Chicago Defender

The Chicago Defender. South Carolina to Re-Enslave Colored People Yankees Forbidden to Teach Colored People First Step to Enslave Claflin University, Avery Institute and Four Others Taught By A. M. A. Society with White and Colored Teachers Will Close Doors in May—Southern White Girls Who Have Taught in Charleston Colored Schools Will Be Allowed to Teach Colored Children as of Old. While Government and Southern States Were Making Ways and Means to "Keep the Nigger Down" Japan Has Placed Fifty Shiploads of Guns and Munitions of War in Mexico and Huerta Now Defies the American Government to Show Her Hand—Japan with Mexico and the Philippines Allied with the Hawaiians Are Planning to Trounce Uncle Sam Soundly—Who Will Fight for Him?—Aliens, of Course! A Fearless, HONEST CHAMPION of the People VOLUME IX. NUMBER 5. South Yankees Forbidden Teach Colored First Step Claflin University, Avery Institute and M. A. Society with White and C Doors in May—Southern White C Charleston Colored Schools Will E Children as of Old. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO STOP HIGH-HAND SECURITY While Government and Southern State Means to "Keep the Nigger Down Shiploads of Guns and Munitions of Now Defies the American Govern Japan with Mexico and the Phili- waians Are Planning to Trounce Will Fight for Him?—Aliens, of [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Aiken, S. C., January 30. The passage by the house today of the Fortner bill prohibiting white persons from teaching in schools and colleges for colored children, and forbidding white trained nurses to take care of race patients, and race teachers from teaching in schools for white persons, and colored mammies from nursing white children and white men from having colored mistresses. The law will not affect the white women who have taught in colored schools, as this is a kind of pension fund to repay the sons and daughters of the confederacy for their noble work, has stirred up considerable comment among observers of the legislature's course. The bill, which is in line with the platform of Governor Cole L., Please, is expected to have a hard road to travel in the senate, where the lines between administration and anti-administration are most closely drawn. Opponents of the bill point out that for years young women of the best families, impoverished by the war, have taken up teaching as a profession and have taught colored young men and women in the public schools of Charleston. KENTUCKY VISITORS PLAN CHICAGO HOTEL Messrs. Peter Postell and L. P. McNary of Hopkinsville Charged with Harboring That Idea. Two Chicago visitors of note this week were Mr. Peter Postell and Mr. L. P. McNary, both of Hopkinsville, Ky. Mr. McNary is proprietor of Latham Hotel barber shop. They are interested in real estate and have made several visits to the Columbia Hotel, State and Thirty-first streets. When questioned by a Chicago Defender reporter they declared that they were only "making a quiet business trip," but from other sources it was learned that they contemplate purchasing the Columbia Hotel and remodeling it into a first-class, up-to-date hotel for the public. It will not be a place for any one man, but for the public. Their plans include store fronts on both streets, a large hall and dining room. Mr. Postell is the brother-in-law of Mr. William Bronston and is the guest of the Mitchem brothers. DO YOU KNOW HIM? The above is a good picture of Grant Buren, whose brother, Mr. Thomas M. Buren, 3227 Wabash avenue, is very anxious to find. The last time that he heard from him was by letter, August 26, 1906. He was then in Jersey City, N. J., at 163½ York street, third flat. A week later he received another letter from Bayone, T. J. Since that time he has not eard from him. He is married and as seeking work on the railroad, anyone knowing his whereabouts or knowing anyone who knows him or of his family, please communicate with his brother, 3227 Wabash avenue, or telephone the Chicago De-under, Douglass 3339. --- THE LATE SENATOR SHELBY M. CULLOM Senator Cullom died at his residence in Washington, D. C., Wednesday afternoon. He was an associate of Abraham Lincoln and had been an Illinois statesman in office for over fifty years and was a senator over thirty years. Mr. Charles Pickett, well known in Chicago, has been his confidential messenger for many years. BUCKROE SCHOOL PATRONS' MEETING (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Hampton, Va., Jan. 30—At a recent partons' meeting, held in the Buckroe school, which is taught by Miss Mamie Bassette, interesting addresses were made by Mrs. Smith, president of the Patrons' League; Miss Ida A. Tourtellot, Miss Sarah J. Walter, Major R. R. Moton and Mr. Frank K. Rogers, all of Hampton Institute; and Mrs. Ellen A. Weaver, General Armstrong's sister, who is spending the winter at the Hampton school. Major Moton urged the patrons to stand back of the teacher and the league and pull together for the general improvement of the school. Words of encouragement were spoken by Mrs. Weaver and Mr. Rogers, who is treasurer of Hampton Institute. The children of the Buckroe school sang and Rev. J. W. Patterson of Hampton opened the meeting with prayer. BOARD OF REGENTS BUSY Appomattox Club Filling Up With Young Men of High Type. The following gentlemen have made application to the Appomattox Club for membership, and the same will be considered on Monday night at the board meeting: Major B. G. Johnson, Dr. Theo. Mozee, Dr. A. C. Dickerson, Francis E. Harris, Charles Cross, Lou Pollard, Beverly Motley, C. W. Cole and Francis DeLaney. The Chicago Defender's exposure of discrimination at the Jefferson theater last week has brought forth a letter from Augustus L. Williams, an attorney residing near there, who will prosecute all cases of that kind brought before him free of charge. Now what excuse can anyone offer? CHICAGO, IL., SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914. CELEBRATE ARM- STRONG DAY Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Race Champion Fittingly Observed in Richmond. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Richmond, Va., Jan. 30—Armstrong day was celebrated at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sunday, January 25, at 3:30 p. m. The meeting was held to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute and loyal friend of the colored people. Instructive and interesting addresses were delivered by Hon. R. C. Stearnes, state superintendent of education; Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, superintendent of Richmond public schools; Hon. H. C. Pollard, city attorney, and Rev. R. O. Johnson, pastor of Moore Street Baptist Church. Special music was furnished by the best local talent. The Armstrong day exercises were given under the auspices of the Richmond Chapter of the Armstrong League, the officers of which are W. D. Jones, president; H. C. Mundin, treasurer; Miss M L. Brooks, secretary; W. D. Davenport, chairman of committee on arrangements. NEW HOME FOR N. Y. CHURCH Mother Zion A. M. E. Church Buys Building of the Church of the Redeemer—Rev. J. W. Brown Its Progressive Pastor. (By Reciprocal News Service.) New York, Jan. 30.—The corporation of the Mother A. M. E. Zion Church has purchased the building of the Church of the Redeemer in 136th street, near Seventh avenue. Alterations are to be made as follows: The root is to be raised and galleries erected: electric lights are to be installed, and decorations are to be up to the modern idea. The building when completed will have a seating capacity of from twelve to fifteen hundred, and the members of the famous old Mother Zion will have one of the most beautiful edifices in New York City. It will be located convenient to all car lines, in the heart of the densely populated Harlem district and in easy reach of its communicants. These transactions speak well for the progressive idea of the pastor, Rev. J. W. Brown, formerly of Rochester, and his able staff of officials. The church in West Eighty-ninth street, which is valuable, will be sold. Aside from the possession of this property, Zion owns other properties of value, and it is considered one of the wealthiest churches of the denomination. It was founded in 1796, the first church being built at the corner of Church and Leonard streets in 1800, and was rebuilt in 1820. The first annual conference was organized in 1821, and the church was burned down in 1839 and again rebuilt in 1840. The Sabbath school was organized in 1845, and in 1864 the church was moved to Tenth and Bleeker streets. From there it was removed to its present site in West Eighty-ninth street in 1904. The present membership is about 900 representative citizens. FLORIDA HAS NEW BANK Anderson, Tucker & Co. Start Promising Financial Institution at Jacksonville. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 30—Anderson, Tucker & Co., bankers, is the style of a new business capitalized and maintained by race men, ushered in with the new year in this city. Charles H. Anderson, treasurer of the National Negro Business League, and Benjamin E. Tucker are the leading spirits in the new banking firm. The new bank is located at 402 Broad street, in the Masonic Temple. The bank begins business under the most auspicious circumstances, and those connected with it are men of splendid financial standing and who have the confidence of their race and the white business people as well. CARY B. LEWIS AT TUSKEGEE Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 30.—Mr. Cary B. Lewis of Chicago, well-known newspaper correspondent, has reached Tuskegee, his first stop in a tour of the South. Mr. Lewis is quartered at the Administration building and has been entertained by Dr. Booker T. Washington, Secretary Scott and Mr. Fearing, their stenographer, and several other friends. Mr. Lewis goes from here to Birmingham and will end his trip at the home of his parents in Louisville, Ky. MR. J. B. WINSTON. Who Recently Returned from Gallatin, Tenn., Visiting His Mother. Mr. Winston attended a meeting of the Legal Rights Club January 12 and at the request of his friends he addressed them. In a short address he said: "We want justice. It may not be much, but we want it. If we cannot get it without friction, we want it with fric- Speaker J. B. Winston. tion. If we cannot have it through organization, we will have it through combination. We refuse to be pushed into the gallery any longer, and demand to be placed on the main floor. That man in the gallery says 'Down with justice,' I say 'Up with justice, and down with the gallery.' Things will then appear in their true light, and perfect harmony will prevail. As long as we remain split up the world will be on top of us. Give us what we deserve and all will be well; and in the future, as in the past, there will always be fine openings for men of good standing." The hundreds prescat loudly applauded his short but pointed remarks. 'THEY CAN'T KEEP THE NEGRO DOWN Colored Race Has One Billion Dollars in Real Race in the United States. It probably will startle the world when it realizes that the race has acquired over one billion dollars in real estate in the United States. The colored people of Chicago now own over $5,000,000 worth of property. A prominent real estate firm offers an exceptional opportunity to secure a home on the easy payment plan. See Fredk H: Bartlett & Co.'s ad on the last page of this issue. DR. DANIEL H. WILLIAMS MAKES ANNUAL NASHVILLE VISIT Dr. Daniel H. Williams will leave the city Sunday for Nashville, Tenn., where he will give his annual clinics at Mehairi Medical School and Hospital, with which he is connected. The doctor will be the guest of Dr. F. A. Stewart while in Nashville, and will return home Sunday morning, February 8. MR. FRANK H. HARVEY This well-known head waiter now has charge of the dining room of the Great Southern Hotel, Gulfport, Miss. He opened up there on January 1 with a select crew of twenty-five men. Advices from there bring word that he Head Waiter F. H. Harvey. has already won the high regard of both management and guests by his courtesy and the thorough knowledge he has of his business. Gulfport and its people are spoken of in the highest terms by all of the waiters. Jack Johnson Still Occupies Center of Chicago St? Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Renfroe of 4203 St. Lawrence avenue entertained some friends at progressive whist Monday, Jan. 26. Mrs. Fred Henderson scored the highest number of points, Mrs. P. N. King the second and Mrs. Renfroe kept at home the "booby." Those present were: Mrs. Mayme Lewis of Cincinnati, Mr. and Combs, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. P. N. King, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Pickens and Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Henderson. Mrs. Renfroe proved herself to be quite a delicatessen and culinary artist, for the luncheon was delightful—"so different." NASHVILLE BARS LEOPARD'S SPOTS Negro Board of Trade Protests to Mayor and He Prohibits Thomas Dixon's Vile Play—Dr. U. S. Daily Operates at Hubbard Hospital. By D. Wellington Berry. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 30—Thomas Dixon's misrepresentation of the Negro, called "The Leopard's Spots," was prohibited from showing at the leading white theater in Nashville through the protests registered with the mayor and board of city commissioners by the local Negro citizenship. The result of the order came by reason of the influence wielded here by the Nashville Negro Board of Trade, which acted in this case in behalf of the race, and the show was prohibited from putting on its exhibition just one hour before time for the curtain to rise for the initial performance. In the absence of President J. C. Napier, who has just been elected to that position, First Vice-President T. Clay Moore took the initiative, and with Dr. H. T. Noel, a professor at Mehairy Medical College, the citizens were called in a brief conference and it was decided that the several schools should join th' citizens in asking that the Board of Trade use its influence to have the ban put on the show. A. N. Johnson was selected by the board of trade committee to make the address before the authorities, and an audience was sought, which is usually always given to representatives of the board of trade. The arguments were put before the commission in a straightforward manner by Mr. Johnson, and at the close of his speech the theater manager was sent for and informed that the show would not be allowed. Dr. U. G. Daily of Chicago gave a splendid exhibition of his great skill in wielding the surgeon's knife at Hubbard Hospital here during the past week, having stopped over in Nashville as the guest of Dr. J. H. Hale, professor of clinical medicine at Meharry Medical College, and of Dr. Josie E. Wells, superintendent of the Hubbard Hospital. Dr. Daily operated on the days on which Dr. Hale held his clinics, and, all told, performed fourteen very difficult operations, all of the cases being highly successful and with no deaths having occurred up to the present. On the other hand, every patient seemingly is on the complete road to recovery. The operations were witnessed by several of the local surgeon, including Dr. F. A. Stewart, Dr. C. V. Roman and others, who have since spoken in highest terms of the skill and technique displayed by Chicago's young operator. FRATERNAL ORDER GETS CLEAN BILL Holly Springs, Miss., Jan. 30.—The Woodman of Union, a fraternal insurance society of which L. J. Winston is supreme president and W. N. Cox is supreme treasurer, according to the state insurance commissioner's last published statement, has 6,874 policies in force, amounting to $1,952,020. The society has paid out in beneficiaries in endowment alone $121,361.05. The order is but nine years old. Indianola, Miss., Jan. 30.—The last statement issued by the Beneficial Life Insurance Company, of which Dr. W. A. Attaway is president, shows that it is in a most flourishing condition. Mrs. "Sol" A. Lewinsohn, Wife of Fleeing Private Bank fessional Bondman, Makes Startling Disclosures band's Business Methods—Says That Certain Aided "the World's Champion" in His Flight Insinuates That Large Sums of Money Cha Charges and Counter Charges Fly, Thick and Fai Are Uneasy. U. S. GRGAND JURY INVESTIGATES—DAILY NE PAPERS VINDICATE THE CHICAGO DEI Statements Show That Jack Johnson Was Scapegoat for and Business Men—The Chicago Defender Was the Only to Stick Up for the Champion, and Its Contention Thi More Sinned Against Than Sinning" Was Hooted At by Aspirants for His Title Had Better Be Careful, as He Knock Out Every Fighter from the U. S. A. Jack Johnson, world's champion heavyweight pugilist, now a resident of Paris, France, still fills the boards here. Chicago has always been a stage, with the champion as the leading actor; but the star now radiates from a distance. "Sol" Lewinsohn, private banker, at Thirty-first street and Michigan avenue, and professional bondman of city-wide fame, who got into financial difficulties and fled to parts unknown, is the cause. Mr. Lewinsohn left many creditors behind, and a hunt for him by dete- former officials feel not over Mrs. Lewinsohn's Jack Johnson Happy Meanwhile the chamy money and 'enjoying Parce." Serene and his his wife enjoy their nir They both love Chicago ple compensation for her home in the broad-mir pervades the old worl That he was getting of the stick" was lot champion and his fke JACK JOHNSON SMILES. When told that they expected to bring him back to the United > the champion smiled. "Tell them," said he, "that I am a citizen of Fr now." tives and the banking authorities up to date has failed to disclose his hiding place. His secretary is also missing, and important papers cannot be located. Like the Arab, Mr. Lewinsohn, erstwhile man of affairs, folded up his tent and quietly stole away. Mrs. Lewinsohn Tells Tales. In an attempt to straighten out his affairs his wife, Mrs. Rachel Lewinsohn, came into the limelight; also Jack Johnson, as "Sol" Lewinsohn at one time was one of his bondsmen. Lewinsohn's wife made many startling statements about his business methods, and insinuated that certain federal officials aided Jack Johnson in his flight from Chicago. Stories of "joy rides" and expensive suppers, with plenty of champagne, in which these officials, Jack Johnson and Mr. Lewinsohn took part, were told by the deserted wife. Then there was talk of large sums of money changing hands. Charges and counter charges were made in rapid succession, and United States District Attorney James S. Wilkerson took a hand in the matter, resulting in a grand jury investigation. Good Material for Newspapers. The story made excellent material for the daily newspapers. One Chicago newspaper, claiming to have first discovered the matter, prints a page or more about the affair in its every issue. It calls it "a plot to get Jack Johnson," thus vindicating the Chicago Defender, which has always contended that the champion was being made a scapegoat and that he was more sinned against than sinning. The Chicago Defender was the only newspaper in the United States to stand up in the defense of Jack Johnson. Thousands hooted at it, but in the face of the disclosures made and the facts already brought out, the Chicago Defender was right. It is the sensation of the hour. Each day brings forth new developments. What the grand jury will do is a problem that causes many to worry. Indications are probable, but several --- former officials feel now over Mrs. Lewinsohn's Jack Johnson, Happy Meanwhile the champ money and enjoying Parce." Serene and his wife enjoy their no They both love Chicago ple compensation for her home in the broad-mir pervades the old world That he was getting of the stick" was lot champion and his fife took the Chicago public so lo wake up surprises him. He this fact in the cablegrams from published in a great Chicago paper. The same paper says tl is coming back and raises protest. "Gunboat" Smith and othe for the championship title beware if they succeed in tl the ring with him. Know are from the U. S. A. member the unfair treasured there, and land the blow too soon. Jack Johnson Makes Thr (Special Cable to the Chicago fender.) Paris, France, Jan. 29.—Jack Jo son declared that he was too busy discuss the Lewinson tangle in cage; but that the first fighter he met wearing the stars and at as a belt had better look out, s intended punching a hole in esp of the stars. LINCOLN STATE BA IN NEV The Lincoln State now occupies its new and State streets. new building is this south side citizens ple who find in for the transactors. Presid delighte preciate the bar . CITY PEOPLE GAIN WEALTH Race in the New Metropolis of the West Keeps Pace with the Material Advancement of the City $200,000 Invested in Business and Has Real Estate Holdings Valued at $5,500,000. REPRESENTED IN 36 LINES OF BUSINESS Ninety-one School Teachers Through Twelve School Buildings Conserve the educational Desires of the Race, Who Number Thirty Thousand—Banner Business League. Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 30.—This y's fame throughout the self-satisfy East rests upon its stock yards, battalors and its beef barons, and so city in the world—not even can boast of so beautiful and ve a system of boulevards or andsome residences, many of fin de siecle palaces that the homes of New York mili which line Riverside Drive. d people throughout the just as faint a concepcbidge of the bustle and their brothers here in very best evidence of race loyalty and to this city, whose very large per cent meat. There is an among colored men seen, and an evilness thrift unsurpassed And withal there are cultivation the equal of thatcial-famed Washington or "hub of the universe," hirty-six Lines of Business. thousand dollars in our men and women inprises, and $5,500,000 of possession of the race mattering of the progress race in this new metropolis. Thirty-two churches or to the spiritual needs ninety-one colored school high twelve school build the educational desires and thirty physicians, eight lawyers and six with the ministers and school teachers for a proce the equal of the same here or elsewhere. represented—actively thirty-six lines of business, and in every line recorded, and the race assures continuation. In my visit here I pressed with the unusual and confidence in theirceed against any odds and fairly envelopes the one reason assigned—very potent one, too—for the useful progress of the race in business is that this is the home of a banner local Negro Business que in the country, and that it for president Fortune J. Weaver, of the most active, tireless worken I have met. aver "The Live Wire." sas City he is dubbed "The e." As indicating the activ- local league here it may be although heretofore laying largest local membership since November last sev- members have been sas City Sun, under ment of Editor Nelson itates another very to progress here. here have been be- atulated with business, and number of them are engaged in business. Kansas City is of two of the best drug stores country, the one owned by E. and that owned by McCampbell uston. She also acts of one state company, the Afro-Ameri- investment Company, which F. Faver is president and director. altis the greatest promoter in G.A. W. Harris and John H. Her thirty physicians, all are ollentele, are among the in the city, and like be said of her dentists; attorneys measure fully up est, white attorneys and the same treatment at of the courts and the bar (their high standing as at- or Bowser Ardent Race Lover one of the delightful and interesting racters in Kansas City is Professor J. Bowser. Although retired from the participation in the real bus- life of the boulevard city, he is such interested as ever in the ess of his race. He has the his- the city and the history of the ment of his race here at his end, and if you can catch him lying a respite from clipping or adding up his rent roll you withJoinhiscences development from a Santa etropolis, and the part played in its develop- schools are in a very and are doing supervision of teachers, and t across T. Keel- ated in News of the Churches NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH. Regular services were held Sunday. Rev. J. Connors preached throughout the day, owing to the illness of Rev. Mary Jones. Sunday school held its regular services. Wednesday evening, preaching, as usuel. Friday evening, praise service. Every Sunday is our rally day. Rev. Mary Jones, who has been assisting Rev. J. Connors, pastor of New Hope, with his meetings every Sunday, has been troubled with her throat, but is better and expects to leave for conference Wednesday night, which meets in Terre Haute, Ind. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. Services, 10:45 a. m., 3 p. m., 7:45 p. m. Sunday school, 1:30 p. m.; F. W. White, superintendent. Christian Endevor, 6:45 p. m.; Mrs. Tracy Willis, president. The deaconess will render a program in the afternoon. Hon. George W. Ellis, ex-secretary U. S. legation to Liberia, will speak. The choir will render special music morning and afternoon. At the evening service the Sunday school choir will assist with the singing. General class, February 6. Quarterly meeting, February S. Revival meetings are going on at the church. HYDE RARK A. M. E. CHURCH. Services, 11 a. m. and 12:51 p. m. Sunday school at 3 p. m. Rally day, February 15. The Logos Club had an interesting program, though Mr. Marshall, the speaker of the evening, was indisposed and could not attend. Authors' quotations were grand, every member responding. As Mrs. A. J. Lee, the club's historian, is very ill, clippings were read by the president. Mr. Lacy spoke of the "Thrift in the Southland"; Mr. Parker, "Mistakes of the Black Belt"; Mr. Golden Brooks, "The Lack of Clannish Tendencies of Hyde Park, Colored People as Cause of Conditions." Little Miss Myree Brooks, piano solo; Mrs. Hankins presided at the piano. Next Tuesday evening Mr. Falkner of essay fame will be the speaker. L. W. Washington, president. ST. LUKE M. E. CHURCH. The church is steadily gaining friends and members. A large number of visitors were present at the morning service. The attendance at the evening service was equally as large. Our good pastor continues to deliver good, wholesome sermons at every service. The membership has learned to love this good shepherd and the work he has so well established. With the hearty co-operation of pastor and congregation great things can be done. You are cordially invited to visit St. Luke and note her progress for the first year and her influence upon the community. Come and aid us in this light for a better community. The superintendent of our Sunday school is building a strong organization upon which the church will in the future rest. He needs to be complimented and encouraged for such good work. A very pleasant time was spent at the social given by the Ladies' Aid. The "broken-heart" social was well planned and supported by the membership of both Aid and church. Be sure and hear Dr. Rowe, head of city missions in Chicago, deliver his message on next Sunday morning. Morning service promptly at 10:45, and evening service at 8 o'clock. Come early and enjoy the entire service. THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. Governor Edward F. Dunne will speak at the Institutional Church Sunday evening, February 8, at 8 o'clock. Last Sabbath was truly a great day with us. Dr. Cook preached an excellent sermon in the morning, and six persons united with the church, namely, Rev. E. J. Whith and his son, Melton; Mrs. M. L. Benson, Mrs. M. Plowden, Mrs. Emma Young and Mrs. Bessie Payne. In the afternoon Dr. T. L. Scott preached to the largest congregation that had ever gathered in the Institutional Church for a quarterly communion service. The visiting ministers present were Rev. T. Reeves, James Higgins, R. E. Wilson, W. H. Griffin, J. W. Robinson, J. C. Anderson, I. N. Kinney, T. A. Smythe, and others. QUINN CHAPEL. The Quinn Chapel was filled Sunday. After the scriptural reading by the pastor and singing by choir No. 1 the evangelist, Dr. Howard, was introduced. He spoke fervently. His discourse was instantly recognized by all. After a fervent appeal many joined the church. The church took the opportunity of attending the Sunday School, which caused an overflow. Dr. Howard also spoke in the evening to another large audience. Music by choir No. 2. Many also joined. There was the usual stream of depositors to the "Lord's Bank." During the week Dr. Howard has been holding a successful revival. Large crowds nightly. The two church choirs take part on Wednesday nights. On other nights music by the gospel choirs. Quarterly meeting in the afternoon. All departments in fine working order. Remember the "Lord's Bank." GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The young people's meeting will be held at 7 p. m. to which all are invited. A special feature will be a praise service for the benefit of the recent converts to which they are especially invited. The revival services will be continued at a quarter to 8 o'clock. The Rev. Duncan C. Millner will preach. There will no doubt be a splendid service. The pastor will preach in the morning at 10:45, and his subject will be "The Prodigal Son." The revival which is being held is very successful in every respect thus far. Great interest is being manifest- ed in the meetings by both members and friends who swell the attendance each evening and fifteen conversions were the result of the first three days alone. Mr. Sisson, who spoke Sunday and Monday evening, was such a powerful speaker that it was hard for anyone to resist his appeal especially when accompanied by such a singer as Mr. Bergstrom. The choir is under the direction of Mr. Tinsley assisted by Mr. Pierce. Mr. Harry Jackson is acting organist. The meetings will continue another week. Mr. Sisson also spoke at the Sunday school Sunday afternoon with the result that several young people were brought to Christ. HEART-TO-HEART ON A VERY PLAIN MATTER Mr. Abbott's Wonderful Memory and How Many of His Friends Surprised Him. The new year is still young but sufficient time has passed for those subscribers who promised Mr. Abbott in various stages of the year 1913 to mail or bring in their subscriptions. No doubt they will be surprised to know that he remembered those promises and is greatly surprised when those promises are not fulfilled. Now you say 'that you enjoy reading The Chicago Defender—then why not pay for it?' A friendly spirit has kept you on our mailing list—but with the progress of the year that has weakened. The printer and others to whom we become indebted in getting out the paper refuse to accept that "friendly spirit" in payment of their bills. This little heart-to-heart talk is to tell you that unless you pay your subscription you will not receive the paper any longer. THE SICK LIST Mrs. S. L. Ward, 2958 State street, still continues ill, only a slight improvement being reported early this week. Mrs. Mamie Sloan, 5009 Dearborn street, is recovering slowly from a three weeks' illness. Mrs. B. F. Burns of 5540 Calumet avenue, who has been very ill for ten days is much better now. Miss Marie Lewis of 1349 West 61st street, is still very ill. Mrs. Morgan of 6012 Ada street is reported Ill. Mrs. Maud Ivy of 6237 Ada street is better. Little Helen Bowman of 6033 Loo mis street, who has been very sick, is able to be up. Mrs. Wheeler of 6334 Morgan street is reported on the sick list. Mrs. Carr of 6034 Ada street is reported on the sick list. Rev. Jefferson, pastor of Hope Pres byterian Church, is reported sick. Miss Arnetta Turner of 6012 Aberdeen street is better after a severe illness. Mrs. Conly of 5940 Aberdeen street remains ill. Mrs. Cralghead of 6236 Throop street remains ill. Deconcess Elizabeth Saunders of Institutional Church remains quite ill She is very grateful to her many friends for the attention paid her. Mrs. Maybella has been very ill but is now much improved. Mrs. Mary O. Gales of 3656 State street, Mrs. Frank De Vollin, 22 East 38th street, Mrs. Martha Lane of 1350 Michigan avenue, Mrs. Lilburn Jackson of 3556 Forest avenue and Mrs. William Blackstone of 3560 Forest avenue are all reported ill. Miss Daisy Jones has been ill for three weeks, but is now much improved. She is very grateful to her many friends for attention shown her. Mrs. M. Woods remains ill at the County hospital. She has been confined to her bed of illness for almost four months. Master Hubert McCoy of 3917 Langley avenue is improving nicely. Mr. Charles A. Wallace, 6226 Green street, is indisposed with his back and his doctor has ordered him to remain in the house for a week or ten days. Mr. Wallace is a train porter in the service of the Grand Trunk Ry. Co. to Port Huron, Mich. CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henderson Entertain Many Friends Friday Night. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henderson, of 4544 St. Lawrence avenue, entertained Friday evening, January 23, in commemoration of the eight anniversary of their marriage. Dancing was indulged in until the stroke of one; then a very delightful luncheon was served. Mrs. Henderson was charmingly gowned in a pink charmeuse with Battenburg and hand-made two-toned pink rosebud trimmings. Among their invited guests present were Messdames Perry Brooks, Steve Pickens, Benj Donegan, F. E. Clinkscale, Samuel Hudson, Joseph Haddox, Montrose Ferguson, P. N. King, S. A. Morrison, W. C. Casey, T. Cowan, E. E. Renfree, Samuel Fry and S. Delaney; Messrs. Ben Donegan, Mont Ferguson, Pete King, Sol Morrison, Sam Hudson, Forest Clinkscale, Gene Renfree, Steve Pickens, Sam Fry, W. C. Casey, Joe Haddox, Paul Williams and Perry Brocks. Miss Marlon Lee was at the piano and, of course, the music was greatly enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson received quite a number of pretty, handsome and useful presents. INVESTORS AND HOME HUNTERS Come to 632 Bowen avenue (41st place), Sunday, from 2 to 4 p. m., and see one of the best two-flat buildings for sale on the south side. Small payment down and balance like rent will buy you a home, or earn from 10 to 15 per cent on your money. One Use for Them "Did you know," remarked a Springfield lady to her Boston friend, "that we have several thousand Poles in the Connecticut valley?" "How nice to grow beans on!" replied the lady from Boston—Exchange. Mrs. De Vote No Longer Attempts to Make Her Family Eat Hygienically. "I did not see you at the domestic science lecture yesterday," said Mrs. Twinkler. "No," answered Mrs. De Vote. "There is no use in my studying domestic science." "Why not? They tell you just what foods are to be fed to children to make them grow in a healthful manner and develop properly." "My children don't want to hear about foods that are good for them. Neither does my husband. I don't dare tell them that a certain food is good for them. They will never touch it if I do. They think it in the medicine class. "I used to feed them rice. Rice, as I learned when I attended the lectures, is rich in protein, and the body requires a certain amount of protein." "I explained it all to my husband and the boys and that settled the rice question forever. They said they didn't care for drugs with their meals. They said they ate for the fun of the thing; not for their health. "They made all sorts of fun of me. Mr. De Vote would say: 'Have some proteids, boys', and the boys would respond, 'Sidetrack 'em, dad.' "It was the same with albuminous foods. They wouldn't eat eggs. They said they didn't care for albumen. I quit just in time or they would have abandoned their cereal in the morning. "Some people want to be ill, anyway. It would be a deprivation to them not to be ill. Suppose old Uncle Witterkop should cure himself of all his ailments by eating proper foods. What a lot of good fun he would miss!" "Uncle Witterkop likes to take medicine. He can have more fun with such symptoms as he can extract than he can with a Japanese puzzle or a chemican experiment. It is science, philosophy and mental exercise to him to find out his symptoms. They are his companions morning, noon and night. "When he discovers a new symptom he feels that life is worth living. He hurries to the medicine chest with an elastic step. He is anxious to see what his favorite remedy will do to that new symptom. If the remedy wins he smiles with delight. If the symptom wins he rubs his hands. It is a splendid game. "It would be a shame to feed Uncle Witterkop properly and thus deprive him of all that sport. "So I have decided to drop the lectures and let things take their course." Lean Men. A prominent Methodist bishop is quoted as having warned the people of a certain congregation against putting their trust in lean men. The lean man, he says, "takes himself too seriously, is inclined to be hypercritical and to regard himself self-appointed inspector of the universe." The good bishop draws conclusions too sweepingly. There are lean men and lean men, some lean, perhaps, through meanness, others through heredity or chronic illness. We protest against the generalization that because a man's walstine is scant his character is warped. The old dictum that "nobody loves a fat man" should not be reversed so abruptly, as if there was nothing to be said on the other side. Girth, like a bald head, is but a poor index of what is in the heart. One greatly fears that the bishop is a pout gentleman who falls into the quite natural error of believing that some necessary relationship exists between his own physical proportions and his own undoubted qualities of grace. It has always been hard for a crosssexed man to understand that any beauty or virtue attached to eyes that were straight. Japanese Superstition If a guest leaves a Japanese, hotel without paying his bill to broom is dressed up, his name is attached to it, and it is inverted as a sign of disrespect. W. L. Hildburgh said, in a lecture on Japanese popular magic before the Japan society, a London correspondent of the New York Sun writes. Complaint, he added, is then made to the figure, and it is ordered to bring the money next day. Farmers heat beans to find out what the weather is going to be, and sacrifice a black horse if they want rain. Paper amulets are used during thunderstorms and shopkeepers at the end of each year conduct demon dispelling ceremonies. To avoid litigation the person who fears it bathes in the twilight on the fourth day of the fourth month. In villages wells are covered over during eclipses of the moon, as the people believe that poison drops from the sky at that time. Billiards Extraordinary. Harris Merton Lyon, the author, has a number of gross and earthy friends. He says that the other day two of them began to play billards. As drouth overtook them they took the necessary steps. Toward evening one of them closed one eye and looked at the clock. Then he left telephone his wife. The other remained stolidly to pursue the balls about the table. After 15 minutes the first returned. "How—hic—many you made?" he asked. "Ain' made none," said the other, dreadly. "What?" demanded the first friend. "You been shootin' all this time and ain' made none?" "Yesh," said the other, with some irritation. "I ain' made none. An' lemee tell you, I been shootin' for you, too and you ain' made none either!" On London. Tourist (in London)—"It certainly took a bunch of bobbies to arrest that slik-hatted guy! What did he do?" Cabby—"Wy, that bleedin' bither hain't pinched. 'E's a national statesman gin' to luncheon—Judge Good Advice. An editor, in reply to a young writer who wished to know which magazine would give him the highest position quickest, advised "a powder magazine, especially if you contribute a flery article." FIRST MORTGAGE GOLD BONDS Plus EXPERIENCED SERVICE Equals PERFECT SECURITY We own and offer, subject to prior sale, the following First Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bonds, secured by Chicago income producing property: $20,000.00 Secured by the STATE STREET THEATER building offices, 4 scores, and theater holding 800 seats. Location—3505-7-9-11 S. State St. These bonds mature at the rate of $400.00 each and every month with interest at 6%, and dated from Sept. 17, 1915. Bonds are the direct obligation of Mr. Frank H. Salkin, owner of this building and other valuable Chicago real estate. Title Guarantee Policy by the Chicago Title & Trust Co. LINCOLN STATE BANK OF CHICAGO (Under State Government Supervision) Phone Douglas 986. 6 EAST 31st ST., Corr. State Write or call for our complete list of HIGH CLASS BONDS AND MORTGAGES netting 5%, 5½% and 6%. KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL. The Week in Frankfort—What the People Are Doing and Where They Go. By Hardin Tolbert. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 30—Mr. Otta W. Steele, former manager of the mechanical department of the Lexington Weekly News, spent a few hours in the city, the guest of Miss Louise Reid, at her beautiful home in Normal Heights. Miss Reid is a dignified member of the senior class of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute. Professor William H. Mayo, editor of the Masonic Herald, grand secretary of the Masons, after the state board meeting said they have $7,000 in the treasury. Professor Robert Harrold, electrician at the State Normal, presented a moving picture exhibit in Hume Hall which was a success. These pictures are educational and are for the highest development of the institution. Mr. Richard B. Harrison, one of the most noted Negro dramatic readers on the American stage, will appear at the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute March 10. Many of the most fascinating selections in literature will be the substance of the program. You should not miss this rare literary treat of hearing Mr. Harrison. Professor C. Ecles Payne, a graduate of voice culture at the Indiana School of Art, will give a musical recital at the Versailles public school under the auspices of the faculty and student body. Mrs. Mattie Woolridge was the hostess of the First Baptist Church Club at her cosy residence on Wilkerson street. The table was beautifully decorated by Miss Selena F. Mayo, directress of domestic science at the Clinton street high school. Covers were laid for Mrs. H. E. Boyd, Miss Martha Williams, Lizzie Brooks, M. Norman, Caroline McCann, Cyntha Graham, Catherine Brown, Mrs. Wakefield, Mary Russell, Sarrah Underwood, Mary Hocker and Mayne Combs. A six-course menu was served and the evening enjoyed discussing the betterment of the youth. The next meeting will be at Miss Clara Coleman's on the south side. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Blackburn and family extend many thanks to those who were so kind to them during the illness of their daughter, even until the very last day, as she passed into another world. Mrs. Mary I. Webster is able to be up after a few days' illness. The Berlin Whist Club, which is composed of a large number of young men, who give a first-class dance at the Academy twice a month. The hall was beautifully decorated. Lace curtains adorned the entrance to the entrance to the famous Redman's orchestra that furnished the music. Mr. William Collins served the grape juice punch. Lawyer H. W. Bones of Middlesburg is a guest of the city on business. Mrs. Maggie Farmer of Chicago is the guest of her brother and sister, Mr. Ed Miller and Mrs. B. F. Sayer. Smith Saxaphone Orchestra of Versailles was given a mid-winter party at the residence of Mr. J. B. Harris, the well-known dancing master. This marked one of the gayest social stunts of the mid-winter. Smith Orchestra is well known in central Keukenj A grand military and plain dress ball was given at the Capital City Dancing Academy Wednesday which was a success. The entertainers were Messrs. Joe Bean, William Castleman, Joe Williams, Howard Dickerson, Charles Farrell, Fred Allen, Mr. Mutt and Mote Nelson, committee of arrangements; Allen Warren, president; "Kid" Johnson, vice-president. Music was, furnished by the Mecca Band. Messrs. L. H. Smith and S. D. Henry were employed as floor managers. The Student Bulletin staff of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, Mr. William D. Brooks, editor in chief; Miss Elizabeth McClaskey, assistant editor; Mr. John Holder, circulation manager; Mr. John Lyle of Lexington, industrial reporter; Pruit O. Sweeney, athletic reporter; Miss Livinia D. Broadush of Louisville, reporter of the women industries; Mr. Clark A. Alexander of Orangeburg for the Y. M. C. A.; Mr. Ellsworth O. Coleman Mrs. Annie Plesent, one of Frankfurt's oldest pioneer citizens, died at her home on Holm street. She was a Christian woman. The funeral will be held at the First Baptist Church. Professor Hubert Plesent of the Lawrenceburg public school was a guest of the city, accompanied by a friend. Your correspondent will spend Monday in Lexington on business. FIRST MORE Plus EXPERIENCE We own and offer, subject to prior sale producing property: $2 CLEARING SALE AT The 35th Street Bargain Store 3534 South State Street All Winter Goods at Half Price Don't Walt, Come and See Our New Store-Colored Clerks Are Employed. F. RUTTENBERG, Prop. Milk, Cream, Stationery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying GMe. We give 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. Phone Douglas 5628 Hotel Pullman 3639. 3641, 3643 S. State St. Finest and largest colored hotel in America. First-class accommodations for married and single people. Everything new and up-to-date. Rooms, by day, 50c, 75c and $1.00; By Week, $2.50 and up. J. A. JONES, Prop. Use Prescription 100 The best known remedy for all affections of the urinary passage, kidney and bladder troubles. This Valuable Tonic Is for Sale at LaBastide's Drug Store 3702 S. State Street Telephones | Douglas 616 & 617 Automatic 71-874 Douglas 9458 Ida M. Dempcy Stenographer and Typist Instruction at Reasonable Rates 3716 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. - CHICAGO I To start in Hair Pomade and Hair Goods business. Musthave wide acquaintance. No capital needed. Must live out of Chicago. R. McClain 50 West 35th Street CHICAGO, ILL. M. B. BLACKWELL & GREEN UNDERTAKERS Phone - Normal 7932 Calls promptly answered. Chapel in connection. All work guaranteed. Our prices the lowest. 1210 W.63rd St., CHICAGO OLD BONDS PECT SECURITY m. v. i. GUESS WHO? The Englewood dudes who think they have got him better change suits once in a while. D. W. and C. hold him with those most keen ladies. C. W. M. B. and B. M. must be so popular they try to be so popular better try again. Remember, still water runs deep. Englewood dull, E. C., who is crazy with Englewood dull, E. C., who has just put on long pants "Think they are keen, but were pushed out of society" Fall, fall, fall, grub, old hill. Are going to look too chasy for any one? No, I'm not. I just want to Charge and G. J., better known as the Charge and G. J. The Englewood doll is who holds them with the dude, E. H. J., L. M. is the doll. The faking doll is who calls herself the dude. The impatient doll is the impatient, the impatient, who is also her best Deaths of the Week D Berg, John 3 mos.; 2025 Walnut street; Berg, Jan 22. Berg, Jessus, 29 yrs.; address unknown; Banks, Jan 14. Banks, James, 1 mo.; 2021 Dearborn; Banks, Jan 19. Banks, Julie, 41 yrs.; 101 W. 47th street; Banks, Jan 22. Banks, Pleasant, 40 yrs.; 1830 Federal Criep, James, 28 yrs.; 2987 Wentworth avenue; Jan. 10. Sturgess, Caille, 28 yrs.; 2856 Dearborn Florence, Laude, 1 yr.; 760 Boston avenue; Jan. 24. Woodburn, Jan. Cherton, 65 yrs.; 1509 E. 109th street; Jan. 26. Hurt, St. Elmo, 40 yrs.; 322 State street; Johnson, Sarah E., 11 mos.; 5127 Federal street; Jan. 27. Q OF MRS. LOTTIE WILSON MOSS Ves Another Beautiful Character from the Scene of Activity. Ms. Lottie Wilson Moss of Niles, who died Thursday, Jan. 22, at a short illness, was one of the at known women of the race and of the leading artists of this county, and in all instances her work was verably mentioned by the severest critics. Her paintings of Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln in the White House, Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass were among her best works. The surprising yet beautiful side of this highly accomplished woman's life was, after having spent several years, or the better part of her life, in the social whirl in Washington, D. C., and having the refined accomplishments of an artist, she could content herself on a quiet little farm in a remote part of Michigan, known as the "Mossdale Farm." She was of an unusual happy temperament, consequently she was happy in her surroundings. She was loved by all who knew her, and her happiest moments were when she was doing something for some one else. Her father, Calvin Wilson, was a pioneer of Niles, Mich. She leaves a devoted husband and a host of friends to nurse her death. The interment was at Niles. Mrs. Moss leaves a valuable and unique collection of miscellaneous paintings. REV. T. L. SCOTT HAS NO RIGHT TO PREACH IN CHICAGO. Troubles of St. Paul C. M. E. Church Explained in Signed Statement of Oscar B. Payne, Secretary of the Trustee Board. On account of different rumors that seem to be so widely circulated concerning our church and colored Methodism in Chicago, and to avoid the continued annoyance which comes from so many by the way of asking whether or not Rev. T. L. Scott, the former pastor of St. Paul C. M. E. Church, 4644 Dearborn street, is still working under the auspices of the C. M. E. Church, I, as secretary of the Board of Trustees of the church, have been authorized by the presiding elder of St. Louis and Illinois District, Dr. J. M. Rivers, and the Board of Trustees, who were authorized by Bishop Isaac Lane, in whose diocese Rev. Scott would be compelled to work should he be permitted to work under the auspices of the C. M. E. Church in Chicago, to inform all that wish to know that Rev. T. L. Scott is no longer connected with the C. M. E. FOR RENT the time and fed the goat of the little l, M, L, the L, F, H, S. graduate? The doll is who is trying to make hay down, but L. M. has won, so run down, L. M. The 62d and Ada street doll, L. M., is, who says she should worry if W. D. is out of the city when her brown, E. H., is busy. The Centre avenue doll is who is crazy about E. H., but no use, your goose is busy. The H. P. H. S. dude, G. T., is, now grazing over the loss of K. M., the H. P. H. The H. P. H. S. dude, G. W., is, who doesn't know what doll is wild about him or what doll is beautiful about R. R., a good looking dude, is, who is jealous of G. T. visiting R. E., a H. P. H. S. doll? Church in the state of Illinois. Bishop Lane notified us that he transferred Rev. Scott to the West Virginia Conference under Bishop R. S. Williams, and that he had not given him any authority to come back into his diocese and organize, preach, nor do anything in the name of the C. M. E. Church; and, further, that he will be in no wise considered by him until he and his followers shall have turned over the sum of $200 and some cents which they now hold. Bishop William stationed Rev. Scott in Washington, D. C. We are not able to tell why he did not stay, but we do know he is back in Chicago and we continually hear he is announcing from his pulpit that he is still working under the auspices of the C. M. E. Church. If Rev. Scott or his followers, or anyone, it matters not who it may be, he has made any such statement or statements, I am authorized to publish that the same is not true; and further, that Rev. Scott will not be considered in the diocese until he and his followers shall have turned over the above-mentioned amount to the trustees of St. Paul's C. M. E. Church. Everyone that knows anything about the Methodist church knows that the preachers are subject to changes whenever the bishop deems it necessary to change them, according to the Discipline of the church. I shall say nothing of the oaths that they take before they are taken in full connection. As to the letter of authority that we hear Rev. Scott often refers to, I only ask if (you are interested) that you ask him to produce it, and if it does not bear the signature of Bishop Isaac Lane, I must say, with authority, it is no good, because no other bishop of the C. M. E. connection has any power in this state. OSCAR B. PAYNE Secretary Trustee Board. STILL MOURNING FOR SON Although little Arthur Cole, who was kidnapped on October 21, 1913, has not been found, his mother is satisfied with the efforts put forth to find him by the police and The Chicago Defender. Incidentally it can be A. B. stated that six other youngsters lost since Arthur disappeared have been found through the columns of this paper. Keep your eyes open for this boy, all railroad men and those in other sections of this country. --- MISSED LITTLE "PILE" MISSED LITTLE "PILE" JOKE THAT WAS VERY MUCH ON THE TWO PICKPOCKETS. Fortunate for the Old-Fashioned Woman that They Had Not Thought to Open It for Any Purpose. Granted that a person wishes to do well whatever he sets out to do, no matter what the nature of the undertaking, there must have been two chagrined young men on an Eighth avenue car Wednesday evening, says the New York Times. They rode up at the rush crowd. Drowned onto the rear platform where they stood were several other men and one woman. The woman was old-fashioned enough to wear a dress with a pocket in it. Some time during the trip from Thirty-fourth street to Fifty-ninth one of the men found the pocket and extracted its contents. At the Circle the woman, unaware of her loss, pushed into the car and found a seat. Presently the solenity of the tired crowd was disturbed by a burst of hilarity on the platform. The two young fellows were chaffing each other in boisterous tones. "You're a jay, you are," said one. "Anybody'd think you had spent all your life rolling over plowed ground. What you going to do with it? Keep it? "No," was the reply. "What's the use? It ain't no good." The woman listened inattentively to the loud remarks and wondered, in a listless way, what they had reference to. She nearly collapsed when she found out. At Eighty-sixth street the conductor came through the car holding out a small leather-bound prayer book, which, when folded, might have been easily mistaken for a pocket-book. "This belong to anybody in this car?" he asked. Several passengers appended to shook their heads. Presently he stopped before the woman. "This yours," he asked. Hastily the woman felt in her pocket. "Yes it is," she said. "Where in the world—" "Guess you must have lost it. Some fellows out there picked it up and handed it over to me." The woman turned cold all over. "Give it here, quick," she said. "I want to see—" Words were not required to tell what it was she wanted to see. The pause was filled up eloquently by her actions. Rapidly she turned the leaves till she came to a kind of pocket fastened between the pages at the back. From this she drew two $10 bills. "I declare if I didn't forget all about leaving them in there," she said. "Thank goodness they didn't get lost." The two hoodhooks on the platform eved the bills greedily. "Jay," said one of them, "is no name for us fellows." Self-Criticism A business man who had amassed a comfortable fortune, lost it in speculation. He became a traveling salesman, and having to "work" every hamlet and country store in order to make ends meet, he found himself one night crossing a pasture where a number of mules were grazing. Now it is a well known fact that those animals, particularly after dark, will follow in single file any moving object that attracts their attention. This they proceeded to do, stepping sedately and at regular intervals behind him. When the worried man, immersed in his troubles, looked over his shoulder and saw the sort of procession he was heading, he stopped. Then, although he had only the rising moon to share the spectacle, he said, solemnly: "Right, you are, boys. You know me. I'm the biggest donkey of you all!" "Youth's Companion. Showing George Up. William J. Burns, the detective, was congratulated in Pittsburgh on a successful coup. "My success," said Mr. Burns, "was due to the fact that I went to the right source for my facts. You must always know the right source to go to—then your facts will be valuable. It's like the sister story. "Nobody like a sister, you know, to give you a line on a young man. Thus a girl had just engaged to a fine, handsome chap, and she said to this chap's sister one day: "Next Thursday is George's birthday, and I don't know what to give him. Will you, as his sister, understanding all his tastes as you do, suggest some present for him? "Oh, I hardly know what to suggest, the sister, carelessly; 'but from my knowledge of George, I should say that he'd prefer something that he could pawn easily.'" Mouse Proved a Friend A mouse saved a family from death from the fumes of gas escaping from a fallen chandelier in the dining room of a house in Sheffield, England. The fumes drove the mouse upstairs to a bedroom, where it scampered across the bed and awakened Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Turner, the occupants. Startled, without knowing the cause, they made an investigation of the house, and discovered the escape of gas. They flung open the windows, and then returned to the bedroom, where they found the mouse dead on the pillow. Candles to Fit. To make a candle fit any candle-stick, soften the wax by dipping in hot water. Then push it in the candle-stick; if too small, the candle can be squeezed in; if too large, the soft wax will spread and hold the candle up. Decelvers. There are people who continue to insist that they would rather have their tooth pulled until sit before a camera; but they are generally the ones who are most impatient to see the proofs. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Observance of Day of Rest Undoubtedly Necessary to the Nation's Well Being. All forward looking minds must feel some apprehension for the mental, moral and especially the physical well being of the American people, as they see how the Sabbath is more and more given over to business and pleasure, declares the Universalist Leader. No nation can be strong unless it has a rest day every week; no man or community can be spiritually strong unless he or it sets aside and uses the Sabbath for worship of the unseen spiritual power that made and uphold the universe and its freight of life. Gladstone attributed much of his vigorous health and his long life to the fact that nothing, not even cabinet making, ever prevented him from attending church. The puritan in America gave the enduring moral fiber to our national life. His sabbatarianism was a portion of this night in him; he reverenced God, he mastered earth. A revival of puritanic sabbatarianism would greatly benefit this of ours. Modern civilization would, of course, make the old sabbath quiet, much different than it was in the primitive communities of three generations ago, but we are noisy about many needless things, sports that do not rest, amusements that do not recreate, business that does not yield a permanent profit. Consider the old adage: "The Sabbath is for works of mercy and necessity only." One phase of the puritan life has long appealed to us, the fact that so little cooking was done on Sunday. The Sunday meals were prepared on Saturday. The slave of the cook stove was manumitted on the Sabbath. Could we not imitate that custom and have simpler meals on the Sabbath, thus giving freedom to worship to our modern kitchen bondwoman, whether mother or hired servant? GET SUGAR FROM SAWDUST Chemically Prepared Material Found by Scientists to Be Valuable Food for Animals. In the course of a paper read before the London Royal Society of Arts, A. Zimmerman described a process by which sugar might be manufactured from sawdust. In its natural state, he pointed out, says London TIP-Bits, wood contains no sugar, but when subjected in closed retorts to digestion with a weak sulphurous acid solution under pressure of six to seven atmospheres a very remarkable transmutation takes place, as much as 25 per cent. of the material being converted into sugar. In this Mr. Zimmerman claims that we have a valuable feeding stuff for horses, cattle and sheep. Draft horses in whose daily ration four pounds of "cacchulose-molasses" were substituted for four pounds of oats were kept under observation for seven months and were all found to have increased in weight, while a colt which was in so weak a condition that veterinary surgeons advised its destruction put on 260 pounds in six months and is now in excellent condition. Defectedly twirting his thumbs the clerk sat in the box office of the Frivolity theater. A depressing air of failure hung over the theater, and it looked as though the piece would have to be withdrawn very shortly. Suddenly he perked up as a contrifled man and his wife came in, followed by their three daughters and two sons. "Have you got seven seats in the middle of the second row for tonight?" asked paterfamilias. The box office man made a pretense of examining the plan of seats. "Yes, I find they are vacant, sir," said he, trying to repress his excitement. "Shall I book them for you, sir?" "Er- I think not," said the man from L. country. "If you've got those seats on your hands it seems to me the play can't be up to much! Good morning!" Diagnosis by Electricity. For the benefit of the nervous cases that come to the doctor, it has been asserted by Scripture that it is just as necessary to know how emotional they are as it is to know how high the temperature is in a case of fever. Moreover, in many cases it is necessary to find out what experiences in the past or present life of the patient produce emotions. For this purpose the patient sits at ease with hands on the electrodes, which may be so concealed in the arms of his chair that he is unaware that the most intimate processes of his soul are being registered as various words are spoken or various topics of conversation are discussed, the galvanometer showing when a sensitive subject has been touched.-Fred W. Eastman, in Harper's Magazine. In Wrong Jackson--Bunker has got himsel into a nice fix. Johnson—How? Johnson—He wrote an article on "The Ideal Wife" for a ladies' paper last month. Johnson—Well, what's that to do with his present fix? Jackson—Somebody told his wife about it, and she's been reading the thing over during the past two days, trying to discover a single trait wherein his ideal resembles her. She hasn't found it, and Bunker dines in the city now. Big Bass Drowns Angler Eau Claire, Wis.—A report received from the northern wood is to the effect that Sever Larsen, twenty-three years old, was thrown from his canoe when an innaissance black bogs tugged at his line, and was drowned. Larsen had a dozen big ones on his stringer, but one bigger than all the test traps his back, and in flipping against the kids of the canoe in being lifted are the boys captured the fisherman. In September last year the birth ox was beaten to 25,000. GASSIFIED ADVERTISING FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. NORTH SIDE. NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS. ALL modern, well lighted, bath; near dairy car park. 212 W. Schiller St. Phone Nort. 1477. 31-21 3538 CALUMET AV.-Nicey furnished, light and airy rooms, comfortably ad; conveniences all modern; married couples preferred. Phone Doug. 6420. 31-7 3614 CALUMET AV. 2D FLAT-Modern, all furnished room for one or two guestmen or working lady. Mrs. L. Nelson. 31-7 3717 FOREST AV.-Nicey furnished rooms, all modern conveniences; near car line. Only first-class persons need apply. 31-7 419 E. 33D ST.-Neatly furnished room, comfortably heated; bath, telephone available for gentleman or lady employed. Phone Doug. 3867. 31-7 NICE, LARGE, LIGHT FURNISHED rooms, all modern conveniences. Suit- able for railroad men or working girls. Phone Doug. 627 after 6 p. m. and days. 31-7 4048 INDIANA AV. FLAT 1- An air front room, all modern conveniences; transport room, near elevated cars; before a clock n. or between 3 afternoons. 31-1 3601 FORSTER AV.—Nicely furnished, comfortably heated rooms. Conveni- ences all modern. Phone Doug. 4322. 24-31 3555 CALUMET AV.—One large unfur- nished room and one furnished room, with modern conveniences. Doug. 4156. 24-31 3533 CALUMET AV.—Nicely furnished, light and air rooms. Comfortably heated. Conveniences all modern. Near car line. Phone Doug. 4241. 24-31 3533 LAFAYETTE AV.—Nicely furnished, light and air rooms. Comfortably combined. Comfortably heated. All modern conveniences. Suitable for married couple. Terms reasonable. 24-31 3585 LANGLEY AV.—Nicely furnished, light and air rooms, comfortably hea- ted. All modern conveniences. Terms reasonable. Phone Drexel. 7354. 24-31 3219 LANGLEY AV.—Furnished heat- heated rooms, modern conveniences, kitchen privileges. Phone Doug. 4561. 24-31 $23$ CALUMET AV-Nicely furnished, light and airy rooms. Comfortably fitted with a large TV and a reasonable. Phone Dug. $25. 21-33 111 INDIANA AV. 3D FLAT. Nice In looking for furnished rooms and light housekeeping see Illinois Renting Association. Free information. Apply ILLINOIS RENTING ASSOCIATION 20 East Jackson Blvd. Phone Wabash 1453 M. T. BAILEY BECOMES SECRET TARY OF ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE. During the week a Defender reporter had an interesting talk with M. T. Bailey in his office, 3638 State street, and in talking the fact was revealed that he had become secretary of the Enterprise Institute, located at 3711 State street, of which Rev. G. H. McDaniel is president. From all information it appears that the school is doing a world of good, having turned cut more than 135 graduates, and has in preparation a plan for the erection of a $100,000 building, to be built in this city and to be known as Lincoln-Douglss Memorial Building of Mechanics. More than $14,500 has been pledged, with several representatives on the road daily advocating the principles set forth. No attempt as to collection of the pledges has been made as yet, but in the near future a specific date will be set forth, at which time the matter will be pushed. Rev. J. F. Thomas is loud in praise of the good work which is being done through this institution by Rev. G. H. McDaniel and others connected with it. He states that it is the only medium of its kind in the Middle West meeting with the requirements of our people. FOR SALE-4235 Langley avenue; detached 9-room brick; newly decorated: Small deposit down, balance like rent. See Mr. Madden on the premises Sunday between 3 and 5 p. m., or phone Randolph 3751 any day. KING & HILL PROGRESSIVE FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS PETER H. Highest Class Service Obtainable Templeton Templeton is a service detail to all details make our service unavailable. You are invited to call and familiarize yourself with the services of cancels now on at our show rooms. AUTOMOBILE FUNERALS IF DESIRED 3604 State St. Phone Douglas 3706 OPPORTUNITY AT YOUR DOOR! Why Not Learn to Speak Language Other Than English? Dr. J. Valles announces to the public that his class of French and Spanish is open every night from 7:30 to 8:30 at the Johnson Bldg., 3522 South State street, room 10. The number of pupils is augmenting enormously. Those who are late to become members should lose no time. Auto. phone 76559. TME BELLOW-RENT-BELLOW. 3 - 3739 Vernon Ave, 7 rms, stove h., modern 6 - 6363 St., 6 rms, stove h., modern 7 - 7371 Rhodes Ave, 6 rms, furnace h., modern 9 - 6717 and Evans, 6 rms, stove h., modern 10 - 4479 Bryant Ave, 6 rms, furnace h., modern 2 - 2255 Vernon Ave, 8 rooms, furnace h., modern 5 - 6 rooms on Wabash Ave, steam heat 30.00 TIME. On time or cash down you can buy real real estate, if you consult our lists. We have the best property, including business property, city homes, suburban dwellings, building lots time to buy, and we are the best people to deal with. Talk to us any time about real estate. BARGAIN LIST. 1 - Champlain Ave, near 631 St. 2- dromes, lot 25-2155. 5 and 6 rms, lot 25-2155. Price $2,500 2-Wahabsh Ave, near 4th St. 3-flat, detached, 7-8 s.f. rms, 20x100. Steam heat. Terms. Price ..... 8,500 3-Vincentines Ave, near 4th St. 3-flat, press brick front, strictly maintained, 7-8 rooms. Steam heat. Price ..... 8,500 4-Vernon Ave, near 2nd St. 3-flat, stone front, strictly modern; 4-8 rooms; small payment down. Price ..... 4,000 5-Prairie Ave, near 2nd St. 3-flat, be used as a 2-3th house. Press front, stone front; small payment down. Price ..... 3,500 6-Bryant Ave, near Vincennes Ave, near 3rd St. 3-flat, tuched, 5-5 s.f. rooms, furnace heat. Terms. Price ..... 6,000 7-Porristville Ave, house, hot water heater, 5 s.f. rooms, mahogany and oak trim. Terms. Price ..... 4,750 **ANDERSON & TERRELL** Real Estate Brokers RENTING, LOANS, INSURANCE 3512 South State Street "Home of Real Estate Bargains" Phones: Douglas 206 Auto. 79-864 THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM A BAR In a 2-flat brick, stone trim, new best transportation in the city. Each flat has a separate entrance. The tenant runs his own steam plant, and balance like rent. Call at our office for further par- W. H. BOW Douglas 986 Announcement! Just off the Press. Our new book, "Life Lines of Success," for colored Americans. Nothing like it ever published before. Over 500 pages, 60 beautiful, photogravures. You must read this book. Order today. On request copy will be sent to you for your inspection. (Special to purchasers.) LIFE LINES SUCCESS ROUND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIFE TIME BARGAIN LIST $ 500 CASH 708 E. 43rd Street NEAR LANGLEY AVE. BOURBS: 8 to 10 A. M., 2 to 4 P. M., 6:30 to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment Only. Dr. J. W. McDowell Maternity Specialist OFFICE: 3100 South State Street Phone Douglas 4796 Automatic 75-174 RESIDENCE: 3518 Calumet Avenue Phone Douglas 6386 Automatic 79-176 ONE PRICED DENTISTS High Class Sanitary Onice High Quality Work, Guaranteed 10 Years. Established 1892. Examination Free. GOLD CROWNS. $3 PORCELAIN CROWNS. BRIDGEWORK, Per Tooth. SILVER FILLINGS. Boston Dental Parlors New States Theatre Blog. 3507 SOUTH STATE TREET Open Evenings and Sundays Phone Douglas 4047 9,000 Persons in Chicago are Blind HELLO, THIS IS DREXEL 1461 Just call this number or drop me a residence and thoroughly check your your eyes without extra charges Eye glasses and spectacles made to order, from $2.50 up, guaranteed. Lens with frame and frame locked 360 up. All patients looked after free for 1 year. DR. W. H. BRITT Post Graduate in Optics and cases of the Eye OFFICE 4901 STATE ST OFFICE HOURS 11:00 A.M. 10:00 SUNDAY RGAIN Garfield Blvd: Convenient to us team plant, basement and back ye We will accept a small cash payment bullions. ERS @ CO. EASY TERMS SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914. Our London Office 17 Green Street Sharling Road London, England, W. C. SINCE BABY CAME. igs somehow don't seem the same round our house since baby came. Over thought I'd make a fuss over such a little cuss; Catch myself most all day long humming some old nursery song, aning in my mind's eye, too, when he grows up what he'll do. ry home at close of day, find him with his toys at play. 's just what's for him in store when he sees me at the door. 't bragging, understand, but he's be lost in the land; I had a dozen boys, home's not home without such joys. What a newspaper man knows and what the publishes are two different things. And they told us to vote for the Democratic party and improve our condition. If you really want to do the right thing, go to church tomorrow, the following Sunday and every Sunday thereafter. The anniversary of Lincoln's birthday is close at hand and fitting exercises should be held in our churches to commemorate it. A great many people are just catching up after the strenuous Christmas season. Santa Claus comes high, but we must have him. We must have a representative in the City Council, and we can have it if YOU will do your part and get friends to do likewise. bouquets in win- Chicago's big. The Chicago of the t no- any- ap- nt a- upon their votes and the support tendered our candidate. Now is the time to show race loyalty. Vote early, but not often. In a little town in southern Illinois the students of a business college held a debate on the subject, "Resolved, That the Indians have suffered far greater wrongs at the hands of the government than the Negroes." The affirmatives won the decision. The home town paper said "afterwards they were served ice cream and cake." Rather a light repast for such a heavy subject. Never in the history of Chicago has there been such a widespread movement to gather the stray sheep into the fold as the "Go to Church Feb. 1." Some of the most unique ideas in advertising have sprung to light and it is safe to say not a man, woman or child is there in this big city who does not know they are not only invited but expected at some place of worship on the day set. Don't disappoint them. GO. That the Jewish people are up and doing all the time when it comes to protecting their rights is a well-known fact. Recently a moving picture concern showed a film depicting humorously a Jewish wedding, to which they took exception, and were upheld by the chief of police, who ordered the picture suppressed. Similar action should be taken by the colored people, not only as to moving pictures but on the stage and in our papers and journals. Such things tend to create prejudice. Everybody who knows "Doc" Staples, and everybody seems to know him, knows that he never lets any moss grow under his feet; in other words, he is up and doing every minute of the day and a part of the night. He is connected with the torsional partors of J. H. Holland & Son, 19 West 51st street, and he sells so many Defenders each week it keeps us constantly changing our order book. If we had many more like him we would need a plant as large as that of the Tribune to supply the demand. The South unfortunately is in power for a few more years, during which time doubtless they will legislate themselves to death, especially where the Negro is concerned. They are ignorant enough to believe they must legislate in order to preserve their superiority. It is generally supposed that the weaker and oppressed race should do the worrying, but in this instance the tables are reversed, and they are reversed because right is on the side of the weaker. The papers all over the country are protesting vehemently against the injustices heaped upon the Negro by the bourbon party now in power and their political life at best is nbt very long. We are not asleep, and when the time comes will be heard from; till then we will tend to our own knitting. ELEVATOR MEN ORGANIZE. The young men of our race who are running elevators organized recently an association the object of which is to promote efficiency, to seek for its members positions in business houses and to hold them against other seekers of employment. E. F. Berry was elected president. A number of downtown stores, and office buildings employ colored elevator men, but the unoccupied field is still large and, with an organization such as the one just formed to back applicants for these new places up, there is no question but that in a short time they will practically have a monopoly on that kind of employment. There was a time, not so many years ago, when the colored waiter had control of almost everything in the loop, but gradually they were supplanted by the whites, and all because they grew indifferent, careless and inefficient. Then, too, they lacked organization, there was dissension in their own ranks, petty jealousies sprung up, at times proprietors of hotels and restaurants found it impossible to get a full quota of colored men to manage their dining rooms. The result was as we find it today. The door of opportunity in a great many walks of life was not closed until we closed it ourselves. No man should accept a position unless he intends to give the best that is in him. All work is honorable if it is but made so. Unfortunately we are constantly placed on trial, and when we do get an opening let us make the most of it, not only for ourselves but for the race. SHAW UNIVERSITY STRIKE. Two hundred students of Shaw University struck and refused to attend classes because they declared the rules laid down by Dr. Meresive (white), president, were too rigid. They also want a colored president. The American Baptist Mission Board, which controls and maintains this university, are standing back of Dr. Meresive, and temporarily the warring students have been dispelled. An affair of this sort is more than just a prank of students and on the face of it it would seem a very unwise method of getting rid of an objectionable president. Doubledless and they complained to those in authority higher up they would at least have received some consideration. Students everywhere invariably think they know better how to manage school affairs than do those put in such positions, but as they grow older they grow wiser. Dr. Meresive may or may not be at fault, but under the circumstances he is justified in the stand he has taken. PULLMAN PENSION PLAN. More than 7,000 men employed as porters will be among those entitled to come under the provisions of the new pension plan recently adopted by the Pullman company. Under its conditions employees who reach the age of seventy years and have been twenty years in the service of the company will be pensioned at the rate of 1 per cent for each year of service of the average monthly pay received during the last full year of employment. The lowest pension allowance is fixed at fifteen dollars a month. Employees who have been twenty or more years THE CHICAGO DEFENDER in the service of the company and have been disabled may be retired and pensioned. No man over forty-five years of age will hereafter be hired. This binding together, so to speak, of such a vast number of employees for mutual protection cannot fail to bring about a better feeling between employer and employee and, aside from the financial consideration, better service will be given the travelling public, for each man will feel that he is in a measure part and parcel of the big company. The Pullman company have always been exceptionally nice to their employees and the men in return have given them good service, for in the main they represent the best element in the race. In their ranks can be found college graduates, teachers, professional men, etc. They accept those positions because they must make a living and because in most instances they are barred from positions that they are well fitted to hold—the why is too well known to be recited here. Chicago has furnished the Pullman company many men who have given them faithful service for more than the stipulated twenty years, and to such men and all who follow this new pension plan will prove a great boon. This from one of our daily papers: Negro, Family on Hand. Among the witnesses who appeared before the jury were Mrs. Tiny Johnson, mother of Jack Johnson, convicted Negro pugilist; a brother and sister of the Negro, and Barney Furey, the black pugilist's former trainer. It will be readily seen that the readers are not left in doubt as to the nationality of the interested parties in this particular case. In the same issue is found, "Harold Schneider and John Faith, recently acquitted of the murder of Joseph H. Logue, the McVicker building jeweler, were reindicted yesterday on a charge of robbery and receiving stolen property in connection with the same crime." Strange it wasn't found necessary to mention the nationality of these blots upon society. There can be but one deduction, and it is so apparent it need not be mentioned here. We only mention these things in passing, and while we are here let us say none are so blind as those who will not see. Courtroom vultures is perhaps the best term that could be applied to the creatures who fill about the places where justice is supposed to be administered and prey upon the unfortunate who happen to get into the clutches of the law. They bleed their poor victim to the last cent by telling of their real or pretended ability to change a prospective jail sentence into a fine or on their bond—in either case the result is the same. It is not always the criminal class that is dragged into court and subjected to these indignities. Often a man or woman find themselves explaining to a judge the details of a domestic affair, with a neighbor or an unsatisfactory business transaction. What redress have they? They may be caught at a time when their funds are extremely low. They haven't time to think. Every honest man or woman has a dread of the law and the thoughts of a cell. And it is the knowledge of these facts that makes the vultures so persistent and daring. True, a man has a right to make an honest living, but are these methods honest? Has any man a right to exact the proverbial pound of flesh because it is within his power to do so? Professional bondsmen, shyster lawyers and their ilk should have no place in a big city like Chicago—in fact, they should not be permitted to practice their nefarious trade here or elsewhere. We must have lawyers and at times bondsmen are needed; both should be above reproach. The almighty dollar isn't the only thing worth striving for in the world, and at best those who stoop to the level of vultures can but make a nominal sum, comparatively speaking, while the big fellow, big in every way, gets both wealth and fame. If a man or woman is too poor to hire an attorney the state provides one, and while at times it is felt that justice is not always meted out fairly in the courts, for the most part it is. Keep clear of the law if you can, for if you win you lose. It only requires one visit to the fourteenth annual automobile show now being held at the Coliseum to get the craze. The average purchaser wants a car of low price, yet one that will stand up in all kinds of weather and on all kinds of roads. Not so long ago automobiles were considered a luxury; now they are both a luxury and a necessity, with the strong points in favor of the necessity. As the price of machines decreases so will the use of horses; so also will the dirt and fifth of the streets, and this means much to the health of any community, to say nothing of the humane side of the situation, for who has not seen on the streets of Chicago horses abused because they were unable to perform the work heaped upon them?. And the officers of the humane society are constantly prosecuting heartless drivers. So the automobile is a fixture and its advent has given employment to thousands of skilled workmen, and 'tis said it is yet in its infancy. Bringing the subject to our own door, the newness of "joy riding" has worn off and midnight riding in borrowed cats has become a thing of the past. To a man of limited means we would say, invest your money first in a house and lot, in an automobile afterward. Mr. Editor: Will you kindly give this little notice space in your paper? I wish to publicly express my appreciation for the kindness shown me by Messrs. McCain, Sheechar, Aventor and Sheechar, in raffling off the Winchester rifle and presenting me with the sum of $55.15, together with the tickets that were not sold. I also INCONSISTENT. COURT VULTURES. AUTO-CRAZE. EDITOR'S MAIL want to thank all who purchase tickets—Mrs. Hattie Weller-Perce. Mr. R. S. Abbott, 3159 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sr: I am enclosing you draft for $1.50 for subscription for one year. Like to begin with the issues of Jan. 17 and 24. If you have none of these left begin with the issue Jan. 31. The Defender is so interesting that I do not like to miss a single copy. Thanking you in advance for your trouble, I remain, Very truly yours, (MISS) EVA B. F. BERD. Muskegon, Mich. PROF. J. E. SPINGARN SPEAKS IN CLEVELAND Large Crowds Hear, Speaker—No Discrimination at Orphan Asylum—Successful Charity Ball. By Alexander O. Taylor. By Alexander O. Taylor. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Cleveland, O., January 30—What is conceded by everybody present to be one of the most enthusiastic and beneficial meetings ever held in Cleveland in the interest of the race was that of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People at St. John's A. M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon. Over 500 people were refused admittance, as the church taxed to its almost capacity. Dr. Minot O. Simons, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, corner Euclid avenue and East 82d street, one of the wealthiest and most fashionable white churches in Cleveland, was chairman of the meeting. In his address among many other good things he said he had always entertained the warmest and most kindly feeling towards the colored people; in fact, he knew nothing else. He also spoke of his exceedingly warm feeling for Dr. Booker T. Washington, having dined with him more than once. He introduced Prof. Joel E. Spingarn, president of the New York branch of the association, who delivered a most able address on "The New Abolitionism." Brief addresses were made by Common Pleas Judge T. M. Kennedy and Probate Judge Alexander Hadden. Both were heartily received. Rev. H. C. Bailey. Hon. John P. Green and other able speakers of the race made impressive addresses. At the close of the meeting hundreds went forward and threw dollars upon the tables as if pennies subscribing for the great cause. The following permanent officers were elected for the Cleveland branch: R. K. Moon, president; Francis E. Young, secretary; C. F. Hunnicott, treasurer; C. H. Leatherman, chairman of executive board; Rev. C. H. Young, chairman of Publicity Committee. Reports of a movement to segregate colored and white children at the Cleveland Orphan Asylum on East 126th street caused a committee to be appointed from the various churches and clubs of the city to wait upon Mr. T. C. Wellsted, trustee of the home and assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and enter protest. Mr. Wellsted assured the committee nothing in the form of race discrimination would be tolerated in the home. The committee was composed of Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of the Gazette; Rev. H. C. Balley, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, representing the Ministers' Alliance; Mrs. Blanch Glmere, president of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Hattie Fairlax, president of Mt. Zion Congregational Missionary Society. Cleveland and Association of Colored Men gave its fifth annual charity ball Monday evening in the assembly hall of the Chamber of Commerce. It was indeed the most brilliant affair of the kind ever given among Cleveland's people, over 300 people, being in attendance. The hall was tastefully decorated in palms and American flags and the ladies presented a most beautiful aspect in their costly gowns. Mr. and Mrs. William Hunley and Mr. Theodore Green and Miss Ruth Baxter of Erie, Pa., led the grand march. The committee having charge of the affair was: William H. Hunley, chairman; J. Walter Wills, Harry E. Davis, Theodore Green, G. A. Morgan, C. H. Leatherman, T. W. Flemming and Robert B. Hodges. It is said that the Home for Aged Colored People will be the sole beneficiary. SPANISH WAR VETERANS Point Installation John R. Tanner Camp 11 and Ladies' Auxiliary 16, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Illinois. On January 19 at Jackson hall a joint installation of John R. Tanner Camp 11 and Ladies' Auxiliary 16 of United States Spanish War Veterans, Department of Illinois, was held. The officers installed of the John R. Tanner Camp were: Commander, Joseph S. Shreves; senior vice com- mander, Wm. C. Mitchell; junior vice commander, Gw. H. Smith; officer of commander, Gw. H. Peterson; officer of the guard, V. Drain; adjutant, Wm. H. Montgomery; quartermaster, Jas. H. Smith; chaplain, Charles M. Reese; historian, Theo. R. Van Pelt; patriotic instructor Jas. Brewer; surgeon, A. A. Wesley; sergeant major, Geo. W. H. Sawyer; quartermaster sergeant, I. Lindsay; color sergeant, W. Byrd; musician, W. L. Scott. Officers installed of the Ladies' Auxiliary were: President, Mrs. LauLu B. Shreeves' vice president, Mrs. Eliza Johnson; junior vice president, Ellen Kenny; secretary, Mrs. Hattie Chavis; treasurer, Mrs. Fannie B. Selby; chaplain, Mrs. Anna Smith; guard, Fannie Lymas; assistant guard, G. Stalcup; conductor, Hattie Merldeh; assistant conductor, Lillian Judd; historian, Mrs. Robert Hurd; patriotic instructor, Mrs. Ida Hill; color bearers: Mrs. I. Peterson, Miss J. Butler, Mrs. A. Mitchell. Among the prominent persons present were Past Department President Mrs. Cutter, Comrade Myleske of McGrew Camp; Comrade King, commander of Schell Camp; Comrade Bison, commander of Bohemian-American Camp; Mrs. O'Dell of Federal Auxiliary; National Judge Advocate Mrs. Borgmeyer; Past Commander Gaskey of McGrew Camp. 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. WILLIAMA Mr. M. D. writes: "I have great pain in my abdomen (bowels), heaviness and pain in right side of abdomen just opposite my navel. Am constipated, and have a feeling of fullness, gas, and a very poor appetite. Pain is worse on taking the smallest amount of food. Would like to know the cause of appendicitis and the symptoms, whether it can be cured by medicine and poutiches or not." Reply: Cause of Appendicitis. The causes of appendicitis are many. The best authorities enumerate among the leading causes: errors in diet; foreign bodies, such as seeds, pins, buttons, etc.; acute and chronic indigestion; catarrh of the bowels; sudden exposure; early adult life—appendicitis seems to be more prevalent among young people. The male sex is more troubled with appendicitis than the female. This may be due to the fact males are more exposed to traumatism or exposure to injury than the females, but the real and exciting cause—as is true in all diseases—is a micro-organism, called in medical parlance the bacillus coli communis. Appendicitis has been known to follow tuberculosis of the bowels, typhoid fever, la gripe, twisting (torsion) of the appendix. As a rule, we find more appendical diseases in the early fall and winter season. It is thought by some to be due to the consumption of decayed fruits and vegetables, etc. Symptoms of Appendicitis. Symptoms or Appendicitis. The symptoms may make their advent known suddenly, or they may come on gradually. If they come on suddenly the first thing you will notice is a severe pain, probably coming on in the early morning hours, after midnight. The pain is most marked in the right side of the abdomen, near the groin, known as the right iliac region; there may be vomiting, constipation; pains are increased by lying on left side; also increased by deep breathing or coughing. There may be pain all over the abdomen at first, marked very much around the navel. The muscles of abdomen are stiff (rigid) and tender to touch, breathing is shallow and increased in frequency, loss of appetite. The gradual onset of the symptoms—you may be troubled more or less with a feeling of weight and soreness all over the entire abdomen (belly), loss of appetite, or feeling of fullness, of gas after eating, bowels are constipated. You are more comfortable lying on back with legs drawn up or flexed on the abdomen, also tenderness, but not so great as in the sudden or acute onset. You may have a chill or chilly sensations, fever, as a rule, is not very high, ranging around 102 to 104. There may be diarrhea, but constipation is the rule. Pulse rate is increased as is true in all infectious diseases. Treatment of Appendicitis Treatment of Appendicitis. No real case of appendicitis can be cured by medicine and poutingic. Appendicitis is a dangerous disease. It is the same as a powder magazine with a silly person fooling around the magazine with a lighted match. There is liable to be a dangerous explosion at any moment. If your house is on fire, you wait and try palliative measures before you would send for the fire brigade? No. Then why fool with medicine and pouticies, which are only palliative measures, in dealing with your body, which is more important to you than your house, or the furniture therein, however precious they may be? My advice to you, Mr. M. D., is to call in your physician immediately and have your urine examined and a diagnosis made. Submit yourself to a good surgeon, and have that powder magazine (the diseased appendix) removed without delay. In all the probability the diseased appendix is the cause of the pain in your abdomen that you complain of, your fullness and sick feeling after eating, your loss of appetite, constipation and other generally bad condition. First, you need proper diagnosis; then a good surgeon and your appendix removed. This is the only safe and sane way of being permanently cured of appendicitis. If you have an early diagnosis made and an early operation performed, you should be up and able to resume light work in the course of two or three weeks. If you delay, this powder magazine may explode at any time, and this usually happens at the most inconvenient time for you to have your operation performed. Your danger of recovery is increased every hour that you delay after the first twenty-four hours. Many a man is in his grave today because he delayed, and used palliative measures, such as medicine and poultices, instead of calling a surgeon and having an operation performed. In your case, delays are dangerous. BOARD OF HEALTH NOTES. Press Service, Department of Health. A San Francisco school teacher had as one of her pupils a boy that was both stupid and incorrigible. He played hockey, lied like a trooper, and resisted all efforts to give him instruction of any kind. Finally the teacher noticed that the boy's eyes were bad, and sent a note to his parents to have them attended to. No attention was paid to the teacher's request and the boy grew more and more refractory and unmanageable. Finally the teacher took him to an oculist and had his eyes fitted with proper glasses. The transformation in the boy's manner and habits was little short of marvelous. He seemed for the first time to be able to see things right. He soon became one of the brightest and best pupils in the school, standing at the head of all his classes. It was found that because of defective vision it was next to impossible for him to see print at all, that his ludicrous attempts to answer questions in his recitations excited the laughter and ridicule of his classmates and with the natural result that he hated school and everything connected with it. But when his vision was restored he became a changed boy, voluntarily giving up bad habits and soon winning the reputation of being one of the most studious and best behaved boys in the school—and one pair of glasses saved the boy. Some time ago in these bulletins we had something to say concerning the importance of properly lighted work rooms. In this connection we urged the frequent cleaning of windows so that at all times the maximum amount of natural light might be afforded. There are many of the industrial trades where light and perfect vision are of prime importance in turning out good work. It is a well established fact that either excessive use of the eyes under normal conditions or the use of them under bad conditions causes eye strain and In time serious impairment of vision. Specialists in diseases of the eye tell us that at least 80 to 90 per cent of headaches are caused by eye strain, which may be due to the causes already named and sometimes to improperly fitted glasses. A noted writer on this subject asserts that it is impossible to ignore the fact that many people who are compelled to work by artificial light in dark, dirty and poorly ventilated work places where the air is foul, suffer a material and necessary loss of physical energy and that most of these will be found with impaired vision due to eye strain. In fact statistics show that among clergymen, students, clerks, engravers and most of the skilled trades, from 80 to 100 per cent show the effects of eye fatigue or over use of the eyes, while among farmers, teamsters and outdoor workers generally, only 1 to 20 per cent are ever found to be affected with what we know as eye strain ailments. We all know the value of good eyesight and how much human skill and efficiency are dependent upon it. There are very many of the trades and callings where impaired vision means loss of employment and cessation of earning capacity. But in spite of the fact that eyesight is one of our most precious possessions, most of us are careless and indifferent as to the proper care of our eyes. We use them under the most unfavorable conditions and subject them daily to tasks that are far beyond their normal capacity to stand without doing them serious and permanent harm. Why not then take care of your eyes? Connecticut has had a law requiring registration of births and deaths on its statute books since 1644. Still there are states in the union without this much needed legislation. JEANE'S FUND BOARD MEETS (Special to the Chicago Defender.) New York, Jan. 30.—The regular annual meeting of the trustees of the Negro Rural School Fund, generally known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation of One Million Dollars, was held here Saturday, January 24, in the rooms of the general federation board, Whitehall building, 17 Battery place. Present at the meeting were Dr. James H. Dillard, president; Major R. R. Moton, commandant of Hampton Institute, Virginia; secretary; George Foster Paebley of New York City, the well-known philanthropist; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tennessee, former registrar of the U. S. treasury; Hon. George McAneny, president of the board of aldermen, New York City; Belton Glirle, Birmingham, Ala., a wideawake, enterprising and liberal Southerner; Dr. S. C. Mitchell of Richmond, Va., president of the Richmond Medical College and late president of the University of South Carolina; R. L. Smith, Waco, Texas, president of the Farmers' Improvement Society of Texas; Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, Va.; H. T. Kealing, president of Western University, Quindaro, Kan.; Dr. Talcott Williams, director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism, and Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, proxy representative for Dr. Booker T. Washington, chairman of the executive committee of the foundation. Dr. Frissell presided during the deliberations of the board. Many States Aided. By reports it was shown that the trustees of the board during the past year are responsible for the employment of 118 rural school supervisors in 119 counties of the South. John T. Emlen of Philadelphia was elected to fill the vacancy on the board caused by the death of the late Robert C. Ogden. A committee composed of Dr. Talcott Williams, Hon. J. C. Napier and Major R. R. Moton was appointed to draft appropriate resolutions in memory of the late Robert C. Ogden, one of the first members of the board. STORY OF A PRINCE OF INDIA AND A DANCER. Wooling Ended Happily, Though It Was Not Conducted as in the Glorious Days of Beauty and Chivalry. Ah!—as we exclaim when a rocket goes up. Ah! Let us take our minds from sordid affairs so that our emotions can vibrate over a sweet romance—a romance shining with love and especially with paternal devotion. It is the romance of the maudance of Kapurthala, India, who is now touching these shores with her husband, who was once, and we feel sure still is, her lover. We pulsate rapturiously as we read of the substantial proof he gave of his love, and we thrill conclusively when the publicity agent tells us of how dearly her father held her. Strange to say, this lovely Indian princess is, or was, a Spaniard—a Spanish dancer. When the prince of India saw her dance he immediately fell on his knees and besought her to change her name from plain Anita Delgado to sonorous maharanee of Kapurthala. Dear, old dad objected to having the fine old Castillian strain grafted on to Oriental royalty and told little Annie's glittering sutor to vamose, which is Spanish for decamp. But instead of folding his tent like an Arab and silently sneaking back to Kapurthala, what did the swart but spangled lover do? Did he murder the doting Delgado and flee with the pulchritudinous daughter? No. Did he ride off with her like a Lochnival out of the East? No. Did he Romeo around her dormer window? No. Did he strum a plaintive guitar and induce her to elope by the light of the moon? No. Then what did he do? Let the news item tell it in its own way: The maharanee of Kapurthala, India, and her husband are visiting in the United States. The maharanee formerly was a Spanish dancer named Anita Deigado. Her father objected to the attentions of the Indian prince to his daughter. The maharajah overcame the parental objections by giving her father $6,000. How much more efficacious writing Petrarch's sonnets to I or Dante's poems to beatrice—the ple writing of a $6,000 check! La sit by the borderland of old romi in the twilight: Where glitter hauberk, helm, and knee And banner waves, and trumpet son and bassoon, and the wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple milt. The dusk of centuries and of song—and let us dream upon the magic and the wonder and the glory and the power of a $6,000 check! Activities of Women. New York storekeepers employ over 50,000 extra girls during the holiday season. From 1901 to 1911 the mortality due to cancer among women has increased 22 per cent. Ninety per cent. of the members of the Shirtwist. Makers' union in New York are young girls. Women in Switzerland who graduate in theology will hereafter be entitled to the status of the clergy. Mrs. Philip N. Moore has been appointed a member of the Provisional Alumnae council of Vassar college. The Women's Municipal party has been formed in London which will be strictly non-political and will represent women as women. Instead of helping women it is claimed that the new Ohio labor law has driven them out of trades to be superseded by men. Girls who are reared in dire poverty are 100 per cent. more likely to go wild than those who have had better opportunity. About 4,000 girls are banded together in their various colleges under the Women's Intercollegiate Student Government association. Wldows Are Mothers to Many. Up in the North Carolina mountain region, between the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky ranges, a wealthy resident, J. McWhitaker, recently gave a dinner to 17 widows. Aside from the fact that it takes a bold, brave man to attempt entertaining so many women at one time there is the additional point, properly shown by figures that the region thereabouts is one productive of long life and large families. The combined ages of the 17 widows are 1,033 years, the average being sixty-one. The number of children of these women is 152, grandchildren 289, great-grandchildren, 60, great-great-grandchildren 9. The average ages of the grandchildren is seventeen years, and of the great-grandchildren, nine. The dinner was a bountiful one and the mountains lent it their best, including wild turkeys, pheasant, venson and the choicest products of the farm and the garden. Appropriate Enough The vicar of Leeds, England, Doctor Bickersteth, tells of a clergyman who rang him up on the telephone to ask if he would consent to his taking a marriage service in which the word "obey" was left out. He replied that he was not the bishop, but was tolerably certain that the bishop would not allow him to omit the word. "But who is the lady going to marry?" he inquired. The answer was: "She is going to marry a doctor." He then asked: "Would she mind if you put in the word 'consult' instead?" Health Note. A Chicago physician says: "Good health demands that the mouth be kept closed while asleep." Cases are known where a man's health would be in better condition if he'd kept his mouth closed while awake. Stormy Is Right. The married life of Mrs. Ada Blizzard, who is applying for a divorce from her husband in Sidney, probably became so tempestuous that she just couldn't weather the storm any longer.—Youngstown Telegram. ar Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social id other short paragraphs—Read it over carefully, somewhere ou will find a line or two about yourself or your friends. rs. William Green, 3751 Vincennes ne, gave a delightful party Thurs afternoon in honor of Marahelle ard and Benote, children of Mrs. ard Winn of Buffalo, N. Y. and Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph at ner last Sunday. Mr. W. T. Francis, St. Paul, M passed through the city en re home last Wednesday after snge FARID WHIP of BDUALO, N. T. J. S. Judge Julian W. Mack and mate Supreme Court Judge Orrin N. Nerter will address the Great Doug- s Celebration at Quinn Chapel day, February 15, at 3:30 p. m. Dr. Boyd and Mr. Henry Allen Boyd Nashville, Tenn., were in the city his week attending a Baptist Sunday school convention. Mr. and Mrs. Robert DeLoney, of 3632%2 Forest avenue, left the city last week for Waukesha, Wis., where they were called to attend the funeral of their niece. They have re- turned to their home. Alex. Manning, of 5135 Lake avenue, is spending the winter in Hot Springs', Ark. Mr. Manning will return in April. Dr. M. A. Majors, 4709 Street street. Phone Oakland 4662; Auto 72058. Mr. John Conway, a progressive young man of this city and one of Chicago's best song writers, deserves great credit for the work that he is doing in his line. Those of the city who love music should purchase his songs. One of his latest songs is "If I Only Had a Girl Like You." Mr. Conway resides at 3814 South State street. Mr. John R. Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove avenue, will leave next week for Pittsburgh, Pa., on business for the Chicago Defender and the Brotherhood of Train Porters of America. Mr. Tom Holly, the Chicago Defender cartoonist, is in Davenport, Fla., this week. From there he goes to Jacksonville, returning to Chicago the latter part of next week. Miss Helen Hayes, 5015 Dearborn street, is now a grammar school graduate. She was one of the successful ones from the Farren School. The exercises were held Friday afternoon. All communications for this paper must be addressed to The Chicago Defender and not to an individual, or they will not receive prompt attention. The Mary Magdalene Temple No. 53 met at Mrs. Ida B. Englehardt's, 3813 Vernon avenue, January 14, and held the installation of officers. A very enjoyable evening was spent after supper was served. Mrs. Consuelo Demy and mother, Mrs. Eva Toler, entertained a host of friends Friday evening at their home, 41 West 47th street. Those present were Mrs. Toler's eldest daughter, Miss Nelle Toler, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Elders, Mr. and Mrs. Watts, Mr. and Mrs. Penn, Mr. and Mrs. Joyner, Mr. Demy and Mrs. Finch. Lunch was served. Mrs. Dora Cannon, of 3518 South Dearborn street, is home again after having had a very serious operation. Her temple members were very nice to her while in the hospital. She was taken to her temple Tuesday night in an auto and salu elienced Most Worthy Princess of Antioch Temple No. 73. Dr. M. A. Majors, 4709 State street, Phone Oakland 4662; Auto 70508. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beeler, of Danville, IL, arrived in the city last Sunday and remained until Wednesday night. They were at the Pullman Hotel during their stay in the city. Mrs. L. T. Davis, of Houston, Tex., who will be remembered as having had to extend her stay several months on account of an operation which confined her to the home of her sister, Mrs. King, 3433 Wabush avenue, the niece of A. L. Meltride, Mrs. Davis has fully recovered and is in constant communication with her uncle. The new board of directors of the Appomattox Club will hold their first meeting on Monday night, February 2, at which time the policy of the new administration will be outlined. Arthur A. Wells returned home last week after a two weeks' trip from the city. Arthur says he feels much improved. D. F. Moseley and daughter, Miss Bertha, Arthur A. Wells and Mr. and Mrs. Melville E. Mitchell and Mrs. H. J. Mitchell were the guests of Mr. Jesse Binga, Banker REAL ESTATE FOR SALE—DO YOU WANT TO OWN A NICE HOME on Forrestville Ave.? Do you want to get your rent free? Have you got $500.00? For full particulars, see W. H. Riley, 10 E. 47th St. FOR SALE—APARTMENTS $5,000.00—Bays a 2-floor, steel building; nearly new, 7-7-8 rooms; hardwood oak floor; steel building; large room large and light; detached; $800 cash, terms to suit. Rents for $120.00 per month. 8,000.00—Lamley Ave., near 45th St., 3-flat stone building, 7-7-7 rooms, steam heat, steam heat; detached; small payment down; terms to suit. 7,500.00—37th St., near Rhodes Ave. 3-flat stone building, in first-class condition; 7-7-7 rooms, hardwood floors, steam heat. This is a snamp. 6,000.00—Wabash Ave. near 49th St. 2-flat steam-heated building, stone; hardwood floors, 5-6 rooms. A lovely home. 6,000.00—12nd St., 2-flat stone building, modern, up-to-date, 6-6 rooms; furnace heat. FOR SALE—RESIDENCES. 3,600.00—Langley Ave., near 47th St., 10 rooms, good condition, modern, up- 3,500.00—Langley Ave., near 47th St., a 10-room stone; will make a sacrifice; $300.00 cash. 3,600.00—Wuhash Ave., near 4$th St. S-room residence, steam heat, cement basement, newly decorated; in good condition. 3,500.00—32rd and Vernon Ave., 9 rooms, steam heat, excellent condition; $500.00 cash, $0.90 per month; can't beat this for a home. 3,250.00—Bryant Ave., near Rhodes Ave., 9 rooms, furnace heat; $500.00 cash; terms to suit. FLATS FOR RENT. --- and Mrs. Julius N. Avendorph at dinner last Sunday. Mr. W. T. Francis, St. Paul, Minn., passed through the city en route home last Wednesday after spending several days in Washington, D. C. Mr. Francis was the guest of Mr. A. C. Harris. Mrs. M. Sweetwine, of New York City, is visiting Mrs. De Loney, of 3632½ Forest avenue. Mrs. De Loney is one of Chicago's leaders in society and she knows how to entertain. All matter sent to this office must be mailed with a two-cent stamp. If otherwise it will not be given consideration. Mrs. L. B. Stephen, after a three months' visit in the West, has returned to Chicago and is now stopping at 3849 State street, fourth floor. Mrs. Hayden, of Hennessy, Okla., is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. M. C. Grander, of McKinley Park. She is being royally entertained. Mr. T. Washington, an old veteran of '65, now residing in Dayton, O., spent ten days in the city recently visiting relatives and friends. The day before his departure a dinner was given in his honor by Mrs. Maybelle Miller of Forest avenue. Mr. Pugh, here on a visit, will play in New York next week. INFORMATION — Wedding announcements, $1.50; wedding write-ups, $5 and up; card of thanks, $1.50 and up; In memoriam, $1.50; business announcements, $1.50 and up. Everything paid in advance. Miss Louise Brown, who recently finished a course in hair-dressing, manicuring and facial massage at Mme. Bogus' Beauty Shop, has accepted a position at Prof. Emanuel's parlor instead of going on the road. Mr. Abram A. H. Brown, of 3615 Forest avenue, was held up and robbed by two men within 200 feet of his home on Saturday night as he was returning from his place of business. Mme. Marle Peeke-Merrill is now sojourning at Tuskegee, Alabama, with her sister, Mrs. M. L. Matthews, and her aunt, Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Little William Merrill is with his mother. Mrs. N. K. Chalmers left the city hurriedly Monday evening with her brother for Dallas, Texas, where her mother is in a most critical condition. Miss Gonzales Porter left the city on Monday, the 19th inst., for St. Louis where she is visiting her grandparents. This charming young lady is having a merry time in St. Louis and her stay is indefinite. The twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crowley on the 22nd inst. at their residence, 5113 Dearborn street, where their many friends gathered between the hours of 8 to 10 p. m. and spent a pleasant time. They were the recipients of many beautiful presents. Mrs. Wm. Bell and niece, Miss Armna Brassfield, will leave on February 4th to join her husband, Mr. Wm. Bell, for a three weeks' stay in Minneapolis, Minn., and while away will visit frigids in St. Paul and Austin, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Berringer, who are known at the theaters this week as the Georgia Rose Buds, are stopping with their auntie, Mrs. Alston, 732 East 35th street. Mr. George R. Garner, Jr., the noted tenor, returned on Monday last from Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he filled two concert engagements at white churches. As was rumored during the holidays the Overton girls are not engaged to be married but are really engaged to their studies at the University of Chicago. Miss Maud J. Roberts and Mr. George R. Garner, Jr., were guests of Prof. and Mrs. S. L. Lee and daughter for dinner on Sunday, the eighteenth inst. For Smoky Wall Paper A cloth dipped into flour and rubbed across a smoky spot on the ceiling cleaned it nicely. Later, the whole ceiling was cleaned in the same way with satisfactory results. CLUBS AND SOCIETIES CLUBS AND SOCIETIES FLEUR DE LIS CLUB. Last Wednesday the Fleur de Lis Art Society met at the home of Miss Ethel Lee, 5444 Dearborn street. It was decided to contribute at $1 per month to the Old Folks' Home. A dainty lunch was served and all pleasantly enjoyed the evening. Next meeting, Thursday, Jan. 29, at Mrs. Clem Palmer's, 540 West 57th street. THE SAMARITAN CLUB. The Samaritan Club met at the residence of Mrs. G. Williams, 3225 Dearborn street, Friday afternoon, January 23, instead of their regular day, Thursday, due to the new work which was added. Mrs. Patterson gave instruction in art and needle work. There were several visitors and the meeting adjourned with a dainty luncheon served by the hostess. The club held its regular business meeting Thursday afternoon, January 29, at the residence of Mrs. Jessie Woods, 3852 Vincennes avenue, in which the following officers were installed for the ensuing year: President, Miss Martha Gardner; vice president, Mrs. Jessie Woods; secretary, Mrs. G. Williams; assistant secretary, Miss Louise Porterfield; treasurer, Mrs. Marie Titus. The next meeting will be embroidery class and will be held at the residence of Mrs. Marie Titus, 224 Mecca building, Friday afternoon, February 6—M. Gardner, president; G. Williams, secretary; I. Porterfield, reporter. K. D: TILLMAN CLUB. The K. D. Tillman Club met with Mrs. B. Lear in West 60th street Tuesday evening, January 27. After the regular business was transacted the evening was devoted to a praise service. Luncheon was served and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Adams, 6039 May street, next Tuesday—Mrs. Fannie Turner, president; Mrs. Nellie Harrison, secretary; Mrs. A. Lyons, editor. VOLUNTEER WORKERS' CLUB. The Volunteer Workers met at the home of Mrs. Alice J. Caldwell on Wednesday afternoon. A large number of the members were present. After the usual routine of business was transacted the club was favored with a solo by Mrs. Stella Caldwell Young. Visitor introduced was Miss Pickens. The club, after completing arrangements for their whist party on February 13, adjourned to meet with Mrs. Lucile Howard, 6434 Vincennes avenue. The hostess served light refreshments.—M. Walton, president; Lila Keith, secretary; Clara Johnson, journalist. CORNELL CHARITY CLUB The Cornell Charity Club was entertained by Mrs. Addie M. Willis, 5418 Dearborn street, on January 23. There was a large attendance. After the meeting the club was served with refreshments. Mrs. Ella Berry, chairman of the literary committee of the Cornell Club, assisted in the program of the Star Literary Club of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sunday, January 25. Those taking part were Miss Emma McGowan, Mrs. Rose Fouche, Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, Mrs. Sarah Hamilton, and Mrs. Nettie Jones.-Mrs. Nettie Jones, president; Mrs. T. G. Moon, secretary. On Sunday, February 1st, "Go to Church Sunday," special services will be held all day. The Sunday school has prepared an elaborate programme to begin at half-past 1 o'clock. Miss Viola E. Hill, district secretary, will lead the Christian Endeavor toople at a quarter to 7. The Sunday school choir and orchestra, under the direction of Mrs. Mollie White, will assist the church choir, under the direction of Mrs. Sadie Lytle, in the evening. Miss Wilmuth was married last week. Mr. Dotson was able to be out last Sunday and take charge of his class after being ill. Sunday, February 8th, is quarterly meeting day. SATURDAY AFTERNOON WHIST CLUB. The Saturday Afternoon Whist Club met January 24 at the home of Mrs. Sue Johnson, 3809 Wabash avenue. Whist was the feature of the afternoon. Three visitors were present. A delightful luncheon was served by the hostess. Next meeting, Saturday 31st, at the home of Mrs. Keet.—Mrs. Hattie Goode, reporter. IDLE HOUR ART-SOCIAL CLUB. The Idle Hour Art-Social Club met Tuesday afternoon, January 27, with Mrs. Eddie O. Bailey, 3607 Forest avenue. An appetizing luncheon was served. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Mayme Irvin, 3520 Prairie avenue. Being the first Tuesday in February whist will be the diversion of the afternoon—Mrs. M. Banks, president; Mrs. Eddie Bailey, journalist. THE ORIOLE WHIST CLUB. The Oriole Whist Club held an informal dancing party last Thursday at the Annie Walker Partors, 3811 Wabash avenue. The next meeting will be Friday, February 5. THE CHEVALIER CLUB. Mr. David Pelkey entertained the Chevalier Club last Wednesday at his residence, 4423 Dearborn street. The rapid rise to popularity of the Chevalier Club caused a clamor among the young gentlemen to join. As a result Mr. Wayman McClarn, Nathan Le Varne and George Kidd were accepted as members, while Willie William was placed on the reserve list waiting an opening. Mr. Pelkey served a nice lunch, Mrs. E. Hardaway, the organizer, was a visitor. Mr. Morris Rice will entertain the club at his home, 5416 Dearborn street. Deshon Jones, president; David Pelkey, secretary; Pascal Brinsley, editor. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. Bethel Literary Club held its meeting on Sunday, January 25. The club was addressed by Sheriff Michael Zimmer of Cook county. Mr. Fields and his Boy Scouts were present. On Sunday, February 1, the club will be addressed by the Rev. Ford of Englewood. All are welcome. Go to Church: February 1.—Mrs. M. B. McCoy Hackney, secretary. CLOVER LEAF SOCIAL CLUB. The Clover Social Club met at the home of Mrs. Ida Duncan, 3304 Rhodes avenue. A very dainty luncheon was served. Next meeting at Mrs. M. Blackburn, 3515 Dearborn street.-Mary C. Williams, president; A. M. Grayson, secretary. THE NONPAREIL CLUB. The Nonpareil Club held its regular meeting with Mr. Alton Pruitt, $3742\frac{1}{2}$ Forest avenue. Mr. Harvard White was voted a member of the club. After a very interesting business session the host served luncheon and the rest of the evening was spent in all kinds of card games. The meeting adjourned to meet with Mr. David Radcliffe, 3661 Forest avenue, Friday, January 30.-Claude Roberts, president; Alonzo Roberts, secretary; Lawrence Difay, club editor. THE BOYS' CLEAN LIFE CLUB The club was opened with prayer and the boys sang. Mrs. Lucia Scott read the sixteenth psalm, in which the boys also took part. Mr. Bussel addressed the boys. Mr. Augustus, known as the "Pulpit Nightingale," instructed the boys in singing. Miss Elizabeth Pelkey read the compliments of the boys' book, Adam Bede. The assistant secretary, Robert Simmons, called the roll, and took charge of the new members—Mrs. Lucia Scott, superintendent; Robert Simmons, assistant secretary; Elizabeth Pelkey, secretary. THE COLONIAL CLUB. The Colonial Club held its regular weekly meeting at the home of Mr. Lee Roy Collins, 7220 Wentworth avenue, Thursday, January 22. A new amendment was added to the constitution and by-laws. The club adjourned after a very delightful lunch and many interesting games of whist to meet at the home of Mr. Ralph Foster, 5434 Dearborn street. Louis Berry, president; Fern Woodward, secretary; Harry E. Mossette, club editor. LADIES OF LOVE CLUB. Thursday, January 16, Mrs. Clara Johnson, president of the City Federation, installed the following officers of the "Ladies Labor of Love Club" for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Elizabeth Jiles; vice president, Mrs. M. Henderson; second vice president, Mrs. W. D. Bowden; recording secretary, Mrs. C. B. Robinson; treasurer, Mrs. M. Henry; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary Scott. The club was entertained by Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Mary Scott at the home of Mrs. Robinson, 3808 Prairie avenue. A musical program was rendered by Misses Alma Hardy, Rosa Dinguid and Clementine Frierson, after which a delicious menu was served. Mrs. R. Shaughter and Mrs. Clara Johnson were guests of the club. The next meeting will be held Thursday, February 5, at the home of Mrs. Florence Thomas, 4327 Forrestville avenue. AMERICAN ROSE ART CLUB. The American Rose Art Club No. 5 met with Mrs. Dunkins, 6144 Carpenter street. This being election day the members wore out in full to do honor to the occasion. The vote was unanimous, all officers retaining their places, which shows the good existing spirit in the club and the good work it is doing. The president has done much to make the club a success. We adjourned to meet with Mrs. Lottie Lewis, 29 East 47th street, February 4—Ellen Kinney, president CHICAGO UNION CHARITY CLUB The club held its annual election and installation of officers January 8 at the home of Mesdames White and Wright, 3630 Vernon avenue. The election was in charge of Mrs. E. Lindsay Davis, president of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, and the following members were elected to office: Mrs. Emma Chandler, president; Mrs. E. Livingston, vice president; Mrs. Susan Gaines, second vice president; Mrs. Estella High, recording secretary; Mrs. Mabel Powell, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Claborn, treasurer; Mrs. Kato Johnson, critic; Mrs. Lillian McPheeters, reporter. Next meeting at the home of Mrs. Aida Trammel, 5622 Lafayette street, February 5.—E. Chandler, president; L. McPheeters, reporter. THE LYRIC LITERATURE CLUB. Brief but comprehensive, was the meeting of this club at the new residence of Miss Helen Sayles, 316 East 37th street. Miss Helen Sayles was unanimously made editor of the club. The colors of the club were discussed and it was decided to make them pea green and pink. Humorous essays were read on "Music and Art." To the surprise of the members and invited guest they all were summoned to an elegant lunch. Cards closed the enjoyable evening. The next meeting will be at the residence of the Misss Dorothy and Elizabeth Pelkey, 3756 Elmwood avenue.-Elizabeth Pelkey, president; Ruth Goins, secretary; Dorothy Pelkey, critic. MYSTIC SOCIAL CLUB. The members of the Mystic Social Club were tendered a banquet by Mr. Joseph Butler at the residence of his niece, our president, Mrs. Jessie Harris, 4056 Dearborn street. There was a splendid program rendered. Among the many features of the evening was the Mystic quartet—Mrs. Jessie Harris, Miss Laura Bowey, Miss Jessie Harris and Mr. L. Smith—who sang some beautiful selections. A paper by Mrs. Marie Pierson, "The Mystic Club Woman and Her Wishes." Mrs. F. B. Jones. One of the principal events of the evening was the unique manner in arranging the meetings of the club in the form of calendars for the ensuing year. Our friend Mr. Charles Perkins proved himself the orator of the evening in an address, "To Our Host." Following the program a sumptuous menu was served. Guests present were Messrs. Carter, Saunders, Spikes, Patterson, Frye and Albert Bowey; Mesdames Pearl Carey, Hannah Campbell Burrows, Lawrence Jesson, Miss Emma McGowan.—Mrs. F. B. Jones, editor. TUSKEGEE CLUB NOTES. Hon. A. H. Roberts delivered one of the most helpful and interesting addresses on "Industrial Education" last Sunday before the Tuskegee Club ever listened to in Chicago. Mr. John Taylor, the tenor soloist, rendered a beautiful selection. Mrs. Annie L. Cole, our dramatic reader, was at her best. Booker T. Washington Jr. spoke very encouragingly and timely, showing much appreciation toward Mr. A. H. Roberts' lecture. The two little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Galloway rendered a selection. A large delegation of Tuskegee Club members will be present at the Douglass day celebration at Quinn Chapel February 15. Other musical selections were by Miss Martha Robins of the west side, Grace Johnson and Little Jewette Eggleston. POINSETTIA EMBROIDERY CLUB The indices of the Poinsettia Embroidery Club met last Monday at the home of Mrs. Mayme Granberry and a most pleasant afternoon was spent at needle work. On Monday the 26th inst. the club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Charles Johnson, $3809 Wabash avenue, from 2 to 4 p. m.—Hattle Fennbanks, president; M. E. Butler, instructor. JOLLY TWENTY CLUB The Jolly Twenty Club met at the residence of Mrs. Robert Bell, 1340 Wells street, where the newly elected officers were installed. Mrs. Stella Bush became a member. Luncheon was served. Next meeting with Mrs. T. W. Brown, 876 Chestnut place. Among the visitors were Mrs. Clay of Michigan, Ind., and a number of others. Mrs. Thomas Brown, corresponding secretary. THE PEERLESS CLUB. At the residence of Mr. Howard Bazel, 5155 Wabash avenue, Wednesday evening, January 28, the Peerless Club assembled and held their weekly business meeting. All arrangements for the dance, February 12, were completed. Don't fail to read the announcement in next week's Defender. After the meeting Mr. Bazel served the club a delicious repast.—Robert Pearson, president; Harry Greenlee, secretary. CLOTEE E. SCOTT SETTLEMENT. Sunday, February 1, is Go-to-Church Sunday and the Sunday afternoon Club of the settlement will make a big day of it by having the best program ever yet given at its regular 4 o'clock meeting. Rev. Oldham, graduate of Howard University and student of sociology of U. of C., and Miss Birdy H. Haynes of the Wendell Phillips Settlement are the speakers. The orchestra of the Wabash Avenue Department Y, M. C. A. will furnish music. Mr. I. E. Franklin, one of Hyde Park's best citizens, was unanimously elected president of the Sunday Club. Mr. Charles Hunter, vice president; Miss Katherine Reese, secretary; Mrs. Carrie Hunter, treasurer; Mrs. Caroline Bonds, organist. A big mass meeting will be held at the settlement Monday night, February 2, at 8 o'clock, especially for colored women. Every woman with a drop of African blood in her veins should come to this meeting, especially if living in Hyde Park or in the vicinity. Mrs. Myrtle Winfrey is delighted with her singing class at the settlement. The Junior Clover Club meeting held every Tuesday from 4 to 5 p. m. Singing from 5 to 6 p. m., same day. Sunbeam Club (children 6-10) meeting every Thursday, 4 to 5:30 p. m. Mrs. H. B. Lewis, instructor. Miss H. E. Webster is gymnastic teacher for the Girls' Junior Clover Club, Boys' meetings, evenings and Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.-Cloate E. Scott, president; Mrs. Chas. F. Weller, secretary. NOTICE. All matter, especially lengthy articles, must be typewritten or they cannot receive consideration for publication. All matter must be written plainly, legibly and on one side of the paper. WALTER'S A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. The Revival which is still in progress is increasing in interest, conversions are taking place at nearly every service, backsliders are being reclaimed. The services on last Sunday were especially interesting. There was a conversion at each service with seven accessions during the day. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER. Sunday afternoon, February 1, at 4 p. m., Mr. W. H. A. Moore will speak on "Recent English Poetry." Several musical numbers will follow. Last Sunday the overcrowded house indicated the interest in the visitors from the West Side Institution. Wednesday evening the Center Boys' Unity Club gave a social in honor of the parents. Mrs. Edna Johnson read the program, when musical numbers and addresses were given by the boys. Much credit is due Mr. L. Lloyd Stone, physical director, for his organized efforts in club life. A large delegation of parents and friends were in attendance. Several came from the Y. M. C. A. Refreshments were served. Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m., the Center Woman's Club, with address by Mil. Diddle Haynes and Miss Boaz. P. office Hours: 9am, 10am, 11am, from 7 p. to 9 p.m. P. to 9 p.m. Phone: 4708. State ST., CHICAGO, IL. 4708. State ST., CHICAGO, IL. Mr Bridge and better work cannot be done by the Best of Materials in every part of the work and guar- antee it to last for years. A little incon- venience and expense now will prove to have been a big investment in later years. Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST Garage and Repair 1965 H. B. 73-398 special attention and better work We use only the work receive our special attention and better work cannot be done than is done here. We use only the A 12 East 31st Street Dave Peyton's Leading Dealer in histrations written, songs taken from ers given prompt attention. Send ular songs. 99 STATE STREET, Mme. C. J. Walker's W MME. E. M. TRUMAN treatm ful C. J. Walker Hair Grower and keep the scalp clean and l value. This treatment destroys s and baldness. With a thorough satisfaction. Both women and m $1.00 for Treatm Mme. E. M. TRUM phone Auto 77-658 3122 R Short Order Rogers' R First Street Peyton's Song Reading Dealer in Popular Music in songs taken from voice, acts written and not attention. Send eighteen cents in st STREET, - - CHICAGO M. Walker's Wonderful Hair TRUMAN treatment of the scalp with Walker Hair Grower will absolutely scalp clean and healthy. Thousand treatment destroys the germs that cause With a thorough course of treatment both women and men treated. $1.00 for Treatment, $0e for Box M. M. TRUMAN, SCALP S 658 3122 Dearborn St. C St Orders All Rogers' Restaurant Dave Peyton's Song Shop Orchestrations written, songs taken from voice, acts written and rehearsed. Mail orders given prompt attention. Send eighteen cents in stamps for any late opular songs. Mme. C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower MME. E. M. TRUMAN treatment of the scalp with the wonderful C. J. Walker Hair Grower will absolutely grow your hair and keep the scalp clean and healthy. Thousands know of its value. This treatment destroys the germs that cause falling hair and baldness. With a thorough course of treatment I guarantee satisfaction. Both women and men treated. $1.00 for Treatment, 50e for Box Mme. E. M. TRUMAN, SCALP SPECIALIST Phone Auto 77-658 3122 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Caterers to the Elite Select Meats All Meals 25c. Ta A la Carte Lunch, Breakfast, 7 a. 1 21 E. 33rd Street Near Open from 7 a. is well to know and remember the name you can rely in your hour. I want you to remember and to WILLIAMSON 65.00 65.00 WILLIAMSON A JACKSON WILLIAMSON 5028 and 5030 S Our new establishment with modern impo WE GIVE SERVICE AT als 25c. Table D'Hote 4 to 8 la Carte Lunch, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Breakfast, 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. Street Near L Station Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. and remember the names of some Funeral Houses can rely in your hour of worry and need. to remember and to turn with confidence AMSON & JACKSON AMSON & JACKSON 5028 and 5030 South State Street Adhiture with modern improvements and accommodations GIVE SERVICE AT A REASONABLE PRICE 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 CHI Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. it is well to know and remember the names of some Funeral Director upon whom you can rely in your hour of worry and need. I want you to know. WILLIAMSON & JACKSON $65.00 $65.00 WILLIAMSON & JACKSON $65.00 Casket, funeral Box, Grave Services of Expert Embalmer and Boss Box, Bear Claws, Carriages, Gloves for Pall Bearer, Dear Creep, Use of Large Carriage; its sealing capacity 360 with Organ and Piano. $45.00 Caskets in Mahogany, Circassian Walnut, Silk Plush, Oak, Broadcloth and in Couch Designs. There are no middleman's proofs to pay when we conduct a funeral. Our services and furnishing can not be excelled We give reasonable guarantee complete satisfaction, and can assure you but the best of treatment. Nothing is more essential to you at the time. OUR CHAPELS side the needs for all funerals. They are used by all on-road visitors can be accommodated at one time. Dressing room, restage. OUR HOME own our own Livery, Carriages and Hearts—an exception elsewhere and is immediately recognized by its brilliant cleanliness of the equipage, and the strict deportment. DISTANCE II Consult us, and we can save you. WILLIAMSON West H. Williamson. Central Display Room Cincinnati: Keenwood 455; Automatic 71-770. Calls p. 128 and 5030 South State S. NEW CHICAGO DEPENDENCE Provide the needs for all funnels. They are used by all orders and sects. The size of the federal makes no difference. 150 visitors can be accommodated at one time. Dressing, reception, waiting and guest rooms are all privately charged. OUR LIVERY Central Display Roomsand Chapels Fhones: Kenwood 455; Automatic 71-170. Calls promptly answered day or night. Notary. Public. 5028 and 5030 South State Street. CHICAGO, ILL. $ and Repair Shop H. B. RUSSELL, Mgr. Douglas 6965 CROWN OR work receive our special attention and than is done here. We use only CARS RENTED BY THE HOUR OR TRIP WEDDINGS AND PARTIES A SPECIALTY CHICAGO Man's Song Shop or in Popular Music. from voice, acts written and rehearsed. Mail and eighteen cents in stamps for any law CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Wonderful Hair Grower treatment of the scalp with the wonder- ower will absolutely grow your hair and healthy. Thousands know of it the germs that cause falling hair high course of treatment I guarantee men treated. treatment, $0c for Box MAN, SCALP SPECIALIST 2 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. ers All Day Restaurant Table D'Hote 4 to 8 p. m. a. 11:30 to 2 p. m. a. m. to 10 a. m. Near L Station a. m. to 10 p. m. CHICAGO names of some Funeral Director upon whom our of worry and need. to turn with confidence to my name. N & JACKSON N & JACKSON 9 South State Street improvements and accommodations throughout, AT A REASONABLE PRICE R LIVERY exception in the undertaking business. Our Livery is unsuspended by its liveried, waiting and guest rooms are all properly Phone. IMM 'AL love you the and money. N & JACKSON Don't McKee Jackson. Roomsand Chapels is promptly answered day or night. Notary Public. Street, CHICAGO. ILL. UNDER AT ALL "L" ST & a .eoe oe te AY we ohh cal j ° } saree SO et se, angie © apcctittle ee tat i 4 AND DRAMATIC ses, Art Alone Endures’’ The Grand, You know if we had our way about. it we would go right down to the man- agers of the Grand Theater and tell them what we thought sbout putting one over on their patrons the Jast half of last week without letting the world and Englewood Know about It. It was a bill that everybody should have had a chance to see, without one of the finest complete! bills that has ever been given at this popular play- horse. There is no use in trying to describe it—it was one of the kind that you had to see Wo appreciate. Here were the cluster of stars; Break- away Barlos, comedy ladder act; Tem- ple Quartet, some singers; Recker Mullaly and company in a playlet en- tiled “A Chance”; Zeno and Mandell, two yersatillians, and Nelson Dean aml company in a big three-scene playlet entitied “The Has-Beens." Of course we have been taught to ex- pect one or two high-salaried artists on a dill, but to treat us to a whole evening of topnotchers for ten and twenty cents rather took our breath, but that is the reward the manage- ment bestows on the “repeater.” Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week the DM presented was: ‘The Malkins, comedy mechanical shado- graphists; Yendys, Chinese magician; Joseph Remington and company in “The Millitery Salesman"; Gene and Kathryn King in “Miles of Smiles,” and the Dorians in “A Terrible Night.” They were all above the average and made a very acceptable bill. Friday night Mgr. Zurawski of the Lux geve his patrons the first install- mynt of “Kathlyn,” the famous moving pichire story that has set all the world to todkiug. Although this theater is one of the largest on the South ‘Side, hundreds were turned away. Monday the ‘second installment will be pre- sented and doubtless the same thing wilt obtain, You ean always find at the Lux the best In the “movie” pie- ture market, and if you are not il roads a patron of this pretty tittle SJayhouse you should he, , Nearly every writer and composer Jor songs has produced what is com monly termed “a moon seng.” and many of them were more or less sue cessful. Of course they all dealt with Jove affairs. There is something about the moon that invites spooni- ness: of course the shadows of the night add greatly to that feeling, Well, speaking about moon songs, this sane DeKoven ‘Thompsan, famed the world over for his high-slass ballads, has just written one entitled “Naughty Moon” that for originality and sweet- ness has no equal, There Is a class and a finish to his work that is not found in the average composer's work, and that is why the music-loving pub- lic bas no hesitancy in bhying sheet music that bears his tame. Mr. ““upsen is a home prodilet and Chi sage is proud ‘of iim.” + mae § The Pekin Theater will dgain open its doors as a first-class picture house and Joe Jordon and his fimons or- ghestra will be a Pe A ‘The Star Theater, 29h dnd State treets, the only theater infthe city wned and operated by a mbinber of wir race, is doing a tind offce busi- ess, Mr. Riley, the genial Banager, apes if things keep up the why thes ive they will have to build to ace hmodate their patrons, ¢ Lucky tan, Frank P. George, the “Black tietus co." says he has something thy his sleeve theatrical that ts xoile to startle the natives. Let her rip, Frank; we are braced. MISS HATTIE JEFFERSOik WINS DANCING PRISE Large Crowd at the Elite Danci Class When Pretty Lavalliere Nec- * Jace Is Presented to Her. ¥ ‘The first annual prize dance of the wlite Dancing Class at Union Masonte hall Monday evening was largely at- tended, and many of the participants declared it the most enjoyable event of thS season. An wuusially varied and attractive program, with a superb or- chestra, whirled the evening quickly away, although ihe first number began at 8 o'clock and it was after 1 a. m. before “Home, Sweet Home" was played. Naturally everyone was eager to win the prize—it was for the best dancer, and the devotees of the light fantastic were at their best. The sue- cessful one was Miss Hattie Jeffer- son, 5210 Federal street. ‘The prize was a handsome lavalliere necklace, which was admired by the entire as- emblage. MRS. ELLENORA HARVEY ILL Mrs, Ellenora Harvey, housekeeper for the late Major John C, Buckner, is reported very ill at the residence of her brother In Indianapolis, Ind., where she moved shortly after her employer's funeral. ‘Friends in Chicago were alarmed early this week, for so seri- ous was her condition that word of the death in this city of her intimate frieiti, "te" Ruth Gaines, could not + told to her. PITAL CITY NEE BUSINESS MiN is Out Call for Grocer and Shoe ker-Harvest for Experience vy fe 7 1, the Chicago Defende.) Ston, D.C. Jan. 29,—7his no up-to-date grocery sire. dzh Washington has 127,006 col tion, and this population re than $12,000 spent eople for groceries afone, PAGE Six <= MUS} LAD “A ises, Al JOTTINGS TAR wok AND ‘The Lux. DeKoven Thompson. there is not a single up-to-date grocery store in the city, The co-operative spirit is growing in Washington, and the cltizens are beginning to realize that race business enterprises mean splendid returns in the way of in- creused opportunities for young men and women as clerks, bookkeepers, etc. A first-class grocery store in Washington will be a financial sue- cess. It i8 also an Inviting place for some shoemaker and repairer to estab- lish a quick shoe repairing shop eduipped with the latest shoe repair- jug macbinery, An experienced man in this business will reap a harvest there, Italians now control the work umong the race here. MERIT WINS CLEVELAND MAN HIGH POSITION Walter B. Wright Secretary to Rail- road President and Member of Vet- eran Employes’ Association. (Special to the Chicazo Defender.) New York, Jan, 90.—The secretary to the president of the New York, Chi- cago & St. Louis Ry. a part of the Vanderbilt System, is a colored man, Walter B. Wright. Not only is he see- retary to the president, and therefore high in authority, but is also first member of the executive committee of the Veteran Association, an organiza- tion of employes of the road who have seen twenty-five or more years' serv- ice with that company. Mr. Wright, whose home fs in Cleveland, Ohio, is a splendid example of a successful race man whose merit alone won him success. WHAT SHALL WE DO? So many “ot aur subscribers who are in urrears don't want us to dun them by mail and complain when we send a collector for our money. ‘They promise to send or come jn and bring the money—but they do not. ‘This Week we ask with all candor: What shall we do? HARD TIMES BALL AND SUPPER A SUCCESS The hard times ball and supper given by the Twelfth Regiment Land, G. UC. O. of O. Fat Odd Fetlows' Halt iast Thursday evening was well Attended and proved to be a very unique affair. ‘The music was fine and there was considerable rivalry for the four prizes—a ton of coal, a ham, a sack of flour, and a turkey. ‘The menu was old fashioned, consist- ing of opossum and sweet potatoes, Kentucky oyster and barbecued pig. Mrs. Clay Gets Ton of Coal. She knew how to dress was proven Tharsduy night, not only at the height of fashion but in a hard time way for Mrs, 1. H. Clay, 3227 Wabash avenue was the helie of the ball, and she got the ton of coal, Miss Grace Spann, 2146 Wabash avenue spanning the bridge of fame in a close second, won not only a ham, but won fame for Wabash avenue, which proves that talent, yes, real talent, exists on that lane. Columbus Newport, 2 W. 32d strect, the man with the geographic name, went home with a sack of flour, ‘The fourth bat not least was a bell all the way from Oak Park, Miss Ola Martin, 727 N. Austin avenue, though a chicken preferred a turkey, and when last seen on 2 Lake street extr she was turkey tronting home. At the ball, at Me ball, the i2th regiment ball, it all happened at the Odd Fel- lows hall, THE YOUNG MATRON’S CULTURE CLUB. The members of the above chib met at the home of Mrs. Olive Ollicer, 3253 Staite street. Quotations from Tenny- son comprised the literary program, after which the usual business was transacted. It was decided to give a whist party February 9th at the home of Mrs. Anna Johnson, 3743 Rhodes avenue, Dr. T, 8. Officer made a few encouraging remarks. Our hostess served a dainty luncheon, We ad- journed to meet at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews, 4733 Dearborn street, February 5th at 2:30 p.m, Mrs, Ethel Clewes, Pres.; Mrs. Estelle Mil- ler, See. INVESTORS AND HOME HUNTERS. Come to 632 Bowen avenu: (41st ‘yluce), Sunday, from 2 to 4 p. m., and tee one of the best two-flat buildings fr sale on the south side. Small pay- nbnt down and balance like rent will hu you a home, or earn from 10 to 15 peiacent on your yoney. PLANS CHAIN OF DRUG STORES gerne. Ky., Jan. 30.—(Special.) —The Qharmacy conducted by Dr. R. F. Whit), in this city is unsurpassed for size, {tock and volume of business done by any white pharmacy in the city, Dr. ‘White has had such great snecess with his pharmacy he is con- sidering establishing a chain of drug stores, buying his stock in carload lots, and thus’ be in position to meet nny competition in selling prices. ILLINOIS RENTING ASSOCIATION. Our advertising columns this week contain the advertisement of the above company, who haye solved the prob- lem of keeping your room rented all the time. The Chicago Defender car- ries a large amount of this kind of ad- vertising and our patrous who have any trouble keeping their rooms rented are referred to them. MAKES GOOD IN EXPRESS BUSINESS St. Lottis, Jan. 30.—(Special.)—M. ©. Whitloy has demonstrated that one of the race can make good in the pack- ing, expressing and storage eee He is conducting.a large and paying business at 2520 North Taylor ayenuo, Use Moderatton. Few people do business well who do rothing else —Chesterfield. F E 44 i N 27th and STATE STREETS | | UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT .§ AT 6:30 Opens Saturday Eve., Jan. 3ist, t'w High Class Motion Pictures. eee ata JORDAN’S FAMOUS ORCHESTRA SOUVENIR MATINEE EVERY DAYsx732Ssturgey This theatre has been thoroughly renovated and decorated * throughout, making it one of the most beautiful photo-play houses in the city. Equipped with the most modern heating | and ventilating sytem, it assures ideal ventilation at all times. c | : ; wot | Continuous Show 2 to 11P. M. = Admission Ais" What Journalists Know d What They Print Criticism and Complaint Because Newspapers Do Not Publish What the Public Considers All the Facts in a Case Is Unjust ; Honest Editors Must Be the Arbiters of “What Is Fit to Print”—Gossip and Ofttimes Facts Told to Editors and Re- porters Would Make Spicy Reading; but, Serving No Good Purpose, Cannot Be Printed—Mission of Race Newspapers Im- portant One. CHARACTER BUILDERS AND GUARDIANS OF PUBLIC WEAL As Champions of the Rights of the Negro and Publishers of the Events of the Week, Accurate News Is Painstakingly Gathered by Small but Earnest Forces—Newspapers Are the Watchmen of the Human Drama, Seeing Who Plays the Game Fairly and Who Doesn't—Knowing Is One Thing, and Telling is Quite Another—Some Recent Cases. DR. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS DELIVERS DIPLOMAS GO-TO-CHURCH SUNDAY “Newspaper English” and “What Journalists Know—and ‘Teli has been the subject of editorial discnssion in the Chicago daily newspapers recently. “Newspaper English” is a much moot- ed question, but “What Journalists Know and Print” fs an attractive phrase for the eriticism and com. plaint heaped upon the Negro news- papers and their workers by (hose who forget their important iission, which, in a word, is to build up and not tear down, aaite, disregard that many of tho daily newspapers everywhere pay to the things of good import concerning the race. and their apparent eaxerness to sive eredence and display to the bad is a Jamentable but undeniable Taet. ‘To offset this condition; to champion the rights of the Negro; to encourage the men, women and chi- dren: to build up its organization; to tell the truth about progress and to chronicle sociat, religious, business {raternal and other events of interest is the work of our newspapers. What the Journalists Know. ‘Fo do this the newspaper workers of color are often censured for not publishing all the news, reporters and correspondents being the objects of complaint. In their endeavors to get the news they invariably cor. into possession of gossip and ofttit.es facts relative to the matter in question which would make spicy reading. if printed. Those who furnish this in formation sometimes only repeat ru- mors. Others with documentary prot and other convincing evidence give facts. The zealous reporter makes note of it all. The story is prepared according to the editor’s instructions or from his own viewpoint. The sen- sational part may please him and dis- please the editor, and vice versa; but with few exceptions the article’ that greets the reading public truthfully tells the pertinent facts. It is interest- ing, but not spicy. The spley stuff is pigeonholed or stored away in the minds of the newspaper people. It serves no good cause, and only the person who gave the Information is dissatisfied, Difficulty in Gathering News. When next they meet, the writer Is accused of not knowing his business. His Informer is frate. “You newspaper people are a lot of chumps. Why, that article you published about Bill Brown didn’t contain half the facts. Why, 1 told you so and so, and J went so far as to show you this and that letter. He cannot he pacified, and goes his This Is the First Time in the History of Chicago a Colored Man Has Ever Been Asked to Deliver an Address and Present Diplomas to a Public School. Upon invitation of Miss Shoal, prin- cipal of Keith School, Dr. A’ Wilber- THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. Way, preaching his gospel of discon- ent. And the newspaper is unjustly scolted. This applies to nearly every ‘kind of news. With small forces, the average editor invariably strives to gather accurate news. ‘To say the least, the work is painstakingly done. Petty jealousies exist in churehes and committees giving — entertainments. ‘The reporter interviews Mrs, Smith, who tes him to give credit to her friends; while later Mrs. Jones con- tradiets her and says her list is the right one. Factions are ever apparent in clubs and lodges, and the informa- tion gleaned has to be carefully sifted. Even when the mim reaper, Death, has laid his hand upon some prominent person the newspaper writer In search of information finds conilicting stories as to the life and work of the deceased. What the Editor Prints. ‘This information is marshaled .into order and presented to the editor. If he or she is a person of strength and character und has the welfare of the People at heart, only those things that lend for sood and harmony will be printed. In these strenuous times be- ing the arbiter of the news, what to print and what is not fit to print, is an important position. Active Chicago newspaper workers have learned many interesting and, what some term, spicy things during the last few months. Every affair of moment has had its several sides, but careful editors have separated the wheat from the chaff. What the jour- nalist knows is one thing, but print- ing Is quite another. Those Who Play the Game. A Chicago daily newspaper said edi- torially last week: “Ambassador Page, in addressing London newspaper and magazine men recently, made some re- marks, serious and otherwise, on the virtues of the craft. He wondered ‘Whether those who were so free with eriticism and complaint realized that whatever journalists may know, one very important thing they do know: They know, as they watch the human drama, ‘who plays the game fairly,’ and who doesn’t; and they seldom miss ‘the right measure of all the humbugs, It is only the indopendent, earnest, candid newspaper that gives the pub- lic the measure of the humbugs it finds out, or that always gives credit to those who are square and fit." A prominent Chicago minister says that “Negro newspapers are character- builders and guardians of the public weal.” SPRINGFIELD ITEMS. {Special to The Chicago Defender.] Springticld, 0. January 30.—Miss Ollie Petiford, grand W. C. of the Courts of Calantha for Ohio and its ‘Jurisdiction, visited Victor Court and is the guest of her sister, Mrs, Mary Brooks of Olive street. Mrs, E, Culpher of Troy, 0. grand deputy of the courts, is the house wuest of Mrs. A. J. Riggs in East Clark street, also called by Victor and Dia- mond Courts of Calantha.” Mrs. Mattie Conway Butter and son of Burgen, N. ¥., are the guests of Mrs. Dennis Dent, called by the ill ness of Mr. Dent. Mr. William Miles, S. R., of South Center street, remains quite ill, ‘Those tnat failed to attend the chop suey and chili supper at the resi- dence of Mr, David Willborn missed a grand treat. The ladies were in ort ental costume and the interesting pro- gram added much to the pleasure 6f the evening. The Ladies’ Aid Society of Wiley M. KE: Chureh met at the residence of Mrs. Rosa Smith Friday afternoon, Champion lodge, F. A, M., is pro- gressing nicely and quite a number have been added 10 their roster, Golden Star Chapter No. 1, 0. E. S., under the untiring efforts of the R. M., Mrs. June Sasley, and the ollicers is in good condition spiritually and finan- cially. Rev. Harrison, the evangelist, is meeting with grand success at St, John’s Baptist Church on West Pleas- ant street. ‘The church is crowded every night and more than 100 have professed a change of heart, May the good work go un, Bro, Harrison, ‘The Thursday afternoon club met with Mrs. L. Renolds on East Euclid ayemme. Plans were laid for the an- nual dinner on February 12, with the president, Mrs. ‘Thomas James of West Inisfallen avenue. The Self Improvement Cluy met ‘Thursday ufternoon with Mrs. Rev. Joseph Courtney on West Fair street. \ paper by Mrs, Charles A. Beard, en- utled -Cowperation,” was discussed by Ure members after business, A dainty luncheon was served by the hostess, Mrs. C. Mrs. Rebecca Beard of West State street entertained about uveaty-tive of her lady friends with a buffet lunch- con Friday atternoon. ‘The color ‘seheme was green and white, The dining yoom was beautiful with its soft lights and a beautiful basket of ferns and’ flowers. Mrs, Beard was assisted by Mrs, James Curtis and Mrs. Charles Beard. ‘The ‘young. la. dies who assisted in the dining room were Miss Vivian Jackson, Ada Rick- jets, Ms. R. Dalton and Miss Helen Heard. The ladies were Mesdames ‘©. Ricketts, C. McAfee, Tho. Clay, C. Jones, Tho. James, S. Shivers, J. §. Jackson, It. T. Frey, W. H. Hannd, Joseph Courtney, H. Lewis, M. Brus. ly, B. Isley, W, Holiday, R. J. Walker, Miss Guy of Zanesville, Mrs. ©. C. Underwood, Wm. ‘Tarison, Mrs. H, Otey, C. Johnson, E. Cushinbery. The young men employed at the Good- Reese green houses, the largest rose groves in the U, S—Mr. J. Turner, Wm. Straws, Wm. Turner, C. Beard, Wm. Virgins, C. Murphy, W. White, C. Garrette, George Williams, George Graham, Tilman Tibbs. Please leave news at William Hen- Gerson's barber shop or call Bell Phone 2011 not later than Tuesday morning. ALEX STEVENS RECOVERS FROM APOPLEXY Well Known Restaurant Man Again Mingles with Friends—Will Go é to Missouri. Mr. Alex Stevens, the well known State street restaurant man, who suf- fered an attack of apoplexy about a year ago and who has since been con- fined to his residence, 5853 Wabash avenue, has recovered and is again mingling with his friends. He receives a warm welcome every- where, always being a popular citi zen. Mr, Stephens is the man who first managed the dining car service on the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin R. R., and when taken ill was manager of the Wheaton Gold Club cafe. Mr. and Mrs, Stephens will leave the city in April for their home in Missouri and their Chicago residence will be occupled by thelr daughter. —— ‘Ste. Dieesiaietne First Grad—"My wiie's gone to the West Indies.” Second Grad—“Jame- iea." First Grad—"No, She wanted to g0.”—Orange Peel. Secret. “The whole secret of giving parties is to ask the pretty people to meet the clever ones."—Olave M. Potter. Home Address, 3645 Rhodes Avenue Main Office, 3159 State St., Chicago, Ill, Phone Auto. 77-409 Phones: Auto. 71-703, Doug. 4558 ’ UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF H. C. JENKINS, ws Theatrical Agency and School of Vaudeville Art Acts Framed by Mr. Jerry Mills Office Hours: from 11 A. M. to 5 P, M. PHONE 5463 HYDE PARK Billiard and Pool Room Barber Shop T. J..BRAZELTON, Prop. 5220 Lake Avenue Chicago HOURS: 104.M.TO10 P.M. PHONE AUTOMATIC 74-548 The Largest, Best and Cheapest ‘ PRACTICAL MUSIC SCHOCL , All Brass and Stringed Instruments, Violin, Piano, ttandolin and Guitar Visit the Freo Monthly Recitals at our School by the Puplis. Tickets Given at School. Conducted by W.L. JACKSON, ‘Teacher 3109 STATE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures EE as | Change of Program Monday and Thursday ~ FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 3110-12 State St., - Chicago, HL. Performers Send in Your Open Timo THOS. McCAIN MORTSHOECRAFT TOM LEMONIER, Mge. The Pompeii Buffet and Cafe 20-22 East Sst Street CHICAGO BEST & SONG Decorum Perfect Service Everything Phones (Rois 91318 STATE CIVIL SERV- ‘ ICE COMMISSION EXAMINATIONS Mlinois in’ Need of a Variety of Assist- ants—Representative Major R. R. Jackson Furnishes Chicago Defender | With Official List. - Readers of the Chicago Defender out of Work*or who want to better their conditions are urged to take these ex- aminations. Applications must be on file in Springfield before 5 p. m. oh the dates noted below. . Labor State Game Farm. Examination on February 7, 1914, at ;Auburn only. Last date for applica- tion, February 4, 1914. Class Q; Grade 1. Salary $50 to $75 per month. Open to male residents of Sangamon county 19 to 55 years of age. Scope and weights: Experience as shown in application, 5; physical examination, 5. District Game and Fish Warden. Examination on February 9, 1914, at Springfield only, Last date for appli- cations, January 31, 1914. Class J, Grade 2. Salary, $125 per month and necessary traveling ex penses. Six positions to be Milled. Open to men 25 to GO. Scope and weights: ‘Training and experience, 3; snecial subjects, including a physical examination and questions, some of etre nee ae . 2 SERS AEE eS SU ik ean Viol s Re SSR io FE MAS. Cn pie er a Bees Tey Ls petiny ‘Madame Boger wishes to announce - she is making a specialty of teach- ing Hairdressing, Manicuring and Facial Massage at her Beauty Par- lors, 107 E, 35th St. Her reputa- tion for artistic hairdressing is wide- ly known throughout this part of the country. For terms call at the above address, Or Phone Doug. 2273. Res,-Doug. 784 WV 5. ‘ 9 = 7 . . Bigs { ne eee me SAY Which may be oral, on tae: tion of a district and on t\, ‘be enforced and methods use | Stenographer, Grades ‘13 Examinations on February| fat Chicago, Springfield, Pe Centralia. Last dute for app! February 14, 1914. : Class H, Grades 1 and 2, Grade 1, $50 to §75; Grade 2, 3100. Open to men 21 to ‘6A women 19 to 55. Scope and wel Training and experience, 3; ge raphy, 3; typewriting, 2; offlgMas ods and common branches, ss tion specds: ° Grade 1, 90 wo minute; Grade 2, 120 words pea ute, A passing grade must be obtain in stenography. Library Assistant. Examination on March 21, 1914, Chicago, Springfield and Urbana. La: date for applications, March 11, 1914 Several vacancies now exist. 7 Glass G, Grade 1. Salary, $60 to $100 per month, Open to-men 21 to 55 and women 18 to 55. Open: to non-residents of Ilinois. Scope and weights: ‘Training and experience, 3: special subjects, covering general I- brary methods, 7. Application blanks and circulars of information may be secured from the state civil service commision, Spring- field, 11). _ GB | BS Se AN [it Cate ERG | Mss eon FR 3 Aaa lea oe 8 date agaies e & a a a ast eA aE? oe RETR, | SM gescy ONS Cee aneeae se Mo Ree eae aT tes Ree eli rad Seana Yt Resi en Visit Seki pe Nea LISS Bas SE GSS ST eS aay NE ‘Let Madame Newell grow your hair; she has grown hair for, others, now lot her grow yours. . First treatment $1.50, including bor of Jickey, and 50c every two mae Also “Manicuring, Massaging, Chi- topody and all kinds fof fair goods cheap. We teach what wetdo, Call or WWrite— Mme. Newell’s Beauty College 2703 Dearborn Street, 3rd Floor Phone Auto. 79613 Orders taken for fancy goods. Agents Wanted One Hundred and Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Birth of Abraham Lincoln Will Be Held by the Illinois Commission National Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom in 1915. Co-operation Should Not Be Considered as Bestowing a Favor Upon the Commission, but as Fulfilling Your Own Duty—Hon. Medill McCormick and Other Prominent Speakers. Our readers have no doubt learned from these columns that the state of Illinois has appointed a commission to conduct and manage a national half-century anniversary of Negro freedom, to be held in this city in 1915. This commission has worked ceaselessly toward creating a healthy public sentiment among the colored people, regardless of party or religious affiliations. It is a movement which should prompt the ambition of every self-respecting Negro citizen of Illinois to contribute his or her share toward making this celebration an opening wedge in the breaking away of the fetters of prejudice now existing against the race. Every Negro who has the least spark of manhood or womanhood should lay down every tint of personal disfavor upon the altar of justice, come together in a common cause, and help to remove the disabilities from which the colored people suffer in their civic, political and industrial life. They should be prompted as was the immortal Lincoln in the signing, of that great document which meant to us the resisting of barbarism, slavery and despotism. Every Negro man and woman should remember that in the abolition of slavery it promoted civilization, combatted bondage, and favored freedom. It has consumed monarchical oppression of subjects, and has deposed tyrants for misgovernment. It has fostered the anelioration of world legislation, and has breathed the spirit of justice, law, order, peace, liberty and human rights. Entire Race Should Help. As the state of Illinois gives to the country a much larger citizenship than any other northern state, with its Negroes paying taxes upon $25,000,000 worth of property, 99 per cent of which has been accumulated within the last fifty years, it ought to be expected that every single member of this race should join hands with this commission in bringing about a universal response to its endowment. Every Negro man or woman, whether his pursuit be professional, commercial, industrial or whatnot, should be aroused to a sense of his duty to his community and to his race. And that duty is at this time pre-eminently a co-operation with the commission in the holding of public meetings, thereby furthering the work of the campaign of education among our people in making this national half-century anniversary of Negro freedom just what it can and, in simple justice to ourselves, ought to be. It should be borne in mind that in gi not so much be- upon a state city to your- dignity, dependence egro people id to answer mission in the forces of the tition a credit of our worth, against those progress; racial nation. quick to Speak. the commission ses of meetings to various localities on es; nuary S. at 3 o'clock, under the ausethel Literary and His Speakers: Hon. Me. Hon. Claude F. Smith. February S. at 8 p. m. Church, 3825 Dearborners: Governor Edward Governor Richard Yates. Choral Study Club. Ill. Speakers: Hon. Illis, Professor W. W. usas. February 12—enant-General Nelson A.; Professor R. H. Hon. Martin B. Madw. Duff Piercy. Adrank S. Dickson will by the Choral Study chicago church choirs, had at the headquarborn street, after Feb- one of the promi- columbia, S. C., died 14 and was buried on Jan. 18. Rever- er of Mrs. Clara udeamus Charity friends in Chil- te Mrs. Henrietta ie E. Lewis, who church when re- ALONG THE NORTH SHORE AFFAIRS IN MILWAUKEE. Our Special Correspondent's Interest ing Week End Letter from This Popular Wisconsin City. By Luna M. Scott. [Special] to The Chicago Defender. Milwaukee, Wis., January 30.—The congregation of St. Mark's A. M. E. Church will hold services regularly at 330 4th street until they enter their new church, June 1. A platform meeting for men will be one of the principal features of the "Go to Church Sunday" services program at 3:30 p.m. The general discussion will be on the subject of: What can be done to better the moral, industrial and political conditions of the Afro-American in Milwaukee? Every race, loving man should be present and take part. Meeting at 330 4th street. Calvary Baptist Church, 414 Cherry street, will conduct special services on "Go to Church Sunday," Feb. 1. Mrs. Gladys Sellars has returned from her singing engagement in Minneapolis but leaves shortly with another troupe. Miss Sarah Woods, a student of the West Division high school, where she is studying domestic science, is an excellent culinary, and proved her ability by entertaining the Misses Burgette at a very tempting luncheon on last Sunday. Mrs. Mollie Odam is contemplating a tril to Michigan to recuperate after a serious illness. Mrs. Dan Truss, who was dangerously ill, is improving. Club Notes. The Woman's Improvement Club met, Friday, January 23, at the residence of Mrs. Ralph Sanford. The president presided. A demonstration of the proper way to cook round-steak was exhibited, by Mrs. Blanche Johnson and Mrs. John Williams demonstrated the cooking of rice. A series of articles on "Great Women of the Race" was read by the different members of the club and after this instructive program a very tasty luncheon was served. On February 5 the club will give their annual masquerade ball at Liederafel hall, and the members are looking forward for a pleasant entertainment. It is hoped that a large crowd will attend, as these ladies are doing great work and deserve both patronage and encouragement. Carrie Horton, president; Marie Burgette, secretary. The Chicago Defender is on sale at Scott Bros. news depot, 328 State street, Grand 3892. GLENCOE SOCIETY [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Glencoe, Ill., January 30.—The Amercene Dramatic Club is making active preparations for its next monthly entertainment Feb. 28 at the A. M. E. Church. "Home Ties," a four act play lasting two hours and a half, will be presented. Admission, as before, has been made low so that all may see the performance. Thursday evening, Feb. 5. the Dramatic Club presents "Old Acre Folk" at the First Baptist Church of Lake Forest. The cause of this organization is worthy. They are now paying for the Sunday school piano. Miss Nannie Keeble is confined to bed with a severe cold and sore throat. Mrs. Hunter is able to sit up a while. Mr. John Allen is much better. The opening of the spring course in Mrs. Calloway's millinery class has brought new members. Others are welcome. Meetings every Thursday afternoon from one to five at the residence of Mrs. T. D. Jones. The suggestion at the Glencoe village school board meeting that a new school house be built for children living between Wentworth and Woodlawn avenue and Park avenue on the east side of the track was not even considered. The reason given was so that those children may not have to cross the tracks. There were some colored men who attended the meeting. May there not be any other reason for the suggestion? TWIN CITY NEWS. Minneapolis and St. Paul Events of Interest—Church and Other Happenings. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 20.—Mr. Raymond Carmon returned from Washington, D. C., after again being elected treasurer of the Alpha Pi Alpha fraternity and has again resumed his studies at the University of Minnesota. The Imperial Social Club held its annual stag session Friday and the membership committee submitted an encouraging report for 1913. The club elects to enlarge its membership. In the various places of the "Twin Cities" where colored waiters are employed the "Old Aces" "don't hit the ball" and the itinerate waiter finds it awful easy to get in bad, and thereby the general service is bad and all suffer compunction, and it spells inefficiency. Wake up and shelve the old friendship "gag" and hit the trail for the good of the service. The Minneapolis Sunday Forum has caught the spirit of the Move Sanely Forward movement and the whole community is being benefited. Mr. James Sheppard, an old resident of Minneapolis, died at his home of typhoid pneumonia. Funeral services were conducted by the Odd Fellows at Bethesda Baptist Church Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. Interment at Anoka, Minn., his former home. Our druggist, Dr. W. G. Nelson, has moved his stock of drugs and reopened his store at Summit avenue and Wabasha street, St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Mae B. Samuels was appointed recently as patronage solicitor for the Custom Laundry Co., the first of the kind by any laundry company in the "Twins." Mrs. Cordelia Clinton of Cincinnati, Ohio, left Wednesday for the East, after an extended visit in Minneapolis. Miss M. E. E. Prutt of Kansas City, Kan., has surprised Minneapolis by her renditions. She is a vocalist of no mean ability. Miss Prutt will appear on the "Forum" program in the near future. Attorney W. R. Morris has returned, after a short and interesting trip. Dr. R. S. Brown will soon address the Negro Morals Commission. The branch organization N. A. A. C. P. is slowly but surely organizing, with Mr. Gale Hilger as pilot. It will be effective when done. M. E. Jackson, Esq., of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city, residing at 931 Spring street. MR. RUTTENBERG SUC- CESSFUL MECHANT First in Chicago to Give a Clerkship to Any Member of the Race in the Drygoods Business. The Chicago Defender called its readers' attention to this merchant in its last issue, and does so again, having since learned that he was the first man in Chicago to give a clerkship to a member of the race in the drygoods M. J. B. Merchant Ruttenberg Who Opened His Doors to Colored Clerks—He is the First Man to See the Importance of It and Says Colorode People Should Not Patronize Stores Which Refuse Them Work. business. It was about six years ago that Mr. Ruttenberg realized the importance of employing colored help. It was not a popular idea, but he did so, and he has never regretted it. His employees soon proved their worth, became proficient, and his pride has increased. Mr. Ruttenberg is the proprietor of the Thirty-fifth Street Sargain Store, 3534 State street, the most attractive store in that block. There are many real bargains to be found there, as his stock is a large one and certainly he has the most pleasing young ladies as clerks. Take the tip from us and visit the store. RAILROAD MEN ORGANIZE The Brotherhood of Train Porters of America and the Object for Which It Is Formed. By John R. Winston. The train porters at last are getting together in one body, all over the country where there is a division where train porters and chair car porters are employed, and sending in their names for membership to the Brotherhood of Railroad Train Porters of America. Letters of congratulation are being received every day from all parts of the United States by the chairman of the executive committee. 'The Full Crew law in many of the states is the cause of the awakening of the train porters all over the country and their getting together. They are tired of being kicked around. The objects of the association are the moral, social and intellectual improvement. The management of the aforesaid corporation shall be vested in a board of seven directors, who are to be elected for the term of one year. The following persons are hereby selected as directors to control and manage said corporation for the first year of its existence: John R. Winston, L. R. S. Perkins, J. W. Edins, Grant Ray, C. A. Wallace, James Lange, Grant Campbell. The location is in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the state of Illinois, and the present post office address of its business office is at 4015 Cottage Grove avenue. Mr. John R. Winston is attending to all of the business until a committee can locate a suitable office. Buttons are being made for which each member will be taxed 50 cents, the money to be turned over to the treasurer to be used only for the organization. Branch lodges will be opened in other cities when the Chicago office is in good working order. Interest of Friends Pleases Well-Known Citizen. Mr. J. O. Wright of 3538 State street has returned home from the South, where he went to recuperate from his recent illness. His many friends will be pleased to learn that he is much improved. He and his wife both appreciate the kindly interest that his friends have shown by continued telephone inquiries as well as personal calls. While in Hot Springs, Ark., Mr. Wright's interests were well taken care of by Gen. J. T. T. Warren and Mr. J. P. Smith of the Knights of Pythias. Old Proverba. It is a very knowing child who resembles its richest relative.—Tit-Bits. THE CHICAGO DEPENDER Winston's Spicy Gossip of Men and Events in the Railroad World. By John R. Winton. Brother J. W. Edins, 5108 State street, is still on the job as train porter in the service of the Grand Trunk Ry. Co. to Port Huron, Mich., who is a B. of R. T. P. A. charter we her Mr. Clarence Parker, 649 East 45th street, has resigned from the service of the Pullman company and has accepted a position with the Ira J. Mix Dairy Company driving an automobile. Mr. Parker is a personal friend of Mr. Jesse B. Gray, 5257 Dearborn street. Mr. J. B. Gray, 5257 Dearborn street, is still on the Rocky Mountain Limited trains in Pullman service to Denver, Colo., and he makes the statement that his sister, Mrs. Lillian Horn, 2152 Arapahoe street, Denver, Colo., loves to read The Chicago Defender. Mr. Edward Craig, 3626 State street, flat 28, has accepted the position as chef on President F. A. Delano's private car of the Monon Railway. Mr. L. W. Still, 2962 Wabash avenue, flat 8, is in the service of the Pullman company on a parlor car over the Monon Railway to Louisville, Ky. Mr. R. C. Rickman, 2942 Prairie avenue, 2d flat, is in parlor car service of the Pullman company to Cincinnati, O.; also Mr. Bud Jennings of $39 Keynoun avenue, Cincinnati, to Chicago, the real joy man of the Monon Railway. In case you have business for The Chicago Defender phone Wabash 4923 for Mr. John R. Winston, leave your order with Mr. J. W. Graves, the tailor, 712 South Dearborn street, also sell him your old uniforms. Mr. S. M. Smiley is still on the job as train porter with the Chicago Great Western Ry. on trains 1, 2, 4 and 5, Chicago to Minneapolis, and from Oelwein to Chicago on 4 and 5. Train and chair car porters, above all things do not neglect to join the Brotherhood of Railroad Train Porters of America. Write to J. R. Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove avenue. Mr. William W. McDonald, 4228 Evans avenue, has renewed his subscription for another year with The Chicago Defender. Also for his brother at Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Thomas M. McDonald, 1222 Highland avenue. INVESTORS AND HOME HUNTERS. Come to 632 Bowen avenue (41st place), Sunday, from 2 to 4 p. m., and see one of the best two-flat buildings for sale on the south side. Small payment down and balance like rent will buy you a home, or earn from 10 to 15 per cent on your money. Well-Known Church and Secret Society Woman Long Sufferer—Shock Hastens End. Mrs. Ruth Gaines, member of Ebenezer Baptist Church and well known in secret society circles, dropped dead at her residence, 27—Wabash avenue, Saturday night. Mrs. Gaines and her aged mother were alone, when she wanted a drink of water and went to the kitchen for it. She fell at the sink, and when her mother secured help from the grocery below she was dead. The remains were removed at once to Charles Jackson's undertaking rooms, where a post mortem examination showed that death was caused by organic heart trouble. Mrs. Gaines had long been a sufferer from the malady and had sought relief in many climates for it, but friends believe that the shock of a fight in her home Monday night hastened her death. She kept roomers, and Tuesday she showed a Chicago Defender reporter how an angry couple had damaged one of her rooms. A man and his wife disagreed, and in the fight that followed windows and several pieces of her furniture were broken. She was greatly agitated over the matter. Funeral services were held at Ebenene Baptist Church on Thursday and the remains were taken to Cincinnati, Ohio, for interment. Accompanying the remains were her mother, who will remain there, and her son, Fitzhugh, who will return to his present home in Ogden, Utah. She was a member of Sinal Tabernacle, Unique Temple, Lady Elks and other societies. THE ENGLEWOOD LYCEUM. The Lyceum celebrated its first anniversary last Sunday. A splendid program was rendered. The president, Mr. D. W. Johnson, made a short review of the year's work, which has been very satisfactory and successful. Considerable stress was laid upon the fact that the co-operation of every member was necessary to the continuance of a successful work and the maintenance of the high standard which has been set. There was a large audience present and all enjoyed the program. Miss Ethel Mae Brumfield and Miss Marie Jefferson rendered beautiful solos. Mrs. H. M. Jeffries rendered a beautiful reading and was roundly applauded. Hon. George W. Ellis addressed the Lyceum on the subject of Liberia and West Africa. Having lived in Liberia for nine years and engaged in an official capacity as a representative of the United States government, he was able to present to us valuable and interesting information obtained on the ground in regard to the economic, political and social condition of the Liberians and surrounding natives. Aside from the historical merit of the address, its chief value rests upon the fact that it was presented from a black man's point of view, giving merit where merit was due as well as pointing out the weak points. FEARFUL FOR HIS HEALTH Friends of Reformed Man Remarkably Sollicitous as to Amount of Beverage He Takes. "Did you ever notice," asked the extank, making rings on the bar with his glass of milk and vichy, "how sollicitous his friends always are for the health of the man on the water wagon? Now, I like to drop in with the bunch and surround a saltzer lemonade or so while they are imbibing highballs, for the sake of sociability, but it is really spoiled for me by the way they worry. "In the old days nobody ever troubled himself about my constitution. None of the gang ever stopped me as I was about to take my sixth highball and said, Don't, old man; that will enlarge your spleen, and put hobnails on your liver, and give you Bright's disease.' Not at all. You could go on drinking highalls all night, with never a warning word. "But now, after I have taken my third saltzer and aromatic spirits, the boys begin to look thoroughly disquieted. 'Don't take any of that stuff,' the urge; 'it stimulates the heart action, and if you take half a dozen of them you are likely to drop dead right here in the bar. Just stand pat on those two you've had or take a cigar." "Or if I'm drinking some of these fermented milk drinks, I can't get past the third or fourth glass without the conversation halting and a look of real anxiety overspreading every face 'stop it, old man,' they say, and they're not joking; they're really worried. You've had three of those already, and all that acid stuff in your stomach is sure to give you indigestion. If you keep it up, your indigestion will be chronie." "As for the warnings I've had about ginger ale, I've laughed at 'em so often that the boys now have got a little skittish and don't talk so much about it. What I'm driving at is that all this can't put on; they really do feel troubled on my account and display a fatherly solicitude that is actually touching. I'm almost tempted to fall off the water wagon long enough to see if any of them will warn me that whiskey stimulates the heart and that beer is had for the kidneys. Will they? You have one guess." Capitallizing Kitchener The Boston Transcript tells an amusing story of one of the subjects of Lord Kitchener, consul general of Egypt, who turned the power and influence of the famous English soldier to his personal profit. While driving one day, Lord Kitchener noticed an old man in the street whom he recognized as an acquaintance from the Sudan. The consul general ordered the driver to stop, and invited the old man to take a seat in the carriage. So the two drove together through the town to the place to which the Sundanese wanted to go. A few days later the dark friend of Lord Kitchener was seen hovering about the British agency. At last an officer asked him what he wanted. "I should so much like to drive out with Lord Kitchener once more," the old man replied. "Why?" the officer asked. "You see," the Sudanese answered, natively, "after my friends and acquaintances saw me sitting at the side of Lord Kitchener, they came to me one after the other, and from one I received five pounds, from another two pounds, from others one pound, and 40 plasters from the very poorest. They all believed that I could speak in their favor to El Lord. "And," the old man added. "I should very much like to see that happen all over again." One Great Obstacle. The French are not inclined to take things too seriously. Thus, while they love and respect the venerable French Academy, they never refrain from making it the subject of a little good-natured wit. Even the members themselves, as this entry in Victor Hugo's notebook will show, indulge themselves in occasional sallies against the famous institution. On December 17, 1846, Victor Hugo, himself one of the 40 "immortal" members of the academy, write in his notebook, "Today, Thursday, in the academy, I spoke there with Dupin the elder about Balzac and his chances of election to the academy. Thunder!" Dupin interrupted me. 'So you really believe that, without any more to-do, Balzac will be chosen the first time he comes up for election. "You quote examples where that has occurred, but those prove nothing. Think of it! Balzac, at the first presentation of his name! You have thought the matter over carefully? Good! But you have forgotten one reason why it is quite impossible that Balzac should be elected to the academy: he deserves it!"—Youth's companion. Mammoth Molar When the real estate man came into the Curbstone club headquarters he proudly displayed a tooth which he said had just been extracted by a dentist. "Doc said it's one of the biggest he ever saw," he exclaimed. The ancient carpenter, who is known as the club Ananias, inspected the molar with an apparent lack of real interest. "It's nothing compared with one I had pulled once," he finally observed. "Sure I did," the carpenter declared. "When I showed it to my boss the next day he thought it was a milk stool."—Youngstown Telegram. Cathay. Cathay is an old name for China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe by Marco Polo. It is a corruption of Khital, derived from Khitan, the name of a people who conquered the Celestial empire at an early date. Like Teeth. Little Mary's aunt was visiting her at her home in the country. One day Mary said: "Come, auntie, and see my little banties. They are just cutting their tails." Free Rent for Old Agre How much money have you paid out in rent? What have you to show for it? Are you going to let "Old Age" catch you without a home to call your own? These are serious questions for you to think over. If you are wise you will come over to 3223 Calumet Ave. from 2 to 4 P. M. and let us tell you how to make your Rent Money buy you a home. We want you to take your choice of the Newly Decorated two apartment houses now being placed on special sale, located on Calumet Ave., Forest Ave., Langley Ave., Vincennes Ave. and Groveland Ave. Don't let your lease stand in the way and don't wait until Spring and pay more money for a place. Come Out Today and inspect them. Ask for our Mr. Thomas. Buy from "Bartlett's" and do business direct with the owner and save commission charges. We have thousands of satisfied customers that bought from us and saved money. Titles Are Guaranteed on all our properties. Chicago's Largest Real Estate Operators Phone Randolph 3751 59-69 W. Washington St. Beautiful Mount Glenwood Cemetery TRAINS DAILY: 2:15 Dearborn St., Polk St. Station; 2:25 at 47th and Wallace St. 2:30, 63rd and Wallace St. (Englewood.) Call our office and arrange for transportation. Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association, 3125 South, State Street Douglas 5574 Auto, 71-866 Dress Making and Ladies' Tailoring IN THE LATEST STYLE E. A. STEWART, 56 East 30th St. THE S. Q. J. WHIST CLUB. The S. Q. J. Whist Club was entertained by Mrs. Lutie Turner of 3435 Wabash avenue on last Saturday from 2 to 6 p. m. An elaborate six course luncheon, served by the hostess, preceded a delightful afternoon spent at cards. Mrs. Etna Frye and Mrs. Margaret Hudson won the semi-monthly prizes. Mrs. Mame Haddock was a visiting guest.—Mayne Clinkscale, reporter. TRUE REFORMERS. There was a conference and general meeting of the True Reformers at their headquarters, 363S State street, on last Monday evening. M. T. Bailey, state deputy of Illinois, presided over the meeting and explained some plans which he formulated for the betterment of the work throughout the state of Illinois and jurisdiction, and a reception was arranged for February 26, at which time the True Reformers and their friends will gather at headquarters to put in operation the plans suggested. The Grand Officers as well as the local officers and members are very anxious to have Chicago Division take its former place in the gift of the organization. The Rosebud fountains and clubs are being increased and new energy created along that line from the junior department looking forward to the coming of the convention next May as well as to build a nucleus toward which the Grand Fountain will take judicial notice in September, 1914, as one of the main reasons why the next meeting should convene in Chicago in 1915. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, who is the president of the Rosebuds of the West, believes the coming meeting can be made the greatest for years both in enthusiasm and in attendance as many will want to come from the different western states and the South in order to see the city of Chicago, the metropolis of the West. EUREKA FINE ART CLUB Eureka Fine Art Club was entertained by Mrs. S. B. Brown at 29 E. 36th Place on January 15th and by Mrs. Anna Hall, 3552 Forest avenue, on January 22d, and will be entertained on the 29th by Mrs. Lettie Brown, 3550 Forest avenue. They will also give a progressive luncheon on February 5th, beginning at Miss Ethel Alexander's, 3625 Forest avenue, at 1 o'clock sharp. Miss B. Miller and Mrs. Pattie Brown will be two of the special guests. Six young ladies in white will serve. The twenty-eight members of this club, all of whom live in the second ward have unanimously indorsed Mr. W. R. Cowan as alderman of the ward. PROGRESSIVE NEGRO LEAGUE The Progressive Negro League will meet in its regular meeting on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Charles Shepard, 3743 Rhodes avenue. In this meeting the regular election of officers will take place. The officers have already been nominated by a committee composed of Mrs. U. S. Harvey, chair Capelline Raddrizzator is saponaceous and gives the hair and scalp a thorough shampooing. "Capelline" straightens the hair and makes it wavy or curly as desired, with only one application. Capelline* is unlike any other preparation of hair that can be used to the hair to stay straight. This preparation electrifies the hair and scalp, and causes a rapid growth that is wonderful because the hair will stand washed without turning back to its original condition. Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Ladies' Tailoring TEST STYLE 56 East 30th St. man, Messrs. M. T. Bailey, secretary, Charles A. Turner, Charles E. Hatch- er and Rev. E. P. Robinson, and will be submitted at this meeting for the consideration of each member. The league has indorsed Mr. W. R. Cowan for alderman of the second ward. THE S. D. A. CHURCH. Since the winter series of Bible lectures have begun the attendance at the Dearborn Street Church has been increasing. The congregation on last Sunday evening was the largest, and a remarkable interest was manifested in the subject presented: "The Personality of the Holy Spirit." On next Sunday evening, February 1, the subject is one that should interest everyone, as it is a question that is being agitated in religious circles throughout this country and the entire Christian world, namely—"Did Christ command Sunday as a day of rest or is it an origin of the Roman Catholic Church?" Elder W. D. Forde will trace the history of Sunday, beginning from the misty ages of antiquity on to the times of Constantine, and down to the present time. A crowded house is expected and all are invited to listen to this important question. We invite you to be early so as to secure a comfortable seat. Remember the address of the church is 4802 Dearborn street. ILLINOIS SOCIAL AND FRATERNAL CLUB The Illinois Social and Fraternal Club, 3155 State street, received their charter from Springfield on Wednesday. A feature in the life of the club will be "Ladies' Night" on Friday night. The officers of the club are: President, J. R. Rives; vice president, Leslie E. Payne; second vice president, W. St. C. Jones; secretary, John H. Roberts; assistant secretary, W. Micheaux. SECRET SOCIETY NEWS North Star Lodge, U. B. F., and Golden Rod Temple, S. M. T., held a joint installation Monday night at 418 North Clark street. Bro. R. R. Hocker presided. Mr. J B. Street was installed as Master of the Lodge and Miss Evelyn Redman as Princess of the Temple. After the installation the guests and members were seated at the banquet table. There they were served with everything that a banquet requires. Everyone expressed themselves as having had a delightful time. FOR SALE—4235 Langley avenue, near Cottage Grove avenue. Forty-third street and elevated car lines; modern. Can be bought with rent you are now paying. See Mr. Madden there Sunday between 3 and 8 p. m., or phone Randolph 3751 any day. Dally Thought Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.—Browning. PENING OF NEW PEKIN THEATRE New Management Thoroughly Renovates and Decorates Famous Playhouse Throughout Race Should Be Proud of the Place. REFUSES TO CHANGE NAME. Nothing is more fitting to say than New Pekin. Ever since the passing away of the late Robert T. Motts the old Pekin has had numerous successors but not until Mr. W. P. Shaver, the present manager, took control, did any of them make an effort to revive the old playhouse and put it on a first class basis. But in Mr. Shaver we have a man who thoroughly understands the business and in taking the theater over he has shown much sentiment. He has been approached many times regarding the changing of the theater's name to another name, but a few years ago he was associated with Mr. Motts in the north side Columbia Theater, using the famous Pekin stock stock as their attractions and in retaining the name Pekin Mr. Shaver opens says it was the name founded by his friend Bob and that he has no desire to change the name that made all Negro theaterers possible as he wishes to perpetuate and commemorate the name Pekin to its thousands of former patrons and friends of Robert T Motts. The old as well as the young will have to admire all the beautiful changes that have been made in the old Pelkin. Everything that the building laws allow has been done, namely, the entire reconstruction of the main floor, widening and adding of two center aisles; also the addition of a new exit, which adds much safety and convenience, making it the safest theater in the city for handling large crowds, offering no resistance on going in or coming out, something much needed where the crowds are so congested. You will also see that the decorative changes have been in the hands of experts, and electric fixtures, also the very best ventilating system has been installed, adding much to the sanitary conditions of the house; in fact, no expense has been spared in providing comforts for the convenience of the public. Mr. Shaver has spent many evenings at the different theaters on the south side endeavoring to find out just what form of entertainment to offer and after due consideration he has decided to offer the very best, and for the first time all the modern Photoplay, and to make these productions perfect he has at an enormous expense constructed a new and up-to-date operating booth, and fitted it up with all the very latest appliances known to the moving picture world of science, using two of the latest picture machines, operated by motor power, which gives to the Pekin the opportunity of exhibiting the very best photoplays of the present day, including all the great productions in a repertoire of plays that the mind of great have conceived. Another part of Mr. Shaver's entertainment will be the music, which will add much to the success of the pictures and which will no doubt appeal to the lovers of good music. To that part he secured the services of that young and popular composer, director and musician, Mr. Joe Jordan, who at one time was director of the famous Pekin orchestra. Mr. Jordan has surrounded himself with members of the old Pekin orchestra. Mr. Shaver has great confidence in our people, which can easily be seen by the large amount of money he has expended in giving to us a desired want and restoring the theater that was built for us. We as a race should show our pride and loyalty by patronizing the house that was dedicated to us by the late R. T. Motts, America's foremost amusement benefactor to the Negro race. Help the Pekin live forever. HIGH RENTS. During the year the colored people of Chicago have spent thousands and thousands of dollars in exorbitant rentals. It is to be wondered if many of these have figured how much money they have paid to Landlords. Possibly the rents paid by some during the last few years have paid in full for the LANDLORD'S property, and this same rent money could have just as well bought a home for the RENT PAYER. When the landlord dies, he leaves his property to his family, and not to his tenant. If the tenant dies, the landlord puts his family out first time he fails to pay his rent. So to be on the safe side it is better to pay rent to yourself and not be a slave to the landlord. One of the most prominent real estate firms in this city has a plan whereby you can become your own landlord, so you can be good to yourself and to your own family. Read Bartlett's ad on the last page of this issue. OUT IN ENGLEWOOD Weekly Letter from This Progressive Section of the City. Mrs. Emma Young of 622 Morgan street entertained the Helping Hand Club last Thursday night. After the business the hostess served a delightful bunchon.—Mrs. Spencer, President. The Ideal Woman's Club was the guest of Mrs. B. Waverain, 1346 West 61st street. Tuesday was the fourth Friday, and after the business the club entered into praise service. Jan. 30 the club will meet at Mrs. Laster's. 5122 Wabash avenue, and Feb. 6 the club will meet at Mrs. E. Steward's. 5922 Aberdeen street. All members are requested to be present; it is the election of officers.—Mrs. B. Waverain, President; Mrs. A. Jones, Secretary. British Postal Church. Regular services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 1 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. Prayer services, Wednesday evening. Teachers' meeting, Friday evening. Full account of the rally will be made the second Snuday in February. Everybody is invited to the church Sunday all day. Especial services.—Rev. D. H. Harris, Pastor. Mrs. Warren Dobbins, 5153 Lafayette avenue, who owns a beautiful residence at the above address, left Chicago Jan. 24 for two months, visiting friends at Memphis, Tenn., Forest City, Ark., and Greensville, Miss. Mrs. Dobbins is the wife of Mr. Warren Dobbins, one of the oldest ushers at the Dearborn station. CHICAGO HEIGHTS. Chicago Heights, Ill., Jan. 30.—Mrs. Rebecca Thomas, a relative of Mrs. Amy Van's, visited her last Sunday from Chicago. We met Mrs. Thomas and found her to be an interesting lady. She possesses quite a knowledge of the massage work, and we hope more of our young women will equip themselves along all lines that will be instrumental in directing them away from the washtub. Mr. Wairl and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Burbridge visited at Harvey, Ill., last Sunday evening. We called to see Mr. and Mrs. William Evans at their residence and found them in excellent health. We called to see Mr. and Mrs. Willis, but learned of her illness and that she could not be seen. Mrs. Lula Wiley is faring nicely since the arrival of a new addition to their home. The baby seems to take things quite soberly. The Negro Political, Social and Educational Club of Chicago Heights meets at 1615 Butler street and is open every day from 3 p. m. until 12 m. Rules Recommendation of minors will not be considered. No member under the influence of liquor will be admitted to club room or on the premises. No gambling of any kind will be allowed in the club room. Anything detrimental to the welfare of this club or vicinity shall be strictly prohibited. Any violation of the above rules will mean immediate suspension of member or members. Mrs. Nora Cornelis and Mrs. May Webb spent several days visiting their mother at 1613 Hanover street, Chicago Heights but have recently returned to Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Lula Smith has returned to Chicago Heights, after an extended visit in St. Louis, Mo. There is a gentleman's debate every Wednesday night; ladies' discussion every Thursday evening. Gentlemen's debate for Wednesday, the 28th inst., "Which Is the Most Destructive, Fire or Water?"—W. E. Cook, President; Spike Culpeper, Secretary; Louis Woodford, Manager. Next Sunday is Go to Church Day and we are looking forward to that day with a great deal of interest. On the last Sunday of February Mr. Hudlin of Washington Heights will read a paper on "The Educational Uplift of Our Young People." Also Mr. Johnson of Chicago will read a paper on "The Petterment of Our People." Mr. Wells of the Baptist church returned to the Heights from the East. Mrs. Lydia Mallory has returned to the Heights, after a short visit to Jacksonville, Ill. Mr. D. R. Johnson expresses a desire to be more useful to his church and community. May God help all to realize the necessity of being more useful to each other. A. M. E. Church services: Preaching, 11:30; Sunday school at 2 p. m.; preaching, 7:45 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening. The Chicago Heights Literary will meet at Mrs. Amy Van's, 143 East 16th street. HUSTLING DEFENDER Mr. J. H. Holland, 22 West 51st street, who runs an up-to-date five-chafr barber shop, sells more Chicago Defenders than any other agent south of 39th street. He takes 60 copies each week and states that he is going to increase his number to the 100 mark if the railroad men continue to take them. Logical Reasoning. "Why do you insist upon having the biggest piece of pie, Harry?" asked the mother of a small boy. "Isn't your older brother entitled to it?" "No, he isn't," replied the little fellow. "He was eating pie two years before I was born." SPECIAL NOTICE To the Public and My Friends You are cordially invited to visit Mrs. F. B. Jones, 3409½ South State street, who carries an extra fine line of choice cigars, tobacco, post cards, delicious candies, sheet music of the latest publications at 10 cents a copy, various notions. Shoe shop manufactured by a race man. All leading colored men's papers. One-day laundry. HAYS HAIR Pomade Does All and More it Promises to Do. Does All and More it Promises to Do HAY'S HAIR POMADE straightens coarse, kinky hair and makes it glossy and luxuriant. You can dress your hair in any position and keep it so, if you USE HAY'S HAIR POMADE REGULARLY. Any one with kinky, coarse hair that is stubborn, will always get satisfaction, results from HAY'S POMADE even if all others have failed. — Highly Perfumed — Present this adw, with 25 cents, and get a large jar; and free sample of HARFINA SOAP, at CROWN PHARMACY 100% 31st and State Sts. Pilho Hay Spe. Co. Sole Manufacturers Newark, N. J. U. S. A. SPORTING By Frank A. Young. Whenever as wise a savant of the Queensberry rules as Billy Jordan places his stamp of approval on a budding star of the roped arena, then we all sit up and take notice. I mean both races who follow the sport. Jordan declares that Lee Johnson will be a second George Dixon. Johnson is about as clever a boxer as the race has ever had. Jordan has seen them all in action and his opinion goes a long way. Until Johnson fought Jimmy Fox he was drawing little attention and was not considered as a first-class boxer or fighter. Sometimes he would draw down $50 for a fourteen-round go. "But the little colored boy knows more about the art of boxing than Gunboat Smith can hope to learn if he stays in the game for a hundred years," writes a white sporting editor. He must be a wonder. Oakland is wild about him. Johnson knows how to sidestep. He can punch without drawing his arm back and telegraphing his blow. And when the other fellow comes too hard he has the prettiest way of ducking and blocking. In the bout with Fox the men were hardly squared off when Johnson shot a blow to the jaw that sent the palace face down for nine, the hell saving him. Fox went down like an ox. The referee should have stopped the fight right there, but allowed it to continue. Johnson floored Fox three more times, when the fans shouted to end it. The referee evidently lost his head and the police interfered. Down in old New York at the Manhattan Cusino Howard was victorious over Hampton in one of the cleanest and best college basket ball games ever seen. The score at the end of the first half favored Hampton, but the Howard boys came back so strong that they finished three points in the lead. In the Y. M. C. A. "gym" one sees some clever athletes in action. Baseball stars are out galore. Saw Rube Thomasson and the Grace manager looked like he was in midsummer form. Henderson, a crack first baseman, frequents the "gym" regularly. JACKSONVILLE. ILL. By Nellie Early. Jacksonville, Ill., Jan. 20—Miss Emma J. Caldwell of Chicago, D. G. M. N. G. of Eden District, Household of Ruth, G. V. O. F. No. 18, was in the city to dedicate the Olive Branch Juvenile of H. H. of Ruth No. 291 and also to make her official visit. Mrs. R. Clark of Carrollton, Ill., was a visitor here last week. The Civic League met Jan. 20 at Mt. E. B. Church. A union meeting was held at Mt. E. B. Church Sunday afternoon, Jan. 25, and special services for men were held Jan. 25 at the A. M. E. Church. Rev. Miller presided in the afternoon and Rev. Shaw in the evening. Mrs. S. Crutchfield has been on the slick list. Mr. Glen Kirk of Iowa visited his cousin, Mrs. Albert Moore, recently. Miss Mabel Lee Ferris presented Mrs. Emma J. Caldwell with two beautiful presents from the Juveniles. Mrs. J. Champ of Springfield, Ill., was a visitor recently. The chicken pie supper given Jan. 21 at the McCabe Church was well attended. The choir of the Second Baptist Church held their regular business meeting at Miss Jessie Allen's and the following members were on the program: Mrs. S. McDaniel, Mr. H. Nasby, S. Spencer, D. Harris, Rev. DeWitt and Macon Saunders. The next meeting will be with Mr. Macon Saunders on South West street. Col. Dennison of Chicago was the guest of Capt. Freeman recently. Mrs. A. M. Plant and son Eugene of Alton, Ill., are the guests of Mrs. J. Dunn, her sister, on South Prairie street. Miss Fannie Branum is on the slick list. A very pleasant surprise party was given recently in honor of Rev. and Mrs. DeWitt at their home by the members of the church. Each guest bought a pound of something. Mr. Tom Glass of Decatur visited relatives here recently. The train committee who met Mrs. Emma J. Caldwell was Miss Katharine Malone, Clarence Clark and Emily Soleman. The Twilight helpers will give a supper and concert Feb. 5 at Mt. Emery Baptist Church. Mrs. E. Moseley of South Fayette street continues ill. The Zouave Girls gave a very successful supper Jan. 27. Miss Era Barnes was accidentally hurt in Springfield recently. Mr. Frank and Clay Mallory royally entertained as their guests Jan. 20 eight ladies at the Second Baptist Church at a chicken pie supper. Those present were: Mesdames A. Rollins, Amelia Sharpe, Minnie Triplett, Sallie McDaniel, Della Harris, Jennie' Branum, Sarah Young and Laura Lafayette. Our Way. We all of us come home to bed quite cheerfully as long as we know we're at liberty to stay out all night— Exchange. --- THE CHICAGO DEFENDER ANIMAL TRAGEDY IN THE HIMAL LAYAN WILDS. Herd Obediently Followed: Its Lord and Master as It Had Been Accustomed, With Instant, Unquestioning Obedience. The cruel and savage side of nature gives F. St. Mars the theme for some of the most readable stories of natural history that have appeared in a long time. A tragedy of the wild is "Magnificent of the Steeps," a story of the wonderful takins, the goatlike antelopees of the eastern Himalayas. It is told in "On Nature's Trail." The bull takin has led his herd of three cows and two young through adventures with a snow leopard, with wild dogs and bears, always demanding and always being accorded, so strict and cruel is herd law; absolute, unquestioning, unhesitating obedience. Finally the takin herd met a hunter. The herd escaped. But the hunter was no ordinary hunter. He was "an American of long experience, one who did not give up things lightly." So the herd and the hunter met again. And Mr. St. Mars says of this meeting: "At a sharp bend in the steepest place, and at a point where the path was narrowest and strung on the mountainside like a spider's web along a wall—just there the bull, who was leading, stopped dead. He had to. He was looking full into the quiet, gray eyes of the hunter, not six yards away. "The position was slightly exciting. "None but a bird could have stepped off that path on either hand—sheer up, sheer down! Neither could turn back; and if either went on, somebody would have to get hurt. "The silence which followed was refined and clarified. "Death hovered about, waiting to pounce. "The double flash and twin report of the heavy Express rifle which followed seemed to bring the whole world of silence tumbling down about the hunter's ears. And the hunter's jaw fell and he gasped. His face paled to gray. Lines drew about his eyes. He became in seconds ten years older. "Nothing had happened. That was the rub. "The hunter had fired both barrels almost together. "He had not missed. Such men as he do not miss. Yet the bull takin had not even acknowledged receipt of either bullet; had not winced, even. "He just stood there, like a huge mass of superb sculpture in black and bronze, motionless. Nevertheless he was hit unto death, and he knew it. Secondes raced with his strength against the foe. In an instant he must have measured the distance from him to the enemy, and the time it would take to get there, and have realized—probably for the first and certainly the last time in his implacable, intolerate life—the fact that he was impotent. "I like to think of what he did then. It was so supreme, so grand, so typical of the beast. "He turned, he screamed one scream of unadulterated rage, and he plunged headlong over the edge of the path to—death. Instantly—and this was the grandest part of all, perhaps with unswerving obedience to discipline, the whole herd turned as one beast and followed him blindly into oblivion. "The hunter stood like one carved in stone—he might have been watching the abyssal plunge of human souls into the pit by the feeling writ on his strong face—and he counted the seconds till the faraway thuds announced the washing to pieces of his quarry on the rocks a thousand or more feet below. "Then he turned away slowly and retraced his steps. "Magnificent!" he muttered. And that was all." Incident of War of 1812 One hundred years ago the northern division of the American army had gone into winter quarters near Malone, N. Y. The British army had encamped not far distant and a clash between the opposing forces was regarded as imminent. A letter written from Plattsburg and dated January 8, 1814, contained the following: "For some time past, it has been strongly suspected that the enemy meditated an attack upon this place. Night before last the commandant received information that the enemy were in motion—that they had cannon mounted on runners, and were confiscating all the horses within reach. This information has neither been confirmed nor contradicted, but the destruction of this post at the present time, being of the first importance to the enemy, it is reasonable to suppose that an effort will be made to effect it." The Symbol. He had decided at last to make the great avowal, convinced that a word would suffice to assure his good fortune. He only lacked a beginning, a beautiful, poetic, inspiring beginning. At last he had found it. Presenting himself to the desired one, and suddenly showing her a ring, he said: "My love for you is like this ring; it has no end." The young lady examined the little golden circlet for awhile with close attention, and then returned it to him. "My love for you," she said, "is also like this ring; it has no beginning." - Youth's Companion. Lucid Explanation "There's a terrible noise in the nursery, Mollie," said her mistress. "What is the matter? Can't you keep the baby quiet?" "Sure, mollie," replied Mollie, "I can't keep him quiet unless I let him make a noise." -Lippincott's The Real Saints. The men who spend all their time reading the Bible will be surprised when they get to heaven and find that the men who always paid their grocery bills are occupying reserved seats in front.-Cincinnati Enquirer. REGIMENTAL COLORS IN PAWN Odd Experiences of British Emblems Once Greatly Prized by Those Who Carried Them. The discovery of the long lost colors of the old 50th regiment in the garden of Funtington house, near, Chichester, is a reminder of the strange fates that have befallen so many of these glorious military emblems, London Tit-Bits remarks. The colors of the 51st foot—since disbanded—were captured by American pirates during the war of independence and hidden away in Ireland; the 'colors of the 20th regiment were deliberately burnt prior to the surrender at Saratoga to prevent their capture by the enemy. At Bergen-op-Zoom the Royal Scots, to save their precious colors from falling into French hands, sank them deep in the river, though the enemy later fished them out; and when the second battalion of the 5th foot was disbanded at Portsmouth in 1816 the colors were cut into small pieces and distributed among the officers. One of the colors of the 1st Northamptonshire regiment, which had been carried right through the peninsular campaign, was discovered some years ago in a pawn broker's shop, though how it got there is a mystery, to this day. A similar uncertainty attaches to a pair of old colors of the 2d Border regiment, which were recovered from a London pawn broker, who was offering them for sale, by Lord Archibald Campbell in 1888. Four years later four colors which had accompanied the Gloucester regiment in Egypt and in the peninsula were recovered from a York pawnbroker. It appeared that, having been bequeathed by an old colonel of the regiment to his 'son, they were ultimately secured by a servant, who, falling on evil times, pawned them for a few shillings. SEVILLE STILL HAS CARMENS Thousands of the Picturesque and Charming Cigarette Girls Are Employed There. The most astonishing building in the Calle de San Fernando is the immense two story baroque edifice that covers more ground than the cathedral plus the court of oranges, and serves the purpose of a tobacco factory. The portal is adorned with busts of Columbus and Fernando Cortes, and I wish very much that we had had time to go inside and see these many cigarette girls at their work. As we passed I thought again of Carmen and the story of Blizet's fantastic Sevillian opera, for about 5,000 Carmens, or "cigareras," like Carmen, are employed in this factory, and attire themselves today in gay gowns and fascinating mantillas, with flowers tucked under their ears and coquettishly placed in their hair, very much like the heroine of the opera. Like the opera, also, adjoining the factory are the artillery barracks, and one imagines it to be quite possible that some impressionable' Don Jose should be fascinated by some of these piquant and Pretty Carmens—From "Royal Spain of Today," by Mrs. Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller. See Value of Exercise: There is no doubt but that exercise is a good thing for those who do not get it, but to many the daily use of dumb-bells, weights and similar apparatus grows lissome, the reason being a lack of stimulation owing to the fact that the person taking the exercise sees nothing accomplished as the result of the work and time spent. Gladstone preferred to work at the woodpile, and here and there was the constantly maintained interest of seeing the pile increase after each period of action. The same has been accomplished in a real up-to-the-moment manner by a French inventor who has taken an exercising machine which is rather familiar in the shape of a bicycle on a permanent stand, and he has combined this with a storage battery. When the various members of the family are taking their daily exercise on this machine they are storing up current to be used in the form of illuminant after nightfall. Architecta Held to Account It is unusual for a house, however small, to be erected in France without the service of an architect, who not only draws the plans, but actually superintends the work. Usually it is he who orders the building material and assures himself that its quality is up to specifications and requirements. The contractor and his workmen perform their duties in conformity with the architect's orders, and the latter, who is usually a man of capital, advances the funds required in order that the contractor need not wait for payment until the building is completed. Moreover, the French law imposes on the architect a serious responsibility, since he, as well as the contractor, is responsible for all defects of construction during a period of ten years. Lame-Sickness Caused by Plants. An investigation of the South African disease known as lamezikte, or lame-sickness, suggests that it is due to a special plant poison that is generated under abnormal conditions in grasses or other plants that are normally harmless. Its development seems to be associated with unusual weather and soil experiences, of which summer drought is important. Through such conditions wilting would favor the formation of the poison, and this gives explanation for the common belief that the disease results from eating wilted plants. Three Babes Walked Fifteen Miles. Three children—Ida Farrow, eight years old, Willie Farrow, five, and Linda Bonton, six, of Petersborough— walked 15½ miles to Whaplode Drove one recent Sunday to see their grand mother. The children, who undertook the journey unknown to their parents, arrived exhausted, and after being fed and rested were driven home again. London Mail. If the serpent had a flatterer tongue rather than a forked tongue, a whole lot more people would be snake-bitten Douglas 3534—PHONES—Automatic 72-857 THE CAFE—PLAZA—BUFFET 3727-29 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINING NIGHTLY 8 P. M. to 1 A. M. JAMES TRACY, Prop. PORO HAIR GROWER The LaVerdo Cafe and Buffet (Cafe Newly Opened) 3100-2 South State Street Chicago, Ill. Chinese and American Restaurant In Connection. High Class Entertainers HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietors MISS KITTIE SCOTT, Prop. PHONE AUTO. 73-626 CALL AT THE "O-K" Restaurant For First Class Meals and Short Orders Coffee and Hot Biscuits a Breakfast 3033 SO. DEARBORN Meals from 15 Cents a Healing Bars THE MAGIC IS IN LONDON THE MAGIC'S AND HAIR STRAIGHTEN. SHAMPOO DREER HEFT CO PRESENTS NEW HEFTING MAILED ANY WHERE ISTAGED Agents Wanted. Write Magic Shampoo L Minneapolis, Mi. Mary Levin Smith and her sister the use Phone Douglas 883 C. C. Hotel Cole & Cat 3449 So. State St. Phone Douglas 4482 The LaVerdo C (Cafe New 3100-2 South Chicago Chinese and American Restaurant In Conn HARRY J. KEL MISS KITTIE SCOTT, Prop. CALL A "O-K" Re For First Class Meals Coffee and Hot Biscuits 3033 SO. DEAR Meals from 15 Heating Bars The MAGIC IS 19 IN LONG STAMP 00 DRIED MEG CO MAK Agent Magic Lincoln State B UNDER STATE 6 East 31st St., N. CHICAGO TELEPHONES: Douglas CAPITAL, $200,000.00 A BOLLAR IN THE BANK 2 WORDS TWO IN YOUR POCKET NICKELS CENTS $1 25 1/2 20 1/4 15 1/8 10 1/16 15 This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. MME. Leora Smith treatment of the scalp with the wonderful Poro Hair Grower will absolutely grow your hair and keep the scalp clean and healthy. Thousands know of its value. This treatment destroys the germs that cause falling hair and baldness. With a through course of, treatment I guarantee satisfaction. Both women and men treated. I also* do Manicuring, Hair Dressing, Bleaching and Dyeing. I also teach what I do. Poro Hair System is $35.00 alone. Diploma issued on completion of course. $1.00 for Treatment, 50c for Box of Pero Telephone Automatic 74-614 Phone Drazal 4416 5209 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Automatic 72-746 Hotel @ Buffet Catlin, Props. Chicago, Ill. Automatic Phone 71081 Cafe and Buffet (Newly Opened) South State Street Chicago, Ill. Connection. High Class Entertainers KELLY, Proprietors PHONE AUTO. 72-696 AT THE Restaurant Meals and Short Orders Biscuit a Breakfast ARBORN in 15 Cents a THE MAGIC AND HAIR STRAIGHTEN. MAILED ANY WHERE HOSTAGE I Agents Wanted. Write Magic Shampoo L Minneapolis, Mi. Bank of Ch. STATE SUPERVISION , N. E. Cor. State St CAGO, ILL Douglas 986-Auto, 57-220 SURPLUS, Commercial Ban. Savings and Check Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Mortgages and Inter Your PIMP FREE start t. A step to