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Pay Your Subscription to the Y.M.C.A.-NOW D L U M E V III. NUMBER 16. In looking through the "Report of the State Tax Commission of North Carolina" for the year 1912, I ran across some data and figures relating to—the personal and realy holdings of the race citizens of Greensboro and Guilford county that may be of interest to some of the readers of this paper. To make a comparative statement, I refer to the year 1900 when, according to the auditor of the state, the total value of property listed by the race citizens of Guilford county amounted to $203,607. According to the State Tax Commission of 1912, the value of property listed by them in this county in 1911 is $553,473. Adding to this at least 10 per cent increase for 1912 according to expert authority we have a grand total of $641,842.30. The percentage of increase in value of property, therefore, listed by the race citizens in Guilford county between 1900 and 1911 is 53.6, according to the State Commission figures. Furthermore, when one takes into reckoning stock owned by some members of the race in banks, building and loan associations and a few other corporations in the city and elsewhere, and that the above figures do not include church and school property, the homes of the fraternal organizations and property of benevolent associations, etc., and that the assessed value of property is from one-half to two-thirds of its real value, it may be seen that the real value of the race's holdings in Gullford county will perhaps reach one and a half million dollars. Another item of no small consequence is that the man of color has caught on to the trick taught him by his "brother in white," namely, not to list all that he really owns. It is safe to say that three-fourths of this one and a half million wealth is here in the city of Greensboro; the balance elsewhere in the county. Race Population Nearly 15,000. The total population of both races in 1910 in Gullford county was 60,497. We have not the information at hand, just now, as to the ratio between the two races, but the race population is doubtless near 15,000. In 1900 it was 11,103. The number of acres of land owned by these 15,000 members of the race is about 16,000, not counting town lots. According to the census of 1900, the population of the citizens of color in Greensboro was 4,089; in 1910, 5,710, showing an increase of 1,624. The number of town lots in Greensboro credited to the race, according to the commission report, is 688. This means that every eighth member of the race one may meet on the streets of the city, not only owns his own home, but perhaps "some more." The Story of Fifty Years Hence. If one stops to reflect that, when the race was physically emancipated fifty years ago, they practically owned nothing, scarcely the ralment on their backs, and the above figures portray most eloquently the progress being made by them in Greensboro and Guilford county. A Fearless, HONEST CHAMPION of the People ATE STREET A BREEDING SPOT FOR EVIL ATE STREET A BREEDING SPOT FOR EVIL er Blames Parents for the number of Children Whoightly Crowd State Streets with Short Dresses Stand Entertain on Street Cori—Wendell Phillips Highool Children Make 39th set a "Lovers' Lane"—ere Are the Parents and ere Are the Teachers? LE SHUN ASHINGTON PARK IN THE SUMMER ```markdown ``` Gm Men "Off from Work" and Young Men "Out of Work" Rendezvous There—Watch Out, Says the Writer, as the Alluring Places Will Eventually Lead the Girl or Boy to Destruction—There Is No Place Like Home—"Home, Sweet Home" By Frank A. Young. The fall of our young girls must not be laid altogether to their inability to find work at good wages. We admit that her struggle for existence, especially when thrown upon her own resources, is more than one realizes. But there seems to be something wrong elsewhere. What are the parents doing, towards the welfare of their daughters? The home conditions are not as they should be or the mother is lax in her methods of raising girls, for just last Saturday we found several young girls of tender age entertaining young men on State street, between 30th and 31st streets. The young girls were of neat appearances were above shoe tops had a head of brown hair that he up in braids and fell over poulder. Iked and laughed and someed out of the place of any elder age have acted. The youths were learing against the lamp post. These were somebody's daughters. And the mothers never dreamed of their daughters being in such a locality. Someone either don't care or is too busy to find out what distresses these daughters. This same scene, with various youthful actors, is played during the week after school hours. At Wendell Phillips High School at recess some of the girls meet their "sweethearts" for a chat and every now and then they can be seen between the school and Indiana avenue. During the past few years the conduct of both girls and boys of color at Washington Park has been so very raw at times that some of the best people of the race shun it, especially on Sundays, when the youthful crowd comes out after Sunday school. During the week day it is a rendezvous for young men "off from work" or out of work where it is known that young school girls are bold enough to play "hookie" from school and go boating. These little things are the beginning of their downward path. It is the start which finally ends in disgrace. You that have girls at this age, watch out. The dance hall, the lax methods, the constant growing desire of the girl for style, silks and satins, because her whims are encouraged by you when your purse-strings can't afford it, is only sending her either to the divorce court or the gutter later on. Home is the best place and it should, above all places, be where the young girl or woman can entertain her male friend and not be forced to meet him on the street or in public places. It is as much your fault as hers. ```markdown ``` STORK LIMITED VISITS DR. AND MRS. HALL Famous Surgeon and Wife Receiving Congratulations Over the Recent Addition to Their Family—Youngster Resembles Mother—Cards Announce Birth. Wednesday Chicago society folks were delighted over the announcement of the birth of an eight pound baby to Dr. and Mrs. George Cleveland Hall. This interesting event in the family of our famous surgeon had long been rumored and the confirmation of it brought real joy to their many friends. Mrs. Hall, with the benefit of the best medical attention and nursing, is reported doing nicely. The newcomer, Miss Beatrice Faith Hall, is also in the best of health. Cards announcing the arrival of the little stranger have been sent broadcast throughout the city and country. The Chicago Defender. JIM CROW BILL DEFEATED Ohio Legislature Decides by a Vote of 66 to 32 to Keep All Races Equal in the Buckeye State. [Special to The Chicago Defender] Cleveland, Ohio, April 18. At a recent meeting the Round Table Club, which is composed of the officials of the Nickel Plate Railroad, given in honor of Mr. George C. Todd, division superintendent of the road, Mr. Walter B. Wright, chief clerk to President Caniff, was chairman of the evening. Mr. Wright, one of Cleveland's most progressive and influential race men, has served as chief clerk and secretary to the president of the Nickel Plate for a number of years. Columbus, Ohio, April 18.—Representative Reppert's bill prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and Negroes and whites and Chinese was badly defeated in the house last week Thursday by a vote of 66 to 32. The defeat of the bill was accomplished through the unceasing efforts of Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland Gazette, and ex-member of the state legislature, and many of the prominent members of the race and clubs of the state, particularly the women's clubs. SOUTHERN CITIZENS INCREASE IN WEALTH Greensboro and Guilford County, North Carolina, in the Limelight—Tax Commission Report Shows Great Gain in Property Holdings. RETICENT AS TO ACTUAL WEALTH Charles H. Moore, in the Greensboro Daily Record. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Greensboro, N. C., April 18.—Last week the Greensboro Daily Record printed the following: In view of the above showing who can forecast what the story will be fifty years hence, provided they are given a fair and impartial hearing and just consideration by those who have it within their power to do so. CHICAGO, ELL., SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913. APPOMATTOX CLUB KILLS "JIM CROW" BILLS IN THE STATE OF LINCOLN Statesmen of Character, Urged by the Prominent Members of the Race from Chicago, Defeat Nefarious Measure—The Race in Chicago Demands Everlasting Freedom—Pullman and Street Cars Are Not Built for Any Special Race But for Any Respectable Person That Can Pay the Price—Chicago Delegation Arouses Capital—Distinguished Men in Action. CHICAGO RACE MEN MAKE HISTORY Col. John R. Marshall, Frank H. Hamilton, President of the Famous Club; R. S. Abbott, Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Adelphus Roberts, J. Gray Lucas and Other Notables on the Firing Line—Full Crew Bill Also Attacked—Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Will Lose Their Fight to Oust Loyal Race Men—Does Color Interfere with a Switch Key?—Defender Reporter on Scene. Springfield, IL, April 18—Illinois has redeemed herself. That blot upon her name, the riots here some years ago, was overbalanced Wednesday when the "Jim Crow" car bill was defeated in the legislature. It was a red-letter day and Springfield has never entertained so many stamouth race leaders as those who came from Chicago to fight against this nefarious measure. The race made such a bold stand and fought so fair and vigorously that the author of the measure to "Jim Crow" the race on street cars and Pullmans declared that he was sorry that he presented the bill and that he never met so many brilliant people of color before. Appomattox Club's Effective Work. The defeat of the bill is due to the work of the splendid committee sent down by the Appomattox Club, who under the leadership of their president, Mr. Frank Hamilton, did the most effective work in twenty-four hours that history records. These fighting davocates for equal rights arrived Tuesday night. They did not sleep, but all night and all day they worked to preserve the fair name of Illinois from shame and a struggling race, from discrimination. The Roll of Honor. History will never record a list of names like the following: MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT. Col. John R. Marshall. Attorney R. A. J. Shaw. Hon. Adelbert H. Roberts. Hon. Jas. Woodard. R. S. Abbott, editor of the Chicago Defender. Dr. D. Herbert Anderson. Hon. Henry Anderson. Hon. Frank Hamilton, President of the Appomattox Club. Col. William Randolph Cowan. Hon. Paul Herrin. Hon. D. P. French. Rev. Thomas on the Firing Line. The gentlemen listed above were the committee sent down by the famous Appomattox Club of Chicago. But in the thickest of the fight we noticed Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church; Rev. Wm. Gray, Attorney J. Gray Lucas, Adelbert H. Roberts and Attorney John R. Auter. Mrs. Barnett represented the women's clubs of Illinois and was accompanied by many prominent associates. The name of Mrs. Barnett stands out alone because that constant and fearless champion of equal rights was on the firing-line all the time. Her eloquent pleas in private conferences with the legislators and in open session were eloquent and forcible. Ida B. Wells-Barnett has again endearled herself to the world. Attorney J. Gray Lucas, Adelbert H. Roberts and Richard T. Greener made up a trio of speakers whose forcible arguments for their race astonished the vast audience. Mr. Woodard Entertains Committee. Mr. W. H. Cornwell of Chicago spoke against the measure, declaring "that he lived in the grand old state of Lincoln, in the twentieth century, in the year 1913, and that as long as he had strength to talk he would oppose such infamous measures." During the day the full crew bill, a measure fostered by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, came up. This bill is intended to deprive the railroad men of color from holding positions of responsibility, from carrying switch keys, and running in changes of trains. But their contention was weak. Those in authority say that the bill will never leave the committee room. Wednesday evening Mr. James Woodard, that prince of good fellows, entertained the committee at one of the local theaters, followed by an elaborate supper. White Newpaper Helps. An editor of the Evening Post of Chicago added influence in the fight against these bills. His address was listened to with marked attention, and the members of the race rejoiced over the fair-mindedness of one daily newspaper. This speaker praised the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. BY DETERMINED STAND. Hamilton, President of the Famous B. Wells-Barnett, Adelphus Rober Notables on the Firing Line—Brotherhood of Railroad Train to Oust Loyal Race Men—Does witch Key?—Defender Reporter WESTERN LAND OPEN TO ENTRY. U. S. Will Allow Settlers to File on North Platte Division of Orest Preserve After Oct. 1. Washington, D. C., April 13—Beginning Oct. 1, the end of the present grazing season, the North Platte division will be eliminated from the Nebraska national forest. This area will then be open for settlement and entry under whatever conditions the Secretary of the Interior may impose. The North Platte division, which lies in Grandt and Arthur counties, contains nearly 350,000 acres. The soil experts say that approximately 30 per cent of the area is suitable for farming, in spite of the fact that it is locally known as the sand-hill region. Hampton, Atlanta, Fisk and Tuskegee University students are urged to go and take up this land. Don't let the ignorant and vicious classes lead, but the intelligent must blaze the way. After they have made good, then the other elements may follow. COL. RUFFIN IN CONFERENCE WITH PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN. On Monday morning Col. R. D. Ruffin ended a series of appointments that had been going on since Thursday at the Auditorium Hotel with Prof. Babcock of the State University of North Dakota and president of the Masche Engineering Company of New York. This conference was for the purpose of perfecting plans for using Mr. Ruffin's new invention for removing coal from the mines. The machine to be used is the most complete of its kind ever devised. It will mine the coal, convey it to the dryers and pulverizers, thence passing through the brinqueting process without the necessity of being handled in the meantime. This machinery has already been purchased, and, barring a few alterations, is ready for shipment to the mine. Its cost is $250,000. In a few days the Colonel will leave for Kenmare to supervise the placing of this machine for operation. We consider it a great honor not only to the individual but to the entire race to have such an ominent man as Dean Babcock come such a distance to consult with our local financier. Mr. Ruffin is to be complimented for placing himself in a position to demand such honors. OLD FOLKS ARE THANKFUL. The Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People wishes to make grateful acknowledgement of the receipt of $250 from the Amateur Minstrel Club, being the net receipts of their Easter entertainment. This magnificent donation is the largest of the many large ones we have received from this noble body of men. It not only shows their added zealousness but the growing interest of an appreciative public to whom the institution belongs. In connection with this permit we to say that, by the kindness of President B. W. Fitts Sunday, April 20, will be Old Folks' Home day at the Bethel library, when the entire collection will be donated to the Home. We wish everyone to come at 3:30 p. m. and by their presence and their mite aid in the rapidly increasing interest in our struggling home. The following program will be rendered: Invocation, Rev. D. P. Roberts; music, Bethel choir; introduction of master of ceremonies, Rev. B. W. Fitts; opening remarks, Master of Ceremonies George M. Turner; music, Shiloh Baptist church choir; remarks, Dr. Daniel H. Williams; remarks, Dr. U. G. Dalley; solo, Mrs Jackson; oration, Hon. Edward H. Morris; remarks, Jos. W. Camp; remarks, F. L. Cuffee; music, Bethel choir; remarks, Rev. D. H. Harris; remarks, S. R. Johnson; offertory; benediction, A. C. Brown.; Geo. M. Tuner, Secretary. A STRANGE IMPEDIMENT. Our religion is generally in the way unless we are on our death bed.—Waldo Baston. MILWAUKEE TO HAVE EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. Loyal Race Woman Praises Movement in Interesting Letter to The Chicago Defender. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Milwaukee, Wis., April 18.—Edition The Defender: I am pleased to learn that a move has been made by Capt. L. C. Valle and Rev. J. S. Woods for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's immortal proclamation of emancipation. It please me also that gentlemen have interested Mayor Bading, Wm. Geo. Bruce and Jos. C. Greib, hence making the celebration an honor to Milwaukee as well as a credit to the colored people. As a colored woman I think the observance of fifty years of freedom is the most important and far-reaching event in the history of the Negro in America. Back of this period the Negro's history on this continent goes backward and forward, then forward. Emancipation was not the result of an impulse but sprang out of many years of agitation, discrimination, knowledge, political movement, religious and social upheaval. And then again not until the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. We colored women should fall in the steps in the late Harriet Tubman, Francis Harper and other noted women who before emancipation risked their lives for the freedom of the slaves. We should not forget the pit we were dug from and should also think more seriously of new conditions confronting us on the rock from which we were hewn. We should listen to the voice of the past as well as the call of the future in the celebration of the emancipation of the Negro in America. We are celebrating the greatest moral event in the history of the nations on earth—Mrs. Laura Duncan, 823 Winnebago street. WITH THE "BADGERS." The Latest News From Milwaukee— Oshkosh—Racine and Other Points in Wisconsin. By Luna M. Scott. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Kalamazoo, Mich., April 18.—Mrs. Anna M. Maxwell, one of the pioneer residents of Kalamazoo, died in the home in which she had lived for 59 years. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon and was largely attended. She had been ill for a long time and bore her illness with great Christian fortitude. She was 76 years of age. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Jessie Porties, and an adopted son to mourn her loss. She resided in a beautiful home at 430 West Dutton street. The Old Time Methodists will hold a cottage prayer meeting with Mrs. E. Hatcher on North Burdick street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Turner have returned from Los Angeles, Cal., where they have been since last November. They will reside in Kalamazoo for the summer as their home in Cheshire is rented out. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Russell, 602 Maple street. Mrs. Minnie Simmons of 1602 North Burdick street entertained at a dinner party her guest, Mrs. Antego and her daughter, Miss Ethel Phillips. Her other guests were Miss Cecilia Parker, Mr. William Christian, Mr. James Simmons and Mr. Richard Robbins. The ladies of the Household of Ruth will give a necktie social at the Odd Fellows' hall on the 29th. Mrs. Antego of Marshall, Mich., was the guest of her daughter, Miss Ethel Phillips, for a few days. She was also the guest of Mrs. Minnie Simmons, 1602 North Burdick street. Mrs. R. Scott of Battle Creek was the guest of Mrs. M. Simmons of North Burdick street. She was en route to Grand Rapids. She is the district noble governor of the H. of R. of this state. Mrs. Henry Williams of 720 Parker street has been quite ill but is greatly improved at this writing. The ladies of the north end will meet at the residence of Mrs. Simmons Friday afternoon to discuss the permanent organization of a neighborhood club. Light refreshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart of Dowagiac, Mich., were the guests over Sunday of Mrs. Anna Phillips, 716 Parker street. THE AMANDA SMITH HOME. The Interracial Circle of the Amanda Smith Home is hopeful as to the outlook since the new superintendent, Mrs. Phoebe Jones of Louisville, KY, has taken her place. She comes to us well recommended, having conducted a school of her own fourteen years, and other qualifications. The Circle has taken on new life since the return of the president, Mrs. Ophie Wells. She has brought new encouragement and several benefits will be given soon. DEFENDER CORRESPONDENT IS ILL—NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Mr. D. W. Johnson Compelled to Have the Care of a Physician After a Struggle to Keep at Work. Following the demise of Mrs. Charity Samuels (The Chicago Defender's "Mildred Miller") newspaper workers were startled this week when they learned of the illness of Mr. D. W. Johnson, another staff correspondent and a writer of considerable fame. Mr. Johnson, a postoffice employee for many years, was taken suddenly ill early this week. He went to work but his condition became so aggrivated that he returned home. His physician diagnosed his case as a nervous breakdown, superinduced by the care of his wife who has been ill with pneumonia at their residence, 6034 South May street, for many weeks. Mrs. Johnson is convalescing and is able to attend her husband, who is reported better. Mr. Johnson is president of the Englewood Lyceum and of the activities of Hope Presbyterian Church and a member of the Knights of Pythias. RACE ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION TO MEET Fifth Annual Meeting of the N. C. A. A. P. to Be Held in the "Quaker City"-Bishop Coppin, Hon. Moorfield Storey and Other Noted Men to Preside. A number of Chicagoans who are interested in the race problem will attend the fifth annual conference, to be held in Philadelphia the last of this month, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last year's conference was held in Chicago and drew a large attendance of both white and colored students of the race question. This year's gathering will be held under the auspices of a committee of fifty well known Philadelphiaians, headed by Mayor Blankenburg. The conference will be officially opened by Mayor Blankenburg on the evening of April 23. Moorfield Storey of Boston, national president of the organization, will preside, and addresses will be made by James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States; Oswald Garrison Villard; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois of New York; Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf and others. Three Days' Session. The sessions will last for three days. On April 24 the afternoon session will be devoted to "The Colored Man's Struggle for Land and Property." The speakers will be Henry Wilber, the millionaire philanthropist of Philadelphia, who will tell of the land problem in the south; John Mitchell, president of the Mechanics' Bank of Richmond, Va., the strongest financial institution in the city of Richmond; John Hope, president of the Atlanta Baptist College, who will speak on the recent crisis in northern Georgia; and W. Ashbie Hawkins, a Baltimore attorney. The subject for discussion at the evening session will be "The Problem of Work and Wages." Bishop L. J. Coppin will preside. The speakers will be Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of the Crisis, a New York publication devoted to the advancement of the colored people; and Dr. Haynes of Fisk University. Senator Moses E. Clapp to Speak. The last day of the conference, April 25, will have three sessions. The morning will be largely taken up with the planning of work for the various branches of the organization, while the afternoon will be given over to speakers who will talk on the "New Southern Attitude." Among these are Mrs. Beverly Munford, Dr. James H. Dillard, F. D. Wetherford, Joseph C. Manning, Dr. M. C. B. Mason and others. Moorfield Storey will preside. The evening session of the last conference will be utilized for a study of "the new abolition movement." Among the speakers will be Senator Moses E. Clapp, Albert E. Pillshire, Judge Wendell P. Stafford, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Mrs. W. A. Hunton and others. John E. Mulholland of New York will preside. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People seeks to uplift the colored men and women by securing them equality of opportunity, justice in the courts, and enjoyment of their rights as citizens. MISS MAUDE TAYLOR ENTERTAINS IN HONOR OF THE MISSES MILLER. The Misses Jerrine and Laura Miller of Winnepeg, Canada, were the guests of honor at a four-course breakfast last Sunday morning given by Miss Maureen Taylor at her home, 524 East Bowen avenue. The young ladies sat down at eleven and between their enjoyment of the breakfast and the entertaining discourse, the time was whiled away into the early part of the afternoon. The dining room was beautifully decorated and the table presented a picture from an artistic standpoint of beauty that will not soon be forgotten by all who were present. Those were the Misses Jerrine and Laura Miller, Eloise Carey, Bertha Young, Ada Lou Mitchell, Essie Arnold, Vivian Harsh and Maude Taylor. THE WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PRICE 5 CHES BISHOP DERRICK, VENERABLE PRELATE, PASSES AWAY BISHOP DERRICK, VENERABLE PRELATE, PASSES AWAY End Was Peaceful—Was Foremost Representative of Race in America—Fought in the Civil War and Was a Power in the Days That Followed—Died at the Ripe Old Age of 69 Years—Had Charge of the West Indies, South America and the Island of the Sea for the A. M. E. Church. HAD TRAVELED Life Story a Remarkable One—A West Indian by Birth—Began Preaching in 1866, Also Taught School—Preached the 355th Anniversary Sermon in the Church of Martyrs, Canterbury, England—His Home a Unique One—Many Notable Curios—One a Gift from Edward VII. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Flushing, N. Y., April 18—Rt. Rev. William B. Derrick, bishop of the A. M. E. Church, died at his home, Bishop's Court, State Street, Flushing, at 10:45 Tuesday morning, April 15, after an illness of three months. Bishop Derrick was one of the foremost leaders of the race of his generation. Up to the time of his death he was one of the most active workers in the United States. Although rapidly approaching his seventieth birthday, since his election as bishop of the A. M. E. Church in 1896, his time has been spent continually in traveling around his extensive diocese, which included a large part of the United States and extended into foreign countries. His last act before he was stricken with the illness that resulted in death was to journey in company with his secretary to Panama, where he made arrangements for the erection of churches for the thousands of race workers on the canal. He returned home, and a few days afterwards attended the funeral of a dear friend in Philadelphia. Contracts Cold at Funeral. He contracted a heavy cold at the funeral, which led to complications. Arterio Sclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, set in. A few weeks ago Dr. Williams, the well known surgeon from Chicago, was sent for and after a consultation with Dr. Dick of Flushing it was decided that the bishop had only a few weeks of life. A bloodletting operation performed a few days after the consultation by Dr. Dick gave momentary relief but within a few days Bishop Derrick began to sink. The final relapse came at 9 o'clock Monday night. Dr. Dick was sent for at once, but the venerable sufferer was beyond medical aid. Throughout the night his condition grew weaker, and Tuesday morning his faithful wife, Dr. Dick and the other watchers at his bedside saw that death was only a matter of a few hours. Retaining all his faculties to the last, Bishop Derrick passed peacefully at 10:45. In the death chamber were Mrs. Derrick, the Bishop's two daughters, Miss Minnellebelle and Miss Lillian Derrick, and two friends of the family, Mrs. Charles Neal and Miss Emily Mason of Philadelphia. Dr. Dick was also present. Outside of the death room was Bernard Taylor, gray-baited and stooped, and for fifty-two years a friend of Bishop Derrick. Together they enlisted in the United States Navy from the city of Boston, when President Lincoln sent out his first call for troops, and at the battle of Hampton Roads they stood side by side on the deck of the grounded frigate "Minnesota" when his staunche sided rocked beneath the impact of the iron volleys from the Confederate ironclad "Merrimac." Mr. Taylor is now employed in the general post office in Manhattan. Rev. Butler Rings Death Bell. The Rev. William H. H. Butler, pastor of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Washington, Pa., a friend of thirty-five years' standing, rang the bell of Bishop Court as the bishop breathed his last. One of the last requests of Bishop Derrick was that he might look upon the face of Dr. Butler before he died. The story of Bishop Derrick's life is a remarkable one. He was born on the Island of Antigua, British West Indies, in July, 1843. His father was a Scotchman and his mother a West Indian. They belonged to the planter's class of the island and were deeply religious. They early hoped that their son might embrace the ministry. Antigua, on account of its excellent opportunities for education and its compulsory educational law, is known as "the Athens of the West Indies." enteen his parents sent him to England to finish his education, and he returned at the opening of the Civil War. Attracted by the cause of the North—the freeing of the slaves—Bishop Derrick enlisted in the navy at Boston as officers' steward. He participated in the battles of Hatteras Inlet and Hampton Roads. After twelve months' service he left the navy and began to prepare for the ministry. Interested in the young enthusiast was Bishop Brown of Baltimore. While pursuing his studies Bishop Derrick worker as a porter in Woods' Business School. His first assignment was in 1866, as preacher and teacher among the emancipated slaves. Bishop Derrick took an active part in the affairs of Church and State with regard to the freemen. As a Campaign Speaker. In the presidential campaign of Greeley and Grant, Bishop Derrick first came into prominence as a campaign speaker, and during the campaign and in later years he came to Reed, Foraker, McKinley, Everett, Despew, Ingersoll, Fred Douglass and Langston. During his life Bishop Derrick attended several International Church Congresses, and on invitation he preached the three hundred and fifty-fifth anniversary sermon in the Church of the Martyrs, Canterbury, England. Bishop Derrick had a wide reputation as a traveler. He had visited Italy, France, Switzerland, Scotland, Ireland, Africa, England, South America, Central America and the West Indies. Bishop Derrick was unanimously elected to the bishopric in 1896 over sixteen other candidates. He received forty-five more than the required number of votes for election. The press of the United States and England commented favorably on his election to the high office. Bishop Derrick resided in Flushing for the past twenty-six years. Bishop's Court, his home, is a place of great interest. In one of the rooms hangs a gold framed resolution, the gift of the late Edward VII of England, in recognition of a sermon that Bishop Derrick preached in commemoration of his mother, Queen Victoria, several years ago, while traveling in England. RAILROAD MEN ORGANIZE Form Permanent Organization After Banqueting Prominent Official. Sunday a number of railroad men entertained Mr. J. N. Freeman, who has been employed by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad for fifty years, at the Appomattox Club. Those present were Messrs. P. T. Tinsley, J. M. Woodard, Charles S. Smith, Samuel Lee, W. H. Eaves, R. P. Johnson, Frank Hamilton, W. H. Plummer, Frank Derrick, J. M. Lawrence, William Morris, Dr. Simpson, H. S. Anderson and D. P. French. The gentlemen present went into a permanent organization, to be known as Employees of the C. N. W. Rv., after the dinner. Mr. P. J. Tinsley was elected president and Mr. W. H. Eaves, secretary and treasurer. STORK VISITS DE WENDT. The first baby of Haytian parentage has been born in Chicago. Her name is Elovie Alexandra de Wendt, and she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. D Wendt, 3629 Prairie avenue. Friday last was the natal day and the proud father is still celebrating the event. Fellow countrymen are sharing his happiness and a bank account of $500 has already been deposited for the new arrival. Mr. De Wendt is the writer on Historical Facts about Hayt in the Chicago Defender. Mrs. De Wendt was formerly Miss Bertha Vezaye of New Orleans. Man's Personality His Own "A man's personality." writes J. W. Scott of the University of Glasgow, "is a thing which needs to be made. He does not bring it full-edged into the world with him. Strange as it may seem, personality is a thing which a man absorbs from his environment as a plant absorbs air and light. We are all plagiarians. In the last resort everything we have or know is borrowed." Didn't Look Good to Her My five-year old niece went to a restaurant with me, one day. I ordered some hash for both of us. When the waitress set it on the table my little niece kept looking at it. I asked her why she didn't eat and she replied, "Aunty, I don't eat anything that looks like a puzzle to me."—Chicago Tribune. Hot Corn Bags. An excellent substitute for the expensive hot water bottle of rubber is made by heating common field corn, shelled) in a pan in the oven. When thoroughly warmed, pour it into cloth bags, such as salt and sugar are packed in. These filled bags are light and pliable, and satisfactorily answer every purpose of the hot water bottle. McCall's Magazine. Paper Making in England Paper of an excellent quality is now being made in England from species of splinach of large proportions. The plant grows stems five feet high and supplies a fiber which, it is believed, will prove an important factor in papermaking. Tactful Mr. Cumrox "I want to talk to you about becoming your son-in-law," said the young man. "I can't advise you," replied Mr Cumrox, "on the subject of becoming a member of the family. As your son cere personal friend I ought to speak freely, but as a husband and father I am restrained." e is one right a suffragette ave—the right, to marry— News of the Churches Walters A. M. E. Zion Church. Our services on last Sunday were well attended all day. Rev. H. E. Stewart, pastor of Wayman chapel, and our pastor exchanged pulpits for the 11 a. m. service last Sunday. Rev. Stewart preached a practical and interesting sermon from Heb. 12:1. At 3 p. m. Rev. J. W. Robinson, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. church, preached an excellent sermon for the benefit of the Sunbeam Club rally. 7:45 p. m. the pastor preached the second sermon of the series of God's Message to Men. Subject, "The Language of the Message," a large and appreciative audience listened with rapt attention. One person joined the church. Collections for the day, $48.80. At 6 p. m. the new officers for the Christian Endeavor were installed by the pastor, the society seems to have taken on new life, 20 new members were added to the roll. The Millionaire Wedding which took place on the 15th inst., was fairly well attended, the 56 taking part in the bridal party presented a splendid appearance and made the guests feel they were attending a real millionaire wedding. Mrs. Callis and the Board of Stewards desire to publicly thank all those who so kindly assisted and helped to make the affair a success. The services for next Sunday will be as usual. The pastor will preach the third sermon in the series, subject, "The One Purpose of the Message." St. Mark's M. E. Church. The weather last Sunday was beautiful and a nice congregation was in attendance. At the morning service our pastor preached. The sermon was a gospel message. At the close of the sermon the Stewards were invited to take the front seat. The rules were read to them and their duties explained. Rev. Higgins, of St. Mary's A. M. E. church, preached in the evening from the subject "Take Up Thy Bed and Walk." Our pastor was at St. Mary's. Sunday school continues to be interesting. The lyceum at 4 p. m. was addressed by Mr. D. P. Webster. The Devotional League exercises at 6:45 p. m. were lead by Rev. J. C. Peters, topic: "Money a Touchstone of Christian Experience." Ladies Aid No. 1 met at the church Monday evening and elected their officers for the ensuing year. Mrs. Sarah Peterson was re-elected president. Don't forget the lecture May 8 by Dr. M. C.'B. Mason. The Rev. E. R. Lewis was sent to St. Lake's church by the conference which just adjourned in Louisville. His wife has arrived and they are located at 3747 Vincentnes avenue. They will be glad to meet all friends and well wishers at the church and their home. Mrs. Amie Floyd, Mrs. Callie McCray and Mrs. Johnson continue on the sick list. Services next Sunday as usual. The public is invited to worship with us. The pastor and family are pleasantly located in their new home, 4925 Wabash avenue. Call and see them. With the Palmer House Boys With the Palmer House Boys. Mr. Thomas Lucas has been confined to him home for several days because of illness. The absence of Mr. John Coleman caused Mr. Goldie Carter to be promoted. The boys welcomed Mr. William Bell back to his post of duty this week as Mr. Bell is considered the Song Bird of the house. Mr. Hendricks is confined to his residence. 2975 State street, because of illness. Mr. Henry Braine has returned to the city after a long absence. Mr. James Archie, 3563 Prairie avenue, has been seriously ill for several weeks. Mr. R. Fowler has been made captain in the place made vacant by Mr. J. Minnie. Mr. J. Coleman, 3433 Dearborn street, is seriously ill at his residence. Mr. C. Conesly is now convalescing after a serious illness. Mr. H. Coleman is spending his vacation in the city. Mr. C. Caston, of 3522 Rhodes avenue, reported for work this week after a serious illness. Mr. J. E. Worthington is visiting his parents and other relatives in Brocton, Mass. The Palmer House Rise and Fly Club members are becoming more and more skillful each week in their checker games. MRS. WILLIAM WASHINGTON HOS TESS TO YOUNG PEOPLE. One of the most delightful, among the many social functions given in honor of the Misses Jerrine and Laura Miller of Winnepeg, Canada, during their week's visit in our city, was the informal dance given by Mr. and Mrs. William Washington of 530 East Bowen avenue last Friday evening. Their beautiful home was a garden of national rose and human buds with a thorn here and there vieing with each other in the midst of the sweet strains of "If You Love Me Tell Me With Your Eyes" and other dream-like numbers. There was about fifty young persons present and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Craft. The young folks were so highly elated over their evening's enjoyment that a sigh of regret was heard when the first strains of "Home, Sweet Home," were played. Miss Mary Lee was at the piano. Mrs. Washington in her sweet manner proved a charming hostess. Why He Quit Working Woman (lecturing tramp)—"You should work, if only to set a good example to others" Tramp—"I did that once, mum, an' the poor feller not took the example worked so hard he died er nervous prostration." Play With Spirit. Figg—Shakespeare is immortal. I consider "Hamlet" a play for all time. Fogg—That's so; it will never give up the ghost. A man will stop drinking for anything except forever.—Waldo Baston. REAL BEAR STORY SENT FROM OREGON Thrilling Narrative Told by Two Boys. BRUIN MAKES ESCAPE Animal Digs Tunnel Through Snow for Miles — Accidents Befall Youths, and in Melle Bear Makes Escape and Gets Home to Wife. Ashland, Ore.—The most thrilling bear story that has leaked out in Southern Oregon for some time comes from Jack Bailey and Fred Dodge. It is so remarkable that the boys insist on changing Jack's name to Davy Crockett and Fred's name to Kit Carson. Jack and Fred heard that a bear was devastating the country over near Gregory and snorting for a fight they went over to see about it. The snow was "nine feet deep on the level" and four feet deep on the dead, so the boys took their snowshoes along—together with guns and axes and chewing tobacco and grub. They found the bear's trail all right and followed it in the soft snow for eighty rods. Suddenly it disappeared—no bear, no trail, no cave, no hollow log, no nothing. The trail apparently ended in deep snow. Apparently the bear was traveling by alrship or had drowned in the snow and sunk. Just about that time Fred noticed that there was a hole in the snow where a new trail began. With fear and trembling and both guns at full cock they got down and looked into the hole. It led into a tunnel in the snow that ran back under a lot of bushes which held the heavy layer of snow off the ground. After a consultation the boys figured that as the trail appeared at both ends of the tunnel the bear probably wasn't in it, and they moved on along the gutter in the snow for another half mile. Here they found another tunnel entrance into which the trail disappeared. They searched for half a day, but found no outlet or other end to this tunnel. The boys drew straws to see which should crawl into the tunnel and scare the bear out. The lot fell to Fred, and he prepared for the job. Laying off his snowshoes and clinging his trusty bowie knife in his best set of teeth, he entered the tunnel. Jack took up his station on a slight rise of ground beside a small fir tree and kept a sharp lookout for the bear to come Ran Completely Over Them. browsing out through the top of the snowdrift, with Fred clinging to his tail. While he was waiting he lifted one foot to knock the ashes from his pipe and the other foot broke through the snow. He was standing directly on top of the tunnel: As he went down on his free snow shoe caught on a snag of the fir tree and Jack hung suspended head downward in the tunnel with snow all about him. Fred had just about crawled up to the point in the tunnel and heard the comotion. Of course he thought it was the bear and hastened to the fray. Fred grabbed Jack by what he thought was the bear's tail and Jack of course grabbed Fred in a death grapple, thinking he was the bear. The tunnel was now so full of snow that neither could see and they put up a fight then and there that will go down in history as the gem of the Siskiyous. About that the snag broke and Jack fell into the tunnel. Jack still thought Fred was the bear, and hung on for dear life. While Fred was trying to spit the snow out of his mouth and introduce himself, the real bear—which had been asleep a mile and a half down the tunnel—heard the commotion and waked up. In its haste to get out of the tunnel and get back home before its wife waked up and missed it, it ran completely over Fred and Jack and knocked two more panels of the tunnel down on their heads. In the mix-up the boys were jarred loose from each other and stood up, but by the time they had clawed the snow off themselves so they were recognizable, it was dusk and the bear was on the home stretch over near the Hungry Creek mines, seventeen miles away. Kindness Brings a Woman Fortune, Warrensburg, Mo.—Mrs. Albert Munkers, wife of a farmer, has fallen heir to $40,000 through her kindness to John Rohan, an aged Irishman, who two years ago went to the Munkers home seeking shelter. The pair cared for Rohan until he died a few days ago. On top of a pile of valuable papers found among his effects was a note directing that everything be given Mrs. Munkers. Rohan had no known relatives. Broom for Lion. Chicago.—Hot irons and a revolver having had no effect, "Mme" Marguerita, a lion tamer, subdued an angry lion with woman's own weapon—a braem. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER It was in 1874, during a famous trip to Boston with Dr. Twitchell, that Mark Twalw saw for the first time what was then a new invention—a typewriter; or it may have been during a subsequent visit, a week or two later. The famous humorist began to practice on the machine, and he wrote two letters—one to William Dean Howells and the other to Orion Clemena. In the latter he says: "I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it." However, this is the first attempt I have ever made, and yet I perceive that I shall soon easily acquire a fine facility in its use. I saw the thing in Boston the other day, and was greatly taken with it." He goes on to explain the new wonder, and, on the whole, his first attempt was a very creditable performance. With his usual enthusiasm over an innovation, he believes it is going to be a great help to him, and proclaims its advantages. This is the letter to Howells: "You needn't answer this; I am only practicing to get there; another slip up there; only practicing to get the hang of the things. I notice I miss fire and get in a good many unnecessary letters and punctuation marks. I am simply using you for a target to bang at Blame my cats! but this thing requires genius in order to work it just right." CITIES MADE TO ORDER. As compared with the normal process by which towns come into being, their development proceeding spontaneously and by slow stages, it is interesting to note the occasional deliberate construction of large seaports, and other towns, complete and ready for occupancy in a few years' time; the motive being sometimes political and sometimes commercial. There is the remarkable case of Port Sudan, founded a few years ago by the British authorities on the west coast of the Red sea. A similar undertaking, though with different alms, was the building of the German seaport of Tsingtao, China; a city, notable, among other things, for the fact that no American atlas-maker discovered its existence until ten years after its foundation. In contrast to these successful experiments in city-building, we learn that the port of Huengechow, which was laid out in the spring of 1809 on the shore of Yehil bay, 10 miles by water from Macao harbor (China), has by no means realized the hope of its creators that it would speedily become a formidable rival to the neighboring ports of Macao and Hong Kong. It was built on up-to-date lines, with telephones, waterworks, electric light, tramways, etc., but it has not succeeded in attracting trade, and its present population is only 2,000. FOOD CANAL IN MAMMALS. A Frenchman who has made an examination of the food canal in mammals has measured the length of it in 280 specimens that belong to 30 species. He has found that the ratio between the length of the canal and the length of the body is smallest in the carnivorous animals, larger in those that are called omnivorous, and largest in the vegetarians. In other words, the length of the food tract seems to vary with the digestibility of the kinds of food that are consumed. The rule holds true in birds as well as in animals. In man the alimentary canal is about 30 feet long,—usually from five to six times the length of the body. ARSENIC IN NATURE It has long been known that traces of arsenic are to be found not only in human and animal organisms, but in certain plants, such as the cabbage, turnip and potato, and in wheat. Two members of the French academy of science, Messieurs Jadin and Astruc, have shown that arsenic is also to be found in rice, pea, beans, lettuce, celery, asparagus, parsnips, and in most vegetables used as food by man, as well as in apples, pears, pinnapple, oranges and nuts. Since plants undoubtedly get the element from the soil, arsenic must occur far more widely in nature than was at one time supposed. WONDER CAVE OF ARIZONA. One of the most wonderful caves in the world has been found in southern Arizona. Unnamed, unexplored, and almost unknown, it gives evidence of being a rival to the Mammoth cave of Kentucky, whose fame is world-wide. Only a few have dared to enter it to view its grandeur and to study the marvelous handwork of the Almighty in its construction. This cave lies at the foothills of the Huachuca mountains, about 40 miles northeast of Nogales, Santa Cruz county. Exploring parties have entered and spent days inside, but none has ever discovered the end. They report passageways, rooms and chambers innumerable New England Romanée From Boston comes the story of a touching phonograph romance. The manager of a store became infatuated with the voice of a young woman whose singing he heard reproduced frequently in the machines, wrote to her for her pictures, and the acquaintance speedily ripened into marriage. The bride, by the way, was intending to study in Paris for grand opera, but has decided to settle down in New England.—San Francisco Argonaut. Prevention of Mildew Nothing should be stored in a damp condition on account of mildew, which is a vegetable growth, being a kind of fungus, which quickly spreads, and is very difficult to remove. To remove it from flannel ether is best to use. For mildew on cotton material, damp the part, rub soap thickly on, cover with powdered French chalk and put in the sunshine, and keep repeating the process until the spots disappear. Hadn't Proposed proposed. "No, darling, let me propose to any other woman than you." "Oh, but you once told me you had been engaged to a widow." "True, but that was in a leap year." CHEVIEU ITRICIR Is a pomade that straightens hair permanently without the use of iron, preferably with nails as it straightens the shortest hair as well as long. Use as directed and it will give entire satisfaction. Price $4.00 per jar. Liberal percentage to agents. Address MRS. R. A. HATTON Glencoe, III. Tel. Harrison 5133 Real Estate and Probate Law a Specialty. GEO, W. BLACKWELL Attorney and Counsellor at Law Suite 622 Omaha Bldg., 135 W. Van Buren Street, CHICAGO Advertise IF YOU Wanta Cook Want a Clerk Want a Partner Want a Situation Want a Servant Girl Want to Sell a Piano Want to Sell a Carriage Want to Sell TownProperty Want to Sell Your Groceries Want to Sell Your Hardware Want Customers for Anything Advertise Weekly in This Paper. Advertising Is the Way to Success Advertising Brings Customers Advertising Keeps Customers Advertising Insures Success Advertising Shows Energy Advertising Shows Pluck Advertising Is "Bir" Advertise or Bust Advertise Long Advertise Well ADVERTISE At Once In This Paper A MISS JUANITA TOLIVER. PORO Hair Grower 50c a Box, 10c extra out of city . Treatment $1.00 3420 Dearborn St. Chicago. Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST Office Hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p. m.; from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Sunday by appointment. Phones: Oakland 4662. Auto. 73-058. 4715 South State St., CHICAGO. ILL. Phone Oakland 2459 Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. CHICAGO Lady Solicitors Neat appearance, to introduce a feminine necessity, no experience necessary. A money maker. Address Howard, Chandler & Co. 6434 Vincennes Ave. Douglas 9458 Ida M. Dempcy Stenographer and Typist Instruction at Reasonable Rates 3716 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. An honest man never picks up our pocketbook when we lose it.—Waldo Baston. --- J. A. JONES, Prop. - - - European Plan Worthington's Art Studio Phone Kenwood 3531 A woman sits at a table in a room with a wall covered in framed paintings. She is holding a paintbrush and appears to be painting a landscape. The table is adorned with various art supplies, including paint tubes, brushes, and canvases. MISS ETHEL WORTHINGTON, Manager Lessons given in hand painted China, a specialty in Fruit. Flowers, Landscape and Figured Work. Special attention given beginners. We carry a complete line of China for sale, suitable presents for weddings, birthdays and card parties. Firing a specialty. 5344 Dearborn Street Chicago, Illin Lessons given in hand painted Landscape and Figured Work. We carry a complete line of weddings, birthdays and card p. 5344 Dearborn Street HOME DEW AND GREAT B. F. LIGHT HOME BAKING 501 E. 36th St., Corr. 36th St. N. 15 W. 36th Opposite Prec Daily and W Cigars and Ice Cream and C the C Mrs. Lulu Phone Douglas 213 EDWARD ICE CREAM PHONE Milk, Cream, Stationery, Newspapers, Bread, Cake We give Fish and Weber and Sodas. A First-Class EDWARD FELIX Mrs. Edw. Felix's Stands open for all kind ment, Hair Goods to or hands and nails. A co Tel. Douglas 2928 Gener to all Main hand painted China, a specialty in Hand and Figured Work. Special attention given to complete line of China for sale, suitable holidays and card parties. Firing a specimen onborn Street Chicago. THE DELICATES AND GROCERY B. F. LIGGINS, Proprietor BKING Goods delivered 56th St., Cor. Rhodes Ave., Chicago St. Notion St. W. 36th St., Chicago Composite Provident Hospital Dealing in Dry and Weekly Papers, cigars and Tobacco Cream and Candies, special to the Children Mrs. Lulu B. Taylor e Douglas 2134 Automatic 7 EDWARD FELIX CREAM PARTY PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Paperpapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying new Fish and Weber Stamps with Groceries, Ice Cream, Goods. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connellwood. FELIX :: :: 52 W. dw. Felix's Hairdressing is open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp and Hair Goods to order. Special care taken in hair and nails. A complete line of toilet and General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country. 52 W. HOME DELICATESSEN 36th St. Notion Store 15 W. 36th St., Chicago Opposite Provident Hospital Dealing in Daily and Weekly Papei Cigars and Tobaccos Ice Cream and Candies, specialty to the Children Mrs. Lulu B. Taylor Phone Douglas 2134 Automatic 72-993 Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Bingars, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying & Me. We eat Fish and Weber Stamps with Groceries, Ice Cream and Sodas. A First-Class Laundry Agency in Connection, Mrs. Edw. Felix's Hairdressing Parlor Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Treatment, Hair Goods to order. Special care taken of the hands and nails. A complete line of toilet articles. Tel. Douglas 2928 General Mail Order Business to all parts of the country. 52 W.30th St. Music Students ATTENTION Pupils are now being enrolled for the classes in the Study of Opera. For further information, inquire at the Studio of MRS. M. B. ANDERSON, Room 14, 3522 South State St., any afternoon. What You Want How You Want It When You Want It Removal Mme. Alice H. The noted Hair and Skin moved to 3520 State Room 8. Residence, 3 Tel. Douglas 2458. For anything in the line of printing come to us and we'll guarantee you satisfactory work at prices that are right --- CHICATESSEN GOCERY IS, Proprietor Goods delivered if desired Modes Ave., CHICAGO Motion Store St., Chicago Resident Hospital Being in Weekly Paper L Tobaccos Andies, specialty to children B. Taylor Automatic 72-993 D FELIX M PARLOR GLAS 2928 Collectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, and Pies. Before buying € Me. Cups with Groceries, Ice Cream Laundry Agency in Connection: 52 W. 30th ST. Hairdressing Parlor Hairdressing, Scalp Treat. Special care taken of the state line of toilet articles. All Order Business of the country. 52 W. 30th St. Elevator Boy Wanted Boy Wanted—About 17 years old to run private elevator. Must be intelligent and courteous. O'Connor & Goldberg, 205 State St. 6th Floor. READ AND SUBSCRIBE FOR ThePullmanPortersReview a magazine brim full of railroad news. Issued monthly by the Perfection Press, 7509 Ingleside Ave. 15c percept. $6.00 a year. Next edition ready May 15th. Anywhere good books are sold you'll find our magazine. Agents wanted everywhere. Address W.A. Holbert, Business Mgr., 3630 Dearborn St., Chicago. Removal Notice Mime, Alice H. Thomas-Mason, the noted Hair and Skin Specialist, has moved to 3520 State Ave., Johnson Bldg. Room 8, Residence, 3748 Calumet Ave. Tel. Douglas 2458. 12-19-26 M3. Real Meaning of Phrase. When a person says "I am terribly misunderstood" it generally means that somebody has become thoroughly wise to him. Willie's Advice. "You'd better eat slow," said Will to the clergyman who was dining the family. "Mamn never more'n one piece of --- . Copyright GUESS WHO? Copyright applied for The doll is who has beat E. J.'s time, ed about his love affairs. Don't be afraid, with W. P. E. L. is correct. Mr. (7), J. P. won't get the best of you. The doll is who is seen with sweet Panda Doll, even after school. M. Mc. is correct. The perless dudes are who have got so full of business lately that every time you come to school, you way to club meeting or lodge meeting, the girls keep you out of mischief. The fair doll is who was seen on Monday evening at 47th and State streets. The W. P. H. S. doll are who were seen at a 50th street ice cream parlor, or of ice cream, calling for three spoons. The young dude is who is narrow mind- Deaths of the Week Alford, Laurence, 3, 2627 La Sale st.; April 11. Brown, Harold, 2, 3606 Wabash av.; April 12. Brown, William, 2, 3606 Dearborn st.; April 13. Badger, William, 2, 3613 State st.; April 3. Bradley, Mary, 1, 2007 S. State st.; Feb. 26. Fisher, Charles, 46, 3340 Wabash av.; Grathouse, John, 45, 5419 Ridgewood ct. Grathouse, Harriet, 53, 4829 Armour av.; April 10. Hoskins, Washington, 53, 68, 32d st.; Luden, Melvine, 54, 2817 State st.; April 11. Hoskins, Villa, 25, 90 W. 18th st.; April 9. Powell, Alice, 50, 3555 Verion av.; April 11. Russell, Hugene, 19, 765 Jackson bivd.; March 23. Russell, Thomas, 49, 3129 Dearborn st.; Ross, William, 69, 25 Frederick ct.; April 12. Saint Charles, 37, 6501 Rhodes av.; April 7. Summers, Jennie, 44, 4903 Dearborn st.; Steward, Lorain, 3016 La Sale st.; April 14. Temple, Paul, 1, 1207 Elizabeth st.; April 13. Vaughan, Mary, 59, 6215 Elizabeth st.; April 11. Wilson, Elizabeth, 68, 23 W. 17th st.; Walden, Alvin, 1, 9550 Commercial av.; Whitfield, Hazel, 1, 5015 Dearborn st.; April 14. DEATH OF BABY WHITFIELD. Hazel Whitfield, the 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Whitefield, died at her parents' residence, 5015 Dearborn street, early Monday morning. Funeral services were held on Wednesday. Undertaker Charles Jackson was in charge. Mr. John Barber of Portland, Ore., died Sunday, April 6. Mr. Barber was the husband of Mrs. Corine White Barber, formerly of Chicago and widow of Mr. Dan White. Mrs. Barber has a host of Chicago friends and relatives who offer sympathy in this second bereavement and who hope that she will return to Chicago. A CARD OF THANKS With a heart filled with gratitude to my friends, I wish now to thank them for their thoughtful acts of kindness during the illness and death of my beloved wife. Gratefully yours, Moses P. Samuels. DOUGHERTY LEAVES FOR A FOR- EIGN TRIP. New York, April 18—Romeo L. Dougherty, sporting editor of the Amsterdam News, will leave for a foreign trip on Saturday, April 13, on the steamer "Brazos" of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. Mr. Dougherty plans to be abroad about two months and will return to resume his duties in the office of the News. Arriving in Porto Rico on the 23d he will leave on the 27th for St. Thomas, from which place he will again take ship to Southampton. While in Europe he will visit London, Paris, Berlin and Yenna. Mr. Dougherty is making this trip representing the Danish government to report on the progress being made in the Caribbean islands in anticipation of the opening of the Panama Canal. Mrs. Luroy B. Hayes, 5015 Dearborn street, has improved from the illness that caused so much anxiety among his relatives and friends early this week. Mrs. Bessie Newsome returned to her residence at 308 East 22d street from West Baden, where she has been for several weeks for her health. She reports her condition much improved by her trip. Mrs. Maggie R. Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove avenue, is very much indisposed. She was taken suddenly ill April 10. At this writing she is able to walk around in the house. She is the wife of Mr. John R. Winston, The Defender's railroad correspondent. Mrs. Clara Anderson, 5013 Dearborn street, reported ill in this column for many weeks, is able to be up and about but is still under the care of her physician. Mrs. Moseley of 5211 Grove avenue is ill. Judge Cluer (in Shoreditch county court): "Affidavits are bad enough when they are sworn, but when they are not, well—they are just as good." —London Telegraph. PUGILISTIC LIKENESS Before a couple marries each needs a manager; after they marry they need a referee—Waldo Baston. --- 1 Copyright applied for SICK LIST. About Affidavits ed about his love affairs. Don't be afraid, Mr. (7). J. P. won't get the best of you. You should give the club the name "Non-Loach Club." You might know that D. H. suggested that appropriate name. The officers of the Do Right Boys' Club are. The funny doll is. O. G. is correct. The 31st street and Groveland avenue are the worst. Well, E. L. is the living model. The 33d street and Rhodes avenue doll is who says that J. G. isn't on the square. Well, E. L. is the living model. The ex-Do Right boy is who is down behind the sun and says that he certainly does miss State street. J. W. is OUT IN ENGLEWOOD. Weekly Letter from This Thriving Section of the City—All the News. Mr. Wm. Daly is improving and was able to be out of the house. Little Henry Dupun, of 6147 Ada street, who has been very sick for the last two weeks, is improving. He was able to sit up in bed Sunday. Mrs. B. Lean, of 1317 West 60th street, is on the sick list. Mrs. Ellen Cooper, of 6014 Normal boulevard, is reported better and is able to be out. Mrs. Clara Hutchinson, of 6551 Aberdeen street, who has been confined to her bed for a couple of weeks, is reported better. Miss Vera Brown, of 6041 Throop street, is a little better. Please send all notes to Mrs. G. Jordan. 6043 Loomia street Shiloh Baptist Church. Regular services at 11 a.m. and $ 8 p. m. Sunday school at 1 p. m. B. Y. P. U. as 7 p. m. The last Sunday in the month is rally day. All friends and members are asked to come and help toward a new building. A two week's revival is going on and has proved to be a success. Some of the best ministers have been invited to help out. Mrs. Lyons, of 6138 Aberdeen street, entertained the Ideal Woman's Club last Friday. There was a large attendance and Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Johnson were the guests of honor. A fine program was rendered and a delightful luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will be pleased to meet their friends in their new home, 6031 Loomis street. Mrs. F. H. Smith, of 6022 Aberdeen street, is still improving. Mrs. Nellie Stafford is much better. Little four-year-old was learning to sew. She made some beautiful small stitches and mamma said, "Now make a long row of those tiny baby stitches." After awhile the little fingers became tired and when mamma came to look again, there were some long ones. On being asked why she had not made them all tiny she replied, "Why, the baby stitches needed some mammas." "I thought that in the fifteen years of my practice of medicine," said a physician. "I had answered almost every possible foolish question, but a new one was sprung on me recently. A young man came in with an inflamed eye, for which I prescribed Inmert—to be dropped into the eye three times a day. He left the surgery, but returned in a few minutes, poked his head in the in the doorway and asked: 'Shall I drop this in the eye before meals or after?'" Joy of Neighborliness With the aid of the waves of ether, transmuted or translated into waves of sound for those who have not eyes, or into light for those who have not ears, we may find neighbors where there is greatest need, or where our noblest need is best fulfilled. Mobility, transmissibility, are they not to bring mankind nearer, if not into, the higher kingdom, even as they brought the vegetable to be an animal, to approach, and then to enter its next kingdom?—John H. Finley, in the Atlantic. One of the most whimsical wills ever made is that of a bachelor of France who left all his property, amounting to a considerable inventory, to three ladies who had refused to marry him. He stated in the document: "These bequests I make to these ladies, for to them I owe all my earthly happiness." "Do you think Mrs. Muchrich bleaches because she's older than her husband?" "Give it up," answered the hairdresser. "Mine not to reason why, mine but to do and dye." "Brother Short will now lead us in prayer," said the pastor. "No he cannot, not neither," replied Brother Short, "but he countens that what's you paid for."—Exchange People who find it hard to make a living generally have a way of living to make it hard.-Waldo Baston. Needed Mammas Fine Point. Most Ungallent. Brotherly. THE REASON. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Office Phones. Douglas 8203 Automatic 71-719 DR. F. J. BRAXTON DENTIST and loyal xaggerman in that she said the way bank. I love him! and ten take his ing and d. who and could 3616 Armour av. $8; basement (coal office) 5.00 9 Earl st. $ rooms. 20.00 burn. 10.00 3636 Vernon av. cottage. 10.00 3143-5 Groveland av. each $ rooms, Store 20.00 3129 Cottage Grove av. large and light 20.00 CHICAGO REALTY & RENTING CO. Room 803, 69 Washington st. Randolph 3237 Auto. 43954. --- BORNE ON THE LIGHT --- ALL DEEPS AND HAPPENINGS OF THE UNIVERSE RECORDED. Wave Flashing Eternally Through Space Forever Continue to Carry the Comparatively Brief Story of Man and Hla Dolonga. Not the least of the wonders of light is the truth that, through its agency, ordinary deeds and ordinary happenings, as well as all other kinds of affairs in this busy world of ours, are immortalized. We are accustomed to the idea that souls are immortal, that energy cannot be annihilated, that matter cannot be destroyed, but what of this extraordinary immortality of deeds? Simply this: light that is reflected or given off from an object carries an image, a picture of the object, with it on its travels, no matter how long the journey or whither it may tend. When these image-carrying light waves enter the eye, the picture they bear is revealed, whether the waves have been only the infinitesimal fraction of a second in coming from the face of a friend across the street, or whether they reached the eye after jump through space from the flashing flabations of a far-off star. Even as we see the nearest star neighbor not as it is today, we were four years ago, the light that is to this star from our planet carries pictures of the earth as it was 48 months ago, and any person, if at that distance from the earth and equipped with some means of collecting the light waves, would see events and deeds that had transpired on this earth in the year 1908! Suppose we had such an apparatus and could out-travel light. We could journey to the Pole star, 60 light years from the earth, and behold! we should see the earth as it was in the year 1852! If we journeyed nine years of light waves farther in toward the earth, we would intercept the light pictures showing the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861. Even though every book and every manuscript and every monument should be destroyed, the gallant charge of Longstreet, and the incomparable bravery of our northern and soldiers are written eternally on the earth with its heavens. Long after the earth with its pony and armies has crumbled to cosmic dust, vanished into some other system, the light waves fashing eternally through space will continue to carry the comparatively brief story of man and his deeds. If we traveled still farther out into space, and caught up with the light waves that left us, say 420 years ago, we would see Columbus discovering America. The waves that left us about 700 years since would give us the picture of Runnymede, with John, surnamed Lackland, signing the Magna Charta. Nearly 2,000 light years from the earth speed the waves that bear the story of Caesar's fame and the glory that was Rome's. Still further out, hurting through the eternity of unending space, is a picture from far back in the dusty corridors of time, a picture of the earth when it was void and without form, ages and ages before that wonderful creature, man, had entered the arena of life. Soft Fabric From Stone A manufacturer in the north of Russia claims to be making a fabric from a gray stone of Siberian origin. This stone is susceptible, it seems of being drawn into a fiber, and the cloth woven from it is said to be soft, durable and presentable. One report has it that the peasants of the district are generally wearing clothes made from it. This necessarily calls attention to the glass cloth industry. The fabrics woven from spun glass, however, are more costly than the fine silks they resemble so much. An English manufacturer is doing something more to the point in weaving cloth from old ropes. In the sandwich islands a fabric in common use is made from the mulberry plant. More interesting still, in India and Jamaica the natives understand a process by which banana skins may be reduced to a fiber that may afterward be woven into cloth. Not Much Out of the Way Mrs. Rush is a zealous and loyal wife and intends to avoid exaggeration, but has a strong tendency in that direction. "It's perfectly wonderful," she said to a patient friend, "to see the way Mr. Rush counts bills at the bank. I think they are so lucky to have him! He'll take a great pile of five and ten and twenty dollar bills and make his fingers fly just like lightning and never make a mistake!" "Never?" asked the friend, who knew Mrs. Rush's weakness and could not forbear the question. "Well—no—at least," stammered Mrs. Rush. "why, perhaps he might get five or ten cents out of the way, but not any more, ever." American Control District Americans Control Pitch Supply. On the beautiful island of Trinidad, chief source of the world's supply of pitch, the article has been put to every possible use by the natives. Formerly the streets of the Port of Spain were lighted by torches of pitch, but the people objected to the odor. Nothing, however was done to develop the pitch and oil industry until recent years. This difference to its value has been credited to the fact that the Trinidadians had so many other resources, such as their cocoa, coffee and sugar, from which to gain an abundant living that they were content to leave Pitch like alone. Americans now control its output. Old Man Perned at Lovers Old Man Peped at Lovers. New York—Using a field glass to water the sitting of young couples in Central park, coat Carl Rogenson, sixty years old, a fine of two dollars. The young couples complained to a policeman, declaring that holding hands had lost all its pleasures when a man up a tree could watch what was going on with a pair of field glasses. In Utah. "Are you the lady of the house?" "I'm one-seventh of her." CASSHED ADVERTISING FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. 3825 CALUMET AV., 20 seconds to 35th st. car line. Nicely furnished rooms, or office spaces, convenient, steam heat, gas, bath, telephone service. Phone Aldine 1478. tf 3745 CALUMET AV.—Nicely furnished rooms; bath, gas, and all other modern conveniences; comfortably heated. Near car line. Phone Douglas 249. 12-58 4440 LANGLEY AV.—Nicely furnished telephone service, and all other necessary modern conveniences. Very convenient to car line. Phone Kenwood 4378. 13-26 3818 LANGLEY AV.—Furnished or un- furnished rooms, suitable for man and woman; all modern conveniences. Telephone Douglas 8552. 19-26 3818 STATE ST. first, large—Flat large front room, light and air, comfortably heated; bath, gas, and all other modern conveniences. Kitchen privileges. 19 3820 VERNON AV.—Nicely furnished rooms, with all modern conveniences. Joe free. Gentleman preferred. Phone Douglas 6149, Automatic 77538. 19-26 3440 VINCENNE AV.—Modern sk-room flat, steam heat; $25 per month. 19-26 4528 ST. LAWRENCE AV.—Nicely furnished rooms, with all modern conveniences. Phone Kenwood 4227; Auto, 78956. 11-9-12-11-9-13 3561 PRRAILE AV., phone Auto, 76343.—Nicely furnished rooms, all modern conveniences. cur line. 12-19 3627 MORGAN ST.—Two large rooms, furnished or unfurnished. Suitable for gentleman or married couple. All con- veniences. 12-19 3429 STERVILLE AV., second flat—Nicely furnished room; all modern, comfortably conveniences. steam heat. Tel. Auto. 12-19 Mrs. Gray. 3536 STATE ST. —Nicely furnished rooms, comfortably heated by steam; bath, gas and water connections. Intersection car line. Phone Douglas 2586 or Automatic 71538. 12-10 3626 CALUMET AV. —Very nice, light furnished. Unfurnished; suitable for large private kitchenette; hot and cold water. Terms reasonable. Phone Douglas 3834. 12-19 3716 FOREST AV. —Nice, large ally room, comfortably heated by steam; bath, gas and all other modern conveniences. Near car line. Strictly first class. Office Hours: 3255 STATE STEET 10 a.m., to 5 p.m. Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m. Sundays by Appointment CHICAGA ```markdown ``` Do Your Feat Trouble You? any ailment of your feet, send to me at once for my guaranteed remedy, in [25c] packages. FREE bookleton care of the feet, with each order, Address, J. H. WALLACE 3209 State Street CHICAGO THESE HOUSES FOR RENT OR FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS THESE HOUSES FOR RENT OR FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS CALL AT OFFICE FOR PRICES. OR FOR RENT. Flats. 2115 Groveland ave., 8-room flats, each $29.00. 1122 Evans ave., 6 rooms, steam heat, $35.00. 214 E. 31st st., 7 large light rooms over- looking Grand blvd., $33.00. 4431 Sait e st., 4-5-room $12.50 to 14.00 4515 Sait e st., 4-5-room flats, $14.00 to 17.00 2933 Vernon av., 2d and 3d flats, 7 rooms, $20.00 Phone Franklin 2727 Res. 58 East 36th Street Tel. Douglas 4397 J. GRAY LUCAS ATTORNEY AT LAW Oxford]Building, Suite 506 118 North La Salle St., Chicago For Sale 5-room cottage, $1,050, $100 down; 2-flat building and cottage, 2 lots, toilets and gas, all for $2,000, $150 down. For sale: 3 buildings, 2 flats each, prices $2,500, very small cash payment down and $30 per month including interest; 2 flat brick, stone front. Other bargains. Terms to suit buyer. Office: 6142 So. Ada St. Houses and Flats FLATS TO RENT. 4411 VERONN AV.-Small flats, steam heat, private baths. For rent-Four rooms, bath, stove heat. Apply, Walter Pergerson, 4411 Vernon av. 6532 CHAMPLAIN AV, 2V. flat-Seven rooms, steam heat, hot water, gas range, and shades, for $30. Apply l flat. 19-20 M. 3-10 BUSINESS CHANCES FOR SALE—10-ROOM RESIDENCE AND three flats; steam heat. Rental, $140 per month. Occupancy, month by C. F. Van Winkle, 4524 Forneck Phone Kenwood 1914, Automatic 75223. FOR SALE—SCHOOL SUPPLIES, SODA a football, cigar and candy cases; also grocery and groceries. Will sell cheap. Four living rooms; rent cheap. L. Smith, 134 Dearborn st. THE HOME QUESTION CONFRONTS YOU That desire you had to buy is right; don't let your friends and associates change that good intention. A few of our many spring bargains: A solid, stone-front, three-flat building; modern; east of State st., near car line; rents for $30 per month. $500 down, $50 per month until paid. Make us an offer. A solid, stone-front house, 8 rooms, strictly modern; rents for $40 per month. $400 down, balance like rent. Price $2.950. You should see it to appreciate. Send your proof. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. Mr. R. H. Hardin wishes to inform his many friends that the chirropody firm of Mr. R. H. Hardin has been dissolved, to his entire success, gives the credit to his able attorney, Mr. R. H. Hardin will be at 143 N. Wabash, Suite 300. His daughter, Miss Edith, will be 250 E. 37th st. ATTENTION! Choice apartments in beautiful Woodlawn. Stove and steam heat. Prices $20 to $35. E. W. CAVE. Phone Went. 5280, 6432 Vincennes Av. FOR SALE 4808 LANGLEY AVE. Residence of 10 large rooms. Two-story and basement. stone front. Exceptionally well built. New Washington Park. To close an estate will sacrifice if taken at once. Easy terms. Inspection invited. Owner occupies. 19 Live Longer Nowadays Life insurance folk say, says the New York Telegraph, that the expectation of life nowadays is well above seventy, and that persons nowadays are supposed to live at least until they are eighty, and if they reach that age should last until they are ninety, and so on, and about five out of every two hundred persons should walk the earth for a century. Making Extra Trouble A traveler in a southern state reached a town one night where the only hotel had a single bathroom. Feeling tired and dusty after his trip the traveler summoned the porter and asked him to make ready the bath. "Laws, massa," exclaimed the negro, "you gemmen gimme lots of wuk. Here it is only Thursday and wanting a bath. Can't you's wait until Sat'day, like the other white folks?" The Awakening. "You're looking mighty sour; what's the matter? Honeymon over?" "I guess so." "How'd that happen?" "Oh, we were drifting along down life's enchanted stream, like the poet tells about, and just as I was thinking I should like to drift on and on with her forever, she up and told me that she had got to have some money.—Houston Post. Surgrised Them. Turkish General—"Did you surprise the enemy?" Colonel "Yes; they didn't expect to see us run."—Boston Transcript. "Darling," he murmured, as soon as they had been sent in the high-priced restaurant, "you can have anything you want on the bill of fare. Shall I read it off to you?" "No," replied the dear girl, "just read it to the water." Purifying the Language The female red deer is known as a hind and not a doe. The young red deer is also known not as a fawn but as a calf. These trifles are very shocking to sensitive ears.—London Spectator. Might Well Be Dispensed With. One of the most useless things in the world is a man who is continually making it necessary for his friends to explain that he means well. More Likely. "Now, I want a canary that will sing right away and sing what I like; one that won't get the plop or die the first week." "You don't want a canary, my friend. What you want is a muscle box." Never Become Widows Nepal has the earliest marriages in the world. There every girl is married in infancy. But, then, the bridegroom is not very terrible. She is married with elaborate ceremony to a bel fruit, which is then thrown into some sacred stream. The fate of the fruit being always unknown, every girl is thus spared the disgrace of becoming a widow, while at the same time a second husband is allowed her later on. FINDING YOU OUT. The world doesn't look up to a man before it looks up his character.— Waldo Baston. Get Your Hands On A House On Your Own Terms PRAIRIE AVE., near 35th St. Lot 25x125; a detached 12-room brick house; 2 baths; open plumbing; hardwood floors; furnace heat; in good repair; rental $600. Price... $6,000. FOREST AVE., near 33rd St. 10-room stone front house; furnace heat; could be remodeled into a 3-flat at small expense; now rented for $510. Price... $4,500. CALUMET AVE., near 35th St. An elegant 3-story stone front house; 10 rooms; open plumbing; furnace heat; all in fine repair; rental $480. Price... $4,400 CALUMET AVE., near 35th St. Large 10-room brick and stone house; open plumbing; furnace heat; hardwood finish; in good repair; rental $480. Price... $4,500. GROVELAND AVE., near 31st St. 10-room stone front residence; open plumbing; furnace heat; all in first class repair; rental $420. Price... $4,500. DEARBORN ST., near 35th St. 2-story stone front; 2 flats of 6 and 7 rooms; bath; gas; stove heat; rental $552. Lot 25x110. Price... $4,500. EVANS AVE., near 45th St. Lot 25x170, improved with a good 8-room frame house; open plumbing; furnace heat; frame barn; rental $252. Price... $3,250 PRAIRIE AVE., near 35th St. Double frame house; 7 rooms each; open plumbing; bath and gas; rents $45. Price $3,000. DEARBORN ST., near 31st St. 2-flat frame; 5 rooms each; bath; gas; frame barn; lot 25x110; rental $360. Price $2,700. DEARBORN ST., near 29th St. Lot 25x110, improved with an 8-room frame cottage; rental $216. Price... $2,250. Call at our office for further information W. H. BOWERS & CO. New Beauty Shop Studio GEO. W. NEIGHBORS 3636 South State Street For High Class Photos. Postals finished while you wait— Day or Night. Enlarging and Retouching our Specialty. Lady attendant. MALE HELP WANTED Prominent Automobile Corporation selling used cars will undertake to teach colored men the automobile business thoroughly (Repairing, Driving, good paying position. Fee $25—Easy Payments accepted. Opportunity to earn $0 weekly. E. G. SEEAM, Room 415, Port Dearborn Building. Any of these $500. PRAIRIE AVE., near 35th St. brick house; 2 baths; open nace heat; in good repair; r FOREST AVE., near 33rd St. nace heat; could be remode now rented for $510. Price CALUMET AVE., near 35th St. house; 10 rooms; open plum pair; rental $480. Price... CALUMET AVE., near 35th St. house; open plumbing; fur good repair; rental $480. GROVELAND AVE., near 31st dence; open plumbing; furn rental $420. Price..... DEARBORN ST., near 35th St. 6 and 7 rooms; bath; gas 25x110. Price..... EVANS AVE., near 45th St. D 8-room frame house; open barn; rental $252. Price... PRAIRIE AVE., near 35th St. each; open plumbing; bath a DEARBORN ST., near 31st S bath; gas; frame barn; lot 25 DEARBORN ST., near 29th St 8-room frame cottage; rent Call at our office for W. H. BOW Phone Douglas 986 The Guaranteed GUARANTEED TRADE MARK [Name not visible] Go to New Beauty GEO. W. NE. 3636 South For High Class Photos. Post Day or Night. Enlarged Specialty. La MALE HELP Prominent Automobile Corporation so- colored men the automobile busi- Salesmanship) and will assist to good p ments accepted. Opportunity to carr 413, Port Dearborn Building. HIs Patience Exhausted. A yea-mony squad was drilling, and, being out of practice, most of them were suffering from bruises caused by the unsteadiness of one another's movements. "I believe you have cut my head open," shouted a recruit to *a. nervous comrade*, who had given him a serious knock. "Well," said the distracted sergeant-at-charge, "now is a good time to put something in it!" The Secret Out Fried eggs were originally the same as bolled eggs were before they were bolled.-Cassell's Journal. Philosophy In Rhyme This world with promise richly stored is like a train of cars, they say. If you don't want to get on board, you mustn't try to block the way. Multum-in-Parvo Disturbers. As small letters weary the eye most so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.—Montaligne. Wealth of Knowledge. There is no wealth like unto knowledge, for thieves cannot steal it.—Burmese Proverb. City's Many Fatal Accidents. More than three thousand five hundred accidental deaths occur every year in New York. Her Diploma. "She says she went abroad to finish her education. I wonder if she learned much." "She told me she had six new ways to fix her hair."—Judge: Each and Every One. Each new friendship is forever. Balance like rent 5th St. Lot 25x125; a detached 12-room bed; open plumbing; hardwood floors; fur- repair; rental $600. Price.....$6,000. 4rd St. 10-room stone front house; fur- remodeled into a 3-flat at small expense; Price.....$4,500. 35th St. An elegant 3-story stone front open plumbing; furnace heat; all in fine re- Price.....$4,400 35th St. Large 10-room brick and stone ing; furnace heat; hardwood finish; in 480. Price.....$4,500. 2nd 31st St. 10-room stone front resi- g; furnace heat; all in first class repair; Price.....$4,500. 35th St. 2-story stone front; 2 flats of bath; gas; stove heat; rental $552. Lot .....$4,500. St. Lot 25x170, improved with a good bed; open plumbing; furnace heat; frame Price.....$3,250 5th St. Double frame house; 7 rooms bath and gas; rents $45. Price $3,000. 31st St. 2-flat frame; 5 rooms each; lot 25x110; rental $360. Price $2,700. 29th St. Lot 25x110; improved with an acre; rental $216. Price.....$2,250. Office for further information BOWERS & CO. 6 East 31st Street Red Feather Company Manufacturers of French Plumes And All Classes of Fancy Feathers MME. LAMBERT, Prop. 3149 Indiana Avenue CHICAGO Phone Douglas 7926 Calls promptly answered R. W. GREEN Funeral Director 3832 STATE STREET CHICAGO Phone Douglas 5766 Automatic 71-678. Go to the Duty Shop Studio D. W. NEIGHBORS South State Street Postals finished while you wait— enlarging and Retouching our city. Lady attendant. HELP WANTED ation selling used cars will undertake to teach the business thoroughly (Repairing, Driving, to good paying position. Fee $25—Easy Pay- to earn $30 weekly. E. G. SEEMAN, Room 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 Tel. Douglas 3239 ```markdown ``` U.D.Davidson Co Hair Dealers Wigs. Switches Puffs Transformations Cut Hair in all lengths & shades. Ladies in hair business write in we will stock you with all the hair goods you ca n sell, on so per cent basis. Goods shipped the same day ordered 3149 S. State St. CHICAGO, Ill. Entered as second-class matter, February Chicago, Ill., under act of March 3, 1879. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Births, betrothals, marriages and deaths.....$1.50 Complimentary and obituary resolutions, each.....5.00 DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS. One inch, one time.....$1.50 Social media given on large or long- standing ads. Front page advertisements, per inch 2.00 Reading notices, per line.....0.25 Rates for display advertisements furnished on application. Change of address.—Please give both the old and new address; and in writing the paper always be careful to give both the state and postcode, as well as name. IF YOU SEE IT IN THE DEFENDER, IT IS SO SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913. COURT GENERAL ROBERT ELIOTT, No. 7355, Ancient Order of Foresters, meets every second and fourth Monday night, flight to New York, Odd Fellows' Hall, 3237 State street Lodge Officers. Chief Ranger, F. V. Babb, 5345 Dearborn street; phone Doreen W. Taylor, 5621 Grove avenue; phone Normal 7552. Treasurer, Frank L. Crittenden, 2414 Dearborn street; phone Calmet 3215. --- SIGNS OF SPRING. Mebbe now you wouldn't know Time was passed for ice an' snow. 'Cept you saw th' movin' man Backin' up his great big van. See him drop a lookin' glass, Jest as you wus goin' pas. Don't need birds to chirp an' sing In this town to know it's spring. Advance reports show that Chicago is going to be the usual mecca for summer visitors. Now that the Demoorats are getting used to their positions, perhaps they will take the reins of government in real earnest and clean up our streets and alleys, for instance—and because they sadly need it. Jeanette O. Ferris, an enthusiastic suffragette, compared the emotions derived from their victory at the polls to falling in love, being converted and coming into a fortune all at one time. My, what the poor men have missed! Besides the good things to eat at the Business Men's banquet, there was an abundance of brain food, the speeches were forceful and logical and will be productive of much good. Such meetings should be of monthly occurrence. They tend to stimulate the growth of business in all lines. Victoria Clay Haley, president of the Associated Negro Women's Clubs of St. Louis, because of her attendance at the sessions of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference, has been the subject of many newspaper comments, good and bad. She was fighting for a cause and won, and after all it is only the result that counts. Joseph E. Lee, who has held the office of collector of internal revenue in Florida, is in a fair way of being ousted, besides being an active Republican he is colored, hence, therefore, etc., etc. The committee included other office holders of color also in their petition to the executive, who promised to consider the matter. Will someone kindly inform us if there are any colored Democrats in the state? They are still having emancipation celebrations in the Southern cities. At Knoxville, Tenn., they had a very creditable parade showing in floats the fraternal and industrial vocations of the Negro of today and of fifty years ago. The business and professional men took an active part in arranging this splendid pageant with a view of showing the sceptical and disgruntled white brother as well as to their friends, the wonderful prog- --- ress the race was making. There is nothing like an ocular demonstration to convince some people, even though they do not live in Missouri. Our race is by far too modest. If you are doing anything worthy of being told, tell it; it inspires confidence. He who totoeth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted. Miss Mae Coleman of this city took the civil service examination for a stenographer. She passed successfully, was not appointed and took it again and passed. She was advised to ask Congressman Madden to help her get an appointment. This was done and now Miss Coleman is employed at the Custom House. It is to be hoped that she will be there permanently. Mr. Oscar De Prist, whose business acumen and political dexterity is well known did much toward getting Miss Coleman placed. Women are certainly slaves to fashion. In the matter of dress they vacillate from the modest attire of the Quaker to the positively vulgar costume in vogue today. The draped skirts are made so tight that it seems absolutely necessary to have the slit on the side in order to navigate at all, and here is where you go to extremes and modesty thrown to the winds. The woman who scarcely raises her skirts when crossing a muddy street wears without a blush a skirt with an opening like a theater curtain. It would seem the time has come for a halt on the freakish costumes. Oh, for the days of our grandmothers. AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION The Southern Woman's Club of Chicago, fearing that some servant with a cowardly blood in her veins should apply for membership and thereby throw the dear ladies into a conspiction fit, changed their by-laws pertaining to membership, which originally read, "A woman of Southern birth" to "A white woman of Southern birth." Can anyone imagine in their wildest dreams a colored woman applying for membership in any club that starts with the word Southern? As the comedian Bert Williams says, "We may be crazy but we ain't no fool." A GREAT MAN IN ISRAEL FALLEN. In the death of Bishop Derrick, the A. M. E. Church loses one of the most forceful and powerful orators of that connection. He was a great churchman and a great preacher. As a parliamentarian he had but few equals in the race. He was loved and admired by all religious connections and was one of the foremost champions the race has had since the death of the immortal Fred Douglass. Although he has passed into the Great Beyond, his memory will be to us as sweet as summer. Peace, perfect peace to his ashes. To the family and church The Defender extends its deepest sympathy. YELLOW JOURNALISM YELLOW JOURNALISM. It would seem to a casual observer that the Amsterdam News and the New York Age could find plenty of real live news to fill their columns without resorting to mud-throwing and villifying each other. The private affairs of the families of either one of the editors does not or should not concern the general public. And for two such prominent papers to drop into "yellow journalism" is deplorable, especially at this time when the eyes of the world are focused on the race and the dark side of every episode is depicted by the white daily press. At least through our own channel achievements of our people for betterment should be brought to the attention of the public. DOMESTICS. There is a tendency among a great many to look down upon the domestic or servant class, and they are often snubbed and mistreated because they have to work for their daily bread. One who has given the matter any thought can readily understand how unjust this is, and how much better off as a rule these girls are than many others who work in stores and offices. They are in a measure watched over by their employers; they have less time to gad the streets, therefore less time to get into mischief. It is upon their actions largely that the white people judge us, and it is incumbent upon us to make their condition better and put them in the way of performing more faithful service. No work is more degrading than you make it, and each individual can make or lose many friends for the race. NASHVILLE BOARD OF TRADES There seems to be nothing that concerns the welfare of the colored citizens of Nashville, Tenn., that their Board of Trade does not foster and encourage. The name Board of Trade is a little misleading, as we generally associate it with a legal form of gambling, but this organization is different. Just at present they are cooperation with the Carnegie Library commission in the establishment of the colored library, the building of which is to be begun at once. Another thing they are interesting themselves in is sanitation. A visiting nurse is sent to the homes of the poor to teach cleanliness, how to prevent disease and to instill the germs of civic pride into them. Being poor does not necessitate one being dirty, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." The back yard should be as presentable as the front yard, and perhaps right here might be a good place to mention the flat or house you rent isn't to be misused or damaged. That is not what you are paying rent for, and because people are inconsiderate enough to damage their landlord's property, rents are placed high enough to cover the repairs, the innocent as usual suffering for what the guilty ones do. The Nashville Board of Trade, or in other words, the philanthropic colored citizens have set an example that organizations in other cities would do well to follow. LOBBYING. The white ministers' alliance went to Springfield this week to try to have a bill introduced in the legislature prohibiting boxing matches, not prize fighting, but the manly art of self defense which is advocated by the most learned men of the country, the presidents of the various universities. There are so many other more important things that these good men might turn their attention to that would really be of benefit to humanity. For instance, on the same train rode a delegation of earnest, loyal, unselfish colored citizens, going down to the same senators to plead for their God-given rights, to implore them to work no more hardships on a race that was already heavy laden. They were not asking favors but justice, and when justice is pictured as blind the truth of it strikes no one more forcibly than the colored man. Look on one picture and then on the other and decide for yourself if God's ministers have not other and more important work to do. TUSKEGE IDEAS FOR CHICAGO. "Set upense truth wherever found," evidently is Mrs. Ella Flagg Young's motto, for she admits that she was deeply impressed with the impracticability and the value of the methods in vogue at Booker T. Washington's school. "I went down there," she said, "to look upon, as I thought, the teaching of an inferior race, and found the problem of education has been settled in a manner more nearly ideal than in any city that I know of. We may well follow the example." This statement coming from the head of Chicago's vast school system is indeed a great tribute. And yet knowing Mrs. Young to be a woman of keen judgment and fearless in her criticism of persons and things, we could expect as much. She will submit the new ideas she gleaned from her trip to the school board for adoption. Just what their pleasure in the matter will be remains to be seen. We have a splendid school system but along educational as well as other lines there is always room for improvement. MISSIONARIES WANTED Among other unimportant things that have happened in the last four years we note the following: Florida had forty lynchings, Georgia seventy-four, Mississippi forty-six, Louisiana thirty-three, Alabama thirty, Arkansas twenty-two, Texas forty-five, Tennessee twenty-three, Kentucky twenty-two, South Carolina fifteen, Oklahoma fourteen and Virginia four. To the reader who is not well up in geography we would say, if our memory does not fall us, none of these are Northern states, and if you should ask how it so happens, we would respectfully but firmly refer you to a history of the late Civil War. It is unfortunate that some people living below the Mason and Dixon line haven't heard that the war is over, and yet it seems incredible, too, when we stop to consider that the patent medicine manufacturers send their almanacs broadcast that contain everything from Adam and Eve down to President Wilson's election. True the churches need to send missionaries, not to the jungles, but right to the heathens in their own country. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP? Humanity has not only a duty to keep children alive, but also to give every child a chance of living a decent life and becoming a decent citizen, says General Bramwell Booth. The task of creating a wholesome environment for the Negro youth is ours and now. Whence shall come the help to our future representatives now standing on the threshold of manhood? Shall we make citizens or criminals out of the great abundance of material at hand? The work of the Y. M. C. A. is making men. Every boy shaped in the association in his early life will be the man and citizen of tomorrow, who will do and live the things taught him today. Two years ago the Negroes of Chicago pledged $67,000 toward the building of a department of the Y. M. C. A., whose work should be under the direction of colored men, and for colored men and boys. So far less than one-third has been paid in. We made the contracts with the white friends and sympathizers of the race to do a certain thing by a certain time. When a merchant trusts a man for groceries or meats, he trusts the qualities of character; he trusts supposed veracity, honesty and prudence; it sometimes happens that he has put his trust in a thoughtless, flashy, weak-witted, thoroughly bankrupt nature. It is impossible to compute the great injury this kind of a business man does to the interest of the community, in ruling the credit of many enterprises entirely worthy of support. The Negroes of Chicago have made such a contract with the white business men of Chicago and the whole world. They have paid their part, the building is near completion—only waiting for our part to be carried out. Twenty thousand dollars will put us in complete from top to bottom. There is a racial crisis here and now. It calls for immediate action. The action we take now will largely indicate our trustworthiness to the business world — and demonstrates what we really will do. Negroes of Chicago! Carefully search your records and see if you have paid what you promised to the building fund. If you have not paid, will you not, in the name of the race and in your own honor, do what you said you would do for your boy, your friend's boy, your husband or yourself. Curad of Enthualsaam A. "You don't seem to have any life in you. Is there nothing or nobody over which you can enthuse?" B. "Nothing at all. I once became enthusiastic over somebody, and a short time afterwards she became my wife. That was a sad warning to me to avoid enthusiasm." Bill—I see you have moved again. Mike—Yes. Bill—You are something like a tramp. Mike—How's that? Bill—You change your address, oftener than you do your dress. Keep Healthy A Weekly Talk on Preventative Measures, First Aid Remedies, Hygienics, Sanitation. No Cases will be Diagnosed and No Prescriptions will be Given in This Column. ```markdown ``` THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. DRA. WILBERFORCE. Flood—Tuberculosis or Consumption. For the last few weeks the whole country has been greatly alarmed, pained and much grieved over the disastrous floods, especially in Ohio and Indiana. We have raved over the drowning of 500 people, more or less, some several thousands being made aware of the fact that was merciful and kindly in comparison to long suffering, wasting, painful and gradual approach of death in tuberculosis. Death from Consumption. In Illinois 8,000 died from consumption; 600 every 30 days; 20 every day in this state; and 4,000 in Chicago In Chicago alone. All of this could have been prevented. If those who died of it had submitted themselves to an early examination and diagnosis and the proper treatment, in all probability they would have been cured and living today. More people die each year of consumption (which is a preventable disease) than from diphtheria, typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, smallpox and all the contagious and infectious diseases combined. When to Be Examined. When to Be Examined. Don't delay if you have any of the following symptoms: If you are below your normal weight or gradually losing weight. If you feel tired all the time or have a gradual loss of strength (of course some people are tired all the time). If you have a slight fever in the afternoon or early evening. If you have a lasting cold or hacking cough, the cough worse in morning. If you have loss of appetite —poor digestion. If you have continued hoarseness or tickling—night sweats. If you have spitting of blood. If you have shortness of breath —easily fatigued. If there is pain in chest or pleurisy. Provident Dispensary. The Provident Tubercular Dispensary is located on the south side on 36th street. If this dispensary is near you, go there and have an examination made. If you have no money and are not able to pay a physician, you can go to this dispensary and receive free a thorough examination and advice as to your condition by specialists in chest and lung diseases. The dispensary is located at 57 West 36th street. Questions. Mrs. M. writes: Doctor, I have had a small hemorrhage, I got wet and spit blood two or three times and have a little fever, just 99 to 100, in the evening. What would you advise me to do? Should I remain in bed? Reply: Would advise that you see your physician and have chest, throat and teeth examined. Sometimes blood may come from the teeth, back part of throat, stomach or lungs. (2) Yes. You should remain in bed quiet as long as your fever is about 98.6. Mrs. B. writes: My little girl Evelyn, 5 years old, breathes through her mouth and sleeps with her mouth open, restless; must nose seems stopped up. What must I do? What do you think is the matter with her? Reply: It may be adenoids. Read "Health Hints" of March 29, on adenoids. Would advise that you take your little daughter to a nose specialist to be examined. HEALTH NOTES. Press Service, Department of Health. How about those fly screens? Have you looked them over and got them all ready to install before the flies invade your home? If not, get busy now. Was your home aired out this morning? If not, why? Whose fault was it that this important matter was neglected? Why not open the windows and let the air and sunshine in? Do it now. Before vaccination was discovered and applied smallpox killed 60,000 people in England. In that country today there are fewer deaths from smallpox than from any other communicable disease. On Monday coming the fifth of May, Chicago will have a "Clean Up Day." Please don't make it just a streak, But keep it up for all the week; And why not make the plan a "hummer" By cleaning up all through the summer? Don't forget that the approach of fijime is also the coming of the planting season. City gardening is a healthful, pleasant and profitable pastime. If you have never tried it, you will be surprised and delighted at the results you will be able to get from a part even of a small city lot. Try planting some of the old fashioned flowers, set out a rose bush or two, and if you have the space to spare, plant a few garden vegetables, such as radishes, lettuce, onions, etc. You will enjoy having them fresh on your table. No better disposition of back yards than to plant them to flowers and vegetables and thus turn them into places of use and beauty. One of the amazing things is the tardiness with which people will put into practice knowledge that they will readily admit cannot but be of great benefit to them. An example of this is found in a study of the effects of the preaching and teaching as to the value of fresh air that have been carried on for years, not only in this country, but in other countries as well. A ride along any of Chicago's residence streets, even in mild weather, will show the careful observer that the windows in most of the dwellings are closed top and bottom. Here and there at rare intervals a home will be noticed where the windows are open and in which the inmates are alive to the importance and value of a fresh air supply. The other day a representative of the Department of Health noted on certain resident streets 349 houses and flats; of these the windows in 273 were tightly closed; in 76 two or more windows were noted as being open; and 25 of these were open ten inches or more; 50 being raised but a few inches; only eight windows were open at the top and bottom. Not a very good showing, it must be admitted; especially when on the day the observations were made the weather was mild and the sun shining. It should be explained that the streets on which the notations were made were all in good resident districts, the residences being mostly two and three flat buildings, with a small percentage of houses. The studies made serve to show pretty clearly that while Chicago people may know about the value of fresh air as a factor in promoting physical health and vigor, they are still mighty careless or indifferent about taking even a little bit of trouble to admit it into their homes. EDUCATING THE AFRICAN. The current number of the Southern Workman (published by the Hampton Institute Press) there is an interesting discussion by Dr. George E Haynes of the Social Science Department of Fisk University, of the reasons for the movement of Negroes from the country to the city and a statement of the methods which are being employed to better the condition of those who remain in the city. It is a far cry from American cities to the center of Africa, and yet in the Livingstonia Mission on Lake Nyasa, described in the same issue, the methods of instruction used are as up-to-date as the most modern American ones. In fact, this mission, started in memory of Livingstone, whose centenary the world is now celebrating, is but Hampton Institute in miniature. This number of the Southern Workman contains some excellent pictures illustrating these Hampton methods. Along the same line is a paper by Charles M. Buchanan of the Indian Service on "The Cultural Value of Vocational Training." Two folk-lore contributions are interesting and entertaining—"The folk lore of the Menomini Indians" and "How the hog got his mule foot." The editorials treat of educational and sociological topics and meetings. Our Women The Gaudeanus Club met on April 14 at Mrs. Plummer's home. There was a splendid attendance and plans were made for an entertainment in the near future. The members were requested to bring clothing, shoes, etc., to the next meeting as the club intends to send a barrel to the flood sufferers. The next meeting will be at Mrs. McBride's home, 24 East 25th street, on Monday, April 21, at 1 p.m. For a Careful Child In seeking instances of thrift superinduced by the exigencies of modern life, let the sociologist not overlook this advertisement: "For rent, to a careful child, by a family going to Egypt for six months, dollars' house completely furnished, four dolls included. Terms reasonable." Hla Recovery. First Surgeon—"Did Jones recover from that operation you performed on him?" Second Surgeon—"The jury gave him $50." Tightwads. "I understand Anybody's is paying scribler a dollar a word for his stol- der. I will not broke the contract because they refused to count the punctuation marks as words." Liberty Stays TILL Last. When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go; it waits for all the rest to go; it is the last—Walt Whitman. Must Have Wealth "Is he rich?" "I didn't think so, but he must be." "Why?" "I heard him say the other night that he lets his wife have all the money she wants." Read John J. Peterson's Story of the Pullman Car Porters Beginning in Our Next Issue ORDER NOW --- IN CHICAGO AND ITS SUBURBS Our Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social and other short paragraphs—Read it over carefully, somewhere you will find a line or two about yourself or your friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reese and Miss Winnie Seay of New York will arrive in the city Tuesday. Mrs. Fay Crump, 5202 Wabash, has returned to the city after a two months' visit with relatives at St. Louis, Kansas City and Parsons, Kan. Wednesday, April 9, a surprise party was given by Mrs. C. W. Powell, 6322 Rhodes avenue, in honor of Miss Sarah Tillman, who left Thursday, April 10, for Jacksonville, Ill., to spend a week. Before her return to the city she will visit her sister in Mississippi. All advertisements for furnished rooms or flats must be paid for in advance. We have no collectors for this kind of work. at Orchestra Hall on Lincoln's birthday. Later the name was changed the Oratorio Society. Their hearings are every Tuesday night o'clock at 2830 State street and e Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock Grace Presbyterian Church, 34th Dearborn street. Lovers of music be benefited by the lessons in a reading, and will receive a gen broadening of their musical culture they join the Oratorio Society. James A. Munday is the conductor. Mr. Nathaniel Murray and passed through the city en route Denver, Colo. Mr. Murray is to his son to Denver for his young Murray is a student of University of Canada. Mr. Natha Murray is the father of Mr. E Murray, expressman at 3153 S Sunday afternoon last Mr. and Mrs. Wm. De Moss, 3645 Armour avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Miss Marie Smith and Miss Lillian Fields of New York. These charming young ladies have been Chicago visitors for the past fortnight and guests of their cousin, Mrs. McCall, 5942 Michigan avenue. The dinner was prepared in the usual hospitable style characteristic of the De Moss family. Besides the honorees there were present Mr. and Mrs. James McCall and Mr. J. Hockley Smiley. Mrs. Blanch Williams of Knoxville, Tenn., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. W. Hill, 6045 Loomis street. Mrs. Williams is en route to New York, where she will spend several weeks. Miss Esther Kiner of Oskaloosa, Iowa, passed through the city Sunday en route to Cleveland to spend the summer with her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hicks. Mrs. Green, mother of Mr. Frank Long, 3400 Forest avenue, sustained severe injuries in a fall down stairs last week Thursday at their home. Court General. Robert Elliott No. 7395. Ancient Order of Foresters, will have their annual sermon preached to them Sunday, May 4, at Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church. Send in personals of your friends, it is free. Drop it on a post-card. Can't you afford to spend a penny on your friends? In writing to this office please address all communications to The Chicago Defender and not to Mr. R. S. Abbott. Matter so addressed is likely to be left out, as the office force does not feel inclined to open mail addressed to him personally, and Mr. Abbott is not always in his office. Miss Ida P. James of Cleveland was in the city last week Tuesday enroute to Pasadena, Cal., to spend the summer. She was most delightfully entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Brown, 3827 Wabash avenue, the few hours while in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. (Patti) Brown are well noted for their exceeding hospitality. Miss Abbie Mitchell arrived from New York Wednesday on the Lake Shore Limited and left Thursday for Decatur to spend several days. Mr. Sidney W. Conners and Olive Branch arrived home Friday after a stay of two weeks in Hot Springs, Va. Mr. Connor's new home address is 3522 Rhodes avenue. Mrs. Bert Williams, after a stay in our city for several weeks with her husband, left Thursday for her home in New York. Mrs. Williams was accompanied by her niece, Laura Shreeves, who will make her home with her. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal of 3424 Forest avenue gave their little daughter, Francis, her third birthday party last Monday. Twelve little tots were present. All spent a pleasant time and she received a number of presents. Julius N. Avendorph will leave the city Saturday night for St. Paul, Minn., where he will spend Sunday as the guest of Mrs. F. L. McGhee. When in doubt or trouble, telephone to The Chicago Defender, Douglas 3339. The Misses Miller left the city Sunday evening for their home in Winnipeg, Canada, after spending a week in our city as the guest of Miss Vivian Harsh. Their stay was one continuous round of pleasure every minute of their stay. Mrs. William Graham, who has been confined to her home for several months on account of serious illness, is now confined at St. Luke's Hospital. Mr. George Thompson, whose name appeared in the sick column last week, has recovered and is again at his post of duty. Don't fall to purchase the Pullman Review. It is a magazine brim full of railroad news. It is to be found where all good magazines are sold. Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus C. Harris have issued invitations in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Harris is an old settler of Chicago and is one of the most enterprising men of the race. Their celebration is to take place April 25, and their friends look forward to the occasion with much pleasure as this couple has the reputation of being very royal entertainers. Chicago has at last fallen in line with Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other enterprising cities along the line of aggressive choral societies. A few weeks ago a number of talented voices banded themselves together under the name of the Emancipation Chorus. Their first appearance was --- at Orchestra Hall on Lincoln's birthday. Later the name was changed to the Oratorio Society. Their rehearsals are every Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at 2830 State street and every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Grace Presbyterian Church, 34th and Dearborn street. Lovers of music will be benefited by the lessons in sight reading and will receive a general broadening of their musical culture if they join the Oratorio Society. Mr. James A. Munday is the conductor. Mr. Nathaniel Murray and son passed through the city en route for Denver, Colo. Mr. Murray is taking his son to Denver for his health. Young Murray is a student of the University of Canada. Mr. Nathaniel Murray is the father of Mr. Edgar Murray, expressman at 3153 State street. Mr. Malcolm M. C. King, a recent graduate of the Mohair Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., arrived in the city last Sunday. Mr. King has been practicing pharmacy in Nashville. Mr. Steele, father of Mrs. Frank W. Taylor, 6521 grove avenue, Mrs. Belle Driggs of California and George Steele, Jr., died at his home in Michigan last week. Mrs. Frank W. Young and her sister, Mrs. Belle Driggs, attended the funeral. Mr. Steele was an old resident of Chicago and one of our most highly respected citizens. Invitations have been received in Chicago for the forty-fifth anniversary exercises of the Hanpton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., to be held in the gymnasium Friday, April 25, at 2:30 p. m. If you want a first-class furnished room read our classified columns. Editor R. B. Montgomery of the Wisconsin Weekly Advocate. Milwaukee, Wis., was in the city this week after a visit throughout the prominent cities of the state. Mr. Montgomery made an address on Sunday and visited The Chicago Defender office during the week. Hotel Washington Arrivals—R. C. Stewart and wife, Buxton, Pa.; S. E. James, Kansas City, Mo.; M. W. White, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Eugenia Davis and daughter of New Orleans have arrived in the city to remain permanently. They will reside with her sister, Mrs. E. E. Davis, 3209 Prairie avenue. Mrs. Robinson arrived in the city Thursday morning from New Orleans to visit her daughter, Mrs. Edna Smith, 3316 Vernon avenue. Attorney John R. Auter of Evanston and Chicago, spent the early part of the week in Springfield, Ill., going from there to St. Louis, Mo. He returns to the city today. 1. At the solicitation of his many friends in that vicinity Mr. Dominick Lettiere, who has conducted a popular buffet at 4952 State street for many years, has opened what he calls "Dominick's Place No. 2" at 35th and Wentworth avenue. The committee of colored citizens, organized for the benefit of flood sufferers, will publish in the Defender next week a report in full of the musical entertainment given at the Seventh Regiment Armory Thursday, April 10, 1913. Alfied to the report will be a list of the names of subscribers to the fund. 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. Mrs. P. L. Harris gave a reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Barbour of Manitoba, Canada, at the residence of Mrs. L. J. Dean, 3916 Calumet avenue, and the home was beautifully decorated with cut flowers. Mrs. George W. Cane presided at the piano. Mrs. Wm. H. Washington, 529 Bowen avenue, entertained last Friday evening in honor of the Misses Jefine and Laura Miller of Winnipeg, Canada. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Craft, Mr. and Mrs. A. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Washington, Misses Estelle Arnold, Corline Wilson, Edith Madden, Ethel Murphy, Helen Jackson, Grace Thompson, Ada Lou Mitchell, Eloise Carey, Ethel Mitchell, Elizabeth Clark, Reena Brahan, Bertha Young, Geraldine Hodges, Garnetta Tibbs, Maud Taylor, Lucile Woods, Lella Stubbs, Vivlan Harsh, Hazel McIntyre, Drs. Harry Garnes, U. G. Dailley. Messrs. Do Wilt Curtis, Alfred Anderson, Cary B. Lewis, Arthur Wilson, Le Count Cook, Gordon Jackson, Ned Chestnut, R. Brown, Louis Thompson, Walter Young, Walter Anderson, Ferd Barnett, Louis Easton, Drs. Crosswalt and Myers and Miss Katie Easton. Mrs. George Walker, 522. Bowen avenue, entertained the Misses Miller with a breakfast on last Sunday morning. Those present were: Misses Maud Taylor, Essie Arnold, Bertha Young, Ada Lou Mitchell, Vivian Harsh and Eloise Carey. Rev. W. L. Burr, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist church, Columbus, O., is in the city in an endeavor to recover his health. He is the guest of his sister, Mrs. E. F. O. Zimmerman, 5749 Wentworth avenue, 2nd flat, and would be glad to see a few of his many friends. City Churches NOTES. At the Bethesda Baptist Church 38th and Wabash avenue, Rev. E. T. Murtin, pastor, has been engaged in a series of revival meetings for the past ten days. He is being assisted by Rev. Crawford of Macon, Ga. INSTITUTIONAL A. M. E. CHURCH. No happier idea could have struck the Methodist ministers of Chicago than that which resulted in the interchange of pulps last Sabbath. In keeping with the plan, Rev. D. P. Roberts, M. D., pastor of Bethel Church, filled the pulpit of the Institutional Church, while Dr. A. J. Carey went to Bethel. The sermon of Dr. Roberts is beautiful, instructive and well received. His theme was, "God in Everything," and clearly developed the thought that in art, in literature, in history and in commerce God is in all and over all. At the evening service, Dr. J. R. Ramson of Kansas City, Kan., preached a splendid sermon on the duties and responsibilities membership. Bishop H. B. P. Parks, mastering upward and Mr. B. J. Sinclair, 5317 Wahash avenue, and Mr. T. W. Nance of 3508 South Dearborn street, united with the church, Dr. A. D. C. Barnes led with a contribution of $5 toward the relief fund, which was taken for the flood sufferers. Tomorrow Dr. Carey will preach in the morning on "The Hidden Treasure" and at evening on "The Friend at Midnight." 4 The congregation and membership are steadily increasing and all are enjoying the excellent sermons and delightful music. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER. Sunday afternoon, April 20, at 4 p. m., Mrs. G. L. Cone's center music class will give a spring festival consisting of Easter and other spring songs. Mrs. John O'Cannon will give a talk on birds, their habits, nativity and other interesting characteristics. This address has received much preparation and been given to several woman's clubs. One hundred books from the public library have been added to the Center reading room. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. the officers who were elected at the annual business meeting were installed last Sunday at the morning service. The ruling elders were Mr. J. Moore and Mr. L. Pope; the trustees, Mr. McCraig, Professor Lee, Mr. A. C. Harris and Mr. Neighbors, Mr. A. C. Harris was also elected treasurer and Professor Lee financial secretary. The different classes of the Sunday school and the primary departments have pledged to raise certain amounts to be paid toward the cleaning of the church and will be turned in April 27, at which time there will be a special program, including the installation of the newly elected officers. Morning service, 10:45 a. m.; Sunday school, 12:30 p. m.; Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p. m.; Wednesday evening prayer meeting, 8 p. m.; evening service, 7:45 p. m. QUINN CHAPEL, A. M. E. CHURCH Last Sunday was a day of delightful service at "Mother Quinn." It was the first Sunday after the close of the protracted meetings, which resulted in three hundred conversions and accessions. Dr. Cook, the pastor, preached an excellent sermon from the text, "The Lord hath done great things for us where we are glad," and the increased spiritual life of the church caused a mammoth congregation to assemble within old Quinn. Both the regular choir and the gospel choir participated in the music, which was very appropriate and well rendered. The gospel choir will remain intact and do service at the Wednesday and Friday night meetings, the new members are being trained in the duties of membership. At the evening service the pastor spoke from the text, "There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit." The Sunday school and Endeavor held very interesting sessions. The members of the Progressive Church are preparing to be ready with $1,000 to meet the next payment on the mortgage, which is due the last of May. The entire church is urged to fall in line. Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Goin are enlisting the members in the financial campaign. The entire membership is urged to subscribe and be ready. These ladies will furnish cards at each service for all members and friends. Should any desire soliciting devices that can secure their lives, they bless this historic old church. All persons are welcome, especially strangers who may be visiting the city. ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. R. E. Wilson, D. D., pastor Sunday morning service, 10:45 a.m. m. Sunday school, 1:15 p.m. Intermediate C. E. prayer meeting, 6 p.m. Senior C. E. prayer meeting, 7 p.m. Evening service, 8:10 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 8 p.m. Following the funeral services of Mrs. Vaughn, one of St. John's best women, an excellent stewardess and most faithful worker, which took place at the church at 10 o'clock Sunday meeting, the usual morning service was held. On account of the funeral Rev. Wilson could not fill Rev. Scott's pupil and his, as had been previously arranged, but will perhaps do so Sunday, April 17. The day was well spent in divine worship and gladly were the two ser- mons delivered by Dr. Wilson received. Many claibate entertainments and concerts are now being planned and given, preparatory to the $1,600 rally, which takes place at the church May 19 and 20. The great coming events will be given by the following pastors: Rev. C. C. Williams, a grand entertainment at the church Tuesday evening, April 22. Presiding Elder Moore of the Des Moines district gives an entertainment on the evening of May 5. On the 13th of May Rev. Geo. Williams and Presiding Elder Frank C. Lowy of the Chicago district will, together with the assistance of Miss Frances Terry and Lola Simpson, produce two unique little dramas entitled "The Setting of the Sun" and "Twilight." On the two nights of the rally will be held an interesting mock annual conference. The Allen C. E. League convention will be held at St. Mary's Church, 52d and Dearborn streets, July 22 and 23. LINCOLN MEMORIAL CONGRE GATIONAL. Last Sabbath brought sadness to the members and friends of Lincoln Memorial. The 11 o'clock services were impressive, many new visitors being in attendance, a large proportion of whom remained for the funeral services which followed at 1 p.m. The evidence of love and appreciation for the worth of the deceased, Mrs. C. C. Samuel, was made manifest in a most appropriate and pleasing manner. The church was decorated with many beautiful and costly flowers, pre- PATRICK H. soutened by individuals, clubs and lodges. The music was sweet and comforting. Solos were sung by the following: Mrs. Geo. L. Cone, Mrs. C. E. Houston, Miss I. Maud Brown and Mrs. S. Yerby. Brief addresses were given by the Rev. P. W. Yorow, assistant superintendent of the Congregational City Missionary Society, and the pastor of the Lunenburg By request an extract of the pastor's address is here given instead of his regular morning sermon. Finding his text in Revelations 14:12-13, and naming his subject, "The Reward of the Faithful," he said in part, very tenderly and very touchingly: "Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He heard a voice from saying that the dead are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth. Yes, saith the Spirit, they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." "By experience like this, some of our fellow creatures are called together daily. Almost every week and sometimes every day we are called to witness occasions of this nature; yet always with a feeling of loneliness, loss, deprivation. A loss which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents; a loss that is such a vital part of our lives that what we withdraw, removed, the whole course of our lives becomes disturbed. It is like, the effect upon a machine that is being propelled by a resultant force when one of the acting forces is suddenly removed, the machine is thrown into complete disorder. Well may we feel like this when one of our dear friends or loved ones is taken from our midst, called so far as our earthly experience is concerned, ever from our home, to our friend he be she a blood relative or not, is by the mysterious experience called death removed from our side or from our ranks, we become vividly conscious of the fact that one of the contributing forces, and sometimes the primary one, has been taken out of our common life. * * * * In this experience the millionaire and the man who is an object of charity, the rustic sits and sobs with bowed head; the strong man like a helpless child in distress, cries out for help, solace and comfort. We have met today to mourn the loss of a very dear friend, a wife, a sister in the labors and faith of the Christian church. Without her the home is no more; the husband is at a loss. Lord, by thy presence light up the way. The relatives and friends whom she loved and with whom her life was so intimately bound up, and in whose memory and affection she lives, have been pressed and saddened beyond measure; their hearts throb and ache with a pentup feeling to which there can be no adequate expression. We stand this moment in the presence of a machine that has been robbed of its motor force. We stand before a building delapidated, beaten by storm and rain and so undermined the occupant was forced to seek better quarters. Here lies a temple in ruins, robbed of its most precious jewel, more delicate than any machine, more beautiful and precious stone, more beautiful and costly stone; here lies a human body mechanism of which was wrought by a divine hand. The soul which for years found shelter there has taken its flight, but not until it had developed in beauty and strength. In this ruined temple lived a good and true woman; a faithful Christian. She felt the pressure of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day. Mrs. Samuels had a unique place in the life of our society. She had the interest of the work at heart, and in a quiet, unassuming manner went about her daily task of strengthening and enlarging the work of the church. By her untiring energy, her persistence in labor, the magnetism of her personality, and, above all, the strength and beauty of her character, she won many friends and workers. She was not loud nor eloquent in public prayer, but when she prayed one could not help feeling the earnestness of her petition. She was a faithful wife, a devoted friend, a consistent Christian. And no more worthy tribute can be paid to any mortal being. This, therefore, is the reward of the faithful: "Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." If we could now commune with our departed friend, our devoted sister, we would say, rest, brave soul, you have fought a good fight. You were treasured friends and faithful to the divine trust. Our sister was not sentimental and spasmatic in her devotion to God, nor in the valuable spirit which she tendered to her fellow creatures. She was strong and constant; we shall do well if we develop like virtues. Can such a noble woman be dead? Has such a character become inactive and ineffective? Not if our faith in the existence and justice of a Supreme Being is well owed; not if there is a corresponding reality to our outgoing hopes of immortality; not if the record of the apostle is faithful and true, in which he said, "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write, blessed are the dead that come from the earth, sort thy saith the Spirit, they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." During one of my visits to the hospital, Mrs. Sanuweis related a new experience that she had had. She said, "You know that I am not sentimental, but," said she, "I have had a new experience; it was much like some I used to hear the old-time folklore. I had been feeling somewhat discouraged, and, yes, I guess worrying just a bit, when suddenly my room shone with a most beautiful light, and I heard a voice saying: 'Fear not; do not worry. I'll take care of you.' I was not worried, but the experience, whether she thought of it as a sign that she was to be restored to her accustomed place in the home, the church and the Christian community, or that God was ready to take her to himself. I was rather impressed that she had hopes of recovery. But, anyway, I left the hospital that day with a somewhat strange feeling and wonder—wondering if, after all, do we get the joy and peace out of our Christian fellowship and service that we might have, that we should have? Is there something deeper and more comforting growing out of the new birth that most of us have not as yet experienced? If, after all there is not more truth in many books, we should have mothers and fathers used to tell them we have been wont to believe? I believe it will do us all good to raise these or similar questions and follow them up until we get an answer. "That they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." What then should be the character of our work and the kind of spirit exhibited in its accomplishment? Up to this point, would we be content and happy to have our works follow us? Not many of us, I fear. Every time one is called from our ranks to face an unknown eternity, our conscience speaks to us with reinforced emphasis, saying, you can do yet better, and you must. And we make this new resolve: I will. But how soon do we forget and slide back into the same old rut. Our experience, as sorrowful as it is, serve as a means to strengthen us in our spiritual fight, quicken that process of Christian development which God through his dear Son has begun in us. It will be difficult to fill Mrs. Samuel's place in the life of our church and community. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. Services, 10:45 a. m. and 6:45 p. m. Sunday school, 1:45 p. m. christian Endeavor at 6:45 p. m. rev. J. W Robinson preached an inspiring ser- mon at St. Mary's last Sunday even- ing. Rev. Higgins preached at St Mark's. St. Mary's A. M. E. Church will watch their first anniversary Sun- day, at which time each member friend is asked to bring a liberal fering. Monday, April 21, a musical under the auspices of J. J. Banks Thursday, April 24, the Pastors' Ai Society will give a dinner and concert HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Located at 61st street and Loomis boulevard. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school at 12:30 p. m. C. E at 7 p. m. Friday evening lyceum. 8 p. m. Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, D. D., pastor, praised a soul-stirring sermon on the subject, "Contentment," in the morning, and "The Victories of Faith," in the evening. The students presented a musical and the C. E. prayer service was led by Miss Carrie Butler. The teachers and pupils are fully alive to the increase of the school and take great interest in the lessons. The Englewood and Dunbar Lyceums held a joint debate on the subject of separate schools, which was very interesting to the large audience present. In the absence of D. W. Johnson, the president, who is ill. Mrs. Enos Bonson held a opened the enos in his stead by reading the paper which he had prepared on the subject. Mrs. James Price suffered a severe burn in trying to extinguish the fire caused by a match in the hauds of her daughters on Sunday morning. Miss Maria Jefferson's music class THE CHICAGO DEFENDER will give their first public recital in Hope church on Friday evening, April 25, 1913. Mrs. Balley, 6227 Loomis boulevard, continues seriously ill. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Dr. C. Lee Jefferson was in attendance at the annual meeting of the Chicago presbytery at Highland Park on Monday. BETHEL A. M. F. CHURCH It was necessary to hold another overflow service at Bethel last Sunday morning. The main congregation listened to an inspiring sermon by Rev. Ransom of Kansas City. Rev. A. J. Casey, who was to have preached, was present and gave a few remarks. Twenty-one persons united with the church at this service, two of these were courtiers. A sacred concession was made to the city was rendered to an appreciative audience in the afternoon. Sunday night the Criterion Club appeared in the pulpit and rendered a program befitting that organization. Dr. Roberts preached Sunday morning at the Institutional Church. The Sunday school continues to attract a large number of young people. The Allen C. E. League was well attended. Mrs. Irbine led the meeting and the C. E. choir sang splendidly. Sunday a program will be rendered by young men. You are invited to attend. Plans are being considered pertaining to the cleaning and beautifying of the church, and it is hoped also to increase the seating capacity. THE NEAR EASTERN QUESTION By Elder D. W. Forde. We have now traced a line of prophecy comprising two hundred and eighty-four years of actual historic facts. Every feature of this great prophecy as outlined has met its fulfilment in the historical issues of the Eastern Question. But one point in connection with this grave question needs to be brought out, and that is the following prediction: (the Turkish government) shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him." Dan. 11: 45. According to this prediction the time will come when the headquarters of the sultan will be removed from its present location to some other point in his dominion. The present capital of the Turkish empire is at Constantinople. Since therefore he is to move, then we may expect that the time will come when the Turk will have to leave Europe. And where will he go? He shall plant the tabernacle he built in the city of Jerusalem in the glorious holy mountain." This can be no other place than Jerusalem, as the following scripture proves: "Thus saith the Lord: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain." Zach. 8:3. Thus Jerusalem is called "the holy mountain," and as Dan. 11:45 designates, does stand between the seas, that is, the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. We may therefore expect that the sultan will be forced to take his departure from Europe, and will cross the Bosporus into Asia. Not only will the Turk sometimes in the future be compelled to leave Europe and take up his temporary abode in Asia, but there "the shall come to his end, and none shall help him." The language indicates that the final dissolution of the Turkish empire has been delayed on account of the help it has received from other countries, this help will eventually be withdrawn, and "then he shall come to his end." The following acts corroborate the scriptural implication as to Turkey being helped: In the Franco-Turkish war in 1793-1801 Turkey was helped by England and Russia. When Egypt defecated the Turk in the war of 1838-40, England, Russia, Austria and Prussia interposed on behalf of the Turk. At the time of the Crimean war in 1838-1856, England, France and Sardinia were involved in the war. In 1877-1879, Russia was again war with Turkey when Great Britain interfered and checked the plans and purposes of Russia. These illustrations prove that Turkey has been helped in the past by the powers of Europe as is implied in Dan. 11:45. The following quotation from an Armenian pamphlet on the Turkish-Armenian question, published in London, further illustrates the point, "We are responsible for Turkey. We saved the Turk twice at least from the doom which he richly merited. The duke of Wollongton sixty years ago lamented that the Russians not entered Constantinople in 1820 and brought the Ottoman empire to an end. We have much more reason to lament that it was not destroyed in 1833 and again in 1875. On both of these occasions we interfered to save it. But for us, there would be on the Bosporus. Again I give an article in the London Times, 1895, where the duke of Argyle said, "It is not too much to say that England has twice saved Turkey from complete subjection since 1853. It is largely—mainly—due to our action that she now exists at all as an independent power. On both of these occasions we dragged the powers of Europe along with us in maintaining the Ottoman government." Lord Salisbury made use of the following words in a speech made in the Mansion House, November 9, 1835: "Turkey is in that remarkable condition that it has now stood for half a century, mainly because the great power of Turkey, that for the peace of Christendom it is necessary that the Ottoman empire should stand. They came to that conclusion nearly half a century ago. I do not think they have altered it now. The danger if the Ottoman empire fall would not only be the danger that would threaten the territories of which that empire consists; it would be the danger that the fire there lit should spread to other nations, and should involve all that is most powerful and civilized in Europe in a dangerous and calamitous contest. That was a danger that was present to the minds of the Ottoman empire, when they resolved to make the intrepid and the Ottoman empire a matter of European treaty, and that is a danger which has not passed away." It is not necessary to give further proof substantiating the evidence that Turkey has received the assistance of the powers of Europe in the past. In the conflicts that confront the sultan in the Ottoman empire, he must fight his own battles almost single-handed, for eventually "he shall come to his end and none shall help him." AT THE Y. M. C. A. HEAD. QUARTERS. Another large audience of men and boys were present at the Y. M. C. A. meeting held in the boys' department of the new building on last Sunday to hear the second lecture by Dr. S. C. Dickerson on "Venereal Peril." The lecture was illustrated with colored crayons on the blackboard which was placed before the assembly. Much valuable information was given by Dr. Dickerson from statistics and medical authorities showing the alarming morbidity among men due to the venereal infection. The closing period of the lecture was used by the doctor in answering the numerous questions put by the men. The third and last lecture of this interesting series will be given at the meeting on Sunday, April 20, at 4 p. m. the day of the conclusion lecture is "Practical Engineering" at Mr. Webb, proprietor of the Webb Stairs in State street, was present at the meeting and took a picture of the men attending. The meeting is free to men and boys. Mr. R. A. Townsend, who has been in the association work in New Haven, Conn., stopped in the city a few days last week and inspected our new building. Mr. Townsend has accepted the position of boys' work director in the association work at Buxton, Iowa. Mr. F. E. De Frantz, who has been employed as assistant physical director of an educational association, paid the department a visit early last week. Mr. De Frantz has accepted the position as physical director at Indianapolis, Ind. Both of the visitors were very highly pleased with the association building here and were of the opinion that Chicago will lead the country in association work. The employment department has been successful in placing two men one boy in desirable positions during the summer, and two boys with desirable recommendations urged to enroll in this department. No charges are made by the association for this service. The Y. M. C. A. quartet rendered several musical numbers in the lobby of the Sears-Roobuck Y. M. C. A. on Saturday evening. The quartet also sang as a prattle to a lecture given by the choir of the School of the mother of our Bible class, on Thursday at the Park Manor Methodist Church. Our Sunday meetings are growing both in interest and attendance. One hundred and sixty-one men attended the meeting held last Sunday. The praise service is enjoyed by all. A piano is being used which adds to the life and spirit of the songs. Many of the visitors to our new building are becoming subscribers to the fund. Many of the old subscribers, after making an inspection of the building are leaving some remittances on their pledges. Our collectors will be glad to call upon the delinquent subscribers for payments on their pledges. The expense of collecting could be reduced quite materially if the subscribers would come to the building with their payments. We have a telephone listed as Douglas 6620. We are in need of funds in order that the work may be opened up to our men and boys. We need the men, which was subscribed in order that we can build a museum and apparatus for our building, the building is nearing completion. We have been successful in having the work done because of the confidence that the board of trustees has shown in the subscribers to the fund. We would urge all of our subscribers to make some immediate payment on their pledges. Read Story of Her Death. When a blacksmith, named Lyon, declared that the body of a drowned woman, recently exhumed at Crell, France, was that of his wife, Jullette, who deserted him two years ago, a death certificate was made out in her name. Jullette, however, was very much alive, and, after reading the story in the Petit Parisien, she wrote an indignant letter to the authorities, demanding to be "officially resuscitated." No Excitement. A young man was compelled by his father to turn farmer against his will. Not liking the profession, he went and hanged himself, leaving this written statement: "Farming is a most wickedness pursuit; a mere labor in the fields is not worth it, and then you reap that you may sow! Nothing ever comes of it!"-Lifo. Inference Obvious. Reggie (over on a visit)—"Do you know, old chap, I think that vulgah fellow over there insulted me?" American friend—"You think so. What did he say?" Reggie—"Why, he sug-gested in a very rude manner that when I die bequeath my head to a collar-button factory." Close Proximity. May we venture to offer the hint that the phrase "close proximity," which seems to have acquired a certain vogue, is slightly tautological? THE WRONG ARTICLE. The Statue of Liberty is a woman— it's meant to be her tongue—Waldo Bastian HEREDITY SEEN IN THE HAIR Some Views on the inheritance of the Color of the Dome of the Dome "When examined under the microscope human hair discloses two kinds of pigment, and only two, a redish yellow and a sepia brown. These two colors are independent factors in heredity and may occur separately or in combination." writes Gertrude C Davenport in the Independent. "The yellow seems to be a diffuse pigment, but the brown occurs in granules or specks. The size and number of the granules, as well as the intensity of the pigment, vary in differently colored hair. The intensity of the yellow pigment also varies as to form differences of red, while a combination of brown gives some of the more sober hair. When the brown pigment is hair, it forms black, and if red be present in such cases it is completely covered. "Red hair is best seen when brown is absent, and when two bright, red-haired people marry all their children will have red hair, for there will be no brown pigment to cover it over. When they hand, when a black or very dark hair is mixed or mixed origin marries another with red hair, none of the children will have red hair, but if the dark haired parent in such a union has red hair in his ancestry, then half of the children will have red hair. When there for hair in the immediate ancestry both of them, although both may have dark hair, then all of the children—three sixteenths, is in the long-run will have red hair." "In the blond-to-black series we find that the intensity of the hair color in the offspring does not exceed that of the darker parent. Thus two blond-haired parents have only blond-haired children. The parents cannot transmit what they themselves lack. When one parent has faxen hair and the other has henna then 50 per cent of the children will have a light brown shade. When one parent has dark brown or black hair and the other light brown, then about half of the children will have dark and half light brown hair—that is to say, half in population of some size. In a family of only two children it would be possible to have one dark and one light haired child, but this would be a very rare chance indeed. The collection and interpretation of statistics of hair and interpretation of statistics of hair are complicated by the fact that the hair is frequently much lighter than the adult while the hair of the adult, when mixed with gray, is not infrequently reported as of a lighter shade than it really possesses. Our Rude Language. There are great differences between the richness and poerness of words in the different countries. Japan is certainly richer in its words than England. Just for example, we have more the emperor calls for the word "I". The emperor alone calls himself "Chi". and all his subjects call themselves "Watakuwai", "Washi", "Ore", "Boku", "Sesha", "Soregashi", "Ware", "To", etcetera, according to the circumstances. The second or third person changes as much as the first person, and all the verbs accordingly. I started to learn the English, first time, and then a native teacher, "What shall I call myself before the emperor?" He said "I." "Then what shall I say before my parents?" "I." "What shall I say before my men friends?" And before my women friends?" "I." "I was quite astonished and said: "How simple, but how rude is the English language!"—Yoshio Markino in the Atlantic Magazine. Red Halred Spinsters Bare Though red hair of the Titian tint remains at least till middle age, a correspondent points out that until the other day he had never seen or heard of a red-haired old maid. "I know that real red hair in girls and women is extremely rare nowadays, and anthropological experts say that the red-haired race to whom I mentioned my one friend to meet with a red-haired spinster there was not an old maid to be found whose head was crowned with the real red hair." A member of the Royal Anthropological Institute said: "I am inclined to think if few any girls with the Titan-tainted hair fail to get married. Men like them and they are quickly clever. Nowadays red hair is rare chiefly because when both parents have red hair does the hair of the child take on the same color. And a man and woman with red sair rarely marry."-London Mail. Montana Governor's New Home. Governor McDowell's new house is about the homestead looking home in town. There is about the place a sort of restfulness, an invitation to come in and make yourself at home and stay awhile. It is a big, rambling, old fashioned house, with tall pillars and flat roof, lots of windows and a cheerful front entrance, all suggestive of the grand old southern mansion, the hospitable home. After all, it is not a cheap looking house, for it is made of brick and other masonry, and finished substantially, artistically, and at the same time without pretence of guadiness or hint at the gingerbread effect—it is a homelike place, just the kind of a house in which any man would feel perfectly at ease.—Anaconda Standard. Can't Keep a Good Man Down Can't Keep a Good Man Down. The way for a young man to rise is to be careful. In every way he can, never suspect, be brave wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attack. You can see if this failing has not injured even person you have ever known to fall into it—Abraham Lincoln. PROVES THEORY OF LAPLACE Observations by Telescope and Spectroscopic Imaging of Telescopic Hypothesis Percival Lowell reports that at his observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, rebad observations by telescope and spectroscope give for the first time confirmation of the nebular hypothesis as set forth by Laplace a century and more ago. The subject is too deeply scientific for popular discussion, but in general it is known that the supposition rests upon the evolution of solar systems out of nebula which are now rotating and set to rotating, the resultant centripetal forces producing a central burning sun with (at least in the case of our own system) attendant planets evolved out of the same nebula. In recent years there have been many very important modifications of the theory of Laplace, Kant and Herschel, although they all rest on the same basic premise. It is quite evident that any theory of the sort is incapable of proof. All that can be claimed for any of the theories is that they conform to certain laws of nature and the phenomena which are observed, while there is no other law that governs the universe which can in the least explain the present condition of the universe. Such observations as have been made at Flagstaff on the condition of the nebula surrounding the Pleiades are of great interest, but are not conclusive and are not pretended to be so. All that can be said is that here is an added testimony to the accumulations of more than a century. In these days most astronomers are to believe that matter (and what it contains) of well understood) has existed eternally in more or less its present universal condition, that nebulae and resulting solar systems are the result of accidental collisions, which simply repeat an endless condition of affairs. If, as estimated, there are more than one hundred millions of burning sunns and more than a billion of those whose light has died out, the universe includes an incredible amount of material and is unthinkably vast, though the matter in it is certainly limited. The human mind cannot appreciate the vastness of the universe, ever striving for a reasonable explanation of observed phenomena, and the nebular hypothesis, as modified, comes nearer fitting the laws of nature and the things we see about us than any other which has been offered. Is Sleep Only a Habit? That more than six hours' sleep in twenty-four is only a habit, and a bad habit at that, is the contention of a Brooklyn physician who comments on the alleged experience of an unnamed Harvard professor in successfully substituting a sort of trance state for the genuine article. During his professional life of more than half a century the Brooklyn doctor, who slept more than six hours a day, has made up for lost sleep, has gone entirely without sleep for two weeks at a time, continuing his labor just the same, with only such snatches of sleep as he could take while walking or driving on the road or in the streets while visiting his patients. He holds that sleep is a function of the ego or the personality rather than of the brain or body; that as a rule "one who sleeps the most works the least," and that "for continuous work the brain needs nutrition rather than sleep." All of which may be quite true in the doctor's case, but his experience is exceptional, if not phenomenal—Boston Globe. New Treatment for Lockjaw. The most remarkable cure ever recorded of lockjaw is announced by Dr. Adolph H. Urbar, of Brooklyn, who used a new method never tried in this country. It is a combination of the recognized antitetanus serum with subsequent abcutaneous injection. The case reported by Dr. Urban is that of a five-year-old boy, Oliver Finkney. He was apparently infected while playing in the earth of his yard. In a short time he developed convulsions, and finally the rigidity that is usually a precursor of death. Dr. Urban decided to resort to heroic measures. The child apparently did not respond for several hours; rigidity and intense depression continued. Suddenly, however, he began to show the effect of the treatment, and the improvement. The child was attacked in September. Now he is apparently as well as ever. As to the Unsigned Review As to the Unsigned Review. Professor Mahaffy, who has written criticism for more than 50 years, is an advocate of the unsigned review. "If you have the article signed," he says, "you relieve the editor of his responsibility and he will admit a bad article signed by a widely known person, whereas better work by a young and starving writer is apt to be thrown aside. He recalls the old Edinburgh with the remark, "what was good enough to appear in our quarterly was good enough for anyone to read." The drift at present is toward the signed review. The Edinburgh, under its new editor, publishes signed articles, and within a month the Manchester Guardian has gone to the extreme of publishing the initials of the writers of their reviews of the variety theaters, though the reviews are so short that four of them make only half a column. Liberality. "I am not in the habit of boasting," avers the landlady of the boarding house, "but I think you will agree with me that I always give you all a chair, and you ask for it." "Ye," acquires the Boarder, who always pays a day in advance. "You are right—quite right, Mrs. Ham-andege! Fristance, you have given me 16 chicken necks, 11 backs and six nearly-fresh eggs more than I asked for in the last two weeks." Then, great gobos of gloom stitched down the floor, and the nongraph in the parlor—began playing "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee." THE WEDDING DRESS MME. MARIE BURTON-HYRAM. America's Foremost Dramatic Soprano. THE J. DE KOVEN THOMPSON. Composer of International Fame Thompson-Hyrum at Bethel An unusual treat in atlanta for the music loving people of Chicago Monday evening, April 21 at Bethel the Church, 30th and Dearborn streets, at which time De Koven Thompson, whose fame as a composer of high class compositions has encircled the globe, will give compositions. Burton-Hyrum Burton University twelve with the comp program will p. Admiss JOTTINGS THEATRICAL AND OTHERWISE. At one time Boston was considered to be the musical center of the United States, but for the past four or five years Chicago, with her accustomed "I Will," wrested that honor from her. Here are to be found artists and composers with reputations world wide. The Negro plays no small part in the musical world today, it being universally admitted that the only true American music is that composed by the Negro. Among the many concerts and recitals scheduled for the near future, none is attracting more attention or is looked forward to with keener delight than the one at Bethel A. M. E. Church Monday evening, April 21, at which time De Koven Thompson, one of our greatest high class composers, will give the music loving public an opportunity to hear an entire program of his own selections. He will be assisted by Mine. Marle Burton-Hyram, the acknowledged song queen of the race. This is the first time in Chicago that a composer has given an entire evening to his own works, and from the enormous advance sale of tickets the standing room only sign will be an early feature. There are times when the managers of that pretty little playhouse, The Grand, wish they had built a theater as large as the Auditorium, and this week happens to be one of them. Two VIOLIN RECITAL GIVEN BY HARRISON EMANUEL DIRECTION of Frank P. Mandy THEDORD TAYLOR, Accompanist KIMMALL HALL, Woodside Ave., Jackson Bou. Monday晚会, April 21, 1916, at 8:15 ADMISSION 21 CENTS TICKETS ON SALE AT Rankin at White's, 38st and State Street; Fankner's News Agency, 31st and State Street. --- The Grand. A globe, will give a recital of his own compositions, assisted by Mue. Marie Burton-Ifryam, the acknowledged song queen of the race, who will sing twelve numbers by Mr. Thompson, with the composer at the piano. The program will begin promptly at 8:30 p.m. Admission 25 cents. shows a night are not nearly enough to accommodate the vast crowds who nightly gather to see the international favorites, Matt Marshall and Andrew Trible, as comedians they have no peer, and the audiences are convulsed from the moment they appear until the curtain goes down on their clever act. "Troubles of Sambo and Dinah" is the title of their skit, but if those in the audience had troubles on their minds before they entered they quickly vanished before these infinitive fun makers. There has been many school-room acts but none with the freshness and vibe of the one presented by George Beach and his admirable company. Laddie Haw won merited applause by his playing on the violin, 'cello and saxophone. Luckie and Yoast, in the "Jealous Lovers," handed each other a few clever ones and made us think our own domestic troubles were blissful dreams. And as a fitting finale the wonderful Abdala, six tumbling fiends and whirlwind acrobats, were presented. All in all it was the best bill that The Grand has presented in some time. This popular little playhouse as usual had a bill that nightly pleased the large audience. The Patterson Trio were the headliners and made good. Mr. Patterson's violin playing was excellent. Letepha, a Spanish malden, sang "Santiago" and danced her way into the hearts of the audience. Stafford and Leggett had a good song and dance act, while George Richardson, the man with but one leg, sang and danced cleverly. The pictures were above the average. The Dixie Chorus A rather unusual entertainment is being presented this week at the Oakland Music Hall, 40th street and Cottage Grove avenue, by a company of high class musicians, entitled "The Epic of the Negro." It is intended to picture the Negro from the early The Monogram. stages in Africa to the present time, songs, costumes, scenery, etc., being added to heighten the effect. A concert program included such chorus numbers as "Comrades in Arms," the sextet from "Lucia," etc., was rendered to an appreciative audience. Mr. Coleman delivered with telling effect his famous oration on the race problem. The engagement will close Saturday evening. You will miss a treat if you do not attend. NOTED TENOR BANQUETED. (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Calgary, Alberta, April 17—Mr. George R. Garner, Jr., a noted tenor soloist of Chicago, U. S. A., was royally entertained last night by his manager, Wallace Graham, at Breamer Lodge. Twenty-five guests assembled at the request of Mr. Graham to celebrate Mr. Garner, Jr.'s, twenty-first birthday. Among the guests of color present from the United States were Miss Nannie C. Burden and Mr. Dennys, of Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. C. Dixon Elmwood, Ohio; Mrs. Shaver of Weatherford, Texas, and Hann of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Garner's sister, Miss Marian E. Garner, his accompanist, was also present. Mr. Garner's voice has attracted much attention here and throughout the Dominion, and his return here is looked forward to with keen interest. Mr. Garner, Jr., has toured Canada under the sole direction of Wallace Graham of Winnipeg, and Mr. Graham says of him: "Really, Mr. Garner is one of my best attractions, and as an artist never fails to please on or of the platform." CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. HERE AND THERE. The Fleur de Lis Art Club met at the home of Mrs. E. V. Caldwell last Thursday, 3753 Prairie avenue, after which luncheon was served. The next meeting will be at Mrs. H. Fumbank's. The Volunteer Workers' Charity Club met at the home of Mrs. Mary Webster, 3540 Vincennes avenue. It was regular sewing day. Each one seemed to be busy with thimble and needle. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Fisher, 3540 Prairie avenue. THE NONPAREIL CLUB THE NONRELLE CLUB. The Nonrellle Club entertained its friends at a surprise party given in honor of one of its members, Mr. Joseph Jennings, who is leaving the city for Minneapolis, Thursday evening. April 10, at 3567 Rhodes avenue. A lively crowd, which filled the house, was present and everyone left at a late hour declaring that they had spent a most enjoyable time. N. Jackson, president; B. Dawson, secretary. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM WHIST CLUB. The Chrysanthemum Whist Club met Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Mary Jackson's home, 3556 Forest avenue, from 2 to 5 o'clock. After the meeting luncheon was served. The club adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs. Leona Barner, 3524 Forest avenue, April 17. The president expects every member to be present. THE TYREE CIRCLE. The Tyree Circle was' entertained by Mrs. Hill Thursday evening, April 10, at the residence of Mrs. Agnes Anderson, 3711 Dearborn street. Miss Williams was a visitor and expressed her pleasure in meeting the circle. The members will meet in their regular sewing session April 17, with their president, Mrs. Washington, 3144 Forest avenue. UNION CHARITY CLUB. The Chicago Union Charity Club met at the home of Miss Clara Brown, 3635 State street, Thursday, April 10. Owing to the fact of the president having such a bad cold she was unable to meet with the club and Mrs. Livingston, vice president, presided. The club was well attended, and an excellent program was rendered. Potato salad with minced meat sandwiches, spiced cake and tea was served. A rising vote of thanks was given to the hostess. The next meeting will be April 24, at the home of Mrs. Johnson, 5137 Dearborn street. MRS. E. CHANDLER, Pres. THE PEERLESS CLUB. Mr. Raymond C. Green, 4443 Layleen avenue, entertained the Peerless Club at their regular meeting Friday evening, April 11. Arrangements were made for their sixth formal anniversary party, which is to be held Tuesday evening, May 20. President Ganaway appointed the arrangement committee, which consists of the following: Mr. Howard Bazil, chairman; Mr. Raymond C. Green and Mr. Harry Greenlee. The initiation of Mr. John Jeffrey of the Orchid Whist Club was also held at this meeting. The next meeting is to be at the residence of the president, Mr. George Ganaway, 5818 Lafayette avenue. PARAGRAPHS WITH POINTS. By Waldo L. Batson. Why is it that Uncle Jerry doesn't come to church any more? Why, the preacher preached such good sermons that he couldn't sleep. What is your son going to do when he gets out of college? He's going to try and get some ambition. Explaining the Exploration **EXPLANATION.** The chemico-physiology explanation of the universe goes but little way. These are the tools of the creative process, but they are not that process, nor its prime cause. Start the funne of life going, and the rest may be explained in terms of chemistry; start the human body developing, and physiological processes explain its growth; but why it becomes a man and not a monkey—what explains that?—John Burroughs, in the Atlantic. HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES An Unscared Westerner Breaks New York's Ice Girl's Love Song on Stage Starts Small Riot THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. HAPPENING THE CITY An Unscared Westerner SHRIMP NEW YORK.-Jimmy Thompson blew into town not long ago from the west. His home town isn't so big that its people have forgotten how to be kindly and courteous. They're not too busy to be polite. "So I'm used to being treated as though I were a white male with no visible shackles," said Mr. Thompson. "Foolish of me, of course, but when one of these five rooms-and-a-bath New Yorkers with a forehead so narrow you could sharpen a lead pencil with it, makes signs and allusions as though I were an escaped convict I apt to pass rapidly into hysteria. For three weeks he told snippple office boys all about his own private business. The other day he went to a friend to do a favor for its manager. A friend, far away in Wisconsin, had asked him to do. He gave his boy all about it, and gave his name and his friend's name, and some of the particulars of the kind act he had planned. Then he waited. After a long time the buzzer sounded. "So I went to the private office" "of the captain of the seared Westerner. At a whale of a sea." LOS ANGELES, CAL.-Police Judge Rose tried for half an hour the other morning to get three witnesses and the defendant in a disturbing-the peace case to give him a definition of the slang expression "Oh, pipe." Upon a possible definition hung the gull or innocence of Ray Perry. He had been arrested upon the complaint of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Daniels. No. 615 Ceres avenue, and Miss Vloha Robinson was subpoenaed as a witness. "What did Perry say to you that caused the fight, later, between him and your husband?" asked the court of Mrs. Daniels. "Oh, pipe!" indignantly replied the witness. "He was riding by on his wheel, and when he saw me seated upon the porch, he called to a chum across the street, 'Oh, pipe,' pointing in my direction." "What did he mean by that?" pressed the court. "I don't know, sir," replied the witness. Neither did Miss Robinson know. Daniels was equally ignorant of the meaning of the expression. Perry admitted using the slang, adding that he "didn't mean nuthin'" INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—It was a little game of "peel-away," with University square for a playground. Prosecutor Frank P. Baker was "it," and Charles Hamilton (colored), twenty six years old, 725 Hadley street, did his best to keep from being "tagged." Persons who were passing University square early the other afternoon looked with amazement at an apparently demented negro who raced bither and thither, seeming trying to keep up with an automobile that turned and reversed and counter-turned as it circled around the park. The negro was Hamilton, and the man in the automobile was Prosecutor Baker, in the role of a policeman. DETROIT, MICH.—When Ellen Waltford swayed in the spotlight on the stage of the Folly theater the other afternoon and engagingly sang: "Come and love me, for it's so good. No one could ever do like you could. Do I like it? Well, I should; For it's so good, goody good." She expected only the usual applause. Instead there was a small-sized riot, a forcible ejection, two flying squadrons, a police patrol, and a badly scared singer and chorus. It all happened because a dashing youth decided to accept Miss Ollie's smiling invitation, taking it for the real thing because she had beamed on him. The young woman fled in terror as he climbed on the stage and walked towards her. She and the chorus girls locked themselves in their dressing rooms, while the heroic comedians faed the bold Lotharlo, Manager Shutt came dashing in and from his six feet two inches reached down and firmly seized the intruder. Without ceremony he dragged him up the aisle and to the door. No Trouble at All The Urbanite (visiting the suburbanite—A mile and a half to the station! Great Caesar! How can you make a train after a heavy snow-storm? The Suburbanite (smilingly)—Easily, my boy; the train is sure to be an hour late!—Puck. A Great Convenience. "Miss Wombat is the most popular suburban belle I know." "She is only girl in her suburb who keeps the car schedules posted in the parlor." big desk clean across the room I saw a slabby guy sitting. He never looked up at all. Just want on looking down his nose and scratching away with his pen. And there to do him a good turn, mind you! After mebble two minutes, while I could feel the steam rising in the guage, he grunts at me. Never looks up. Just grunts. "I didn't understand you," I said. "Whadda yu want?" says he, real sharp. "Speak quick. I'm very busy." "And all the time he didn't look up. So I just holdered a little low holter, and went over there to that faddy, little man and put my hand on the back of his industrious little head and shoved his intelligent little nose down against the blotter. And then I went away. But I didn't get any real satisfaction out of it. I know from the way that sincere little cuss looked at me as I backed off that he is just a regular New Yorker. He didn't know that he was a dogged impudent, cold blooded little pup. He probably thinks that he was assaulted by a dangerous maniac. "And may be I would be considered a maniac by the class of New Yorkers to which this alleged business man belongs. But how such people manage to make a living, and pass themselves off as real human beings, is beyond my understanding. In do know, though, that they would never get away with that kind of stuff out west where real red blood flows through the veins of the people." by it. It was shown that after Perry had ridden by he was recalled by Daniels, who demanded an apology. There was an argument and then a fight, during which Perry was struck in the eye, a monkey-wrench was used on his neck, a brick was bounced off his head, and finally his wheel was thrown on top of him, after he had been knocked down. "I haven't a dictionary on slang," said the court. "I'm at a loss to know what the expression: 'Oh, pipe' means. Inasmuch as none of the witnesses can throw any light upon its meaning and as none can show that the defendant meant anything disrespectful or hoped to acquit the young man, especially in view of the rough treatment he received at the hands of Daniels." It finally dawned to some of the spectators that the man in the machine was trying to catch the negro, and they joined in the chase. Caught between a crowd of 30 men and women and the man in the auto, Hamilton gave up. "Ah jes' foun' a dolllah, and ah run like the debell when two white men tried to take it away from me," was the way Hamilton explained his plight. Prosecutor Baker was passing Wabash street on Meridian when Hamilton ran out and one one shouted "Stop thief." Traffic Officer Dan Haley at Meridian and Ohio streets deserted his corner to join in the chase. Hamilton soon outdistanced all his pursuers except Baker. The prosecutor once overtook the fugitive, but as he was deciding upon what to do with his prisoner the negro again ran. At University square the prosecutor was the winner in the game of . "peel-away." Hamilton is charged with loitering, and an investigation will be made. The house was in an uproar. Two of the man's friend's valiantly shouted to him to resist and followed gallantly at some distance. A crowd from downstairs joined in, the gallery emptied quickly at the prospect of a fight. In the excitement the show was stopped and the curtain descended. Then the audience, which had gathered in front, raised such a hullabaloo that the flying squardon was called, started back into the theater, only to find the show was over. Some one said they had been stung, and another police auto and patrol lead of officers came and dispersed the mob. "I should imagine such a worship would involve a number of heat prostrations. A Clnch. "Do you believe the story now going the rounds to the effect that a razor strop foretells the weather?" "Sure. Always when I used to see dad coming with his razor strop I knew a storm was impending." HOTEL DALE Cape May N. J. Located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world with all modern improvements. Send for booklets. Short Orders All Day Rogers' Resturant Caterers to the Elite Select Meats. All Meals 25c. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. A la Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Breakfast, 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. 21 E. 33rd Street, Near L. Station CHICAGO Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. Preachers With Odd Names Preachers With Odd Names. At Canterbury a Partridge preached, at Peterborough a Pheasant, at Ripon a Swan, at St. Albans a Gosling, while at Lincoln a Bullock was led to, no doubt with great attention and least a few of the present members of the Aelieon episcopate can not assert that they are "neither fish, flesh nor fowl" for we find among our bishops in various parts of the world a Henn, a Partridge, a Peacock, a Woodcock, a Pollock and a Roach—Church Family Newspaper. Artistic Pottery. English and American pottery showing the silver deposit work is very pretty. This is newer than the deposit on glass, which has lost its popularity because of its fragility. An invalid would appreciate one of the pottery tea sets, which is so ingeniously fitted together that it takes up only a few inches on the tray. The English ware is either black, white or dark brown in color, while some of the American ware is beautifully shaded in tones of brown. Loyalty an Essential Loyalty is one of the most important essentials to business success. We place this ahead of brains, ability or experience. While these are not only important, but absolutely necessary to secure the greatest success in one's chosen work, yet without loyalty of the absolutely dependable kind the employee's chance is greatly minimized. Uncle Snooks Ruzzled Uncle Snooks Puzzled. "What puzzles me," said Uncle Snooks, as he looked up from a book he was consulting, "is this. If a man is standing on the side of a hill or mountain, how is he to settle in his mind whether he is on an acclivity or a declivity? According to my dictionary here, the former is "a slope up," and the latter 'a slope down.' I've never yet seen a slope up that didn't slope down. Hard Work Called For One of the popular song demonstrators was making more rocket than usual the other day in one of the big stores, his voice reaching far beyond its usual limits. A sales woman in another department, seeing one of her customers wince at the terrible vocal noise, explained: "You see he got here a little late this morning and has to sing loud to catch up." First Umbrella in America The first umbrella seen in America was the property of a Baltimore man, who made his first appearance in public carrying the article March 5, 1770. The contrivance excited much comment and ridicule, and for years the use of the umbrella as a protection against rain was considered effeminate. First American Flag. The first American flag of the present stars and stripes pattern was hoisted over Ft. Schuyler, then a military post on the site of the present village of Rome, Oneida county, New York. At that time the flag had only thirteen stars, but the stripes were the same in number as now, thirteen HOTEL D Located in the heart of the mo world with all modern improvement Short Order Rogers' R Caterers to Select M All Meals 25c. 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The year-old Richard was observed in the barnyard one day, following with solicitation attention the movements of a hen who was trying to crow. Finally he inquired kindly, though with ovident disapproval: "Is anying the matter wif you?" Exempted from Taxation For reasons of public policy the law exempts from taxation churches and church property, cemeteries, school and college property, buildings used for educational, literary, scientific or charitable purposes and property owned by a city, county, state or the United States. Good Reason. Too. "Miss Mary," Inquired the clergy man, "have you seriously considered the great question of life?" "Well, you see, sir," Mary replied, blushing, "none of the young men has asked me yet." Miss Cayenne's Advice. "What shall I say if Mr. Binkton asks me to marry him?" asked the young woman. "Don't bother about studying what you will say," replied Miss Cayenne. "Rehearse an effort to look surprised." Not for That Reason "Why is it that so few people heed the warning about kissing being an unsanitary practice?" "I suppose it is because so few people do it for their health"—Baltimore American. Appreciation Coming Appreciation Coming. "You'll never realize your husband's true value until he has gone," counseled Mrs. Goodman. "I know it," replied Mrs. Nagg. "His life is insured." -Cincinnati Enquirer. Just a Hint for Mamma Miss a Hint for Mamma. Jus. Mater. "I wonder what makes that dog so afraid of me? He always acts as if he thought I was going to kill him." Little Daughter. "I dare say he's seen you spankin' me." Theory. "How do you suppose Steggins ever came to write me such an elaborately sarcastic letter about so slight a matter?" "Very possibly," replied Miss Cayenne, "he has just employed a new stenographer and is trying to show off." Modern Isaiah. There are few twentieth century Iainahs. Nowadays, when the Lord asks, what shall I send? men don't here. Here on me—"they send their wives," Woltman. DALE Cape May N. J. most beautiful seashore resort in the cats. Send for booklets. E. W. DALE, Owner. ers All Day Resturant to the Elite Meats. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. 11:30 to 2 p. m. a. m. to 10 a. m. Station CHICAGO a. m. to 10 p. m. Savings Bank SUPERVISION. N. E. Cor. State St. GO, ILL Das 986—Auto. 57-220 SURPLUS, $20,000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3% Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Ill. DER AT ALL "L" STATIONS. Church and Other Affairs of Note— Personal. By Turner Tandy. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Toledo, Ohio, April 18—The Church Aid Society of the Third Baptist Church served supper at the home of Mrs. Mary Taylor Tuesday evening. Mr. D. W. Saterfield, who has been employed at the W. L. Milner store for the last seven and a half years, and who has done the checking in the dining room for the last year, was promoted to head stock-keeper in the drug department the first of this month. Mr. G. D. McCoglin has been recently called to the railway mail service and is at present running from Cleveland to Chicago. Detective Edward F. Harris was among those detailed by the city officials to flood duty at Dayton, Ohio. It is reported that he, with other police officers and members of the fire department sent from here, saved over one thousand persons. The Taxi Club will give a dancing party Tuesday evening, April 22, at People's hall, 1309 Washington street. People's hall, 1929 washington street. We notice that a good deal has been said about Canton street in the daily papers, it being called the "murder district" here of late, and that a good many houses have been condemned. We also notice that one of the leading churches has sent a letter to the city council endorsing the plan of condemning property in this district. Now, while we believe in law and order, we believe that the people make a mistake in endorsing such a plan, as it would seem that the worst people in town are among our people, which is not so. Those of the race that make the most trouble are all out-of-town people that come here, the police should drive out of town. Anyone that don't believe this can find out by asking any member of the city police department or any pastor that has had a mission on Canton street. It was stated in a morning newspaper that all of our four leading churches started from Canton street, which is denied by some of the oldest members of the Warren A. M. E. and the Third Baptist churches. To prove that Canton street is not as bad as it is painted to be I will speak of two years' experience on Adams street, where I formerly ran a shoe shining stand, one of the most popular streets in the city. There was a gang of about thirty white men who hung out in a pool room just across from the court house and used dope and from whom I could have bought almost anything I wanted for almost nothing they had of using language to young ladies who passed. They also played craps on the court house lawn. I also wish to speak of the east side Hungarian settlement, where it is nothing for them to shoot or cut each other, but their houses are not condemned and there is very little said about such affairs in the daily papers. I believe if we had a committee of first class citizens to go to the mayor and thank him for his assistance, having Detective Harris promoted from the ranks and ask him, with Director Mooney, who, I understand, helped to have Mr. Harris promoted, to give us one or two policemen of color, respectable men like Mr. King Deskman at Lagrange police station and like Detective Harris, they would do so, as they could keep an eye on the undesirable members of the race who come here better than white officers. While it is only a matter of time until Canton street will be built up with Miss Fanny Anderson and Mrs. Guy and Mrs. Lewis of Detroit were the guests of Mrs. M. E. Author last week. Mrs. Author entertained a number of young people in honor of her sister last Thursday. SPARKS FROM THE RAIL Winston's Spicy Gossip of Men and Events in the Railroad World. Brother Samuel Laforce, 3221 Wabash avenue, is now on cafe parlor car 164 on the southwestern division between Kansas City, Mo., and Minneapolis, Minn., in service of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. The full crew bill is to come up at Springfield, Ill., April 16. We all wonder if it will pass in the state of Illinois. Mr. William Dodd of Chicago made his exit April 13 at 11 p. m. for his post on parlor car cafe 160 on the southwestern division in service of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. The Chicago Defender is $1.50 per year in advance. Mr. Walter Fraigier is holding a position as train or chair car porter in service of the Chicago and Alton Railroad. In the last three weeks there have been two changes in train porters on the Chicago Great Western Railroad: Messrs. Samuel Thompson, D. Bonds. Mr. T. M. Smiley succeeds Mr. D. Bonds. Mr. Pilsay M. Miller, 4718 Dearborn street, is holding a position as train porter in service of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Mr. Caswell Reid, 316 West 119th street, New York City, is in the Pullman service over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Chicago. Mr. John Chambers is in the service of the Alton R. R. as train or chair car porter. Mr. Joseph W. Glasgow, 3805 Wabash avenue, our old faithful friend and reader of The Chicago Defender, is still on the job in Pullman service over the Pere Marquette R. R. to Grand Rapids, Mich. Messrs. Bert Gordon and Lewis Taylor, the faithful servants of the Chicago Great Western R. R., are still on cafer parlor car 163 between Chicago and Dubuque, Iowa, except Sundays. American View. "So you don't approve of those London suffragettes?" "I don't know much about them," replied Miss Cayenne; "but I can't help feeling that a woman who can't subduce a few men without the use of dynamite is something of a failure."—Washington Star, YOUTH WHO KILLED FATHER IS FREED Coroner's Jury Exonerates Boy Who Saved Sister. WAS TROUBLED HOME Hearing Parent Yell "I'll Kill You," Youngater Grabbed Rifle and Let Fly-Victim Not a Drinking Man; Just Hot Tempered. Chicago—Charles Scheibler rushed upon his fifteen-year-old daughter the other day with a butcher knife because the girl would not stop laughing. Scheibler's son, Peter, shot and killed his father. Afterward Peter called a policeman and gave himself up. At the coroner's inquest, held several hours after the tragedy, the boy was exonerated for the shooting. Witnesses testified the boy's father continually scolded members of the family and found fault with everything they did. Frequently, it was Mrs. Scheibler and the children were forced to flee from their home to escape his wrath. The Scheibler home is at 8506 South Fairfield avenue. It has been a troubled household of late. The father, a house painter, has been idle. The mother has been intermittently ill—she was in bed when the shooting occurred. Peter has had only a few old jobs. Fifteen-year-old Helma has been the "little mother," doing the housework and caring for nine-year-old Martha and four-year-old Marie. The younger son, Louis, has been working downtown. Trouble started at breakfast. The cakes that Helma made had not quite the same quality as her mother's. In a rage Scheibler arose. No witness remembers to have heard just what he shouted. All agree that he snatched a butcher knife from the table. The children ran. Martha and Marle were near the outside door and they went out. Helma ran instinctively to the pantry. Peter instinctively ran after her to shield her. They slammed the door and braced it. "Then I heard him yell 'Till kill you—I'll kill you!' said Peter. "And somehow I seemed to know he meant it. He was raving at the door, pounding and shoving; we couldn't hold it. I grabbed the rifle and pointed it at him through the crack as it was widening. I thought it would bring him to his senses. But it just made him wilder. He rushed right at the barrel—and I shot." That was the story. Helma said the same thing. The other children agreed on the facts of the breakfast A man is running into a door. He is holding a stick and appears to be in a defensive stance. There are three other men standing behind him, looking at him. "H. Rushed Right at the Barrel—and I Shot." quarrel, and told of the butcher knife. Mrs. Scheibler told of the words she had heard spoken, of the sudden scraping of chairs, the slamming of the door, the screams of the children. "My son is telling the truth," said Mrs. Scheibler. "My husband had a terrible temper. He would fly into a rage over the least little thing. He tried to kill me about a year ago—actually shot at me, but missed, and then cooled down. He wasn't a drinking man, just hot tempered. Once he was arrested for cutting a woman with a pair of scissors because she criticized his work." SCENE WAS TOO REALISTIC Victim of Hazing on Stage Sues the Playwright—Used Clippers on His Hair. Columbus, Ind—Too much realism has caused trouble for Roy W. Emig of this city. Bert Kocher, who took the part of the whitecapper in Emig's play, "Scalplock of Stony Lonesome," has sued Emig for $100 damages. In the play, which was produced here, Kocher had the role of a Brown county whitecapper. After a bunch of make-believe Indiana university students had tied his hands and feet they "hazed" him. To make the scene more realistic they used clippers on his hair. Kocher fitted a suit in Justice Kinney's court asking damages. He says the hair cutting gave him a cold, and that he was humiliated in the sight of his friends. Cow Raises Brood of Pigs Rouzerville, Pa.—On the Benjamin Shockey farm are three little pigs which some time ago adopted a cow as their foster mother. They were quickly favored by the cow and allowed to draw their sustenance regularly. Now that the pigs have grown up they manifest so much attachment for the cow that the owner is compelled to keep them in separate yards. Whenever the pigs can manage to do so they escape and race for the cow for more nourishment. CAN IS PLACED ON THIS CLEVER HOUND Winsted, Conn.—Friends of Eugene McCaskey have placed the "no attance" bar on his dachund whenever he goes to their homes for an evening at cards, because the canine has been taught to watch the floor and seats about a table while a game is in progress. Not only will he pick up a coin or card which finds its way to the floor and carry it to his master, but the dachund watches players who are in the habit of concealing a card between their legs or on a seat beneath their legs for future playing. One of Mr. McCaskey's friends was bitten in the leg after concealing a card, hence the edict. The dog has other sporting activities. When his A Was Bitten in the Leg. master goes fishing along the shore of a lake, he will grab up the pole and the hob disappears in the water and run along with it until the fish is on land. SQUALOR IN BABY FARMS California County Health Officer Finds Twenty "Homes" Dealing in Nameless Children. Los Angeles, Cal.—Twenty "baby farms," where profits are coloned out of nameless little lives, have been found operating just outside the city limits of Los Angeles, by Dr. E. O. Sawyer, county health officer, who has demanded immediate action on the part of the board of supervisors. These institutions, said Dr. Sawyer, are conducted for profit by persons who have no interest in the children, and were removed from the city to escape municipal regulation. They harbor mostly foundlings and the babies of persons who would rather hide their parenthood. "I found babies kept in the most repulsive squail," said Dr. Sawyer. "To make profits out of the small sums paid as 'board' some of the proprietors of baby homes kept the children in a half starved and half clothed condition. Insanitary conditions exist in every case." Each of the "farms" harbors from three to sixty bables. Dr. Sawyer said that a county ordinance providing strict regulations was necessary to protect not only the children in the homes, but also to protect the health of the community. "OOH, LA, LA, LA," SMACK!! Judge Glives Prisoner $1 and Freedom and Receives Resounding Kiss From Happy Peddler. Aurora, ill.—Another blow at the dignity of the bench was dealt the other day. It was struck when an Aurora justice of the peace, tempering justice with mercy, was kissed in open court by a man he had dismissed. The resounding smack upon the justice's cheek was delivered before anyone could interfere and after that everyone was too startled to do so. Frank de Cook, arrested for peddling without a license, was the man who introduced the European method of expressing gratitude into an American court. He had gold Police Magistrate Thomas Barlow such an affecting hard luck story that the justice not only dismissed the charges against him, but called him to the bench and gave him one dollar. Then came the kiss. The justice refused to say whether he considered it in the light of a bribe. He'd Behead All Brewers Philadelphia. You could get complete prohibition if you did the same as the Chinese do in stopping the opium traffic. They behead farmers who persist in growing opium." This was the plan proposed by the Rev. David S. Spencer in an address before a Methodist conference in this city. Law Affects Divorced Couples. Chicago — Judge Kavanaugh has ruled that divorced persons could not legally marry again in Illinois within a year, whether the divorce was obtained in Illinois or in another state. The decision may affect the status of a large number of remarried couples. Duel Over Tin. Munich — A waitress was instantly killed when two of them fought a revolver duel for the possession of a $2.50 tip left by a hotel guest. Enterprising Citizens: Pueblo, Colo.—Enterprising citizens gilded several hundred of the new buffalo nickels and passed them off as five dollars gold pieces. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER ICY BOND SAVES 2 FROZEN TOGETHER Hands Clasped, Men Drift Senseless to Beach SEEMED TO BE DEAD C. L. Boecklin and Joseph Frana, After Being Capsized Mile From Shore in Lake Pistakeh, Are Pulled From Water. Gray's Lake, Ill.-The lives of two men were saved at Lake Pistakeh during the last cold spell of the past winter, because their bodies froze to together. A mile or more from the shore of the lake, where they were duck hunting, the open boat capszed. Stretching out their arms to each other across the boat bottom the men clasped hands. Then, while they lost consciousness in the bitter cold, ice formed over their hands and arms so that they could not drop from the boat. Thus they drifted. One of them was Charles Lawrence Boecklin of the firm of Boecklin Brothers, commercial artists, 417 North Dearborn street, Chicago. The other was Joseph Frana, whose home is on the shore of the lake. Herman Matheson, proprietor of a hotel bearing his name at the lake shore, was walking along the shore with Jacob Larsen, a boat builder. Larson saw the upturned row boat. "That's queer," he said. "There's something fastened to the boat." In a few minutes the boat came nearer, drifting fast. "It's a man," exclaimed Larson. "It's two men," said Mathesen. They ran to a near-by boothouse and set forth in another row boat. It was with difficulty, after the capsized boat had been towed ashore, that the frozen bodies were released from the boat bottom. "It seemed certain that both men were dead," said Mathesen afterward. "The parts of their body that had not been submerged were covered with ice. Their heads were great cakes of ice that formed from the roots of their hair. The splashing water had frozen almost as it fell on them." The victims were taken to the The victims were taken to the Mathesen hotel, where physicians They Drifted Near the Shores. worked on them four hours before consciousness was restored. There were no symptoms of drowning. But the men were almost frozen to death. Becklin and Frana set forth after luncheon to hunt ducks. A sudden squall arose on the lake and the little craft became unmanageable and cap-sized. GIRL TIED TO HORNS OF COW Manitoba Farmer Arrested on Cruelty Charge — Victim's Clothing Torn From Body. Winnipeg, Man.—Manitoba police recently went to Newdale, Man., a farming district seventy miles northwest of here, and arrested Peter G. Hanson of Erickson, eighteen miles out of town, for a case of cruelty almost unheard of. Failing to secure return of his attentions from Maggie Warenski, he caught the girl while she was driving the cows home and tied her to a cow's horns. The animal was stamped at the same time by Hanson, and it dragged the young woman through the woods until it finally shook its burden off. The girl's clothing was torn from her body and she was dangerously injured. Dead Body Kills Man Frederickstown, Pa—Charles O. Craft, while waiting for a train near Pittsburgh, was struck by the dead body of an Italian track walker, who met Instant death when hit by a fast express. The Italian's body was hurled through the air with great force and struck Craft in the stomach. He was taken to a hospital, where he died of internal injuries without regaining consciousness. Lepless Man Cause Riot Cincinnati. — A one-legged man and a man who had no legs at all fought in a saloon and attracted such a large crowd that it became necessary to turn in a riot call, to which 42 policemen responded. It developed that the fight started when the one-legged man tried to sell to the less fortunate a pair of artificial limbs and the latter balked at the price. Shipped Whisky In Coffins Fort Smith, Ark.-The Federal grand jury has returned an indictment against L. S. Billings, an undertaker in Muskogee, Okla., charging that he attempted to ship three coffins filled with whisky into eastern BRONX GOAT BA-A-ED WAY INTO SUBWAY BRONX GOAT BA-A-ED WAY INTO SUBWAY Also Got Mixed Up With a Policeman and Was Finally Looked Up. New York—This goat must have heard of the early shopping movement. He lives in the Bronx and started downtown at four o'clock the other morning. He was the regulation "billy ba-a-ah" with the horns of plenty and the whiskers of Kris Kringle. He "ploped" the big windows, browsed on the cans and butted small dogs till he reached the subway entrance at One Hundred and Forty-ninth street. Into the subway he tumbled at Patrolman Heitner of the Tremont avenue station espied him. The policeman gave a yell and dived after the bleating goat. Bill beat him to the foot of the stairs, landing there. 2014 Ran Under the Table and Holisted it. in a heap. John Murphy, the ticket taker, said shoo to him, but the goat got by him and was about to plunge in front of local train when Murphy grabbed him. Heitner tried to lead the goat out of the subway, but found he had to push him. Billy was playful when the surface was reached and tried to butt the policeman off the curb. There was not a chance to lead him back so Heitner sent in a call for the patrol wagon. Arriving at the Tremont station Billy beaed at Lieutenant Curtin. Curtin made for the intruder with gun and blackjack and Billy beat it into the reserve room, where Policeman Matt Jones, Con Brown and Joe Pickett were having a wee bit. The goat ran under the table and holisted it, throwing hot coffee over Pickett and spreading apple pie over the other two. The goat being a prisoner they couldn't assault him so they had to grin and bear it until Heitner finally led him to the stable. HOG AND WEASEL FRIENDS Little Animal | Kills Farmer's Chickens for Big "Affinity"—Also Scratches Pig's Back. Lawrenceburg, Ind. — John W. Probst, justice of the peace, discovered a queer animal friendship between a large Chester White hog and a big weasel. They had been feasting on chickens for several days from Probst's poultry yard. Probst had missed about fifty of his choice chickens, and after a vigilant watch he discovered the hog catching the chickens and saw the weasel come through a hole under the barn floor. The little animal would cut the throats of the chickens and suck the blood after which the hog would devour the body and then hide the feathers in the mud in the hog pen. After eating three chickens the hog lay down in the sun and the weasel got busy and began scratching the back of the hog, much to the delight of both animals. Armed with a pitchfork Probst killed the weasel, but was attacked by the hog and knocked down. After a hard fight Probst escaped from the pen. After the death of the weasel the hog refused to eat and continued to grunt and squail day and night until Probst had to sell it to a butcher. Probst sold the hog for $18 and the weasel for $2. He valued the chickens these "affinities" destroyed at $50. FISH STORY FROM ARKANSAS Fishermen on Maddox Bay Drag In Carload of Fish In Single Haul, Little Rock, Ark—A party of fishermen made one drag in a deep hole in Maddox bay, on Col. L. G. Murphy's place, near Indiana bay, in Monroe county, and brought out 40,000 pounds of buffalo fish. The fish were taken to Clarendon by boat and by wagons and loaded into a car for northern markets. The car was leased and the fish were piled in loose, filling it up. The seine used was 900 feet long and thirty-five feet deep. In making the haul one end of the seine was tied to tree, while the rest was laid in folds on a floating platform, which was pulled by men in a skiff. The seine was played out in a wide circle, and the other end was brought back. The men pulled mightily until the tremendous load of fish was landed. It required three days' work to empty the seine. The fish were what is known as bullheads or lake buffalo. Smoke Million Cigars Daily. Chicago.—Chicagoans smoke 1,000,000 cigars a day, which is equal to one and one third cigars a day for each adult male in the city, and exceeds the number smoked in any other city in the Union. Chicagoans spend more than $25,000,000 annually for cigars. Chicago tobaccists have $10,000,000 invested in the industry. These figures were obtained by investigators of the Chicago Association of Commerce. It had been suggested that birds habitually make use of storms in traveling from one part of their range to another. It is pointed out that if a bird cannot find shelter it must be more comfortable on the wing than on the ground during a storm, because in the fiercest gale it files in a moving medium, like a swimmer in a strongly flowing river—Harper's Weekly. God's Designs. I cannot believe that the creator made man to leave him in an endless struggle with the intellectual miseries that surround us. I am ignorant of his designs, but I cannot cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice—De Tocqueville. According to the Scriptures According to the Scriptures. Charles Hastings of Ashburnham, England wrote to the Lord Jesus, with the explanation that he is the rightful owner of all lands, according to the Bible, which is the first book of laws. Mrs. Youngbride. "I don't believe the story, do you?" "What story?" 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All the gracious perfection is reduced. Collier's Weekly. New Thought Bare A new thought is a very rare thing, and it would be a magnificent creature to catch. The only things I can think of that one would really call "new thoughts" would be certain celebrated jokes, a certain scientific discoveries and a few less frequent cases of a really original argument used in an old controversy.—G. K. Chesterton. Not on the Map. The only place where one can live cheaply is Utopia; and the confounded atlas makers still refuse to put that happy region on the maps.—Providence Journal. Open the Door, Anyway. "Many a time when a man thinks opportunity is knocking at his door, it is only the cat, wanting to get in." But he makes a big mistake if, on account of this suspicion, he does not open it. A New York jokesmith has written a new libretto for one of Verdl's operas. The next we know some surefire sharp from Tinpan Alley will be tinkering up the music. Some men are just handy enough to take the sting of defeat and fashion it into a spur that drives them on to success. She's a Bear. Emily (at prom)—"I wonder if Phil expects me to dance the turkey trot with him?" Dorritt—"I don't see why. I heard him call you a bear a minute ago."—Wisconsin Sphinx. Canada or Foreign $2.50 Chicago Defender Chicago, Ill. CHICAGO DEFENDER $...... State...... The World's Greatest Weekly Newspaper THE ways Curiosity Yet it is true and the process is a simple one—once you understand the workings of the range. This range—the one that makes this gas come in possible—has become famous here in Chicago under the name we gave it, namely, e" Gas Range in ordering our "Composite" Ranges for each succeeding year. We order them of ten different makers—the ten leading stove manufacturers of the world. The plan gives us an assignment of over fifty different shapes from which our patrons can make selections. Every purchaser of a "Composite" gets a thoroughly up-to-date, scientifically constructed cooking appliance—the very best that money will build. Johnsons Randolph 457, or mail us youraddress for enclosure to Composite Range Department. at Coke Company is Building Historic Sketch of the Island of Hayti Its People, Customs, Organizations and Government. Hayti is an Indian word meaning "Mountainous Country." Aborigines were copper colored with smooth black hair waved about their shoulders. Spaniards invaded the island shortly after its discovery by Columbus and treated inhabitants cruelly. Try to enslave them. They fought stubbornly but were finally overpowered. Gold was the object. After marriage a man expects to Please send all news to Alice Smith, live in a woman, to live well— 217 Sixth avenue, or phone 1012 L. Waldo Bastien W.G. Dykewer Third Installment. The French Republic became uneasy about the power and influence which Toussaint L'Ouverture was welding in the Dominican island. Bonaparte, who was at that time first Counsel of France, sent an expedition of 25,000 men to check and subdue L'Ouverture. The would-be freemen made a desperate and courageous light but after the loss of about 5,000 men they were overpowered by the superior skill and equipment of the French soldiers. Toussaint himself was captured, chained, carried to France and thrown into prison, where he died. This man, though untrained, was a military genius; so successful was he in quieting the Spanish that the French government made him Convention General of brigade and later, chief of the army of San Domingo. Shortly after Toussaint was made chief of the forces on the island he cleared it of all Spanish and English interference, driving them from the island. His next step was to aim at complete independence. That step was prematurely provoked by the attempt on the part of Bonaparte to re-establish slavery on the island. And although L'Ouverture was defeated by the French, the cause for which he gave his life triumphed. Before leaving the island, L'Ouverture gave utterance to this prophey: "In overthrowing me they have brought down the trunk of the tree of liberty, but it will spring out again because its roots are deeply planted." After ten months of shameful imprisonment at Fort de Joux in April, 1803, L'Ouverture died. One year after the utterance of the above mentioned prophecy it was fulfilled. Slavery was re-established, and a revolt followed which resulted in the complete overflow of the French authority upon the island. Jean Jaques Dessalines was made general in chief of the rebel forces. Soon General Le Clerc, the commander of the French forces, died of yellow fever. The French army was so ravished by the epidemic that shortly after they lost Fort Vertiere they evacuated the Haytian territory, leaving the revolutionist in complete control. And op, the first day of Janu- RIVERSIDE AND LA GRANGE "What Is What" and "Who Is Who" In These Progressive Suburbs. By Edwin H. Green. Lagrange, Ill., April 13.—There were services at both churches last Sunday and they were well attended. At the Second Baptist church Miss Jessie Tuller, formerly of Terre Haute, Ind., now living in Chicago, gave a short talk, while Miss Elsie Hammons presided at the piano. The Building Fund Club held its regular monthly meeting Friday night at the church, and Mrs. Richard Gainer, the president, made a short talk to the captains on their line of work, in which they are to raise as much money as they can by the second Sunday in October, our next rally day. We are glad to know that Rev. Cobb is able to be out again. There was a good attendance at the Sunday Club last Sunday, and a good program rendered. Rev. Cobb of the M. E. church preached his first missionary sermon Thursday, April 10, was the date of the mock wedding. It was witnessed by a large audience, and the class of juveniles, instructed by Mrs. Wm. Robert, the mother of the class. The church was beautifully decorated and Miss Elsie Hamman played the wedding march; then entered the maids to have things ready. Miss Marie Currey was the bride, Fred Williams the groom, Leroy Currey best man, and Addie Hammay the matron of honor, Briddesmaids were Lorane Cobb, Mildred Smith, Lillian Crawford, Mattie May Brown. Masters Henry Payne, Waverly Currey, Paul Hunt and Malach Currey as pages. The bride was given away by her father, Mr. Carol Smith. Charlina Sims was the mother. Flower girls were Berdett and Emma Greenhowl, Amella Anderson and Lillian Currey. Ribbons girl, Dorothy Hammond and Magnolia Payne. Preacher, Lindsay Sims; his wife, Dorothy Cobb. Charles Turner, the Sheeervy boys, Herbert Anderson, Lonzo Currey and Bernard Sims, messenger boys. A short program was rendered. The most attractive feature of the evening was the live doll, little Winona McFarland. She was concealed behind the portiers until after the wedding, and then presented to the audience. Pink and white lights were used to add to the beauty of the doll. There were prizes given to those selling the most tickets. Miss Flaura Cousins, first prize; Winona McFarland, second prize; Lorane Cobb, third. Mr. Richard has returned to his home in Hinndale from Mobile, Ala. Mr. Richard has returned to his home in Hinsdale from Mobile, Ala. Mr. E. H. Green has accepted a position in Chicago. Miss Jessie Tealler was visiting her sisters, the Misses Mary and Agnes Hill, last Sunday. By W. C. DeWendt. Apple, Customs, Organizations and at Hayti is an Indian word meanaintainin Country." Aborigines are colored with smooth black hair at their shoulders. Spaniards in island shortly after its discovery and treated inhabitants cruelenslave them. They fought stubwere finally overpowered. Gold object. ary, 1804, the islanders proclaimed their independence. On the same day Dessalines was nominated governor general for life. Six months later he was proclaimed emperor of the Hayti independence. But in October, 1806, he was assassinated on his way to Port Rogue. Another dry of independence was Henry Dry Christopher. He was nominated President by the assembly at Port au Prince. Christopher declined the nomination for the reason, as he said, the constitution did not offer him enough personal power and authority. The Senate then elected Alexander Petion. Upon this Christopher declared civil war. And after making two unsuccessful attacks upon Port au Prince he withdrew to the northern part of the island. Alexander Petion died in March, 1818. Jean Pierre Boyer was elected to succeed Petion. Boyer became ruler of the whole island. France then recognized the independence of the Negro Republic by paying an indemnity of ninety million francs, stipulate for the colonist. Boyer manfully guided the ship of state for twenty-five years. Then followed in rapid succession several less conspicuous rulers. One important event took place during the office of Charles Herard; in the year 1843 the eastern section of the island became independent and proclaimed its right to exist as the Republic of Santo Domingo. After the death of Reich Toulouque was proclaimed Emperor, with the title of Faustin the first, his family line still survives in the island. After the death of Reich in 1857, Fable Jeffrard was elected President. The Republic made considerable gain under his administration. During his term of office, the courses of public instruction were more definitely arranged and successfully carried out; the regulation and development of agriculture, and the industries in general were quite marked. The family line of Jeffrard continued in office for about a half century before the close of which the Republic experienced many upheavals, civil wars, exiles and assassinations. Tancrede August, present ruler, awaiting his fate. (To be continued.) MAYWOOD. Maywood, Ill., April 18.—The Second Baptist church has formed themselves into clubs, the Men's Club and the Women's Club, to raise money for the church. The Women's Club will give a New England dinner Thursday afternoon and evening. Memorial services were held last Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Lizzie Pointer. Mrs. George Harrison has been visiting in Evanston, but is home now and is much better. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of Chicago have recently bought a home on 12th avenue. Rev. James Swanson was visiting last week in Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. He is expected home next week. THE JOLLY TWELVE. The Jolly Twelve met for their monthly frolic at the home of Mrs. Connor McKinney, 5117 Grove avenue, Tuesday evening, April 15. The evening was one of birth and merriment. Whist, interspersed with vocal and instrumental selections prevailed. A very humorous letter was received from Mrs. Edward Henderson, which created numerous laughs. An elaborate luncheon was served at the stroke of 12, which was very soothing to the inner man. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. S. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr. Robers, Mrs. Chas, Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Luckey, Mrs. Fellx Schaefer, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Foster, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gordon. IN THE FOX RIVER VALLEY. Aurora, Elgin, Batavia—The News of the Week From These Interesting Suburbs. Aurora, Ill., April 18.—Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Radford, of Elgin, announce the birth of a little daughter, born April 6. Mrs. Radford was Miss Francis Smith of Oswego. A number of people from Aurora in the funeral of Mr. Newsome in Belfast. Mr. Sylvester Davis, of Jollet, was in Aurora Sunday. Mr. Lloyd Hall visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. 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Dougherty and Pierce worked for the Giants. The score: F. A. Young. R.H.E. Am. Giants ..0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 -3 9 0 Tacoma ..0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 5 2 Portland went down to defeat at the hands of the American Giants in a 10-inning struggle Sunday at Portland, Ore, by the score of 2 to 1. Modern Roads. They were spinning along the broad highway, which was lumpy; but by and by they came to a section that was-well oiled, the joy of all autoists. "Well," remarked the sensitive person in the rear seat, "they may say what they please about the perfection of the ancient Roman roads, but I am here to testify that they are not in it with the roads of modern grease."—Judge. His Secret The secret of a certain great man's power, it is said, was that if he gave any one his time at all he gave him for the moment the whole of it—all his attention, interest and best thought while the interview lasted. It is that sort of giving of one's whole self to the matter in hand that constitutes power. The divided mind lacks force, the straying thought weakens all mental processes. The habit of concentration is strength. Irreverent Youth. The curate was learning to ride a bicycle, and in a misplaced fit of zeal set off on his own. He thought he—could manage by himself, so started downhill in a somewhat wobbly manner. The road was wet and muddy, and it was not long before the machine had skidded and the curate was founderering the mud. A youthful thrill of the Storm choked the catastrophe with evident pleasure. "Here endeth the first lesson," he chorted—London Tit-Bits. Making It Ample Joel Chandler Harris, the author of Uncle Remus, was at his desk one night when an old-time reporter looked over and said: "Joe, how do you spell 'graphic'? With one 'f or two?' "Well," said the kindly Uncle Remus, who was too gentle to hurt even a common adjective, "if you are going to use any, Bill, I guess you might as well go the limit." Hardly What He Wanted He approached the clerk in a pawn shop and, looking all about him, inquired: "Keep telescopes here?" "Yes, sir," replied the clerk, "want to see some?" The man nodded and the salesman soon returned with a spyglass. "Here's the best one we have in the place." The stranger looked at the glass in disgust a moment and then he blurted: "That's a fine thing to put clothes in, isn't it? Do you take me for a burlesque actress?" Holds Whitewash to We Flood Wetness to Wash The addition of a pint of glue water to four gallons of whitewash will prevent the latter rubbing off a wall A WAY AT LAST. The only way to get a woman's correct age is to correct it yourself.— Waldo Baston. Handlon, 756 E. 40th st. Cigars, candy, soft drinks, etc. Holland, 518 Dearborn st. Barber shop; cigars. Johnson, 5721 State st. Candy, cigars, etc. Liggens, 305 Rhodes av. Delictessen. McClelland, 18 W. 35th st. Candy, cigars, notions, etc. McClain, 50 W. 35th st. 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Majors, C. F., 2009 Lake st. Barber shop. News stand, 184% E. 54th st. Newspapers, etc. Sherwood, 1722 Fullton st. City of Evanston THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. This week we have added to our agents in Evanston Mr. John A. Guy. Together with Mr. J. E. Priestly, who has been in charge of The Chicago Defender's interest since Mr. Bruce left, we hope to cover the city thoroughly and publish all of the news each week. Miss McAllister is now a reporter and news matter or advertisements given either Mr. Priestly, Mr. Guy or Miss McAllister will receive prompt attention. We hope that the friends of this famous trio will rally to their support; and when the prize for the best six months' work is awarded our Evanston readers shall determine the winner.—Editor. AD CITY OF EVANSTON ... . . . Evanston, Ill., April 18.—The Y. M. C. A. meeting was well attended Sunday. Dr. A. D. Butler was the speaker. Mrs. Jones sang a pretty solo. Sunday we will meet with the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and the captains will take charge of the meeting. Mr. W. W. Bolden of St. Paul, Minn., was a visitor at the Y. M. C. A. office last week. Mr. and Mrs. F. Berry of 2022 Colfax street entertained a number of friends at tea in their beautiful home Sunday afternoon. E. H. Ballinger our energetic deputy G. C. of K. of P. is doing good work for the order. He has organized a club in the town of Lake Forest, Ill., which will be set up as a lodge by R. E. Elliot lodge No. 38 of Evanston in the near future, and he expects to muster at least twenty-five members at the christening. No late news from the politicians, but we expect some soon that will interest Evanstonians. Mrs. J. F. Pope of 907 Grove street is rapidly recovering from her former illness. Mrs. Bush of 1025 Emerson street entertained the church Aid Society last Tuesday evening. Mrs. Cella Webb J. 146 Elmwood avenue, the widow of J. E. Webb, who has been seriously ill and is now rapidly recovering. She wishes to thank her many friends for their kindness to her during her illness. The speakers at the A. M. E. Church Sunday will be Rev. Nora Taylor and Rev. L. A. Finley. Mrs. Amelia Conner, 1115 Clark street, entertained the One More EK fort Club Thursday evening. Rev. Butter from Aurora, Rev. Webb and Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs took dinner at Mrs. William's Sunday. Mrs. Mary Lyons dined at Mrs. Webb's home Sunday and was entertained by Miss Anderson and Mr. Jones Monday evening. Mrs. Alice Scruggs entertained Rev. Butler at dinner Sunday evening. Mrs. Dorsey had as her guest Sunday evening, Mrs. Body, Mrs. R. Miller, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Malone. The services at the Ebenazer A. M. E. Church were largely attended both morning and evening. Rev. A. N. Webb, the evangelist of Chicago. Proof. "Do you think," said the intellectual young woman, "that there is any truth in the theory that big creatures are better natured than small ones?" "Yes," answered the young man, "I do. Look at the difference between the Jersey mosquito and the Jersey cow."-Life. YOUR FRIENDS. Some men would rather be your pall bearer than your creditor.—Waldo Baston. conference, preached Sunday morning and there were three persons united with the church. Rev. Butler of Aurora, Ill., preached to a large audience in the evening. We are pleased to note that our beloved pastor, Rev. H. S. Graves, is improving as rapidly as might be expected. The services at the Mt. Zion Church Sunday were largely attended and full of interest. The pastor preached at 11 a. m. and at 8 p. m. The Bible class at 12 noon was crowded. Mr. W. H. Bolden, a former superintendent of the school, who is here on a visit, had charge, and at the close made a very fine address in connection with the review of the lesson. There was one accession to the church. A series of revival meetings are being conducted this week. The following brethren preached this week: Bros. Haggard, McCoo, Johnson and Cooper. The services were splendid last Sunday at the Second Baptist Church. The pastor preached morning and evening to a full house. Sunday morning he begin a series of sermons on "Man." There will be four of the series. The other three will be delivered April 20, and May 4 and 11. "The Fall of Man" is the subject for April 20. The fourth Sunday, April 27th, will be a special day. Rev. D. D. Crawford, D. D. of Atlanta, Ga., will preach at 11 a. m. Rev. S. L. M. Francis, A. M. Ph. D., will preach at 3 p. m. and the pastor at 8 p. m. All circles and clubs will be required to report. Other churches are invited to worship with us. Our pastor, Rev. I. A. Thomas, A. M., attended the executive board meeting at Oak Park last Tuesday. Mrs. W. F. Anderson returned from Provident Hospital this week. Mrs. Ia Sherrod is convalescing rapidly at St Luke's Hospital, Chicago. Mrs. Abner Hall of Dewey avenue and Miss Rosa Blair of Foster street are still numbered among the sick of our membership. Miss Ida Mae Myller and Mesdames Gruggsby, Gordon, and Polindexter of Olivet Baptist Church worshipped with us last Sunday. Miss Easie Carter of Augusta, Ga., is the city visiting Mr. A. Carter and family, 1827 Jackson avenue. Mrs. J. C. Iyster was hurriedly called to North Carolina on account of the illness of her mother. The Julia Gaston Woman's Club meet Friday evening at Mrs. Ball's, 1911 Ridge avenue. The club was organized in 1898 and has its meeting every Friday. The club will meet at Mrs. M. C. Craven's, 234 Ashland avenue, at 8 p. m. Friday evening. The Newsboys Club formed here Monday evening, April 14, by John A. Guy, is doing good work. The object of the club is to get a larger circulation in Evanton and the northern towns for The Chicago Defender. Elmer White is secretary and Horace Graves chairman. Her Dilemma. Mrs. Newedw (excitedly) — "Oh, John, dear, please hurry and send off a telegram for me." Newedw—"What's the matter?" 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