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TEXAS HAS BLOODY SPREE 2,000 PERSONS ATTEND CONFESSION FALSE A Fearless, HONEST CHAMPION of the People VOLUME VII. NUMB TEXAS HA 2,000 P CON A Mob of Cowards Have a Week-End Jollification (Characteristic of That Section) by Taking from Jail and Burning at the Stake a Man Whose Alleged Crime Had Not Been Proved—Say That He Confessed—Confession Said to Be False—No Chance for Justice Anyway—Made to Talk by Burning Torch—Another Blot Against the State by Atrocious Crime. MURDER TAKES PLACE IN PUBLIC SQUARE. Once More the Civilized World is astounded by the Lawless and Diabolical Murder of an American Citizen in Texas, the So-called Enlightened State of the South—Add Insult to Injury by Publishing the Incoherent Words of a Man Tortured by Burning Torches—Writer Says, "How Long, O Lord, How Long?"—Girl Could Not Identify Alleged Assailant. Civilized America has again been astounded by an atrocious murder in Texas of an untried American citizen for the alleged crime popularly termed assault. Tyler, Texas, is the town that is in the limelight for its bloody thirst. Saturday last Mr. Dan Davis was burned to death at a stake in the streets of that place. It was the public square and two thousand persons are reported to have participated in this fearful crime. The victim, it is alleged, assaulted and it is claimed that the party was a Miss Carrie Johnson, the daughter of a farmer. Mr. Davis, it is also alleged, signed a statement confessing to the attack. Forced to Talk by Burning Torches. But before the match was touched to the pile of wood on which he had been bound by the mob, he was again asked if he was guilty. A moment later the flames were leaping high about his head. Mr. Davis was brought to Tyler early in the day from Athens, Texas. When members of the sheriff's posse arrived at the jail with him, it is said, that they were confronted by several hundred citizens who waited until Mr. Davis had written his alleged confession, then demanded that he be turned over to them. It is also said that the officers and citizens who had gathered inside the jail protested (?) but finally sur- rendered him to the mob. The mob was so large protest was useless, the officers said. From the fail the prisoner was led to the public square where several wagon loads of wood had been piled. Death Pyre Surrounded. Death Pyre Surrounded. The mob stood around the fire until it dled down and little was left but charred bones and ashes. In the statement that Mr. Davis is said to have written it is alleged that he told how he and another man attacked Miss Johnson as she was walking along a railroad track to Tyler in mid-afternoon Monday, May 13, and that they left her lying there believing that she was dead. While the girl herself did not identify her assailant he was identified by an unnamed man who claims to have seen him in the neighborhood soon before the crime was omitted. He also said his partner had been arrested in Waco. MR. JACKSON GORDON DEAD. Well Known Citizen and Politician Dles Suddenly Wednesday Morning. Mr. Jackson Gordon, well known citizen and active politician for the past 40 years, died suddenly at his residence, 3435 Wabash avenue, early Wednesday morning. Mr. Gordon was 52 years of age and was born in Virginia. He was a member of Grace Presbyterian church for many years and a clerk in the board of assessor's office for the past 16 years. Funeral services will be held this morning from Grace church, Rev. Moses Jackson, the pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in Mt. Glenwood cemetery. MRS. MAGGIE DAGO IN HOSPITAL—HAPPY Mrs. Maggie Dago, 3639 Vernon avenue, wife of our prominent expert in chrippy, has successfully undergone an operation for appendicitis at Provident hospital at that institution Wednesday. The patient was reported doing nicely. The Defender reporter believes that Mrs. Dago's rapid recovery was due to the fact that her husband has just presented to her a new automobile. The Chicago Defender wishes the charming madame a speedy recovery and sincerely hopes that the entire taff will be treated to a ride ere theummer passes. The Chicago Defender. CABLE A DOUBLE WINNER. Theodore Cable Star of the Day in the Harvard and Yale Annual Dual Track and Field Meet. By Julius N. Avendorph. What was expected to be the greatest of all the annual dual track and field meetings between Harvard and Yale on Saturday afternoon, May 18, proved to be, no doubt, the greatest disappointment. It had been predicted by the wise ones that it would be the closest and with the possible exception of the hammer throwing Yale was a strong favorite, and if the truth was known, there was a doubt on the part of Yales followers as to whether Cable could repeat his performance of the previous Saturday, but contrary to all predictions or doubts, he not only repeated his brilliant performance, in hammer throwing, but he won the running broad jump. Here is what the Boston Sunday Herald of May 19 says: "Harvard men surprised their most ardent admirers for the jumping of A. W. Mofat and Theodore Cable in the running high and running broad jumps respectively was not looked for, Mofat cleared 6 feet 2 inches, and in an attempt to heat the dual meet record of 6 feet 2½ inches, held by R. C. Merwin of Yale since 1897, he failed by 6 feet 2 inches. Cable's jumping especially in the final race, after he had been throwing the hammer, was remarkable. He had made 21 feet 8½ inches in the trials, but in the final he leaped 22 feet 8½ inches on his first try, and on his second he was that mark and an inch and a half better. He fouled on his third try. Cable was the star athlete of the day, winning the hammer throw with a heave of 154.77 feet. He was the only double winner. The 120 yards high hurdles race, in which A. L. Jackson was a contestant and from whom great things was expected, was won by Larkin of Yale while Cummings was second and Jackson third. In the low barriers, it was the same quartet, with the exception of Larkin, Platt, being the Yale man, but Cummings won with Jackson second. Jackson had the misfortune to pull a tandem and had to be carried off the field, thereby losing his chances to compete in the intercollegiate championships, which will be a great loss to Harvard." Incidentally I want to make mention of the interscholastic track meet held at New Haven on Saturday, May 18, which brought together all the leading "prep" schools of New England and around New York and Philadelphia. Exeter carried off the honors but as usual our colors was there in the person of H. Drew, of Springfield, Mass., High who won the 100-yard dash in 10s, which is exceptionally fast for youngsters. It is, in my opinion, a fine thing that a few of our young men are still fighting for and making good in the athletic world, as I still contend that it gives them better chances. CONGRESSMAN MADDEN DEFENDS SOLDIERS Defends the Case of the Negro Vet erans Before the House of Repre sentatives—"Strike Down the Color Line." His Plea. By R. G. Bruce. Washington, D. C., May 31.—Hon. Martin B. Madden of Illinois, better known as a defender of rights, defended the cause of the Negro veterans before the house of representatives. "Gentlemen, strike down the color line," was his plea. Congressman S. A. Roddenbery of Georgia tried hard to get an amendment through congress that would do away with the pensioning of Negro veterans until they were set off in a corner to themselves. The amendment: "Provided, That after July 1, 1912, no pension under this act or under any other act, general or special, shall be paid to a pensioner of African descent until such time as all inmates of National Soldiers' Home of African descent are consolidated, removed and domiciled in a National Soldiers' Home at a place separate and apart from any other such home occupied by any other soldiers and veterans of the Civil war or other wars." "Provided further, That after July 1, 1912, all inmates of National Soldiers' Homes of African descent shall be domiciled at a distinctly separate home maintained exclusively for such inmates." In reply to this bill Congressman Madden sald: "It will not do for him (Mr. Roddenbery) to come now in guise of the Civil war veterans' friend in order that he may the better express his hatred for the Negro; no, the white soldier of the Civil war needs no defense at the gentlemans' CHICAGO, DLL., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1912. hands, and his denunciation of the Negro will fall far short of accomplishing its purpose." Congressman Madden spoke of Congressman Roddenbery's attempts to fictitiously defend the white soldier and his attempts to defray the black soldier. During his address Mr. Roddenbery introduced a letter from an old white soldier, but he omitted the name. Thereupon Congressman Madden called him a coward. Congressman Madden said further, "The men against who this amendment is leveled fought for the preservation of the Union as valiantly as the white man fought and every consideration that is due the white man for services rendered to the Union at the time of its direst need ought to be given to the black man who rendered like service." Strike Down the Color Line. After criticizing Congressman Roddenberry, Congressman Madden said: "No men fought more bravely than the black men. They are entitled to their full share of credit for preserving the nation. I grieve to see the gentleman from Georgia express such bitterness toward the Negro," said our gallant friend, "He should be one of the Negroes' ablest defenders. The Negro has made wonderful progress considering his lack of opportunity. He is a good citizen, a gallant soldier. He should be encouraged, not reviled. Who led the successful charge at El Caney at San Juan Hill?" continued Mr. Madden. "Was it not the Negro? Who questioned his color then? Did any one revile him? Not at all. All praised his valor, all plaused his intrepidity. We should know no color in ministering to the wants of those who gave their all in defense of the country." In conclusion Mr. Madden said: "Gentlemen, strike down the color line. Defeat the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia, and let the news spread into every home in this broad land of the free that congress will tolerate no discrimination in the treatment of the country's veteran soldiers on account of the color of their skin." There is no question about Congressman Madden's friendly attitude towards the Negro. He is a friend kind and true. Among the many things that he has done for the Negro he assisted Miss Anna Hill, one of our Chicago girls, through Wilberforce university, and at the present time he is assisting Robert Bruce of Evanston through the same school. GRAND MILITARY RECEPTION AND BALL GRAND MILITARY RECEPTION AND BALL EIGHTH REGIMENT. TUESDAY, JUNE 18TH. The stellar attraction during the week of the National Republican convention will be the grand military ball and reception given in honor of the Negro delegates and visitors by the Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at the Seventh Regiment Armory, on the evening of June 18. In addition to the dance program the regiment will give a full dress parade, after which long and honorable service medals will be presented to those of the command who have been continuously in the regiment for five years or more. Do not fail to attend and meet thousands of visitors who will be in the city during the convention week. Tickets of admission fifty cents. BANQUET POLITICIANS. An Elaborate Spread For Prominent Republicans. A committee of citizens headed by Attorney W. G. Anderson, gave a banquet Tuesday evening at Lett's Cafe in honor of Honorable Lewis Rimaker, candidate for states attorney, Honorable Harry Olson, candidate for chief justice and Judge W. W. Maxwell, candidate for municipal court judge and to ratify and indorse the nominees of the Republican Party at the primary election of April 9. Attorney Anderson was toastmaster. The speakers were: Hon. Lewis Rimaker, Hon. T. T. Alain, Hon. E. H. Wercer, Hon. Harry Olson, Dr. A. W. Mercer, Maj. R. J. Jackson, Hon. W. W. Maxwell, Hon. Cary B. Lewis, Hon. Peter M. Hoffman, Hon. Chas, W. Vail, Hon. S. B. Turner. Caterer Letts was highly praised for his excellent service and for his exquisite taste in the floral decorations. WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY'S ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT. Elaborate Program for the 49th Commencement of This Famous A. M. E. College. Wilberforce, O., May 11—Beginning June 13 and ending June 20 Wilberforce University will carry out the following program in celebrating its 10th annual commencement: June 13, Thursday, 7 p.m., annual address to the religious societies, Rev. J. S. Jackson, D. D. Springfield, Ohio. June 14, Friday, 7:30 p.m., joint anniversary of the literary societies. June 16, Sunday, 10:30 a.m., baccalaureate discourse, Chaplain T. G. Steward, D. D. Wilberforce, Ohio. June 16, 7:30 p.m., annual sermon, Payne Seminary, Rev. J. C. Anderson, D. D. Louisville, Ky. June 17, Monday, 7:30 p.m., annual address to literary societies, Hon. J. C. Napier, Register U. S. Treasury. June 18, Tuesday, 10 a.m., annual session of University Trustee Board. June 18, 7:30 p.m., annual prize contest. June 19, Wednesday, 10 a.m., recital, departments of vocal and instrumental music. June 19, 3 p.m., class day exercises. June 19, 7:30 p.m., annual alumn meeting and address, Bishop J. Albert Johnson, D. D. June 20, Thursday, 10 a.m., Commencement; address to graduating classes at Dr. Alston Ellis, president, Ohio University. June 20, 1 p.m., Normal and Industrial Exhibits, O'Nell, Arnett & Galloway Halls. June 20, 2 p.m., dedication of T. Mitchell Hall. June 20, meeting of the C. N. & I. Board. June 20, 7:30 p.m., Commencement concert. June 21, Friday, Bishop's Council, Carnegie Library. THE 10 DARK KNIGHTS QUIT THEATER Mr. Henderson Smith Leads Them from Howard Theater —Sues Owner. Mr. Henderson Smith, 3232 Calumet avenue, is back in the city and thereby hangs an interesting tale. Mr. Smith and his famous aggregation of footlight stars, the "Ten Dark Knights," have just returned from Washington, D.C., where they had to walk out of Howard's theater. "We were playing at the Howard, which is owned by Edw. Thomas," said Mr. Smith to a Chicago Defender reporter, "but Mr. Thomas did not live up to his agreement and I was compelled to lead the "Knights" out. I have entered suit against him and expect an early adjustment of my claims. The matter evidently did not worry him, for the reporter learned that Mrs. Smith has been the recipient of a handsome automobile since his return. After a few days "The Knights" will be on the road again for they are booked for forty-three solid weeks. IS HE MARRIED? Prof. Garfield Wilson Entertains His Father—Class Asks a Question. There was a good attendance at Prof. Garfield Wilson's dancing school Friday night and the debonair instructor of the light fantastic had as his guest his father, who is on a visit from Denver, Colo. When it was learned that it was Mr. Wilson's first visit to Chicago some one said: "I guess that he came to the wedding." The visitor was surprised to see what a splendid following his son had in this city, but gave the reporter no news. From that time on until the orchestra played "Home, Sweet Home," the question was "Is he married?" Prof. Wilson was as non-committal as ever, but even as we go to press the echo says "Is he married?" U. B. E.-S. M. T. SERMON. Sunday last all the lodges and temples of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, together with their friends, completely filled the institutional church, the occasion being the annual sermon of the order. Rev. Jordon Chavis preached the sermon. The parade to the church was an imposing one and many were inspired by the splendid showing made by this notable order. MAJOR MOTON AT TUSKEGEE. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Tuskegee, Ala., May 31—Major R. R. Moton, commandant of cadets, Hampton Institute, and Mrs. Moton, together with a party of ten or twelve additional persons from Hampton Institute, reached here Wednesday morning in a special Fullman car. The party came to attend the commencement day exercises and will remain here until June 3. Most of the party will also be invited to join Principal Washington on his tour through Macon county Sunday, June 2. GIVES UP RICHES FOR LOVE. Bourne, Mass., May 31.—Saturday last Mrs. James A. Garland by her marriage to Francis Cushing Green of New York, at Garland Farm here, is said to have lost control of the income of a $10,000,000 estate which under the terms of her first husband's will goes to her five children, four sons and a daughter. The will of Garland reads: "Upon the death or re-marriage of my wife the trust residue is to go to the children or their issue." SUMMER TRIP TO THE COAST DRAWS MANY Many Hundred to Avail Themselves of Mr. C. T. White's Personally Conducted Excursion to the Coast and Northwest—Alps of America —A Three-Days' Visit to St. Paul, Where the National Negro Educational Congress Meets July 15—See the Canadian National Park—The Great Glaciers of the Selkirk Mountains. SAIL DOWN PUGET SOUND —RETURN BY THE RIO GRANDE. Splendid Daylight Ride on the Pacific Coast Steamers—A Visit to Seattle and Tacoma, Washington—Over the Great Mountain Shasti Route to San Francisco—The Wonders of Our Own Country Explained by a Noted Traveler—Reservations Now Being Made—Defender Answers Inquiry. --- Mr. C. T. White's great summer excursion to the coast and northwest grows in interest day by day. Since his arrival in the city he has been continually busy making reservations and planning for the comfort of his guests. The National Negro Educational Congress, which convenes in St. Paul, July 15, will be one of the first stops. Mr. J. Silas Harris, president of the congress, reports the following: who will positively appear during the congress: Prominent Speakers Dr. Reverdy C. Ransom of New York, Ed. A. M. E. Review, and the most distinguished orator in America. Dr. A. Henry Attaway, president of Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida, an educator and orator of national renown. Prof. E. L. Blackshear, president of Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College of Prairie View, Texas. Dr. R. S. Wilkinson, president State College, Orangeburg, S. C. He is a graduate of Harvard and West Point and one of the leading educators of the country. Dr. Wm. J. Tomkins, an eminent physician of Kansas City. The White Plague Specialist. Attorney Wm. H. Harrison of Oklahoma and vice-president of the congress and an orator of great force. Rev. E. J. Fisher, D. D., pastor of Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, Ill. Prof. H. M. Taryer, superintendent of public schools, San Antonio, Tex. Hon. T. A. Spraggins, Jersey City, N. J., attorney at law. Dr. W. T. Amiger, Louisville, president Baptist University. Dr. J. T. Caston, Grand Master, U. B. F. and S. M. T., Missouri. A number of these speakers, and many of the residents of St. Paul and Minneapolis will join the party for the entire trip. Comfort and Elegance. Mr. White's personally conducted excursion promises to be the most entertaining and elaborate affair of the kind ever leaving Chicago. Speaking of the affair Mr. White told a Chicago Defender reporter that a magnificent vestibulated Pullman train has been arranged for. Every comfort of the guest has been considered. There will be a physician and two trained nurses throughout the entire trip. A stenographer will also be provided. The sleeping and dining car arrangements will be the best and the reasonable price of the entire trip has already resulted in nine-two applications for reservations. These applications are from teachers, business and professional men and women in Boston, Florida, New York, Chicago, Georgia and South Carolina. One Fare Includes Everything. The latest feature arranged for this wonderful trip is the attendance of the entire party at an organ recital in the Mormon temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. Fare for the entire trip is, first class, $228.75; tourist sleeper, $195.85. These prices include passage, berth (one-half section), and meals for the entire trip. This delightful trip can be made the trip of your life, and many of our teachers will avail themselves of an opportunity to see the beauties of their own country through this personally conducted tour. National Educational Congress. Starting July 14 this wonderful excursion is so arranged that a three days' stop can be made at St. Paul to attend the National Negro Educational Congress which convenes July 16. Then up to 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 Mt. Shasta SOUTHERN STRENGTH AT THE CONVENTION. The Unfairness of the Present System—A Comparison—Cook County—Alabama and Mississippi. In the last issue of the Defender we raised our voice against the outrageous, indefensible injustice of southern representation in the national convention. We again follow it up by a further tabulation of figures which shows the deplorable conditions existing throughout the southern states. It is unthinkable that the southern states which deliberately violate the constitution of the United States and the political rights of their citizens should be allowed an equal participation in the councils of the nation; however it is a fact and the unseemly part of it is that a few parasitic office holders, representing a few hundred or few thousand voters have more power and influence than an equal number of northern representatives who are legally elected to represent hundreds of thousands of their constituents. So it is easily seen how five or six thousand southern voters are able to offset or annul the will of two or three hundred thousand northern voters. According to current report ten southern districts taken from the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, have a voting strength of 6,476 Republicans. These districts will be able to pit their powerful strength, by delegation, against ten Cook County districts which contain 230,400 or more Republicans. So, Carolina will send eighteen delegates to Chicago to represent less than 4,000 Republican voters, while a Chicago district under the apportionment can send only two delegates to represent 30,000 voters. Some of the southern districts have fewer Republican voters than two or three precincts in a Chicago ward, but the districts each have two votes in the supreme council of the party. The absurdity of the situation is clearly shown by a comparison of the Second Mississippi congressional district which has 350 votes with Cook County. If Cook County were as well represented as this district it would have 1,310 delegates in the National Convention. If an equitable representation were apportioned to the southern states according to voting strength the disgraceful outrages which have occurred in Mississippi and many other boss-ridden states would soon cease. It would be a very short time before the southern states would see the error of their way, the utter injustice and futility of disfranchising a greater part of their citizens. NOT BILL BAILEY'S BAND But That of Wendell Phillips Settle ment Led by Mr. George Bailey, The Wendell Phillips Settlement brass band composed of boys aged from 12 to 20 was organized by W. B. Smith and Mr. G. H. Cooper of the Settlement. They engaged Mr. George Bailey under salary from September, 111 to May 1st, 1912. The band's first concert was given last night at Roby and Lake streets to a crowded house. It was the biggest surprise the West Side has ever had in the history of Chicago. The band rendered several selections of Mr. Bailey's own compositions very creditably and caught the audience by storm. Miss Venil sang well under Bailey composed of four clarinets, five cornets, four altos, four trombones, one barbone, two tubas, two side drums and one bass drum and cymbals. THE APPOMATTOX CARD PARTY. The Card Party given by the Appomattox Club undoubtedly was the swellest informal affair given in the city this season. Where did the strange young ladies come from? They were there. This seems to be the season of the year when each member tries to outdo the other in bringing the most beautiful ladies there are in the city to their club; cards were in vogue and cards were spades and the young ladies said the Appomattox was a great drawing card. THE DETROIT INFORMER'S NEW HEADS. The Detroit Informer has improved in every way since Mr. Jas. A. Ross and T. W. Taylor have been at its head. Mr. Ross of Gazette and Guide fame is related to the Pauls of Chicago, while Mr. Taylor is highly spoken of by Mrs. Florence Johnson, 3150 Dearborn street. NOTED EDITOR HERE. Mr. J. H. Murphy, editor of The Afro-American Ledger of Baltimore, was the guest of Mr. R. G. B. Ellington at the Y. M. C. A. banquet on Wednesday night. Mr. Murphy was on route to his home from the sessions of the A. M. E. conference at Kansas City. route to San Francisco, Cal., where a stop of sixty hours will be made. Down by the Bio Grande. Down by the Rio Grande. Return by Denver and Rio Grande railway, 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 further particulars call and see Mr. White or Mr. Abbott at The Chicago Defender office, 3169 State street THE WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PRICE 5 CENTS DEAD COMRADES HONORED IN MEMORIAL SERVICES The Eighth Illinois Infantry, Illinois National Guard, Holds Its Annual Memorial Services Sunday Last at Quinn Chapel The Solemn Occasion is Made Notable by the Most Profound and Inspiring Eulogy of "The Soldier Dead" Heard in Many Years—Pastor Cook in Eloquent Terms Endeared Himself to the Members of Our Only State Regiment. ALL THE WORLD LOVES A SOLDIER. The Touching Spectacle of Ten Vacant Chairs—The Regiment Mourned for Eight of Its Number, While John R. Tanner Camp, United and Spanish War Veterans Had Three on Their Roll of Dead—Adjutant Louis B. Anderson Presides the First Time—The Choir and Several Soloists Make Program Interesting. By J. Hockley Smiley. The Eighth Infantry, Illinois National Guard, held their annual memorial services at Quinn Chapel church on Sunday afternoon last. This year's service in memory of their deceased was made notable by the most profound and inspiring sermon in enology of "The Soldier Dead" heard in many years. Rev. W. D. Cook, D. D., pastor of the church, was the speaker. Among other things he said that all the world loves a soldier and that no man could have higher honor paid to him than in an occasion like this. Congratulates the Regiment. He also congratulated the regiment upon its many deportment. Many organizations have services here but it is with pleasure that I command the members and officers of the Eighth Illinois Infantry for their behavior today. There is a spirit of rest here, there is an absence of that going out and coming in that characterizes some of the orders; it is a pleasure to me to have been selected to address you today. The ten vacant chairs entwined in black and bedecked with flowers was a touching sight. Eight belonged to the regiment, two to the John R. Tanner Camp, United Spanish War Veterans, while Captain and Adjunct-Robert F. Ratcliffe belonged to them both. Adjunct, Anderson, Provides. Adjutant Anderson Presides. Capt. Louis B. Anderson, adjutant appointed recently, presided. The invocation was made by Rev. Bradden. Prof. Edward F. Morris presided at the organ and directed the choir in several selections. Comrade C. J. Ross sang "The Palms." The band also rendered several selections. Commander Samuel C. Selby had the veterans and read the roll of their deceased comrades. The parade to and from the church was witnessed by the usual large crowd. It is said that the number in line was a fair proportion of the regiment's strength. Adjutant Anderson's residence, 2821 Wabash avenue, was the reviewing point for the ladies. Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Jefferson, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Essie Arnold and many other of the officers' wives and friends completely filled the steps and windows. MEMORIAL DAY. The Eighth Regiment had its same place in the procession. The boys never looked better, and never did they receive a more enthusiastic reception. From start to finish they were applauded for their neat appearance. The officers, mounted, were exceptionally noticeable, for their horses without exception, were the best ever seen in a similar turn-out. In the Silent Cities of the Dead. The various cemeteries presented the usual scenes all day. Many had decorated the graves days before and only came to look on. At "beautiful Mount Greenwood" a program of speaking took place in the afternoon. At Lincoln Oak Hill there was also an all-day celebration. At Oakwoods cemetery the largest crowd gathered. Chicago's oldest citizens have graves and lots there in great numbers, and they were/out in force. REMEMBERS HIS MOTHER'S GRAVE. Mr. Henry (Teenan) Jones, one of the proprietors of the Elite, left the city on Thursday morning to strew flowers on his mother's grave at Onarga, Itt., where she was buried several years ago. When seen by a reporter for the Defender, Mr. Jones said: "I have done this for years and as long as life lasts I shall always do. Mother was dear to me and her love is still with me." JACK JOHNSON REMEMBERS HIS FATHER'S GRAVE. Jack Johnson sent $100 to Texas to have flowers strenched on the grave of his father who dled while he was in Australia about six years ago. The champion says, "Oh, if Dad had lived." The great of orator Richard B. Harrison is home again and all Chicago is glad. --- SPARKS FROM THE RAIL Winston's Spicy Gossip of Men and Events in the Railroad World. By John 'R. Winston. From Washington comes this dispatch: "Representative Lencroot of Wisconsin, progressive Republican, who never could understand why the porter makes up the upper berth of a sleeping car, irrespective of whether it is to have an occupant, at the same time he makes up the lower berth, will press a bill to stop this practice. He would impose a fine of $1,000 on the railroad for every such offense." A "spick and span" regime will go into effect within a short time on the Illinois Central system, according to plans that are being worked out by Captain Charles Bent, the company's new "inspector of courtesy." The new rules will require that conductors wear a blue uniform with a cutaway coat. Brakemen and flagmen will be instructed to wear gray uniforms and ticket sellers and haggagemen will be asked to wear black silk caps. Truckmen will receive orders to wear khaki uniforms and porters will be attired entirely in blue, with silver plated buttons attached to their uniforms. ! The Inright bunch met at Oelwein, Ia, May 27, for ten minutes. Messrs. Robert Kaufman Jones, McNeir, Bert Gordon, Lewis Taylor, Ernest W. Stiff, Sylvester Craven, Samuel La Force, J. R. Winston, who are all in the service of the Chicago Great Western, northeast, west and southwest divisions. The meeting was for the purpose of giving an up-to-date railroad men's ball, but the date has not yet been set. President McNeir is on the southwest division, between Des Moines, Ia, and Minneapolis. Mr. Charley Lewis, 3158 Wabash avenue, is in the service of the Pere Marquette R. R. in the dining car department as a waiter; in other words, a roast beef "student." Mrs. E. J. Woods and Mrs. May Eva Woods, 219 West 415 street, Oelwein, Ia, headquarters for railroad men when laying off in that city, spent Sunday, May 26, in Waterloo, Ia. Prof. Hurd of the high school in Oelwein, Ia., uses the rod on bad boys and girls in his school. He would not last long in Chicago, would be Steva? Mr. William Tingmon, 3835 Armour avenue, is the colored gentleman who is shipping and getting colored men work on the road as track laborers for the Chicago Great Western. He has placed them at Dundee, I., Egan, III, Stockton, III., and at Byron, III. Mr. Tingmon's phone is Automatic 76:324. This information is for the benefit of those who desire this sort of labor and have a family to support. If you want it then see Mr. Tingmon at the above address. When it is true news you get it in the Chicago Defender. Mr. Leonard Wiggley is now in the service of the Chicago Great Western as a swing man between Des Molles, Z. Chicagoapolis, Kunans City, Mo., Joseph O. Omaha, Neb., and is now in Chicago on his relief. Mr. C. B. Butler of Chicago is not running, between Oelwein, Ia., and Omaha on cafe car 140. All railroad men subscribe for the Defender from J. R. Winston at Oelwein, Ia. 219, W. 416 street. Principal naval battles in the Civil War: Feb. 6, 1823—Ft. Henry, Tenn., captured by Commodore Foote. And did you notice in the Chicago Defender, May 25, 1012, where Attorneys Anderson and Wright captured Nashville, Tenn., at the Illinois Central station? When you leave old Chicago you are only camping out. You may go, but this Chicago water, and whitefish will bring you back to the Railroad Center. Give the Chicago Defender your honest support by subscribing for it by the year. All it costs is $1.50 in advance. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER. Sunday afternoon at Douglass Center, Mr. William Fox of Oak Park gave an interesting talk on "The Labor Unions and the Negro." Mr. Fox is a member of the Merchants' Union, but he finds cause to criticize the methods of all unions. The tendency in many to limit the membership by raising the dues is undemocratic and will react against the organization. Mr. Fox is an ardent socialist and he appealed to his listeners to study the principles of socialism, whose ranks are composed chiefly of working people, who exclude no one on account of race inherents and, like the Single Tax organization extends as friendly a welcome to the colored man as to the white. Is not this suggestion worth considering? Mrs. George Cone, teacher of the Children's Music Class at Douglass Center, spent a pleasant day at the park Saturday at a picnic. The cooking class is conducted by Miss Laura Beasley, who is teaching many useful points in economic economy. Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley spent a few days in Geneva, during the past week. The Douglass Center held a Tuesday afternoon, June 4, at 2:00 o'clock. An interesting program with illustrations in domestic economy, saving time, labor and expense, will be given Sunday afternoon, June 2, at 4 p. m. Mrs. H. H. Heller will speak on "Democracy and Education." Several musical numbers. FLUELLEN-WINSTON Although it was solemnized in the latter part of February, the marriage of Miss Hattie Fluellen and Mr. J. P. Winston has just become public. Mr. Winston, a popular business man, formerly of 33 State street, but now of 2727 Armour avenue, is the groom, while Miss Fluellen, the bride, has been married to a family residence, 3231 Dearborn street. Mr. Faulkner, the groom's life long friend, when appealed to for information, disclaimed any knowledge of the matter, but the Defender reporter learned the above facts elsewhere. REV. M'GEE DROPPED DEAD. Springfield, Ill., May 31—Hon. McGhee, who forsix years held a very important office here at the state capitol, died on Saturday. "I knt last past. It is said that he is connected with Rev. Jordan Chavis, chaplain of the Eighth Regiment, I. N. G. One of the strange things about this death is that the gentleman who preceded Mr. McGee died suddenly on Tuesday night at the same hour. THE SICK. The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care. A new rolling chair has contributed greatly to the improvement of Miss Martha Plummer, 3227 Dearborn street. "A ride every day, together with the invigorating May breezes, is better than medicine," she says. Mrs. DeMoss, mother of Mr. William DeMoss, 3647 Armour avenue, who has been ill for some time, is reported somewhat better. "Chef White," of the H hotel Del Prado ordinary, has been ill at his residence for over a week. Mrs. Jennie Lewis, 21 East 33d street, is up and about again after a severe attack of pneumonia. Little J. Gray Lucas, infant son of Attorney C. Gray and Mrs. Lucas, is vexed by the family residence, 508 East 36th street. Report is also made of the sudden illness of Mrs. America, the venerable mother of Al Hackley, of 3608 State street. M. Nathan Caldwell, 3440 Wabash avenue was operated on by Dr. Dailey last week at Wesley Hospital. He will be out in a few days. IMPORTANT NOTICE. All death notices, notices of meetings, club entertainments, resolutions etc., must be paid for, and in advance. This rule is imperative. Readers of this column will find the rates for advertising at the head of the editorial column. **tf.** Very Few Copperheads. The copperhead, although deadly venomous, seldom attains a length of more than three feet, and is, fortunately, not plentiful, comparatively few in number. Once one of the vortex habitat is a rover, the mountain woodland, and never an open meadow. A. Bas. This Cynic! A Harvard professor probably has solved the problem of how to reduce the output of feminine conversation. He says they will be more beautiful If they keep still. Haven't we a good vacancy in our diplomatic service? Since the Telephone In 1876, the year in which Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, there were no skyscrapers, no trolley cars, no electric lights, no gasoline cars, no self-binders, no bicycles nor motor cars—Magazine of American History. Only Making It Worse "You must take excercise," said the physician, "and, by all means, worry less. Play golf." "Doctor," replied the patient, "you mean well, but a man who plays my kind of a golf game can't help worrying." Why Deep Streams Run Still Deep streams run still—and why? Not because there are no obstacles, but because they altogether overflow these stones or rocks round which the shallow stream has to make its noisy way—William Smith. Learn to Be Happy. All men can learn to be happy; and the teaching of it is easy. If you live among those who daily call blessing on life, is shall not be long ere you will call blessing on yours.—Maater linn. Useless Without Understanding. We may be in the universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inking of the meaning of it all.—William James. Simple Cure for Indigestion. When suffering from indigestion drink a cup of hot water, and at once lie on the right side. This will promote the passage of the food from the stomach to the intestine. Death Notice. "Old Skads lost every cent he had in the world yesterday." "Gee! His huts will be furious." "Oh. I don't care." "He lose it?" "He did!" "Houston, Post." Happiness and Piety. Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship," so to be cheer is to worship also; and to be happy is the joy being plious—Robert Louis Stevenson. Operation Successful Agnes. "Was Emily's operation a success?" Gladys. "Glorious! She got an offer gifts, a hundred dozen and had her two hundred calls of inquiry." Life. The Elevating Touch "Don't you think music has a refining influence?" "It must have," replied Miss Cayenne. "Some of the popular songs contain language that it would be impossible to employ in any other way." A Confession. "Well," he said, "it is—let me see?—three years since we met crossing the ocean, isn't it? Are you married or no? No." she sweetly replied, "gain." Correct Answer. Teacher (in geography class)—"John, you may tell the class what a basketball club is (promptly)—Eight basketball clubs as a league."—Lippincott's Magazine. Keep on the Sunny Side Be sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. -Charles H. Ellot. Takes Divine Gift Whoever tender a gift alms takes from him the divine gift of independence. HEROIC MEASURES FOR GRIP *Night on Porch, Plunge In Cold Lake and a Walk Weighted the There was no doubt I had a bad case of it. My nose was swollen and stopped; my head was full of flannel, and felt as big as a barrel; my ears were regular fire gongs; my eyes were little leaky lakes set in fiery, swollen rings. My body ached all over, and I experienced a constant nausea. And yet I was scheduled to spend the week's end at the home of a famous poet and his wife on Lake Hopatcong, N. J. It was crisp April weather—very crisp. And I knew there would be no heat in the house save that thrown by the burning logs in the big open study fireplace; for this was supposed to be only their summer home. I reasoned that if I remained at home alone the fight against my enemy would be intolerable, since he was already inside the barracks. So I decided to inflict myself upon my friends. I went. After a lovely evening over Socrates, Shelly and the fourth dimension, I was even beyond blowing my nose. To my hostess' solicitous inquiries I replied: "No, nothing; only will you kindly let me sleep on the porch?" She looked at me meditatively for a moment—probably thinking out a suitable obituary—then produced from the depths of a window seat an assortment of comforters. After the family had retired, I undersed quickly and was soon warmly nestled under the covers on my cot in the open-air bedroom. I slept warm—almost too warm. When the April morning sun looked boldly into my face, I arose, donned a bathing suit, threw the poet's great coat about me, and raced down the hill to the lake. I shut my eyes tight and plunged in. Yes—it was cold. But after I had come out, and had plunged back again, I began to get warm. When this happened, I raced back to the house, stirred up the backlog and rubbed myself into a glow before the sputtering fire. I dressed hustily, and before the family was astir I started on a walk as fast as I could go through the woods. The exhilaration crept through my entire body, and by the time I had returned to the poet's home I no longer whigled through my nose nor contemplated suicide, but felt altogether like a normal human being, and attacked my breakfast vigorously. The "grlp" was broken—Los Angeles Times. Force of Habit Strong At the informal gambol which was given by the Chicago members of the Lambis' club recently, John Drew told of an actor who had the misfortune to fall off a ferry at night. Of course there was great confusion on board. The searchlight was turned round and round in an effort to find the man. He came up for the third time just as the light struck him, and from force of habit the actor raised himself and delivered a most ceremonious how. Then the rescuers grabbed him. The Powdering Closet When capricious fashion ruled that ladies should wear only white hair—the color supplied by nature being of no importance—the operation of putting on the powder made special arrangements necessary. These took the form of a special room or cabinet, and in every house of any pretention a small chamber was set aside for the exclusive use of powdering the hair. A curtain divided in the middle, a powdering stand to hold the bowl of powder, and possibly a stool, were all that the closet contained, and through this curtain the lady whose head was to be powdered protruded her head, and the standing powder and the "drawing" powder at her head by means of a powder puff. To preserve the eyes and complexion a mask was held to the face. Unfortunately, no illustration of a "powdering closet" seems to have been preserved. Alleged Enigram. "Will you please put in your paper an epigram I have just thought up?" asked a friend of ours who happened to be a minister of the Gospel. "We will sure," we responded, not even imposing any of the usual conditions. "Well, here it is. I have been around with a subscription paper for the benefit of a few widows and orphans and such. I won't bore you with an account of the way this paper was received by some of the pillars of church and state. I just want to tell you what inspired this epigram." "Shoot it!" we challenged. "This is it: Some folks are so busy being good themselves that they have no time to be good to others." It is an epigram, aln't it?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. New Booze "There are certain South American and African tribes that drink this snake venom," said the zoo keeper. He held a huge rattlesnake carefully by the back of the head and one hand, and in the other hand was a tiny glass cup. The rattlesnake kept striking the cup furiously, leaving each time a drop of vicious, pale brown venom. The venom was for the use of homeopathic physicians, who prescribe it in cases of lecomotor ataxia. "Yes," said the keeper, "savages drink snake venom mixed with water for two reasons—first, because they say it immunizes them from snake bite, and, second, because they get a mild and pleasant jag from it. "I understand the jag isn't violent. It's more like the stimulus of a cup of very strong, filtered coffee. It's a jag that makes you vigorous and happy." Slipping the snake back in its glass cage, he departed, balancing the cup of pale brown venom carefully. Appealing. "Do you think women approve gen- erally of the church alliance mov- ment?" "Correct, if it is a movement up the ally to the wedding march." THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Under Discipline Hammond noticed that his wife looked tired one Saturday afternoon when he returned home early from the office. When he spoke of it she admitted that she was pretty well worn out, and when he discovered that she had drowned a tear on the lap of his coat he insisted that she should take an afternoon off. "You're worn out taking care of that youngster," he said. "Now, you just trot along to the matinee or anywhere you feel like going, and I'll attend to the offspring. He needs a little masculine discipline, anyway." Mrs. Hammond demurred on the ground that she didn't want Hammond to devote all his Saturday afternoon to taking care of the baby, but Hammond was determined and eventually had his way. "You're the dearest thing that ever lived," murmured his wife, as she kissed him goodby. "But I'm afraid you'll be sorry. Baby is so—so effervescent." "Pooch!" scooffed Hammond. Then he smiled in a superior way. When he returned to the living room Hammond found his son, who was seated on a small stool and looking quite impossibly virtuous, gravely contemplating the landscape from the front window. The situation appeared easy, so Hammond sat down on the chair nearest the infant and pulled out his oldest and smallest pipe. "What do you say to having a smoke, old man?" he inquired, jocularly. "Ough!" replied the baby, approvingly. Then he squirmed off his stool and went and stood by his father's side. "Rather a good stunt, having the feminine element take itself off occasionally, hey?" Hammond inquired pleasantly, as he pushed the tobacco down into his pipe with his little finger. He laid the pipe on the arm of the chair, rose and crossed over to the mantel to get a match. "Humph!" said the baby in a murified tone. Hammond turned in time to see him cramming as much of the pipe's stem down his throat as he could conveniently insert there. However, as his father teaped toward him, he gave a chuckle, removed the pipe from his mouth, dexterously shook the contents out of his own clean little cranium, then throw the pipe upon the hearth. The sound made by the amber mouthpiece as it broke against the tiles caused baby to become fairly delirious with joy. Squealing like an ecstatic pig, he ran from the living room back into the dining room. Hammond set his lips firmly. "Now," he said to himself, "is the time to teach him the rudiments of being a law-abiding citizen." He followed the baby into the dining room, where he was sitting under the table. Hammond stooped down and spoke sternly to the chuckling miscreant. "Come out, son." he said. Son merely hitched himself farther over toward the other side of the table, shaking his head delightedly. He then ran around the room three times, dexterously avoiding the father's outstretched hand every time he passed, then suddenly stopped and threw his arms around his father's knees, shouting joyously. Hammond disengaged himself and taking his son by the hand led him back into the living room. "Pick up that pipe, young man," said Hammond, sternly. "The baby blinked at him and the corners of his lips curled upward. "I mean it," in sissy tone. "The baby responds with his familiar chuckle and capered cheerfully. "Very well," said Hammond in a tone of finality. He led his son out into the hall. "Now, will you go back and pick up the pipe?" he inquired, "or will you go into the lavatory and stay for the rest of the afternoon." For answer the baby dived into the lavatory and plunged headlong into a pile of pleasantly plump pillows that had been left on the floor to get the sun. Finding this quite soul satisfying, he presently righted himself and beamed upon his progenitor. "You'll stay here?" asked Hammond, "Very well. You can come out when you're ready to mind dady". The baby merely projected himself once more into the mass of feathers. Thereupon Hammond shut the door and went back to the living room. Three-quarters of an hour later he returned and led his son forth to the scene of battle. "Now," he said, assuming a frown that should have sent terror to the infantile heart, "pick up that pipe." The small boy looked up into his father's face and the smile faded from his own plump countenance. He dropped his father's hand and gor down slowly upon his knees. Once more he gleaned up at his father. Seeing no sign of relenting, he put out his hand slowly, picked up the pipe, struggled to his feet and, with remarkably good aim, planted the pipe upon his father's solar plexus. Then, shouting in mirth, he fled. New Foundation for Cathedral Tower. The tower, 142 meters high, of Strasburg Cathedral, rests on foundations that are nearly 650 years old, and has yet to become unsound, since for some five centuries past the dooryard has shown cracks, which are continually widening. The city that has been decided upon by an international commission of architects is rather surprising. The tower is to rest on a platform constructed of oak tree trunks capable of supporting the eight million kilos which it weighs. The cost is estimated at more than £6,000.—From the Architectural Review. Choice Locations. "The advertising man has his troubles these days." "As to how?" "He wants wants space next to pure baseball matter." New Roster of America's 469 Gives Her the Highest Honors—Boston is ignored. New York—This city claims 809 of the 469 members of the fashionable set, according to the revised list of "Who's Who" in society evoked by Charles Wilbur de Yon Nicholls, former clergyman and governor general of the National Society of Colonial Cavaliers, in his book, "The 469 Ultra-Fashionables of America." In selecting the three hundred New Yorkers, who, Mr. Nicholls says, are the occupants of the highest pool. Mrs. Ogden Mills, 8r. tions obtainable at the inner shore of fashionable life in America, the author absolutely ignores Pittsburgh, Chicago and Boston, the home of culture and refinement, as social centers of this country. The highest pinnacle in the leadership of New York society is conferred by Mrs. Nicholas upon Mrs. Ogden Mills, Sr., who, since the death of Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, has assumed complete leadership here. Sach persons as Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Morgan, St. and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Morgan, St. and John D. Rockefeller and John B. D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Edwin Hiriman, members of the Poll family and various others equally as widely known are not mentioned among the "463." The author explained the omission by saying that in compiling his list he had kept as close as possible to persons whose names have figured in times gone by as entertainers. Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rockefeller and the others, he explained, did not go in for entertaining to any lavish extent, and therefore could not be included as social leaders. *Philadelphia* Mr. Nicholls gives a place in his list to thirty-two persons. Many persons, otherwise generally recognized as members of the set, are omitted by the author because of their manners. He explains that he does not mean to imply they are without them entirely, yet he is certain their etiquette does not permit them Home of Mrs. Mills. to occupy prominent social positions. Those, he said, he had placed in another category, or a "waiting list." A few more steps and a little polishing, he averred, would entitle them to a place in a late revision of the "469." IS NEW YORK'S OLDEST HOUSE Building at 122 William Street Erected About 220 Years Ago—First Blood of War Shed Here. New York—Attention is called in the latest number of the Real Estate Board of Brokers Bulletin to the building at 122 William street, which is said to be the oldest building in New York city. It was built in 1692 or thereabouts, of narrow Dutch brick imported from Holland and laid in cement. When the city opened the streets in the vicinity of the William street building it owned the property and placed restrictions in the deeds, such as some modern developers make, that the lots should be improved with buildings at least two stories high. There is a shed in the rear of the building which, the Bulletin says, marks the spot of first bloodshed in the Revolutionary War. This section, then known as Golden Hill, was the camp of the Sixteenth regiment of Foot (British Grenadiers), and almost two months before the battle of Lexington the Sons of Liberty attacked them, with a result of five British soldiers wounded and one American killed and three wounded. The event is down in history as the battle of Golden Hill. The building is on the east side of William street between John and Fulton streets. It has been owned for many years by the Glifford family. Auctlons Hla Mustache Murrayville, Ill.-George McAllister sacrificed his long, silky mustache for ten dollars, auctioning it to the highest bidder to boost the building fund of the local Methodist church. Sees Blower of Worms Bergen Point, N. J.—During a storm a shower of sand worms fell upon the deck of the ferryboat Bayonne City. Capt. William Duffy swears it's true. GREAT SUMMER EXCURSION TO THE See for yourself what's in nature. So join WHITE'S personally conducted Excursion From July 14,'12 Chicago, Illinois to the Pacific Coast. 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 ROUND TRIP FROM CHICAGO First Class Sleeper $228.75 Tourist Sleeper $195.85 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 Rv, passing through the Canyon of the Grand River for both locations. Lake City, Denver, Colorado Springs, Kansas City and St. Louis. C. T. WHITE 3159 State Street, Chicago Defender Office R. S. ABBOTT, Chicago Representative DEATHS OF THE WEEK Barber, Frances C., 58 years, 3020 La Salle; May 26 Barber, May, 22 years, 1617 Fulton St.; May 21 Davis, Locetta, 32 years, 3133 Wabash Dickerson, Albert C., 25 years, 2958 La Salle; May 21 Halverson, Hills, 65 years, 3142 La Salle; May 21 Johnson, Wm., 40 years, Evanson, Ill.; May 21 Johnson, Richard, 65 years, 325 N. Campb bell; May 22 Johnson, Jamie, 23 years, 5032 W. Lake; May 22 Reed, Isaac J., 47 years, 4394 Vernon Wells, Hattie, 42 years, 2940 State St.; May 22 Watson, Thomas, 53 years, 3034 Dearborn; May 22 Watson, Mary S., 1904 W. Lake; May 21 Young, Ellen, 35 years, 4536 Dearborn; May 26 A CARD OF THANKS. We wish to extend our most sincere thanks to the many friends who were so kind and attentive to us during the recent illness and death of our father, Mr. T. W. Walker, who departed this life May 22, 1912, and Mrs. W. B. Williams, 3830 Dearborn street. U. S. Dentistry Abroad. "An American at home, with or without toothache, is not much affected by the sign, 'Painless Dentistry, but at sight of it in a foreign land he thrills pleasurably.' a traveler said 'I its lure is not professional. Every tooth in his head may be perfectly sound, yet if stranded and homeschie he welcomes that sign because all over Europe it is a sure indication that somewhere in the neighborhood lives a citizen of the United States From the northernmost towns of Norway and Sweden to the boundaries of Sakura andwords 'Painless dentistry are likely to be in the eye at the most unexpected time. Finally they are followed or preceded by 'American,' but that qualifying term is entirely unnecessary." Daily Thought. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Rubber Dust in New York. An analysis shows that 12 per cent. of the street dust in New York city is pulverized rubber. Procrastination WAKE UP! WAKE UP! 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Dempcy Stenographer & Typist Instruction at Reasonable Rates 3716 Dearborn St. :: Chicago, Ill. The New Bedford Hotel 2 Blocks South Michigan Central Depot. Nearly Furnished Room By the Day of Week 116 WEST WATER STREET J. N. BEDFORD Telephone 1872R Kalamazoo, Mich. Smith & Sons Restaurant and Lunch Room Extra Fine Home Cooking DENTIST City Churches—Religious News REV. RANSOM PREACHES / BETHEL. Rev. R. C. Ransom, former pastor of Bethel, and the Institutional church, occupied the pulpit at Bethel Sunday morning. The distinguished pulpit orator was greeted by a packed house, that listened with interest to his masterly sermon. --- Rev. Ransom's appointment as editor of the A. M. E. Review, was the cause for congratulations by his many friends. Together with Mrs. Ransom who accompanied him, they held a continuous reception at the close of the service that practically meant the shaking of everyone's hand. Rev. Roberts, the pastor, was warmly welcomed and delighted his members by telling them how pleased he was to be with them again. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH "Tom Thumb" wedding, under the auspices of the Ways and Means society and the direction of Mrs. Dr. Officer, will take place June 7 at the church. The Ways and Means deserves the support of all well wishers of the church as they are endeavoring to raise $1,000 toward the building and improvement fund this year. The congregation last Sunday morning were favored with a solo, "The Pharisee and the Publican," ably sung by Mr. Hackney. Remember Children's day. ADVICE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Pertinent Hints for Your Benefit During the Summer Time. 1 Good habits make for good health. The outdoor season is here. Make the most of it. Now is the time to suit your diet to the season. From now on until the coming of cold weather you will need less meats and rich gravies and can make larger use of fruits and vegetables. ! Butternilk is a good summer drink. Try it and see. During the summer months, especially, we should drink an abundance of water. Many people make the mistake of drinking too little water at all times. But in warm weather more water is needed to keep body functions properly working and to maintain physical health and vigor. Keep on eye on that vacant lot and see to it that it is not used as a public dumping ground by your neighbors. ! And about the fly nuisance. Are you taking any sort of practical interest in its suppression? It not, why not? Have you tried the trolley? This sort of weather is fine for trolley rides. It is good for city people to get out into the open under God's sun and sky. Ten cents will take you a big ride far beyond the city limits. So fix up a basket of lunch and spend the Saturday half-holiday in the outlying suburbs. The outing will do you good. Then, do not overlook the city parks. They are in their beauty just now, and if you can't get to the country, why, do the next best thing and visit the parks. The point is, get out of doors and stay out all you can. SCHOOL BOY DISCOURAGED. Wins Oratorical Contest, But Was Not Allowed to Represent School in the South. Danville, Ill., May 31. (Special to Chicago Defender)—From a young and ambitious high school student here comes the following wall. After years of endeavor and with the honors in view his color has put him out: "I attended the high school here and they gave an oratorical contest for scholar who should represent this part of the state in the oratorical contest during the interscholastic meet which was held at Charleston, May 11. For some unknown reason the judges awarded me first place. This meant that I should represent Eastern Illinois at Charleston. Of the five hundred students that attend this school only four were colored. Well, you can well imagine how the White students felt when it was reported that a Negro was to represent their school. There were several meetings of the students and a committee was appointed to see me and they tried to get me to withdraw. They even tried to bribe me. Of course I held my own. Well, to make a long story short, I would not withdraw. Things went along pretty steadily. Monday, May 6, the principal called me into his office and asked me how I was getting along with my preparations for Charleston. I told him, all right, so far. He then showed me in the school constitution where it was a violation to send a person to represent a school who was not up in all of their daily work. He told me that the teachers had informed him that I was down in my daily work, which I am glad to say, was untrue. I knew then that that was only a echeme to keep me from going to Charleston. I then told him it was immaterial to me whether I went or not. I decided that I would not go to school here any more because they had done me such an underhanded trick to keep me from my honors. I therefore quit and don't intend to go to school here any more. The entire city is wrought up over this pathetic case and the matter is sent to you in hopes that a wider publicity will tend to prevent a repetition of such cases. --- Not In the Contract. "Have you anything to say for yourself?" "Not unless I can get a rebate from my lawyer, judge; I have paid him good money to talk for me, and I won't do his work for nothing." Munchausen Tells About a Bit of Sprinting He Witnessed In Scotland. "Talkin' about runnin'," remarked Hon. Anatas Munchausen, "about the finest bit of sprintin' I ever saw was up in Scotland the shootin' season before last. I'd been out all day deershootin', and had had most awful luck when I spiced a whoppin' great buck about eighteen hundred yards away. Takin' a careful sight, I let fly. But, bless your soul, the instant my bullet touched him, and before it had time to penetrate his hide, that beast was off like a flash! "I never saw two such evenly matched things as that deer and my bullet. For over half a mile they sped on together, neither gainin' on the other, the bullet just managin' to keep in touch with the deer's skin. At the end of a mile, however, the pace began to tell on the deer, and he faltered just for a moment. "Twas fatal. The bullet sped on, and the poor beast keeled over. He deserved his freedom if ever an animal did. He'd have got it, too, if he could have stuck out for another twenty yards, for that's about as far as my rifle carries." Losing a King. One of our naval officers tells of an incident that occurred when an American war vessel was lying at anchor in a European port, on which occasion it was visited by a monarch and his suite. One of the members of this suite, resplendent in gold lace and decorations, with a big sword at his side and sporting a huge mustache, was exploring the ship, and, being ignorant of things nautical, had leashed against the main-hatch windsail, mistaking it for a mast. Of what ensued the officer of the deck was informed by the boat-swain's mate, who had逃脱 the catastrophe and who broke the news of it thus: "You will excuse me, sir, but I think one of them kings has fell down the main hatch, sir."—Harper's Magazine Some Time to Wait. One evening an Irishman chanced to drop into a quiet meeting house of the Quakers, and being rather astonished as to what manner of place it was, resolved to remain quiet and listen. He behaved with remarkable decorum until a broad brim, no doubt moved by the spirit, informed his hearser: "I have married a wife," evidently being about to use this as a text. Pat was excited and called out "The divil ye have." This interruption rather confused the young man, but he continued: "I have married a daughter of the Lord." This was too much for our Emerald islander, who exclaimed: "Sit down ye spalpeen! I'll be a long time be fore ye see your father-in-law." Lake Minnewauke, Near Baniff, Another Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Great Glacier on Mr. C. T. White's Display Ad on Another Page and Lake Minnewauke, Near Baniff, Another Splendid View on Mr. C. T. White's Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Send for Illustrated Literature. Creat Glacier on Mr. C. T. White's Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Read Display Ad on Another Page and Call and Talk with Him About It. ```markdown ``` Illsillewaste Valley, Mr. White Expl Visited Here Illisillewaste Valley, Mr. White Explains Every Interesting Point, Having Visited Here. Several Times. Illisillewaste Valley, Mr. White Explains Every Interesting Point, Having Visited Here. Several Times. SKUNK'S WEAPON OF DEFENSE So Awful is the Effects of Its Spray That No Living Thing Will Attack it. The skunk is about the size of a large cat, and so awful is the effects of its spray that no living thing, unless by mistake, will attack it, and in consequence it is quite fearless, and will hardly get out of the way of man. Mr. Hudson, who has had experience of it in South America, tells of how a foolish eagle vulture, pressed by hunger, tried to seize the menacing tail, but immediately afterwards began staggering about with disheveled plumage, tearful eyes and a profuse woebegone expression on its vulture face. After a dog has once experienced those few dreadful drops of perfume, it will hardly ever be induced to attack the little hand again. But if, after much persuasion and banter, a poor canine, bolder than the average, is urged to the attack, and can seize the skunk by the back, then the victory may lie with the dog, but if the spray reaches the dog before it can do this, it will fall down as if shot, and not recover for days. A drop on a man's coat will render it quite useless for further wear. For the preservation of life man has developed brain, the elephant its tusks, the tiger its claws and teeth, the deer its fleetness of foot, the snake its poison, the stinging nettle its sting, the bush its thorn and the skunk its drops of horrible odor, so powerful that it tortures the olfactory nerves past endurance, and pervades the whole system like a pestilent ether, nauseating one, until sea-sickness seems almost a pleasant sensation in comparison. Getting It All The doctor told him he needed carbohydrates, protels, and, above all, something nitrogenous. The doctor mentioned a long list of foods for him to eat. He staggered out and wabbed into a Penn avenue restaurant. "How about beefsteak?" he asked the waiter. "Is that nitrogenous?" The waiter didn't know. "Are fried potatoes rich in carbohydrates or not?" The waiter couldn't say. "Well, I'll fix it," declared the poor man in despair. "Bring me a large plate of hash."—Pittsburgh Post. Laborer Elnda Old Colns A laborer working on the Jericho turnipke at Commack, L. I, dug up a bag of old coins. Within a minute other diggers were fighting for possession of the coins. The bag was rescued, with half its contents gone, by William O'Brien, foreman of the gang. Some of the coins were dated 1752. None was of earlier date than the early part of the eighteenth century. Folly and Wisdom A fool always wants to shorten space and time; a wise man wants to lengthen both.—Ruskin. Why Can't They Keep Quiet? Why should they keep quiet? The trouble with most men who make fools of themselves is that they insist on calling public attention to it. r Splendid View on Mr. C. T. White's Send for Illustrated Literature. Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Read Call and Talk with Him About It. ains Every Interesting Point, Having Several Times. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER NSE pray of a ects un- d in and man. once w a un- tail, organ sealed use- ture anced me, at after poor GUES WH GUESS WHO? Oh you A. W. you were always a winner with the fair sex, but last Sunday's walk along Stroll was peaches. Oh, you little Arthur. W. is of 50th and Dearborn streets. W. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISERS FURNISHED ROOMS FOR TRAIL STRANGERS AND RESIDENTS who want Rooms with Reliable Families can save time and worry by consulting - M. W. PONDER, Roaming Agent 3356 Calent Ave. Phone Abline 1016 This Service Free to Applicants 3316 FOREST AVE—Top flat; furnished room for single man or woman. Tel. Auto 79-604-R-1-8 3340 VERNON AVE—Large front room (alcave) for man and wife or two gentlemen; also single room; furnished or unfitted; all conveniences; one block from car line. NEATLY FURNISHED ROOM with modern improvements in desirable part of house. Number: 3638 Forest a.e., or phone Aurele 3363. 3532 VERNON AVEN. floor—nosey furnished room, private family, for one or two men. 1-8 3229 COTTAGE GROVE AVE.—Two neat bedrooms, one parlor bedroom; hot water year around; on car line; well lighted. Phone 4765 Douglas. 1-8 FOR RENT—Furnished, a fine front room in modern; kitchen privilege. 3436 Nervous Ave. NEATLY FURNISHED rooms, with modern improvements, hot and cold water year around, 3 min. to 35th St. car line. Auto 73-643. 3541 Prairie Ave. 25-1 3756 INDIANA AVE.—High class furniture for light housekeeping and singles for light housekeeping and bath, two phones, steam heat, hot water, no canning, Phone 1611 Doug. 71-938 Auto. 25-1 3632% FOREST AVE.—High lighted, warm heat, large furnished room. Phone 388 Alding. 25-1 3249 WABE AVE. 2nd Apartment. Newly and neatly furnished, steam heat, hot water. Phone 2049 Douglas. 25-1 3224 FOREST AVE. 2nd Flat—Nicely furnished, all modern conveniences. Call any time. 25-1 3152 FOREST AVE.—Nice front room, 6 baths, every modern, brick building; rent $15.00. Apply at Defender Office. 25-1 **PLAT TO RENT.** 5340-3342 DEARBORN ST.—Nice 6-room flat and bath, nice neighborhood, brick building; rent $15.00. Apply at Defender Office. 25-1 **HOUSE TO RENT.** 3312 Wabash Ave. Handsome brown stone front house, 20 large light housekeeping, convenient, excellent for hotel or room purposes. W. H. BOWERS & CO., 6 E. 315 St. Douglas 986; Auto. 73-220. Open Evenings. 3129 Cottage Grove Ave. 6 rooms. $22.00 3128 Lake Ave. 6 rooms. 22.50 3128 Lake Ave. 3104. 22.50 3129 Cottage Grove Ave. store. 22.00 CHICAGO REALT & RENTING CO., 90 Washington Telephone Rand. 3237. 4046 INDIANA AVE.-Neatly furnished rooms to rent all modern conveniences, convenient to South Side "I" trains and Indiana car line. Phone 6248 Drexel. 11 W. H. BOWE REAL ESTATE, RENTING POWERING AND ENTING AN W. H. BOWERS & CO. FOR RENT HOUSES. 3182 Groveland Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, k. 3183 vernon Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, mod. 3254 Kensington Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat. 3294 galumet Ave.—14 rooms, stone heat, bath. FLATS-STEM H 4329 Firrestville Ave.—1st fl. 7 rooms, modern. 4329 Firrestville Ave.—2d fl. 7 rooms, modern. 4329 Firrestville Ave.—3d fl. 7 rooms, modern. 4322 Rhodes Ave.—1st fl. 4 rooms, modern, B. FOR RENT. HOUSES. s, furnace heat, key M n furnace heat, modern, k furnace heat, modern, steve heat, bath, 2322, LASTS SUDAN HEAT 7 rooms, modern, M C 7 rooms, modern, M C 7 rooms, modern, M C rooms, modern, B. O. 3152 Groveland Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, key Mo. $40.00 3153 Groveland Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, modern, key Mo. $47.50 3154 Rhodes Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, modern, key Mo. $47.50 3155 Rhodes Ave.—10 rooms, furnace heat, modern, key Mo. $47.50 3224 Galumet Ave.—14 rooms, stove heat, bath, 2322. $35.00 3224 Galumet Ave.—14 rooms, stove heat, bath, 2322. $35.00 3224 Galumet Ave.—14 rooms, stove heat, bath, 2322. $35.00 3229 Presterville Ave.—1st flr. 7 rooms, modern, M O. $40.00 3229 Presterville Ave.—2d flr. 7 rooms, modern, M O. $40.00 3229 Presterville Ave.—3d flr. 7 rooms, modern, M O. $40.00 3229 Rhbides Ave.—1st flr. 4 rooms, modern, B O. $18.00 UNHEATED FLATS. "Seagumite" is the name given to the new seaweed vulcate of J. S. Campbell, London chemist. It is proof against heat, cold, oils and the weather, and is recommended asan electric insulator, and a material air belting, steam packing, vehicle tires and even for shoes. Daily Thought. Just go on with your daily taks, doing the best you can in your circumstances and wait for God's time—J. R. Miller. --- Tel. 985-989 Douglas Given Appropriaté Name Dally Thought. took his girl to a dance last week, but because another fellow spoke to her on the way home he had "cold feet" and tried to run away. Be a soldier like your uncle, W. 2859 State st. 2 neatly furnished rooms for 2 married couples; all modern con- tainer way, home he had "cold feet" and warm, electric, high light room; convenient to all churches and depar- sion. Phone 1339 Calumet; 75-111 Auto.— 85-25-1 LANGLEY AVE. 3806—Nicely furnished rooms with use of kitchen and dining room. Couples preferred. Tel. Douglas 5334. TO RENT—3312 Wabash Ave. Handpone brown stone front house, 20 large light rooms, 8 baths, every modern convenience, W. H. Bowers & Co. or rooming purposes. W. H. Bowers & Co. E. High St. Open evenings. Douglas 986. Td. 72-20. 3434 VERNON AVE. To rent, beautiful furnished rooms with housekeeping privileges; modern, reasonable, M. M. T. Washington. 13-4 CALUMET AVE. 3611½—Nicely furnished rooms, furnace heat, hot water. Automatic phone 71-745. TO RENT - 3312 Wabash Ave. Handsoff brown stone front house, 20 large light conveniences, excellent for hotel or posses. W. H. Bowers & Co., 6. E. 31st St. Open evenings. Tel. Douglas 926; Auto. 73-220. STORE TO RENT. One-half of store to rent with modern conveniences, 3223 State St. Call or write Mme. Winchester, phone Douglas 2411. JESSE BINGA, BANKER, Photos: 0726, 7126, 1555 The Overton-Hygienic Mfg. Go. PRESENTS TO CHICAGO High Brown De Luxe Face Powder Made especially for you - 50c RO ZOL The face bleach that will bleach 25c ADA POMADE The perfect hair dressing - 25c PU-RE To destroy perspiration odors 25c For sale at all first-class drug stores; Agent wanted everywhere. WE MANUFACTURE ALL OUR GOODS Phone Normal 6114 552-54 STATE ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS VERS & CO. LING AND INSURANCE Mrs. Post—"Your old waitress is working for us now." Mrs. Parker—"Hm! That's more than she ever did at our house."—Harper's Bazar. Judgment of a Nation. 'A nation should be judged, if we can judge nations, not by its wealth, or its population, or its military or naval power, real or apparent, but it should be judged by the opportunity it gives men to make their lives—David Starr Jordan. FOR RENT Automatic 73-220 New Record. M. B. LET US CATER TO The Peoples High THE STORE We can save you from 25c to 50c to order—We strive to please. LIZZIE M. McKAY, Telephone, Au The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M. FINEST THEATRE 3110-12 State St., Performers Send in LET US CATER TO YOUR WANT The Peoples High Class Mine THE STORE OF QUALITY Save you from 25c to 50c on every purchase- We strive to please. E M. McKAY, 3151 So. State Telephone, Automatic 75-522 The New Grand Famous Vaudeville and Moving Picture Range of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 22 State St., Chica Performers Send in Your Open Time LaVerdo Cafe and B (Gafe Newly Opened) LET US CATER TO YOUR WANTS The Peoples High Class Millinery THE STORE OF QUALITY We can save you from 25c to 50c on every purchase—Hats made to order—We strive to please. LIZZIE M. McKAY, 3151 So. State Street Telephone, Automatic 75-522 Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 3110-12 State St., Chicago, Ill. Performers Send in Your Open Time The LaVerdo Cafe and B (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection. High Clean HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors American Restaurant in Connection. High Class HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection. High Class Entertainment HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors ..Star.. Employment Office Private Waiting Parlor for Ladies Lounging Room for Men M. WINCHESTER 3222 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 2411 EDWARD FELIX ICE CREAM PHONE DOU Milk, Cream, Stationery, Con- Newspapers, Bread, Cakes as We give Fish and Weber Stars 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 compl Tel. Douglas 2928 General M to all parts When the Br Undertakes a She can't make a mistake unless Her printed instructions tell her ju- And just how long each sort of fo- The temperature dial on the oven turned the fire to the right not The clock tells her when to take E CREAM PARK PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Glass newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying O le give Fish and Weber Stamps with Greocries, Ice Gri and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Goum RD FELIX :: :: 52 W. Edw. Felix's Hairdressing lands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Tran ent, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of lands and nails. A complete line of toilet art. Douglas 2928 General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country. When the Bride of 18 dertakes a Big Dirt can't make a mistake unless she falls asleep. Printed instructions tell her just how hot the oven shou just how long each sort of food should cook. Temperature dial on the oven door tells her when she he led the fire to the right notch. Clock tells her when to take the food out. Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying A.M. We give Fish and Weber Stamps with Grecorries, Ice Cream and Sodas. A First-Glass Laundry Agency in Spartanburg. When the Bride of 1912 Undertakes a Big Dinner She can't make a mistake unless she falls asleep. Her printed instructions tell her just how hot the oven should be. And just how long each sort of food should cook. The temperature dial on the oven door tells her when she has turned the fire to the right notch. The clock tells her when to take the food out. To make success doubly certain she can watch the whole process of cooking through the glass oven windows. The roast will be done to a turn in the lower oven while the same fire is cooking the rolls, potatoes and pudding in the upper oven. Thus has this new type of gas range taken all the mystery, all the guess, all the uncertainty and most of the science out of the actual cooking of a dinner. The type of range that has brought about this revolution in cooking is The "Composite" Range We carry a stock of 40,000 in 50 styles but tion is No. 18-39 in our new spring cat- phase of the gas range question. Write us today to mail you a copy, or best for yourself all fifty styles of "Composite monthly payment plan at any of our stock The Peoples Gas Light and Coko Company lock of 40,000 in 50 styles built to our order. The one-8-39 in our new spring catalog—a complete text book, gas range question. to mail you a copy, or better still, make a call all fifty styles of "Composite" ranges side by side. Onement plan at any of our stores or at our big sars Gas Light and Coko Company, Peoples Gas Bull? We carry a stock of 40,000 in 50 styles built to our order. The one in the illustration is No. 18-39 in our new spring catalog—a complete text book covering every phase of the gas range question. Write us today to mail you a copy, or better still, make a call for yourself all fifty styles of "Composite" ranges side by side on our monthly payment plan at any of our stores or at our big sale. The Peoples Gas Light and Coko Company, Peoples Gas Build. Phone Douglas 4432 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 R TO YOUR WANTS High Class Millinery STE OF QUALITY to 50c on every purchase—Hats made Y, 3151 So. State Street Automatic 75-522 New Grand Mille and Moving Pictures Monday and Thursday STRE IN AMERICA Chicago, Ill. d in Your Open Time Cafe and Buffet (newly Opened) Connection. High Class Entertainment KELLY, Proprietors Wanted! Men and Women for All Kinds of Laboring Work. Butlers, Porters, Walters and Cooks. General House Work for Women Cooks, Maids, Laundresses. IN AND OUT OF THE CITY AM PARLOR DOUGLAS 2928 Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, and Pies. Before buying O Ma. Stamps with Grecorries, Ice Gream Laundry Agency in Gonnetton. 52 W. 30th St. Hairdressing Parlor of Hairdressing, Scalp Treat- der. Special care takes of the complete lines of toilet articles. Mail Order Business parts of the country. 52 W. 30th St. Bride of 1912 a Big Dinner less she falls asleep. or just how hot the oven should be. if food should cook. even door tells her when she has notch. like the food out. like the food out. built to our order. The one in the illustration catalog—a complete text book covering every better still, make a cal site" ranges side by side in our stores or at our big sas company, Peoples Gas Built? Automatisch Phone 71804 The Defender Issued Weekly by Chicago Defender Pub- lishing and Printing Company. Founded May 6, 1905. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. One Year . $1.55 Six Months . 1.60 Three Months . 0.75 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT. One Inch, one time . $1.55 Special rates given on large or long standing ads. o Jutius N. Avendorph, Society Editor. Fon, Holly, Concoiston. Telephone Douglas 3339. Inward as second-class master, February 1, 1964, of the Postoffice in Chicago, III. unde L of March 3, 1879. * Larger Circulation than all the other weeklies combined. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Births, Bathothals, Marriages and Deaths of the Public $1.00 Complimentary and Obituary Reso. Wants ad, each $.50 Wants ad, each $.50 Rates for Display Advertisements furnished on application. Classified. Please give both the old and new address; and in writing the paper always be careful to give both the Postoffice and Postoffice, as well as sign name. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1912. COURT GENERAL ROBERT BLIOTT No. 7285. Ancient Order of Foresters, manufacturing firearms and ammunition day night in each month at Odd Fallow' Hall, 2387 State street. Lodge Owner. Chief Ranger, Vilma, 5140 Dearborn broad street, phone 5101 Drax. 5140 Dearborn street, phone 5101 Drax. Treasurer, Frank L. Atticen, Dearborn street, phone 5101 Calumet. SAVED! The boy stood on the railroad truck, the train was coming fast. Straw hats are noticeable by their scarcity. Coal is to be higher, but it won't touch us for a few months yet. Don't forget that LaFollette still has his hat in the ring. Is it because the suffragettes are so homely that wherever they go they break windows? Now that all the amusement parks are open there is no excuse for loafing on State street. That bugbear, "social equality," does not affect labor organizations; therefore there is no real good excuse for keeping any race from joining. And now the garment workers have gone on a strike. Console yourself with the thought that as this is a backward season you will not need any spring clothes, anyway. From Tennessee comes the report of more lynchings. This would be a good time to put up a southern gentleman for the presidency—if we wanted another civil war. It might be a good plan to have the patrol wagon, like the dog catchers' wagons, make a detour of some of our streets where crime is prevalent, merely as a warning. President Taft has something up his sleeve. He says he will spring it on his arrival. We hope it is not a jack-knife, as that is one of the weapons used in hunting Teddies. When the southern gentlemen work up such nerve as to have the historic monument of Christus Attucks removed from the Boston Common, the Negro may expect at any time to be placed in bondage by them. If Roosevelt is elected Col. Watterson sees all kinds of disaster for the country. We're afraid it will have to come, as Teddy insists that he will be the next occupant of the chair—and he generally gets what he wants. The Negroes in Cuba demand recognition politically on the ground that they compose 85 per cent of the revolutionary armies. Looking at the situation from this viewpoint it would seem that they are wasting time demanding. Why not do some taking? There are so many men and women working in the loop district who, to use the vernacular of the street, are "passing," that some laquacious wag has suggested that a home coming picnic be given. No doubt there would be some funny sights. What would happen to the Negro in the south if he voted the Democratic ticket? There has been much discussion of late on this subject and the editor of The Defender should like some expressions from the readers on the subject. Make your articles short and to the point. The strike situation remains about the same. In the meantime some of our big dallies are finding it a hard matter to keep their heads above water. There is an old adage that says, "It an ill wind that blows nobody good." The World," formerly the Socialist's paper, is going forward by leaps and bounds, and gives promise to a naval aviator who seems to be in sympathy with the atrikers, and doubly so because they showed a willingness to arbitrate. The newspaper magnates could not see it that way and propose to do as they have done in California's largest city. Something must happen, and happen soon. The strike is not only affecting the newspapers but affecting all lines of business. It is surprising the number of vacant dats and houses west of State street, and yet the reason is simple enough—better accommodations for practically the same rent. There was a time when the owners of property on Dearborn street or Armour avenue laughed at the idea of spending any money to make the places habitable. Living places were so scarce for a certain element of people that they were glad to take anything at any price. But times have changed; the need for appropriate apartments are open to our people and the thrifty landlord finds it a paying investment to cater to us. Living under more sanitary conditions will do much to prove that tuberculosis, instead of being always hereditary, is often a case of environments. Hon. S. A. Reddenbery, representative from Georgia, offered an amendment to the pension bill, as follows: "Provided, That after July 1, 1912, no pension under this act or any other act, general or special, shall be paid to a pensioner of African descent until such time as all inmates of National Soldiers' Homes of African descent are consolidated, removed and domiciled in a National Soldiers' Home at a place separate and apart from any other such home occupied by any other soldiers and veterans of the civil war or other wars. Provided further, That after July 1, 1912, all inmates of National Soldiers' Homes of African descent shall be domiciled at a distinctly separate home maintained exclusively for such inmates." It took our own Hon. Martin B. Madden to answer this narrow misrepresentative of justice who halls, as one might suppose, from below the Mason and Dixon line. In another part of the paper we reprint Hon. Martin B. Madden's reply, and as that covers the ground so completely, we refrain from commenting further on the subject. Rennold Wolf, one of the best theatrical writers we have, gives in the June "Green Book" a real life story of Bert Williams, who has the distinction of being the most modest actor in America. Mr. Wolf says: "Bert Williams, black though he be, is deemed by many experts the greatest of all our comedians—the greatest in face of obstacles such as no white player ever has been required to meet. And because he is what he is, a black, and because there still exists an undeniable prejudice against his race, both in professional and private circles, less is known of him off the stage than of any of our really great actors." Mr. Williams has won his fame and good fortune by the sweat of his brow. True, he had talent, but of what use is talent if there is no way of showing it? A man of color must needs do everything better than his white competitor to receive notice or credit. He was modest, unmotivive, took advantage of every opportunity and prepared himself, when the opportunity did present itself, to make good. The season spent at the head of Ziegfeld's Follies, one of the largest and most popular organizations on the road, simply emphasized the fact that he stands alone in the world of high class comedy. BLACK BREAD OF GUETERSLOH How Bismarck' Started Craze for Westphalanian Pumpernickel and Made Fortune of Bakers. Guetersloh was a town of some fifteen hundred inhabitants some eighty years ago when, one day during the maneuvers, a young lieutenant took up his quarters there. This lieutenant came from Pomerania, where they also make black broad of fine quality, but better the peculiar flavor of the Westphalia article. His name was Bismarck. In the year 1870 Bismarck was again traveling through Guetersloh, this time as chancellor. King William was with him. When the train stopped the prime minister called out genially to the crowd that had come to meet them: "Is there any one who can get us some pumpernickel with butter?" As a number of reporters were present when this query was made the fortune of the Guetersloth black bread was made, and it speedily became the fashion all over Germany. The craze for Westphallian pumminelick spread far and wide, cunningly furthered by the bakers who now baked for export only small one-pound loaves, for the purpose of making it look "more like a delicatessen" as they say. The bakers of Guetersloth were kindly wise, for from the same kernish bread, there go into the oven first. The bread (caramel of these that go to the farmhouse often weighing half a hundredweight) and then, shaped of what is left, the tiny loaves that are wrapped in paper and exported to all parts of the world to be sold at a delicatessen. Brief Wills Probably the briefest document ever probated as a will was a signed and dated memorandum, "Everything is Louis," written by decedent in a railway train record book kept by him; his widows' name being Lula. The instrument was held to be sufficient as a holographic will, however, in Smith v. Smith, 70 Southeastern Reporter, 491, by the Virginia supreme court of appeals. A note reading: "Dear Old Nance: I wish to give you my watch, two shawls, and also $5,000. Your old friend, E. A. Gordon"—was sustained as a will in Clark v. Ransom, 50 California, 505; and a dated and signed memorandum, "Mrs. Sophie Looper is my heirs," was upheld in Succession of Shrenberg, 21 Louisiana Annual, 280—The Docket. Glaciers Caused by Milky Way Another suggested cause of glacial periods is that they have been due to the shifting of the milky way, such as is known to have occurred. Assuming that much of the earth's heat comes from the stars, Dr. Rudolf Spitaler finds that the change of position in relation to the milky way might have given a different distribution of temperature from that existing at the present time. The stars are not only crowded in the region of the milky way but many of them are of the hottest type. From Our Exchauges STOP IT. (The Conservative Counselor.) (The Conservative Counsel.) The word Negro may be used when applied to the race, but never to individuals. The best newspapers of the race and the best class of ministers and leading men never use the word Negro in a loose sense as so many are doing to our utter undoing. Stop it. KINDLY ANSWER. ' (The St. Louis Argus.) What are you doing to help furnish a job for your boy or girl? An opportunity to earn an honest living might citizen or a virtuous woman of those who would otherwise go astray. A PLEA FOR THE LAYMAN. (The Kansas City Sun.) One mistake led by lawyers and presidents is the preference shown for lawyers in selecting public officials. Lawyers, as a rule, may be best qualified to hold responsible public positions, but they should not be regarded as the men best entitled to appointment. In this country the men of affairs, as a rule, make the most faithful and effective officials. Give the layman a chance. The lawyer can find one for himself. PLOW AROUND IT. What President Lincoln said or wrote to his Generals was often amusingly pat. When a seemingly insurmountable obstacle checked the advance of one of the armies his illusion was: "Weil, if you can't plow through the log, perhaps you can plow around it."—Ex. THE THING THAT COUNTS. Reports show that in 1911 the value of property on which Negroes paid taxes was: In Arkansas, $20,500,000; in Georgia, $23,541,437; in North Carolina, $28,600,000; in Virginia, $27,000; in Florida, $26,000; in total value of property owned by Negroes in the United States is estimated to be about $600,000,000.—Ex. SOMETHING NEW IN PREJUDICE (Louisville News.) Along with the changes of styles in clothes, millinery, etc., comes something new in the line of prejudice. That a new addition to the city's progress in the shape of a great skyscraper should bring with it a new form of prejudice is greatly to be regretted. The Reality building at Center and Jefferson is a sign of progress which gladdens the hearts of all good citizens, and colored people are in that category. But the treatment of colored people who enter it on business is a sign of retrogression. That at this late day anything of that nature should be even thought of, much less practiced, is a thing to arouse thinking colored people. Even though matters may be straightened out and smoothed over, it will not soon be forgotten that the refusal of elevator service to colored people was first proposed by the authorities of that building. As far as we can learn no one actually gave the order to refuse colored people such service, but it does not stand to reason that an ordinary elevator man would take it on himself to tell anybody to "use the stairs." Somebody gave that order and to that somebody belongs the honor and the credit of suggesting something new. It is a healthy sign that the colored people are indignant and resent this treatment. As far as we can learn there is not a building in the city that ever proposed such a rule. If this goes by without protest and resentment, we may expect to be told to get off the sidewalk or stay out of the parks or some other extreme southern regulation. The man who proposed this rule, though it be withdrawn, is mighty little in mind and heart. [The building of the Metropolitan Insurance Co. In this city, on the southeast corner of Wabash avenue and 47st street, is also equipped with an elevator, but those having business there have never known it to be running. A word or two later, perhaps.—Ed.] Bird's Nest In Mall Box. Probably a bird's nest in a rural mall box is a rare thing. If it has ever happened before, but out in Oswe gatchle a small bird has taken possession of a mall box and has already built her nest and ladd three eggs and it looks as though she would complete her work of hatching and rearing her young. The particular box picked out by the bird is one that is in use daily and the mail carried never misses a stop at this box. Mrs. Bird seems to enjoy the idea to have the mail carrier lift the cover of the box and deposit the mail and will sit on her nest as unconcerned as can be. The mall box has been fixed so that it will not close entirely so that the bird may complete the task of rearing her young. It is not known what kind of a bird this is but it is thought that it is a phbe being brown of color and about the size of a sparrow and laying sky-blue eggs. -Watertown Correspondent New London Day. The Real Grievance. Friend -You've got to admit there's nothing in Tripoll worth fighting for. Italian Diplomat-Certainly. Friend-Then why do you want to keep on fighting? Italian Diplomat-We've got to punish the Turks for giving us the impression that there was- Satire. Easily Pleased. "What kind of a man would you like for a husband?" "Oh, either a bachelor or a widower. I'm not particular which."—Universalist Leader. Alas! Two of a kind—unsinkable ships and fireproof buildings—Batavia (N. Y.) Daily News. 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 Major Andrew F. Stevens Jr. and Mr. J. C. Asbury of Philadelphia, alternate delegates to the Republican National convention will be the guests of. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wheeler Jr. while in the city. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith and their son Andrew again feel at home in Chicago. The doctor has not as yet selected the location for an office, according to a statement to a Chicago Defender reporter Sunday. Why don't you surprise yourself and please the publisher by paying your subscription. Mrs. Clifford Johnson's new undertaking parliars at State and 33rd streets are attractive. The Chicago Defender always admires up-to-date ideas in business and congratulates Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson moved from 5002 State street to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Milligan, 5008 Dearborn street. Don't go home without taking the children some of Brown's home-made ice cream, 99 West Thirty-sixth street. The Parisian Feather Co. are now occupying their new quarters in suite 420 North American building, State and Monroe street. Mr. Sam Bailey is among the latest arrivals in the city preparing for a summer in Michigan. Cut this out and paste it in your hat: Water your horses! Rev. and Mrs. Jenifer were among the prominent persons at the memorial services of the 5th regiment Sunday. The annual Paul Lawrence Dunbar memorial services will be held Sunday after afternoon, 20. Dr. Charles E. Bentley will be the speaker. The place will be announced later. Jutius N. Aventorch, manager. The Chicago Defender kindly asks its subscribers who are in arrears to pay up. A. A. Wells had the misfortune to have his pocket picked on the 35th street car line on his way home from the Choral Study club's affair on Monday night. Mr. Wells did not say what his loss amounted to. Mrs. Ada Shreves and little son have gone on a visit to Tacoma. Dr. D. A. Ferguson, prominent dentist of Richmond, Va., will arrive in the city next week and remain until after the National Republican convention. Dr. Ferguson is not only an enthusiastic Roosevelt delegate, but is chairman of his delegation. Attorney John R. Auter and Mr. George Walker will be among those who will entertain him. The W. A. Wallee Bakery Co. make a centucky Rolls" and "Wallace Rolls." Dr. Claude Bell's office and residence, 5033 State street, is resplendent in a new coat of paint. The genial physician is famed for his taste in interior decorations and this "new front" is no doubt intended to please the eye of a large and exacting practice. Our distinguished reader and tragedian, Mr. Richard B. Harrison, 2624 Wabash avenue, is at home for a short rest. He is directly from Tuskegee and other points south and will be on another long tour east in a few days. Send in personals of your friends. It is free. Drop it on a post-card. Can you afford to spend a penny on your friends? Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, temporarily residing with Mrs. Brown's sister, 250 East 37th street, are negotiating for the purchase of a residence. One of our prominent real estate firms has been busy all week in an endeavor to satisfy their noted patrons. Mr. and Mrs. George Preston, 3455 Dearborn street, will spend the summer in travel. "Brother George," as he is fondly known, has a long vacation and many places in Colorado and Iowa are his objective points this summer. See Europe if you must but see your own country first by going with White's excursion to the coast. See ad on another page. Have you read M. W. Ponder's on page 2? Rev. A. L. Harris will deliver the annual sermon to the Lake Forest and Waukegan True Reformers Sunday, June 2, at 2:30, at the second Baptist church, Lake Forest, 11. Mrs. Louella Young, Chief M. 7. Bailley, Mrs. Lanyles, Mr. E. C. Knox, Messrs. Z. T. Green, R. B. Watson and others, as well as many True Reformers from Evanston, 11, will witness these exercises. The Pekin theater will open June 2 with the 8th Regiment boys playing "At the Front," a play based on presidents in Mexico in 1876, includes the military speechelle given on the lake front last year, and real dramatic incidents which have occurred in camp life with the 8th during recent years. The Misses Manch and Florence Williams have moved to 748 East 41st street. At the military spectacle entitled "At the Front," at the Pekin theater the week of June, the music will be furnished by the Eighth Regiment band. See display ad elsewhere. The Young People's Improvement club of Quinn Parker will meet at the home of Ms. Carter, 3205 Wentworth avenue, tuesday night, June 4. Mr. Charles J. Upton, 3209 Nennon avenue, left it city Sunday for Saskatchewan, Canada, in an effort to regain his heath. Mrs. Henrietta P. Lee, 3159 State street, returned home Wednesday eight after visit of several months in Buffalo, J. Y.; as the guest of her and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Wymp. It is rurred that Bessie, the eldest daughter I Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Thomas, is towed Mr. Robert H. Cooper of St. Duis, Mo., next month. The miskegee club has reserved two boxes fr "At the Front" for Monday. Port Antonio, Jan. 10, 1912—"Madame Anita Patti Brown has made herself the idol of Port Antonio's music lovers—with her rich, sonorous and well-trained voice. Special comment must also, be made of the style, manner and eloquence with which the recitations given by Mrs. Smith were rendered." Mrs. John Reeves and Mrs. Wm. D. Neighbors entertained Friday last at the home of Mrs. Reeves, 4721 Evans avenue, in honor of Mrs. Evans of St. Louis, Mo. Those present were Mesdames Evans, Horton, Neighbors, Anderson and Moppins, Misses Mary V. Parham, Leona Daughtry and Slaughter, and Messrs. James Myers, kidd. I, W. Wimby Jr. and John Reeves and others. The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Loaf." Will the party who saw the man fall off car at corner of 51st street and Wabash avenue on Sunday, May 5, kindly communicate with R. Goodman, 5118 Wabash avenue. With the Umbrians at Quinn Chapel, June 5. Bishop I. B. Scott of the M. E. connection in Africa was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gibson, 3532 Noveon avenue, Wednesday night, en route to his post of duty. Your entertainment will not be complete without some of Brown's homemade ice cream, 99 West Thirty-sixth street. Miss Janet A. Goins of Kalamazoo, Mich., is visiting friends in this city. All the latest creations in millinery at Mrs. Lizzie M. McKay's, 3151 State street. A visit to her parlers costs nothing. Dr. Leonard Lewis, whom Gov. Deeney recently appointed surgeon to the 8th regiment, is solving the color problem every day. He has a large clientele of white patients and enters many of them at Provident hospital. They come for operations and consultations from all over the city and from other places in the north and west. Read the death list published exclusively in the Chicago Detender. Mrs. Emma M. Bryant, 3921 Armour avenue, passed through the city. Mme. Curita Day appears this week in Mime,驾庄 valley at Louisville, Ky. Lest you forget, we say it yet—Brown's ice cream, 99 West Thirty-sixth street. Mrs. America Hackley of 3608 State street returned home last Saturday from Niles, Mich. Her visit was to participate in a family reunion and also the celebration of the seventy-fourth birthday anniversary of her only sister, Mrs. Greenville Finley, of the above place. Thirty-four relatives were present. 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, email, or reception will be tendered Dr. and Mrs. Ransom last Monday evening at the Institutional church. Col. R. D. Ruffin is among the Chicagoans that will go on the excursion to the coast, personally conducted by Mr. C. T. White. If you want a first class furnished room read our classified columns. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waring entertained our fellow townmen, Mr. W. W. Talley, at their residence, 4929 Vincennes avenue, Tuesday night. The biggest offering of the musical season is at Quinn Chapel on the evening of June 5. The Umbrian Glee Club, Anita Patti Brown, Lou Ella B. Smith, The Mandolin and Guitar Club—all this for just 25 cents admission. Hear them. Mine. Davis, 3734 State street, who moved from 37th and Dearborn streets, has opened with a full line of hair goods and is ready to please the ladies with all kinds of hair work. The fourth annual concert of the Umbrian Glee Club is under the auspices of Annie Walker Conscience Club. Mrs. John C. Dorgan, nee Vera Plummer, of Samar, Colo. is the proud mother of a fine bouncing baby boy. Mother and babe are doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Plummer are the proud grandparents. That commendable organization asks your presence at Quinn Chapel, Wednesday, June 5. Mrs. Emmett Mattison has just arrived in the city after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. Reese in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Reese are enjoying good health and are arranging to depart for their summer home in New Rochelle about the first of June. From Kingston (Jamaica), Times. "Mme. Anita Patti Brown of Chicago is the finest singer who has ever been heard in Jamaica. In her rendition of Mme. Last Rose of Summer," one of the original Patti's favorites, the writer came to theulsion that neither in the singing nor in the action which accompanied it did our gifted visitor lose by comparison." Hear her with the Umbrian Glee Club at Quinn Chapel, June 5. Mr. Albert C. Johnson, 3026 Vernon avenue, will graduate from Howard university next week, taking a degree from the dental department. Mrs. Elijah Johnson, his mother, left Friday afternoon to attend the commencement. A wire from Washington says that Dr. Johnson is uncertain to where he will hang his guitar. It is hoped that it will be in his home town, where he has many friends. Miss Juanna De Brul, Galveston, Texas, who came up with her uncle Hon. Jas. De Brul, 3629 Forest Avenue, will make Chicago her home. She says Mr. Reporter, I am going to enter school here and she is ten years old and is in the sixth grade. Miss Catherine Monday, Chester, Conn., is the guest of her uncle Mr. W. T. Gaines, 5140 Wentworth avenue. She is a graduate of Hampton Institute, Va. She attended Dan-er Begay. Mr. Richard Browne is now a happy papa, an 8-pound boy having been presented on Wednesday at high noon. Rich" says: "He takes after the old man." OUR WOMEN A widows' club is the latest organization among the sex in this city. A meeting, I understand, was held last week. Information about it will be welcomed for this column. The Ladies' Art Culture club met Thursday, May 23, at 19 East 28th street. Miss Georgia White, hostess. The club adjourned to meet May 29 at 5126 Dearborn street, with Mrs. Hemings—Mrs. F. Berry, journalist, 3329 State Street. Mrs. Lola Elia Young, Reformers' Rosebud lecturer of the western grand division of the G. F. U. O. of True Reformers, will make a tour of the southern part of Illinois in the interest of the order, leaving the city June 7, for ten days. The T. E. Butter Art club met Thursday afternoon, May 23, at 3628 State NATIONAL AFFAIRS Hen Makes a Nest NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS Hen Makes a Nest in Big Office Safe WASHINGTON—Charles M. Wrenn, foreman of the car barn of Fifteenth and H streets northwest, has reached the conclusion that office safes do not make the best incubators for hatching chinchens. He tried it and it almost failed. The quietly but firmly established herself in Mr. Wrenn's office a few weeks ago because it was much warmer than the icy outside. Mr. Wrenn tried to demonstrate, but the hen was obdurate. There was nothing to do but the hen have her way, and Mr. Wrenn moved room or her beside a lot of dusty files and all-way records in his big wooden safe. The hen was perfectly contented with its lot and offered no resistance. "Cluck, cluck," issued nobly from the office early in the morning when Mr. Wrenn went to work and found the hen strutting proudly about cackling vigorously as though she owned the entire office. It didn't take Mr. Wrenn long to size up the situation, and, opening the door of the safe, he found in the corner he had cleared for the bird a batch of eggs. "One, two, three," he count one, two, three, fifteen in, and every one of them white. Mr. Wrenn had never heard of hatching in an office safe, and he didn't know what to do, especially as he is no farmer. He called a special meet --- Strange Mammals Found in Canal Zone IN the early part of the year 1911, while engaged in the Smithsonian biological survey of the canal zone and the adjacent parts of Panama, E. A. Goldman made a collection of 368 mammals. This collection, representing between 40 and 50 genera, includes 12 new species and subspecies, of which descriptions have just been published by Mr. Goldman (Smithsonian Monarchine collection, No. 2073) in advance of the general report on mammals of this region. Nine of the new genera are from the canal zone, and the others were collected by the author when he was on a trip to the mountains near the headwaters of the Chagres river, Panama, in March last. The new animals include 2 oppusums from near Gatun, 2 squirrels, of which 1 is known as a pigmy squirrel; 4 rice rats, a yoke-tooth rat, which was found to be one of the most abundants ir. the grassy clearings of the canal zone; three spiny rats, including one known as an octodont, and named after Col. George W. Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the isthmian canal commission. Mr. Goldman states in his paper that acknowledgments are due especially to Col. Goethals and others connected with the administration of the canal zone, who materially aided the work of the survey. This paper, which has been issued by the Smithsonian institution, forms the sixth dealing with the results of the Smithsonian biological survey of the Panama zone. Among interesting birds collected Peary Tells How to Cook Dog Meat "DOG meat is delicious—some times," said Admiral Robert E. Peary, the discoverer of the north pole, recently, discussing the food eaten by Amundsen's party in their dash for the south pole. "For flavor and bouquet it doesn't compare with a tenderloin steak, but dog meat is fine when you're cold and hungry—and have nothing else to eat. A bite from the bind leg of a sledge dog walks off of guttapercha. There's nothing tougher on earth. No dog meat is not fried, and a rule; it is boiled, and then boiled. But it can be compared in flavor to bear meat or that of any carnivorous animal. Of course, it is nothing like the meat of grass-eating animals. "Ive eaten dog meat repeatedly, on almost all my trips. And every other explorer has probably done the same thing. Meat can be carried on the By SABINE Young and Old—Light and Serious Verse and Prose— History—Personal—In a Word Their Every Interest. street. After two hours of hard art work the club members listened to addresses from Meadows Ida D. D. Lewis, state organizer, and Theresa Macon, city president. The members then decided to join the city, state and national federations. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, their president, Mrs. Rosa Lyons and Mrs. Jennie Scott 'were elected delegates to the city federation. Mrs. Anna Lyles served re- formations. The City Federation of Women's clubs' second quarter meeting will be held in Zion A. M. E. church Mon- day, June 3, at 10 n. m. All clubs are requested to have write ten reports of work accomplished during the last quarter. Visitors welcome. —Theresa G. Macon, president; Olive Lewis, secretary. CAPITAL in Big Office Safe ing of his office employees, and after a lengthy debate it was decided that as long as the hen had taken the initiative, the only thing to do was to put up with and let her hatch the eggs in the office safe. It was altogether too cold to force the hen out of doors, and as long as everyone kept his distance the hen did little to disturb the office routine. For three weeks the hen practically bossed the office, and, after deducting, it was discovered that the eggs ought to have been hatched on a recent Saturday, according to the office almanac. Saturday morning Mr. Wrenn and the office force came to work a little ahead of time, and the door of the safe was thrown open, while every one expected to see 15 chicks run helter skelter. Instead, there was a series of cackles from the frightened hen, and not a single one of the 15 eggs had hatched. One of the men, who was something of a farmer, declared that the eggs would surely hatch the next day, but Sunday and they were as unhatched as chickens, all that day there was a feeling of misapprehension. Monday Mr. Wrenn went to the office to see if the expected had happened. From the half-closed door of the safe there issued a half-hearted "cluck" and the silver hen, followed by two forlorn-looking chicks, hopped out upon the floor. Mr. Wrenn decided to throw the other 13 eggs away In the yard of the car barn are a number of chickens, and the hen and her small brood of two chicks were shown the open door, and soon made friends among the rest of the barnyard kind. by Mr. Goldman, white engaged on this survey, there are two new species of nun birds. These are described by E. W. Nelson of the department of Agriculture, biological survey, in a pamphlet (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, No. 2070), published by the Smithsonian institute, which forms the seventh paper on the results of this survey. The nun birds, or genus Monasa, are so called from the somber black or slaty plumage, which, however, is somewhat relieved by the bright red or yellow bill, and in some cases white feathers at the bend of the wing and about the bill. The specimens were collected by Mr. Goldman on the base of Cerro Azul, northwest of Chepo. Only single specimens of the two new forms were obtained, and, in fact, no others were seen during the entire season in the canal zone and the adjacent country. One of the new forms, Goldman's nun bird, is named after the collector, while the other, Cerro Azul nun bird, gets its name from the location. The specimens described are deposited in the National museum collection for scientific study. hoof that way. The dogs are useful to draw the sledges until they are needed for food for the men and for the other dogs retained." Peary ridiculed the idea that Amundsen's observations of the south pole were inaccurate because he used only a sextant and artificial horizon, and not a theodolite. "The sextant and artificial horizon are the recognized instruments used by all explorers in such work," he said. "The they are accurate enough. The theodolite is much heavier and too bulky for use except at a temporary base or headquarters. The lighter instruments were used by the British antarctic expedition. Nansen, myself and many other explorers." Peary also pooh-hooded the idea that Amundsen might not have reached the exact bottom of the earth. "His accounts state that he stayed three days," said the arctic explorer, "running radii in all directions from his principal point, just like I did at the north pole. This is assurance that at some point the exact position was attained. Accuracy within a few feet is only possible at great observatories with instruments set in concrete." e Chicago Defender One Year 50 Cents 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 last half of the week beginning Thursday, May 23rd presented Gus Henderson in a remarkable act on a bounding rope. Davis and Walker in a singing and dancing sketch in which Mr. Davis does some clever acrobatic dancin; Dean and Price in a college sketch, "A Student's Apartments," were very entertaining. Cook and Stevens, those clever comedians were holdovers to the delight of the public. Laypo and Benjamin Hewbrew, acrobats, were very good. The first half of the week, beginning Monday, May 27th, contained Miss Lizzie Hart, one of vaudeville's sweetest singers. Miss Hart is using to good effect the ballad, "Answer," and is featuring Shelton Brooks' latest song, "All Night Long," and it is a Scream." Innes and Ryan do some 'vely singing and talking in their act I will deserve to be called "Fash Plates," for the costumes are update. Miss Ryan having some especially attractive gowns. Eldridge and arlow, in their comedy sketch, "The Law," were fine. Wm. Robinson, the man with the "musical mouth" was most amusing and very clever in his work. Fiddler and Shelton, two of the cleverest and most sought after comedians in vaudeville are taking the house by storm this week. The boys are so well known and liked it is wholly unnecessary to say more than that they are the same brilliant entertainers of heretofore. The whole bill is great this week. The Monogram. Not an idle moment is found here this week. The Russells open with good singing and dancing and Mrs. Russell is improving rapidly. Elise Johnson is better every time she appears only her voice is used in such a poor manner. It needs a little culture, for ere long the lady will have ruined it beyond redemption. Green, Pugh and Green, are a trio of fine vaudevillians, their work is clean cut and most pleasing, they have to tear themselves away from the audience. May and May better known as "String Beans," Like the vegetable whose namesake he is, comes to us in the spring and brings all his old funnyisms with him and then some more. Particular Paragraphs The joint recital of Miss Constantia Brown and W. H. Hackney, Friday evening, May 24th at Bethel Church, under the auspices of the Criterion Club was fairly well attended as both recitalists are great favorites with Chicagoans as well as the club for whom they appeared being one of the very select young people's organizations of the city. A most artistic programme was arranged and carried out. Miss Brown as a soloist showed in many ways her ability as an artist, giving her numbers in a most artistic manner. Her voice is not what one could consciently call a contralto, it being more of a mezzo soprano. Her middle register is rich and full, but the lower register in which the contralto should excel lacked resonance and was used in a forced manner which completely destroyed its beauty. Miss Brown sang in French, German and Italian, her French articulation being particularly pleasing. The singer is an artist beyond a doubt but not as famous nor as great as time will make her; William Hackney the tenor solist on the programme is developing an intelligence of technic in a very promising manner. 'This true his voice is lacking in natural sweetness but what it lacks along natural lines is being gained through culture and one can look for great things from him later. Both artists possess a most delightful stage presence. The Criterion Club are to be commended on their wise choice of artists for the occasion and the Defender wishes them continued success. T. Thomas Taylor was accompanist. Pedro T. Tinsley presented to a large audience on Monday evening, May 27th at Quinn Chapel, the Choral Study Club. A most representative audience greeted the singers who rendered S. Coleridge Taylor's "Blind Girl of Castle Cullie" and an old English idyll, "St. John's Eve." Mrs. Martha B. Anderson as soprano in the "Blind Girl of Castle Cullie" did well, but the work was decidedly too heavy for her. The singer's voice being one of very little dramatic power and the use of that style robs her voice of all its beauty. The most pronounced point in Madam's work is the fact that her voice needs a rest and should be taken regardless of all persuasions Pekin Theatre Week June 2 A MILITARY SPECTACLE and MELODRAMATIC FARCE AT THE FRONT by Members of the 8th Regiment Music by the 8th Band Prices 10c, 20c, 25c, 50c along the argument of indispensability. Mr. Taylor as the baritone possesses a good baritone of small range which he handles nicely only in such a cold manner that it becomes almost lifeless. The chorus to the above number did fine considering the lack of practice with the orchestra and so many new members in the soprano division, hence the attack of the sopranos in many instances was slow as though they were unfamiliar with the work and each was leaning on the other. "St. John's Eve," the second number of the programme brought out more pleasing results. The male chorus of "Good St. John," being a splendid rendition; every man making it an individual duty to do his best. The soloists being as follows: Mrs. Virginia Greene a soprano, who is one of Chicago's best lyric sopranos. Her tones are sweet and well focused, but the work did not give opportunity for a display of the lyric ability of our much love Virginia. Mrs. Clara K. Williams was the contralor, displayed a most beautiful voice. She is an intelligent as well as intellectual singer. The upper tones although of a forced quality were given proper placement and will develop later into a rich quality. The beauty of the lady's voice lies in the lower register which is simply grand. Her articulation, pronunciation and declamatory style was the delight of every one. George L. Johnson, the tenor, is one of the finest lyrical tenors of the race. Every tone was well modulated, placed and attacked. His voice is beautifully light and flexible and his singing left nothing to be desired. Miss Gertrude Jackson and Mrs. Pelagie Blair need no commendation as they are accompanists of the first magnitude. The orchestra that assisted the club were a hindrance rather than an assistance, not because of a lack of knowledge but because of insufficient practice. Their tempo was poor and the reading of the scores careless. It behooves all to be sufficiently interested in their own reputation not to attempt anything in a haphazard way and also to have the interest of those whom they are assisting at heart so there will be no lack of harmony. Prof. Tinsley as a teacher of voice and a director of vocal music is unsurpassed but there is a vast difference in vocal and orchestral directing. The professor works most assiduously with his study club and is capable of bringing out all the beauty in music and it is very essential that the members of the club give him more serious study and thereby show to the public that they appreciate the most excellent man who is their director and chief. Frank P. George's "Danabegay" (dance and be gay) was a grand success in every way. A most enjoyable programme was given before dancing in which Oal Cooper, tenor, sang most effectively. Mr. Cooper is improving rapidly; he has a rich mellow voice which gives of making him one of our leading robust tenors. Miss Nellie Revell and Frank George in a scene from Oliver Twist, were the recipients of storms of applause which were most deservingly given. Miss St. Claire White, Chicago's wonderful young violinist entranced the audience with her great gift. She is undoubtedly a genius. Madame Annis Hackley, soprano, endeared herself all the more to music lovers of the city, by her sweet and simple manner as well as with her delightful voice which is splendidly trained. Her voice not so large but the quality is what is desired not quantity and the quality of Madame Hackley's voice is most pleasing and close application to study will bring about magnificent results. A surprise most agreeable was the playlet, "Temperament versus Soul," written by our violinist, St. Clair White and acted by herself and Mr. George. The beautiful thoughts which are woven in this little playlet make of it a thing divine and as acted by the above persons, every detail was brought out, and showed clearly the difference in an excess of temperament and the calm, pure beauties of the soul. Miss White may justly be proud of her writing as it bespeaks the unfolding of the most perfect flower in God's garden (The Soul). Danabegay is always pleasant, and to it we wish every success. Miss M. Garnier and Alexander Taylor as accompanists were fine. Miss Pearl Lowery of Los Angeles, Cal., is visiting the city. Miss Lowery comes to us holding the honor of being the foremost contralto of the state of California. She is of a most pleasing personality and while here is visiting in the home of Bishop Parks on Calumet avenue. The soloist for the annual concert of the Umbrian Glee club, to be given June 5 (Wednesday evening), will be Madame Anita Patti Brown. She is well known to the Chicago public. She has sung in the east, west, British West Indies and many southern cities and received flattering press notices. Also for her singing at Handel hall recently the critics as well as the audience were highly enthusiastic over her wonderful versatile art. Her voice is described as a high dramatic soprano, big and yet flexible, and rich in color. Well. Hardly Ever. When a pretty woman wishes to have her way with a man it never takes her long to find the line of least resistance-Chicago Record-Herald. Getting Matters Adjusted "Aren't you a trifle late?" asked the girl when she met the young man at the door. "I believe I am a little," replied the young man. "A wagon load of coal was wrecked on the track and that delayed my car for a few minutes. But I'll go home a few minutes earlier tonight to make up for it. Is that a new gown—and that rose in your hair! You're certainly a dream! I have got to have another kiss. Whom do I hear in the parlor?" "That's Mr. and Mrs. Cawsworthy and a niece of theirs and old Mrs. Dwline. I want you to meet them. Come in." "It was a week ago tonight that I proposed to you and was accepted, wasn't it?" "Yes, silly. Why?" "And the next evening you had a family reunion when I called." "Yes. Of course, I wanted you to meet all my relatives." "Of course. And the next night when I called I found a bunch of your old school friends holding down the furniture. And I had to go home with a girl who lived out, as it seemed, a little way beyond the place where the sun sets." "Well, I wanted you to meet my old friends. I don't see—" "And the next night the minister of your church was here with his family. I explained to him in the curse of the evening that I do not drink and do not gamble and that smoking is not really a habit with me, because I can quit any time I feel inclined." "Well, of course, you understand, he, being a minister—" "The following night I found some old friends I your mother's in the parlor and—" "I don't see why you take that tone. I guess—" "Walt. The next night it was the members of a club you used to belong to when—" "Well, they were all nice young people." "And last night it was Mr. and Mrs. Caraway and their son, who thinks he is a natural born comedian. And tonight it is Mr. and Mrs. Cawworthy and a niece and old Mrs. Dwine." "I think you are perfectly horrid tonight! What do—" "I just wanted to ask you if I might bring father over to see you tomorrow night?" "Of course you may! I just know I shall love him." "And may I bring mother over the next night?" "Why, certainly you may. The idea: I hope—" "And my little brother the next night?" "Of course, but—" "And the members of our glee club the next night?" "Ye-es, I suppose so. But what they've got to do with—" "And a few old friends of our family the next night?" "Certainly." "And the nurse, who used to take care of me when I was a baby, the next night?" "I shall not be at home that night, Mr. Templeman." "How about the next night?" "Nor that night, either." "Then suppose we give a grand ball somewhere and invite all your acquaintances to look at me and all my acquaintances to look at you—" "I shall do nothing of the kind. If you feel like that about meeting my friends I—perhaps we—you have made a mistake. I—you—are you coming into the parlor or not?" "No." "Very well, I—" "I don't think I have time. I have got tickets to the theater. And I have got to coax a girl to go with me, and I am afraid I shall be late if I don't hurry." "You should have telephoned to your friend this afternoon." "I tried to, but the telephone was busy." "Well, I will excuse you. I hope you will have a pleasant time." "She is a little girl about your height and she has on a stunning gown and there is a rose in her hair. Oh, go in and make our excuses and come on. Be a good fellow! I haven't had an evening with you since we were engaged, you know I haven't." "You silly! Of course I'll go. But you've got to go in and entertain them while I get ready." "How'll I entertain them?" "Just put a rug over you and growl like a bear; that's the way you've been entertaining me." "No, but honest—" "Billy, if any callers ever happen to drop in here on your nights after this I shall give them slices of bread and butter and tell them to run home to their mothers. Stop! They'll hear you and you're spoiling my ross!" To Find Source of River. One of the world's unsolved geographical problems concerns the sources of the Brahmaputra river, in Tibet. In a recent attempt to explore this region two European travelers were killed by the natives. A punitive expedition has been organized by the British government, and it is expected that the scientists who are to accompany it will at last solve the puzzle. Barry Celebrates Birthday. John J. Barry, the crack shortstop of the champion Athletics, celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday the other day. Barry was born in Meriden, In order to increase our circulation at least 30,000 The Chicago Defender will be delivered to any of its subscribers for 50c. year, who will secure 10 new subscribers at the rate of $1.00 per year. This offer is only available to Bonafide Subscribers. No office orders taken. Positively no agents can compete: Just think THE WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY a whole year FOR 50 CENTS. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER IN A SWIFT AUTO PLUNDERS AT WILL Man in "Grey Ghost" Is Terror of Southern California Foothill Cities. "BURNS UP ROADS" Mysterious Pirate Sweeps About Night After Night Robbing as His Fancy Dictates—Valuables or Trifles Appeal to Him Allie. Los Angeles, Cal.—"Grey Ghost," a low-swung racing car, with its goggled, supposed owner at the wheel, and with the exhaust roaring and thundering a protest from its powerful engines, has been sweeping through Glendora and surrounding towns upon a practical mission that has spread terror in its wake. Along foothill boulevards, the stretch of well-paved road that leads from Los Angeles through Glendora, the pirate car and its owner have sped night after night upon marauding expeditions. It is only when the car is out on the boulevards, where other cars are wending their way to and from the little cities near the foothills, that the "Grey Ghost" is let loose with all its speed. Then it flashes by other automobiles, giving the occupants a moving-picture view of a swift-speeding car with a driver huddled behind the wheel, a mere blur of a human being, whizzing on. Seven times the "auto pirate" and his gray streak of a car have been seen by orange growers who live along the boulevard. That he is the one who is committing the various depredations which have aroused residents along the mountain road has been made certain by traces that he has left after bold crimes. The men who have seen the driver of the "Grey Ghost" say he handles his car with all the skill of a professional racing driver, and that he evidently knows A Seems to Know Every Crook in the Roads. every turn, of the roads in the surrounding country. Evidence that the "Grey Ghost's" owner does not care what he takes and is as willing to commit a petty theft as a daring burglary of consequence, is shown by the fact that on one occasion he went so far as to steal a drilling machine belonging to a ranchman, who owns a place at Grand avenue and Foothill boulevard. The tracks of the automobile tires showed plainly where the "auto prirate" had hitched the machine to the back of his car, and then sped away. One of the strange features in connection with the case is the fact that the "auto pirate" seems to know every crook and turn in the roads leading in and about Glendora, Covina, Duarte, Monrovia, Claremont and other towns. When shooting his car along over the smooth highways he never seems to hesitate at a turn or slow down for a railroad crossing or bridge. Tramp Buns Mansion Leavenworth, Kan.—When the Cheever house on Miami street was opened the other day it was found a tramp had taken possession. The house is richly furnished, and during the absence of the owner, Mrs. B. H. Cheever, had been without a tenant except the tramp. He had slept on the spotless linen in the massive brass beds, washed his hands in marble basins, waltzed with his brogans on the Oriental rugs, eaten from silver plate and drunk from cut glass goblets. Cans of imported dainties were robbed of their contents and cobwebed bottles were taken from their musty hiding places in the cellar blins. Six Fractures In Ten Years. Marshalltown, Ia.—To fall six times in ten years and suffer that number of fractures is the peculiar record of accidents established by Mrs. Sarah A. Wheldon, eighty-one years old, of this city. Recently she fell and received a compound fracture of both bones of the right arm. Owing to her age her condition is critical. Much poetry will have to be rewritten if the 24-hour clock is to come into general use. An Indiana farmer is planning to sow his oats by aeroplane. Wild oats, presumably. THE LACOON VALLEY Lake Louise, Logan, B. C., One of the Beautiful and Inspiring Scenes on Mr. C. T. White's Pacific Coast Summer Excursion ```markdown ``` Lakes in Colorado, Nature in All Its Grandeur, on Mr. C. T. White's Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. ```markdown ``` Morand Lake, a Beautiful View on Mr. C. T. White's Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Make No Excuses. We can wrest success from any failure and take from it much of the ating when we frankly admit that it was our fault, and that we have no excuse to offer, while at the same time we express our purpose not to fall in that way again. The world is quick to forgive the man who does not ask to be excused. God can forgive us on no other terms; and God's forgiveness is the only way to assured victory over failure.—The Sunday School Times. Smallest of Snake... The hair snake, the smallest of all creatures bearing the name of snakes, is found in water, and is responsible for many a heated discussion in rural districts, where the common belief is that it originates from horse hairs. This theory is all a myth—horse hair snakes are parasites living inside of crickets and grasshoppers, upon leaving which they seek the water to lay their eggs. Lakes in Colorado, Nature in Aa to Buying. Whatever we wish to buy, we ought first to consider not only if the thing be fit for us, but if the manufacture of it be a wholesome and happy one; and if, on the whole, the sum we are going to spend will do as much good spent in this way as it would if spent in any other way—Rusklin. Church on the Sahara The African Desert of Sahara, 932 by 2,484 miles, is a Vicarate Apostolic. Its population is about 4,000,000. With the Vicarate is attached the Sudan. The European Catholics number 1,000, negro Catholics 600. It has 4,000 catechumens, 40 missionaries, 15 Sisters, 12 church, 10 schools, 7 orphanages, 5 hospitals, of which two are for lepers. Man's Weakness. The weakness of man is a lesson which we learn only to forget; and the instability of human affairs is a fact too familiar to remain impressive. Sunshine PredomInates If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predomi-nates.—Ovid. If you want to succeed in this world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth and influence.—John R. Gough. Knew His Business Lady (to shoe clerk)—I should like to get a pair of shoes. Clerk—Yes, ma'am. What size? Lady—Size three. Clerk—Yes, ma'am. Just let me measure your foot. Lady—but I told you the size. Clerk—Yes, ma'am; but we have three sizes in three—size three for a size three foot, size three for a size four foot, and size three for a size five foot.—Judge. Aim high—but be sure you draw a bead on something besides blue sky. All Its Grandeur, on Mr. C. T. White's F About the House In case of a sudden leak, when it is difficult to get a plumber quickly, turn off the water and mix some common yellow soap and whiting with just enough water to make a thick paste. It will be found to do temporarily as well as solder, provided you turn the water on again rather slowly, as a sudden rush might force it out. Classical Music "What is your idea of classical music? "Well," replied Mr. Cumrox, "I don't profess to know much about it. But it always seems to me that when a man writes classical music he simply takes a tune and sees how much he can muss it up." Life's Realities Women must wonder occasionally that they don't meet any men like the hero in a fashionable novel. And that can also be played the other way across. Hopeless. "Do you believe our republic can endure?" "No, sir—most emphatically I do not. The fools in this town voted me out of office last fall." In the Civil Service Commission the United States Government has the greatest employment bureau in the world. Over half a million people are on the Government payroll, and of these nearly half are receiving pay as the result of competitive examinations. Have an Ideal. If our minds are resolutely set on an ideal good, and if we follow this with an inflexible patience and persistence, then, though we may often blunder in our choice of ways and means, somehow the grace and sweetness of our inner life will pass into our children's hearts.—J. W. Chadwick. As It Seems to Willy Teacher—"The right to have more than one wife is called polygamy. What is it when only one wife is allowed a man?" Willy—"Monotony, ma'ma."—Lippincott's Magazine. Pacific Coast Summer Excursion. Scotch Divalry Glasgow and Edinburgh are, in the "popular" mind, regarded as rivals eternally criticising each other—Glasgow's sneering at Edingburgh's "gentle pride," an Edinburgh sneering at Glasgow's "commercial taint" and her smoky, sunless atmosphere. Princess street is regarded by many traveled people as the finest street in the world, but it was a Glasgow man who called it "only hauf a street," because the buildings are all on one side. London Athenaeum. Why, the Ideal "I'm surprised at your giving that small, hot bedroom I slept in to a relative," sniffed her maiden aunt, as she entered the breakfast room. "You are?" answered Mrs. Randall. "Why, aunties, we've even given that room to servants."—Life Hens In Disgrace One Sunday morning a minister's wife saw her son chasing the hens with a stick. She went to the door to investigate, and heard him say: "I'll teach you to lay eggs in a preacher's family on Sunday morning."—Dellneator. JACK JOHNSON REJECTS FILTHY TRAINING CAMP Champion Jack Johnson Upon His Arrival at Forsythe's Ranch, Las Vegas, N. M., the Site Selected for Him as a Training Camp, Threw up His Hands in Horror and Sought Other Quarters—Place Was Filthy—Stagnant Pools of Water on Every Hand — Vermin-Infested Huts —No Chance for a Dog Under Such Unsanitary Conditions Is the Verdict of His Trainers. WIFE GOES IN ONE DIRECTION, THE CHAMPION IN ANOTHER. Finally Secure New Quarters in "Old Town"—Immediately Starts Training—Champion Visits Ball Park and Takes Ten-Mile Spin in Auto—Joins His Retinue in Fungo Practice—In Best of Form and Fit to Fight from Start to Finish—Mrs. Johnson Thoroughly Enjoyes Trip and Entertains the Champion's Friends. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) East Las Vegas, N. M., May 31.—Monday when Champion Jack Johnson and his wife and retinue arrived here there was a possibility of their being no Johnson-Flynn championship encounter on July 4th and it happened this way. When the champion reached Forsyth's ranch which had been selected by his promoters to serve as his training camp, he threw up his hands in horror and declared it was the fittest place he had ever seen. Stagnant pools of water were seen THE BOXING FIGHTER Jack Johnson, Champion Heavyweight Pugilist of the World. on every hand, rubbish was piled everywhere and the huts intended for is attendants were vermin infested. No Chance for a Dog His trainers declared that even a dog would have no chance under such unsuitary conditions. Mr. Johnson went in one direction and the champion in another and soon engaged a cozy two-story dwelling in "Old Town," and promptly started in it condition himself. He declares himself fit to fight from start to finish. Mrs. Johnson horribly enjoyed the trip to Mexico and entertains the champion's friends in lavish style. His First Day. A ten mile drill over the hills was followed by a trip to the Las Vegas ball park, where the champion and his retinue engaged in fungo practice for the greater part of two hours. Johnson is having an outdoor platform, 30x30, built in the back yard of his dwelling. All his work will be done in the open. Tommy Ryan, former middleweight champion, who reached the city late last night, motored out to Flynn's camp at Montezuma the first thing in the morning. Ryan is to serve as the fighting fireman's chief handler and from now on until the day of the fight his every command will be law. Made a Good Guess A gentleman was watching a military funeral passing down the street. It was a very pretentious affair, and he walked to the edge of the curb to get a better view of the spectacle. Just then the flag-draped cannon passed, bearing the flower-inden coffin. His curiosity was all the more aroused, so he stepped up to a newsboy, who was watching the procession, and asked: "Who's dead, sonny?" The newsle looked at his questioner and then at the passing troops and finally said: "I don't know, boss; but I guess it must be the feller under all dem flowers!" On Boston Common Comparatively few people know that there was once a "spinning school" on Boston Common. Winsor's "Memorial History of Boston" records that upon the arrival in Boston of some Irish spinners and weavers a spinning craze took possession of the town, "and the women, young and old, high and low, rich and poor, flocked into the spinning school, which for want of better quarters, was set up in the Common, in the open air. Here the whir of their wheels was heard from morning to night." Thirty-five years later the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor again used the Common as a spinning school, about 300 young women appearing there. Championship Pennants Won by Good, Hard Slugging. Batting Counts More In Long Run Than Team Work, Base Running or Inside Play—Some Few Exceptions to the Rule. Batting is what wins pennants in spite of the fact that now and then some fan or baseball expert will argue that team work or base running or inside play is the factor that counts more than base hits in the winning of games. The claim is frequently made that the best batting team often finishes behind teams in the pennant race that are not noted for their prowess with the bat. Their argument has been good a few times, but in the majority of cases the club that leads the league in batting also wins the blue ribbon. It can't be denied that the team that makes the most hits gets the chances to steal the most bases and otherwise takes chances that the weak batting teams cannot. There are, of course, exceptions to the role. The Athletics, winners of the American League pennant last season, led all the other teams with a club batting average of .294 per cent. The Giants, prospective winners of the National League race, led the league with an average of .271 per cent. In 1910 the Giants batted some seven points better than Chicago, yet the Cubs won the pennant. On the other hand, the Athletics won out and led in batting also. In 1909 the batting leaders in the big leagues were Detroit and Pittsburg, both champions. In 1908 Detroit had the best batting outfit in the America and won the bunting, but New York led the Chicago pennant winners at the bat. Detroit led both ways in 1907, but the champion Cubs were third by four points in the National League batting list. Back in 1906 the Naps carried off the batting honors by a big margin, while the White Sox, who took off the championship, were absolutely last as hitters, the Naps finishing third. The Cubs, however, led in victories and batting that season, only to lose the world's series to the hitless wonders. In 1905 the Athletics, second to the Naps in batting, won the pennant and then lost the series to the Giants, who had led the National League batters. This resume shows that in the last six years four American League pennant winners have also led the league in batting, while in the National League three pennant winners have also been batting lenders, the champions twice being the runners-up in batting. UNITED STATES LEAGUE FAST "Bugs" Raymond and Claude Ritchey Among the Veterans That Could Not Stand the Pace. The United States League is too fast for some of the veterans—most any league would be. Claude Ritchey has been released by the Pittsburgh club of the independent organization and "Bugs" Raymond has had the cur 1 "Bugs" Raymond. tain drawn on his efforts to pitch for Chicago. Another player released by Pittsburgh is Jack Himes, formerly a first baseman in the Tri-State and other minor leagues. Johnson to Save His Arm. Walter Johnson, the great pitcher of the Washington team, will not attempt to make a strike-out record this season. Johnson believes that the strain on his arm is too great and will endeavor to save the member as much as it is possible to do so. Del Howard Is Satisfied. Del Howard to the St. Paul club of the American association is satisfied with life. He draws a good salary from the Saints, was recently elected mayor of Kennedy, IL, and owns $5,000 worth of stock in the Louisville club. IN THE SPORTING WOLRD By Jas. D. Harris. Monday at Sydney, Australia, Sam Langford, the heavyweight Negro boxer of Boston, defeated "Porky" Flynn, also of Boston, today. Flynn was being so badly hammered that the referee stopped the fight in the fourteenth round. GRACE VICTORS 6 TO 4. In a fast contest before a large crowd the Grace team defeated Bethlehem 6 to 4 last Saturday in the first game of their series in the Presbyterian baseball league at Washington Park. Baker pitched a fine game for the winners and his teammates gave him excellent support throughout the entire game. Base running by Williamson for the losers and the fielding of Peacher, Adams and Irwin of the victors featured an interesting game. On Saturday afternoon June 1, at Washington Park, the Champions will meet Hope in their first schedule game together of the season. The proceedings should be keenly contested as both teams are tied for first place. Baker, who is in fine form this season, will oppose Reeves, who puzzled Bethlehem several weeks ago. MOB GIANTS IN GAME. Paterson, N. J., May 31.—McGraw's New York Giants were given a big surprise when they came here Monday and found that they were scheduled to play a team of colored players, called the Smart Sets, instead of the regular Paterson team. After a long wrangle the New Yorks consented to play in order not to disappoint the big crowd of 8,000 people. The game broke up in the tenth inning when the Giants left the field. They were hurried to a bus and were taken to their hotel, but not until they had been surrounded by a mob and were the targets for sticks and stones, which were so poorly aimed that they did no damage to the New York players. The score was tied at 3 to 3 when the trouble occurred. VALUE OF THE SUNROOM Wise Woman When Superintending the Building of Her Home Will Add This Apartment. The wise woman when superintending the building of her home will add a sunroom to the house. This is a place where the children can gain health. The numerous windows should be built close together and set in a sloping roof. This room should be arranged so that it is conveniently independent of the rest of the house, in case of illness. Palnt the walls cream, and have the floor parquet. Carpets and rugs should be eliminated from the sunroom. They harbor dust and germs. Where the floor and wall join, a curve should be made, as in the modern hospitals. The furniture should be of the simplest; comfortable chairs, settees and cushions with washable covers should be the rule. Here, during the spring months, the children can study with particularly good results, and spend all recreation hours in this room. This is an excellent reason why the sensible woman should set this "trag to catch a sunbeam." DRESS AND ITS PSYCHOLOGY We Are Prone to Judge by Externals, Declares Harrison Fisher, the Famous Artist. We are all of us prone to judge by externals, our early training in copy- book maxims notwithstanding, says Harrison Fisher in Dress. Emeline may have a lovely disposition, but that cannot hide the fact that there are knots in her shoe- strings, and though Beatrice sings like an angel, her gown fastens most untidily. Emeline's friends might be almost as sweet tempered as she is if her boots were not enough to make them cross. No less would the songs of Beatrice stir more hearts without the distractions of gaping hooks and missing buttons. Externals do count, however broad we may think our views to be. It is a common observation that a man gets an impression of a thing as a whole. If he notices any detail, it is apt to be a sign that something is wrong. Carelessness, however, in the dress of either men or women, is usually betrayed by details. Suppose that we ourselves have so far developed our minds and sensibilities that we form our opinions by what is, and not by what seems, are we not in constant embarrassment explaining our careless friends to others who are less condoning? It is a very human failing to wish our friends to appear well, a kind of vanity, if you like, in proving the excellence of our own taste. There is no law requiring us to placard our qualities to open view. How can our fellow mortals get any idea of us at the start of acquaintance except by the eye? Dally Thought. Absence of heat and haste indicates fine qualities. A gentleman makes no poise, a lady is serene—Emerson. Get to Work. You can never tell how hard the task is by standing and looking at it. The Christian Herald. Mourn for the Bride In Japan, land of flowers, they hold funeral services at the home of the bride's parents the night she is married. This is to show that the young lady is dead to her father and mother. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Explanation of Term That Bothers Many Enthusiasts. In the Long Run Team Which Plays Game as it Should From Start of Season to End Will Finish Better Than Its Rival. "Inside ball' is a term which puzzles many enthusiasts. The expression immediately brings to mind secret manipulations on the diamond and is generally passed up as being too deep. In reality inside ball is nothing more or less than playing the game. There is no mystery about it. Of course, every major league and minor league squad has its "signs," or signals as they are called by the fans, writes Malcolm McLean in the Chicago Evening Post. But so have football teams and basketball squads. Take the average ball game. The home team is at bat, nobody is down and there's a runner on first. The batter tries to lay down a sacrifice bunt, and misses the ball. "Aw, hit 'er out," yells a bleacherite in disgust. He then turns to his neighbor and growls. "Gee, I can't stand for that kind of a game. What's that guy trying to bunt for? Why don't he hit 'em to the fence?" This instance is one of the many "mysteries" of inside ball. It's playing the game to sacrifice that man around to second, from which point he can easily score on a single. If the batter tries to hit safely right from the jump there's the immediate danger of a double play, and two men out. Take another case. There's a man on first and a left-hander at bat. Such a hitter generally slaps one to right field or between first and second. So, naturally, as soon as the ball is hit the shortstop runs to cover second in the hopes of negotiating a double play. If the batter hits right-handed the second baseman usually covers second. Yet this is the so-called inside ball which has so many fans wondering what's it all about. The Cubs in the past were called masters of inside ball. The reason was they had played together so long that every man knew the instant the ball was hit just what to do under the circumstances. In other words, it was second sense or "inside ball" if you prefer. Yet this style of play doesn't always win—far to the contrary. Frequently the Boston Red Sox have thrown inside ball to the winds and played the hit-and-run game instead of sacrificing. They broke up the defense of the rival teams by pulling stuff when not expected. It's far more spectacular if they get away with it. For instance, with first and second occupied and none out, to have the batter knock the ball over the fence at the first pitch warms the cookies of the heart more than a dinky little bunt and an out at first. But you'll find that in the long run the team which plays the game as it should from the start of the season to the end will finish better than its rival, if both squads are about equal in strength. Cap Anson says the old Chicago Colts used as much inside ball as the great teams of today, and proves his point. So if it wasn't mysterious thirty years ago it shouldn't be so today. LEE TANNEHILL'S HARD LUCK Arm is Splintered Ten Minutes After First Opportunity to Break Into Game This Season. It's pretty tough to be put out with a broken wrist before you have been ten minutes in the game, but that is what happened to Lee Tannehill of the Chicago White Sox on May 8. He had taken Weaver's place in the game C Lee Tannehill, with Washington and was at bat when one of Walter Johnson's shoots caught him on the arm. He did not know the arm was broken until he went into the field after the side was reti- zed and attempted to throw. One Great Hitter Retires A one time great hitter slid gracefully into oblivion when the Milwaukee American Association unconditionally released George Stone, the reigning sensation in the American league during 1906. During that year Stone, who was with St. Louis, smashed every American league pitcher without fear or favor, finishing the season with the percentage of 358. Stone had a peculiar crouch at the plate and, being a left-hand hitter, he chopped and swung many of his hits down the left field foul line and to left center. George, however, was no startling fielder, being particularly weak on ground balls and using poor judgment of fly balls, especially those which went over his head. His wonderful hitter, however, covered these smaller sins until the American hurlers found his weak spot. Michigan in the Limelight, by Our Special Correspondents—Detroit, Kalamazoo, Dowagiac and Benton Harbor. 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., May 31.—Rev. Pettiford filled the pulpit at Grand chapel all day Sunday. The Windy City quartet will take part in the program at Grand chapel on June 2. Mr. Henry of Chicago has accepted a position at the New Burdick hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have left for Detroit, where Mr. Thomas has accepted a position. Miss Janet A. Gours will, spend a few days with her friends in Chicago. Mr. George Burnett entertained a number of friends at his home on North Rose street last Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Patterson and Goodall of Battle, Creek, Mich., visited their friends in this city last Sunday. Mrs. Reuben Robbins, accompanied by her little granddaughter, Georgiana Robbins, will leave Wednesday for South Bend, Ind., to attend the wedding of Miss Valley Snead. Mrs. William Griffen of Battle Creek, Mich., was the guest of Mrs. L. Wood last week. Mr. Edward Rhodes of Kalamazoo and Miss Elizabeth Cully of Cass county, Mich., were quietly united in holy matrimony on May 20 by Rev. Dungall. Mrs. Napoleon Bedford will leave this week for Marlon, Ind., and Indianapolis, where she will be the guest of friends and relatives for a few days. Birds for sale by Mr. George Burnett, 108 West water street. DROP SEVENTY-FIVE NAMES. The Chicago Defender had 300 delinquent subscribers May 1. Each week we cross off 75 names. If you don't receive your paper you will know that you are one of the 75. You have warned before, so don't kick. DOUGLAS DANCING SCHOOL EVERY FRIIDAY NIGHT Prof. Garfield Wilson Manager GOOD MUSIC Beginners Given Individual Atten- A MISS JUANITA TOLIVER PORO Hair Grower No a Dam, No extra out of city Treatment $4.50 2460 Dearborn St. Chicago Phone Oakland 2460 Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY A Trial Is the Best Reference GEO. V. A. BROWN Specialist in Electrical, Gas, Steam Fitting and Plumbig Wor 3435 WABASH AVE. Phone Douglas 2250 Phone Normal 3083 C. E. SMITH, General Manager. 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LUNCH COUNTER We Cater to Dinner Parties and serve Wheat Cakes, Hot Biscuits and 13 E. 35th STREET, MAN'S ADVERTISING SERVICE THE BILL DISTRIBUTORS—COVER CHICAGO REFERENCES: 163rd Street, Princeton and Harvard. 9th and Halsted Streets. 43rd and St. Lawrence and 63rd and Lexington House of Quail Established 1865 Save the Most Select Trio—Most of the best fathers as our patrons. Funeral appeals to the life's memorial of respect to them in a complete funeral—once 665.00, or money refunded, the finest goods and furnishings for the undertaking of an bronze casket cost way connected with the Casket and Underwear in the organized vicious attempt to slander engaged in the burial of our dead. My mind manner and way my business is conducted for co-operation between honest business alone do right, but happy to say that we are a way place in America today. I stand ready. ANUEL JACKSON M. JACKSON, Expert Elder NEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago and 2961 State Street (see 727 Douglas—Automatic) MAN'S IDEAL KIT OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Promise and Give a Good Home Cooked PRICES, 20c., 25c. and 30c. COUNTER IN CONNECTION Parties and serve all kinds of Salads, Hot Biscuits and Home-made Countenance STREET, CHICAGO SMITH'S ADVERTISING SERVICE MONEY QUARANTEE BILL DISTRIBUTORS—COVER CHICAGO AND SUBURBS REFERENCES: Madigan Bros., 63rd Street, Princeton and Harvard. Anderson & Jensen, 59th and Halsted Streets. Dr. Lader, Dentist, 43rd and St. Lawrence and 63rd and Lexington Avenue. Office and Storesroom: 3756 INDIANA AVE., CHICAGO. "House of Quality" Established 1865 We Have the Most Select Trade in Chicago-Most of the best families as our patrons. A good funeral appeals to the living as a fitting memorial of respect to the dead I furnish a complete funeral-one of satisfaction, for $65.00, or money refunded. We also have the finest goods and furnishings, that are manufactured for the undertaking business, to an eternal bronze casket costing many hundreds. I am in no way connected with the Casket and Undertaking Trust and I am not interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and vilify other persons and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My many years in business in Chicago and the manner and way my business is conducted proves that I am for building up for co-operation between honest business and the public, not advertising that I alone do right, but happy to say that we give the best for the smallest pay of any place in America today. I stand ready to prove this statement at any time. EMANUEL JACKSON DAN'L M. JACKSON, Expert Embalmer ERNEST H. WILLIAMSON, Assistant Only Place of Business in Chicago 2959 and 2961 State Street Phone 727 Douglas—Automatic]71-629 FOREMAN'S IDEAL KITCHEN OPEN DAY AND NIGHT We Promise and Give a Good Home Cooked Meal PRICES, 20c., 25c. and 30c. LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION We Cater to Dinner Parties and serve all kinds of Salads. Try our Corn, Wheat Cakes, Hot Biscuits and Home-made Country Sausage. 13 E. 35th STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. ```markdown ``` Our Willow Plume SPECIAL RATES TO MILLER 3115 Prairie Ave. MURRAY - ANDER REAL ESTATE Insurance in All WILLOW PLUME STATES TO MILLINERS AND O Ave. Phone Y - ANDERSON - T REAL ESTATE BROKER insurance in All Its Branche SPECIAL RATES TO MILLINERS AND THE TRADE 3115 Prairie Ave. Phone Aldine 1926 MURRAY - ANDERSON - TERRELL REAL ESTATE BROKERS Insurance in All Its Branches RENTING SALARY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY LOANS Southeast Corner State and 31st St. Phones Aldine 3592 Auto. 75811 Chicago, Ill. WM. H. HACKNEY. Tenor. a pupil of America's most eminent vocal teachers will take a limited number of pupils in voice beginning October 1. Call or write today. STUDIO 514 E. 33rd St. Telephone Aldine 54. STUDIO OF MUSIC MRS. MARTHA BROADUS-ANDERSON TEACHER OF VOCAL AND PIANO FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1ST RESIDENCE, 6450 CHAMPLAIN AVE., CHICAGO,ILL PHONE NORMAL 3316 Madam Minnie Adams SOPRANO Will accept pupils wishing a thorough knowledge of vocal and dramatic art. Call mornings at studio, 3752 Rhodes Ave., 3rd Flat. Phone Douglas 1058. DON'T HESITATE! This column of THIS PAPER are filled with advertisements of interested customers—our clients for years. It pays them; it will pay you. :: :: :: :: SEND IN A TRIAL "ADV" BUSING SERVICE COVER CHICAGO AND SUBURBS ICES: Harvard. B and 63rd and Lexington Avenue. DIANA AVE., CHICAGO. "Quality" reced 1865 Select Trade in the best families atrons. Is to the living as a respect to the dead mineral—one of satisfac- money refunded. W wis and furnishings, tha undertaking business, casket costing many Casket and Undertaking Trust and I attempt to slender and vilify other our dead. My many years in business business is conducted prove that I am on honest business and the public, not y to say that we give the best for the today. I stand ready to prove this JACKSON Expert Embalmer AMSON, Assistant ness in Chicago State Street Automatic]71-629 REAL KITCHEN AND NIGHT Good Home Cooked Meal 25c. and 30c. IN CONNECTION All kinds of Salads. Try our Corn, Home-made Country Sausage. CHICAGO, ILL. G. W. Lambert Press. B. J. Lambert Secy. Guarantee Feather Co. Willow and French Plumes and all Styles of Feathers, Cleaning, Curling, Bleaching and Dyeing. All Kinds of Feathers for Sale. NERS AND THE TRADE Phone Aldine 1926 CRISPUS ATTUCK'S MONUMENT TO BE REMOVED FROM HISTORIC BOSTON COMMONS A Sensational Report Reaches The Chicago Defender That the Bay State Has Succumbed to Southern Domination and the Removal of the Monument Is the Result. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Boston, Mass., May 31.—The liberty loving citizens of this commonwealth and the race loving people in particular are all agog over the report that has gained circulation here, that Christus Attack's monument is to be removed from Boston Commons. The report gained credence rapidly and some go so far as to assert that a Southern society has asserted its influence to the extent that the monument, the pride of years, will soon be moved elsewhere. Confirmation of these sensational reports is a hard matter, but your correspondent has talked with a number of persons with sufficient standing in the community to warrant the question, will enlighten Boston stand for this? Will the younger generation, proud of the history of their forefathers, stand for this wanion insult to the sacred memory of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner and Harriet Beecher Stowe and the hundreds of other race patriots would almost be a farce if such a project was allowed to be carried out. --- What is Boston going to do about it? Mental Diseases. Fear and apprehension make people nervous and sick. The thousand and one needless worries over the future are simply providence for the morrow gone mad. Fear of disease and death are normal; but to allow the mind to dwell on these things is to become a hypochondria with no more stability than the leaf of the aspen. Discontent. We are never more discontented with others than we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrongdoing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.—H. F. Amtel. The Deadly Dust. Out of every thousand of those whose occupations calls for constant work in dusty quarters, five die of consumption, according to German official figures; whereas among those who are not exposed to the action of dust only two out of a thousand die of the disease named Noble Practice. Let us all resolve—first, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault-finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grace and virtue of praise.—Harrlet Beecher Stowe. England's Forante Gene The forests for which England was at one time famous have vanished or only exist in the attenuated form of carefully preserved woods and parks, from which can be obtained only a fraction of the supplies needed. Whales May Live 500 Years. The land animal which lives the longest probably is the tortoise. Under favorable conditions it will live to an age of 350 or 400 years. One died at the London Zoo which was said to have attained the age of 350 years. The ordinary whale lives to be 500 years old. No other animal of the sea lives to be that old. Sympathy Counts. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors, and render to the world a more lasting service by absence of jealousy and recognition of merit than we could ever render by the straining efforts of personal ambition—Farrar. Just Try It Set about doing good to somebody; put on your hat, and go visit the sick and the poor; inquire into their wants and minister to them. Seek out the desolate and oppressed. I have often tried this medicine, and always find it the best autodote for a heavy heart. John Howard. Free List Suspended THE DEFENDER begs to an- nounce the sus- THE DEFENDER begs to announce the suspension of the free list for all notices that come under the head of advertisement. All subscriptions for papers must be paid for in advance. ```markdown ``` NORTH SIDE NEWS. The Jolly Twenty Club was entertained by Mrs. Winnette Harrison, 1726 Nelson street. Those present were Mrs. Lydia Lauders, Mrs. Gertrude Chandler, Mrs. Etta Antherophe, Miss Bertha Louey, Miss Leonora Curtis, Mrs. Winnette Harrison, Mrs. Lucille Roberts, Mrs. Bessie Carters. Dusness was transacted in a short time and the remainder of the evening was spent musically. Mrs. Harrison serv' the club with fried chicken, hot biscuits, lemonade, strawberries and cake. The visitors were Mrs. Lee, Mr. W. P. Harrison, Mr. Harry Chandler, Mr. Antherophe, Mr. Wm. Shepherd and Dr. C. G. Roberts. Mrs. Lewis was not able to attend the meeting on account of sickness. Her absence was very much regretted by the club. The club is to be entertained by Miss Bertha Lowry at the residence of Mrs. Lucille Roberts, 1130 Wells street, Thursday, June 6. Mrs. Bessie Carter, corresponding secretary. Lieut. Col. James Johns Lieut. Col. James Johnson, Eighth Infantry, I. N. [Name not visible in the image] Lieut. Col. James Johnson, Eighth Infantry, I. N. G. CURRENT HOTEL NEWS. The Waiters, the Bellboys, Malds and Other Help—Interesting Hotel News of Every Kind. By S. Adams. Detroit, Milech, May—Harry Woods, erstwhile waiter at the Gadillac hotel cafe, and wearing a smile that ought to be worth a fortune to him in this, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant sworn out by C. W. Wilson, a fellow-laborer in the satisfying of fastidious palates, who charged that Woods hit him on the head with a water bottle. As a result of the annotating, Wilson has been confined to the house for a week, it is said, and still wears a big white plaster on his classic ebony brow. The trouble arose over Wilson being sent by the head waiter to attend a generous looking patron and his guest, in cafe territory which was coveted by Woods. Woods, according to Wilson's story, came near him as he was placing the bread and butter and water, and adjusting the pepper and salt and makin so as to assure the visitor that he was on the job and was going to look out for him as a generous gentleman should be cared for. Woods is alleged to have made an ugly remark, for which he was referred to the head waiter. The water bottle then did its work. The "Top O' the Town," the famous the back of the famous man in the back of U.S. Major Allen A. Wesley, Eighth Infantry, I. N. C. --- THE LAST CHANCE STORE. Mr. A. Galines With the Assistance of His Wife and Son Have Marvelous Success in Business. Among Chicago's business enterprises none stand out more prominently than Mr. A. Galines, confectionery, ice cream parlor and home bakery at 3000 Dearborn street. Here the residents of the neighborhood not only find delicious refreshments but a large and select stock of tobacco, cigars, vegetables and all kinds of canned goods, smoked and dried meats. The Chicago Defender and other weekly papers are also on sale there. Speaking of his establishment to a reporter Mr. Galines said "This is the last chance store; after going to all of the other stores in the neighborhood, and not finding what they want the people should come to us. We are always open, our regular business hours are from 5 a. m., until 1 p. m." With the able assistance of his wife Mr. Gaines has made one of the most marvelous successes in business that has been seen on the South Side. The reporter was pleased to learn that the efficient clerk behind the counter was his son, Mr. Clyde B. Gaines. The Chicago Defender is proud of this splendid evidence of progress and urges its readers to visit "the last chance store," and by placing an order find out what splendid business people the Gaines are. Their telephone is Automatic 77-216. on, Eighth Infantry, I. N. G. roof garden of the St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, opened its summer season the latter part of last week. Rustic furniture, more lights properly installed and shaded, makes the "Top O' the Town" one of the most unique and comfortable places in the south. London, England, May 21—Members of the house of commons have just been confronted with the dilemma of whether to pay more for the house dinner, which is reputed to be the finest in the world for a quarter, or to cut down the menu. The kitchen committee proposed, owing to the increased prices of provisions, to raise the price to 36 cents and continue the menu of a joint, two vegetables, sweets, bread, butter and cheese. Nationalists and laborists, of which there were five on the committee, objected to an increase in the price, whereupon a compromise was reached by which the sweets were cut out. Thus the famous shilling dinner will be shorn of much of its glory, but it will be supplied by the house without loss. Mr. Arthur Dryburgh, son of Alexander Dryburgh, the new proprietor of the Virginia Hotel at Rush and Ohio streets, Chicago, has been appointed steward of that hotel and has entered upon the discharge of his duties. Young Mr. Dryburgh has been brought up in the hotel business and is regarded as an extremely competent man at "the back of the house." thin to the back of the house. --- THE CHR Colonel John R. Marshall, Com M. H. Colonel John R. Marshall, Commanding Eighth Infantry, I. N. G. DIDN'T SAVEY OWN LANGUAGE Filipino Draws Down on His Head Indignation of Amateur Interpreter. A party of tourists in a small Filipino village were trying to make the native driver of a bull cart under stand that they wished their baggage transferred from the bungalow to the railway station at two o'clock in the afternoon. But the native did not seem to comprehend either their gestures on their hybrid language. Standing near the tourists was a recruit of the United States army, who had been in 'the "Islands"' just a month and was extremely proud of the few words of "Hog Spanish" that he had learned. So he offered his services as interpreter. "Say, hombre," said he impressively to the Filipino, "when the clock or that stepple yonder strikes two, 'ding ding, you get your bull cart, 'moo moo,' and carry these trunks to the station, 'toot-toot,' Savey?" "No gabe," solemnly replied the na- tive. "What-at!" roared the interpreter "Do you mean to tell me that you don't understand your own language?" —Everybody's. THE LIFE OF JOHN W. HARRIS Australian wool growers, have been officially warned by an English chamber of commerce not to breed from black or gray sheep; to take the greatest care in selecting rams from flocks as free as possible from black hairs; to slaughter all black and gray lambs. Treatment for Burns Sweet oil, and limewater spread on a piece of cotton and applied to a burn is very soothing. Every medicine should contain a bottle of this remedy. Chance for an Inventor Our scheme of civilization will not be perfect until somebody invents a bureau which will set flat on the floor, so that collar buttons cannot roll under it. Observant Youngster, Teacher—Bobby, what is paraffin used for? Bobby—For rubbin' on meersh'm pipes, ma'am, to make 'em color. He Would Find Out, Reeder—Is it true that it takes a genius to live with a genius? De Ruyter—I'll ask my wife about it when I go home.—Puck. Another Definition. "Fa, what is an optimist?" "An optimist, my boy, is a woman who thinks that everything is for the best, and that she is the best."—Judge. New Air Line. Aeroplane lines will at least be use- ful for journeys to castles in the air. "Napoleon was a remarkable man." "Yes; he was a remarkable man. But why should he wear seven suits of clothes at Waterloo?" "Seven suits?" - "I have seen that many in various museums." DEFENDER R. Marshall, Commanding Eighth Infantry, I. N. 13 111 Major R. R. Jackson, Eighth Infantry, I. N. G. --- Another Definition Does Seem Odd. standing Eighth Infantry, I. N. G. "Paw," said little Dick, "you can swear at me all you want to, but if you swear any more at maw I'll be durned if I don' go and tell a plecee-man!" A Guilding Light Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle of wavering and uncertain flame, easily blown out; but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds mertt.—Lowell. --- BOOK PLATE. The first book plate of the library of Columbia college was published in 1795. It was designed and etched on copper by Alexander Anderson, the first American wood engraver, while he was a medical student. Five Million Years Ago Five Million for a Theater. The leading theaters in Paris receive a large sum of money every year from the government for their support. One of the opera houses standing in the center of Paris cost five million dollars. Poor Kind of Optimism. It is useless to hope for the best if you are determined to keep thinking that the worst always happens. 100 A man who does not avail himself of a chance of raising his position is not really a man. He is something walking about to save funeral expenses. Always a Chance When a man wishes to make a fool of himself he doesn't have to hunt long for an opportunity. Pineapple for Sore Throat. A Hozolulu remedy for sore throat is fresh pineapple, as much as one can digest. The effect is said to be marvelous. And there you are. Self-made men brag of their rise, and their daughters boast of their lesson—Lippincott's. Sunshine of Life Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves—J. M. Barrie. Opportunities. The city bristles with opportunities for service. If we are alert, we shall find them and utilize them—The Christian Endeavor World. The Trouble. The silver lining to the cloud may be there; but the trouble is, clouds do not float around turned inside out. Puck In the Days of 75. Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here.—Capt. John Parker, at Concord, 1775. Reciprocal. Life should consist quite as much of helping as of acquiring. Amusers and Amused. One half of the world is employed in amusing the other half. --- Free Rent for OL That's what our easy payment plan you. Why not use plain, common make your rent money buy you. Modern Brick and Stone R Two-Flat Newly Decor Forest Ave., between 33rd Boulevard a Call at 3429 Forest Avenue from see them. They Are Selling Fast To Better C FRED'K H. BARTLETT Phone 3751 Randolph [OWNERS] 69 W. V You Can't Be nt for Old Age or easy payment plan means to use plain, common sense and not money buy you a HOME? Rock and Stone Residences at Newly Decorated on 33rd Boulevard and 35th Street Forest Avenue from 3 to 6 at 1 ing Fast To Better Class Only BARTLETT & CO. OWNERS] 69 W. Washington St. can't Beat It That's what our easy payment plan means to you. Why not use plain, common sense and make your rent money buy you a HOME? Modern Brick and Stone Residences Two-Flat Newly Decorated Call at 3429 Forest Avenue from 3 to 6 at see them. FRED'K H. BARTLETT & CO. Phone 3751 Randolph [OWNERS] 69 W. Washington St. You Can't Beat It Hot Home-Made Bread served all day with those delicious home cooked meals that are served at The Model Cafe 12 WEST 31ST STREET, Near State St. Columbia Hotel Building Moderate Prices Quick Service Phones—Aldine 3368—Automatic 73-174 PLUMES ON CREDIT ensation of Chicago WILLOW PLUMES ON The Sensation of Chic WILLOW PLUMES ON CREDIT The Sensation of Chicago Your Credit is Good and we will sell you Willow Plumes, French Plumes, Paradise Birds and Aigrettes on easy payments. Everything with us is Strictly Confidential You telephone for a Sa esman 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 purchase he will close the sale in YOUR OWN VOTORS IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM. GUARANTEED. Pay a Little Each Week—It's —You Wear While Paying. I ALL STYLES AND GRADES! ONE FOR A SALESMAN TODAY. LEATHER COMPANY, (Inc.) 42244 420 North American Bldg., State and Monroe Sts. If it suits you to make a purchase he will close the HOUSE. NO COLLECTORS IF YOU DON'T W OUR PLUMES ARE GUARANTEED. Pay a Lif Easy-You Wear While Paying ALSO FURS IN ALL STYLES AND TELEPHONE FOR A SALESMAN TO PARISIAN FEATHER COM Telephone Central 3824—Automatic 42244 420 North American Bld 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 3824—Automatic 42244 420,North American Bldg., State and Monroe St. The World's Greatest Slave. Aesop probably is one of the most noted slaves that ever lived. The fables and stories he told have delighted mankind for twenty-five hundred years, and there is no telling how much longer the world will continue to enjoy them. Aesop was so deformed that for a long time his Greek master could not sell him. Finally he was sold, and the master found him so wise that he was set free. Man First Carved Woman. A piece of stone, 18 inches high, on which is roughly cut in bas-relief the figure of a woman, is the oldest known representation of the human form. It was discovered by Dr. Laanne in excavations in the grottos of Laussel, France, and is thought to be 20,000 years old. Scientists believe that it came between the ages of the mammoth and the reindeer, when the artist would have used sharpened flints as tools. "A fox which was hard pressed by the Essex Union Hounds entered a house in High street, Hillercay, and bolted upstairs into a bedroom. When found," says Punch, "he pretended to be a wolf rehearsing 'Red Riding Hood' for a cinematograph show, but his tale was cut short." Mysterious Letters. A Frenchman upon receipt of a wedding invitation, was puzzled at the mysterious letters R. S. V. P. After a long deliberation he finally concluded its meaning to be: "Remember so wedding present."—Norman F. Mack's National Monthly. In happiness there are far more regions unknown than there are in misfortune. The voice of misfortune is ever the same; happiness becomes the more silent as it penetrates deeper—Maehlerinck. In Benjamin Franklin's Time. When Benjamin Franklin was postmaster at Philadelphia, an answer by mail from Boston, when all went well, required not less than three weeks. This was in 1737.—Magazine of American History. A few more smiles of silent sympathy, a few more tender words, a litle more restraint on temper, m make all the difference between happiness and half-happiness to those with whom I live.—Stopford Brooke. The Value of Good Manners. Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a close by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but it will never be worn, nor shine if it is not polished. --- --- PETER H. W.L. HARRISON, Prop ```markdown ``` CANARY IS PLUMP AND HAPPY Absent-Minded Woman Discovers Why She Wanted Telephone Operator to Call Her. Absent-minded persons sorely try the patience of girls in the New Rochelle telephone office. Not long ago a woman confessed herself subject to extreme forgetfulness and requested the day operator on her exchange to ring her up every morning at nine o'clock. A week later she said: "Central, what was it I wanted you to call me for at nine o'clock?" "I don't know," said the girl. "You didn't tell me. You just asked me to call at nine o'clock." "Too bad," said the woman. "I know there was something I wanted to do every morning at nine o'clock, but I can't for the life of me think what it was." The nine o'clock continued, however, and several days later the woman took central into her confidence again. "I have found out why I wanted to be called," she said. "A friend had given me a canary and I wanted to make sure of remembering to feed it. The poor little thing is nearly starved. Hereafter when you ring won't you just say, 'Feed the bird,' and I'll go straight and do it?" Central promised, and the neglected canary is now a plump and contented bird. LITTLE CHANCE TO OVEREAT Kentuckian Visits Grill Room of New York Hotel and Has Hearty Breakfast. After his brother had been in New York a little more than a year, a Kentuckian decided to pay him a visit. Hoping to surprise his brother, the Kentuckian did not apprise his brother of his intentions. Arriving at nine o'clock in the morning, he asked to be directed to a good eating house. The taxcab pilot steered his course for the largest, costliest and most fashionable hotel grillroom on Broadway. Being a stranger in a strange land and hungry, the Bluegrass brother ordered a regular home meal. When he got the check from the waiter its size staggered him. He wasn't accustomed to New York hotel prices. After verifying the correctness of his bill at the cashier's desk and being insulted by the waiter for tipping him twenty-five cents, the visitor started out to look for his brother, whose office he found about one o'clock. In response to his inquiry as to his brother's whereabouts, a clerk said: "He's over at Blank's hotel's new grillroom." "Go slow, friend, only a millionaire could overheat at the Blank hotel. I know, because I had breakfast there myself this morning." Man First Carved Woman Brier Fox Again Mysterious Letters Unknown Regions. ```markdown ``` Think It Over City of Evanston Mr. Charles Lainn gives a box party Monday night at the Pekin. Lulu Owsey Harper, one of Evanston's girls, plays a leading part in "At the Front" at the Pekin next week. William Johnson Dead. Evanston, Ill., May 31.—Mr. William Johnson, 1724 Oak avenue, dled Sunday morning at the Dunning hospital. For more than eight months Mr. Johnson has been a patient sufferer. He was a member of the Second Baptist church of Evanston and a member of the K. of P. He leaves a wife and daughter and a host of friends to mourn his loss. The body was shipped to Kentucky Monday night. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. M. Craddock accompanied the remains to Kentucky. The body was accompanied to the train by members of R. B. Elliott Lodge, K. of P. The Court of Calantha was well represented at the train. There were floral offerings from his lodge, court and from many friends. Mrs. Estelle Downs, of 607 Chicago avenue returned home from Oklahoma last Sunday, where she has been teaching school. Miss Downs looks the picture of health, and she brought home the famous "Indian" smile. Mrs. L. Tom of New Orleans, La., stopped over in Evanston to pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Priestly, 1812 Railroad avenue. Mrs. Smith of Chicago accompanied her to Evanston and luncheon was served. Mrs. Tom is en route to New York, where she will take a steamer for Europe. Boy Cadets. On May 6 the boy cadets of Evanston were made boy scouts and are known as troop number seven. The charter was signed by President Taft, ex-President Roosevelt, E. E. T. Secton and Mr. James E. West. Troop number seven is the first troop of colored boy scouts of America. It is hoped that other cities will follow suit. Scout Master Edmonds has not as yet appointed his staff nor officers in general. All Evanston is behind the boy cadets and no pain will be spared in making this troop of boys a success. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Rev. Horace S. Graves, pastor of Ebenezer, returned home Sunday morning from Kansas City, after attending the General Conference for three weeks. A very large audience greeted him, and at night Rev. D. S. Moten, D. D., of Paul Quinn college, delivered a fine sermon. Three persons united with the church. The popular pastor of Ebenezer was greatly in evidence at the general conference. He was first assistant secretary, and directed the first division of the secretaries. He was selected to assist in the ordination of the new bishops and was elected to membership of the Church Extension board, which meets every April in Philadelphia. This board in its meeting with Bishop L. J. Coppin, president, elected Rev. Graves recording secretary. For sixteen years Dr. D. P. Roberts has been on this board and for eight years has represented the Iowa conference and the fourth Episcopal district. The ladies of the Eastern Star will assemble in Ebenezer Sunday night in their annual thanksgiving service, with the sermon by Rev. Horace S. Graves. The choir will render special music. The young girls of the church will assist the ushers in seating the people. Mr. W. E. Gossette, the new pipe organist of Ebenezer, is teaching piano and pipe organ lessons, and already he has a score of young and old, and to pass the church reminds one of a conservatory. This is a great blessing to Evanston to have such a master musician cast his lot in this city. C. M. E. Church. A lively class meeting was had on last Friday night. Rev. Thomas Williams of Chicago preached. Rev. T. L. Scott, pastor of the church and of St. Paul C. M. E. church of Chicago preached Sunday afternoon. Rev. Scott told of the success with his rally in Chicago on May 19, in which $1,375 was raised, paying the entire debt of the church. Sunday evening at $ p. m. Rev. Thomas Williams preached an interesting sermon. Second Baptist Church. At the brick rally held at Second Baptist church on last Sunday over seven hundred dollars were raised. Rev. Thomas, the new pastor, is endeavoring to raise twelve hundred dollars for the erection of a new church. Mr. J. E. Priestly, trustee of Mt. Zion Baptist church, and Mr. W. T. Mason, trustee of Ebenezer A. M. E. church, acted as receivers. Enthusiasm was very high among the audience, which raised songs and praises to God. Rev. I. A. Thomas left Wednesday for Macon, Ga., from where he will accompany his mother to Evanston to live with him. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Sunday morning, covenant and praise service; 12:30, Sunday school; 6:45, B. Y. P. U.; 8, sermon by pastor, followed by administration of Lord's supper. All are invited to attend our services. A Delicate Point. "They are a happy Swickeyley couple. They haven't been married very long. In fact, the honeymoon has barely waned. An elderly friend met the bridegroom down town yesterday and slapped him on the back. --- "Well, happy as a lark, I suppose?" "Oh, yes." "How's the cooking?" "I have one trouble there. It's just this, my wife has been preparing angel food every day for dinner." "You must be getting tired of it." "I am. Yet I feel a hesitancy about saying anything. How soon after the monkeymoney would it be proper to eat for beefsteak and onions?" Comes Home by Itself An airplane has this advantage over a motor car: When it breaks down it doesn't have to be towed in— Life. SOME TABLE DAINTIES GOOD THINGS SHOULD BE PER- MANENTLY ON THE MENU. Crisp, Delicious Crackers, as Good as Can Be Bought, May Easily Be Made at Home—For Delicious Mook Mince Meat. Soda Crackers.—The various kinds of commercial biscuits put up by different firms are made by special recipes which are a trade secret, but the recipes here given are supposed to give results as nearly similar as amateur hands can attain: Take one quart of flour, rub into it thoroughly one tablespoonful of butter, and one teaspoonful of salt. Now add good creamy buttermilk to make a very stiff paste, beating in a little at a time, at first using just enough of the flour to admit beating until very light. Make gradually stiff enough to knead and when well kneaded roll very thin, cut into squares, stick with a fork and bake quickly in a hot oven. Water Crackers.—Take one pound of flour, one tablespoonful of lard, one teaspoonful of salt, and half teaspoonful of soda. Mix with water enough to beat well; knead, roll thin, stick with a fork and bake in a hot oven. Cream Crackers—Take the white of one egg, one tablespoonful of butter, one tasseful of sweet milk or thin cream, half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and gradually beat in some flour, heating very briskly; gradually make stiff enough to roll thin, prick with a fork, and bake in a fairly hot oven. Mock Mince Meat—Take half cup of molasses, two-thirds of a cup of water, two-thirds of a cup of vinegar, one cup of sugar, two cups of bread crumbs, one cup of chopped raisins (some substitute finished chopped dried fruit for this), one tablespoonful of cloves, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one nutmeg grated, butter the size of a hen's egg, and, if the raisins are used, add one cupful of currants or chopped sour apple, otherwise double the quantity of fruit. Mix thoroughly and heat on the stove before using to equally distribute the flavor of the spices. Cocoon Plee—Use two eggs, three tablespoons of sugar, one cup of fresh grated cocoon, one plum of milk, one tablespoon of corn starch, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. It is better to let the cocoon soak in the milk three or four hours or overnight if you use the desiccated cocoon. Bake with one crust and sprinkle grated cocoon over the top. Peanut Brittle—To make peanut brittle, boll together one cupful each of molasses and brown sugar, a teaspoonful of vinegar, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. When boiled enough that a little dripped from the tines of a fork into very cold water is brittle, add a cupful of blanched peanut meats, remove at once from the fire, add a teaspoonful of baking soda, beat hard, and as it stiffens pour out and spread flat in a buttered pan, marking into squares before it is quite cold and set. Chicken a la King. To make that delectable supper dish, chicken a la king, take the white meat of a boiled chicken and cut it into thick slices, or discs, and put into a saucepan. Put the saucepan on the stove, moisten with hot cream, just enough to cover the chicken, add one whole sweet red pepper cut into discs, a pinch of salt and pepper, and let slimmer gently for about fifteen minutes. Remove the saucepan to the side of the stove, heat the yolk of an egg and mix with the cream, but do not allow it to come to a boil. Add a piece of sweet butter the size of a walnut and serve immediately, very hot, over some fresh made toast. May be served in chafing dish if preferred. —Vogue. Eel Broth. Take one pound of eels, a bunch of sweet herbs, some parsley, one onion, a few peppercorns, cloves, salt and pepper to taste. Clean and skin the eels, cut them into small pieces, put them into a stewpan with the other ingredients and six pints of water. Simmer until the liquid is reduced one-half, remove the scum as it rises and strain all through a sieve. When the broth is cold and wanted for use, take off the fat and warm only what is required. Sippers of toasted bread should be served at the same time. Sufficient to make three pints of broth. Chicken Shortcake. A chicken shortcake is an acceptable substitute for chicken potpie and somewhat easier to make successfully. On taking the hot shortcake out of the oven split it open and spread it with a liberal layer of hot fricassee chicken from which the bones have been removed. Place the other half of the shortcake on top and pour over it a liberal amount of the chicken gravy. Serve upon a deep platter or in a big vegetable dish. The shortcake should be well moistened with the gravy. Tartare Sauce. One cupful mayonnaise, one tablespoonful finely chopped capers, one tablespoonful finely chopped olives, one tablespoonful finely chopped green cucumber pickles, one tablespoonful finely chopped parsley. Mix the last four together and press dry on a cloth. Add gradually to the mayonnaise. Dreams of Youth. Son—Oh, father, I should like a Turkish bath. Father—Ah, my boy, when I was young like you, I too, was romantic.—London Opinion. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER THE WEEK IN TOLEDO. Church and Other Affairs of Note— Personal. By Turner Tandy. Toledo, O, May 31.—Mr. Henry Halverson, son of M. and Mrs. W. H. Halverson, formerly of this city but now of Chicago, has opened a first class tailor shop at 1917 Lake street in that city. A drama will be given at People's hall on June 5 for the benefit of the Court of Calanthe. Mr. C. E. Sawer, superintendent of the high school at Madison, Ind., was called home last week on a very sad mission, his wife and baby having died within two days of each other. Mr. and Mrs. Halverson of Chicago send regards to their Toledo friends. A donkey party was given at the home of Mrs. White of Indiana avenue Tuesday evening by the Tribe of Gael of which Mrs. Lambert is captain. A chicken supper and delicatessen sale was held at the home of Mrs. George Remley, 733 Palmwood avenue, Wednesday evening. The Mite Missionary society held a meeting at Warren A. M. E. church Wednesday evening. Mrs. Cox Weiss has opened an ice cream parlor at her residence, 206 Belmont avenue. Sunday, June 9, Warren A. M. E. Sunday school will observe children's day. A fine program will be rendered at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. MEDICAL VALUE OF SPICES They Arouse the Appetite and Promote the Secretion of the Gas- The spices are a very interesting group of substances; they are the foundation of a considerable industry, they have their medical uses and finally are of special importance in dietetics. Their value resides in their richness in aromatic substances and essential oils; strictly speaking, they are not foods, but often enough they are essential elements in the diet. Spices have been the subject of classic research, as, for example, in the clover and important investigation which Pawlow undertook as to the psychic influences of food and as to the value of zest in nutrition. Splices were shown to arouse appetite and to promote the secretion of the gastric juice, and the role they play therefore in dietetics is a very important one. The medicinal action of some of them is further of value. Allpice, for example, is used as an aromatic and has been successfully administered for flatulency or for overcoming gripping due to purgatives, and occasionally it is reported that the oil gives relief in rheumatism and neuralgia. The medical uses of cinnamon are well known. Cardamoms are used in the form of a fracture as aromatic and stomachic and they are also employed as a flavoring agent in curry powder, cakes and liqueurs. The applications of capsicum and the peppers generally are well known. Cloves are aromatic, carminative and stimulant and have been used in dyspepsia, gastric irritation and in cases of vomiting in pregnancy. Oil of cloves is also a popular remedy for toothache. It has also its uses in microscopy as a preservative and for clearing sections. The uses of nutmeg are wide, vanilla has an enormous application as a flavoring pat on account of its bright yellow color and pleasant musky flavor. - Lancet. QUEER FISHES OF THE SEA Those That Live Down in the Deep Are Grotesque and Chimerical. Cuba ends to the south in a huge hammer of mountains 8,000 feet high and steeping sheer into the sea. The wall does not end there, but continues its precipitous descent into the 700-mile-long abyss called Bartlett's deep. This gigantic submarine valley is nearly four miles deep and 80 miles wide. At a mile and a half, the pressure of the water is nearly two tons to the square inch; the ooze that comes up from such a depth, though the equator runs overhead, is cold as ice frost; it is ten times certain that no vegetation can grow there. As in our world none but the vegetable are able to make food, it ought to follow that in the depths of the sea there should be no animal life. As a matter of fact, these glooms are inhabited by the most grotesque and chimerical of all fishes. It would seem as though in the darkness life had taken every imaginable license to be ugly and bizarre. Cannibalism is evidently the only method of l.e., and its equipment runs to every kind of extravagance. There are fish with teeth so long that they cannot close their mouths, fish that draw their stomach over prey larger than themselves, fish with no more mouth than a leech, and getting their living as leeches, fish with huge, myoplex eyes, and fish frankly blind. Probably none of them comes from depths quite beyond the region of light, though a great many of them go poking about their ghoulish business furnished with lanterns of the glowworm type. Cannibal Fishes and Humane People. While as a measure of economy the great majority of all the fishes and other creatures at the Aquarium are fed on dead food, such as cut up fish, or as in the case of some of the larger ones, small dead fish whole, there are some fishes which if they are to be kept alive or in condition must have live food such as they would find in nature. In their free state all fishes are cannibals. This is the way of nature. But among the visitors at the Aquarium there are people who consider the placing of live little fishes in the tanks to be devoured by bigger fish as cruel and in deference to this feeling the fishes that must be supplied with live food are fed before the Aquarium is opened in the morning and after it is closed at night. Has Had Every President as Its Guest Except Taft. Ancient Building in Virginia Has Long Been Famous for Its Fish and Chicken Dinners—Only Dwelling Left of City. Washington—On the Virginia side of the Great Falls of the Potomac, commonly known as "the Niagara of the South," fourteen miles from Washington, is an ancient building, the old Dickle house, connected with which is the pleasing tradition that every president of the United States has taken dinner beneath its roof tree, President Taft alone excepted. The old habitation, long famous for its fish and chicken dinners, is the only dwelling left of the departed City of Matildasville, that was called into being by the construction of the Potomac company Canal, of which George Washington, after relinquishing his command at the close of the revolution, was promoter and president. Generations ago the canal was abandoned and Matilda dasville vanished from the map. The old Dickie house alone remains. George Washington often ate beneath its roof. When the British captured Washington in 1814 President Madison and his cabinet, it is said, tarried for a meal before crossing the river. All the presidents but one are said by the descendants of the original owner of the house to have sat at the table in the little dining-room when visiting the falls and to have partaken of fish and chicken cooked in a style that has made the Dickie family famous for its culinary accomplishments. Some are skeptical enough to question this claim, but it is put forth with such stress that most visitors depart strong in the faith that they have eaten a meal in a room that has been honored by the presence of all the presidents but one. As yet President Taft has not sat in judgment upon a meal at Dickie's, and the absorbing ambition of the proprietor of the house is to make the list complete. Since the completion of the trolley line to the Great Falls of the Potomac this beautiful work of nature has attracted a great interest among excursionists. The trip to the falls is one of the most popular in the vicinity of the national capital. Last year, 170,000 excursionists visited the falls. In addition, thousands of other sightseers made the trip by automobile or carriage on the Maryland side. This route is far more beautiful than the one on the Virginia side, for the road winds along the river and the Cheapeake and Ohio Canal to the famous Cabin John bridge, which was built when Jefferson Davis was secretary of war. During the civil war the name "The Niagara of the South." of Jefferson Davis, which was inscribed on the bridge, was chiselled out, but a few years ago it was replaced, an episode that attracted wide interest at the time. From here the road cuts across a beautiful hilly country to the Great Falls on the Maryland side, where there is a hotel of advanced age. The falls are always changing, according to the height of the water. Above them is a dam which holds back the water for the Washington supply. A rise of one inch at the dam makes a rise of eight inches in the water as it passes over the falls and down the gorges. The spectacle is one of great majesty. The river splits and runs around a craggy island, and the two parts rush together again and pour thunderously between great rocks which split the flood into three separate waterfalls, as it tumbles over the precepline into the calderon. Here the water, rushing in from three angles, forms a great whirlpool and thence rages through a narrow gorge with perpendicular walls of granite for about a mile, where it spreads out into a placid expanse. Wants Clear Conscience New York--That he might plead guilty to a theft in 1908 and die with a clear conscience, Daniel Loewy was carried on a stretcher into general session the other day before Judge Crain. Abraham Levy, his counsel, told the story of the robbery by Loewy of ten sable skins from his employer, the skins being valued at $1,750. Judge Crain then suspended sentence. Loewy is declared by physicians to be slowly dying. He went to San Francisco in February, 1910, and while in the new Western hotel there was held up, shot and robbed by three unidentified men, who escaped. They took all the diamonds Loewy had. Good Books for Million. New York—The American Bible society issued its ninety-sixth annual report and announced than an increase of 459,479 volumes was issued over the preceding year. The total number of volumes issued during the year amounted to 3,691,201, and consists of 430,098 Bibles, 670,728 Testaments and 2,590,375 portions of the Bible. More than 94,000,000 volumes have been issued by the society during its existence. This includes many translations ODD CUSTOMS OF GYPSIES Marriage Ceremony Closed by Bride and Groom Jumping Over a Broom—Wed at Early Age. London.—There are traditions of the marriage ceremony among certain gypsies in England consisting simply of jumping over a broom or besom, and it is only within the last fifty years that that custom has been extinct in Wales. The besom was held by the father of the bridegroom or bride, and first the young man jumped over it, and then the young woman, whereupon the official would make such remark as, "Now you are married." Gypsies invariably marry at an early age, and as the parents are loath to lose their daughters, the girl frequently runs away with the young man of her choice. In numbers of cases there is no marriage ceremony. Only people who have lost their character A Gypsy Home. go into a church to be married, said one of the Hearnes. Incidentally, he mentioned that German gypsies like to have their children baptized as often as possible, and the practice of successive baptism is not unknown in England. In both England and Germany the food of a gypsy must on no account be touched by a woman's dress. On one occasion, said Mr. Thompson, he was having ten with a family when a boy of 16 hurried back a piece of bread at his mother because she had allowed it to touch her dress while she was cutting it. She remarked he was right not to eat it and she gave it to the dog. The gypsy held very strong views on the value of chastity. As recently as 1875 an old Suffolk gypsy said the ancient punishment for immorality was burial alive, and he described a certain spot where, as a boy, he saw a girl undergo this punishment. The corpse of a gypsy is usually carried to the grave by the mourners themselves, and the day after the funeral everything which had belonged to the dead, except money, is destroyed. Three vans had been burned during the last year. The harness and everything was placed in the van, soaked with purpasha and set on fire, and the ashes and the parts that could not be burned were buried, or, preferably, thrown into a river or the sea. Crockery was broken and the fragments dropped from a ferry into the Mersey; in another case the unburned portions of a gypsy's belongings were carried miles in order to be dropped into the Tyne. Only three months ago, on the death of a baby a few months old, the family burned practically a new wagon which had cost £80. The custom of destroying everything was due to the gypsies' fear that unless this were done the ghost of the dead person would return and haunt it. "By the oath of my dead grandfather" is the most sacred oath a gypsy can swear—London Chronicle. BONUS OFFERED FOR TEETH Unusual Activity to Collect False Molars in Massachusetts County Follows. Greenfield. Mass.—"Wanted—Old false teeth. Send old artificial teeth. I mall you immediately three cents for each tooth received." This advertisement, which appeared in the last issue of a Greenfield weekly newspaper, has caused unwanted activity on the part of Franklin county residents. The outgoing mall has assumed such proportions that the postmasters of several hamlets are hopeful that their receipts will be swelled sufficiently to secure them a higher salary rating. Old teeth are being resurrected from attics, barns and abandoned wells. A Colbrain youth admits robbing a scarecrow in his great-uncle's cornfield of his great-grandfather's false teeth. In one local cafe interest in the baseball pool is overshadowed by heavy wagers as to who can collect the greatest number of artificial teeth which have seen actual service. Slow Going. New York—Walter Clark started from Eureka, Cal., twenty-seven years ago, for Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., and reached his destination only a few days ago. But his cousin, Webster Clark, whom he had expected to find there, had moved to Montpellier, Vt., five years previously, so he had to extend his trip. Starting from the California city in 1885, Clark stopped when he got to Salt Lake City and remained there seven years. His next halted place was Wichita, Kan., there he remained until 1903. Macknaw, Mich., was his next stopping place, and he stayed there until a few weeks ago. It is not contended that Clark has walked. Johnstown, Pa.—When, an unidentified man and a game conductor at the carnival here the other day quarreled over the former's loss of money the latter attempted to pull a revolver, and the weapon was discharged in his pocket. The bullet struck Dorsely Long, aged sixteen, in the abdomen, inflicting a probably fatal wound. In the confusion the gun artist escaped. BEAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD CEMETERY A Cemetery that has never discriminated against the Colored People. A Cemetery said to be the most beautiful in Cook County. A Cemetery with native Oak trees and a beautiful stream of water. A Cemetery where funeral cars stop in the center of the grounds. A Cemetery whose growth has been phenomenal. A Cemetery where lots in the first section "D" has advanced 400 per cent. A Cemetery where lots in the new sections 'E' and 'F' will have greater advance. A Cemetery where payments are only $2.00 cash and $2.00 per month. A Cemetery where the poorest families can buy lots. A Cemetery that offers the best real estate investment. A Cemetery that invites you all to go out and see for yourself. Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association Phones Douglas 5574 Automatic 71-886 Open Evenings, 7 to 9 3125 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. We do roofing, guttering and all kinds of wood. Stoves and furnace repairing especially. First Efforts Should Not Be Directed to Subjects That Would Test Genius. Far, far is it from our wish or intention to hurt anybody's feelings, but we do wish to state, very, very gently, that one of the most difficult tasks a real poet, experienced and skilled in the practice of his art, could undertake, would be to write an adequate and fitting poem on the loss of the Titanic. For anyone else to attempt it to invite inevitable failure, and failure of a kind that—well, of a kind that it would be unkind, in the circumstances, to characterize. To be deeply and sincerely moved is one of the requisites for writing noble verse about a tragic episode in human history, but it is far from being the only requisite, and, with all respect for their emotions and intentions, we would suggest that those who have only a desire to express what they feel in regard to this calamitous event should do it otherwise than in verse. At least they should not try to get the verse printed, for by so doing they place upon the winowers of metrical offerings the always painful duty to be cruelly kind. Surely, surely, surely, a first effort to write poetry should not be on a subject that would test all the powers of a longtested genius. --- Gifts for Filipino Tribesmen Gifts for Filipino Tribesmen. While traveling around among these people of the mountains the giving of presents enters a great deal into the methods of treating with them. As a rule the gifts which are acceptable are mere trifles. Among the Iugao's a custom formerly required them to wear in the hair a white rooster's feather on festa days. More recently a strip of onion skin tissue paper an inch wide has been introduced, and it is now the universal present from the secretary on his visit. These papers are worn as a sign of holiday, and after the feast is over they are carefully preserved till another occasion calls them forth. The Iongots and Calingas like beads, and a common bead of imitation agate which is worth a few centavos in Manila has its value enhanced till it is worth 50 centavos in the hills. Scarlet cloth is also acceptable to the Iugao's and Iongots. One of the very highest prizes of all is the pearl oyster shell, and several of these are always taken along. A great deal of discretion must be exercised in giving such presents, so as not to cheapen them, nor to place them in the hands of the wrong people—Manila Times. Lawyer for the Apaches One Paris lawyer has had his name struck off the rolls because it was discovered that he acted as the regular legal adviser to the "apache" fraternity, from which he drew $6,600 annually in fees. One day he was engaged to defend an apache in a suburban court. His client was not satisfied with the lawyer's procedure in the case, and after a heated argument outside the court the client threw the lawyer into the River Marne. on Hardware Co. ANDS OF HARDWARE SUREST TEST OF OLD AGE Don't Look at Your Face for the Sign of Time's March—Watch the Heart. The dear little old lady was just as cross as she could be! All because the old-fashioned conductor had said: "Be careful. Watch out, grandma. Don't get off the car till it stops." It was probably the first time that from the lips of a stranger came the verdict that the world had begun to look upon her as an old lady. She must have known that her shoulders were a bit stooped—but old No, not just in the prime of life, and the very idea of that man calling out: "Watch out, grandma!" But after all, what matters what the conductor said? There is a rumor of inner consciousness that should tell one if one is growing old. "Don't look at your face to see if age is creeping on. Watch the heart. Beware of allowing care to make crow's feet there. Oliver Wendell Holmes summed up the philosophy of life when he said, "I am seventy years young today." Every birthday should see one's heart younger. The only way to keep from growing old is to keep growing young. The only time to begin growing young is before one begins to grow old. There are mental attitudes and limping worse than those of a faltering foot. There are aches and pains caused by selfishness and narrowness much worse than those of rheumatism. Begin this moment to grow young. Six Years Building a Clock Six Years building a Clock. Twenty thousand minute pieces of wood entered into the construction of an elaborately ornamented Notre Dame cathedral clock made by James Calway of Skowhegan, Me. This clock, which is finely carved, stands seven feet and ten inches in height and took Mr. Calway six long years to complete. In the upper story six folding doors open every ten minutes and the apostles appear marching in time to an air played by a large music box that is governed by the clock, each one bowing before the SAVior as they pass, except the fourth one (which represents Peter), who turns his back upon the SAVior, and the devil comes out of the top of the clock and blows a trumpet in honor of Peter. The second story is in the form of a mansion with double doors in front which also open every ten minutes. Lazarus appears at the rich man's door and on bonded knees asks for charity, the dogs licking his sores, and the rich man stands in the door swinging his arm as if he were throwing crumbs from his table. All these movable figures are run by machinery connected with a time movement, so as to work on the minute. The bottom story is a very elaborately designed foundation of fine inlaid work.-Scientific American. Where All Are Not Equal. Opportunities are equal, but the ability to grasp them, the mentality to appreciate them, the strength to develop them, vary with the individual. Herbert Kaufman. CHICAGO Evanston, Ill.