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VOLUME VII. NUMBER 30. Negroes in Virginia. Prof. J. M. Gandy, Petersburg, Va., executive secretary of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, read an interesting paper on "The Needs of Negro Rural Life." Today 32,228 Negroes, or 67 per cent of the 48,111 Negro farm operators, controlling 2,228,220 acres, own and operate their farms in Virginia. While the Negroes are not getting on an average as much produce per acre as the white farmers, Professor Gandy expressed the belief that with improved methods the hard-working Negroes of Virginia will soon be able to make a much better living on the farm. He made a plan for the improvement of colored schools as an important factor in solving the rural-life problem. School Administration. E. L. Snyder, steward of the boarding department of Tuskegee Institute, discussed in detail the problem of feeding students economically. In his address he outlined the essential factors in securing the efficient administration of a boarding department—selection of help, training of cooks and their helpers, equipment for the kitchen, selection of table ware, buying and care of linen, distribution of responsibilities, making of the bill of fare, computation of costs, canning fruits and vegetables, handling students in the dining room, and table decoration. M. W. Reddick, principal of Americas Institute, Americas, Ga., described his method of raising money for Negro education among the Negroes themselves. Americas Institute was organized in October, 1897, it is owned by an association of seventy Baptist churches. The first year it raised $154 for education. Some men who began by giving one dollar are now contributing from fifty to one hundred dollars. The annual receipts have gone up to almost eight thousand dollars. Negroes in the City. Dr. George E. Haynes, who is the director of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, New York, and is connected with the Social Science Department of Fiske University, spoke on the "Movement of Colored People to the City." He gave the following causes: Divorce of the Negro from the soil; growth of commercial and industrial centers; legislation affecting city and urban conditions, relations of tenant and landlord, influence of employment runners in the south, exaggerated stories of success, restlessness. The remedy lies in keeping the people on the land by improving farming, in co-operating with organizations that point out the disadvantages and dangers of city life, and in helping the Negro to adjust himself to his new environment "in town." During the past week the Appomattox Club and Grace Presbyterian Sunday school held their annual outings. Tuesday more than 1,700 members and friends of the club enjoyed the day at Glenwood Park. This large crowd of people were successfully handled over the Aurora and Elgin railway and so far no accidents have been reported. It was a typical day in the woods, music being an especial feature. Thursday afternoon children and their parents, of Grace enjoyed their annual outing at Washington Park. It was an ideal day, the children frolicked until dark and ate everything in sight. Of course there was a baseball game, but that is up to the sporting editor. The beautiful home of Mrs. Ritta Carter, 3256 Rhodes avenue, is now known as the Villa Carter, with its carefully kept lawn and beautiful extension equally as pretty interior it is a charming place to visit and her many friends take every advantage to do so. ASS, CHAMPION the People NEGRO FARMER BEATS RICH COMPETITOR NEGRO FARMER BEATS RICH COMPETITOR Farming Becomes More Popular During the Past Year—Improved Methods Make the Work Easier, Although the Labor Question South Is a Serious One—Negro Farmers Win Many Prizes—Raise More Grain, Potatoes and Vegetables A Long Island Farmer Competed Successfully Against a Number of Millionaires. GETS BLUE RIBBON FOR DUCKS, POULTRY. ```markdown ``` Writer Advances Plan for the Betterment of the Workers and Speaks in Glowing Terms. of Hampton, Tuskegee, and other Industrial Institutes—Convict Labor System and Peonage Must be Wiped Out—Invention of the Packing Machine Marks Revolution in the Cotton Industry. By D. W. Johnson. The year 1911 was a record maker in Negro history. There was great activity in all the lines of progress. Special interest was manifested along the lines of industry, education, science and labor. Many important conferences were held at such well known institutions as Tuskegee, Hampton, the Georgia State Industrial College, Savannah, Ga. Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee, the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Greensboro, N. C., and the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Utica, Miss. During the year many successful state fairs were held in various southern states. The exhibits showed a marked improvement in industrial affairs and a keen interest in and knowledge of improved methods of industry and farming. Many prizes were won by Negroes at white fairs. At the Mineola fair on Long Island, Negroes competed successfully against a number of millionaires and won the blue ribbon on ducks—poultry farming. There is a new interest manifested in farming, the old methods are being rapidly discarded. Farms are broken up into smaller plots. Cultivation has taken on a new air, instead of large and continuous cotton crops, farmers are raising more grain, potatoes and vegetables, more time and interest being devoted to cattle and poultry raising. Farm labor in the south has become a very important question. There are many reasons for this. In the first place there are no inducements for young Negroes to remain in the rural districts, the school facilities are very poor, wages are low and the comforts of home life are very meager. Again, there is a great lack of protection to the Negro in his civil and political rights and against the brutality and prejudice of those who choose to prey upon his ignorance and weakness. There have been many suggestions made to solve the labor problem of the south, such as emigration from the north and from Europe, but none will ever suffice until the controlling element of the south learns to respect the rights and material well of its laborers. Such injustices as the peonage system and the imprisonment for so-called violation of false and outrageous contracts will continually discourage and cause a dearth of labor in the south. Dr. Booker T. Washington calls attention to a patent example which would be very effective in the solution of this problem. In Macon county, Alabama, one of the black belt counties in the state, the Negroes live in a state of comfort and satisfaction. They have good houses, churches and schools. The school term runs eight months in the year. There would be no labor problem nor any reason for one if such facilities, advantages and comforts were offered to the mass of labor throughout the south. The invention of the cotton picking machine marks a revolution in the cotton industry which will probably be as great in its effect as that of the cotton gin. Its effect upon the demand for labor will be more harmful than the invention of machinery in other lines of industry. It will rather increase the demand, as then attention can be turned to the cultivation of other produce which now is necessarily neglected on account of the time expended in gathering the cotton. · H. M. S. PAUL. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) London, England, July 25.—The friends of Mr. S. S. Paul, who reside at 3601 Forest avenue, will no doubt be surprised to learn that their distinguished townsman has had a battleship named after him. This is not the first time that Mr. Paul has been honored, for it was only last year that the coat of arms that had been in his family for a generation or two was presented to him. His friends are all elated. The Chicago Defender. HAMPTON'S SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Yearly Meeting of the Famous Industrial School a Successful One—All Phases of Work Discussed—Speakers. Hampton, Va., July 26.—Yearly the leaders of the colored race in agriculture, education, sanitation, and public welfare, gather at Hampton Institute and in open conference discuss the present-day worth-while problems of the Negro race in the light of knowledge and with open hearts and minds. The sixteenth annual Hampton Negro Conference, held on July 17 and 18, dealt with the following vital supervisors: Work of Industrial Supervisors in Virginia; Progress in Rural Schools; Negroes and the Census of 1910; White and Colored Death Rates; Negro Population and Illiteracy; Negroes in Virginia; Organization Work Among Virginia Negroes; Management of Boarding Departments; Raising Money for Schools; Cultivation of Corn; Public Health; Minister and Community; Recreation and Amusement; Movement of Negroes to the Cities. Negroes In Virginia. Negroes in the City. WITH THE PICNICKERS. Two Successful Outings—One Attended by 1,700 People—No Accidents. THE VILLA CARTER. RETURNS TO THE ROAD. Mr. Wm. Bell, 3812 Prairie avenue, is running to Madison, Wis., over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, after being away from home a year, during which time he ran from Kansas City to Moskeea, Ia. Mr. Bell will enjoy a week's lay-off starting next week. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912. MALEFACTORS MUST BE PUNISHED Wanton Murder and Lawlessness Among Negro Men and Women in Chicago on the Increase—Crimes Go Unpunished—This Condition Called Worse Than Lynching—Murderers Are Arrested and Put in jail but Are Soon Liberated—Should Be Given Full Extent of the Law—Race Wants Its Criminals Promptly Punished. REV. E. J. FISHER SUGGESTS DRASTIC MEASURES. This Wholesale Killing of One Another In Chicago and Elsewhere a Drawback to the Entire Race—Divine Only Speaks for His Own Race—Adequate Laws but They Are Not Enforced—Pleads to the Entire Race for Prompt and Decisive Action—Would Start a Fund: By Rev. E. J. Fisher. I ask for space in your columns that I may speak to the members of our race who live above the Mason and Dixon line. In the southland the white men are forming mobs and burn, lynch and shoot to death our race in such numbers that many of us are hearing in tone of voice that none of our lives are 'safe and therefore something should be done to put a stop to the taking of the human life in such an unscrupulous manner. With all of which I readily agree and am ready to do whatever I can to help put an end to that great evil. Mr. Editor and colored citizens I wish to call attention to a matter that in my humble judgment is more appalling than the lynching carried on by the southern white men—the lawlessness of the Negro men and women here in Chicago and in every other city above the Mason and Dixon line, in taking the lives of their own race and little or nothing in many cases is done about it. Sometimes they are arrested and put in jail and because there appears little interest in one of them the next few days the lawless character that did the deed is again set free and turned loose on the public to repeat his or her action. I believe that a protective association of some kind ought to be formed by the law-abiding citizens of our race and a fund raised and reserved to be used in such cases as are happening here in Chicago almost daily. The money should be used in the employment of the very best counsel obtainable to see to it that such offenders be punished to the extent of the law. An end should be put to this wholesale killing of one another as it is practiced by our race here in Chicago and elsewhere. Every man or woman of our race who commits murder should be captured and given the extent of the law. Some one may ask, what about other races? I am a Negro and am therefore talking to the Negroes about the lawless Negroes and their treatment of other Negroes. Something must be done to stop this tide of blood thirstiness among us for the blood of our fellowman. Laws are on the statute books sufficient for the above cases but they are not being enforced. Through this article we are pleading for the law's enforcement. Now let every Negro who reads this article come to the help as against the mighty. Yours for the advancement of my race. THE NEW INDUS- Workers for Another Helpful Institution in the City. Mrs. Louise Mullone Braxton, principal of the W. P. Russell Industrial school, Hayneville, Ala., and a private secretary, Miss Abram, are in the city in the interest of their school. Louise Mullone Braxton is a woman of broad experience; she has already organized and built two good schools in the state for her race, one named after Dr. Booker T. Washington, known as the Washington Model Training school, and the other at Tysonville, Ala. She comes from Hayneville highly recommended by the white citizens as a good, honest woman. The school at Hayneville is named for Dr. W. P. Russell who died last year. It is known as the W. P. Russell Woman Industrial school; it has been incorporated under the state laws of Alabama. Louise Mullone Braxton is in the city soliciting aid for her work among the whites and colored and we hope she will meet with success while in the city. MISS McFARLAND GOES EAST. Miss Madeline R. McFarland, 4746 State street, the up-to-date and popular milliner, has gone on her annual trip east in search of new designs and styles for her fall trade. This year Miss McFarland combines business with pleasure and will be the guest of friends in Boston and Newport. FIELD DAY EXERCISES. Brilliant Assemblage Witnesses Realistic War Maneuvers—Listens to Band Concert. By J. Hockley Smiley. The second annual field day exercises of the Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at White Sox park last Sunday afternoon was a brilliant anair, but the boys in blue were not encouraged by as large an assemblage as they were last year. But what the affair lacked in numbers was made up in enthusiasm on the part of the soldiers and genuine enjoyment on the part of the audience. The afternoon program was opened by a splendid program of music by the Eighth Regiment band under the direction of Sergt. Wm. Berry. From the amount of applause this feature was heartily enjoyed but it is no wonder that the leader is a gifted musician. Then followed the realistic war maneuvers. There was sham-battles, wall scaling, shelter tent drill, provisional station drill and ending with the ever inspiring dress parade. The followers of the regiment are as a rule visitors to the annual encampment, but those who viewed them in action on Sunday for the first time were impressed with their soldierly bearing, perfect equipment and their thorough knowledge of warlike action and work. Ex-Mayor Edward F. Dunne, Democratic nominee for governor and Mr. William O'Connell, city clerk, were interested spectators as the guests of Dr. D. H. Anderson and Geo. D. Gray. The representative of the United States army, who observed the exercises, was loud in his praise of our only regiment. NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE MEETING To be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Aug. 21, 22 and 23—Delegates from Nearly Every State in the Union to be Present—Local Committee at Work. The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League will be held in Chicago, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 21, 22 and 23, 1912. The Local Negro Business League of Chicago has secured the Institutional Church for the session. Delegates intending to be present should, as early as practicable, notify W. D. Neighbors, Secretary Chicago Negro Business League, 28th and Wabash avenue, Chicago, of such intention, so that proper accommodations may be reserved. Last year nearly every state in the union was represented at the annual meeting held in Little Rock. Officers of the organization are now earnest at work to secure at Chicago an even larger gathering. The Little Rock meeting set a high standard in point of attendance, attractiveness of program, and hospitality of its citizens, but the Chicago League is striving to have the coming meeting surpass all previous ones. The Chicago Chamber of Commerce joined with the local Negro Business League inviting the National Organization to meet in Chicago, and is co-operating to welcome and entertain those who may attend. Very low reduced rates will be offered from all parts of the country, and especially from the South for the meeting. Local Leagues are urged to elect delegates at once. Experience has shown that the railroad authorities in every section of the country are willing to arrange for special Pullman or Tourist car parties. It is earnest desired that plans for such parties be arranged for as early as practicable. Some of the strongest men and women of the Negro race will be present and speak at the coming meeting. These gatherings annually bring together a group of hopeful, energetic, aspiring and successful men and women who are doing their part of the world's work. Sessions of the following affiliated organization will be held at the same time: The National Negro Bankers' Association; the National Negro Funeral Directors' Association; the National Negro Press Association, and the National Negro Bar Association—a group of the strongest organizations in the country among the Negro people. Booker T. Washington, president. Emmet J. Scott, corresponding secretary. J. C. Napler, chairman executive committee. OPPOSED TO COLORED POLICE MEN. Washington, July 13.—Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, opened warfare upon the employment of colored policemen by the District government. His anger was aroused over the arrest by an officer at the Capital of a constituent of the Georgia senator, young Grover Kelly of Macon. The young Georgian, when he noticed the black policeman, gave vent to some caustic remark to the effect that Negro policemen would not be tolerated in the South. The Negro became infuriated, arrested the Georgian, and is said to have hit him with his mace. The boy was released on cash bond. Senator Smith and Representatives Hughes and Bartlet of Georgia appeared as counsel for him at police court the next morning, only to find the case had been docked and collateral bond returned. The Senator then announced that he was opposed to the continuance of Negro policemen in the District. "Fill their places with good white men," he said.—Philadelphia Tribune. MEN IN STATUE; BABIES IN COURAGE MEN IN STATUE; BABIES IN COURAGE Negro Men in Chicago Either Have No Spunk or They Are Entirely Void of Manhood When They Stand Idly By and See Their Women Insulted Without Protest—Nasty Device at the White City and Other Amusement Parks, Termed the "African Dip," the Cause of the Latest Insult to Our Women. BLACKS AND WHITES BOTH GUILTY. The No-Accounts Who Are Too Lazy to Secure a Good Job and Who Act the Monkey for the Low Element That Takes Delight in This Kind of So-Called Fun, Openly Insult Their Own Women—Devices Should be Stopped—Will Sooner or Later Cause Trouble. It has been a long time since the better element of Negroes, in Chicago have had any use whatsoever for that enclosure at 63d. street and South Park avenue, commonly called "White City." Now they will have less. It is hard for the self-respecting to attend places where discrimination is so rife but it is disgusting to go anywhere and see some no-account of your own race making a monkey of themselves. Out at the White City they have a device known as the "African Dip." It is an elaborated idea of what in circus days was termed "hit the darky in the head." Everyone is acquainted with this antiquated pastime, but they are not acquainted with the good-forming heathen who for a few cents per day play the monkey and have the audacity to make insulting remarks to the women of their own race when passing. It is bad enough to witness the delight with which a certain element enjoys this game and here them remark what a delight it would be to crack one of the nigger's heads, but far better than than to have these worthless sum of the earth insult our women. So-deplorable has become the condition at White City and Riverview Park that a determined effort has been set on foot to demolish both of these trouble breeding devices. To the buffons that have caused this trouble we would say that if the men in Chicago would have had one bit of spunk it would have been necessary for the management of both of these places to have hired some one in their places are this and some one or maybe two of the physicians of this city would have been working overtime. There will be no more complaint along this line, for The Chicago Defender cannot and never will tolerate a condition like this. THE U. B. F'S AND S. M. T.'S MEET. National Grand Lodge, Temples and Camps in Their Fourteenth Tri-Annual Session at Zion and Institutional Churches. Thursday marked a red letter day in the order of U. B. F.'s and S. M. T.'s when they closed their session in one of the greatest street parades ever seen in any northern city in the present generation, fifty-two automobiles and 400 ladies and gentlemen from all over the United States, led by the Eighth Regiment band. The spectacle is one that will long be remembered in the minds of Chicago. At night a mammoth ball was given at the Seventh Regiment armory, where 3,000 friends and visitors gathered to dance and talk over old home ties, etc. On Friday the election of officers was held. NOTED WOMEN MEET AT HAMPTON. Harmonious Session—Delegates High- ly Entertained—Tableaux. Hampton, Va., July 26. A delightful part of the entertainment provided for the delegates of the National Association for Colored Women which is in session here, was some highly successful tablesaux Monday night. This delightful affair was given on Holly Tree Inn lawn, the two acre camps that is the pride of the institution. They were arranged by the entertainment committee of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of which Mrs. W. T. B. Williams is chairman and director. GUESTS AT THE HOTEL PULLMAN. Among the hundred or more delegates registered at the Hotel Pullman we noted Grand Master P. M. De Lancy and B. W. Bradley of Muskogee, Okla., C. Cook of Boston, F. S. Wiggins, Wagoner, Okla., Mrs. D. F. Smith, Chickasha; Mrs. Lucy V. Collins, Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. M. A. Balden, Muskogee, Okla.; Mrs. M. E. Hardridge and S. A. Alexander of Wagoner, Okla. NEGROES IN THE 1910 CENSUS. The Complete Report of the Federal Census Shows That in Twenty-seven Cities the Negro is One Fourth or More of the Total Population—546 Negroes in New Hampshire. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Washington, D. C., July 26.—The 1910 Federal census complete shows that in 27 of the principal cities the Negroes constitute one-fourth or more of the total population, and that in four cities, namely, Charleston, S. C.; Savannah, Ga., Monigomery, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., they constitute more than half of the total population. In twelve cities it is shown by the census there are more than 40,000 Negroes in each, although, in most cases, the per cent of the total is small. These twelve cities are: Washington, D. C., 94,446 or 28.5 per cent; New York City, 91,709, or 1.9 per cent; New Orleans, La., 89,262, or 26.3 per cent; Baltimore, Md., 84,749, or 15.2 per cent; Philadelphia, Pa., 84,459, or 5.5 per cent; Memphis, Tenn., 52,441, or 40 per cent; Birmingham, Ala., 52,305, or 29.4 per cent; Atlanta, Ga., 51,902, or 33.5 per cent; Richmond, Va., 46,733, or 36.6 per cent; Chicago, Il., 44,103, or 2 per cent; St. Louis, Mo., 43,960, or 6.4 per cent; Louisville, Ky., 40,522, or 18.1 per cent. Georgia is the state that has the greatest number of Negroes, there being 1,176,987 in that state, and New Hampshire is the state that has the smallest number, only 564 Negroes calling New Hampshire their home. EDWARD H. MORRIS ENTERTAINED BY ODD FELLOWS. Grand Master of the World's Largest Order the Guest at a Large Home- Coming Reception. The esteem and appreciation that his fellow members and friends have for him was manifested to Hon. E. H. Morris Thursday night when so many of them attended a reception in his honor at Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. church. It was the occasion of his return from a trip around the world, representing the G. N. O. of O. F. in America, as fraternal delegate to Hawaii, Japan, Australia, India, South Africa and England. George T. Kersey, master of ceremonies and chairman, and Mr. Robert W. Lacy, secretary of general committee. The program was as follows: Opening ode by the Household of Ruth choir. Invocation by Rev. W. D. Cook, pastor of Quinn chapel. Address by master of ceremonies, Vocal solo by Mrs. Sloane. Welcome, Col. Morris Lewis, Adjt. Gent. P., of A. Welcome, M. N. D. G., Sister Nora Taylor. Selection by the Eighth Regiment band. Introduction of grand master by master of ceremonies Kersey. Address, National Grand Master Hon. Edward H. Morris, which was followed by refreshments in the lecture room. FIRE TO MAKE: MAN LEAVES HOME. Mr. Charles Martin in a Peculiar Matrimonial Stunt—Now Endeavoring to Show Judge Newcomer Why He Has Two Wives. The Martins came into the light again last week with the result that Judge Newcomer told Mr. Chas. G. Martin that he could "change his wives faster than a mule could wag his tail," and bound him over to the grand jury. Mr. Martin was on trial for having two wives. To a reporter for The Chicago Defender, who called at her residence, 3147 Forest avenue, Mrs. Gertrude Martin (wife number two) told the following story: "After an acquaintance of about nine months and a courtship of about five we were married Nov. 24, 1909, at Crown Point, Ind. We lived together for about two years, and things were stormy most of the time. We quarreled about who should make fire in furnace with the result that he decided to leave. Then he left the city and the first knowledge I had of his marriage was when about four months later I read the name of the couple in The Chicago Defender. He had remarried his first wife." "What was the date?" "I don't remember but they were first married July 16th." The Martin case summed up is Mr. Martin married one woman then left her. He married another with a divorce and left her, went back to his first wife and remarried her with no thought of what the law says about such things. Anyway, wife number two got busy and the much married Mr. Martin said "good morning, Judge." It is said that at his residence, 2052 Wabash avenue, he is just beginning to realize what he has done. Mrs. Martin is represented by Attorney Walter M. Farmer, while Mr. Albert George is looking after the interests of Mr. Martin. NOTED VISITORS TO REMAIN. Mrs. J. D. Bell, and Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Woods of Houston, Texas, are the guests of Mrs. S. J. Connor, 4810 Langley avenue. Both ladies are Grand Princesses of the S. M. T. in session at the Institutional church and will remain in the city about three months. Mr. Bell is a member of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League, which meets here next month. THE WORLD GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPE PRICE 5 CENT MRS. THOMPSON SPEAKS ON CHILDREN Wife of a Former Chicagoan in an Eloquent Address at the Mothers' Meeting at the Lyceum Speaks on "The Day Nursery"—Mrs. Thompson Has Had Large Experience in Settlement Work—Offers Many Valuable Suggestions for Care of Infants During the Summer Months—Discusses Milk. A GRADUATE QF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Was Recently Elected a Member of the Alumni Association and Although a Resident Here for a Short Time is Considered a Valuable Acquisition by Our Leading Citizens—Mr. Thompson a Man of Affairs Formerly with the Tuskegee Institute. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Los Angeles, Cal., July 26—Mr. and Mrs. Noah D. Thompson, recent acquisitions to the literary set here, are among the most popular of our young couples. Mr. Thompson, as is known, was formerly of Chicago where he was employed by the United States Express Company for many years. Mrs. Thompson was formerly Miss Eloise Bibb of Washington, D. C., well known for her social settlement work. Sunday at the meeting of the Woman's Club of South California she was the principal speaker. Her subject, was the "Day Nursery" and in part as follows: A day nursery is an institution erected for the sole purpose of caring for the children of wage-earning mothers who cannot possibly remain at home to rear their own children because they must support the family. The day nursery has come into existence to help only this class of mothers, and by so doing, decrease the infant mortality which has grown alarmingly large all over our country during the past decade due wholly to the poverty, ignorance and neglect on the part of the mothers of the working class. The ideal day nursery is a large alary structure equipped with all sanitary conveniences. But in nine cases out of ten, day nursery, like all noble efforts, have small, beginnings and gradually work up to the ideal completion. The day nursery may be carried on in a suite or in a cottage but it should have most, if not all, of the following requirements: a restroom fitted out with small and large beds where the little ones of various ages may take the daily nap, so necessary for the health of the child, a bathroom, provided with hot as well as cold water to make the daily bath possible for every little inmate. In connection with this, there should be a locker or wardrobe containing garments of various sizes suitable for infants and children. These clothes—undergarments and play dresses, stockings, night gowns and coats for all seasons of the year are an absolute necessity, although they may be gradually secured from patrons who are willing to give the cast-off clothing of their own children for use in the day nursery. This supply clothes, I repeat, is an absolute necessity, for the majority of day nur children are meanly and until clothed, and their own garments m be taken off at once and replaced w. clean, suitable clothing, and kept o until evening when the mother come for her child; then the little one is again undressed, the day nursery clothes put aside, and he is provided with his own garments. The day nursery should contain a roof-garden, or, if not, a playground. Of course, a roof-garden with its sand-piles and various other delights suitable for children of different ages would be ideal, but if such n luxurious necessity, if you will permit the phrase, is out of the question, then a large, sunny playground must be planned for, where swinging, hooprolling, etc., can be carried on. The Nathan Straus milk is grown to be reliable in every aspect. Whether it could be secured now, not in California, or elsewhere, I should have to investigate. However, California is not lacking in her good milk supply. I am sure. The day nursery can be of immense service to the people of its immediate neighborhood, if it will but originate this milk station. Statistics have proven to us that the infant mortality is so outrageously large because of condensed milk and impure, weak cow's milk that the babies have been fed on. The formulae that the doctors give to be used in the milk stations all over the country contain lea, sugar and various other ingredients to strengthen the child. are diminished or increased child grows in age and in Besides, barley water is tues to be given to the ‘ { \ : fa % if . THE awk aie DEFENDER when the invariable aummer com- tattacks the little one. Now if milk can be dispensed to the ters of the neighborhood who at homie and can care for their t children for a nominal fee, the * nursery's milk station will do a vat, grand work for its vicinity. fhe milk: station should be in the ands ofa trained nurse, who weighs te baby weekly, changes the formula 2 suit the age of the child, discovers ae early Indication of disease, etc. am quite sure a district nurse could ve secured without charge to the In- stitution. : Day nursery attendants should not keep children at night, for there is great danger of turning the day nur- gery into a hospital, Mothers should is compelled to care for their chil- iren at some perlod; and wise dis: Pensers of charity should see to it that the day nursery does just what {ls name implies—and that nothing wili induce it to add to its lst of octivities, Lastly, the day nursery should he provided with a kitchen and dining room where the meals for the children of various ages may be pre- pared and served. Children in the day nursery usually receive two or three meals daily, for « nominal sum whlch varies In different cities, some requiring flye cents from each child for a day's board and care and others ten cents. In Californta, some of the public ‘schools have added a day, nursery to ite scheme of work, and “are accom: Plishing a good work for tho im: mediate neighborhood. It is to be hoped that public schools in other large cities will follow suit, and the work of saving tle little ones will be spread broadeest over the whole country, 7 MRS. E. H. JOHNSON LIKES HAMPTON. “This It's the Greatest Institution of {ts Kind in the United States. Hampton Inst., Va. July 26—The Chicago Jadies seem to be the proud: est’ women on the grounds of the In- stitute, as they claim Hampton as theirs on account of the editor of The Defender being a graduate of this sebool. Mrs. B. H. Johnson, of Chi- cago, and all the Chicago ladies have visited the room once inhabited by Mr. Abbott. Some of the ladies have spoken in open session and said they have a greater right to Hampton than all the other guests. The printing office where he works. was visited and praised. Mrs. Mary Fitzbutler Waring was bold in her praise of Hampton and its relation to Chicago, vand ‘said in one of her addresees that Hampton had given Chicago a De- fender. Three thousand are in at- tendance at the convention. MISS GLADYS . COMES CELE. BRATES 11TH BIRTHDAY. Little Miss Gladys Combs, late of 6030 Armour avenue, but iow of 252 East 37th street, celebrated her birth: day on Wednesiay, as well as her promotion to the fifth grade. Jn an Interview to a Defender reporter the WNe-giiT said, “I am glad for lots of things, and the most things I am glad ‘about is my papa bought this home for me where we live now, and put it in lay name, and I am giad because T wanted the Defender for myself to read the guess who’s, and my papa has taken that for me. Mrs. Combs, in speaking of te paper, said, “Why, Mr. Reporter, that child is wild about The Defender.” BEARS CHASE DR. WILLIAM AND AVENDOLPH. Hunting Party Looking for Mr, Aven- ‘dolph in Northern Forest. “Back Lake, Wis, July 26.—2r, Daniel H. Williams ‘bas reached this hotel about 6:20 this morning, no hat and one shoo off. He says while fish- ing they were attacked by two bears, and that i norder to have thelr lives they hind to jump overboard and swim to shore, as neither he nor Mr. Jullus Avendolph are expert rowers, “I don’t know where Juilus is,” said the doctor, “as 1 am sure we both got on shore about the same time, with the S05 elosé at -hand.” When the doc siked Mr. Breeds how far away ims from his summer boarding < Walton Farm, owned by At sey McGhe, he wag told that it 4 about sixty-two and a hilt miles ath, Dr, Williams collapsed when e/found out what time he made. After reviving him and giving him medical care he was taken to the nearest station, forty miles away, and placed on the train, while a party of lumbermen are scouring the woods for Mr. Avendolph. Dr, Daniel Will: jams can't understand how he got ahead of the athlete; at 11 o'clock nothing had been heard from the lost man, Dr. Williams will return to the elty ‘on Monday. DELIGHTFUL DINNER PARTY. ‘Mrs. Addie M. Willis, 5409 Dear- born street, gave an elght-course din ner Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Lettie Scott and Miss Luretta Butler, both ‘teachers of Florida. Those pres. ent were Mrs. Chester ‘Tanner, Mrs MacHartis, Miss Elma Mae Harris and Mra, Short, of Denver. ARMY OFFICER VISITS SURGEON, Lieutenant Jon B. Green, U, &. A, late of. Wilberforce University, 1s in the city en route to Seattle, Wash, to join his regiment, the ‘Twenty. fourth Infantry, U. S.A. While here the offcer will be the guest of Dr. George A. Lewis, 3641 Vernon ave- nue, In his letter to the dotcor he sald, “Dear Doctor, I hope you will make. arrangements that I may meet the editor of The Defender. His pa- per impresses me in such a way that I feel that a man who can make a weekly paper come so near to the yearance of a dally is worth sin- out, #0 arrange matters in this Yar for me. Tam sure the peo- “hleago are proud of such a “ties From Pianos, aalce entering planos - m fnvented a | simple i be mounted” on a: it covers its opening. eee SPARKS FROM THE RAIL, Winston's Splcy Gossip of Men and Events In the Rallroad Worid. accident to bie band on his way from Los Angeles to his home in Chicago. At his residence in the Mecca build. ing he is reported better. Mr. B. L. Booker, 3350 Wabash ave- nue, the fashion plate Pullman porter, has returned to his post of duty on iis old run to Springfield, Ohio, over the Pennsylvania ines to his old homestead. Rr. Charley Moore of Oelwein, Ia, says Waterloo, Ia,, has no place in its public eating houses for colored people, Uncle Sam don't make any black dollars. Every dollar is worth 100 cents. ‘This the business men of Waterloo, Ia,, should bear in mind. So, my dear colored rajlroad men, beware of Waterloo, Ia, should you happen to gut out there, as they Won't serve you. “Big Dun" Simon Is now on the southwestern division of the C. G. W. R. R. on cate parlor ear. Mate his departure July 19 on train No. 5 ina southwést Pullman steeper bound for Des Moines, Ja. Mr. Claude Crane of Chicago, who is on the southwest division of the Chicago Great Western R. R. on cafe parlor car 165, states that he is going to stay out there, and when he gets his relief he will take it off in St Pant or Minnerpolla, as he is through with Stato street. ‘Mr. A. Touch, 5115 Dearborn street, is in Pullman service over the C. BE. I, R. R. lines to St Louis, Mo. Mr. James Maupin is on parlor car, Daylight Special, to St. Louis, Mo., in service of the I. C. R. R,, trains 19 and 20. “Mr. J. 0. Freeman, 139 West 49th place, Who has been indisposed for the past eight weeks, confined to his ‘bed at the above address, 18 up again and on his old run between Chteaso and Omaha in Pullman service over the C, G. W, R. R. lines. Messrs. Ben Pettis, Walter Me- Cloud, James Higgins and Charles Hobbs are still on the Panama Lim: ited trains of the 1. CR. R. to New Orleans, La,, on buffet smokers. Mr, R. E. Coleman, 203 West 98th street, New York, N. ¥., is running to Chicago over the Erie R. R. in din. ing ear service. ‘Mr, L, H. Abel, 13 Greenwich av., New York City, is in dining car serv. ice to Chicago over the Erie R. R. All the railroad news is in the Chi, cago Detonder. Mr. Benn Gross, 5262 Dearborn street, ig still in Pullman service over the Soo line to Duluth. Mr. R. B. Williams, 4603 Armom aventie, is in Pullman service over the Pore Marquette R. R, lines to Grand Rapids. . ‘Mr, Samuel Peice, 425 Williamson street, Madison, Wis., is in the’ service of the Chicago, North Western R. R. on parlor car to Chicago and other Points. - Mr. H. A, Topkins, 350 West 31th street, New York City, is chef in the ‘service of the Erie R. R. Co, to Cleve ‘Tand, Ohio. <M. Samuel Simmons, 435 West 52d street, New York City, is running between New York and Chicago as head chef in the service of the Erle R. R. Co. ‘Mr. W. A. Seames, 5026 Armour aveniie, is still in the sorviee of the Pullman company. Don't forget that Mr. John R. Wins- ton is still taking orders for the Chi- cago Defender; address 4015 Cottage Grove avenile; Oelwein, Ja., address 1s 219 West 4%, street. So, raflrond men, don’t forget it. Just a chat with our railroad men. Courage and push multiply your chances of success in every under- taking. Success is the result of 001 hard Inbor and not, as some think, he result of Inck or conditions en- countered. Have confidence and be- lieve tn yourself. Meet conditions face to face and you will invariably meet with success. A man can at tain or accomplish almost anything and everything reasonable, provided he starts out with that determination. He may meet with occasional failures, but if he is persistent in his purpose it will sooner or later bring success. Never allow yourself to entertain the thought of moral, mental or. physical weakness, nor permit the superstl- tious idea that you are unlucky to enter your mind for a minute nor to think you are less fortunate than others. Good tuck {s good sense, gritty determination and *hard work. ‘That's all. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his. thoughts and indirectly shape his circumstances. If you will cultivate this habit you will soon have your mind in control of your body, thereby preventing moral, men- tal or physical suffering. Think it over and have others think with you, ‘Think the truth, do the truth, live the truth, cultivate a charm of man. ner and personal quality that will attract people to you. Correct man- ners and proper dress produce a marked effect on others. They are always evidences of proper and cor- rect training and thus serve as a pres- tige in your favor. A man may have unusual wealth, power and ability, but without training he“is ineffective. Resolved to these teachings, always be quick to notice a mistake and prompt in making good, regardless of cost. Learn the value of money, do not drink or gamble, and ever remem- ‘ber that reputation for honesty, integ- rity and fair dealing, once established, No Causo’to Repent. Alfce—So Mand 1s divorced. 1 knew when she married in such haste that sho would repent at leisure. Kate —Oh, there's no repentance in her case; she gets $200 a month alimony. Plea for Simple Diet, “Simple diet,” said Pliny, “is best, for many dishes bring many diseases; and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.” > 7 oo eo Greatest Triumph For The ° Race in The Annalsof | ° eS : sTaTe|Local History (STATE T CRAND AUCTicT IOLA CEL STREET) GRAND AVGUST |SURZET ‘Bist CARNIVAL 31st STREET Pa STREET 35th and NEGRO 35th STREET|. EXPOSITION | STREET TWO BIG WEEKS of MIRTH, MERRIMENT and REVIEW August 17th to 3ist, 1912 Construction of Arches, Pillars, ete., to be”a work of Art. Designs for the Street Decorations will be a Revelation of Incomparable Beauty. Overhead Lighting, Multi-colored effects—a Veritable Blaze of Glory. ' A Special Feature For Each Day's Program Every Military Organization, all Secret Orders, Associations, Clubs, Institutions, to be Featured in this Stupenduous Display of Thrift. Daily Parades—Music Everywhere—Amusements. Watch weekly papers for later announcements or call “Douglas 1565’’ for Concessions, etc. ‘| THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN CHICAGO TO BE THE QUEEN OF THE-| JESSE BINGA, Banker GRAND AUGUST CARNIVAL = | ®NsNe wire, $100.00 One Hundred PETER P. JONES, To The One Elected Qucen VIRGIL ace out ce eptrm esa ae Tailor ROBERT S. ABBOTT, FVote For Messsspssescencsivsadsdavteennenrerneersenncen, Le Publisher i i a aa a age | Som JESSE BINGA, Manager, Corner 36th Place and State Street ANOTHER CHAPTER ON FLIES. Hints on Health—Dirty Houses and Alleys—The Health Depart- ment’s Weekly Talk. Clean up and keep clean. When we sin against the laws of sense and sanitation, we are certain to suffer for it. A nation practices the highest form of economy when it spends money in saving the lives of its people. ‘Typhold fever Is a pre- rentable disease, Personal, householt and community cleanliness will pre Vent it. Plies carry germs as a dog does fleas. Flies have been found to earry from 550 to 6,600,000 bacteria. They obtain these {rom spit and aw man excreta, and carry them on the outside of thefr bodies, or by eating them. Germs do not die when digest: ed by the fly. Every large elty has its problems of bad housing, dirty alleys, refuse Aisposition and ‘community education for community good, and the specdy solution of these problems depends upon the vigor and intelligence with which they are attacked by the con- stituted authorities and the co-opera- tion and support given to these of- ficiats by the people themselves. Files lay their eggs mostly in horse manure and sometimes in degaying garbage or vegetable matter and h- man excreta, About five days after esg is laid fly becomes a worm or maggot, emerging full grown trom this stage after the end of the winter, or in summer five days after the mag- got stage. Each female fly lays about 120 eggs. ‘There is a new generation of files about every two weeks, so one fy can become the ancestor to billions in a cummer. ‘Superior Judgment. = “So you auspect that men are quick- er of judgment in practical matters than women.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Men have heeded the warn. Inge of the newspapers and quit buy- ing gold bricks, but women continuo to marry for money.” ——— “WEARY WILLIES” The Most Homely and the Most Rag- ged Man In Chicago to Be Voted For, = The latest idea of the. committee in charge of the Grand August Carni- val and Fair, to be held on State ‘street from August 17 to 31, 1s to find the most ragged and most homely man in Chiengo, He will be selected br “=, ‘The votes will be 1 cent each max wil be on sale at the gro. Sepe along State street. The'carnival will close with the crowning of “Weary Willie,” who will receive a cash prize of $50. ‘The proceeds from the sale of these votes will be divided between the House of Good Shepherd and Provi- dent Hospital. Don't forget to vote r that raggedy and homely friend of yours, Vote early and oflen. ‘The are only 1 cent apiece, SUBJECT FOR THE ALTENISTS Owner of Automobile Who Stopped on Hilo Enjoy Scenery Not ‘Thought of Sound Mind. We came upon the automobile standing upon the brow of the hill. “Hello,” we say to the chauffeur, “Broken down?” “No, sir,” he responds, “Out of gasoline?” “No, sir. We have plenty.” “Tire punctured?” “No, sir, ‘The tires are in perfect condition.” “Lost your way?” No, sir. ‘Tho country hereabouts fs very familtar.” “Dropped gomething from the auto: mobile?” “No, sit. Nothing of the sort.” “hen why ate you standing here? Why’ are you not stooting down the hMl ond -across the level at a terrific speed?" "I do not care to do that,” saya the owner of the machine, who has been silent until this moment. “I had my automobile stopped here so that I might enjoy the magnificent view from this elevation.” With a frightened glance at him, wo tur and hasten to the nearest town, to warn officials that an evi: dently insane person fs at largo in an | automobile, _ ACCOUNTED FoR. 7 y XR | é £) ler eh hi fete RH il SSH la) pe eg ‘ Ig a rf SH {es i) tes Woman—What do you want to ui Vaahial-Lib, I kin eat anything. ‘Woman—How long have you been a temp! ‘Vagrant~I ain't a tramp, I'm a poet, —————- pets fete Saar “Have you ‘packed the sanitary drinking cups?” “Yes.” “Put in the sanitary towels?” “Yea!” __ “Put the antiseptic soap where we can get at it quickly?” etvea.” “Stored away the individual combs and brusbes?” “Yen “Got the peroxide in the grip?” / Yen! oo “Then come along. I guess it ;will de safe for us to spend a day or two in the country.” ‘ A June Graduate, “Young lady,” demanded/the head of the seminary, “have 04 completed your graduating essay?” “No; it is too much trouble to write essays.” “If you won't take an interest in your -studies, how do you expect to Drovide for your future?" “My future Is already provided for, and if you don’t believe it, I'll read, Instead of an essay, several letters from a young millionaire, one of which Proposes matrimony.” ‘Sx eae, | “Men don't half appreciate the sac- rifices women make for them,” she ‘complained. “What sacrifice did you ever make for me?" he snarled, | “Haven't I had to givo up having my nafls manicured more than twice a Week since I married you?" Not Cheating. | “Thad some business dealings with ‘a man lately whom I found was ready jto chisel the very eyes out of my head.” _“E suppose you broke off all deal- ings with him?” “Not at all. He was a sculptor mak- ing a bust of me.” More Speed. What in the world are you doing?” asked the city editor, mopping bis brow, “Ob, I've got an assignment to write column editorial on speed madness,” Teplled the writer. “Well, why the Dickens don't you hurry up about it?” Her Pet. “Sack says Mamo treats him Ilke a dog.” : “Ab, but 4s the treatment general or particular?” “What do you mean?” “Does she treat him lke her dog?” ‘i, whenmautema wince “My love, I don’t want you to do your own work when we are mar- ean “That's considerate of you.” “And that brings me to a delicate question. Have you enough money to enable us to keep a hired girl?” After Her Execution. “Oh, papal” exclaimed the young sirl; “that pretty plant I bad sitting on the piano is dead.” a “Well, I dont wonder,” was all the father eald. WHERE THE CHILDREN -OBEY Courtesy to the Elders Universal in ‘That Country. Makes the Ger- ' Z man Home Ideal. | As a rule German childron of all classes are treated as children and taught the elementary virtue of obed!- ence. Das Recht des Kindes is a new ery with some of the people, but nev- ertheless Germany is one of the few Temajging civilized countries’ where peers still have rights and priv- Méges. I heard of an English woman the other day who sald that she had never eaten the wing of a chicken, ‘because when sho was young ft was always given to the older people, and now that she was old it was saved for ‘the children. If sho lived in Germany ‘she Would still have a chance, provid- ed she kept away from a small loud set, who in all matters of education and morality would like to turn the ‘world upside down, _ 1 ac Phone Douglas 5688 HOTEL PULLMAN 3639-3643 S. State St. i Finest and largest colored hotel in America. First class aecommo- dations for married people. Everything new and up-to-date. Rooms, by Day, 50c, Z75c and $1.00; ‘By Week, $2.50 and up. ; J. A. 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Q1E. 33rd Street, wcort stance CHICAGO * Open from 7 c. m, to 10 p. m. 36th St. Notion Store 15 W. 36th St., Chicago Opposite Provident Hospital Dealing in Daily and Weekly Papers Cigars and Tobaccos { Ice Cream and Candies, specialty to { . the Children . Mrs. Lulu B. Taylor Phone Douglas 2134 Automatic 72-993 Toso ae The LaVerdo Cafe and Buffet (Cate Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, JIl. Chinese and Amertcia Restaurant {n Connection, High Class Entertainers 7 HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors} DON'T HESITATE! SEND IN ATRIAL“ ADV” AUGUST VAL & FAIR ON STATE ST 1 August Carnival and the Street, 30th to 39th - Unique and Interest- ment Planned for the Last Two Weeks in August—Practical Demonstration of Negro Enterprise—Streets to Be a Blaze of Light—Every Store to Be Decorated—Magnificent Entertainment for Summer Visitors. ```markdown ``` MR. JESSE BINGA,MANAGER Fraternal and Other Organizations to Parade—Many Firms Arrange for Concessions—Entertainment Committee Planning Novelties for Every Night—Music by Visiting Bands—Miniature Circus—$20,000 Steam Calliope—A Gigantic Undertaking But Successful From the First. Through the kindness of Mayor Carter H. Harrison and the city council Mr. Jesse Binga and a committee of progressive citizens have been granted a permit for a GRAND AUGUST CARNIVAL and FAIR on State street, from 30th to 39th street. In Inaugurating this unique idea the committee had in mind a practical demonstration of the various enterprises that go to make up this wonderful business thoroughfare. Street to Be Ablaze With Lights. The last two weeks in August have be en selected for the carnival. Every store and residence is to be decorated white strings of many colored lights will be strung from post to post and across the streets and there will be music on every corner. There will be nightly parades and a new $20,000 calloope will continually make the rounds. Every theater will have extra attractions. Souvenirs of every kind will be freely distributed, and the Chicago Defender is negotiating for a special issue of ten thousand Frederick Douglass pennies. I The Committee. The committee in charge of the carnival is Mr. Jesse Binga, manager; Mr. W. H. McCullough, assistant manager and inspector; Rankin & White, Peter P. Jones, Virgil Mackey and R. S. Abbott. This progressive committee believes that this carnival will give an opportunity for a display of State street business in a manner never before undertaken in the United States. Prominent speakers will make addresses at various points. "two weeks of Profit and Pleasure, State-street will be 'en fete,' it will be a veritable light of walk and beauty. There will be many bands of music and entertainments everywhere. Watch for big advertisement in next week's issue. Space for Charity By request space will be given free to all churches and deserving charitable institutions to enable them to solicit funds for their various causes. DISSOLVE BONE IN THROAT Use of Lemon Juice at Critical Time Is a Thing Worth Keeping In Mind. Sitting at a planked shad dinner in Yonkers, a laughing guest drew a bone into his throat and he began to strangle. Some one suggested that the sufferer swallow a fragment of dry bread. "Oh, no," exclaimed an Ossingham man. "Don't give him bread. It might catch the bone and it might not. Give him something that is sure to give relief." Beckoning to a waiter, he said: "Bring me a lemon, cut in two." And it was brought without delay. Taking one section, he offered it to the choking guest and told him to suck the juice and to swallow it slowly. Directions were faithfully followed, and in about a quarter of a minute the afflicted one placed the half lemon on his plate, looked into the anxious faces around the table and smiled. "Well, Joe," said one, "how about it?" "It's gone," was the reply, "the bone has slipped down." "Not exactly that," said the Ossingham man. "The bone slipped down, all right, but it was moot first by the citric acid. I never knew it to fall to dissolve a fishbone. You can test the power of lemon juice by dropping some on the fishbones you may have lying on your plate." Several diners tried the experiments in each case the acid reduced the bone to liquid gelatin. Honesty Increasing. On her return from marketing, the young matron of the upper West side said to a caller: "I believe the sense of honesty is increasing in New York, at least in this locality. This morning I called the attention of a salesman to a small mistake he had made in giving me change, the mistake being in my favor. The proprietor, who was standing near, said to me: 'You're honest. You'll get along right.' Not so many years ago the thought that seemed far too prevalent in this country was that only some clever form of dishonesty could 'get along all right.' The merchant who could trick a customer was supposed to be the smart fellow, and it was assumed an honest person was sure to get the little end of money. I am delighted to find even one man who realizes that honesty is actually indispensable to success, and it is especially pleasing to find him in a place where I can deal with him regularly.' —New York Press. MR. J. H. BRUCE STRIKING EXAMPLE OF THRIFT. Began at the Bottom, Faced Disadvantages and Hardships—Succeeded in the Face of Difficulties—Golden Rule His Motto. The Chicago Defender takes pleasure in presenting to its readers and friends Mr. J. H. Bruce, one of the best ambulators of his day, located in Chicago. Mr. Bruce was born some 35 years ago in San Antonio, Texas. He attended the public schools of said city and later entered Tuskegee Institute where he remained for two terms. With a strong desire to become an ambulator and undertaker, Mr. Bruce went to New Orleans, La., where he entered the casket factory of Mr. G. D. Gaters as an apprentice. Finishing his trade there he went to Montgomery, Ala., where he was employed by Mr. H. A. Loveless, one of the first colored undertakers of the south. While with Mr. Loveless, Mr. Bruce Mr. J. H. Bruce. gained his more complete knowledge of the business of undertaking and funeral directing. After working for several other firms throughout the south he came north. After working with several firms in our northern cities Mr. Bruce entered the Barnes institute from which he graduated with the highest honors. Not satisfied with this course Mr. Bruce re-entered school and took the post-graduate course from which he graduated with the highest honors again. This young man now holds both a state and city license. Having had nearly ten years of experience in this work, he is what is termed "a well-rounded man in all things pertaining to undertaking and embalming." Speaking of Mr. Bruce, Prof. Albert Worsham of the Worsham Embalming school said, "Mr. J. H. Bruce is, without doubt, the best embalmer in the state of Illinois." At the present time Mr. Bruce is assistant funeral director and embalmer for Mr. G. O. Jones, 1904 West Lake street, that popular west side funeral director. Speaking of him in connection with his business Mr. Jones said, "In connection with my establishment I have a capable and efficient assistant, Mr. J. H. Bruce, who holds a city and state license as an embalmer." Mr. Bruce is fast becoming popular in and around Chicago. He is noted for his politeness and sympathy for bereaved families. But above all he is noted for his great skill in preserving bodies and rendering them life-like. Mr.' Bruce is a member of three leading lodges of this country—Magnolia, Odd Fellows and K. of P. He is a man possessed of natural ability, bind, genteel and gulless, yet determined. Through all of his hardships, discouragements and disadvantages he has been brave and courageous, and met all issues undummed, simply because he holds the golden rule as his motto: "Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you." FOUND AN ECONOMICAL PAIR Most Joyous Occasion of Life Failed to Make Them 'Loosen Up,' to Young Clergyman's Dismay. A clergyman in Cherryvale tells Mrs. Moffett that when he was a struggling young preacher and a marriage fee looked like several square meals to him, he was called upon to officiate at the wedding of a wealthy young farmer to the 'daughter of another farmer, also very wealthy and widely known in the county. The night of the wedding was a stormy one and the train to the little country station was two hours late, so the preacher hired a rig and drove the entire 12 miles, getting there just in time to miss supper. The wedding was a brilliant affair and after the ceremony the groom called the minister aside and told him how much he appreciated his coming through the storm and handed him a $2 bill—not enough to pay the team hire. As the preacher sat stunned, gazing at the money, the bride's father came in and the groom left. How much did he give you?" asked the father. "Only two dollars," replied the preacher. "Why, that is a shame," exclaimed the father. "After all your trouble, too. He's terrible close with money. Don't say a word to one, but take this." And as the old man slipped away the preacher, much touched, opened his hand and found a $1 bill—Kansas City Star. She Know. The city girlle, on her first vacation in the country, was sitting at the side of the first beau she had ever had, looking at the first full moon she had ever seen in a perfectly clear sky. "Billy," she squealed ecstatically, "how perfectly delightfully dear, and yet how horribly sweetly sad is the music of those toadstools, out there in the woods!" "Why, darling," breathed William, who had been in the country before, once—"you can't mean 'toadstools.' The noise you hear is being made by crickets." "Of course," answered the city girl—"you know what I mean. I get the names mixed up. I knew it was something to sit on!" PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. Sarah McCall, 758 East 41st street, is visiting friends in La Grange, Ill. Mr. Sam Bailey has returned from Ottawa Beach and is now running to Windsor, Canada, on the boat. Miss Florence Colb of Fairmount, W. Va., is spending part of her vacation with the chum of her childhood days, Mrs. Frank Young. Miss Colb is one of the leading school teachers of Fairmount. Miss Eva Anderson, 3838 Wabash avenue, is spending her vacation in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown have completed all the transactions relative to the purchase of their residence, 3242 Calumet avenue. The purchase of this property was through Mr. George H. Walker, the real estate broker, assisted by Attorney John R. Auter. Mrs. R. Jacobs, 3444 Dearborn street, entertained at dinner Saturday night last. Among her guests were Mrs. Vlston of St. Paul, Miss Gertie Dent of Springfield and Mrs. Sally Bowman, mother of Mrs. Vm. Bowman, proprietor of the Marquette Club. Your entertainment will not be complete without some of Brown's homemade ice cream, 99 West Thirty-sixth street. Mrs. J. A. Dixon and daughter, 5001 Dearborn street, are visiting relatives and friends at Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. Ben Caldwell, 3530 Forest avenue, is spending a short vacation at Alagon, Mich. Mr. Eugene Harris of Washington was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ware, 6336 Champain avenue, during a short visit here this week. Mr. Harris was formerly a teacher at Fisk University and is one of our most eminent scholars. On Saturday Miss Vera Wesley entertained Misses Mabel and Nita Scott of Nashville, Tenn., at an auto party through the principal parks and boulevards, followed by luncheon at the home of Miss Eloraine Caldwell and whist in the evening. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of these young ladies were Misses Naomi Jackson, Mamye Thomas, Robbie Tobias, Mamye Mason, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs Smith, Columbus, and M. J. Roberts, Mrs. J. Cole, Dr. Rabl, Messrs. Green, Kelley, Saunders and Jones. Mrs. Lou Ella Young is preparing to leave for St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill. Chief M. T. Bailley visited Waukegan, Lake Forest and Evanston, Ill., this week for the benefit of the True Reformers. Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs of Minneapolis, Minn., chairman of the executive committee of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, passed through this city en route to Hampton Va., this week. Mrs. Martha E. Gray, 2434 Dearborn street, will occupy her new home, 4743 Evans avenue, second flat, about Aug. 1. This latest real estate transaction was negotiated by Mr. A. C. Harris, the real estate broker. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miller, Kansas City, Kansas, who are prosperous citizens of that state, dropped in on their brother, Mr. Robert Miller, 2939 Dearborn street, whom they have not seen for over fifteen years; the shock being so great the Chicago brother had to stop work for a week to celebrate the reunion of his brother. It is rumored that Mrs. Leflett is positively married. It took place last month at Crown Point, Ind. When seen by a Defender reporter she would neither affirm or deny the allegation. Mrs. Mary E. Brown, of St. Paul, Minn., is the guest of Mrs. Hattie Woolridge, at her residence, '5548 Dearborn street. Miss Alice P. Murray is a summer visitor to the city. (Miss Murray is en route to Cairo, Ill., from Washington, D. C. She is the sister of Mr. E. Murray, 3153 State street. Miss Elizabeth K. Levy of Orangeburg, S. C., who has been visiting Mrs. George R. Garner, left the city Wednesday for St. Paul, Minn., and other points northwest, returning to Chicago about Aug. 10. Mrs. Leona Johnson of East St. Louis, IL., is visiting with Mrs. L. Scales of 323 East 37th street. The Misses Willia, Pauline and Mackey Butler of Fort Smith, Ark., are the guests of Mrs. Mary McKenney, 6027 Loomis street. The charming young indies (all of whom are instructresses in various institutions of learning) expect to remain until after the carnival and the sessions of the business Men's League. Mrs. Emma Douglas Carrell of Covington, Ky., is the guest of Miss Cordella Coleman, 3439 Dearborn street, for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Carter of West 56th street mourns the loss of their baby who died early Thursday morning. Opened Hla Eyes Sweet Master Chaucer Epcus and Amaryllis fair, went strolling by the mi-stream—a most idyllic pair. "My loveliest of loves!" broke forth the swain's excited muse. "Permit me to extol the charms which thus l. soul enthue. Your little ears, so shelyl pink, for lovers' praise were made; no fairy feast than thine more neat, o'er tripped o'er moon-lit glade; your eyes are like twin stars of night; like nine-spun gold's your hair; your lips put Cupid's bow to scorn; your teeth are past compare." But here a playful gust of wind came gayly through the trees, and whisked his darling's hat and hair away upon its breeze. Alas! why did the maiden then permit herself to shout, and cause her lover added pain to see her teeth fall out? Appropriate Gazing at a group of nine children gathered about a small stop, an old lady called one of the little girls. "Are all of these children your sisters and brothers?" she asked. "Yes, mum," replied the youngster. "What is the largest one named?" "Maxle, mum." "And what do you call the smaller one?" GUESS WHO? The rich man's daughter is who is going to elope with their chauffeur. Oh, you Winnie. Look out, Check. The matron is who ran up to our chauffeur, Leah Johnson, and kissed him and said, please remain the encourier. The doll is who had no many friends, but she needed them they were just gone. The doll is who got in bad at the Appomatto picnic. The doll is who has bid Chicago goodbye for three weeks. The dudes and dudettes are who were invited to the music and got caught in the rain and soaked. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING FURNISHED ROOMS For Rent 3620 CALUNET AVE.—One furnished room in steam heated flat, with or without kitchen privileges. Phone Alinee 2403. 27-3 3824 CALUNET AVE.—Nicely furnished room; all modern conveniences; new car line. Phone Alinee 356-3J. 27-5 NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS with modern improvements; large, airy rooms; well lighted; hot water around; in room 3554 Rhodes Ave. Tel. Douglas 2689. 27 MODERN, heated and neatly furnished light rooms, with or without board; running water in each; facing street or wall. 3419 Wabash Ave. 20-27 3552 FOREST AVE.—Nearly furnished rooms to rent; all modern improvements, room to heat and hot water. 3256 Doug. 72907 Automatic. 20-27 3473 WABATH AVE.—Jet Lift.—The Wellington. Nice double furnished room to rent to two gentlemen. All modern improvements. Phone 2725 Aldine. 3254 PRAIRIE AVE.—3rd Floor.—For rent, nicely furnished, large light, room, in modern steam heated flat, hot water, electric lights, etc., for man and wife or room to rent to 2 gentlemen; private family. 20-27 3743 RHODES AVE.—Nearly furnished front room for two gentlemen or married couple. Phone 3341 Douglas. 20-27 3743 RHODES AVE.—Nearly furnished room to rent to 2 gentlemen; private family. 20-27 ROOMS for light housekeeping, nearly furnished, at reasonable prices. M. Baldwin. 2218 Stile St, top. Phone Auto. 79-548. 20-27 3128 Vernon Ave. 2nd floor. Nearly furnished room to steam heat; all modern conveniences; convenient to car Telephone Douglas 4714. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT at 4018 Indiana ave. first flat; suitable for elevated railroad service and four surface lines. Teles. Drexel 5620. 1433 FORIESTVILLE AVE. F-ruled room for rent. Telephone DREXel 3307. FOR BENT-To one or two gentlemen, views, steam heat on rear and back views, steam heat on rear and back Ave. near 35th. Phone Doug. 3806 for NEATLY FURNISHED ROOM with modern improvements in desirable part of city. Call any time. 3638. Forest ave. or phone Aldington 3303. 3249 AVERN AVE.-Nearly furnished rooms; hot water at year around; all conventions; near car lines. Phone. Phone at least 30 minutes walk to either 31st or 35th street car line. LANGLEY AVE. 3806-Nicely furnished rooms with use of kitchen and dining rooms. Couples preferred. Tel. Douglas 3524. CALUMET AVE. 3613H.-Nearly furnished rooms, furnace heat, hot water. Automatic phone 71-745. Traveler, Lost in the Bush, Was Glad to Do Without the Blessings of Slumber. But I had never given a thought to the course I had taken in my gallop across the velvet. I kept on and on, and before long it grew dark and somewhat cold. So I dismounted, and after thinking it over, I knee-haltered the horse and let him go, crept head first into a large ant-bear hole for a night's lodging, and made myself as comfortable as possible under the circumstances, using the blesbok hide for a blanket. The night was dark as pitch. Sleep was out of question. I suppose it was the haunches and the raw hide that attracted the creatures, but before long it really seemed as if I had settled down in a village of wild pigs and insulted the whole community. To begin with, squealing incessantly, they seemed to be racing round and round in a circle, taking me for its center. Then a number of jackals drawing nearer and nearer, joined in the chorus. But I soon discovered that if I disliked the noise I fairly dreaded the silence. During the quiet spells I knew that something was chewing industriously at the projecting ends of the raw hide in which I was enveloped. It was hard work for me to keep from kicking incessantly, but whenever I rested for a minute the chewing developed into vigorous tugs, the significance of which it was easy for one in my position to appreciate. However, I Kicked the night through in safety, and early in the morning, to my delight, I found my horse a short distance away, nibbling contentedly at his breakfast—Atlantic Monthly. Solved. Little Sam's father was asleep in the library and was giving evidence of it in stentorian fashion. After listening for a moment Little Sam said inquiringly, "Choo-choo!" Not quite satisfied with his own explanation, he listened again. Then his face bright ened. "Cow!" he said triumphantly. He Is Mr. Alphabet Still The petition of a Stamford, Conn. jeweler to have his name changed from Sligismonakronholtz to Kronn was denied by Judge Curtis of the superior court at Bridgeport. The plaintiff said every one called him Kronn and that his own name was too long for a display sign over his store. The matron is who ran up to our champion, Jack Johnson, and kissed him, and said, please remain the conqueror of the white race. B. K. is so crazy about. "Never any way." C. J. is certainly lucky. The fair doll is who R. W. J. called on the phone Wednesday evening and did not get it very satisfactory reply. Smoke up. The gent is who had nerve enough to put his girl on the train because she was so stewed he was ashamed. FLATS FOR RENT 2825 SO. PARK AVE.-For rent, 4-room, flat; $20.00; newly decorated. Phone 6263 Dresel. 27 2828 STATE ST.-Large light rooms for rent very well. All conveniences rent them very cheap. M. Baldwin, on flat. 79-58 Auto. 2830 FOREST AVE., 3242 to 3246-Pive and sk-room flats. Rent $22.50 to $40.00 per month. Open for inspection. See then today. CHICAGO REALTY & RENTING CO. CINEMA CHICAGO, IL 69 W. Washington Street. Telephone Kandolph 237; Auto. 48-554. Telephone 212-620-2222. BUSINESS CHANCES FOR SALE—Three thoroughbred fox terrier pups; reasonable. Prof. C, G. S. Mills. Tel. 805 Aldine; 76787 Aut. 3323 Vernon Ave. -13-20 FOR SALE. A WELL EQUIPPED Hairdressing and Manicuring Parlor for sale; good loca- tion. Mime. Price, 110 E. 30th St. between Michigan and Akron. Phone Aldine 2058. Rent for seeing, leaving the city. FURNITURE: of 12 rooms. Will sell whole or in parts. E43. 400 E10, st. near DEATHS OF THE WEEK Bray, Amie, 47 years, 3640 Vernon Avc: Crawford, Minnie, 38 years, 7127 Clark St: July 21. Dun, Ernest, 23 years, 2204 Austin; July 18. Jones, Archie H. 47 years, 3559 La Salle; July 15. Jones, Amie, 34 years, 4641 Evans Avc: July 14. Overton, Clara, 45 years, 5205 Wabash; Outland, Clarence, 34 years, 2913 State St: July 16. Pearson, Harold, 7 mos, 3106 La Salle; July 19. Russell, James H., 40 years, 115 Fulton; Smith, Berry Wm., 11 mos, 2972 La Salle; July 22. Silver, Spence, 29 years, 17 W. 31st St: Turner, Corn, 51 years, 3534 State St: Thornton, Frank, 34 years, 1820 Dearborn; July 18. Victor, Arthur, 56 years, 329 E. 39th St: Wilson, Nellie, 35 years, 3440 Dearborn; July 19. Wilson, Spoon, Geo., 43 years, 2213 Dearborn; July 19. HERTZ THE REAL DISCOVERER Marconi Made Practical Success of the Wireless, but Was Not First in the Field. The principle of wireless telegraphy is easily comprehended. As is known light and heat move in waves whose lengths can be measured. Thus, the sun gives out in every direction light in a series of undulating waves which may not only be measured, but can be deflected, polarized, and so on. Some idea of this may be gained from the well-known fact that when a stone is thrown into a smooth pool of water a series of circular waves extends in all directions. If any floating object comes within these waves they are oscillated. It was the lamented Prof. Hertz who discovered that electricity, like light and heat, also moves in waves which may be measured. Just precisely how these waves pass through the atmosphere is not wholly understood, but it is believed that they lie some relation to ether, which is omnipresent and which is believed to constitute all matter under different negative electrical conditions. In wireless telegraphy a series of Hertzian waves are set up by powerful electrical dynamos or batteries, and these are discharged from the top of a high mast or pole. These waves extend in all directions, and, unless their force is expended by distance they excite certain effects in the receiver of wireless telegraph instruments within the zone, just as the waves disturb chips on a pool. Messages are sent and received somewhat on the plan of ordinary Morse code by wires, in that electrical impulses are regulated so as to spell words according to a code. To Marconi belongs the credit of making a practical success of the discoveries of others, but to Hertz belongs the credit of making the system possible. Lucky to Get Anything The law of the land had spoken, and the verdict was $5,000 damages. "Five thousand dollars!" muttered the senior partner in the legal firm who had managed the plaintiff's case. "Not so bad." "I think it pretty good," said the junior partner. "How much shall we give our client?" "I'm! Say $300," said the senior thoughtfully. "No, stop a minute!" "Well?" "We mustn't be too hasty," said the successful lawyer slowly. "Perhaps you'd better write and promise to pay him the three hundred." Proper Way to Dry Umbrella Umbrellas when wet should be halt-opened and set to dry with the point upwards; they will last much longer if dried in this way; when, they are put wet into a stand in the ordinary way, the water settles in the top and rusts the ribs, which in time causes the silk to become rotten, and easily crack into holes. New Cottages for $1,900 Well built, brand new; five fine rooms, hall, closets and pantry; hardwood floors; big porches, front and rear; city water; two blocks from car line with 5c fare to any part of Chicago. Price includes house, land and all, and it only takes $190 cash, then easy monthly payments as you earn the money. Be sure and see them if you want to secure a home of your own. Invest in Chicago Real Estate Chicago is the fastest growing city in the country and fortunes are to be made by buying Real Estate here. This is especially so when you can buy at these prices: State St. Business Lots, $250. Half-Acre Pieces up from $450 95th St. Business Lots, $225. Big Lots, 60 x 125 Ft., $225 It only requires a small amount of cash, then Easy Payments, WITHOUT INTEREST This property is a compact body running from State Street to Wentworth Avenue, and from 93d to 95th Streets, and is in line with Chicago's great growth to the south, and prices are sure to double within the next two or three years. Come and see for yourself and be sure and bring your wife. Car fares refunded by our salesman on the ground. SUBDIVISION OFFICE: CORNER STATE AND 95TH STREETS Open Daily, 1 to 5; Sundays, All Day. (Look for the Flag). How to Get There—Take West Pulman Cars at White City, get off at the corner of Michigan Av. and 95th St. and walk west two blocks to the office. New through route on Cottage Grove Av. direct to two blocks to the office. FRED'K H. BARTLETT @ CO Chicago's Largest Real Estate Operators Phone Randolph 5751 59 to 69 W. WASHINGTON ST. A. B. The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M FINEST THEATRE 3110-12 State St., Performere Send 1 New G Laudeville and M program Monday and THEATRE IN AM St.. here Send in Your Op office Wa Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA ..Star.. Employment Office M. WINCHESTER 3223 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 2411 EDWAR ICE CREAM OWARD FEL REAM P EDWARD FELIX CREAM PARLOR PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, T Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before We give Fish and Weber Stamps With Groc and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency EDWARD FELIX Mrs. Edw. Felix's Hairdress Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressin ment, Hair Goods to order. Special ear hands and nails. A complete line of Tel. Douglas 2928 General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country Of Interest to Vocal Student Stationery, Confectionery, Tread, Cakes and Pies. Before Wet Stamp & Width Stamp. A Great First-Class Lawnery Agency. X Felix's Hairdresser for all kinds of Hairdressing foods to order. Special carals. A complete line of General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country. To Vocal Students practice based upon artistic principle of all exercises forming a compre- mence of hair in Paris on May 28, 1925 from the World Renowned masters, whose choir has just received a half in Paris on May 28, 1925 from the psychology of singing and the reduced to a simple system. Go- to code: building3. Direct Ave. and 400, address the publisher. T. Tinsley, 6448 Broad Ave., Chicago Chicago (Stainlow Be); Lyon & Hes- Milk. Cream. Stationery. Confectionery. Tobacco. Cigars. Newspapers. Bread. Cakes and Pies. Before buying C Me. We give Fish and Weber Stamps. Ath Groceries. Ice Cream and Sodas. A First-Class Lawnery Agency in Connection. Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Treatment, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of the hands and nails. A complete line of toilet articles. Tel. Douglas 2928 Co. St. George Business to all parts of W. 52 W. 30th St. Of Interest to Vocal Students "It was perfectly frightful," said Chubbleigh. "There we ran at top speed around the corner, and the first thing I knew we dashed plumb into that grocer's wagon. I guess it must have held a hundred dozen eggs." "Oh, well, that wasn't so bad, was it?" said Hicks. "You could afford to pay for em, couldn't you?" "Oh, it wasn't that," said Chubbleigh, with a shudder. "But I don't believe there was a good egg in the whole lot." -Harper's Weekly. Imports From Japan. For each person in the United States a dozen paper napkins and a third of a pound of tea are imported from Japan every year. Books. A home without books, a home without libraries, is a home without a soul. --- Private Waiting Parlor for Ladies Lounging Room for Men TONE-PLACING AND VOICE- DIRECTIONS PERDID T. F. HALL Terrible Ordeal. Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 New Grand ville and Moving Pictures Monday and Thursday TRE IN AMERICA Chicago, Ill. in Your Open Time 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 RD FELIX AM PARLOR Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, and Pies. Before buying CME. Stampo 4th Groceries, Ice Cream Laundry Agency in Connection. 52 W. 30th St. Hairdressing Parlor of Hairdressing, Scalp Treat- der. Special care taken of the complete list of toilet articles. Mail Order Business parts of the country. Real Students Tone-Placing and Voice-Development ed upon artistic principles, together with a carefully pre- pared curriculum appropriate to the technical side of the vocal art. The World Renowned Conductor of the Paulist Choir of May 25th, 1912. Like great pleasure in commending your very useful and useful work and voicing development. Your use of songing and the fundamental principles of the art you use in the performance. Director Paulist Choirmaster of Chicago is the Publisher. 6448 Direst Av., Chicago, or Clayton P. Summy, 74-76 Van Bunny Bg.; Lyon & Healy, Adams & Wabash Av., Chicago Most Popular Character Charles Dickens once received an invitation to a "Walter Scott" party, each guest being expected to attend in the character of one or another of Scott's heroes. On the eventful night, however, greatly to the astonishment of the assembled Rob Roys and Waverleys, Dickens turned up in ordinary evening dress and apparently quite unconcerned. At length the host, who was feeling uneasy, came up to the novelist and inquired: "Pray, Mr. Dickens, what character of Scott's can you possibly be supposed to represent?" "Character!!" said Dickens. "Why, sir, a character you will find in every one of Scott's novels. I." he went on, smilingly, "am the 'gentle reader.'" As a Flower. The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air—T. Starr King. --- OFFICE, 3159 State Street CHICAGO, ILL. TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 3339. Entered as second-class matter, February 14, 1970, to the Chicago, Illinois, under of March 3, 1879. Larger Circulation than all the other weekends combined. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Births, Bethrothals, Marriages and Compelliment and Objuntary Reso. lutions, each ... 5.00 DISPLAY ADVERTISMENT. One Inch, one time. $1.50. dates given on large or long standing date. $1.50. Front Fage Advertisements, per inch 3.00. Reading Notices, per lin. ... 28. Rates for Display Advertisements furnished on application. Charge of Address. Please give both the address and in writing to the paper always be careful to give both the State and Postoffice, as well as sign name. IF YOU SEE IT IN THE DEFENDER, IT IS SO. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912. COURT GENERAL ROBERT BLICTTLE No. 7255, Ancient Order of Foresters; meets every second and fourth Mon- chair night at Odd Fellows 1431, 335th Street Lodge Officers, Cherlanger F. V. Bubb, 6345 Dear- borrow, F. W. Taylor, 6321 Grow venue, phone normal 7692. Broadway, phone 2127, Attention Dearborn street, phone 2219 Calumet. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Quinn Chapel, 24th street and Wabash avenue. Barbara Baptist, 49th and Dearborn avenue Christian Church, $851 Armour avenue. Saint Joseph and Lea Avenue. Provident Baptist, Walnut and Leaette streets. Berkshire Baptist, Robay street and Grand avenue. St. Mark M. E, 500th street and Wabash St. Hope Presbyterian Church, 61st street and Loops Boulevard. IF. "If cash comes in at two a day While three goes out again, I lights burn bright on the Great Black Way And we just wake up at ten Or eleven clock p. m. an. j. lead The gang in the merry dance— What kind of new laws do we need To give young men a change?" Summer is having a hard time to make itself felt. In order that the fussal housewife and the hard working hubby may have something cheerful to look forward to, the report is being circulated that this is a bad year for crops and there will be a great shortage, hence a higher price. Oh, that we did not have to eat to live. No one could look on the gallant Eighth Regiment when they were going through their maneuvers last Sunday without a feeling of pride swelling up in their bosom. They are a credit not only to Illinois but to the entire National Guard, and too much praise cannot be given Col. John R. Marshall. It isn't just the right thing to get personal, and we do not mean to insinuate that the M. D. who was the cynosure of all eyes at the Eighth Regiment tournament last Sunday, was afraid of getting shot, or even half shot, but it was a very noticeable fact that wherever the white flag went, like Mary's little lamb he was sure to follow. If you are pleased with The Defender tell your friends about it and ask them to subscribe. If you are displeased with any part of it write us and we will gladly accept any suggestions for the betterment of the paper. Our alm is to give our readers the best race weekly published. With your help we can, so let us work, together. Judging from the number of cafes that are springing up one would think they are veritable gold mines, but fortunately most of them are of the mushroom growth short lived. The community hand it grafting to see the slow but steady growth of good substantial business owned by our people. Trade with them. Their success means your success. Thursday, August 23, is the day et for the annual benefit for Provident hospital. A number of new and intertaking features are to be added the program and it promises to be a biggest event of the season. Com- at a time when Chicago will be legged with visitors there is every reason to believe the big park will be taxed to its capacity. Provident hospital does so much in the way of charity every day in the year that each and every one should unite to make this a day of success. That the Negro Business League made no mistake in inviting the National League to meet here is evidenced by the ever increasing interest that the Chicago Association of Commerce is taking in making this meeting a success. Calling attention of the dominant race to the successful efforts of the Negro along commercial lines means much to increase the interest in the National League in the United States. Besides the increasing business efficiency brought about by these meetings the strengthening of racial solidarity and unity in the race is worthy all the efforts the Negroes of Chicago have put forth to make it a success. The population of Chicago, according to the last schoolensus, is put an increase of a little over 200,000 since 1910. It might be interesting for the girls to know that there is a boy and a fraction for every girl here. We appreciate the fact that it would be hard to convince some girls of the fact and, by the same token, some boys, too. No wonder Chicago is called the "Windy City." We have everything that any other city has and then some. Why shouldn't we brag? We even have a river, though we sometimes forget to mention that unless it is in connection with St. Louis. What did we say that for? Sunday afternoon, July 28, the corner stone will be laid of the new Y. M. C. A. at 38th street and Wabash avenue. The occasion will be marked by music and speeches by some of the most prominent people of our city. A number of organizations have promised to turn out and it will in many ways be a gala day. Work is being rapidly pushed, on the building, the contractor working night and day forces, and are long Chicago will have of the finest Christian homes for young men in the United tSates. If you have not paid your subscription in full this is a particularly good time to do you. You will find those in charge ever in a receptive mood. It is an institution worthy of your support. Give it willingly. In Birmingham, Ala., twenty-four colored delegates, each with half a vote, were elected to the Chicago Progressive convention at the state convention of the National Progressives held there recently. The convention numbered 150 whites, who, after a spirited debate, ignored the seventeen Negroes who had entered the hall. The Negro Progressives met the same night and selected a full contesting delegation to the Chicago convention. Luckily, Alabama does not have the number and neither they see fit to recognize the colored man or not, they might as well make up their minds that they have him to contend with, and the sooner he is given what justly belongs to him, the sooner he will cease to be a thorn in their sides. There is nothing more disgusting to a refined man or woman than to be compelled to listen to two or more people talking lily about their friend or neighbor, or, in the vernacular of the street, "ripping, them up the back." One of our local ministers delivered a telling sermon on this very subject a few Sundays ago. The Bible teaches us to love our neighbor ourselves, but do we? It isn't hard to keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. If you must talk of human beings there is enough good in them to dwell on, but it isn't our mission to detail and report our darker side. Only the smallest minds occupy themselves with persons. Keep the atmosphere as pure, sweet and wholesome as possible, and remember charity to all. The United Brothers of Friendship and the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten in numbers up to a thousand held a convention the past week in our city. These organizations have a large membership, especially in the Southland, and are doing a good work in cementing the people of our race. Interested meetings were held at the Zion A. M. E. church and at the Institution of the Mysterious Ten, where given a royal wrestle. If there as much harmony, as much push and energy put into our business men's organizations as there is into most lodges, societies, etc., we would soon become as the Jew, a power in the business and financial world. Prosperity more than anything else will brush away the barriers that now confront us. It matters not what a man's business is, but it matters to sell that the other man wants to sell the sale. Folding your hands and bemoaning your fails doesn't help much. If there isn't a way, make one. Where others fall, you may succeed. Even though it be true, let no man admit that color is a barrier to success along any line. In Georgia there are one hundred acres of land under cultivation by colored children sent there from the juvenile court. These children are not criminals, but are poor, unfortunate wards of the state who range in age from five years to fourteen years. The work is regulated so it is not a hardship to them and in a quiet, uncontestative way they are producing vegetables and farm produce that would do credit to older and more experienced farmers. Each day vegetables are delivered to the Savannah orphan homes, the Abraham's homes for old women, the Little Sisters of the Poor and to the county jail. And still there are loads of beans, peas, potatoes and the like that cannot be disposed of, an ideal one save that very little if it is paid to their education along other lines than work. The mind should be taught as well as the hand and if they are to become good and useful citizens this phase of the training should not be overlooked. It seems hard to instill into the minds of southerners that education is as essential to the Negro as it is to any other race, and the time it's past when we rely on them to do our thinking for us. By Waldo Leo Baston. This column will hereafter be one of the regular features in The Chicago Defender. Mr. Baston, a graduate of the North Division High school, shows merit in his work and we feel disposed to encourage him. We do our best when we are doing others. There is a greater demand for idle hours than the day can afford. If some people are in heaven, as they predicted, they are in God's debt. We laugh when we are spending our money, but suffer when we are making it. The man who says he is going to do better tomorrow hates to see it come. The space occupied by most heads is space still. Ignorance is baldness inside. George—No why your wife is always sick. Jackson—Why? George—Because she works so hard. Jackson—That's not what makes her sick; it's because she's not able to have it done. Lady—My husband did anything for a living before he was president of the bank. Tramp—Yes, but if I'd do that I'd get caught sure. Mr. Peg—The good Lord took my mother-in-law away the other day. Mr. Dreg—You don't say? Mr. Peg—Yes; He's helping us houseclean. Hoppo—How did you enjoy your vacation? Jim—Well, who does the cooking? Jack—She does. _____ Johnny—Oh, mamma, what are these things coming? Mother—Why, son, that's a cow and her— Johnny—And her little cowboy? Johnny interrupted. From Our Exchanges DEPARTMENT STORES DRAW COLOR LINE. The contention made by many that race prejudice and color discrimination is growing today by leaps and bounds is strictly true in many instances. Few of the first-class hotels and restaurants who have all along had up their bars against the advancement of colored patrons, however intelligent, have not yet seen fit to let them down. This paper nearly every business place has one source or the other of gross discrimination against colored patrons in business places regardless of its class or the part of the city in which it is located. How long such vicious treatment of men and women who are entering these places merely on account of business purposes will last, no one can tell. Only a few days ago word reached The Amsterdam News that Simpson-Crawford, the big department store located on Sixth avenue, issued a letter to the company of thoserons which could be regarded as nothing more than a big insult. It is stated by individuals as being true that the superintendent of Simpson-Crawford Company one day last week called all the sales girls together and said to them: "I am not going to lecture on the race question and do not wish to seem prejudiced in any respect, but must ask that all sales ladies, while waiting on colored people who do research on gowns, them to the rear of the store or in the rins." This paper does not believe in summation to conclusions or giving hasty advice at any cost, but it should also be said that similar complaints of alleged discrimination ion against the department stores of Franklin Simon on Fifth avenue and Saks & Company at Sixth avenue and 33d street. There by these department stores over the treatment by these department stores purchasers when their high-class places as Almanar, Stern's,曼amaker's, Hearn's and Greenbut-Siegel Cooper & Company give them such courteous treatment as they should receive.—The Amsterdam News. The Wedding Bing. The wedding ring is of foremost interest to the groom and a new wedding ring is to be had, called the "alliance ring." This appears to be one solid ring, but is actually two, the joints being invisible, and whenever engraved, the ring is separated by inserting a pin in the inside pinch, which separates the ring and the marking is done on the inside surface. Useful Footstool There is quite a bad among women who take pride in their well shod feet for the little footstools that their great-grandmothers used to use. To the great-grandmothers they were a necessity, since they kept the feet above the draft line, but for their degenerate offspring they serve the more frivolous purpose of putting pretty feet where no one can help noticing them. When Philosophy Comes Easy A philosopher who died recently left a fortune of $1,000,000, which, we might say, accounts for the philosophy of his philosophy -Darrell Free Press. Still It Persists. "Conciacence," says Uncle Eben, "only a still, small voice, an' half de time when it tries to speak up it finds dat de line is busy." 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 local committee of which Mrs. Lou Ella Young is chairman is making great preparation to entertain the D. M. N. G., Mrs. Nora Taylor, Monday night, July 29, at the Odd Fellows hall, together with other district officers. The T. E. Butler's Art Club was entertained at Mrs. Anna Lyle's residence Friday. Mrs. Estelle Buckner of St. Louis, Mo., was the honored guest. The west side has a no more charming residence than the home of the McGowan's, 2640 Park avenue. Mrs. Oreis Otis McGowan, the hostess, is an ideal housekeeper and entertains extensively. Mrs. Henrietta Carolina of Little Rock, Ark., is a delegate here to the C. M. T. Mrs. Carolina is a girlfriend of Mrs. H. P. Lee, 3159 State street. meets in this city in August. Gary B. Lewis is a member of National Executive Committee has been urged to assist in man up the occasion of Miss Katie Willis of Frankfort, and Mrs. Dent of Indianapolis, are in the city having a most delightful time. Mr. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest nue, who has been spending his station at Leavenworth, Kansas, with relatives, has returned to the city states that he spent a pleasant Grand moonlight lake excursion der the auspices of St. Thomas' M Club, on the steel steamship UM States, Thursday evening, Aug. Nickets 50 cents. Boat leaves 7:30. From north side Clark a bridge—27. Don't go home without taking children some of Browns high street. Lest you forget, we say it yet—Brown's ice cream, 99 West Thirth-sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. M. Thomas, Springfield, o. are spending a ten days' vacation here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Green, 3751 Vincennes. All advertisements for furnished rooms or flats must be paid for in advance. We have no collectors for this kind of work. Mrs. Wm. Barbour, 6015 Langley avenue, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of Springfield, Ohio, at a Thursday afternoon last. Mr. G. D. Jones, editor of the "Appreciative" Taxarkan, Texas, is visiting the city as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Jones, 21 East 36th street. Ms. Laura Anderson entertained at breakfast Sunday Mr. George Pierce of Louisville, Ky. While in our city Mr. Pierce was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cain Basil. 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. Dr. John E. Shaw of this city and Miss Florence F. Swain were married June 20. Miss Swain was stenographer in the principal's office of Tuskegee for four years and Dr. Shaw was for a year in charge of the veterinary school of this school. Mrs. Will Shirteh of West 35th street, entertained at lunch Wednesday in honor of Miss Pauline D. Owens of Moundsville. Those present were Mrs. B. W. Flits, Mrs. Richard Hubbard and Mrs. E. J. Brown. Mr. Mike Lucas, the "Music Man" of Columbus is the guest of Mr. F. A. Young, 4633 Evan avenue. Mrs. E. J. Bowles of 3019 Armour avenue left for St. Louis Wednesday evening to be at the bed side of her sick sister, Mrs. Carraway, who has been dangerously ill for several days. Mrs. E. A. Vena is reported in Kansas City this week, accompanied by her cousin. The W. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Rolls" and "Wallace Rolls." From Benton Harbor come word that Miss Elizabeth Slaughter is having a delightful time and is now an export organization. For the rumors, coughs and asthma use Bowman's remedies, prepared only by the Bowman Medical Co. and guarded under pure food and drug act of June, 1906. Office, 3233 State street; telephone Automatic 75-74-1; residence, 4036 Deaborn street, Auto. 76-036. Mrs. Richard R. Moore now occupies her new apartment on the third floor at 4046 Indiana avenue, having moved there from 3220 Wabash avenue last week. Miss Pauline James Lee, who graduated in piano and public school music at the American Conservatory, June 13, is now making a course in public school music at the Northwestern University, Evanston, III. If you want a first class furnished room read our classified columns. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Preston are still out west on their vacation. Writing to friends this week Mr. Preston said: "While you are suffering with the heat, I am making snow balls on the top of Pilee's Peak." Mrs. Sandy W. Trice, 6438 Ginnes avenue, left Friday for a four-weeks' visit at Omaha, Neb., and Denver, Colo. Miss Bessie Mitchell of Wilberforce, Ohio, is in the city, the guest of Miss Elizabeth Clark, 3812 Wabash avenue. Miss Mitchell is the daughter of the late President Mitchell of Wilberforce. She is a graduate of Wilberforce University and has taken a post course in normal work. She has been teaching in the public schools of Indianapolis for two years and is regarded as one of the best teachers in the state. Why don't you surprise yourself and please the publisher by paying your subscription. Mrs. Mayme Roman of Shelbyville is in the city stopping with Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, 633 East 45th street. Mrs. A. E. King of Muskogee, Okla. is stopping at the same place. Mrs. Roman is State Grand Secretary to the National Grand Lodge of U. B. F.'s and Mrs. King is the National Grand Secretary of the order now in the city. Mrs. Roman is expected to remain over until the first of the week. Miss Natalia Jenkins of Muskogee, Okla. is in the city of the guest of Mrs. Floy Stephens Clemen, 59th and Wabash avenue. Miss Jenkins is a graduate of the pharmaceutical department, Meharry Medical College, and is now teaching in the public schools of Muskogee. Any young lady can enter the contest for the Queen of the Carousel. Cut out the coupon and vote for the most popular woman in Chicago. The Chicago Press Association will meet on Saturday at the Carousel this week. F. Taylor, the president, will lay the plans before the club for the entertainment of the National Press. Association, which Miss Katie Willis of Frankfort, Ky, and Mrs. Dent of Indianapolis, Ind., are in the city having a most delightful time. Mr. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest avenue, who has been spending his vacation at Leavenworth, Kansas, with his relatives, has returned to the city and states that he spent a pleasant trip. Grand moonlight lake excursion under the sample of St. Thomas Men's Club, on the steel steamer United States. Thursday evening, Tickets 50 cents. Boat leaves 7:45 p.m, sharp from north side Clark street bridge—27.3. Don't go home without taking the children some of Brown's home-made ice cream, 99 West Thirdly-sixth street. Hon. Edw. F. Dunn, Democratic candidate for governor, and Mr. Wm. O. Connell, city clerk, enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon at the Eighth regiment field day exercises Sunday, as the guests of Mr. George D. Gray and Rev. J. B. Massil, rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal church, visited friends in Detroit, Mich., during the week. Mrs. Virginia Fulford, 50 West 34th street, leave Thursday for a month's visit in Park Ridge. Mrs. C. M. West of 3220 Wabash avenue left Chicago Saturday to attend the Federation of Women's Clubs meeting at Hampton, Va., and will stop off at Richmond, Old Point Comfort and Washington, D. C. Mr. Abbott will be around as usual to do the collecting on subscriptions. Pay funds to no one else. Mrs. Maggie R. W. Rinston, 4015 Cottage Grove avenue, and Misses Berthe H. Winston, Fannie W. Winston and Master Charles A. S. Winston, the wife and children of Mr. John R. Winston, made their departure for Centenville, Ind., July 20, for a two weeks' vacation. They will return Aug. 1, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe, 53 West 34th street, left Friday for the east, stopping at his old home, Wellington, D. C., and visiting siters in York city and daughter in Boston and nephew in Providence. He will return about Sept. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thornton of 3760 Rhodes avenue, entertained a party of friends last Monday evening, July 22, at whist. Among those present were Miss Marie Andrews of Springfield, Mo. Miss Ethel Miner, Mrs. Jennie Decourcy, Messrs. Benjamin Martin, Ralph McCarrall, Emma Shrewsbury, Shotley, and L. W. Cummins. The Parisian Feather Co. are now occupying their new quarters in suite 420 North American building, State and Monroe street. Mrs. R. S. Crawford and daughter have returned home after a very pleasant visit to Duquoin, Illinois, as the guest of Mrs. Boll Smith. Mrs. F. L. Tisday of Xenie, Ohio, is spending a few days in the city as the guest of Mrs. Wm. Maxwell of 5244 'State street, en route from the Neg Educational Congress at St. Paul. Mrs. C. M. West of 3220 Wabash avenue wishes to announce the marriage of her foster sister, Olive B. Reynolds to Joseph Hickey. Ceremony performed by Rev. T. D. O. P. Roberts Saturday, July 20, at 12:30 o'clock. Miss Bettie McDonald of Benton, Mich., spent two weeks' vacation in Chicago with her brother, Wm. W. McDonald, 1131 East 51st street, and her niece, Miss Hattie Pettaway, 3009 Dearborn street. The Cincau Defender kindly asks its insurers who are in arrears to please. Mrs. Joseph Evans, 5116 La Salle street, and Mrs. G. S. Collin, 1540 East 65th place, are spending their vacation at Grand Haven, Mich. Miss Tessie Stubbs of Boston, Mass., will spend two weeks of August in Chicago, the guest of her sister, Miss Lela Stubbs, nurse at Provident hospital. While in the city she will stop with Mrs. Martin of 34th street. Enjoy the cooling lake breezes by going on the moonlight lake excursion under the auspices of the St. Thomas' Men's Club on the steamship United States. Thursday evening, Aug. 8. Tickets, 50 cents. Bott leaves 7:45 p.m. m. shark from north side Clark street bridge—27-3. Read the death list published exclusively in the Chicago Defender. Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor of Boston, Mass., and Miss D. H. spent week in Chicago, the guests of Mrs. Warren, 5617 LaFayette avenue. During ending they were entertained by Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Anderson at dinner and the Wesley City, Miss Hilda Johnson of Wesley, Ont., is the guest of her chum and fellow teacher, Miss Louis R. Cummins, 6554 Champlain avenue. Quartermaster Ben Carter of Co. F was one of the busiest men at the Eighth regiment field day exercises. He was in charge at entrances and handled the attendance in a splendid manner. The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Loaf." Mr. Morgan F. White of Los Angeles, Cal. is visiting in the city. Mr. I. C. Copps of Evanston, Ill., who is spending his vacation in Chicago and Michigan City, is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Young, 3556 Forest avenue. Send in personalities of your friends. It is free. Drop it on a post-card. Can't afford to spend a penny on your friends? Miss Estelle Buckner of St. Louis, Mo., is still in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mr.arry Minton and Dr. Jackson of Philadelphia will arrive in the city next week as delegates to the National Negro Business League, which meets here in August. City Churches—Religious ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. James Higgins, Pastor, Services, 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Sunday school, 1:45 p.m. Christian Endeavor, 6:45 p.m. Special services Sunday, which is our rally day. Monday, July 29, Miss May H. Mosely of Columbia College of Expression will give a recital. An excellent program will be rendered. EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH. Our pastor filled the pulpit all day Sunday, after coming from the Western States and Territories convention. The pastor, choir and members went over to Bethesda last Sunday afternoon to help Rev. E. F. Martin in his rally. All gave very liberally. Rev. J. F. Thomas went over to Benton Harbor for a little rest Monday night. Don't forget the woman's day regularly Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. F. Thomas went over the missionary circles all over the world will observe Sunday as a national woman's missionary day. We are sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. John D. Torian of Benton Harbor. Died Tuesday morning; was buried Tuesday, 10:30. She leaves two daughters, one son and three grandchildren, namely, Mrs. Serina Bronaugh, Miss Willie Russel and Creamus Russell. Mrs. R. O. Howard and Mrs. E. Cooperwood left Tuesday evening for Benton Harbor to attend the Lorian. Mrs. Ware of the Lorian, D. C, mother of Alfred Ware, is visiting her son and daughter, Junita, at 3657 Dearborn street. Miss Mayne Thomas is expecting guests from Champagne, Ill, this week. We delighted last month evening at the debate on woman's suffrage, but "was real sad to see how Mr. Robert Hooper got defeated. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER Sunday afternoon July 28, at 4 p.m., the meeting is : symposium to discuss the "Social S element" from a religious, industrial and philanthropic standpoint, with Miss Emma Adams, assistant to Miss McDowell of the Chicago University Settlement; with Miss Sophia Beaz and Miss Haitian Beaz, with the Settlement as speakers. Mr. Harrison Emanuel will give a violin solo and Mr. George Garner a vocal solo. Our attendance is commendable for mid-summer, due to the efficient advancement of our program committee, Mrs. G. W. Cone and Mrs. C. R. Lewis, who have provided, in addition to timely addresses, music of unexcelled quality. The second of three sessions will hold last Friday evening, with the usual interest, all enjoying the dramatic reading by Mr. Maurice Kuhn. Mrs. Celi Parker Woolley attended the students' social Friday night returning to Geneva Saturday morning. Mrs. G. W. Cone will give a bazaar and social at her residence, 443 West 56th street, Tuesday evening, July 20. Mrs. G. W. Cone, the benefactor of the Congregational church, will be the author of a series of functions for the church, as it seeks to enlarge its usefulness. WAYMAN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Important events will take place at Wayman in the next few weeks. Sunday, July 28, will be rally day for the main debt. This will be the first installment on the final payment. At 11 n. m. and 8 p. m. the pastor will deliver a series of sermons on the joy of Services. The third annual worship service will be held day, August 4, at which time Brangelink Nora Taylor will preach all day; at 3 p. m. there will be a platform meeting and many prominent women will take part in the program; at 11 n. m. Madam Anita Pattle Brown will sing one of her favorite solos, Sunday, August 11, will be echo day of the National Woman's Federation of Clubs, Mrs. Macon, president of the Woman's Federation of many others will take part in the program at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At 11 n. m. the pastor will deliver a sermon on the "Blessedness of Motherhood." A sacred solo on mother will be sung at both services. August 19 will be a red letter day in Wayman. At 8 p. m. there will be the late general conference in life. August 20 will be the first exhibition of its kind in the history of the church. The officers of the church will give this affair. The event of the year will be the great conference, which will be held at this church Sept. 2. Bishop Almyra Gordon will preside. Six presiding elders will make their report from as many districts. Watch the papers for details of this wonderful conference on the north side. The Presiding Elders' Council will meet at Wayman chapel Aug. 7. Bishop B. F. Lee will preside. The following persons of the order will be at Damon, A. M. H. E. Stewart, Mrs. Granberry, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Anna Scott, Mrs. A. D. Dickerson, Miss Charlotte Williams and Mrs. S. E. Cooper. There may be others but your reporter did not get their names. Mrs. Stewart will spend a week in Washington, D. C., after the session of the federation. WALTER'S A. M. E. ZION·CHURCH. The interest in our Friday evening class meeting is still on the increase. On last Friday evening we had an attendance of 110. Our class offering was $21. The spiritual tide was at high water mark. The Sunday morning prayer meeting is also increasing in interest. In fact the spiritual activities were never in better condition. The services last Sunday were well attended, the sermons delivered were excellent, and many comments as to the excellency of the evening sermon were heard as the audience passed out. Three persons joined the church during the day. The services for the coming Sabbath will be in the usual will preach morning The Willing Workers' auxiliary in the church their first sermon at 3 afternoon, preached by pastor of Trinity Mission is expected to serve diffr church and school outing will be in Chaquitaud Grove Way, Ju. 31. The train will leave and La Salle Street station at 10:30 a.m. m. 31st Street station at 10:35 a.m. m. 633rd Street station at 10:40 a.m. M. Returning will leave at 6 p. m. it is hoped that all of our members and friends will avail themselves of this splendid sweep. Our former presiding elder, Dr. H. W. Bass, has been seriously ill at his home, 53 Bassth street, is very much improved and able to be out occasionally, for which we are all very grateful. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday was anniversary day at Quinn chapel. At the morning service the pastor, Rev. Dr. Cook, delivered a special sermon, in which he emphasized the things for which the church stands and the unique place it holds among the churches of the city. The members and friends were white hagges, on which was inscribed "Sixty-fifth Anniversary of Quinn Chapel." A neat casket of the church was also conspicuous on the baskets. The members and fridges contributed as many pennies as the church was years old. At night the anniversary address was delivered by Mr. W. A. Wallace, a layman. The composition was excellent and the delivery was first class. Quinn should be proud of Mr. Wallace. Prof. Morris and his one choir rendered some of the first choice music, and during the eduction the entire audience joined in singing the anniversary hymn, "The Church is Moving On." Sunday's "Quarterly Meeting Day," the forth and last before the annual conference, will be held at 3 p.m., when the Holy Church will be administered. At this time the choir from St. John's church will assist Quinn church choir in rendering the music. Old time love feast, will take place Monday night, July 29. All Christians are invited. The annual conference will meet Sept. 18 and the ministers are busy trying to make the usual good report of conference claims. Much has been done in the interest of the mortgage debt and it is now the duty of all to help the pastor with his conference claims. It is hoped that the stewards may be able to collect sufficient money this Sunday with which to pay up the pastor's salary, and thus close up a successful year's work. HER SHARE OF THE BUREAU Girl Visitor's Idea of a Divelion the Secret Behind the Space You Could Go "A friend came to visit me last week," said the Girl Flapper, "and as there is only one bureau I told her I would have to share it with her. So I pushed my things out of the way and she began to unpack. This is what she put out: "A bottle of spirits of camphor, a bottle of camphor water and boracic acid that she uses for her eyes, a bottle of witch Hazel, another of benzoin, a box of face powder, a make-up box, a titanium powder, a make-up box, extractions of toilet things, four Stevens textile mugs, an atomizer, a bottle of ammonia, a bottle of oil of pennyroyal for mosquitoes, hatpins, a sewing bag, a jewelry box, some perfumery and an alcohol lamp. "Now, I'll unpack my bathroom things," she said, and she took out three sponges, large, medium and small; a rubber bath glove, a bottle of liquid soap and four kinds of tooth powders and mouth washs, a patent exerciser, a bathrobe and slippers, an antiseptic bathbrush, a spray ammeter and a whiskbroom. "Then she borrowed my buttonhole." Human Happiness Well-being and happiness are not an inheritance of which we take possession at birth and which we are destined to enjoy at our ease; they are to be searched after with unwearied assiduity. We enter into life destiny, everything but simple existence. All that we enjoy in our passage through life is acquisitions; they are the result and the cause of our own diligence and care, or communicated by the diligence and care of others.—Cogan. His Many Titles. The old caretaker of an Episcopal church, as he sat on a tombstone in the churchyard, dismissed as trivial the question of his proper title. "The good old creed keeps the same for all," he said, "though they may change the words they use. Look at me: here we used to be the jonker. Then we used to be the caller me the sextant. Dr. Thrdlyd me the name of virgin. And the young man we've got now says I'm the sacrilege." No Duplicates Here In this month of weddings all the brides-to-be copied the little brides of Holland they would not have so many duplicate gifts. The practical folk of the Netherlands consult the bride as to what she needs, and she has a list from which each article is checked on as it is taken by a prospective bride. In an anerloom, so that every generation what has been given to its grand-mothers. Incidentally, the list has almost the value of an inventory. Keeps Saint's Memory Fresh. St. Torquatus, the apostle of Cadia, lived in the first Christian century and planted a church in the city of Cadia. church dedicated to him. Cadia. This tree is always in full bloom on the fete, day of Torquatus, May 25. IN THE SPORTING WORLD By Frank A. Young. GRACE LOSES. Overconfidence beat Grace Saturday at Washington Park when Quinn beat the leaders in a game full of thrills, bad base running, bad umplering and several misplays of the infield. Grace did not play her regular standard. Those boys can play ball. You know it; so do I. In the first half of the second inning Washington reached to pull down a hard line drive while in the pitcher's box and it hit him on the wrist, putting him out of the running, Baker taking his place. Then Lewis of Quinn hurt his arm. I was sitting near first base and heard it snap plainly. The umpire was troubled with one of his eyes—couldn't tell a ball from a strike. It was a dark day and Pryor was pitching a straight under-hand ball, but it wasn't visible until it was right on the batter. In the ninth Higgins stopped Irwin's hot grounder, retiring him by a step. Renfrowe was safe on Brewton's error after Higgins again made a grand stop. With the rooters of both teams cheering madly, Motley struck out. The excitement was growing intens. Adams was hit, then up walked Richard Brown, sometimes called "Dick," to bat for Williams. Quinn's rooters laughed at the idea of "Futty," who hadn't been to the bat in two long years, going in as a pinch hitter. Grace's rooters were cheeringly wildly, throwing hats in the air. Dick fouled the first one, the second ball was low, the umpire had stage fright, and he called it "Strike two!" Just imagine. Two out, two men on the gucks, last half of the ninth, and Dick:ad two strikes and no balls. The pitcher grooved one over and our heri met it with blood in his eyes. Waack! It went for a single, Renfrowe scood. With one run needed to the Thomasson fled out. The score: Quinn Chapel: R. H. P. A. E. Brewton, 1b 0 1 8 2 1 Higgins, 3b 2 1 2 4 1 Pryor, p-if 0 2 0 1 0 Lewis, p 0 0 0 1 0 Wilson, p-if 0 0 1 0 0 Pollard, if 0 0 1 0 0 Washington, cf 3 3 2 0 0 Cathrie, c 0 2 9 1 1 Gains, rf 1 0 0 1 0 Landers, 2b 1 2 1 1 0 Johnson, ss 1 0 3 2 0 Totals 8 11 27 13 3 Grace: R. H. P. A. E. Peacher, 1b 1 1 11 1 0 Irwin, 2b 3 0 2 0 4 Rentroce, 3b 1 1 1 1 1 Adams, ss 0 1 2 2 0 Motley, c 0 1 5 2 1 Smith, lf 0 0 1 0 0 Williams, lf 0 0 2 0 0 Thomasson, rf-cf 1 0 0 0 0 Baker, cf-p 1 0 3 6 0 Washington, p 0 0 0 0 0 Wooden, r 1 0 0 0 0 Brown 0 1 0 0 0 Totals ..... 7 6 27 12 6 Today Grace will play Bettleheim Chapel, Washington and Motley will start the game. Fans will come early as game starts at 8:15, and keep back from that first base line. Saturday a young boy was hit, a man had his derby hit smashed and a young lady was hit while passing behind the catcher—all from foul balls. Notes From the Game. Peacher was there with his one-hand stats again, saving runs each time—and each time they were the result of bad throws. Irwin had a bad day at second. Capt. Baker made a hit with his fielding, getting six assists. Higgins at third for Quinn certainly took everything that came his way. Lewis' injury was painful; so was Washington's. Both were unable to continue. People who insist upon setting close up on the first and third base lines...and standing behind the catcher deserve no sympathy when hit. Motley made three nice running catches of high foul flies while Renfroe lost a fly. The way it kept spinning around it was hard to catch anyway, but it went in his mitt and went for an error. Grace overlooked the one best bet in the seventh. With one gone and two on the bags Mike Williams should have batted for Carey Smith, as Pryor had Carey's goal. ST. LOUIS 4; AMERICAN GIANTS 3 Inside baseball that did not work, bad judgment of the coach off third in the ninth, with only one out, in having a runner try to steal third, thereby breaking up a rally which certainly meant victory, cost the American Glants Sunday's game. The score: --- St. Louis Giants 2 001 1 000 1 000 -4 6 2 America Giants 0 100 1 001 -3 122 Notes. Jimmie Lyons, the right fielder for St. Louis Giants, learned to play ball hey's on these lots. I remember when Jimmie played ball on the lake front where the old red post office used to be. You could see him there every day, and Sunday, too. He and Chan, the Chinese first baseman, were great chums. Jimmie played with the All-Nations for a white. Another member of that sand-lot team was Carlo, the Wendell Phillips pitcher who created such a sensation. Jimmie played a great game Sunday. He didn't have much of a show at the bat, being retired on strikes once and on a foul ball another time, but when he did get on he worried Petway, for he steals bases as easy as he gets on a street car. Northwestern "U" seemed to be well represented at the Grace game. I saw Dr. Young, Dr. Carlisle and Mr. Hale Parker talking over their old "school days" together as the game progressed. The Lincoln Giants of New York are coming here soon. --- OUT IN ENGLEWOOD. Weekly Letter from This Thriving Section of the City-All the News. Mrs. Simms of 6007 Center avenue presented her husband with a fine boy. Mother and son are doing nicely. Miss Laurn Stacker, who has been to East St. Louis attending the Sunday school convention, made an excellent report to the Sunday school. Mrs. Mathews of 6031 Loomis street left the city Saturday for Kentucky to visit her mother. Mrs. Woodson of 6238 Ada street is in Hampton, Va., attending the National Woman's Federation. Miss Mattle Moore of 6538 Aberdeen street is back home after a delightful visit in Benton Harbor and South Haven, Mich. Shiloh Baptist Church, 62d and May Streets. Services, 10:30 a. m., 8 p. m.; Sunday school, 1 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 7 p. m. Sunday is rally day and song service in the evening. Special singing by the choir. Mr. Spyglass will be on the program for the evening service. Last Sunday morning Mrs. Sears sung "My Mother's Prayer." Rev. Harris, pastor. The Tom Thumb wedding, given by Mrs. S. Moore, was a success. The Ideal Woman's club met at the home of Mrs. Martin, 1344 West 61st street. Mrs. Alice Lyles, the president, is in Hampton, Va., attending the Woman's National Federation. KEEPING THE LOOK OF YOUTH Partieliennes Are. Probably the Most Successful In This, But Many May Achieve It. A Russian princess who has attracted much attention in Paris this winter, and who is considered one of the best-dressed women in that city, declares that nothing ages a woman's appearance so much as the old-fashioned method of pushing the flesh up above the corset. How few women who have passed the "dangerous" age stop to think of this, yet is it not true? The settled look that comes with middle age is enhanced by a stiff-corseted figure above the waist. Put money into a good corset, have it fitted sitting down, and in adjusting it be sure to pull it far down and gird it firmly round the hips. Many women find as they grow older they must have their evening gowns cut high. This need not be done if care is taken to get a corset that has a low bust. From Paris comes another hint about youthful looks. A famous dressmaker says that real lace ages women and should never be worn near the face. The Parisienne has learned to fight age more successfully than most women because she pays heed to details that to others seem trivial. She makes a study of line, angle and color, and who will say the results are not worth the trouble? It is every woman's duty to keep young looking. The worst way to do it is to feign youth through cosmetics or a kittenish manner!—Cleveland Leader. HUMAN NATURE NOT SO BAD New York Newspaper Man Observes With Pleasure the Aid Given the Blind. If you doubt that human nature is kind, watch the ordinary passerby in his attitude toward a blind man. The office window man was riding in a Broadway open car the other day. The car was just barely moving, owing to some blockade or other, and kept about even, pace with the pedestrians who crowded the pavements in their usual daily hustle. The eye of the Office Window casually lt upon a blind man, walking alone, with that upright tilt of the head so common to the sightless. He tapped his stick incasently before him and moved briskly until he neared the end of each block, with its hazardous curb. The car kept pace with him for seven blocks, and upon every block some one took charge of that blind man as he came to the curb, saw him safely over and said a pleasant word in parting. Ono young man stayed near him for three blocks, steering him over the crossings each time. Probably the man with the tapping "stick thought the friendly guide was a different man for every block. Or does his ear become so delicately attuned to voices that he fairly sees through hearing? The Office Window man wondered if the smiles that so often light the faces of the blind come from the habit of thanking people who lend them friendly aid so many times a day?—New York Evening Mall. Look Well to This Day Listen to the salutation of the dawn —look well to this day! . . . For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but every day well makes every yesterday a dream of beauty, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day! —From the Sanskrit. Time and Places A little six-year-old Philadelphia girl was sent to the family physician for a vaccination certificate, so that she could enter school. The certificate required the date of vaccination. Not remembering when he had done it, he said, "Janet, how long are you vaccinated?" To which Janet innocently replied, "Here it is on my leg, about an inch long." Kindness. "Has my boy been kind to the dumb animals today?" "Yes, grandma. I let your canary out of her cage, and when my cat caught it I set Towser on her."—Fun. Dirt Eaters Everywhere The practice of eating dirt has been traced by a scientific authority to peoples in every part of the world. That hunger which leads a man to want the earth is characteristic of no one nation. HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES Goat That Leads Sheep to Slaughter KANSAS CITY, MO.—The goat is not a beautiful animal in the face. He hasn't a sweet disposition. He isn't playful. He won't cuddle. But he has his uses. Frank E. Essex of a local grain and milling company, who raises thousands of sheep and goats on his farm near Raytown, says a goat is the most contrariwise animal ever invented. Everything goes contrary with him—like Mrs. Gummidge. But like Mrs. Gummidge he has a pretty good heart if you can get on the right side of him. Mr. Essex has one particular goat on his place that is the best and the worst goat that ever lived. Sometimes Mr. Essex gets so alluded at him that he longs to take a club and kill him. But every time he raises his hand to slay him he thinks of the many kindnesses the goat has done him, and his heart relents. The goat, Mr. Essex admits, is not pretty to look at. He is bald, he has a wicked eye and his whiskers are full of cockleburts. His disposition is so mean that he spends all his time thinking up things to do which his perverse mind tells him Mr. Essex does not want him to do. If he is turned into a nice pasture where there is plenty of green grass and fresh running water there is no gratitude in his heart. He gives a contempt- Expected Spanking, Acclaimed Hero **ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.**—The troubled conscience of Harold Isaac, twelve years old, of 23 Bartlett avenue, led him to make a confession to his mother the other day. He fully expected to be spanked. Instead, he was acclaimed a hero. Harold went over to Linwood park, ten miles from here, on the annual picnic of the St. Nicholas church. Before he left his mother admonished him not to go near the water. He gave his solemn promise. The youngster is an expert in the water and later in the afternoon he left the picnic grounds and swolled about to Bargaintown lake. Several of his boy chums were disporting in the water. Harold, although he cast longing eyes at the cool water, remembered his mother's warning and his promise. He sat down on the bank as near the water as he could without touching it, resolved not to violate the promise. A few minutes later, George Kloris, a boy of twelve and his particular "pal," got into deep water and could not make land, despite his game fight. He started to drift away and the other youngsters, badly frightened when they saw he was drowning, scampered ashore, grabbed their clothes and started on a run to summon help. Eat? Wasted Time, Say Keep Wellers Eat? Wasted Time, Say Keep Wellers I JUST ATE A PEANUT AND I FEEL LIKE I COULD LICK MY WEIGHT IN WILD CATS CLEVELAND, O.—Why eat? Members of the Keep Well club, who told their experiences at a foodless picnic the other day in Wade park, declared a man can go without nourishment for thirty days and feel like a bear cat, and that it is simple and delightful to exist for eight months on a daily ration of eight quarts of milk. The club members advise any one with a stomachache to quit eating for awhile. It is fun after three days, declared Dr. C. M. Swingle, who has tried it. How to be strong as a bull moose and still eat nothing was told at the picnic by A. G. Freeman, who once went without food for eighteen days straight. S. P. Brooks is the milk diet fiend. diet menu. If you backslide, you may do as a diet that is good for tuberculars, un- some of the Keep-Wellers do, and de- der the direction of a physician. Cat Shatters Governor's Resolution INDIANAPOLIS. IND.-Gov. Thomas R. Marshall's resolution to spend July 4 behind the locked doors of his offices in the statehouse were shattered early in the morning on account of the governor's admiration for "Tom," a big, black cat, the capitol mascot. Tom was not responsible directly for the governor's throwing open the doors of his executive offices. A friend of the Democratic nominee for the vice-presidency, knowing that the cat was admired by the governor, imitated the sound of a cat scratching against the door of the private office until Marshall was greeted by a crowd of late arrivals from the Baltimore convention. They gained access to the room to congratulate the governor by imitating the scratching of a cat when loud knocking had failed. The governor was engaged in dictating his decisions on the numerous petitions for pardons, when a crowd began to congregate at the doors of the executive offices. Frequent poundings and shouted, requests for entrance were unheeded. The crowd was asked to remain quiet. The governor, scared at his desk, with large pile of congratulatory Democrats who offered their conlations. Governor Marshall has been ing the hundreds of persons who called since his nomination w left handed shake. In a ball played by prominent Indians a ver, Ind., last Memorial day, a "Come On Home Picnic," he retained an injury to his right hand. LEVELAND. O.—Why eat? THE CHICAGO DEFENDER uous beat, leaps the fence into the orchard and eats all the bark off the young trees. ' If you try to minister to him when he has an attack of indigestion after eating a tomato can too hurriedly you get the same kind of thanks. "But, really, I hadn't ought to knock that goat," Mr. Essex said. "Sheep, you know, haven't a lick of sense. If it wasn't for that goat I don't know how we'd ever get them into a stock car. But the goat knows how. Frankly, I don't believe he does it to help me—I think he does it because he knows the sheep are going to the packing house to be made into broth, and it fills his wicked heart with gladness. "Anyway, this is what he does: When the car is placed and the chute run down to the pen he takes the lead and marches up into the car, the sheep following. He marches all around the car and back to the door, where he stops. There he places himself in such a way as to block the exit, leaving only enough room for the sheep to enter. They crowd in until the car is full, and then the goat leaps nimbly out and we shut the door. "If you could see the wicked gleam in his eye when he has thus trapped his trusting followers and saved his own skin you would appreciate how nearly human is his duplicity. Next to a political boss who leads his delegates to a convention-and trades them for a postmastership I do not know of a greater example of deprivacy. "Some time when I am vexed with him I suppose I shall shut the door on him and let him go to his deserts. If I don't get his goat sooner or later he will get mine." HELP I'M COMIN' The drowning boy called to Harold to save him. Then he could stand it no longer. He kicked off his shoes, plunged and battled for ten minutes and had just succeeded in dragging the unconscious form ashore when some of the other boys returned. Then he led the work of resuscitation and was finally rewarded. George opened his eyes and gradually became himself once more and by the time Harold's clothes had dried he was almost recovered. Right there young Isaac made every one of his chums swear that they would not tell about his plunge in the water. They promised and kept "mum." But finally the youngster's conscience troubled him, and he could hold in no longer. He told his mother he had been in the water, and stopped there ready to take his punishment. But young Kloris overheard the confession and told the real story. Now Harold is the happiest kid in town. your a hearty lunch. The menu might be: One peanut. One orange. One lettuce leaf. "Once I went eight months without nourishment except eight quarts of milk a day," said Brooks. "I gained forty pounds. Since then I have lived on milk for varying periods. Now I am taking two quarts a day, in the morning and evening. The only other nourishment I receive is at 11 o'clock in the morning, when I eat a light lunch of nuts and occasionally an orange. But on Saturday I omit the lunch, because Sunday is a day of reat." Swingle said that it is easy to go without food for short periods. He said that after the first three days the appetite leaves. He advised, however, that anything but a short fast should be taken under the direction of a physician. "I went without food for eleven days and could carry a market basket without being tempted to eat," said Swingle. SCRATCH SCRATCH telegrams and letters before him, became aware of the silence in the corridors and believed the crowd had dispersed. Then came the gentle scraping as if of claws against.wood, and the governor, desiring the presence of Tom in the room, threw open the doors, only to be greeted by the shouts and laughter of more than a score of his Hoosier admirers. During the rest of the morning despite the governor's desire to complete the pardon report, his offices were filled with enthusiastic Democrats who offered their congratulations. Governor Marshall has been greeting the hundreds of persons who have called since his nomination with a left handed shake. In a ball game played by prominent Indians at Culver, Ind., last Memorial day; at the "Come On Home Picnic," he sustained an injury to his right hand. SALE OF SUMMER MILLINERY During July and August Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, 50c., $1.00, $2.00 and up to $5.00. Sailors, 25c. 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You said the youngster was a scientifically reared baby; never knew a kiss or a cuddle or a germ or a tummycache until the present attack. Scientific labies are the despair of old-fashioned practitioners. The kinds of b. h. bles he is used to are those that depend mostly upon mothering to make them well. If an old-fashioned baby bumps his head or stubs his toe or marshes his thum, just let mother miss the bruise and it will stop hurting. Having been brought up on such nonsensical notions and believing in them still to a certain extent, there is no denying that in treating the 'new-style baby the old doctor is not a great success." Beginning of Charity. Beginning of Charity The reason charity begins at home is because if it began down town it might have to walk home. Having a big funeral is a poor way of showing one's popularity. Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3% Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, III. Mrs. G. W. Lambert Guarantee Feather Co. Willow and French Plumes and all Styles of Feathers, Cleaning, Curling, Bleaching and Dyeing. All Kinds of Feathers for Sale, LINERS AND THE TRADE Phone Aldine 1926 Best Reference A. BROWN List in Setting and Plumbing Work BASH AVE. Phone Normal 3083 General Manager. 1912 S 1611, Auto. 71-938 TISING SERVICE ERS—COVER CHICAGO AND SUBURBS ENCES: Ed Harvard. Vetra. ce and 63rd and Lexington Avenue. INDIANA AVE., CHICAGO. JUST A MERE SUGGESTION Huby's Plaintiff, However, Threatened to Develop Into a First-Class Family Spat. "Gertrudel!" "Yes, John." "We've been married long enough now to talk plainly to each other." "What's the matter now?" "If I do something you don't like I want you to tell me of it, and if you do things I don't like I think I ought to tell you of them, too." "I suppose I don't suit you at all?" "Yes you do, but I think we ought to talk over our likes and dislikes. In that way we can get along so much better." "John, I want you to understand right now that I was brought up every bit as well as you, and know how to behave. And as to my cooking, I can do as well as your mother ever did." "I had hoped that you wouldn't lose your temper. But if you're going to act this way we may as well drop the matter right here." "What is the matter, anyhow?" "I only wanted to suggest that when you darn my socks it would be better for me if you would tie the knots on the outside, instead of the inside." No Excitement "A man doesn't seem to take any pleasure in writing letters to a woman after he has married her," said Mrs. Bloomer. "No," replied Miss Cayenne; "he seems to lose all interest when there is no possibility of his letters being read to a jury." Good Thing to Remember. Five fingers of scorn do not equal one helping hand. USICAL AND DRAMATIC "ALL PASSES, ART ALONE ENDURES" Week at the Chicago Theatres—Notes of the Profession All Around the World.—By Minnie Adams. hort for any bitter feel the best avenger, if we speed by, and on their bear healing, no room for anything like in truth, the low mounds revealing. and has taken unto himself a w w Glmore, Kinky and Girls are acting over the Loew circuit. Sees half of week, Lyric theater, Hobe N. J. Selma Lawrence, who will booked by the United people w the season opens, is working at Howard theater and is the hit of bill. and fast about our feet tealung; too short. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THE GRAND. it half of the week, begin- rday, July 18, offered the velous Millers, who gave an account of themselves in es. Rose Johnson was fairly piano playing and several pley songs. Earl, Jennings l entertained with songs, pli- viol solos. Van and Pierce clever team and kept the n laughter. Kline, Ott and n were splendid in their muring, and, as when they ap- at the Grand several weeks ey were one of the big things bill. . excellent bill opens the first if the present week, Monday, 12. Hanlon, Dean and Hanlon trio of fine acrobats. Irene How- ornetist and vocalist, is fine. She rity, graceful and gracious and all she delivers the goods. Howard is a cornetist to be 1 of, and her years of earnest of the cornet is being demon- ined in a most praiseworthy way. Er Pearson and Company in a edy sketch, "The Aspirant," were good. Nell McKinley, a singer syncopecited songs, is the same talk- tellow as of yore; not only do his gigs take, but he takes also, such as s off the ladies' laps, which foolish antics seem to be the greatest amusement among the people. Suppose a singer of your own race should take the hat of a lady of the opposite race and place same on his head—would the gentlemen of the other race see the funny side of it as they see it when one of their own men makes sport of a lady of the colored race? No! Indignation would be at fever heat. Mr. McKinley is a fine entertainer, but this column once before made mention of his running through the theater aisles. Perhaps he forgets he is to entertain men and women with brains; not a lot of sap-heads, and should there unfortunately be some in the audience who have water where their brains should be, well, let them shake their heads and hear the water splash. That is sufficient amusement for them. Sidney Perrin and Saparo's Miniature Musical Comedy are doing some splendid work this week. The ladies sing and dance well, are neat in appearance and are good looking. Perrin, Wilson and Saparo are well placed; Saparo as straight man is ever clasy; his work being well dressed and delivered in the most intelligent manner. Perrin is funny from his head to his feet and the fun he handles is of the cleanest and best style. Wilson, as his partner, is very good, and we are glad to note that even though he works in blackface, he does not affect that distressing dialect which is so prevalent among burnt cork comedians. His solo, "Just Keep on Smiling," brings down the applause at every show. Miss Fannie Wise, the leading lady, is singing, "My Hero," and doing same well, only a tendency to drift from the keys grows more noticeable each time the lady is heard. Proper training in placement of tone and a mind more centered on the work being done instead of wondering if one looks cute while one is singing and flirting will not only improve this particular singer's honors. As a whole the little musical is very good and is enjoyed by all. The Monogram. Robbin and Robbin are fair. Mr. Robbin has in him the making of a fairly good comedian, but his partner is unfamiliar with stage necessities in every way. She needs much teaching before bowing to an audience. Leonce Johnson, a pretty woman with a big voice, who knows how to sing a rag-time song in a way to catch the people, is taking her share of the honors this week. Peat and Hayes, those dandy entertainers, have returned and as usual give the patrons a few moments of real enjoyment. Moore and Jenkins keep the house in an uproar with their clever comedy. But Mr. Jenkins can cut out that joke about the beans and just sing the song of "Beans, Beans, Beans." You understand what is meant, don't you? Interesting Topics. John Johnson, the usher at the Monogram, is to be commended for his gentlemanly manner. He is always pleasant and ever ready to assist in making your visit to the theater a pleasure. Chicago's prominent critic, Sylvester Russell, is issuing the present week the virgin copy of his weekly review and magazine. It promises to be very interesting to all lovers of current topios. Marshall and Tribble are at the Yorkville theater. Cook and Stevens are at the Majestic theater, Chicago. Jones and Grant are at the Olympia theater, Lynn, Mass. Housley and Nicolas are at the Pantages, theater, San Francisco. Billy Arntes and Company are with the Jones' Dixie Land Shows, at Holyoke, Mass. Henry Troy is spending several days in Chicago. He had a delightful time in his home state—Alabama. Leon, magician and ventriloquist, is playing at the Dudley theater. After working for S. H. Dudley five weeks he will return to Chicago. Matt Marshall, of Marshall and Tribble, has forsaken bachelorhood and has taken unto himself a wife. Glimore, Kinky and Girls are playing over the Loew circuit. Second half of week, Lyric theater, Hoboken, N. J. Selma Lawrence, who will be booked by the United people when the season opens, is working at the Howard theater and is the hit of the bill. Blanche Deas, late of the Sambo Girls, is doing a single turn, which is full of merit. She was at the Crescent theater the second half of last week and scored heavily with her songs. Billy McClain is visiting his mother and Friends in Princeton, Ind., after an absence of twenty years. He is taking his home town by storm. More colored theaters are being opened throughout the United States with much frequency nowadays. A big vaudeville circuit, controlled by managers of colored houses will be a reality some day. Mrs. Tiny Carlisle, wife of George Carlisle, formerly of the team of Carlisle and Baker, is spending the summer in this country, having arrived from her home in Paris accompanied by her son a few days ago. THE SICK. The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care. Mr. Steven Auter, one of Evanson's leading young men, has his arm in a sling as the result of a collision with the business end of an automobile, in which Mr. Auter received a sprained wrist. He will be able to attend his various social duties however. Mr. Frank Bronson of 5819 LaFayette avenue is seriously ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James E. Simpson, formerly Isabelle Bronson. Leakage of the heart is the complaint. Mr. Baptiste, the popular 51st street barber, was severely injured by being run over by an automobile last Saturday night. As we go to press he is reported improving, to the satisfaction of his physicians. Mrs. E. H. Jackson, 4333 Grand boulevard, who has been ill for the past two weeks, is still confined to her bed with pleurisy. Mr. Richard W. Carter, one of our well known and respected citizens, is ill and has been so for six weeks at his home, 3424 Dearborn street. Mrs. Hulbert Brown, 3528 Dearborn street, is nursing a broken thumb, the result of a fall. Mrs. Joseph Moore is reported in an unchanged condition at her residence, 3433 Armour avenue. Mrs. Lucy Ashworth, 758 East 41st street, is recovering nicely from her recent illness. Mrs. Alice Jones, 5241 Wabash avenue, who fell and hurt herself severely a week ago, is reported improving by Dr. Bell. Miss Maud Pellam still continues ill at her mother's residence, 3227 Dearborn street. Mr. J. B. Street, 3726 Wabash avenue, who has been ill for some time, is improving nicely and expects to be out soon. Mrs. Fanny Bryant is ill at her residence on Dearborn street. SHOULD THE WOMAN PROPOSE Question That Seemingly May Be Re lled On to Get an Argument at Any Time. Ever since this conundrum was put to me, I have been submitting it to everybody I met. There has been extraordinary diversity in the answers. They have run from a shocked "Not I can through a hesitating, "Well, I don't see what I could I could never do it myself," to the one I certainly. Why not? One woman said: "Under no circumstances. Nothing ever justifies us in forgetting our womaniness." Another: "Yes, indeed. In fact, I proposed to my husband. I saw that he was in love with me, but that he thought that we could not afford to be married. I knew that we could, and so I proposed to him." Another: "Of course women should propose. They are much better judges of character than men, more intuitive and spiritual." Another: "If women proposed, there would be fewer unhappy marriages. As things are, men can choose from their entire set of women. Women can choose only from those who propose to them. If women proposed more of them would marry the man they really wanted to marry." Another: "I think the one should propose who could do it the most artistically." (Note—She was a young girl writer, and I am afraid considerations of literary effects guided her conclusions.)—Harper's Bazar. Limit of the Borrowing Habit Little Margie was a frequent visitor at the Jones home, going there on errands of borrowing many times each day. On this occasion she asked the loan of a cooking utensil. But Mrs. Jones had become very much out of patience at the continual borrowing and sent word by Margie that she "had other fish to try." Imagine her surprise when in a few moments her neighbor's little Margie again appeared in her doorway, lisping: "Mozzer thaid pleathe to thend thome of the fifth, pleathe." Worth of Clothes The influence of clothes must continue to be, as it has been from the beginning of histroy, either "sacred or or profane," a foremost factor in those forces by which man's destiny is guilded. His health and comfort, aims and purposes, social standing and business prosperity; everything indeed that makes his life worth living, may be affected by it in directions never dreamed of by the tailor who, if he does not actually make the man, is largely instrumental in making him what he is. AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEADQUARTERS The Latest News of the Work in This City—Items of Interest—Speakers. The Wabash Avenue Department Y. M. C. A. will hold its exercises for the laying of the corner stone of the $180,000 building at 38th street and Wabash avenue Sunday, July 28, at 2:30 p. m. Invitations have been sent to the various fraternal organizations, civic bodies and the city bands to take part in monstrous parade, which will march from headquarters, 3330 South State street, north on State to 29th street, east to Wabash avenue to the Y. M. C. A. site at 38th street and Wabash avenue, where the exercises, consisting of speaking, a band concert and music by the Umbrian Glee club and the corner stone laying by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. The Wabash Avenue Department has been very fortunate in holding several large mass meetings since its temporary organization, among which may be mentioned the meeting on January 1, 1911, at which time Julius Rosenwald and N. W. Harris each contributed $25,000 to the fund for the building of the Y. M. C. A. on the south side; a meeting on October 29, 1911, which was held at Quinn Chapel church, at which time President Taft addressed a mass meeting of six hundred men; the meeting at Olivet Baptist church on March 10, 1912, at which time Dr. Booker T. Washington addressed an audience of fifteen hundred men, and the exercises for the ground breaking, which was held on May 5, 1912, at the site. The meeting which will be held on Sunday bids fair to eclipse all of the former meetings held by the department in the number of organisations and men participating and the large audience and spectators who will witness the laying of the corner stone and listen to the various prominent speakers and to the musical program. Messrs. Julius Rosenwald and N. W. Harris, the large donors to the building fund, will be present at the exercises and will make short speeches to the assembly. Mr. L. Wilbur Messer, general secretary, Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, will make a few remarks. The Eighth Regiment band and the K. of P. band will take part in the parade and on the program. The committee has arranged to have the names of all the paid in full subscribers to the building fund placed in the corner stone. Persons who have subscribed to this fund and who will pay in full either before or at the exercises will be included among the names to be placed in the stone, together with additional cash subscriptions to the fund. A large number of men will act as official collectors for the accommodation of persons who may desire to pay the balance on their subscriptions. The office has arranged to have the cash register and typewriter on the grounds for the registration of the money as paid by subscribers and the adding of names to the list of paid in full subscribers. In case of inclement weather the exercises will be held at Institutional church. 3829 DePearson street. Music, Eighth Regiment band; singing, Umbrim Breeg club; prayer, Rev. H. J. Callis; introductory remarks, Dr. Geo. C. Hall; singing, Umbrim Glee club; remarks, Julius Rosenwald; remarks, N. W. Harris; remarks, Wm. P. Sidley, president, Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago; placing of articles in corner stone, L. W. Messer, general secretary, Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago; laying of the corner stone, Prince Hall Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; prayer, Karl A. Shumaker, state secretary, Illinois Young Men's Christian Associations; selection, Eighth Regiment band. KINDLY OLD BAVARIAN RULER Ample Reasons Why Duke Max Was Popular Within and Without His Dominions. Duke Max of Bavaria had no greater delight than leaning over the counter of some small shopkeeper, talking gossip or purchasing toys for his great-granddaughters in Austria. Innumerable stories are told illustrating his character. R. H. Goldschmidt, a wealthy banker of Frankfort, was once journeying to Vienna. Opposite him on the velvet cushion of the first class car sat an old gentleman, whose dress and looks betrayed no uncommon rank. "Are you on a pleasure trip?" asked the banker's vis-a-vis. "Yes," answered the latter, "I am going-to visit my daughter, who, thank God, fortunately married the Banker Wiener in Vienna." "How strange," replied his companion; "the incentive to my trip is the same. I am going to visit my daughter in Vienna. Thank God; she, too, is rather fortunately married to the emperor of Austria." The duke's pocketbook was open to all. Many a poor creature in that Catholic city told off beads for "good Duke Max," and blessed his name. A disciple of old Baltazarina, whose art had once charged the ballet lovers of music, having grown old in her profession, was unable to get employment. In despair she wrote to Duke Max, giving an account of her situation, his secretary handed him the letter with a message. She deserves nothing; she has lived a "feat life." "Then" answered his highness, "she will miss her former splendor so much the more," and, sitting down, he wrote her a letter, enclosing money, and signed "From an admirer of your art." —The Argonaut. Keep This in Mind Remember that an old maid may not be able to help it, but that it always is an old bachelor's own fault. Valuable Collection of Buttons. A collection of buttons, dating from the ninth century, left by a man who recently died at Ghant, in France, is valued at $40,000. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Resourceful and Independent Daughter Gave Old Eph Just the Lesson He Needed. Eph Wasson did not believe in the sweetness of bread earned by the sweat of the brow—at least, not by the sweat of his own brow. So Mandy, his wife, like many another industrious colored woman, not only took in washing to pay for the groceries, but chopped her own wood, built the fires, and waited on Eph besides. But there was a change when their daughter Clorissa came home. "Clar," who was an expert cook, had school and become a teacher, and had acquired an independent spirit. She quickly took in the domestic situation. Now all the spring Eph had watched the cherry tree in his back yard with a watering mouth. If there was one thing that Eph liked more than another it was cherry pie; and Clar was famous for her cherry pie. As good luck would have it, she had come home just as the cherries were ripe. "Clar, honey," said Eph, in a wheedling tone, the morning after her arrival, "won't you cook yo' ole daddy a cherry ple?" "Very well," said Clar, and Eph stuffed off happily to his usual loafing place. "Law, honey," said Mandy, when Clar started to make the pie, "dar ain't enough wood. Yo mammy'll have to get some." "Not a stick!" ordered Clar, emphatically. Moreover, there was no sugar, and only a half-cup of flour. However, that did not disturb Clar. She picked a pint of cherries, put them in a pan, and poured over them the pint of flour stirred in water. This mixture she put in the oven and lighted the only two sticks of wood in the house. At noon Eph came in with eager anticipation, and sitting down at the table, called for his pie. Clar set it before him. He rolled his eyes at the mess in astonishment. It was a queer-looking pie; still Clar was always learning something new. He cut into it and took a big mouthful. "Why," he exclaimed, "you done forgot to put the sugar in!" "No," said the daughter. "You forgot to get it." "Tain't half done!" he grumbled, with the sour, clammy mixture sticking to his teeth. "It cooked as long as the wood lasted," said Clar, unconcernedly. "And I ain't had a cherry ple for more two years," Eph said, pushing the plate back and shaking his head mournfully. "When you get something to make it with you good to cook it with, I'll bake you a cherry ple," said Clar. "Huh!" grumbled Eph. In disgust. "If it's to work for a cherry ple, I'd ruther have greens." "All right," said Clar. "The greens are out in the nasture: go eat em." are out in the pasture; go eat "em". But the next day there were wood and flour and sugar in the house in time for a cherry pie. After missing three regular meals, Eph had concluded that victuals of any sort were worth working for—if he could not get them any other way—Youth's Companion. Predicated 1912 on #Blake X Predicted 1912 as "Black Year." "Astrology is the pseudo science which essays to foretell future events by studying the position of the stars and ascertaining what their influence may be on human destiny. The Chinese, the Egyptians, the Chadeians, the Romans, and most other ancient nations were implicit believers in astrology, as were the later Jews, the Arams, with other Mohammedan races, and the Christians in medieval Europe. So we see that the science has a long and honorable record behind it. "Young Moore," the British astrologer, predicted long ago the social and political troubles of recent days. He wrote of 1912 as the "black year," and tells us how it is done. He says: "Genuine astrological horoscopes and forecasts are based exclusively upon exact astronomical and mathematic calculations, and the trained scientific astrologer will calculate the past or future of any person by the same methods that the astronomer employs to calculate the return of a comet, the new and full moon, ellipses, high and low tides, weather changes, and other natural phenomena." American Architecture "There is an American architecture," said the traveler, "but not many Americans will believe it until they have taken a course in moving picture shows in foreign countries. That was what convinced me. Owing to ignorance of foreign languages we sought most of our dramatic entertainment in Europe from the cinematograph. No matter where we went one-half the pictures were American. Sometimes they were so labeled, sometimes not, but whether they were or not we soon learned to tell American pictures by the architecture. Skyscrapers, of course, were the chief distinguishing mark, but high-stopped stone houses and frame cottages with two or three wooden steps leading up to a porch were just as unmistakably American. All the way from Inverness to Cairo the minute we set eyes on one of those houses we knew we were looking at something that couldn't be duplicated outside the United States, and all the rest of the audience knew it, too." Exhibit of Fiber Plants All the fiber plants of Java and many from the Philippines, Slam, etc., including sisal, agal, pineapple fiber, banana fiber, cocanut fiber, Java cotton, kapok and others were exhibited in a recent exposition at Hongkong. One exhibit showed the natives of Java working kapok and cotton from the very first stage of preparing the fiber to the finishing of the woven cloth. Kapok is the silky fiber surrounding the seeds of the silk-cotton tree, one of the noblest trees of the tropics. It is extensively used in stuffing mattresses and also in filling life preservers, for which latter use it is especially valuable, as it will support a greater weight in water than any other substance used for this purpose. A mass of pressed kapok will support thirty-six or thirty-seven times its weight. TAILOR DIES HERO OF "WHITE DEATH" Hunchback Who Had Learned All That Sermon on Mount Had to Teach. LIVED LIKE A HERMIT Crippled George Kramer of New York a Voluntary Exile for 17 Years That Fellow Man Might Benefit—Called It Duty. New York—George Kramer was found dead the other day in a dark room at 317 Furman street, Brooklyn. He was a mute hero of the "white death." Kramer, handicapped in life by a twisted, puny body, was a tailor in past years. He worked at his trade, doubled up on a bench in a dimly lighted loft, until 17 years ago two red spots grew on his cheeks and his defended spine began to be racked with a merciless cough. For a time the little tailor kept a stout heart and trolled at his bench, but while meanish read in the books of the "white death" and he became convinced of his duty. "I will stop work," he told his employer, "and I will shut myself up. It is dangerous for others that I should be abroad; that they should work at the same bench with me. Goodby." So George Kramer, the hunchback who had learned all that the Sermon on the Mount had to teach, went to live alone—that others might not be infected with the virus of the white death. He had saved some money, He carefully computed how long, with infinite care, that money might provide the bare necessities of life, and he set the order of his life by the hard tally of dollars and cents. The room of the second floor of the Furniture street house. Tq that room he kept by day, never showing himself to the other tenants in the house. Most of the people there only knew that the "coughing man" lived in that little room, whose blinds were always closed. But at night—late at night, when no one was on the street but the police A Walked Through Back Streets. men—George Kramer used to creep down from his retreat and take walks through the back streets—alone. All others, he reasoned, were in bed and safe from the peril that was always with him. So George Kramer used to walk at night, with the white death ever at his elbow. The years went by, and then Mrs. Caroline Walsh moved into the Furman street house. Mrs. Walsh is a mother; she has a great mother love, which means love for all. She got to know the "coughing man" by conversations through the panels of his door. She saw his face rarely. But she heartened him—this mother, who was the only one in the house to think, except with loathing of the "coughing man." Mrs. Walsh used to step to the door almost every morning and ask if there was anything she or her children could do for Kramer—any little erands. Usually they would go to the grocery store for him and leave the food outside the closed door, because Kramer insisted that they should not come near him. A few days ago Mrs. Walsh and the children went out of town. When they returned, and before she opened her own door Mrs. Walsh knocked at the door of the "coughing man." No answer. More knocks, and still no answer. Then the janitor broke down the locked door. The man who had walked alone with the white death for 17 years had consented to go to a far country with his grim companion. The only possession of value he left behind him was $4. By just $4 had the "coughing man" overcomputed that margin of necessity which had been the measure and the iron bound of his life of sickness. Only Half Body Perspires. 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Under the edifice which the mole constructs above the surface of the ground will always be found a series of tunnels. A curious feature, almost invariably found, is a perpendicular run penetrating about a foot below the bottom of the nest and then turning upward to meet another run. A mole is never, one authority contends, found in his nest, although it may be yet warm from his body when opened. Guided by smell and hearing, a mole frequently locates the nest of a partridge or pheasant above his run and, penetrating it from below, eats the mole. The adult mole is practically blind, but there are embryonic indications that the power of sight in the race has deteriorated.—Harper's Weekly. --- Fawn and St. Bernard as companions. At the little village of Bauma, in Switzerland, a farmer recently found a young fawn is one of his fields. Fearing that if left alone without its mother some mischief would befall it, he took it home and did everything possible for it. Now, he happens to have a large St. Bernard dog, and this dog and the fawn took to each other. The fawn slept in the dog's kennel, and when it grew a little older and went out on its walks abroad, the dog accompanied it, and defended it against the attacks of other dogs. Sometimes the St. Bernard and the fawn would be absent in the woods and fields for a whole day, but they always returned at night, the doors and gate being left open for them. The fawn is now much taller than the St. Bernard, and yet the dog still goes out with it. Tantalum Pens. Pens for writing purposes are being manufactured today in Germany by a process which is exciting some curiosity. The trouble found with steel pens is that they oxidize easily and the ink sticks to them. This fault is not to be found with gold pens; but, on the other hand, these are too flexible to be entirely satisfactory. Moreover, in order to form a point suitable for writing purpose, the material of that part of the pen has to be mixed with some hard metal like fridium and this operation is both complicated and expensive. This new pen is of tantalum and comes to the manufacturer in the form of a black powder. The pen that is made from this has the tenacity of steel and the flexibility of gold.—Harper's Weekly. Norway Developing Peat Fields. Norway's government maintains a society engaged in the reclaiming of marshes and swamp lands and developing the manufacture and use of peat. Most of us forget rather than forgive because it is easier.—Puck. FREE INSTITUTE new school term, 2, has arranged for a of Instruction wish to make a and orchestra music. si- to raise eded y ex- Elmer lesson, the re- to learn. ill and so one could without ever tone was part of the floating on is a thorough pronunciation those who heard ful to those who rus to hear him. ARTICULAR. measure we note the reoenixx as pianist, Miss , and it is to be hoped men associated with her estra will use their brains themselves in music and real education rather than in young sares that will oust some of their own race from a position, and it is well that they remember nat a gentleman is always known by the allantry he at all times and in all races displays towards a lady, and use young men should feel it an to have one of Miss Logan's and reputation among them. bright, sensible little lady many ways the ves. country over lasts until supper. In the evening comes the real treat. There is the brilliant and invigorating chapel talk by Booker T. Washington, and there is the address by some distinguished person of whom the student has heard much, but whom he had ever dreamed of seeing. His day has closes, having been filled with inspiration which no class room could eye. Above all, unawares, he has been receiving just the sort of training which the present day is demanding. He has had his lesson in punctuality, in decency of appearance, in table manners, in keeping clean surroundings, in placing a value upon time, even upon the day of rest. And finally he has not only been temporarily inspired but he has had drilled into him the religious habit, the habit of church going, of prayer service and worship on the Sabbath day. Multiply this day by several hundred days and you get culture, religion, character, in a word you get a man; not perfect of course, but tending towards the standard the world is now daily erecting for the educated Negro. Learning to handle a napkin, to dress properly, to clean a room, are in themselves culture and education, but they do not comprehend all that the man in the world has to know. What are the activities of the student himself? Where does the student with special ability find an outlet? Suppose he can sing, speak, draw, play on a piano, play on a stringed instrument? Suppose he is an athlete, plays football, baseball and the like, must all this talent be pressed into a trade and into the routine of regular duties? Not so. Not only is the student encouraged in the direction in which he has gifts, but in many instances he receives pay for so using his talents. Many penniless boys and girls have earned a large part of their board, paid for learning their trades and gotten their academic training through talent of this kind. For the student who can speak, declaim, write essays, debate or who wishes to acquire skill in any of these directions there are open to him ten different literary societies. These literary societies stress different points in general literary culture so that one may elect to enter the one which stands for the sort of thing he can do or wishes to do. If, for example, a student is interested in agriculture, there is the Natural History Debating Club which while it debates like other societies, places stress on agricultural discussions. There is the Careful Builders' club for the younger boys who are just starting, which stresses good manly conduct; Liberty Debating Club, emphasizing pure debate. On the girls' side there are the Phillis Wheatley, the Acme Club, The Little Women and the Temperance Society, some laying stress on reading, others on discussion, and others on general social improvement. A merry time it is when these clubs clash in debate; when Liberty debates Natural History, and the Acme girls, who furnish the entertainment, sit back and applaud; or when the small boys, Careful Builders, with the Little Women as their sympathizers, cross swords in argument with the Stokes Ministers Union, a sort of grown men's club—being the club to which the Bible workers in Phelps Hall belong. Andrew Carnegie classed the music of Tuskegee Institute choir as the most beautiful in the world. This music is furnished by those students who have talent to sing. They are taught music, trained to sing and then paid so much per month to do this singing. So it is again with the Institute band and the Institute orchestra, boys with but a faint idea of music but anxious to learn to play on some instrument are furnished the instrument, given instruction and then employed to play in the band or orchestra. For the last two years the band has made a tour of most of the large cities of the south and elicited praise from both white and colored people. It played before a mixed audience in the Auditorium-Armory in Atlanta, Ga., and the Atlanta Constitution classed its rendition of "William Tell" above the rendition of the same selection by Creatore's band. It played in Montgomery, Birmingham, Mobile, Nashville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Dayton and was cheered, recheered and invited and besought to return. These were poor Negro boys playing here, who had entered Tuskegee Institute, many of them being unable on the one hand to make a uss or to pay their board on the er. st as he asserts his talent and inuity through the musical innt, the football player assertsnt on the gridiron. True he ength and endurance from his k, but the alertness whichays to go with bodily gains under the coach on e, too, takes his trips, and women of other gets his culture, like im direct contact with --- Near the opening of school, on Thanksgiving night, as well as on several other occasions through the year the student has his own social. He meets with a thousand or more of his fellows thus acquiring tact, that ability to get along which is asked of every man who seeks a position of any kind whatsoever. This is the student life. How has he gotten his trade? How has he chosen it? How will he fit himself for it? Even with his culture the trade alone will not do. If he is a wheelwright, he cannot simply make wheels. If he is a blacksmith he cannot simply do blacksmithing. If so, he could have followed the old apprenticeship style of his fathers. With his culture and his skill as a tradesman must go a knowledge of the science of the industry. He must know how to raise turnips, for example, but he must also know the chemistry of soils and the food value of the product. This requirement has sent college graduates, holders of academic certificates and of trade certificates to Tuskegee Institute to study as post graduates. THE SEASON'S GREAT SONG HIT. Now comes from Boston the greatest song hit of the season, by James S. White and Saldee S. Wilson, entitled "Our 'Lil' Arthur," in honor of Jack Johnson, the world's champion. These writers seemed to have gotten the spirit of the age and in every line as every bar of music their souls seem to animate the entire piece. There is no reason why this song should not reach from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the gulf. The title page, though simple, is a masterpiece and the authors should receive the plaudits of our entire country for this masterpiece in "C." TAUGHT EXPERTS A LESSON Accident While Casting Cannon Resulted in Foundation of Present English Gun Factory. We owe our present arsenal at Woolwich to an accident. The government had a gun foundry in Moorfields, where, upon one occasion, in the year 1716, a distinguished party were gathered together to witness the operation of casting a large cannon. A young foreigner, named Schlach, who seems to have been almost an entire stranger, but who was well acquainted with the details of casting, noticed that one of the molds had been insufficiently dried, and warned the molders against using it. They disregarded his advice, and when he saw that he could not prevail upon them to desist, he immediately put himself well out of harm's way before the cannon was cast. A terrible explosion occurred when the molten metal rushed into the wet mold, owing to the sudden generation of steam that could find no outlet, and several persons were killed and a large number injured. It is said that search was made for the man whose predictions had been so painfully verified, and that the government employed him to advise about the best mode of preventing such accidents in future. The result was that Moorfields was given up as a site of a gun foundry altogether, and upon his advice the establishment was removed to the Warren at Woolwich.—London Tit-Bits. TRACKED BY POSTAGE STAMPS Little Peculiarity, but It Meant Much to the Trained Eye of the Watchful Detective. Whether a man is a criminal or a law-abiding citizen, he ought to take the pains to stick his postage stamps on exactly straight," an old detective said. "If he is straight he won't lose anything by it, and if he is crooked he will gain. When I was in the government service the first thing I found out about a man under suspicion was the way he stuck on his stamps. One of the cleverest swindlers I ever landed was tracked through his postage stamps. "After, you put a stamp on a certain way for a little while it becomes second nature and you stick it on that way uns consciously. That was what that man did. All his stamps were stuck on diagonally, leaving a little triangle of a certain size at the corner of the envelope. He was a slippery fellow and had eluded vigilance for months. One day I happened to be loitering around a postoffice of a country town where I had gone on another trail. The mail came in, and through the little window I watched the postmaster sort it. Presently I spotted an envelope with the stamp stuck on in that triangular fashion. I got the postmark chiked back to that town, and nodded my man. If he had put his stamps on straight, probably he never would have been caught." M. Tholnot, professor of forensic medicine to the Paris Académie de Medicine, has been lecturing upon premature burial, an accident the fear of which is, perhaps, not too, prevalent as it was in the days of Edgar Poe. He gave an interesting description of the many inventions devised for the avoidance of this, including the insertion of a breathing tube in the mouth of the corpse, which is brought through the lid of the coffin and projected from the grave. But he declared that no precaution was so satisfactory as that of delaying the burial in all the signs of putrefaction are apparent. The provisions of the code Napoli, which ordain that no burial shall be placed until twenty-four hours after death and inspection by the medical authority of the district, are, he said, entirely adequate on this point, a if they are carried out to the full, one need have any fear of being be led alive. ```markdown ``` T THE CURSE OF NON-COMMERCIALISM Members of Race Non-Progressive in Washington, D. C., by Reason of Their Lack of Commercial Aspirations—Discrimination Prevails Everywhere—All Abuse Considered an Honor—Stiff Collars and Government Positions Do Not Make Men. AND THEY WEAR HATS, TOO. Time of Women So Taken Up with Color Line That the City Cannot Boast of One Millinery Store Owned and Operated Solely for the Women of the Race—New York in the Same Boat—More Valiant Men Like the Ben Hur of Ancient Times Needed. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Washington, D. C., July 26.—No force in a community is more conductive to a spirit of independence than the power of commercialism. And a city lacking in this all powerful influence among its citizens is not only devoid of prestige, but its people are non-progressive. Washington, D. C., with its ninety thousand members of the race, has not one among them who will take up the much abused rights of their own. The large department stores do not care for colored trade; in fact the salesmen will not wait on you if you enter the door. Such a state of affairs happening right under the nose of the United States executives should be a lesson to the portion of the race located there. In the southland in general every kick is a boost to the race for when they are refused courtesy at any time or place, they immediately take up the commercial shovel and dig themselves in the commercial field. Not so in Washington, D. C. There the prevailing power of the colored southerner is lacking, the colors are met with two rows of gleaming teeth and a look in the eye which seems to invite the because it comes from the white man. The city is made up mostly of that grade of the race who sailed into the Potomac with their white associates and raised up a community, fair that they are ashamed to qualify a member of a race who are proud of such blood in their veins as that of Toussaint L'Occourte, Crispus Attucks and Frederick Douglas, but must crawl at the feet of their white traduces, and gin when he ousts them from the respectable restaurants, hotels and dry goods stores. It is a shame and every woman of the race should blush when the knowledge is given them that Washington does not boast of one millinery store exclusively for the race. The time which should be given to the uplifting of the people along lines which will tend to give them the much-talked of "power" in their community is wasted. The men of the race are chasing the government officials into quick insanity for positions, where wages differ according to color. If these same men would make themselves independent, by giving their brain an air along business lines they would be in demand, socially as well as commercially, and in the end would be more than stiff collar dudes, with government positions on half pay and a head full of blunt tacks. And the women, sad to say, are deteriorating. The points on which they are of one accord are dress and society. The color line is the most prominent question among them. Those of them who are blessed (?) with an abundance of the white man's blood in their veins seek to isolate their darker sisters from a social pinnacle where by the right of her blood being unmixed and pure the darker of the race has the prior right and that right will prevail in defence of the antagonism of the fairest daughters of the race. This state of affairs stunts the growth along intelligent as well as intellectual lines and thereby hangs the cause of the poor showing our women make here in the field of commerce. We learn that New York is degrading itself by allowing the employees of such stores as Wanamaker and Macy to ill-treat the colored customers. Well, if it can be done at the home of the chief executive why not the same dirty work be carried on in New York? What the race needs are characters such as Ben Hur, Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego, men who will not deny their own and will stand for a principle, regardless of the consequences. Ancient Italian City Asolo, which inspired two of Browning's verses in "Asolando," and which is observing the centenary, is a fortified town in Treviso, in northern Italy. It was the ancient Aeolium, and possesses a cathedral and a ruined aqueduct. The former palace of Catharine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, is in the neighborhood. There are beautiful seats in the vicinity, and the town has a population of under 6,000.—London Globe. Doing Good by the Way I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any good I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Mrs. A. B. Hegeman. True Education. I will not get full value for the spent on education that fitness for lifeance than fitness for SMALLEY PUTS TAFT ON RECORD. Mr. Edmund H. Smalley, Noted Attorney and Race Champion, Publishes Interesting Letters from William H. Taft and the Late Gen. Frederick Dent Grant. Decided Views on the Race Question. Attorney Edmund H. Smalley, whose splendid stories for equal justice for the Negro have appeared in The Defender from time to time, has furnished us with an interesting letter from President Wm. H. Taft and from the late Gen. Frederick Dent Grant. Mr. Smalley, as it is known, is the advocate of concurrent jurisdiction to the Federal courts in all cases of lynching and these letters are in reply to inquiry along that line. Speaking to a Chicago Defender reporter he explained as follows: The letters which you publish here with from President Taft and General Fred. D. Grant were replies to my request that serious efforts be put forward to grant concurrent jurisdiction to the Federal courts in all cases of lynching in the states and territories of the United States, as also granting the same power to the national courts in instances of the violation of the treaty rights of aliens. I attach copies of the letters I sent to those distinguished men on that subject. It is well to look back a few years and see how far many leading men in my party have drifted from original principles of the Republican party on human rights, especially those of the colored race. First, I find no penalties for the enshrement or involuntary, unwalnut bondage of a human being, except in two minor instances, peonage and placing on board vessel human being with intent to take him into slavery in a foreign country and one on two other instances which are far from carrying out the broad charter of human liberty expressed in the 'thirteenth amendment to the constitution. While section two authorizes congress to carry that amendment into effect, by appropriate laws, it is obvious that it has failed to so act, and in effect, so far as penalties are concerned, slavery practically rests with the states as in 1860. The decision of the Supreme court in Clytt v. U. S. 197 U. S. 206 (726) should have arraised the country to this grave defect in our law, but so far as the writer is aware leading men in my party, then President Roosevelt and his successor, Mr. Taft, and congressmen all seemed to avoid the necessary result, that in the absence of penalties the thirteenth amendment lost much of its power to guarantee liberty to human beings. Second. There is a studied evasion of the commands in the fourteenth amendment, that if states disfranchise the Negro except for crime the representation in congress, shall be proportionately reduced. William Howard Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hot Springs, Virginia. My Dear Mr. Smaller, August 17, 1908. I have your letter. I am very glad you are in agreement before the Virginia Bar Association. I am proud to physically with you that legislation ought to be enacted enabling the United States government to promise and treaties to protect aliens who would maliciously infringe alien's rights. I do not think it possible, however, to teach him the federal courts. Louching is not the federal courts. Louching is not from the general class of crimes with which he would be very difficult to draw a line of distinction, which would preserve the federal jurisdiction and the state jurisdiction. Very sincerely yours. Mr. Edmund H. Smalley, H. H. TAFT. 114 Kimbelle Avenue, Chicago, IL. Headquarters Department of the Lakes, Chicago, IL. April 13, 1910. Mr. Edmund H. Smalley, No. 544 Kimbelle Ave. Chicago, IL. Mr. Edmund H. Smalley, I return to you, herewith, the very interesting scrap book you left with me yesterday. I have gone through this scrap book with great pleasure, and it calls to mind many incidents of the past. I thank you most cordially for lending it to me and also for the interest this collection of clippings show you have taken in the career of my beloved father. Last night I got your letter of April 11th, enclosing a clipping from the Chicago Journal about the authority, or rather the lack of authority, that the United States government had to protect its own citizens and the citizens of other countries in the United States. I agree with you that the question should be agitated until the people of the United States come to their senses and authorize their own government to give them the great security within its borders as it demands of other governments to extend to them when they are out of their own territory. With assurances of my great appreciation of your work of me, believe me, my dear Mr. Smalley. Very sincerely yours, FRIEDERICK D. GRANT. May 4, 1910. Mr. Edmund H. Smalley. Cumberland Ave. Chicago, Illinois. My Dear Mr. Smalley: In reply to your letter of May 24, I will send you a copy of the closed of your letter to the President, in which you speak so kind of me. I. of power of our government to protect our rights within its borders, and that was the command my words in my letter to which you good enough to quote to the President. Thanking you for your kind reference to me, believe me, Smalley. Very sincerely yours. Very sincerely yours, D. BRANT P. S. I return herewith the two clip- boards you sent to me thinking that you might desire to preserve them in your stock bag. P. D. G Gentlemen! Department of Lakes. Chicago, Ill., July 18, 1810. Mr. Eumann, the M.D. 2544 Kimbel Ave. Chicago, Illinois. Mr. BRANT I write to thank you for your letter of July 14th, and to say that I have no time to write to you, using my letter in any way you please. Thanking you for your handsome response, I am grateful for your efforts for the protection of American citizens will succeed, believe me, ery sincerely yours, FREDBRICK D. GRANT. Irish Bull. O'Brien's boy Danny lost two baseball bats. O'Brien in a day or two supplied the youngster with a third, but accompanied the presentation this warning: "Now see here, Danny's team was wan loke well did the others, O'll take it and break it over yer head, so Ol will"—Boston Transcript. Independence First Let your first effort be not for wealth, but independence. Whatever be your talents, whatever your prospects, never be tempted to speculate away, on the change of a palace, that which you need as a provision against workhouse. Lord Lytton. CROWNING OF THE CARNIVAL QUEEN Who Will Be the Queen?—A Spirited Contest On to Select the Most Popular Woman of Chicago, Who Will Be Crowned Queen of the Grand August Carnival and Negro Exposition. VOTE FOR YOUR CHOICE. The management of the Grand August Carnival and Negro Exposition, to be held on State street, from 31st street to 39th street, August 17-31, wants to know who is the most popular woman in Chicago. In order to decide this a voting contest has been arranged and to give stimulus to the idea a prize of $100 will be awarded the contestant and she will be crowned the queen of the carnival. The coupon appears exclusively in the Chicago Defender, and appeared first last week. Each and every coupon is a vote. There is no restriction so far as age is concerned, other than that the candidate must not be a child. The contestant must be a resident of Chicago and the home address of the party voted for must appear on every coupon. Vote early; vote often; $100 to the winner and the distinction of being crowned "Queen of the Most Elaborate and Giantic Amusement Enterprise Ever Attempted in the City of Chicago." The list of contestants is as follows: Miss Gladys Williams 75 Miss Irene Keefe 40 Miss Isabella Potter 35 Miss Lucile Peyton 409 Mrs. W. A. Johnson 39 Miss Bertha Moseley 33 Miss Elizabeth Slaughter 389 Mrs. Manle Miller 175 Miss Rose Richardson 620 Mrs. John R. Marshall 401 Miss Gertrude Barbour 70 Miss Geraldine Hodges 95 Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins 130 Miss Essie Arnold 142 Miss Louise Anderson 110 Miss Empress Davidson 326 Mrs. R. R. Jackson 98 Miss Mae Coleman 167 Miss Laurle Tyler 99 Miss Helen Perry 99 Miss Elnora Franklin 658 Mme. Minnie Adams 156 Mrs. Frank King. 170 Miss Madeline McFurland 134 Miss Mabel Lee 81 Miss Nellle Revell 74 Miss Irene Otis-McGowan 125 Mrs. Sherman Blackwell 95 Mrs. Wm. Emanuel 185 Miss Ruth Holiday 200 Miss Lenora McCabe 675 Miss Nioma Bunn 10 Mrs. Harry A. Duncan 12 Mrs. Genevieve Smith 15 Mrs. Christine Williams 105 FROM EVANSTON. Gertrude Perry ..... 75 Margaret Young ..... 85 Kathryn Twiggs ..... 128 BREAKING AWAY FROM TRUTH Two Opinions With Respect to a False Statement Minister Admits He Made. A curiously interesting question of ethics has arisen over the failure of a minister to secure employment for an erring but repentant woman until he told prospective employers that she was a woman of good character. He had often been on the point of getting for her the work she needed in order to make an honest living and to regain the moral equilibrium which had been disturbed by her wrongdoing. But as soon as the minister, in his devotion to the strict letter of the truth, admitted that the woman had stinned, the doors of honest living were closed in her face, the "unco" good people who were in a position to lend a helping hand refusing to run the risk of "contamination," unwilling to follow the example of Jim who said to another erring woman: "Go and sin no more." Now a rather lively local discussion has arisen as to whether the minister was justified under the circumstances, or whether anybody is ever justified under any circumstances, in telling a life. Perhaps few will deny that if a minister really lied at all he strained the truth in a good cause and that the imposition practiced upon those who refused to give to another the chance of reform which they themselves would have welcomed in their own cases was intended to serve a humane purpose. All who are inclined to take an ultra conservative view of the inviolability of truth might ponder the splendid words of Dickens when he wrote Tom Pinch and the lie that he did only good to another human being: "There are some falsehoods, Tom, on which men mount, as on bright wings, to heaven. There are truths, cold, bitter, taunting truths, that bind men down to earth. Who would not rather have to fan him in his dying light the lightest feather of a falsehood such as this, the quilla plucked from the sharp porcupine revengeful truth, since Time began?" —Kansas City Journal. Mirage Easy to Be Seen The celebrated Fata Morgans, a presentation of natural "moving pictures" on an immense scale which is occasionally seen in the Straits of Messina, is explained by a scientific writer as being a mirage, such as frequently occurs in various parts of the world; "in fact," he says, "one may see a mirage any day by looking through the stratum of air overlying a hot stove, or adjacent to the side of a wall heated in the sunshine." Young scientists will be interested in verifying this statement. Our Touch of Vanity. Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours - Greville. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER GAY PARTY PAINTS PASTOR'S PET PUPS Animals Then Mussed Up Their Master, Ruined His Clothes and Shocked His Dignity. Jamesport, Mo.-Two "houn dawgs" of a well advertised variety have split this town and the surrounding community wide open. A suit for $2,000, filed by Rev. W. E. Brown of the Methodist church against the members of a recent wedding party, is but one features. The trouble had its inception in a house party given by Miss Blanche Thompson Smith. When the fun was at its highest one night one suggested that the "houn dawgs" owned by Rev. Mr. Brown be decorated in honor of the occasion. To the barn of A Changed Their Coats. the reverend gentleman the party made its way. The "houns" were lonesome and they welcomed company. They were decoyed from the barn, tethered and then the fun began. One of the dogs was striped with white paint. The other's body was covered with white spots. The guests then returned the dogs to the barn. It was late in the evening when Rev. Brown, returning from a pastoral call, took his horse to the barn. He opened the door and the dogs ran out. In their joy at the return of their master they unimpeded his unimpeded legs and upset him. Then they frisked and ganibolled over his prostrate body until the minister looked as if he, too, had been given a cont of white paint. Rev. Mr. Brown was angry, but he was anger still the next day when he discovered that the "houn" dawge had contracted lead poisoning. A little detective work revealed the identity of the painters and Rev. Mr. Brown's suit for damages followed. MAD BULL TIES UP TRAFFIC Charges Full Speed Through Bury Streets of New Jersey City, Tramping.Many People. Paterson, N. J.—A young bull charging at full speed up Main street, the busiest thoroughfare of the city, early the other evening, caused considerable excitement and tied up trolley traffic until it was finally corraled. The full charge during a stampede at an abattoir at Riverside, where there had been a fire, and darted along River street, gathering speed as it reached Main street. Hundreds of A Charged Full Speed men and boys followed in its wake. When the animal reached the intersection of Main, West streets and Broadway, many people were trampled in the rush for safety. Traffic Officer James McCormack at this point joined the race, which continued for several more blocks. The fleet-footed cop chased the animal into the vestibule of a five and ten cent store, and as the officer was about to make a grab the bull lowered its horns, made a charge, throwing the cop and diving headlong into a big plate glass window, smashing it. By this time McCormack had recovered his breath, and after throwing the bull in true western style, he sat on it until the arrival of the reserves. Pottesville, Pa.—Annie Sulden, aged nine years, is said by the police of this city to be one of the most expert store thieves in the country. Annie confessed that a girl from Washington, D. C., taught her how to steal and that she outsculted her instructor. The interior of Annie's home looked like a department store. The maiden aunt had come to call. It was very early for callers, but Mrs. Marsh knew that the maiden aunt needed help, so she left the baking and went to her cheerfully. The aunt looked quite worn out, and very nearly distracted. But what can you expect when a person without previous experience steps in and tries to take care of four healthy children for six weeks? The aunt had been there only two weeks, but such weeks! "What is the reason," said the aunt almost tearfully, "that yours are so good, and mine are so bad? Why do you know, the twins were actually fighting this morning, and Edith is so horrid and selfish. She won't let Edna touch a thing, and Edna cries when nothing at all is the matter." "Can't you give them something to do?" asked Mrs. Marsh. "But what?" said the maiden aunt, "Oh! anything. If they suggest anything, let them do it if you possibly can. If not, you suggest something. If your invention runs out, you might have to window, and see what mine are doing." She beckoned the aunt to a window. A hum of busy voices arose from the lawn below. "Why, they're washing." "Yes, it's the doll clothes, and the boys, not to be behindhand, are washing their baseball suits." "But they will get their clothes soiled." "Yes, they're bound to do that in any case. They have on their rompers and gingham aprons, so it won't matter. After the washing is dry, there will be the ironing, so you see they will be busy all day." "I'm going right home, and ask mine if they want to wash things." "They will want to. And then tomorrow if you can't think of anything, you might telephone over, and find out what we are doing." The aunt departed with hope in her bearing. Her young charges agreed to the wash-day program with the enthusiasm of children who have been repressed for two weeks. She took off the pretty clothes in which she had been keeping them, and searched out the despised rompers. Then the children, with arms full of doll clothes, went out to the back lawn and washed themselves into a state of quiet nature. The dinner hour was absolutely peaceful. The aunt took them upstairs afterward and told them stories. Then it was time for the bath and bed. The next day a cautious inquiry went over the telephone, "What today? "They're working in their gardens," was the answer. "Children, have you any gardens?" said the aunt. They had had some, but investigation showed that they had disappeared under the onslaught of the weeds. The aunt, who was really a clever person, clothed the reclaiming work in the guise of a battle against insidious dragons that wanted to eat up the lovely flower maidens. With their little tools and watering pots the children worked with a will. When a plot was nicely cleaned the aunt transplanted some blooming petunius from the mother's garden. The petunias stood the transplanting nicely. They were too thick in the garden anyway, and besides the children now had immediate results to show for their work. The next day's inquiry showed that Mrs. Marsh's children were playing milkman with a tub of water and all the measuring cups in the house. "You'll find that children will play anything that allows them to splash in the water," said Mrs. Marsh. "For this you'd better put on their hathing suits." "This can be a lesson in mathematics, too," said the aunt as she gave them gill, pint, quart, and gallon measures. On the succeeding days there were trips to the woods, playing in bathing suits under the garden hose, a day of Indian camp in the back yard, rainy days when they rearranged their postcard albums, strung beads, and used water color paints, they gathered up their despipped blocks and laid out an artistic village on the sand pile, they organized a telephone system in the basement, and gave a circus with the aid of the dogs and cats of the neighborhood. The remaining four weeks silipped away quickly and happily, and the children's parents returned. Great was their wonder, and many were the compliments the aunt received upon her management. "Why!!" said the mother, "they're heartbroken to have you go, and they do nothing but talk of the delightful times you had together. I never thought you could manage children so well. I was really afraid that you would fairly hate each other by the time I got back." The aunt visited Mrs. Marsh before she went away. She thanked her daughter, "It was you who saved me from ignomination." she said. "And I have one golden motto that I am going to carry with me for future use. It is 'Give the children something to do.'"—Mother's Magazine. Sweet Charity. "Has it ever occurred to you that the more money a man has the more difficult it is for him to be charitable? When one is poor and has only a few cents it is an easy matter to divide the money with some poor devil who has none." Make Your Gas Mantles Last. Before you use a new gas mantle, soak it in negoar and hang it up to the light. When the light is obtained and the burners will just twice as long as usual, even in a draughty room—McCall's Magazine. Most women regard men as they do the Ten Commandments—something to be studied, but not observed. Chance of a Lifet Only $250 cash, balance like rent, buys r rated 2-flat or residence, brick and stone. This Is a Golden Opportunity. G Be a home owner—not a rent payer. It prestige. Agent at 3421 Forest Ave., from 3 to 6 dail Randolph 3751 for special appointment. Don't delay—See them today; are sel Is one of the few life insurance companies does not discriminate against color, either in of policies or premium rates. It also maintains offices in several large cities for colored dis agency managers, medical examiners and agen It's to your advantage financially to carry a po in the old and reliable company. CHAS. A. 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Praise the Lord!" Why Money Is Cheap "I want you to tell me what this paper means when it says in its market report that money is cheap," said Mrs. McFee to her husband, who, like all husbands, is supposed to be encyclopedic. McFee laid down the sporting sheet. "It's simply putting in a briefer form the statements that money talks," he replied, "and that talk is cheap"—Judge's Library. Your Credit is Good and we will sell you Willow Plumes, French Plumes, Paradise Birds and Algrettes 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. Displeased the Widow. Displaced the Widow. A Philadelphia traveling man, having gone upon that journey for which there is no return ticket, his many friends of the road consulted together as to the remembrance to be sent by them, and finally decided upon a design which was not only original, but which they considered peculiarly appropriate. They never understand why the widow would not receive the beautiful suit case, made of white flowers, with the words, "His last trip," in purple violets; on one side. **Why Red** In Senegal red rice fields in which it grows regularly by the Sea fuentes, and in mea rices, the rice plant flood. The grain is we dry and hard. It swell and as it swells loses s color. It is very non quaren no cultivable. y of Evanston » Strand Dead. BSH Sa ip a sacs oud, died Friday at a brief ines. Mrs. ‘n, twenty-five years Her early life was @ church. She was the greatest and most workers of her day. oted wife and loving ¢as Toved by all who th a sweet sons of ips on Inst Friday she arnal home, where sut- wore. She was buried Bhenexer A. M. E. feh church she was a Graves officiated. Mrs. @ husband, two little yn .and Biizabeth—two F relatives and a host of tourn ber joss. Inter- : HM, ‘ddy Boosters. ° ing held at the Avenue te purpose of organizing asters’ elu, on July 16, only one Negro present. 1s Mr. J. B.*Priestly. This sentation goes to show the Evanston Negro is not n Teddy, or that he was 2d as to the meeting. All terested, in the yelfare of 2 should attend these mect- her they are interested or e holy writ tells us: “Listen ng} and hold fast to that good.” The next meeting td on Saturday afternoon at at the Avenue house, \ Hint to the Wise. * Friday morning, July 19, at vat over Thomas Alexfnder’s “poroner's jury Was composed { white men, Has. there enjan inquest beld in Evanston xe remains of a white person « black jury? Not one! Nor erd ever been an inquest held he fouy of a black person with k jtfry in the box. Is it that the + is;not qualified for jury duty? For there are scores of Negroes vanston already educated and “headed and as well fitted for duty as any jury impaneled. But Negroes are not summoned to these es because the white undertakers, we the body happens to be, have ir select white friends to do jury ¥, Not complying altogether with 2 Taw, but in order to help thelr ite friends to get that one or two Mars paid by the coroner. We ave at in favor of segregation, but we © favor giving the Negro a chance { some of the public duties. And it ome of our so-called politicians and race leaders would. tet np on defraud- ing’ the} race and put more time and engrgy towards elevating the cause of tng Nefro from every olnt of view thén cohditions in our little city would “otter Mitterent 8 if Little Madeline Smith Dead. Little Madeline, daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. Bentley ‘Smith, 1918 Asbury enue, died Friday morning after it wie illness of pneumonia. Little Madeline was twenty months old. She leaves, besides mother and father, two sisters and ove brother and a Bost of loved ones to mourn her loss. She was buried Saturday morning from the home, Interment at Rose Hin. Personals. Mrs, Julia Wilson, S18 Church street, returned the early part of the week from Duquoin, Ill, where she was a delegate to the annual conven- tion of the U. 0. of 'T. Mrs. Wilson reports a grand meeting. Mrs. B. D, Mason and Mrs. M. P. Bradford and son Virginus of Knox- ville, Tenn,, mother and sister of Mrs. A. A. Kirksey, 2348 West Rail- -eoad._avenue;-are visiting Branston for Yi Tew weeks. Mrs. ©. B. Lewis of Davenport, Ia., stopped over in Evanston en route to the Woman's Federation at Hampton, Va, and paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Baker Depugh, 1721 Benson avenue. Mrs. ‘Hattie Varmore of Portsmouth, Va., is visiting her daughter and two Drothers—Mrs, Luella Moore, Kenil- worth, Mr. J. Smith of Chieago and Mr. Smith, 1724 Oak avenue, Evans- ton. At the present time Mrs. Var- more is with Mr. Smith in Evanston. Mr. M. J. Miller of New Orleans, Miss Georgia Jones of Tuscaloosa and Mrs. Ophelia Smith of Chicago are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. John Grif- fin, 1621 Lake street. Mrs. Vivian Jones and baby and \Miss Alka Steele of Des Moines, Ia., ‘ave visiting with Rev. and Mrs. I. M. {Dantel, 1011 Emerson street. |_Mrs:'Mayme Wilson, 2106 Jackson avenue, served four o'clock tea to “Mrs. Lyons and Mr. R. G. Bruce on last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Alice Hughes and daughter Alice of St. Louis, Mo. are visiting with sister and aunt, Mrs. H. Y. Keen, 1120 Clark street. ° Dr. A. D. Butler has set up a per- manent establishment at his resi- dence, 1918 Asbury avenue. Dr, But- ler is In a Negro neighborhood and the Chicago Defender will careftuy note how many colored people will pass by Dr. Butler’s office in order to employ the service of some white doc- tor. : Missionary Society. i a er Na Bia ™~ { ad ‘The ‘fish fry given by “the mission- ‘ary society on last Tuesday afternoon Yau A great suoceme, At/the A. M. “Wxparsonage, where the fish fry was Shela tne ladles had ‘leh cooked in every style, Fish salad, fish stew, “Rad{gome fish that wouldn’t do, fish iediin eve —vle, they had some ee w died, Neverthe. to ate supper there he fullest ‘xtent, sslonary society puts ching. {t means some- gimetignt - “ffarson, 1108% Clark See tmelight. I abo) ‘oa Who the lucky young lady is we can- not say, bur here of late Mr. Jeffer- sot becomes 80 lovestruck, over her that he is unable to go to work for weeks at a time. The rumor runs further that Mr. Jefferson is courting in the old Spanish style and any evening he can be seen with his banjo under a certain young lady's window singing, “Babe, All Night Long.” Before a select audience, including a representative of The Defender, Mr. Saunder Hagood will introduce his new unnamed dine on next Thurs: aay evening. : ‘The J. E, Lash Club's pienic will take phice at Riverside this year, at Glen View. All members and friends are requested to be present. A day of enjoyment for both old and young. Jerry will be there. ‘The Sunday school carnival ts the thing. Above Riverview, White City andthe other amusement parks stands the Sunday school carnival, July 29 and 20, Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Ebenezer was at her best Sunday, hoth morning and evening. A greater feast spiritually has not been wit: nessed for some time as that which the great audience enjoyed Sunday morniag, The church was weil filled and two young men united with the church. ‘The church was crowded at the evening service. ‘The pastor de- livered a sermon on the death of John the Baptist. ‘The new feature in connection, with the Sunday service at Ebenezer was the appearance of a new chorus choir, under the direction éf Mr. W. 1B. Gos- sette, the organist, Miss Emily Smith, who Is a coming star, rendered a beautiful solo at the morning service and captured the audience. Everybody is talking about the car. nival and barbecue, which comes off next week. ‘The carnival is under the charge of the Sunday school and the barbecue is an affair in which the entire city is interested, as there has not been an outing of any consequence In Evanston for some years. The bar- becue is next Thursday, and it seems that Covington’s grove, near the.coun- ty line, will have a very large crowd. Mr. Richard Lee, the well known baseball man, will have charge of the baseball fenture, and a fine game is expected between the Lake Forest boys. ‘Those of you who have not laughed nor enjoyed yourselves for the last twenty years had better put on your old gray vonnet and ‘meet ts at the carnival on “Monday and Tuesday, July 29 and 30, on the grounds of the A.M. EB. church. All the cracker jacks will be there. Come and see the chicken chorus choir. Ducks will furnish the music. ‘Three turtles will run a race and forty-two trained monkeys, comprising a brass band, es- corted by the boy scouts, will lead the parade. If you don't believe it, come ad a ‘The morning services at Mt, Zion Baptist chureh were not as large as usual Sunday morning, due to the rain, But by 12:30, Bible school time, a goodly number had gathered, A very interesting B. Y, P. U. was held at 6:45, conducted by the pas. tor. \ large congregation assembled for the evening service, which was very interesting. ‘The choir was at its dest. Rev. W. A. D. Venerable of St. Louis, Mo.. and Rev. Wm. Chiles wor: shiped with the Mt, Zion church Sun. day evening, July 21. Dr. Venerable made a short talk, which was quite interesting. Mr. Victor S. Fletcher of 1719 Ben- son aventie returned home Sunday night from Danville, Ill, where he had spent two weeks visiting. Mr. Walter Hugle of Gary, Ind, visited Mr. Harry Scott of 1719 Ben son avenue fast Saturday and Sun. day. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Morgan of 1719 Benson avenue and her sister, Mrs. L. F. Johnson, and two daughters, vis- ited in Indiana last Saturday and Sun- day. Sunday services for July 28—11 a. m., sermon by the pastor: subject, “The Good Samaritan." Bible school, 12:30. “Missionary meeting at 6:45. S$ p. m, sermon by the pastor; sub. Ject, “Esau and His Birthright.” The second Sunday in August is rally day. Second Baptist Church. ‘The Second Baptist church had splendid services last Sunday. Rev. Dr. S, H. Johnson of Chicago preached ia_the. afternoon, Messrs. J. H. Blockwell, J. T. Gor. Gon and A. Carter have been elected dezcons and will be ordained in a few days. The entertainment given by the choir was a brilliant musical and a great suecess. ‘The trustees and the butlding com mitice are prepared to start the new building just as soon as the old build. ing is disposed of and torn down, ‘The building committee consists of J. H. Blackwell, J. T, Gordon, Willis Acker, A. Carter, J. W. Turner, D. W. Richardson andthe pastor. ‘The chureh is planning to raise sev. eral thousand dollars in September. Mr. H, ¥. Keene and Mr. W. H. Gill are general secretaries of the advisory campaign committee. ‘Week after next will be the last week in the old church. ‘There will be an entertainment all that week. Don’t miss a service. All In Equal Position. Anybody can get a steady Iiving out of steady effort. The same clock that ticks off twenty hours for one man can't cheat his neighbor. The same Jaws of right and wrong, the same privilege to do and dare, are open to doth,—Herbort Kaufman. ‘Training Needed. . Mrs, Benham—I think it would be well for our boy to go ‘to Sunday school. Fennen What. (tort Mrs. Bonham—sThere fs need cf having his ideas straightened out; 'I told tlm something about St. Peter at the gato and he wanted to know(if St. Peter Ue le 7 og mai, Magnificent Structures in Rome Covered With Vines, Palace Lies Apart and Distinct From Rest of Rome, Not Removed by Isolation, but Through tis Atineadieenec Rome, Italy—Columns have been written regarding the personal ap- Pearance of the pope, his part In the ceremony of the consistory and the pomp and splendor that surrounds the papal court, yet relatively little fs known of his intimate personality. ‘This, in part, may be explained by Feasen of the ceremony that sur: rounds the pontiff und by reason of the care that has Leen taken to guard him from the approach, of ‘ill-inten- tioned plebelans. The Vatican Itself Is a magnificent ald pile whose spires, roofs and gables Hse high xbove an encircling grove of ancient trees that decorate its gar- dens. ‘The quiet serenity of the vine- covered masonry, the peaceful majes: ty lent by the hand of ages and the Atmosphere that seems to surround the hallowed epot through its lone association with the ecclesiastical his- tory, make Ite imposing architecture tho. mast prominent in Rome. This feature is all the more accen- tuated after a visit to the ancient Ro man emphitheater and the great aque- duets ‘and mansoleums of the Raman emperors. These, in truth, are im- posing, but they contrast sharply with the buldlings that house the pope and form the font of the Roman Catholte church. The Roman bulldings are in- animate and magnificent in thelr death: white the Vatican is antmate and goubly Imposing through the soul that Ives within, ‘Tho Vatican, indeed, Hes apart and @intinet from the rest of the city. Tt fs not removed through Its Isolation. but through its atmosphere. On the one hand is the magnificent palace of King Vietor Emmanuel, busy with the toll of war and feeding the count: Jess avenues that lead to the Ghetto, and on the other {s the palace of the pope. vast, allent and imposing, set in an atmosphere of {ts own and as much apart from the busy city as though it were surrounded by a des- ert. Of the pope himself, his rites and character, there are a thousand sto- Hles current. Pius X, the son of a hoor peasant, 1s hailed everywhere as the Father, and to his people he has always retained those simple manners and customs that marked bis novitiate fs parish priest and teacher of the peasants. Something besides mere anecdote, however, forms the foundation for these stories of simplicity and nobii Ity of character. There is In Rome ae eo 1, | eetereeenes > aE Eh Pe OE erg beeen ae We RET ee dee cn, OU Rade Meenas aa ce TieESS SNS heath Ws at ee) ie era aT Ba ae ace EE HE NOE es ee we Rees ba ee Po tn the Gardens of the Vatican, Ete th sei at the present day physical proof of the pontift’s former obscurity. This Proof lies with his two sisters, Lucre- cia and Teresa, unobtrusive peasant women who have followed the pope from his humble home. Luerecia, the cook, in particular, fa keen and critical in the interest’ of the pontiff. It was she whom he called from Riese when he was first attacked by the rheumatic gout that has proved so painful and so danger- ous during his Inter years. And it $s she, assisted by her sister, Teresa, who now supervises the pope's meals and tends him in his Mness, Another interesting figure of the vope's household is his brother, An- Belo Sarto, a humble postman, who spends what time he may in com: pany ‘with the pontiff and his sisters. It {s his brother upon whom the pope relies for that masculine companion- ship that is a part of every mortal. And these two old men, both hand- some and with thick, white hair, alike, and yet not alike, are the closest com: panfons. Swam Two Miles While Asleep, Stockton, Cal—The record for som- nambullstic feats is held by B, Har- rington, a farm band. ‘The finding of his clothes on the river bank a few mornings ago led to’an investigation and Harrington was found, two miles below, fast asleep. He was awakened but could not remember anything about the ineldent. 84 Worde In ‘Thie Wit, Jolfet—Daniel Hughes, who died suddenly the other day, leaves what is believed to be the shortest will ever penned. It contained 81 words, and lawyers say it 1s contest-proof. Setting Hens Disturbed. Yonkers, N. ¥.—Yonkers amateur poultry fanciers have appealed to the street commissfoner to stop blasting Decause it disturbs their setting hens. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER ee AN CITY OF BANBURY PASSES Despolted, While Many Relics ‘Aro Revealed, cs OME) London.—The glory of Banbury te | Bez departing. It 1s no longer necessary to go to Banbury to eat Banbury cakes} they can be bought in London. From |The old cross, dear to the old Indy | Reg) : “who rode @ white horse” and to the | "yr, Inmatesof countless nurseries, has been replaced by a modern spirelike erec- tion; but still the pride of Banbury re- been’ | mained, could the old Globe room be ap- ;Seen; and now that is going, and the | Ze 1 the’! follis of Hanbury are angry because | Det the | they think it fs Ueing despotiea for the | lars s the | ratification of American antique hunt. | With ee lees: ' feer ality. | _ The old Reindeer inn itself bears the | lent a by {date of 1662 and Is {ull of quaint pan- ; tran sur- |¢led rooms, with waving, trregular | ered mn of | ceilings and unexpected beams, and in | haze oard {its courtyard Is the Globe room. which, | Zorg a Pe ea ES og atonal yeh ee ae Sarl Oe LU a Eee Sid Badenian ‘with its beautiful stone mullioned win- dow, its panelled walls and its plas- ‘tered ceiling, is said to contain the finest Jacobean work in the country. ‘The date 1637 is carved on the panel- ling, and it was in this room that Cromwell ts recorded as holding a council just before the battle of Ede- im, In the process of removing the pan- elling some interesting-“‘finds” have been sade. Many old coins have been picked wp, the majority being of cop- per and belonging to the eighteenth century, But the most striking dis- covery has been a double burreled pis- tol hidden away behind the paneling near the fireplace. It ts in excellent Preservation and between the two bar- yrels Tune the Inscription: “Pronented ‘to Dick Turpin, at the White Bear Inn, Drury Lane, February 7, 1735,” and the name of the maker ts given as Baker, London, Banbury has no legend associating it with the famous highwayman, but the genuineness of the reli¢ {s taken for Sranted. MANICURES FOR. ANIMALS Departments to Care for Nails and Bilis Started at Zoo In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa.—So as to keep the nails of the animals from the lion to the monkey and the bills of the birds ‘from the eagle to the canary in good shape, a well-equipped manleuring and dental establishment {s maintained at the zoological gardens. The depart- ment ts under the supervision of Head Keerer Manley, and it moves its sphere of work from cage to cage In the various houses, as the occasion ae- mands. Tt is constantly at work. ‘The tools employed by the mant- curists in connection with their labor among the creatures differ materially from the dainty utensils used by the blonde Venus of the barber shop, and consist of a hammer, a chisel, often a hatchet and saw, and always a large, rugged file about 14 inches long. A sharp, strong pair of steel wire nip- pers is also used on tho nafls of the larger eats ‘Tho manicuring establishment at the gardens was organized by Superin- tendent Carson, Realizing that the animals could uot wear off their nafis on the boards of the cages as quickly as they could on the rocks of their na- tiv haunte, and that because of this tho claws frequently grew long, turned jand penetrated the soft part of the foot, Mr, Carson decided that in order to alleviate the distress caused by in- growing nails these would have to be cltpned. RATTLESNAKE BITES BABY ‘Three Hours After Accident Polson I Discharged Child Is Dead. Goldendale, Wash—The three-year. old daughter of W. B, Smith, who re sides on Crofton Prairle, ten miles west of this city, was bitton by a rat- tlesnake in the ‘finger and died just three and one-half hours after the ac- eldent. ‘Phe child stepped dut Into the gar- den a few feet from the house to get a Kitten, and as she attempted to pick up the Kitten she was struck by the snake, ‘The mother corded the arm at once and applied such antiseptics ‘ag were avallable. ‘The accident occurred a quarter mile from where Mrs, R. D. Gray was bitten and died as a resait about one year ago. Mrs. Gray was bitten on ithe same finger of the same hand. Gets Bill Lost Eight Months. New York.—A $10 bill lost on Broad- way on October 11, {s in the hands of the owner, after having been for eight months in the hands of Police Com- ‘missioner Waldo. More than 1,000 persons applied to the commissioner for the money, but At remained for Jobn P. J. Sheehan of Newark, N. J. to make the successful claim, Shechan explained that the money was blown from his hand by a gust of wind. He had witnesses to prove his claim. Dottie Rurate and Kite Girt, - New You.—Jennie Weiss, a servant, died in a city hospltal,; her jugular vein having been cut by’ a fragment jglass:when a seltzér bottle explod ef ac she was plachig it-tn a refrig ‘ator. “ye IN VALLEY OF RHONE Beautiful Scenes That Greet Touristin Switzerland. Reglons Through Chamonix and Zer- matt Are Very Mountainous, With Snow-Capped Peake and Dan. geroué ‘Goreen, Zermatt, Switzerland—The regions between Ghomonix and Zermatt are largely of slate and very mountainous, with snow-capped distant helghts and fearful gorges. through which turbu- lent’ mountain’ torrents roared. ‘The train runs deep beside steep slopes cov- ered with a wilderness of pines and hazel bushes, and the elder with its gorgeous masses of blood-red berries flaming out from the green depths of tho uneteared, ancient forests which shelter it. Gigantic mossy boulders re- pored ander the generous out. stretched boughs of the evergreens. and St required no effort of the eager faney to imagine small gray men, clad in the brown garb of their race, sent: ed, musing, on those rocks, in the heart-of the mountain solitude. From such scenery we made a steep and slow descent, into the wide, green valley of the Rhone. It lay far be- neath us, completely visible during our winding progress downward; talr and broad, with rows of stately Lom- bardy poplars, flelds of waving green asparagus and the soft, bending wil- lows, nestling each to each, along the banks of the sauntering river. From Viege, otherwise known as Visp, to Zermatt, the scenery changed once more, growing: wilder and far more grandly beautiful, ft seemed to me. than any landscape we had seen, even tn Switzerland. ‘The mountains be- came walls that shut us away from the rest of the world, untll we could feel the very presence of the Soul of Loneliness brooding there. We passed through gorges similar’ to those among the Rocky” mountains and strangely dissimilar to the smoother slopes and green valleys to whom we had grown accustomed in this land. Among some exceedingly wild por- tions of the region we were penetrat- ing there were lonesome-looking, appal- Ungly primitive chalets, . or rather wretched hovels, blackened by the Weather, and frequently built against some mighty rock, which had rolled down the mountainside and which, seen across the gorge, among numer- ous other rocks of varying bulk, looked Ike a pebble with a curious barnacle attached to it. ‘The dwellers in these huts appeared as rugged and wild as their environments, with which they must wage fearful wars, struggling to wrest a livelihood trom such barren, eruel nature. T cannot help wondering, as I recollect their dreary habitations and isolated state. what can be their View of life-contend- re EE, ak ee es bo A Fe ce ae Oe a ge ee Per ee Sea Percent i. SA an Be aio Be pea Oy, Saeed Pala, Skt y Bees tee , i bite Sti SbF Usage ajo | ed Se ne eae re, ee eo aN ees Se Typical Swiss Chalet. tng that. as human beings. they pos: sess. some glimmerings of the light of Hope and faith and charity, some faint occasional promptings of ambition, or blind yearnings toward wider hort- zons and other worlds. Yet they live In the midst of an awful wilderness, almost in the manner of the cliff dwellers, born and reared and buried on the mountain slopes; in poverty, th solitude, In ignorance; clinging like blind sucklings of a wild beast, to the bosom of their Mother Earth. / FINDS HER RUNAWAY SPOUSE ‘Then Mrs, Harmes Baba Has Him Ar rested on Charge of Wife and Child Abandonment, Chicago—A seven-year country-wide isearch, financed by an inheritance, ‘ended succesfully when Mrs, Harmes Baba caused the arrest of her husband on a charge of wife and child aban. donment. He was taken into custody in bis restaurant at 631 Wells street by detectives of the Chleago avenue station, Mrs. Baba told the police that her husband deserted hor seven years ago. A month later sho inherited a legacy from an aunt and used the money to search for Baba. She traced him to various towns throughout the country, and a month ago learned that he was in Chicago. She found bim recent. ly and caused bis arrest. ‘The Babas are Persians, Hot Water Forgotten, Springfield, Nass. — Springflle’s $2,000,000 city hall, which boasts of a 300 foot tower that overlooks any oth- er structuré in New England, has no hot water connections. ‘This monu- mental blunder was not discovered un: til a few days ago. The city bas its cholce of tearing’ open the massive walls at great expense or of running the pipes on the outside of the build: ing, sadly disfiguring the architecture. Girl Tried to Enfist as Marine. Denver, Colo—A desire to be with her sweetheart, whose name she re fused to reveal and who was sent to Cuba with the United States marines, Jed Alice Stecker to crop her hair, don men’s clothing and apply at the re- eruting station for service. When the ‘officer, announced the extent of the physica}. examingtton.Allce backed down and Soe Sega Nea | BEAUTIFUL MOUNT GLENWOOD | CEMETERY | 0 Ch Rie op 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 invest- ment. A Cemetery that invites you all to go out and see for yourself, Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association Phones Douglas 8574 Automatic 71-886 Open Evenings, 7 to 9 3125 State Street Bonus Thompson Hardware Co. DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE We do roofing, guttering and all kinds of tin work. Stoves and furnace repairing especially. Phone 3059 Evanston 1910 W. Railroad Ave. Evanston, IIL. $$ $$ ee . Ing back with them. However, it wi be perfectly proper to send it to th Oo bride before the wedding if you pre ,\ | ter. Send Self-Addressed Stamped En- velope. aii I find your department very holt . ful. T would lke to know of a boo ot nice parlor games that could played at house parties for boys an sirls, ; A Constant Reader. TE ee — PN w Al Hid ai { RAEI | mere are several books of game Hae eae | LS and amusements intended to hel ¢ i ~ those who entertain but who havo li y F Ly Ti werke ‘|| tle time or thought to give to the ma Bp AE poet io ter. Just send me a self-addresse Lhe, = <1 ‘envelope in care of the paper (stam| ed) and Twill send you the names az From a Mere Man. piles of three or flrs s== = Will you kindly advise me the du- tles of the “best man” at a home wed- Ging? Tam to wear a drese suit, Will) 59" t© Send With Flowers, {ip Sateith secemmories thatiee Se write on a card to send with flower ‘The best man is supposed to be the moral support and adviser of the bridgegroom: he sees to the details, Such as having the necessary creden- tials at hand required by the state and clersyman, pays the latter, stands by the bridgegroom and enters with him; he takes the maid of honor Gt there is one) under his especial protection after the ceremony. In fact, he Is supposed to be the official think- er for the bridgegroom. Pearl studs and cuff links, a white bow tie, white Kid gloves and white waistcoat, with patent leather pumps, go with full evening dress, The Proper Thina to Do. Being in doubt I come to your help- ful department for information. Is it necessary to write anything upon the card that fa sent with a wedding gift? If s0, what? Must an Invitation to a wedding be acknowledged? AG It 45 not necessary to say anything on the card, on the other hand, it is perfectly proper to do so. The words “Sincere good wishes” or “Hearty con- gratulations” seem to bring the donor, into closer touch with the recipient, but as with all things, this is 8 mat- ter of personal feeling, Dame Curt- sey has sald time and again that an inyitation to a home wedding demand- ed an immediate “acceptance” or “re- gret” the same as for any social func- tion at a home. A wedding at the church does not require a reply. Fift for a Man. Will you name a few articles that a young Woman may with propriety give to a man who fs about to leave for # distant city to study law? ‘Sweet Sixteen, ‘Tt 1s supposed that the man in ques- tion will have a “den” of some de- scription and there are a; number of things to provide which are useful as ‘well as ornamental, For instance, 2 bronze incense burner to hold cigar ashes, a stunning metal desk set, a brass candlestick with a bayberry can- dle, a metal letter holder, book ends of wood or metal, a framed sentiment, ete. In fact, there 16 almost no limit to acceptable objects outside of the ever-present pillow, of which, Itke tea- spoons for a girl, “there can never be too many.” Where to Send the Present. I have received so much help by reading your page that I come to you now. My brother will marry in the fall, a6 he will go-to our home and I am not able to go to the wedding shall I send the present home or give it to them ‘when they pe back to the elty’ ~ Engle. Seems to’ me de long ai the bridal souvle aro to make. thelr home tn the same town'that I would walt and. give them your gift when they arrive,’ Sit ‘will’ save ‘them packing it and ing back with them. However, it will be perfectly proper to send it to the bride before the wedding if you pre- fer. Send Self-Addressed Stamped En- velope. I find your department very help- ful. I would like to know of a book ef nice parlor games that could bo played at house parties for boys and ‘cite, = A Constant Reader. ‘There are several books of games and amusements intended to help those who entertain but who havo lit- tle time or thought to give to the mat- ter. Just send me a self-addressed ‘envelope in care of the paper (stamp- ed) and I will send you the names and prices of three or fir: ---—-——-—- Card to Send With Flowers. Will you please tell_mo what to write on a card to send with flowers when a death occurs? ‘Anxious to Know. Your card if sent from the florist with the flowers which you order by telephone or mal need have nothing upor ft beside your name, but if you wish you may send a card which has penciled upon iy “With deep sympa- thy” or “Accept our sincere sympathy in this your great sorrow.” = Reply E. L. 0. \ A girl only twelve years old 1s en- tirely top young to have a beau or go to dances. Perhaps young people think I am too strict, but remember I have been over the road and know and a girl loses all her freshness and attractiveness by going out when sbe should be tz bed by eight o'clock. . MME. MERI. HAD LAID AWAY THE BANJO . a Old Darky Found His Talents Brought Him Into Grave Danger, and He Fled. | Senator John Sharp Williams tells of 'a “character” in a southern state Known as “the best banjo player any- where” It followed, therefore, that when a lady in the town whereof this instrumentalist is a resident wished to show some northern visitors just what a. genuine old darky could do with a banjo she called at Uncle Henry's lit- tle cabin and stated her wishes to bis wife, “T ts very sorry, missy,” sald tho wife, “but Henry he ain't playin’ de banjo any mo’.” She then indicated the spot where the instrument lay, covered with dust. “He jes’ puts in all his time fishin’ now.” “What led him to give up his play- ing?” asked the visitor. “Has he got religion?” “No, missy, dat wuthless nigger ain't got no religiop. No, missy; he's done got skeered.” “Scared? Of what?” “By dat minstrel show, honey. De boss of dat show he hearn de olg.man playin’, an’ he offers him a stidy job doin’ it. Yassum, an’ it ekeered Hen- ry so bad dat he quit banjo playin’ ‘right away.” Se SS | “The whale,” says @ naturalist, “will soon be extinct.” But why blibber Jabout st? | i Sometimes the exception proves the | rule, but it is generally the unexpect- ‘ed which happens, % A beauty doctor says aor the face 1s good for the complexion. She may prefer'freckles, Aviators” have, discovered the trouble with the pockets ‘~ that they have’holes ~"* poronation, is.me abite fauna? ment is very strong in the disct against hanging a woman and it is thought the President will yield to the popular voice and commute Mrs. Lomax's sentence to life imprisonment. She is a colored woman. Chairman Charles D. Hilles of the Republican National committee is getting his organization into shape and will be prepared at an early date to make some announcements of interest to the colored workers. The Negro "spellbinders" will be in evidence on the stump and an aggressive press bureau will carry on a campaign of education through the colored newspapers. Mrs. M. A. White, mother of former Congressman George H. White, died last Saturday at her residence, 1315 Girard street, northeast. Funeral services were held at the home on Sunday, after which the remains were taken to Clarkton, N. C., for interment. During the course of his speech last Thursday evening before the mass meeting of the National Civil and Political league, Senator W. O. Bradley of Kentucky exhibited a solid gold watch, presented to him by his colored friends while he was governor of Kentucky. He told his hearers he valued the gift so highly that he never parted with it and when he died he would ask his son to wear it as a memento of the sacred sentiment it represented—the gratitude of an oppressed people he had delighted to serve. Senator Bradley is a Republican of the old school and is one of the few men in Congress who are proud to be known as friends of the Negro race. President S. L. Corrothers of the National Civil and Political league is taking steps to effect branch organizations in all of the states in which the Negro vote is a factor. A campaign committee, one member from each state, will be appointed this week and the work of getting the rethren into line will be begun in arrest. At its national convention are last week the league went on record for Taft and Sherman and it will continue to impress upon the col- lorers the importance of stand- regular nominees of the seceding members of the Avenue Baptist church are long for the purchase of the Memorial Presbyterian church corner of Florida avenue and street, a neighborhood now exclusively colored. The whites running to go further up town, new church will be known as Florida Avenue Baptist church may call Rev. J. A. Taylor of port News, Va., as its pastor. Theont Avenue Baptist Church was a famous under the pastorate of late Rev. George W. Lee, a rian remarkable personality. Dr. S. G. Atkins, secretary of the ecational department of the A. M. Zilon church, may remove his headarters from Winston-Salem, N. C., this city. The local branch of the National gro Business league was reorganized under flattering auspices last day evening; holding a largely attended meeting at the Y. M. C. A.ilding. Hon. John C. Dancy preed and Hon. J. C. Napier, register the treasury, delivered an inspirational on "The Negro in Business," pointing to the great good that great effort could bring to the J people of the District. The s and purposes of the National gue were explained in happy fashion and as a result many new names are added to the membership roll. An earnest effort will be made to bring the next meeting the National league to Washington, and a formal invitation from the local Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, District Commissioners and others will be presented at the Chicago meeting next month. Delegates will be elected at the next meeting, the second Monday night in August. It is expected that a goodly delegation will go from this city. The officers elected and appointed for the ensuing year were as follows: President, Daniel Freeman; vice president, A. H. Underdown; secretary, Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman; corresponding secretary, B. T. Montague; treasurer, Dr. G. W. Cubaniss; chaplain, John W. Lewis; marshal, Miss Georgia A. Coleman; chairman of executive committee, W. F. Denny; members of executive committee, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Mrs. Jeannette Davis, A. N. Surlock, J. G. Montgomers, I. E. Williams and Dr. Harriet Thomas. The success of the movement to revive the local league is due in the largest measure to the systematic and untiring efforts of the secretary, Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman. In all probability she will be chosen as the special representative of the organization at Chicago. Encouraging reports come to us from Chicago touching the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Press association. The Chicago Press association, under the leadership of Cary B. Lewis, is making arrangements to handle the condition in fine style and the "great hand" will be extended to all representatives of the "fourth State" who come their way. T. Press association has been the innocent object of much abuse at the hands of those who should be its best friends, but in spite of it all the organization approaches its fourth annual session with brighter prospects than ever before. The District will be represented by Dr. W. H. Davis, your humble servant, and others. Drs. A. M. Courtis and G. W. Cabaniss are making arrangements for the transportation to Tuskegee, Ala., of the delegates who will represent the local medical fraternity at the annual session of the National Medical association, which sits August 27, 28 and 29. S. H. Dudley returned to the city a few days ago, well pleased with the substantial progress made in his efforts to establish a national circuit colored vaudeville performers. He has added several more high class tasters to his chain and will shortly make his invasion of the west, with a view of forming an unbroken chain from New York to Kansas City. His Washington theater has gone so well that negotiations are pending for the purchase of the building and lot adjoinning the present structure on U street. The plan is to make the two into one, thus doubling the capacity, and allowing for a stage that will accommodate any regular road show. The location is ideal and a theater seating 600 people would make a tremendous hit. It is, at yet, undecided whether Mr. Dudley will go out this year with his "Smart Set" company. Unless he and Barton and Wiswell, his New York manager, reach a satisfactory adjustment of certain differences, the coming season may see the great comedian, minus his cork, in the congenial role of producing manager, working solely on his own hook. Blanche Deas is taking repeated success nightly at the New Howard and the attendance is fine. Manager Thomas is making splendid headway in organizing the stock company to buy the house from the Baltimore owners. Miss Florine May Tyson, the affable charge d'affairs at the Howard theater box office, is off for the northwest for a fortnight's vacation, the first she has taken in two years. The fiscal year 1912 established a new record in the office of the recorder of deeds, now under the painstaking administration of Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia. There were filed in the twelve month closes July 1. 26,138 papers, being an 2 over the number rescaled year 1911. That record in the his- Napler went to week to address under the state of newly in it. Prof. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, until recently 'connected with Howard university, was married a few evenings ago to Miss Hilda Prowd, daughter of Rev. H. D. Prowd. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. Milton Waldron at the pastoral residence, 1334 V street. Prof. Brawley is to take a chair at the Atlanta Baptist college. Harris and Turner, Mme. Eva C. La Rue and Bessie Brown constitute the excellent bill at the Dudley this week. G. A. Sheehy of Jacksonville, Fla., was in the city last week. Mrs. F. D. McCracken (nee Godet) left Thursday for her home in St. Paul, Minn. Mr. McCracken, who is secretary to Representative F. C. Stevens, remained here until the close of the congressional session. Both will return in December. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson will spend the month of August at Delaware City, Del. Mrs. Sallie Robinson of Indianapolis, Ind., stopped over with Mrs. Jas. E. Buckner en route to the Woman's Federation at Hampton Institute. (Continued from Page 1.) to make the same offer to any city in the United States that would raise an amount equal to the amount that they would need for a building in Chicago. They were much delighted with this and it pleased me more than anything else in connection with it, as that what you have done has once more proven to me the wonderful power of example. You started out to raise money enough to entitle you to this building, or at least subscribed money enough. What was the result of that example that you set? The result was that six other cities have already followed your example. This is a thing that I like to dwell upon because I think there is nothing stronger and nothing that we ought to think about more than the example that we set, and every man and woman and child has that duty to perform, to mind their actions to the extent that their action and the extent that ought to be followed and not one which they would be ashamed about if it were followed. For that reason, I am more delighted than ever that these other cities have taken it up and followed your example, and I hope that it won't be long before we will have instead of six, six times six. Now I want to congratulate you upon this wonderful showing that you have made in demonstrating that you are interested. This is certainly an evidence that there is interest in this cause and it can't help but be a tremendous success. What more you must do is to set the example of paying your subscriptions. Every man that has subscribed to this wants to bear in mind that his paying his subscription is an example for somebody else and in that way you will continue that thing that I speak of, setting an example that you want other people to follow. So I hope that it won't be long before the great majority of these payments are completed, and you can't do yourselves any greater service nor be prouder of a step that you will take than you will in making good your pledge toward this building fund. I am going to ask you to excuse me, after I have finished, and I beg the other speakers' pardons, for I am compelled to leave. I came into the city to speak here and I have to be back again where I came from tonight. I want to thank you for the privilege of being present on this occasion and congratulate you that you have shown such a tremendous interest in the laying of the cornerstone of this building. Then followed more singing by the Glee Club. Mr. N. W. Harris, head of the banking firm of that name and down on the program as the next speaker, was unable to attend. Dr. Hall read a cheering telegram from him and one from Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick. Both of these gentlemen donated $25,000 to the work. In his place he introduced Rev. Harris, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist church, who made an inspiring talk. Mr. Wm. P. Sidley, president of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, was the next speaker. His address was as follows: Mr. Chariman, ladies and gentlemen: I bring you today the greetings and the congratulations of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, and I assure you that the Association is watching the progress of this new building with an interest which is as deep and as genuine as any which you yourselves can possibly feel. The erection of this building is a distinct forward step in this history of the Chicago Association. And it means far more to the Association than you perhaps realize. For years, and until this work among the colored people of Chicago was definitely under way, the Chicago association ruled under the charge it despite its broad title, despite fact it claimed to be an as Mr. S. Wilbur Messer, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, then displayed the contents for the cornerstone box as follows: List of paid contributors toward building fund. Names of campaign fund teams. Names of executive committee. Copy of the Bible. List of churches for colored people in Chicago. Copy of program. Names of contractors and architects. Copies of Official Bulletins of The Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, with articles on the development of the department. A copy of the Taft meeting at Quinn Chapel church, Oct. 29, 1911, and the two congratulatory telegrams. The cornerstone was then laid by Prince Hall Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. Masons. Mr. James E. Bish conducted this part of the service, acting for the worthy grand master. Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor Ebenezer Baptist church, was chaplain of the service and Mr. R. E. Moore made appropriate remarks. Genuine Belgian Charity. Gentleme Belgian Charity. Around a hut where, according to tradition, a young Irish princess was murdered, grew up the present town of Gheel, in Belgium, which became known as "the colony of the crazed." At first a temple in memory of the princess was erected and later it became a refuge for the "sick in mind." The remarkable thing about this Belgian town is that the residents accept patients in their own homes so that they may enjoy the beneficial effects of domestic and social intercourse. Religious Work in United States. Actively engaged in the work of saving souls in the United States a 146 distinct denominations. This do not include the followers of Confuc Buddha, Mohammed, Shintoism other sects in the field long Christianity got a foothold in world. This Registering to our Savings Dep you saving and kec Savings Account is wealth. 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