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PYTHIAN MAY BALL 1st Regiment UniformRank Coliseum Annex, Monday Evening, May 6th---2 Halls VOLUME VII. NUMBER 17. PYTHI (Special to the Chicago Defender) New York, April 26—To a group of pastors who had called to consult him upon measures to come before the general conference at Kansas City, May 6, Bishop W. B, Derrick, in his study at the well known Bishop's Court, said this morning: "Before I talk with you, my brethren, about church matters, as a Bishop and an old man who knows something of life, I wish to give you some advice. It will be clear cut and plain. Do not in sermon or any public remark join with those who so unjustly censure Bruce Ismay. I have been shipwrecked several times, I was in the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor, I have sailed over every sea but the polar seas. In my early days I was before the mast, my father was a captain of a sailing vessel. I know the ocean as you know your books. "I have had my secretary keep me well supplied with reports of the awful, the terrible Titanic disaster. I am positive that public opinion will veer and that in the end the real heroism of Bruce Ismay will be recognized and appreciated. There is in the human heart when confronted with such awful news a disposition to find a victim, a scape-goat, upon which to heap censure. Bruce Ismay is now the victim. But the facts are clear, he did all any man could and more than many men would to save the women and children. When he done all he could, he saved himself, I would have done it, any man would. Afloat on a plank in the island seas, I tried to cheer up and sustain a comrade clinging to the same plank until he simply melted in mind and resolution, then I did not give up my efforts when he vanished in the sea but hung on until a Dutch ship picked me up. My presence here is the best evidence that I have survived. "Do not unjustly condemn any man; above all the true heroism of the great head of the White Star Line. It will be appreciated after the excitement is over. Miss Rosenbaum tells things just like I have thought them to be. I have seen men shot to death at my side, I have seen people perish at sea, I know what it is for a man to calmly stand on the deck and himself unsaved to call out, 'are there any more women?' none answering, ismay would have been a fool had he not taken a place in the boat that still had room for many more. He has a right to his life and to the gratitude of those he saved. Remember this, my brethren, and say no unkind word. You are ministers of Christ." NOTED SURGEON TO BUY RACER. Dr. Daniel H. Williams Hobnoble With Well Known Automobile Agent and Reporter Sees Visit to His Establishment. Tuesday evening a reporter for the Chicago Defender noticed Dr. Daniel H. Williams going into Farrington Automobile Company's establishment with their agent. The doctor was noticed to admire a racer that stood near the door and it looked from the reporter's stand across the street that the doctor is seriously interested in high class machines and equally high in speed. The writer also remembers discovering another prominent physician along Automobile Row not long ago and the facts published by him were true to the letter. After many years' of agitation, but as the direct result of a strenuous three months' campaign, the journeymen barbers of this city organized. Application was made to the International Union for a charter, and when the required members were required it was granted. Sunday last at Odd Fellows Hall the officers were installed. Addresses were made by P. A. Holzer and A. T. Menard. The following are the officers: President, Dell Matthews; vice president, L. B. Lawrence; corresponding secretary, Byrd Whittaker; recording secretary, E. B. Marchant; treasurer, Mr. Powell; guardian, J. M. Sesquib; guard; J. W. Carrington; financial and auditing committee, Chas. Chappell, J. Woodfolk, Mr. Robinson; trustees, W. Cook, J. E. Hardweck, Mr. Williams. --- The Home Edition WESTERN LEAGUE TO ELIMINATE WORD "WHITE' Dean Sumner, Noted Sociologist and Chairman of the Famous Vice Commission, Addresses a Mass Meeting Under the Auspices of This Recently Organized Association for the Protection of Colored Women—Severely Criticises Anti-Servant Law Which Prevents White Women From Working in Sporting Houses, but Permits the Same Among Colored Women. REV. J. B. MASSIER IN- TRODUCES SPEAKER Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley Also Speaks—Adoptts Strong Rules to Legislature to Eliminate Word "White"—Speakers Give Startling Figures Showing the Abominable Conditions Existing in This City from Segregated Vice—Neighborhoods Inhabited by Colored People Generally Selected—Families Unable to Move Into More Desirable Localities Forced to Rear Families Amid These 'Reeking Conditions, By D. W. Johnson. The Western League, at a meeting at Odd Fellows hall, Thursday evening of last week, petitioned the state legislature to eliminate the word "white" from the statute books which prevents the white women from working in sporting houses and permits the same among colored women. Dean Sumner of the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, noted sociologist and chairman of the famous vice commission, was the principal speaker and was introduced by Father Massler, Rector of St. Thomas Episcopal church. Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley also spoke. Dean Sumner, after being introduced, immediately plunged into his subject: "How to Save Our Colored Girls." He stated that the subject of vice was not a race question nor a local question, and he disliked very much to discuss it along those lines, but it is very evident that the moral conditions in this city and many others warrant immediate steps to eradicate vice and change the moral situation among the colored people. He gave in detail facts and figures showing the abominable conditions existing in this city from segregated vice. According to police regulations there are districts set apart for the practice of prostitution, and it is generally located in the neighborhood of colored people. Consequently those who will not submit to their families being surrounded by such intolerable conditions are forced to move into more desirable neighborhoods; and those who are unable to avail themselves of this opportunity—which seems to be their only alternative—are compelled to remain with their young girls and children of a tender age, completely immersed in an ocean of vice and corruption of the most damnable and degrading sort. In one segregated vice district there are 1,475 colored children and besides coming into unavoidable contact with the lowest and most degraded kind of prostitutes, thieves, robbers and murderers, they are permitted to frequent these resorts and run errands for the inmates. Such conditions are preposterous, outrageous, intolerable and should not be permitted for a moment. Upon these facts Dean Sumner laid great stress, stating that such conditions would not be tolerated by white people for an instant. Moreover there is a law upon the statute book of Illinois which prohibits white girls or women from working or acting in any capacity as a servant in a house of prostitution, while colored girls and women at any age beyond sixteen are permitted with the greatest of freedom to work as servants. The Everley club alone employs 52 colored servants, many of them girls and women. Is this right? Shall this crowning shame of the age be allowed to continue? Go unreubaked, unchecked, without a word of remonstrance; without a vigorous protest from our leading colored citizens to the public authorities, the mayor, city council and the state legislature? There is no doubt but that such a law in substance is just and equitable. But where is the justice and protection to human morals in such a law as this? It is manifestly unjust, dis- (Continued on Page 6.) --- The Chicago Defender. True Heroism of Head of White Star Line Will Yet Be Appreciated, He Tells Ministers—Bishop Tells of Own Personal Experience at Sea. BARBERS ORGANIZE UNION. After Many Years Tonsorial Artists in This City Are Admitted to International Association as Local No.630. Mrs. D. P. French is visiting her sister, Mrs. Roberts, at Gandale, Mich. CHICAGO,ILL., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. FROM HUMBLE MISSIONS TO LEADING PASTOR Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D., Pastor of Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church a Splendid Type of Devout and Earnest Clergyman — Thirty-four Consecutive Years in the Ministry—His First Charge Was in Native State (North Carolina)—Three Churches in Circuit—Had to Walk Twenty-five Miles Every Sunday. LATER PASTORED LEADING CHURCHES IN CONNECTION. s Candidate for Bishop at Coming General Conference—Faithful Service and a Clear Record His Recommendation—Friends Praise Him for His Consistency—Never Turned Aside for Anything of a Secular Character, Political or Otherwise—Noted as a Financier—Large Dollar Money Record. By J. Hockley Smiley. The friends of Rev. William D. Cook, D. D., pastor of Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. church, throughout the country in championing his candidacy for bishop lay peculiar stress upon his thirty-four consecutive years of service. It has been remarked by some that throughout the last half century many of the leading ministers have sought other fields, gone into politics, but eventually had returned to the church. Rev. Cook is a notable exception, having devoted his entire time to the work of the church and has not turned aside for anything of a secular character, political or otherwise. Defender Receives Open Letter. It was not until a copy of the open letter to the general conference fell into the hands of a Defender reporter that we made note of the strong sentiment in favor of the elevation of this splendid clergyman to the high and holy office of bishop. A careful perusal of his record shows a remarkable adaptation to the stringent discipline of the A. M. E. connection. Few of the prominent pastors have had a more diversified experience in the Christian ministry than has Rev. Cook. From the piny grove circuit, his native home in North Carolina, which circuit consisted of three churches twenty-five miles apart, where in order to preach on a Sunday he was compelled to walk to the pastorate of the largest churches in the connection, is a record that any Christian or layman should be proud Rev. Cook's Own Statement. Rev. Cook always reluctant to talk for publication was persuaded to give out the following statement: "I, as one of the pastors of our beloved church, after much meditation and prayer, and yielding to the request of some of my friends in various parts of the church, herein offer my services to our church as a candidate for the high and holy office of bishop. I base my claim for consideration upon the grounds of thirty-four consecutive years of successful service which I have, under God, given to my church. During these thirty-four years in the ministry of the A. M. E. church, I have devoted my entire time to the special work of the church and have not turned aside for anything of a secular character, political or otherwise." As Pastor of Mother Church. SEVERAL WELL KNOWN PEOPLE DIE. Toledo Mourns the Loss of Mrs. Cordella Brown, Miss Estella McCoglin and Josephine W. Taylor—Other News. Toledo, Ohio, April 26.— The principal characters in the cantata of Jephthah and his daughter given twice recently at the Third Baptist church were Jephthah, Mr. Albert Ward; Opigenia, Mrs. Florence Taylor; Elon, B. F. McWilliams; Elon, M. E. Authur; Olzam, James T. McCoylin; Ada, Miss Rosebud Arnett; Lea, Mrs. M. Scott; Naomi, Mrs. Lillian Stevens; Sarah, Miss Bessie Brown; Arnold, Harry Smith; camp guard, Ted Sherwood. In the death of Mrs. Cordella Brown, who entered into rest April 13, Warren A. M. E. church loses one of her most faithful members. Her funeral was held from the church Monday afternoon, a large concourse of people being present. The pastor, Rev. W. B. Lee, paid a loving tribute to her Christian life and character. He was assisted in the service by Rev. B. T. McWilliams of the Third Baptist Church. The Misses Delaney Humphrey and Bailey, who played at the Valentine this week, stopped at Hotel Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Wood wish to thank the many friends for kindness rendered during the illness and death of Mrs. Wood's father, Mr. William Price. Mr. John Jones is reported as being on the sick list. Miss Estella McCoyllin, one of our most popular young ladies and recent graduate of the high school, departed from this life Friday morning, April 19, after several months illness, from a fall on the ice. She had been a member of the Third Baptist church since she was a small girl and was church organist up to the time of her illness. She leaves a father, mother and three brothers, Wm. A., James Franklin and Grafton, all of this city, to mourn her loss, besides a host of friends, young and old, who loved her on account of her sweet disposition. Leave items for this paper with Turner Tundy, agent, or with Mrs. Vaughn at Jackson and Vaughn soda fountain. Josephine M. Taylor Hardee, daughter of Jas, and Mattie Hardee, was born at Fort Hauchuca, Ariz. May 3, 1893, came to Toledo with her parents in November, 1896. On the death of her mother in March, 1897, was adopted by Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Taylor. She passed away Monday evening, April 22, and after a brief illness at the family home, 554 Woodland avenue, aged 19 years. At the early age of ten years she united with Baptist church and up to her last illness was an earnest and faithful worker in the cause of her master. Beautiful in face and character, unstentious and self-sacrificing, thoughtfulness for others and a desire to see them happy were the chief motives actuating her daily life. From the age of 14 years she took almost entire charge of the music in her church, being organist of the Sunday school, Young People's society and choir. Always at her post unless ill or out of the city. Truly a faithful worker whose bright life was overflowing with devotion to the cause she espoused. She was a brilliant pianist and would have graduated from the Toledo Conservatory of Music in June. Her loss is irreparable and the stricken family have the sympathy of a host of friends. She leaves besides her adopted parents her father, Sergeant James Hardee of the regular army, and one sister, Miss Julia Taylor Hardee. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon from Friendship Baptist church. Miss Julia Quinn of Oberlin, Ohio, sends regards to her following Toledo friends: Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. R. McCown, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Authur, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Clanens, Mr. Hillus McCown, Mr. Frank McCoglin, the Jackson and Jones families and to Mrs. Emery Wilson. It was reported to the agent that Mr. Price, father of Mr. J. N. Price of Indiana avenue, passed from this life Tuesday evening. SWAT THE FRUIT STORE CANDY. According to the advice of the Chicago health department everybody should "Swat the Fly." There is some excuse for the fly, but none for the uncovered trays and boxes of candies in the fruit and confectionery stores in this city. This fact is especially noticeable in the many brightly illuminated places along the "Stroll" where nightly hundreds of young people congregate and purchase these uncovered germ-laden sweets. It is not an unusual sight to see the attendants in these places sweep out the entire store clear out to the sidewalk without an endeavor to cover over these trays of candy. Thousands of lives are thus parled and the attention of the efficient officials of our board of health is called to the matter. JACK JOHNSON'S INJURY PLEASES WHITE HOPES Early Sensational Reports Wednesday Night That the Champion Had Been Seriously Injured in an Automobile Smash-Up in Pittsburgh, Pa., Caused Considerable Excitement in Sporting Circles, and Many Went So Far as to Figure the Future in Case of His Demise—The Chicago Defender Reporters Allay Thoughts of Seriousness When Public Is Told of Reports From Its Special Correspondents. ACCIDENT ONLY TRIVIAL CHAMPION HELPS SELF Tendons In Fighter's Back Sprained; Nervous System Shaken Up; Considerable Damage to Clothes When Truck Strikes Automobile—Damage Not Serious—Champion Able to Walk to Hotel Where Medical Assistance Was Given—Only Drawback is That Injuries Will Delay Training for His Fight With Jim Flynn at Las Vegas July 4—Goes On With Performance. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Pittsburgh, Pa., April 24. Mr. Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight puglist of the world, while motoring in this city today had a narrow escape from serious injury by being run into by a heavy laden truck. He had planned to start active training today for his battle with Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, at Las Vegas, July 4, but while on his way in a new auto to a roadhouse to start strenuous work his car was wrecked by a huge motor truck, which crashed into its rear end and crumpled it like an eggshell. For a second or two it looked as if Johnson's life had been snuffed out. When Jack was picked up from the mud-covered street, however, it was found that his most serious injuries consisted of strained tendons and muscles of the back and injuries to his spine. On the advice of Dr. D. E. Sable, police surgeon, he will not start training for at least two weeks because of his injuries, and he has canceled his engagement to appear at the Academy theater here the rest of this week with his company and the engagement at Baltimore for next week has been scratched. Accident Jars Nerves. Though Johnson's injuries, in so-far as they interfere with his training plans, are serious, the pessimistic nature of the occurrence from the viewpoint f his admirers, is the fact that the champion's nerves seemed to have suffered from the incident. His golden smile was absent when he was seen after the accident, and he was morose and shaky and not nearly so loquacious as is his wont. Johnson, his brother Henry, and his valet, Randall Wright, were in the machine, which Wright was driving. Jack was sitting on the rear seat. His car stopped on a hill on Fulton street, at Wylie avenue. He was going to shake hands with a number of admirers gathered on the corner. The big truck had been following his car, and when his machine stopped, the speed of the truck was such that it could not be stopped until Johnson's new car was a wreck. Johnson and the otter two were thrown out. Champion Able to Walk. When it was found that he was able to walk, however, the crowd cheered. He was taken to the hotel of Mr. Frank Sutton where Police Surgeon D. E. Sable attended him. Later he was able to go on for a few minutes at the Academy theater at the matinee performance, but his work was considerably shortened from that entailed by his regular program. Johnson plainly showed the effects of his injuries by unusual stiffness in his movements, and his glum countenance gave the impression that he is deeply worried over his condition. BRIDE AND GROOM SPEND HONEYMOON HERE. Mr. J. Harold White and Miss Eda Hogan, who were married in Joliet Wednesday night, are spending a part of their honeymoon with friends, in this city. Mr. White is cashier of the Enterprise Savings Bank, Springfield, ill., and a prominent Knight of Bath. FINAL PLANS FOR FOURTH MEETING N. A. A. C. P. First Session Sunday Evening at Sinai Temple—Many Prominent Speakers—Program in Detail—The New Honorary Committee. Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley, general chairman of the committee which is making preparations for the forthcoming conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announced this week that the program was complete and that the conference promised to be one of the best attended and most significant in the history of the association. The final program is as follows: First session, Sunday, April 28, at 8 o'clock, at the new Sinai Temple, Forty-sixth street and Grand boulevard (near Indian avenue lines). Subject: "Our Common Humanity." Miss Jane Addams, chairman; speakers, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard of New York city, Abdul Baha, leader of the Bahai movement, and Prof. William Pickens of Talladega, Ala. Good music. Second session, Monday afternoon at Handel street, Randolph street near Wabash avenue. Subject: "Race Discrimination." Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley, chairman. Speakers, Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois of New York city, in address with lantern slides, and Judge Edward O. Brown, of the court of appeals. Third session, Monday evening, same place. Subject: "The Rule of the Strong." Bishop B. F. Lee of the Methodist Episcopal church, chairman. Speakers, Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull House, Dr. I. M. Rubnow, sociologist, of New York city; Charles Edward Russell of New York; President H. T. Kealng of Western University, Kansas City, Kas. Fourth session, Tuesday morning, same place. Subject: "The Work of the Association. Chairman, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard. Reports of delegates from twenty states. Fifth session, informal reception at Hull House Tuesday afternoon. Good music and brief addresses by Abdul Baha and others. Closing session, Tuesday evening, at Handel hall. "The Situation in Illinois." Chairman, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Speakers, John H. Wall'er, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois; Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett; Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, president of the Juvenile Protective league. All sessions are open to the public. An honorary committee of well-known Chicagoans has been appointed, according to the announcement of T. W. Allinson, secretary of the committee. WHERE IS THE FREDERICK DOUGLAS LIFE INS. CO.? Considerable inquiry has been made to the whereabouts and conditions of the Frederick Douglas Life Insurance company as represented and presented to Chicagoans by the honorable Mr. Eubanks, its agent previous to Jan. 1. Mr. Eubanks, well and favorably known here, was to return here Jan. 1 and to establish a large and substantial branch of the company here. The Chicago Defender has been asked, "Where is the Frederick Douglas Life Insurance company?" and any information about the company will be gladly received. Mr. Eubanks is a man of sterling worth and we sincerely hope that the company which he introduced will not prove to be another Black Diamond. MR. ABBOTT TO THE PUBLIC. Acting upon the advice of the Post Office Department we will not carry delinquent subscribers on our last after Saturday, May 11. There will be no further notice. R. S. ABROTT If you see The Defender it is so PRICE 5 CENTS RUMOR ARISES IN PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT Nation's Capital All Agog Over Rumors of Exciting Talk Between Friends of President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt Relative to the Discharge of the Colored Soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment—Incident as Campaign Material—Mr. Taft as Secretary of War Held Up Famous Order Claiming That it was Unreasonable and an Injustice to the Faithful Men. ROOSEVELT MADE POLITICS OF IT. Rumor Says (and Our Correspondent Says That The Air is Full of Rumors) That When Mr. Taft Refused to Promulgate Said Order at the Time Ordered by President Roosevelt the President, Who Was Then Away on a Trip to Panama, Cabled Back, a Peremptory Order to Put His Discharge Order Into Immediate and Full Force—Appointment of W. C. Matthews as Assistant. District Attorney at Boston, Mass., Pleases. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) order, at the time ordered Jent/ Roosevelt, but held it Jenl Roosevelt, but held it cabled to President Roosevelt, pointing out the injustice of the discharge order. It is a matter of history that President Roosevelt cabled back a peremptory order to put his discharge order into immediate and full force, and thereupon the 167 valiant members of the Twenty-fifth infantry became dishonorably discharged soldiers. All these facts, and more, it is currently stated around Washington, are to be used with telling effect against the colonel in return for his managers' bid for the colored vote. One official remarked recently that "the half of that injustice to the Negro soldier has not been told, and when it is told it will have a powerful effect upon Negro voters everywhere." Fact it is that the anti-convention contest between President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt will now be conducted along different lines, and there will be no quarters asked or given from this time on. Another fine appointment has come to the race from the Taft administration, and the department of justice, over which presides that sterling friend of the race, Attorney General Wickersham, will have the honor for the appointment. Wm. C. Mathews of Boston has been appointed Assistant District Attorney for that city, the position previously held by Wm. L. Lewis before his elevation to Assistant Attorney General. Mr. Mathews is one of the best known young colored lawyers in Massachusetts. He is a product of Tuskegee institute, Andover college and Harvard college. Like his predecessor, Mr. Lewis, he was a famous football player on both the Andover and Harvard teams, and a famous baseball player on the teams of both colleges. For three years he was the crack brilliant shortstop on the All-American college team. After his graduation from Tuskegee, where he was the valedictorian of his class, Mr. Mathews entered Andover college in Massachusetts. So popular was he at Andover that for several years he was made captain of the team, a place never before or since held by a man of his race, and he was also one of the editors of the college paper. In the fall of 1901 he entered Harvard college, where he finished his law studies, and afterwards was admitted to practice. He is a very popular member of his race in the old Bay State, and a bright, capable lawyer. The matter of his appointment was taken up at the White House by colored friends here, and that locality favoring it was put up to Attorney General Wickersham. Mr. Wickersham favored it at once, and as soon as he was convinced that Mr. Mathews had the required legal ability he ordered the appointment made, for Hon. Geo. W. Wickersham knows no color line. The appointment of Mr. Mathews only confirms what President Taft has privately and publicly said that when his administration was completed the Negro would have no reason to complain. This appointment totals three colored assistant district attorneys under this administration, and one assistant attorney general. DOCUSER THE SICK. The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care. Miss Martha Plummer, 3227 Dearborn street, ill for a long period, is reported better this week. Mrs. Thomas Lucas is ill at her residence...3250 State street. Mrs. Annie Taylor, worthy princess of Mt. Hope Temple No. I, S. M. T. was taken suddenly ill last week and is with friends in St. Paul. Mrs. Joseph Moore is still ill at her residence on Armour avenue. Samuel R. Peyton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peyton of 3812 Prairie avenue, is critically ill with a complication of dienses caused by overgrowth. Mrs. Gertrude Moore, who has been seriously ill for the past two weeks, is now able to be out again. When writing to this column please send address of sick as all friends ay not know where to find them. Mrs. A. G. Luker received news week of the serious illness of her son, Charles E. Luker of Milwaukee, Wis. Langston Upton was run over by his horse and wagon Wednesday morning. He is at Provident hospital. Mr. A. L. McDowell, 4537 Champlain avenue, who underwent an operation at Provident hospital, is doing well. It has been reported hit this office that Mrs. Floyd Eunuel was not ill at Provident Hospital, but only slightly indisposed at her home. Mr. James Newsame is ill at his residence, 214 W. 30th street. A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Prominent Real Estate Firm Offers Exceptional Opportunity to Secure a Home. Every young person should investigate Frederick H. Bartletts & Co.'s remarkable inducements to purchase a home of your own on their easy payment plan. The wise will hasten to secure "free rent for old age." Owning a home gives one prestige. The general office of the company is at 69 West Washington street, but first read their advertisement on another page. FOREMAN'S FAMOUS RESTURANT Home of Famous Epicureans Newly Decorated and Enlarged, Foreman's famous restaurant, 13 East, 35th street, is adorned in its new spring suit, having been newly decorated and enlarged to accommodate a rapidly increasing trade. Seemingly the Foremans have endeared themselves to their customers for they follow them wherever they go. More tables, the walls are pretty frescoed, electric lights and fans add to the equipment to one of the most perfect restaurants on the north Side. Not a Matter of Size. world owes more to small na- o great empres. . MILITARY BALL NOTED FOR FINE RAIMENT Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson, the Guest of Knights of Pythias, Honored at Memorial Hall Gathering—The Event of Several Days Program. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Columbus, Ohio, April 26.—Major R. R. ackson, who has been the guest of the Knights of Pythias for several days here this week, was wined and dined like a king. The event, however, of the entire festivities was the ball at Memorial Hall Tuesday evening. The entire city turned out in spring attire and it was indeed the social event of the week Sartorial versatility was a dominant characteristic of the ball, which moved off with eclat and savoir faire. There was the unsullied white of commanding officers' uniforms; the much-gold of the rank and file, the red, the white and the blue, the plumes, the glint of side arms and the sheen of steel. Jets, Silks and Satins The raiment that adorned the women assembled was equally resplendent. Jets, silks and satins, laced and fine scars, the myriad tints of the rainbow, decolette, demi-train and semi-corsage, combined to make a scene of bewildering gayety. And those of the unfortunate outer pale, who had neither membership in the K. of P. nor yet dress suits, nor other raiment akin to Solomon's glory, these stood at respectful distance and cast unstinted admiring glances at their fellows, who, in full consciousness of the importance of the occasion, demeaned themselves with the dignity and yet careless grace the situation required. Observing fashionably late hours, it was after 9 o'clock when a fanfare of trumpets announced that the guests of honor and the military escort were at hand. First the officers, next the band and then the guests, and after these the servied ranks. Limousines and carriages dashed up with other guests, who continued to arrive until after 10 o'clock. Captain C. C. Caldwell, who had been host to General Jackson, turned him over to Dr. Dr. Edward Gilliam, who introduced him to the audience. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, formerly of this city, now auditor of the navy at Washington, also spoke. General Jackson, who is also a major in the Illinois National Guard, the only colored regiment in the Guard of the United States, has lately been nominated for the legislature of his state. He returns to his home in Chicago this morning. THE C. R. LEWIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Makes Great Offer to Chicago's Home- Buying Public. Just think of it, the only firm in Chicago with such a proposition. Will sell you property anywhere in the city. Residences and flat buildings of all descriptions, in and out of the city, from $1,500 to $150,000, located on Wahash avenue, Forest avenue, Michigan avenue, Drexel boulevard and other prominent avenues and boulevards. Beautiful brick houses with stone fronts at $3,750 on Forest avenue. All on easy payments, same as renting, with the difference of getting a home for the money you pay instead of paper. C. R. Lewis Construction Co., dealer in real estate, insurance, loans; public stenographing, public accounting; 3449 State street; phones: Automatic 71-561, Douglas 2540. GOSSIP OF THE WEEK. When and where is Mrs. Carbarn and her family going to move, and is their flat rented? Who will be the lucky Chicago minister to be elected a Bishop in the great A. M. E. Church? Everyone says the reporters have a different opinion, but is the all absorbing topic. Interest has also been centered in Crown Point and Hammond. Ind., this week. That very wise personage, "Dame Rumor," however, would only tell enough to make the story fit under this head. Champion Johnson's accident also came in for considerable talk. "The peerless heavyweight" should hear his friends talk. There is no doubt of the hope that the masses have in him. But somehow or other no one talked above a whisper about paying their subscription to the Defender. Vipers Still Plague France One of the divisions of France, the department of Seline-et-Marne, has issued its snake killing budget. It shows that viperes are almost as numerous as ever before in the ile de France. They are component in the forest of Fontainebleau, where one gamekeeper alone killed 1,818 in the course of last year. For this he was paid $125, and in all the department paid $650 in the year, being a reward of seven cents for each viper's head presented. Nearly 8,000 were killed during the year. Giddy Girl. "Is your daughter of a practical turn of mind?" inquired the South Side man. "No, she is very frivolous," replied the North Side citizen. "Wants to take cooking lessons instead of improving her game of bridge." Escaplg an Infliction "Can't that Miss Yawler singing across the way?" Yes. I wish she belonged to the grand opera company." "You surely don't think she can sing?" "Not at all, but grand opera companies never come to this town."—Birmingham Age-Herald. WEALTH IN VERMONT STATE Cy Southbridge's Daughter Married Rich Man Because He Was Pessessed of $100. Fred Emery was visiting in the mountains of Vermont last summer, when he met on the road a long whiskered and talkative old man. There ensued the following conversation between the mountaineer and Emery: "Be you acquainted in these parts?" "I sure be." "Be you acquainted with Seth Anderson?" "I sure be. I know Seth well. He lives up on the valley road." "Waal, waal! Be you acquainted with Cy Southbridge? "I sure be. He lives down on the mill road." "Waal, now! Be you acquainted with Cy's daughter? "I sure be. She's a mighty fine-looking girl! "Waal, Mary is married to a wealthy man—an all-fired wealthy man! "You don't tell me! "An all-fired wealthy man! Why, her husband is worth $100!"—Twice-a-Month Popular. Proof Positive. "See here, Mr Casey," said Pat to the tax assessor; "shore and ye know the goat isn't worth eight dollars." "Ol'm sorry," responded Casey; "but that is the law." And, producing a book, he read the following passage: "All property abutting on Front street should be taxed at the rate of two dollars per foot." The Same Thing "And he said he was willing to die for me?" "Not exactly those words, but that was the impressolin he was evidently trying to convey." "What did he say?" "He said he was ready to eat your cooking any time you said the word." A. Request Operated A book agent came into the office of H. W. Child, a busy business man of Helena, the other day. "Mr. Child," he said, "I desire only a second of your time." "All right," replied Child, not looking up from the letter he was writing. "You've had it. Good day!"—Saturday Day Evening Post THESE DAYS. Mrs. Uptydate—Marle, have you fin ished bathing the dog? Mrs. Upydate—Did you tie a pink ribbon around his neck? Maid—Yes'm. Mrs. Upydate—Then you can go and see what baby's crying about. Shy on Cash "Why wasn't your Bohemian restaurant a success?" "People wouldn't enter into the Bohemian spirit of the place." "Wouldn't they talk in epigrams or sing?" "Oh, they did all that; but they wouldn't spend over 50 cents a head." The Victims Second Ditto—Why, isn't it a dan- gerous time for us? First Maine Deer—Not a bit of it. They'll mistake human helmets for us A. Fitting Palr "Jinks and his wife are well matched." "In what way?" "She can't cook a dinner without burning something, and he can't sit down to one without roasting somebody." Splash. Reta--Did you know the police wouldn't let a man take a header off the Brooklyn bridge? Roger--Yes, it's the only kind of a dive the police don't allow in New York.-Princeton Tiger. Pessimistic. "Cheer up. Opportunity may yet knock at your door." "Shucks! If she ever does, it will be just my luck for her to knock when I'm taking a bath." Rlvalrles. "Why do so many musicians speak disparagingly of instruments that play mechanically?" "I don't know," replied the gentleman with Circassian hair. "But I don't see why we should be more generous toward a mechanical instrument than we are toward each other." Recrimination He—My dear, you spend too much money in false hair. Look at your nuffa. Easily Told. "To what tune are the public at present dancing?" "Considering the proximity of Christmas, I should say it was the turkey trot." Spelling the Fun "That will be sad news for anybody with a drop of sporting blood in his veins." THE CHICAGO DEFENDER North Side News By E. GORDON Master Earl Ovington Gordon won the prize for the baby contest at Wayman chapel. Master Gordon had more than 46 votes ahead. Little Miss Ella Susa Edwards won the second prize: she won the first prize last year. Little Marjorie Harris made a splendid showing by finishing third. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thomas were unable to bring their daughter on account of sickness. One of the largest crowds turned out that has ever witnessed a baby contest at Wayman chapel. Mrs. Elizabeth Moody was quietly married April 14 at Ottawa, Ill., to Mr. Anthony White. Mr. and Mrs. White will make their home in Ottawa, Ill. Don't fail to attend the north shore men's concert at Herman Baptist church April 23. Many of the prominent men will take part in it. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibbons, formerly of the north side, are now located on Vernon avenue. It is announced that Miss Lucile Smith of Montrose boulevard is engaged to be married soon. If you like to read the Defender news why not send your items to E. Gordon, 4457 Evanaston avenue, phone Edgewater 8088. LAKE SHORE NEWS By Mrs. Matty E. Anderson. Mr. James Turner of 1435 Wells street and Miss Anna Carter of 1340 Wells street were united in holy wedlock Monday, April 15, at Crown Point, Ind. They are now residing at 1435 Wells street, where Mr. Turner has his office. Mr. and Mrs. Turner's friends wish them a long, happy life. The Wayman Junior Industrial club is sending the following ladies to Hampton, Va., to the National association: Delegates—Mrs. Cora Couch, Mrs. Mary Peyton, Mrs. Charlotte R. Williams; Alternates—Miss Beatrice Watts, Mrs. Minnie Smith, Mrs. Minnie Lloyd. Mrs. Coleman of 1237 Wells street is the happy mother of a baby girl. Mr. Wade's children, after a severe spell of scarlet fever, are convalescent. Mrs. Cliftonfagle has undergone an operation. Mr. Nester has been very ill but is reported improving. Mr. and Mrs. Chaney's little son, who was run down by the street car, is getting along nicely. Mr. Shephard of Chicago avenue is very ill. Mrs. Eddie of 4576 Evans avenue is very ill. Mrs. Aldridge of 3432 La Salle avenue is very ill. Mr. and Mrs. Beard's baby died and was buried Monday from their home on Division street. Miss Bertha Lowry is getting along nicely after undergoing a nasal operation. Mrs. Beatrice Bell was hostess Thursday evening to the Jolly Twenty. The evening was spent delightfully at whist and interesting conversation. Mrs. Bell was assisted by her mother and Mr. Lewis in serving. Mr. Lewis made the sandwiches, and hot coffee, ice cream and devil's food cake were served. Those present were: Mrs. Lilia Lewis, Mrs. Gertrude Chandler, Mrs. Maggie Feimster, Mrs. Lydia Landers, Mrs. Bessie Carter, Mrs. Lucille Roberts, Mrs. Etta Mac Antherthrope, Mrs. Winnett Harrison, Mrs. Mattte Anderson, Mrs. Beatrice Bell, Misses Berta Lowry and Leonora Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Carl G. Roberts, Mr. James Landers, Mr. Robert Anderson, Mr. Ben Carter, Mr. Richard Lewis, Mr. W. Feimster, Mr. Antherthrope, Mr. Charles Bell, Mr. Robert Bell Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lee are on their way from Indiana to Chicago, en route for Denver, Colo. Mrs. Lee is going to Denver for her health. Dr. Carl G. Roberts of north side is one of the most popular and influential young men of Chicago. In his short practice he has won the respect and faith of all who he has served. Bull Objected to Rider. A millionaire rancher, of Pomona, Cal., was painfully injured, recently, while attempting to ride a large red Durham bull. He had made a wager with another rancher that he could remain on the bull's back for two minutes, faith in his ability to win the wager being based upon his experiences in broncho riding. He lost the bet by just 117 seconds, for three seconds after he mounted the animal's back, he was seated in the center of the corral nursing a badly wrenched hip and shoulder. Windfall in Old Hat There is something more than a joke in inheriting an old hat from an uncle. For the recent Mardi-Gras fete, in Paris, a motor bus driver, wishing to "dress up," borrowed from a restaurant keeper an old battered "top" hat, inherited from a deceased uncle. During the festivities, the wearer, in attempting to adjust his wig, knocked off the hat, and to his astonishment out fell nine 100 franc notes ($180). He hastened to put this unexpected bequest into the cafe keeper's hands. Old Customs In Synagogue When the annual reading of the Book of Esther takes place in the synagogues as a prelude to the festival of Purim the children shake their rattles (Haman "klopfers") vigorously every time the name of Haman, who was counselor of King Ahasuerus, monarch of ancient Persia, appears in the book. This quant custom has been observed from time immemorial. —London Evening Standard. Let Him Pick His Own King "I want you to see if you can't find out that I am descended from a king," said the man who had become suddenly rich. "Very well, sir," replied the genealogist; "we have a large stock of kings to select from. Have you any preference?" --- Betty Tries a Real Love Test "I don't believe you really care for me," announced Betty. We were sitting on the top of a Virginia rail fence which wound down through wood and farm land. Behind lay a cornfield, newly planted, a stretch of warm, brown earth smoothed by the harrow, and prickled here and there along the rows by clean, green shoots. Before us was a bit of pasture, green velvet with new grass; the meadow larks winged heavily above it, or sat on the rails of the fence; and whistled. Around us the early files hummed soclably in the spring sun; and at a little distance, in a cappella, a brown thrasher perched on the high bough of a small oak, and bubbled, and sputtered, and cheered. "I'm sure you don't," repeated Betty. "Spring, sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king." I quoted cheerfully, "and how you can harbor such beliefs at such a season is a mystery to me, my dear." "That's just it," said Betty. "The season of 'spring, sweet spring,' demands a great deal." I moved my hand along the rail until my fingers touched the soft white of Betty's wrist just above her glove. "I've tried to give a great deal," said I, looking at her steadily. A little smile danced suddenly across Betty's face, and then was off again; but for just that shade of a second her eyes had touched mine. Then she shook her head solemnly. "But you don't write verses to me," she declared, as she produced a bit of paper from the pocket of her jacket. "I should hope not," said I. "I think it's a very fine compliment for a man to pay a woman," said Betty loftily, glancing at the paper. "What's that?" I demanded. "That," said she, carefully keeping the writing out of range of my eyes. "is a—poem." "Good heavens!" I ejaculated; and I had some difficulty in maintaining my position on the fence. "Do you mean to say that some other man has been writing verses to you?" "It came by post last night," said Betty calmly. "Do you know who sent it?" "But of course, since it was signed." "Who?" "If you're so savage about it I shan't tell you." Betty is not above "Let's see it," said I, extending my hand and reaching eagerly for the paper. "I'll读 it to you," she answered, evading my fingers. "I dare not ask a kiss, I dare not bag a smile, Lest, having that or this, I might grow proud the while; No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss the air That lately kissed thee." "Oh, hot!" said I, concealing a smile. "Is the wind in that quarter?" "What's the matter?" asked Betty. "Don't you like it?" "His own composition, I suppose," I advanced warily. "I should hope he hadn't hired somebody to write it for him," she flashed. "Call for the robin redbreast and the wren," said I. "The man needs to be buried." "You don't like it?" "Who sent it?" I demanded. Her answer was discreet. Betty smiled tantalizingly. "It's not necessary to tell all one knows," said she. "All right." "Why do you want to know?" questioned the lady. "I thought it would be interesting to know who was painting off another man's verses as his own." "What do you mean?" "Of course you know it isn't original; it was really copied from an old poet." "Really?" said Betty, and the little smile danced back into her eyes. "Read your Herrick," said I. "Why didn't you say so at first?" "It's not necessary to tell all one knows." "But you said it was tommy-rot." "Just to find what you'd in return." And again I offered my hand. She tilted her chin like the haughty young lady in the play. I went just a step nearer, and looked up into her eyes. "There's one I haven't quoted," I said quietly, "but it tells my heart better than all the others. It goes: Simply take what this rime is worth! Knowing I love you as sun the sod On the ripening side of the great round earth That turns in the smile of God. Betty's eyes grew rounder and softer as she looked into the gray haze of the morning. For a little the hum of the insects, the cheer of the thrush, and the clear, sweet spring song of the meadow lark were the only sounds. Betty rested her hand very lightly on my shoulder as I leaned against the fence. "I was just fooling," said she softly. "Fooling?" "It wasn't sent to me." "But you could use it as a whip over my head," I chided. "Billy Lyle sent it to Ethel Rogers." "Ah, ha," said I. "And she was so pleased that she showed it to me; and I copied it." "To harrow me up?" "Oh. I meant to tell you in the end." Not Intentional Crime "You are charged with poisoning this lady's pet dog. I shall deal severely with such ingratitude. She testifies that she had just given you a mince ple." "I didn't do it intentionally, judge. I did feed him a piece of de ple." Here is the trip of your life. A chance to spend your vacation among the See for yourself what's in nature. So join WHITE'S personally conducted Excursion From July 14,'12 Chicago, Illinois to thePacificCoast. Stops will be made going as follows: Three days at St. Paul, Minn., to attend the NATIONAL NEGRO EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS which convenes July 15. 1912 And in the Canadian National Park, the Great Glaciers of the Selkirk Mountains. Traveling in the mountains will be done by daylight. A day sail down the Puget Sound (Vancouver-Seattle) on one of the Canadian Pacific Coast Steamers, surpassed by none. Spending one day each at Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore. Over the great Mountain Shasti route to San Francisco, California, where a STOP OF 60 HOURS WILL BE MADE Return via Denver and Rio Grande Ry., passing through the Canyon of the Grand River. Eagle River Canyon, over the Tennessee Pass and through the Royal Gorge. Stops will be made also at Salt Lake City, Denver, Colorado Springs, Kansas City and St. Louis. For rates and particulars, write C. T. WHITE THE CASE Res. Phones: Doug. 2586 Auto 72-607 Office: Oak 8126 v Man Over ANOTHER SIDE TO THE CASE Just a Few Things Elderly Man Overlooked in His Indictment of Lazy Housewives. Said the elderly man in the street car: "One thing that runs up the cost of living is the laziness of the average woman. She's too lazy to carry bundles home from the stores. Everything she buys, from a spool of thread up, she asks to have delivered, and the cost of the delivering adds 10 per cent to the cost of every article. Now, my wife is different from the common run. Every week day in the year she goes to the market with a big basket, does her own buying and carries the stuff home herself. That's more than your wife does, I'll bet." Said the younger man: "Does your wife do her own housework?" No, we only have a tomcat. "Does your wife have to go to market in an overcrowded street car?" "No, she has her limousine." "My wife doesn't own a limousine, she has a houseful of children to care for, and she does her own work. Under the circumstances I don't see that my wife isn't just as much of a woman as yours, even if she doesn't get down town very often." Ida M. Dempcy Stenographer & Typist "You don't get cross about it," retorted the elderly man. "I'm not cross," said the younger man. "Only I don't like to hear women labeled." "So," said the indulgent father, "young Mr. Nervy wants to take you away from me." "O! yes," replied the dear girl, "but he says he'll bring me back after the wedding journey. He has decided that we shall board with you."—Catholic Standard and Times. Smith @ Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Exta Fine Home Cooking Private Dining Room A keen student of human nature must have written the following: "When you see a young man sailing down a street shortly after midnight with his collar crumpled, you can make up your mind that there's a young girl crawling upstairs not far distant, with her shoes under her arm and an extinguished lamp in her hand." WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! 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An expert Conditeur, trained by us, will keep you at your home. MRS. LOLA M. NORTON 3804 Wabash Ave, Corsetire Press Aiden 1281 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST Office Hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m; from 7 p. m. to 9 p.m. by appointment. Phones: Oakland 4602. Auto. 73-058. 4715 South State St., CHICAGO, IL. Phone Aldine 3458 Instruction at Reasonable Rates 3716 Dearborn St. :: Chicago, Ill. The New Bedford Hotel 2 Blocks South Michigan Central Depot. Nearly Furnished Rooms By the Day or Week 116 WEST WATER STREET Telephone 1872R Kalamazoo, Mich --- City Churches—Religious News GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The morning service was well attended. Rev. Jackson drew some important lessons from the great Titanic disaster. The children in the primary department are preparing for children's day. They were given "Roll of Honor" pins for learning golden texts. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. WALTERS A. M. E. CHURCH. Services at this church on last Sunday were well attended. The sermon delivered by the pastor on the "Titanic Disaster" in the morning was well received. Three persons received the sacrament of baptism by immersion. The Sunday school was largely attended and the session was exceedingly interesting. The evening service witnessed an increase in attendance. Dr. Callis delivered a timely discourse on "Lynching." The offerings for the day were $46. The entertainment given on Monday night under the management of our organist, Miss Jackson, was of a high order. Every number on the program was excellent. The address delivered by Bishop Blackwell on "Making of a Man" was said to be the best heard in a long time. The committee of young ladies in charge of refreshments deserve special mention; in fact the whole affair merited worthy praise of everybody. Sunday services will be as usual. Dr. Callis will preach in the morning. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society will have their annual sermon at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The pastor will preach in the evening and take leave of the congregation to attend the general conference in Charlotte, N. C. He will be accompanied by Dr. Tipton and Miss Lillian Browder, all of whom are delegates to the conference. They will leave Monday morning by way of the Big Four. It is pleasing to report that Mrs. Callis, who has been seriously ill, is now convalescent. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Large and appreciative audiences were present at Mother Quinn last Sunday. At the morning service the pastor, Rev. W. D. Cook, delivered a most excellent sermon from the theme, "The Shipwreck of the Soul." The subject was suggested by the recent wreck of the Titanic. The pastor was eloquent with pathos as he contrasted the wreck of the great boat and that of a human soul. Many expressed a desire that the sermon be published. At the conclusion of the sermon the choir and congregation stood with bowed heads and sang two verses of "Nearer My God to Thee." At 8 p. m. Rev. J. W. Reynolds, who has returned from Africa, preached a very practical sermon, which was interesting and full of information. Sunday is quarterly meeting. Presiding Elder Reeves will preach at the morning and evening services. At 3 p. m. there will be a union service and communion; Rev. H. E. Steward, D. D., of Wayman chapel, will preach. The choir will be assisted by visiting choirs. Love feast will take place on Monday night. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH Sunday, April 21, Bishop C. T. Shaffer entered the doors of St. Mary's A. M. E. church at 10:45 and was met by the trustees. The keys were presetted by W. T. Burke, who made a speech and was replied to by the bishop, who preceded to the altar and was followed by Dr. Finnick, Judge A. C. Mayo of Gary, Ind., and James Woods of Chicago Heights. The bishop preached in the morning. Dr. Finnick preached at 2 o'clock. Dr. W. D. Cook, Rev. S. L. Birt, Rev. L. E. Christy, Rev. A. N. Webb and Rev. J. W. Reynolds were present at the afternoon service. Judge A. C. Mayo preached at 8 o'clock. April 29 Club No. 2 will give a musical and children's contest. May 2 Club No. 4 will give a grand concert. May 5, rally day. May 12, quarterly meeting. PROF. SCARBOROUGH ISSUES CALL. A Call to the Lay Members of the General Conference to Form Permanent Organizations. As soon as convenient after reaching Kansas City in May I shall call together all the lay members of the General Conference, as many as possible, to form a permanent organization whereby we may be able to do the work of the church and discharge the duties of our mission to better advantage. There are many perplexing problems aside from electing men to office that both laymen and clergy will have to wrestle with, and to do this work and do it well we shall have to consider long and wisely the needs of our great connection and the best measures to be adopted whereby the interest of the church may be best served. It is the duty of the laymen to express themselves in unmistakable tones in regard to the many measures coming before the General Conference, and especially as to the men who will be elevated to the Episcopal bench, as well as to the men who will be chosen to fill other offices. With the hope that this may meet with the approval of all to whom this letter is addressed, I am, yours fraternally, W. S. SCARBOROUGH, President Wilberforce University. Some people never seem to get over the idea that a thing must be dismal and depressing to be artistic. LA GRANGE NEWS. La Grange, Ill., April 26.—Mr. Arthur Hammond and Miss Alma Grastly, Mr. Richards and Miss Lewis, Mr. M. L. Pettiford and Miss Estelle White of Hinsdale attended the play "My Friend from Dixie" in Citacute last Friday evening, occupying a box. The Progressive Sunday club of La Grange had a nice literary program last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Galnes of Riverside gave a grand remark about their trip to California. Mr. and Mrs. Galnes of Riverside have returned home after spending the winter in California. Mr. Lee of South Stone was in Chicago last Friday evening. The Progressive Sewing circle met at Mrs. William Dennis of Hayes on Saturday. Launch was served. Mr. Leo Fletcher of Chicago, a brother of Mrs. William Dennis, has been very ill, but is on the road to recovery. Mr. Carl Carter takes a leading role in the La Grange high school track team play at the town hall this week. Mr. and Mrs. Robins and Mr. M. L. Pettiford and Miss Estella White attended a lecture in Chicago Monday evening. Mr. Cecil Williams' father is reported among the sick. Mr. Edward Martin has resigned his position at the barber shop on Fifth avenue. Miss Palmer of West Burlington is located in Hinsdale, Ill., at present. Mr. Sander of Hinsdale left there for unknown parts last week. KEEP OLD CUSTOM AT ETON Distribution of Small Coins to the Scholars Was First Begun 400 Years Ago. Eton has celebrated "threepenny day," when a new threepenny piece is presented to each of the pupils. The custom was founded nearly 400 years ago by Roger Lupton, who was provost of the college from 1502 to 1535. Lupton arranged with the fellows for an annual distribution of money on the anniversary of his death. The provost received 2s 8d, the fellows, headmaster and Lupton's chaplain, 1s 4d, the other chaplains and usher, 8d, and the scholars and choristers, 1d each. The scholars still get this penny in the threepenny pieces *c* attributed to them on February 27, the other twopence being from the gift of Provost Bost, Lupton's predecessor as provost. There was a tradition at Eton which has been disproved, but which subsists to the present day, that half a sheep is what the coller is really entitled to, and that the college evade their obligation by giving the value of half a sheep in the Middle Ages. Some time in the middle of the last century a boy named Charles Henry Bramwell, on being tendered his threepence by Bethell, one of the fellows, said: "No, thank you, sir; I want my half sheep." "Bethell flew into an awful rage," says the late Montagu Williams, who tells the story, and exclaimed: "I'll mention this matter to Dr. Hawtrey and have you flogged," and flogged the unfortunate youth was." THAT MOST WONDERFUL BABY Surely Young Mother Had Good Rea son to Be Proud of Her Remark able Offspring. It takes a baby to appreciate a baby —or a mother. A writer recounts the conversation between the mother of a very new baby and a caller who had professed a somewhat academic interest in the infant. It was immediately brought forth for inspection. "You know," she exclaimed, "every mother thinks her baby is the best in the world, but mine just proves it." "What does he do?" "Everything." "Does he walk?" "Walk! Why, he's only six weeks old! But just let me hold him in my arms, and see how perfectly he executes the Highland fling." "Er—can he say 'mamma?'" "Oh, no. But he can imitate a steam engine." "How?" "He puffs out his little cheeks, so, and says 'Oo! Oo!' "Can he—er—crawl?" "You silly man! Of course not; he's much too young." "What else can he do?" "Now, you watch him as I take him up in my arms. See how he smiles at me, and notice how intelligently he breathes!" Dictaphone Not New The dictaphone which as been used in obtaining evidence in recent years is not altogether a new invention. The expression "Walls have ears" originated a long time ago when buildings were constructed having hidden tubes in the walls, so that what persons were saying in one room could be heard in another. A man in Connecticut recently advertised for a wife "whose husband must have been electrocuted or hanged, so that she may be prevented from remarking that a fine fellow her first husband had been." Unheeded "And those long, silent pauses in your speech—I didn't quite understand them?" "Perhaps not. Those were the points where I had written 'laughter' and 'applause' into my manuscript." Realkly Would Be Different. "De hymn goes dat you wants ter be a angel, but ef you had wings right now you'd hire yo'e's out as a curiosity in a sideshow."—Atlanta Constitution. CROATIN IS KILLED IN A LOVE TANGLE Man Waits Several Hours for His Victim and Then Stabs Him With a Dirk ESCAPES AFTER CHASE Slayer Had Been Seen in Several Resorts of the Neighborhood—Said He Was Looking for the Despoiler of His Home. Chicdgo.—A vendetta, which had its beginning in Elkhart, Ind., involving two men who loved the same woman, came to a tragic ending in Chicago the other morning when one of the men was stabbed and mortally wounded by the other in front of the saloon of Paul Schoop, 424 Wells street. Nothing is known of the identity of the murdered man nor his assailant, except that both are Croatians who lived in Elkhart. The victim was passing the saloon when a man who had apparently been waiting there for hours sprang upon him and drove a dagger to the hilt in his abdomen. The assailant fled down Wells street. He was pursued for blocks, but escaped in the woods. The wounded man staggered into the saloon, the dirk still imbedded in his body. He died in the police ambulance while being taken to the Passavant hospital. The murdered man was about 25 years old. He was 5 feet 6 inches tall and was well dressed in a dark gray suit. At the undertaking rooms $5.5, two watches, and two stamped letters were found in his clothing. The letters were translated, but gave no clew to the police. The slayer is said to have been about the same age as his victim. He wore a gray suit of greenish tinge and a soft black hat. He had no overcoat. He had been in a number of saloons in the vicinity for two days. In the 4 The Victim Was Passing the Saloon, place of Frank Rebe, 431 Wells street, he remarked that "he was looking for a man who ruined his home in Elkhart, and he was going to get him before he left Chicago." The man went to Schoop's saloon in the morning. He told the bartender he had an appointment. About half an hour before the killing he strolled outside the saloon. The police are looking for a Frank Pluts of Elkhart. That name was registered at a rooming house owned by Frank Rebe at Wells and West Kinzle streets. Missouri Veteran of the Confederacy Cuts Off Son, but Provides for Steeds. Kansas City.—Capt. Holly P. Nickell, a Confederate veteran of Lees Summit, Mo., made careful disposition in his will for a mare and colt and his old saddle horse, Plinto. He bequeathed a son by his first wife $1, leaving most of the balance of the $25,000 estate to his second wife. Emmanuel Nickell, the son who was given the single dollar, fled a suit to break the will. One of the clauses of the will reads: "It is my wish that my old horse Plinto shall be taken care of. His shoes shall be taken off and he shall be turned to grass, to spend the rest of his days in comfort." Learns Family History at 62 Wausau, Wls.—To live to the age of sixty-two without the knowledge of a living relative and then suddenly come into possession of her family history and a long line of near relatives is the experience of Mrs. H. H. Crozler of Marshfield, Wls. Mrs. Crozier was born in Oswego, N. Y., her malden name being Mirmiam R. Toft. Her parents died when she was an infant, and she was adopted by W. Foster, who moved to Depre, Wls. After her marriage Mrs. Crozler lived in Cato, Wls., and later Marshfield. Knowledge of her relatives and early history was obtained t'ough an uncle, who responded to an advertisement inserted in a paper in the town where Mrs. Crozler was born. They Called Him "Papa." Valparaiso, Ind.-John W. Smythe, arrested on his honeymoon for having two other undivorced wives, refused to acknowledge that he had three better halves until the children called him "Papa." GUESS WHO? THE CHICAGO DEFENDER GUE W I wonder if the fair doll M. E. G. of Vernon Ave. will write to L. H. of Wilberforce. The first R. B. Dude is who is simply called his Aunt. His Aunt M. H. J. B. is who would love to see her C. S. Which one of his Philadelphia cousins is a certain Chicago newspaper man is in love with. The dude is who had better hurry up and marry or some one will take his doll. The doll is who called her G. P. Dearle at Oakland Music Hall. Is that right, A. L? The doll is who cannot sweep unless she raises blisters on her hands. Swept over rug and had to poultice her hand up. The lady is who believes in having fresh air leaves other people's transoms open all night. Be careful, L. The doll is who changed her telephone number for a week on account of teapot engagements. Explain this, Miss K. P. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING FURNISHED ROOMS. Far. Room STATE ST. 3218—Top flat; a neatly furnished front room; all conveniences. M. Baldwin, phone 72399 Auto. 27 RIHODES AVE. 3210—Large neatly furnished room; stationary washstand in room; hot and cold water; plenty of light; rent reasonable to one or two men. Phone 309 Douglas. 27-4 WABASH AVE. 3335—For rent, furnishings, to either one or two conveniences, to either one or two gentlemen or man and wife. Phone 6833 Dreskel. 27-4 PRIARE AVE. 3335—Modern sk-room flat to rent; all modern conveniences; steam heat; $6. Apply first flat; phone 604 Douglas. 27 TO RENT — 3312 Wabash Ave. Handsome brown stone front house. 5. Large light rooms. 5. Baths; modern conveniences excellent for hotel or rooming purposes. W. H. Bowers & Co. 6. E 31st St. Open evenings. Douglas 886. Auto. 73-220. FOR RENT — Nicely furnished room; one large double front room; furnace heat and bath; second door. 3218 Amenue Ave. or phone Aline 1427-27-4. FURNISHED I would like two gentlemen roomers; all modern conveniences at 3339 Forest Ave. Washington. 20-27 TWO NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS, all modern conveniences, to nice married couple. 3524 Calumet Ave. Phone Douglus 5834. ROOM FOR RENT for two men or man and wife, with use of light housekeeping. 2564 Sille St., first floor, rear. GROUND FURNISHED AVE., 3162--Nicely furnished rooms (or unfurnished). Tel. Douglas 5129. FOREST AVE., 3573--2d-furnished rooms with housekeeping privileges, near Indiana car line. 29-27 3441 VERNON AVE.--To rent, beautiful furnished rooms with housekeeping privileges; modern, reasonable, Mrs. M. T. Washington. 13-4 FOREST AVE., 3021--To rent, neatly furnished steam heated rooms, single or double. 20-27 DESIRED ROOM for man and wife or two men; steam heat; hot water; private entrance. 3752 Rhodes Ave., second floor. NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS WITH steam heat, bath on each floor. By day or night, you may only. 3614 Prairie Ave. Auto. 76524. 3424 VERNON AVE.—First class large front rooms to rent, modern conveniences, for man and wife; kitchen privileges. Phone 2083 Doug, And.电话 77-307. CALUNET AVE. 36111½ Nearly furnished rooms, furnace heat, hot water. Automatic phone 71-745. NEXT TWENTY furnished rooms suitable for man and wife or single gentleman or lady, with steam heat, bath, gas, hot water year around, convenient to 43rd St. car line, 5 min. walk to "L"路. Phone Drexel 2867. 4325 Forrestville Ave. 1,000 WOMEN WANTED AT ONCE. Wanted—Women to learn hairdressing, manicuring, facial massage, chiropody or electrolysis. Best paying work you can do in the workplace. Best placement or positions numerous. Few weeks complete. For particular calls or write MOLER COLLEGE. 788 S. Wabash Ave. TO RENT—3312 Wabash Ave. Handsome brown stone front house, 20 large light rooms, 6 baths, every modern convenience, excellent for hotel or rooming purposes. Office & Co. 6, 4 E. St. Open evenings. Tel. Douglas 388; Auto. 73-220. AGENTS WANTED AGENTS to be in beautiful Mount Glenwood cemetery. Men and women employed who want to make good extra savings on soiling sofas and on our Sunday excursion. Big savings on paid. Ask for T. M. George, General Manager, Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association, 3125 S. State St. STORE TO RENT, One-half hour, with modern conveniences, 3223 State St. Call or write Mme. Winchester, phone Douglas 2411. FURNITURE FOR SALE. Three-room furnished flat: dishes, bed and table linen; everything complete; possession at once. Call S to 12 a.m., eve- day, 6 and Sunday. 23 E. 477 St. flat 5. WANTED COOK Wanted a good plain cook; good wagons Address The Defender, 3125 State Rd. Nashville, TN 37210 FLAT TO RENT. A n six-room steam heated flat to ren. Apply first flat; phone 5046 Dougla YOUNG, indy teacher wanted to give young man private lessons in evenings; willing to pay good price. Address Wm. Burns, 30 E, 37th pl., flat. 27 Explaining the Crush. "Great sale, eh?" commented the advance agent. "Been a line in the lobby for several hours." "Same six people, though," explained the man in the box-office. "Save people you saw an hour ago. The line is being held up by a lady who is thinking of buying a seat." Red Hall in Ireland Red hall is not unknown. In May of 1885 there was quite a heavy fall of it at Castlewellan, in County Down, Ireland. Red and white fell together. And the red hue was not merely on the surface of 'the pellets, but went through and through. The dolls are who came near being canned at Raymond School—E.H. K. W., G. H. The gent is who lost his girl on account of the gent. F. S. is the guy. P. O. dude is who has so many telephone calls that he does not have time to answer them. He will call them all after working hours. He now thinks he will have to give up his P. O. job to answer telephone calls. The that is fond of Green. Carries sugar and molasses with him all the time. The matron is that has engaged a room The matron is that has engaged a room at lunch. The Brown is that is stepping on eggs. The Brown is that was all smiles Sunday night. The doll is that was so hungry Wednesday day she could not stop to talk to her friend about her new hat. The doll is who has fell out with D. J. and now going to the Grace Bass Hall of Fame. His chin's bump, don't he so cruel! G. Free List Suspended THE DEFENDER begs to an- nounce the sus- pension of the free list for all notices that come under the head of advertisement. All subscriptions for papers must be paid for in advance. FOR RENT The New American Building 28th and Wabash Ave. 3-4-6-7 and 8 rooms. Hardwood floors, steam heat, hot and cold water, elevator and janitor services. Rent $20 to $50 per mo. Rent free until May 1st. Apply on premises or Wm. Neighbors & Co. 3517 State St. PHONES: ALDINE 2532 AUTO 75373 Ancient Land Grants. Among the Jews the private ownership of land seems to have been established from the earliest times, as we learn from the purchase of land by Abraham when he secured the Cave of Macphelah for a family tomb, and the story of Ruth and Boaz. Assyrian, or rather Babylonish cylinders of clay still preserve the transfers of land, and the names of humble grantors and grantees, whose names and petty bargains have survived for ages all record of the magnates whom they envised and obeyed—Charles Winslow Hall, in National Magazine. Ten Billion in Gold. It is estimated that in the last four centuries gold worth $10,000,000,000 has been obtained. Much of it is found on the surface while some is mined. In three years the fields of California produced $180,000,000, while in the same time Australia supplied the world with $300,000,000 in gold. For the Cheerful Worker For the Cheerful Worker. Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work. Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He does more in the same time—he will do it better— he will persevere longer.—Thomas Carlyle. Consideration. "Do you want your wife to vote?" "I don't mind," replied Mr. Grower. "But I hope they don't make election day costumes too expensive." Rule Works Both Ways The man who thinks that the "I don't-care-for anyone" attitude is the manly attitude will live long enough to ret. that no one cares for him. [Name not visible] The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M FINEST THEATRE 3110-12 State St., Performers Send i The New Grand Famous Vaudeville and Moving H Range of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 2 State St.. Chicago Performers Send in Your Open Time 4482 Automatic La Verdo Cafe and B (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. American Restaurant In Connection. High Class HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA The LaVerdo C (Cafe New 3100-2 South Chicago Chinese and American Restaurant In Go HARRY J. KE The LaVerdo Cafe and Buffet (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. Chinese and American Restaurant In Connection. High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors ..Star.. Employment Office Private Waiting Parlor for Ladies Lounging Room for Men M. WINCHESTER 3223 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 2411 EDWARD ICE CREAM PHONE DOU Milk, Cream, Stationery, Con- Newspapers, Bread, Cakes an- We give Fish and Weber Stam- and Sodas. A First-Class La- EDWARD FELIX :: Mrs. Edw. Felix's Stands open for all kinds o- ment, Hair Goods to order, hands and nails. A compli- Tel. Douglas 2928 General M to all part Composi On Note the cooking al ovens wit Don't Find Fault W Dinner When You F On An Ancient, W EDWARD FELIX CREAM PARL PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Bark, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying CIGARETTES give Fish and Weber Stamps, with Groceries, Ice Cream, Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connecticut. RD FELIX :: 52 W. 3 Edw. Felix's Hairdressing Bands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Soap Trees, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of hairs and nails. A complete line of toilet articles. Duglas 2928 General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country. Composite Style No. 281 Only $30.00 Note the complete dinner cooking all at once in the two ovens with one fire burning. It Find Fault With Your Wife When You Force Her to Go An Ancient, Worn Out Ra Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Glasses, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying CMe. We give Fish and Weber Stamp. 9th Groceries, Ice Cream and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connection Composite Style No. 281 Only $30.00 Note the complete dinner cooking all at once in the two ovens with one fire burning. Don't Find Fault With Your Wife's Dinner When You Force Her to Cook It On An Ancient, Worn Out Range The housewife often gets the blame for an imperfectly cooked dinner when the Blackstone chef himself could not have cooked better on the same range. It is false economy for any woman to struggle along with an out-of-date worn out range. The new and wonderful "Composite Cabinet" ranges are inexpensive and for a first payment The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company Peoples Gas Building Michigan Boulevard Cold Storage Cat Meat. A man down in Massachusetts found a blacksnake frozen in the snow. He took the snake up carefully so that it would not break—it was as stiff as the rod of Moses in the original form—and took it home and put it by the fire. And it thawed out. It wriggled around in the heat and would have been all right again if it hadn't been for the family cat. The cat ate it. --- Phone Douglas 4482 Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 New Grand ville and Moving Pictures on Monday and Thursday CASTE IN AMERICA Chicago. Ill. d in Your Open Time Cafe and Buffet (Newly Opened) North State Street Chicago, Ill. Connection. High Class Entertainers KELLY, Proprietors Wanted! Men and Women for All Kinds of Laboring Work. Butlers, Porters, Walters and Cooks. General House Work for Women Cooks, Malds, Laundresses. IN AND OUT OF THE CITY RD FELIX RAM PARLOR DOUGLAS 2928 Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigarettes and Pies. Before buying CMs. Blamps, With Groceries, Ice Cream Laundry Agency in Connection. 52 W. 30th St. Hairdressing Parlor of Hairdressing, Scalp Treat- der. Special care taken of the complete line of toilet articles. Mail Order Business parts of the country. 52 W. 30th St. Composite Style No. 281 Only $30.00 the complete dinner all at once in the two with one fire burning. It With Your Wife's Force Her to Cook It , Worn Out Range of only $4 we put one in any home kitchen—balance to be paid in small amounts monthly. Our Composite Ranges include fifty styles made for us by ten leading manufacturers. You can inspect this type and 49 others at any of our Branch Stores or our big salesroom down town. Order now before the big Spring rush. A contrast to the Venetian glasses which were popularly supposed to fly to pieces if poisoned liquor were poured into them, were glasses which poisoned all who drank from them. The poison was crystallized as the bottom of the glass, from which it was indistinguishable, and as solved very slowly it could be many times with deadly effect such glasses can be seen at Irish museum. Automatic Phone 71001 THE DEFENDER CO., PUBLISHERS. R S. ABBOTT, LL D., Founder and Editor. Issued Weekly by Chicago Defender Pub- lishing and Printing Company. Founded May 6, 1905. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One Year .1.50 Bike Months .1.00 Three Months .0.75 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT. One inch, one time .1.50 Special rates given on large or long standing ads. 3159 State Street Telephone Douglas 3339. Received as second-class matter, February 1, 1891, of the Postoffice in Chicago, Ill. under s. 4 of March 3, 1878. Saturday, APRIL 27, 1912. COURT GENERAL ROBERT BELLLOOT No. 7355. Ancient Order of Foresters meets every second and fourth Mon- day morning. Odd Fellow- Lodge Hall, 3227 State street. Lodge Officers. Chief Ranger, F. W. Babb, 5345 Dear- born street, phone 6010 Drax. Dearborn street, phone 1810 Aldine. Dearborn street, phone 1810 Aldine. Treasurer, Frank L. Crittenden, 3414 Dearborn street, phone 3219 Calumet. A VILLAGE CUT-UP. He stood by the wood in the wood shed With a saw in his paw that would saw; And he shed all the tears that he could shed. Then ran in the house to his maw. Tornadoes have a way of making a clean sweep. Well, anyway we won't be bothered with the coal man much longer. The Roosevelt boom differs from the rolling stone inasmuch as it does gather moss (heads) as it rolls. We must not forget in our excitement that we still want that lake shore drive. The Democrats are having a hard time trying to find out who they really do want to nominate for office. Of course, if some of those prize fighters insist upon being licked Jack Johnson will accommodate them. It might be safer to send steamships out in pairs, but what a temptation to race! The Heinz Manufacturing company may offer a fifty-eight variety in the form of stewed pickles and wasted catup, since their conflagration on Wednesday. It might be just as well to leave out some of the suggestive acts and remarks at our local playhouses, if the management expects to cater to the better element. A neat little tip to the "can rusher": If they charge you a thin dime for a can of beer, make them give you a slit trading stamp. No, no charges; only a tip. It begins to look like we are going to have universal transfers on our elevated lines, and why not? The surface lines are compelled to issue them and the "L" roads should be made to do likewise. If the Christian Endeavor societies would concern themselves more about lynchings and less about prize fights, where each man has a chance, the civilized world would feel that they were worth more than their name on paper. Every once in a while some reformer bobs up to straighten out things, he makes a little ripple on the waters, and then is swallowed up. So what's the use? It is a natural law, only the fittest can survive. The world is big enough for all men to live in comfortably; if he does not get all that is coming to him, he is the one to blame. Of course it is never too late to do good, and the appointment by President Taft of William C. Matthews as assistant U. S. District Attorney is very commendable. This position was formerly held by Hon. Wm. H. Lewis and the salary is $2,000 a year. Mr. Matthews is a Harvard graduate and will be a credit to the race which he represents. The sinking of the ill-fated Titanic will deter many from making an ocean voyage this summer. Statistics show that more lives are lost in one year on the railroads than on the water in ten years, but there seems to be something so horrible about being drowned that it sends a shudder through one at the thoughts of it. When we think of it, how powerless we are after all, our achievements but minute at best. A cartoon in one of the daily papers fittingly illustrated this by showing a broad expanse of ocean and the Titanic in the palm of His hand. It is said that man's instincts, whether he be educated or not, are Men want to do right, but vills or temptations often them. So they make laws in of putting a restraint upon themselves. Are they effective? Only at times. The south has laws against crime of any kind. Is lynching considered a crime? Apparently not. We are entitled to free speech. Do they not fine and send to prison our editors and publishers for the most trivial offences? There 's such a thing as justice, but it is well to be on the stronger side if you would see it enforced. Just for one moment at least let us look on the bright side of things. Last Tuesday night more than one hundred young men and women left the doors of Mehary Medical college, diploma in hand, well prepared in their chosen profession for their life's work. Mehary has doubtless done more than any other school in the south in the way of medical, dental and pharmaceutical education. Their alumni are found in every state in the union doing credit to the school from which they came. Dr. Hubbard and his able assistants deserve the highest praise for their sincere efforts to make this institution a credit to the 10,000,000 Negroes in America. Most people seem to be ignorant as to the cost per week of keeping a healthy baby. The question was raised when one of our local judges required a father to make an allowance of $2 per week for his child. At first thought this amount would seem ample, but here's what a Woodlawn papa has figured out: Seven quarts of milk at 15 cents, $1.05; baby food at an average cost of 25 cents a day, $1.75; soup meat made four times weekly, $0.50; vegetables for soup, $0.50. Total, $3.80. And this does not include clothing either, and it is claimed that a child two years old, roughly speaking, would cost twice as much. If the same ratio were kept, up by the time a man reached the age of fifty he'd have to be a millionaire to get a slice of bread. Great preparations are being made for the Business Men's League, which is to meet here early this summer. Chicago has the reputation of being one of the most hospitable cities in the states and it promises to live up to that reputation this time. The convention will bring here the brains and the strength of our race, men who are doing something and who by their example should be an inspiration to every young man. Opportunities do not come to one who is inactive. It is the man or woman who is on the alert, who is never too busy to do just one thing more, who get all that there is out of life. Dr. Washington spoke wisely when he said that our people as a rule, when told that there is a great future in store for them, answer by saying, "Yes, but the store is closed." First prepare yourself; be proficient in your chosen trade or profession; then fight every inch of the way till you reach the goal. That is what success means. Ocean Bathing in Spain Ocean Bathing in Spain. All Spaniards who can afford it go to the seaside in the summertime. Here the great feature is the bathing. A large wooden building is erected at some distance from the shore, inside of which the law demands that all the women must bathe, no men being allowed anywhere in the vicinity. During the bathing hours music is played in the inclosure, and refreshments are served on the premises. Of course, swimming is out of the question and drowning accidents unknown. Cows Tried for Murder Old documents of the middle ages tell us of numerous cases where animals were put on trial for serious offenses charged against them. For example, in 1370 three cows were tried for having killed a boy; the whole herd were arrested as accomplices. All were discharged but the guilty three, these being condemned to be executed. The sentence was pronounced by the Duke of Burgundy.—Our Dumb Animals. Actor's Privilege They are telling the story of a manager who has just sent his divorced wife $25 in alimony. The courts awarded her $50 a week. When she complained the ex-husband replied: "Only pay half alimony Christmas and Holy Week." Accident Brings Total Blindness. A distressing accident occurred recently in Marlton, N. J., when a young man, who was holding a bottle of blasting powder, lost the sight of both eyes, and was horribly mutilated by an explosion which was caused by a spark from a cigarette an unknown passer-by was smoking. Wanted Much of a Wife Probably the most extraordinary taste in matrimony on record was that of a man who advertised for a wife who "must be quite dumb and deaf, at least 50 years of age, and who hates music, children, pet dogs and all strong drink." Departure Approved "I understand your boy Josh is experimenting on the lines of perpetual motion." "Yes," replied Farmer Corntossel. "And I feel some encouragement about it. I thought for awhile that the only thing Josh was goln' to take in was perpetual rest." Actions a Criterion. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it—George Washington. Maybe Thefts Exponential "Do you expect to receive an ovation when you go down to see your constituents again?" "I do not know," replied the financial politician, absent mindedly; "how much do ovations cost?" Where Women Are Superior. Men pride themselves on their courage, but where both moral courage and physical bravery are concerned women give men a good start and a beating.—Exchange. THE EDITOR'S MAIL EVEN ROOM TO BREATHE. An interesting letter to Mr. Walter Harrison from his friend, A. A. Brown, en route to Liberia, Africa, with Major Young: On Board S. S. Groenland, 10° West of Dover, Atlantic Ocean, April 7, 1912. "Hello, Walter: How are you? I suppose our friends will believe now I am going, don't you think so? "I am still about two days from land yet. We sailed from New York on the 30th of March and since the morning of the 31st land has not been in sight anywhere. Can you imagine being out on the ocean out of sight of land for over seven days? So far I have not been seasick and had a most delightful time. Band concert every morning, orchestra music in the dining room every day at dinner and a dance twice since on board. I will also mail you one or two menus. "On landing in England my trip is only half over. It is expected we shall stop in London for a while just to see the city and enjoy ourselves. So far we have averaged about 250 miles a day. The accommodations in our staterooms are just elegant; and service for almost anything you want to do, even to drawing your breath. I am not sure that I shall have time in London to write you but will write again before completing my voyage. Give, my love to Mrs. Harrison and don't forget to tell Dave Payton I am gone and that I send my regards, even if he did think I was bluffing. Say to him that this does not look like a bluff. "Good-bye until later. "Yours truly. "A. A. BROWN." From Our Exchanges WHITE MAN'S CRIME IN MANILA (Washington Bec.) Residents of Paco have been alarmed during the past week by the operations of a bold American burglar, who, under the guise of being an electrician, has entered several houses and made way with valuable property of the owners. Last Saturday the man came to the home of Cephas Shults at 62S Union, Paco, while Mrs. Shults was away, told the house boy that he had come to fix the lights, and ordered him to bring a hammer and screw-driver. With these he broke open the aparadores and bureaus and secured a large amount of valuables. In the loot was a suit of clothes belonging to Mr. Shults. The clothes were his indoors. With a minute description of the missing apparel in his mind, Secret Service Agent Beattie discovered the erstwhile electric Sunday, bedecked in his stolen garb. On examination at secret service headquarters, he proved to be John Smith, alias Fred Jackson, an escaped military prisoner from Fort McKinley, for whom a reward of $50 had been offered. Jackson is a typical New York yeggman. He was entirely unconcerned over his capture, saying, "You fellows don't know me as well as they do in New York." He will be turned over to the military authorities with a record of his criminal activities while loose in Manila. THE RECORD. (The Christian Recorder). April 4th (the woman's edition) we printed 25,500 papers. This is the largest number ever printed in one week in this house. It exceeded our first woman's edition by 4,400. TWENTY STUDENTS GRAD. UATED AT GAMMON SEMINARY (Baltimore Afro-American Ledger), Atlanta, Ga., April 18—Twenty young men received diplomas at the commencement exercises of Gannon Theological Seminary. Among them were Preston R. Vaults, a graduate of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute; Owen C. Sprague, a graduate of Howard University; Joseph S. Roberts, a graduate of the Princess Anne (Md.) Academy, and Spurgeon Davis, a graduate of the Baltimore Colored High school. The latter is a brother of Prof. Carrington L. Davis, a teacher in the Baltimore Colored High school, and was one of the commencement speakers. He has received an app ointment as pastor of the Ninth street M. E. church, Kansas City. Oldest Metal A recent paper presented to the Royal Institution at London, in discussing the question of the metals used by the great nations of antiquity, pointed out that gold was probably the first metal known to man because it is earliest metallic objects to which we can assign a probable date are thought to be those found in a royal tomb at Nagada in Egypt supposed to have been that of King Menes. In one of the chambers were some bits of gold and a bead, a button, and a fine wire of nearly pure copper. If the tomb has been properly identified, these objects are at least 6,300 years old. Nearly all the ancient gold that has been examined contains silver enough to give it a light color. It was gathered by the ancients in the bed of the Pactolus and other streams of Asia Minor.-Harper's Weekly. Discovering One's Best There are times in our education when it is well for us to cultivate our own gifts, stand apart to discover what it is that we can best do, find our own best way of contributing to the great family to which we belong. There may be years when we have to do that. But then at last we must begin to long to carry back our gift and employ it with and for the rest. Unless we can get our drop of influence or truth or ability into some bucket or other it will hardly be felt and may disappear altogether.—The Sunday School Times. IN CHICAGO AND ITS SUBURBS Our Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social and other short paragraphs—Read it over carefully, somewhere you will find a line or two about yourself or your friends. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Mrs. Laird of Bearing Springs, Mich., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Maddox, 4102 Lake avenue. Mr. Edward D. Wimp of Buffalo, N. Y., is in the city for a few days. Mr. Wimp reports his wife entirely recovered and her mother, Mrs. Henrietta Lee, intending to prolong the visit indefinitely, as it is being made so pleasant for her. Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 6438 Vincennes avenue, entertained Mrs. George W. Logan of Grand Rapids, Mich., who was her guest for ten days; Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Roberts, Miss Emma Shaw, Mr. Silas Nevels, Mr. W. W. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Horn. Covers were laid for twelve. Do you want good plain Rolls? Ask for Wulface's. Prof. Wm. Pickens of Talladge, Ala., will speak at the Negro Fellowship League, 2830 Street street, Sunday, April 28, at 4 p. m. Mrs. A. H. Cabell, Henderson, Ky., who is the guest of Mrs. Yarbrough, 4526 St. Lawrence avenue, came to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lillie Johnson, Zion City, Ill. The greatest musical organization among United States government employees will sing grand opera, ballads, plantation, Spanish and Mexican music at Oakland Music Hall, May 6. Is everybody happy? Yes, because they are going to attend the Grace Base Ball Boy's dance Monday evening, April 29th, at Masonic hall. Admission is only 25 cents. Miss Myra Jones of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Miss Ada Lou Mitchell were the guests of Mrs. Susie Plummer of 4246 Wabash avenue, on last Wednesday afternoon, April 17th, at luncheon. Little Vivian Davis of 3423 Forest avenue entertained nine little girls Saturday afternoon in honor of Mary Alice Nells of Indianapolis, Ind. The W. A. Walley Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Rolls" and "Wallace Rolls." Oh, you leap your schottish! That is the new dance that will be introduced at the Grace Base Ball Boys' social. Monday evening, April 29, at Masonic hall. Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph and sons left Mobile, Ala., Thursday for New Orleans, La., where they will spend a week. Are you going to the egg hunt at Douglas Center, April 29? Given by the Cornell Charity club. Don't fail to hear the Federal Glee Club of 20 voices at Oakland Music Hall, Monday night, May 6, from 8 until 1. Mr. and Mrs. William Washington of Boston Mass., who have been the guests of their sister and brother for several months, have decided to become residents of Chicago and have bought a beautiful home at 529 Bowen avenue. The acquisition of Mr. and Mrs. Washington to Chicago's population we are sure will be received with a great deal of pleasure. Mr. George M. Patterson and Mrs. Dupree were quietly married on Monday evening. The latest news is always in the Chicago Defender. Mr. Harrison Emanuel, violin soloist, will appear with the Federal Glee Club. May 6. Wilson's Orchestra will furnish the concluding divertissement. Tickets fifty cents. James Allyn Mundy, musical director and manager. If you have got the blues and want to be cured attend the Grace Base Ball Boys' dance next Monday evening, April 29th, at Masonic hall. Lyles Furniture Co., dealers in high grade furniture, has removed from 2203 to 3245 State street. Phone Aldine 2164. Auto. 75745. Miss Lynnetta Hayes and Miss Grace Sruner, who have been at Wilberforce since September, will return to Chicago soon. The Byron boys, it is claimed, go in bunches in order to act as a body guard for one another. They are very young in experience, at least. Lady Elliott circle, C. O. F. No. 199, expects you to be one of their guests at Masonic hall, May S. The admission is only 35 cents. Mr. Chas, Walker and charming bride (nee Miss Katharine Landers) of Hannibal, Mo., arrived in the city on Thursday of last week and are residing at 3426 Vernon Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hampton will move into a steam heated apartment at 462, Langley Ave, on May 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Jones will make their home with them. The wedding sensation of the season—read next Saturday's Defender. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith and son, Andrew, now residing in the South, will be among our summer visitors. The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Loaf." Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Upshaw, 32 W. 35th street, are making extensive alterations in their Benton Harbor cottage, where they expect to spend the summer with several visiting friends. The Chicago Defender kindly asks its subscribers who are in arrears to please pay up. Mrs. James Wells and little daughter, Mary Alice, of Indianapolis, Ind., have returned home after spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Schuyler U. Wilson, of 3423 Vernon Ave. Subscribers and friends of the Chicago Defender will please bear in mind that no advertisements of any kind whatsoever will be inserted in our columns unless they are paid for in advance. So please don't telephone. The best furnished rooms are advertised in the Chicago Defender. Farrell Jones is busy trying on dress suits. Possibly there is to be a full dress rehearsal of the juvenile members of the Trust company. Mrs. J. E. Wright accompanied her husband, Gen. J. E. Wright, to Chillicothe, O., to bury the latter's brother who died sudely. While enroute from this city Mrs. Wright was taken violently ill on the train, making it necessary for her to return home Take a Little Tip from Father and Attend the Monday Eve, April 29th, 1912 with her husband. She had contem- plated making a visit to her old home, Cinquintin. At this writing she is im- proved and able to be out again. Lee Tobin's friends are justified in their decision, he has grown taller. Well, what's that got to do with a dress suit? Mrs. Minnie Page Tilley is spending a month with her parents in Topeka, Kansas. Roy French seemingly has a propensity for saying good night; his friends claim that this is an old trick of his, as he invariably finds some cause to delay his going. Julius N. Aventorh was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Newsome of 214 W. 30th St. Wednesday evening at dinner. Mrs. Frank King, 3604 State St., is so delighted with the beauties of Cuba that it is a question whether she will reside there or not. The sixth annual May party and dance of the Lady Elliott Circle C. O. F. No. 199, on Wednesday evening, May 8, at Masonic hall, 3856 State street. Tickets, 35 cents. Boarman's orchestra. Miss Ethel C. Mitchell, Miss Myra Jones of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Miss Ada Lou Mitchell were the guests of Mr. George Thompson to see John Drew in "A Single Man" Friday evening. William Kelly says he does not enjoy grand opera but he is living in hopes that some day a ragtime opera will be written, then little Willie will ever he there. Send in personals of your friends. It is free. Drop it on a post-card. Can't you afford to spend a penny on your friends? Mrs. Charles H. Scott, 387 East 33th street, entertained at a birthday party April 15 in honor of her daughter Helen. Those present were Misses Cleo and Hazel Jackson, Genevieve Wallace, Audrey Jones, Marguerite Upton, Ida and Alfreda Barnett, Marguerite Page, Julia Yeizer, Florence, Anna, Gladys and Edith Le Gare, Charlotte Scott, Bertha Lore and Mrs. Katherine Nelson; Messrs. Teford Galdine, Willie Jackson, Mark Harrington, Frank Le Gare, Robert Atkins, Aked and Herman Barnett, John Studymist, Charlie Smith, Wm. Curtis, Henry Scott and Turner Nelson. Miss P. S. Randall, the instructor of the junior dancing school, lead the intricate numbers. Read the death list published exclusively in the Chicago Defender. Miss Ethel Mitchell was the guest of Mr. Edward Dorsey of Madison, Wis. Monday evening to see "Louisiana Lou." Mrs. John B. French, who for several years has been a resident of Racine, Wis., has moved to Chicago to join her husband, who is here in business. If you are going to move May 1 notify the circulation department, at once. Don't fail to give both old and new number. Mrs. Wesley Edmondson and the Misses Bowman, sisters of the late Wm. L. Bowman, who attended his funeral, returned to their Ohio home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Eva Jackson, who recently resided at 447 West 56th street, is now pleasantly located at 5622 Lafayette avenue. Messrs. A. L. Still and G. L. Hall, formerly of Philadelphia but now of Montreal, were visitors to the office of The Chicago Defender Thursday afternoon. The social event of the season will be the May party and dance at Masonic hall, May 8. If this is not so ask any member of Lady Elliot Circle, C. O. F. No. 199. A feature of the birthday party to be given by the Cornell Charity club at Douglas Center Monday evening, April 29, will be an egg hunt. Good music. Mrs. Wm. E. McIntire of Cleveland, Ohio, sister of Mrs. Mary Bowman, will be in the city until Monday. Mr. Fredk. L. McGee and Dr. Turner of St. Paul will arrive in the city Sunday morning to attend the meeting o the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Novelties in the Church. Barbara was comparing notes with a little friend who went to a different church. "Stained glass windows is nothing," she declared triumphantly. "We've got two priests and six acrobats!" Where Sailors Diagrees On two topics the great trans-Atlantic steamship companies are not agreed. Some creep through a fog at a small's pace. Others dash through it at topmost speed—the quicker out of it the better. Some insure heavily against loss by Scre. Others carry all their fire risks themselves. Artificial Sponge The manufacture of artificial sponge is based on the action of zinc chloride on pure cellulose which has been mixed with coarse rock salt. The mass is placed in a press provided with plins which make tiny canals like pores. This sponge swells with water and hardens on drying like a real sponge. OUR WOMEN THE GAUDAMUS CHARITY CLUB. The Gaudamus Charity club met on April 22 at the home of Mrs. C. M. Johnson, 3815 State street. Miss L. J. Halfacre, hostess. The club will meet at the home of Mrs. F. O. Caloway, 3518 Rhodes avenue, April 29 Dr. and Mrs. W. N. Thomas visited the club and the doctor gave an interesting talk on "Health." HYDE PARK WOMAN'S CLUB. The Hyde Park Woman's Club No. 2 met at the residence of Mrs. Millie Jones, 5510 Ingleside avenue, on Wednesday day. A large membership were present. Two members were enrolled. Since the club is a charitable one a very worthy case was mentioned and an order drawn upon the treasurer. Plans were drawn up for the next entertainment, which will take the nature of a May party, on May 14, at the residence of Mrs. Laura Williams, 2264 Vernon avenue. The regular meeting will be held next Wednesday, May 1, at Mrs. Tucker's, 5512 Ingleside avenue. Everyone left feeling that they had spent a very enjoyable evening.—Mrs. Hattie Claybrook, president. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY CLUB. A very pleasant meeting of the executive board was held last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. I. Collins, the chairman. Business of importance was transacted and arrangements made for an entertainment in May at Masonic hall by Prof. Charles Elgar and orchestra. Wednesday, May 1, is our regular meeting day. Please bring in all of the filled penny gleaners. Our taxes must be paid and each member is asked to bring $1 for that purpose. If you cannot be present send us word Can You See Can You See The Point? The mayor has issued a proclamation setting aside the week beginning April 29 as clean-up week. Get in line with this suggestion, for it is a good one. Talk it over with your neighbors and get them in line, 100. Of course, like all good ideas, this clean-up idea must be enthusiastically and energetically carried out in order that the best results be obtained and the largest amount of benefits derived. It is a good idea to make every day a clean-up day. Dirt and filth accumulate all the time; and if neglected soon become ugly, unsightly and dangerous. Cleanliness and beauty can only be maintained by constant vigilance and labor. It pays to have clean, attractive surroundings. It pays in dollars and Rev. W. D. Popular Candidate for Bishop of the April 2 [Image of a man in a military uniform, holding a rifle and a hat.] Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D. Popular Candidate for Bishop of the A. M. E. Church.—Record-Herald, April 25, 1912. picture in Politics. Differ in politics with those about you in good feeling, holding your own opinions and respecting those of others. In all display give your opponents credit for the best views. Be cheerful and tolerant. If you have lost your temper find it again and set others on the same quest. Thus you will help eradicate the epidemic of bitterness which appears to have traveled around the world, and you will earn the exceedingly great reward which is reserved for the peacemakers.-Judge Sound to Have Its Effect. Who is he false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.—Henry Ward Beecher. Careful to Avoid Extremity. A man can groan fearfully under the heavy responsibility of vast riches without trying to lighten them the least bit.—New York Press. He—"Madam, you promised to obey me. Do you do it?" She—"Sr, you promised me your worldly goods. Do I get 'em?" By SABINE This is clean-up time. Round to Have Its Effect Tit for Tat. Young and Old—Light and Serious Verse and Prose—History—Personal—In a Word Their Every Interest. and we will come to you. We need the money. We hope all active members will be out. Delegates for the state federation will be elected; also for the national convention. Something very good for the benefit of the home you will hear at the next meeting. Be sure to come. Everyone who reads the Defender will tell you that the club is still doing good and needs the support of all good people. We were pleased to have Mrs. Jessie Johnson, our financial secretary, with us again. Mrs. Jenifer also brings new life into the meetings. The delightful repast served by Mrs. Collins was a pleasant surprise and enjoyed by all. THE VOLUNTEER WORKERS' CLUB. The Volunteer Workers' club held its weekly meeting at Douglass Centre Wednesday, April 24. The attendance was excellent. The hostess, Mrs. Sula Mae Williams, served an elaborate luncheon. The visitors were: Mesdames J. W. Colter. Beatrice Miller of the Illinois Chronicle, Mattie E. Mayo of the O. E. S. club, Annette White of I. B. W. club and Margaret Johnson of Gaudamus club, who recited one of her original poems, "Two Human Eyes." Mother Lewis met the club for the first time since joining. Everyone was delighted to have her present and to hear her talk. Mrs. Cordelia West welcomed the visitors in her usual jolly manner. The Volunteers elected the following delegates to the national convention: Mesdames Clara Johnson, Nina Tivis, Emma Marshbanks, Lucy Webster. Alternates: Mesdames Olean Michaoux, Eleanor Curtis, Mary Webster, Sula Mae Williams. Mrs. Amanda Fite will be hostess May 1. cents for the reason that a tidy and well kept property will sell for more money than will the property that is dirty, untidy and neglected. It pays in comfort and satisfaction; in pride, joy and self-respect. Get after the vacant lots in your community and see that they are tidied up. Then when this is done, why not use your influence to have them kept clean? The board of trade of Paterson, N, J., as an organization, is working to make that city one of the cleanest towns in the state. Here is a bit of advice it gives: Paper cans were made for papers, Neighbor mine! Let's not have this fact escape us, Neighbor mine. And if you will lend a hand Soon our city dear shall stand As the cleanest in the land. Neighbor mine. Cook, D. D. A. M. E. Church.—Record-Herald, 5, 1912. Importance of Physiognomy importance of Physiognomy. "Do you believe a man with a receding chin is likely to get along as well in this case as a man with a chin that projects?" It all depends upon circumstances. If the man with the receding chin is a son of the president of the company and man with the chin that projects is moving his way up from the bottom I should be inclined to feel that physiognomy would not be of vast importance." Funnier than all the comedies in New York are the imported western and middle western dramatic critics before they have had an opportunity to learn the subject of their essays.—New York Telegraph. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. For what is the result of all these, except what we know as well without them, that the human figure pre-eminently and peculiarly is made in the image and likeness of God?—Goethe. --- By L. H. Webster. Neighbor mine. How They Love Us! To the Teacher. X ; i | io \ Bie \ } - i oh og t a t Pc : MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC “ALL PASSES, ART ALONE ENDURES" ‘The Past Week at the Chicago Theatres—Notes of the Profession All Around the World.—By Minnie Adams, The Sum. ae giving one the impression t Astle Gemalto a waa the ehest register Ts being carried A Jittle toiling tay by ae Pat such I no the cate, it ts ‘X iiite pain, x tue strife, fing development of siudeles SR ee rounding the thorax” whieh ca 2 robust quality of tone oven Gio ‘A iitie shortaivea summer's morn, | te focus of saul igh tones are A. ltte shortlived summers mor | te revonaiee chambers of the fr When one day's sky is blue above, fous. The slaxor 3. atone die And one bird sings—and that is love. Nantage--his dramate ability is v Uisplayed In his upper tones, but 2A tite sickening of the years, syles' tn tho lower segiear ta ‘The tribute of a few hot tears, force. A seeming disreyard for ‘Two folded hands, the falling breath, | Necessary work to develop this 1 And peace at Iast—and that is death. tlon of the volce fs evident in careless awanner with which Just dreaming, loving, dying 80, rca: andi 8 Ghose. totter. He eee ei Ha totes are there and should have A fitting picture on a wall, Hab care as, has een elven Tove, Death, the themes; but i that | Seer voice, In the rendition of“ 20 Bul King” this tack of resonance taut iaurence Duiber, | Plainly observed, Mr. Caruer ha tetighurut ‘tye of Tegato. which SiS GRAND: delivers ina clinging, haunting. a ‘The last hal€ of the week which began Thuesday, April 18, contained Stross und Becker in some very ex: cellent musieal munbers performed on instruments, The Le Mar quar. telte In the space of a few minutes did some very creditable singing. Douglas A. Flint Virginia Fairfax and company in a comedy playlet, on- tiled “Her Governor,” gave some- thing which vividly tells story care: Tully portrayed of today. Miss Pair. fax ws the wife was fine, she was sweet and womanly in her every ac tion, Miss Frankie Raymond as the balloon girl was as tough as you make them, but had a heart as big and tender ay a—well, | don't know what. However, she had a part that gave opportunity 10 show that an honest heart sometimes beats _be- neath a rough exterior. Mr. Flint was very capalte and could easily in the assimption of the role of gov- ernor, make application and be ad: mitted as full member to any Ananias chib in the country. Flynn and: Me- Laughlin, musical comedy favorites, were here some time ago and Miss MeLawighlin is just as pretty and dainty ax ever and her work as well as that of Mr. Flynn is just as fas- cinating as heretofore. The Water Melon ‘Trust, the xood dancers with & misapplied name, are holding their own. ‘They are very clever and it is hard to understand why they hold on to such a name. OF course we renlize that a reputation made on a certain nate brands one forever, so it be: hooves everyone to he careful how We start so our Anish will be all O. K, ‘The first halt of the week which be- gan Monday, April 22, presents. some firstclass artists, Will Bradley and company in a musica treat, “In Bo- hema.” were good, bit nothing was out of the ordinary’ except thelr scen- ery which was very pretty. Ut as. whole the aet was fair. Jack Roche aud Edward Crawford, @ team which can give cards and spades to (he ma- Jority of the rapid fire talkers, has Oue vf the neatest singing and talk- ing acts seen here in a long time. Mr. Roche is introducing a new rag song which Is one of the biggest hits of the season, “Che Mocking ird Rag” aud he sings it in a sweet bari: tone voice without any dialect, which is mich t be appreciated, the peo- ple are wild about it, Claude Adams and company in a dramatic playlet, entitled “His Last Offense,” are fine, each member of the company does his or her part with all ability. Emil Subers, “The Georgia Boy,” lute of Primrose minstrels, is a’ decidedly clever monologist™ and keeps the house in an uproar of laughter. Schoen’s “Ruf€ Hous Kids" give an excellent school room scene, And many instructive photo plays. close the bill, THE MONOGRAM, May MeRay is a dainty little sou- brette who only lacks the ability to dress properly to make her a head Jiner as sho dances fine and sings well. Kelly and Davis are at it again putting on some more good talking and singing. Cunningham and Cunningham are quite classy in their talking, dancing and singing act, but the lady spoils a very sweet Negro melody by attempting to use the dialect which she simply makes a farce of. Surely such a misconcep: tion of the southern brogue does not sound good even to the lady who uses it and as it reaches the ears of her hearers, nothing but disgust is felt. if she will cut the dialect and sing the melody straight it will be pleasing to the listeners and decid. edly more appropriate. ‘Tho manage. ment has secured in Mullen and With- ers an Al musical team. Miss With- ers is as clever at playing te piano as she fs playing the many wind In. struments the team earries, ‘The act is classy, but Mr, Mullen brings it down by Working in black face which is wholly nnnecessary. He is funny, Dut not suMeiently so to warrant that In an act so artistic the burnt cork Is too much out of place. PARTICULAR POINTS. Billy Kersands and wue have signed up with the Hugo minstrels and will leave the country on a tour of Australia with the company about May 8. One of the most select programs presented this season so far was the recital given Monday evening, April 29, at Oakland Music hall, by George W. Garner, Jr, Chicago's prominent singer. The recital was by no means attended as it should have bed, al though a delightfully appreeiative audience greoted the artist on his ap- pearance, which was scheduled for 8:15 p.m. but it was nearer 9:80 when tho audience had the pleasure of listening to this young aspirant after musical art and honors. SU those walting wero fully rewgrded. Mr, Garner was in excellent voice and showed every Indication of a marvelous future. His voice is of the purest high baritone quality with much of a tenor range. His upper register is focused high with all ease and {s-then brought into full robust tones giving one the impression that the chest register 1s being carried up. But such is not the case, it is the tine development of miiscles sur- rounding the thorax which causes a robust quality of tone even though the focus of said high tones are on the resonance chambers of the frontal fue. ‘The singer is at one disad- vantage—his dramatic ability Is well displayed in his upper tones, but his vgice In the lower register lacks force. A seeming disregard for the necessary work to develop this por Won of the voice is evident in the careless manner with whieh the urtst handled his chest tones. ‘The tones are there and should have the same care as has been given the upper voice. In the rendition of “Phe En) King” this lack of resonance was plainly observed. Mr. Garner has a Gelighutul style ‘of legato which he detivers in a clinging, haunting qual ity of voice, and this is one of his finest achievements as It is the most diffleult of all the styles of vocal art. “A How! of Roses” was an excellent bit of legato work. In a lighter voice, the artist gave “The Spring Has Come,” by ‘White, whieh was highly appreciated. Many other — beautiful numbers were given by the singer and were much enjoyed, among which were “Celeste Aida,” from Alda; a “Venetian Song” and “Still Unex- pressed." On the program assisting Mr. Garner were Mr. Walter E. Gos- sette, a pianist of exceptional ability. His two numbers, the C sharp minor by Rachmonioff and “Butterfly,” by Grieg, were given with a masterly style of playing and thorough under- standing of technic. Prof. Charles Ehgar, one of our brilliant teachers of violin, gave with fine execution the “Souvenir De Lubeck, by Riecken, aud a “Gavotte.” by Gossec. —Aliss Marion Garner, the accompaniste, was dolighttul. This young Miss is one Of the best assistants now before the musical public. Many tokens of es- teem were evident in the exquisite floral offerings fo Mr. Garner. whose dignity on the stage did not prechide the buoyancy of his bosish spirits to assert themselves. Onee again allow this column to say “it is a shame that the race does not bestir itself to greater endeavors to appreciate its own. How can we expect to advance It we do not first acknowledge the elforts made along all lines by those ‘of our race?” CHORAL STUDY CLUSS FINE CONCERT, Noted Singing Association Selects Quinn Chapel For Last Concert of the Season—May 27 Date Selected. ‘The final concert of the season by the Choral Study club of Chieago will be given at Quinn Chapel church Monday evening, May 27, at 8:15, at which time the club will present Mrs. Virginia Greene, soprano; Mrs. Clara K. “Williams, ‘contralto. and _ Mr. George T.. Johnson, tenor, who have recently returned from a very sue- cessful tour of England, Germany, Russia, France and Holland, together with our popular favtorites, Mrs. Mar- tha Brandiee Anderson, soprano, and Mr. T. Theotlore Taylor, baritone. ‘The works to be rendered on this oceasion are “The Blind Girl of Cas- te Cuille” and St. John’s Eve.” ‘There will he but one price of ad- mission to all parts of the house. Tickets, 50 cents, may be secured from members or the secretary, Miss Cecilia Johnson, 2226 Vernon avenue. ILLINOIS BOYS ENTERTAIN. The Group of Congenial Spirits That Handle This Important Case Enter- ‘tain Wives and Company. Sunday evening Inst the congenial group who handle the Illinois case at the Chicago post office surprised their wives and company by arranging a delightful affair at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crenshaw, 6040 South May street. Tt was in the na- ture of a surprise, the party first meet- ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sol. Morrisons, 6034 South May street. A feature of the evening was the following menu: = Lumber chicken salad Payday mayonnaise Scheme sandwiches, a la P. O. Cite olives First-class pickles Mlinois cake Vacation strawberries Night set coffee Overtime ice cream Day set ten Schedule orangade Among those present were Misses Hope Dunmore, Mary V. Parker, Miss Carter, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. MeCoo, Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crenshaw, Mr. and Mrs, George Hutchinson, Messrs. Lucius Winby, Robert Dunmore, James H. Cooper and Master Dunmore. ESTHER, THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN. The cantata, “Esther, the Beautiful Queen,” is to be given at Olivet Bap- tist Church, 27th and Dearborn streets, May 6, for the benefit of the May campaign. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson will take the part of the Queen, Mr, Frank B. Warring will play the King, and Mrs. Della Ridgeway Brown tho Directress. Cards of admission, 25 cents. 27-4. Severe Criticism. Dr. Hedge and Dr. Bartol spent a summer together down east. One Sun- day Dr. Bartol preached to a congre- gation largely composed of fishermen. Dr. Hedge was curlous to know the ef- fect upon them, and asked one old salt what he thought about the preach- ing and the sermon. The reply was: “Well, bis idea was absurd, and bia Innguage was preposterous.” Where Silence Is Power. Silence never shows itself to 50 great advantage as when it Is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occa: sion for them.—Adalson. 7 PRINCESS’ RIVAL IS rf il “De . ‘Tragedy in Distant ‘angier Growing Out of the Fierce Jealousy of Woman Parls—From ‘Tangier comes a strange romance which relates how the blood of the victim of a Moorish love tragedy has crimsoned the desert sands at Abesher. The princess Sher fa, a niece of the Sultan Aoyl and wife of the Cald Gaoud, had her at Jeged rival, a native woman named ‘Toma, slain tn her presence by one of her slaves. ‘The young woman, a wife of a na tive sergeant of the Tirallleurs in the service of the French, was ltred to ‘thy Ravens, ‘Slave ska wae beatae: —-a I “ . : @ is “y | om Scie rice cbarged with having caused the mur- der of Toma, her rival in her prince- characteristically pieturesaue reply. handsome. When he took me to wife AGED WOMAN TORN BY DOGS Beggar Killed by Furious Mastiffs on the Estate of an Itallan Prince. Rome—A pitiful tragedy occurred recently in the beautiful gardens that encircle Prince Ruffo’s villa on the Flaminian way, outside the gates of Rome. A beggar woman, on the vergo of starvation, ventured ‘up the main walk to ask alms at the brilliantly lighted villa inside which Prince Ruffo was giving a grand dinner In honor of a professor newly nominated to the International Institute of Agriculture, adjoining the princely property. ‘Thrust away with harsh epithets by merciless attendants, the woman was wending her way back towards the oe je 4 il 1 We 4M Wes | ae | Phe \ Jeg NN Fie eal oe $ oa WI BRO be= ht ie massive iron gates when, overcome ‘with hunger and fatigue, she fell in swoon Just inside the entrance. About midnight piercing shrieks and the barking of dogs brought the prince and a body of retainers out- side with lanterns and revolvers in the belief that burglars were break- Ing into the place. Soon, however, they came upon a acene of horror, A couple of furious mastitts, let looge earlier in the evening, had scented out the woman, whom they were tear- ing to pieces. ‘The unhappy victim ex- pired in the hospital the following day. Bhe waa seventy-two years“of age, THE CHICAGO DEFENDER (DEVIL PUTS A BOY 2 AVE ON 4 Du me ON HOT GRIDIRON 1 7 oh Nayghty Lad Disobeys His Moth- | 0 sa} &F and Gets Into Many the how Kinds of Trouble. - yorish i lesert = a Sher- es | aoa/STEPS ON THIRD RAIL | 2 med —_— = Oana anterward That He Thought He | 28 ana-| “Blew Up," and That His Back and | Yet n the Legs Felt Like Something Was or te ‘Going Through Them. fan New York.—A very persistent devil whispered into the ear of nine-year- old Charles Mofit as he left bis home at No, 85 Catherine street to play in the street the other afternoon, “Remember,” his mother had sata, “the devil gets boys who are bad. ‘You mustn't go out of the neighbor. hood and you musn't get papers for the newsman.” For Charles's principal income and candy fund came from the money the newsdealer on the corner gave him for trips to a news company, ‘hough Charles had promised neith- er to leave the street nor go tor pa- pers, the devil suggested that the day was’ Saturday and that the boy wouldn't be paid for his week's work unless he finished it, and that it would be too bad to lose a whole week's pay Just because of fallure to work one ‘ay. Charles, tempted, fell. He trotted quickly to a news depot in Chambers street and started to go home. But that devil whispered again. tt would be nice to go out on Hrooklyn bridge and seo How the motormen ran thelr trains to Coney Island. Again Charles fell. Ie got by the policemen on the northern vehicle roadway of the bridge, and with his package of “5 cents’ worth of papers” stood close to the Manhattan bound track of the “L trains, A train went by. ‘The devil jogged Charies's arm and the package fell to the tracks a few feet below. ‘The small transgressor decided he would have to reseue the papers or he wouldn't get his. pay. “I hung on wid me bands,” said Charles afterward, “and then T put BQ 8 Wee Sern aay yy> i es \e 6 3 SA awl ies << PS : | ‘down me foot, { touched a thing down, there, When I tet go f blew up.” 1€ Charles didn't blow up, he cer ‘tainly did go up. ils foot came in contact with the third rail and sparks flew from his schoo! shoes, of walen hhis mother had told him to be eare- ful. “Me back and mo lege felt tke something was going trough ‘em," saya Charles. He went into the alt, shrieking with pain, But he only rose two fect; then he came down sitting between ‘the ratls. A moment after: ward he was standing up in the cen ter of the track, rubbing himself, while a crowd of tomeward bound Brookiynttes was standing on. the promenade shouting advice. Two prac. tical men shoved forward ana stretched their hands down to Charles. First he passed up his bundle ot papers, then he consented to be Intted ‘out. Patrolman Sehnitzler of the bridge squad came up and took the mean devit's victim to the police room at the Manhattan tower. Dr. Orr atrived in an ambulance from the Hudson street hospital und the boy was stripped, Not ono burn was on him. Dr. Orr and the police thought it was amazing that Charles had not been Killed outright. ‘They told the boy ho could go home, Charles delivered the papers intact to the newsman at Catherine and South streets and asked for bis. 16 cents. He had resolved to end forth: ‘with all connection with the devil. He ‘was told be would be paid later, Then he slipped into hix home. He said nothing, but eventually the news penetrated tho citcte of bis brothers, thence reached eleven-year- old Mary, his sister, and then, of course, got to Als mother. Again Charles was stripped: again no burns wore found, Mrs, Moflit made the further reassuring discovery that shoes and trousers were stil present- able at school. But she drove home the moral lesson. “You see,” she said, “how the devi) gets bad boys who disobey. 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TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Duck Ralser Found Pepsin of Consid- erable Value, But He Has Dis. continued Its Use. Refusing to eat any kind of food ‘offered to them, Charles Koch of Port Chester, N: Y., concluded that his flock of one dozen ducks bad a form of dyspepsla and decided to doctor them himself. His method was not entirely original, for he procured nep- sin tablets and, dissolving them tn water, he contrived to get the fluid down their throats with the ald of a metal tube. Releasing them one by one he sat down in the house to seo ‘what happened. Almost magical effects wero noted. Instead of declining thelr usual pro- Yender, they ate it with avidity and came back for more. Scraps from the family dinner table also disappeared in a similar manner. Delighted with the success of his experiment Koch administered additonal doses of ftuld Pepsin. Ducks eggs wero one result. But now the entire flock seems to be always hungry. ‘That has its disa- Ereeable features. Seven o'clock tn the morning! is the customary feeding time for the ducks, but it ts different now. The ducks know where Koch sleens, and they assemble under bis bedroom window and quack in chorus Defore five o'clock, Keeping up the din untill he throws some food to them. Twojhours or so later they re- sume their ¢lamor, So tt goes all day. Koch Is getling eggs, but he 4s losing sleep. “Take tt from me," he says, “I have stopped the! pepsin.” BEES AT WORK ALL THE TIME in Many Localities There ts No Closed Season for Those In- dethtinabis Caverers. Although |bees are apt to turn out on any sunghiny day, the bulk of their work is dope by the first of Novem: winter's sieep. ‘Tho beekeeper must ow put cushions into the tops of the bives, taking only what honey he fe sure can be spared by tue bees, and leave them for thelr Btvernation In Florida there ts no sued work to do, says a Writer in Outing. ‘The bees work all winter, and they havo as good feed in February and March as they do in July. ‘Tho orange orchards /are alive with the honey gatherers, and their sees blend: into almost ‘roar in Mhreh, for that fs when the orange flowers aro open; but it must be confesseu that the honey has a twang, something ke the acldtty of ‘an orange, and ft does not compare at ail with tdat made from the bass wood, | Besides the orange’ there are suc- cessive flowerings of legumes of all sorts all thd year, every one having a positive flayor and very few of them giving to honey a famtilar tlavor, Yet Florida ts a natural nome of the bee and honey in the southern states Will ¥et becomo, as familiar a produet as cane sugar. In the Mississippt valley and else where professional beckeepers carry thelr hives to the south to meet the coming of the flowers early in the senson, turning around toward the north and carrying: thein to gather the later sweets from Inter flowering ap, ples and berries. In this way, or by carrying thom up and down mountaln sides, the feeding spells on clover ot basswood and other trees can. be greatly lengthened, Pessimism Not of This Age, There is no room for the pessimist in the present order of things. Op- Umfsm {fs the dominant factor of the age. BRANCH 67, OF THE L.C.B. A. Will Give Their— ANNVAL EASTER DANCE Monday Eve., April 22nd at UNION MASONIC HALL 3856 State Street Muste by Garfield Witeon’s Orchestra MRS. FRANK KING, Cha!rman Admission 25¢ Children 15¢ Main Office— & E. Cor. State and 86th Pines. Telephone—Douglas 1865. FINE POINT ABOUT THE LAW Somewhat Curious Problem Has Been Ralsed by the Decision of a Lened dada. Suppose you owned a dog and a neighbor asked the courts to compel you to keep it from barking and yelp- ing day and night, interfering with his business and causing him and bis family loss of sleep, and suppose the court handed down a decreo requiring you to restrain your dog from bark. ing, yelping and howling, “except in cases of burglary or Sire,” how would you set about obeying the order? If you fix it so the dog cannot bark at all and burglars invade your domi- cle or fire breaks out and the dog cannot bark, you may be robbed of murdered in peril by dlsobeying the injunction that your restraint of the barking, yelping and howling shall ex- tend only to those periods when there 4s no burglary or fire. For the order expressly limits your right to restrain any barking, yelping and bowling aforesaid by those exceptions. , Must you sit up nights and look out for burglars and fires and be ready to Femove your restraint of the dog’é Yocallzation when elther or both ap. pear? Yes, you might get rid of the dog, ‘of course, but there is nothing sald about that. The law does not probit it you keeping, the dog. All {t Is con cerned about is that you shall not al low the dog to become a nulsance ‘You have to place it under restraint But you can at least congratulate yourself that, unlike the trusts, you do not have to worry about what con stitutes reasonablo restraint because thero's not a word about reasonable ness in the law. All you have to do 4s to restrain the an{mal from bark ing, yelping and howling, except In cases of burglary or fire. ‘The excep tlon may, it fs true, seem unreason. able, but the law is made to be obeyed somehow and It leaves it to you to find out how. sian aetany A conte an an sy maken him weary to hear a man talking ooo ei a ie etter ee Sri fees had been his friend he, the banker, coe a a oe eee sib iairs ties fesse anes Inspiration in Dreams. aS of Ee se ee Be oh ae Se wate ee hae Se cetera Scene coef —_—. Doctor Graham, a widely known Physician in London, once conceived the plan of burying persons up to terien es [them there for some hours as a cure Sos Sees Seaecieeie See cars remy Seiad Sots Sinise: earth. fe nee Sometimes the blunder of a child seems like the verlest wise man’s wisdom. Such might he sald of tho little fellow in Hutchinson, according to The Gazette, who, desiring some ©€ the boarding housekeeper's de. Nght, commonly called hash, said: “Please pass the trash."—Kansas City Star. The Overton-Hygienis Mfg, Co. PRESENTS TO CHICAGO High Brown De Laxe Face Powder Made especially for you "= S0e RO.z0L ‘thetace bleach that will bleach 25e ADA PONADE ‘The perfect hair dressing - 25¢ PURE "To destroy perspiration odors 25¢ Forate ta rca et tre ere WE MANUPACTURE ALL OUR aooDs oae Neral ote S780654 STATE ST. CHCACO, ILLINOIS oBlECT LESSON_Wgs ENOUG, After the titusration Mr Jones wal MM pole to Understand Just How ine Mr. Jones belleved that no one need ever fail down. It was pure careless: ness, he said, Anyone who walked straight, and did not dawdle round, was in no danger of losing his balance, He sald so to Mrs. Jones many times, but she only siatied in a provoking way. One bitter cold January morning he ‘changed his mind. fverything out- doors had a coating of fce. The path leading from the barn to the house was smooth as glass and slanted treacherously on either hand. On one slde of it was an old cellar, where the house had once stood. Jones was com. ing from tho barn, after dolng the morning chores, with a pall of mili in each hand. ‘He was Just opposite the cellar when—zzzt!—out few his feet and down he went on his back. The wext instant he had slid in a, shower of milk over the edgo of tho cellar hole, and landed on the bottom with a thump that falrly took away his breath. He looked round tn a dazed way for ‘A moment, and then cruwied to his feet. After making reasonably sure that none of bis bones were broken, he elfmbed out and went limping into the house to tell his wife. “Matilda! Matilda!" “he called. “Come out here!" Obediently she came. “Why, Hiram, what bas bappened? Are you hurt?" she exclaimed, startled. "Yes," answered Jones. “I fell down that old cellarway. Come here and Tl show you." Mrs. Jones’ followed her husband gingerly. “See, Matilda,” ho sald, as he reach- ‘ed the spot and turned, “I stood right here Ilke this. when—" ‘Once more Jones's feet Now up, and in precisely the same manner as bo- foro he landed in the bottom of ts cellar. Silence reigned while Mrs, Jones gazed nt tho spot where her husband had stood. ‘Then she saw his head appearing over the top of the bank. “Hiram,” she said, “you needn't ex- plain any further. “I understand ex: actly how it was done.” Tut Hiram’s answer was a thorough: ly ‘tempered grunt.—Youth's Com- panica. HAVE PRIVILEGE OF CREATION Consolation for Women Who Do Not Enjoy All the Advantages They See Others Have. Women aro taught very wrongly about love, They are allowed to read love stories at a tender age and form @ totally fatal notion of love. ‘They see themselves as charmers at & very early age. They begin trying to captivate, to charm, to enslave th~ opposite sex, before they are out 4 the nursery. ‘They llve and die— many, many of them—without ever fn the Teast understanding the truth about love or, in fact, about anything else. Women are very envious by nature, There seems to be plenty of justifica- tion in this one way you look at tt ‘Why should one woman have luxury, ease, travel, society and fine clothes and another woman have only toll and loneliness and privation? This is a useless question. We cannot explain the inequalitles of life, but there is an answer to the woman Who asks this question, It Is this: ‘The more barren the field the greater the privilege of creation. You have ‘a chance to see what you can find by the way of joy and beauty; you have an opportunity to ereate your own at mosphere and it can be a very loveiy one ff you learn the secret of making it s0.—Pittsburg Leader. iieiatad ‘Acibiiiebia. . A boy is sent to the grocer’s for a pound of raisins, and on bis way home meets three otter boys. How many times did the four boys go into the pound? ‘Sympathy from Pa. Geraidine—What did pa say when you asked him for my hand? Gerald —He sald that he was just as sorry for me as if I were already one of ‘the faually,, Branch Ofice— 4732 8, State Btrost, ‘Telephone—Drexe! sTar --- Michigan in the Limelight, by Our Special Correspondents—Detroit, Kalamazoo, Dowagiae 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., April 26.—Rev. Pettiford filled the pulpit at Grand chapel Sunday morning. His text was taken from Luke 10:20. In the evening Mr. Allen filled the pulpit and expressed many good and interesting things to the people. Mrs. Minnie Adams will be in Kalamazoo on the 30th to sing at Grand chapel. She will be assisted by some of Kalamazoo's vocal talent. We are sorry indeed to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Allen anticipate leaving the city. While Mr. and Mrs. Allen have been in the city they have made a host of friends and our best wishes are that their journey will be a safe one. Mr. Joseph Small was called to Kansas City to the sick bed of his mother, who lies very ill. Word has been received in the city that Mr. Oscar Horrored reached his journey's end safely. Mrs. Ora Russel is contemplating taking an eastern trip with his "touring car" about June 1 or sooner. Mr. and Mrs. John Clay are able to be out. Mr. and Mrs. Clay are very old people and have been under the weather for some time. Everybody rejoices to see them on the streets now and then. Grandma Bradley is feeling somewhat better. Mrs. Asa Newsome entertained a company of ladies Friday evening at her home on Michigan avenue. Miss Vivian Stafford entertained at luncheon Sunday evening. Covers were, laid for six. Miss Rose Roberts has returned to her home in Paw Paw, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Indianapolis, Ind., are stopping at the Belden apartments on East Kalamazoo avenue. Mr. Rube Smith has returned to the city after being called to Grand Rapids for the illness of his infant child. Miss Lucille Harris is on the sick list. Mrs. Mary Lett of Paw Paw, Mich., is the guest of her daughter, Miss S. Jean Lett, and friends in this city. Miss Inez Miller has returned to the city after spending a few weeks in South Bend with friends and relatives. A first class barber, who can keep sober, is wanted at Mr. George Burnett's barber shop. Call at 108 East Water street. See Mudame Bailey for hair dressing, hair weaving, manicuring and facial massage. Mr. and Mrs. James Brown have moved into their new home on East Maple street. Cobbler work done at the home of Mr. James Butler on Mill street. Call and see him. Mr. Judson Graime is expected home from Arizona. His wife will meet him in Chicago and accompany him to Kalamazoo. His health is very much improved. WORTHY OF GREAT MONARCH King of Sardinia's Tactful Manner of Concealing Kindness Done to Impoverished Follower. The King of Sardinia, Charles Albert, was very kind and obliging to the French royalists who -were at Turin. The Duke of F—, with whom he was connected, had an employment about the court—he had been severely wounded, and lost a leg in the affair of the Three Days. The king heard that the duke was anxious to visit the king and royal family at Prague, but that his finances were not favorable to so long a journey. His majesty, therefore, thought of an expedient which would enable the duke to gratify his loyalty, without his feelings being wounded. "Duke," he said, "would you do me the favor to choose some horses for me in Bohemia; and as your best way will be through Prague, of course, you will pay respects to the royal family there." As the journey was on the king's service, the duke could feel no reluctance about having his expenses paid. The Overwrought Nerves Fresh air will string up any group of nerves not hopelessly demoralized. When you feel that "flying to pieces" inclination overtaking you, jerk yourself to order with the check rein of determination and then, if you cannot regain self-control, stop anything on earth you may be doing and go out of doors. If you cannot leave the home, lean out of a window, or step for a little white on a porch. You will not lose any time—you will, in fact, gain time by increasing efficiency in whatever you may be doing. Sleep also is a great restorer of nerves to a normal tone, and sleeping with all windows open secures for us two nerve cures at the same time. In foods, raw onions, carrots, lettuce and celery, with plenty of olive oil, are excellent nerve foods, all valuable as aids in the good work, but the chief remedy is strong will and the compelling of your body to obey your mind. could Get Along Without It Could Get Along Without it. "Hilda, if you leave me now I shall refuse to give you a testimonial." "Ay ank ay not need testimonial. Ay get tibble now and ay skoll get husband it week."—Chicago Record-Herald. Her Son Would Have Been Ruler But for Annexation of the Country by Japan. The empress of Korea, who died recently, was born in Appleton, Wis., the daughter of a Methodist minister, a "circuit rider" who made Appleton his home for a few years before the war, says the New York Evening Post. The Rev. Mr. Brown was a handsome southerner, and his wife a woman of exceptional beauty, who transmitted her beauty to her daughter Emily, who was born in 1861. Shortly after the war, when Emily was about five years old, the family left Appleton; and ten years later the Rev. Mr. Brown took his wife and daughter to Seul, the capital of Korea, and was said to have been the first Protestant missionary to enter the capital of the Hermit Kingdom. The young Appleton girl soon learned the language of the Koreans, and acted as interpreter in dialogs between the missionaries and the government. She had a remarkably sweet voice and attracted many natives to her father's mission by her wonderful singing of hymns. The emperor heard of the remarkable beauty and wonderful voice of the American girl and commanded her to enter his haram, which she indignantly refused to do. Two years later, however, when the mission was in financial straits, she accepted the emperor's offer and became one of his wives, with a promise of marriage in her father's mission as soon as conditions permitted. When the American wife had borne the emperor a son and his queen had died, Emily Brown was proclaimed queen, the ruler of Korea then being a king, and when he proclaimed himself emperor she became empress and received the name of Om, which, in the Korean language, means "Dawn of the Morning" or "As Beautiful as the Rising Sun." Emily Brown was the emperor's favorite wife, and her son was made the heir apparent, and, but for the annexation of Korea by Japan, he would become emperor on the death of the father. More Light. Fresh air enthusiasts are familiar enough to most of us, but we heavier of enthusiasm for light. Darkened parlor, darkened bedrooms, darkened stickrooms, are too common. Sir W. W. Richardson, the eminent London scientist and physician, declared that when the professors of healing enter a slickroom their first words in most cases ought to be Goethe's dying exclamation, "More light! More light!" The light of the sun is God's own microbe-killer, germicid, disinfectant, prophylactic, slickness healer. There is no physician, no chemical antidote, no compounded prescription to be compared with sunlight. Without it nature could not perform her functions. Man, beast, bird, insect would fall victims to the deadly gases that would provail. The horrid mists and deadly gases are dispersed and decomposed by the action of light. Let it in, everywhere! Let the light in more and more abundantly. Faded carpets are not as puffish as faded cheeks. Spoiled cushions are trivial compared with spilled health. Darkened rooms are too suggestive of darkened lives.—The Christian Herald. Glad They Told Him What it is to be a genuine, single-minded egotist is illustrated by an occurrence related by an American who spends much of his time in England. Among his acquaintances is a cergent invalid and spends most of his time distinguished Britisher who is a time in bed, a fact which, however, does not prevent him from receiving a great deal of company. One day while in bed the Britlisher, according to Harper's Magazine, received several guests. They all began to shiver and pull their coats about them as they huddled around the bed. "What," exclaimed the invalid, "is it cold here?" "We are freezing," answered a guest. "Thank you for telling me," said the distinguished invalid, who thereupon rang a bell. The guests supposed that he was summoning a servant to build a fire, but when his man came in the invalid said: "Mullins, bring me my down coverlet." Another Man Without a Country. Martin Gajen, "man without a country," has been ordered deported from the United States. Gajen shipped from New South Wales on the barkentine Arizona, bound for San Francisco. When within two days' sail of the latter port he became insane. Under the immigration laws he could not be received in this country, and the steamship company which brought him here was ordered to take him back to his starting place. Bpt New South Wales refused to accept him. Gajen was born in Russia and that government was appealed to, but in vain. Efforts were made by the immigration authorities in this country to locate some of the relatives of Gajen, but without success. Just where he is to be sent has not been determined. —New York World. What He Couldn't Understand There was a confirmed toper in a certain village whom several friends decided to teach a lesson. One night, when he was utterly submerged, they locked him up in a cellar where there was neither light nor heat and intended to keep him there until he would promise never to touch another drop of liquor. They decided to listen carefully in order to hear what would be his first words after he came out of his drunken stupor. After several hours they heard him stir and later they could hear him hold converse with himself. "Apparently," he was muttering, "I am dead, and to all appearances I am buried in my grave, but how comes it that I want just the littlest, tiniest drink!" Useful Eowl "Why don't you get rid of that hen? You say she never lays." "But she is an incossant cackler, and that keeps the other hens at a high mark." Famous A. M. E. College in the Limelight—Interesting Items Concerning Faculty and Pupils. By R. G. Bruce. Wilberforce, Ohio, April 26—The funeral of Mrs. Frances Scarborough, who died April 14, took place Wednesday afternoon, April 17, from Galloway Hall chapel. The space just at the foot of the rostrum was a bank of flowers sent as last respects to our most beloved mother. The services were plain. Mrs. Coleman rendered two solos, Mr. G. T. Simpson, instructor in voice culture, sang a solo, and the choir rendered most touching hymns and anthems. Rev. T. G. Steward officiated. Bishop B. F. Lee spoke of the extraordinary life of Mrs. Scarborough. Many resolutions were read from friends and sympathizers. Messages of condolence were received from all parts of the country. All Wilberforce and the entire community turned out in spite of the downpour of rain to pay the last respects to "Mother" Scarborough. Interment at Tarbox cemetery, near Cedarville, O. The pall bearers were Prof. W. A. Joiner, Mr. T. Perkins, Secretary H. Talabert, Mr. W. A. Anderson, Prof. Thomas and Dr. G. W. Henderson. Baseball Baseball season was opened at Wilberforce last week with a game between Wilberforce and Cedarville. Wilberforce won by a score of 9 to 10. The second game was played between Wilberforce and Wittenburg College of Springfield, O. The game was lost to Wittenburg by a score of 3 to 4. Sympathy. Word was received Wednesday stating the death of Mrs. J. B. McClellan of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Mrs. McClellan is the mother of John B. McClellan, a student of Wilberforce, and sister of J. Lue. J. E. Green, professor of military science and tactics, Wilberforce university. The faculty and entire student body, along with the immediate community, sympathize with Mr. McClellan, Lieut. Green and the entire family. Gant, Mitchell III. O'Neil Mitchell, junior college and captain of Company A, Wilberforce university, is quite ill at his home. Mrs. S. T. Mitchell, matron of Shorter hall and mother of O'Neil, has been at the bedside of her son ever since he was forced to take his bed. All Wilberforce wishes for an early and rapid recovery for Capt. Mitchell. Company A especially prays for Capt. Mitchell's immediate recuperation of health. Miss Hallie Q. Brown is acting matron of Shorter hall during Mrs. Mitchell's absence. (Continued from page 1.1) criminatory, class legislation and therefore unconstitutional. It should be an amended or repealed. For the leaders of the race to supinely submit to the continuance of such a law, is an obvious resignation of their inherent rights and privileges of citizenship. Dean Summer gave figures obtained by investigation, showing that a harvest of $16,000,000 annually is collected from the legalized prostitution of 18,000 women in Chicago. There are 4,200 prostitutes in the city and it is estimated that there are more than 5,000. The average life of these women is from 5 to 7 years. While actual commercialized vice among the colored girls is not as great as that among the whites, there is grave fear that the percentage in proportion to numbers would compare favorably. Of course, there are many reasons aside from simple honesty, chastity and respect for womanhood—there is a lack of opportunity on account of being barred from most if not all of the large business houses and factories, which are very conducive to such, also the facility to the trade. While it is no particular honor, it is at least gratifying to know that Chicago is not the worst city in the country. According to the statement of Dean Sumner she is exceeded in the practice of prostitution by colored girls in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Baltimore. He says the practice in Chicago is by a candestine group of colored girls and it depends upon the vigorous efforts of our colored leaders and social workers to eradicate the evil. He says there is a woeful lack of interest in the morals of the race and advocates a more strenuous effort to destroy the evil. Just think of the burden of sin and misery transmitted to posterity! Out of 5,000,000 men throughout the country from 60 to 80 per cent are affected with venereal disease. There are 3,000,000 abnormal persons. And it costs the state of Illinois $2,000,000 annually for the care of such persons. He says the duty devolves upon the parents to warn their children of these dangers and that a course of hygenics should be taught in the high schools. Another fault is the lack of education and proper training. When our people as a whole rise from the submerged condition of ignorance and poverty to a plane of intellectual standing, when they are given an equal chance to compete in the economic and industrial field of progress, then their moral status is bound to rise also. Education, comfortable homes in chase neighborhoods and sanitary surroundings are vital and important conditions for which we should strive. Dollies Dog Pies on Duty The off of the police station of St Denys, one of the roughest of the outlying suburbs of Paris, are heart-broken at the loss of their principal-police dog, Charlot, who had to be killed as the result of terrible injuries inflicted by apaches—Paris correspondence London Daily Times. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Annually Hundreds of Thousands of Tons of Sulphuric Acid Are Carried Off by Streams. One of the most interesting of the byproducts of the coal mine is sulphuric acid. Coal veins contain sulphur, most commonly in chemical combination with iron. The poorer the coal the more sulphur is there. Such compounds, becoming oxidized, form sulphuric acid, great quantities of which in a free state are continually draining from the mines into the rivers. This sort of thing is going on at such a rate that the amount of sulphuric acid carried away by the streams of the coal region of pennsylvania in the course of a year has been estimated by the water resources branch of the government geological survey at 970,000 tons—a quantity equal to more than two-thirds of the total sulphuric acid consumed in a twelvemonth in the United States for industrial purposes. Sulphuric acid has many uses in the arts. Among other things, it is employed to clean iron before the latter is galvanized; likewise in the treatment of sheet iron for making thware, and the wire for fences and nails. For these and other purposes 75,000 tons of it are consumed annually in and about the city of Pittsburgh, Mark, then, the pity of the circumstances that, as determined by the government exports, no less than 95,000 tons of sulphuric acid flows in a year past the town of McKeesport, in the Youghlougheny river—that is to say, 20,000 tons more than is utilized industrially in Pittsburg and its vicinity during the same period. To put the case otherwise, fully $1,200,000 worth of sulphuric acid, produced by nature, is carried away every year by one stream in a neighborhood where the same stuff is required for use by thousands of tons in factories. Here is a problem for the industrial chemist to solve—the obvious difficulty in the way being that the solution of acid is so very dilute that attempts to concentrate it would be likely to prove unprofitable. Incidentally, the acid robs the streams of all their oxygen, kills the fishes, and attacks structures of iron. It literally eats up bridge pliers, lock gates, etc., and at the present time is making a lot of trouble in the government canals along the headwaters of the Ohio. Gave Tip on Hair Dressing Pressing. The exhibit of the special school for truant and incorrigible boys at the child welfare exhibit has attracted much attention, and there are frequent inquiries concerning the boys themselves who have been greatly changed by their training in the school, says the Indianapolis News. The following story was told at the exhibit. An incorrigible youngster, who while in the public schools had caused nervous breakdowns and discouragement among the teachers, and who had gained for himself the name of "the worst boy in the city," approached an instructor of the special school and said: "I wish to speak with you." "All right," said the teacher. "When, right now?" "It is about your hair," said the boy, who seemed to have developed into something of an art critic. "They quit wearing rats down on Gelsendorf street last June. Suppose you part it in the middle, fuss it up on the side and fix it somehow behind." On another day the same boy looked closely at the teacher's coat as she entered the room in the morning. There was an expression of disgust on his face. "Same dress! This is passing day, and I wore my good clothes," he said. Making Weather to Order. Making weather to Order. There is a possibility that at some dim and distant date we shall be able to provide weather to order. At any rate, a speaker at the institution of Electrical Engineers in London held out a hope that this wonderful and scientific problem can be solved. The suggestion is that by means of applied electricity clouds approaching our coasts shall be dispersed and prevented from crossing the country. In other words, the clouds would be broken and made to disgorge their moisture at sea. The electrical defense of our coasts, if established, could be used at will, but the principal trouble would be the pleasing of everybody. Where one farmer, for example, would require rain, another might demand fine weather. Undoubtedly if weather control were required scientists would proceed with their invention; but at present there seems no possibility of the nation at large requiring weather to order, for what suits one man does not suit another. Plants In the Home Plants—most of them—need sun. A sunless room makes a spindling plant. But it is even more dangerous to children. The house plant, indeed, is a dally object lesson in home hygiene. The woman who has a roomful of growing, thriving plants has a room also fit for a growing, thriving family. In saying, on the other hand, that plants cannot thrive in her living rooms she is really confessing that the rooms are not fit to live in as regards their air, heat and moisture supply. The plant gage is a fair one—and every woman who can keep nothing but a rubber plant should consider afresh the ways of her household.—Harper's Bazar. Old Secret Room Unsecur Old Secret Room Uncovered. While workmen were busy demolishing an old house near the Angel Inn, Thames Ditton, England, the other day, they discovered a secret staircase approached through a trap-door—which opens by a secret spring—situated beneath a fireplace in a ground-floor room. It leads to a secret room overhead, the existence of which has been known for some time. The room measures ten feet by fourteen feet, and is without windows. Another entrance to the secret room is from a bedroom, through an imitation cupboard. The house was once used for the making of Bank of England notes, for which the water in the wells there was specially suitable. DOUGLAS DANCING SCHOOL EVERY F.R.I.D.A.Y NIGHT Prof. Garfield Wilson Manager GOOD MUSIC Beginners Given Individual Atten- tion A. 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His hands were incased in yellow gloves; he held a cocked hat with a cockade on it and its edges adorned with a black feather. He wore knee and shoe buckles, and at his left hip appeared a long sword in a polished white leather scabbard, with a polished steel hilt. John Adams, on the day of his inauguration, was dressed in a full suit of pearl-covered broadcloth, and his hair was powdered. Chief Justice Dana of Massachusetts used to wear in winter a white corduroy surtout, lined with fur, and held his hands in a large muff. The justices of the supreme court of Massachusetts wore, until the year 1793, robes of scarlet, faced with black velvet in winter, and black silk gowns in summer. At the beginning of the last century powder for the hair became unfashionable, tying up the hair was abandoned, colored garments went out of use, buckles disappeared and knee breeches gave place to trousers—New York Press. Pecullar Patents. Among the recent patents which attract attention by reason of their novelty are one for making sausages without casings (a searing process) and one for an illuminated flat iron. The latter contrivance is described as containing incandescent light bulbs which serve at the same time to heat the iron and to illuminate the work which is being ironed. Got Through. Among other startling statements in her composition on "A Railway Journey" the following was made by a little Baltimore girl: "You must get a ticket, which is a piece of paper, and you give it to a man who cuts a hole in it and lets you pass through." We Have the Most Select Trade in Chicago-Most of the best families as our patrons. A good funeral appeals to the living as a fitting memorial of respect to the dead I furnish a complete funeral-one of satisfaction, for $65.00, or money refunded. We also have the finest goods and furnishings that are manufactured for the undertaking business, to an eternal bronze casket costing many hundreds. I am in no way connected with the Casket and Undertaking Trust and I am not interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and vilify other persons and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My many years in business in Chicago and the manner and way my business is conducted proves that I am for building up for co-operation between honest business and the public, not advertising that I alone do right, but happy to say that we give the best for the smallest pay of any place in America today. I stand ready to prove this statement at any time. EMANUEL JACKSON DAN'L M. JACKSON, Expert Embalmer ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago 2959 and 2961 State Street Phone 727 Douglas—Automatic, 71-629 FOREMAN'S IDEAL KITCHEN OPEN DAY AND NIGHT We Promise and Give a Good Home Cooked Meal PRICES, 20c., 25c. and 30c. 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We goods and furnishings that the undertaking business, the casket costing many With the Casket and Undertaking Trust and I ocious attempt to slander and vilify other my business is conducted proves that I am between honest business and the public, not happy to say that we give the best for the ca today. I stand ready to prove this J. JACKSON DON, Expert Embalmer WILLIAMSON, Assistant Business in Chicago 1961 State Street Las—Automatic, 71-629 IDEAL KITCHEN DINY AND NIGHT A Good Home Cooked Meal c., 25c. and 30c. ER IN OONNECTION serve all kinds of Salads. Try our Corn, and Home-made Country Sausage. CHICAGO, ILL. G. W. Lambert Pra. B. J. Lambert Secy. Guarantee Feather Co. Willow and French Plumes and all Styles of Feathers, Cleaning, Curling, Bleach- ing and Dyeing. All Kinds of Feathers for Sale. ILLINERS AND THE TRADE Phone Aldine 1926 PERSON - TERRELL STATE BROKERS All Its Branches INTING NONAL PROPERTY LOANS City of Evanston Owing to Illness the Evanston news has not appeared for two weeks, but we hope to give our readers a few notes each week in the future.-F. A. White. Mr. James Witt, Clark street, who has been quite ill, is able to be out at this writing. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Garnett, 1462 Elmwood avenue, returned last week from Indianapolis, Ind., where they spent Easter with their friend, Mrs. Booth. Mrs. James Thurman was hostess to the Missionary society on Thursday, April 11. A pleasant evening with bright refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. Belle Bryant, 900 Foster street, is quite ill at her home. Mr. Hillard bird, barrine with Dixie Jobiee Concert company, is expected home Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Webb, 1462 Elmwood avenue, entertained the Dorcas Guild on Thursday afternoon. Refreshments were served. Mrs. L. H. Owens, Jr., and children, Harold and Charles, are visiting with their aunt, Mrs. Hunter Keene, 1120 Clark street. Mr. Lewis Jackson, 1102 Hinman avenue, has returned from Hanibal, Mo., where he visited with his mother. Mr. Jackson left Thursday for Green Lake, Wis., where he will spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cary, 1721 Benson avenue, will move to 1914 Emerson street May 1. The Shanty club met at the K. of P. hall last Saturday night and elected the following officers: Mr. Pope, president; Mr. S. A. Johnson, vice president; Mr. D. Dupgh, secretary; Mr. George Cameron, vice president. Mr. Thomas Davis and Miss Arlen Cosby surprised their friends Wednesday by stealing quietly away to Chicago, where they were married. Mrs. Minnie Hickman, who has been ill, is improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Will Connor, 914 Em will move to 905 Grace brought 2 Mr. Orestes Scott, 1721 Beauson avenue, spent Sunday in Chicago. Willis Brown, Jr., is ill at his home, 1726 Oak avenue. The Household of Ruth held a social at the home of Mrs. C. B. Scruggs, Asbury avenue, on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Williams will move from 1:06 Asbury avenue to 2012 West Railroad avenue in the near future. Mrs. Jessie Bailey, 628 Church street, a improving after an illness of the Miss N. Estelle Howna, a teacher at Gubble, Okla., is expected home the middle of May. Efneres A. M. F. Church Ebenezer A. M. E. Church at Ebenezer were well attended throughout the day. Rev. Graves praised an excellent sermon in the morning. Mr. W. A. Hamm, manager of the Midland Jubilee Concert company, preached his initial sermon on Sunday evening, which was very good, quite instructive and interesting. The choir sang some of their choice anthems. They were assisted by Mr. W. E. Gossett at the organ, who is a master of that instrument. Mr. Gossett will assist the choir during the absence of Miss White, who is ill and will take a vacation. The great fair is over and the indices are elated over its success. Reports will be made on Thursday night, at which time the chairman of the committee will serve refreshments. Mrs. Jones of St. Paul gave a recital at church Thursday. Mrs. Jones is an elocutionist of rare ability. The Sunday school is thriving, with W. II. Twiggs as superintendent and a corps of excellent teachers. The ten minute topic class is attracting considerable attention. All are cordially invited to attend. A hearty welcome is extended to students. Mr. Caleb Prather, 2018 Colafx street, who has invented a baby tender, had same on exhibition at church Wednesday evening. Mrs. Eola Richardson and Mrs. Georgia Gash are improving rapidly. Trusts. While the great moneyed and industrial combinations of the present day, known as "trusts" are quite modern affairs, it is true that the trust idea is almost as old as history. Under the Roman Empire, and even among the peoples of Egypt and the Near East, we find the gerns, at least, of the modern trust. The fundamental idea at the bottom of the doctrine of the present day trust is that of the exploitation of the many by the few, and it was against an idea that the Graecchi died in Rome. In fact, all ancient history is little more than the exploitation of the new combining for power and wealth against the many, and that is all that the trust of today means. True Learning. He who has not learned how to be gentle, forgiving, loving and happy, has learned very little, great though his book learning and profound though his acquaintance with Scripture may be; for it is in the process of becoming gentle, pure, and happy that deep, real, enduring lessons of life are learned. Unbroken sweetness in the face of coward antagonism is intenable indication of a self-conquened soul, the witness of wisdom, and the proof of the possession of Truth.-James Allen. Have in Mind Only Success. Look out for thoughts of dissatisfaction. They will destroy your possibilities for bringing contentment into your life. Think success and live it. You cannot fail if you hold the thought of success like a banner held aloft, before you. Yesterday is gone. Forget it and everything connected with it. You cannot fail if you hang along in your ambition to be wiser, better, and nearer lasting happiness for yourself and others. CANNIBALS ARE POETIC MISSIONARY THINKS AFRIICANS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES. Ten to Twenty Victims Dile Every Day In Katanga, Africa, but the People Are Less Materialistic Than Londoners. London.—The Rev. Daniel Crawford, a central African missionary of the Plymouth Brethren, has returned to England after 23 years' life amongst all the horrors of cannibalism in the Katanga country. He is convinced that the black man is in many respects superior to the white man. At the Aldersgate street Young Men's Christian association the other day Mr. Crawford drew some remarkable contrasts between life in London and life in cannibal land. "Londonese he said, 'live in a double fog—an oak and phosphate forest.' I think, becoming materialistic, the fight for brand is getting too hard; there is no God in anything. But in Africa they never argued about that. No cannibal would dream of denying the existence of the Everlasting." For many years Mr. Crawford was practically a prisoner of that fearful black king—the Emperor Mushid, whose capital from ten to twenty victims were sacrificed every day to appease the tyrant's blood lust. Slaughter went on all round the prisoner, the mounds of human skulls grew into hills. It was imprisonment in a nighttale now I am a prisoner held fast by the bonds of love," said Mr. Crawford. Mr. Crawford is a champion of the native—of his art, his poetry of expression and his delightful imagery. On the other hand, he is the sworn enemy of the white civilization advancing from the south, pioneered, he says, by the "off-fair of the universe" and "the scum of our race." Living the poetic and of the black canary of Africa, Mr. Crawford said that he had been addressing a meeting, and ended with the phrase, "Heaven is beyond the stars." He added: "It was a weak little phrase—not beyond the capabilities of the ordinary Sunday school teacher—but when next I heard it, woven into the wonderful poetry of the native mind, they rendered it. "Those stars are the lights he has left burning along the dark road that leads up to his city." Native mothers have perhaps a much greater dread of their daughters marrying into a Bohemian family than have the sternest British matrons. Mr. Crawford quoted a famous proverb among native mothers which reads: "Don't be married with munstane!—the inference befits that where there is sweet music there is a lack of comforts." "They have a nightingale in central Africa," Mr. Crawford said, "which easily excels the English nightingale in the charm and beauty of its hearst its nest, however, is merely two leaves tied together. 'Listen to him,' say the natives, 'gushing, gushing, with all that beautiful talk—but he lives in a garret!'" When Mr. Crawford left his camp on the lakes of central Africa to go south to rail-head in Rhodesian and so home, he left a land of poetry for the "coarse materialism of the white man's civilization." "At rail-head," he said, "I found the typetek Rhodesian, close packed, galvanized iron town with 65 bars and a population of some of the vile white prospectors who are a curse to the natives. Their projections their faith with a vulgar ingersoll joke and teach them brutal oaths." Mr. Crawford is known among the natives as "the man with the notebook and the walking stick. He walks from village to village endeavoring to open Bible schools. A little boy who broke his leg and learned to read as an invalid, spends his time reading the Bible to some aged cannibals, who will never be able to read themselves. "The boy," said Mr. Crawford, "hates it. He yawns, and would gladly never read again; but those old cannibals make him go on, and they listen to the Gospels over and over again until some phrase sticks with them and becomes part of their Ite." CHAUFFEUR SHOWS HIS SPEED Meets, Woes and Wins a Widow All In 30 Minutes - Marriage Follows. Los Angeles, Cal.-Charles Linsenbord, chauffeur, stopped for a moment ou South Spring street to see what was the matter with his machine. As he tried to start it the crank of the machine kicked back and Linsenbord's hand was severely hurt. Along came Mrs. Sadie Ball, a widow. She tied the arm up for him and spoke pleasantly the white. "Gee, I wish I had a wife," said Linsenbord. "Well, it is leap year," said the widow, coyly, "Why not marry me?" "Do you mean it?" he asked quickly. She assured him that she did. In a moment he had grabbed her, swung her to the seat on the autotruck, turned it around and was sitting on his marriage license in the courthouse at the courthouse. In minutes later he was there with the ball, getting the license. Ten more and, still in his shirt sleeves, he was leading her to Justice Summerfield's courtroom and in five minutes she was Mrs. Charles Linsenbord. Water In Roller 2,000 Years Naples.—Excavators gave a copper boiler on a stone in the ruins of Pompeii. There was still some water in the vessel and scientists say it had been there ever since the eruption 2,000 years ago. IN THE SPORTING WOLRD By Jas. D. Harris. M'VEA AGAIN VICTORIOUS. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Sidney, N. S. W., March 22—In the nineteenth round of the fight at the Stadium on Saturday night Jim Barry, the big white man from Chicago, spintered through immensely painful hits on the opponent, the totally unmarked Sam. "I'm a good meal ticket for you, Sam, but you kavn't knock me out." And he spoke truly, if thickly and indistinctly, owing to the way Sam had been stroking his talking apparatus. He had helped MeVea to draw a huge crowd and fill both their pockets with "meal tickets" in the shape of golden googies; he had taken a hiding that would have settled even the redoubtable Joe Grim, and yet he had survived it in a way that marked him as probably the hardest man in the game today. It was a matter for amazement that he was still there and capable of a grim joke, at such a stage of such a one-sided fight. Barry is a tough one, all right all right, but as a white hope he's way down the course. Barry was first in the ring, even before the Scottish Regiment band—(and it St. Patrick's day, too, and Barry in green trunks!),Oh. Hugh D., you have a dry sense of humor)—had got out of it. He was loudly cheered, and was attended by Wally Weekes, Bill Smith, Al Thompson and Lou Hensley. McVea followed, wearing for the first time the handsome robe his wife presented him with on his recent birthday. He looked real corky and the canvas juntily as he bowed around his recognition of his fine reception. In his corner were Billy McLain, Mark Higgins, Peter Cullin (his football), Syd Pearce (of cullin and football), Benson, alias Hassan! This is where you smile! Betting was 10 to 1 on McVea. The Kerr brothers kept time and R. L. Baker was, as usual, referee. R. L. Baker was, as usual, referee. R. Round 1—They sparred a moment only, and MeVea hooked a left flush on the mouth with a crash. Barry was straddling very low, and sticking his left shoulder out and his head turned and hanging low over the right. It was undoubtedly this attitude that saved him from a knockout, as it prevented, to a great extent, Sam from getting the right to the point. Barry clinched, meeting a solid right uppercut to the face as he did. Parted, Sam ripped to the left at the body, but Barry's right arm was in the way, more from good luck than good management, and the clink sounded bad for the California's hand. He pushed the eye, and it was clear that Sam's best weapon was still in commission. Before Barry's hair had settled back after the jar of that wallpap the same glove flushed up like the point of a rapiper, inside the guard, on to the jaw, and the right whizzed bouncing off the side of the head just above the ear as the left knocked the said head up into range. Though he crouched and threatened horrid deeds with the ponderous right, Jim never threw a punch, all this time being kept busy accepting force walls and grabbing and hugging for safety. He tried one left swing but Sam ducked it, and drove a splendid right uppercut to the face, as he came over, bursting with a startling ruby stream that never afterwards came to flow through the contest. After the inevitable clinch Sam slid in close with a heavy left hook and a right slit to the burst mouth. It was all MeVea's round. The second was sensational. Sam began with three lovely lefts to the face that shook Jim from truck to kelson, and he'd hardly wriggled out of the clinch that Barry put on him before he repeated the dose, and Barry looked badly rattled, and led a wild leaf at the body, which Sam back-steped like a dancing master. Back he came to catch the Chicago giant with a tremendous right jolt up to the jaw that dropped him like a log. It appeared as though the canebelt Hercules was going to repeat his achievement with Bill Lang and clean out another giant in the second round. But Barry's head is thicker than poor old Bill's, and at three he rose, and as McVea stepped in he swung so short that it was easy to see how that punch had distorted its vision. His involvement with the man was Sam mad, and he kept on him like a banger, banging away with that wonderful left lightning uppercut of his, and crashing rights straight, round and up till Barry's head swam and he clung on desperate as a drowning man and only conscious that there was something there to cling to. Even more sensational was the third. Barry went out to convince Sam that he wasn't half knocked yet. He swung both hands wildly, and Sam danced gaily out of reach. But Jim tore after him, putting his soul into a cloud-rending skyscraper right that landed on the neck, just where it joins the shoulder. Sam's feet were off the floor in a short back-move, and the blow, coming down like a falling tree or like Eric Brighteye's sword, had force enough to send him sprawling on his back to the mat. And then was when they howled! The huge crowd, many of it fresh from St. Patrick's day parade and sports, and seeing green, went mad with a fierce joy in what they thought the conquest of white over black, and fairly roared its delight, cries of "A White Hope!" being plainly heard above the din. It was short-lived "hope," however, for Sam was on his feet, laughing merrily, before the count went on him, and tore into Barry before he could recover from the astonishment born of his momentary success. Jim was the one who was all abroad, and McVea gave him some terrible punches before the gong went, notably a short, but fearfully heavy, right jolt to the mouth and a tremendous left swing that fairly THE CHICAGO DEFENDER LRD clanged on Barry's ear, so that he more than evened that knock-down fluke. After McVea had torn a left hook into the now swollen nose he hopped as Jim tried another welt from the welkin, and though it landed on the shoulder as it fell from high heaven it only made Sam laugh good naturally. This got Barry's goat, and he fairly rocked the crowd with laughter by his wild swings, which McVea ducked with ludicrous ease and the coolness and enjoyment of a master enjoying the wild efforts of a pup when he took a hand himself, driving a trampoline nose that had all his spring, flank, and shoulder behind it, and hooked very heavily to the face just before the gong clanged. From this out the fight was even more one-sided. Barry now and then delighted the gobemouches by landing a lurp in the slats, but not one was hard enough to do more than make McVeen grin amusedly and thereby send his faintly up the pole. It was hard enough to make McVeen to mow Samuel off the stage, and in the midst of his elaborate preparation to see his head sent spinning by a slicing hook to the jaw or eye. He got that right eye scores of times, and yet it was the left one that got cut and swollen till its vision must have been impaired; and, strange to say, it was the left hand that began the damage, though the right completed it. This was due to the fact that Barry became a target for the offered his left hand for protection, but just as it enabled his opponent to hook him flat in the features as often as on jaw, car, or temple. McVean varied his snapping hooks by driving the same weapon, with all his weight, spring and muscular strength into the face. Barry had no block for this, though he did happen to ward off a hook or a body rip now and again. And yet, heavy as they were, they did not suffice to drop the huge white man, though they made him cling desperately for bare life. The referee was kept busy separating them, and though he often said, "Back, McVean," he never had grounds, and he was not afraid of him. Sam would be sober wiping his nose with his right—a cute old guard for a sneaky left hook or uppercut at close quarters; try it—and elevating the left towards that inverted bowl we call the sky." "Twas Barry who did all the clinging. Barry's nose came loose in the ninth, and he had a lip on him like a motherless foul. How he survived this round and the next is a marvel, for Sam went in to end the strife and banged him almost at will, fairly hard. He was able to appercut and landing every time as the big Chicagoaerung flung himself forward to try and clinch. In the eleventh Barry tried to rally close in, but he never landed a punch, only running in just where the wonderful two-handed fighter wanted him, and stopping with his stooped head dozens of uppercuts that would have laid any other man but Barry in a heap of blood. He was Sam stood off and actually played with his man as a cat with a mouse. A left hook to the mouth that opened the twelfth sounded like a butcher shapping his fat paw on a choice cut of beef as he exhibited it to a valued customer, and brought a prolonged "O-o-o-h!" from the crowd, and after a brief spar Sam repeated the punch and laughingly evaded Jim's wild swings, one of which, a left rip, got on to the short ribs, however. In the thirteenth, while McVea was busy trying to shake Jim off, the latter landed left, right, left to the jaw and neck, so奎 quit larking to tear his left up twice into the swollen face. Barry was very weary and wary in the fourteenth, when all his fierce threatings only brought that disastrous left faster and faster into his face. The fifteenth was a bad session for Barry, who tried rushing, only to be back-moved and get glauthered as he came on after the fruitless swing. Sam's booksole bark adrift in the seventeenth, and might have proved a danger had he not been such a gay gazelle on his feet. He showed not one atom of fatigue, and his condition paid a great compliment to his trainer, the elongated and elegant Peter Felix. What Jim withstood in the eighteenth caused speculation as whether 'his head was made of iron or just merely flesh and bone. No other man ever took such a hiding under a booksole bark as he would have gone down in both this and the nineteenth but for falling in and hanging on. Sam made earnest efforts to out him in this and the twentieth, but he just contrived to weather it out, and at the last gong Referee Baker pointed to McVea as the winner. And, will it be believed, some few dingoes in the terraces actually hooted the decision. If it hadn't been for their scandalous abuse of the colored crack throughout the combat one might well have thought they did it for silly fun. The dense throng in the chairs wailed till McVea was up mines h gloves and in his robe, and then "Put your hands together, boys," was the unanimous impulse, and they gave the gallant and gently fellow a cheer that he should remember to his dying day. Seen in his quarters after the war was over McVea was found boyishly enjoying a shower bath and utterly devoid of any mark of conflict. I gave a punch to hurt" he laughed. "This knockdown? Well, it was this way. I was just jumping back, with both feet in the air, when the flat landed on my neck, and just naturally topped me over. Search me well, and see if I have any marks." The big, cheery, gentle boy hadn't even a cut lip. The old gag, "he never put a glove on him," held good in this instance for sure. Caution. "I wish," said the dashing bride, "that we could arrange to take our wedding trip in an airship." "I don't know," replies the cautions of the bride, "that we could take chances on being obliged to take our first falling out so seriously." How Savages Are Taught Practical Things in Southwest. Institution Conducted by W. T. Shelton of Shiprock, N. M. on the Navajo Reservation—Children Prefer Outdoor Work. Shiprock, N. M.—It is only within the last few years that the practical note has been emphasized in the education of the Indian students; the results have been so hopeful that who were beginning to despair of the Indian future are taking a new view of the situation. It used to be that when the subject of Indian education was brought up, people were told to investigate the work being carried on at the Carlisle other non-reservation Indian schools; other now there are many reservation schools which afford an interesting study in practical accomplishment. The Indian school that is generally accepted as a model for the entire Indian service is conducted by Superintendent W. T. Shelton at Shirokro, N. M., on the Navajo Indian reservation. The agency and school were established by Mr. Shelton about eight years ago. Surrounding the school and agency buildings are several hundred acres of beautifully cultivated farm land. There is a fine herd of dairy cows in the barnyard and the boy takes turns at the milking in the model house. About the agency one finds children engaged in many useful tasks. A trained seamstress is teaching a class of girls the intricacies of needlework. Other girls, who are under the watchful eye of the matron, are fitting about the building, sweeping, making beds or washing dishes. The big boys are caring for the live stock, and the [Image of a young child] smaller lads are busy in the garden or orchard. "The practical note is emphasized here," said Mr. Shelton. "That is done because it is the practical that is going to be of most benefit to the Indian. All the old prejudices of the Indians against the white man's education are being wiped out. Old Indians bring their children across the desert for many miles, and beg me to put them in school. Sometimes the children who have heard from other children who have heard from other children run away and show up here at the agency with the request that I put them in school. "It is surprising the talent that is being developed among these Indian boys and girls. I have an Indian boy who acts as interpreter and works on the greenhouse. He has a positive genius for floriculture. The school girls have woven Navajo rugs that have taken prizes at our annual Navajo joi fair in competition with rugs from the looms of the oldest and most experienced weavers on the reservation. The children without exception love the outdoor work in the garden and orchard. We raise more fresh vegetables here than we can consume, and the girls preserve the surplus." ARE MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE Primitive Race of People Who Are Without Any Form of Place London.--A people without any form of religion, without superstition, devoid of any thought of the future state, has been found in the int'-tor forests of Sumatra, according to Dr. Wilhelm Valez, the geologist of the University of Breslau, who has made extensive journeys through the island. There he found the Kubus, as he named them, who are scarcely to be distinguished from the small manlike ape of the Indo-Malayan countries. They are wanderers through the forest seeking food; they have no proper shelter. They are, but collectors. They seek merely sufficient nuts, fruits and other edible growths to keep them alive. The Kubus wagged very little warfare upon the small amount of animal life in their silent and somber land. The only notion that Professor Valez could get from them of a difference between a live and a dead person was that the dead do not breathe. He infers that they are immeasurably inferior to the palestinian infantry who fashions tools and hunted big game with his fint tipped arrow and knife. Intellectual atrophy is the result of the Kubus' environment. The words they know are almost as few as the ideas they try to express. WILLOW PLUMES ON CREDIT The Sensation of Chicago WILLOW PLUMES ON CREDIT The Sensation of Chicago You are Under No Obligation to Buy If it suits you to make a purchase he will close the sale in YOUR OWN HOUSE. NO COLLECTORS IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM. OUR PLUMES are GUARANTEED. Pay a Little Each Week—It's Easy—You Wear While Paying. ALSO FURS in ALL STYLES AND GRADES! TELEPHONE FOR A SALESMAN TODAY. PARISIAN FEATHER COMPANY, (Inc.) Telephone Central 38242 Automatic 42244 Masonic Temple, 159 North State Street All Meals 25c. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. A la Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Breakfast, 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. 21 E. 33rd Street, Near L Station CHIC Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. --- If it suits you to make a purchase here HOUSE. NO COLLECTORS IF OUR PLUMES ARE GUARANTEED Easy—You Were ALSO FURS IN ALL S TELEPHONE FOR A PARISIAN FEATHE Telephone Central 3824—Automatic 42244 Short Order Rogers' L Caterers Select All Meals 25c. A la Carte Lunch, Breakfast, 7 a 21 E. 33rd Street. Near L. Open from 7 a AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest—Speakers. The collecting campaign which was held by the Wabash Avenue Department Y. M. C. A. was very successful from several standpoints. The collectors who canvassed the city were successful in getting a large number of persons to pay something on their accounts and many were glad to pay in full. The men felt very much encouraged from the by the attitude of the many subscribers and received definite promises from those unable to meet their pledges to call in the near future. On the closing night of the campaign a plan was accepted for the continuation of the collection of subscriptions. Each collector therefore will have the opportunity of calling upon subscribers in his district and collecting from them, giving a temporary receipt and an "I Paid" badge. The treasurer's receipt will be mailed immediately from the office. The following men are captains of the districts for the collection of funds: Robert M. Hooper, district No. 1; boundaries: 24th-31st streets, Wabash to Wentworth. R. B. Towers, district No. 2; boundaries: west side, 31st-35th streets, Wabash to Wentworth. Morris Lewis, district No. 3; boundaries: 35th-39th streets, Wentworth to Wabash. A. D. Brown, district No. 4; boundaries: 39th-47th streets, Wentworth to Wabash. R. J. B. Ellington, district No. 5; boundaries: 47th-55th streets, Wabash to Wentworth. Thomas H. Smith, district No. 6; Englewood. R. C. Kelly, district No. 7; 31st-38th streets, Cottage Grove-Indiana. R. J. Johnson, district No. 8; Hyde Park. George R. Arthur, district No. 9; 39th-41th streets, Evans-Calumet and Wooddawn. R. M. Bell, district No. 10; north side. Charles H. Davis, district No. 11; the loop-22d street. The office has issued over 3,600 receipts to subscribers paying on their accounts. Mrs. Ruby H. Douglass and Miss Mae A. Coleman rendered valued assistance to the collecting campaign in their work as stenographers. W. W. Matthews, pastor of the African Matthews, church of Portland, Ore., was a caller at headquarters a few days ago and was pleased to note our progress and prospects. Rev. Harris, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist church, delivered a very forcible address at our meeting on last Sunday. Special announcement — Ground breaking for the building on the site, corner Wabash avenue and 38th street, Sunday, May 5, at 2:30 p. m. building will begin on the 6th and locations will continue until completed. The collecting committee will meet regularly at headquarters on Friday evenings and report the moneys collected during the week. Mr. Frank Olden, 3332 State street the collecting campaign last week Competition. "Royalty has its difficulties," remarked the Lord High Keeper of the Buttonhook. "Yes," replied the uney monarch. "It has gotten so that the scenes it hard to compete with the scenes and costumes of a big musical show." Writing and Selling "Your output of stories is not large." "No, I produce only two a year." "Is the work of writing them so very difficult?" "No it's the work of selling them."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Your Credit is Good and we will sell you Willow Plumes, French Plumes, Paradise Birds and Algestres on easy payments. Everything with us is Strictly Confidential You telephone for a Sa canon to call at your house, and he brings with him the best selection of Plumes in the City. You are Under No Obligation to Buy we will close the sale in YOUR OWN YOU DON'T WANT THEM. SHEED. Pay a Little Each Week—It's car While Paying. TYLES AND GRADES! A SALESMAN TODAY. ER COMPANY, (Inc.) Psonic Temple, 159 North State Street ers All Day Resturant to the Elite Meats. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. 11:30 to 2 p. m. a. m. to 10 a. m. CHICAGO a. m. to 10 p. m. CHICAGO GIRL HURT IN FLIGHT TRIES TO ESCAPE FROM POLICE STATION BY ROPE. Slides Down Torn Sheets, Falls Fifteen Feet — Breaks Arm and Dislocates Knee — Is Then Sent to a Hospital. Chicago — An improvised rope of bed sheets torn into strips was used in a thrilling attempt by Margaret Slobert, sixteen years old, to escape from the woman's annex on the third floor of the South Clark street police station at 2 a. m. the other day. Lowering herself from a window the girl slid quickly to the end of the rope, and then dropped 15 feet to the pavement. Her right knee was dislocated and her right arm was fractured in the fall. Her absence of scary detectives in the station, who carried her back into the station, She was taken to the county hospital. --- The Siebert girl Hye at 5233 Aberdeen street and was to have been taken to the state home for girls at Geneva, Ill. To girl companions she had confided her determination to escape being taken to the Geneva institution by some means, but they had paid little attention to her. The daring escape was planned by the girl while other inmates of the annex with one exception were sleep. That one was little Clifton Nelson, seven years old, who between tears was trying to tell Mrs. Mary Murray, the matron, how sorry he was for running away from home. Without attracting the attention of the matron, the girl quietly nor her bed modestly lined up, and them tightly. She dressed herself hurriedly and then crept softly to the South Clark street side of the building. She entered a room next to that of the office of the matron. There she fastened the improvised rope to a radiator and then throw open the window. The rope was short, reaching only to the second floor, but Margaret did not hesitate. She swung quickly onto the rope and started downward. At the end of the rope she swung for a minute and then let go. Her subsequent scream of pain as she fell brought three polioceams, who found her writhing on the pavement. They were Desk Sergeant John O'Connor and Patroline Joseph O'Donnell and Daniel Kearney. In spite of her fractured arm and seemingly helpless condition, the young prisoner tried to struggle with them. Those in the matron's department did not want to be in danger of hazard plunges and escape until informed some time later by Desk Sergeant O'Connor. The windows in the matron's department are not barred. "I was tired of the old place and I just wanted to get out of there to show them that they could not keep me locked up like a criminal," the girl said while she was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. SEES WHEN TEETH COME OUT Slight It Restored to Man Blind Five Years After Dontlet Jerks Sandusky, O.- Partially blind for five years, totally blind for the past seven months, Edward Kennedy, thirty-nine years old, a farmer residing at Parkertown, saw the light of day recently following the extraction of two teeth by Dr. J. T. Nicholson. The case is without parallel in dentistry. Mr. Kennedy had been declared beyond human aid by eye specialists and had obtained a pension from the blind relief fund. Doctors gave the cause as paralysis of the optic nerves. Accompanied by Fred Patch, Mr. Kennedy came to Dr. Nicholson's office suffering from a condition caused two teeth, an upper molar and a lower wisdom tooth, were badly ulcerated, necessitating extraction. Hardly had the second tooth been pulled when Mr. Kennedy exclaimed, "I can see. I can see the light. I can see the crack in the window. I can see you." Dr. Nicholson was at a loss to count for the outcome. 8 MR. KELLER'S ATTORNEY SENDS DEFENDER LETTER Another Chapter in Our Story, "Women Fight for Right," as Published April 13 — Looks Like the Fright of Guilt. April 18th, 1912. The Defender Publishing Co., Care M. H. S. Abbott, 315 South State St., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen: In your issue of the Chicago Defender of Saturday, April 13th, 1912, being Vol- tueled on the front page thereof you pub- lished on the front page thereof an article certified as follows: "Women Fight for Right," No. 1, of your paper, to the building operations of our clients. Messrs. Samuel Keller, Jacob Peronbone and Benjamin M. Shontfeld, who have placed with us for consideration the en- gagement. The tone of the article in question, in its effect, is calculated to injure our own sensibilities. The writer, however, believes that the article in question was unobtutely published, that its unspecified emphasis, your part, that its inappreciation, the by, intend any injury to our clients, that it be true, the writer, on behalf of the authors, that your paper is not a quests that your paper in its next issue publish a vibulation, so that your readers may understand that no libel was intended. A publication of such retraction as above suggested will be of great benefit in vindicating our clients in the estimation of the writer homes, that you will comply. The writer hopes that you will comply with this request as soon as possible. The above communication postmarked "April 18, 7 p. m." did not reach The Defender until the afternoon of Friday the 19th, too late for our last issue. We hasten to assure Messrs. Shaefler and Kompel of our appreciation of the distinguished honor conferred, but, beyond noting their letter, makes no denial of the cause of complaint upon the part of the colored people in the district against the butcher Keller and his associates in business. We dismiss it from further consideration at this time. Shortly after our issue of April 13 Keller visited The Defender office, and in the course of a conversation through which he evidently hoped to "square" himself with his indignant colored patrons, he sorrowfully admitted he had made a "mistake" and that he "should have put it in writing to have colored men on the job." He also said "next week I will give my stand to the people through The Defender." At this writing, twenty-four hours before going to press, he has not kept his word. Pending his action, with the hope the promised statement may reach us in time for this issue, we will for the present hold up the resolutions passed at the neighborhood meeting Tuesday night, as The Defender has no desire to take snap judgment in this matter. Mr. Keller, gentlemen, what do you say? Have you been treated unfair in these reports, can you explain, do you wish to, shall the people hear from you? They are watching and waiting. MORRIS BLOOM MOVES. Well Known Buffet Proprietor Fits Out New Place—Known as a Man "Of a Clean, Square Deal." Mr. MORRIS BLOOM Our old friend Morris Bloom, who for a number of years has held forth at the southwest corner of State (3700) and 37th street, is today moving into his new quarters just across the street on the northeast corner of State and 37th street, to be known as the Illinois buffet. The many friends of Morris—and many colored gentleman within a radius of many blocks is his friend—will be glad to remain in the neighborhood, and that his new place is to receive Mr. Bloom's personal attention and will PROPRIET MR. MORRIS BLOOM, GENTLEMAN PROPRIETOR OF ILLINOIS BU STATE AND THIRTY- MR. MORRIS BLOOM, GENTLEMAN AND SQUARE BUSINESS MAN. J. be fitted on a scale of quiet elegance that will compare with the finest loop buffets and stocked with goods fit to set before the most particular. The Defender believes in a square deal and fair play for all men and does not by any means indorse the unfair methods that it is said were used to root Mr. Bloom from his old stand across the street. Mr. Bloom may rest easy; his colored patrons, including his hundreds of friends of the gallant Eighth, know of how he was treated and will not forget it. They admire clean, square dealing men. Great Northern hotel grill room achieved quite as success in prominent hotels in and out of cage. In June, 1910, he succeeded Simmons at this hotel and held position until March, 1911, when was called to accept a position at Reed House, Erie, Pa., at which he proved his proficiency to supersent that he was recalled to Great Northern at a higher seat. Mr. Kendly carries a crew of but owing to the extensive alterations now in progress in the grill room was compelled to cut his crew. HOTEL NEWS All Up-to-date Hotel News and News of Bell Hops. NEW HOTEL WILL HAVE UNDERGROUND STORES. Five Floors Below Street Level Feature of New York Hostelry; Vanderbilts Behind It. By S. Adams. The Hotel Columbus, at Columbus, Ohio, will be formally opened July 1, 1912, under the management of George R. Benton of Indianapolis. The hotel was erected by the Central Ohio Land company of Columbus, whose officers are Daniel J. Ryan, ex-secretary of state, president; Charles J. Kurtz, vice-president; W. D. Vansickle, secretary; A. O. Glock, treasurer, and James H. Butler, general manager. In addition to the above the following gentlemen are on the board of directors: L. Benton Tussing, David D. Dun, W. V. Baker, and A. C. Armstrong. The Columbus is located at Fifth and Long streets, is of steel and concrete fireproof construction, with an exterior of colonial brick and stone trimnings. The frontage on Long street is ninety feet and on Fifth street 130 feet, with a six-foot private alley on the east and a twenty-foot alley on the south. The building is six stories and basement and contains 191 rooms for guests. On the ground floor are the lobby, cafe, buffet, service kitchen and bar, and three large storerooms, which will be leased for drug, clothing and shoe stores. The main lobby is 60x40 feet with entrances from both Long and Fifth streets. The decorations and furnishings are old English, the ceiling having heavy cross beams, the lighting fixtures to be in each square formed by these beams. The two elevators and stairways, as well as both street entrances, are in full view from clerk's desk. Taxicab and baggage office, telephone booths and cigar and news stand are conveniently located. In the rear of lobby is a check room and a locker room for use of the traveling man who may wish to leave clothing, etc., in care of the hotel during his absence. Safety deposit vault is provided in clerk's office Manager's office is directly back of clerk's and cashier's and so arranged that he has under his surveillance the clerk's desk, cashier's desk, entire lobby, care, serving kitchen and service bar, buffet, the rear entrance and stairways. In the basement is grillroom 60x80 feet, furnishings and decorations in Old Spanish style, commemorating Christopher Columbus. Here cabaret dinners will be one of the new features for the city of Columbus. The reporter on hotel news made a hurried trip to Battle Creek on business of importance and was royally entertained by Mr. H. Homer, the head waiter of the Post Tavern hotel in the above named city. Mr. Homer is one of the finest head waiters in the business and is successfully performing his duties at the Post Tavern. This hotel has one of the prettiest dining rooms in the state. Next year an annex of ten stories will be built and it is stated that at least thirty extra waiters will be used. Business is at the present time almost more than can be conveniently attended to. Hotel business in the loop district is booming; all the hotel managers are seen to have a broad grin. The Palmer, Auditorium, Tip Top Inn and Great Northern hotels are doing land office business. Look out for the new cafe and grill room being completed in the loop. It is reported to be one of the finest in the country. Get busy boys! Get your number. At the Great Northern Hotel. Mr. Isaac Kendly, a resident of Chicago for more than twenty years and at present head waiter of the AND SQUARE BUSINESS MAN, FFET, NORTHEAST CORNER SEVENTH STREETS. Great Northern hotel grill room, has achieved quite success in many prominent hotels in and out of Chicago. In June, 1910, he succeeded Wm. Simmons at this hotel and held this position until March, 1911, when he was called to accept a position at the Reed House, Erie, Pa., at which place he proved his proficiency to such an extent that he was recalled to the Great Northern at a higher salary. Mr. Kendly carries a crew of fifty, but owing to the extensive alterations now in progress in the grill room he was compelled to cut his crew to about one-half and it will be about June before he can replace them. Captains Horace Bramlette, J. H. Patterson and the crew of waiters are second to none in service and efficiency and are so well trained as to be able to handle any first-class European hotel. Mr. Kendly, having a very large correspondence coming from different sources, has as his secretary James K. Steele who handles affairs with much ability. Mr. P. Freeman, with a number of assistants left, the city Wednesday morning enroute to Louisville, Ky., where they will open up the new Hotel Watterson. DEATHS OF THE WEEK THE TITANIC By Wesley L. Edwards. Crowded with human souls, as if it were a melting pot, In this gospel age, although the ship was Safe, speeding among the giant icebergs at seventy-five revolutions, And the ship's captain sent a univer through the convolutions of the brain of millions at full speed. Causes the univer under why God permitted the deed; Done by a mystifying power, unfamiliar to us all. The power of humanity and of everything great and small. Ashby, Frank, 52 years, 2531 Dearborn; April 29. Andrews, Martha, 54 years, 2816 Dearborn; April 18. Boyman, M. L., 52 years, 2959 Wabash; April 18. Black, Bettie, 3 days, 17501 State St.; April 18. Chandler, Cecil D., 2 years, 2364 Forest Ave.; April 20. Collins, Acie, 51 years, 442 N. Western Ave.; April 6. Collins, G. 6 years, 4547 Armour; April 14. Cambridge, James W., 45 years, 3150 Armour; April 14. Galveston, Calvin, 67 years, 3638 Forest Ave.; April 18. Green, May, 3 years, 15 S. Winchester Hughes, Irene, 21 days, 3337 Armour; April 14. John Barkerick, 49 years, 2725 Dearborn; April 13. Johnson, Wm. R., 29 years, 1826 Armour; April 15. Mary Rosie E., 56 years, 3256 Vernon; April 15. Moore, Edlidge, 3381 Went-Oustley, Slsne, 55 years, 901 Cypress; April 15. Strother, George, 39 years, 953 W. Fulton; April 19. Tuttle, Fred, 26 years, 3225 Wabash; April 20. Washington, Robt, 49 years, Oak Forest; April 11. Wilk, Ruby, 3 years, 3530 Dearborn; April 20. Wright, Robt., 57 years, 1341 State St.; April 18. Wilk, Joseph, 52 years, 6552 Champi- OBITUARY. Lucille, aged 11 months, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Beard, 1169 North State street, died Saturday night, April 20, and was buried at Mt. Olive cemetery on Monday. General J. E. Wright, 3538 State street, received the sad intelligence of the sudden death of his oldest brother, Lewis Wright of Xenia, O. General Wright, accompanied by his wife, left the city last Tuesday for Chillicothe, O., where the burial took place. Cards of Thanks Mrs. Mary E. Bowman wishes to express her deepest gratitude to her friends for the many kindnesses shown her during the illness of her husband, Wm. L. Bowman, and for the beautiful flowers and sympathy extended in her bereavement. To the Editor: Please permit us to use the columns of your worthy periodical for the purpose of expressing our grateful appreciation and thanks for the messages of sympathy which we have received from our many friends and acquaintances who earnestly befriended, assisted and sympathized with us during the illness of our late brother, James N. Buckner. We feel especially indebted to Cicero Lodge, No. 28, of the Knights of Pythias. Also to the uniform rank for their kindness, care and consideration. And we desire to express our thanks to the Chicago Beach hotel waiters and their literary club and to the head waiter and the waiters of the Hyde Park hotel for their sympathy.-Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Buckner, 3817 State street. BASEBALL SEASON OPENS. The American Giants opened their season Sunday by winning from Rogers Park at Schoelings Park, 5 to 1. Over one thousand of the fans turned out to see the game. Rube Foster's men sewed up the game in the fourth inning when they got to Walter Most for five hits, netting them four runs. Lange relieved Most in the fifth inning and held the American Giants without a score for the remainder of the game. Gatewood on the slab for the Giants was in good form. Scarcie: Am. Giants— R. H. P. A. E. Duncan, lf. 1 2 1 0 0 Payne, rf. 0 0 2 1 0 Barber, 2b. 0 1 2 1 0 Monroe, 2b. 0 1 5 1 0 Pierce, c. 1 3 8 1 0 Toney, ss. 1 1 3 4 1 Strothers, 1b. 0 2 5 0 0 Green, cf. 1 1 1 0 0 Gatewood, p. 1 1 0 3 0 Totals 5 12 27 11 1 Rogers Park— R. H. P. A. E. Lange, 3b. 0 0 1 1 0 Hussey, 2b. 0 1 3 1 0 Wilholt, lf. 0 3 2 1 0 White, 1b. 0 0 7 3 0 Palmer, cf. 0 1 1 0 0 Vardnore, cf. 0 0 0 0 0 Thomling, ss. 0 0 1 4 0 Bullen, rf. 1 2 1 0 0 Enzen'h, c. 0 1 5 1 0 Most, p. 0 0 1 1 0 Lange, p. 0 0 2 2 0 Totals ..... 1 8 24 14 0 Glants ..... 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 *-5 Rogers Parks .. 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1- Two base hits—Duncan (2), Barber, Gatewood, Toney, Green, Hussey. Struck out—By Gatewood, 1; by Lange, 4. Bases on balls—On Gatewood, 3; off Most, 1; off Lange, 1. Umpire —O'Brien. Time:2:00. Hard to Make It Stronger "But, my dear sir, your play does not even touch the chords of humanity!" remarked a theatrical lessee, referring to a comedy that he had defined to scan. "What? No human touch? Great Scot!" exclaimed the dramatist. "And the hero is always borrowing money from his friends!" THE CHICAGO DEFENDER By J. R. Winston. Robert Kaufman Jones, better known as "Kid" Jones, of 5031 Dearborn street, is now the general relief chef in the service of the ChicagoGreat Western Railroad, covering Kansas City, Omaha and Minneapolis. Sylvester Craven of Chicago is on the southwestern division of the C. G. W. R. R., between Des Moines and Oelwein, he, as chef on cafe parlor car. He is a chum of "Kid" Jones. Messrs. McNeill and Simon are in the service of the C. G. W. R. R. on cafe car 161 between Chicago and Oelwein, I. T. J. Kelley, 5255 Dearborn street, one of the old timers of the C. & E. I. R. R. lines, was seen on the stroll Tuesday night, April 23, at the Monogram. E. W. Stiff of Chicago, who is in the service of the C. G. W. R. R. on cafe barlar car on the southwest division between Des Moines and Oelwein, Ia., returned to work after two weeks' vacation in Chicago, and made his departure April 22 at 11:15 p. m. on No. 5 for Des Moines, Ia. Leave your order at Mrs. E. J. Woods, 219 West 4½ street, Oelwein, Ia., for the Chicago Defender. Mr. Winston's headquarters every other day from 7:10 a. m. to 1:40 p. m. William Guess, 5043 Dearborn street, is in Pullman service to the coast over the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Lewis Taylor has just returned to duty from his relief on the Chicago Great Western R. R. He is better known as the "Father of Cooks" on that line; food needs no seasoning after he sends it in the dining hall. Messrs. W. Paye, Weaver and Portlock are in the service of the Pullman company to Minneapolis over the C. G. W. R. R. Pleasant Quarters for French Prisoner A retreat rather than a prison is the new institution which has been raised at Evreux, on the road from Paris to Trouville, says a correspondent of the London Globe. It is ovoid in form, much in appearance to that of a large castle, and is surrounded by a wall over 30 feet in height. It is situated on high ground overlooking the town, and to say the least prisoners should have a very comfortable time. Each has his own cell with hammock bed washing utensils and a table for books. The cells are lighted by electricity and heated by radiators. The authorities have not forgotten the spiritual needs of their hotes. The consideration of the ministry of justice for the welfare of the prisoners is seen by an electric bell at the head of each hammock, so that the detained, if he be taken suddenly ill, can communicate with the guard. Yellow Writing Paper Easy on Eyes. Oculists have often called attention to the fact that the eyes are easily fatigued by the reflection from white paper, especially when the surface is under a strong light. Since green is known to be the color most restful to the eyes, it is a common practice to use wall papers and draperies of that color in libraries and private studies. For writing paper, however, green is an unsatisfactory color. It imparts a reddish appearance to the writing, and makes it hard to read. Yellow writing paper is not open to the same objection. In strong daylight it is softer than pure white paper, and in artificial light is not too dark. Black letters on a yellowish background show clear and distinct. Many mathematicians use yellow paper in figuring long and difficult calculations, and many writers have adopted it for manuscripts. It has the additional merit of cheapness.—Youth's Companion. Bare Word. The news dispatches to the other day of the death of an old man who had known a little of fame in his native city, the pleasures of riches and then the agonies of poverty. As the doctors told him he had only a short time to live, he said: "It's been tough, but I think that on the whole it's been interesting." Death is everywhere, as it always has been. But for most of us it is hidden. No more, as it was once, is death the commonplace sight, the thing to meet the eye on every side. It is pleasanter for life that this is so, yet, because of the fact, there are fewer philosophers in the world, fewer persons conscious of the inevitable, fewer still who, when their summons comes, can be easy and cheerful and die little mindful of troubles and wounds endured, and with a fair word for the pleasures experienced. --- Cinematograph as a Detective. An ingenious, if cumbersome, invention has been offered to the Paris police authorities for the detection of crime committed in the streets. In fact, it could be applied to accidents. The proposal is to install in the clock towers in the various streets a cinematograph apparatus directed by wireless. Recullar Choice of Fiance A pretty young woman in France recently chose as her flame a hardened criminal who had been condemned to death. She herself was serving a sentence in prison for theft, and when she heard that a fellow prisoner was to be guillotined she immediately petitioned the authorities to be allowed to wed him. Her strange request was not granted. Calfs Little "Butters." One day as my little friend Willie, aged four, and I were inspecting some farm animals we happened to see a young calf with very small horns, and Willie exclaimed: "Just look at the cute little butters it has."—Exchange. Path to Immortality Go on and increase thy valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. —Virgil. THE AMATEUR MINSTREL REPORT. The Amateur Amstrel Club wishes to announce to the public through The Defender the annual report of their Easter show and dance, given for the benefit of the Old Rock's Home and Day Nursery, Mr. Jackson, Secretary, and Mr. Cuny, Treasurer, of Old Rock's Home were present at the amstrel meeting Wednesday night, and were presented with $175 for the home. Messrs. Cuny and Jackson responded with very timely remarks, and very earnestly requested that the club continue their shows for charity. The Sero Club realized $25 for the Day Nursery from the ladies' check room and punch bowls. Receipts. From tickets ..... $283.50 From aus. in program ..... 22.00 From sale of program ..... 12.72 From men's coat room ..... 13.45 $331.67 Total expenses ..... 151.67 $180.00 Amount to Old Folk.s ..... 175.00 Balance on hand ..... $ 5.00 (Signed) Isaac Dunlop, President. H. Harry Horsley, Secretary. Chas. S. Washington, Treas. THE DEFENDER NOT GIVEN AWAY. Many of our subscribers seem to think that we have given them the paper for a year. One went so far as to say the Defender did not need any money because the editor had on a new hat. We know that there are some people who would be pleased to see us in rags and go to them on our knees to ask for that which we have worked for; it is this class that this note is addressed to; that class that want something for nothing; that class that will say "I have been taking the paper for two years and have not paid a cent." Who of you could catch a dodger? dodger? When you catch them they dodge behind everything, from the newboy to the rent man, to kep from paying an honest $1.50 for a year for the largest paper in Chicago with news from all parts of the world for the benefit of your children. Still this same class will go from Chicago and talk about what we have here, and are not giving a dime to keep it. The "can-musher" is a far better citizen than a non-paying subscriber, for he has decided that the brewer ought to get more money for such refined liquid and will give him 10c per can on and after May 1st. By May 15th all subscribers not paid in, the Government has given us orders to cut off them, which would have been done if the Government had not given the order. The Chicago Defender. Mr. Jesse Stubbs and bride arrived in the city from Mississippi on Thursday evening and proceeded from the train at once for their apartments at 3317 Forest avenue. Just Business. Gerald—Why won't you let me kiss you tonight, as usual? Geraldine—I am to sell kisses at the church fair next week, and I have agreed not to cheapen the goods by giving away samples in advance. Under Suspicion "I am afraid that man we sent to congress is losin' his sympathy with the plain people," said the backwoods constituent. "What he has been doin'?" "Tuckin' his napkin under his chin an' usin' a knife instid o' pickin' his ple up with his hands." First Book on Education The first book on education ever written and printed in English was Sir Thomas Elyot's "Governour," published in 1531. Much that is done even at this day for the education of boys and girls in the schools was suggested in this book. Hopes She's Choked A Washington county paper wants to know what has become of the old fashioned woman who put caraway seed in cookies. Without knowing, there is a widespread hope that she has choked.—Kansas City Star. No Burglar Alarm Needed. If there are children in the family, mother awakens so easily that a burglar alarm is something superfluous.—Atchison Globe. Real and False lives Wizards We hear a lot of aggressive, blustering people designated as "live wires," the fact apparently being overlooked that the live wire that is in its place, doing something useful, is usually quite unobtrusive. Frogs' Legs. We Americans are almost a fond of frogs' legs as an article of diet as are the French, a fact that is evidenced by the enormous numbers that are annually consumed in the United States.—Harper's Weekly. Discernment. "What makes you so sure this man suspected of insanity is a lucid and sensible person?" "One strong indication," replied the alienist, "is the fact that he recognized the desirability of employing a man of my superior attalments." Doesn't Deceive Her Mrs. Exe—When your husband telephones that he has to remain at the office evenings do you ever think he is deceiving you? Mrs. Wye—No; but he thinks he is. Electrical Light Which Is C Electric Light Which is Cold. A French Physician, Dr. Russand, in his office, electri- cally is absolutely cold. The new light is perfectly harmless and could be employed without danger in mines and powder magazines. Courtesy. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.—Emerson. Int to Own Land HERE'S YOUR CHANCE! State this and the rest is easy. The property of lies on State St., Lafayette, Perry, IA. Have, right in line with the great growth of Here we are selling LOTS, 50x125 for, $ Big Lots of Various Sizes and Half Acres at Prices. Business Lots on State Street at One Party at prices quoted is the BIGGEST BARGAIN every man who buys NOW will reap a handsome price. These Big Lots and Half Acres at rock bottom price is in Without Any Interest Let this great opportunity pass, but take a can. Come at once to the Bunch Office, State and 95th Streets—Open Eve.ternoon and All Day Sunday and Holiday THERE: Take West Pullman cars at White City, get off a house and walk west to the office. (LOOK FOR THE FLAG) 'K H. BARTLETT & Main Office—59 to 69 W. Wash. Phone: THE NEW ELITE LIFE AND BUFF 3030 STATE STREET Our newly equipped dining room and quick service is unexcelled by any Cafe in the city. Theatre parties are solicited. Good music by the highest paid artists. Any neglect by any of our help will be immediately looked into. The Wines, Liquors and Cigars Our Specialty No Own Land? SAS YOUR CHANCE! At the rest is easy. The property you can state St., Lafayette, Perry, La Salle and in line with the great growth of the city to selling S, 50x125 for, $200 Various Sizes and Half Acres at Propor- ness Lots on State Street at Only $250. Quoted is the BIGGEST BARGAIN in or around buys NOW will reap a handsome profit. You not and Half Acres at rock bottom prices but are given But Any Interest At opportunity pass, but take advantage of at once to the State and 95th Streets—Open Every All Day Sunday and Holidays. Bake West Pullman cars at White City, get off at corner of 95th at to the office. (LOOK FOR THE FLAG.) BARTLETT & CO. Main Office—59 to 69 W. Washington Street Phone, Douglas 8956 NEW ELITE AND BUFFET STATE STREET Equipped dining room and quick unexcelled by any Cafe in the city. Mies are solicited. Good music by paid artists. Any neglect by any will be immediately looked into es, Liquors and Cigars Our Specialty Want to Own Land? HERE'S YOUR CHANCE! Investigate this and the rest is easy. The property you can own a part of lies on State St., Lafayette, Perry, La Salle and Wentworth Ave., right in line with the great growth of the city to the south. Here we are selling BIG LOTS, 50x125 for, $200 Other Big Lots of Various Sizes and Half Acres at Proportionate Prices. Business Lots on State Street at Only $250. This property at prices quoted is the BIGGEST BARGAIN in or around Chicago, and every man who buys NOW will reap a handsome profit. You not only can buy these Big Lots and Half Acres at rock bottom prices but are given two years to pay in Without Any Interest Do not let this great opportunity pass, but take advantage of it while you can. Come at once to the Branch Office, State and 95th Streets—Open Every Afternoon and All Day Sunday and Holidays. HOW TO GET THERE: Take West Pullman cars at White City, get off at corner of 95th and Michigan Avenue and walk west to the office. (LOOK FOR THE FLAG.) FRED'K H. BARTLETT & CO. (Owners) Main Office—59 to 69 W. Washington Street THE NEW ELITE CAFE AND BUFFET 3030 STATE STREET Our newly equipped dining room and quick service is unexcelled by any Cafe in the city. Theatre parties are solicited. Good music by the highest paid artists. Any neglect by any of our help will be immediately looked into Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Our Specialty HENRY JONES Prop. A. F. CODOZOE CASS HARRIS, You Can't Beat Can't Bea can't Beat It You Can't Beat It You Can't Beat It PETER H. Hot Home-Made Bread served all day with those delicious home cooked meals that are served at The Model Cafe 12 WEST 51ST STREET, Near State St. Columbia Hotel Building Moderate Prices Quick Service Phones—Aldine 3368—Automatic 73-174 W.L. HARRISON, Prop. Phone A HOME BAKERY A Phone Aldine 3596 HOME BAKERY AND DELICATESSEN Fresh Bread and Rolls Every Day FINE CAKES A SPECIALTY S. B. B. 9 "a" West 36th Bonus Thompson DEALER IN ALL KINES We do roofing, gutter work. Stoves and furnishings. Phone 305 1910 W. Railroad Ave. Best Credit Terms 135 South State St. northeast Cor. Add. Cash Units YOUR CREDIT For a Ladies' Suit in an newest style, and sold by for $25 cash. Pay at a time and wear the ALTERATE Beautiful Millinery, waists, Shirts and Men's Suits, made serges and other fab shades, on payments please. Same quality you houses sell for $20... Slip-Ons, $9.75 and OPEN SATURDAY THURSDAYS $17.25 For This Woman's Suit REAL EASY PA We Give F Impudent Jack. Delle—I don't speak to Jack any more. S. B. BROWN 9 "a" West 36th Street, Chicago Thompson Hardware DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE We do roofing, guttering and all kinds of tin work. Stoves and furnace repairing especially. Phone 3059 Evanston railroad Ave. CREDIT WHEELERS CLOTHING 135 South State Street (Fourth Floor) northeast Cor. Adams—over Peacock's Cash Unnecessary YOUR CREDIT'S AMPLY GOOD! For a Ladies' Suit in any material, made in the newest style, and sold regularly for $25 cash. Pay us a little at a time and wear the garment, ALTERATIONS FREE Beautiful Millinery, Plumes, Dresses, Shirts, waists, Skirts and Cloaks, same terms. Men's Suits, made specially for us of finest merges and other fabrics, in all the popular shades, on payments that will please. Same quality that cash houses sell for $20. Slipe-Ona, $9.75 and up, also on credit OPEN SATURDAYS, TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS UNTIL 9 P.M. REAL CREDIT EASY PAYMENTS We Give Fishs Stamps B. BROWN Post 36th Street, Chicago Hampson Hardware Co. IN ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE ing, guttering and all kinds of tin ses and furnace repairing especially. Phone 3059 Evanston Evanston, Ill. CREDIT WHEELERS CLOTHING State Street (Fourth Floor) Inst Cor. Adams—over Peacock's Unnecessary CREDIT'S AMPLY GOOD Suit in any material, made in the and sold regular- th. Pay us a little wear the garment, ALTERATIONS FREE Millinery, Plumes, Dresses, Shirt- irts and Cloaks, same terms. made specially for us of finest other fabrics, in all the popular payments that will quality that cash for $20..... $9.75 and up, also on credit SATURDAYS, TUESDAYS AND SUNDAYS UNTIL 9 P. M. AL CREDIT EASY PAYMENTS Live Fish's Stamps Very Easy Payments $17.25 $14.50 $14.50 For Thi: Man's Suit Bonus Thompson Hardware Co. DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE We do roofing, guttering and all kinds of tin work. Stoves and furnace repairing especially. Phone 3059 Evanston 1910 W. Railroad Ave. Evanston, Ill. Best Credit Terms CREDIT WHEELERS CLOTHING 135 South State Street (Fourth Floor) northeast Cor. Adams—over Peacock's Cash Unnecessary YOUR CREDIT'S AMPLY GOOD For a Ladies' Suit in any material, made in the newest style, and sold regularly for $25 cash. Pay us a little at a time and wear the garment, ALTERATIONS FREE Beautiful Millinery, Plumes, Dresses, Shirt-waists, Shirts and Cloaks, same terms. Men's Suits, made specially for us of finest serges and other fabrics, in all the popular shades, on payments that will please. Same quality that cash houses sell for $20. Slip-Ons, $9.75 and up, also on credit OPEN SATURDAYS, TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS UNTIL 9 P. M. $17.25 For This Woman's Suit $14.50 For This Man's Suit REAL CREDIT EASY PAYMENTS We Give Fish's Stamps Nelle—What's the trouble? Delle—I told him the ladies's aid approved the way I dressed my hair and he had the impudence to ask if it was ratified. Beyond the Touch of Time. A man never becomes too old to throw out his chest as he passes a looking-glass.—Atchison Globe. --- --- --- CASS HARRIS, Mgr. Getting the Captain in Line. "I'm afraid we might run into an iceberg." "The danger is very slight, auntie." "Well, give the captain a dollar anyhow, and then he'll be extra careful."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Where Painters Fall. One of the strange things about painters and decorators is that they always manage to cover up with canvas every spot except where the paint and kalsamine is most likely to fall.