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AMERRY CHRISTMAS "BOB" TEA TOWLES AFTER CONGRESSMAN "BOB" TEA TOWLES AFTER CONGRESSMAN Chicago Man Sends Red Hot Letter in Answer to the Hon. (?) Mr. Roddenberry, Congressman from the "Outlaw State," Georgia, to the National Body of Law Makers—The Chicago Defender Publishes Letter in Full—Writer Quotes Scripture to the Fire Eating Southerner Who Tries to Compete With Ben Tillman, the One Lived Sensationalist, and Who Runs Neck and Neck with the Renegade Blease. RACE OF VARIED HUES RIVALS THE RAINBOW. Who Is Responsible?—How Did It Happen?—Let Your Resolution Prevail, But Amend It So That If It Is a Crime for Men of the Race to Marry White Women Legally in the North, it Be a Misdemeanor for White Men to Mate With Negro Women Out of Wedlock in the South—What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander—Mr. Teatowles Wants to Know "If Roddenberry Can See the Point?" Last week Congressman Roddenberry of Georgia introduced a bill in congress to prevent men of the race from marrying white women. So bitter and vicious were his remarks that he has been condemned by the press and public throughout the civilized world. Among the first to give the firecating Georgia cracker a piece of his mind was Mr. Bob Teatowles of this city. His letter follows: "Your Massive Brain (?)." Chicago, Dec. 13, 1912. To the Hon. Mr. Roddenberry. mieve that all the mutuatos, quauos and octoorons are there other distinctions in the Negro race, but I will have to leave them to your massive brain for classification) in America were caused by Negroes marrying white women. High ideals Are Fine But— By all means let us have your resolution; but amend it so that if it is a crime for Negro men to marry white women legally in the north, it be a misdemeanor for white men to mate in Negro women illegally in the south. High ideals are fine but the practice of them is better. How Did It Happen? The contamination of animals by human beings is forbidden by the laws of both God and man. According to the tenor of your resolution, and the opinions of some governors, Negroes, being out of the pale of humanit, is an animal. Negroes were not marrying white women a hundred years ago, yet when I came into this world I found Negroes in such fantastic hues as to rival the rainbow. How did it happen? Like Begets Like. It is a scientific axiom that like begets like. They say also that there are exceptions to every rule. The propagation of Negroes must be the exception. Or perhaps it is the climate in this land of the free and the home of the brave. This condition, however, is not so noticeable in the interior of Africa. Quotes Scripture. I will quote you a passage of scripture. It may serve as a glass wherein you may see the innermost part of yourself. If so be, you are what I take you to be, a Christian gentleman, otherwise you could not grasp the eternal truth therein contained: "Woe unto you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but the inside is full of cavening and wickedness." BOB TEATOWLES. 1040 E. 47th St. Special to Defender. couver, B. C., Dec. 20—Mr. C. itte, who spent several thousand not August in trying to run sion from Chicago to the severely scalded here this was trying to get dinner wife returned from shop- his eagnerness to have 'y he overturned a boiler which burned his leg down. His condition vious. Notable Event Announced for January 22-23—Reduced Rates from All Points. Special to The Chicago Defender. Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 20.—The following announcement was issued from Principal Washington's office this week: "You are cordially invited to be present at the Twenty-second annual session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference, to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, January 22d, 1913, to be followed by the Workers' Conference on Thursday, January 23d, 1913." Plan and Purpose of Conference. The Tuskegee Negro Conference is, in effect, a mass meeting of the Negro people. It brings together representatives of the masses of the people, especially farmers and those who are working for them and with them, the teachers and leaders from all parts of the South. Its purpose is less to teach than to inspire. The first day is taken up for the most part with informal reports and personal experiences of representative individuals, the purpose of which is to afford a broad view of actual conditions and of what the people themselves, either as individuals or through their churches and the schools, are doing to improve them. The Workers' Conference. The second day is given over to what is called "The Workers' Conference," that is to say, a conference of teachers and others who are engaged in some definite form of work for the improvement of the masses of the Negro people. The Conference, which began twenty-two years ago with a meeting of a few farmers, ministers and teachers from the surrounding country, has extended its influence and strengthened its hold upon the masses of the people from year to year since that time. The record of its work is in thousands of individual lives which it has inspired with fresh hope and new ambition in the struggle for better things. Reduced Rates. As in former years a reduced rate will most likely be granted by the railroads. Person$ intending to be present should ask their ticket agents for the reduced rate granted on account of the annual Tuskegee Negro Conference to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, January 22 and 23, 1913. "BOB" CHURCH'S WILL TO BE ASSAILED Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Napier of Vancouver, Pass Through City En Route to Memphis, Where Mrs. Napier Will Contest Her Father's Will. Early this week Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Napier spent several hours in the city en route from their home in Vancouver, B. C., to Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Napier is one of the daughters of the late Robert Church, the well-known Southern millionaire, whose death some months ago caused universal regret. Mr. Church had several children, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, is one of them. They claim that Mrs. Andrew Napier (a half sister) has no claim upon the estate, but her attorneys think otherwise, and a lively legal battle is expected. Attorneys for the Napiers are authority for the statement that Mr. Church had always recognized her as his daughter. She was his oldest daughter and he had her educated at Fisk University. She was born in New Orleans. During an interview with a Chicago Defender reporter Mr. Napier said that Vancouver offered splendid chances for bright men and women of the race. While in the city Mr. and Mrs. Napier were the guests of Mrs. Napier's life-long friend, Mrs. Samuel Prentice, 3609 Vernon avenue. BRONZE BUST OF THE LATE ROBT. T. MOTT. What Has Become of the Memorial Association and Where Is the Money? Several inquiries have been made by reporters for the Chicago Defender as to what has become of the association organized to place a bust of the late Robert T. Mott in the lobby of the Pekin Theater and what had become of the money collected for that purpose. It has been suggested that if the bust was not to be purchased, the money would make an acceptable Christmas gift for Provident Hospital or the Old Folks' Home. Not having any information on the subject, The Chicago Defender takes this means of asking those who know. RACE PROGRESS IN BROOKLYN. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 20—The citizens here are elated over the fact that they are to have an up-to-date restaurant. Messars. Edgar M. Miller and Isaiah Walker are the proprietors. CHICAGO, ILL.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1012. MISS NELLIE CALLO- WAY RETURNS FROM EUROPE Only Intended to Stay Two Weeks, But Remained Two Years—Visits Many Old World Cities—Attends Funeral of S. Collaridge Taylor. FAMOUS COMPOSER WORTH $10,000. Miss Nellie Byron, 11-Year-Old Niece, Returns With Her—First Visit to America—Young Miss Was Born in Germany—Speaks Several Languages. Miss Nellie Calloway has returned to Chicago after two years spent abroad, but her friends say that she only went to stay two weeks. Miss Calloway admits the fact, but explains the matter by saying that "they made it so pleasant for her that she just couldn't help it." Miss Calloway went abroad to visit her sister, Mrs. Charles Sumner Byron, who resides in Germany, Mr. Byron is one M. Miss Nellie Calloway. of the famous Byron boys. His wife is a favorite singer across the water and Miss Calloway accompanied her through Holland, England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. She attended the funeral of the late S. Coleridge Taylor and spoke in glowing terms of the respect and love his fellow-r had for him. His wife and children she characterized as "dears" and she read extracts from the English newspapers which showed that the famous THE WOMEN'S HOLIDAYS composer left an estate valued at $10,000. His wife will receive about $5,000 a year as the royalty on his compositions. Little Miss Nellie Byron, her 11-year-old niece, accompanied her home. It was the little girl's first visit to America. She speaks several languages, sings sweetly, but being born in Germany, her English is spoken with a decided accent. Miss Byron expects to visit her father, Mr. Charles Sumner Byron, who is touring the West, in a few weeks. Miss Calloway came home to be with her mother, but she loves the (Continued on page 7.) 800 PROPERTY OWNERS IN KANSAS CITY. Property Assessed at $1,400,000—Race Shows Marked Improvement—90 Business Places. Kansas City, Kan. Dec. 20. A recent investigation in this city reveals some interesting facts about the race citizens. It has been found that of out of a population of 23,566, eight hundred were property owners. The property was assessed at $1,400,000. Fifty owned property valued at $10,000; one hundred between $5,000 and $10,000; two hundred between $1,000 and $5,000; and four hundred and fifty between $500 and $1,000. The figures go to show that the race in Kansas City is worth $28.01 more than the average in the United States. A canvass among 8,000 employed in Kansas City between the ages of 14 and 60 give this result: Barbers, 240; dentists, 4; doctors, 23; janitors, 350; laborers, 5,000; lawyers, 6; police service, 3; postal service, 2; barber shop porters, 375; hotel porters, 140; saloon porters, 600; Independent proprietors, 90; pool hall owners, 75; preachers, 25; pullman service, 140; railway service, 250; teachers, 30; teamsters, 210; waiters, 510. R. R. PORTER GETS FORTUNE FOR MRS. HEINZE Judge Tompkins Grants Divorce and Gives Noted Woman the Custody of Her Child and $1,233 a Month on the Simple Testimony of Pullman Car Porter. Special to The Chicago Defender. Newburgh, N. Y., Dec. 20. Although the sleeping car porters have always been abused, poorly paid and the butt end of the joker from Maine to California, yet one here today proved the salvation of a woman seeking a divorce and his testimony alone gave her a fortune and the custody of her child. Custody of Child and $1,233 a Month. It was in the Supreme Court Tuesday when Justice Tompkins granted a divorce to Bernice G. Heinze from Fritz Augustus Heinze, the former "copper king." The justice gave the custody of the couple's only child, a boy, to the mother. He also directed the defendant to pay Mrs. Heinze $1,000 a month alimony and her rent in an up-town apartment house, amounting to $233 a month. Porter Only Witness. Only one witness was called, a porter on a sleeping car on the Union Pacific railroad. He identified a photograph of a man alleged to be Mr Heinze and an unidentified woman, who he said were passengers in a stateroom of his car Sept. 26 last. As Heinze did not appear to contest the suit the justice awarded the decree to the wife. CHOIR CARRIES OFF SINGING PRIZE Baptist Sunday School Wins Banner Over White Competitors—Preacher Held for Assault and Battery. . . Pittsburgh Pa., Dec. 20 (Special).— Wednesday night Mr. William Strothers, superintendent of the Carron Street Baptist Sunday School, led his choir into a singing contest in the Third United Presbyterian Church, Shady and Northumberland avenues, and carried off the singing honors against half a dozen white Sunday school choirs that took part in the contest. One of the features advertised for the annual convention of the Seventh district of the Allegheny County Sunday School Association, held yesterday in the Third United Presbyterian Church, was a singing contest between the various schools of the district, which desired to compete. The prize was a handsome banner. Rev. A. S. Dickerson, a Negro, pastor of the Church of God, Saints of Christ, was held for court on Thursday on an assault and battery charge, the result, it is said, of the beating up of Louis Mugurman, of 2340 Wylie avenue. The latter, who conducts a hardware store, is said to have refused to replace a gas light fixture Dickerson bought from him three weeks ago. Dr. George C. Hall, the noted physician and surgeon, has been invited by Dr. Booker T. Washington to deliver the dedicatory address at the new hospital at Tuskegee Institute in February. It is regarded as a great honor by the medical profession throughout the country and upon this occasion there will be present some of the leading white and colored surgeons of this and other countries. Mr. Jullus Rosenwald is arranging a special party for the occasion. After delivering the address, Dr. Hall will remain at the new institution several days to do some operations and to hold a clinic. R.R. TO HAVE SPECIAL CARS FOR BABIES Overworked Porters Rejoice Over Proposed Improvement — Parents Unmindful of the Fact That He Is Not Their Special Nurse. CONDUCTORS WILL WELCOME CHANGE A Nursery Car by All Means—So Says P. S. Eustis, Traffic Manager of the Burlington System, and Everyone Else in Railroad Work. The vast army of railroad porters that center in Chicago are rejoicing. And the cause of their joy is the contemplated "Nursery Car" on the palatial trains that are maintained on the various railroads over which they run. They find reason for being happy in the fact that although poorly paid and overworked, they did not start the reform and it was the renowned P. S. Eustis, traffic passenger agent of the Burlington system, who first realized that the children should have special accommodations when travelling on railway trains. Railroad Official Starts Movement. The idea that the railroads should have a special car for children was announced at a meeting of passenger agents held at the Hotel Sherman Inst week. At that meeting Mr. Eustis said: "We should either demand full fares for infants in arms and babies traveling with maids or else put on a special baby car, according to communications I am constantly receiving from members of the traveling public. Have a Separate Coach for Babies. "And after all, why not have a coach, for babies and their mothers or courses on overland and limited trains of long hauls? It is surely a feasible feature and worth pondering. It would be a boon to other travelers also, for one of my complainants insists that all of our through trains out of Denver are filled more or less with squalling infants." A daily newspaper published an elaborate account of this meeting, but it only told the views of the mother and conductor, but not a word about the porter, and every one who travels knows that it is The Porter and not any one else who has to care for a child on a train. What the Porter Hears. "Say, Porter, how can I warm this milk?" "Say, Porter, will you give baby a drink?" "Say, Porter, can you close that window over there?" "Yes, madame, in a minute; yes, madam, at once." But Madam forgets that she is only one of a dozen in that coach with children and that there are many others without children who as he goes up the aisles have such wants as these: "Say, Porter, can't you get me a pillow?" "Say, Porter, what's the matter with this window?" "Say, Porter, what time do we reach 'Blesse'?" Who Suffers Most? What is the porter to do? Who suffers most, mother or conductor? Can you see the point? Any one interested, please answer. The Chicago Defender welcomes the "Nursery Car" and stands ready to recommend competent porters for every one that is run. It also will furnish maids understanding the care of children and a physician, no matter how long the run. Chicago Defender Backs Porters. Our plea is in behalf of the porter. Away with the talk of the inconvenience to the mother and the conductor and come down to the simple truth—the poor porter. Remember, "the Chicago Defender always defends." Struck by Street Car, But Fender Picks Him Up. Little George Walter Price, Jr., 4 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Price. 5765 La Fayette avenue, had a narrow escape from death when returning home from kindergarten this week, in company with an older child. He was struck by the street car, but providentially was picked up by the fender and escaped without a scratch. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 20.—The Philadelphia Times celebrated its twenty-eighth anniversary by purchasing an $8,000 building, into which it is shortly to move. TELEPHONE THE CHICAGO DEFENDER, DOUGLAS 3339. Catholic Order of Foresters Elects Robert Lincoln Hall Chief Ranger for the Sixth Consecutive Time. St. Monica Court No. 279, Catholic Order of Foresters hold their annual election Wednesday, December 11th, and elected Robert Lincoln Hall Chief Ranger for the sixth consecutive year. The other officers elected were: Richard J. Coppe Vice Chief Ranger; A. A. Wells, Pat Chief Ranger; W. Arthur Falls, Recordling Secretary; Frank L. Boone, Financial Secretary; Ulysses G. Blair, Treasurer; Trustees, William Vernon, Bernard J. Bowen, F. Nye; Speaker, Geo. Oliver; Delegate, Geo. A. Turbull; Alternate, Ellie A. Smith. Council 23 Years Old. After the meeting a Chicago Defender interviewed several of the members who declare that St. Monica is one of the greatest organizations in existence. It is 23 years old, has a membership of 130. The membership is made up of both colored and white men. The installation of officers will take place in the near future. It will be one of the social events of the season and everything is free. The Catholic Order of Foresters of which St. Monica Court is a part, has a sinking fund of $300,000 and the insurance department is rated at $138,000. Ladies' Court Elect Officers. The annual election of officers of Branch 67, Ladies' Catholic Benvolent Association, was held Dec. 9th. The following were elected: Mrs. Elsie Hall, President; Mrs. Mabel Hickey, First Vice President; Mrs. Mabel Marks, Second Vice President; Mrs. Barber, Past President; Mrs. Cope, Recorder; Mrs. Allene Vernon, Financial Secretary; Mrs. Middersloff, Treasurer. OHIO HAS A SUC CESSOR TO DUNBAR Mr. Elliott Blaine Henderson Delights with the Brilliant Reading of His Own and Dunbar's Poems—Theater Manager Fined Under Civil Rights Law. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Toledo, Ohio Dec. 20. Mr. Elliott Blaine Henderson of Springfield O., who has, to considerable extent, taken the place of the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, as the literary representative of the race in Ohio, is in Toledo to distribute copies of his seventh book of verse. The volume, recently issued, contains 50 pages of verse, mostly in the rich Negro dialect of which Henderson, although northern bred, has grasped the real essence. The book is a compilation of verses on many topics, whimsical and otherwise, and is entitled "Jes' Plain Black Fo'ks." It contains some meritorious poems, not in dialect, of which a notable example is "The Old Veterans." Mr. Henderson, whose education consists chiefly of what he has been able to obtain by the "ruious application of meager men" who has sustained himself, personal sale of his book, a reader and in Toledo has readings of his own and Dunbar's poems. Steubenville, Ohio—John Polites, manager of the Rex theater here, who was convicted of violating the race discrimination statute in refusing colored citizens admission to his theater, was fined $50 and costs. AROUND "THE LOOP." The Chicago Defender on Sale at All News Stands. Ask for the Chicago Defender at all news stands in the "loop" district. It is on sale there every Saturday morning. eGt The Defender habit. Look for a Defender sign everywhere newspapers are sold. "The World's Greatest eat Weekly Newspaper" on sale everywhere every Saturday morning. Price 5 cents per copy. Ask for The Chicago Defender. REMEMBER THE POSTMAN CHRISTMAS During the glad Holiday Season, when good cheer and giving prevail, Don't Forget the Postman, who brings you more than anyone else. Suggestion From The Chicago Defender Telephone Douglas 3359 RJICE PREJUDICE ENTERS THE U. S. NAVY The Absence of the Sailors of Color in the Recent National Naval Review by President Trait Is Responsible for an Investigation that Discloses Discrimination of the Rankest Kind in This Part of the Government Service Officials Don't Want Men of the Color to Enlist—Some Qualify But They Only Act as Servants—Classified as "Messmen" on Ship and in the Navy Department. CAN ONLY BE STEWARDS; BARRED FROM LIBRARIES. Even "Uncle Sam" Has the Jim Crow Fever—Germ Grows Rapidly—Enlisted Seaman Tolls of the Hardships of the Race Sailor Aboard Ship—He Has No Pleasure and Can Not Find Any Redress—His Fellows of Other Hues Enjoy Life, But the Same Service Is Expected of Both of Them—What Will President-elect Wilson Do About It? (Special to The Chicago Defender.) New York, Dec. 20.—For some time a correspondent has been making a rigid investigation to get to the bottom of the discrimination which it is rumored prevails in the U. S. navy against sailors of color. A few weeks ago attention was called to the matter, through the daily press, of the naval parade held in this city recently from which race sailors were barred. The absence of men of the race from the national review gave the first insign of color. Discrimination in the navy. The investigation has been continued until information which discloses one of the worst cases of discrimination that the race has been the victim in many ears. The sailors are grossly mistreated in the navy, and the navy department is making an effort to keep from enlisting men of color in the service. Limited from Libraries. Those who are enlisted are barred from all social life aboard the ships, not permitted to read in the ship's library and readingroom. They are enlisted as messmen, and are never promoted above the rank of stewards, which is not as high as a petty officer. Several sailors have written to the correspondent complaining of the discrimination to which they are subjected. Among the recent letters received is the following. This letter is from a petty officer: Letter from a Petty Officer. Letter from a Petty Officer. Mear Dear Sir: In reference to a letter in the New York Herald regarding the absence of sailors of color in the parades during the national review, being a petty officer myself I feel it my duty to respond that few people outside of the naval service are aware of the color discrimination which prevail at present in the U. U. navy. The reason that there were no Negro sailors in the naval parade is that the parade was made up of men from the deck forces of the ships, in other words the seaman branch of the service, and there are no men of color in this branch of the service, as the navy department no longer enlist them as such. At present the race recruits are allowed to enlist in a certain branch termed the "messmen branch" and are kept as messmen and never get promoted to a higher rank. Cannot Enlist As Real Seaman. He is discriminated against in that, on account of his color, he cannot enlist as a real seaman, and when serving on board ship he is deprived of the regular system of shore leave like the rest of the crew. He is barred from the ship's entertainments such as smokers' etc., and is denied the ship's library, and not allowed to perform the duty which the uniform he wears really represents. A number of these men desert the service from time to time after finding out that they are sailors only that they wear the uniform and that their duties are only menial. Only a Few Old Men Left. There are, however, still quite a number of petty officers and few seamen remaining in the navy, but these are nearly old men who were enlisted during the Spanish-American war or a little later and are now isolated to obscure places for duty. When these men shall have passed or retired from the service our navy will be entirely without sea fighters of color unless some good samaritans should take up this matter, which the navy department has so far been successful keeping a secret. This discrimin has been called to the at congress and an effect is LITERARY CONTEST DRAWS VAST THRONG Bethel Literary Club's Third Annual Essay Contest at That Church Sunday Afternoon Last the Most Successful Attempt Ever Made by This Club and the Greatest Literary Event in Chicago for Years—Church Is Crowded to the Limit and Hundreds Could Not Get In—Program Five Hours Long But Audience Patiently Waits. PRESIDENT FITTS PRESIDES: REV. ROBERTS IS ENTHUSIASTIC. Col. John R. Marshall, Major John R. Lynch, Emiline Physicians, Lawyers and Prominent Society Women Were the Judge—Dr. Louis Ullman, Donor of the Prizes, Laudee by Speakers—Many Contestants Could Not Finish—Papera Were Too Long—Subject a Comprehensive One. By Cary B. Lewis. Marvelous indeed is the term that should be applied to the patience and attention given to the annual literary contest last Sunday afternoons at Bethel A. M. E. church, when an audience sat five hours and a half, hearing papers dealing with various phases of the "Negro Soldiers in the Wars of the World," which proved the most comprehensive subject yet discussed at Bethel literary. The winners of the prizes were Miss Katherine Williams and Mr. F. W. Henry, Miss Williams representing the Criterion Club and Mr. Henry the University Society. The church was crowded and resembled scenes of the palmy days of Bethel Literary. The effect of the days program was that general information was intelligently and beautifully disseminated; each participant showed their ability for research and confined their papers to the history of the subject, delivery, style and accuracy. contestants and the judges. Much to the regret of the audience, some of the speakers did not complete their careers and had over 5,000 words and which could have taken more than half an hour to read fluently, but no one was able to over the time limit. The contestants here: Criterion Club, Miss Katherine Williams; Tuskegee Club, Miss Della Crutchfield; Bethel Literary, Blanche Woolridge and L. W. Washington; Olive Baptist church, Miss Jessie McEwen and Walter Ellis; Ebenezer Baptist Literary, Mr. William Bailey; Negro Fellowship League, Miss B. Fortson; University Society, Frank W. Henry; Sons of Mississippi, Ab Marshall. The judges were Mrs. George C. Hall, Mason Boyd and Miss Garner. Tibbs, Mr. Albert George, Dr. A. Majors, Col. John R. Marshall, Major John R. Lynch, Hon. Richard T. Greener and attorney James A. Scott, chairmar? Costly Prizes Awarder Mr. Scott complimented the speakers and said that it was an急长 to be remembered by those who heard the essays and that such in occasion was an honor, to Bethel Literary as well as a credit to the race. While the judges were out, Miss R. A. Jackson rendered in a most graceful manner Tousant L'Oyeuvre, Mrs. W. G. Anderson enlisted the afternoon with her sweet voice. At one time the audience was given a rest by rising and singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee." The judges returned to the auditorium and Mr. Scott presented Miss Williams with a $60.00 diamond ring and Mr. Frank W. Henry with a $45.00 gold watch and chain. Dr. Louce Usellman, 3150 State street, was the donor. Mary C. B. Lewis read a letter from Dr. Usellman in which he said that "he felt that greater good could come by such research than my prizes gained or given. Mr. Lewis led the audience to show their appreciation by purchasing their Christmas remembrances at Dr. Usellman's, 3150 State street. Chicago's Greatest Literary Event. Mr. B. F. Pitts, the president of the literary, presided in a most dignified manner and in a few chosen words stated in the outset, the aim and object of the contest, and while the judges were out, paid a glowing compliment to Dr. Usellman for his generosity. It is the consensus of opinion that the prizes were honorably awarded to the meritorious persons. Bethel Literary, its officers, members and pastor of the church, deserve the congratulations of the public for the high-class program rendered, and it will go down in history as one of the most far reaching literary events ever held in Chicago. Bey. Roberta Is Enthusiastic. Rev. Roberts is Enthusiastic. Dr. Roberts, pastor of the church, was so enthusiastic over the interest taken in the contest by both participants and the public that he gave the club all the time necessary to complete the program, which lasted from 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 3:30 p.m. Miss Katherine Williams is a graduate of Wendell Phillips High School and is an excellent student of languages. Her paper gave evidence of fine literary training. Mr. Frank W. Henry is a graduate of Lemoyne Normal Institute, Memphis, Teen. Mr. Henry is letter carrier and is a young man of unusual literary parts and was formerly president of the university, the club he represented on Sunday. Hindu Charm. The God-given Almighty Power is moving within me to give health, success and happiness. I shall be showy to help bring about all these a Love, Light and Kindness no. I shall be shown the NT A ROO BASSIFIE NO "JIM-CROW" STREET CARS IN WASHINGTON. Traction Companies Not in Favor of It and Better Class of White People Are Not Bothered. Special to The Chicago Defender. Washington, D. G., Dec. 20. The cool-headed race citizens of the District do not expect the agitation for "lim-crow" street cars to amount to anything. Three very good reasons appear against such a scheme: First, the traction companies do not want to be bothered with the expense or embarrassments that such a separation would entail upon them; second, the rich white people, who ride in their own automobiles, carriages, etc., are not concerned about the present mixing of the races; third, nobody is worked up over the matter except a few out of the-way neighborhood associations, representing, in most part, a bunch of non-waving poor white folks, and their narrow-minded protests are not likely to weigh very heavily against the two inuences just mentioned. So the Negro needs to little sleep over the prospect of losing "lim-crow" street cars in the District of Columbia. Besides, this is federal soil and the Constitution expressly forbids legislation that will recognize a color-line. Individuals may violate the civil rights law here, but the discriminatory customs in vogue cannot be sanctioned by a law made at the Capitol. A young girl in a long coat and wide hat stands in front of a brick wall. She holds a stick in her hand and smiles at the camera. Little Miss Alma Minor. Little Miss Alma, who spent the entire summer with her aunt, Mrs. John J. Peterson, will leave the city tonight for Washington, D.C. She says she likes to stay in Chicago, but she is forced to go to see her sister, Buddle. Mrs. Peterson will spend the holidays in the nation's capital, Photo of this picture was taken by Mr. T. Langston, staff photographer. MRS. J. W. CARR RETURNS FROM SAD ERRAND Notified of Mother's Illness Two Hours Before Train Time—She Makes Hurried Trip and Reaches Bedside Just Before the End. Mrs. J. W. Carr, 4850 Dearborn street, returned from Emanuel, Ky., this week, where she attended the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Martha Beard. Although ailing for a year, Mrs. Beard's final illness came suddenly and the telegram announcing the fact reached the daughter just two hours before train time. But Mrs. Carr made every connection and reached her mother's bedside before she died, but she was unconscious. She leaves a husband, three daughters, Mrs. Susie Mullings, Bertha, Ky., Mrs. Laura Gibson, Emanuel, Ky., and Mrs. J. W Carr, who resides in her own large flat building at 4850 Dearborn street. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THOMPSON? Down-Town Restaurant King Opens Place for the Race at 31st and State Street, But Is Ashamed of it. Among the perplexing questions confronting Chicagoans, especially those that enjoy "The Stroll," is why it is that Thompson, "down-down lunch counter king," should see fit to open an elaborate branch at 3102 State street and then become ashamed of it. Ashamed must use the proper word or attention was first called to the matter when the famous enameled name "Thompson" to appear on the windows. If such artifice flourish is so attractive down town, why not adorn so prominent a corner out south? Surely the residents there are not less artistic. Later it was noticed that wagons and auto-wagons bearing supplies, for "3102" and adorned with that wonderful name in gift and colors, always stopped midway the block and the men carried the supplies back to the place of eats, that is large enough for any driver to see. Why not stop in front of the door? Those interviewed about the matter say "that the proprietor is ashamed to put his name over the door and to have his wagons stop there." The working force is mixed; both colored and white men are to be seen behind the counter. ON YOUR WAY TO BATAVIA or any other place doing the lines of the Chicago/Aurora and Elgin R. R., stop at the newsstand at the Fifth Avenue station and take The Chicago Defender with you. It is on sale there every Saturday. Price ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Short Paragraphs of Interest Gathered from Many Points During the Week. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Private Fred M. Johnson, one of San Juan Hill heroes, has invented a belt feed rifle that will shoot 300 shots in succession, at the rate of 20 shots a second. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-"Allenworth," this state, a race colony, is completing a new grammar school. "One of the best colony schools in the state," the neighboring papers say. BALTIMORE, MD.-In a recent ten days' campaign the citizens of Baltimore, Md., pledged $31,000 towards a Young Men's Christian Association building. This is another one of the cities to cover the $25,000 offered by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago philanthropist. WICHITA, KAN—"The National Reflector" a popular newspaper here, publishes an interesting article on George M. Fox's steam laundry. Mr. Fox runs five delivery wagons and one automobile. During the past year he has installed four thousand dollars worth of improved laundry equipment. DURHAM, N. C.—The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association has decided to invest its surplus earnings in securities that will yield the safest returns. Following this plan the company invested $20,000 in Georgia State bonds, on Saturday, November 23d. GUTHRIE, OKLA.—The citizens here support a wide-awake library. It was established by club women of the race in 1908. In a city fewer than 2,500 members of the race, this library has had 2,200 visits in one month; has loaned 750 books in the same length of time, and has added to its shelves 765 volumes. The report of the third quarter is as follows: Registered visits, 2,000; books loaned, 1,000; books added, 265; members to date, 800. Since the opening in 1908: Registered visits, 27,056; books loaned, 10,810; books donated, more than 2,000. The library maintains a Young Men's Christian Association, a children's story hour club and a lecture course on domestic science and home making for our women. There is no such institution in the State doing so much for race uplift. Mrs. J. C. Horton is the librarian. LOOKING FOR SANTA CLAUS Mator McFerrin and Baby Clarence Will Hang Up Stockings in Anticipation of a Visit From Dear Old Santa Claus. The many friends of little Mator McFerrin are still rallying to her support. During the past week she has received clothing and man, little things for the baby. The little girl is doing nicely and her son, Clarence, is growing rapidly. Mator spends most of her time writing letters to those who have remembered her in the way of presents and letters. She has carefully arranged stockings for herself and baby, expecting Santa Claus. Mrs. Brown, 3534 Wabash avenue, came to the office of the Chicago Defender and left a number of pieces of clothing for the baby. Mator and Clarence wishes a Merry Xmas to all readers of The Chicago Defender and those who have proven her friends. ENJOYS 110TH BIRTHDAY DINNER Mr. Henry Waters, Born In 1802, Still Able to Give At the House—Member of Bethel Church. Sunday, Dec. 15th, the one hundred and tenth birthday dinner was given in honor of Mr. Henry Waters, by his children, at the present address, 3720 Armour avenue. He was surrounded by his wife and eight children, four boys and four girls, and grandchildren and a host of friends. One daughter sent her regrets, who, on account of illness, could not attend. She lives at Beechwood, ill. Mr. Waters was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1802, and was taken from his first family during slavery. He has raised two families, and still around the house fairly well. He has been a true Christian for about eighty years, and at present is a member of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, corner 30th and Dearborn street. Any one desiring to see him, may call at any time. Rev. Chas. R. Waters is one of his sons. Daily Thought All true wisdom is contained in these two words—wait and hope.—Dumas. MONSTER DISSATISFACTION. Some people never get what they want simply because they never want what they get.—Waldo Batson. Look for the Defender wherever newspapers are sold :: :: :: The readers of the Chicago Defender are requested to ask for the paper at the various news stands throughout the city. The Chicago Defender is to be on sale everywhere. If you ride on the "L" road ask for it at the news stand. If you can not secure it from your newsdealer call up the Circulation Department 3159 S. State Street Tol. Douglas 3539 AN OLD KANSAS LANDMARK Huge Three-Story Distillery Still Stands in County That is Now Prohibition. Burlingame, Kan—Wilmington, in Osage county, Kan, not far from Burlingame, in the late '50s, seemed ideally located for the capitol of Kansas to be. Just on the boundary line of the Sao and Fox Indians, and the Kaws, as it was, proved its security from the menace of the Red Man. For the two tribes were unfriendly, and neither dared molest the white man dwelt between for fear that the depreciation of one might be visited upon the other. In point of scenery, soil and climate, it offered boundless opportunities for growth and progress and ambition. Old Distillery at Wilmington, Kan. But Wilmington now is a country road, a dozen or so old stone houses, an inn, fallen into decay—and beyond, a grave yard. But the oldest landmark of all in these prohibition days is the huge three-story stone distillery, for years used as a granary, but now abandoned. Z00 HAS 87 NEW SNAKES South American Jungle Constructed for Rare Fer De Lance Inf New York. New York.—A South American jungle in miniature is being constructed at the Bronx zoological gardens for the reception of eighty-sew baby snakes of the rare variety known as Fer de Lance. The entire eighty-seven came to the zoo in a single litter. It insures their survival in captivity it was necessary to counterfeit the natural conditions of existence in the jungle and thereby entice them to eat properly and take a suitable interest in life. The Fer de Lance snake is provided with a "food catcher" at the end of its tail. This is a yellow marking which is an exact reproduction of a worm, and the snake can make its tail simulate the movements of a real worm. The young Fer de Lance, to decoy its food, crawls into the high grass, and, colling up there, lets the tip of its tail prune a few inches. Patiently it waits until a tree frog or other victim is attracted. The frog grabs the worm and the snake grabs the frog. In a few minutes the frog has disappeared and the snake withdraws its decoy and contentedly goes to sleep for three or four days. TOO COSTLY FOR THE KING Stafford House Upkeep Beyond Probable Allowance of Sons of British Ruler. London.—When the true story of the sale of Stafford House leaks out it will be found that it was not, as some people have been suggesting, the fault of the queen, although her majesty does not at all approve of the idea of letting the Prince of Wales have a separate establishment until he is safely married, that this mansion was not acquired by the king. The real fact of the matter is that the king received a hint that when the time came to vote an allowance for his sons there would be severe criticism by the labor and the extreme radical members if he suggested a sum large enough to keep up a huge mansion like Stafford house. The king's financial advisers are urging upon him the advisability of looking for big dowries with all his daughters-in-law. This will be contrary to the precedent of the last few royal marriages. Queen Alexandra had, of course, little money of her own, and the queen still less. HIT IN EYE, REGAINS VISION Oklahoma Pastor Sees Again—Due to Missie Shot From Rubber Band. Oklahoma City.—A bit of tinfolf flipped from a rubber band by a child is declared to have caused the restoration of the eyesight of the Rev. G. G. Rupert, pastor of a local church, who had been blind for 28 years. The missile fired at random by a grandchild of the minister, hit him in one of the eyes, and to alleviate the pain hot cloths were applied. This occurred several days ago, and when it was apparent that his sight was being restored the applications were continued. Practically normal vision returned. The Rev. Mr. Rupert became suddenly blind while conducting revival services in Birmingham, O., in 1884. PARTS OF BIG BIRD FOUND Professor Granger Glives American Museum Bones From Prehistoric Bird. New York—Parts of a giant bird which winged its way over North America 3,000,000 years ago have just been brought to the American Museum of Natural History by Professor Walter Granger, who has been making fossil investigations in Wyoming. The bird, according to Professor Granger, was the largest feathered creature that ever existed in North America. Dr. U. G. Dailey's Observations Abroad Dr. U. G. Dailey's Observations Abroad Read the Famous Chicago Physician's account of his trip to Paris and other Old World cities, now running in The Chicago Defender. Read his vivid and interesting description of Paris. Published exclusively in TheChicago Defender 3159 State Street Circulation Department Telephone Douglas3339 HAY'S HAIR Pomade Does All and More it promises to Do HAY'S HAIR POMADE straightens coarse, kinky hair and makes it glossy and luxuriant. You can cure your hair in any position and keep it so, if you USE HAY'S HAIR POMADE REGULARLY. 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Change of Address: Please give both the old and new address; and in writing the date and Postoffice, as well as sign name. IF YOU SEE IT IN THE DEFENDER, IT IS GO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1912. COURT GENERAL ROBERT. ELIOTT. No. 7395, Ancient Order of Foresters; meets every second and fourth Sunday night at Odd Fellows Hall, 3337 Street. Chief Ranger, P. V. Babb, 334 Dearborn street; phone 6109 Dexter, 6831 Grove avenue; phone Normal 7565, 6831 Grove avenue; phone 7565, 6831 Dearborn street; phone 3219 Calumet, 2414 Dearborn street; phone 3219 Calumet, --- CHURCH DIRECTORY Quinn Chapel, 24th street and Wabash avenue 1 * Messrs. Robert S. Abbott, J. * Hookley Smiley, Cary B. Lewis * Alfred Anderson extend the * compliments of the season to * their many friends. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SHOPPING. They showed him a beautifully cut solitaire That cost two or three hundred bones, A hammered gold bracelet, a comb for the hair That was filled with the most precious stones. They showed him a watch that was inlaid with pearl; Then he said to the clerk with a frown, "I'm buying this thing for my wife, not my girl, Show me something from one dollar down." Of course if you can't get 'possum turkey will do: When hanging up your stocking be sure and see that there are no holes in it. It isn't hard for a man or woman that is broke to join the "Sane Christmas Club." A great many poor people believe there isn't a Santa Claus. Let's fool them and show them that there is. It wouldn't be a bad idea to spend an hour or two in church Christmas day, and for the matter of that every Sunday. "War in Turkey" was a headline in a daily paper. If they had sold war on turkeys, it would have been more appropriate just now. A number of women's clubs are discussing "The Negro and His Problems." We certainly are a popular race. Merry Xmas. P. S. We could have spelled that word Christmas out, but we just wanted to let the world and Englewood know that we knew two ways of spelling it. Dr. Booker T. Washington says we should be taught farming, not agriculture, and cooking, not domestic science. Note the distinction. Somebody's always jumping on poor little Sylvester Russell, the actor critic? We can truthfully say, with our hands tied behind us, that as an actor, singer and dramatic critic he stands alone. If there is anyone who to be classed with him, kindly --- sip in the limelight. There is but oil Sylvester Rushi—villain Sylvester. A rich man residing in New York limits the price of the gifts his wife makes to her friends to 25 cents. That's observing the spirit of the thing with a vengeance. Our stores are making excellent displays for the holiday trade and have accordingly profited by it. Patronize your local locales people, it is the safer and better way. It cost John Polites, an Ohio theater manager, $50 to violate the race discrimination statue. The next colored citizen who wishes to visit his theater doubtless will receive more courteous treatment. There is nothing like being in right with the powers that be. Governor-elect Duncan special invitation to Dr. "Bird" Anderson, Cary B. Lewis and to William "J." Clark to attend the inauguration at Ingfield in January as his especial gurus. Don't insist on dancing the "turkey trot" when you are warned not to. Two young ladies were arrested the other night because they disheveled this infunction. There is nothing about this faddish dance that is elevating. Keep it off the program. Seventy yards in 0:07 1:5 is going some, that's what Howard P. Drew, one of our great spinster, covered in a thick coat of fur, the record, and we are still to hear more from him. Then, is always plenty of room at the top, so here's hoping he'll give the world a new record. A number of real estate men have learned to their sorrow that it isn't the wisest thing to raise the rents on our people, simply because they thought the demand was greater than the supply. That time has passed, and we are open to them at prices within their reach, and the agent who pinched them when he could-is getting the cold shoulder. Speaking of the Negro, very few people can say that he has been offensive in politics, especially in the northern states; in fact most of them, regardless of party, vote for the best interests of the community. There are some as there are some among the whites, who are irresponsible, but that should not condemn the whole race. We are not the political orchard because we have rolled up our sleeves and worked until the fruit was ripe. Next week we will try to tell you what some of our prominent people gave their wives, sweethearts and affinities for Christmas and mind if you see it in The Defender it's so. If there is one thing we're noted for more than another it is telling the truth—no rise in the price of the fruit. One of the old $150 entitles you to a year's subscription; and while we're on the subject why wouldn't that make a nice Christmas present for you to give—think it over, but not too long. The editor of this paper and his associates wish to thank the Indianapolis "Freeman" and especially Cary B. Lewis, that master journalist, for the flattering write-up in the last edition of their splendid paper. There are two reasons why we do not quote from the article, firstly we are too modest, secondly The Freeman is so widely read that you must have seen it by now. So we will just say thanks, and again thanks. Some twenty were baptized in the river last Sunday. They were converts resulting from a revival that was conducted by the Baptist church in the cold, muddy Chicago river, but way down home in Kentucky where the sun is shining on both sides of the street right now. There are a great many brethren in the Windy City that might consent to be baptized if the minister would agree to use warm water. Of course you'd expect Kansas City folk to object to living in the same block with their darker brother, so they considered this an opportune time to get busy on the proposition and see if they cannot make laws to that effect. It would seem that some good Samaritan would break the news to them gently that they need not be alarmed, the black doesn't rub off. In Pittsburgh a number of church choirs were in competition for a prize, and some one of them would have carried off the honors had not a colored choir appeared on the scene. When they started it became apparent there were just two sorts of singing in the contest, the old-fashioned camp meeting kind and the new. The Negro choir was enclosed and encored and everybody knew where the prize was going before the judge made the announcement. The best part of it was they were unanimous in their decision. When it comes to singing, hats off please to us. If we remember rightly the Burr detectives who went into South Carolina to investigate the political situation were threatened with death by men in the shadow of the state government, and if we also remember correctly they were neither Negroes nor criminals, but they had come into a land where the constitution could be ignored, and where human life was not held sacred. A few months ago a woman was lynched in Georgia while a mountainer gang in Virginia made shambles of a court room. Oh, yes, the south is solid all right. "To — with the constitution," the remark by the mis-governor of South Carolina, found echo in a local justice of that state the other day when he refused to regard as an offense the killing of a Negro who had accosted the wife of a white man which goes to show that vengeance can never be safely left to the individual and the graver his wrong the more incumbent it is upon the law to redress the injury. Place the weapons of the law in the hands of the individual with the adjuration to use as they see fit and grave injury often will be inflicted upon popular respect for law and order. We are in receipt of one of the calendars for 1913, issued by "The Nashville Fisk Club." Photos and pictures of interest to every graduate and friend of Fisk University adorn this artistic piece of work. Being without advertisement and knowing that the proceeds from its sale will go towards the great endowment fund every Fiskite should purchase one or two. Orders for the calendar are filled at the university. They are now discussing down south the advisability of making Negroes ride in freight cars. If this be true we are sure there will be hundreds to accept the proposition. Of course the 20th century Negro will rebel, but with the general government back of the movement what can the defenses colored man do? The south should take their spite out on the Yankee, not the Negro. He has done nothing, he was natural throughout, he helped both sides. The Fourth of July next will be the welding of the breech and on the Negro's shoulder will rest the burden. The articles which have appeared from time to time in this paper, written by Dr. U. Grant Daily, have created no end of favorable comment, not only from our readers but from journals all over the country. The genial doctor has a happy faculty of carrying his reader right with him in all his journeys and letting them see at first hand the wonders and beauties of the old world. This is an art that is not only useful but also makes his living by the pen, for the doctor is a very buoyy hence successful practitioner and his many patients are getting the benefits of his studies while abroad along professional lines. The movement to drive the Negroes out of the northern part of Georgia gained such headway that the better class of whites appealed to the governor for troops to restore order, and it all came about because someone said a white woman had been assaulted. Notices were posted that those employing Negroes would be made to suffer if they did not discharge them. A few of the men now stay and will fight to protect what little rights they have. Some of these days an awful lesson will be taught these white ruffians. It is coming to them and they will surely get it. Holding a large audience from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 8:30 in the evening, with essays on the higher things in life, is a record of which not only the Bethel Literary Society should be proud, but Chicagoans in general. It shows the trend of thought. It shows that education is appreciated, that there is a craving for knowledge. Each year more clubs and societies are contestants for the prize which only signifies being the being of the creator. This is the reality is stimulating, and soon we will be looked upon as Boston now is; the hub of learning. The Defender congratulates each and every one connected with the affair and wishes them to know that its columns are always open to aid in the great uplift work they are doing. JUSTICE JOHN-MARSHALL HAR LAN-A TRIBUTE. By W. Allison Sweeney. [Something over one year ago Judge Harlan, the Negro's friend, was gathered to his reward. Lest we forget, read Mr. Sweeney's noble tribute to him and for which John Maynard Harlan of this city sent him a feeling letter of acknowledgment.—Ed.] "How is this strong staff broken, this beautiful rod?"—Bible. Justice Harlan told me, say you. Justice Harlan told me, during all the year of his patriotic and splendid career knew no north or south—no east or west, nor creed or color, nor past or present conditions, as, with the valor of any knight, of old he doffed his plumme alone to TRUTH and JUSTICE, and served only the HUMANITIES in his quest for the Eternal Verities? Dead, say you, brother in black? Nay, nay, forget it. It is written—and the world knows it to be true—there are immortal names that were not born to die. Justice John Marshall Harlan has joined that glorious few. Somewhere in worlds of higher mysteries, far away, he is at this very moment hobbling with the immortals, talking and walking about in ambrosial fields and sylvan dellings; Christ, a man of sorrows, lingering in their midst, and please do not forget it, or allow your children's children to, for a single remaining day of your sane and natural life. For, look you, his was a mentality as untrained as a bird's, and shining like the sun, and he bore within his rugged frame a heart of gold, did this Southern gentleman, whose every throb pumped the hue of blood that courses in the veins of the truly great, the COURAGE, the GRACE and the WISDOM to demand and urge upon his country a square deal, and an unhindered chance—no more, no less—for the black man in the land. Sald Chief Justice White to the attorneys in court the day following Justice Harlan's last appearance on the bench: "Please to consider, genius that Justice Harlan, is sitting in your case, although not physically present." A great spirit, a MOST EXALTED SOUL, has folded, like a flower at set of sum, and passed from the haunts of men, and is no longer "physically present" to the millions of the race whose wrongs he never failed to denounce, but, until such time as this MENT IN GOVERNMENT, grows too large and too civilized to be small and "crooked" towards the bulbhead --- Negro in the land, Justice Harlan will continue to "sit in their case." The inspiration of the NOBLE and GOOD abdidth forever. THE EDITOR'S MAIL. Chicago. Dec. 16.—Editor Chicago Defender: Allow me to congratulate you on your interesting and fearless editors. After reading all the race papers published in the country, I am compelled to acknowledge yours to be the best paper in the bunch. Nohe of the race papers publish the news as you do, or as much. I admire your stand in the Jack Johnson case. While some of the race papers (in order to be in line with the white dallies) were criticizing Jack Johnson you were treating him fairly, what the papers plain state what a wful job he committed that he should be treated as he is? As long as your paper is conducted on such a plan, you may continue my name on your subscription list. May you prosper long. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I am, [Mr. Kelley's letter was accompanied by a money order for his subscription.—Ed.] FREE LAND FOR THE RACE IN MEXICO. Blackdom, New Mexico, Dec. 11.—Mr. R. S. Abbott, Editor: I was prompted to write you concerning my new home by an article in the edition of Saturday, Dec. 7, of your paper concerning the organization of a "land company" for the purpose of purchasing and colonizing large tracts of land in the west and southwest. After reading this article the thought arose in my mind. "Why purchase a good farm land which the government willing to give you for a very small entrance fee and three years' residence?" Now, hear in mind, Mr. Abbott, I have nothing to sell or nothing to gain financially by getting setters here, for where I am the land belongs to the government and is free under the stipulations I have named. The people of the other race are flocking here every day and during the four months I have been here since 400 acres have been settled by whom I have been born of our claim, within the last ten days, eight white families from Kansas and Iowa have filed on 1,280 acres or two sections. I feel that I owe it to my people to tell them of this free land out here which is the equal of the best land to be found anywhere, and where the climate is ideal, where there is no "Jim Crowism" and where the constitution of the state cannot be changed for the coming twenty-five years. Here the black man has an equal chance with the white man. Here you are reckoned at the value which you place upon yourself. Your future is in your own hand; to be what you would have to be. Some twenty families compose the colony of Blackdom. In the township we have a post office, store, church, school house, pumping plant, office building and several residences already established. Surrounding Blackdom are many beautiful farms owned exclusively by members of the race. The country is a beautiful rolling prairie with a rise and fall so gradual as to be hardly perceptible. The climate is ideal. No matter how hot the days, you will always find the night delightfully cool for sleeping. The winters are mild and last from June to September some time in February. In fact we have a beautiful town and municipality here in Blackdom, and only need that our people see and take advantage while there is time, for the land is going fast and it is the other fellow that is getting it. Knowing your very deep interest in the welfare of our people that you are on the lookout for the best opportunities for them, I felt that you would be interested in us and what you are trying to do. I have only this to show you that Blackdom and deciding to throw in their lot with us will never have cause to regret it. Any one desiring any information concerning this land and will communicate with me, I will be pleased to give them such information. With best wishes for your future success my congratulations upon the improved appearance of your paper. I am. Yours respectfully, LUCY H. HENDERSON. ACCEPTABLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 18, 12. Please mail enclosed money order for three ($3.00) dollars. I want you to send your good money to the addresses given below: Rev. J. W. B. Pharr, 216 Beakes St. Ann Arbor, Misc. Rev. V. M. Meeds, 113 N. Jackson St. South Bend, Ind. I am so pleased with your paper that I am using it for Xmas presents. Please send me two receipts. I want to put one of the reverend gentleman's presents on the Xmas tree Tuesday night. I am sure you will have many subscribers for your papers here in the near future. Wishing you the season's greetings and that you may receive many new orders for The Defender, I am respectfully yours. Mrs. Lizzie Shewcraft. L. Box 60. Our Women GAUDEAMUS CHARITY CLUB. The Gaudamun club met on Dec. 16 at 1328 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Fannie Calloway was hostess. were four visitors - Mrs. Jda Lewis, Mrs. Teresa Macon, Mrs. Mundy and Mrs. Elise Carroll. The next meeting will be held on Monday, Dec. 23, the president's home, E8 East 237 thie. 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 for your friends. Mrs. Susie Allen, who was called to Memphis, Tenn., a few weeks ago because of the illness of her grandmother, was caused a deeper sorrow last week when the grandmother was accidentally burned to death. Mrs. H. H. Boger returned the compliment to her husband the 25th of December in the form of a holiday dinner. Dr. Burt Anderson, John D. Fry and Sam Williams helped him to do justice to the turkey. Mrs. Lizzie Hart Dorsay has rived in the city from London she has been for several months vaudeville. Miss Mabel Smith, formerly of city but now in Indianapolis, stenographer for the Indiana Freeman, will be in the city to main during the holidays. She be with her mother at 3550 Dear street. 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. So please don't telephone. On Monday evening the first battalion, twelfth regiment, Patrolchair G. U. O. of O. F., gave their military entertainment at Brand's new hall. But it seems that it was not decreed that they were to emerge from the largest end of the horn, because it was advertised for Thanksgiving night, but the ball took fire and I was postponed to watch. December 18, and on this night the rain fell without mercy. But for all that a fair crowd was present and a very good program was delivered. Mrs. B. Abernethy of 314 Vabash avenue has bought two lots at 92d and State streets and paid $500 cash for them and is expecting to build a bungalow this spring. Mrs. Abernethy is a very prosperous widow. ...if you want a first-class furnished room read our classified columns. Mrs. Nora Taylor has returned to the city from an extended trip south. Mrs. Julia Hawkins of 3450 Dearborn street has just returned from a two weeks' stay in Detroit. She was called there because of the illness of her mother, who died Dec. 9. Miss Sadie Walker, one of the society belles of Louisville, Ky., arrived in Chicago Wednesday for a weeks' visit as the guest of Mrs. Erna Green and the Misses Mitchell of 4022 Wynash avenue. Miss Nissie Walker of Indianapolis, Ind., is expected in the city during the holidays by the guest of Mrs. Jennie Brown of Ammet avenue. Miss Walker is one of Indianapolis charming school teachers. Why don't you Surprise yourself and please the publisher by paying your subscription? Miss Garnetta Tibbs will spend the holidays in the east visiting friends. She will visit New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington. The Twentieth Century Whist club will entertain its gentlemen friends during the holidays. It is expected to be one of the leading social affairs. The choir of St. Paul's Episcopal church, 5th street and Madison avenue, Kenwood, will combine with the choir of St. Thomas' church and render their Christmas service Sunday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. Send. in personals of your friends. it is free. Drop it on a postcard. Can't you afford to spend a penny on your friends? Mr. Carrie Richards of St. Louis, who can care to make her home with the late Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, and since then has been stopping with Mrs. Milan of 6232 Thop street, has left for St. Louis and Boston to spend the holidays. Wednesday evening, Dec. 18, Company "F", 8th I. N. G. held their annual smoker and to award the prizes for best attendance at drills. Private Joseph D. Warner won the first with a perfect attendance. Private Elmer Hinson, second, and Private Ebb. Hinkle "F" are Captain, Pasey Holmes; first lieutenant, Wadsworth, Holmes; second lieutenant, James Smith; first sergeant, E. Mosley; John Hodges, quartermaster. When in doubt or trouble telephone to The Chicago Defender, Douglass 3339. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Bennie Ernesten Stovall to Mr. James Lee Tobin, Thursday evening, Dec. 31, at 3424 Vernon avenue. Eight o'clock is the hour. Mr. Treyey Bagley, who has been in the city several days with Mr. E. R. Bradley, proprietor of the Hotel Del Prado, accompanied Mr. Bradley and his party to Sheepshead Bay Wednesday night. Did it ever strike you that the one best newspaper to read is The Chicago Defender? Can you see the point? Mrs. Mae Tuller has gone south for her health and will spend a few weeks in Indiana with Mrs. Nellie Garrett. Mr. Phil Brown, one of the best pitchers in the country, who has had a baskey stone hotel for several weeks, will be next week for his home at Hopkinson Ky., to spend the holidays, but will return the first of the year. Mr. Charles Edward Russell, the noted writer and sociologist, will address the Negro Fellowship league, 2330 State street, Sunday, Dec. 22, at 4 o'clock. Mr. Russell is one of the foremost thinkers and speakers of the present day and he is absolutely sure he would affect the race. Who is the best man not dance with anybody but E. C. at the Baseball Boys' dance. Don't be selfish next time, F. D. Mrs. Berry Jenkins of Birmingham, Ala., is in the city to spend the winter with her son, Mr. George Jenkins. The members of Mrs. Sumina's dressmaking class entertained her at a luncheon last Friday and presented her with a number of presents. The other guests of honor were Mrs. Tolbert and Mrs. L. Carter. Mrs. Ethel Peacock Whitlow of 3750 Rhodes avenue will give a dinner Sunday in honor of her husband and seven of her friends. Mr. and Mrs. Whitlow comfortably domiciled in a beautiful flat and are at home to their friends. The Chicago Defender office will be open until 10 p. m. Christmas eve. If you want anything published in the Christmas number see us before that time. Mrs. Lizzie Hart Dorsay has arrived in the city from London where she has been for several months in vaudeville. Miss Mabel Smith, formerly of this city but now in Indianapolis, the stenographer for the Indianapolis Freeman, will be in the city to remain during the holidays. She will with her mother at 3850 Dearborn street. The Assembly club will give a dance during the holidays. Mrs. George Cleveland Hall will entertain the Twentieth Century Whist club the Saturday afternoon following Christmas. All advertisements for furnished rooms or flats must be paid for in advance. We have no collectors for this kind of work. We have adverted that Miss Ethel Thomas and Mr. Kennedy will be married during the holidays, and Miss Minnie Hunter and Mr. Pescher will also be married during Yuletide The news is out that Mr. William H. Clark, Dr. "Burt" Anderson and Mr. Cary B. Lewis have been invited as special guests at the inauguration of Gov. Dunne at Springfield the first of the year. When in doubt or trouble telephone to The Chicago Defender, Douglas 3339. A banquet to Dr. U. G. Dalley on Monday evening at the Pondexter apartments in Calumet avenue. Nearly thirty doctors were present to give Dr. Dalley the glad hand of welcome. Mrs. Gabriella Butler of Cincinnati, O., is in the city the guest of her daughter, Miss Jennie Butler, at the Grey Stone, 3254 Wabash avenue. It is expected that Mrs. Butler will remain in the city indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. Harris of Cleveland, O., are now located at the Grey Stone, Mr. John F. Johnson of Indianapolis was a guest also this week. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Mr. Engene Pugh will please notify The Chicago Defender, Douglas 3329, The Entou Neous club will give a dance during the holidays at Masonic hall. Attorney Richard E. Westbrooks has been retained as permanent counselor for the Negro Business league for Maywood, Ill. Lawyer George W. Wells will leave next week for Worcester, M. to visit Clark university. Mr. Ellis is the contributing editor of the Journal of Race Development, at which university this journal is published. The way to get good bread, ask for the "Kentucky Loaf." Mrs. S. H. D. Hudey, wife of Mr. Dudley, the comedian, spent the week at her home, $226 Wabash avenue. Mr. Dudley and Sherman Jr. were also at the office. Ask for the Purity Home Made bread and rolls, for sale at all grocers. Attorney Glycrist Stewart of New York is in the city, having arrived the first part of the week. The W. A. Wallace Bakery Co. make the "Kentucky Rolls" and "Wallace Rolls." Mr. W. B. Sensabough of 5742 La Fayette avenue returned from Los Angeles, Cal., where he went after a visit to New York. He has been away about six months. Admit for the Chicago Defender at all "L" locations, north, south, west and in the "loop." The Afternoon Club's dance Christmas night will be held at the Masonic Hall instead of Oakland Music Hall, as previously mentioned. Sergt. D. T. Rhodes, musician of the 10th U. S. Cavalry, was in the city this week and a welcome caller at The Chicago Defender office. Don't fail to attend the Afternoon Club's dance at the Masonic Hall on Christmas night. Learn to dance.—The light fantastic has no better teacher than Prof. J. A. whose studio is at 3614 Dearborn Street. See his ad. in another column. The Afternoon Club's dance will be the swellest entertainment for Christmas night. THE TRUE REFORMERS. True Reformers will hold a celebration in Chicago in January, 1913. Grand officers and other representatives of the Grand Foundation will be here. Chief M. T. Ballet will set up some new members of the order the first of the year. TO WINTER IN CALIFORNIA Mrs. Della Lewis, Mrs. Mayme Clinkscale, Mrs. Rosa Jenkins and little Maxwell Clinkscale will leave soon for California for the winter. Woman Wrinkles are said to be the result of experience. Is that why woman is so keen on having her wrinkles massaged away? Drastic Punishment For having rexed her dead husband during life, a Parisian shopkeeper, Mme. Mathilde David, recently set herself on fire after saturating her clothes with petrol. In a letter, which she wrote before her suicide, she stated that she had chosen the most painful death she could think of to punish herself. Succeeded the Hour Glass. The first accurate clock was set up in England at Hampton Court, in 1540. Up to that time members of the royal suite used hour-glasses in their private rooms. Fairly Good Excuse A candidate for state office asked a Leavenworth man over the phone the other day to look up some election returns. "Til it do! in a few minutes," said the Leavenworth man. "I am very busy just at this moment. My $40,000 business block is burning down"—Kansas law journal. "My wife is the greatest argument you ever say man in the smoking car of ban train. "She always be anything of that sort. The lh. I was shown up as a false as applying logic to every day. was no longer ago than yesterday. when on the city evening my wife said "was a man here today to see fixing the flower beds and the ga. for the winter. He looked so shalt and sort of homeless that I gave him your other light overcoat." "That ought to be a good start to ward getting him a home," I said in mirth provoking way. It was a thoughtful move on your part. I suppose you figured that some lonely widow along the road would fall in love with him then be asked the graceful lines of the coat of clothing him and would rush out to haul him in. "Don't try to be funny," said my wife. "What really interest me more than his immediate future," I said, "is the object of his call. Did he wait long enough to specify what was the matter with our flower beds that needed fixing?" "My wife favored me with the stare of disdain which she considers especially cutting and effective against my knee sarcoma. "Who else he wants to fix them up for the winter," she said. "I'm not an expert on such matters, but I have an idea that some sort of attention must be paid to them before zero weather comes. I told the man to come back this evening and see you." "There be no adequate reply to this under the matrimonial code, I allowed the subject to drop and awaited my visitor. He came with the shadows, adorned with my overcoat. "I was wonderin', he said, if you wanted your flower beds and your garden fixed up for the winter." Then he resisted restfully against the sooth pillar. "What's the idea? I asked. Won't they be there next spring if I leave them alone all winter?" "Yes, but you don't understand," the tired citizen explained. "They ought to be bedded down with 'fertilizer'-spaded up and covered over the way they hx 'em in the park." "And then what? I demanded. The light of my household was listening from the darkness of the hall and wanted her to see the uselessness of the appointment she had made for me." "Then your flowers and vegetables will have a big start next spring,'t horticulturist explained, because 'ground will be ready for 'em.' I this every year for most of the ple in this town. I charge a dollar my time and you pay for the fertile and 'See here, you imitation garden marked after I had glared at him moment, 'the worst booster yourself that ever came down road out there. Your efforts to a dollar out of me are so feeble an amateurish that I have a laugh all myself if I wasn't getting sort of tired of your kind of catie. "You've got a lot of nerve to say that you bed down the vegetable gardens of most of the people in this town every year, so they'll be ready to do business with a rush in the springtime," I told him. "Why; there isn't another suburb on this branch of the railroad that turns out such a worthless lot of garden truck as this one." "Now I know what's the matter—it's all your fault. If you'd keep your hands off the gardens and let girls alone people might have a chance to raise a few spring onions at a cost of not more than $6 a dozen, and we might even get an occasional radish that wasn't a soggy sponge. Not concluding that getting my fall overcoat by merely standing in the sun and looking frostbitten, you expect me to tell you a dollar for taking exercise that would keep you warm while you are spooling my garden!" "My caller shifted his weight to the other foot and looked uncomfortable for a few seconds, but he was ready with his defense." "Well," he said, "a man's got live." "There!' my wife exclaimed, triumphantly from the darkness behind me. That's the point you always overlook! "So this morning that depressed person was busy in our garden with spade and wheelbarrow when I left home. Lovely woman may not be strong on the finer points of logic, but she certainly has the gift of winning in any argument."—Chicago Daily News. Swiss Would Tax Cats Switzerland is the land of politics and social experiments, and we usually legislate with one eye on that little country of federation, democracy, referenda, prohibition, compulsory service and liberty. And now Switzerland—or, at least, that portion of it about whom we propose to put a tax on cars. We want to impose a compulsory interim with interest, for the tax willuce much revenue, but it will spell-let us not shrink from the word- protection against the enemies of food and sleep. Each cat shall wear a blar with its registered number; it cat without a number will be arrest and destroyed. Wherefore the peop that like cats will keep them indoep and outdoor amusement Other people's cats will be arrested and the collar and the tax wplace a certain responsibility on it, cat, and—what is more important—its owner.—Westminster Gazette. Sure Hard Luck. A man once was talking about *I* luck, and his friend was listening *I* a sour expression. "Why, you do know what hard luck is!" said *t* friend. "I have always had it. When I was a kid there was such a bum that there *I* to three tables at that there *I* to three tables at that there *I* always got the third one." "What's hard about that?" answered the other. "Why," said his friend, teen years before I ever en had anything but body's ual Meeting at White House -A Propriation Made for Com- Year—More Help Given to tural Schools in the South. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND OTHER NOTED MEMBERS PRESENT Jeanes Fund Is One of $1,000,000, the Gift of a Quaker Woman—Board of Control is Made Up of An Equal Number of Race Men, Northern and Southern White Men. Special to The Chicago Defender. Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.—The trustees of the Jeanes Fund for the improvement of rural schools for colored children in the South met Saturday at the White House, with President Taff, and the full membership of the board in attendance. Mr. Taff presided at the White House session, and Dr. Booker T. Washington occupied the chair at the meeting of the executive committee, held at an earlier hour in the board's headquarters in the District Building. The president of the board is Dr. James H. Dillard, Tulane University, New Orleans, and his associate members are: President William Howard Tatt; vice-president, Walter H. Page, Garden City, N. Y.; secretary, Major R. R. Moton, Hampton Institute, Va.; treasurer, George Foster Peabody, New York City; Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, chairman of the executive committee; Andrew Carnegie, New York City; Robert C. Ogden, New York City; David C. Barrow, Athens, Ga.; Belton Glencairn, Birmingham, Ala.; Hollis Burke Frissell, Hampton Institute, Virginia; George McAnney, New York City; Talcott Williams, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. T. Kealing, Quindaro, Kansas; James C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn; Samuel C. Mitchell, Columbia, S. C. and R. L. Smith, Paris, Texas. It will be noted that one-third of the board is made up of northern white men and one-third of southern white men and one-third are members of the race. The utmost harmony that characterizes the proceedings of the body is the best test of the wisdom of those who conceived this method of presentation. ```markdown ``` ppropriated $36,375 for Rural Schools. The board appropriated $36,375 for o salaries of 109 supervising teachers in 109 counties of the southern state. A number of teachers. i tres. A number of routine matters re considered. President Dillard made an earnest plea for improved conditions in the schools in the country districts, and declared that the criticisms leveled at the race schools in the rural regions applied with equal force to the white schools. Steps must be taken, said Dr. Dillard, to educate the poor whites of the South as well as the poor blacks of that section, if the best results are to be hoped for. "No one except those who have lived in the country," declared Dillard, "has any idea of the erable condition of the avera country schoolhouse. We go talking and talking about im-ving conditions in the school-houses of the cities, and we spend thousands, millions of dollars on them annually, but very little. If anything, is done for the rural school. It is time that we turned over a new leaf in this respect, and the criticism that is made applies to the condition of the white schools as well as those for colored people. This point cannot be amphasized too strongly. Dr. Washington spoke vigorously on the subject, laying great stress the need of a more hearty co-operation between the people engaged in the education of the race and the school officials in the South. He thought these important factors should get closer together and face the situation in a spirit of absolute frankness. A donation of $2,300 for three years was received from the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and this was added to the amount appropriated by the Board. A resolution was adopted thanking the managers of the fund for their generous gift. Genesis of the Jeanes Fund. The Jeanes Fund was one of $1,000,000, bestowed by Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quaker, of Philadelphia. The bequest grew out of the representation that the crying need of the colored children of the South was better schools in the back country districts; that the terms should be extended beyond the few weeks allowed by the local authorites, and that properly equipped teachers should be provided. Miss Jeanes responded to Dr. Washington's recommendation by giving the million dollars for the relief of these poor children in the rural regions of the Southnd. The interest on the fund mounts to $50,000 per annum, and ery satisfactory progress is being aide in the work. Industrial features being introduced, along with the academic training, and education of the most practical sort is being more generally diffused through the counties of the Black Belt. Dr. Washington is Optimistic. following the day's session, Dr. Washington and other members of a Board were the special attraction of the Howard Theater, where aass meeting was held under the uplipses of the local branch of the national Negro Business League, of ich Mr. Daniel Freeman is presi and Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman is retary. Dr. Washington urged the 100 citizens of the nation's capital to invite the biggest business men of the white race to their conferences and secure from them valuable suggestions how to develop a business from small beginnings. Dr. Washington said that a man's color should not be looked upon as a disgrace. He asked no sympathy because of his color. He would not exchange his color with any man on earth. He liked the joy that comes from victory over hard conditions. The life of the white man is too monotonous—he has too easy a time to bring out his real strength. Citing some examples of the rapid advancement the race in the South are making along business lines, he urged the citizens of the nation's capital to bestir themselves and follow in the footsteps of their brotherhood down in Dixie. Dr. Washington was at his best and won wamy enthusiastic "hands" from the large and representative audience. Other addresses in a similar vein were delivered by J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury; R. L. Smith of Texas, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of the Washington schools; T. W. Lott of Calro, Ill.; Dr. S. L. Corrothers of Galbraith Church, and President Freeman, who explained the objects of the Business League. Dr. C. H. Marshall of the Board of Education presided. A rich musical program was presented, embracing a bartone solo by Dr. C. Summer Wormer; soprano solo, Miss Lola Johnson; piano selection, Miss Edna T. Gordon; duet by Mr. Liggitt and Miss Murlone of the Howard Theater company; selections by the Howard orchestra and the Azalea Mandolin and Guitar Club. PAUL H. HERRIN GOES SOUTH. Paul H. Herrin, Chicago's fashion plate and huster, left to visit his home in Columbia, S. C., where he will spend a month or more. Mr. Harris, while in Columbia, will have a conference with Governor Bleasen and if necessary Mr. Harris will call all the sheriffs of the state together to have them show the governor where he was wrong to have frightened the United States government as he has done. Paul assured our reporter that we could depend on him on keeping his home state from seeding from the Union. SHERIFF HARRIS I NCITY. Mr. M. J. Harris, deputy sheriff, who was in the city on official business, left for his home in Pueblo, Colo While here he was the guest of Dr. Harper. Igae not attractive "Why don't you write a play?" asked an actress of the late David Graham Phillips. "I have too many other ways of breaking my heart!" he replied, with a bitterness which suggested that he had already experimented in the matter. Matter of Doubling Oliver Wendell Holmes was a classmate of Doctor Clarke at Harvard, and according to the reminiscences of the latter, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table was as witty then as later. One day the two were talking of metaphysics, when the bright-tongued little great man exclaimed, "Tell you, James, what I think metaphysic is like. It is like a man splitting a log. When it is done he has two more to split!" "Seaside Cocktail." Mix a pretty girl with a holiday boy and soak them in moonlight till midnight. Squeeze into a tiny corner of the pier. Stir well with the music of love waltzes. Serve with an engage ment ring—Marquis of Queensberry Before Houses Were Numbered. Four hundred years ago the idea of numbering houses originated in Paris, though it was not until 1789 that the system became general. The first known instance of London street in which houses were numbered is Prescott street, but the practice did not spread far until 1764. "The Good Lord Made Them All." You doubtless remember the story of the old lady who deplored the shooting of craps because, though she didn't know what they were, "life was probably as dear to them as to anybody."—From "The Business of Being a Woman," by Ida M. Tarbell. Children Feet Inguisitive In the little world in which children have their existence, whatsoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice—Charles Dickens. Finance Marks—"I have some money, but I don't know whether to buy a home or an automobile." Parks—"Take my advice; buy a home and mortgage it to get the machine. Then you'll have both."—Boston Transcript. Saying Magazine Covers Strips of cotton cloth, cut diagonally and fastened with library paste to the back of a magazine cover when it is new, will save wear, and add to the life of the cover. Led Astray. Judge (sternly)—"To what do you attribute your downfall?" Culprit—"The first drink I ever took was one you bought me when you were trying to get my vote."—Puck Logic of Facts "Dukitz married an optimist." "Why do you think so?" "Any woman would be an optimist who accepted Dukitz."-Birmingham Age-Herald. Friendship. To contract ties of friendship with anyone is to contract friendship with his virtue.—Confucius. Wondrous Strength of Love. There is a comfort in the strength of love.—Wordsworth. Great Convenience "You find that an automobile helps you to keep your engagement?" "It does better than that," replied Mrs. Chuggins. "If you don't want to keep them, it enables you to explain everything by saying 'Cl"s down." --- GUESS WHO? Asked, "Where does F. G., Jr., go every Sunday night?" Sald, "R. D., you will never be as upto-date as L. H." Salt. "There are two dudes running after L. A. F. G. J., and W. C. I. wonder who will win." The dude is in. Is at W. P., who has tried to get C. L. for more than two months and hasn't succeeded yet. Foor. The doll is who had to go to dancing school alone Friday night because her supposed follow, L. C., would not take her. The dude is in. Is cheaper, L. D. is the unfortunate Pint. The dude is who makes time with L. D, better. L. C. is the constant visitor. The doll is who is trying to give one old advice about C. L. "Keep it your own." The doll is who is so crazy about C. L. that she wrote a long letter to him and torn in many pieces and returned to her. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. 3134 FOREST AVE, Apartment 1-Nicely furnished room, comfortably heated by steam; gas, bath and all other modern conveniences with private family. 14-21 bassement, room, with bath and furnace bathroom, room, with bath and furnace bathroom, room, with bath and furnace Phone Douglas 6014 14-21 Phone Douglas 6014 Art of Living. The art of living rightly is like all arts . . . it must be learned and practiced with incessant care— Goethe. Good Tlp. "I should like to secure an audience with your wife." "If you will consent to be the audience it ought to be easy enough."-Houston Post. Why She Was Mad. "Why is she mad?" "He told her she had an appetite like a bird" "Well, that was a compliment." "She had just been reading how birds eat their own weight in a day." For Hammer Handies. Electricians' tape to cover part of the handles of hammers and hatchets will prevent them from slipping out of the hand when in use. Conclusive Evidence Confessive Evidence. "What evidence have you?" the magistrate asked a woman. "I have brought my black eye," she replied. Just Before the Battle "Would you marry him if he were me?" "I'd marry any one that asked me, if I were you."-Houston Post. Couldn't Take Prescription. Physician—"You should seek a higher altitude." Patient—"It always gets me dizzy to travel by airship." Keeping Water Hot Insulate the hot water boiler by building around it a box filled with sawdust. Let the fire go out, immediately after breakfast, and find the water in tank hot at ten p. m. PETITION FOR: PARDON. PETITION FOR PARDON. Public notice is hereby given that David B. Reagan, a former member of the June term, A. D. 1890, of the Criminal Court of Cook County, and sentenced to the penitentiary at Jail for the crime of murder, on January 1913, of the State Board of Pardons to the Governor of the State of Illinois for a pardon. Dated December DAVID KOBINSON. By Edward G. Alexander. --- Are the North Side curleys who want to go to Wilberforce because W. MG, is the best dress for the dole? The fair lady who makes dolls look sleek when she goes to a dance with her imported gold shoes and has all the best and worst dances hanging around her dance. M. W. is the dancing vampire. The doll of Dwill Phillips H. S. is who decided to stay out of school for a dance. I don't let your mother catch you again. The bean eaters are who have been invited out to a Christmas dinner. R. K. likes them. The dude is who will certainly miss his brown skin when she goes to England. R. R., never fear; walking isn't good, and beave me, C. M., can't swim that distance. R. R., can't swim that distance. Out an announcement cards for a wedding. Oh K. W., you don't hold him. The doll from Englandwood High School is your friend. You wish you were at your old school. You wish you were at your old school. FLATS FOR RENT FOR RENT- To responsible person, six rooms; steam heat; $30 a month. Concession to 1st of May. Apply 762 E. 41st. $303 STATE ST- Furnished and unfurnished rooms; steam heat; gas, bath and all other modern conveniences. tt FOR RENT. Gray stone house, 3618 Calumet avenue $329 Vernon avenue, $30. $30 to $329 STOVE HEAT. 5210 Lake Ave., 2 flats, 6 rooms, janitor service, $22.50. 4431-31 State St. 4, and 5-room flats $12.50 to $14.00. HOUSES. Liberal concessions to good tenants. 2322 Vernon Ave. 5-room cottage. $12. 2323 Vernon Ave. 6-room cottage. $15. 2733 Vincennes Ave. 9-rooms, furnace hent. $300. 3143-5 Groveland Ave., 8 rooms, furnace heat. $20.00. CHICAGO REALTY & RENTING CO., WANPED—A young lady, vrolistin who wrote about Lycopersicon Lycum Ceppu- Bureau, Cleveland, Ohio. New Idea for Saying Life. Birmingham, England, has a new style of life-saving apparatus for the fire department. Entrapped persons are rescued in a cage which is raised a.d. lowered to the windows of the burning building. Gratitude. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.—Cicero. Garrulous Lady. Tom Hood, on hearing the piet of a v a v loquacious lady spoken of, said: "Yes, she is well known for her magpiey." PHONE DEARBURN 0001 North Side Stove, Furnace and Range Repairers Grates, Flame-retaining, Casting or Brick Crosses and Centers, Front Waste Fronts and Backs, Tops, Gas Range Parts Stone Cleaned Up. Up. Satisfactory Work Price Reasonable. JAMES TURNER, 1187-1109 Chattain Street, CHICAGO UNION NEWS CO. TO HANDLE THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Beginning today (Saturday, November 16th) The Union News Company will have The Chicago Defender on sale at their stands in the "L" stations, throughout the city. Price, 5 cents per copy. Don't forget to buy The Chicago Defender, "the world's greatest weekly newspaper." In a short time The Chicago Defender will be on sale in the "loop district." At present it is for sale by special agents in several of the large downtown hotels every Friday night. If you can't get The Chicago Defender, let the Circulation Department know it. DR. M. A. MAJORS has moved his office to 4709 State Street Phones changed to Auto. 73-058 Bell-Oakland 4662 Residence Phone Normal 2305 Residence Phone Normal 3105 Who Was The First SALOON KEEPER in Chicago? Was it MR. JOHN KING or STEVE STAMPS? Read all about the Old Settlers in a series of articles in The Chicago Defender Beginning Saturday, Jan. 4th. ```markdown ``` Deaths of the Week Alexander, Walter, aged 24, 5011 Shields av; Dec. 11. Brown, George, aged 43, 2735 Laalle st;. Branch, Jessie, aged 19, 18th and State st;. Dec. 7. Bristolte, Jessie, aged 15, 1721 W. Lake st;. Nov. 27. Boslick, John W., aged 40, 33 W. 31st st;. Crisp, Harriet, aged 72, 4319 Dearborn st;. Dec. 12. Cole, Lizzie, aged 59, 3119 Armour av;. Christmas, John, aged 24, 3541 Praile av;. Christmas, John, aged 60, 3205 Laalle st;. Dec. 14. Dobbins, Nancy, aged 60, 5753 Lafayette av;. Dec. 8. Dearborn, aged 56, 3965 Metropolitan pl;. Dec. 12. Elliot, Laey, aged 75, 6550 Aberdeen st;. Fugett, John, aged 60, 5753 Lafayette av;. Dec. 8. Jarrett, Codel, aged 16, 3208 Dearborn st;. Dec. 1. Levon, Bernice, aged 30, 1207 State st;. Mayweather, Sailie, aged 49, 2129 S. State st;. Dec. 9. Mickey, Ciriance, aged 17, 1733 Fulton st;. Overton, Mary, aged 22, 51 W. 36th st;. Dec. 10. Pearson, William, aged 37, 4521 Evans av;. Dec. 15. Proctor, Jacob, aged 45, 1212 Wabash av;. Dec. 15. Pearson, Ben, aged 63, 3530 State st;. Dec. 14. Rone, William W., aged 47, 433 E. 37th Smith, Josephine T., aged 47, 3141 Armour av;. Dec. 13. Smith, Lizzie, aged 33, 720 E. 38th st;. Dec. 10. Voodles, James, aged 50, 3630 Laalle st;. Dec. 10. Wooldridge, Addle, aged 38, 3629 Armour Ward, Kate, aged 45, 1425 State st;. Dec. 12. Woodson, James, aged 47, 15 W. 26th pl;. Dec. 15. Walters, Elizabeth, aged 19, 3240 Armour st;. Dec. 14. Yearwood, James H., 4236 W. 45th pl;. Dec. 9. OBITUARY. Mrs. Henry Smith, wife of "Hank" Smith, one of Chicago's early settlers, died and was buried from Jones' undertaking rooms on the west side. It is said that Mr. Smith was the first saloon keeper of color in Chicago. Mr. Calloway, a member of Quinn chapel, was buried from Mr. Charlie Jackson's undertaking chapel on Monday. Mrs. Jane Taylor, mother of Mrs. Minnie Roach, died Tuesday at her residence, 2639 Armour avenue, and was buried on Thursday from her residence. Mrs. Nellie Vesta Gray, a brilliant young woman with many accomplishments, died suddenly at her home, 3346 Forest avenue, Monday night. Mrs. Lizzie Tindall, Sister Lizzie Tindall¹ as she was offender referred to a. Zion A. M. E. church, of which she was an active member, died Dec. 10 at 7:50 a. m. at the home of her son, 720 East 38th street, where she had made her home for 12 years. Dr. H. J. Call of Zion A. M. E. church conducted the service at 1 p. m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at Mr. J. L. Parks undertaking establishment. Interment was at Oakwood, 71st street and Cottage Grove avenue. It was the largest automobile funeral this season. She was the mother of thirteen children and grandmother of four. Earthly Punishment. The way of the transgressor is well written up—Kansas City Journal. Find Market in United States. Of the exports of Jamaica, 61 per cent. go to the United States. Poor Man. He has only been wearing trousers since 1814. China Opening to Foreign Trade. China has 64 treaty and other ports open to foreign trade. India's Many Languages. India has 147 vernacular languages. Shaving a Monkey A coxcomb once said to a barber's boy, "Did you ever have a monkey?" "Why, no, sir," replied the boy, "never; but if you will please to sit down, I will try." THE DEFENDER ON SALE AT THE "L" STATIONS. Commencing this morning (Saturday, November 16th) the Union News Company will have The Chicago Defender on sale at every "L" station throughout the city of Chicago. 3008 DEARBORN ST.. 1st fat-Very reliable family wants baby to board. First-class care taken. Will exchange references. CHRISTMAS IS NEAR Why not let Mother, Father, Sister, Brother or Child get into the blood of removing from them oil ACHES and PAINS, caused from RHEMATISM. Foor Circulation of the Blood. From NONE JOINTS, NONE THROAT. SORE FEET, etc. does not irritate the skin. Applied on the parts of the body, it is a mild System. You feel like a new PERSON. Those suffer months find the pain disappear like magic. ONE OF the patients JOY to EVERY HOME. Its quick RELIEF the cause for its Enormous Sail. Why suffer longer? The People of India have long since rid them of the disease. The disease grows on herb compounded into a remedy to endure. Chronic Rhinosilmatum, Stiffness and Swollen joints. Poor Circulation of the Blood. 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