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NO JIM CROW SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO VOLUME VII. NUMBER 8. Shelbyville, Tenn., Feb. 23.—Deprived of its prey in the first attempt to lynch three men while they were being taken from the courthouse to the jail today, a mob broke into the sheriff's office, to which the wounded men had been taken, and fired on them. Two of the men are alive tonight, but it is feared the mob will storm the jail and finish its work. During the two hours between the attacks Sheriff Williams telegraphed the Governor to send troops. A Nashville company was ordered out. This order was countermanded, however, when Williams informed the Governor he believed he could handle the situation. Alleged evidence that the men killed S. W. Everson, special officer for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, was so strong at the preliminary hearing this afternoon that the three were bound over to a higher court. While they were being taken down the courthouse steps a mob attacked the sheriff and six deputies, killed one of the Negroes and beat the others. Harry McIntyre, 35 years old, armed with a knife, was arrested by detectives of the central station Wednesday afternoon, in Judge Cutting's courtroom in the county building, after he is alleged to have made threats against the lives of the judge, Harry Rohde, his clerk, and D. R. Thomas and Harry Felger, lawyers. McIntyre is said to have been enraged because his wife was not appointed administratrix of the estate of her aunt, Anna Young, who died Dec. 6, 1910, leaving property valued at $1,000. He was taken into custody after a struggle, battling with his captors all the way to the South Clark street station. The man is said to have made threats some time ago and bailiffs in Judge Cutting's court had been instructed to watch for him. When he appeared yesterday afternoon the police were notified. Meanwhile bailiffs from the courts took him into custody and kept him a prisoner in an anteroom. At the South Clark street station McIntyre was hooked on a charge of making threats to kill. FIRE DEPARTMENT INCREASED. Another man has been added to Engine Co. No. 21, Taylor and State street, when it was announced this week that Mr. George A. Jones, 3407 Wabash avenue, was taken off the civil service list and sent to this company. He was made a driver. The white driver whom he succeeded has been transferred to another company. Everything is harmonious at this busy fire house. The list now is as follows: Ten colored firemen and three white firemen. There is still one more man on the list, and he will be sent to the company very soon. TUSKEGEE TRUSTEES TO MEET. New York, Feb. 23.—Seth Low, chairman of the board of trustees of Tuskegee, and a special party of New York citizens and others will leave to attend the midwinter meeting of the trustees of the institute and to inspect the work of the school. A delegation from Chicago, the guests of Julius Rosenwald, will join Mr. Low at the institute. The party will include, among others, H. H. Kohlsaat, Judge Julian W. Mack and Mrs. Mack and A. Mitchell Innes of the British embassy at Washington. MRS. N. M. BUNDY BURIED IN SOUTH BEND. Hundreds of Friends Meet Bier at Depot—Was a Native of the Progressive Town of Indiana. Mrs. Nannie M. Bundy, wife of Mr. George S. Bundy, and sister of Mrs. D. Rudolph Lawrence, departed this life at St. Luke's Hospital, Sunday, February 18, 1912. Interment at South Bend, Ind., Tuesday, Feb. 20th, at 2 o'clock. Rev. and Mrs. Jason Bundy came from Bloomington, Ill., to attend the funeral. Mme. Seay, 3641 State street, has returned from New York, where she went more a month ago to purchase new spring modes in hats and trimmings. We learn from good authority that several customers awaited her return. TRY TO PLACE LIE ON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON So-Called Hyde Park Improvement Protective Club Holds Sensational Meeting—The Old Reliable Hyde Park Protective Association of Which Arthur Burrege Farwell is Secretary Opposes Action—Writes Letter for Fear of Confusion in Name. ENTIRE CITY INDIGNANT —MAYOR TO IGNORE IT. A Few Disgruntled Men Envious of a Few Teachers Drawing a Salary for Teaching White Children Set Up the Cry Segregation—Colored Teachers Come From the Best Families—The Best Type of Womanhood—Union Pacific and Southern Pacific R. R. Remove Towels Because Tourist Teachers Stole So Many—Plea for the Boy. By Mildred Miller. Truly history repeats itself. The recent action of the Hyde Park Protective club takes one back to conditions at Rome from an early period down to about 310 B. C. Rome had two classes of citizens, the patricians and plebians. All political power was in the hands of the patricians, and the plebians were kept in a state of great social degradation. Like the negro, however, the plebs or common people performed military duties when called upon by the government. Unlike the negro, when their condition became so wretched, they refused to take up arms against the public enemy. This caused the nobles to take notice. They made some concession, not being willing to lose their fighting force and working people. So began that long interesting struggle between the two classes of Roman citizens, the plebians winning concession after concession until at the close of that long struggle a perfect equality was established in the political powers of the orders. It is hard to believe that in great, big, free, modern Chicago there are in the white race business men, Republican leaders, whose recent advocacy of "Jim Crow Rule" in Chicago schools easily proves that they should have lived in Rome under Servius Tullius about 578 B. C. From the time of the death of Crispus Attucks leading an attack against the British in the revolutionary war through all the great wars of this country, 1812, the Civil war, down to the recent Spanish American war, the negro has fought and died like a man. Like the Roman plebs he fought, unlike them when a slave and suffering every degradation he continued to fight for this country. "Jim Crow rule" in modern Chicago. Why? H. T. Davis, president of the Hyde Park Protective club, says "it would be better for the negroes themselves if the children were kept separate;" also says that "where there are but a few negro boys at a school they are often abused by the whites and it would be a protection for them if they were kept by themselves." Place a few real Irish, German, Dutch or any foreign boys in an American public school and they will fare no better than the negro boy. Would it be better for these foreign parents and boys for the boys to be placed in a separate room for protection? Is it not plain to any one that if these youngsters are to become a part and parcel of or an intelligent factor in this American nation they must not be segregated for protection from the little skirmishes and hard knocks that all boys are heir to. Rather let negroes and white boys study and play together as children and they will grow to a better understanding and live more peaceably side by side neighbors when they grow to be citizens for the negro is here to stay. The man who presented the "Jim Crow" resolutions, S. J. Schroter, tried to brighten his views on the subject by trying to blacken and defame the character of Booker T. Washington by saying that Mr. Washington was in favor of keeping the negroes to themselves. Notwithstanding the conditions in the land of Tighman and Cardaman you can not find today a negro of any little bit of intelligence in the whole South who would favor separate schools in any northern state or city. They come to northern schools when opportunity affords and at all times they like to think, dream and thank God for that part of this country where a man is a man. If there are any colored people renting from George Cave, who is said to own property on Wabash avenue, in thirty-eighth block, they have no race pride if they do not vacate at once. Mr. Cave is one of the Hyde (Continued on Page 6). The Chicago Defender. LYNCHING IN COURT INJUSTICE THE LATEST. Even the Courthouse Can Not Protect the Negro From the Fury of the Bloodthirsty Southern Hoodlums. Frenzied Mob Shoot Three Wounded Men and Later Wound Two Second Time. SEEKS LIFE OF JUDGE CUTTING. Harry McIntyre, Armed With Knife, Battles With Deputies Outside of Courtroom. Engine Company No. 21 Gets Another Man—Total Number Now is 10. MME. SEAY RETURNS WITH SPRING STYLES. CHICAGO, DLL., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912. BINGA-JOHNSON WEDDING THE MOST BRILLIANT EVER HELD IN CHICAGO BINGA-JOHNSON WEDDING THE MOST BRILLIANT EVER HELD IN CHICAGO Event Took Place Tuesday Night at Their Palatial Residence Before a Small but Select Company of Friends—Ceremony Carried Out in the Artistic Ideas of the Bride—Tomasso's Mandolin Orchestra Plays Inspiring Strains. MR. JULIUS N. AVENDORPH MASTER OF CEREMONIES. Mr. Vance Anderson Was Best Man—The Bride's Gown Was of Marie Antoinette Gold Brocade Silk, Cut Low and with a Bodice of Heavy Embroidered Silver Leaves—The Train Was Five Yards Long, Trimmed Effectively with Silver Leaves—The Material Trimmings Were Imported from Paris. The marriage of Miss Eudora Johnson to Mr. Jesse Binga, on Tuesday evening, February 20th, was the most brilliant ever held in our city. The ceremony was performed in the presence of about sixty friends at their palatial home, 3324 Vernon avenue, by the Rev. E.T. Martin, pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. A. Binga of Richmond, Va., a cousin of the groom. The bride's gown was of Marie Antoinette gold brocade silk, cut low, and with a bodice of heavy embroidered silver leaves. The train makes a social function attractive, was one of the attractive features of this affair. The dining room decorations were pink and white. The dining room table was a piece of artistic work, with a bridal basket as a centerpiece, with evergreen extending from the four corners of a magnificent dome, formed a perfect bell. Tomasso's Mandolin Orchestra furnished the music for the occasion all during the evening, which added to the charming affair. Music, flowers, young and old friends mingled together in one ac One Day in the Life of a Banker. 7:45 A. M.—Honk! Honk! of waiting automobile. 8:30 A. M.—Home mail, breakfast, newspapers. 8:40 A. M.—Bank mail, conference with secretary and cashier. Early appointments. 9:00 A. M.—Conference with Manager of Real Estate Department. 10 to 11:30—Downtown appointments Clearing House Association. 12 o'Clock (sharp)—Appointment with wife at Spiffing-Auding & Co. 12:30 P. M.—Lunch at Lectors. 1:10 P. M.—Back to Bank. 3:00 P. M.—Honk! Honk! again. 3:15 P. M.—Meets wife at Mrs. Sabine's Afternoon Reception and then to Mrs. Clay's informal affair for "Dorathy." Englewood next to meet my old school chum "Bill" in town for an hour or two enroute to Denver. 5:00 P. M.—Home. 5:30 P. M.—Evening newspapers and a few neglected telephone calls. 6:00 P. M.—Dinner in honor of President B of Antelope. 8:15 P. M.—Entering Box at the Pekin. 10:50 P. M.—Reserved Table at Betts. was five yards long, trimmed effectively with silver leaves. The material and trimming were imported from Paris. She was attended by her sister, Mrs. Louise A. Ray, as matron of honor, whose gown was of silver gray satin, with 'an overdress of gray chiffon, richly embroidered in silver and electric blue palettes; the latter were worked in palm-leaf design. The corsage had a fischue of silver net edged with chiffon, embroidered in a rose pattern. And her sister, Miss Cecil Johnson, as bridesmaid. Her gown was made of pink crepe demeter, draped with pink chiffon. The bodice was crystal, edged with crystal fringe and held up with pink and green rosebuds. Mr. Vance Anderson was best man and Mr. T. P. Tinsley was groomman. The bride, matron of honor and bridesmaid entered from the drawing-room and marched to the parlor under the sweet strains of Mendelsohn's wedding march. The bride was met by the groom, who entered from the hall, and they marched to the altar. The house was beautifully as well as tastefully decorated with pink carnations and running ground pine, blending with the elegantly hand-painted walls and brilliant illuminations made it a grand picture that no one other than an artist could draw. The old settlers and society belles and matrons vied with each other in admiration of the grandeur of the surroundings and occasion. Those present will always remember the beautiful picture of the affair, as every detail was characterized by some feature of happiness and perfection. The guests were ushered here and there and at every point there was an exclamation of how beautiful, how exquisite! That air of exclusiveness which always makes a social function attractive, was one of the attractive features of this affair. The dining room decorations were pink and white. The dining room table was a piece of artistic work, with a bridal basket as a centerpiece, with evergreen extending from the four corners of a magnificent dome, formed a perfect bell. Tomaso's Mandolin Orchestra furnished the music for the occasion all during the evening, which added to the charming affair. Music, flowers, young and old friends mingled together in one accord of a happy culmination of a happy couple. Mr. Julius N. Avendorph was master of ceremonies, assisted by Mr. F. B. Waring. Brawley served. The presents were as follows: Mrs. L. A. Ray, cut glass punch bowl, glasses and tray. Miss Cecelia Johnson, imported pearl and lace fan. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Tinsley, gold berry spoon. Mrs. Angie E. Smith, lace handkerchief. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shipnes, cut glass mustard bowl. Mrs. Anderson Brodie, one-half dozen cut glasses. Miss Hattie Nugent, cut glass fern dish. Mr. H. J. Buchanan, hand-painted picture. Mr. and Mrs. Curd, cut glass olive dish. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Duncan, Jr., hand-painted jardiner. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lewis, bath rug. Mr. Geo. Ecton, bedspread. Mrs. M. A. Bond, sofa pillow. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Paul, water tray. Rev. and Mrs. Binga, table linen. Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Majors, hand-painted cup and saucer. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Collins and family, cut glass celery dish. Miss Mary Neal, hand-painted plate. Mrs. M. E. Gray, hand-painted vase. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lowe, Detroit, Mich., cut glass pitcher and one-half dozen glasses. Mrs. George Thompson, silver bread tray. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hall, cut glass flower vase. F. C. Wispetal, silver crumb set. E. Leslie Kennedy, hand-painted vase. N. E. Caldwell, silver olive spoon. Mr. and Mrs. Vance Anderson, hall picture. Drs. Garnes and Dalley, cut glass berry dish. Julius F. Taylor, leather-backed book. Mr. H. Wharton, berry spoon. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Williams and Miss Garnetta Tibbs, cut glass creamer and sugar bowl. Mr. and Mrs. Ellie Smith, hand-painted sugar bowl. Misses Whitfield, hand-painted tea set. Dr. and Mrs. Jenifer, silver baking dish. Mr. D. C. Smith, silver napkin rings and salt shakers. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kay, carving set. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Waring, hand-painted water tray. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hudson, hand-painted tea pot and tray. Mrs. J. W. Thomas and family, hand-painted vase. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Cook, hand-painted plate. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Duncan, linen table scarf. Mrs. America Cooper, linen table cover. Mrs. J. B. French, hand-embroidered handkerchiefs. Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Martin, silver berry spoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. White, cut glass berry bowl. Mrs. Louise Washington, hand-painted cake plate. Col. and Mrs. Marshall and niece, bronze water tray. Mrs. Chas. H. Davis, Battenberg scarf. Sisters of Good Shepherd, drawn work. DO YOU LIKE THE DEFENDER. Why not pay for it; why not get your friends to subscribe for it; why don't you pay your subscriptions promptly and not lend your neighbor borrowed property? PROTECTIVE ASS'N AGAINST NAME An Open Letter From Its Secretary Protesting Against the "Wind Mill"Organization Who Have the Audacity of Setting Themselves Up As Representing the Sentiment of the Whole District—President, Vice-President and Secretary Compose the Entire Organization. ORGANIZE FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RACE Mr. H. T. Davis Is Well Known In Neighborhood for His Antagonism Against the Negro—His Present Effort However Meets With Little Sympathy and Less Support—He Evidently Imagines That Chicago, Illinois, is in Georgia, But Before Long He Will Wake Up and Find Out Different. Letter From the Association. Chicago, Feb. 19, 1912. To Whom It May Concern: The name of the organization opposing the negroes is "Hyde Park Park Improvement Protective Club." Henry T. Davis is president. Mr. Farwell has opposed Mr. Davis in his unwarranted attacks upon the colored people and protested against the use of a name so similar to our organization as to lead to confusion of identity. Assistant Secretary and Attorney. The Defender takes pleasure in giving this information to the public so as to clear up the apparent shrouded mystery which has existed in regards to the names of two organizations existing in Hyde Park, both carrying the name of "protective," thereby confusing the organizations, as have been reported in the daily papers. The above mentioned "Hyde Park Protective Association" is generally known as a prohibition organization. But the "Hyde Park Improvement Protective Club" is an organization whose propagation is the purpose of discriminating against the colored people of that section. This "windmill" organization is composed of a few disgruntled members who have the audacity to set themselves, up as representing the sentiment of the whole district. The officers of this club, of which H. T. Davis is president, G. W. Varney vice-president and P. N. Schmit secretary, from an inspection of its letterhead, apparently compose the membership of the organization. On the board of directors and numerous other useless committees, there is a marked resort to duplication. The office of the club is located at 394 East Forty-third street. Telephone Oakland 2523. THE WEDDING WITHOUT A CAKE The Reece-Edwards Wedding Reception Lacked a Bride's Cake. The many friends who attended this reception were surprised when they did not see the usual bride's cake, as a center piece on the beautiful decorated table. Many of the young ladies were disappointed by not having a piece of bride's cake to dream on. In an interview this week Mrs. Edwards explained to a Defender representative that Mrs. Johnson, mother of the champion, and Mrs. Rhodes, his sister, had promised this important part of the refreshments as a present, and that she had made no other arrangements. We even looked for it upon our return from the church, but it was then too late to rectify the matter. Thus Chicago had its first cakeless wedding. CONGRATULATIONS. Dr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington sent Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Binga a long telegram of congratulations and regretting that his health and other conditions would not permit their attendance at the wedding, and showing their remembrance and appreciation by expressing a lovely present. COL. R. D. RUFFIN TO TALK ON "RACE PRIDE." Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m., Col. R. D. Ruffin will address the Star Literary at Ebenezer Baptist Church on "Race Pride." Col. Ruffin is a noted speaker and lovers of the best literary efforts should attend this meeting. Mr. Fergusson, president. TO. YE VOTERS. "The Defender expects all its readers to land every candidate whose write-up or photo appears in this paper. They have all been tried and have proven that they are right on the "question." HAMPTON'S NORTHERN CAMPAIGN. Next Meeting in Annual Effort to Raise $125,000 to be Held in New York and Other Eastern Cities—30 Negro and 10 Indian Boys Comprise Party. By Wm. A. Avery. Hampton, Va., Feb. 20.—Every year Hampton institute, which is neither a state nor a government school, must raise annually through voluntary contributions over $125,000 for current expenses and scholarships. To secure this money campaigns are conducted several times a year. On Friday evening, Feb. 23, Capt. George W. Blount, assistant to the commandant, will take North a party of thirty negro and ten Indian boys for the Hampton winter campaign in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Orange, New Haven and Philadelphia. The following itinerary will be followed: Feb. 25, two meetings in Brooklyn; Feb. 25, Con. al Presbyterian church, New York; Feb. 26, 8 p. m., Carnegie hall, principal address by Hon. Joseph H. Choate; Feb. 27, 3 p. m., Plymouth theater, Boston, address by Dr. H. B. Frissell; Feb. 28, Woolsey hall, New Haven, Conn., Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak and Prof. Henry Farnam of Yale will preside; Feb. 29, Brooklyn, Academy of Music, addresses by Dr. James M. Taylor, president of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Robert C. Ogden, of New York City, who is president of the Hampton board of trustees; March 1, two meetings in New York private schools; March 1, Orange N. J., address by Dr. James M. Ludlow; March 2, two meetings in New York; March 3, two meetings in Philadelphia; March 4, Morticultural hall, Philadelphia, principal address by Hon. George McAney, of New York, Hampton's Program. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton institute, will speak on "Negro and Indian Folk-lore." Indians in costume will render the following numbers: Love song, death song, planting song, ball dance, and war dance. A Zulu student at Hampton, Madikane Q. Cele, dressed in native costume, will sing a love song and give a war dance. Major Robert R. Moton, commandant of cadets at Hampton institute, will speak on "The Meaning of Hampton." A group of thirty negro students, dressed as road workers, will sing a labor song. The Hampton boys, dressed in their military uniforms, will sing plantation songs or "spirituals." Stories of Indian and African life will be told by Michael V. Wolf, a Chippewa Indian from Reserve, Wis., and M. Q. Cele, of Zululand, South Africa. LEAP YEAR STAG. Miss Bertha Boone and Girl Friends Don Male Attire and Have Good Time. Miss Bertha Boone was the hostess on last Thursday evening at a leap year stag given at her residence, 6640 Evans avenue. All the young ladies invited wore men's apparel, and without any flattering remarks were typical of the sex. The invited guests who wore men's clothes were: Mesdames Mayme Steele, Mary Clark, Lizzie Wytche, Misses Addie Vernon, Angel Furgeson, Bertha Gunn and Laura Tyler, who made the best looking man of them all. The chaperons were Mesdames W. R. Boone, A. L. Jackson, Schreaves, Chandler and Ira Stewart. The surprise of the evening was the arrival of several gentlemen headed by a Chicago Defender reporter who rang the bell and the hostess responded and before opening the door asked: "Are you girls?" "Yes," a cahy asked from the boys in a weak voice, after which the door was opened, and to the surprise of the young ladies the following men entered: Messrs. George R. Garner, Jr., Frank Edwards, Ben Cornelius, Raymond Greene, Wilton Boone, Henry Tyler and Frank Wytche. After the gentlemen entered the hall they were not admitted to the parlor but escorted to a rear bedroom where they were forced to dress in the girl's clothes and then enter the parlor where the would-be men and likewise women danced and had a great time until the wee small hours of the morning, at which time the guests departed for their homes. Did the girls escort the boys home? Well-yes. ANOTHER LEAP YEAR PARTY. Misses Kathine Williams and Lovyn Miller were hostesses at a Leap Year party given at the residence of Miss Williams, 3708 Wabash avenue. Among those present was Messrs. George R. Garner, Jr., Clearence Payne, James Mundy and the Misses Annie Lowry, Gladys Anderson, Eunice Hunter. If you see it in The Defender it is so PRICE 5 CENTS ```markdown ``` MR. F. EMANUEL WEDS MISS J. BATES TUESDAY MR. F. EMANUEL WEDS MISS J. BATES TUESDAY The Most Notable and Brilliant Nuptial in Years Solemnized at Bethel M. E. Church Tuesday Night When Floyd, the First of the "Emanuel Boys," and Miss Jessie Bates Were Joined in Holy Wedlock—Betroti. Has Been the Only Topic in Social Circles Since Its Announcement—The Groom and His Parents Prominent in Business. PARENTS MARRIED IN SAME CHURCH TWEN- TY-FOUR YEARS AGO. Prominence of the Contracting Parties Brings Social Chicago Out In Large Numbers—Brilliant and Fashionable Display of Gowns at the Church—Reception a Delightful Adjunct—Decorations Were Elaborate; the Bride, the Groom, tendants and What They v. Every Detail—A Heart-to-Heart Tail. With the Bride and Groom—Pertinent Paragraphs. By J. Hockley Smiley. The little maid cast down her eyes, Alack and well a-day. And away a mush begin to rise, Alack and well a day. Why, since you are so bold, she said, I doubt not you are highly bred. So take me, and the twain were wed, Alack and well a-day. —Dunbar. Tuesday evening Mr. Floyd Saunders Emanuel, second son of Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel, and Miss Jessie Bertlett Rates were united in marriage at Bethel A. A. church by the pastor, the Rev. D. P. Roberts. M. D. A happy coincident of the bride church ceremony was recalled by number of those present who remembered a similar occasion twenty-four years ago, in the same month, when the parents of the groom were joined in holy wedlock. Their quarter of a century of h-married life was considered a go-sign for the success of the first of their offsprings to be married. All Chicago Wanted to See. All Chicago wanted to witness this wedding, consequently long before seven o'clock those in charge knew that this spacious edifice was inadequate for the vast throng that had assembled. As it was fully an hour before the appointed hour the church was crowded far beyond the legal limit. Outside the crowd was as great and a few minutes before the bridal party was announced it was only by the most strenuous efforts of the tend ants that a pathway was made them. Audience Enjoys Music and Sight While the vast assemblage eager, waited Mr. Charles Elgan rendered a violin selection, and Mr. George Garner, Jr., sang "O Promise Me." I was at this juncture that many r called the wedding of the Emperors seniors many years ago and contrasted the decorations of that time with those of the present. Church Beautifully Decorated. Bethel church is perfect in interior appointment, the large pulpit platform with its generous ornate rall was entirely covered in spotless white supplemented by many tall and pretty palms. The many-light chandel threw down their brilliant rays u the gally bedecked audience ar was as near the ideal as modern can make a wedding party. Mii lian Hunt awakens the sonorous of the organ, and the cry is— "Hall to the Brid Everyone was elate through the door and a came the master of co Melville Mitchell, and father, Mr. Henry War. Bates, and the two other gro ushers, Messrs. Frank Edwar. Macon Huggins, followed in tu the ribbon girls, little Dorothy Doris Scurlock and little Ju Emanuel, the flower girl, and Ve Briggs bearing the ring on a cushion. Then came the brideem Miss Mable Wright in white em ered batiste, and carried pink rt Miss Grace Jones, pink crepe ch trimming, carried pink roses, and Ruth Young, pink satin trimmed velvet and lace, carried pink r the maid of honor, Miss Haze over dress of Persian lace and beet net over blue satin, extreme Trio style, and carried/white roses. T came the bride, charmingly go in white crepe meteor, trimme Venetian lace with a panel of menterle and pearls down the court train, bridal veil held in (Continued on page 2.) FLOYD EMANUEL WEDS MISS JESSE BATES. (Continued from page 1.) with wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a magnificent bouquet of lilies of the valley and roses. The groom with his brother Harrison to support him met the bride at the altar. The ceremony over the crowd slowly melted away, the majority to their homes, but hundreds to the reception at the Bates home across the way. The Reception The Bates home was agow with light. The happy couple with their attendants held sway in the parlor while friends swarmed around the beautiful table in the dining room for a piece of 'the bride's cake and an ice. The caterer in charge gave efficient service and every one was promptly served. During this enjoyable period Mr. William Henry --- After the Wedding Heart-to-Heart With the Writer Ck "Floyd will never have an unhappy day—so far as I am concerned. This ring will always be my most cherished possession."—The Bride. 4 . "We are going to make the grandest little team that ever came down the matrimonial handicap."—The Groom. e14 "Floyd is married; his mother and I are happy and we know that he will be happy also."—Prof. Emanuel. c12 "Jesse is my heart—may her future life be a long and happy one."—Mr. H. W. B. Bates. Browne, Jr., presided at the piano, assisted by Mr. Elgan, violinist. In a room adjoining the dining room the presents were displayed. An attempt at display should have been said, for many unopened boxes were in plain view, while a barrel full of smaller packages almost blocked the door. All in all it was the social event of the season. A wedding naturally attracts attention. But heralded so long advance by reason of the prominence of the principals it was an epoch making event, as things are considered socially. Master minds planned every detail, conscientious friends endeavored to carry them out. A public appreciative of sterling worth turned out in approbation. the reception we noticed among the bride's relatives her aunt, Mrs Luella Doozler Wicks, in black satin; another aunt, Mrs. Susan Franklin, gray satin chiffon and violet trimming; Mrs. Pearl Reed, sister of the bride, lavender satin, trimmed with pearl passamaterie and diamonds; Mrs. Etta Briggs, white hand embroidered gown; Mrs. Mamie Harrison, all over embroidered white gown; Mrs. J. G. Wilson, white broadcloth and jewelry. Other gowns were Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, imported gown of ashes of roses chiffon, embroidered in jewels over white satin, train, pearls and diamonds; Mrs. Mamie Meredith Smith, blue we gown, gold trimming, diamonds; Mrs. Mattie Thornton, pink folded crepe, diamonds; Mrs. blue crepe, diamonds; Mrs. Emil, Williams, grey crepe du chene. Others who wore beautiful gowns were Mrs. E. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Geo. Hall, Mrs. A. Brown, Mrs. Mollie Taylor, Irs. Hattie Wolridge, Mrs. Daniel Fring, Mrs. Clifford Johnson, Mrs. Mamie Selden Carrol, Miss Eloise Carey and sister, Miss Ada Lou Mitchel, Mrs. Ethel Mitchel, Mrs. Erma Jones, Miss Pearl Mayo, Miss Ethel Peacock. The carriage service was excellent, under care of Mr. Chas, Jackson, who had a dozen carriages constantly on road and the guests were promptly nveyed to and from their home. Short But Rather interesting. ster McKinley Emanuel said he was glad that his brother was led as he could now have a room s own." is, the bride's father, is with catering interests and as seen in the prettily pleated and the splendid servicing room. P. Roberts, the officiating man, always noted for his resemblance in the pulpit and on the sets, was the personification of term at this service. His miniature robes added impressiveness to occasion. Many of the friends of the bride groom declared "that the perfect vision in step in the march to and in the altar was due to their paration in the Reese-Edwards wedding a week ago." Practice makes feet you know. Dr. D. W. Nelson, the efficient door agent at the church, was also present at the reception. Mr. Bates found in him an able assistant throughout the entire evening. After all the children carried off the ors. Cute and daintily dressed were petted and praised from to finish. I mention these little es elsewhere in this story, but they need a large part in the success of brilliant wedding. and Mrs. Emanuel will be at o their friends after March 10 Grove avenue. OUT IN ENGLEWOOD. Weekly Letter from This Thriving Section of the City—All the News. The Ideal Woman's Club went in a body to the residence of Mrs. B. Bell, 6211 Loomis street, last Friday with a baby shower. Everything good for the new girl. Mrs. Craighead of 6243 Morgan street entertained Rev. Jefferson and his wife at breakfast Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hamilton of 6221 Morgan street, has returned home after a delightful visit in St. Louis, Mo., her former homo. Mrs. L. S. Williams has returned after a sad trip home on account of the illness of her mother, who passed away Tuesday evening. The Defender staff extend their sympathy to the family. The young ladies of Shiloh Baptist Sunday school will give a Leap Year party on March 1, at the church. The Shiloh Baptist choir will render "The Ten Virgins" in May. The date will appear later. The Hope Presbyterian church will dedicate its new church March 3. Services all day. Shiloh and St. John choirs will sing in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Steward entertained the Cornell Club Club last Friday. Mrs. Lear of 1317 West Sixtieth street entertained the ideal Woman's Club last Friday. The Hull House Woman's Club entertained the Ideal Woman's Club last Wednesday. Twenty-one members were present. The Ideal Woman's Club will give a musical at the residence of their president, Mrs. A. Lyles, 5922 Aberdeen street, Thursday evening, March 7th. A crowd of young ladies gave a linen shower on the bride-to-be, Miss Edith Bowman, whose wedding takes place in March. Look out for the June wedding in Englewood. Quite a society affair. The District School was repeated on George Washington's birthday at the Hope Presbyterian church, West Sixty-first and Loomis streets. Noticed in the vast throng at the Bates-Emanuel wedding Tuesday night were Mrs. D. W. Johnson and Mrs. Sol Morrison of 6034 South May street. The North Side Woman's Club gave a very successful social last week at the residence of Mrs. John Guy, for the benefit of Mrs. George Allen. Addresses were made by Mrs. Fannie Turner and Dr. Holloway. The topic was, "Charity." Mr. James B. Reel, who lost his reason about three months ago and who was located in St. Louis, has been sent back to Chicago. He will be taken to the Peoria insane asylum next week. Mrs. Price, who has been on the sick list, is reported better. HERRMAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Chavis has been absent for two Sundays on account of sickness. Services were conducted by Rev. Carneil. The ten-year celebration which was dated for February 22, has been postponed until February 23. Mrs. George Allen's Sunday school class gave a birthday surprise party for their teacher, who has been seriously ill. A new club was organized last month by the young ladies of the South and Nirth Sides. The name is La Marshellem. Mrs. Young is president, Miss Eugene Brady vice president, Oneida Daniel secretary, Etterk. The North Shore Men's Club will give their first annual St. Patrick's masquerade party Monday evening, March 18, at Phoenix hall, Sedgwick and Division streets. The N. S. M. C. will be entertained February 27 by Mr. E. Gordon, 4457 Evanston avenue The son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Gordon, who is five weeks old and weighs 14 pounds, has been named by his god-father, Mr. W. C. Smith of 742 Gordon terrace. Mr. Smith has named Master Gordon after one of the famous aviators, Earl Ovington Gordon, the man who drove his monoplane into Lake Michigan during the Chicago international aviation meet. Mr. Smith has also made a deposit at the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company for the promising young gentleman. GRANT RIDEOUT GRANTED NEW TRIAL Attorney De Witt H. Hardin's Motion for a New Trial Granted by Judge Sullivan. Grant Rideout, who was accused of murder of Thomas M. Teirney, a white man, at 4533 Kensington avenue, Sept. 19, 1911, and was indicted by the grand jury Oct. 23, 1911, has been granted a new trial. Rideout's case was called for trial Feb. 13, 1912, and on Feb. 15 of said year he was found guilty of murder in the first degree. De Witt Hardin was his attorney. Bepedict Short, state's attorney, represented the commonwealth. The case was tried before Judge Sullivan. The verdict was 14 years in the penitentiary. Hardin's motion for a new trial was granted by the court. Picked Up Ancient Scotch Coln. A unique, ancient coin dated 1677, was picked up recently by Mr. George Jackson, of Johnshaven, Klncardinshire, Scotland, while he was working in his garden. On the one side is the crossed sword and scepter with the crown, and on the other a Scotch thistle, with the date over the top. "Hib. Rex" can be distinctly read. The small copper coin, just the size of a present-day skipence, is in excellent preservation. Poor Economy. Probably the poorest economy in the world is to buy things you don't want in order to make acquaintances you don't need. - Galveston News. AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest—Speakers. The executive committee of the South Side Dept. Y. M. C. A. have arranged for a rally meeting to be held in the interest of the movement at Olivet Baptist Church on Sunday, March 10th, at 3:30 p. m. They have been fortunate in securing the services of Dr. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who will address a meeting of men. Dr. Washington has shown a very deep interest in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association throughout the country. In response to a letter from Mr. L. Wilbur Messer, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, he writes thus: "I have taken a good deal of interest in hearing by the Y. M. C. A. work in Chicago and have informed myself to some extent as to the wisdom of these plans in their practical bearing on the betterment of the condition of our race in Chicago, and I thoroughly approve of what is proposed to be done." Another quotation from an address that was made previous to the ten-day campaign that was held in the interest of our department is as follows: "The trouble with the northern Negro is that he demands from the white people around him a measure of respect that he is unwilling to give himself. Before he can hold the position to which he is fairly entitled, he must show himself worthy of it by doing something for himself." At the close of our campaign he gave forth these utterances: "Chicago has given itself a great reputation. Sometimes it is easier to get a reputation than it is to keep it, and as we have looked to you in the past, we are going to look to you in the future to see if you continue to lead the procession and set a high example for the whole country in this fine effort." Mr. R. E. Moore, a member of the executive committee and the first chairman of the temporary organization of the South Side Dept. Y. M. C. A., will preside at this meeting. Dr. E. J. Fisher, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, will introduce Dr. Washington. The committee has arranged for the admission to the meeting to be by ticket only. Tickets may be secured free of charge by making application at headquarters, 3330 State street. Several inspection parties went from the South Side Department to visit the different departments of the Y. M. C. A. during the past week. The parties visited the Wilson avenue, the Sears-Roebuck and the Division street departments of the Young Men's Christian Association. These inspection visits have been arranged in order that our men may become acquainted with association work. Mr. Jackson Gordan, 3435 Wabash avenue, has been very active in the association work. On last Sunday he brought in a large payment from one of our subscribers. Mr. Gordon has visited several of the Y. M. C. A.s. and is much impressed with the character of work that they are doing. Messrs. A. D. Brown, M. E. Wimes and J. C. Igou brought in subscriptions to our building fund during the week. On last Sunday the men who were in attendance at the meeting had the pleasure of discussing the topic, "Sowing and Reaping." A large number of men used the three minutes that were allotted to each man in the discussion. Reports from persons who had visited the different Y. M. C. A. buildings were made. Each expressed themselves as very favorably impressed with the equipment, the buildings and the work the association is doing in other parts of the city. One speaker made the remark that if every man felt as he did, they would be able to put the association up without further aid. Dr. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, will address our meeting on next Sunday afternoon. Dr. Thomas is very much interested in the work of the Y. M. C. A. and we are expecting a large number of men at our meeting. We advise you to come on time in order to be sure of getting seats. Paid-in-Full Subscriptions. Patterson on subscriptions. Wm. A. Blackburn, 100 S. Water street; W. R. Boone, 6640 Evans avenue; C. B. Hosmer, 3913 Prairie; Benedr Irvin, 7224 41st street; Thomas J. Kelley, 5255 Bearborn street; L. K. Levy, 5156 Wabash avenue; Mrs. Thos. G. Maxwell, 3672 Wabash avenue; Dr. Thos. G. Maxwell, 3672 Wabash avenue; John G. A. Mell, 3032 State street! A. W. Miller, County Assessor; R. H. Porter, 7224 Wentworth avenue. Paid-on-Account Subscribers. S. A. Ellis, 493 Holden court; R. J. B. Ellington, 4954 State street; Edgar J. Faust, 3642 Dearborn street; Wm. M. Farrow, 3538 Vernon avenue; T. H. Gause, 4715 Dearborn street; F. W. Harsh, Sr., 536 E. 44th place; F. W. Harsh, Jr., 536 E. 44th place; Samuel Lee, 6617 Langley avenue; G. J. Scott, 146 W. 27th street; Dr. C. D. Trice, 2002 State street; Mrs. C. D. Trice, 2002 State street; C. E. Wills, 2807 Wentworth avenue. Yellow Jackets Held Steeple A contractor and three carpenters were painfully stung when they climbed to the top of the First Baptist church, in New Castle, Del., recently, to make repairs to the roofs. Thousands of yellow jackets had made their home in the belfry, and they presented the intrusion and drove the men to the ground. One of the men made his way to the belfry and with tar paper closed all exits by which the insects could escape. Then he placed four sulphur candles under the cupola and lighted them. After the candles had burned out enough dead insects were found to fill a peach basket to overflowing, and the carpenters then resumed work on the church root. Double Blagged The most modern typewriters are pigged for billing—and some of them for cooling.—Philadelphia Record. GRIZZLY BEAR CUBS TRAINED BY TRAPPER. Amusing and Playful After Their Capterer Had Conquered the Call of the Wild—As Easy to Train As Any Dog. One day while wandering in the pine woods on the slope of Mount Meeker I came upon two young grizzly bears. Though they dodged about as lively a chickens, I at last cornered them in a penlike pocket of fallen trees. Getting them into a sack was one of the liveliest experiences I ever had. Though small and almost starved, these little orphans proceeded to "chew me up" after the manner of big grizzlies, as is told of them in books. After an exciting chase and tussle I would catch one and thrust him into the sack. In resisting he would insert his claws into my clothes, or thrust them through the side of the sack; then, while I was trying to tear him loose, or to thrust him forcibly in, he would lay hold of a finger, or take a bite in my leg. Whenever he bit it at once dropped him, and then all began over again. Their mother had been killed a few days before I found them; so, of course, they were famished and in need of a home; but so bitterly did they resist my efforts that I barely succeeded in taking them. Though hardly as large as a collie when he is at his prettiest, they were nimble athletes. At last I started" home, the sack over my shoulder, with these lovely Ursus horribilis in the bottom of it. Their final demonstration was not needed to convince me of the extraordinary power of their jaws. Nevertheless, while going down a steep slope one managed to bite into my back through sack and clothes, so effectively that I responded with a yell. Then I fastened the sack at the end of a long pole, which I carried across my shoulder, and I was able to travel the remainder of the distance to my cabin without another attack in the rear. Of course the youngsters did not need to be taught to eat. I simply pushed their noses down into a basin of milk, and the little red tongues at once began to plly; then raw eggs and bread were dropped into the basin. There was no hesitation between courses; they simply gobbled the food as long as I kept it before them. Jenny and Johnny were pets before sundown. Though both were alert, Johnny was the wiser and more cheerful as readily as a collie or shepherd dog, and I have never seen any dog more playful. All bears are keen of wit, but he was the brightest one of the wild folk that I have ever known. He grew rapidly, and ate me almost out of supplies. We were intimate friends in less than a month, and I spent much time playing and talking with him. One of the first things I taught him was, when hungry, to stand erect with arms extended almost horizontally, with palms forward. I also taught him to greet me in this manner.—From the Spell of the Rockies, by Enos A. Mills. Craig's Crazes. Gordon Craig, who interlards his sapient utterances with more than the average man's nonsensical lapses, perpetrates this: "I take an entirely common sense view of the man and his motives. He simply succeeded in performing in two months a task that has been tried in every court in Europe for centuries. He set out to cleanse social and official life of its moral grime and its degeneracy. He set about his task with direct purpose, and with the full enthusiasm of a young, virile, and cruelly wronged man. His ideas were logical, and he reasoned and thought out every movement and act during that brief time of storm and stress that ended in tragedy. That is my idea of Hamlet." Apropos of which the Nation tartly remarks: "If that really is Mr. Craig's notion of Hamlet, there does not seem to be much reason why he should be encouraged to promulgate it. What fatality is it that condemns so many enthusiastic stage reformers to be 'break吧!' Bother the Button! All know the annoying habit buttons have of coming off at a moment when they are most needed, says "Answers." It seems sometimes as though nothing short of wire thread will keep them in their places; and even wire breaks away from the cloth. When next you' are sewing on a button, follow these directions, and that button will never trouble you again. Place your button, take a hairpin—a strong one—and lay it across the button, then sew it over the hairpin. When you have put as much thread through the eyes as they will hold, withdraw the hairpin. Then push the needle through near the button, pull the button up, and wrap the thread several times round between the button and garment. Fasten the thread on the under side of the button, and then you will find that that button will stay on until the garment is worn out. Still Perilous. Cortlandt Field Bishop was talking in New York about the dangers of flying. "It is just as well," he said, "that flying is prohibitively costly. In its present state of development it is too dangerous for us to wish it to be common. "I met a financier the other day who said: "I know a man who has invented a cheap biplane. The whole machine, motor and all, will cost $150. Think of it! Flying within the reach of everybody! A great business undertaking should come of this, eh?" "A great undertaking business should certainly come of it," said L. SINGLE MEN ELIGIBLE BACHELORS A Large List of Marriageable Men Who Have Signified Their Willingness To Become Benedicts if a Lady "Pops the Question" and Has $5,000 as a Marriage Dowry—Each Proposal Will Be Promptly Checked Off in These Columns. DON'T BE BASHFUL THIS IS LEAP YEAR. The Chicago Defender's Publication of Marriageable Women Brings Results—Many Announcements Are to Be Made Next Week—One Reader Advertises for Rich, Christian Husband Under Forty Years Old—Please Answer Promptly. At the earnest request of our many women readers whose names were published under the caption "Many June Brides," in our issue of Feb. 10, we herewish publish a list of single men and eligible widowers and bachelors. We have interviewed many of them and all signify their willingness to become beneficts if a lady "pops the question," and has five thousand dollars as a dowry. As a starter we reprint a letter from a subscriber signing herself as H. S., who is looking for a husband. Her requirements in a husband are very simple and the list below no doubt contains H. S.'s "future husband." Here is the list, take your choice: Bachelors—W. B. Sobers, Joe Pope, Adam M. Beckley, N. Nesbit, Garfield Wilson, R. S. Abbott, Albert George, Wille Harsh, Dr. Harry Garnes, Zeb Ketrebaum, John Moore, Ben Thompson, Dr. W. G. Daily, William Farrow, Timmothy Carlyle, Jane Osboles, Bert Lewis, Sam Fielding, John Hedgepath, John Topp, Geo Price, Mr. Samnels, Robt, Lacy, C. Kyle, Wm. Smith of Boston, Wesley Barley, James Lee, Mr. Netherland, Monroe Johnson, Henry Rhea, Cary B. Lewis, T. W. J. Boxley, Edw Faulkner, Laurence Watkins, Opal Cooper, Charlie Laws, Dr. Wm. Rady, Geo Garner, Jr., Harrison Emanuel, Julius Green, Louis Thompson, Melville Mitchell, Lervy and Walter Hayes, Runus Estes, James N. Sims, Bob Fisher, Bird Lucky, Tom Hamilton, Thomas A. Nelson, Geo. Johnson, Anderson Brodie, Charles Congo Frank Thompson, Creighton Johnson, James Green, Ernest Johnson, James R. Parham, Plumer Butler, Frank Stephens, Richard Downling Joe Thomas, Charlie Settles, Frank Wooden, Israel Alexander, Frank Bishop, E. Canyt Widowers—T. F. Dyson, Mr. Bird, Mr. Wheeler, J. Hockley Smiley, Jerry Williams, Daniel Webster, D. B. Peyton, Geo. Ecton, Al Sloan, R. J. B. Elington, Henry Cole, De Koven Thompson. HUSBAND WANTED! Chicago, Ill., Feb. 20, 1912—Mr. Editor, Chicago Defender: Please find space in your paper for the following: "Husband wanted," by a middle-aged colored woman, about 39 years old. Would like acquaintance with a young Christian gentleman under 40 years with money. Call or write 4021 State street, rear second flat, H. S. HYDE PARK NEWS. Women's Club Meets at the Residence of Mrs. H. S. Claybrook. Tuesday, February 7, the Hyde Park Women's Club met at the home of Mrs. H. S. Claybrook, its president. All of the members and several visitors were present. The report of the bazaar entertainment was made and the proceeds turned over to the banking committee. Several new members were taken in and the club adjourned to meet the following Wednesday at the home of Miss Ophelia Anderson. At this meeting a report was made by the banking committee and another entertainment arranged. It will be a leap year party. "Mrs. Busby's Pink Tea" will be a feature of the evening.—Mrs. C. Tanner, secretary. A FEW MORE LADIES. A Reporter Who Was Out of Town On An Assignment Has Just Submitted the Following List. Ada Lou Mitchell, Vlyian Harsh, Minnie Calcway, Lucile Woods, Elese Johnson, Cora Pride, Blauche Shelton, Margaret Huggins, Myrtle Mathews, Frank Drake, M. Gertrude Jackson, Nannie Alvis, Anna Smith, Sallie Bolton, Garnetta Tibbs, Fannie Woods, Lillian Granberry, Evangeline Whitman Napoleon on Shakespeare It is a fact that the great emperor of the French had a very poor opinion of Shakespeare's plays. According to Thibaudeau, in his "Bonaparte and the Consulate," Napoleon said one day; "Shakespeare was forgotten even by the English for two hundred years, until Voltaire took it into his head to write him up, to please his English friends; and ever since people have gone about repeating that Shakespeare was the greatest author that ever lived. I have read him, and there is nothing in him that approaches Cornelle or Racine. His plays are not worth reading." Where Samson Would Shine A fond father rendered a dull Sunday afternoon pleasant by telling his small son Bible stories. By and by he told how Samson carried away the great gates of Gaza. Said the son, who had learned much through many fittings: "Oh, daddy, wouldn't he be a fine moving man?" BOOKS AND THOSE WHO WRITE THEM. A 'Review — Our · Literary Round Table. By D. W. Johnson. As a people of the same race it is somewhat surprising that the colored people of the United States do not take more interest in the republic of Liberia. Liberia is a small negro republic on the grain coast of West Africa, founded in 1822 by American philanthropists for the settlement of freedmen who wished to return to their tribal land and enjoy the political and social privileges then and now denied them in the United States. Liberia has an area of about 40,000 square miles and a population of 2,120,000. The soil is very fertile and well suited for the growth of tropical crops. The riches of its wealth would be indescribable if the proper care and attention were given to its development. The government is modeled after that of the United States, consisting of a president, a congress composed of a senate of nine members, a house of representatives of fourteen members, a supreme court and cabinet officers. The distress of Liberia in recent years has been abnormal. While she has been fairly free from internal troubles, with the exception of an occasional uprising of the natives, her financial burdens and outside interference have been almost unbearable. But happily, now, through the good offices of the United States government and the successful diplomatic negotiations of our American minister, Hon. W. D. Crum, Liberia has been able to secure a sufficient loan to carry her on her way rejoicing and it is generally believed that a complete rehabilitation of the country will be soon accomplished. It is gratifying to learn that Liberia has been fortunate in electing such a distinguished gentleman president, as the Hon. Daniel Edward Howard. Mr. Howard is a very able and accomplished gentleman, possessing a wide and varied experience in the affairs of the government, which makes him thoroughly capable to cope with the situation. His inaugural address as given in the New York Age February 8, is a masterpiece both from a literary standpoint and as a manifestation of his statesmanship. MEETING OF PROTEST AGAINST SEPARATE SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO. A meeting to protest against the action of the Hyde Park Protective League, in advocating separatism schools in Chicago for colored and white children, will be held under the auspices of the Bethel Literary Club, at Bethel church, Thirtieth and Dearborn streets, Sunday afternoon, February 25, at 4 o'clock. Addresses by Hon. E. H. Wright, Hon. John G. Jones, W. G. Anderson, W. H. Wallace, S. B. Turner and J. T. H. Woods. A fine musical program will be rendered. If you are interested in our children, come out at 4 o'clock. Everybody welcome. DETECTIVE F. P. STARKS RETURNS. Detective Frank P. Starks of Chief McWeeney's office returned from the east Thursday morning bringing with him Perry Bradford. Some time ago the foxy Mr. Bradford, then a member of a show, called "The Chicken Trust," got into an altercation and severely cut a man. He was arrested, omitted to bonds but forgot the fact and hastened from the city. Detective Starks was detailed to hunt him dawn and the chase led him to New York, New Jersey and thence to Boston, where he captured his man as he was about to depart for Canada. ORCHID WHIST CLUB'S PRE-LENT EN DANCE. The Orchid Whist Club gave their pre-Lenten dance on last Thursday evening at the Kenwood parlorists. Miss Cora Pride, the president, deserves much credit for the unique affair given by the club. Some of the leading young men of the city were among the guests of the club. They were Mr. George R. Garner, Jr., Drs. William Raby and Boger. The Orchid Whist Club will give their formal affair late in the spring. Madagascar Wild Peaches. In Madagascar wild peaches are found in great numbers. Procrastination is the thief of time WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! Don't allow yourself or those dependent on you to suffer in the time of need for the sake of a few paltry dollars. It requires very little to carry a splendid life insurance policy in the CHAS. A. GRIFFIN, Agent. 3022 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. This old and reliable company invites you to form a part of its membership. Equal rates and protection to all. Colonel Saussier, General Zurliden and Others Have Escaped From Prisons in Germany. About a dozen precedents for the escape of Captain Lux from his German prison can be found in the history of the Franco-German war, and a large proportion of the heroes of them lived to become famous. A notable case was that of General (then colonel) Saussier, ultimately commander-in-chief of the French army; who was detained at Grandens, in the extreme east of Prussia. It is said that he put his boster to bed instead of himself, hid in an obscure corner of the fortress until nightfall, and then, having obtained a disguise by the help of his orderly, was allowed to walk out of the main prison gate. He crossed the frontier to Poland and returned to France by way of Austria and Italy. General Zurilden was another prisoner who got out of his prison at Glogan in Silesia, on Christmas eve. He made his way in disguise through Berlin, Frankfort and Karskruhe to Basei, a feast which was not difficult for him, as being an Alsatian, he spoke German quite as well as his failers. Thirdly, we may note the experiences of M. Paul Deroulede, who escaped from Breslau, and it is pliant to recall that that vehement anti-Semitie did not disdain to disguise himself as a Polish Jew. He was very nearly betrayed by a peasant whom he had bribed to guide him into Bohemia; but he drew his knife with a ferocious gesture and the peasant changed his mind, with the result that M. Deroulede saw the final fights of the war as a sub-leutnant of Turcos. More Favorable Ground. When our son was a boy of four a family of children moved next to us who were simply incorrigible. Of course their doings were much commented on in our family, and many a time I talked about "those dreadful Smith children." One day I had occasion to correct my little son, talking to him seriously. He listened quietly for avail, then looked up at me and said with the most engaging air: "Don't let's talk about this, mammal let's talk about the Smith children." Res. Phones: Doug. 2588 Office: Oak 3126 Auto 72-607 DR. G. WILLIAM MILLER, Physician and Burgeon Office, 4709 State Street Heurs: 9-11 A. M.; 1-3 and 6-8 P. M. Residence, 3552 Forest Ave. DR. A. BAILEY WILLIAMS, PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON. Heurs: 11-380 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 8:30 p. m. to 6 p. m.; 7 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., and by assignment. Provident Hospital Dally, 111 a. m. State Street Chicago 18 The Spirella Boning makes the Spirella Corset Belle, comfortable, exudive, guaranteed shape-retaining. An Expert Concierge, trained by us, will serve you at your home. MISS LOLA M. NORTON 3004 Wabash Ave, Corsette Phase A128f See Spirella magazine in leading magazine. Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST Office Hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m; from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday by appointment. Phones: Oakland 4662. Auto. 73-058. 4715 South State St, CHICAGO, IL 4151 PHONE ALDINE 3458 IDA M. DEMPCY Stenographer and Typist 3716 Dearborn St. Chicago, IL Smith @ Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Extra Fine Home Cooking Private Dining Room 8236 State Street Chicago low yourself or those de- in the time of need for dollars. It requires very life insurance policy in the EMNITY COMPANY d in 1884 City Churches—Religious News STANDARD LITERARY CLUB. Program for the Standard Literary Club of Bethesda Baptist church, Sunday, February 25: Tenor solo, Mr. P. Wayne; speaker of the day, Rev. W. Durant Frode, pastor of S. D. A. church, subject, "The Rise and Fall of Empires;" duet, M. S. Nellie Gregg and Mrs. Johnson of Olivet choir. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday is Rally day. Services at 15:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday school, 2 o'clock, Christian Endeavor, 6:45 p. m. At 3:15 p. m. reunion rally of Christian Endeavorers. Thursday, February 29, Founder's day will be observed. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER Sunday afternoon meeting, February 25 at 4 p. m. Miss Pauline Lee will give a musical program as follows: a, Preludio No. 15; a, Tocatta, G major (J. S. Bach); a, Nocturne, op. 15, No. 2 (F. Chopin); b, Au Printemps, op. 30 (Sigismund Nowskowski.) WAYMAN CHAPEL CHURCH Services Sunday, February 25, will be as follows: Preaching at 11 a. m. The Sunday Club will meet at 4:30 p. m., at which time the North Side Women's Club will furnish the program. The pastor is preaching a series of sermons on the seven songs of Revelation. The sermon Sunday night will be "The Song of Power," in which is a prophecy of the final battle of the nations of the earth. This will be the third sermon on this very important subject. Preaching at 7:45 p. m. Sunday, March 3, there will be special services all day. Sunday night will be witnessed a Bible scene. Characters in ancient costumes will represent this scene just prior to the sermon. Every Sunday morning during the month of March there will be special sermons on "The Law of the Lord" at 11 a. m. Miss Ione Goode and Miss Blanch Abernathy will give a concert for the benefit of the rally. The Thimble Club was reorganized at the pastor's residence Tuesday night—Mrs, L. E. Stewart, president. WALTERS A. M. E. CHURCH. The two sermons delivered by our pastor, Dr. Callis, Inst Sunday were of unusual interest. In the morning he preached on "Character Bullding," in the evening on "Reigion in the Home." His discourse in the evening emphasized the responsibility of parents and especially that of fathers. The annual banquet of the Men's Club, which is to take place next Thursday night, the 29th, is creating much excitement. The program will include some of the best talent in the city. The music is in charge of Mrs. Ida Stovall. Among the speakers will be Prof. Richard T. Greener, Hon. Frederick Lauden, Dr. A. J. Carey, Hon. William Hale Thompson, Hon. E. H. Wright and others. Many of the ladies are preparing special costumes for this event. The program in the auditorium will be free to the public. Our third quarterly conference will be held on the 7th of March. Sunday services will be as follows: Early morning prayer meeting, 6:30; preaching at 11 a. m., by the pastor; Sunday school at 1 p. m. A special preaching service at 3 p. m. by Mrs. Mary E. Idell. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. The pastor will preach at the regular evening service. Easter rally pledge day will be continued. VOLUNTEER WORKERS' CLUB The Volunteer Workers' Club celebrated Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas' birthday Wednesday, February 14, at the home of Mrs. Mary Webster, chairman of the executive board, 6430 Vincennes avenue. The program was in charge of the executive board. The speakers for they afternoon were: Mrs. Lang Williams, who spoke on "Douglas." Mrs. Tillie H. White, "The Man Lincoln." Mrs. Cella Parker Woolly, "Douglas." Mrs. Harry A. Duncan, paper on Lincoln. Mrs. Hattie Patten gave avocal selection. Mrs. Sula May Williams recited Lincoln's favorite poem, "Why Should the Spirit of Mortals He Proud?" One of the most interesting features of the afternoon was a chorus of fourteen little girls, who sang two patriotic songs, "Our Flag" and "Marching Through Georgia." The hostess then invited the guest to luncheon in the dining room, which was beautifully decorated in red, white and blue. Each person was presented with a Lincoln souvenir. Proceeds of the silver offering amounted to $8.16. The guests were Mesdames J. W. Cross, C. Roberts, M. Collins, L. Turnley, A. Harrison, B. Payne, A. Sprague, F. Hall Clint, C. Davis, A. L. Jackson, Ira Stewart, Sublet, Coppage, McComa, Gordon and Johnson. — L. H. W. A SHORT TALK ABOUT A FAMILY NECESSITY. Secure a Resting Place for Your Dead —Beautiful Mount Glenwood Cemetery. Every colored family in Chicago has a grand opportunity to secure a family cemetery lot at a very low price and on easy terms, $2 cash and $2 per month. You will find a coupon printed on another page in this issue which is good for $5 as the first payment on a cemetery lot in beautiful Mount Glenwood when accompanied with a small cash payment of $2 on an lot in sections F or C, or $5 on any lot in D or G. This offer is only good until March 1st, so those who are wise will take advantage of this opportunity to buy a lot and make a saving of $5. A cemetery lot is a family necessity and the time to buy it is when you are in health and are able to make the small payments. A Chicago cemetery lot in a new cemetery like beautiful Mount Glenwood is also a good investment, as these lots just grow in value as improvements are made and the demand increases each year for lots. MORALITY OF THE ELEPHANT He Makes a Cat's Paw of Boy's Hand to Steal the Unhusked Rice. Singular as it may seem, elephants which have associated with men entertain the notion that, under special circumstances, they are not responsible if they utilize another to commit an illegal act. The following is an instance of this elephantine morality: A man in tangleoon bought three young elephants to send to England. They were tame and playful, but cunning. Knowing that it was wrong to steal paddy (unhusked rice)—the idea had doubtless been impressed upon them by punishment for stealing—they would not touch it themselves. But if a boy went to see them, he would be seized by one, the little trunk would be coiled around his arm, and he would be led to where the paddy was kept in bags. The elephant would make a cat's paw of the boy's hand to take up a handful of paddy. Then, letting go, he would turn up the end of his trunk, open it, and coaxingly invite the boy to drop in the paddy. Should the boy, however, put it back in the bag, his arm would again be seized by the trunk, and his hand would be again inserted into the paddy bag. The boy, anxious to be released, would usually drop the paddy into the trunk, and the elephant would blow the rice into his mouth. After repeating the operation several times, the elephant would swamper off, feeling that he had got the paddy without stealing it—Harper's Weekly. KNEW HIM AND LOVED HIM Dr. Courtenay, Mutilated Veteran of the Confederate Army, as He Was In Tippah. Dr. Courtenay entered the Confederate army as a surgeon, and after the surrender found himself without home, family, or fortune. His right coat sleeve dangled empty; the hand that had saved so many lives could not save itself. It had been amputated after Gettysburg, and the story goes that Lee himself—the name is always pronounced slowly and reverently in Tippah—had said, "I wish I could give my hand to save yours, doctor." Another loss, equally grave, but less conspicuous, was that of his left lung. It was this trouble that had brought him to Tippah's mild climate, for nearly 20 years he had lived there alone in his three-room cottage, riding out every day to his little farm, five miles from town, and reading and smoking far into the night. His library was the wonder of Tippah. Books in five languages lined the walls of his house—all in the cheapest bindings, for the doctor was poor; but, as he used to say, it was the meat in the nut he cared for, not the shell outside. He never practiced medicine, except occasionally among persons too poor to pay for medical advice, or, more frequently, in serious cases when called in consultation. It was known that he had never taken a fee in Tippah. Every one believed implicitly in his skill. It was a common thing to hear it said, after a death, "Nothing could have saved him; Dr. Courtenay said so."—Lillian Kirk Hammond in the Atlantic. An Indian Day. In the dew-bespangled sunrise, while the air was caressingly cool, we went forth to ride along the river bank and beside fields of yellow mustard or dun stubble; then, on our return to the shadowed tents, a bath, breakfast, and the day's occupations; then again, in the swift dusk of evening, when furtive jackals rent the twilight stillness with wailing and demoniac laughter, or the silver bark of little foxes echoed over the mist-velled rice-fields, white under the moon, we gathered in comfortable deck chairs in a great, dim aliso of the mango grove, while the tents shone orange in the lamplight, to tell sad stories of the deaths of kinds, or listen to the Police Chota Sahib, who had a pretty, sentimental tenor, singing "The Long Indian Day."—Charles Johnston, in the Atlantic Staining Glass. The art of colored glass has been lost and refound, guarded and stolen so many times during the history of civilization that it seems almost impossible to say anything new on glass staining. Yet a process has been discovered for making the stained glass used in windows which is a departure from anything known to the old timers. The glass first receives its design in mineral colors, and the whole is then fired in a heat so intense that the coloring matter and the glass are indisolubly fused. The most attractive feature of this method is that the surface acquires a peculiar pebbled character in the heat, so that when the glass is in place the lights are beautifully soft and mellow. Popularity of #1 Results 2024 Popularity or "Rock of Ages." When Toplady in 1776 wrote the "Rock of Ages" he could not have conceived that it would become so widely known or so popular among all shades of religious opinion. It was this hymn that Mr. Gladstone translated into three languages, and which the Prince Consort asked for when on his deathbed. Best to Do It Well If you are going to klick at all it is just as well to get there with both feet. WIFE'S PLAN DID NOT FAIL Hubby Shelled Out Promptly When He Realized Who Wrote the Letter to Her. Here is a little scheme which a wife tried on a good—but rather tight—husband when she wanted a particular something for Christmas, which is commended to wives of a like mind. One night when he was comfortably seated after dinner smoking his pipe, she brought out a bundle of papers and said she had hesitated for a long time whether or not to read him some letters she had received. He pricked up his ears, seemed interested and she took the rubber band from the package, telling him he must promise not to ask who the writer was until she had finished, and then not to go gunning for her correspondent. He promised, with curiosity at boiling point, and she began to read: "My own darling," she began, "I think of you all day and dream of you by night. Wherever I go you are with me, and I live for you alone. The other night when I discovered that you loved me—" at this point husband's pipe went out and he sat up very straight. "What?" he said, rising with a red face, "who the—" "Now," said his wife, "you promised to wait until the end, to be quiet until I had finished." "But—" said her husband. She continued to read, "your eyes are my sun, your mouth is the mouth of dreams, your lips—" "Well, I'll be—" said her husband, furiously. "I dream of a day when you'll be mine and mine alone," read on his wife calmly, "and I long for the day when I can call you—" "Stop that!" shrieled the frate husband. "Who wrote that rot? Just let me get my hands on him—" "You've got your hands on him now, dear," said his wife, sweetly, "you wrote these letters when we were engaged." He sat down and lighted his pipe. "What did you say you wanted for Christmas?" he asked.—St. Paul Dispatch. Insanity Not Inherited. "Most persons think that insanity may be directly inherited," says Homer Folks in the State Charities' Bulletin. "This belief is undoubtedly wrong. One may inherit a greater or less tendency toward insanity. Mental instability may be inherited, just as weak constitutions may be inherited. Those who have reason to believe that some of their ancestors suffered from mental troubles need not be unduly alarmed, for this fact does not make it certain that they will suffer likewise. These tendencies toward insanity may lie dormant during the whole lives of the individuals. But such persons should take the proper precautions to prevent the development of this tendency. As a weak constitution may be built up by healthy habits, so may mental instability be made stable by good mental and physical habits. The individual whose family has had mental trouble may often escape the disease by proper surroundings, healthful and temperate activities, and proper mental and physical habits. The most important fact in heredity is that the vast majority of ancestors of every individual were normal. Heredity tends, therefore, rather more strongly toward health than disease. Books With Uncut Leaves In this country and Germany the practice of publishing books and magazines with uncut leaves has largely fallen into disuse, but it is still common in France, where its prevalence provides a dissatisfied author with a cause for grumbling. In "La Grande Revue" among other hlaindrances to the reading habit which is so much in need of encouragement, at any rate from the author's point of view, he instances the practice of publishing books with uncut edges. Time, he says, is growing more valuable every year and yet the reader of a French volume of average proportions has to spend about twenty minutes in the petttifogging work of cutting the leaves in order to get at the contents. Some people of course who take their reading in leisurely fashion rather like being checked by the need for using a paper knife, but the ordinary reader does not want to be bothered in this way. He likes to go straight ahead without being compelled to cut his way through the book as he proceeds.—Westminster Gazette. Hooked Perfect. A few nights ago an old family friend was calling at the apartment of Gen. George Pennington Borden, U. S. A., retired. The general and his friends were conversing on military tactics when Mrs. Borden entered the room and with the brief explanation, after greeting the guest, "Malds busy," indicated to the majestic warrior that he was to fasten those two buttons at the back of her blouse which defy the most agile feminine contortions. Weekly the veteran arose, murmurring, "How are the mighty falen! What rights are left to men when a brigadier general of the United States army must button a blouse in the back? How can I pose as a military tactician when I can be driven into a corner by a simple wave of a feminine hand? Despite his wall, the struggle was soon over, and the gallant soldier was rewarded with the information: "You did that very well." "Thank you, my dear," said the general mournfully. "I am glad to have my humble talents recognized." Quser Form of Insurance Lloyd's have insured people against many strange things, but few qualifier inquiries have been made than that of an undertaker, who asked the other day at what price underwriters would relieve him of any liability from shocks caused to private people by his coffins being taken to the wrong houses at night. Underwriters did not feel themselves competent to quote a premium offhand, but expressed their willingness to consider the proposition provided details were supplied, such as the annual turnover, the number of such shocks known to have been green and their severity. GUESS WHO? The doll is who don't believe in going to school on stormy days. Oh, you F. D. The doll is who certainly looked good at wedding Tuesday evening. Oh, you E. P. The bride is who certainly looked beautiful Tuesday night. The P. O. dudes are who were disappointed on Wednesday. Oh, you hall. The club of boys are who were heard to play with cards and music they had had their dance on Shrove Tuesday instead of Ash Wednesday. Oh, you Phalanx. The doll is who certainly believes in dance with cards and music in school. E. S. is she. The milliner is who went to New York for new spring styles and brought back someone style (in the shape of a new husband). Poor Rolle, is. The middle-aged matron is who says when she goes to dancing, school she will CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING FURNISHED ROOMS. For Rent. CALUMET AVE., 3555—Large, beautiful rooms or flat, steam heat, modern improvements, near 353th St. car line, Call or write. 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A Shakespearean enthusiast with much leisure time on his hands and a regular mania for statistics has discovered that the plays of Shakespeare contain 100,007 lines and 814,780 words. "Hamlet" is the longest play, with 3,930 lines, and the "Comedy of Errors" the shortest, with 1,777 lines. Allogether the plays contains 1,277 characters, of which 157 are females. The longest part is that of Hamlet, who has 11,610 words to deliver. The part with the longest word in it is that of Costard in "Love's Labor's Lost," who tells Moth that he is "not so long by the head as honorificabil-tudinitibus." --- be prepared for all emergencies. Take care of yourself, Mrs. G. The family is that makes itself so silly along come and go. GUESS WHO-EVANSTON. The doll is that changes her name over the telephone. The doll is that makes beautiful aprons in a hurry, too. GUESS WHO-ENGLEWOOD. The Englewood doll is on the list of young men get busy, this is leap year. J. This is leap year; now is your chance, M. GOT THERE AT LAST STORY OF THE SHIPWRECK AS TOLD BY A WOMAN. There Was a Joke In It but It Took Her a Long Time to Reach the Point, According to Tale Related by S. E. Kiser. A story that S. E. Kiser told at the recent banquet given by the Chicago Association of Commerce for the sons of members follows: "I told you about the difficulty of getting a woman to see the point of a joke. Now, there is another kind of woman. She is the woman who starts to tell you a joke and has difficulty in reaching the point of it. "One of the loveliest little women that I ever knew had this trouble. She had once been unfortunate enough to be in a shipwreck. The vessel on which she was a passenger had been driven upon some rocks and was rapidly pounding to pieces when the lifesavers succeeded in shooting a line over the upper works of the boat, thereby rescuing the passengers one at a time by means of the breeches buoy. There was a little incident connected with the woman's trip from the ship to the shore which she told in about this way: "O, it was the most awful experience I ever had in all my life. I do hope nothing of the kind will ever happen to me again, but do you know when I was about half way between the ship and the shore swinging on that little bit of line and expecting every minute was going to be my last, the funniest thought suddenly popped into my mind just when I was there half way between the ship and the shore, and O! how those waves dashed and roared beneath me as I swung there just as if they were going to tear me into pieces in a minute. My, it was awful! But as I say, I was there half way between the ship and the shore when this funny thing came to my mind of all the places in the world. I can't imagine why it came to me there. You know my husband always treats me like a mere child, he doesn't let me handle the money and wouldn't even allow me to go around and buy a piece of steak, but just as I was there about half way, as I say, this funny thought struck me—and my, it was dark, awful dark! "Well, as I was there, I say, swinging on this little bit of rope about half way between the ship and the shore, and suddenly this funny thought came to my mind. Now, the captain, I thought, was a coward the minute we got on the rocks, because he gave up, but the mate was one of the bravest men I ever saw in my life. But there I was half way between the ship and the shore and with nothing but that little bit of rope between me and death, expecting every minute to be the last minute of my life, and suddenly this funny thought sprang into my head and I was thinking also that my children would have a stepmother inside of a year if I was drowned, and, O, how it thundered and lightened, and my, how wet I was, I never was so wet in my life. I sometimes think it runs in our family, because I had a cousin drowned at sea. Well, as I say, there I was, about half way between the ship and the shore, swinging there, and suddenly the thought popped right into my mind just as suddenly as if some one had spoken it to me right out loud—suddenly the thought popped into my head there. "Well, I had the breeches on for once anyhow." Entertaining the Duke That irrepressible artist, the late Phil May, "saved the situation" at the Savage club one night in a very happy manner. It was an occasion when the late duke of Teck was present, and on account of this royal visit the entertainment committee thought it incumbent upon them to substitute for the usual free-and-easy play a strictly conventional entertainment, which, for all the duke's good nature, plainly bored him to death. The proceedings went on in a funeral gloom very alien to the surroundings, till, in despair, one of the committee begged Phil May to cheer things up a bit, as only Phil May could. "Phil" asked for some black chalks and a drawing board. The duke had just become a | grandfather by the birth of the present prince of Wales, but few saw Phil May's drift as he drew, in his own infinitable style, an infant in long clothes grabbing at a feeding bottle, till he surmounted the . The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M FINEST THEATR 3110-12 State St., Performers Send in The New Grand Famous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Stage of Program Monday and Thursday INEST THEATRE IN AMERICA. 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General House Work for Women Cooks, Maids, Laundresses. IN AND OUT OF THE CITY 3247 St aware of ph. We are tod that it minutely one can attach ont door and hear a cock liking in the kitchen. It should not a necessary to urge every voter to stand by his race regardless of personal likes or petty differences, when prejudice is creeping about us here in big. broad Chicago, it behooves us to strike while the iron is hot and strike hard. United States of China, that doesn't sound bad. Congratulations. With such leaders as Dr. Sun we predict for the new republic such an awakening as the world has never seen, for thousands and thousands of years in the main they have been densely ignorant, while their nearest brother, the Japanese, have astonished all with their cleverness. Just how long our doors will remain closed to them remains to be seen. "Rome was not built in a day." What has become of the editorial backbone of "The Tribune?" Are we to understand by its silence that it is in any way in sympathy with the sentiment expressed in the article on "Jim Crow" schools, furnished by the so-called Hyde Park Protective club, which it dignified by giving a prominent a place on its front page? Or is it merely an oversight on the part of the editor? More than likely it is the latter, for we are not quite ready to believe that the great Chicago Tribune would give so prominent a place to an article of that character and then neglect to tell the world through its editorial columns where it stands on the proposition. We are grateful to the "Evening Post" especially, and to all the other daily papers, for the stand they have taken in the matter. And we would say to this handful of prejudiced would-be's, if conditions as they find them now, in this broad city of ours, do not meet with their approval with the "vast amount of money at their disposal, they should have no difficulty in migrating to more agreeable surroundings. The Tribune can greatly relieve the anxiety of a large number of its subscribers and friends by stating its policy regarding our race, we are as anxious to have our criminals brought to justice as any other race, but want and insist upon having justice. Why the necessity of saying "A burly negro did this thing or a burly negro did that," and not say the same of an Irishman, German, Frenchman or any other nationality, is more than we can understand, save we again explain it by prejudice; for example note the articles concerning the men hanged here a fortnight ago. Surely the progress we have made in the last half century entitles us to a boost and not a knock. Lodge Officers Chief Ranger, Navy, 5345 Dearborn street, phone 5019 Dixay. Fin. Seymour, E. W. Taylor, 5422 Dearborn street, phone 5019 Dixay. Treasurer, Frank L. Cittenden, 2414 Dearborn street, phone 3219 Calumet. noxious to h justice as and insist the necessity did this this that" and r KNEW HIM AND LOVED HIM Dr. Courtenay, Mutilated Veteran of the Confederate Army, as He Was in Tippah. Dr. Courtenay entered the Confederate army as a surgeon, and after the surrender found himself without home, family, or fortune. His right coat sleeve dangled empty; the hand that had saved so many lives could not save itself. It had been amputated after Gettysburg, and the story goes that Lee himself—the name is always pronounced slowly and reverently in Tippah—had said, "I wish I could give my hand to save yours, doctor." Another loss, equally grave, but less conspicuous, was that of his left lung. It was this trouble that had brought him to Tippah's mild climate, for nearly 20 years he had lived there alone in his three-room cottage, riding out every day to his little farm, five miles from town, and reading and smoking far into the night. His library was the wonder of Tippah. Books in five languages lined the walls of his house—in all the cheapest bindings, for the doctor was poor; but, as he used to say, it was the meat in the nut he cared for, not the shell outside. He never practiced medicine, except occasionally among persons too poor to pay for medical advice, or, more frequently, in serious cases when called in consultation. It was known that he had never taken a fee in Tippah. Every one believed implicitly in his skill. It was a common thing to hear it said, after a death, "Nothing could have saved him; Dr. Courtenay said so."—Lillian Kirk Hammond in the Atlantic. Cultivate Presence of Mind. Presence of mind is greatly dependent on knowing what is best to be done under conditions or alarm or danger. If this knowledge is acquired, a very moderate amount of courage and some common sense will enable persons to act with discretion and consequent safety in very trying circumstances. Misconception Corrected. A good many mistakes arise from misapprehension. For instance, a dentist advertises that he will extract teeth without pain. You suppose he means the patient will not experience pain. That is a wrong conclusion. It is the dentist who feels no pain. Advice From Kindly Busy Body. "Oh, my! Your house has an odor of burning milk. Don't you know how to avoid that?" asked the K. B. B. "I didn't think it was so terrible. I'm sure. Everybody has accidents of that kind," said the woman she was visiting rather irritably. "Now it's all right, of course, I don't mind it, my dear, but next time just sprinkle some salt on the stove at once after the milk is spilled and you will avoid that unpleasant odor." Picked Up Ancient Scotch Colin. A unique, ancient coin dated 1677, was picked up recently by Mr. George Jackson, of Johnshaven, Kincardine, Scotland, while he was working in his garden. On the one side is the crossed sword and scepter with the crown, and on the other a Scotch thistle, with the date over the top. "Hib. Rex" can be distinctly read. The small copper coin, just the size of a present-day sixture, is in excellent preservation. --- R. S. ABBOTT, LL. D. Founder and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One Year $1.50. Six Months 1.00. Three Months 0.75. DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT. the Inch, one time $1.50. special rates given on large or long standing ads. Julius N. Avendorph, Society Editor. Fon, Polly, Cartoonist. 3159 State Street CHICAGO, ILL. Telephone Douglas 3339. Metrod as second-class matter, February 1, 1906, at the Postoffice in Chicago, III. under act of March 3, 1879. Larger Circulation than all the other weeklies combined. 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To the store once her mother did send her To purchase a steak nice and tender; She forget what ma said so brought back instead A copy of this week's Defender. A little early to have spring fever. A few warm days and State street begins to look like itself again. Why don't you run for office everybody else is? Weddings and more weddings, upld is certainly busy of late. oosevelt and Taft are such good ds, have you noticed l... "Limited"—a fast train going just so far before being wrecked.—Webster. Balmy one day and blizzardy the next—but that's Chicago weather. The Defender's subscription list is being by leaps and bounds. Are on a subscriber, if not why not? The man to support is the man who is going to do something not only for you but for the race. While street pianos like robins are a 'roveruner of spring, it isn't always advisable to take off your flannels in February. Winsters are complaining of an applicable falling off in the attendance churches. What is the reason getting too good or too bad? hing an eligible list of bachgut be some satisfaction to maids—beg pardon bachelor t publishing their financial would be more to the point. it be strange in a hundred China doing things the hem? We say one hun- advisedly for that is just as they are behind the know where I'm going but my way" is an appropriate before taking a trip on the rail- talk about aviation being dan- it isn't in it with what the s are doing of late. ital district in Berlin was the Socialists during a day the votes of the servants, in order to nces next time it might idea for him to establish nent bureau. of fact it will take more ded handful of would Hvde Park, alided alfair and pre- make broad- into the bar was hanged last d his innocence until the he was a rather peculiar number of public spirited ted an investigation in sifting the thing to the e to prove his innocence im no good, it may be laying others in a like to Hearst's paper de- complished more the s in office than Roose- cen he occupied the you this was two the meanwhile has he Hearst forces so opped and say if a nt does get elected preference—its a no law against ph. We are minutely one on door and liking in the --- --- 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. "Allow me to introduce you to our only alderman, Mr. Edw. H. Wright."—How pleasant that sound. The latest news is always in the Chicago Defender. Mr. Robert Collins of 6323 Champlain avenue was called home in Springfield, Ohio, some ten days ago on account of the serious illness of his father. Hon. Edw. H. Wright, the dauntless champion of his people, is an ideal candidate for alderman of the Second ward. Vote for him. Mrs. Cella Parker Woolley lectured to the Unity Church Culture club on the West Side, Tuesday evening explaining the principles of the Douglass Center. The W. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Loaf" and Wallace Rolls. RED TAPE RULES IN LONDON Man Who Fell Into the Thames fused Admittance to Police Stations and Hospital. The complaints made occasion in New York of the refusal of pitals to admit emergency patients some of them in desperate plight, brought to mind by the experience a London man who fell into Thames the other day. In New York the explanation been that the hospitals refusing treat patients were overcrowded it was impossible to accommodate other applicant for admission. In London case red tape appears to be responsible for the denial of cor to the man who took an inv The traveling welfare exhibit will be located in the Doolittle school about the middle of March when that section of the city will be informed of many facts which influence neighborhood conditions. Do you know Mr. Edw. H. Wright? "Yes," then vote for him at the primaries for alderman. George R. Garner, Jr., and his sister left the city this morning for Kalaamazo, Mich., where Mr. Garner sings tomorrow. He gives a recital in Paw Paw, Mich., Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Reese write they are having a grand time in New York. They are visiting friends and will go to their beautiful apartment in Sixty-fourth and West End next week. The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Leaf." Quite a large number of young ladies and gentlemen from the city attended the cotillion and dance in Evanston last Thursday evening. Mrs. E. M. Hill, 3611 Calumet avenue, returned to the city after a ten-day visit at South Bend, Ind., and reports as having had a fine time. Elect Hon. Edw. H. Wrlicht, excounty commissioner, as alderman from the Second ward and you will never regret it. Every other race is there, why not a member of our own race? The regular meeting of the Ways and Means society of Grace Presbyterian church will be held at the residence of Mrs. Bessie Johnson, 3208 Wabash avenue, Monday afternoon, Feb. 26, at 2 p. m. Clara Studymire, president; Martha B. Mitchell, secretary 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. "The meeting was a large and enthusiastic one, among the speakers was Hon. Edw. H. Wright, alderman from the Second ward."—Future news item in the daily newspapers. Mr. George R. Garner, Jr., the invincible baritone-tenor in recital, Monday evening, April 22, Oakland Music hall. Mr. and Mrs. E. Young announce the engagement of their oldest daughter Alice M. to Mr. Jefferson J. McKinney. Mrs. Barthenia Brady, 3548 Darborn street, mother of Miss Eugenia Brady and Mrs. Letitia Littlejohn, accompanied by her grandson Master Alfred Littlejohn, are visiting relatives in New Orleans and Natchez, also the Mardi Gras in the Crescent City. Mrs. L. R. Dago is visiting friends in New Orleans and also the Mardi Gras. Do you want good plain robes? Ask for Wallace's. Fear never entered into the makeup of Hon Edw. H. Wright. Back this up with a profound knowledge of the law and you have the proper material for an alderman.-Vote for him. Mr. Carey B. Lewis is in Memphis and writes he is on his way further south. Mrs. Willa Jones, '6434 Vincennes avenue, entertained the Cliffsonian club at her residence Saturday. All present had a very enjoyable time. Those receiving prizes were Médames Tansel, first prize, a beautiful hand-painted vase; second prize, a Mexican drawn centerpiece. Mrs. Ackers won the booby prize, a miniature deck of cards. Mrs. R. A. Smith, 40 East Thirtleth, entertained a few friends Monday afternoon. All expressed themselves as having had a delightful time. Dainty Compliments. The daintest compliment you can pay a near and dear friend is to send a picture of yourself as an Xmas greeting. Peter P. Jones, 3519 State 84. Mrs. Robt. Lincoln Hall, 321 East Twenty-ninth place, returned home from Rutland, Vt., Wednesday, where she went to bury her mother. Mr. C. B. Hosmer, field secretary of the Tuskegee institute, is visiting in the city, stopping at 3631 Prairie avenue. The Phalanx club have postponed their dance from Wednesday night to April 10. Mrs. Wood, wife of Mr. Harry Wood, 3436 State street, died Thursday evening. Mr. Wood is the popular barber and society man. Delicate Sign of Love When a Japanese maiden desires to show marked attention to her lover, she uses the sharpened point of one of her finger nails in writing to him. Small Boy as Conservationist A lecturer before a suburban woman's club raised his voice with emphatic confidence. "I venture to assert," he said, "that there isn't one in this audience who realizes the importance of the conserving of our forests, not one who has ever done anything to prevent the destruction of our forests." A small boy who had accompanied his mother to the lecture interrupted in a high, childish voice. "I once shot a woodpecker," he said. RED TAPE RULES IN LONDON Man Who Fell Into the Thames Re fused Admittance to Police Stations and Hospital. The complaints made occasionally in New York of the refusal of hospitals to admit emergency patients, some of them in desperate plight, are brought to mind by the experience of a London man who fell into the Thames the other day. In New York the explanation has been that the hospitals refusing to treat patients were overcrowded and it was impossible to accommodate another applicant for admission. In the London case red tape appears to have been responsible for the denial of succor to the man who took an involuntary bath in the icy waters of the river. Nothing in the testimony on the subject of the shivering unfortunate's treatment indicated that there was not plenty of room for him in which to get warm and dry his clothes. The story came out in a police court, when a young laborer was charged with breaking a plate glass window in the Salvation army shelter in Whitechapel road. The accused testified that after he pulled himself out of the river he had applied at two police stations for permission to have his clothes dried, and was referred to the casual ward of a hospital, but an official there would not admit him because he had no order. It was then early on a December morning. According to the testimony of a night watchman at the Salvation army shelter, the prisoner had asked to be admitted there about four o'clock a. m. to dry his clothes. When the watchman told him to call again at five o'clock, as it was against the rules to admit anyone before that hour, the prisoner threw his cap at the window and broke the glass. The magistrate was interested in the prisoner's story that he had been turned away from police station and a hospital, and declined to dispose of the case until he ascertained whether it was true. Another tale of red tape methods in a London hospital is told by an American. He suffered an injury to his eye and was in great pain. "Can you afford to pay for the treatment?" asked the surgeon at the hospital. "Oh, yes," responded the American. "Then we can do nothing for you," said the surgeon. "We treat only those who cannot afford to pay."—N. Y. Sun. III-Pald Hero. Mr. French Strother, writing in the World's Work about C. P. Rodgers' transcontinental flight, says that financially the trip was a disappointment. He received five dollars a mile for his flight from New York to Fort Worth, and from Fort Worth to Passadena, four dollars a mile and all the purses he could arrange for on the side. He thus received about twenty-thousand dollars from his backers and about three or four thousand dollars prize money. But his machine cost five thousand dollars and repairs cost about seventeen thousand dollars more, so his net return was small. But he unconsciously summed up the significance of his flight at Pasadena, after he had heard the last congratulations and had laid off the American flag they had thrown across his shoulders, when he placed his hands on his mother's shoulder and said: "Never mind about the money. It don't amount to much that way—but I did it, didn't I?" Visionary Men Only Practical Ones? John D. Rockefeller preached a short sermon in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church a few days ago, says the New York Sun. His hearer was Rev. R. J. Campbell, pastor of City Temple. London. Mr. Rockefeller stood in the aisle and said to Mr. Campbell, who had just preached on a passage from a poem in Deuteronomy about the eagle and her treatment of her young: "How strange that the press of this country prints ordinary news and fails to catch higher inspiration and deal oftener with loftier ideals. I liked exceedingly, Mr. Campbell, your application of old lessons to modern conditions. Seems to me we must realize these conditions. There must come a revolution, a reformation at any rate, from ideals of today. I commend the mystic note in all you said. We must reckon with that." The preacher had said that the so-called practical man, who wants to manage everything on a practical basis, a business standard, is the most unpractical of all men. The really practical man is the visionary. John Smith Everywhere The good old name of John Smith does not suggest in English any great degree of aristocracy, but transferred to other languages it seems to climb the ladder, so to speak. Thus, in Latin it is Johannes Smithus, the Italian smooths it off into Glovanni Smith, the Spaniards rend it Juan Smithus, the Dutchman adopts it as Hans Schmidt, the French flatten it out into Joan Smeet and the Russian says Jonloff Smittwski. When John Smith gets into the tea trade in Canton he becomes Jovan Shimmit; if he clambers about Mount Hecla the Icelanders refer to him as Jahne Smithson; if he trades among the Tuscaroras he becomes Ton Qa Smittwila; in Poland he is known as Ivan Schmittiveski; should be wander among the Welsh mountains they talk of Jhon Schmidd; when he goes to Mexico he is called Jontil F'Smittwit; if of classic turn he linger among Greek ruins he turns to Jon Smikton, and in Turkey he is utterly disguised as Yoe Seef. Eggs are five cents a dozen in China, and yet 3,000,000 people are starving there. From Our Exchanges Ground Broken for Lincoln Hall. (Philadelphia Tribune.) Mayor Blankenburg turned the first shoveful of sod preparatory to the erection of the Lincoln Memorial building of the Mercy hospital at Seventeenth and Fitzwater streets, Monday. He made a strong address at the exercises preceding the turning of the sod, in the First African Pressyler church on the opposite corner. Mr. Walter P. Hall, president of the board of directors of the hospital, presided. Addresses were also made by Hon. Harry W. Bass and William A. Creditt, D. D. Scripture lesson was read by the Rev. J. D. Harewood, and the invocation and benediction were given by John W. Lee, D. D., and Henry L. Phillips, D. D., respectively. Posts 27 and 80, G. A. R., were represented. Some Appropriate Book Titles. (Indianapolis Freeman.) "Couldn't Come Back," by Jim Jeffries. "Thirty Thousand Dollars," by Jack Johnson. "History of a Meal Ticket (Barry)," by Sam Langford. "I Like to Hear Myself Talk," by Joe Jeanette. "Me and Milly McClain," by Sam McVea. "The White Hope Destroyer," by Jim Flynn. "Down and Out," by Al Kaufman. "Back to Oklahoma," by Carl Morris. "Directory of Dubs and Lemons," by Abe Attell. "Imitation Scraps for Real Money," by Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. "Buffing and Stalling," by Tommy Burns. . "Butting Lessons," by Battling Nelson "Long Distance Conversations," by Jim Corbett. "Everybody Whips Poor Me," by Bill Lang. "All Lightweights Look Alike," by Ad Wolgast. "Lessons from the Cave Man," by Jim Barry. "Yellow Streak," by Billy Papke. "Never Was," by Marvin Hart. Signs Are Down at Camden Station. (Afro-American Ledger, Baltimore.) After he had made a personal inspection of the "Jim Crow" waiting and retiring rooms at Camden Station, Mr. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, ordered the discriminations abolished last Saturday. The employees of Camden Station were surprised by a visit from Mr. Willard last Saturday. He looked intent, at the big signs that announced four weeks today that the colored people must only use "Jim Crow" waiting and retiring rooms, and then, it is said, asked who was directly responsible for the discrimination. After finding out who was responsible for the "Jim Crowing," he immediately ordered the signs taken down and today patrons of the road pass in and out without having to see signs announcing any discrimination. Judging by the way Mr. Willard made inquiries, it is not though that he was in any way responsible for the humiliating arrangements. Regiment Parades. (New York Age.) Before a large crowd of onlookers, composed of colored and white people, the New York provisional regiment paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln Tuesday by placing a wreath on the Lincoln statue in Union square. The marchers, nearly 500 strong, gathered in front of the statue and Captain W. R. T. Richardson introduced Major Henry H. Blunt, who spoke briefly on Lincoln. Then the band played "America" and Colonel Fillmore placed the wreath on the monument. The members of the colored regiment assembled at Columbus circle at 11 o'clock, and marched to the Lincoln statue. They presented a soldierly appearance as they marched through the streets of the city, and favorable comment was frequently heard. Several companies of the boy scouts paraded with the regiment. The young soldiers from New Rochelle, about fifty in number, were in uniform and equipped. THE SICK. The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care. Mrs. Frank King, 3604 State street, is reported seriously ill by Unique Temple, Lady Elks. Mrs. Mattie Bell, who has been ill at Provident Hospital, is better. Mr. James H. Buckner is ill at the home of his brother, 3811 State street, Prof. O. J. Buckner. Mrs. Joseph Evans is ill at her residence, 5116 La Salle. Mrs. Thomas Pierson, 3600 Wabash avenue, is seriously ill at her apartment in the Crawford. Too Busy to Be Interrupted. "Why didn't you notify Mrs. Womot that her house was on fire?" "Well, I went over there for that purpose. But she's a rather keen bridge player, and I couldn't get an opportunity to interrupt the game."—Washington Herald. Arbitration. "Papa, what does 'arbritation' mean?" "It means that when two powers of equal strength get hold of a smaller country, they agree to divide it equally."—Life. Yokohama's Fire Department Yokohama's fire department Yokohama's fire-fighting apparatus is owned by the association of insurance companies, which also pays the firemen. The coolies who assist when a blaze calls out any part of the department receive on an average four cents per hour. The regular staff of firemen and watchmen are paid an average of $1.47 a month. Can You See The Point? OUR WOMEN By SABINE Life is a battle for both men and women. The "winner-out" is the one who, through go-a-head-tiveness, sticktiveness, self-will, and economy, compels the world to bow at his feet and demands the respect of all. Such a character is the subject of this sketch. A beautiful girl, just out of school, with her good mother—Elnora came to Chicago. Being an excellent dressmaker, she was no time acquiring a large trade. This brought Mrs. Franklin into contact with Chicago's best and wealthiest white ladies. So much of a favorite was she, that at Advice to the Newlyweds. If you're afraid to go home—don't. There is safety in absence, Dodge the issue in an argument and dodge the flatiron in the kitchen. The latter is important. Don't sneak in quietly at 2 a. m. If your wife is in the habit of losing sleep on your account, walk in boldly and slam the door. Thus will you bid defiance to the lashing tongue. When late for dinner, throw yourself wearily into a chair and remark with a sigh: "I'm so worn out with work that I don't think I can eat a mouthful." A shrewd word turneth away wrath. If conversation should lag, don't starting anything. Learn to let well enough alone. Never be cross when your wife tells the point of your story before you reach it. It may be a poor story, anyhow. If your wife says it's raining, it is. If your wife says it's black, it is. THE EDITOR'S MAIL SEND THEM YOUR NAME. To the Editor: We are trying to get the names and addresses of all colored people in a number of communities who could at all be interested in the higher education of our youth. We want to send them literature on the subject. We realize that there was never a time when there was greater need of serious agitation to arouse our people about the question of higher education for their promising boys and girls. Will you assist us by sending a large list of names and addresses of those to whom literature may be sent? You can not send us too many names though the list reaches into the hundreds. Thanking you in advance, I am, yours sincerely, GEORGE E. HAYNES. Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. DIDN'T TRUST HIS LAWYER Shrewd Client Paid Fee In Advance to Learn If He Had Reasonable Chance of Winning. It was told at luncheon at the Lawyers' club the day before the Equitable building burned down. A group of legal luminaries were gathered about a table discussing the apparent impossibility of insuring the honesty of any man, and it was contended that there was no remedy for it save to pick out your man and trust him absolutely. No matter what safeguards you might hedge him about, if he was dishonest he would controle to cheat somehow. One of the lawyers told this story to emphasize his point: A client went into a lawyer's office in Fulton Street and said that he had a grievance with his neighbor and wanted to go to law. He stated all the circumstances of the case and counsel listened attentively. The case fully stated, the client asked:— "Well, those are the facts. Do you think I'm in the right safe enough to win if I go to law with him?" "If the facts are as stated you certainly have got a case. If I were in your case I should begin suit," answered the lawyer. "And how much would your fee be for taking the case and pushing it clear through." "Oh, I see it through for you for a hundred dollars." The shrewd client produced from an inside pocket a well worn wallet, from which he extracted a roll of bills and peeled off one hundred dollars. "There," said he, "that's yours. It's your fee. That's all you'd get if you tried the case. Now, without doing any work on it at all, just tell me, honestly, whether I've any chance of winning the case." Chinese Complexes The exquisite complexion of the young Chinese women is due to the great care which they give their skin. Generally speaking, the result is due to massage. The Best Way Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. -Pythagoras. Many a good man says "I done it" but that is not what makes him good. Passing Hint "Know myself" is advice frequently given, but if you want to maintain your self-respect know as little of thyself as possible. Originator of Texts About twenty-five hundred years ago the first taxes were levied on the Athenian people by the legislator Solon. True Enlends of Cause The greatest friends of a cause are those who put their fingers on the weakest spot and try to find a remedy. Young and Old—Light and Serious Verse and Prose—History—Personal—In a Word Their Every Interest. the world's great fair her beauty was put to a test and as proof of her superiority she was awarded and holds yet the gold prize in the beauty show. At present Mrs. Franklyn is owner of a first-class barber shop, Chicago property and loans money. As an elocutionist she has no superior in her race. Madame Franklyn's motto has always been: "Be truthful and honest in all your dealings, always respectful and kind, but never big-headed." Mrs. Franklyn is now being booked for several engagements down the state this spring. If your wife likes funerals, enjoy them with her. Play sympathy for place. It's the best bet. If your wife thinks she can cook, don't tell her what you think. When playing cards with your wife, always ask her what's trumps. She may know. When your wife introduces you to her friends appear to be interested in them and glance at her admiringly from time to time. Don't belong to a club—that's your wife's privilege. Have a latchkey, but keep it to yourself. When your wife drops her hat pin at the theater, crawl under the chairs for it and then rise with a pleased expression. ```markdown ``` When your wife talks, listen; you don't have to hear.—By an Old-Timer. "Can you see the point?" Praise only the woman who weighs more than your wife and is older than her husband. MORALITY OF THE ELEPHANT He Makes a Cat's Paw of Boy's Hand to Steal the Unhusked Rice. Singular as it may seem, elephants which have associated with men entertain the notion that, under special circumstances, they are not responsible if they utilize another to commit an illegal act. The following is an instance of this elephantine morality: A man in Kangoo bought three young elephants to send to England They were tame and playful, but cunning. Knowing that it was wrong to steal paddy (unhusked rice)—the idea had doubtless been impressed upon them by punishment for stealing—they would not touch it themselves. But if a boy went to see them, he would be seized by one, the little trunk would be coiled around his arm, and he would be led to where the paddy was kept in bags. --- The elephant would make a cat's paw of the boy's hand to take up a handful of paddy. Then, letting he would turn up the end of his trunk, open it, and coaxingly invite the boy to drop in the paddy. Should the boy, however, put it back in the bag, his arm would again be seized by the trunk, and his hand would be again inserted into the paddy bag. The boy, anxious to be released, would usually drop the paddy into the trunk, and the elephant would blow the rice into his mouth. After repeating the operation several times, the elephant would scamper off, feeling that he had got the paddy with out stealing it—Harper's Weekly. That Wooling Ham Ham, it has always seemed to us, varied more than any other articles over which blessings are mumbled in degree to palatableness, fragrance and invitation. The variation is due to the manner of approach. If a person is off his appetite, ham does the best when served as an Arizona breakfast—something else for the man and the ham for the dog. 1 But supposing you have been hunting, rising early and staying late. You have lost your lunch. You have to trudge home over a hard road. You pass a farmhouse, and from its open door there comes the sound of sizzling ham and the heaven's breath of its perfume. It matters not if that ham sprang from a razorback hog in the wilds of Arkansas, you recognize that that ham is the most glorious flower that grows, the world's desire, the inner fountain of Eden, the pillar of fire by night, the sweet influences of the Fleidens and the deliverance from envy, hatred and malice and all unchartableness. For the next three miles you can't say a word to your companion because of a watering mouth. Popularity of "Rock of Ages" When Toplady in 1776 wrote the "Rock of Ages" he could not have conceived that it would become so widely known or so popular among all shades of religious opinion. It was this hymn that Mr. Gladstone translated into three languages, and which the Prince Consort asked for when on his deathbed. It Doesn't Help. It is a mistake for the man who gets up in the morning with a bad taste in his mouth to attempt to get rid of it by quarrelling with his wife or whipping the children. Advance of Civilization In point of time Europe and American are nearer together now than London and Edinburgh were two hundred years ago. Magazine and Politicians. Many magazines are like politicians, in that their promises of good things for next month are the clearest part of them.—Detroit News. Prayer and Work If you do not wish for his kingdom, don't pray for it, but if you do, you must do more than pray, you must work—Ruskin. 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. KALAMAZOO ITEMS. Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 23.—Mr. James Walden, who is stopping at the Bolden apartments, was called to his home in Grand Rapids by the sudden death of his father. Mrs. John Butler and Mr. Lester Bolden are still on the sick list. Mr. Christian, a talented citizen of Kalamazoo, filled the pulpit Sunday morning at Grand chapel. In the evening Rev. Pettiford filled the pulpit. His text was taken from the first epistle of St. John, 10th verse. Mjs Vivian Stafford entertained Mrs. Charles Russel at dinner last Thursday. Miss Bessie Hill has returned home from a two years' absence in Bay City. Mrs. Rose Rohberts of Paw Paw is the guest of Mrs. George William Stafford. The stork left a fine son at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Woodford on Krum avenue this week. Miss Ethel Mitchell has been confined to her home the past week with her gripe. Her friends wish her a smooth recovery. You can get the "Detroit Informer" from our talented young man, Master Syrial Dungill. The box social given by the Golden Rod Emergency Club was largely attended. Miss Sarah Jeane Lett has returned to her home in Paw Paw, where she has accepted a fine position. Our young men are taking a very active part in the world's greatest movement for boys and men. Miss Mabel Thompson has returned from Indianapolis where she has been the guest of her aunt for a fortnight or more. Mr. Charles Evans is confined to his bed with paralysis, affecting his entire left side. The Misses Thomas and Saunders of Chicago and Mrs. Cross of Grand Rapids are stopping at Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bolden's apartments at 4292 Kalamazoo avenue. See Miss Jennie A. Goins for the Defender. Dowagiac, Mich., Feb. 23.—Mrs. Mathew of Cassopolis and Rev. and Mrs. Adams of Vandalia spent Sunday with Mrs. Bradley and friends. Mrs. Lizzie Davis of Battle Creek spent Sunday with friends. A sleigh load of young people attended the concert at Cassopolis last week. A very agreeable evening was spent as well as enjoyed. Mr. John Myers, who has been continued to his home for the past two weeks, is able to be up again. His many friends wishes his speed recovery. Mrs. Ed. Allen has returned home after a few days' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Clayton Brown, and friends of Vandalia. Mrs. Mary Brown is on the sick list. It is reported that Mrs. Noah Griffin is slowly improving. Mr. Bert Bass gave his wife a birthday surprise last week. Among the out-of-town guests were Messrs. Frank and Henry Snelling and Miss Bessie Bass of South Bend, Mr. Wm. Stewart wife of Barren Lake and their friends of the city. Mrs. Charles Stewart spent Sunday with her sister, in Kalamazoo. DEATHS OF THE WEEK DEATHS OF THE WEEK 11. Allen, Edith—22 years, 3517 Columnet Ave., Feb. 5. 2. Bundy, Nannie M.—40 years, 3728 Forest Ave., Feb. 18. 3. Ford, Wm.—28 years, 1240 Indiana Ave., Feb. 17. 4. Carrie, Carrie W.—27 years, 3625 Dearborn St., Feb. 13. 5. Hatcher, Elliz—71 years, 3251 State St., Feb. 12. 6. Jordon, Josephine—62 years, 3800 Wabash Ave., Feb. 17. 7. Jennings, Thos.—20 years, Cook Co. John, Feb. 15. 8. Lewis, Matia—71 years, 2258 Forrest Ave., Feb. 2. 9. Wery, John—1 year, 3933 Dearborn Feb. 13. 10. Amelia—63 years, 2060 La Salle 16. 11. Frank—50 years, 3549 Armour 17. 12.unk—46 years, 3608 Michigan 3. 13.—25 years, 2114 State St. 14. Louisa—42 years, 2006 N. Rail Ave., Feb. 18. 15. Williams, Peter—08 years, 5613 Jeffer- Ave., Feb. 13. Reliefs of the Stone Age. large bas-reliefs dating from 9 Age have just been dis-Lanosel, in the French prov-rodogne. They are sculp-he rock of a shallow grot-ve represent animals. It is the primitive sculptu-alsned from introducingure in art by a tabu 9 present Mohametan representation. The 1 the reliefs are reins, and a huge horse enslons. le Too Busy. dman was so very not see anybody 'em was a good elsewhere.—John GRAPHIC STORY OF A SEA DISASTER Captain of Tug Writes of the Loss of Two Barges He Was Towing. Baltimore.—Full details of the loss of the barges Alabama and Pocomoke of the P. Dougherty company's fleet, near Lookout Shoals recently, were received by the company's officials in a letter from Capt. A. T. Vaux of the tug Margaret, which had the barges in tow. Captain Vaux writes: "We sailed from Norfolk Saturday morning, and had a fairly good trip until Monday morning—about 50 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras—when the wind shifted to the southeast, and in the after- J. They Holsted Distress Signals. noon freshened to a strong gale. We were then drifting in toward the Shonls, and the tow headed out to sea, as the barges and tug were laboring in the heavy seas. "At 5 p. m. barge Pocomoke holest signals of distress, and an English steamer, which later proved to be the Clivegrove, stood by and circled around the tow to render assistance. Under the conditions we were able to do a thing and had all we could 'o to take care of ourselves. Night came on rapidly, and the steamer stood by until 7:45 p. m., when we saw the last of the steamer, as a heavy rain shut in, lasting the better part of the night. The wind in the meantime increased, and we were going astern about three and a half miles an hour. At 7:35 p. m. the barge Alabama holest ed her red lights, but the conditions rendered it impossible to do a thing, as it was only occasionally that we could see the length of the tug. "In the heaviest squalls the wind blew at least 60 miles an hour, and at 9 p. m. shifted suddenly to the southwest with increased violence, causing a heavy, confused and cross sea. We had our doubts that tug and barges would live out the night, as the wind kept veering back and forth from southeast to southwest. At 3 a. m. Tuesday the wind changed to the northwest, blowing a heavy squall for a short time, when it backed to the southwest and again to the northwest, blowing heavy all the time. "At daylight we still had the two barges, but they were laboring heavily and seas pilling all over them. We did not see anyone on the Pocomoke, but the crew were still on board the Alabama. We did not know whether any of those on the Pocomoke had been taken off by the steamer, as it was pitched dark when she left. We were waiting for the crew of the Alabama to launch their lifeboat, but no attempt was made. "At 9:30 a. m. Tuesday the Alabama went down so suddenly that we had not time to get the tug turned in the sea. On looking back both barges has disappeared." HOBO FROZEN TO LOCOMOTIVE Tramp Riding on Tender Deluged by Overflow of Water and Had to Be Chopped Loose. Indianapolis.—Frozen stiff and with snow and ice encasing him, Harry Knox, 20, the other night was chopped from his perch on the tender of a Big Four passenger engine, where he had taken refuge from the train crew JACKSON'S BROTHERS He Was Frozen in Ice. while "bumming" his way from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Knox was found unconscious when the engine crew started to uncouple the locomotive. He was chopped and pulled away from his ice seat and taken to the baggage room of the Union station. After warming up and fortified with stimulants, Knox was turned loose to brave the blasts with a 25 cent piece in his pocket, contributed by railroad men. The Nutmeg State Interesting Weekly Letters From Hartford, New Haven, and Other Cultured Points, Special Correspondence of the Chicago Defender Hartford, Conn., Feb. 23.—Bishop A. Walters, A. M., D. D., the presiding bishop of the New England conference, will make an official visit to the A. M. E. Zion church Sunday, March 10. He will preach at 10:45 a.m. and at 7:45 p.m. The four church auxillaries, viz., the Women's Home and Foreign Mission, Daughters of Conference, Stewards and Stewardess, will give a grand banquet March 11, at which Bishop Walters will be the guest of honor and will make the principal address. There will be other speakers of note present and a delightful evening is anticipated. The guests will be seated at 8:30. Tickets, including supper, will be 25 cents. Mrs. Emma Prout, Chair Lady. A surprise party was given last Thursday evening on Miss Irma Gordon at her residence. 44 Hicks street. Mrs. S. V. Carroll of Norwich, Conn., is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. H. Banks, 71 Edwards street. She will leave Thursday to visit her son, Mr. Frank O'Guy, of Tarrington. Rev. W. A. Harrod will preach a farewell sermon in the old church Sunday, Feb. 25. For further particulars read next issue in this paper. Bert Williams, a well known stage man of our race, will star in Zeigelfeld's Follies at Parsons theater Friday and Saturday of this week. E. C. Day Lodge, K. of P., had their annual sermon preached Sunday evening by Rev. Kimball Warren at Union Baptist church, Mather street. The colored people of Hartford lost a friend in Mr. Wm. H. King, vice-president of Aetna Fire Insurance Co., who died at his home Friday morning, Feb. 16. Mr. King served in the Civil war, 6th Connecticut Volunteers. The funeral was held from his late residence, 509 Farmlington avenue. The active pallbearers were six colored employees of the Aetna Fire Insurance Co. The first annual automobile show was opened on Monday evening in the new Broad street First Regiment armory by Mayor Edward L. Smith. It bids fair to be the biggest show ever held in Hartford. The new armory has more floor space than any other building of its kind in New England. This was "Governor's Day," all the governors of the northeastern states being the guests of honor. Speeches were made by the governors in the hall of representatives, followed by a banquet at Hotel Gorde. When you go to the caucus for city elections don't fail to nominate Chas. Wesley Custis of Mather street for alderman. It is about time that one of our people represented us in the government of this city. We hope that every voter in Hartford will forget his personal differences and do his duty for the welfare of his people in Hartford. I love the Hartford Times, but oh you Defender. TRY TO PLACE LIE ON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. (Continued from Page 1.) # For more information 1-1 Park business men who invites the "Jim Crow rule." in schools. Would you have the conclusion of the whole matter? A few negro teachers are drawing salaries for teaching white children. Young negroes are coming out of the schools yearly who are capable and will demand more positions. Little Miss Esther Webster, the youngest and only colored one in the class recently graduated from the teacher's normal with 'highest honors. Does not such cases show you why Davis, Schroter, Cave and similar Republicans fear and tremble? Colored teachers with almost never an exception come from the best families and are the highest type of womanhood. Listen to Albert Gray, graduate of Harvard and of the University of Paris, who taught in high schools in the country for several years. While defending the American boy in last Saturday's Tribune he says, 'the boy is the best thing we have in this country. He plays fairer than the teacher teaches. He steals less often than preachers. He averages better than the school teacher tourist from whose sleepers the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads had to remove all towels because so many were stolen." There can be no "Jim Crow rule" in the public schools of Chicago. There are too many "real white folks" in this city to allow Southern or ancient Roman ideas to prevail in modern Chicago. If the negro citizens of Chicago will study this "Jim Crow" effort right now and do a little thinking for themselves and cast their ballot accordingly in the coming election then will the "Jim Crow" action of the Hyde Park club defeat its own aim and prove to black Chicago a blessing curiously disguised. The Old-Time Barber Old-time barbers had to display more variety than their successors. 'A work published in 1592 describes a barber's greeting to a customer: "Sir, will you have your hair cut after the Italian manner, short and round and then frounst with the curling irons to make it look like a half moon in a mist, or like a Spanlard, long at the ears and curled like the two ends of an old periwig, or will you be Frenchified with a lovelock down to your shoulders? The English cut is base, and gentlemen scorn it; novelty is dainty. Speak the word, sir, my scissors are ready to execute your worship's will." Daily Thought. Smiles live long after frowns have faded—James A. Garfield. A Vacuum. Chairman (addressing a meeting)— I am sure we will all be very sorry our secretary is not here tonight. I cannot say we miss 'is vacant chair, but I do say we miss 'is vacant face.— Tit-Bits. KEEP TRIBAL CUSTOMS SARCEE INDIANS DISREGARD MARCH OF TIME. History, Intended for Posterity, Still Is Recorded in Crude Fashion on the Hides of Steers—Old Men Tell of Adventures. Within twelve miles of Calgary, a city of 50,000 people, and with telephone communication with that city, the Sarcee Indians pursue their lives and observe exactly as their forefathers did the ancient habits and customs of their tribe, says the Toronto Globe. Two years ago there was a great festival at which seven of the oldest chiefs related the stories of their exploits, which the painter of the tribe preserved for posterity on two immense steer hides. These hides are now carefully preserved at the office of the agent on the Sarcee reserve. Th Indian lad relies for his history on campfire stories and a well-tanned steer hide covered with queer characters, painted crudely with a sort of ink made of the juices of plants. These records are not haphazard, but they are not altogether regular. When several chiefs and medicine men of the tribe are growing old an assembly is arranged where the famous Indian interpreter and painter meets the aged men. One by one the old men stand forth before the people and recount the stories of their lives. They tell thrilling tales of the battles in which they have fought, of the scalps taken, and the horses they have stolen. These three achievements are regarded as the three most honorable and valorous exploits of the great men. Compared with these the white man's election to parliament, his appointment to high office, and his great commercial achievements are as nothing. Sometimes their meetings last several days. The old men are enthusiastic in their descriptions of bygone days; they recite rapidly and gesticulate much. The members of the tribe, sitting about them, listen eagerly, storing the details to be told over and over again to their son's sons, until they are tribal traditions of the long past. As they talk the painter sits upon the ground with his steer hide spread before him and paints with his rude dyes pictures to illustrate the incidents. A circle represents a barricade or encampment; awkwardly drawn pictures of animals stand for the horses he has stolen; a galloping horse, with a man on his back, suggests the story of a wild flight across the prairie before pursuing enemies; a flag may mean a bloody battle won; a tadpole-like mark, a scalped Indian. The figures are very crude, the drawings no better than those a four-year-old child makes on its slate. But some ingenuity is exercised in the grouping, and each sketch is, in a way, a key to the thrilling tales which in time become history. Dog Under Arrest. A dog thief—not a dog stealer, but a dog which had been trained to steal—has been arrested by the Freuch police. He was caught "en flagrant delit," we read, when he was in the act of stealing a pair of lady's shoes from an establishment in Nolts-le-Sec. His procedure was so cunning that it left no doubt among the police that the dog's was no "untutored mind." Nothing could be drawn from the animal at the police office, so it was decided to shut him up without food. After some hours conflenthe dog was released and a police cyclist was in readiness to follow the dog home. But the "best laid schemes of mice and men gang agt agt" The dog when liberated 'instead of rushing home deliberately walked to the other side of the road, and there sat down on a doorstep and awaited events, every now and again throwing suspicious glances at the police in waiting. Finding that there was no chance of the dog going home he was again taken into the police office and sent to the fourrille, where he met an untimely end. American Alrs. A woman recently back from foreign parts has a grievance against the way in which military bands there play American airs, states the New York Press. To begin with, says this woman, two-thirds of the bands and orchestras of Europe think "Dixie" is the national air, and this mistake is not difficult to comprehend, as applause generally greets this tune. Next in popularity comes "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean," and strange to say, then comes "Old Dan Tucker." No amount of expostulation avails to change this notion. "The Star Spangled Banner" is reserved for solemn occasions, and it must be confessed Americans are not wildly enthusiastic over it. Not one in a thousand remembers three lines of the verses, not even the school children who shout them every day. "Maryland" is popular, but the tune is that of the old Presbyterian hymn, "Beulah Land," and may be heard wherever Scotch and English folks gather. First Paper Collars and Cuffs. In no other country are anniversaries and jubilees of all kinds so insistently remembered as in Germany. One German newspaper reminds its readers that it is fifty years this month since paper collars and cuffs were first worn. It was in January, 1862, when a Leipsi firm began manufacturing these articles, which at once obtained a great vogue on account of their cheapness. A newspaper of that time gives a serious account of the new fashion, which now strikes one as amusing. It tells how the American (sic) idea of "time is money" was conquering Europe, and it illustrates a phase of the aesthetic craze which then ruled by stating that "persons of literary taste used to have quotations from their favorite poets printed on the 'heart' side of their paper shirt fronts." --- DOUGLAS DANCING SCHOOL EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Prof, Garfield Wilson Manager GOOD MUSIC Beginners Given Individual Atten- 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 Ben, No extra end of city Treatment $1.90 1430 Dearborn St. Chicago Phone Oakland 2489 Madeline R. 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JACKSON ON, Expert Embalmer WILLIAMSON, Assistant Business in Chicago 961 State Street —Automatic,71-629 OR BUSINESS & BLACK LORS TE STREET ed for and delivered. G. W. Lambert Pres. B. J. Lambert Secy. Guarantee Feather Co. Willow and French Plumes and all Styles of Feathers, Cleaning, Curling, Bleaching and Dyeing. All Kinds of Feathers for Sale. MILLINERS AND THE TRADE Phone Aldine 1926 ERSON - TERRELL STATE BROKERS All Its Branches PRINTING NATIONAL PROPERTY LOANS Per State and 31st St. --- The Past Week at the Chicago Theatres—Notes of the Profession All Around the World.—By Minnie Adams. Not without design does God write the music of our lives; be it ours to learn the tune and not be dismayed at the rests; they are not to be shurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote.—Ruskin. of his musical organization's ed in their last concert because it desrates that his assiduous work has been in vain. In Union is Strength. It is a shame so great that The Grand. The last half of the week beginning Thursday, Feb. 15th, contained many excellent acts. Miller and Lyles, those most entertaining comedians, were held over as the center of attraction from the first half of the week and the management of the above theater, but gave another account of their appreciation for good talent when they engaged this team for the entire week. Miller and Lyles are a pair of comedians with a string of rapid fire talk worthy of being handled by some of the world's famous comedy men. But allow me to state that the talk in the hands of these popular and efficient men loses none of its points of excellence, for the boys land every sentence spoken with telling force. Maurice Samuel and company, in their comedy dramatic sketch, "A Day on Ellis Island," was splendid. Every performer showed an ability far above the average. It was worth the while simply to watch the many expressions on the face of Mr. Samuels, in his character as an Italian emigrant. Warfield and Campbell, old-time favorites, did the comedy with the "Barnyard Frolickers." The sketch places nothing but laughs among the audience and always at the expense of the race. Especially is this noticeable in the continued expression of "chicken," and time worn scene of robbing a chicken coop. When we should try to make it plain that there is not such a particular preference for the fowl to cause us to endanger life, liberty and name for same, even in a play, it is after all, not refined, but ridiculous. A. W. Greer, a monologist, held his own and will grow better as he gains much needed stage poise. Con and Conrad have a much mixed up act, but it is so cleverly carried out that it produces many laughs and the boys do some fine work on a long pole balanced on a trapeze. The first half of the week, beginning Monday, Feb. 19, was A1. The five juggling Jordans were fine and gave a most interesting act of club manipulating. Santucci, the celebrated accordist, was a picturesque figure, and he is decidedly musical, his playing brought forth rounds of most deserved applause. Sadie Sherman in phototypes, which in plain English, means that Miss Sherman is an impersonator of various everyday characters, which she acts in the most approved way, giving to the audience a greater display of the artistic than is the privilege of we poor mortals to witness often. The three dreamers were the hit of the bill, they represent the dope fiend, the tough guy and a rather tough messenger, and their portraits are true to life. Their sketch is clever, but they need another stage setting as one would hardly find a plato setting in the street. The boys have a great act, only change the scene. Why not try a pool room or a barroom set up? They would be most effective. Lorraine, Dudley and Company, in a comedy sketch, "The Finish," proved themselves winners. The act overflows with lessons in morality, good advice and just punishments. It is one of the best and most thoroughly human sketches seen lately. The Monogram. The frequenters of the Monogram were delighted to greet Miss Mabel Gant again over the footlights. Everything about her is much improved; her work is clever and she is pretty, so what more need be said. Mills and Tansell are making good and the little lady is improving her stage costumes and now just a little less of the careless, indifferent air and a wee bit more of fire in her work will make her a dashing little soubrette. Claude Winfrey is back "from home," as he says, and we are glad to see him. He is putting over a good line of talk and the people like him. Wilson and Dewey are fast gaining prominence as a team. Mr. Wilson will be remembered as the partner of Cumby, but Dewey is a clever fellow and is making good. The team is all O. K., but please do not forget, "there is always room for improvement." The Pekin "The Hottest Coon in Dixie" is being given a dandy performance this week. A company of clever dancers and singers are proving that all the good performers have not gone East. There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; Their earth is but an echo of the spheres—Byron spheres—byron. The thirty-fifth concert given by the well-known Choral Study Club of Chicago, Monday evening, Feb. 19, was successful in every way, although the solo voices were not as well chosen as we are accustomed to hearing in the club's concerts, still it could not be a failure under the proficient direction of Prof. Pedro T. Tinsley. The choruses were well rendered and the evening was enjoyed. The soprano for the occasion, Mrs. Cora Spriggs, possesses a sweet voice, but one much too light for the part assigned her. Her vocal training is yet in its infancy, still her willingness to do and an aptitude of the art gives promise of a bright future for this young singer. Miss Diana Hackley, contralto, was in good voice and gave a creditable account of herself. William Hackney, tenor, sang well but is still timid in his attack of notes, which, when thoroughly overcome will allow his hearers to better appreciate his worth. T. Theodore Taylor, baritone, gave a very good interpretation of his solos. And his voice shows much careful study and application. On the whole Prof. Tinsley can well be proud of his musical organization's efforts in their last concert because it demonstrates that his assiduous work has not been in vain. In Union Is Strength. It is a shame so great that we should blush when we realize how little we care for the welfare of our own. The efforts of individuals for the betterment and the pleasure of the race should be met by the hearty cooperation of every man and woman. My reason for saying the above is the outcome of viewing the patrons of the theaters along the stroll. We are being censured daily by all races for our lack of unity and prognosticators say, "It is not in us to help one another, and that we never will do it." And every day we are proving their words true. On State street are four excellent playhouses. Please observe which of the four is the least frequented. Very little observation is needed, and we should hang our heads in shame when we are compelled to confess the Pekin is the neglected one. One might argue that the offerings at the above named house were not creditable, perhaps not at all times, but on whom can the blame be laid? By all means on the community. Give the theater your support and watch its policies improve. What other house has given our local talent as much consideration as the Pekin? And for that reason if no other, it should have our approval and patronage. Many theaters in the city we go to and are admitted to the sufferance and rear of the house, but we grin and bear it. Is the propensity to be charitable to outsiders so deep rooted in ouratures that we will ever play the fool and be the cat's paw for those who only laugh in your face for your coin and then are willing to lynch you if given half a chance, or, if they become prosperous after having bled you sufficiently they will turn you down. With all due respect for the theaters on State street, and their managers, I wish to say that I feel they are of the opinion that a race is crazy who would not assist to upbuild its own and feel a pride in doing so. There are sufficient of the race in Chicago to give to each of the theaters excellent box office receipts, so that all might live and flourish. I approve of all the playhouses, the Grand and Monogram are delightful places of amusement. The plays are fine and the managements are in the hands of men who are courteous and desirous of placing before us the best talent possible; and why? Because we make it easy for them. Now, if we would do our duty by the Pekin it would be enabled to do likewise. In saying these things we seek not to take away patronage from any house, but simply to show to the people the selfishness which is slowly but surely sapping the life's blood of our independence. In conclusion, we wish to say, "It is our most ardent wish that all the theaters be prosperous on the stroll, but do urge and entreat the people to wake up to the fact that they are not letting 'clarity begin at home.'" Mrs. Eliza Dishman, the favorite soprano of Denver, Colo., is in the city attending the funeral of her beloved mother, Margerette Tompkins, who passed away Tuesday, Feb. 20. Mrs. Dishman, at the time of her mother's demise was on a recital tour and had appeared Feb. 15th in a pre-Lenten affair, given in New York City at the Palm Garden, where she won golden laurels as she possesses one of the finest voices of the race. The Great Era Comedy Four will be the week of Feb. 26th, in Cedar Rapids, Ia., appearing at the Majestic Theater there. Good luck to you, boys. DON'T FAIL TO SEE "RETRIB- BUTION." A dramatic production from the pen of Madame Minnie Adams, our dramatic critic, at the Pekin theater, Sunday matinee, February 25, for one performance only. Cast—Jennie Watts Brown, Gertrude B. Dudely, Maud B. Chandler, Jennie M. Lacey, Junius H. Sayre, Warren B. Douglas, George E. Madden. Boxes, 35c; main floor, 25c; balcony, 15c. Curtain 2:15. Jerry Mills, director. SOUTH SIDE WHIST CLUB GIVES LEAP YEAR PARTY. An Enjoyable Progressive Game—Those Present—The Prizes. The South Side Whist Club entertained at a leap year whist party on Friday evening, February 17th, at the residence of Mrs. Samuel Carter, 3426 Prairie avenue. Progressive whist was the feature of the evening until 11:30, at which time the prizes were awarded to the club members. Mrs. Etta Shoecraft won first prize, which was a handsomely painted plate and two cups. Mrs. Albretta Smith won second prize, a hand-painted plate, and the third prize was won by Mrs. Beatrice Blackwell, a hand-painted bonbon dish. The prizes were then awarded for the evening: First prize, cut glass bonbon dish, Mrs. Marguerite Anderson; second prize, a book, to Mrs. Annie Jackson. Mr. Dave Lawrence carried off the prize for gentlemen, which was a brass combination cigar and ash tray which stood about three feet high. The guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Lawrence, Julius N. Avendorph, Major R. R. Jackson, Harry Craft, Dr. Plummer, Dr. Reginald Smith, D. G. Smith, Joe Shoecraft, Elmer Cheeks, F. B. Waring and J. Gray Lucas. The club members are: Mesdames, M. Anderson, B. Blackwell, R. Brannam, R. Carter, M. Denison, A. Jackson, Ollie Lucas, M. Morgan, Etta Shoecraft, A. Smith and M. Waring. A very delightful luncheon was served. IN THE SPORTING WOLRD YOUNG JACK JOHNSON FLOORS KID MITCHELL Bout for Championship of the South not Satisfactory to Our Special Correspondent. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 23.—The much-touted championship bout, a scheduled eight-round affair between the best two colored middleweights of this state, Young Jack Johnson of Memphis and Kid Mitchell of Nashville, for the championship of the South, was held here Wednesday night last at the Hermitage Club, when Kid Mitchell was knocked out in the second round after putting up a very poor fight. The bout was a flasco compared to the usual good bouts that are to be seen in this city and proved a big disappointment to the many fans and followers of the local boy, who had backed him off the boards. In the first round, after much fiddling around the ring feeling each other out exchanging light taps, Johnson cut loose with a hard swinging right to the stomach, and this one punch was the beginning of the end. It seemed to take all of the steam from behind the rest of Mitchell's punches and Johnson, quickly observing his opponent's weakness, played with him until the end of the round. In the second round Johnson rushed and received a volley of rights and lefts to the head for his pains, but he continued his boring-in tactics, playing for the body, jabbing and up-percutting with hard, telling blows. Finally rushing his man to the ropes, he landed a terrible right uppercut to the jaw that lifted Mitchell clean over the ropes to the floor below, where he remained and was counted out. "Young Jack" is making quite a reputation for himself in these parts, and if given the chance will be one of the stars in future pugilistic circles. BUSTER. HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE ON TRAIN. Passenger Who Paid Full Fare Insulted—Quarantine Town. Mrs. J. H. Brannon, 21 E. 36th street, returned this week from the funeral of Mrs. Mary Whipp, who died in Shreveport, La., Feb. 4. She told a Defender reporter of the horrible accommodations afforded while traveling through the Arkansas cotton belt last Friday night. The conductor allowed boisterous white men to smoke and drink in colored coaches. One white butcher occupied three seats. When appealed to, the conductor replied, "The white men did not know the rules," and she finally attempted to drive them out herself. In Shreveport all the colored schools and churches are closed. There is an epidemic of spinal meningitis, but the city officials claim that only colored children are affected. MOST PATIENT OF THIEVES In San Francisco a Man Was Discovered Stealing the Parts of Roller Skates. Out at the Coliseum skating rink there has been discovered evidence of one of the most patient and hopeful thieves in America. A day or two ago he undertook to steal a pair of skates pleaeam, but the evidence of his work was discovered and he remains in possession of three wheels, a bolt or two and a couple of pieces of metal that can be of no earthly use without he remaining sections of the skates, which remain in possession of the management. To compensate for the loss the Coliseum stands in possession of one felt hat, with the name of the dealer cut out of the band and a gap where the owner's initials were carried. To evade the regulations of the rink the optimistic crook was obliged to carry an extra hat or cap and a set of tools which enabled him to take the skates apart. The unpunished portions were discovered by a special policeman in an unfrequented corner of the pavilion.—San Francisco Bulletin. Pioneer In Good Move In the middle of the sixteenth century a professor of theology in Strasburg insisted upon having individual communion cups, and during the plague in 1654 his demand was enforced. Rare Archsological Find. Colins and ornaments to the number of about 500 have been found in the village of Tersley, in South Seeland, which the director of the Copenhagen museum believes date from the end of the tenth century. Promises, A man usually wants the preacher to furnish proof that what he promises is going to come true, but he is willing to take the gib promoter's word for it. "Papa, what does 'arbritation' mean?" "It means that when two powers of equal strength get hold of a smaller country, they agree to divide it equally."—Life. Alpine Refuge. The refuge huts of the Alps generally have telephonic communication with the monasteries and other houses in the mountains. Marks Upward Step If we can perceive beauty in everything of God's doing we may argue that we have reached the true perception of its universal laws—Ruskin. Separation Sometimes Good. Being sometimes asunder heightens friendship. The great cause of the frequent quarrels between relations is their being so much together. With a little cry of pain, Alice sank to the snow covered pavement. Beneath the fresh fallen snow was an icy patch, and her ankle had turned under her. She had been detained at the office rather late and the street was deserted. Even the policeman on beat had sought shelter from the storm. She made an effort to rile, but sank back helplessly as she placed a strain on the injured ankle and she began to cry softly. For perhaps ten minutes she lay there, then from around the corner came a muffled form and she gave a glad little cry that attract attention. "What's the matter?" called a cheery voice. "Had a slip?" "I have sprained my ankle," she explained. "I can't get up and it began to look as though I should have to spend the night here." "I guess not," was the cheerful response. "Live far from here?" "Four blocks down and one over." "Not worth while calling a cab," he commented, as he took a quick glance around. "I don't think we could get a cab if I telephoned for one. This seems to be the proper caper." In a nearby basement some boy had left his sled, and the man caught it up. "This will do finely," he announced. "I'll have you down there in no time at all." Gently he raised her in his strong arms and disposed her comfortably on the sled. Then he grasped the ropes and started off at a brisk trot. "It reminds me of the times when I used to draw my sweetheart to school on my sled," he called over his shoulder. "Ever live in the country?" "Long ago," she answered. "It seems ages." "Then I guess this makes you young again, too." "That's polite," she replied with a laugh. "I didn't mean that," he stammered. "I meant it would make you a kid again. I didn't suppose that you were an old lady, though with that brown veil, you might be my own grandmother." "Thank you again," she cried. "I guess I won't say anything more," he chuckled. "Perhaps I wasn't built to pay compliments. Is this where your turn." "To the right." "Right it is," and the sled swung around the corner. Presently, at her word, he drew up in front of a house and again he lifted her in his strong arms. The ankle hurt terribly, but there was something comforting in the sense of his strength. It was only a moment before his ring was answered and as the door swung open and the yellow light streamed out, Mrs. Donaldson gave a cry of surprise. "Why, Ned Carson, what are you doing here?" "I've a bundle marked 'damaged in transit,'" he explained, smiling, "but I did not know that it was for you. Is it Alice?" "Certainly, the poor child. Take her in the parlor and I'll be right along with hot water and bandages." "I never thought," he said softly, "when I spoke of carrying my sweetheart to school, that it was my real one-time sweetheart that I was talking to." Alice colored vividly. She remembered those old days, and how they had plighted their childish troth. Ned and one away and they had ost sight of each other. What would he say when he heard of her engagement? "I'll run away with that borrowed sled before the police get after me," he announced briskly. "Then I'll be back to see if I can be of any use." "Alice heard the front door close and settled weakly back upon the pillow. It seemed cruel, just as he had found her again and just when circumstances recalled their childhood, that she should repay his kindness with disillusionment. She had been genuinely fond of Ned in the old days, and she hated to give him pain. Yet it was best that she should tell him frankly. It was a generous cruelty. Presently he came stamping back to announce that he had caught the small boy just going for a policeman, and that he had compromised for a quarter. His good humor was infectious, and Alice found herself forgetting her pain in listening to his recital of his experiences in getting ahead. He was so frankly proud of his success that it seemed a shame to dispel the newly-awakened romance by a word, yet she nerved herself to the task. "I have a surprise for you," she began. "After all this talk of old times, doesn't it seem funny to hear that I'm engaged. I'm going to be married in the spring." She shrank back against the pillows, awaiting the look of disappointment she feared. Ned's face lighted with kindly interest. "Take my advice," he said, "and go to Washington for your honeymoon. They are so used to bridal couples there that no one notices them. That's where we went last year." Then, blushing guiltily, they looked into each other's eyes and—laughed. Signs That Foretell Weather. The country dweller has a thousand weather signs that the city man never knows. A red sunset means very little to the man in the street, but to the man among the lanes it indicates rain and bad weather. Smoke that rises straight in the air is another of the signs that a farmer notices and foretells bad weather. Circles about the moon and sun, streaks of greasy clouds and the peculiar actions of birds and domestic animals are all indications of some change in the weather to the man whose eye has been trained to recognize the signs. THE BINGA BLOCK, 4712-4752 State street (Inclusive). The longest tenement row In Chl Cavour, William the Silent and George Washington Never Yielded to Despotio Ideals. As a nation-maker Cavour stands with William the Silent and George Washington. Each of these men fought through the agony of a war of liberation, yet never yielded for a moment to the militarist or despotic ideals so liable to be bred in time of crises; each loved free institutions with his whole heart; each could have said as truly as William the Silent, "I was always on the side of the people;" yet each avoided the special faults of the demagogue as completely as Wellington or Peel; each planted justice and mercy amid the chaos of wrath and revolution; each kept an heroic equanimity of temper toward all their supporters, even toward the foolish and the false who bade fair to ruin their work; finally, each died leaving as his handiwork a nation whose every merit is symbolized in the life of the man who made it, whose every defect is due to the tradition which he started being too lofty for imitation. If Americans can boast that America is more true to the traditions of Washington than Italy is true to the traditions of Cavour, they may be sure that their country is reaping the benefit in due proportion. Measures and policies and constitutions must change with changing time, but the spirit that inspires a just policy is the same in the eighteenth, the nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries.—George Macaulay Trevelyan, in the Atlantic. Special House for #UHJHu Special House for "High Brow" Apes. The "high brow" apes in the New York Zoological park are to have a house to themselves in the near future. The board of estimate and apportionment will soon be asked for an appropriation necessary to cover the expenses for such a structure. At present the erudite chimpanzees and orangoutangs are in the house with their less intelligent sisters and brothers. The intelligent specimens now number four chimpanzees and five orang-outangs. Baldy is the leader of the social elect, and Susle, recently sold to the society by Professor Garner, is another inmate who stands aloof. The proposed structure is necessary to the continued health of the valuable specimens, as well as to give proper facilities for their exhibition to the public. Reinforcement Generator of OH Reinforced Concrete of Old Rome. Although concrete has been used for many centuries, it is generally supposed that reinforced concrete is a modern invention. This, however, has been disproved, according to Popular Mechanics by the finding of bronze reinforcing rods in the concrete roof of an ancient Roman tomb, and in the discovery of reinforced concrete in the construction of one of the walls of the old palace of the Louvre, Paris. The reinforced concrete in the latter dates back only 300 or 400 years, but created much comment because the walls were thought to consist entirely of ashlar and quarry stone. The discovery that the stone casing concealed a core composed in part of reinforced concrete was made while workmen were piercing the wall for an elevator installation. Not as Bad as He Feared. "I will be your Nemesis!" she hissed. "All right," he sneered. "I was afraid you might take advantage of the fact that this is leap year and insist on being something else." Some People. The trouble with some people is that they want to draw compound interest for life on the little charitable deeds they do just for the purpose of keeping the world from suspecting that they are cold-hearted and stingy. Their Comparative Bulk The latest Russian dancer to arrive for an American tour is Mlle. Plaskowitzsitzkajskable. She will carry her wardrobe in a handbag and her name on three flatcars fastened together. Never. No man ever ceased to learn because he knew it all. THE BINGA BLOCK, 4712-4752 flats, low rents, newly decorated. Main Office S. E. Cor, State and 36th Place. Telephone—Douglas 1565. Matinee Performance Sunday, February 25 at the Pekin Theatre CAST/ Jennie Watts Brown, Maud B. Chandler, Jennie M. Lacey, Gertrude B. Dudley, Junius H. Sayre, George E. Madden, Warren B. Douglas. Boxes.....35c Main Floor.....25c Balcony.....15c Seat Sale Now Open Songwriters and Composers We need and must have more original song poems, complete songs and instrumental compositions, for immediate publication. Send us yours for examination. Our catalogue goes to press very soon. ROSS BROS. Music Publishers [717 T Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. HATS Trimmed Hats for $1.00 and $1.50 Untrimmed Shapes for $25 and $80 Be sure to sell good little hats. Don't miss sale if you want something good for little money. MISS M. MATTHEWS Phone Aldine 2852 6 EAST 33RD ST. The One Big Man. Getting tangled up is the job of the 999, and untangling them is the job of the other one in the 1,000. England's Cost Newspaper. Resides both, the government's best journalistic property, the London Gazette is also the cidest existing English newspaper. It published its first number in 1665. In that troubled year the court was at Oxford on account o. the plague and the paper bore the name of the Oxford Gazette in consequence, not changing to its present title until the twenty-fourth number. We can get some idea of the cost of running it from the statement of one of its rivals that the rival's charge for "entertaining spies for information" was $2,500 in the first year. Young Organist a Genius. Angellina Spinello, organist of St Michael's Catholic church, New Haven, Conn., is said to be the youngest organist in the world. She is 10 years of age, and a wonderful future is predicted for her. Be Ready for Opportunity. "There is scope for chance ever where; let your hook be always hanning ready. In the eddies where ye least expect it, there will be a fish Ovid. THE CITY OF EVANSTON The Dunbar club will not have a meeting this week, but will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Geo. Livingston, 1137 Chilcog avenue, on next Thursday afternoon. Miss Irene Barber is expected home from St. Francis hospital next week. Mr. Baker Depugh, 1721 Benson avenue, director of Ebenezer choir, was quite ill a few days last week, but is able to be out at this writing. Mr. Charles Morris, 1800 Sheridan road, was host to the "Shanty club" on last Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Collier, 2316 Railroad avenue, have moved to 816 Church street. Mrs. W. T. Garnett, 1462 Elmwood avenue, the entertainer the Dearcra Guild on Thursday afternoon. Delicious refreshments were served and a very enjoyable afternoon was spent. Mr. West of Peoria, I. visited with his sister, Mrs. Willis Brown, 1726 Oak avenue, Tuesday. The Boys Athletic club gave a Washington party at the home of Wilbur Twiggs, 1726 Oak avenue, on Thursday night. Refreshments were served and a jolly good time is reported. The H. H. of Ruth will celebrate Peter Ogden day, Friday, March 1, at K. of P. Castle hall. A musical program will be rendered. The public is cordially invited to attend. The Julia Gaston Woman's club met at the home of Mrs. J. E. Webb, 1462 Elmwood avenue, Friday evening. A program was rendered and refreshments were served. Mrs. Richard Williams, 1818 Darrow avenue, was hostess to the Friday afternoon Whist club on Friday. A pleasant afternoon was spent. Dainty refreshments were served by the charming hostess. Mrs. Louise White Dead. Mrs. Louise White, a well known woman of Erasmus, died Monday at hospital after an illness of a few weeks. Mrs. White was a member of Ebenczer church. The remains were taken to Abbyville, S. C., by her niece, Mrs. Julia Robinson of Ridge avenue on Tuesday for burial. Mr. Oscar (Cap.) Walden of Spokane, Wash., is visiting his brother, Mr. Harvey Walden, 1109 Clark street. Mr. Walden and brother have not met for eight years. Mr. Zion Baptist Church. Rev. W. D. Carter, financial agent for Western colleges, Macon City, Ind., preached morning and evening. Church was crowded both services. There was one accession to the church. Rev. D. P. Jones lectured to the Progressive club at 3:30. Services as usual. Sunday Bible school, 12:30; Progressive club, 3:30 p. m.; missionary meet, 6:30 p. m.; evening services, $ p. m. Ebenczer A. M. F. Church. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The three weeks revival closed Sunday night at Ebenezer. It is one long to be remembered. There were sixty-four conversions and six united with the church, making a total of seventy souls to be brought in the church. Rev. Graves and Ebenezer in general are happy over this glorious success. Sunday was a beautiful day and Ebenezer was well filled morning and evening. Rev. H. S. Graves preached one of the best sermons that has been ours to listen to for some time. In the evening Dr. Terry of Garett Biblical school delivered an excellent sermon. Those who were absent Sunday missed a rare treat. Ebenezer makes all welcome and urge you to worship with us. Owing to the severe weather Wednesday night Rev. Beeman, who was to have preached to the young converts, will preach on next Wednesday day night, Feb. 28. All are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. H. S. Graves will meet the committee on the fair on next Wednesday night at Ebenezer church. The fair will be held April 16, 17, 18 and promises to be a great thing. Fifty ladies with their assistants are working hard to make this fair a success. Will you help them? --- The Stewardess of Ebenezer will give a dinner at the church next Thursday, and a concert in the evening dinner will be served from 12 until 6 p. m. If you are not an attendant at Ebenezer Sunday school you do not know what you are missing. The school is very interesting and an hour spent with them will give anyone pleasure. The adult department meet upstairs. A current topic class also has been organized which is very instructive and helpful. Supt. Twiggs invites you to come. We have classes for everyone. Will you be present? Less Poetic As I was walking along the street I saw a little girl who usually interested me, and I said to her: "What a bright little girl you are; I can just see the sunbeams playing all over your face." She looked up laughing and said: "Hum! My mamma calls those freckles."—Exchange. Tea Testing as a Business In the far east the chasl is the most important man in the tea business. He inspects and tests samples of all teas offered to his firm, and his judgment determines the price to be paid. In Formosa the tea testers are Americans or Englishmen. Fused Alumina. "Alundum" is the name given to a fused form of alumina. It is extensively used in the manufacture of crucibles and other vessels for which a refractory material is needed. Why It Is So Often Done. It is a very easy thing to laugh at so ebody who is trying to do an alto- new thing. HOTEL NEWS HOTEL NEWS All Up-to-date Hotel News and News of Bell Hope. By S. Adams. H. Baxter and Dody Maxwell, two of Detroit, Mich., prominent hotel men made a visit to Kalamazoo, Mich., and were highly entertained. Mrs. Baxter, the wife of the above named gent, later joined her husband in Kalamazoo and endeared herself immediately to the social set. Frank Hanson, the most popular head waiter in Grand Rapids, Mich., and in fact one of the best known head waiters in the state, was for a number of years chief steward of the Lake Side Club in the abo-named city. Mr. Hanson held this position until the closing of said club, and he is now the head man in the Morton Grill Room, where he is in the complete confidence of his employers and highly respected by the guests. Atlantic City, N. J., is preparing for a gala season after Easter. The resort is said to employ more girl waitresses of the race than any other summer resort in the country. From two to three thousand of our girls find employment there. From excellent authority we have it' that the chef at the Mariborough Blenheim receives a salary of six thousand dollars a year, which salary is only second to that given to the white chef in one of the other large hotels, who receives seven thousand dollars a year. So girls of the West get ready, go and meet your Eastern sisters in the dining room as as in the kitchen at Atlantic City. The old Boody House in Toledo, O., has been remodeled and is now the New Boody Hotel, and will give the best service in Toledo. Mr. George (Chapple) Rogers has accepted a position there. This will not be new to Chapple as he can deliver the goods at any stage of the game. "A wise guy is old Chap." Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 22—Benefits of the tipping system—with reference to the receiver—came to light in the Municipal Court here yesterday, with the testimony of George Smith, a negro waiter at a hotel, that another man, being tried on the charge of vagrancy, was an expert mechanician, and had operated his automobile for him. "Yes, sir," said Smith, "I own a six-passenger $1,800 car, and I haven't been anything but a waiter for the last twenty-three years. My salary is only $2 a month, and now and then I will be at time or two, so the money for that, which came only after years and years of savin' up." Smith declares that there is only one ambition left in life for him, and that is to take his wife, Julia, in the car to his old home near Norfolk, Va., and, throwing open the muffler, go "down the pile" at the rate of fifty miles an hour. "Open confession" may be "good for the soul" in some instances, but a "still tongue," it must be remembered makes a "wise head." It's a aptty that a man in whatever walk of life must disgorge himself of his private affairs to the first white man who slaps him on the shoulder and calls him "George." The above clipping shows us plainly why our waiters receive no better salaries than they do, they talk too much, and just because of too much mouth, today numbers of the cafes down town pay no more than the waiters must exist on tips and they have no one to blame but their gaby们 have their heaven's name forget the money they haven't down to business, buy what you want, have all you can, but cut the noise. And while I think of it permit me to say a house and lot would have been the investment of a sensible man. LA GLUNGE AND VICINITY La Grange, Ill., Feb. 23.—The Second Baptist church of La Grange gave a grand concert and play last Thursday night that was largely attended. Mr. Clarence William of Chicago was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Hawley of 325 East Calander street last Sunday. Miss Estell White of Hinsdale gave a party in honor of Misses Alice and Mary Brown of Chicago. The little folks had a merry evening and lots of fun. Miss Elnora Currie is a member of the School Girls Basketball team of Hinsdale that played at La Grange Thursday. She is one of the stars. Mr. Bert Crump of La Grange, who has ill health a long time, is able to be out again. The surprise party given in honor of Mr. Joseph Kooho of East Franklin street, by his wife last Saturday night was a great social feature. Light refreshments were served and the evening was spent in playing old-fashioned games. The special program that was given last Sunday evening by the Young Men's Progressive Sunday club was largely attended and was successfully rendered. Miss Ollie Stump of 316 Sixth avenue is on the sick list. Rev. Rufus E. Cobb was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kobo last Sunday. Rev. Lawson of Chicago preached a beautiful sermon last Sunday at the Second Baptist church. If you wish the Defender call up 1027 R. Dark Thoughts. "I can read your mind. I see there in dark thoughts." "Yes. I was wondering when we would get our coal." MAN-EATING TIGERS Inhabitants of Corean-Manchu Border in Constant Terror. Villages Visited Almost Daily by the Beasts and Absolutely Disregard the Efforts of the Poorly Armed Natives to Kill Them. Vladivostock—Travelers from the Corean-Mancheu border bring startling tales of the activities of the Siberian tigers in that locality. According to an English writer, who just has returned from an extensive trip in that region, the natives live in a constant state of abject fear for their lives. Some of the villages are visited almost daily by tigers, who with an absolute disregard of the efforts of the militarily combative natives and the dozen or two small spears and arrows that eventually, percune quill fashion, decorate their rough hides, smash in hut doors and proceed to devour everybody in sight. Unable to get within striking distance of live prey these tigers will visit the graveyards. The natives of the smaller villages, with their primitive arms, being powerless against these man-eating beasts, big battles are organizing in Seoul and are sallying forth in an effort to rid the country of the "noxious vermin." Hunting tigers along the Corean-Manchu border is not the child's play that trailing similar beasts in India has become. There is none of the difficulty and exasperation of having to deal with a small army of native beaters; for, unlike the jungle tiger of Bengal, who sleeps away the day and pounces by night on his prey at drinking places, the northern beast is at his highest activity by day. Instead of having to steal, from the security of an elephant howdah, with a sleepy, surprised creature that cows, alarmed by the beaters, from the path of your ponderous mount, one is out to encounter a thoroughly well-wake brute, ravaging the open countryside; and you are, if you follow the Russian custom, afoot. One may rely on the element of sport being well to the fore. Well, fed, well exercised, long, lilthe, tawny and glossy, the Siberian tiger Tiger A Siberian Tiger. is the finest wild beast alive. The further north one goes the better specimen of tiger one meets, till one comes eventually to the pink of perfection, the super-tiger, on the hinterland of Vladivostock. He is as physically superior to the Bengal tiger as the wildcat is to the domestic pusy cat. A Bengal tiger—in fact, any sort of tiger in a mild climate—has a soft pelt; it is sufficiently warm for him. But in the cold climate, where there is constant exposure, as in the Osoorie, to a winter temperature of 20 degrees below zero, the fur becomes so luxuriant that you may plunge hands out of sight in it. The Siberian tiger's pelt is worth nearly twice as much as the armoured family, as that of the Malay branch of the family. A Siberian tigress runs to only about 250 pounds. The biggest Bengal tiger encountered rarely will exceed 400 pounds. The Siberian tiger, however, often runs to 650 pounds and even 600 pounds. Unforgeable Banknotes Parts.—It is a remarkable tribute to the 100-franch ($20) banknote issued in 1910 by the Bank of France that the first attempt to forge one of them has only just been reported. The notes are printed on back and front, are complicated and artistic in design, and in four colors—blue, pink, black and yellow. The paper is prepared with the greatest care, and every time a chemical discovery is made likely to hinder the work of a forger it is incorporated in the printing of the banknotes. Since 1889 there have been only six attempts to forge the $20 note, three attempts to forge the 50-franch ($10) note, and one attempt to forge the 1,000-franch ($200) note. The Bank of France, unlike the Bank of England, does not destroy all banknotes when returned, but puts them into circulation several times. It is only after about three years' use that, tattered and torn, they are burned. Taft Is Honored Savannah, Ga.—The Irish leaders of Savannah have solemnly notified President Taft that if he will visit their city, they will change St. Patrick's day from March 17 to any date that will suit his convenience. Women Young at Forty. New York—"At 40, women are young, if they'll go to ball games and forget the worries, declared Miss Fairfield to be the most important of the women's professional league. Good News for Eat Men Berlin—In a pamphlet "Good news to the fat man," Doctor Hikidascope, scientist, says there are more germs on a thin man's skin than on the epidermis of the fat man. HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES Practical School for the Housewife MOTHER COUNTRY GET UP A MEAL LIKE THIS IN A THOUSAND YEARS NOSIREE PITTSBURG.-While the theme of teaching love in the public schools has been brushed by theorists, materials of the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for women have been arranging a practical course for brides, and have announced that it would be added to the curriculum this month. It is explained in emphatic terms that the new classes are in no way devised to encourage elopements, and that only young women twenty-one years or older will be admitted. In considering the question of instructing young wives in the serious side of matrimony, the faculty has selected subjects calculated in the members' minds to add to post-nuptial happiness, bring contentment to husbands, lessen milliners' and dress-men's happiness, and make it possible, the presence of indigestion. The particular subject of bringing contentment to husbands, is considered the most puzzling. Of course any instruction haying a tendency toward --- Had Marriage License But No Bride BIRMINGHAM, ALA—An elderly negro walked into the forum presided over by Judge H. B. Abernethy the other day and after looking around in a stealthy manner, waddled up to the judge's desk and said: "Cuse me, sah, is yo' do judge of dis yere cote?" "I reckon so, uncle. What can I do for you?" replied Judge Ab. "Does yo' marry folkes?" "Sure; do you desire to enter the state of connubial bliss and felicity?" state of connubial bliss and felicity?“ “Judge, what yo’ says is so, what ah’ clar I ain’t done hit. What ah wants is ter got married.” “Have you secured the license?”“Yessah, jedge, yere hit are,” said the old man, as he produced the pink envelope that contained the document by authority of which bachelors are changed into beneficents. “This seems all right. Where’s the feminine part of this contract?”“Sey which, jedge?”“Where is the woman you are to marry?”“Dat’s what Ah wants’ yo’ ter do, git de ooman. Yo’ see, jedge, dat Milndy puson what has her name writ on dat yere license promises ter marry me, an’ Ah goes ter git de paper. While Ah was gone she done tuk up wid a triflin’ valler nigger an’ The "Turkey Trot" Barred by Society STOP IT THAT TURKEY TROT TOO FIERCE FOR US NEW YORK.—The "Turkey Trot," "Grizzly Bear," and even the "Chicken Reel," the last word in the dance zoo, may be all right in Newport, but they don't go among real society folk in New York. That much has been learned in interviews with several dancing masters who number fashionable folk among their pupils. These teachers instruct in the various dances, but they won't allow them in public receptions or parties. Discussion of these dances came through the announcement by the committee on amusements and vacation resources of working girls that the "turkey trot" and "grizzly bear" must go. The dances are supposed to FREEHOLD, N. Y.-As a sequel to that historic "emotional kiss," the boy and the girl students of the high school side by side marched out on strike from the classrooms the other day and paraded the streets, announcing that they were out to stay until Principal Roy Leon Smith was reinstated. Only those students who feared the parental slipper remained and it is expected they will also go out later. There were eighty odd in the demonstrating procession and they made more noise than five times that number of men would have done. While they were marching along they came upon Samuel R. Smith, president of the board of education and shouted to him that they wanted Principal Smith back. President Smith says some boys not only shook their fists at him but insulted him in other ways. The girls chorused, "Smith, Smith; we want our principal back!" the lessening of milliners' and dress-makers' bills, will help some. But the item of well cooked food is generally considered the most important of all. Miss Dorothy B. S. Scott, assistant registrar of the school, explains that newweds will be taught all the dietary and culinary frills calculated to make young men forget the cooking of their mothers. She also says the hours of instruction will be so arranged that they will not interfere with the home life or encroach upon the evening hours when husband and wife want, or should want, to be together, but probably will take place in the afternoon, after the morning housework is completed and when many young wives attend the matinees. Cooking, from the boiling of eggs to making of pastry, may be learned in ten lessons at $18; theory of dressmaking and shirtwist making, each $10 for ten lessons; military, 15 lessons for $10, and garment design, 20 lessons for $15. Thus the entire course may be taken for $63, but any one or more courses may be selected and the time lessened. They are also to be taught how to launder clothes. Women must work out their educational salvation through the fundamental occupations for women; they lead directly into a form of artistic expression. SHE TUK UP WID A TRIFLIM YALLER NUGGER AH JES SHOOK ME-YASSIR gin me de go by. She did jedge." "I can't force the woman to marry you, but you can sue her for breach of promise." "Breeches o' do promise, jedge! I don't reckon she wear 'em. Ann't dis ere paper what I paid six bits for no 'count?" "Well, you might sue the woman for the $1.75." "Dat's hit, jedge, dat's hit. What Ah wants is ma money back. Tor tell de trufe, judge, ah would ruther have de money dan de woman anyhow." Finally Judge Ab told the old darkey to wait a few days to see if Milindy would not change her mind and carry out her promise, if not to go to the clerk of the court who issued the license and he would refund the money. The old man looked a little crestfallen at not getting either the woman or the money, and left the court evidently disappointed at the refusal of the court to commel the marriage. have been originated by negroes of the underworld. The stage got them next, then society folk and then the tough dance halls. Then the cry to halt. It didn't come soon enough, however, to stop the "chicken reel," which W. S. Reeves, head of a dancing school, at 2630 Broadway, originated. "I originated the "chicken reel," said Mr. Reeves, "but I deny that it is improper. It is the latest development and has none of the features of the 'turkey trot' and the 'grizzly bear.'" "I instruct in all three dances, but I do not allow them to be danced at my classes or my receptions. I dance the chicken reel for a club dance in Newport last summer, when I was asked to get up something new." In the "chicken reel" the partners hold hands and take four steps forward, flapping the outer arms like the wings of a chicken and rising on the toes at the same time. Then both stop and scratch like a chicken four times with the right foot facing each other. WE WANT PRINCIPAL SMITH BACK 1-24 SMITH In the primary schools all is unrest. The younger children have caught the strike fever. They are in general charge of Miss Carrie Atkinson, whom the board of education named as temporary superintendent when Mr. Smith Friday refused to take the position pending the settlement and consequently following the removal of Villacorta. Superintendent Barnes on charges that he was seen with a teacher on his lap, killing him. Barnes alleged the kiss was due to hysterical gratitude because he had assisted the teacher in passing an examination. Various petitions are in circulation asking the board to reconsider his dismissal. Fifty Thousand Dollars CHARLES S. JACKSON Funeral Director 3249-51 STATE STREET Res. Phone Douglas 5998 Plones. Aid. 2443 Auto. 75-541 Calls answered promptly any hour of the or night. Automobile Livery if desired. HAPPY IN A SHED-LIKE HOME Kansas City—There is happiness in the little Kansas City, Kan., shack of loose boards and boxes that Grandma Bass calls home. The little woman, 78 years old, must sit shivering beside an old broken stone, but she does not complain. She is happy in the promise of the Kansas City, Kan., police that they will build her a new home, a home that at least will keep out the cold. And the haunting fear of the poorhouse, which she has had constantly with her the last two years, has vanished. Formerly, Grandma Bass was used to much better things. Even after the death of her husband several years ago thoughts of becoming a public charge did not enter her life. With the income she obtained by sewing and the money a son brought home for his work at the packing houses the little woman managed. Then the son developed tuberculosis and three years ago was forced to leave. He went up the Missouri river, where Grandma Bass' Home. now is, living outdoors, attempting to regain strength. Grandma Bass was not at home when visitors called. No smoke was coming from the stove topeepe, which was stuck through a hole in the side of the little board and box shack, and the visitors could see no door at which to knock. Presently the visitors found one large board leaning against the shack in such a position that it was concluded it might be the "door." At the top the board was nailed to the wall. When it was pulled away a hole was revealed which led into a small dark room. In the room, which had no floor other than the bare earth, was a table with broken legs, an old commode and a box which serves as a chair. Another small room adjoined the frost one, and in it was an old bed on which were a thin blanket and a tattered comfort, and a broken bowled stove. A small pane of glass set in securely in the side of the wall served as a window. The snow was drifting through the holes in the roof of the shack and the wind was blowing through chinks and holes in the walls. The visitors started to leave. Up the railroad tracks a half-mile they came upon Grandma carrying a basket. "Don't you nearly freeze in that little house?" she was asked. "Well, it gets pretty chilly sometimes," she answered. "But I've got used to the cold. Once I would not believe I could stand living as I now live, but circumstances force a person to get used to everything," she said, smiling. DURING the past year and a half as a result of my fight for lower prices and against extravagance in funeral services, I have saved the colored people of Chicago thousands of dollars. Before my advent into this war, widows and bereaved relatives were burdened with enormous exorbitant funeral bills. To remedy this condition I have waged a lone fight with great success. I have been encouraged by the support and co-operation of many of our best people, besides earning the thanks and good-will of grief-stricken relatives, to whom I have given service at a reasonable price. I have been censured and criticized by some misinformed persons for my attitude and position, but I have done "The greatest good for the greatest number," with regard to the "Other Fellow." Excellence in Service I have strived to make my service perfect in every detail. Up to date livery with courteous drivers, capable and experienced assistants and personal attention to every part of the funeral service. RED TAPE RULES IN LONDON Man Who Fell into the Thames Refused Admittance to Police Stations and Hospital. The complaints made occasion in New York of the refusal of pitials to admit emergency patients of them in desperate plight brought to mind by the expienen a London man who fell into Thames the other day. In New York the explanatio been that the hospitals refu-treat patients were overcrowd it was impossible to accommo- other applicant for admission London case red tape appears been responsible for the denial cor to the man who took an tary bath in the icy waters river. Nothing in the testimony o subject of the shivering unfort-treatment indicated that ther- not plenty of room for him in to get warm and dry his clothes. The story came out in a p-court, when a young laborer was charged with breaking a plate glass window in the Salvation army shelter in Whitechapel road. The accused testified that after he pulled himself out of the river he had applied at two police stations for permission to have his clothes dripped, and was referred to the casual ward of a hospital, but an official there would not admit him because he had no order. It was then early on a December morning. According to the testimony of a night watchman at the Salvation army shelter, the prisoner had asked to be admitted there about four o'clock a. m. to dry his clothes. When the watchman told him to call again at five o'clock, as it was against the rules to admit anyone before that hour, the prisoner threw his cap at the window and broke the glass. The magistrate was interested in the prisoner's story that he had been turned away from police station and a hospital, and declined to dispose of the case until he ascertained whether it was true. Another tale of red tape methods in a London hospital is told by an American. He suffered an injury to his eye and was in great pain. "Can you afford to pay for the treatment?" asked the surgeon at the hospital. "Oh, yes," responded the American. "Then we can do nothing for you," said the surgeon. "We treat only those who cannot afford to pay."—N. Y. Sun. W Gold Horse Mr. French Strother, writing in *World's Work* about C. P. Rodger, transcontinental flight, says thn financially the trip was a disappointment. He received five dollars a mif for his flight from New York to Fo Worth, and from Fort Worth to Pa sadena, four dollars a mile and all the purses he could arrange for on the side. He thus received about twenty-thousand dollars from his backers and about three or four thousand dollars prize money. But his machine cost five thousand dollars and repairs cost about seventeen thousand dollars more, so his net return was small. But he unconsciously summed up the significance of his flight at Pasadena after he had heard the last congregation held of the American flag they had thrown across his shoulders, when he placed his hands on his mother's shoulder and said: "Never mind about the money. It don't amount to much that way—but [did it, didn't it]?" Dollars Sav from the embalmment 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 a grades of caskets and funeral frishnishings. One Price to A All goods are plainly with price, thus eliminatin padding of the price of casken suit the pocketbook of the p chaser. Your attention is respectfully called to my prices and I invite a comparison of the quality of our goods. Black caskets, cloth covered, our price, $15; other undertaker, $50; colored plush caskets, our price, $30; other undertakers, $75; couch caskets, our price, $60; other undertakers, $125. I make no extra or unnecessary charges. What the Different Factions Are Doing—The Various Candidates—Meetings and Other Interesting Campaign Items. There have been some interesting developments in the aldermanic situation in the Second ward. At a meet- last Friday of the executive com- cee of the Second Ward Republi- club a resolution was passed In- ing Hugh Norris. Notwithstand- the fact that there are many col- men on the executive committee, here is a colored candidate in- lid in the person of Hon. E. H. , not a voice was raised in- f Mr. Wright or any other col- lin for alderman. It is not to- tered at that the next morn- dally papers came out with- es on the front page proclaim- tion of Hyde Park was advo- "Jim Crow" rules for the pub- schools and demanding that col- and white pupils be put in se- class rooms and that colored- ers be debarred from teaching- children in the public we children in the public schools, or passing the above resolutions (us) association ordered a copy sent to the press, each member of the board of education, the mayor, and each alderman. And in none of these places will there be a negro to stand up for justice and to plead for the equality of all citizens under the law. The Defender wants to go on record at this time as demanding, not only that every negro do his duty in trying to elect a colored alderman, by supporting Mr. E. H. Wright, who is the only colored man running for that office, but we here and now demand that Mayor Harrison give us representation on the board of education. Do our great regret we learn that some colored leaders (?) are using the argument that Mr. Wright is not the choice of the organization. Who makes the organization but the voters? There are 6,000 negro voters in the Second ward who want an alderman in the city council. If any so-called leader says anything to the contrary he lies and he knows he lies; and the rank and file of the negroes are not at all concerned as to who the man is or to what faction of the party he belongs. Their chief concern is that we got a man who is fearless and able and loyal enough to speak up whenever our interests are in issue. All these qualities are possessed by Mr. Wright. If there could be a doubt in any man's mind we remind him of Mr. Wright's successful struggle, without compensation, to prevent Steve Green from being taken back to Arkansas to be lynched. We remind him of Mr. Wright's long struggle, without pay, to have a brutal policeman Knack unified for killing the colored teamer, Robert Telson. This talk about organization is all it. The same man who are using it is an excuse for not supporting Mr. Wright for alderman are at the same time supporting Senator Ettelson for state's attorney when Judge Rinker is the organization choice for state's attorney and the said organization has given the Second ward representation on the ticket by selecting Chas. Krutckoff for member of the board of assessors. It is well for these gentlemen and some of our white friends to realize that the colored people are not all fools. Al Tearney, a Democrat, was elected alderman by the help of some of these gentlemen last year and yet Foreman was the choice of the organization and the Republican nominee. Come on up with the right thing, gentlemen. The colored people want a representative in the city council—we need one there, and we call upon those we have helped so often in the past, Harding, Madden, Dewey, to show their appreciation of our favorites by helping us re is not race issue in this mats We ask for representation, and these gentlemen are the friends have been led to believe they were may will help us to gt a colored alder man by supporting Mr. E. H. Wright at the primaries next Tuesday. CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE 5 Major R. R. Jackson. Major R. R. Jackson, candidate for representative to the legislature in the Third Senatorial district. Her, orator, statesman and public lit citizen. VOTE FOR THE FATHER OF THE 8TH REGIMENT ARMORY. State Senator Samuel A. Ettleson. Independent Republican candidate for State's Attorney. Vote for him at the primary, Feb. 27, 1912. A word or two about this stalwart Republican: Hon. Samuel A. Ettelson is a native of the city of Chicago and was born on November 19, 1874, having resided in said city since his birth. He was graduated from the West Division high school in 1892 and attended Harvard college for one year. For three years, commencing in January, 1894, he was employed during the day in the city public library, and being of a studious nature, taught school at night and studied law. He was graduated from the Chicago College of Law in 1897, and has achieved success in his profession, having been connected with some noteworthy litigation. He is a member of the law firm of Schuyler, Ettelson & Welfeld. Mr. Ettelson is a Republican, having cast his first vote for William McKinley for president. He became interested in politics in 1904, and was elected a prescript captain. As the nominee of the Republican party in 1906, he was elected state senator from the third district. In the forty-fifth general assembly he was made chairman of the committee on parks and boulevards, and also a member of many of the important committees during that session of the legislature. In 1910 he was an independent candidate for re-election to the Senate at the primaries, and succeeded in that campaign in defeating the party candidate against him. In both the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh General Assemblies he was appointed to the most important committees in the Senate, chief of which was the steering committee. Mr. Etelson was one of those who reorganized the Senate, and succeeded in overthrowing the notorious "Senate combine." He fathered many important state measures in the interests of the people, among which was a bill that compelled the State Treasurer to pay all interest money into the State Treasury, thereby securing for the state an actual income of $200,000 a year. He was author of the state text book law, which materially reduced the price of school books, and which affected every family in the state of Illinois, whose children attended the public schools. He was the author of a bill which authorized the Park Commissioners to acquire submerged lands, and made possible the recent contract between the South Park Commission and the Illinois Central Railroad to beautify the lake front and the building of the Field Museum in Grant Park. He succeeded in having a referendum clause attached to the bill which provided for bond issues in the city of Chicago, thus giving the people the right to vote on the propriety and necessity of the issuance of bonds. He was an ardent advocate of the women's ten-hour law, the anti-white slave law, the occupational disease law, the direct primary act. He procured the passage of the law which gave to the Seventh and Eighth regiments in the city of Chicago appropriations for the construction of armories. He was the author of a law which procured increased allowance for dependent girls in industrial schools; and also of a law which increased the assistants to the state factory inspector for the benefit of inspection into the sanitation and public health of all places of employment. He procured the passage of the act which increased the number of judges in the Superior Court of Cook county. He introduced the bill which provided for the construction of subways in Chicago; and also for a separate ballot for the judiciary. He was the author of the bill to create a Public Service Commission. In his entire public career he has always received the unqualified endorsement of the Legislative Voters' League. Mr. Ettelson is a member of the Hamilton, the new Illinois Athletic club, the Metropolitan Club and the Players' Club, and is a director of the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans. Rather Hard on the Teacher Teachers are told, not once but a hundred times, that a wise observer need. only study briefly "the class before us"-nay, some artless speakers say that the observer need only listen outside the door—in order to learn, without a glance at the teacher, whether he or she is alert, enthusiastic, conscientious, hard-working, well-informed, and in vigorous health, or a dragged out, ignorant, soulless, and thoroughly unpedagogic specimen of the profession—Mary C. Robinson, in the Atlantic. Thoughtful Child. Little Alice was terribly afraid of cats. One day she had been standing on the doorstep for several minutes, looking at a big black tom cat, gallivanting on the fence. Finally she rushed into the house, looking very excited, and exclaimed: "Muvver, I thought I'd better come in. Dat kitty was just so afraid of me, I felt sorry for it and comed away!"—"oman's Home Companion. IN THE RAIL ROAD CENTER By J. R. Winston. Mr. Bert Gordon, 5435 Dearborn street is in the service of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company between Chicago and Ft. Dodge, Ia., on a cafe parlor car. Bert is ten years in the company's service, and is a good man and knows what service is, and is well liked by the officials of the road. Mr. Lewis Taylor, 508 West Fifty-fourth place, is head chef on a cafe parlor car in service of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company between Chicago and Ft. Dodge, Ia., and, believe me, Mr. Lewis is the father of chefs over on the Chicago Great Western Railway Company's lines. Mr. Wesley Lacy of Jersey City is head chef, between New York City and Chicago, in service of the Erie Railway Company. Mr. A. H. Miller, 4809 Langley avenue, is running to St. Louis, Mo., in service of the Illinois Central Railway Company, in passenger service, as train porter. Mr. C. H. Robinson of Jersey City is running to Chicago from New York in dining car service of the Erie Railway Company. Mr. John R. Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: Will you do me the kindness of ascertaining the whereabouts or address of Miss Margaret M. Pettaway? She wrote me six months ago from Chicago, but I have lost the address. She is an accomplished seamstress and follows the same as a trade. You will confer a favor if you can accomplish this for me. Yours truly, CLAUDE T. HUME, 210 Columbus Ave., Muskogee, Okla. COUNTY JUDGE APPOINTS TAX COMMISSIONER. County Judge John E. Owens this week appointed Charles A. Ward as one of the inheritance tax commissioners attached to the county court. Similar appointments were made by Judges Carter and Rinaker, Maj. F. A. Dennison serving under the former and S. Laing Williams under the latter. Mr. Ward is one of the best known young colored attorneys in the city, having graduated from the Northwestern University Law school and been in the active practice for the past seven years. Judge Owens is to be congratulated for this signal recognition of the negro members of the Cook county bar. CHARLES KRUTCKOFF THE MAN. Candidate for the Republican Nomination for the Office of Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, Illinois. J. B. Hon. Charles Krutckoff. Has been employed in the office of the Board of Assessors since the present assessment law went into effect in 1899. Has made steady advance since that time from a minor position to that of Chief Clerk of the Board. Mr. Krutckoff is undoubtedly well qualified for the position. His continuous employment and advancement during the several administrations of the Assessors conclusively shows his ability. Mr. Krutckoff was born in Chicago November 1st, 1871. Was educated in the public schools of Chicago. Has lived in the South Town of Chicago all his life—40 years—and in the same neighborhood. Is married and the father of a family of two children. Authors and Their Books At the dinner given by the Harper people to Arnold Bennett just before he sailed for England, a dinner which was attended by many of the literary lights that live in or near New York, a discussion came up as to whether in this day of the rapid output of literature a man could live by his books. Mr. Bennett said he was sure that many authors could, and he instanced the case of a young author he knew in London who was so hard up that he could not get enough cash to pay for his dinner. An idea struck him. He visited his publisher's and there asked for six copies of his latest novel, which was priceed at five shillings, ordering that the books be charged to his account. This was done. With the volumes under his arm he visited a second-hand book dealer in the neighborhood, and, as the books were perfectly new, he managed to sell the six for them ten shillings, with which sum he had a rattling good dinner and an evening at the theater. "Oh, yes," said Mr. Bennett, "even the humble best author can live by his books—if he has published any books." J. H. H. Shall He Be Our Alderman? Must Chicago take third place? Will you allow Baltimore and Philadelphia to boast of an Alderman and you have none? In the language of an eminent statesman we say "Never." Then get busy as early as possible on Tuesday, February 27; go to your polling place and vote for Hon. E. H. Wright for Alderman from the Second ward. It's the regular primary, you know, but that is equivalent to an election. MR. HUGH A. QUINN THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE PLACE. [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. No doubt many of our readers who voted for Mayor Harrison would like to use their vote at the primaries on Tuesday, the 27th inst., to the same advantage they did when they landed Harrison to victory. A Defender reporter who visited Mr. Quinn and interviewed him, and in reply he said: "I would rather not speak of myself to you, but would rather you ask people in the 30th Ward about me and let them speak and I will abide by their decision; but you can tell your readers that I will be an Alderman for all the people and no particular class." The Defender recommends Mr. Quinn. Street Car Repartee. Mrs. Genthrie, a ladylike lady, was seated in the trolley car by the side of a perfect stranger (an almost perfectly perfect stranger), who was getting even by sitting by her side. And so Mrs. Genthrie, that ladylike imitation, she says to that stranger, says she: "What time is it by your watch, please?" And the stranger, says he: "I don't know." "But you just looked at it," pursued our heroine. "I did that," returned the stranger. "But I didn't look at it to see what time it was. Bless you, no. I looked to see if the watch was still there." You can never tell who you're sitting 'tight'—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A man who went half way around the world on a wild-goose chase for a supposed buried treasure continued from New York to Salt Lake for the pleasure of-thrashing the man who told him the story of a great cache which did not exist. If he will now employ somebody with an adequate sized boot to take care of his own case the incident will have reached the logical conclusion. THE STORIES WAY GOSMAR LARA Out-of-the-way German inn. Germany probably holds the record for out-of-the-way inn names. Berlin alone can boast the "Angry Louise," the "Comfortable Lamb," the "Cold Frog," the "Dirty Parlor," the "Bloody Bones," the "Boxers' Den," the "Four-Hundred-Wight Man" and the "Musical Cats," whilst a suburban landlord, whose house stands near a cemetery and is a popular "pull up" for mourners, has dubbed it, very appropriately, the "Last Tear." Cats Scratch a Table Leg to Pieces. A table has been in the possession of a Dulwich, England, family for over eight years, and during this time the various cats they have possessed have scratched one leg, and one leg only, till at last they so wore it away that it became useless and had to be replaced with a new leg. The old leg is still in existence and kept as a curcully. Lost Treasure. ALL AUTHORS ARE TALKATIVE If You Know One, Be Tactful and Let Him Converse About His Work. I know nothing about really great authors, but I think I speak for a large number of the followers of the trade when I say that they like to talk about their work, one great reason being that writing is a lonely profession. If you write, as a rule you must do it by yourself; or if you do attempt it in company, you or the company will be sorry. Therefore, when the writing is done, and a sympathetic listener offers, the writer is glad to wipe out some of the lonely hours with a little conversation. So, if you know an author, don't be too breathless about his calling; treat him like a human being. Let him talk a little, and do not be shocked if he manages to keep the tears back when he tells you about his last short story. Only be tacitful. Do not say, as an eager acquaintance once said to me: "Oh. I do think it is so interesting to write. It must be just fascinating when your manuscripts come back!" I discovered afterward that she meant proofs instead of manuscripts, but the mistake of just that single word made me, who am usually so garrulous about my trade, feel for the time being that I really did not care ever to speak of it again. So I repeat, let the poor author talk, but be tactful—Atlantic Monthly. CONSCIENCE OF THE SCOTCH Tourists Who Wanted a Boat Ride on Sunday Finally Overcame Sandy's Scruples. A couple of tourists staying at a village which is in close proximity to a well known Scottish loch had a fancy one fine Sunday to go for a row on the loch. They accordingly sallied forth in search of the boatman, whom they met just leaving his house dressed in his Sunday best and carrying a Bible under his arm. "We want to go for a row," said one of the tourists. "Dae ye no' ken it's the Sawbath?" answered Sandy; "ye'll no' get a boat free me the day, forbye I'hae ye tae ken that I am al ah elder the 'okkr' "Yes, yes," exposulated the tourists, "that's all very well for you, but we don't require you with us. You can go to church; we can row ourselves." "Ay, ay," said the elder, "but just think whit the meenster'll say." "Never mind the minister," was the reply; "he will know nothing about it. We will pay you well." "Ah, weel," said Sandy, "Til no' let ye the boat, but I'll tell ye whit I'll dae. Dae ye see you yon beatte doon among the rushes? Weel, she's ready wl' the cars inside. Jist ye gang down there an' row out tae the middle 'o the loch, an' I'll come doon tae the bank an' swear at ye; bit never ye mind, ye jist row on an' an' call for the money Monday"—ideas. "I don't wonder you keep your shapely arms bare, Mildred, even if they do look somewhat hairy." "I'm rather glad you dropped in, Bonus; when a fellow feels bunc and lonesome he's ready to welcome almost anybody." "Yes, of course, I can recommend you for that position, McCorkle. Fortunately, perhaps, I don't know you very well." "Your new job will take you out of the country for three or four years, will it, Bingley? Well, I'm glad you got it." "I'm enjoying your call so much, Mr. Spurlong, that I hate to remind you that the next car will pass here in about five minutes, and then there won't be another one for half an hour." Muffled Knocks. SUGAR A HEART STIMULANT Experiments of An English Physician Show Cures of Cases of Muscle Dilatation. Sugar has had its champions as well as its opponents. Its advocates have declared that, aside from its nourishing value, it carries with it a quick stimulation that is without perceptible reaction. On the other side, says the Bakers Weekly, "we have had radical utterances connecting sugar with some of the most incurable of organic diseases. But an English physician recently contended that cane sugar is almost a specific in the treatment of certain diseases of the heart. Emphasis is laid upon cane sugar." Dr. F. S. Locke of King's college, London, has kept the heart of a mammal beating for eighty to ninety hours after death of the animal simply by keeping the heart muscles sprinkled with powdered cane sugar. These later experiments with cane sugar, especially with reference to dilation of the heart muscles, show that in numerous cases cures have been effected that are of three or four years standing. Some People. The trouble with some people is that they want to draw compound interest for life on the little charitable deeds they do just for the purpose of keeping the world from suspecting that they are cold-hearted and stingy. The Bar Sinister. "Some people ought to learn something about heredity here in Los Angeles," said an old librarian. 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