the publication is stunted at birth. "All the news that is fit to print" is the slogan THE SICK. The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care. Mrs. Sarah Burton, 445 W. 56th street, is now a patient at Provident Hospital. Early this week she underwent an operation. Mrs. Martha Cranshaw is confined at her residence, 3807 Wabash avenue, suffering from a broken rib, the result of a fall on her back porch a week ago. Mrs. Amanda Poole, 3345 State street, is ill with a gripe. Mrs. Mary Eauly, one of Quinn Chapel's oldest members, is still quite at her residence, 2404 Wabash avenue. Mr. S. M. Hardin of 4110 State street is still confined to his home with inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. Lizzie Rice of 2755 LaSalle street is gradually improving. Mrs. Florence Price of 5235 Lake avenue, who has been confined to her home for several weeks by illness, is improving. Mrs. Louise Montgomery is seriously residence 55th and Dearborn born. Mrs. Malinda Brisbane, 3224 Dearborn street, still improves but is still confined to the house. Mrs. Cora Peyton, 3743 Dearborn street, according to her physician is "doing nicely." Mrs. H. McDougall, who has been seriously ill, is able to be up and around the house again. Mrs. Agnes J. Wright, 3426 Vernon avenue is slowly recovering from a serious illness. Mrs. Bessie Williams, 3426 Vernon avenue, has been seriously ill all week but is reported better. Mrs. Jennie Scott, sister of Col. John R. Marshall, continues ill at St. Lukes hospital. Mrs. Sadler, 2420 Wabash, ill for some time, still improves. Mrs. Keene, member of Phoenix Court, H. of J., is very ill at Provident Hospital. Mrs. Smith, 2408 Wabash avenue, member of Liberty Temple, Lady Elks, is ill, results of severe burns. CHURCHES TO HAVE PRESS AGENT. Employment of a press agent by the churches of Chicago was recommended at a conference of ministers and editors held in the Central Y. M. C. A. auditorium this week for the purpose of framing a mutual "Uplift Platform." The editors told the clergymen that publicity would aid religion. Late reports show that the race churches are arranging to immediately adopt this progressive idea. MAYOR HARRISON AND THE "PLAY BOY." Although the Irish people denounced the "Play Boy" of the Western World and the city council gave the mayor special power to bar the play, yet one of Corporation Counsel Sexton's assistants found sufficient money to have it. No doubt these wise legal men have it. No doubt these wise legal men have oftentimes been insulted and were fair enough to treta them all alike. No Dissuading. The man who is his own worst enemy usually carries on the fight to the bitter end.—Puck. Young and Old—Light and Serious Verse and Prose—History—Personal—In a Word Their Every Interest. a little more than 100 pounds, was waiting in the store during the abseance of her husband when the desperado entered, and asked for the change of a $5 bill. She gave him four $1 bills and held her hand for the larger bill before giving him four quarters she held. The fellow started to runoff with the $1. Mrs. Hogan, who has been taking lessons in jiu-jitsu, caught him by the arm and threw him over her head and through a plate glass window. Before he could get up Mrs. Hogan sat on him until Hogan went to his wife's assistance, and the man was arrested. of the race, press here and elsewhere. If it is scandal, if it is a knock against the other fellow or if it is just one line that will hinder or discourage it has no place in the newspaper published in the interest of the race. "Can you see the point?" "The Playboy" and "The Nigger." The Chicago City Council can get mighty busy when a play is announced to appear in this city that burlesques any race but the NEGRO. Monday night the council directed Mayor Harrison to take such steps as he saw fit to prevent the presentation of the play called "The Playboy." "It insulted the Irish," said an alderman. "Two weeks ago an insignificant play house out in Englewood played "The Niger." "The Niger" was not only an insult to "the NEGROS" but a nasty incentive to race hatred that the CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL is so anxious to keep down. This disgraceful play also adorned the time-worn "McVickers" about a year ago. There was a spurt of opposition but it did not reach that August body, "the city council." Come clean Mayor Harrison! Come clean "the mighty City Council." The name "The Playboy" could not insult anyone, but the word "Niger" not only insults but hurts the feelings of a few millions of your countrymen that you must count if you ever hope to be president of the great U. S. a or anything else. Moral, get an alderman of your own. "Can you see the point?" At Last. We know now why the chicken crossed the road, because we found the egg.—Charleston News and Courrier. The Workers. "Did a musician of note score your opera?" "No; the critics did." Self-Confidence and Bluff. Self-confidence is usually about 99 per cent. bluff.—Atchison Globe. Land of Few Hotels. Except on the count there are no inns or hotels in Morocco. Avoiding Temptation. What you ought not to do, do not think about doing—Pythagoras. Has Been Done. A man who has no music in his soul may get rich writing popular songs. Really Lucky Candidate. It is a lucky candidate who is m talked about than talking. Want Something to Exercise On. Somehow or other the women who feel that they were born to command always get married.—Exchange. Great Value of Coccanut. The coccanut is not only valuable as a source of food and drink in trop ical countries, but is also the best of all trees for shade. Lessens Danger From Disease Gerr The use of muslin in dairy windo instead of glass is said to lessen danger from disease germs. Competence and the Morals. There is no harm in having a petence, if it does not produce degeneration of the morals. Womanly Qualities That W With common sense, gentle confidence in herself a woman ways conquer. Dust Makes Good Fertil The dust collected from vacuum cleaners has prove valuable fertilizer, and its so come a regular business in Why? Why is it that the are always willing to speed time trying to get a 4 tion in his gas bill? Jealousy. The man who is blu through the world is blu terly and despised r the man who is trying to do the same thing. Try Scissors to "She meant to cl en's head with a ha sourl editor, "but cutting off her for time she has desi of a chicken we of a pair of scis situation. Unfore "I notice the frain from me your political speeches." " in that respect courtesy as started in to soon as I n audience b continuous City Churches—Religious News Frederick Douglass Center. Sunday, February 4, at 4 p. m. Mrs. so. W. Mathes of the Chicago University, will give an address from the object, "The Relation of the Church to the Social Settlement." Prof. L. Hoyt, a musician of wide reputation, will give several piano numbers Bethel Literary Club. Mr. Geo, P. Smith, manager C. H. Green's Shoe Polish Co., will address the Bethel Literary Club at 4 o'clock in the lecture room of Bethel Church. The occasion is known as "Business Men's Day," and a record breaking crowd is expected. Special music has been prepared for the occasion. Feb. 10th the Great Lincoln-Allen-Doughess celebration will take place Addresses by Senator Etelson, Major Jackson and Mr. E. Wilber Johnson. ```markdown ``` Walters A. M. E. Zion Church. One of the pleasing features of our church work just now is the splendid attendance at class meetings on Friday nights, our attendance on last Friday was about 80, the class offering was over $15.00. This shows the loyalty of our members and the earnest work of our leaders, let us keep it up. The services on last Sunday were well attended both morning and evening. The sermon by the pastor in the morning and the Chantanqua lecture at night by Mr. H. H. Hardin were both greatly enjoyed. The Men's Utility Club had a splendid meeting on last Thursday and the prospects for a high social time at the banquet to be given on Feb. 29th are very bright. You had better get your tickets at once. At the Christian Endeavor meeting on last Sunday night the following officers were elected: President, H. B. Craddock; vice president, C. J. Jackson, secretary, Earl Simpson; corresponding secretary, Miss Alice Gallis; treasurer, Miss Bessie Glenn. The meeting on next Sunday evening will be led by the pastor, the officers-elect will be installed. Sunday services: Prayer meeting at 6:30 a.m., Holy Communion at 11:00 a.m., a.m., Sunday school at 1:00 p.m. Preaching by the pastor at 7:45 p.m. subject "The Glories of a Victorious Army." The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will hold their regular prayer and praise service at the church Wednesday evening. Quinn Chapel. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting. Rev. Timothy Reeves, P. E., delivered fine instructive sermons at the morning and evening service to large and appreciative congregations. At the Communion service at 3 p.m. m. Rev. L. L. Birt preached an able sermon from the text, "What Will You Do With Jesus?" A number of visiting pastors were present. The congregation was very large. Five hundred persons communed. The ladies who have been giving soup to the poor, extend thanks to the many friends who so honourably contributed donations. One thousand and fifty-four persons were fed and assisted. The Young People's Improvement Club elected officers last Tuesday night. The trustees and the members are making strenuous efforts to raise $2,000 (two thousand dollars) on Easter on the mortgage and for the cleaning of the church. FIRST JAPANESE IN AMERICA As a Shipwrecked Lad and Was Brought to This Country In 1841. The first Japanese who ever came to America, as far as is known, was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old lad, who was picked up by the captain of an American fishing vessel in 1841, twelve years before the coming of onimodore Perry to Japan. Nakahama with four companions d sailed out into the ocean on a ling expedition, their boat had been kicked by a storm, and they were lly washed ashore on a desert id in the northern Pacific. Three hs of dire privation were passed te island before the little party escued by the American vessel, compilations were left in Hawaii, ikahama, who became a great of the captain, was brought United States and sent to a gland school. And when Com-Perry came to Japan, Nakas able to act as interpreter in titations carried on between ican envoys and the Japal government authorities. obl Takamine in the Orlen. Id English Custom. an old-fashioned custom h road, which I suspect e, or practiced only by burns of length being ack, and, of course by was usual always to the Sunday in some traveler might attend d his horse have the of rest, the institu- humane to our brute ble to ourselves. A decent practice, d English hospital- landlord of a prun- is character of a nth day, and in- chanced, to be like a part of his ing. This invi- plied with by I rank did not compliance a de- tal of a bottle rink the land- only recom- cepted—Sir inut. valuable k in trop- e best of JACK JOHNSON VS. THE MINISTERS It Is a Peculiar Coincidence That the Barbarism of Prize-Fighting Never Concerns the White Members of the Cloth Until the Name of Mr. Jack Johnson Is Brought Forth — A Peculiar Kind of Religion—Can These Worthy (?) Men of God Explain? JOHNSON'S NAME LIKE RED RAG TO BULL No Magnifying Glass Needed to Condemn Sports—But Total Blindness Is a Prevalent Disease When Lynching or the Other Barbarisms of Mob Rule Are Concerned—Far Better for the Enlightened Clergy to Teach "Common Humanity" At the meeting of the Methodist Ministers' Association in Cincinnati, O., Jan. 29, a resolution was adopted to protest against the Johnson-Flynn prize light and the protestation was ordered sent to Congress. It is a peculiar coincidence that the barbarianism of prize fighting is never uppermost in the minds of the more sanctionious (?) of the white race until the name of Johnson is mentioned in connection with such a proposition, and then what a red rag is to a bull, conveys the feeling against prize fighting to the ministers of the gospel. Can these worthy (?) men of God explain why the battles between the white exponents of the art fail to arouse their antagonism? Truly the ugly spirit of prejudice is a most opposing force and Christianity is powerless to obliterate it. For the protestation against prize fighting is no more than another exhibition of the white man's pet hobby—prejudice and only a true insight into a Christian life and a casting of the sham religion will uncover the eyes of the divines to the things that warrant protesting against. Daily, yes, hourly, are members of the other race scheming to degrade and perpetrating the crime of lynching on their fellow-man and if the religion of the white man was a thing of the heart and not of the head their bills to Congress would be filled with prayers and entreaties for the suppression of such diabolical crimes against humanity. HOW INSECTS WALK ON WATER Hairs on Their Feet Inclose Enough Air to Enable Them to Float. Even a solid rod of iron may be made to float provided it is small enough. Take a fine needle, wipe it with an oily rag, but do not leave any visible trace of oil on it, and then lay it gently on the surface of water in a basin. It will float and continue to float for some little time. The cause of this is the fact that a quantity of air adheres to the needle sufficient to buoy it up. Moreover, as the cohesion between the particles of water is considerable, and as water has no attraction for a perfectly dry piece of steel, the cohesion of the water is greater than the weight of metal, and so the latter is supported. In the same way insects are enabled to walk upon the water. The hairs on the end of their feet inclose an amount of air that enables them to float. As each foot is put down it forms a sort of enplike depression in the water, and the liquid thus dis placed is sufficient to float the insect—Harper's Weekly. PARADISE FOR THE ACTOR Australia Is the Place Where the People Make Real Gifts to Stage Favorites. The actor, bronzed from a long sea voyage, was praising Australia, whence he had just returned. "Australia's the place!" he cried enthusiastically. "If a pretty actress makes a hit over there, the warm-hearted Australians aren't content with passing flowers over the footlights to her. No, no. They pass her a box of gloves, a dozen pairs of silk stockings, a turkey, a fur muff, or a case of wine. Why. In Milparinka my wife got passed a Callot dress, a Lewis hat and ten pounds of writing paper. "As for me—" The actor made a great gesture of arm and shoulder to indicate modesty, "As for me," he said, "I don't want to brag. I was never one to boast. At the same time, this I will say. No jeune premier ever made the hit I did in Parraretta, Quirindi and the other one-night stands. Do you see these pants? Passed up to me by a distinguished society matron of Murrumburrah. How do you like this shirt? It's one of a half dozen that I got from a Mudgee girl. And this furled coat, my boy, is the real thing—none of your cheap and natty imitations—but real rat—genuine Australian rat. I thought I'd drop when a Gulgong usher passed it over the footlights with the compliments of the Gulgong Bachelor Gris" Social." Naturally He Was Sick. He came creeping in at the usual hour when a man finds it convenient to enter his house with as little commotion as possible. He replied, in response to the usual wifely query put to gentlemen who arrive home at that hour of the night that he had been sitting up with a sick friend. "A sick friend, indeed! And what alled him?" "W-why, he lost $87." Why Nelson Proposed Most of Nelson's friends had been busy conjecturing which would it be Orilla or Justine. "No man can like two girls exactly the same," said Marlan as the girls were discussing the subject. "He may admire one for her looks; another for her cleverness; one may fascinate and cooble with fattiness while another he may care for her cander." "Nelson is going to take Justine to the dance tonight," announced Helen. "but probably Orilla had a previous engagement. She never wants for admirers." Justine was radiant in her new gown when Nelson called for her. The happy thought that he had showed her the preference gave her face a softened look of beauty. The ride to the ballroom was a short one. As Nelson helped her out of the carriage she put her hand up to her ear and exclaimed in dismay: "Are you quite certain you wore it?" "Positive." Justine answered nodding her head emphatically. "It's not likely I'd wear only one." "Don't worry about it. We're late already for the dance, and its too chilly for you to stay out here while I search for it. Let's go in the house and I'll return and see if you dropped it in the carriage." Nelson spent the greater part of the evening hunting for the trinket, but it was not to be found. All his efforts were in vain. When he rejoined the merry party Justine was the gayest of all. He commenced to sympathize with her and tried to coexist her for the loss, but to his great amazement she answered in a joking tone free from all anxiety, "I'll advertise in the morning and offer a liberal reward." "Anyway Justine if it wasn't for me carring, I might never have realized what pretty ears you have, and have something important for them to hear on our way home." As Justine's partner came to claim her dance Nelson soliloquized, "I believe I feel worse about the loss than she does. It was hard to decide whom I cared for the most, each seemed so desirable. Heaven be praised! I know now. Any girl who can loose a gorgeous jewel like that and say she can be just as happy without it, and that jewels have no great charm for me, and it doesn't pay to worry one's head about an carring when there are so many more important things to think about. By George! How stupid of me not to know sooner it was Justine I loved. Orilla is forever fretting about infinitesimal microscopic nothings." On their way home Nelson said "my friendship for you has developed into an overpowering love. What would you do if I gave you a kiss?" he asked the girl. "I'd give it back to you," she answered promptly. Nelson and Justine were married a few months later. Before long Nelson could not refrain from noticing how easily provoked and exasperated his young wife could be over the smallest occurrences. The few times Nelson saw Orilla he marvelled how cheerful she looked while his own wife was continually complaining and nothing was good enough, or too good for her and she made such demands upon his time and pocketbook. It seemed inconceivable that she was the same person. When Edith's engagement was announced to the champion football player of the season, Nelson felt a pang of regret when he thought how his judgment and calculations had played him false. "Orilla will make an ideal wife for a professor," he vouchsafed to his wife. "It's easier to be a professor's wife," she snapped, "than to have to cater to a man who usually is late for dinner." Nelson took the rebuke in silence and wondering what had happened today that had added two lines to his wife's face. "You're as changeable as the moon," complained he. "How easily you are annoyed. You worry that my maid isn't capable, and you worry when she threatens to leave. If you buy a blue dress, you're sure it will look green in the gaslight and——" "Have you finished?" Interposed his wife. "With such an unsympathizing husband, it's surprising I haven't nervous prostration;" she said, wiping the tears from her eyes. "Naturally it doesn't concern you, if I lost the gold hatpin mother brought from Europe. I'm dead tired hunting in every nook and corner for it. Do I receive gold hat pins every day?" questioned Justine indignantly, "that I can afford to lose one without mentioning it?" "But, my dear," said her husband in a conciliatory tone, "you weren't nearly so harrassed and vexed when you lost that valuable earring before we were engaged." "Oh, I've always wanted to tell you," replied his wife, "that those earrings were only imitations." "Justine, why didn't you tell me sooner. You led me to believe they were real." "Did I?" Justine answered. "I never told you because you never asked me." High Notes. "Why don't you speak to that prima donna about her careless performance?" "I don't dare," replied the manager. "When I talk to her she sings her part of the conversation, and she has a contract with me for $10 a note." His Standard. "Carnation growers ought to be the best of exhibitors" "Why so?" "Because they are bound to be in a kind of condition" GUESS WHO? The Englewood doll is who is going to slip away next week and get married, then she will chill. The young lady can join the Beaneaters if she asks the King. The King says that he has some others in Chicago. He will back against anyone in Chicago. Oh, you Westerner, out for your health again? What was the matter you failed to put in your appearance until Sunday morning, H.? What were you doing on the corner of 22nd Street when I got out the car? Were you resting? The bunch of dancing class visitors are who think that the judges had favorites in awarding prizes. The ladies and gents are who say that Garfield must be his own judge next time, as he knows quality when he sees it. He is so nice, belle is who has been taking all of the time, you will the Whist club. Keep it up. S. A., you will have your china cabinet filled soon. That sweet little bud is who can play Everywhere She Is Doing Now What Formerly Was Considered the Work of Man. It may be difficult to tell what is a woman's age, but unquestionably this is it. Men's colleges into which women have made their way have had to drive them out again in order to give the men a chance at graduation honors. From the pulpit and the bar down to the coal mine and the iron furnace women are doing what used to be regarded as man's work. The literature of the day is overwhelmingly feminist in its character and very much of it is the work of women. Men are being told things about women that it was not deemed proper for their fathers to know, and as for themselves, they are being shown up without remorse. Within a few days illustrations of the feminist revolution, physically and intellectually, have become public. Man is destined to lose even his physical superiority. The superintendent of a hospital in Boston, where 3,000 babies are born annually, says: "We have noticed that girl babies are getting taller and that they are appearing in this world lately with more real vitality than formerly. The boy babies continue on the average, both in weight and height." KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL NEEDED Virtue and Progress in the Right Path Cannot Spring From Mere Innocence. Innocence is lovely in the child, because in harmony with its nature; but our path In life is not backward but onward, and virtue can never be the offspring of mere innocence. If we are to progress in the knowledge of good, we must also progress in the knowledge of evil. Every experience of evil brings its own temptation, and according to the degree in which the evil is recognized and the temptations resisted will be the value of the character into which the individual will develop. Innocence may be beautiful, but can never be strong, while the whole essence of virtue lies in its strength to resist and power to endure. If the innocence of childhood be replaced by the firm principles of integrity and honor, the loss will be really a great gain. It is only where the knowledge of evil is unattended by appreciation of its nature, where temptations are yielded to and not resisted, that we are induced to grieve over the departure of that innocence which was so beautiful in earlier years. WANT NO CLERICAL CLOTHES Derelicts Refuse to Accept Parson's Coats, Fearing the Taunts of Their Fellows. A bundle of clothes from the mission lay on the tailor's table. "What did you send these things around to me for?" he asked. "They seem to be in pretty good condition." "They are in good enough condition," said the missionary, "but they will never be acceptable to the derelicts we expect to distribute them among until the ministerial cut is modified. Every coat in the lot has belonged to a preacher, and its style betrays its ownership. "Most of the men who apply at the mission for hand-me-downs haven't much pride left, but they balk at a parson's coat. Unless actually driven to it, they will not wear one. "Clothes twice as badly worn but of a business cut are chosen. Instead. Most ministers have hard work disposing of their clerical clothes. Conscientious scruples against masquerading in religious garb have nothing to do with these men refusing the ministers' coats. They simply don't want them because they dread the taunts the coats are likely to provoke among their fellows." The Best Gift. The best gift is the one that shows thought—an appreciation of what will be pleasing and useful to the recipient—that is what counts for value, not the price in money. Nothing makes a woman- so angry as to see her husband, who diets at home, eating everything that comes along at a banquet. routine to perfection, with or without music. Continue and you will be a rag-together child. Dr. Shimla. The gent is who has just arrived in the city and is another Dr. Evans (crank on cold air). An ex-postoffice gent. Oh, you 21th. The baby doll is. L. is correct. The King is who fools you because his Bessie has quit eating beans. The walking phonon is. Oh, you C. H. P. O. dude is who wrote back from the Philippines that there is no place like Chicago. Sorry for you, Frank. **GUESS WHO—EVANSTON.** The brown is that gets his dates mixed. 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Small Cause for Wonder: A sergeant in the Bavarian army was discharged the other day on account of lung disease. It appeared that for several years he had been in the habit of drinking 20 quarts of beer per diem. No wonder his lungs were worn out. He must have spent about 14 hours a day holding his breath. Nowadays. It's a wise play that knows its own author.—Harper's Bazar. 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 Chinese and American Restaurant In Connection. High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors: Waiting for Business Is very poor business. The only way to do business in a business-like way is to make business. If you are in business and are not satisfied with the volume of business you have been doing, we would suggest that you take the business advice of one who makes it his business to make business for others. 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The last half of week of Jan. 22 was very good and gave to us as a headliner Carita Day, one of the best singles in the business. Miss Day is reviving the old but ever popular clog dancing and making it go, and it can be safely said there are but few dancers today who have the honor of doing this particular dance. Miss Carita has a budget of songs she singes—no, not singes, I mean she chirps; for her voice, I mean not much music; that a birdy one, but what is sweet and after all she does not need a voice, it is the way she has of doing her work that makes her such a dandy performer. Next in worth were Earl Walker and the pretty soubrette Leon Marshall, in a singing and dancing sketch. Mr. Walker is certainly a man wearing clothes, not a dummy and the clothes wearing him. Every piece of his attire looks stunning on him and he is there with the goods. Of course Miss Marshall is so well known, so well liked and so pretty it hardly needs my poor pen to describe her work and self more fully. Mr. and Mrs. Keenan Wallace in a comedy face, "A Box of Perfectos," created many heavy laughs, because she describes herself in the farce. Halligan and Sykes were full of funny sayings and did well. The Seven Merry Youngsters in a school scene closed the bill and sent every one home happy. The first half of the present week also contained some "peaches," Ranch Smith is an excellent singing and dancing comedian and gained his share of applause, Nick Long and Idalene Cotton in their comediethe, "Managerial Troubles," were great; their impersonations were bits of most prelaureworthy goods. Freeman and Fiske gave some of the most up-to-date and entertaining nonsense talk heard here in many mouths. Laurence Johnson, the ventriloquist, is undoubtedly one of the best if not the best in the business; his act fills one with amazement as well as pleasure. Rogers and Wiley, those happy entertainers, are with us again and as usual putting it over. The Four Comrades, an acrobatic quartet that is deserving of much credit, closes this worthy bill. The Monogram The home of good vaudeville is all O. K. this week. Michaels and Michaels head the list, bringing some good singing and dancing to the boards; they look well and do well. Mrs. Michaels does a very light fantastic toe dance to perfection; their talk is clever. Bailey and Bailey are just as good as ever. Mr. Bailey is singing a new one, "I'm a Dandy Coon," and in his brown suit he looks it. Mills and Tansell are fine, especially Mr. Mills. By the way, it is not Jerry Mills. It's another Mills. "I'm copying a little of the Bert Adams air. now, my boy, because are in blackface you need not be be. Try a little originality; you are never and can do it. Miss Lizzie Jart is with us again, and she is "so different from the rest." She is sweet femininity from the crown of her levy head to the toe of her dainty slipper. Her songs are sung in a voice that rings like silvery bells. Truth is she an acquirement on any bill. A. Grand Musician Gone. In the death last week of Fred Stone of Detroit, Mich., the country not only lost a musician but a com- of much reputation. Stone was one of the early units of ragtime, having com- "Rastus on Parade," "My Coal Lady" and several others along the line, which gained for him and finance. Not only was his to write music to please the end of thought but the deeper music was betrayed in his tions of waltzes and intermezion among his waltzes "At Twilight" waltz, and the "Laces and Graces," was best he ever wrote. Many positions have followed those but none have been more po. in his first writings. Mr. Stone had been for several years the much honored and very able director of the Detroit City Band and Finney's Orchestra. Much regret is felt over his demise, especially in his home town, Detroit, Mich., where he was loved and praised by all. And we of Chicago do resolve to extend our condolences to his bereaved family and do ourselves mourn his death, for he is a great loss to the musical world. Coming Virtuoso. An audience which completely filled the recital room in Kimball hall Monday evening, Jan. 29, comprised the very elite of Chicago's citizens of both races who had faced the winter's chilly blasts in order to do honour to the musical intelligence of Mr. Harrison Emanuel, violinist. The artist displayed remarkable musical intelligence and truly proved the phrase that "music is the wordless expression of the soul." His delicate yet strong and flexible fingers brought forth tones full of beauty and power which touched the hearts of those who sat under the spell of his music. Mr. Emanuel in his slight errousness showed the eagerness of student but his interpretation of the 1 masters was evidence that he is studious student and a lover of the music. Much praise was given is rendition of "Zephyr," by Hu The light, beautiful notes fell oo to the thick of the hand. It was the most arsenal number on the program. The No. 2 of Wienlawiki delight, it was given with much and intonation. Fantasia by Viextempa, was also ditably performed. Each even showed much prepara-ful thought. This young a born musician and it is hecy if we say that with an years Harrison Egan- uel will be in the front rank of violists. Mrs. Marle Burton-Hyram, the soprano who assisted the artist, although much affected with a severe cold, pleased the audience with "Plus Grande Dans Sou Obscurite," from the "Queen of Sheba," by Counod, and "Inspiration," a waltz song by Terry. Both numbers, under the conditions, were well done. Mrs. Hyram in all her stately loveliness sang as best she could and at times her beautiful voice rang clear in order that all might know her loss of voice was but temporary. Mrs. Claire Cudney Mandy as accompanist was everything desired. Her delightful touch upheld the artists to perfection. Prof. F. P. Mandy may be proud of this youthful violinist for his amount of knowledge of music so far gained and his ability to so intelligently interpret in so few years of study the work of the masters. The recital was one of the choicest musical events of the season. We are glad that Mr. Emanuel is cultivating the great gift God has given him, for when he has grown old and gray his art be as pure and true as a mother's love. Shakespeare says: "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is it fit for treasures, stratagems, spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus, Let no such man be trusted." The musical and literary recital under the auspices of the C. B. L. S., which was given at the Jefferson Baptist church Friday evening, Jan. 26, was much of a success. Every number was well received and each participant was fully capable. The Great Wilson and Cumby, in their sketch, "The Bandman and His Band," are scoring heavily over the Pantages time out on the coast and being royally entertained by their friends. It is with much pride and elation we note the excellent progress made by our own boy, Kemper Harreld, violinist. Mr. Harreld is located in the Atlanta Baptist college, Atlanta, Ga., as director of music and sends to us a program of the second annual concert of the Glee club and orchestra for which we sincerely thank him. Lotte Grady, with all her smiles and winks, will be the attraction at the Monogram the week of Feb. 5. To the Editor: Knowing our interest in me as one of Chicago's singers, I wish to make plain a slight difference between myself and the Choral Study club in order that at some future time my position will not be misunderstood. I was engaged by the Choral Study Club as one of the soloists for their coming concert and made terms to sing for a nominal sum, which they refused, offering $5. and knowing that my predecessors have been paid ten times the amount that they asked. I absolutely refused to be a party in their attempt to put a low valuation on home talent. Thanking you for many past favors, I am. Very truly, GEORGE R. GARNER, JR. THE CRITERION CLUB. The Criterion Club will make its first appearance before the public Sunday afternoon, February 4, when it will render a most excellent program before The Standard Literary Society of Bethesda Baptist Church, 3822 Wabash avenue. The entire program will be on "The Negro's Contribution to American Civilization." The musical program will consist of selections from S. Coldridge Taylor and from other Negro composers, and will be rendered by the following well known artists: Mrs. Marle P. Merilt, formerly of Fisk Jubilee Singers; Mr. W. K. Hackney, tenor; Mr. A. Mundy, tenor; Mr. James A. Mundy, in his original selections. The Mr. Theodore Thomas Taylor, accompanist. The public is cordially invited, and is urged to be prompt in attendance. The program will begin promptly at 3:30. Thomas S. Ewell, president; Annie E. Lowry, secretary. Interesting to Astronomers No way has been yet found in which the sun's corona with its unknown gases may be properly studied except during a total eclipse. The wonderful halo that the sun wears is one of the most interesting objects in the heavens to astronomers, and it is important to know all that can be known about these strange lights that shoot out millions of miles beyond the sun. Science in Fishing. In taking big catches of haddock If the insides are looked into there will be seen great quantities of herring eggs. The fisherman before casting his lines for haddock greases his sound and tries for herring spawn, for where he finds herring eggs there great numbers of haddock are sure to Her Nationality. In the lowest grade of a New York public school the teacher was gleaning from the children who had newly entered the class statistics of nationality for her annual report. They are extremely interesting in New York public schools, for they include youngsters from every known corner of the globe. Having enrolled Germans, Syrians, Poles, Irish, Australians, Nati- lans, French, Kenyanians and others the teacher asked a faxed bade mite—hoping to hear the rare word "American"—"What are you, Florence?" Mindful of her home training, Florence promptly and cheerfully replied: "I'm a suffragette." Spanish Monarch Acts Like Ordinary Man Occasionally. When on Vacations at Hfs Summer Residence Alfonso Talks, Walks, Rides and Mingles Generally With the People. San Sebastian, Spain—At this beautiful northern coast resort of Spain King Alfonso XIII, enjoys life in his boyish, fashion. Imagine a great round bay so locked in that its waters are a pond. High around its edges circle the villas of the rich, white along the sandy shore the Royal Yacht club and bath houses adjoin private beaches next to the great hotels and the public promenade. Along the sands the public bath houses and gay tents flash all colors, fairly soaked in sunlight, even in late autumn. The stone promenade, bordered by shade trees and forged iron balustrades, continues round the bay, through gorgeous parks and gardens to the public gambling halls, with the marble terraces and flowers, restaurants and cafes of one of the most luxurious cashos of Europe. Back of hills is the modern built town of wide, open plains and monuments in bronze and marble shops, cafe terraces and flaunting awnings, street sprinklers, gushing fountains and that mixed perfume of orange peel, violets and tuberoses that marks the south of Europe. Chief of the villas perched high around the bay is the king's Miramar palace, half hidden among its forests. At night any traveler can lose himself in its winding alleys, lighted by 900 electric lamps. Anyone who has been there must have thought how easy it would be for armed conspirators to enter the park and take the palace by surprise. The guard at the gate is composed of three men of the Miraneats corps. At the wide door or King Alfonso. the palace the only sentry is an old veteran, wearing many decorations, but unarmed. The idea generally held that the king of Spain lives surrounded by an army to protect his life is absurd. The "Air-barzeros"—mounted escort—and the large military staff is regularly invisible in its barracks behind the palace and exists merely to satisfy court protocol. When the royal family enjoys its home life in the evenings after audience hours are over, it is no more protected than any other well-to-do family of San Sebastián. Every day while in residence at San Sebastian, the king, unaccompanied by soldiers, on foot, on horseback, or in auto or carriage, can be seen going about. We met him once in a lone spot of the Combe, a traveler, attempting to clean three plugs that had got choked by soot. My French friends stopped and asked the customary, "Anything we can do?" "These plugs are choked with soot," replied Alfonso. His chauffeur was respectfully offering new ones, when our French friend—a pure automobile crank like the king—explained that he could clean those plugs by backing rapidly up the slope. "That is what I said," cried Alfonso. "Oust! tumble in!" and, with a very tricky swing, he got his weight on the crank and started the heavy motor before his chauffeur knew what he was up to, jumped in beside his only companion, a silent military man, and began backing up the slope at second speed. "Now that is just the type of automobile crank who will not let his chauffeur do a thing," expained the Frenchman. From this time Alfonso nodded to us with a smile, content that here were three men and a lady who had seen him, Alfonso, acting as a man. Pool Ball in His Mouth Philadelphia. — Robert Wilson, a youth living at 1330 North Eighth street, made a bet with several companions that he had the largest mouth in the crowd, and to prove his assertion thrust a pool ball between his jaws. He won the wager, but lost several teeth, for the ivory ball fitted his mouth so well that it took two hours' work on the part of physicians at the Children's Homeopathic hospital to remove the ball, and that was accomplished only after the forceps had been used. Wilson walked to the hospital with his friends. The physicians first told him to force the ball out with his tongue. His efforts were unavailing and the pain from his distended jaws so great that it was determined to sacrifice five front teeth. . Teamster Rode on the Wind. Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Jesse Hitch, a teamster, sat on a load of hay while crossing the open bridge across the Susquehanna river at Nanticoke the other day. The wind was blowing strongly and to his surprise he found himself moving in the air. He released his grump of the reins and with and of hay was lifted clear of the bridge and of hay was lifted clear of the wind dropped him and the hay gagged over the river, which was frozen over, 60 feet below the bridge. SLEUTH HAS VERY HARD JOB Is Going to Ask the Legislature to Pass New Law Making Burglary Capital Offense. Policeman McCarthy of the Union Market station, saw three men loitering in the vicinity of Goldstein and Millinger's jewelry store on the East side at three o'clock in the morning. "Aha!" he says, "Till sleuth some." And he did. He hid in a doorway. Soon he saw two of the men boost the third over the front transom. "Aha!" says he, "Till pinch 'em." But he didn't. The two fled, leaving the third inside the store, making a most careful inventory of the stock, as is done by all burglars in the best sets. "Come out'r there!" ordered McCarthy, but the burglar merely hoisted his hand to a position at right angles with his face, placed his thumb against his nose, and wigged his dexter fingers—a most uncompromising—position. "Come in and get me, yer big stiff," he finally muttered. "That I will, me bucko, and 'twill be no ladylike reception you'll receive when I make your acquaintance," muttered McCarthy. The robber's fingers continued to sway back and forth. McCarthy got a box and tried to climb over. He couldn't reach the transom. The robber advised him to get a ladder. So McCarthy got a barrel and put his box on top of it. Thus he managed to reach the transom. The burglar encouraged him. He remarked, "You'll be doing puffin when I reach reach you," puffed McCarthy. Then he tried to wriggle in, as the box bglar had done. The robber was valuable with advice. "Move a little to the left, fatty," he jeered. "Keep on coming, or wait until I get some grease and oil your sides." Thus encouraged, McCarthy came through until he was amidship—and then he stuck, for no human being ever said McCarthy was sylphlike. The robber got busy. He collected nice little missiles (like lumps of coal) and bombarded the wedged-in McCarthy. "Come on; yer doin' fine," he feered. There was a supreme effort, and with a mighty "Oof!" McCarthy wrigled through and, like a ton of bricks, landed upon the little robber. Charles Schwartz, muchly battered, is held on a burglary charge, and McCarthy is going to ask the legislature to pass a law so he can be sent to the electric chair.—Pittsburg Dispatch. --- Unreasonable Woman. Although much has been said and written on the subject, we do not yet realize how desperately lonely a woman can be in a thinly settled farming community. Probably no one can ever realize it except the woman herself. They had taken Seth Hodgkins wife to the state insane asylum. The day after she left him, Soth—who had been a good husband to her from the date of her unwedding anniversary to the date of her silver-wedding, and through all the intervening anniversaries—which there had been no parties to celebrate—received a visit of condolence from his nearest neighbor, two miles away. Seth turned from a snik piled high with dirty dishes, to clear a chair for his guest. "I shall have to hire more help. It seems as if she had been gone a year," he said. "I always supposed that Harriet enjoyed good health," said the sympathizing friend. Harriet Hodgkins' husband looked in dazed and faint inquiry from the sprawly pattern on the bright new oilcloth that she had bought with the carefully saved egg-money to the view from the kitchen window, a wide, snowy field, some tall, funereal evergreen-trees and a patch of darkening sky. The kitchen did not face the road. "I cannot understand," he said, "what asked Harriet. She has hardly been out of this kitchen for fifteen years." "Youth's Companion. Her Personal Plate A young girl who has a great many valuable small belongings and never loses any of them, says that it is solely because of her plan of marking everything distinctly with her full name and town and country address. For her parasols and umbrellas she has a set of small silver plates of oblong shape and with screw equipped ends, which are readily detached from a handle and put upon another one. Her golf sticks, tennis racquets, hand luggage and the valuable colths which are marked in the same manner and in one of her toilet articles she has pinto markings which cannot be obliterated or easily wrenched off. The first cost of these plates was not very great, although all are of solid silver, and they were accumulated so gradually that the money was not missed from her allowance. Adventurous Small Boys. Two small boys who went pigeon hunting the other day caused some excitement in the streets of Palsley, Scotland, before their sporting expedition was over. In their zeal they managed to get on the roof of a house about 30 feet high, but while they were there two policemen spied them and commanded them to descend. The lads became frightened and refused, and eventually they became so scared that neither threat nor nibbles could tempt them to make the perilous descent. Meanwhile great crowds of anxious people assembled, but in spite of all advice the marooned youngsters clung dismally to a chimney stack. Eventually the little boys were rescued from their dangerous position by the fire brigade. Too True. Mrs. Bacon—Did you see that tasking doll that they wind up at the store?" Mr. Brown—Yes. I did. "Acts almost like a human being, doesn't it?" "No, it doesn't. You never heard a woman stop talking because you didn't wild her up." - Yonkers Stateman A SEGREGATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Dr. H. M. Porter of Dayton, O., regrets the Lack of Separate Schools in the North, While the Citizens of the Northern Climes Rejoice in the Fact. In an article to the Record, of Dayton, O., Dr. H. M. Porter, a resident of said city, bitterly regrets the rule of segregation; not being used in the public schools of the north. While Mr. Porter may be sufficiently well educated to merit the degree of Dr. he nevertheless displays an ignorance of the present day needs which is surprising. In answer to the question asked by Mr. Porter as to diminished attendance of our children at the mixed schools, we have this to say: The doctor's inference is, that our children do not care for mixed schools and prefer being taught by their own race. Is by no means the thought to be voiced by the Dr. as it is unfair and untrue. Education is not dependent on race, creed or ANTS ARE SMART GARDENERS They Are Known to Grow Grain, Sowing and Harvesting Like Real Farmers. Man is not the only animal who has discovered the division of the vegetable world into weeds on the one hand and garden plants on the other. Our ingenious little six-legged workers, the ants, have anticipated us in this, as in so many other useful inventions and discoveries. There are ants in Texas which grow grain, and each nest owns a small claim in the vicinity of its mound on which it cultivates a kind of grass, commonly known as anrt rice. The claim is circular, about ten or twelve feet in diameter, and the ants allow no plant but the anrt rice to encroach upon the cleared space anywhere. The produce of the crop they carefully harvest, though authorities are still disagreed upon the final question whether they plant the grain or merely allow it to sow its own seed on the protected area. One thing, however, is certain—that no other plant is permitted to sprout on the tabooed patch. The ants wage war on weeds far more vigorously and effectively than our own agriculturists. SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO EAT School Girls and Boys Need Lessons In Mastication for Their Stomachs' Sake. Nor is it enough that school girls and boys should be taught to cook; they should also learn how to eat. Few learn this at home. They are usually taught to eat silently, and not to take soup off the end of a spoon or to put the knife into the mouth; but the more important art of mastication is ignored. It is a branch of physiology and should be taught by experts in the schools. If it were, the next generation of iters and fathers would know that it is a rime to keep children swallow low food, particularly milk and cereals and vegetables, before it has been kept for a while in the mouth to be mixed with saliva and made digestible. If it were indelibly impressed on school children that gluttony is a vice which defeats its own end, that by eating slowly much more pleasure can be got from one mouthful than by bolting a whole plateful, that this pleasure can be vastly increased by consciously exhaling through the nose while eating, and that those who eat in this way will escape the pargs of indulition—if these truths were imured in the children and worldwide of the minor lilies of mankind would appear in two generations, and most of the major maladies also; for the stomach is the source of most diseases. As Thomas Walker wrote nearly a century ago, "Content the stomach and the stomach will content you." Of Lord Tennyson's Brother The "high-jinks of the high-nosed" (to use another phrase of his) angered him as did all persons who go about it, and those who ill-arranged ideas "—Atheism." the ob- oped from one, and which the illet which sily was of immu- con mume hey, edi- anuse ney the red, red, uid de- nx- ote ng ney ere the ing. the flats, low re- Main Off S. E. Cor. S Telephone— THE BINGA BLOCK 4712-4752 flats, low rents, newly decorated. Main Office— S. E. Cor. State and Sixth Place. Telephone—Douglas 1565. 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 premiers—without cost. JESSE BINGA, Banker. Main Office— S. E. Cor. State and 39th Place. Telephone—Douglas 1565. Branch Office— 4732 8, State St Telephone—Dre --- color but on the capacity for and the conception of learning and as in all other avenues of life the contact of the races not only develops but inspires each to greater intelligence. It is with much regret that Mr. Porter did not give as much forethought to the subject in hand as to the branch of education which gained him his degree. We do not care for a reproduction of southern rule in this northern land of ours. And can sight an instance of recent publication in a Cleveland, O., paper concerning the advance of educational interest in that city among both races. The paper states that the city boasts of nearly twenty Ato-American teach in the public schools. All teach in buildings which tell the thirty teachers of both races. The pride with which said paper speaks of its mixed staff of educators, proves the happy result of not having "Jim Crowism" in the city. And we trust that Dr. H. M. Porter will not be so eager to display his selfish as well as grossly ignorant sentiments, if such come into his mind, to the world. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY Will Present "The Princess," by Tennyson, Feb. 7, 1912, at Oakland 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 Music hall. This organization is composed of students and graduates 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. The public is cordially invited. Wilson's orchestra and two hours of dancing will conclude the program. Admission 50 cents. GREAT Summer Excursion TO THE COAST and the NORTHWEST Here is the trip of your life. A chance to spend your vacation among the ALPS OF AMERICA See for yourself what's in nature. So join White's personally conducted Excursion From Chicago, Ill. JULY 14, 1912 to the Pacific Coast. Stops will be mad- going as follows: Three Days at St. Paul, Minn., to attend the National Negro Educational Congress which convenes July 15, 1912 And in the Canadian National Park, the Traveler in the mountains will be done by daylight. A day趴 down the Puget Sound Pacific Coast State Park (on one of the Canadian Pacific Coast State Parks) and Spending one day each at Seattle and Over the great Minn. Shasta route to San STOP OF 60 HOURS WILL BE MADE Return via Denver and the Grand Rue, passing Eagle River, over the Tentacus River, through the Gorge. Stops will be made Kansas City and St. Louis. For rates and per- C. T. WHITE 1050 Bureanb St. Vancouver, B. C. Mixture of Family Names. This is a good example of what is a common phenomena in the polyglot Balkans: A man named Pavel—that is, Paul—had five sons; one settled in Athens, called himself Pavopoulo, the Greek form of Paulson; the second went to Belgrade and called himself Pavlovich; the third in Sofia called himself Pavloff; the fourth made his home in Bucharest under the name Pavlescu, while the youngest set up in business in Constantinople, assuming the Turkish form of Pavlogu. Greek Military Training The ancient Greeks managed to train not only their troops but the whole nation by offering liberal prizes for proficiency in all kinds of bodily exercise, such as running, leaping, spear throwing and wrestling. At the end of sixty yards their spartenmen could hit a target with unfalling certainty. The Beginning Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.—Heywood. PRINCESS MAY MARRY SOON Emperor's Daughter Reported Engaged to Grand Duke Albert Frederick of Mecklenberg-Strelitz. Berlin.—The betrothal of Princess Victoria Luise, only daughter of Emperor, William, to Grand Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz will soon be announced, according to a report published here. The marshal of the imperial court denies a similar report published last June. The kaiser has always said his daughter should marry the man of her choice. The grand duke is one of the best known of the younger German explorer. PORCESS VICTORIA ers. He distinguished himself in 1908 by helping rescue several of a party he had led to the crater of Brance in German East Africa. All were showered with lava, and some became unconscious. Back to Farm at 72 Vincentown, N. J. - Since John Lippincott heard the lectures on the educational train he has decided to go "back to the farm," although he is past seventy-two years of age. Mr. Lippincott owns about 800 acres of good land in this vienna and for a few years has been living a retired life. Mr. Lippincott is going to take his cont off next spring and go to the work actively and hopes to get back at least some of the money he considers has been lost. Plans "Bean Pole" Building New York: Samuel Green has filed plans for the erection of "the Bean Pole" building, which is to cost $15,000. It will be eighteen stories high, on a tiny lot, which gave rise to its name. The Wendels, who keep a $2,000,000 lot near Fifth avenue and Third street for a playground for a pet dog, filed plans for a $12,000 brick spitte fence to be built alongside a property which is only worth $12,000, according to the tax assessors. Will Teach Police to Wrestle. New York—New York policemen must learn to wrestle. Carrying out Mayor Gaynor's idea that the night stick must not be used except when absolutely necessary, Commissioner Waldo announced that he had engaged Tom Jenkins, the wrestler; to teach members of the force how to grapple with a criminal without calling the billy into play. Jenkins has been physical instructor of West Point and comes to New York with the sanction of the war department. The man who deposited $1,000 in a bank in Cincinnati and then forgot all about it turns out to be an artist. This explains many things, but not how an artist came to have that much money. 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. Dowagle, Mich., Feb. 2—Mrs. Eliza Peak has returned home from Battle Creek for a few days' visit with friends and relatives. Master Clarence Griffin, who has been on the sick list, is able to be out again. Mr. Isaas Gillam has returned home for the winter. Mrs. Thomas Archer is quite indisposed. Mrs. G. W. Carr, who was taken seriously ill with congestion of the lungs at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Storms last Wednesday afternoon, is slowly improving. The two week's revival began at the Second Baptist church Monday evening, conducted by Rev. G. W. H. Hill, pastor. The subjects for the week are as follows: Monday, A True Resvival; Tuesday, Convinced of Sin; Wednesday, True Repentance; Thursday, Moses' Choice; Friday, The hand-writing on the Wall; Sunday, Feb. 4. morning subject, A Call to True Service; evening subject, The Sinfulness, Felly and Danger of Delay. Monday, The Conversion of Youth, the Hope of the World; Tuesday, Preparation to Meet God; Wednesday, A Broken Heart; Thursday, Preparation for Eternity; Friday, The Straight Gait. Mr. F. D. Bryant, who has been a little indisposed for a few days, is able to out again. He being coachman for the past ten years for Mr. A. E. Gardner, last left Monday morning for Detroit to enter the February term of school at the Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Gardner and family are in Florida for the winter. Mr. J. A. Stewart has returned from a week's visit with his brothers, Mr. Berry Stewart and Mr. H. C. Wilson. Mrs. Rose Myers is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Allen. The Misses Katherine Harrison and Aline Lett spent Sunday in Kahamazo. HIS STRATAGEM WAS COSTLY It Was Designed to Break Him of Cigarette Habit, but Only Left Him Poorer. Mac Keeno is described by Mrs. Meyer, our landlord, as being a "studium" and "poor as a church mouse." The first appellation is true—he is a student of engineering; the sinite is rather baffling, but that he is poor fear is true also. Mac Keeno is a philosopher. Many men of little business, I observe, are philosophers. I became acquainted with Mac Keeno when I invited him in one evening to share the warmth from my fire—he having none—and he proved a treasurer of long whiter evenings. I offered him a woman was instantly attracted to the man by his story of the cunning stratagem he employed to break himself of the habit of smoking to excess. Mac Keene had devised sundry and divers tricks to accomplish his end, all without success; the latest maneuver against the enemy consisted in his buying the most expensive cigarettes he could find, with the idea in mind that the wanton and profligate extravagance of smoking them up too rapidly would materially reduce his consumption of the weed; then, if the campaign were successful, he would not increase his expense in the long run. But the more severe control he could reduce his expense even below the present by returning to cheaper brands. Such ingenuity as this was deserving of reward, but alas! it failed from the start, and left Mac Keene a poorer and a no more temperate man—New York Evening Post. BOOK TREASURES OF PAST Immense Sums Invested in the Copying, Illuminating and Binding of Them by Hand. The cost of materials and copying, illuminating and blinding books by hand made them the treasures of rich collectors and the pride of museums, palaces and convent libraries. Immense sums were invested in them, and a rare or unusually original copy became a gem in value, as well as sentiment. Clecero, whose magnificent library was almost as famous as its owner's eloquence, declared that he had seen a parchment roll containing the entire "Hilad" of Homer, which was compressed between the shells of a nut, a work of extreme skill and patience, which a French savant, M. Huet, has since demonstrated was within the range of possibility. Many such tours de force are said to have demonstrated the skill of ancient copyists and their economy parchment and vellum. In the eighth century it was with great difficulty that a monk of the rich Abbey of Saint Gall, France, gathered piece by piece sufficient parchment to begin the transcription of a rare work. Later, in 1120, a monk employed to prepare a copy of the Bible could not find in all. England sufficient parchment for the purpose—National Magazine. DOESN'T FEAR ZERO WEATHER. Girl With Cot and Waterproof Blanket Spends Her Nights in Open Air During All Seasons. Chicago.—For the first time in two years Harrie. Downs, 12 years old, spent the other night in a conventional atmosphere of steam radiators and wall paper. It was not because it was cold. Harrie slept outdoors every night during Chicago's seventy-three-hours' stretch of below-zero weather. The trouble was that she got home a little late from a party and the effort of A Harrie Downs, making her bed outside didn't seem worth while. Harrie is the daughter of E. E. Downs of Evanston, general manager of the #11th and Belvidere Electric Railway company. Two years ago she was bothered with adenoids. A special advised that Harrie sleep outside, winter and summer. Mr. Downs purchased a cot, a waterproof blanket, and a porch screen. He hung the screen on a porch of the Downs apartment, a block from Lake Michigan. "It'll be nice tonight," commented Harrie, surveying the snow-lid floor. "I always like it when it snows. Last night I didn't get any sleep at all. I had both windows open, but the room still seemed hot." Harrie says she intends to continue sleeping outside all her life. CHILD IS BUIED ALIVE Father Admits Brutal Murder in California Court — Wife Is Charged Jointly for Crime. San Francisco, Cal. — Charged with murdering his infant son, John Rech, an Italian, was before the Superior court of California, recently. Rech was a willing witness and told the court that he and his wife had talked about "putting away" their child thousands of times that they might have more money to send to the old folks in Italy. In his statement Rech declared he took the baby back of the barn at his home, where he had dug a hole and, placing the babe in a sitting posture, filled the hole with earth. The death wounds found on the babe's head were inflicted, Rech said, by his shovel when he tumped down the dirt. The proceedings in court were not lengthy. After Rech's statement had been made it was read over to him by the interpreter and he readily signed it. As he affixed his name to the document, which the authorities declare is virtually his death warrant. Rech showed the first sign of emotion since his arrest. Large tears trickled down his checks and he sat silently for a few moments holding his head in his hands. HEN REMAINED AT HER POST Was Sitting on Nest in Separator and Stuck While Machine Threshed Out Field of Wheat. Sloux Falls, S. D.—A threshing machine taken out of a shed for the first time this season was used to thresh out a small field of wheat, near this city. When the job was finished, the machine man discovered a hen sitting on a nest of eggs in a Stuck to Her Nest. corner of the separator. The wind from the fan ruffled her feathers, the whirling of the pulleys had evidently annoyed her somewhat, and there was dust in her mouth, and fright in her eyes. She lay on the burning deck, she snuck to her nest. Of the thirteen eggs in the nest, only one was injured. HAND IN A VISE TWO HOURS Man Keeps, His Mind During Excruciating Ordeal, but Finally Loses the Member. Allentown, Pa.—Amandes S. Miller of Powder Valley was assisting in lowering a 500 pound pipe into an artesian well 230 feet deep on Harry Schreiber's farm, at Old Zilonsville, when the tackling gave way and his left hand was caught in the plumber's vise that was used as a grip. Miller's hand was crushed and held so tight that it took two hours to release him. It was necessary to break the vise before the sufferer could be freed, and it took a long time to get the necessary tools. For a time Miller suffered terribly, and then the vory excess of pain cured almost as an anesthetic and he remained conscious during the whole of the harrowing time it took to release him. Amputation was necessary. AGED COUPLE ARE TORTURED TO DEATH Bodies of Rich Manufacturer and Wife Are Found Terribly Mutilated. FANATIC IS SUSPECTED Victims Came Here From Russia Twenty Years Ago and Amassed Fortune—Murders Took Nothing, and Motive is Mystery. Now, York—Isaac Futtermann, 82 years old, who by his friends was called a Zadig, meaning a righteous or plious man, and his wife, Rachel, who was 72 years old, were found murdered in a little two-room flat on the second floor of the sixstory toment at 101 Norfolk street the other day. The murders, the police say, are among the most brutal ever committed in this city, being more shocking than the "jack the Ripper" series of crimes, a sharp instrument having been driven through the eyes or the old couple into their brains. It is believed they were the victims of a religious fanatic. Twenty years ago Futterman and his wife wished at old Castle Garden. They came from Kief, Russia, to make their fortune, and while the old man never became wealthy, he was able to save enough money as a dealer in poultry to retire 'with a small competency. After that he spent most of his time in the synagogue, Beth Hameerash Igolod, near his home. When at home, neighbors said, the old man would always be found in the synagogue. The Futtermans left two children, one of them Aaron Futterman. It was a result of his visit to his aged parents that the police learned that the murders had been committed. The other child is Etta, a young woman, who left her parents severa FAT The Body of the Old Man Was on a Couch. The Body of the Old Man Was on a Couch. years ago, and who, the police say, has since lived alone. It is certain that robbery was not the motive of the crime. Nothing in either of the rooms occupied by the aged couple was disturbed. It was evidently a carefully planned and carefully executed crime. The windows of the apartment were bolted and the door was securely locked. Aaron Putterman, the son, went to the apartment occupied by his parents, and rapped on the door repeatedly. Getting no answer, he became alarmed and went out and found a policeman. "I believe something is wrong in my father's apartment," said Putterman, "and I want you to come with me while I force an entrance." Joined by another policeman, the three climbed the fire escape ladders and entered through a window. In the bedroom they discovered the bodies. The body of the old man was on the couch. One of the eyes was gouged out, and the clinched hands indicated that the old man tried to protect himself. The body of the woman was on the bed, and was covered with a mattress, and on top of the mattress the bed clothes were spread to hide the body. As the case with the husband, one of the woman's eyes had been gouged out by the sharp instrument used in killing her. The body of the man was partly dressed, and that of the woman fully. The bodies of both were bruised in various places and in detail. That of the old man was mutilated. The nature of the mutilation led the police to believe that it had been begun while the Fullermans were alive, and that death had actually been caused by blows over the head, which fractured both skulls. Landlord Ours Bare-Legged Duncans. Paris. The Paris crusade against scant attire has struck the Duncans, and Raymond Duncan, brother of Isadore, the dancer, and his wife face eviction from their apartment, which the court has ordered. Raymond Duncan is a Californian. His wife is a beautiful Greek girl whom he married in Athens six years ago. The "reign of prudery" began at Nice, where Regina. Asad, the beautiful. Paris dauseuse, appearing in a piece by Pierre Louys, is being prosecuted for abuse of children. With nothing to bad, and with the cold so intense that a man died on the Rue de Rivoll, Duncan and his companions continue to wear what would be considered highly appropriate for a seashore bathing resort in July. The Duncan coteries go battles; their arms are bare and so are their legs, and the remainder of their bodies are clothed only in a tundra. Strip Bowling Alley Patrons of Clothes in Washroom After Taking Valuables. Chicago.—The last word in ingenuous robbery is to rob and disrobe the victim in a washroom and then leave him shivering in his Adam-like garb, trusting to his natural modesty to prevent him from breaking forth in hot pursuit. This was tried so successfully a few nights ago that two men—one a detective and the possessor of two revolvers—shivered and shrank up against a wall of a little washroom in Bensinger's bowling alley, within a few feet of a crowd of merry bowlers, while two men who had robbed them sauntered away with their belongings. There was one feature of the affair that made it possible for the robbers Left Them in Adam's Garb. to escape. It was ladies' night at the bowling alley. The two victims of the robbers peeped from their uncomfortable quarters at the crowd of women at the other end of the alley, then at their own forms in the mirror. That was enough. They decided they didn't care about catching the two men who had taken their valuables if it was necessary to face such an audience in costumes that consisted almost entirely of worried looks. Thomas Fay of 4530 Clifton avenue and James Devury, a Pinkerton detective were the victims. Two grogs entered the washroom just as Fay was removing from his face the perspiration acquired in an exciting game. A revolver was thrust to his head and he was compelled to give up a watch and the contents of his pockets—$2. Then, to guarantee a safe departure, the robbers removed Fay's clothes, also at the point of a revolver. Just then Devury entered and saw Fay, apparently preparing for a cold dry bath. The smile froze on his lips, however, as a revolver was pushed against his own breast. His pockets were emptied. The robbers got an armful and $27 for their trouble this time. Devury also was forced to strip. Then the hold-up men sauntered away. The two victims shivered and shouted until a pin boy finally came to their relief, but the hold-up men had bad time to get miles away. BULLETS MERELY GOAD BULL Fusillade From Rifles Falls to Kill Animal Purchased by Butchers and Heavier Arms Used. Muncie, Ind.—A bull that apparently cares no more for bullets than it does for bee stings and that fairly eats the leaden pellets when they are fired into it for the purpose of converting it into beef, is the worry of a local firm of butchers. The animal, which is savage, is owned by J. M. Hartley, six miles north of here, and Hartley sold it to the butchers. For several days the bull has successfully resisted the efforts of eight men to kill it, and still struts about its enclosure, king of the pasture, although its head is full of bullets. The first attempt to kill the animal was made recently when three employees of the butchering establish Bullets Merely Goaded Him. ment, all heavily armed with rifles, went to the Hartley farm and began a bombardment. After they had fired a number of shots into the animal's head with no effect, except to make it angry and paw the earth, the butchers became discouraged and came back to town for reinforcements. The following day; two other butchers, armed with larger bore rifles, went to the farm and fired a dozen bullets into the bull. These seemed to annoy the animal somewhat, for it bellowed and ran to the rail fence where the "hunters" were sitting, causing them to make a hasty getaway. An express rifle will be used on the animal as soon as one can be obtained. The lesden diet has not interfered with the bull's appetite. EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Prof. Garfield Wilson Manager GOOD MUSIC Beginners Given Individual Atten- tion 500 COMPLETE DUNBAR BOOKS The Defender has been successful in securing 600 complete works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, complete in the truest sense of the word. All of his poems and stories. To be given away. Good Christmas present. The Chicago Defender for one year and one Dunbar book for §2. Don't delay, as our last lot was soon sold out. A PORO Hair Grower 50s a Box, 18s extra out of city Treatment $1.50 4420 Dearborn St. Chicago Phone Oakland 2489 Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. CHICAGO Free List Suspended THE DEFENDER begs to an- nounce the sus- pension of the free list for all notices that come under the head of advertisement. All subscriptions for papers must be paid for in advance. Game Easy to Play. I know of no easier or more delightful occupation than that of managing other people's business at long distance and without responsibility for the result.—Exchange. "How do you know that man is a parlor fisherman?" No man can find time to do any real fishing and at the same time learn the names of so large a collection of trout files." A. Short Order Rogers' R Orders A gers' Restura Caterers to the Elite Select Meats. All Meals 25c. Taill A la Carte Lunch, Breakfast. 7 a. 21 E. 33rd Street. Near L St. Open from 7 a. "House of Establishment We Have the Most Chicago—Most of the as our par A good funeral appeal fitting memorial of r I furnish a complete fun- tion, for $65.00, or also have the finest goods are manufactured for the to an eternal bronze hundreds. I am in no way connected with the am not interested in the organized vicious persons and firms engaged in the burial of in Chicago and the manner and way my b for building up for co-operation between advertising that I alone do right but happ smallest pay of any place in America to statement at any time. EMANUEL DAN'L M. JACKSON ERNEST H. WILLIAM Only Place of Business 2959 and 2961 Phone 727 Douglas— NOW OPEN FOR WRIGHT & TAILOR 3142 STATE Pressing and Repairing. Work called for Table D'Hôtel Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 breakfast, 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Near L Station open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Use of Quail Established 1865 the Most Select Most of the best as our patrons. Coral appeals to the portal of respect to complete funeral— 5.00, or money r nest goods and fun red for the undertak bronze casket connected with the Casket and the organized vicious attempt to in the burial of my business is con- operation between honest bus doing but happy to say that face in America today. I start JUEL JACK JACKSON, Expert H. WILLIAMSON, A Place of Business in Ch and 2961 State 7 Douglas—Automatic OPEN FOR B RIGHT & BL TAILORS 42 STATE STREET Work called for and deliver All Meals 25c. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. Ala Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Breakfast, 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. "House of Quality" Established 1865 We Have the Most Select Trade in Chicago—Most of the best families as our patrons. A good funeral appeals to the living as a fitting memorial of respect to the dead I furnish a complete funeral—one of satisfaction, for $65.00, or money refunded. We also have the finest goods and furnishings that are manufactured for the undertaking business, to an eternal bronze casket costing many hundreds. I am in no way connected with the Casket and Undertaking Trust and I am not interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and vilify other persons and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My many years in business in Chicago and the manner and way my business is conducted proves that I am for building up for co-operation between honest business and the public, not advertising that I alone do right, but happy to say that we give the best for the smallest pay of any place in America today. I stand ready to prove this statement at any time. DAN'L M. JACKSON, Expert Embalmer ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago 2959 and 2961 State Street Phone 727 Douglas-Automatic 71-629 ```markdown ``` Our Willow Plume SPECIAL RATES TO MILLER 3115 Prairie Ave. MURRAY - ANDERSON REAL ESTATE Insurance in All RENTAL SALARY AND PERSONAL Southeast, Corner S Phones Aldine 3592 Auto. 75811 TO MILLINERS AND P. P. ANDERSON • REAL ESTATE BROKEN ANCE in All Its Bran RENTING AND PERSONAL PROPERTY st Corner State and MURRAY - ANDERSON - TERRELL REAL ESTATE BROKERS Insurance in All Its Branches RENTING SALARY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY LOANS Southeast, Corner State and 31st St. Phones Aldno 3592 Auto. 72811 Chicago, Ill. a pupilo one of America's most eminent vocal teachers will take a limited number of pupils in voice beginning October 1. Call or write today. STUDIO 514 E. 33rd St. Telephone Aldine 54. Madam Minnie Adams SOPRANO Will accept pupils wishing a thorough know of vocal and dramatic art. Call mornings at 3752 Rhodes Ave., 3rd Flat. Phone Dougl Quality ed 1865 Select Trade in the best families electrons. Is to the living as a respect to the dead. General—one of satisfactory money refunded. Wants and furnishings to undertake business in casket costing ma- Casket and Undertaking Trust attempt to slander and vilify your dead. My many years in business is conducted proves that a honest business and the public may say that we give the best for today. I stand ready to prove. JACKSON Expert Embalmer AMSON, Assistant Business in Chicago State Street Automatic 71-629 R BUSINESS A BLACK ORS STREET and delivered. Phone Add: G. W. Lambert Free. B. J. U. Sec. Willow and French Plumes and all Styles of Feat Cleaning, Curling, Ble ing and Dyeing All Kinds of Feat for Sale... NERS AND THE TRA Phone Aldine 1926 SON - TERRED BROKERS Its Branches NG i . , \ who “ : : te } De So EOD Sg Ate cP pscae wa : F to. * ‘i : 7 Poa as hee F tie . aot = pe oy eles! ©. Sa. ' ToING.AN EVIL (S#00TS WIS WiFE Vy THE’ RAM 7 ; a =a ——— ———S====_ Y ! z “Pome TIPPING. -AN EVIL SHOOTS HIS WIFE IN THE RAIL- FINE DRAMA SS) >>> HOTEL NEWS THE the I, ; : opened ta. ne AND WRITES STORY very fine * forth Pir TIPPING-A MENACE : ROAD CENTER| st *cr~0xe ar etunnvice Under Se, | Ce — movieweo By. eoiTone |S Alt Uptodate Hotel Nowa and wows] Ser! te mate fo make ete TIPPING-COMBAT {IT} New Jersey man Fires on Spouse By J. R. Winston. —— : wa . of Bell Hops. the very Intent {dean will be asus 2 “4 ” i Opening With Greater Barnstormera’| at on in order to surpass the present . ">. ‘and Then “Covers” Tragedy’ | a ‘@ dpeticels 2600 Avnices | “Manmsrates the Lier looleced Prot CULTS) 5. coat Aen cies 18 the city, The proprietor Is 5 The Time-Worn Custom of Ex- for Newspapers. avenue, is inthe service of the Pull-| " Svengall, "East Lynne,” "ee . P. Cook, a popular young head-|a fine man and should bo highly ing Gratitude for Satisfied a man Co. to Minneapolis, Minn, over e James” and Other : waiter from Louisville, Ky., who for] praised for his - broadmindedness. : ..« pressing Gratitude for Satisfied | jew york—andrew McConell, | the Chicago Great Western Railroad asa eres —————————— | some years had charge of one of the | Watch this column for further infor Service’ Assailed — Railroads| tosnaer of the cult of human tee, | Comers tac . ndea;"| TINE to GO through the Pietd | leading hotels In French Lick Springs, | mation. : and Hotels Endeavor to Stop] tricity as a universal cure, who shat | Mr. B. Rucker, 5219 Dearborn street, | gaig tho Winesay Canney Weekly Via, | MUSCUID- las become a sort of mania | Ind., reports an excellent business this] I. J. Ball, one of Chicago's most. | Men and Women from Reward-| nig wife, Marion D. McConell, in her} is in the Pullman service to Omaha, Soaione a a te ee suseseaful in) With McGinnis. ‘It 1s at once a recre- | Season and says if the several bills} strictly up-to-date hotel men, bas Mey ing Faithful Services—No Law| room at ‘Ocean Grove, N. J., the other | Neb, over the ChicagoGreat Western | Qo erro year mimesis: peck trom | SOU, & dissipation, a ure and a dls | that have been sent to the legislature] charge of one of the leading hotels Needed—When Happy and| day, was arrested an ho was writing | faltroad Co. lines. the Retioy at Puumbrile, bedh, FOG | appeinemati, are killed, business at the springs |ih Fort Wayne, Ind., for soveral Contented You Give Your|a story of the shooting in the office | Afr. 0. $, Woodward, 2428 Dearbora | view Yoara ago tt dawned upon him that | will be overflowing next winter. Mr.{ months and ims more than made Taney te whom You Please | of local newapaper, street, is In Pullman service to Minne-|""“Eaniy in October the season was | Eo wevud aitrecit ana tre enay ae | south to eter ca COYs om thelr way good. Dick is one f the Palmer eee ce pooled Because of the rambling story he | apolls, Minn, over the ©. G. W. Ry. | yaiosti” it ,Cetcver, the season wae | ho owed himself and bis elty. So, {south to stop over and see bin, House products and any time they groe . ibd Gains ot tha chnoting Sea wint (Oe tka ushered in with the Greater Bart | condescendingly one day while out tor| It is with great pleasure we learn| come out of there you can bet they, —- prompted him to attempt the life of | Mr. Sdward Rundle, 52 West asin Stormers’ Minstrels, with 16 perform: |g walk ho sald to himself that he | John Harred, one of Detroit's old fa-| are Mnished. Mac Dick sends best re "* GROW, GRAY IN SERVICE] fis wire, tom whom no nad apvarent:| street, isin Pullman service to Des | 72/2 Bish top slfekems and beautiful | might ay well drop in, Ho sald it in | vorlte headwalters, has taken charge | garde to all the boye. ‘ BUT NEVER _ DIE | ty teen divorced, it Is sald that Me-| Moines, Ta, over the Chicago Great | PNK @usters, who Played the molt | the generous fashion that an amateur }of the Hotel Griswold in Detroit, —————_ WEALTHY—SALARIES —_| Conall is demented . | Western Ry. Co, lines. toute yards at the evening perform | C278 he {willing to pay three doliars | Mich. | Mr. Harred Dears an excellent Beyond Hie Ken, TOO SMALL. “1 was forced to shoot the woman} Mr. Thomas Maxwell le jn the Pull} pus? 2art At the evening perform: | for that piece of battered old junk be- | reputation and has been one of that| ,, . Sevond His Ken, “Strainers” Are Responsible for the Hue and Cry About Tipping—Those Possessed With the Real Goods Never Compiain—Only Imitators Protest When Pocketbook Is Hit— Classes Against the Masses—Your Two Dollar Purse Doesn't Look Good in Comparison With Your Million Dollar Mind. No legislation, no agitation and nothing. else to be ex- pressed In our knowledge of the Buglish langue can prevent a satisfied customer from going down into his or her pocket and rewarding a faithful servant. “The Tipping Evi,” “To Combat Tipping” and “Tipping x Menace” are some of the terms under which the hig dally mowspapers have been dls- “cussing the so-eilled Upping habit lor a year or more. Bvery newspaper that has given prominence to such stories hus been careful to generalize and not to meu: tion color or position. “ips,” as a rule, is the thought when the porter in the store or office or “on the rail," or waiter im hotel or dining ea or bellboy when this elass of employes Is to be considered, Many years ago after a trip or two across the “big pond” money-proud ‘Amerjea decreed that the employes of ‘oloy must go—eonsequently from the carriagebox disappeared the ebony- hued driver, from the stops faded away those skillful artists commonly called barbers, and from restaurant and hotel were missed your ever at- tentive waiter, In those happy days when the true vlue bloods," the aristocracy of the Caucasian race, held sway the delight of the gentile ‘and the thoroughbred was at once to show bis or her ap: twreefation to the servant in question hy a now so-called tip. The size of the tip was only measured by the abundance remaining after the bill was paid, In tho few hotels and restaurants , that still employed Negro help atter “those wonderful trips abroad” there was never mo question about tips, until what { known as “The Strain: ers” put in appearance, Ry “The Strainers" we mean those salaried employes (white) who at- tempt to imitate their prosperous em- wloyers and indulge in maids, cooks, automobiles and other luxuries. Those understrappers with “million dollar minds” and “two dollar pocketbooks," who grow gray-headed in Aguring the number of chops to a pouad or Low to put “Ella” off for her hard earned weekly pay. The pay envelop at the end of the month, or sem-monthly, don't look like boxes at the theaters, diamonds and sealskins, and as a re- sult we have the “tipping evil.” ‘This story is not a long one. Nel. ther, do we g0 around the block and ‘conié in at the back door. ‘The dining car waiters, the porters (and it Is alt Pullman’ now), the hotel waiters, the bellboys and’ the scattering few in grill or eafe are all underpaid and the public knows it, Only “The Strainer” makes a ery about Upping. ‘The hat room trust in the big down- town hotels included no Negroes and no organized effort to get a tip will ever have his sanction, History repeats itself, it is sald, and the Negro porters, bellboy or walter need not fear. No legislation, no agitytlon and nothing else to de ex. preted in our knowledge of the Eng- lish language can prevent « satisfied customer from going down into his or her pocket and rewarding a faithtur servant. : “Many patrous complain,” sald a writer in last Sunday's papers—but they wero only “Strainers.” We men- tion porters, waiters and bell-boys, but there are many other lines that come under the “tipping” head, Elevator ten, messengers, maids and many others are careful in service and de- portment, having in view the occa sional dollar or two outside of thelr regular salary. Many have grown old fa the service of railroad or hotel but mone have died wealthy. So away with this “tipping evil.” In- ‘drease your porter's or waiter’s sat- ary. Give him a fair chance. The high cost of living troubles him as much as it does you. ‘Tip them it you want to but if you don’t to you are a “strainer."” ‘Bacon's Rule for Study. * Lord Bacon laid down the rule that fn our studles wo should select those things that please us most, because we then develop our talents, and all the ‘things that displease us most, because then wo discipline the mind. He in- sisted, furthermore, “that the latter studies aro thd ‘mgre important of the two. It would be well to have these old truths recalled, revived and re- taught, They should be put back not ony into our public schools but into “fur national life. .To|the Newspapers! Hall to the newspaper, comforter of ‘lonely heartl which wander, bindgt of 2ome, tles, Yolce of the nation, freht- ‘ot .aymifethy “for the berqved, “ator ip Joys of the living; Moin- “‘aoplp of @ land, yet brifiing aunfort -t9.,those off the Grete ce. - AND WRITES STORY | aay , | New Jersey Man Fires on Spouse and Then “Covers” Tragedy for Newspapers. New York—Andrew MeConeli, founder of the cult of human elee- tricity as a unlversal cure, who shot hig wife, Marion D. MeConell, in her ‘room at Ocean Grove, N. J. the other day, was arrested an he was writing a story of the shooting in the office of a local newspaper, |. Because of the rambling story be had written of the shooting and what Prompted him to attempt the life of “his wife, trom whom he had apparent: Jy been divorced, it Is sald that Me- Conall ts demented . | “I was forced to shoot the woman who was my wife,” read the piece of copy he had In the typewrlter when arrested. “"Ansolute divorce was ob- ‘talaga Wastapeing: Not‘oms work can en OED Cite fC \ j al RNY fe fe Del Gr I 2 ae i A, ie ( hy NN. ae S) ‘a Prone sald about the divorce during the nlgut { shot her. She has tried to vile Uty no Innocent woman.” When tho prisoner was having his pedigree taken in the station house ho sald: “L shot my wife because she was al- ways maldng me belleve I was Iu sane. She villifies me to different peo- ple and has run my character down, {don't want to go back to New Jer. Sey, for they will put me back as they aid before.” “Low dld you come to shoot your wife?” he war asked. “Oh, I hire. ax automobile at Avon, went to a house, saw my wife sitting on a chalr and shot her," he non- chalantly. answered, According to Dr. W. C. Van Valen of this city, McConell fs a dangerous paranolac, ‘The woman may recover. ‘The bul let struck her at the base of the brain, but emerged after circling under the alin for two Inches. MINISTER KNOCKS DOWN TWO Stalwart Parson Tackles Two Rowe dles, Puts Them Out, and Sits ‘on Both Men. New York.—Broad-shouldered, six feet all and powerful looking. in spite of hls tron gray hair and. 68. vents, the Rev. b. W. Beattie, D. D., an Bast Side settlement worker, appeared In tho Fiatbueh court before Magistrate Hylan the other day to press charge of disorderly conduct against two men whom he had Inocked down and sat upon in the Newkirk station of the r ) Cee) Gg Lh $e i, ‘ ) d 4 q Sj ru - mh Ky i Pp: He Knocked Them Down. Brighton Beach L, atter they had as- vaulted a woman, He was too late, however, for the men, William H. Dougherty and hie soninJaw, William J. Cullinan, reel dents of Brooklyn, had been dismissed by the magistrate a few minutes be- fore. A simple charge of intoxication had beon preferred against them in the absence of other complaint. But the story of their actions as told by the minister mado Magistrate Hylan change hls opinion and he ordered their rearrest. | Denles He ts Dead. New York—Joseph Blaney offered Aeclded objection here to paying $63 to prove that he was allve. Blaney, who was about toybe declared “officially @oad" becauso nothing had been heard ofthim here for 18 years, turned up at the surrogate office and put In a claim for a share of his fathors estate. ‘When he found that he would have to pay $63 to keep himself o% the “dead lat,” however, he demurred, an explan- ation that the expense was for adver tining for him in various places falling to satisfy him. Blaney sald he would consult counsel to find out why. this Payment was necesaary to’ bring him eelf officially to life again. IN THE RAIL- ROAD CENTER Mr. R. ©. Spottock, 2952 Armour avenue, is in the service of the Pull man Co,, to Minneapolis, Sinn, over the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company tines. ‘Mr. E. Rucker, 6219 Dearborn steeet, is In the Pullman service to Oma, Neb, over the ChicagoGreat Western Raitvoad Co, tines. Mr. 0. 8, Woodward, 2488 Dearborn street, is In Pullman service to Minne apolls, Minn, over the C. G. W. Ry. Co, tines. Mr. Edward Rundle, 52 West 36th street, {8 in Pullman service to. Des Moines, a., over the Chicago Great Western Ry. Co. lines. Mr. Themas Maxivell fs in the Pull man service to the city of Evansville, Ind, over the ChicagoEastera illaois Ry. Co, lines. Tk will pay” some good colored fam ities to lake up thelr residence i [Oeiwein, Ta population of 7,000 and only four colored familles there, Mr. Alfred Dobbins, 2501 Wabash avenue, niow has the honor of Veins the nrst extra train porter in the pas senger service of the Chicago Grea Western Railroad Company. Mr. J. Bates, 242 West 60th strect New York City, Is holding « position as 2nd. chef,” under Boston Vat Winkle, between New York ane Erie. Rattroad Company. Messrs, Tien Pettis, “W. McCloud James Higgins, Chas, Hobbs are i the. service ‘of the ‘illinois Centra Raiiviay Co, on the Panama Limite tuains to New Orleans, Ta, im charge |of a bulfet smoker. Mr. Arthur Martin, 3050 Stat street, town ag (sis) is Tunning tc the Cost, in the Pullman serviee, Mr. Ed, ‘Shelton, 9736. Dearvor street, is in the service of the C. G [ive Its. Cor on the Soutnwestorw vision as dining ear walter. Mr. R. J, Solomon, 1724. Sheridar street, St, Paul, atinm, fe in the ser vice of the Paliman” Company be tween St. Paul and Chicago over the Ciena. (Great. Western, Ie. WHERE RELIGION IS OPEN Ite Observance in Publio 1s Common Among Eastern Christians, as ‘Among Mohammedans, ‘The Bishop of London has been praising the opermess with which Mo hammedans practice their religion, He would like to have mats In tho athe: naeum for bishops to kneel on to say thelr prayers fa public. Eastern Chris. tlans, as the bishop must lave ob: served when in Russia, ere quite ae open jn rellslous observances as Mo- hammedans. Nobody thinks tt ecoer- trle for a man to kneel down in 2 crowded street in order to say his prayers before some {con. Passengers cross themselves when thelr train or tram starts. No man ever passes through the Gate of the Savior, lead: ing Into the Kremlin at Moscow, without uncovering. In Poland the common greeting of the country people ono meets on the lonely roads across the snd yiaing ts “May Jesus Christ be pratsed,” and {t fs the cus tom to reply, “For ever and ever.” In ‘Vilma people are to be seen kneeling fn the street before the Ostrabrameka gateway to pray beforo the picture ot the Virgin and child, seen through yindow high In the gate. This shrine la a Catholle one, but even the ortho: dox bare their heads to walk up the narrow and crowded street leading to it ob Piette Cis ieekce Baca, Sor many centuries the incense plant bad been fn Christian churches before ft really became fdentified botanteally. Sir George Birdwell, a distinguished English botanist, and for many years special technical’ adviser to the India office, 1s given credit for the Identity of the plant. Acting on his suggestion mea were sent out into South Arabia and the Somall country, returning with specimens of what Sir George had been seeking. More to Be Remembered. ‘The man of now has much more excuse for making mistakes than did Jullus Caesar or Alexander the Great. Tho world is bigger and there is more in {t. There is more to be remem. dered. ‘There aro machines now in everyday use that would have given the Conqueror of Gaul a headache to have even looked at, There {s enough complexity in a single business day to drive Alexander into a brainstorm, Innentous Old Sea Clock, | The most popular form of old ees ‘clock was the sandglass, which great ly ‘resembled the present day egg doller. Many of these glasses were timed to run 24 hours, and prior to the ship leaving land the glass was set ex actly at noon. If it was carefully ‘watched and turned as soon as the sand ran down the skipper could Teckon the days with fair accuracy. How Virginia Town Got its Name, Front Royal 1s the namo of a town in Warren county, Va. At firet it bore the title “Royal Oak," because of an immense tree upon ite com- mons, One day the colonel of militia Decame confused while drilling his troops and gave his regiment the Queer command, “Front the Royall” Such fs the orlgin of the modern name given in a bulletin of the eological survey. ‘ton than ‘ina’ Ghani Bhe—TI didn’t go to work Friday, He—Any excuse? She—Why, I had no clothes to wear. He—Your ‘boss must be pretty fus sy if he'd object to that, © Just a Mere Trifle. AB. Router of Watertown, N, Yy was petting). prize white Leghorn hen at tho ‘Allentown (Pa) poultry ahow, when alle began pooking at his shirt'ffont. Ina few minutes eho had loosened and swallowed his valuable diamond. He ‘declined to allow the owner, to kill her, saying he had lots @f Gtemonds ‘et home: riirc NDARA CLACHN FINE DRAMA SEASON ATTRACTIONS AT PLUNKVILLE REVIEWED BY. EDITOR, Opening With Greater Barnstormera’ Minatrele, the List Included Prot. Svengali, “East Lynne,” “ee eae at BARGFE: “The dramatic season just ended," said tho Winesap County Weekly Vin- dicator, “was the most successful in the history of Plunkville, both from an artistic and a fluancial point of view. “Early In October the season was ushered in with the Greater Barn- stormers’ Minstrels, with 16 perform- ers in high top slickems and beautiful pink dusters, who played the most ravishing circus marches tn the court- house yard. At the evening perform- ance many of the latest melodies were rendered, including ‘After the ~ Bali,’ ‘Hot Time Tonight,’ and ‘Love Muh and the World Is Mine;’ also many first-class jokes which ‘have never been scen In the almanacs in this sec- tion, Our versatile and talented bar- ber, band leader, baseball pitcher, or- chestra conductor, and society favor- Ite, Mr. Nick Duggins, secured an en- gagement with the milnstrels to play second baritone ‘and double up in the eveniug as ‘Mr. Rastus Jobnsing Brown. “In November a hypnotist and en: tertainer called ‘Prof. X. Svengall,; oc cupied the boards at the opera house. Professor Svengali put Sam ‘Tucker, the Unner, into a trance, and made bim stand’ on his head in the corner and sing the ‘Doxology.’ After the per formance Sam missed a five-dollar bill, but he allowed the fun was worth (he money. “In December we witnessed that soulful and lachrymose drama, ‘East Lynne,’ put on with great eclat and a whole lot of terrific success. Deacon Shucks, who hasn't cried since his wife ran away with the leader of the Bass Center chotr, broke {nto profuse tears; and as the large concourse of Plunkvilliang shuMled down the steps that lead from over S. Quigley's well known commission, confectionery and farm tmplements emporlum, there was not a dry eye on the stairs. “About the middle of January the Plunkville ‘Thespian and ‘Terpsicho- rean Troupe rendered ‘Kate, the Con: Viet’s daughter,’ for the benefit of the South Sea end hunters. Miss Sadic Sebree, our talented miflliner, who took the immortal role of Kate Kipper made a pronounced bit und admits that, when it comes to finished trap: door and red-light situations, she has Mme. Bernhardt backed off the boards “The spring attractions included “Ten Nights in a Barroom,’ ‘Jesse James,’ a Shakespearean elocutionist Who put everybody to sleep faster than Parson Buckner does, and a mar without arms who played the bass vio with his toes. “For the next season Manager Tobe Seruggles will maintain the same higk standard. He has already engaged ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ a fiddling quar tet, a moving-picture show, @ patent medicine entertaimaent and an oss! fied man. During the summer man} notable improvements will be made A new tin cornice will be erected anc the Interior will be repainted In. ex quisite Unts of flamingo red, pari green, Helen pink and chrome yellow with many striking fresco decoration representing Venus, General Grant Cleopatra, the Muses and Little Bo peep. For next season the same com potent staff will serve the public Capt. Artemus Jefferson, the eaddler will continue to preside at the box of fice in return for the privilege of see ing the shows free. Nathan Thomas the grocer, will light up and make fires and ‘Piggy’ Partington, the wid ow’s son, will act as usher and carry the red banner with the golden letter: in the parades for the same splendk privileges. Got a Card Sharp's “Goat.” A Trans-Atlantlc card sharp, re turned recently from one of | hie numerous ocean ferry trips, lamented that he did not have a chance to do business on the liner because he fell in with a judge before wbom he had been arraigned for crooked deal: ing, He sald he bad sat down with a party in the smoking room on the sécond day out and had scanned faces to make sure that not a professional was in the lot. The man opposite him was peering at him intently when he glanced across the mahogany. He recognized the Judge and apparently the Judge recognized him, but neither mentioned the elrcumstance. ‘The card sbarp got nervous, He was afraid to win, elther legitimately or otherwise. He also feared that if he left the table the fudge would give him away. So he struggled through the game a loser. He went to the Judge the next morning and told him ‘that he bad decided not to play any more on the trip, and the Judge re- marked that tt was a wise resolution. ‘ew lake wa Old Race, Fanning Island, in the mid-Pacific ‘ocean, which was recently purchased by a British Canadian syndicate for use as ® coaling station, 1s the scene of remarkable discoveries, the news of which was brought by thé steam: sbip Makura, whfch arrived at Van- couver, B. C., on Dec. 13. Archaeo- logical’ explorations have brought to vlew indications that the Island wae tohabited at some long-ago perlod by a race with pecullar skill In architec: ture, Excavations there have un- earthed a large stone bullding, 60 feet wide and 200 feet long, in the con- struction of which no ‘mortar was used, the stones. used having been skillfully mortised together. Near by this strange structure was found a tomb containing a human skeleton with a necklace made of the teeth of the sperm whale, and of oth- er articles, including the skull of dog. ‘An Old-Fashioned Woman, Why did you get @ divorce from your husband?" “Well, I didn'yhave the heart to feed him cyanide, a{though I noticed ae food many ladies are golng in for that now.""—Courler Journal. : Under . - Difficulties museum has become a sort of mania with Mctinnis. It 18 at once a recre- ation, a disstpation, a lure and a dis- appointment, Yoars ago tt dawned upon him that golng through the museum was & duty he owed bimself and bis city. So, condescendingty one day while out for 8 Walk he sald to himself that he might as well drop in, He safd tt in the generous fashion that an amateur says he {6 willing to pay three dollars for that piece of battered old junk be- fore he finds out tt is a San Domingo mahogany highboy worth $300, McGinnis had also something of the feeling of the amateur when he found sign up saying that tho museum was closed for repairs. He walked away with his resyect for the institution in- creased as one’s respect always in- creases for the unattainable. If he could have walked right in he prob- ably never would have thought any- ‘thing more about it. but his curlosity was now aroused. Right at hand was & wonderful collection of instructive ‘things and be was puzzled to know why people persisted in talking about ‘stocks and ocean trips and the cost of beefsteak and dairy products in- stead of holding up thelr hands and exclatming over the marvels ac thelr gates. When uls cousin Jonn came to town McGinnis clapned tim on the shou!- der/"And now,” he satd, “we'll go and seo the Field museum!" Gousin Joun was glad to go. Hoth of them, however, became so interest: ‘ed In the cases ct’ Pompetan relles and Roman bronze as one goex in that it was closing Ume before they knew St and they got no farther than the Dig entry. ttself. “Those bathtubs certainly were ‘great! Cousin Jobn said that - night “To think that those old boys really took baths the same us we do!” MeGinuis’ brother-in-law was better educated, so when some months later MeGiunis started out to the museum with hin jn tow McGinnis felt be was going to have a treat, Having seen the first cases before, McGinnis. took great pride in pointing out to bis rel- ative the old frying pans’ and vases and pltebers sncrusted with lava, “Over here." ne sald, “are a couple of bathtubs, foo, that they dug up on & Pompetan estate—" “Sorry,” said the attendant, bours later, tapping McGinnis on the shout der, “but {t's closing time.” wit does beat all,” MeGinnts said as they started reluctantly homeward, “how much time one can waste just at the very start! Didn't you see some stuffed elephants or something farther back? We'll have to try again some day!” ‘The brother-in-law, however, bad to leave unexpectedly and McGinnis started out alone. Bipps met him on the way and sald he'd like to go, too. ‘McGinnis tald a straight course In the Airection of the huge elephants a mile or so farther back, but Bipps collared him. “Look at those old Roman things!” ho cried enthusiastically. “Fancy thetr being actually used thousands of years ago!” “There's some elephants back there,” McGinnis protested. “I'm told the collection of stuffed wild animals has no equal in the worid—" “Jiminy!” chortled Bipps. “Look at the bronze tables and things! And if here wren’t a couple of bathtubs! Say, those are bigger'n ours today—a fel low cotild take a regular swim—" “And cases of butterflies from India and Africa and China," pursued the anxious McGinnis. “Like enamels in their color.” : “They must have had oodles of wa- ter in those days,” sald Bipps. “Say, how'd you Itke a bath—" “And Egyptian tiles and tnseriptious and birds from the moon, | guess, and—" “Those bathtubs certainly get me,” insisted Bipps dreamlly, “Look at the fect of the atmosphere on them! ‘To think that maybo Nero took a bath fo" “Sorry,” sald an attendant whtle they Were still looking at the bath: tubs, “but It's closing time!” ‘McGinnis stamped out, followed by Bipps still talking about the tubs. “There's a cuttletish back there somewhere,” McGinnis growled, ac. | cusingly. “Tweester saw it, co 1 know it's there. It hes a tail like an ‘aeroplane propeller and two rudders ‘that extend back for yards! Yards, Tm telling you! And a relief map of ‘the moon that—" “They never could have got those ‘bathtubs into one of our dinky mod- ern flats,” was Bipps’ triumphant com. ment. MeGlonts went absolutely alone the next thine. He resolved to cut hia dearest friend if he interfered. He made a straight dash from the en §rance past the Roman relics that be could seo nights In his sleep and tore madly for the treasures beyond, Just as he sighted the African war lophants and caught a giimpzo of 4 whole menagerie of chimpanzees and Gorlllas and snakes and musk oxen and about a hundred doors teading toto other entertainments Sadie Lin- man‘ grabbed his arm, “Oh, Mr. McGinnis!” she sald. “I'm sooo gidd 1 met you! {ve got to write a paper for our club on Pompel- ‘an days and I'm 80-00 stupid! Won't Had a Practical Mind. An English Sabbath school teacher | wae laboring away on the subject of ‘eternal punishment. One small gtr] saat 80 entranced by her lurid descrip- tlons of fire and brimstone that the teacher was much encouraged unt] tranafixed by the explanatory question of: “Please, teacher, what becomes of all the smoke?” ~ 3 You Can’t Beat It Cee | Hot Home-Made Bread i ges By | Served all day with those ge Be delicious home cooked meals * ee A | that are served at a se re age | The Model Cafe i Sess) «12 WEST SIST STREET, Near State St. tea i) Aleeae Columbia Hote! Buttaing aE AeeMeS Moderate Prices Quick Service MO MLEMNE Ry. PRONO—Aldine 3368—Automatio?3-176 i a | EDWARD FELIX PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 s | Newapapers Brena. Gales anu Pico Beco woe ic gue | : We give Fish and Waber Stamps with Grocerias, Ice Cracm andSodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connection. EDWARD FELIX 3 8 52 W. 30th ST. | Mrs. Edw. Felix’s Hairdressing Parlor Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Treat- ment, Hair Goods to order, Special care taken of the | hands and nalle. 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Mr. Harred bears an excellent reputation and has been one of that city’s foremost hotel men for several years, Look who's here! Wm. Watkins, a South Bend, Ind., old favorite. Will was returning from Grand Rapids, Mich. where be was employed during furniture season but on the way. to Chicago little Kalamazoo, Mich., held out her or his arms and captured the lad, he is now employed at the new Burdick and Ukes the city of his cap: tivity very much. He brought good news from South Bend about. the Hotel Oliver, reporting that business is great and will continue so until the first of September, E. E. Cowan, one of the Detroit Mich., popular young hotel men, hus aceepted a position at the new Bur diek in Kalainazoo, Mich. Mr. Cowan has for several months been connect. ed with the Pautlind in Grand Rapids Mich. ‘The young man has nothing but praise for his new position. * Inthe + opened ta rt very fine ~ frit i installed ab... Wo ard-told "a. efforts will be made fo make this the finest place of its kind in the olty; the very latest ideas will be drawn on fn order to surpass the present cafes in the city. The proprietor is a fine man and should be. highly praised for his - broadmindedness. Watch this column for further Infor. mation. R. J. Ball, one of Chicago's mos strictly uptodate hotel men, has bis. charge of one of the leading hotels il Fort Wayne, Ind, for several months and uns more than made good. Dick is one 6t the Palmer House products and any time they ‘come out of there you can bet thoy are Qnished. Mae Dick sends best re- gards to all the boys, Beyond His Ken, . A teacher writes that she had a tiew pup fill in a reference card last week. One blank asked for “Nationality of Parents.” ‘This had to be explained to the child. Thon she wrote down: “Papa fs Irish and mamma ts German, But T don’t know what they were before they were married.” Stine Manian tAken. A man brought before the court fn Biddeford, Me, on a charge ot ‘Yagrancy, when asked by the judge to give his nume, answered, “David Go home.” ‘The Sudge contracted his brows, “Your last name again?” be asked. “Gohome,” was the reply. “Al right, go ahead," sald tho judge “that’s a new one on me.” Personal. Wanted—A housekeeping man by @ business woman. Object matrimony — Lippincott's. AN APOLOGY We owe our readers an apology for the non-appearance of Evanston news last week. The news was written as usual, but in some way was lost or miscarried. We are truly sorry that this occurred and will make an effort to have Evanston news every week. Personals and Otherwise. Mrs. W. T. Mason, 1617 Benson avenue, left Wednesday for Hot Springs, Ark. Mrs. Mason will be absent for an indefinite period. Mrs. Edgar Smith, 1622 Forest avenue, entertained a party of friends at whist on Tuesday evening. A delightful time is reported. Miss Emma Richardson was hostess to the Dunbar Club on Thursday afternoon. A delicious repast was served by the churning hostess. Mrs. W. Kincaid, 1906 Ashbury is on the sick. Mrs. Charles Morris, 1800 Sheridan Road, is enjoying a visit from her brother, Mrs. Moses Dawson. Mr. Ralph Breckenridge, of Mansfield, Ohio, spent a few days with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Breckenridge, 1199 Clark street. A new Roosevelt Club has been formed, same to become a national club. The officers: President, C. E Pope; vice president, J. E. Priestly; secretary, C. P. Stevens; treasurer, W. A. Rossbach. This club will hold its meetings at the Avenue House. Rev. B. P. E. Gayles, pastor of Second Baptist Church, left Friday for his new field of work at Macon City, Mo. Mrs. Gayles and children will not leave before the middle of February. Mrs. Theodore Short, Orrington avenue, entertained Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Mason and Miss L. Frazier at dinner Saturday evening. Mrs. Clarice Norris, 1459 Elmwood avenue, entertained the Friday Afternoon Whist Club at her home on last Friday. A jolly good time is the cry of all present. The Dorsac Guild was entertained by Mrs. J. E. Webb, 1462 Elmwood avenue, on Thursday afternoon. Dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. Marshall Sherrod is reported as doing very well at this writing. Mrs. Chas. Lindsay, 1831 Benson avenue, is home from St. Francis Hospital lunch improved. The ladies of the Dunbar Club gave a farewell surprise to their president, Mrs. W. T. Mason, at her home Tuesday evening. The ladies spent an enjoyable evening, on departing wishing Mrs. Mason a pleasant journey. A farewell reception was given Rev. Gayles and family at Second Baptist church on Thursday evening. Mrs. John Griffin, 1621 Lake street, home from St. Luke's Hospital and ving rapidly. Sallie Wideman, Prairie ave. is improving at this writing. The Bachelor Girls Club gave aucing party at Evanston Auditorium on Tuesday evening. The "Snow Ball Giftillion" by Court of Chatham is Feb. 22, 1912. Miss Suzie Johnson, 905 Grove street, is recovering from an attack of the gripe. Quite a few of Evanston's music loving people attended the Harrison Emanuel Recital at Klimball Hall Monday evening. Mrs. A. P. Perry is home after a visit of several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Goo, Adams, in Duduth, Minna. Mrs. Perry went to Duduth last Saturday and accompanied Mrs. Perry home. Miss Lorie Franklin, 1824 Railroad, did the misfortune to cut the thumb her left hand as a result she had have the first joint of the thumb moved. Miss Franklin is resting sy at present. Mrs. P. R. Downs, 607 Chicago ave. received the sad news of the path of her father, Mr. Yancey king of Lawrence county, S. C. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH. Ebenezer was named Surgeon by an excellent sarmon delivered earlier. This sermon was one of the most inspiring and instructive that has been given at Ebenezer some time. We will always welcome Dr. Jenifer at Ebenezer. in the Renewing H. S. Graves preached a large audience from the subject A. Glorious Gospel." Revival meetings are in progress at Ebenezer. Rev. Robinson, who was expected to conduct the meetings, writes that he is unable to leave Ebenezer, where he is having glorious success. This week has been one ofrayer. Rev. Graves hopes to have one come to fill Rev. Robinson's place within the next few days. On last Tuesday the annual church meeting was held at Ebenezer, at which time Mr. Geo. Pressley, our most efficient secretary, read an excellent report of all monies handled during the past year. The election of ustees also took place, all of the 11 board were elected save two. The allowing men are trusted for this war: W. H. Twain, S. P. Cannon, T. Thomas Marshall Sherrod, W. Klinas, W. D. White, A. P. Perry, H. Cotton and Monroe Floyd. The Busy Bee Club met at the trch on Friday night in a business jon. e election of Sunday school off- and teachers was held Tuesday ng. The following persons were 1 to office: Superintendent, H. Twigsg; assistant superi- n. T. H. Cotton; secretary, Geo. Jr.; assistant secretary, White; treasurer, Mrs. W. B. B. organist, Ethel Hadley; anga- nist, Ethel Smith; chiorist. Depugh; librarians, John nathan Adams, and Otis W. H. Twigsg, the super- esires the attendance of as we wish to make this per one. entertained Friday evening at the home of Mrs. D. W. Richardson, 1105 Clark street Dr. and Mrs. Jenifer were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Graves Sunday. CHILD IS A GREAT THINKER Juvenile Logic Displayed by the Little Girl Who Wanted a Baby Brother. Those who call children thoughtless merely prove that they do not know the child nature. Children, as a matter of fact, are great thinkers. They only seem lacking in thought to such of their elders as fall to comprehend that the childish mind works differently from that of the adult. Juvenile logic, for instance, frequently is faulty judged by grown-up standards, but just as frequently it is sound and incontrovertible from its own point of view. A thoughtful little girl, for example, recently put to rout her mother, a young widow, by a searching fire of questions founded on the request: "Oh, mamma, won't you buy me a baby brother?" "You won't understand why I can't do that for you," the mother finally re-marked, driven into a corner, "but litte girls who have no fathers cannot have little brothers and sisters." "Well, it seems very unreasonable, said the child, after a few moments of reflection. "Little girls without fathers are pret; sure to be lonely, and they should have more reason why they should have other children in the family, doesn't it?" Fldacting Children The child who shows no disposition to move about and is apparently happier sitting still will grow up to be slow-witted, heavy. On the other hand, the baby who is always using its arms and legs will be intelligent, its brain will work quickly, and it will without doubt be clever. Children should consequently be encouraged when in the infant stage to throw their arms and legs about, to play with their fingers and toes, and when they are older the wise parent will not insist on their keeping still. The Book Said So The geography class was in session. One small pupil astonished the class by stating that in a certain section of South America there were talking monkeys. When the teacher questioned the statement the youngster opened his geography and tried to read "This region is inhabited by species of monkeys properly speaking, apes." The Dellinelator. Scientific Disillusionment One of those science claims he is now able to prove that Eve was not a beauty. The next scientist will probate her. The next that Adam married her for her money Linguistic Donnybrook "I observe that the natives of Terre Haute are indulging in a controversy over the proper pronunciation of the name of their fair city," said the commercial traveler. "Some insist upon the good old home flavored 'Terry Hut,' while the more cultured, affecting horror at such provincialism, declare it should be 'Tear-ah-Hoto,' and still others prefer 'Tear-Hautay.'" "I see opportunities for extensive trouble in this discussion. What if other places which have suffered by rank Anglicizing in their names should follow the example of the Indiana town?" The result would be a linguistic Doybrook. Consider the possibilities of these common methods of pronunciation: "Baton Rouge, Batten Ruge; Bellefontaine, Belfountaine; Boise, Boys; Charlerol, Charley Roy; Des Moines, de-moyne; Detroit, de-troite; Dubols, Dubos; Fond du Lac, Fondelak; Gallipolis, Galpolice; Montpeller, Montpeller, and Prairie du Chien, Prairie doo-Sheen." HOW BETHLEHEM WAS NAMED Pretty Story of the Origin of the Pennsylvania City, Now Industrial Center. It was not unfitting that Bethlehem the center of missionary enterprise and social service should have the name of the birthplace of the Christ. But the name was given it under doubly fitting auspices. In December, 1741, Count Zinzendorf, the friend and protector of the Moravians in Saxony, came to visit them. The original log dwelling sheltered both the people and the cattle. It was in this house that the were sitting on Christmas day. Suddenly Count Zinzendorf rose and led the way past the partition to the part where the cattle were stabled, and there around the mangers they sang Christmas songs. After that they could think of no name quite so fitting as Bethlehem. But in spite of church institutions Bethlehem is no longer a religious community. It is industrial. With the coming of industry have come conditions of which David Nitschmann, founder of Bethlehem, never dreamed. It wasn't an example of the old brotherhood when, in 1909, five men were discharged because they had signed a petition to the management of the Bethlehem Steel corporation asking for the elimination of Sunday work. It was an example of discharged in 1910 when the man was forced for avoiding Sunday work, and then three more because they served on a committee that protested against this man's discharge.—John A. Fitch, in The Survey. THE NUTMEG STATE By C. B. Culley, 33 Warren Street. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 1.—Mr. Louis H. Mills, of Chicago, Ill., now assistant custodian of the safe deposit valet department of Aetna National Bank, is the chief trombonist of Stewards' Military Band and Symphony Orchestra. Mrs. R. R. Jones of 41 Martin street is suffering from a severe sprain caused from a fall. Mrs. A. P. Lee of Bloemthal place is suffering from a gripe. Stewards' Symphony Orchestra is also holding their meetings at Mr. Clifford Robhmsons, on Sanford street. Roy R. Wheeler of the Talcott street church was tendered quite a surprise last Thursday, he being presented a handsome Morris chair by the members of his Sunday school class. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Batuyes are at Palm Beach, Fla., and expect to leave shortly for Nassau. The Club will give something similar to this every month and solicit the patronage of all well wishers and friends. Mrs. Eliza Culley of 38 Warren street is ill. Papers may be obtained at the following places: Miss Anna L. James, 141 Mather street; Halls Tonsorial Parlors, 150 Albany avenue; Whelden's Tonsorial Parlors, Trumul street; Gillison's and Jones Tonsorial Parlors, Mulberry street; Thuney Vallens's Tonsorial Parlors, 645 Main street. The correspondent of this paper wishes to announce that the Summer Club, Harriett Beecher Stowe, and other bodies have an Old Folks Home located on Mather street. There they will find the aged grateful for anything they might bring. Any donations may be forwarded to the correspondent of this paper and will be turned over to the proper authorities, and contributors names will be printed in this paper. In Imminent Danger. Mr. and Mrs. Aschenbrenner were touring Europe, and had just arrived at Pisa. Mrs. Aschenbrenner was all excited upon reaching the Leaning Tower and eagerly pattered up the spiral stairway, leaving her husband languidly awaiting her return. As she weighed a shade over the 200 mark, her husband always dug up an excuse when it came to accompanying her on any altitudes above easy falling distance. He was just pondering on the beautiful flow of unintelligible language used by their guide, when from the topmost rampart came the "Hirlee. Hirlee trill from his wife, who was leaning on and waving a scarf. Mr. Aschenbrenner obligently looked up and then came to life with an anguished roar: "Gretchen, for your life, get back! You're bending the building!" Rules for Talking Weather The English are as insensible to their weight, and vast number of other things. They talk of nothing else; but there is yet an artificiality about the conversation that denotes it to be a standardized topic if genuine feeling and emotion are expressed regarding it by an outsider they become suddenly touchy, and what seemed neutral ground on which differing temperaments could meet with perfect ambiability is seen to be no better than a bank of bristling thistles. It is here that the rules of the weather game are seen more clearly. You may talk of it to the exclusion of everything else; you are regarded as difficult if you have an aversion to a certain amount of it, and there are certain things you meet about it, or, if you do, you must say them as though in spite of everything you would not exchange it for any other weather in the world, and you would defend it with your last breath.-Florida Ida Pler in Harper's Weekly. Daniel and the Lions And it came to pass that Daniel was cast into the den of lions by order of King Darius. Early the next morning King Darius went to the den, rolled away the stone, and called out: "Do the lions bite?" "Not unreasonably," replied Daniel, who was well up in the legal vernacular day. "Good!" animated King Darius as he rolled back the stone. Thereupon he went forth and proclaimed to the multitude that the Lion question had been solved.-Puck. Waste of Time. Never ask a man for a favor after you have laughed at him for making a fool of himself. War Against "Loan Sharks." Lawyers engaged to assist poor people in New York who had been in the clutches of the "loan sharks," have reported that their clients took an aggregate of $8,299.60 in loans, on which they were to pay $3,744.71 in interest in three months. The lawyers in most cases were able to persuade the loan companies to continue the loans at the rate of 6 per cent annually. The loans had generally been obtained to pay down bills or funeral expenses. At Both Ends of the 'Phone By ELLA RANDALL PEARCE Birr-er-er! Miss Gertrude Mackenzie, tiny, trim and brisk in mahner, picked up the telephone receiver and answered the summons over the wire with a clear, crisp "fello-yes." Then, with a change of tone, "Who is this, please? Who—for goodness' sake—Jance! The single occupant of the outside office, separated from the inside one where Miss Mackenzie坐 by an oak railing and gateway, fairly jumped as the name left the speaker's lips. He was a young man of prepossessing appearance, very dark, with bright blue eyes, and a lofty, abstracted air that would have seemed somewhat amusing in one less distinguished looking. He had paid no attention to the young woman until that single ejaculation fell upon his ear. Janice! Why should he think of her? Was there only one Janice in the world? It was an old name, to be sure, and perhaps—then he found himself listening eagerly to one side of the conversation, as he sat back and unfolded a newspaper before his face. "Janice, well, I am surprise! Oh, fine, but I thought you were—What! didn't you marry him after all? But I thought that was what you went to London for. I never got the letter—no, indeed. Ye-ees, but I can't tell you now. Can't you come up to the house soon?" The young man outside shifted uneasily in his seat, and peered around a corner of his paper. Miss Mackenzie had lowered her voice, and her words reached him indistinctly—and he was growing anxious. Janice—London—to be married? It began to sound like a familiar story to him. The girl's laughter rippled guardedly across the office. "I don't believe it. How about the one" you met at Atlantic City and raved about all last winter?" she said, tessingly. Atlantic City! That was where he had men Janico Ford, just about one year ago. "Surely it was she—his old "Who is this, please?" sweetheart of a brief, beautiful romance by the sea, who now was speaking at the other end of the 'phone. If he could but see her—speak to her again! Then came his companion's crisp tones. "Oh, I'd love to, but not today. I've had a 'quick lunch' already, for I expect Mr. Hadley in at any moment. Where are you now? At the Mayfair—oh!" A heavy scrambling noise in the outer office and the loud slamming of the door, proclaimed the sudden flight of the late solitary occupant. With the matter, Janice, "answered Miss Mackenzie. "Only there was a splendid-looking chair sitting here waiting for Mr. Hadley, and he's just thrown over a few chairs and bolted, taking the door with him. Well, now I want to tell you something." She launched into a recital of her own personal affairs, thereby, if she had but known it, doing a certain young man a great favor; for the "splendid-looking chap" was making the best possible time in covering the building out of which the building out of which he had rushed and the hostelry called the Maxfair. Of course it was his—that is, the same Janice, and she was not married. Perhaps she had quite forgotten him by this time, but he would like to know. And, if he were to lose her now—well, of course he could see Miss Mackenzie. But Janice might hear of it, and take flight again. Besides he wanted to see her—oh, how he longed to see her! He had tried to forget her, and probably would have succeeded if she had remained in London and married the wealthy Englishman who had won her from him with his dazzling fortune. Why had she not married Cuthbert Castle? He knew that such had been her intention when she had sailed from New York with her sister-in-law, who had really planned and carried out the affairs of the “brilliant match.” Why had Janice changed her mind? Quile breathless was the young man who hurried into the corridor of the Mayfair and looked anxiously along the line of telephone booths ranged across one side of the reading room. White feathers—large roy face underneath; next, big, overshadowing black hat brim—sharp nose in view; ah! quantit little straw bonnet with a perky lace bow, a fluff of amber hair, a soft, pink cheek, sweeping brown lashes—Jancee! She was just rising from her seat in the booth when he caught sight of her; and he hastened down the other side of the room, out into the corridor, while she adjusted her scarf and vell. Tall, calm, and with a lofty, abstracted air, stood a dark young man near the Mayfair entrance, as Jancee Ford tripped along, quite unsuspectingly. Then, with a start, she recognized the figure ahead, hesitated as if aboft to turn aside, approached with heightened color, and averting her face, would have gone by; but he met her squarely, face to face, extending a welcoming hand. "Is it possible!" he said cordially. "You have nearly taken my breath away, Mrs.—cr—Castle. Is that right?" Jance nodded her head, and fussed with her scarf. "Your memory is all right, Mr. Dillingham," she said, with nervous animation, not seeking to correct his error. His bright blue eyes were searching her flushed face, but he maintained his indifferent air. How lovely she looked—loveller than ever! "Are you sight-seeing in America?" he asked politely. "Or did you get—homework." "Neither" smiled Janice. "My—husband had some business here, and so—so——" "Then you intend to return to London, soon?" "Yes, next week." "Then," said Dillingham, in slow, deliberate tones, "may I not have the pleasure of your company at lunch—once more before you go? Today?" The girl's eyes met his. "We parted in rather unfriendly fashion before, you know," went on the low tones. "Let us wipe out the memory of that last hour by a pleasant one—here." "I-I have an engagement for lunch. I——" Dillingham caught her elbow in the hollow of a firm hand. His eyes were blazing then as they looked at her, blazing with fascinating blue flames. "Janice, look at me. You have no engagement; you have no husband. I know and more than this I know. I was in Mr. Hadley's office while you were telephoning." "Oh!" "Yes, and you have shown me, now—that you—Janice!" "Please, Ellis, don't look at me like that, here," whispered Janice. "Everybody's looking at us. You're very mysterious and very impertinent, but I'll go somewhere and listen to you—if you won't look at me as you meant to eat me." "It's eating time," said Dillingham, falling into an easy stride beside her as they walked along the corridor together. Janice drew him into the reading room. "I want to 'phone to Gertrude," she said. "Coho with me; you shall hear." They crowded into the little booth, looking happily into each other's eyes. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bir-r-r! Miss Mackenzie caught up the receiver again. A soft familiar voice came over the wire, with a new intense vibration in its tones. "Gertrude, are you too busy to listen? That splendid chap who ran out of your office is my Atlantic City friend—yes, he's her now. And you were quite right. That's why I didn't stay in London and marry the Castle millions. But I didn't suppose he'd ever, ever forgive me. And I'm so glad. That's all, now—good-by. Wait a minute. I'm ready. Then, from the other end of the 'phone, came deep, full masculine tones, deliberately distinct. 'Will you kindly tell Mr. Hadley that Mr. Ellis Dillingham will call at his office to tomorrow morning? Thank you—and—bless you, Miss Gertrude Mackenzie." African Wireless Telegraphy: Writing from Germany, Africa, a European tourist says: "We found here in the dense forest, among people who know nothing of modern scientific discoveries or of time and labor-saving invention, a good and practical wireless telephone. The natives have for purposes of ceremony, peaceful and warlike, drums of various dimensions made of wood, and these, an octave in range. Aside from the ceremonies the drums are used also as means of communication, and the manner of striking, the number of strokes, the pauses, etc., make up words and sentences which are readily understood for miles around. We canavan read all of one day. Our caravan read several days. Our head servant stopped suddenly in his work, listened intently and then gave unmistakable signs of pleasure. We learned later that the indistinct sounds conveyed to him the news that a boy had been born to his brother in a neighboring village." --- Disclosed Crime in Sleep Because he talked in his sleep, Andrew J. McCorrell of Findlay, Ohio, has gone to the penitentiary to serve six years for robbery. After receiving his sentence McCorrell, with three other prisoners, assaulted the sheriff and escaped. McCorrell believed he had killed the sheriff and it preyed on his mind that he talked about it in his sleep while he was being held under arrest for drunkenness at Little Rock, Ark. The turnkey took notes and informed the authorities at Findlay. Fifty Thousand Dollars Saved It Is So Mysterious That Greeks and Romans Made of it a The phenomena of Rumor—its mysterious origin and marvelous spread—so impressed the ancient Greeks that they made of it a deity, Phoene, to whom altars were raised. This deity, however, was not so completely personified as the later Roman Fama, but considered rather as a divine voice—the Vox Def, as Grote puts it, passing into the Vox Populi. The classic case is the news of the Greek victory over the Persians at Pergamum, in Bacotia, Phoene was said to have communicated to the Greeks as they went into action in Mycale on the other side of the Aegaea, few hours later, although there was no telegraphy in B. C. 479. Grote commandeered the account of the storming of the Bastile, which more than once emphasizes the fact that nobody proposed it; the whole populace seemed simultaneously inspired. The "Fruits" of Ambition. "If you are ambitions and want to get on in life, don't wait for your opportunity—make it." So counselled Mr. Kalestick to young Kabbage, whom he had just appointed to the management of a green-grocery stall. All that day the youth pondered the advice, and he still remembered it when his eye suddenly caught an item in the sporting columns of his favorite paper: "Clodville Football club requires dates for December." Two minutes later Kabbage was busy with pen, ink and paper, and in ten more minutes he was proudly conning the following note to the Clodville secretary: "Dear Sir—I beg to inform you that we have a choice of dates in stock. Inclose one as a sample, and will be pleased to supply any quantity at two pence a pound, or four pounds for sevenpence a penny!"—Ideas. Curious English Custom. Every Easter a curious custom is observed in rural England, the auctioneer putting up a field and accepting bids only so long as a number of boys are running a race over a fixed course. The moment the hindmost boy reaches the goal the hammer falls and the meadow is knocked down to the hoop he has made the last bid. This having been done those present sit down to a meal of bread, cheese and spring onions.—London Tit-Bits. Sun Fatal to Monkeys. In Manila some monkeys were exposed to the sunshine and died in about 75 minutes, but other monkeys were kept under an umbrella set in the sun were unhurt. Opportunities Always Present "It is not a single opportunity which comes to a man, it is a train. It is a never-ending procession, some smaller and more insignificant as the year flow on, but ever and always opportunities too numerous, too great, and too large for us to utilize fully"—Proof James, University of Illinois. Courage and Hope. The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came—Charles Kingsley. DURING the past year and a half as a result of my fight for lower prices and against extravagance in funeral services, I have saved the colored people of Chicago thousands of dollars. Before my advent into this war, widows and bereaved relatives were burdened with enormons exorbitant funeral bills. To remedy this condition I have waged a lone fight with great success. I have been encouraged by the support and co-operation of many of our best people, besides earning the thanks and good-will of grief-stricken relatives, to whom I have given service at a reasonable price. I have been censured and criticized by some misinformed persons for my attitude and position, but I have done "The greatest good for the greatest number," with regard to the "Other Fellow." Excellence in Service I have strived to make my service perfect in every detail. Up to date livery with courteous drivers, capable and experienced assistants and personal attention to every part of the funeral service, BUOY FLOATED SIX YEARS Belonged to Ship Wrecked Off Japan and Ocean Currents Carried it to Scotland. A strange story of the seas and their mysterious currents was told in a letter received by Stanley Dollar, of this city, from John Gear, at Lorwick, Scotland, inclosing a clipping from the Shetland Times, published at Lerwick. The item is to the effect that there was picked up on the beach at Cullivoe, Papastaur, north of Scotland, a high bay, tattered and stained, bearing the inscription: "Passed by J. Guthrie, San Francisco, Cal., June 1, 1005." Capt. Guthrie is an assistant local inspector of steamboats for his district. The Stanley Dollar was wrecked off the west coast of Japan in August, 1905, and the buoy must have been floating in the ocean currents until it landed over in Scotland. Whether it went around the Horn or through the Northwest Passage or down by Australia and around the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic, is a mystery of seafaring men. The buoy holds the world's record for drifting the longest distance ever known. Equally marvellous is the fact that it was not found before, but this may be explained by the theory that it floated in parts of the two oceans unrequented by many vessels.—San Francisco Chronicle. Many Fish Were Blind. More than 17,000 yellowtail were caught by Japanese fishers at the long wharf recently. This is the largest catch for one day's fishing ever recorded in the bay district. Among the flamy specimens were several deep see whales, brought to the surface, were found to be totally blind. Los Angeles Tribune. As It Sounded to Him A teacher in Kansas City, Kan., was having her class quote the Twenty-third Psalm. When the last verse was reached, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life," etc., a little boy near by was heard to say: "Surely good Mr. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Manner and Customs The manners of some people encountered in taking walks abroad are suggestive of the report made by the old British sea captain who was sent out to investigate the manners and customs of the inhabitants of a newly-discovered Pacific island. His report was brief, as follows: "Manners they have none, and their customs are beauty." --- Unprecedented Length of Trial. The difference in time consumed in criminal court procedures in this and other countries is illustrated by a trial reported from Chemnitz, Germany, in a German newspaper, in which the paper stated in astonishment that the trial lasted a whole week. A woman was the defendant accused of poisoning her little daughter, whose life she had insured, and of arson to gain fire insurance. Both charges were submitted to the jury at the same time and acted upon. Sixth-three witnesses had to be heard, among them six experts. The jury condemned the woman to death. 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 unnece cary charges.