Chicago Defender
Saturday, November 9, 1912
Chicago, Illinois
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MOTHER AT FIFTEEN, NOVEMBER 30TH
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VOLUME VII. NUMBER 45.
MOTHER
IS FATE OF LIT
McFERRIN;
White Brute Who Seduced 15-Year-Old G
Hospital to Receive the Severest Pur
Trial Takes Place November 18th—W
from the Ravages of "the White Plague
Special Counsel Is Appointed for the
Will Secure Every Right for His Charg
FATHER A WANDERER—NEAR
Present Condition of Child Due to Neglect
ered Unreliable and Juvenile Court To
Placed in the Custody of Mrs. Nancy S
This Week—Taken to Hospital When
Other Patients Love Her—Reporter
mother, Who Shows Him Pathetic Lett
No Appomattox Meeting Called for This Un
IS FATE OF LITTLE MATOR McFERRIN; PEOPLE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR HER
White Brute Who Seduced 15-Year-Old Girl in the Cook County Hospital tq Receive the Severest Punishment of the Law—Trial Takes Place November 18th—White Monster, Suffering from the Ravages of "the White Plague," Is in Durance Vile—Special Counsel Is Appointed for the Child—Judge Pinkney Will Secure Every Right for His Charge.
FATHER A WANDERER—NEAR KIN NEGLECTFUL.
Present Condition of Child Due to Neglect—Mother Was Considered Unreliable and Juvenile Court Took Possession of Girl—Placed in the Custody of Mrs. Nancy Smith, Who Visits Her This Week—Taken to Hospital When Eleven Years Old—Other Patients Love Her—Reporter Interviews Her Grandmother, Who Shows Him Pathetic Letter—The Letter.
No Appomattox Meeting Called for This Unfortunate Little Girl.
some are by your side, some are miles away. We are men and women that have sisters under your care; you let us put away all thought of self; you let us put away all thought of rescue, who is only a child so seventeen years old with no mother, no father, no brother, no sister, no friend, no siblings, miles away. Perhaps she is not able to help herself, much less helping her. Let us as a race come together, shelter and protect this child as a race should. We are men and women with a whole side of the white papers would be full of it. Now I am surprised at our success in leading men and women making such great demonstration over Jack Johnson's leading men and women making such great demonstration over Jack Johnson's than the Jack Johnson affair. The young woman in the Jack Johnson case is of the same age as the friends and her race is standing by her.
Miss Mater McCerrin has no mother in her life, but she kept this unfortunate girl from being railroaded down to Mississippi to hide her perpetrated in Cook County Hospital. Let us hope and piny that we will all give her the support of this poor girl and to prosecute that white brute to the full extent of her wrongdoing. dollars roll in and those that can give more let them do so. It is not bread water, waters or seed thrown on stony ground.
I for one will give one dollar for this cause. Yours sincerely,
St. Charles, IL, uni. of
Warden Bailey Press, Reporter
from Tampa, Picture
A reporter had gone to the hospital to interview Dr. Teter, the physician in charge, and to obtain from him information concerning the girl's life while under his care and to get a picture of her, knowing they had allowed daily newspapers to do so. But upon arriving at the eminent gentleman's office the doctor had just stepped out. A courteous assistant quickly directed the reporter to a chair, informing him the doctor would soon return. He was right and he seemed ready for battle, as, when he learned the nature of the reporter's mission, his countenance was fiery. His voice had been raised to a point of attracting the attention of others, and no doubt frightening some of them, but not the reporter. His innate refinement finally demanded that he calm himself, and he left the newspaper man with Warden Bailey. By this time, of course, Warden Bailey knew as much about the matter as anyone else, but seemed more good-natured than the former gentleman. These are his remarks:
"We have the girl under our care and are doing everything possible for her good. I positively refuse to allow anyone to take a picture of her while she is here, and if I have anything to say. You people certainly cannot have her interest at heart by wanting to publish a picture of her which will cause a lot of cheap noisety. This girl has already had enough of that. Now, suppose she were your sister, would you want her picture displayed in the newspaper? I do not take this stand because of race, creed or color, for all men are the same to me and I have many friends belonging to your race. It has been reported she is an unfortunate without a friend in the world except Judge Pinkney, who brought to light the girl's condition, but it was I who stopped such proceedings as may have caused the railroading of the girl to the south. You people of her race do not think of what life will be to her when she goes out to face the world again after seeing the pictures you have published of her. If she is willing, and those who may have charge of her after she leaves here are willing, you may get her picture, but not inside of this institution." The reporter, upon bidding Warden Bailey good-day, was extended by him an invitation to visit Mator at any reasonable time.
Friends Tell of Her Mother.
"No matter what has been said of Jesse McFerrin, Mator's mother, she was an honest, hard-working woman, but always kept to herself. She came to room at my sister, Nancy Smith's home, some years ago, when our ac-
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A Fearless HONEST CHAMPION of the People
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The Mator McFerrin Relief Fund.
Mrs. Fannie Coleman (Nelson,
B. C.) ..... $5.00
Employees, Hayes Hotel (64th
and Lexington Ave.) ..... 1.61
Mr. J. H. Ballard (501 E. 36th
St.) ..... 1.00
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Justice for little Mator McFerrin, the child that was seduced by a white gentleman in the Cook county hospital, is the wish of the people; the culprit, Frank Chaplin, will be brought to trial November 18th. That she is a victim of neglect is proven by the fact that reporters for the Chicago Defender have learned that she has relatives living—two of them in this city. Mator, whose condition was told in the two preceding numbers of the Chicago Defender, was interviewed last Tuesday afternoon and was informed of the numerous churches and clubs who are working in her behalf, taking up collections to aid her now and after she leaves the hospital. Mrs. Nancy Smith, a former friend, and her sister, Mrs. Sarah Reed, were and taken to take by Mator by a reporter, who witnessed the happy reunion of former custodians and their ward. They clung affectionately to each other and chatted together for an hour. The scene was like that of parents and their prodigal child.
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Mator told of her sister, Mrs. Maude Evans, now living in Corinth, Miss, from whom she has received an occasional letter. Her father, whose name is McAdoo, is living in Chicago, but could not be found. During her stay at the hospital her life, according to her statement, has been comfortable and happy as it could be in that kind of place.
Loved by Other Patients.
Not one inmate but has a kind word to say of her, in fact, she is held as a favorite by them. Her grandmother, Mrs. A. Cox, was seen at her home Tuesday night and told of how the child had been handed from place to place and how she and her daughter-in-law had lost trace of Mator until they saw her picture in the newspapers. It was learned of Mrs. A. Cox that the girl's mother married Mator's father at some point near Corinth, Miss, where Mator was born, later they came to Chicago and she married Mr. McFerrin, from whom she separated to move about from one place to another and finally to die, as she did in the Cook county, hospital. Mrs. McFerrin, A. A. Cox's daughter-in-law, told of how one Mr. Birch of the Juvenile home had came to see them for the purpose of having Mrs. Cox swear to a statement that she knew Mator's exact age, but she refused to do so. Mr. Birch then appealed to Mrs. McFerrin's husband, who too refused, because he knew nothing of the child till she was brought to Harvey by her mother. Mr. Birch, in none too good a humor, beat a hasty retreat. Mrs. Cox claims she has been interested in Mator ever since she has known her, though the girl is merely a step-grandchild. A pathetic letter was handed the reporter by Mrs. McFerrin, which is, as follows:
Mator's Letter to Her Grandmother.
7-26-12.
My dear gram-mat:
I want to hear from you and hope to see you soon. I am quite well at present. I haven't anyone to come and meet you, or someone to come and send someone. I am so loneless. It made me feel good to think I am going to meet you. I have almost two years and I tell you it is hard. I suppose you know that mother did not see her. Some time ago on a Sunday there was a telephone from some place where I would come but he never showed up. I hope this message will be true. How did you know that I would come and see my picture in the Tribune, as we had them taken last week. Well, this is what I say when I see you. With love, I remain.
Mr. J. H. Ballard Appeals for Aid for Little Mator.
To 'the' readers of 'this paper, to the
mothers and fathers that have daughters.
The Chicago Defender.
Weak Subterfuge.
CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1912.
CARY B. LEWIS' FINE WORK FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Col. Henry Watterson, the Oracle of the Party, Praleses His Work and Tells Why the Race Voters Should Support His Party.
The Democratic party has been victorious. The victory marks a sweeping change of public sentiment. In this election the Negro played no important part in bringing the plurality to its present figure. In this work there were certain measures to be established and methods to be gone over that would bring home to the Negro the true attitude of the Democratic party with respect to him and his.
In this work of enlightenment, one man of the west stood out pre-eminently—Cary B. Lewis, formerly of Louisville. Under James A. Ross of Buffalo he was given charge of the publicity department because of the exceptional showing he had made on the Louisville Courier-Journal. His splendid training was reflected in every article which came from his pen during the campaign.
So clever was his work that after the special edition of the National Conservator of New York was published, Col. Henry Watterson of the Courier-Journal, the oracle of the Democratic party, took occasion not to mention in an editorial the department of which Mr. Lewis was head, but wrote a column editorial upon the Negro and the effect of the division of his vote. Not only did Mr. Lewis send out matter to various white and colored newspapers but mailed and expressed literature bearing on the division of the Negro vote to every state in the west.
It was noticed that Mr. Lewis conducted a campaign not of vituperation or abuse but of facts and conditions bearing up on the issues and in filling the position has lost no friend but gained many.
Since his three years residence in this city his activities have been especially directed toward newspaper work. Under his editorial management the Illinois Chronicle gained a wide circulation and became a paper of power and prominence.
His real worth was publicly shown when he successfully managed Madam E. Azella Hackley's concert at Orchestra Hall last October. His journalistic ability has been shown by doing the work for the Supreme Lodge of the K. of P. and the B. M. C. of the Odd Fellows.
As chairman of the western end of the publicity department of the Democratic party, he was a distinct success and a credit to all. He will most likely be urged by his friends for a political position for the services he rendered the party in Kentucky and Illinois. Already his friends in Washington have requested his presence at the Wilson-Marshall inauguration in March.
ABDUL-BAHA COMING
TO THE CAPITAL
Washington, D. C., Nov. 8 (special).
—Abdul Baha, the founder and chief exponent of the Bahai sect of religionists, is to pay this city another visit soon, coming on from Chicago. The local arrangements, as far as the colored adherents are concerned, are in the hands of Mr. L. G. Gregory. No color line is drawn, but Mr. Gregory will see to it that the colored brethren are kept informed of the meetings and ceremonies. Prof. and Mrs. G. W. Cook, of Howard University, Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke and Assistant Registrar C. F. Adams are enthusiastic believers in the cult, along with Mr. Gregory and many others of like prominence, and are of the opinion that the spirit of Bahaism will go far toward solving the race problem in this country, by obliterating it through the spread of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
MME. E. AZALIA HACKLE
SINGS.MONDAY.NIGHT
Washington, D. C., Nov. 8 (Special).
—Mme. E. Azala Hackley, the famous prima donna soprano, will present her classic song recital and demonstration in voice culture Monday evening, Nov. 11, at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. The affair will be under the management of Mr. R. G. Doggett, who has achieved remarkable success in handling high-class musical stars. Mme. Hackley is popular here, and it goes without the saying that she will be greeted with a magnificent audience of the best people of the nation's capital.
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others thrust themselves upon it.
WOODROW WILSON
PRAISES WORK OF
BISHOP WALTERS
Congratulates the Race for Their
Support During the Campaign—
Thomas Wallace Swann's Splendid
Work.
Bishop Alexander Walters, president of the National Negro Democratic league, has received a telegram from President-Elect Woodrow Wilson stating that the Governor is deeply grateful to Bishop Walters for his
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great victory as to any leader in the cause. Bishop Walters is one of Gov. Wilson's close advisers and his will be a large voice in governmental affairs during the next four years. Colored men may have no apprehension with respect to any assaults that Bourbon Democrats may unthinkingly make upon their rights, for Gov. Wilson will constantly turn to Bishop Walters for advice and counsel, and Bishop Walters and Booker Washington are close friends, which means that the race is still united above the stress and storm of politics. J. Wallace Swann, chief of the publicity department of the Democratic party, is greatly pleased with the way in which Negroes all over the country divided their vote, especially in Chicago, where he delivered an address appealing to members of his race to vote for Wilson and Dunne.
DISOBEDIENCE CAUSES
TROUBLE AT SCHOOL
A Former Pupil and His Companion Have an Exciting Time at Wendell Phillips High School.
Two boys—William Driver and Julian Black—were visiting on Thursday of last week in Wendell Phillips High School. The former was an ex member of the school and the latter his companion. These boys, in spite of the fact that they knew the penalty if caught visiting without permission, committed this offense.
Julian Black was caught when he attempted to escape from the building and was warned by Supt. Perrine, in the presence of many colored and white students, to keep away from the school in the future.
One of the white students who was present at the time sent in a report to the Tribune which had no true foundation, but on Friday morning a story appeared in the Tribune headed, "A Race War at Wendell Phillips. This article went on to say that "Leo Stevens" (never heard of) insulted a white girl and that white boys took it up and a riot followed, with the colored boy getting the worst of it. As a Defender reporter was upon the scene we know positively that this report was unfounded.
A STUDENT.
PYTHIANS LOOK
"SCRUMPTIOUS"
Four Lodges Drill for Inspection in the True Reformers' Hall—Uniform Rank Spick and Span. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Washington, D. C., Nov. 8.—The four lodges constituting the Columbian Commandery, Knights of Pythias, held an inspection drill and reception last night at the armory of the District National Guard in the True Reformers' hall. Major George A. Galanes was in command of the battalion and Lieut. R. B. Bruce was adjutant. Capt. Richardson was in charge of the company representing Charles Sumner Lodge No. 1; Capt. Davis led Garnett Lodge No. 2; Capt. Murray commanded S. W. Starks Lodge No. 9, and Capt. A. H. Matthews directed Paul Laurence Dunbar Lodge No. 4. The uniforms and accoutrements of the various companies were in "apple pleer order" and they certainly "looked scrumptious," as one spectator facetiously put it. Following the inspection and drill a handsome, collation was served, in which the gallant Knights and their Ladies, and invited guests took part.
B. F. MOSELEY A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR OF ILL.
Eminent Attorney the First of the Race to Be Honored—In Exercising the Highest Prerogative of an Elector, That Is, Voting for the Man I Believe Best Fitted to Serve the People as President, Mr. Moseley Says, I Will Cast My Vote for Theodore Roosevelt.
SINCERITY OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY
Friends Are Jubilant Over Signal Honor—The Chicago Defender Interviews the Progressive Leader, Who Tells in Detail of the Value and Service of the New Party—Like the Defeated Organizer, He Says That His Party is Built Upon a Firm Foundation.
Hon. Beauregard F. Moseley has been elected a Presidential elector, Mr. Moseley is the first man of the race to be so honored. As the leader of the Bull Moose party in Illinois he did splendid service for Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, whom he says is the best fitted man alive to rule the American people. When seen at his office by a Chicago Defender reporter the elector-at-large said:
"Taking the latest returns to be correct, I am, by the vote of a majority of the four million electors of Illinois, entitled to convene with twenty-eight ollers at such place as the Governor may designate, Monday, Jan. 13, 1913, and exercise the highest prerogative of an elector, by voting for the man I believe to be best fitted to serve the people of this, my country, as its President for four years commencing March 4 next.
"This honor, coming just ninety days after the formation and birth of the new or Progressive party, and as a result of its first or initial act in its comprehensive, clean and clear-cut program for social justice toward all men, and that, too, in the face of an ill record made by the Republican party and the Democratic party for the past fifty years, the former the recipient for forty-two years of the vote and support of my people, and the latter its erst-while friend; with no precedent to follow or hope of reward to accrue, except a furtherance of its program, social justice, convinces me that the thinking men and women of the world will not longer hesitate to admit the sincerity, value and service the Progressive party can, and will be in the future to mankind, under the leadership of one whose religion is to labor fraternally to build up the unity of the human family, and that one is and shall be my choice for President, Theodore Roosevelt."
Surgeon-General Says Members of the Race In the Army Are Seldom Sick.
(Special to the Chicago Defender.)
Washington, D. C., Nov. 8.—The soldiers of the colored race endure the hardships of army life with less loss of time from active duty than the white enlisted man, according to the annual report of Surgeon-General George H. Torney of the War Department. The non-effective, or sickrate, of the colored soldier was 25.88, while that of the white soldier was 33.60. The report likewise showed that the white troops required the highest average number of days' treatment for each case of disability.
The experiment of having men enlist for seven years is being watched by those interested in army affairs. The rule is that each enlisted man is to enlist for seven years, with four years of actual service, and at the end of this time his name is to remain on the list for three more years, subject to the call to arms at any moment. Quite a number of colored men are enlisting to recruit the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry.
HUGH HOSKINS, JR. BREAKS ARM.
Pushmobile Victim Near Home—Is Rapidly Recovering.
Master Hugh Hoskins, Jr., junior member of the firm of Hugh Hoskins, operating the Iowa Club at 3161 State street, was a pushmobile victim early this week. Young Hugh was enjoying himself near his home when his machine bucked and the popular youngster, was thrown so hard that his arm was broken. Prompt medical attention was given him and he was reported "improving rapidly" on Friday.
PRESIDENT-ELECT WILSON ENDORSED Y. M. C. A.
Wabash Avenue Branch Gives Out Letter Received in January, 1911.
There was a great deal of interest in the election at the Y. M. C. A. headquarters. The day following the election Assistant Secretary Pierce gave out the following statements: "It may be of interest to our subscribers to read the following words, which were received during our tenday campaign for subscriptions in January, 1911, from President-Elect Woodrow Wilson to Mr. L. Wilbur Messer: 'My Dear Mr. Messer: The offer of Mr. Julius Rosenwald to contribute $25,000 towards a building for Young Men's Christian Association to be devoted to the interest of colored men and boys in any city whose citizens should raise $75,000 for the same purpose, excites my deepest interest. It is certainly an admirable form of benevolence and should appeal to all those who have the true interest of the colored people at heart.
"Cordially yours,
"WOODROW WILSON."
Gov. Deneen, who subscribed liberally to the building fund, wrote: "I regard this as one of the most important steps you have taken in extending the influence of your association."
Hon. Martin B. Madden, who is also a contributor to our building fund, telegraphed: "I shall be glad to contribute to the construction of the new $\Omega$ M. C. A. building."
"President William H. Taft telegramed as follows: 'My Dear Mr. Messer: 'I sincerely hope that your movement toward the promotion of the Young Men's Christian Association in its service for colored men may have a successful issue. Nothing could be more useful to the race and to the country.'"
COL. ROSCOE SIMMONS OFF ON A TRIP SOUTH
Iinerary of the Brilliant Journalist and Lecturers—Will John Hon. Booker T. Washington in November at Mound Bayou for the Dedication of New Cotton Oil Mill.
Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, the journalist, left the city during the week on his annual lecture tour and journalistic travels. When not lecturing he will be busy gathering facts and figures for eastern publications with which he is associated. Enjoying a large fame as an orator he speaks everywhere to big crowds.
His season opens at Louisville, Ky., Sunday, and includes Nashville, Memphis, Helena, Ark., Vicksburg, Holly Springs, Jackson, Greenville and Indiana, Miss.; Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala.; Augusta, Macon and Savannah, Ga., and three weeks in North Carolina and Tidewater, Va.
On Nov. 25 Col. Simmons joins Booker T. Washington at Mound Bayou, Miss., where the great cotton oil mill, built under the direction of Charles Banks, is to be dedicated.
THIRD ANNUAL
ESSAY CONTEST
Bethel Literary Club Making Great Preparations for Popular Literary Guests at the Prizes.
Bethel Literary club is preparing for its third annual essay contest, which will take place Sunday afternoon, Dec. 15, at 4 o'clock, at Bethel A. M. E. church, 30th and Dearborn streets.
The subject is, "The Part Played by the Negro Soldier in the Wars of the World." The following clubs have been invited to take part: The University society, the Criterion club, Negro Fellowship league, Sons of Mississippi, Star Literary club, the Standard Literary club of Olivet Baptist church, the Standard Literary club of Bethesda Baptist church, the Tuskegee club, Bethel Literary club.
The prizes to be awarded are a diamond ring to the lady and gold watch and chain to the gentleman who write the best essays from every point of view.
The prizes are donated, as usual, by the popular jeweler, Mr. Louis Usselman.
ANITA PATTI BROWN RETURNS FROM COAST TRIP
Chicago's Famous, Song Bird Stops at
House for Few Days—Off Again for
the East and Thence to South
America.
Mme. Anita Patti Brown, Chicago's
famous song bird, returns home today
from a tour of recitals on the coast.
Her itinerary also included cities in
New Mexico, Kansas and Missouri,
ending in St. Louis where a rendition
of Hiwaina was given. The date for
this production was changed to meet
the convenience of the diva's return
to be the principal attraction. The
Mme. leaves again on the 15th instant
for New York, from whence she sails
in December for South America. En
route she will give recitals in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Springfield, Ohio, a matinee recital in Washington
at Howard University, two in
Philadelphia, one in a white Baptist
church and one in Jersey City.
PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE SAYS B. T. WASHINGTON
PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE SAYS B. T. WASHINGTON
Convict Labor Harmful to Whites Also—Justice Is Denied Race—White Lawyers and Judges All Admit That It Is Impossible for a Member of the Race to Get Justice When He Has a Case Against a White Man and All of the Members of the Jury Are White Men—Put Intelligent Men of the Race on the Jury.
IDEALS OF INJUSTICE
TEND TO ENSLAVE
THE CAUCASIAN
White Men Acting as Court Officers Who Can Not Render Absolute Justice on Account of Public Sentiment—Is Not Free—Injustice in the Courts Makes Slaves of Two Races in the South, the White and Black—"Put Yourself in the Other Fellow's Place," says Mr. Washington to White People of the South, "and See How Much Good it Will Do."
It would help mightily toward the higher civilization for both races if more white people would apply their religion to the Negro in their community and ask themselves how they would like to be treated if they were in the Negro's place, writes Booker T. Washington in the Century. For example, no white man in America would feel that he was being treated with justice if every time he had a case in court, whether civil or criminal, every member of the jury was of some other race.
Little Justice in the South.
Yet this is true of the Negro in nearly all of the southern states. There are few white lawyers or judges who will not admit privately that it is almost impossible for a Negro to get justice when he has a case against a white man and all three members of the jury are White. In these circumstances, when a Negro fails to receive justice the injury to him is temporary, but the injury to the character of the white man on the jury is permanent.
In Alabama 85 per cent of the convicts are Negroes. The official records show that last year Alabama had turned into its treasury $1,858,854 from the labor of its convicts. At least $500,000 of this came from Negro convicts, who were for the most part rented to the coal mining companies in the northern part of the state.
Convict Labor is Profitable.
The result of this policy has been to get as many able bodied convicts as possible into the mines, so that contractors might increase their profits. Alabama, of course, is not the only state that has yielded to the temptation to make money out of his man misery. The point is, however, that while $900,000 is turned into the state treasury from Negro convict labor, to say nothing of Negro taxes, there came out of the state treasury to pay Negro teachers, only $357,655.
I speak of this matter as much in the interest of the white man as of the black. Whenever and wherever the white man, acting as a court officer, feels that he cannot render absolute justice because of public sentiment, that white man is not free. Injustice in the courts makes slaves of two races in the south, the white and black.
A CAMP FIRE GIVEN BY
JOHN R. TANNER CAMP No. 11
The officers and members of the John R. Tanner Camp No. 11, U. S. W.-V., gave a camp fire last Monday evening at the Eighth Regiment armory. Past Commander Gaskly of McGrew Camp, Commander Arthur J. Ammudeen of Columbia Camp, and Commander R. M. Beauford of P'Grew Camp were among the visit officers present. Each delivered brief address. Refreshments served and the camp adjourned, ing spent a very enjoyable day.
IN MEMORIAM.
Yourself and friends are invited to attend memorial exercises for S. Coleridge Taylor, under the auspices of the Choral Study Club at the Institutional church, 3825 Deerborn street, Sunday, Nov. 10, 1912, at 3 p. m. Speakers, Chas. E. Bentley, Daniel Protheroe.
Speak In Love.
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. Only the lover's words are heard. The intellect should never speak. It does not utter aural sound—Thoreau.
The Chicago Encounter is Asked to Locate Brother and Sisters of Mr. Eugene Pugh, Who Was Born in Columbia, S. C.
This week a reporter for the Chicago Defender met Mr. Eugene Pugh, 1715 Armour avenue, second flat, who is blind. A short talk brought out the fact that he was a native of Columbia, S. C., and the son of one of its most highly respected families. Coming north he worked as a railroad employee and lost his sight as the result of a wreck, and that he was on his way to the Oak Park Infirmary, Chicago's haven for the poor. He is a nephew of Dr. Crum, former collector of the Port at Charleston, S. C. Among the relatives that he named and whom he knew were George a brother, when he last heard from him was living in Savannah, Ga., while Leonard lived in Chattanooga, Tenn. Albert, better known as Chauncey De Pugh, was last heard from in New York.
Any one knowing the address of his mother, Mrs. Georgiana Pugh, or of Ella, Ruth or Claudine, will kindly inform The Chicago Defender, Rev, M. G. Johnson of the same place, is earnestly sought by the fortunate boy. Southern newspapers please copy and promptly advise if there is any knowledge of the residence of the people mentioned. Once again we want to live up to our name and defend a worthy boy against misfortune.
PERSONAL MENTION
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch and Mr. Julius Rosenwald will speak at the Institutional Church, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
The Defender will not publish matter sent in on Friday morning.
Had our candidates spent a little money and had a marked ballot published in our own papers and sent the word down the line to save our men we might have had one in office today.
R. A. J. Shaw is wearing a broad smile these days over the advent of a fine eight-and-a-half-pound boy which arrived last week. Mother and son are doing fine, as patients of Provident Hospital.
A. A. Wells is spending a few days in the city, after being away for several weeks in the southern part of the state. Mr. Wells is expected to leave shortly on his annual hunting tour.
Lee Tobin is expected to leave for his case in Mobile, Ala., to stay for a few weeks very soon. Business is his reason for leaving at this time, especially when the time is so near at hand.
David Burris is expected to spend Thanksgiving in Indianapolis, Ind., this year. There is also a business phrase in his going as he recently fell heir to a lot of land in that section of the country.
Dr. Herbert Anderson is feeling rather chesty over the victory of the party at the recent election. Doctor says it's only pasttime with him to be "Dimocrat."
Will H. Clark usually takes things rather philosophically. Therefore, he is simply saying, "I told you so." Will says he will take a trip to West Baden, Ind., for a few days to recuperate.
James Miller, the tried and true, that is, as true as a man can be, where a Democrat is concerned nationally is moving among his fellow men with an air that is becoming to him and J. Ham Lewis. We hope James' dignity is national.
The Honorable J. Wallace Swain is the busiest man in town, that is with the exception of those who have a job to tell how he be it over. Don't be surprised to see our friend Swain in some diplomatic position.
There is some talk of a female minister show this winter by our leading young ladies for the benefit of the old folks home and Amanda Smith home. There will be something doing if such an affair is pulled off, and if the ladies can interest a certain gentleman to the extent of promoting the affair, there is no doubt but what it will be a go.
Mrs. Lizzie Johnson Smith of St. Paul, Minnesota, came to the city to attend the funeral of Mrs. R. C. Davis, which was held last Thursday, October 31st.
Mrs. Jennie Watson, of Minneapolis, Minn., passed through the city to Tuesday enroute to Columbus, Ohio, to visit relatives.
Mose White, who was in a wreck recently in California returned home and fortunately he did not receive any serious injuries and is again at work.
W. R. Sobers, our popular tailor, is expected to pay his home country a visit this winter. If he does not visit West Indies Island, he will go to Washington, or seaport.
Mr. W. T. Francis, who hold the position of Chief Clerk in the Legal Department of the Northern Pacific Railroad in St. Paul, Minn., has resigned and is now practicing law independently.
Joseph B. Crum is now making his home with his sister, Mrs. Jackson, 3723 Dearborn street. Joe says he love to stay, and his family will soon.
Julius N. Avendorph refused to anybody's badge save R. R. Robinson's on election day in his product. Julius is true to his people at all times, and three votes was his donation to his old friend Jackson. Mr. Lewis F. Phinney, Cairo, Ii. Grand Chief Mentor of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, attended the funeral of Officer Hatcher Thursday. Mrs. Hatcher is the Chief Preceptess of the order. Mrs. Pearl Harris of Windsor, Canada, sister of M. M. Murray, 3153 State street, who is on a visit here, entertained at Whist Wednesday night. The interesting game was followed by dancing. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. French of Par-6 Kansas, were in the city this bury her daughter, Mrs. An-aris. Mrs. J. A. Christian of sister and Chas. W. wton, a brother, also versal.
OWLS USED TO KILL CROWS
Maryland Farmers Tie Decoy to Tree and Then Await Attack of Pests.
Baltimore, Md.—"It doesn't seem to me that there could possibly be any more crows on the Patapso and Gunpowder river bottoms in Maryland than there are now," said John Gilbert, the traveling grocery-man, "but any farmer there will tell you that if it wasn't for the bubo owl there would be twice as many.
"I don't know anything about a bubo owl except what the honest farmers of those rich bottoms told me. I never saw a bubo owl, but I heard that this member of the owl family is as big as a hawk, can see in the daytime as well as by night, and dotes on crow.
"Having eyes to see both by day and by night, the bubo owl picks off its crows from their roosts as well as capturing them by daylight raids.
"Knowing how difficult it is for a man to get within gunshot of a crow if the man carries a gun, and how
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futile are ordinary devices to draw the crow to a spot where a man with a gun is lying in ambush, the Maryland landers, so they told me, long ago discovered the value of the bubo owl as an aid in this respect. To take advantage of the aid of the bubo the farmer must first get the bubo.
"The bubo is no fool himself, and it is no easy trick to get him—that is, to get him alive, for he would be of no service dead. The native dwellers back in the hills have a way though of trapping the bubo by means of a live chicken used in collaboration with a box trap, and they manage to supply the farmers to some extent with these owls, although, they tell me, not enough to meet the demand.
"The owl is tied at a spot where he may be seen from the adjacent cornfield, and if he is not discovered by the crows when they come in the field he will soon be discovered by a sentinel crow, for the hubo will forget that he is a prisoner and before long will rise to make a swoop down on that field after the crow. The string will quickly jerk him back to the limb though. But he has been discovered. The sentinel caws the alarm and the crows rise and make a dash for him, each one vociferously yelling its anger.
"The farmer, a hired man or two and as many more of the family as are inclined to join in are in hiding in the bushes near the tree where the bubo is a captive lure, each with a double barreled shotgun. As the crows come flocking fiercely in they are met with a volley and a dozen or more are seen to come tumbling to the ground dead and wounded.
"The crows, demoralized by the unexpected and deadly assault, turn and hasten from the woods. Naturally the owl rises from its perch frightened. This rising of the hated foe as if to pursue them overcomes the alarm of the crows and they gather again and dash back to assail him. The masked battery opens on them again and their number is depleted by half a score or so more.
PREFERS DEATH TO ASYLUM
Alleged Murderer on Trial at Washington Won't Allow Plea of Insanity.
Washington—Tony Milano, an Italian shoemaker, on trial in the District supreme court on a charge of murdering Harry E. Smith, 12 years old, and then setting fire to his shop to hide the alleged crime, caused a sensation in court by declaring that he would rather hang than go to an insane asylum.
Counsel for Milano had announced that they would enter a plea of insanity to save their client from the gallows, but when the government rested its case the accused man refused to allow his attorneys to contend that he was insane.
The court took a recess to permit the attorneys to outline a new defense.
TOWNS STOP SELLING CIDER
Action by "Dry" Villages Result of Alleged Intoxication From Supposedly Harmless Drink.
Wilmington, Del.-As the last word in local option, the town councils of Milford and Georgetown, two "dry" villages near here, have passed ordnances forbidding the sale of sweet cider. This unusual action was brought about by the sale of a manufactured drink called "cider" which proved to be intoxicating. There were so many "drunks" from the so-called cider that the councils took drastic action.
The farmers of lower Delaware, who derive a large revenue at this session from their older presses, have banded together and declare they will test the law.
CORAL MADE ROADS
Java, Holland's Oldest Colony, Has Finest Highways in East.
Old Governor General Forced Wealthy Chinaman to Construct One of Main Roads-Material Taken From Sea.
The Hague, Holland—Holland is famed for its excellent roads, and when colonies were acquired one of the first tasks in those regions was the laying out of highways. Java, which is one of the oldest of Holland's colonies, is a model to other eastern countries in the facilities of its communications, and not a year passes but that more miles of roadway are constructed. Every three or every five years, as conditions may require, the existing roads are heightened up anew, and they are constantly kept in the best repair. By these periodical heightenings many of the roads that run through the valleys have come to resemble the dikes of the old fatherland. The tendency has been to plane away unevenness, to make the inclines easy and gradual; in fact, to do away as much as possible with the inconveniences of a mountainous country, to which the dwellers in the Netherlands at home were not accustomed.
As every inch of Java is arable land, there were no stone quarries from which material for the roadways could be delved and so other means had to be resorted to.
It was the ocean, or, rather, the very tiny denizens of the deep, that furnished the necessary material. Java is surrounded by coral reefs, which the minute creatures have patiently been building up for untold ages. It is of this coral, the remains of the dead and gone millions of animalculae, that the roads are made.
The Javanese go out in their boats to the reefs and there they stand the whole day, half submerged in the water, breaking up the coral. When the boat is filled with pieces of convenient size it is rowed or sailed ashore and the coral is spread on the roads that require it. Mixed with the soil, it makes the best imaginable material, being strong and easy for traffic. In former years the natives were compelled to do this work as a sort of unrenumerated service to the government. Later on, when the ideas of serfdom began to change, the natives were paid for their work and were only obliged to give a few days of every month of their time to the government. Then, and not so very long ago, the compulsory service was abolished altogether. Nowadays the roads are most '7 kept in repair by the convicts—the 'chain gang' as they are called in India.
The very first road built at the command of the Dutch in India was that from Batavia to Samarang, stretching just half the length of Java. The famous Jan Pleterson Coen was then
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governor general. That he was quite a despot can be gathered from the way in which he contrived to get this great work done without its coating a penny to the high and mighty Dutch East India company, which then held away. Even in those early days the Chinese had found their way to Java and had also found plenteous means of enriching themselves there. One Chinaman was known to be the wealthiest man in Batavia, Jan Peterson Coen called him into his doughty presence. When he arrived, pale and trembling, the governor said: "Chinaman, I want a good road to be built from Batavia to Samarang, and you must build it! You must build it at your own cost, and it must be well done, toot. If you do not do what I tell you I will have your head struck off."
No protestation, no lamentation of the wealthy Chinese could move him. The work had to be done, or the death penalty would have to be paid. This the unfortunate possessor of untold wealth realized. He loved his money dearly, but he valued his life even more; so he stopped lamenting and set about his task. A whole army of coolies were set to work and in an incredibly short time a splendid highway united Batavia and Samarang. The Chinaman's head remained on his shoulders, and it is believed he soon found divers ways of recouping for his loss of gold, and Java was the better off for a fine road that had not cost the government a penny.
But that happened in the long ago. Modern governments are debarred from taking any such drastic measures to enforce the institution of public utilities.
Kansas Pair Who Were Childhood Friends Fifty-seven Years Ago Wed.
Topeka, Kan.—Samuel C. Wyatt, seventy-four years old, and Mrs. Susan Pettifohn, seventy-two years old, were married in the probate court here. The pair first met fifty-seven years ago when boy and girl in Missouri. It has not been an unbroken courtship, for the old couple insist that they were just good friends then and both have been married since. When they became widow and widower, a correspondence began which resulted in the wedding.
"We were both lonesome," the groom explained.
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Treasures of King's Palace and Steamer Trips Among the Islands Are Some of Sweden's Attractions.
Mr. Gwynne was led
Stockholm, Sweden.—Stockholm has the appearance of a beautiful pleasure resort instead of a busy commercial city of several hundred thousand inhabitants. The king of Sweden's palace lies on an island between Lake Maler and the Baltic sea. Entrance to it can be obtained without difficulty. The visitor is courteously shown through a labyrinth of state apartments, suite succeeding suite, containing priceless tapestries, marvelous china, pictures and portraits, statues, vases and brie-a-brac, the gifts of Napoleon the Great, the third emperor, the Russian cars, the emperor Japan and many other notable people. At the rooms have splendidly incandescent rooms, crystal candelabras and huge mantelpieces made of Dresden china—a bewildering wilderness of curious and beautiful things which it would take days to explore thoroughly.
One of the chief pleasures of a sojourn in Stockholm comes from the numerous steamer tribes which can be
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made in a day to some one or other of the many islands lying between the city and the open sea.
On these islands, divided by narrow channels of deep, still water, opening out here and there into lakellie lagoona or wilder river-like spaces, and with shores all clothed with pines to the water's edge, the people live their summer life. On the banks are many pretty villas with tiny landing stages amongst rocks which rise sheer out of fathom deep water. Some of the little islands are joined to larger ones by picturesque bridges, whilst red and white and green restaurants are set about among the pine trees.
Surpassing all other beauty is the indescribable northern twilight with its wonderful tender blue shot through with glowing pink light. The light is clear and bright, so much so that one can see everything distinctly, can read and write with ease, and yet it is not daylight, nor could it be mistaken for such. One can sail in and out for many hours between the islands before reaching the open Baltic with its crisp waves and rougher water.
ROYALTY IN A FAMILY BOW
Queen Mary's Efforts Hard Because the Teck Disputes in England Are Well Known.
London.—It is an open secret in court circles that Queen Mary's efforts to bring her family into greater prominence than they have hitherto enjoyed, are being seriously hampered by the continual blocking which goes on between her brothers, the duke of Teck and Prince Alexander of Teck. The brothers, with their wives and families have been occupying apartments at Windsor castle, but owing to the strained relations existing between them, it has been found necessary to find the duke fresh quarters at Frogmore. The duke and Prince Alexander are temperamentally as unlike a chalk and cheese, and the latter's wife strongly disagrees with her sister-in-law on the subject of bringing up children and other domestic matters.
Alogether the Tecks, who are heartily disliked by the public, are far from being a happy family. Queen Mary and the duchess of Teck are always at loggerheads on the question of the education of their children, and the latter's daughters are forever quarrelling with their cousin, Princess Marry. Despite the fact that King George took his brother-in-law with him to India, it is an open secret that he is not fond of the duke of Teck's company, for the latter, contemptuously styled, "Fat Adolphus" by the men in the street, has an aggressive manner, and differs from his royal relative on almost every subject under the sun.
PAYS HER WEDDING DOT
Woman of 61 Glives Groom of 63 Fifty Dollars In Gold and Says "Get to Work."
Kansas City.—When Harris Goldberg, sixty-three years old, and Rose Byer, sixty-one years old, were married here a fifty-dollar "dot" played an important part. While the clerk was making out the marriage license Goldberg suggested that Rose had forgotten something. She at first seemed hazy as to the pre-naptual agreement, but finally after naming over several figures to herself she settled upon the amount of $50. This contract was then drawn up:
"On consideration of marriage, I, Harris Goldberg, agree to waive all right and interest in the estate and property of Mrs: Rose Byer, whom on this day I have agreed to marry; in addition, to pay the wedding expenses, including the license fee, I herewith accept $50 in cash."
Mrs. Byer paid in gold and the ceremony was performed.
"He's worth it!" she said, and then, turning to her husband of half a minute, ordered:
"Now you take that fifty dollars and buy a horse and wagon and get to work."
But Goldberg answered shyly:
"Won't you kiss me, Rosie?"
"Not in a public place like this," was the stern answer.
Sample of Ingalls Satire.
Many years ago, when Senator Ingalls was in the senate, oleomargarine was a bone of contention. The debate led Ingalls to utter one of those epigrammatic sentences which made him famous. "I have never, to my knowledge, tasted oleomargarine," said Ingalls, "but I have stood in the presence of genuine buter with awe for its strength and reverence for its antiquity."
Old French Furniture
The old French cabinet makers, like the old masters in violin making, had the fashion of stamping their names on their manufactures. Today a cabinet or secretaire with the name of an old French master cabinet maker, mattre enebiste, may bring a great price. Such was the case a short time ago when a commode signed C. C. Saunier, M. E., brought in Paris $25-200.
Not Entirely Biblical.
When the Bible was translated into Japanese an equivalent to the word "baptize" could not be found, and the word "soak" had to be used instead. So that Japanese biblical students are acquainted with a person named "John the Soaker" and with a doctrine of "soaking for remission of sins."
Proud of Record.
A clergyman in Chicago, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his pastorate, draws attention to the record of happy marriages at which he has officiated. Out of 4,607 couples married, only two couples have been divorced.
Not at All.
Because this country spends something like $10,000,000 a year for umbrellas, isn't it to be taken as conclusive evidence that our people don't know enough to go in when it rains?—Browning's Magazine.
Book Annexed Htm
"Oh, please do away with that book!" was the remark of a man to the bench, when the conviction book was produced to show that it was his fifty-sixth appearance in court.
Off the Wire.
Operator—"Number, please?" Subscriber—"I was talking mit my husband and now I don't hear him any more. You must of pushed him off de vire."—Milwaukee News.
Change Due to Captivity.
All canary birds are descendants of the common gray species of the Canary islands. Their original livery has been modified to lemon yellow by captivity and cross-breeding.
Whale Cast on Coast.
A whale, weighing five tons, was buried recently on the Berkwickshire (Scotland) coast. The monster had evidently been run down by a steamer, and was cast up by the tide.
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THE UNSUCESSFUL CANDIDATE.
Last week I bought cigars and booze
For friends who said I couldn't lose.
I guess they've heard last Tuesday's
news—
Wilson—That's all.
And the next day it rained.
President Wilson doesn't sound half bad.
People are so sick of machine rule that they wouldn't even vote on one.
Be a game loser. Stop explaining how it happened, and get busy.
What has become of the Jack Johnson affair? Oh, yes, politics; we forgot.
The coal man isn't such an unwelcome visitor after all.
There was more than one candidate who went to bed at nine o'clock on election night with a headache.
If the price of turkeys doesn't raise before Thanksgiving we'll all have something to be thankful for.
Now that the election is all over let's settle down to business and make things hum.
James Hamilton Lewis for Senator a man from our (the editor's) home, Savannah, Ga., and when we say a man, we mean a man in every sense of the word. Just, upright and God-fearing, always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need, always finding something good in the most depraved, the people are to be congratulated for their good judgment in the selection of a Senator and we are doubly pleased and wish him the success he so richly deserves.
In response to an appeal for funds for the poor little sick girl who was so shamefully mistreated in the County hospital, The Defender is in receipt of several checks since our last issue. This is a case that should appeal to every one, and every contribution, no matter how small, will be thankfully received and acknowledged. The entire affair is being thoroughly investigated and when all the facts come to light no doubt the offender will get his just deserts. In the meantime, don't forget she needs your support.
The gentlemen who conducted the affairs of the Progressive party in Philadelphia would have shown common sense and spent a few dollars their instead of sending in other states. At all of their bereavement with them, man who would his own fame place they
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call home; then it would look right for them to at least have spent $1,000 with Chicago papers out of the $4,000 sent out of town.
One thing that can be said in favor of Texas is that our people there are a thrifty lot. Besides their numerous city ventures, large tracts of land are owned and cultivated by them and many are becoming independently rich. This even with all the disadvantages they labor under. Texas is a wonderfully rich state and much of it is yet to be developed. Everything worth while is worthy striving and fighting for and the Chicagoans who have gone down there carrying with them the push and energy of the "Windy City" are making good. Scatter out to the four ends of the earth until you have accomplished your purpose and then in your declining years you will have enough laid by to keep the wolf from the door.
A certain New York minister entertained his congregation a few Sundays ago with a harangue about Jack Johnson and his white affiliations. He cited that we have in our own race women as fair as those of any other nationality. Had he given the matter a little thought he doubtless would have hesitated before he laid so much stress upon the fair members of the race. He looked at the effect and not the cause. Every man or woman, be they white or black, have the right to choose their life partner according to their own views and the disgrace does not lie in legal marriages. We are sorry to say that a great many of our ministers devote too much of their time to tearing down and not enough to the building up of our people.
Cary B. Lewis, the Henry Waterson of the colored press, deserves a world of commendation for the effective work he did in the campaign just closed. As a newspaper writer he is strong, brilliant and forceful, and his matter is sought after by the leading papers of both races. While in the strictest sense he is not a Chicago production, much of his best work emanated from here. Those who have heard him on the rostrum are loud in his praise as a speaker. He is a young man and The Defender expects to hear great things from him in the future. During the winter months, through our solicitation, Mr. Lewis has consented to give several—as he terms them—common sense talks to our young people. The time and the place will be announced later in this paper.
The Tribune published in glaring headlines, "Race war in public schools," then went on to say that a colored boy was pounced upon by a number of football players because he was supposed to have said something to one of the boys' sister while passing. Upon investigation they found that there was no truth whatsoever in the story, so, to ease their conscience (?), retracted it a few days later. The retraction, however, was put in an obscure corner of the paper. The damage was done and this great paper seems to take especial pains to herald broadcast anything derogatory to the Negro they can find or make up. If they would devote as much space to extolling our virtues as they do to hold up our faults to the world, we would be very grateful.
A great many of the boys connected with our post office are complaining about the treatment accorded them in their several departments. It matters not, it is alleged, how proficient they may be or how long they may have been in the service. They are permitted to rise so far and far; the higher offices are unattainable. Civil service, yes; but it isn't always the one who is fleetest of foot who wins the race. This "colorophia" has kept a good man from reaching the top. Our new postmaster—for a new one we undoubtedly will have—may see the injustice that is being done and set things to rights. We should have representation in every department; we should have heads at some of these sub-stations. These things we not only ask for but demand because we are entitled to them. The post office is the one place where we could reasonably expect, all things being equal, advancement. The attention of the present postmaster is to be called to the situation and we trust a speedy adjustment will follow.
Now that we have all put our shoulder to the wheel and helped to bring about a Democratic handmade, what does it mean to us? Have we jumped from the frying pan into the fire? Have we left our friends and willingly gone into the enemy's camp? And why has such a radical change come over us at this particular election? These and hundreds of similar questions doubtless have been asked by the unthinkable element Col. Henry Watterson hit the nail on the head when he said, "There is no real connection between Republican policies of the present time and the abolitionism of the fifties." Since the civil war the Republican party has regarded the Negro as a part of the spoils of war. The Progressives, an offspring of the G. O. P., felt likewise. We seemingly were as much a chatel of the political machine as we were of the plantation owner. The Democrats, realizing the situation, extended their hand in good fellowship. Having fully repaid this "debt of gratitude" we felt at liberty to accept their proffered friendship. We ask of no party more than they would accord any upright American citizen and we feel sure that the Democrats with whom we have allied ourselves will give us no cause for regret.
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR MEMORIAL
It is fitting that the Choral Study club should take the initiative in holding memorial exercises for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the greatest composer of our race, and the Institution church next Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10 at 3 p. m., should be filled to overowing to bear testimony to the high esteem in which he was held in this city.
been arranged. Mr. Daniel Trotheroe and Dr. Charles E. Bentley will be the principal speakers. Many who attended the Dunbar Memorial will remember the masterly paper Dr. Bentley prepared and read upon that occasion and will look forward to another such treat, knowing that the Doctor was a personal friend of the composer and has for many years observed the landmarks he has made in a career pregnant with achievement.
Samuel 'Coloridge-Taylor' was a Negro and he never sought to keep in the background this fact. On the contrary, it was one of his hobbies to study the music of the people with whom he shared a common origin. He was only proud of his achievements because of the benefits that were likely to be derived from them by his people. Though he hns gone from us, his memory and his works will live forever. He is one of the few people on our race; what he has accomplished over the course. The ladder of fame is waiting for climbers and it is never too late to start.
IN THE SADDLE.
There be new riders in the saddle. The election of Mr. Wilson to the Presidency brings into prominence a new and, in some respects, unrested set of men. Out goes the famous "Black Cabinet," many of whom were yellow, that has fattened upon official grass and grown sleek upon government sweets. Napier back to his bank. Tyler back to his "copy hook" Lewis back to the outstretched arms of Boston and Boston's Trotter. Johnson back to feast in Georgia and Whitfield McKinley out of Georgetown into Washington. In comes Bishop Alexander Walters, his cohorts, his supporters and his numerous satellites.
During the heat and strife of the campaign Bishop Walters, as much patriot as priest, and more politician than either, promised in big words and big figures for Gov. Wilson, and the Governor indicted a wringing note in which he highly praised colored folk, waxing eloquent upon his friendship for them. The months shall weigh his words and measure the sagaciousness of the Bishop.
Now for the battle of the spoilsmen. The strength of colored Democracy is in the east and soon we shall see who is who, and which is which indeed. Though the waters are not ceaseless, yet many are at the fountain. If the good Bishop Cia place James D. Carr, the brains of the United Colored Democracy, Rufus L. Perry, Robert N. Wood, Thos. W. Swann, James A. Ross and Jim Curtis, the only professional gossip among high-tone colored New Yorkers, together with the children of the west, and yet retain his crown, where we took him for a pupil, behold he did prove himself a master.
Here's to the riders: May their saddle hold, the belly-band neither pulling nor breaking, and may their saddle not be with those with out a "buck," or a stumble.
DR. WASHINGTON'S CONVERSION
All things come to those who wait, and those who wait are they who reap in the fullness of the years. The Defender is among the great host that has known the secret springs of Booker Washington's hidden powers, understood his policy, Fabian, so-called, and appreciated the method with which he pursued the same end sought by the talkers who talked so much that they have had no time to do. What Dr. Washington has finally done we knew long ago he would find necessary to do. The wrongs under which his people suffer, singing the while they suffer, have at last pressed him to speak out in the moving language of protest; to speak with an authority that no other man could employ, and with a directness that no other man, furnished with the opportunity, would fail to employ.
In the Century Magazine for November Dr. Washington appears as a contributor. His appeal is styled: "Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?" He finds for the negative, and he finds for the negative without an apology. After five and twenty years of silence, in which there was the method foreign to the unthinking, the great leader assumes the offensive in the struggle which he has led as the master of defensive combat. The Negro is not having a fair chance, he tells the world. The Negro is lynched upon trivial provocation. The Negro is disfranchised without reason and Jim-Crowed with indecent malice. The Negro is shut out from industrial pursuits in certain sections of the country, and in other sections the so-called unions have seized him a scab. The unions have provided for him in South are a mockery of education, and in the courts of law he can hope to find no full and exact justice. It is a terrible indictment drawn in the calm language of the man of courage forced to speak by the broken promises of silence.
The snapping hounds of envy that have long tracked the heels of the great leader must now cease. With a pen's stroke Dr. Washington makes sure the election of his calling, long ago accepted by all, as the particular voice of his people crying in the wilderness. Call for the Century, and read this, taken from the pages: "I am aware of the fact that in what I have said in regard to the hardships of the Negro in this country I throw myself open to the criticism of doing what I have all my life condemned, and everywhere sought to avoid; namely, laying overemphasis on matters in which the Negro race in America has been badly treated." That is all right, Dr. Washington. Nobody will criticize, save the turn-devils of envy and prejudice. The Defender conveys the congratulations of the elect among the people.
SUCCESSOR TO DOUGLASS.
The Springfield Forum, brilliant among our brightest exchanges, heard Roscoe Conkling Simmons make a speech down at Decatur, and says in the course of an editorial: "At a political meeting held in Decatur Wednesday evening, Oct. 30, Mr. Roscoe Conkling Simmons of New
THE CHICAGO DEPENDER
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York delivered a speech, the finest
and most eloquent and most powerful
speech we have ever heard or read, a
masterpiece of eloquence and oratory,
an historical treat, polished and
finished with rhetorical glory.
"He literally held his audience spell-
bound for an hour. Few men excel
him, a perissor orationality. He is a
second Frederick Douglass. He came
as one crying in the wilderness for
the race's salvation and he plead for
the Republican party and the per-
petuity of our sacred institutions.
"Mr. Simmons is on the staff of
the New Lork Tribune, the greatest
newspaper in the land. He is one of
the most versatile writers the colored
race has thus far produced."
"A second Frederick Douglas!" That is a mighty high compliment; perhaps the highest; high, yet in this case it is not ill-bestowed. Col. Simmons has remarkable gifts, and he has dedicated them to the cause of his race and of man. The years will bring him where unto he has set himself, if he doesn't give down. Some day his own people, whom he defends and celebrates with unfaltering breath, will render in his behalf the praise that white men freely bestow upon him now. The Defender knows no one worthier than our own Roscoe, journalist, orator and patriot.
TO OUR READERS
The Defender is determined to lead; determined to serve well the best and most progressive newspaper clientele in the country.
The management takes especial pleasure in announcing that Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, the gifted journalist and orator, will hereafter contribute generously to the editorial and feature columns of The Defender. That is all necessary to say, for Col. Simmons is everywhere recognized as the leading active journalist among colored people, and is praised by great delights as a stylist worthy of the rest.
But for his many lecture engagements, that will keep him on the platform for several months, he would assume the editorial desk, but this shall come.
From Our Exchanges
BEGGARS ARE FEW.
That begging among the colored people of Baltimore is rare, and that when they do beg they are in need of charity in every sense of the word, was the statement made by Cardinal Gibbons recently in the sermon he preached after administering confirmation at St. Barnabas' church. The Cardinal said that he had come to that conclusion after a careful investigation during the last several years. St. Barnabas' church is one of the three Colored Catholic churches in Baltimore.—The Catholic Citizen.
Our Women
The Gaudeamus Charity Club meet on Monday the 4th at the home of Mrs. Clara M. Johnson, 3815 State street. The next meeting will be Nov. 11 at the home of Mrs. Clara M. Johnson, 3815 State street. Mrs. Gertrude Plummer, hostess. All friends are invited.
By Waldo L. Batson.
A man's heart is not always where his trunk is, especially if his trunk's at home.
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With man's aid, the devil is able to accomplish most anything.
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The people who have less faults than we are few; the people who have more are fewer.
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After we are old enough to manage ourselves we generally have no manager.
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It is hard for a married man to die with money.
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The people who are not loved by us generally live too close to us.
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About the biggest lie in history is the one told about the man who never told a lie.
It is as hard to save money as it is easy to spend it.
In our most disagreeable hours we always hunt up some one to be with.
Some people have more friends than they have anything else, except enemies.
Courage Makes Success
Many a man has dried up in a little wayside opportunity, merely because he lacked the courage to acknowledge to himself that his judgment had landed him in the wrong spot. Fortune disdains mere ability—brain is nothing without bravery. The man who can be thrashed by a sneer has retreated before he is defeated.—Herbert Kaufman.
He—What kind of a resort' was it you were at? She—Well, judging from the kind of men I saw there, I should say it was the last resort for marriageable girls.
Forcing Acceptance
"What are, you doing with that mask and those gumshoes? Surely you are not going in for burglary?" "Shl" responded, Dustin Stax, "I am trying to slip a contribution into a candidate's campaign fund without his knowing anything about it."
IN CHICAGO AND ITS SUBURBS
Our Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social and other short paragraphs—Read it over carefully, somewhere you will find a line or two about yourself or your friends.
Mr. W. W. Lalley finished his touring trip and arrived in Chicago on the day of election to cast his vote for Teddy. Everywhere he was met with loud applause. In St. Louis he was termed the Silver Tongue Orator of the Day.
Mrs. Anna McGarity of 6347 Rhodes avenue entertained at dinner Thursday day evening in honor of Mrs. M. C. B. Jason of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Jennie E. Watson of Minneapolis, Minn., is in the city the guest of Rev. and Mrs. James Higgins, 6253 Dearborn street.
Don't fail to attend the Eighth Regiment Ladies' Auxiliary dancing party, Nov. 19, and the place, Masonic hall, 40th and State streets.
Send in personalities of your friends. It is free. Drop it on a post-card. Can't you afford to spend a penny on your friends?
tion of Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, "Song Bird" of Chicago
Madame Patti Brown, the "Brod Tetrazni" will be in the city Sunday after an extended tour in west. She will appear in Indianagan Nov. 15.
Miss Aurelia Ward of Bost Mass., now of Chicago, who is with Miss Elizabeth Clark at 3812 bash avenue, is in constant dem by the white society folk to do and make fashionable gowns. I Ward is very popular in society clea.
The way to get good bread, ask the "Kentucky Loaf."
Prof. Kemper Herrald, formerly this city but now of Atlanta, Ga., a recital at the Atlanta Baptist-Legion Friday evening, Nov. 1. ports are that it was a very successful affair.
Othello W. Collins Jr. was christened at Quinn Chapel church last Sunday morning. Mrs. D. E. Burrows, wife of Dr. Burrows, is the god-mother, and Mr. Ellis Smith is god-father.
Mr. and Mrs. Fleet Lumpkin have issued invitations for the marriage of their sister, Mattie Lumpkin, to Mr. Rufus Henderson, Thursday evening, Nov. 28, at their home, 5228 La Salle street.
Have you contributed to the Mater McFarren fund? If not, why not?
Mrs. Grace Croker Green and mother, Mrs. Constantia Croker, returned home Nov. 5 after a delightful visit of two weeks in Cincinnati, O., where they where entertained by many friends.
All advertisements for furnished rooms or flats must be paid for in advance. We have no collectors for this kind of work.
Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson have issued invitations announcing the marriage of their daughter Alma to Mr. William Echols on Nov. 20.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fletcher of 3211 Wabash avenue entertained 3211 guests on Oct. 29 in honor of Dornur and Emma Jefferson's birthday. Don't fall to read the Mater McFarren story on the front page of this paper.
Mrs. L. Anderson, Mrs. R. R. Jackson and Mrs. J. R. Marshall are among the active promoters of the Eighth Regiment ladies' auxiliary dancing party Nov. 19 at Masonic hall, 40th and State streets.
Mrs. Willa Turner of Columbia, Mo., is visiting in Chicago. While here she is stopping at 3643 Prairie avenue.
Hall for Entertainments, Lodge Room and Offices for Rent; Steam Heat and Electric Light; 3518-22 State Street; E. H. Johnson; Telephone Douglas 3288-5-12.
Miss Essie Arnold and W. W. R. Sobers will do the turkey trot at the Eighth Regiment ladies' auxiliary dancing party Nov. 19 at the Masonic hall, 40th and State streets.
Mrs. Mayne Lewis Clinkscale, 6233 Indiana avenue, has been ill for the past week.
Mr. James A. Ross, who has been in the city for the past six or eight weeks, left last Sunday morning for his home at Buffalo, N. Y.
The local colored Democrats, under the leadership of Wm. H. Clark and S. A. Newby, will give a jubilation banquet at an early date at the Baker hotel, 3312 Wabash avenue.
The W. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Rolls" and "Wallace Rolls."
Miss Ruth Bogar of Aurora, Ill., popular in society circles in this city, has been on an extended visit in the east. She is expected home soon.
Don't fail to hear the speakers at Bethel Literary club contest Dec. 15. The subject, "The Part Played by the Negro Soldier in All Wars of the World." Dr. Lorrie Usselman will give a diamond ring to the lady writer and a gold watch and chain to the best man writer.
Mrs. Josephine Green of Boston, Mass, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Maxwell, at 3834 Forest avenue, will leave next week for her home.
The Biggest Event of the Season will be the Chicago Patricole Ball, given at Brand's Remodeled Hall, Monday evening, Nov. 25.
A whist club has been organized among a number of charming young society girls. The club will meet every Friday night.
Mr. William D. Neighbors, publisher of the Illinois Chronicle, has returned to the city after an extended trip in the South, where he paid his respects to a number of colored banks.
We hear that Dr. Burt Anderson, leader of Dunne forces of this state, will be appointed to "juicy berth" by the Democratic party.
"Am I My Brother's Keeper" will be the subject of Hon. George H. Jackson. S. M. Harris, chairman of the committee.
Major and Mrs. F. A. Dennison and family have moved from their summer home at Benton Harbor to their home, 5413 Calumet avenue.
Miss Lucy Lindsey of 4112 Calumet avenue will leave the first of December for California to be gone all the winter.
Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, formerly editor of the New York Age and later connected with the Illinois Chronicle, left Friday for Louisville, Ky., to deliver an address at the Calvary Baptist church, Nov. 26. Mr. Simmons will speak upon the same platform with Booker T. Washington at Mound Bayon, Miss.
The Pandora Club will give a Monroe Goose party on Halloween eve, Oct. 12 at the Annie Walker Parfors, 3811 Wabash avenue. Dancing, Admission, 15 cents. Mayme Galines, President; Estella Bryant, Secretary.
Mr. Roland Hayes will be the host of Chicago at an early date for a recital. He will come under the circ
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tion of Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, the "Song Bird" of Chicago.
Madame Patti Brown, the "Bronze Tetrazini," will be in the city Saturday after an extended tour in the west. She will appear in Indianapolis Nov. 15.
Miss Aurelia Ward of Boston, Mass., now of Chicago, who is living with Miss Elizabeth Clark at 3812 Wabash avenue, is in constant demand by the white society folk to design make fashionable gowns. Miss Ward is very popular in society circles.
The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Leaf."
Prof. Kemper Herrall, formerly of this city but now of Atlanta, Ga., gave a recital at the Atlanta Baptist college Friday evening, Nov. 1. Reports are that it was a very successful affair.
Miss Fannie Wise, the cultured soprano singer, has been in this section ever since the closing of the "Red Moon."
..Ak for Thomas' Purity Home Made bread and milk, for sale at all grocers.
Miss Able Mitchell, who is a headliner at the Monogram theater, is being entertained nightly by her numerous friends.
Mr. William Ewing, wealthy pioneer miner of Alaska, was the guest at breakfast of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Jordan of 3205 Rhodes avenue. Mr. Ewing is negotiation for some Chicago real estate during his stay in the city.
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 until they are paid for in advance. Do please don't telephone.
Miss Odessa Taylor, who has been a resident of Chicago nearly three years, left Tuesday for Cincinnati, her former home, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Taylor. Miss Taylor, who, by the way, is a splendid singer, being a member of Bethel choir, has been in poor health for over a year. We sincerely hope that the return to her home surroundings will bring about the recovery of this charming and gifted young woman.
Mrs. E. H. Wright will leave for an extended trip through Mexico for the winter months, it is rumored.
Arrivals at Hotel Washington; H. G. Coleman, Boone, Ia.; J. H. Anderson, Birmingham, Ala.; B. A. Waltor, St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gollett, Kollett City, Mo.
...if you want a first-class furnished room read our classified columns.
A gay widow in the 3500 block on Forest avenue said: "Believe me, 1813 will never catch me without a husband." And the way she was talking to a certain gentleman on last Sunday The Defender is forced to acknowledge the assertion.
Mrs. Jennie Mills Lacey, one of Chicago's most prominent society matrons and the wife of Dr. George W. Lacey, has applied for and been granted an absolute divorce and will receive her decree on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Why don't you Surprise yourself and please the publisher by paying your subscription?
Chicago is honored with the presence of Miss C. Collins of Waukesha, Wis., the "Maid of the Springs," a recent graduate of the high school of that city, who is the guest of her grandparents at 5613 Wabash avenue. Mr. Alf. Anderson, in speaking of her, said:
"Little maiden of upper lake
Came to Chi to spend a wake.
It she return before she take
It she by George, she'll bake
a cake."
THE EDITOR'S MAIL
True Reformers Make Good, Says Chief M. T. Bailey.
Editor of The Chicago Defender—Dear Sir: Please permit me to say that the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has begun to take its place among men, women and children as in former days when all went well with the order. New members are coming in and the receipts are increasing daily throughout the country. The confidence of the order is being re-established everywhere. The minister in the pulpit, the attorney at the bar, the physician at the bedside of his patient, and, in fact, the business men and women in every walk of life see that the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers is destined to live and succeed.
As the general sentiment of the American people is to drift in the direction of success there is no doubt that anyone can say that the above order has succeeded. They have added 14,000 new members during the past year and collected more than $100,000, and after paying about $50,000 in death claims, was able to keep all of its other obligations paid up to date. So the future is bright for the order. 'Yours for success.
THE SICK
The Latest News About Your Friends and Acquaintances Who Are Under the Physicians Care.
Mr. Nelson Hayes still continues ill at his residence, 5015 Dearborn street. Dr. George C. Hall is in daily attendance. Mr. Reuben Elam continues quite sick at the Post Graduate hospital. Mr. Gabriel Hall is seriously ill at his residence, 2324 Dearborn street. Dr. J. H. Plummer has been at home, 3815 State street, sick for the past few days. Mrs. Boykin of 525 East 34th place is ill and confined to her residence. Miss Maye Barksklale (nurse) of 3345 Veronon avenue is ill at Provident hospital. She is suffering from a severe cold and pneumonia is feared.
His Body and Mine
Inheritance of Coul
Forebate
Man is the heir of al-ages; he inherits the countless generations of plants, and the beneficent wind and rain, air and sk the course of millions of pared it for him. His body built for him through the h struggles of the countless beats in the line of his long do his mind is equally an accum inheritance of the mental grow the myriads of thinking men thinking animals that went him. In the forms of his humble bears he has himself lived and myriads of times to make read soil that nurses and sustains h day. He is a debtor to Gambri Silurian times, to the dragons saurians and mastodons that roamed over the earth. Indeed there is or has there been in verse that he is not indebted to
One would fain arrive at so-crete belief or image of his descent in geologic times as he in the historic period. But how it is to do so. Can we form any tal picture of the actual animal that the manward impulse has elled through? With all the light paleontology throws upon the an life of the past, can we see we amid the revel of these bizarre fo our ancestor hid himself? Can see him as a reptile in the slim the jungle or in the waters of Mesozoic world? What mark or is there upon him at that time the future that was before him. (we see him as a faun in old jionar seas or another seas. The primitifion was mostly of the shark ki is there any connection between the fact and the human sharks of today. Much less can one picture to one self what his ancestor was like in the age of the invertebrates amid the trilbites, for example, of the carlie paleozoic seas. But we must go back even earlier than that, back to uni cellular life and to original proto plasm, and finally back to fiery nebulous matter. What can we make of it all by way of concrete conception what actually took place—of the visible, eating, warring, breeding animal forms in whose safe-keeping our heritage lay? Nothing—John Burroughs in The North American Review.
Inadvertent Humor of Signs
"Long before Dickens turned the limelight that Tooley street sign: 'Carpets cleaned, advice given, furniture moved and poetry written on any subject,' the study of a city's signs has interested the strolling stranger," remarked a stopover tourist from the west.
"How suggestive that sign of a couple of ice dealers we saw this morning in Georgetown, 'Cool and High.' And the versatility of his race was exhibited by an Italian in a sign over his shop on Ninth street, near the public library: 'Wood, Spaghetti, Coal and Olive Oil'—all the Italian necessities of life.
"Have you got any coal oil?" I asked, urged by curiosity.
"You so da sign," was the Dalphie response! I don't know now whether he had any or not.
"As we neared the wharf, bound for Mount Vernon, my wife pointed to a great roof sign, over a large supply house: 'Iron Stins; Wood Floats; it ran. "Humph, she sneered contemptuously, 'we didn't have to come all the way from Indiana to find that out.'"—Washington Times.
Many Soldiers in Munich
One cannot walk half a square in Munich without hearing the clank of a sword. It makes one think of three things, preparedness and taxes. The German officer and soldier is omnipresent. He looms up before you, in his close-fitting gray coat and high red collar, at the theater, the opera, the concert, the cafe—everywhere. He passes your window, perhaps in the morning at the head of a company of soldiers, all of them singing a rousing marching song at a raplad cadenade. And it is the singing soldier who interests one the most. His song is unlike anything we hear at home.
One hundred of him marching down a hard granite street at hurricane, with the tramp of many feet marking the time of the song, will get anyone out of bed. The song has a way of halting here and there for a brief interval. In the middle of a phrase it suddenly rests, while three or four sounding steps ring out on the pavements. And then the song goes on again until it dies away in the distance.
Dried Peas as Liver Pills
An enterprising swindler in England has recently been arrested for selling dried peas as "little liver pills." They were sold on the assurance that they were "excellent medicine." Of course, dried peas are not an "excellent medicine," neither will they cure "liver trouble," but the same may be said of the many liver pills which contain drugs and are sold under claims even more fraudulent. The British swindler should have been better informed. When he desires to sell "liver pills" he should put some drugs in them—otherwise, the kind doesn't matter. Then he can lie about his product to his heart's content and he will be immune from arrest. In fact, if he can be enough of them he may look forward to the peated, Great Britain, as in the United States, it is not the mere act of swindling, but the method, that prove dangerous—From the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Cynical Circassia
Justice Levenson of Baltimore recently raised the alimony rate in his court on account of the high cost of living.
In a discussion of this wise action, the justice said:
"The women of the land will thank me, but the men—at least those men who have marital troubles—will develop a cynicism equal to the Circassian proverbs.
There's a cynical Circassian proverb in marriage that says:
"The nice best thing to no good wife."
Brat pe ge SELL: Ie 2 Serr,
soeraree seg THE CHICAGO D RNDER * } |
_MBRELLA, — : ea ° | GYNTHIA’S ADVENT Re | i MEE:
Gime. | t Cc hf en — i cv cakbeee: BOR
4 as she entered the
and demurely slipped
vacant seat Wagetaf,
ving ber over the edge
vapor. decided that she
Ari, indeed.
taking one more look at
r attention betng centored
ok, By the time the train
te station he was deeply in-
In her. He vaguely romem-
av§ng seen her on his morning
# ‘fase but never before
e ft. within the direct range of
on
ext morning he took special
© catch that same train. Mif-
sitting near the door of the
dragged him into a seat bo:
\. However, Wagstaff lost all
in Mifln’s baseball chatter as
+ neared the station where the
“entered on the previous
He craned bis neck to scan
Ang passengers on the plat-
‘in looked at him curiously.
sting somebody to get on
‘ifin asked,
no," Wagstafl sald hastily. “1
T'saw some one I knew.”
to his unmeasured delight,
{ came demurely in with the
and fund a seat almost oppo-
2m, Miffin followed Wagstalt’s
ared glance. ‘
hat the pavly you thought you
* he asked,
ML, no,” Wagstatt sald guittily,
wouldn't mind."
or that ft got to be a regular
every morning for Wagstalt to
2 for the girl and then to steal
ves at her all the way to his uta-
She looked at him so calmly in
“ around the car day after day
he thought despatringly that she
t know he was on earth.
ist when he was losing hope of
getting acquainted with ber
aething happened. One morning
2 got off at a station which the
un reached before it arrived at
agetaft’s, More than that, Wag-
aff saw a long handled umbrella
asting against the window frame of
e seat that she had just left.
“What shall I do?" the young man
skod himself, “Shall I take her um-
rrella with me for safe keeping, or
hall T turn it {n at the lost and found
fice? In elther case—"
‘With a fast beating heart ho pos:
essed himselt of the forgotten uin-
relia. On mature consideration he
leclded that {t would be best to turn
t in to the company in the usual way
nd take a chance on future favorable
jevelopments,
A week later the developments
ame. On a windswept clevated
latform one evening, several stations
stant from the one nearest his of-
ico, Wagstaff found himself alone
rith the girl.
For an Instant her glance lngered,
nd there was a sort of recognition In
tas thelr eyes met. Wagstaff acted
in the moment's Impulse, all the hewo
a his makeup coming to the front.
“I beg your pardon,” he said, ad-
rancing a step, hat in hand, “but did
‘ou recover the umbrella you left on
he train a few days ago? I turned
t in at the lost and found depart
at"
“She started a Ittle with surprise as
1 spoke, and then she smiled gra-
ously. “Why, yes, thank you,” sho
aid. “I—T got It. Was It you who
ound it? It was awfully good of
ou.”
“Not at all,” declared Wagstaff.
Just then the train came in and
e helped her aboard. ‘They sat down
ogether and thefr acquaintance pros-
ered.
In ten minutes he found that she
mew halt a dozen of his own friends,
Vhite things were a ilttle bit uncon-
entlonal, she concluded finally that
@ might call.
Wagetaft called and found two of
he friends there to vouch for him.
hen he tock pains to call again,
hon he was certain the friends
youldn't be there. Since the girl
hose the timo for the call It is pos-
(ble that she didn’t want them there
ither.
Two or three months later as she
md Wagotat were standing in her
ront hall one night counting the
ooks on the hatrack and otherwise
njoying themselves, the girl said:
Billy, I've heard of a lot of ways that
ung men get acquainted with girls
hey want to meet, but that umbrella
lan of youts makes a hit with me
wery time I think of it."
“What do you mean?” Wagstif ask-
a a bit feebly. -
‘Why, you nnocent chitd,” sho sald,
miling, “I never lost any umbrella
m the elevated train!”—Chtcago
ET
He Tipped Again.
He was very affable and free with his
opinions, was this young man, but that
was about all he was free with. To
the man who had carried his not un-
heavy bag to tho little countryside
station he had given one whole penny.
‘Notwithstanding the forlorn look on
the man’s face, he still continued to
chat'{n an easy manor,
“1 shall never forget,” he continued,
the splendor of the scenery when I
was in Switzerland. It was an educa-
ton to see the sun rise, tipping tho Ilt-
He blue hills with gold—"
“ah!” interruptea the man who had
colled with his: bag. “Them ‘ills was
uckler than mé, weren’t they?”—Lon-
lon Tit Bits,
Danlel In Second Place.
Little Willie's grandmother had
‘on telling him Bible stories, his
vorlte being that of Danfet {n the
os’ den. At the age of four he was
ren to a circus for the first time.
yhen the Mon-tamer put hie head into
the lion's mouth Ittle Willie's excite-
ment knew no bounds. Jumping up
and down, he gleefully screamed:
“Oh, my! ‘That knocks the spots off
Daniel!”
Surely Had Forgotten Something,
‘An Bastbourne, Sussex (England)
woman recently started on a railway
journey. with the uneasy feeling that
ghe had forgotten something. ‘This
‘urned out to be correct, for she had
take the next train back to pick
‘er cfilld, which she had fett on the
+ platform.
| Deaths of the Week
fAgams, Ulldergarde, 5 yeagseT4id Was
cagitfogd Hiatal 1 sean Bier Clark St.
conglaiian, Lom, 6 years, 6157 Ada St.
cigyten, Frank, 89 years, 3614 State St.
Goodin. Ellen, 8 years, 3565 Rhode
Wi Stings 06 your, S21 Dear.
orm a'Oet. a
uaih" sian, €° years, $813 Dearbor
Jugkion, diaitte, 61 years, 8700 Armout
iver ave iy
Jonenintla Ma Sg 6 yours, 4726 Ar
Lexelacy, Cilitord, "IS yeara, 3213 La Saite
Lag, "Havel, "2 years, 2187 Carroll Ave.
Rov 3
A CARD OF THANKS,
Words of thanks are inexpressible
to my many, friends for the kind at-
tention they comforted my beloved
wife with during the illness, And for
their kind tokens of remembrance
they sent, After God bad seen fit to
send one of his invisible angels bear.
ing his message, “Lillian Davis thou
hath been faithful and pleased me
even unto the end, while in thy earth-
ly house; flee now with my messenger
to thy heavenly home, where sick-
‘ness, pain or sorrow is never known,”
From her loving and devoted hus-
band, ROBERT C. DAVIS.
6542 Vincennos Ave.
‘The Cold Sponae. is
While the cold plunge should only
be indulged in by those who are
phys{eally very robust, the cold
sponge bath can be indulged in by all,
It 1 especially refreshing after get-
ting home from work, and if accom.
Panied by a chango of clothing and
@ short rest on the back will make
you over new for the evening.
Quick Business Transaction.
While a flock of sheep was being
driven along the Glasgow and Carlisle
road, near the town of Lockerbie,
Scotland, the other day, a motor ran
into it, killing three. The motorist at
ouce drew up, inquired as to the cost
of the sheep, paid for them, bade the
shephord “Good-day,” and went on his
way, the whole affair being the work
of & few minutes,
Compensation.
A little girl who had been out walk
ing with her aunt heard the latter
complain that her feet were tired. “My
feet get tired, too, when I go out walk.
ing." sald the small maiden, “but 1
always think what a nice ride my
stomach bas been having.”
7 What Puzzled Him.
“What are you puzzling about?”
“T’m writing a sketch for vaudeville
on the current political situation.”
“Well, you ought to have plenty of
good stuff to put in.” “That isn’t what
Duzzles me. I've got so much good
stuff I don’t know what to Igave out.”
Not Worrled In the Least.
“I seo your son is building an alr
ship.” “Yes, He has it nearly fin-
ished.” “Aren’t you afraid to have him
experiment with such a thing?” “Ob,
no; not at all. I overheard him prom-
ise to let your boy try the first fight
veith It”
‘Siete nde Dantes.
A coathanger may be improvised
from a newspaper in the following
manner: Fold a newspaper through
the center and continue folding or
rolling it until it is a compact piece
about three inches wide. Bend It
downward in the middle and tle with
Q cord, forming a loop. It will answer
the same purpose as a hanger of
wood or metal and requires only @
few minutes to make,
Let Ua Do Our Duty,
Let us do our duty in our shop or
our kitchen; in the market, the street,
the office, the school, the home, just
as faithfully as if we stood in the
Yront rank of some great battle, and
Amew that vietory for mankind de-
pended on our bravery, strength and
skill. When we do that, the hum-
Dlest of us will be serving in that
great army which achleves the wel-
fare of the world—Theodore Parker,
Uneatlstying Menu.
‘The young girls who work in the
Paris shops have 50 centimes to
spend for thelr midday meal, and
when a charitable society inquired as
to how the money was being spent,
the following list was found to em-
body the average: Fried potatoes or
sausage, 10 centimes; bread, 10 cen-
times; bonbons, 10 centimes; violets
or other flowers, 20 centimes. The
soclety no longer had any cause to
‘wonder why the giris wore undersized
and {ll-nourished,
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He makes no friend who nevet
made a foo.—Tennyson.
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name of individuals connected with
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portance may be left out.
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GYNTHIA’S ADVENTURE
‘Tears gathered in the eyes of Cyn-
thia Thomas as she gazed down at
the little garden In the back yard of
tie house adjoining that in which she
ovcupled the smallest room on the top
floor.
Cynthia was going away—although
she knew of no place to go. She had
eaten nothing for two days, and was
hungry.
A recent interview with her land-
lady had not been-a pleasant one—
the shame of It was responsible for
her tears, Landladies cannot walt
more than four weeks for thelr room
rent, and Cynthia bad not pald hers
for five. Even now there seemed no
Possibility of ita being paid for five
more weeks,
So she sald goodby to the little
garden and looked about her room in
valn for something she could pawn.
There was nothing left—nothing but
her clothes, and those she must keep
80 that she might look respectable
even if the river had to be the solu.
tion of her problem.
During the fret few weeks after she
had lost her position on the News Cyn-
thla had rather enjoyed the experi-
ence of “hard luck.” It had broad-
ened her, developed her insight into
ilfe, she thought. But the endless
round of visits to city, editors, asking
for a job, then the search for any.
Kind of work ended frultlessly, ber
money gone, and that curious gnaw-
tng sensation, with a lightheaded
faintness, was an entirely different
matter.
Bllndly she walked down Broadway,
stumbling as she crossed the inter:
secting streets. Presently sho met
the eyes of handsome, well-dressed
young man, a stranger, who lifted his
hat with a'smiling “Good evening.”
“Good evening.” said Cynthia, be-
fore she was really aware what had
occurred.
"May I ask where you are going?”
politely inquired the stranger.
“I'm going to dinner,” she an-
nounced firmly, with her head held
proudly erect.
“May I beg that you will take pity
on me—and dine with me?” asked the
man as he stood In front of her, hat In
hand. “I am a stranger in the city
and lonely. Task you to grant my
Fequest, as a beggar would ook for
alms. Won't you give me the pleasure
of your company for an hour while we
dine?”
Cynthia looked tm squarely in the
eyes—eyes that met Hers with frank
straightforwardness. “Thank you,”
she sald with quiet dignity. .“f wilt
aine with you with pleesure. I have
not dined for two days.”
He looked at her with a start and
his eyes read the truth in the face
before him. Quickly he guided her
to a quiet restaurant not very far
away, where they found a table for
two neat an open window.
For two hours they chatted pleas-
antly, lingering over the dinner.
Cynthia liked the man. They were
congenial companions. If only she
had met him In another way. She
could not continue an acquaintance
formed thus.
“What shall we do next?” he in
quired cheerfully. “It's too hot tor
the thestor. Shall wo take a drive
by the river side? It’s early and wo
can be back by ten if you wish.”
‘This proposition fitted in with her
half-formed plan; so she agreed.
“1 will wait in the reception room
while you order the taxi,” sho mur-
mured; but as soon as she saw him
disappear down the corridor she
hastily scribbled a note at the writ-
ing table and gave it to the maid,
with Instructions to hand it to the
gentloman when ho returned,
“You have probably saved my life.
‘Thank you—and goodby,” {t read.
‘The next minute pedestrians on
‘Thirty-ftth street were amazed at the
sight of a stylishly gowned young
woman running swiftly along that
quiet thoroughfare.
Was it fate that sent her directly
into the arma of Mrs. Forbes, the 60-
ofety editor on the Star, and the one
‘woman in all New York that she knew
at all well,
“Cynthia, child, whatever is the
trouble?” asked that Kind soul, as she
caught the excited girl by the arm
and faced her about in the direction
she was going.
“Oh, Mrs. Forbes, they told me you
were out of town.”
“Twas. Just got back an hour ago.”
‘Then between Iittle gasps of laughter
and tears, Cynthla told her story to
the sympathetfe woman by her side.
“You are to stay with me tonight,
Cynthia; and tomorrow I'll introduce
you to our managing editor, He Is
looking for some one to report wom:
en club news, and I'm sure you can
land the Job. At any rate, we'll try.”
“Now you must get to bed, You are
all worn out and nervous,” continued
the motherly little woman, as she led
the way up the steps of an apartment
house where her own rooms were the
daintiest and coztest:tn the building.
In her dreams Cynthia saw the gray
eyes of her dinner companion and
wondered if ever again she would look
into their kindly depths.
Frogs’ legs, at which people turned
up thelr noses in disgust only a fow
years ago, have now become 80 popu:
lor an article of diet that no fewer
than 6,000,000 frogs a year are killed
In Minnesota alone to supply the de-
mand. The northwestern frogs are
the most delicate, but the biggost aro
the southern bullfrogs. The latter are
not #0 sweet or tender an'tho former.
No Wife for Him,
e-what do I want with a witet™
snorted Bachelor Bookwedder, on read-
tng an old maid’s reasons’ for not
wanting a husband. “I have a game
rooster that Is vain about his fine
foathers, a goat, that chews the rag,
an aeroplane that gets me up in the
air, and an automobile that keeps me
all the time broke!"—Judge.
What Was the Text?
"T select my text,” began the ybung
layman, “from the Book ot Natur It
is Inscribed on'overy teat, which clibes
to every tree, in the ibrary ofthe
forest—tho latter clause of the fol
branch, and the third twig.”—Juadp'a
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Mr. 0. V. Thomas,
REAL ESTATE MAN WELL | | Mr, Toomae tas sod more property
to colored people during the 1ast few
LIKED BY PATRONS. | onthe than any otter ieea is the
city of Chicago, the reason for this
Mis. Nei Peonian: Has: Many Eletils| Bor ge at He Pe a
Among His Patrons—An Honorable, guaranteed to have a clear title and
Upright Business Man, ite wameiinaehe Sale eee gee
+ Mr. O. V. Thomas, south side repre-
sentative of Frederick H. Bartlett &
Co, is one of Chicago's most prom-
Inent real estate men,
| He i8 Working exclusively among
the colored people and is known as an
| honorable upright man in whom any-
one placing their confidence has yet
to say anything against his dealings.
Those who have purchased property
from him are welt satlefied and are all
| boosters for him,
Remember that truth, the most im-
portant and encouraging of all truths,
Your life may not seem worth whtle,
the sacrifices that you make for oth-
jers may not seem worth while, But
RO good thing fs ever lost. And he
who does his duty contributes for-
ever to the sum Total of that which
1s good in the universe.
Good Idea for Extension Table.
‘The extra leaves of an extension
table invented by a Pennsylvanian are
carried beneath the top when not in
Use and raised into place and fasten-
ed there by turning @ pair of thumb-
screws. 7
Speaking of rubber atrocitiles, an | «uresith doesn't always bring b
automobileowning friend of ours had Sweats Soca always: bring pare
@ blow-out in a brand new tire when | 2e88,’ Temarked the youngster w!
12 miles from the nearest garage. Not the large spectacle. ae Seat cal
to mention the price of tennis balls, | {be tMer Mid. | “ook at me covel
which 1s 45 conte, as opposed to 35 | Yonder. He's got two cents and he
cents ten years ago. can't decide between lollipops and ice
- cream.”—Pittsburg Post.
Se Os
Expert in All Kinds of Hatr Work
Se seat for Always Young Cream Co. All goods handled by her are guar-
apteed under pure food law, June 30th, 1906. Once used ed you. will never be
without it, Mail,orders promptly filled.’ 500 agents wanted, Send all money
to this city. 15 West 29th Street, CHICAGO, ILL.
Ladies, Learn to Make Your Own Hats
We
for a hat when you can make
: Why Pay $25 (io uihometocd tess?
| MRS. EDNA KING MAXWELL
ye Experienced Millinery Teacher
Tat wth he Doulas Sebel Cieiiat Obi
Latest desis in Millinery taught in six weeks’ course. Fall Classes begin
| at eh anette, Cea, Fal Sl
| MRS. E. K. MAXWELL o 3128 VERNON AVENUE
—THE—
. .
Western Life Indemnity Company
(ESTABLISHED 1884)
Is one of the few life insurance companies that
does not discriminate against color, either in class
of policies or premium rates. It also maintains:
offices in several large cities for colored district
agency managers, medical examinérs and agents.
It’s to your advantage financially to carry'a policy
in the old and reliable company.
CHAS. A. GRIFFIN, pisisict ‘Agency Manager
Office: 3022 Wabash Ave. - «= Chicago, Illinois
(Agents With Referance Wanted)
;
j <i . Calls promptly answered
6 fixe PW. GREEN
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\ Ee r 1 . CHICAGO t
~ i y Phorie Douglas S766
Sie: ‘Automatle 71-679,
Phove Douelas 4482 tecaatc Phone 71001,
The LaVerdo Cafe and Buffet. -
(Cafe Newly Opened) “¢ ier SN
3100-2 South State Streets. ay
Chicago, Hil. # ies
Chinese and American mu ca, High Ctess
4} ‘HARRY Ke LLY, Proprietors “f
No Good Thing Is Ever Lost.
Rubber Atrocities.
‘Mr, Thomas has sold more property
to colored people during the last few
months than any other man in the
city of Chicago, the reason for this
being that all property he sells is
guaranteed to have a clear title and
the payments are made to come
within the reach of all,
Anyone desiring 10 purchase
home or apartment, large or small,
will have no fear in placing all con:
fidence in him,
Mr. Thomas can not speak too
highly of the Defender for through its
columns he attributes the greater part
of his success,
On the last page of this issue you
will find the advertisement of Fred-
erick H, Bartlett & Co, for whom Mr.
‘Thomas is representative.
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; Hard Lot of Hindu Women,
According to reliable statistics,
Darely. one of one per cent, of the
144,000,000 of women in India are
able to read and write> and to none
of the hundreds of thousands of Hin-
du gods may these sorrowful Httle
dark women look for any ray of hope,
either in this world or in the world
to come, 4
Sald More Than He Meant,
‘The Candidate (having quoted the
words of an eminent statesman fn sup-
port of an argument)—"And, mind
you, these are not my words. This
is not merely my opinion. ‘These are
the words of a man who knows what
he's talking about.”
‘idee a ei
“Wealth doesn’t always bring happ!-
ness,” remarked the youngster with
the large spectacles. “Naw,” asserted
the other kid. “Look at me cousin
yonder. He's got two cents and he
can't decide between lollipops and ice
cream.”—Pittsburg Post.
THE WORLD OF SPORTS
FOOTBALL
BASEBALL
BASKETBALL
Englewood braced and fought Wen-
dell Phillips to almost a standstill
Suturday. Mosely
ae] wag played at end
gees} and Motley went
Page lin a left half.
YM .,o% 4| These two lads re-
eee) peatealy broke up
Teme. *| tho interference of
ee ites sc...| the red and. black
lam, Or | team. The great
Hh PEE) sprinting ot Wen-
ee aati i. Gene:
Sls
oa
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Pic ep aia Pisa,
Back only saved them from defeat.
Mosely was sent over the line for
Englewood’s only touchdown.
Assistant Coach Parkor’s Hyde Park
boys were beaten before they entered
the game against Oak Park, but fought
it out and kept the score from being
Uke the usual one Oak Park has run
vp. There fs a lttle strife in_ tho
orange and blue squad and Hyde
Park took advantage of it. Oak Park
has too many individual stars who
are jealous of one another.
Dr. Young has our sympathy, Jooks
Uke a case of “life's labor lost." ‘The
Northwestern team’went down at the
hands of Purdue. We know and feel
that Roy has done the best he could
under the circumstances. He has not
full charge; if he had things would
de different. What Hammet don’t
Amow about football would fill a book
and a half but he’s a close friend of
the purple’s prosident and thereby
dongs the result. When Hammet
vent to see the Chieago-Purdue game
Foung had full sway and the next
‘aturday they won.
‘The last game of baseball of the
'42 season in Chicago was won by
Union Glants when they defeated
© Murleys at Elston and Kedzie
enues. Sunday. The score was 2
1. All other games were cancelled,
) weather being too cold.
%he MarquetteNotre Dame game
\ be played in Chicago on ‘Thanks-
ing at the White Sox ball park and
crowd will be there of course,
ng little chance for our boys to
© a game with much success, We
our brothers in the south who
‘such games as the Lincoln-How-
Boward-Hampton and the Fiske-
2gee.
te Foster and his American
+ are in Los Angeles, Cal,, and
‘pect to hear from them’'in a
or 80.
three cornored deal with the
ind the Phillies, Murphy sur-
me by asking for Marsang, the
ban playing with the Reds.
‘8 would like to see Marsans
‘Cubs, but the deal isn't Hkely
wough as Murphy is looking
“shade” of it.
rs of admirers of Harvard
© why I said Harvard was
Tough with us as football
ell, Here you are; suppose
_-atiqnal ‘player, ' Brickley,
wai coioFed? “Do you think be could
Play against Princeton or the pre-
judived Vanderbilt team? Never will
the latter and not with the first,
MR. YAMADA,
‘The other race has got to get busy
‘with their cues. Here comes a Jap
along that looks like he is going to
take everything in sight. Hope he
does. He is only 24 years old, weighs
120 pounds and is only § feet 2%
inches in height and will go up aguinst
Demarest and Sutton, along with the
other cracks for the championship of
the world, which starts Nov. 11 in
New York.
Last week he breezed into Slosson's
Dilliard palace and soon had 200 Dil-
Nard fans in amazement with his
wonderful technique.
No player in the world has a better
masse shot and he makes those twist
shots with either hand, a thing few
Blayers have been able to do, But
his best work is with what is known
as the dead ball. He can deaden his
cue ball so it will not roll over six
inches, while the object ball is driven
around the table twice. This is a shot
I have seen Hoppe use and his match
with Yamada will be Interesting, iis
Graw ghot is perfect. he uses a nine-
en ifich cue made in hls native Land
le iS an average of 60 an inning
‘during: practice and has run 100, stop-
Ping [to try out some new shots,
ANSWERS TO QUERIES,
Pajal—My selection for an all-
Amofrican team for all times woula be
Bullock of Dartmouth, Bob Mérshall
at elads, Young and Gray at guards,
Johrwon of Nebraska, Jess Wright,
tack Jes, Les Pollard, ‘Bullock of Au.
dovj2r, Ransom, left halt back, full
ack and right half back respectively.
‘Wheeler of Milinols and Johnson of
Northwestem at quarter, W. H. Lewis,
center, Mathews, Hale Parker and
Shipley subs.
R. H, S—Don't decide any bets.
W. H—It was the umpire's fault
that ‘the man broke his leg. His team
mates should have made him stay on
third and then called the umpire, in
stead they helped him towards home
Knowing he couldn’t make It. Archer
tagged him out and all the Leland
Giants hollored. I saw the game.
They wore robbed a number o!
times, but that tlme they robbed
themselves.
FAMOUS ATHLETE
OVERLOOKED.
Clarence Brown, Former Stat Run
ner, Broad Jumper and Football
Player at Crane Technical High
School Overlooked In Some Way—
Jones Star at Lake High School.
‘eir-diditien 2A veins:
In some unaccountable way Clar
ence Brown, one of the former bright-
est shining Nghts in high echdol ath-
Jetics in Chicago, has been oveflooked
in the course of my prilclesy Met ae
reerettea Boon y
type of>
EDITED BY FRANK A, YOUNG
paper, namely, that the young colored
man who did ‘not take an active part
in athletics in hts respective schoo!
made @ gross mistake. This young
man 1s holding a position with the
International Harvester Company to-
day, which resulted trom bis assocla-
tion and standing In athletics, Brown
attended Crane Technical High school,
He was a member of both the track
and football teams, In 1910, his sec-
ond year, he represented his school
in the Gook County High school
traghmect and won the 440-yard run
the high broad jump, ‘That same
year Crane won the high school foot-
ball championship, on which Brown
played right end,’ ‘Through an accl-
dent, a broken leg; he was kept out
of the game last year and from what
soveral of the members of his team
said he missed being named on the
Cook County AN Star team. Brown
was one of the fastest and best de-
Tensive a8 well as offensive players
in the league, and as an end he stood
alone. It has been, and 4s now my
purpose in writing these articles to
give to our readers first the informa-
tion of what schools there are young
colored men active in athletics, sec-
ondly, to give credit to the young
man when, and only when, he merits
It, as sentiment is absolutely elimin-
ated in this matter, and thirdly, to ty
and show In what way, or if at all, he
is benefited through the association.
T want to encourage every young man
playing on a. team, but I will not
make a special article on him simply
because he has made the team; he
must do something and in doing some-
thing the daily papers will make it
known, and we cannot deny the fact
that they are an authority on all pro-
fessional and amateur games. It is
‘an undeniable fact that when a young
colored man makes 2 team he has
shown something that Is a degree
better than bis adversary, and in many
cases even when that proof is visible
he is not given an opportunity; there-
fore, it is always gratifying to see a
colored man on a feam, asa chance is
all we ask in any waikc of life.
Mr, Young in his article along this
line last week gave a list of and
showed that the colored man was al-
ways in the front ranks in the large
colleges as well as in High schools,
but it is not a question of what they
have done; it is a question of today,
with all the surrounding elements of
prejudice does or will it help to ele-
vate the conditions, which are as
strong In the schools as it is any-
where else, I claim that it will be-
cause of the close contact that ath-
letics brings the two races, ‘The case
of Brown is one of the many indica-
‘tions of that fact. When one of our
young colored men graduate from
High school, if it is necessary, and in
nine cases out of ten it is, he has
some one that he can approach
towards helping him to secure a posi-
tion or the best method towards en-
tering college, and particularly if he
‘has been prominent in atbletics, When
the colored young man seeks the
‘help of some prominent alumnus, it is
‘not for money or clothing, but for
bi influence he is able to bring to
bear. There are five young colored
‘men playing regularly and subbing on
‘High school teams this season, in Chi-
cago, but none of them have done
‘anything that warrants special men-
‘tion, other than Farrell Jones, quarter
back on Lake High, Jones, notwith-
standing his playing on a weak team,
4s, trom what the daily papers have
said after each game he has played,
including oll of sae pepert last: sur
day, spoke of him as “an individual
: star.” “He is the only colored young
man that has played, within the last
fifteen years, quarterback on a high
‘school team in Chicago. Many a star
‘has played on a weak team, but that
does not have any drawback to his
showing bis worth to his team. ‘The
individual player will on all oc-
jcasions show his individual strength
‘whether he is playing with a weak
‘or strong team, and thereby com-
/‘manding credit for his work, Every
player on a football team has a duty
to fuldll, which is quite difterent, from
most athletic games; when he fs not
actively carrying the ball, he 1s play-
Ang offensively, helping the man with
the ball, and when, the opponents
have the ball, he is playing defensive-
ly, therefore ‘he is constantly in the
oe
INTERNATIONAL
° FOOTBALL.
Carlisle Indians and University of
Toronto Play Fine Exhibition Game
—First Match of Its Kind—Tackling
of the Indians a Feature—Notes of
the Game.
(Special to The Chicago Defender.)
By ClIff French.
Toronto, Nov. 7.—Hurrah, it has
beon tried at Inst!—International foot-
ball. Monday, Oct. 29 the Carlisle
Indian school ‘and the University of
Toronto played an exhibition football
match which turned the eyes of the
football world on Toronto, because it
was the first match of its kind ever
played between the two countries,
From a spectator's polat of view the
ame was very spectacular, even
though the Toronto team was emoth-
ered by the score of 60 to 1, The
Carlisle Indians were supposed to
have played the entire game under
American rules but after whitewash-
ing Toronto in the first half to the
tune of 45 to 0, talked over the
Canadian rules about ve minutes in
their dressing room and decided to
play the third quarter under Canadian
rules apd then after holding Toronto
to ong‘Doint at Toronto's own ;ame
decideh to Snish the game oder
Canagian rules and then. not/’only
j * “hele own but geared #va/ pointe
‘ing for the Canadians, {hereby
aly showing their super’ ‘y at
‘merlgan game, but pi con-
‘thatthe Ganauind — 0 f8
‘mpler tana
ers cs
SPORTING
NEWS FROM
THE COLLEGES
—EXPERT
COMMENT
“Red” Dixon, Varsity’s full back,
said after the game that Varsity was
ike 80 many ten pins setting up in
a bowling alley waiting for somebody
to knock them down, ‘The tackling of
the Indians was one of the features,
Coach Warner, after the game,
when asked what-he thougtt of the
two styles of play, stated that while
the Canadian game, what little he had
seen of it, was not near as scientific
as the American game and did not
have the team work of the American
game, there were four or five
plays in the Canadian gamo If added
to the Amertean game would help It
considerably. And that Canada had
lots to learn about football yet from
the United States. Final score, Car-
lsle Indians, 50; Varsity, 1,
‘The line-up:
Carlisle—Large, left end; Guyon,
lett tackle; Pratt, left guard; Bergte,
center; Busch, right guard; Calne,
right tackle; Vittermach, right end;
Areassa, quarter; ‘Thorpe, left half;
“Wheelock, right’ half; Brocker, full
‘back. .
Varsity—Park, left end; Kenedy,
‘left tacklo; Sifton, lett guard; Bell,
center; Kensella, right guard; Rankin,
right tackle; Newton, right end; Cory,
‘quarter; McKinzie, left half; Gail,
right half; Dixion, ‘tull back,
American referee, Mr. Chadwick;
Canadian, Dr, Hendry and Mr. Grimth.
/_ Subs, Lawson for Dixion, Hazard for
‘Newton, Dessitte tor Cory and Cory
for MecKinzie.
Notes.
Canadians could not take any Ies-
‘sons on interference or the forward
pass because neither could be used
‘in the Canadian game. But one thing
they could take lessons from Carllsle
[in would be tackling. Te was treat
fa sce Catliste tackle, It was a caso
ot get the man low and hard, not
some of the time but ‘all of the time,
and they never missed their man,
Jim Thorpe is without doubt the
world’s greatest athlete. He domon-
strated the fact by his wonderful
‘work. Large, powerful as well as
‘lightning fast, he was an extra hard
‘man to bring down, and it generally
ook three oF four and sometimes six
hefore he could be nailed,
| Some critics have said that Amer.
‘leans had no such booters of the
| Hughio Gall tyne, but evidently those
writers never saw Thorpe in action.
‘With a slight breeze against him
in the third quarter he repeatedly
outkicked Varsity, and it was nothing
new to see him attempt drop kicks
from sixty yarde out.
THE WEEK IN TOLEDO.
Church and Other Affaire of Note—
Personal.
By Turner Tandy.
Toledo, Ohio, Nov, 8—The Mothers’
Club met at the home of Mrs. J. F.
MeCoglin, 925 City Park avenue, Fri
day afternoon,
‘The Julia H. Brown Circle of Kings’
Daughters were entertained by Mrs.
T. G, Reese of Fremont, Ohio, at the
home of Mrs. W. E. Clemens’ Thurs-
day afternoon.
‘The Men's League met at the Third
Baptist church Wednesday evening.
Mr. Chester Richmond, one of our
best known citizens, was badly in-
jured last week by being struck bya
Street car. He is being cared for at
St. Vincent’s hospital,
Mr. Wm. Butler, who has been a
resident of this city for thirty years,
left Saturday for Los Angeles, Cal,
where he will join his sister, Mra,
Molly Hamilton, and his nephews,
Harry and Frank Hamilton; all for
merly of this city, Mr. Butler's em-
ployer, for whom he drives an auto-
mobile, 1s also leaving for California
and will retain Mr. Butler in his em-
ploy.
‘Mrs, Anne Talbert, who has been in
Perrysburg since March, will leave
Tuesday for Topeka, Kans., to spend
the winter,
Little Wayne Casey is quite ill at
his home on Indiana avenue.
Mrs, Mary harris was ill this week
with a cold. 7
‘Mrs. Bowshell of Cincinnati is in
this clty for an indefinite stay.
Mrs. Gilford Payne has returned
from Terre Haute where she has been
visiting her mother,
Mr. Walter Penn has got to be quite
askater. He does the most wonderful
stunts on skates ever seen. He has
hit the floor pretty hard several times
but as yet has not broke any boards,
Miss Hva Jones continues to be
quite m. 4
Miss Edna Allen was ill this week,
Mr. Wellington Johnson, residing at
114 Nebraska avenue, was fatally hurt
Tuesday morning by being struck by
an automobile, He died shortly after
delng taken to St, Vincent's hospital.
Mr. Johnson has been employed by
the Toledo Railway aud Light Co. for
a number of years as a track repairer.
Profit In Travel.
It 18 worth while to journey, to
Jearn how deceptive is that mirago
‘which forms itself out of distance and
nothingness; how good ts the land
about us, and the life that requires no
translation to be understood—N,°8.
Shaler,
——___.
+ Australian Desert.
Australia’s northern territory is the
lea large unpeopled tract of habit-
ibT® land on the globe, Tt is alx times
the area of the state of Victoria. ‘The
cohntry is fertile, and ts watered by
numerous splendid rivers,
Keeps Bouquet Fresh,
A\nonspiilable flower vase, to keep
8 coksage bouduet fresh while it 18
Dolng' worn, has been “invented by -a
French woman,
yo Ee:
‘Thing politicr’ moving so fast
that so *th = “‘heolhorses are
having sep trom being
teak eet
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auaintance| was formed. Being’ a
steudy woi}ker and yet unfortunate,
she was colpelled to place her child
in the care\ot someone and the lot
fell to my shter and myselt. We be-
came attached to Mator and befriend:
ed her then and stand ready to do so
now, by sharing our home with her.
I shall never forget how glad she was
to see us the \day the reporter took
us over to thel hospital, 1 reminded
me of when shie was home with us.
The Chicago Defender has been the
only paper to assure this unfortunate
child that frlends, have organized to
aid her in her tline of trouble,” so
spoke Mrs Sarah\ Reed, 9609. Deat-
vorn street.\ Continuing, she said:
Report Condition to) Probation Offer.
“On the day wel visited Mator at
the Cook county hoslpital, shortly after
we saw ler pleturd in’ the. paper, 1
noticed a marked fyiferenco in the
stature of the eid and mentioned
it to my motheriibiaw. We then
asked the nurses why she looked so
peculiar, as she did rlot seom hersolf.
They replied she hall simply gotten
fat, as all was well \there. with her.
So, after we had lett the hospital, 1
could not feel right pver the Apeedy
change in the girl, wo then called on
Mrs, Gamer at 8020 Sitato atreet, and
reported Mator’s cage] to her and her
whereabouts. Mrs. Girner assured us
she would investigate Yt, but we heard
nothing tll the Chleae\’ Defender told
of her awful plight”
Help from Carlada.
Dear Ate, Abbott” © C” Pet 28 1812
render tonight T fond of he Me een oe
one of My Tee, Mator Aeeerstn ef Qo
Sewing sou fe, dollars i Ti 1s not
much bat Tele “the widewe Yates et
masy ave. all nelp thie ety and ase ORE
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MRS. BANE Conmmcary
COLEMAN
GOOD SERVICE}
REQUIRES GouD' CARE
Employer Must Study the Efficiency
of Both Hie Work People and Hie
Machinery—Fresh Air.
‘The successful manufacturer is the
man who makes things of elther use
or beauty, or both, and who sells
them at a good, fair profit, But be-
fore be can do this he must have the
equipment in both skilled labor and
the best and latest improved machin-
ery to enable him to turn out as good,
or a better, product than his closest
competitors; otherwise he will fail.
The successful manufacturer must
also look carefully after the matters
of cost and waste. Also he must
study the efficiency of both ile work
people and his machinery. In other
woFds, he must know the capacity of
voth ‘these important factors in the
production of high class goods, ‘Then
after this has been determined comes
the equally important matter of main-
taining what may be called shop ef
fielency to the highest possible stand-
ards all the time. And in tho con-
sideration of this important item both
the employes and the machinery
should have equal attention, :
‘The machinery must be given prop-
er care, must be Kept clean, free from
dirt and properly oiled and adjusted,
to the end that it can be made to do
its full capacity of work and do it in
the best possible manner. So with
the employes, they must have that
consideration ‘for their comfort and
health that will enable them to do
the best work; that is, the products
of their labor and skill must measure
up to the highest possible standards
in both quality and quantity it the
factory or shop is to be profitable to
doth employers and employes.
Nothing incapacitates work people
80 thoroughly and affects the quality
‘and Kind of work they turn out as
physical disability. In other words,
good health means good work and
bad health means bad work. So
then it should pay from the dollars
and cents standpoint alone to provide
proper light, plenty of fresh, whole-
some air, and the best possible sur
roundings as to cleanliness and com-
fort that the nature of the industry
will permit; and bear in mind,that the
best of ali these requirements are
none too good.
SPARKS FROM THE RAIL,
Winston's Splcy Gossip of Men and
‘Events In the Rallroad World.
Mr. John R. Winston, 4015 Cottage
Grove avenue, arrived Sunday morn-
ing at 9:30 a. m. from Kansas Clty,
Mo, and will be at bis post of duty
after Nov. 5 on trains § and 4 to Oel
wein, Ia, in the services of the
©. GW, railway as @ train porter,
80, men, get yourselves together, for
‘Mr, Winston has the Defonder each
week for sale at & cents per copy.
Subscribe for the Chicago Defender
through Mr. John R. Winston, 4016
Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, Il.
Mr. William Banks of Des Moines,
Ja, is on trains 1 and 2 from Des
Molnes to Kansas Clty, Mo., as train
porter.
Mr. Tug Wilson, 1068 West sth
street, Des Moines, Ia., fs on trains 1
and 2 as train porter in the service
of the C. G. W. railway.
Mr. A. H, Miller, 4809 Langley ave-
nue, is still running to St. Lous, Mo,
as train and chair car porter in the
service of the I. ©, railway.
‘Mr. Percy Lewis, 602 East 42d
street, is in the service of the A.,
& St. F, railway as train porter be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City, Mfo.
Mr. John R, Winston was given a
reception at 617 East Missourl avenue,
Kansas City, Mo, Friday, Nov. 1, by
Mr. William P, Gordon,'a lite long
friend of his.
Let us hope that “Dago Mary” wil
not reach Chicago. She is apt to
causa trouble here the same: as che
does in Kansas City, Mo. /
‘Wintna Out Greases Btalnc.
For grease stalnd on fast colors,
denzine can be used, For dry paint
stains, rub with equal{parts of turpen-
a alcohol.
Wrath I Mount:
nee * ree satd ate,
Won stop / playing
brid ‘toke (& band”.
DID NOT LIKE BRIDGE
PLAIN SPOKEN GUEST TOLD WHY
HE OBJECTED To IT,
Mollycoddie Talk and Stereotyped
Plffle Demanded By the Rulce
tess’ GREE ee Flies:
A certain large-featured, firm-jawed
man, with views on things, was “in.
vited out” the other evening, along
with his wife,
After the hostess had seen to it that
her guests were all well enough fed
that they wouldn't have any klek com.
ing, they all crumpled up thelr nap.
dns and filed into the front room.
‘They had been sented for about
forty-four seconde—frail women in
spacious plush or leather chairs and
the more ponderous men in the party
on delicate little gilt chairs out of a
child's playhouse set—the hostess an-
nounced beamingly that they would
“have some bridge.” Whereupon she,
assisted by her husband, a docile
looking little party, began to get out
8 couple of card tables,
“We've just enough for two tables,”
the hostess twittered on pleasantly.
‘"L wonder which of you are the best
players?”
The firm-jawed man had been
watching these moves with patient
resignation.
“Pardon ine if I seem to be casting
‘a wet blanket on the card feature of
the evening's entertainment,” he put
in casually, at this juncture, “but 1
don't play that bridge game.”
“Whaat! You don't” play bridge!”
exclaimed hostess and the rest of the
guests In unison—just as they might
have sald: “And you never eat
food!” :
“Nope.” repeated the firmdawed
man, “I never learned the game.”
“Oh, well, but we can soon teach
you.”
“No, I thank you. ‘The fact {e I
don’t care-to learn—again begging
your pardon for spoiling your plane.
You know, I never could stand for the
game dn| account of the mollycoddie-
Joh tal I hear ‘em gotting off when
they're af it—'Pray do,’ and a lot more
atereotypdd, pittle-piffle-who-talke-the-
pittle expressions. So that lets me
out. I fvon't play any gamo where
you have: to say things just the way
‘some felfow tells you to in a bank, I'd
Just as ebon play the old reliable sate
ad seq snout sr eeu
want to fit In a little game of seven-up
or nose} poker, or some other good
‘old-fashifned catd game suitable for
‘playing janywhere from a parlor to a
haymow, Til go you, but I'l have to
ask you to cancel any dates for me on
the ‘bridge proposition.”
‘Whereupon everybody glared at him
the rest of the evening for speaking
his mind so freely, and regarded him
8 an altogether “Impossible” per.
son,
But he did not mind. For he was
rewarded with the clear conselence
that goes with having stood by one’s
‘convictions,
Nebraska Pumice.
, Nebraska possesses extraordinary
deposits of pumice. Practleally the
whole state fs overlaid by natural de:
poslts of this substance, in all stages
of consolldation, from fairly solid rock
to the finest dust.
Pumice is a volcanic product, and
its presence in such large quantities
tn Nebraska and some adjoining states
ig taken to be evidence of former yol-
canic activity in that region. It ts
produced by the rapid expansion of
gases in lava, due to sudden release
of pressure, which either forms a very
Ugut porous rock or may completely
shatter the lava into dust, in which
state it may be transported great dle-
tances by wind and deposited in dritts,
In the western portion of Nebraska
there are impure masses of it, prob:
ably deposited im this way, one hun-
Gred fect or more in depth. Nearly
all the pumice or the volcanic ash
used in the United States Is made into
polishingpowder or incorporated tn
abrasive soap. Other uses are the
manufacture of semlfused alling-brick
or’ mineral wool or cement and of a
cheap kind of glass—Harper’s Weekly.
iia ie
The superintendent of the Johns
Hopkins Botanical Gardens, William
H. Witte, has given to the publle his
ingenious plan for automatically re-
cording changes in sea temperatura
yhen a ship 1s passing through the
foo flolds. Water flows through a
‘small tank in the bow of the vessel, in
which three distinct appliances serve
to record the changes <f tempera-
ture. “These include a high and low
thermometer, a copper plate which,
lengthening or shortening, operates a
lever and records the changes of
temperature on a revolving drum and
Berfes of tubes filled with alcohol, the
tubes being connected by a small alco-
hol filled pipe with a diaphragm which,
through a lever aud a pen, also records
the changes of temperature: on a
drum, All records may bo read in
the pilot house—Sclontife American,
Weles. eam the Sank’
‘When Weber and Fields got to
gether in January, after an elght-year
Separation, they hired as many of the
survivors of telr old company as they
could find.
‘There was one chorus girl, how:
ever, who seemed to Joo Weber's
critical eyes too elderly a’ veteran
even for the collection -which she
adored. He turned to William Ray
mond Sill, Flold’s man of atfatre, tc
whom he’ had intrusted the fob of
rounding up the old-timers.
"I don't seem to remember that
woman,” he sald. “Did she belong
to our original company?” — »,
“No,” satd Sill, “she didn't. A
nowspaperman’ asked me to give her
chance.” |
“Who was ‘that newspaperman,”
asked Weber, “Horace Greeley?”
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CRUTCHFIELD
WEDDING NOV. 27
Architect and Popular
her to Join Heart and
the Night Before Thanksgiv-
OUT IN ENGLEWOOD.
Weekly Letter from This Thriving
Section of the City—All the
News.
Mr. Edward J. Bowman and Mis
he marriage of Mr. Wesley Barley Miss Mary Crutchfield will be unized at 4914 Wabash avenue tuesday evening, Nov. 27. Rev. P. Roberta, M. D. will offload a bride-elect is a teacher in the schools. Mr. Barley is an archi- with Enrich J. Pateolski. This hitect does an annual business of 000,000. Mr. Barley is the man- and business superintendent. He is proven himself a valuable man. He is cut down the working force ex-enses of the firm one-half and in one months has cleaned up an in-ubedness of over $5,000. He started it in life as a scrub boy at 18th reet and Michigan avenue. He did I the heavy work about the house, later, when the trend of busness avaded that part of the boulevard, he was the man who conducted a crew to pull down the mansion and superintend the erection of a $0,000 building. Mr. Barley secured his early training in the Chicago night schools. The technical knowledge of his art he gleaned from a correspondence school. At the present time he is superintending $200,000 worth of buildings throughout the city. Both the bride and groom are connected with Quinan Chapel A. M. E. church.
BREAK GROUND FOR
THE STATE THEATER
Magnificent and Costly Playhouse to Be Erected at 35th and State Streets—Race Construction Company Putting Up
-211.172.45.1
Hundreds of workmen are busy this week digging the foundation for the new State Theatre, on the east side of State street, just south of 35th street. This latest amusement place along "the stroll" is being financed by the State Street Theatre Co. (Inc.), promotors of the theatres of which Mr. James T. Tank is president.
Mr. Tank is one of those broad-minded business men who was born without color prejudice and only recognizes men and women for their worth. Knowing that their latest venture was in a neighborhood thickly populated by the race, Mr. Tank gave the contract for erecting the building to our foremost company along that line. The Consolidated Construction Co. Mr. W. D. Allomlund, the manager, is constantly on hand to supervise the work, and the largest building ever built on State street by a member of the race will be completed in a few weeks.
Besides many other new features an up-to-date restaurant will occupy the entire second floor front.
POISONED BY
CABAGE SPROUTS
Wormy Variety of Succulent Vegetable Endangers Several Lives.
The succulent and appetizing cabbage sprout has brought disaster to two Chicago homes. Mrs. Gosselin, 10 E. 28th street, and Miss Theola Mary Cooper, of Mobile, became patients of Dr. Merwin W. Bibb this week, when, after a meal in which this delicious dish played an important part of her illness. It is reported that most of the ladies fell on the street and had to be taken home. Dr. Bibb, hastily summoned, pronounced the trouble as stated above. His prompt attention saved the patients' lives. "No more cabbage sprouts," said the convalescent patients to a Chicago Defender reporter.
MRS. ELIZA HILL FALLS DOWN
STAIRS; BADLY BRUISED.
Mrs. Eliza Hill, who resides at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lewis, 2745 Wabash avenue, fell down stairs early this week and sustained several bad bruises. Prompt medical attention alleviated the severity and the popular matron was reported "doing nicely" as we went to press.
MR. GEO. HOLT SAYS THIS IS "FAST, FAST WORLD."
"The world is moving so fast," says Mr. Geo. W. Holt, proprietor of the transwick Hotel, on Monday, when he was interviewed by a reporter of the Defender regarding his new auto declared that this is one "fast world." His car is of the latest pe and high speed.
OFFICER HATCHER BURIED.
uneral services over the remains
Policeman Hatcher, who died at
residence, 5821 Dearborn street,
week, were held in Bethel Church
day morning, Rev. Roberts, the
ir. officiated. Interment was in
wood Cemetery. Mr. Hatcher had
a member of the police department
for over twenty years. A large
of policemen attended the fu.
Pretty Compliment.
Diraella were visiting Strathe-
ve in the time of the old duke
lington. Going up to the bed
israel found his wife and her
oving the bed from one side of
m to the other. When he in
the reason, his wife said:
y dear, the duke sleeps on the
le of the wall, and if I lie
it I can boast that I have
ween the two greatest men in
"San Francisco Argonaut.
m "Mining Promctera." natives at Dacca, India, were invicted of swindling womtending that they had the al power of causing money with them to be doubled in 'rease' days' time.
Weekly Letter from This Thriving Section of the City-All the News.
Mr. Edward J. Bowman and Miss Bayone Gun were quietly married Thursday evening at the residence of Rev. Martin, Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Bowman left for Racine, Wis., on their honeymoon.
Mr. John W. Johnson and Mrs. Louise Bates were married Tuesday evening at the residence of Rev. Harris.
Mrs. A. J. Bowman of 6033 Loomis street entertained a few young folks Sunday afternoon in honor of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bowman.
The Hallowe'en party given by the young folks of Hope Presbyterian church was a success.
Mrs. B. Everage of 1346 North 61st street is on the slick list.
Mrs. Della Walton of 4737 Dearborn street entertained the Ideal Woman's Club last Friday. A report of the Hallowe'en party was given; $21.10 was received and tickets still out. Little Helen Adams won the doll and Mrs. Everage the soft pillow.
MISS MATTIE BRAMLETTE
DEBUTANTE.
Miss Mattie Bramlette was presented to society Nov. 1 at the home of her parents, 1341 West 61st street. The debutante was handsomely gowned in pink and white. She was presented by Miss Josephine Shaw. The presents were many and costly. The crowd of young and elderly people enjoyed themselves at cards and dancing.
The kitchen party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pryor, 6127 Centre avenue, on Oct. 31 was a grand success in spite of the incomplecy of the weather. The young ladies were attired in dust caps and gingham aprons, the young men in soft felt hats and shirtwaists. The beautiful home was decorated with the festoons of the day. About 11 p.m. the guests were ushered into the kitchen where an abundant supply of delicacies awaited them. Mr. Frank Pryor acted as toastmaster of the evening. Dancing, cards, fortunes, games and ghost stories told in the darkened rooms were the pastime of the evening. The guests departed; none wishing they had stayed at home out of the disagreeable weather.
POLITICAL WORKERS
DINED AT LEWIS' CAFE
Oratory, Music and Song for the Entertainment of a Brilliant Gathering.
Politics were set aside at a banquet last Saturday night at Lewis' cafe given in honor of James A. Ross of Buffalo, Phil Brown of Hopkinsville, Ky., and Hon. George W. Ellis of this city. The three guests had distinguished themselves as leaders of the three great political parties.
Mr. F. L. Barnett sounded the object of the gathering in an eloquent speech when he declared that he was glad that the time had come when members of his race representing all political faiths and affiliations could assemble, eat, drink and be merry, having the highest regard and feeling for one another. He said it marked an epoch in the Negro's political history.
Prior to the banquet the guests were charmingly entertained with music and song. Mr. James T. Brewington was responsible for the banquet and Mr. A. N. Fields acted as master of ceremonies. Over forty of the leading politicians, were present at the banquet. There was so much music during the evening that the entire speaking program was not carried out in its entirety. Major Franklin A. Denison, A. M. Moore, and W. Moore, F. L. Barnett and George W. Elshore were the principal speakers. During the speaking not a candidate's name was mentioned.
It was primarily a "good fellowship" banquet. Big Democrats, big Republicans and Progressives vied with each other in making the evening delightful. Letters were read from Phil H. Brown stating his inability to be present on account of the serious illness of his wife at Hopkinsville, Ky. Mr. Cary B. Lewis read telegrams from Bishop Alexander Walters, Norman E. Mack, Hon. Medill McCormick. Hon. George F. Porter, Harold Ickes, William Jennings Bryan and Col. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal. The banquet will be remembered in the political history of the Chicago Negro as one of the most unique and enjoyable ever given in the Windy City.
An umbrella made thief-proof by being locked in such a manner that it cannot be opened has been invented by a London cloak-room attendant. the locking device consists of a metal collar, one end of which may be slipped down over the rib-tips, and is securely locked to them by revolving the three metal rings. These rings bear the letters and numerals of the secret combination.
Home of Spruce Beer.
A popular beverage on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, particularly the bank fishermen, spruce beer. The neighboring Newfoundlanders probably introduced this drink among the French. It has been brewed in Newfoundland from a very early period.
A complainant at the Highgate (Eng.) police court described the call of a milkman as "Something between the scream of hyena and the faltered voice of a donkey."
All Needed in the World.
The affection of old is one of the greatest consolations of humanity.
I have often thought what a melancholy world be without chilliness.
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Imagine It!
DARING RESCUE BY WOMAN IN AN AUTO
Dashes After Runaway Horse and Grabs Child From a Flying Milk Wagon.
Somerville, N. J.—A runaway horse attached to a milk wagon, in which there was a six-year-old girl, dashed through the main thoroughfare of Somerville the other morning. The runaway had several narrow escapes from colliding with other vehicles and at one time the milk wagon, was nearly overturned. As the horse turned out of Main street and ran wildly down a road leading to the open country, the terrified child was at the side door of the wagon, as if about to jump. Mrs. Rogers, daughter of William Bradley of New York, who has a summer place here, started after the runaway in her automobile, stopping on the street corner to pick up police Edward Ramsey. The horse had a start of half a mile,
MILK
SHAPE HAND DIRTY!
The Terrified Child Was at the Side Door of the Wagon.
but the automobile, driven by Mrs. Rogers, closed the gap in about three minutes. Mrs. Rogers kept her runabout well up with the horse for a mule, as she was unable to pass it with the milk wagon in front of her swinging from side to side of the road. She warned the child in the wagon not to jump and kept teoting the horn of her automobile loudly, for all vehicles to clear the way.
John Logan, a young farmer, heard the warning in time to drive his conveyance out of the road. He also seized a horse blanket from his buggy and stood in the road waiting the approaching runaway. By a lucky throw he managed to cast the blanket over the horse's head. The blinded animal slackened its speed to such an extent that Mrs. Rogers was able to run her automobile alongside the milk wagon while Policeman Ramssey leaned out and caught the child safely in his arms as she jumped from the door.
The horse brought up head-on against a fence and was captured. The wagon was owned by S. P. Nevis, a milkman. The horse sprang away from Nevis just after he had unified it, and led down the street. Mrs. Rogers in a car of the most daring woman automobile drivers in this section.
ILL FROM MOCK LYNCHING
Prisoner of Wisconsin Sherif Confesses After Having, Rope Put Around His Neck.
Kenosha, Wis.—Andrew F. Stahl, sheriff of Kenosha county, staged a mock lynching near Salem the other day, with the object of frightening Wiley Davie, a negro, to confess stealing a shotgun. His plan was successful but the negro is now in jail, suffering from nervous prostration.
The gun was taken from Fred A. Sharp of Kenosha. He had been hunting, and was asleep in a field when the negro passed. He told a hard luck story, and Sharp gave him a dollar. Then Sharp went to sleep again, and the negro returned and stole the gun.
Sharp awoke, missed the gun and suspected the negro. Davie was captured. He did not have the gun with him, however, and protested that he had not stolen it. The sheriff believed the negro was lying and decided on a mock lynching scheme as a means of making him confess.
Several farmers surrounded the prisoner, and the sheriff told him he had better confess. Then one of the farmers got a rope. It was thrown over the prisoner's neck, and he was being marched toward a tree when he suddenly halted and called out. "Don't hang me, men; I'll tell where the gun is."
The rope was taken from his neck, and he led the sheriff to a nearby swamp, where the gun was found hidden.
"I guess that is some third degree, boys, and I am much obliged to you for helping it out," was the only comment of the sheriff, as he tucked the negro into the automobile and started for Kenosha.
Davie believes that the mock lynching was a bona fide uprising of the farmers against the black race.
CHASES MOUSE INTO PARLOR
very
Screams of Housewife Bring Aid and
Reptile With Captured Prey
is Killed.
St. Louis.—A big blue racer snake
pursued a mouse into the parlor of C.
P. Lampert's home in Brighton, Ill.,
and, paying no attention to
the screams of Mrs. Lampert, kept after
the mouse and caught it.
Mrs. Lampert ran from the room
hospitalally pulling on help. Her
husband killed the snake as it was about
to devour it. Captive
The blue
measured five feet
in length
believed to have follow-
ed it. Through a hole in a
shellfish
THE CHICAGO DEFENDER
BEAR CAPPED WITH A TIN MILK PAIL
Is Charged With Assault and Battery and Disturbance of the Frace. BRUIN'S SAD MISTAKE
In an Effort to Drain Bucket of Warm Milk Animal Gets Vessel Fast on its Head—Escapes Farmer's Bullets and Gets Out of Hide Yard.
Dangor, Me.—Somewhere in the wilds of northern Maine there is cruising a big bear, for whose arrest Pete Shinoda is issuing a suitable caped. Pete charges this bear with assault and battery, disturbance of the peace and larceny, and he is willing to go to almost any expense and trouble to get him. The bear can be identified easily. He is wearing over his head one of Tarrio's best ten-quart tin milking pails with five bullet holes in it, and on that account staggers about like a drunken man.
It was sunset at Shin Pond, which peaceful locally is a few miles north of Patten, and Mrs. Pete Tarrio, who is fat and fiffy, was sitting on a stool just outside the barn milking their best cow. Pete was just inside the barn door milking another cow. Suddenly Mrs. Pete was startled by a loud "woof," "woof" behind her.
At first she merely smiled and kept on milking, for she knew that her husband was a great joker and thought that he was trying to have some fun with her. But when she got a cuff across the back that knocked her sprawling, she knew that it was no joke. That Pete wouldn't treat her that way, and when she saw the cow gallop wildly off down the lane, she knew that one or something had declared war.
Scrambling to her feet as quickly as her two hundred pounds weight would allow. Mrs. Pete was astonished to see a 400-pound bear with his nose stuck into the pall of warm milk. She yelled to her husband, who came out, took one look, and raced to the house for his rifle.
While Pete was gone the bear lapped up most of the milk, and then, in an effort to get what was in the bottom of the pall, he lifted his head to allow the milk to run down his throat. That was a bad move to the bear, for the instant he tilted the pall the pall fell down over his neck and caught in the thick fur. He paused in a puzzled way, then began to run around in circles, occasionally butting into something, which had the effect of forcing the pall more firmly down over his shoulders.
Pete appeared with his rifle and took a shot at the blindfolded bear, the bullet making a nice round hole in the tn pall but not disturbing the animal.
W.
Took a Shot, at the Blindfolded Bear, at all. The bear raced around the barnyard like a hen with its head cut off, knocking over a churn, a beehive and a swinging clothes reel. Another shot made another hole in the pail but didn't stop the war dance, and the bear now raced across to the house, climbed up on the back porch and knocked into eternal smash three dozen jars of raspberry preserves that Mrs. Pete had set out too cool. He daubed his fur with the hot mess of sugar and berries, and thereafter everything stuck to him—burrs, feathers, dried grass and dust, so that presently he was a disgrace to bear society. Tarrilo's dog now took a hand and worried the bear, while Pete made more holes in the critter's helmet. Finally the bear, with muffled grunts and snorts of rage and fear, managed to steer cut of the yard and put off down the road toward Shin Pond.
Many of those who behead the apparion of the feathered bear wearing a tinnel helmet have taken pledge, which they keep until they know the circumstances.
FINDS HERD OF WILD BISON
Explorer Says They Number 800 Head and Are Guarded by Hudson Bay Indians.
Winnipeg, Man—Harry Radford, the American explorer, who left Edmonton, Alberta, three years ago for the north country, reached Trenton river last winter, and has been hunting there this summer, according to word just received by the Hudson Bay company.
News of his arrival at the bay across the Harren Lands was the first that had been heard from Radford in more than a year.
Radford says there are more than 850 wild buffaloes in the Slave Lake district in the Hudson Bay country. He says they are well protected, and that there is every reason to believe they will multiply suddenly. The Indians, he says, will not allow on
Lease of Edifice Was Originally Granted in 1693 to Body of French Protestants Ousted by Louis XIV.
London.—Swallow street chapel, Plecadilly, the home of the Thetleish church founded by the late Rev. Charles Voysey, has an especial place not only in the chronicles of English nonformity, but, strange as it may seem, of English Freemasonry. The lease was originally granted in 1693 to a body of French Protestants, expelled from their native country by Louis XIV. on the revocation of the Eldict of Nantes; but, in the closing years of the reign of Queen Anne the congregation was so much decreased by deaths and removals that the holding and the chapel erected thereon were transferred to a number of Scotch Presbyterians. The pastor of these latter was Rev. James Anderson, afterwards D. D., of Aberdeen, who was one of the most active
THE CATHEDRAL OF SAN MIGUEL
Corner of Old Swallow Street Chapel, among the organizers of English Freemasonry in its present form, and its earliest historian. Because of that divine's active services in the Hanoverian cause, when Jacoblitism was very strong in the land during the first two Georgia reigns, the Swallow street lease was renewed to him and his Presbyterian friends in the time of George II., the warrant for this being signed first by no less a personage than Sir Robert Walpole, at that time the all-powerful prime minister. And Walpole was so much impressed with this earliest Masonic historian that, not content with subscribing for a copy of his most voluminous antiquarian work, he shortly afterwards induced Queen Caroline to grant him £200 from the royal bounty.
WOMAN "DEAD" SEEKS MONEY
Nurse Fights for Estate Involving Award of Damages in War Century Ago.
New York—Miss Mabel E. Allen, her face glowing with health and her manner denoting the energy of the typical New England woman, has returned to her Brooklyn home from Boston, where she had gone for relief from a judicial decision, is legally dead. If that ruling is set aside, who has always earned her way as nurse and housekeeper, will become entitled to one-sixth of $27,000, with interest for from six to twenty years, according to the final decision.
The story has several curious angles. It dates back to French privateering of a century ago. Miss Allen became a character in it two years ago when H. W. Seimer, a Brooklyn postman, informed her on his rounds one day that he had read a newspaper paragraph in which she was mentioned as an heless who had died. He felicitated her on coming to life. Frederick P. Bellamy, a lawyer, brother of Edward Bellamy, for whom Miss Allen is housekeeper at 260 Henry street, Brooklyn, looked into the case for her and took steps to assert her rights.
The money involved was paid by France to the United States as a small item in the liquidation of damages to American vessels in West Indian waters by French privateers, when France and England were at war the early part of the last century. Out of more than $7,000,000 collected the sum of $27,000 was set aside for the account of Jonathan Merry, skipped of the schooner Polly, in trade between Boston and Santo Domingo. The French had seized the Polly.
These awards lay in the treasury in Washington until 1890, when an act of congress released them. Skipper Jonathan was the great grandfather of Miss Allen and of the five cousins.
GIRLS WITH 500 TRUNKS
United States Customs Officials Set
tie Dispute Over Baggage
of Singers.
New York.—A babel of protests in
highly pitched Parisian marked the
arrival of the steamer Philadelphia
from Europe, when 102 volatile
members of the French opera company
objected to the arrangements of the
customs officials over their baggage,
which consisted of about 600 pieces.
After patiently submitting to shril
expositations and most expressive
gestures, the customs men finally
permitted the baggage to be placed in
bond for transportation to New
Orleans.
Purchases an Entire Town.
Mount Vernon, N. Y.-Charles M. Ams, head of several Mount Vernon manufacturing firms, has just completed contracts for the purchase of the entire town of Turnerville, Conn.
His new property includes two factories, a hotel, several stores and a number of residences. Mr. Ams says he has purchased the town as in investment.
Saleslady in Society.
New York-Newport marvelled at the creations worn by a newcomer.
A week later a. he identified her as her salesman the van as Newport's unde.
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