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Remove Hat in Street Car Next Jim Crow A Fearless HONEST CHAMPION of the People VOLUME IX. NUMBER 6. AFRO-AMERICANS MUST TAKE OFF HATS IN STREET CARS AFRO-AMERICANS MUST TAKE OFF HATS IN STREET CARS Southern States to Frame Laws That Will Compel Every Black Man to Take Off His Hat in the Presence of a White Woman. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 6.—A reader of The Chicago Defender writing from Charleston, S. C., is authority for the statement that a bill will be introduced at the next session of the legislature of several Southern states making it compulsory for every Afro-American to take off his hat when riding in street cars and passing through railroad cars, in halls and churches of any other place when white women are present. This action is brought about by the fact that several white residents returning from trips North are annoyed because the men of color do not how and cringe every time they see a white woman approach. "They must be taught more respect down here" is the idea in this section, continues the writer, and "as friendly as I am to your race," I am afraid that what many consider a joke is a stern reality. The matter has been discussed pro and con, has been read in churches and societies and is now in the hands of attorneys to be put into legal form. A society is being formed to push the idea all over the country. The younger people do not take to the plan, but the elders say that they will get along without them. PISTOL "TOTERS" TO BE HEAVILY FINED Quick Temper and Intoxication Will No Longer-Be Excuses for Murder and Injury-Carrying Concealed Weapons to Be Made a Felony. The pistol toter is to go. No longer will quick temper and intoxication be an excuse for wanton murder and serious injury, because the January grand jury, appalled by the increased number of crimes due to carrying concealed weapons, has recommended that the practice be made a felony and that those found guilty be heavily fined. The grand jury completed its work Saturday and its final report to Chief Justice Charles A. McDonald of the Criminal Court. They heard in all 417 cases. More than half of the cases were crimes in which revolvers and other weapons were used. Copies of the report were sent to Chief Justice Harry Olson of the Municipal Court and Chief of Police James Glennon. LADY·ELKS HONOR GRAND DAUGHTER RULER Local Temples Have Large Reception —Present Mrs. Henrietta P. Lee with Set of China—Pay Tribute in Eloquent Papers. Mrs. Henrietta P. Lee, Grand Daughter Ruler of the parent body Lady Elks, was the honoree Friday night last at a large reception given by Unique, Elmira and Liberty Temples at the residence of Mrs. Manie Pegg Irwin, 3520 Prairie avenue. The evening was replete with enjoyment, the temples members evincing their love for their ruler in several eloquent papers. Mrs. Warfield, representing Liberty Temple, read a paper on "Love." Mrs. Irwin's subject was "Loyalty." She represented Unique Temple; and the subject of Mrs. Aida Brown of Elmira Temple was "Women." The temples also presented Mrs. Lee with a handsome set of gold and white china. Delicious refreshments were served and everyone present regretted that the Exalted Ruler, B. F. Howard, could not be present. CHARLEY QUIGLEY ILL May He Soon Recover Is Wish of His Host of Friends. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] St. Paul, Minn., February 6.—Mr. Charles Quigley, more familiarly known as "Charley" to his host of friends, has been quite ill with a threatened attack of pneumonia. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Buckner, 3722 Federal street, received a letter Saturday, we are pleased to state, advising that he was considerably improved. Charley's invariable courtesy anality has won for him the fri ep of all with whom he com- intact. We join his host of fri wishing him a speedy recov The Chicago Defender. GARY HAS JOBS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO WORK [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Gary, Ind., February 6—Many men differ as to the honesty of many of the so called unemployed when they declare they want work. By some they are considered lazy and making the best of a good thing. Honest men wanting work are invited to Gary. The steel mills are taking on more men each day and by the end of February all mill will be running full blast, it was said yesterday. Five open-hearth furnaces were started last week, a blast furnace and an open-hearth furnace opened Sunday, and the last idle ones will be opened this week. This will mean total employment of 8,570 men. The American Tin Plate and American Bridge companies are operating at nearly full capacity. FUTURE BABIES TO HAVE SUNSHINE IN THEIR HEARTS Lieutenant Governor O'Hara Would Have State Give Expectant Mothers $25—Measure to Contain No Hint of Charity, But Should Be Compulsory—Likes Australian Law. Babies born in the future will have sunshine in their hearts if a bill to be introduced at the next session of the Illinois general assembly by Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara becomes a law. He would pay every expectant mother $25 and compel each one to accept it. The money would be paid from the state treasury and the bill is patterned after the Austrian law. The lieutenant governor outlined this plan in several speeches in Chicago Saturday. Greatest Statute on Books. Among other things he said: "The greatest statute on the books of any people is the little Australian law that grants from public funds $25 to every expectant mother, whether in or out of wedlock; the money is paid as a duty, an obligation of the state. It is a statute of divine inspiration; I would not have the measure contain a hint of charity. That is why I would have it compulsory. Thousands of women are filled with fear and wretchedness by contemplating the expense of a forthcoming visit from the stork, when they should be free from worry over lack of a few dollars with which to meet the high cost of being born. State Repaid in Smiles. "If our theories of prenatal influences are correct, I believe that for every $25 thus expended there would be returned to Illinois a baby with a smile on its face and abiding optimism in its soul. I will have this bill introduced at the next session of the legislature and I expect to see it passed. There is surely no way of beginning earlier to promote the general welfare than to aid women to bring into the world good children with sunshine in their hearts." MR. JOHN E. WILSON GIVES AN ELAB- ORATE DINNER John C. Wilson of 3838 Prairie avenue gave a very elaborate dinner musical Thursday evening to celebrate his birthday. Covers were laid for twelve. The large round table had for a centerpiece a huge wicker basket filled with carnations and ferns. A menu of five courses was served. Among the dinner guests were Miss Hazel Kelley, Carrie McDonald, Pearl Cunningham and Hattie Henley, Messrs. B. L. Clark, Calhoun, R. E. Cunningham and Anderson. Those who came later for the musical were Mr. and Mrs. Womack, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Sublett and Miss Lyles. The program was given by Mne. Marie Burton-Hyram and Miss Gertrude Jackson. ARMSTRONG LEAGUE OFFICERS Active Officials of the Chicago Arm- strong League of Hampton Institute. President, R. S. Abbott, 3159 South State street; vice president, J. B. Street, 3726 Wabash avenue; secretary, P. J. Simms, 633 East 45th street; corresponding secretary, H. B. Weston. 2543 South State street; treasur- M. C. Gaines, 5831 Wentworth ave; chaplain, C. P. Johnson, 4134 th Halsted street; sergeant-at- M. C. Adkins, 4917 Dearborn Meeting, first Tuesday of each 8 o'clock. --- CHICAGO, NLL., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914. THE WOMEN VOTED WITH INTELLIGENCE THE WOMEN VOTED WITH INTELLIGENCE Women Have Already Shown Their Ability as Intelligent Voters, and We Are Sure Ere They Have Voted as Long as Man They Will Have No Peers. With a little falsifying here and there many of the fair sex told their ages bravely and told them like men. For instance, when Mrs. E. H. Wright entered the registration booth she swore that she was 27, going on 28 years of age. A reporter for the Defender fell on the floor with a fit when he heard those words. Mrs. Henry Jones, quite nervous, told those in charge of registration: "Well, Henry — Henry—" Mr. Jones said: "Oh go ahead and tell him your age; that's all right." "Well, I'm 28 years old." Mr. Jones clasped both hands to his head and gave the Jones boys' laugh, which almost got his loving wife into trouble. Next was Miss Pearl, companion of Mrs. Jones. She said she was 17 years, 11 months, 5 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours and 45 minutes old. Well, young lady, you must go and grow some more. Mrs. Paul Eggleston swore she was 42 years old. The judge looked at her and said: "Young lady, are you aware of what you have said?" She said, "I be." Reporter took fits. Mrs. John R. Marshall is not yet fully decided as to her party, so did not register. A reporter for the Defender saw Mrs. Jennie Wallace, the hair dresser, East Thirty-fifth street, walk into the booth and hold up her hand as she struck the door. "What's your age?" "Thirty-five." "What?" "Forty-five." "What did you say" "America told me to say I was over 21." "Well, you may register." After wiping the perspiration, which by this time was flowing freely, she signed up and got into the air in time to keep from fainting. Miss Maud Roberts is known now as the Second ward heeler. That child certainly can do some rounding up. Mrs. Peter P. Jones has decided to run for bridge tender. She has no opposition, and should win in a walk. A Partial List of Probable Right Ages. Regis age. age. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson .35 28 Mrs. Cross. .40 35 Mrs. M. Cowan. .34 27 Mrs. E. L. Davis. .44 27 Mrs. Clarence Gibson. .46 29 Mrs. Ida W. Barnett. .41 32 Mrs. Florence Brent. .38 33 Mrs. Joe Bowles. .47 27 Mrs. L. Young. .45 35 Mrs. P. Fannie Emanuel. .48 28 Mrs. G. Bolay. .47 22 Miss P. Portson. .29 21 Mrs. America Brown. .53 30 Mrs. Ann Hudlin. .74 48 Mrs. N. Franklin Wright. .53 31 Mrs. Jake Parks. .45 22 Mrs. S. J. Carter. .51 33 Mrs. Connie Hancock McCoy.47 25 Mrs. R. A. J. Shaw. .28 28 Mrs. S. S. Paul. .28 40 Mrs. Mary Andernon. .42 22 Mrs. Bessie Johnson. .47 30 Miss B. Shaw. .45 27 Dr. Ollie Officer. .35 28 Dr. Corry Golden. .59 32 Mrs. Frank King. .48 27 Mrs. W. A. Wallace. .47 30 Mrs. Ed Felix. .54 21 Mrs. William Maxwell. .47 23 The Overton girls. Too young to vote Mrs. Fannie Tervalon. .58 27 Mrs. Gabe Smith. .27 21 Mrs. Ida Dempsey. .63 29 Mrs. William Marshall. .46 23 Mrs. George Porter. .38 27 Mrs. Frank Gordon. .29 21 Mrs. Leroy Dago. .57 37 Miss Lizzie Slaughter. .41 30 Mrs. Clifford Johnson. .61 38 Mrs. George C. Hall. .36 32 The Defender is very proud to see our ladies were so free with their ages, and we are sure the world is just as far in the dark as to their ages today as it was the day before registration, for the word was passed down the line to say you are over 21, and reports to the Defender proved that instructions were followed to the letter. E. J. BROWN DEAD. Mr. E. J. Brown, a member of Foresters and Knights of Pythias, died last week and was buried on Wednesday. He was a member of Bethel A. M. E. Church, and Rev. D. P. Roberts, a former pastor, now located in Indianapolis, Ind., came to the city to officiate at the funeral. Mr. H. H. Cranshaw, another member of the Foresters, will be buried from St. Mark's Church Friday morning. SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL REPORT (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Washington, D. C., Feb. 6.—The 44th annual report of the State Superintendent of education for the state of South Carolina shows that the public school enrollment in 1910-11 was 193, 440 Negroes and 160,830 whites, an excess of 32,610 in the number of Negro pupils. For the education of the white child these was a yearly per capita expenditure of $13.02 as compared with $1.98 for the colored child. The maximum for Negroes was $6.92 in Charleston County, and 92 cents in Saluda County, while for the whites the expenditures ranged from $6.54 in Greenville County to $31.23 in Beaufort. For the same year (1910) there were 1,002,687 pupils enrolled in the graded and ungraded schools of Illinois, and the total expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1910, amounted to $55,259,197.47 or a per capita expenditure of $55.16 for the education of each child, white and black, enrolled in the schools of the state. The length of the school year in South Carolina is three months as compared with six months in Illinois and the average monthly salary of all teachers is $0.06 in South Carolina as compared with $64.44 in Illinois. ST. LOUIS UP- HOLDS OKLAHO- MA "JIM CROW" CAR LAW ST. LOUIS UP- HOLDS OKLAHO- MA "JIM CROW" CAR LAW United States Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Kansas City Decision Which Refuses Damages to Dr. William J. Thompkins for $50,000. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] St. Louis. February 6.—The Jim Crow car law of Oklahoma was upheld by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals here last Wednesday, when it affirmed the decision of the District Court of Kansas City, which refused to award Dr. William J. Thompkins damages for $50,000 because of the attempt of the Oklahoma authorities to enforce the Jim Crow law against him. It will be recalled that about two years Dr. Thompkins, who is a physician in Kansas City, was called to Oklahoma to perform an urgent surgical operation upon an Afro-American woman. On crossing the line dividing Missouri and Oklahoma he was ordered out of the coach in which he was riding and into the Jim Crow coach. He refused to go, assuming that as an interstate passenger he had a right to remain in the coach on which he had ridden from Kansas City. At a point in Oklahoma he was forcibly ejected, placed under arrest, and confined over night in a dirty little jail. The following day he was arraigned by the white mayor and fined $13 for having refused to leave the coach he boarded at Kansas City. Judge Hook's Decision. It will also be recalled that when the case reached the District Court it was Judge Hook who rendered a decision upholding the Jim Crow law and refusing to recognize the right of an interstate passenger to continue on to his destination in the coach he had first entered, in a state that had no separate car laws. It will further be recalled that that decision of Judge Hook, which the Afro-Americans of this country opposed him hotly, caused him the loss of a place on the United States Supreme Court, President Taft refusing to appoint him because of that decision. Mr. Taft stated to a delegation of Afro-Americans composing what was commonly termed the "Black Cabinet," who called to protest against Judge Hook's elevation to the United States Supreme Court, that he had no sympathy with Jim Crow laws or decisions upholding Jim Crow laws. Now comes the United States Circuit Court with a decision sustaining the iniquitous Oklahoma Jim Crow car law. The next move will be to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court. TRIAL BOARD Officer Lynch has been dismissed from the police force by the trial board. What was first thought to be some race policeman working in his behalf turned out to be some citizen whose name we are unable to learn. ISAAC BOND BARES HEART TO PUBLIC Has Not Always Been What It Takes to Make a Good Man—Has Strayed from the Right Paths and Ignored the Teachings of His Mother and Knows the Horrors of Prison Life—Attorney J. Gray Lucas to Defend Him. Was in Gary Ind., at the Time—Declare That He Made a Mistake in Going—to Pawnbroker and Police Upon His Return—Thanks "Mr. A. Sturgis"—His Pathetic Unsolicited Letter to The Chicago Defender in Full. Isaac Bond, confined to the County Jail charged with the murder of Ida Leegson, writes The Chicago Defender as follows: To the Editor: I just had the pleasure of reading an article in your paper of January 24 concerning myself in a communication to you from a Mr. A. Sturgis. Words cannot express my deep gratitude and thanks to know that some good person is willing to take an interest in my behalf. I am financially embarrassed and am without influential friends, but I am absolutely innocent* of this Leegson murder charge the police are trying to connect me with. Not in Chicago. I was not in Chicago at the time the murder was committed. At that time I was in Gary, Ind, and when I came to Chicago I knew, nothing of the murder until my landlady called my attention to an article in the newspapers connecting my name with the murder. Then I went at once to the loan shop of Neumann's on South State street and asked him concerning this matter, and his answers being perfectly satisfactory to me, I had him call the police at once, thinking after they found their mistake they would turn me loose at once. Makes Mistake in Calling Police. Makes Mistake in Calling Police. I find I have made a mistake so far as being turned loose is concerned. Knowing myself to be absolutely innocent of any wrongdoings in this matter I did not think it necessary to consult an 'attorney. Being of southern birth and therefore a firm believer in God, I did not believe that He would see an innocent man harmed even by the mighty police of Chicago. But I am still trusting in Him and sincerely believe He will yet see me come out more than victor. And God knows I cannot thank you enough for being so kind as to print that article in your paper. It has given me new heart, new courage, and I feel sure that on receipt of this letter a good man like you will take further interest in my behalf, and through the columns of your valuable paper interest other good people in my behalf. Not Always Good Man. I am forced to admit that I have not always been what it takes to make a good man. In fact I have been what is considered a bad man, and I have strayed far from the teaching of my dear old mother. But this experience has taught me a lesson that I shall ever respect if allowed the opportunity. Is Not a Brute. I am also forced to admit that I have experienced prison life before, having served a term in Jeffersonville, Missouri. But for this reason am I to suffer for a crime that none but a brute commit? I am a man, not a brute, and if I was guilty of such a brutish crime as this I stand charged with I would be the last man in the world to ask assistance from good men like yourself and Mr. Sturgis, for I sincerely believe that you are good men, and I sincerely believe through the help of God in some way you two are going to be the instigation of men proving to the world that I am an innocent man. Interview Will Prove Innocence. I am convinced that if either or both of you will come over to the County—all and grant me an interview you will be thoroughly convinced that I am innocent and I am satisfied no good man wants to see another man punished for a crime he knows absolutely nothing about. Thanks Mr. Sturgis. Please be kind enough to communicate with Mr. A. Sturgis and give him my sincere thanks for considering me as being worth consideration. Tell him I shall endeavor to prove my innocence and thereby prove worthy of his confidence. Hoping that you may give this your Mrs. Stephen Buckner Gives Delightful Party in Honor of That Event. On Thursday evening, January 29, there was celebrated with exquisite pomp the fifty-first birthday of Mrs. Stephen Buckner at her residence, 4623 Langley avenue. An innumerable host of friends were present and tokens worth more than forty dollars were given. A sumptuous repast was served by two lady caterers. Mrs. Marie Tomlin (girl bride), niece of Mrs. Buckner, presided at the coffee urn. Mme. Patti Brown and Mrs. Lou'Elia Smith furnished music for the occasion. Mrs. Buckner stuck a gold knife into the huge birthday cake and delegated Mme. Brown to cut a slice for each guest present to take home. As they departed each one wished Mr. and Mrs. Buckner a continued hapty union and all promised to be present at her 71st anniversary in 1934. FOUNDERS DAY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York Principal Speaker at Exercises in Commemoration of Gen. S. C. Armstrong. --- Special-By Staff, Correspondent. Hampton, Va., February 6-7.Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the distinguished rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York City, and champion of public righteousness, delivered at Hampton Institute on Sunday a most eloquent address in commemoration of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who founded the Hampton School in Dr. Wise showed clearly that Gen Armstrong was a "statesman-educ of a democracy," "statesman-ph. thropist," "statesman-visionary and idealist"—a man of radiant personality and a man who walked with God. "I have often thought," said Dr. Wise, "that no man in modern times could be more likely likened to the great leader of my people than Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Moses was first Liberator, emancipator, and he rested his eternal faith upon the word of God. "General Armstrong fought in the war and helped to emancipate the Afro-American. General Armstrong was not content, however, merely to lead forth another race from bondage. He set out upon the great life task of helping them to self-mastery, self-conquest, and self-redemption." Dr. Wise showed that the greatest spring of character and achievement in the life of Armstrong was in the home in which he was born—the home of high enterprise and missionary endeavor. Dr. Wise made a strong plea for the colored people to go out from Hampton and magnify their own homes. He declared epically that houses, land, farm implements, money and position are as nothing beside the home. General Armstrong was not only prepared to face difficulties, but he had the statesmen's vision which moved him to seek out and search out the hard and difficult places, as well as accept them, not as obstacles and hindrances, but as spurs, as stimuli. ARTISTS OFF ON Mme. Anita Patti Brown, "The Empress of Melody," and Mrs. Lou Ella Smith, Her Accompanist, Leave Tonight for the Southland. Mme. Brown and Mrs. Smith, Chicago's two inimitable artists, left tonight, via I. C. R. R. for Jackson, Tenn., where they begin a series of recitals, visiting the major portion of the larger cities, touching the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, returning in May. earliest attention and thanking you in advance for any favors granted, I beg to remain, Yours humbly, Bond's Attorney Speaks: Bond's Attorney Speaks. Attorney J. Gray Lucas who is defending Isaac Bond, who is charged with the murder of Ida Leegson about October 6, 1913, declares his client is innocent of the crime, and is preparing to fight every bit of evidence that the police claim to have secured. He especially indicates the identification of Bond by Nierman's former clerk and points to a statement by Nierman himself who said that the man that he saw shorter than Bond. Results of the Churches Many Had tions—Man Accessions Chapel Le Attendance ST. THOM LEADS 1 Fund Raised Church Feed Attend Chur Union Perfe bers to and Old Last Su down in hi Church Sun ter Day for inations. The have met wit. and, if it accor thing, it certain b of people who have not set house of worship for years. Among race churches the manifested was pretty genet the matter was worked up produce very favorable res the 70,000 Negroes in Chic 18,000 attended sor ship. Many conv as having been churches, overcrowded that th In accordance with adopted at a regular meet union of colored ministers all pastors of colored co to take up a special life to Church Sunday" for t Provident Hospital and t Home, the following sponded: St. Thomas', Episcopal..... $ Grace, Presbyterian Ebenezer, Baptist Bethel, A. M. E. Mt. Hermon, Baptist St. Mark's, M. E. Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Walters, Zion A. M. E. St. Paul's, C. M. E. Hyde Park, A. M. E. Wayman Chapel Bethesda, Baptist Shiloh, Baptist. St. Luke's, M. E. Second Baptist, Evanston Bro. Winters Total This is the first effort made in churches unitedly to show their est in the cause of charity. be regretted that the names other churches, well known t not appear on this list. J their aid was solicited. As us hope that the cause of c be taken up by the churc ter as it has never been Churches Must Help Surely no church is so dened with its own need be able to help others. Baptist Church, under our leader, Rev. Dr. Thomas, has a 502 of the unemployed within the 30 days. This shows the good Ebenezer has done, and yet Thomas was approached for tion for the charities abrioned he gladly consented for the cause. Our church unite, at least once a year apart a day for the local city. It is a woefulity seems dead in some churches. Could Have raised $500 If such a step is taken not be amiss for us to a some of our passers this collection be taken up at one for charity, and not as it pears, that the cause of char at the tail-end of numerous when hardly anything people's pockets to give been done these g would have taken as they did $200 ah at a sale at ees 2 ¥. = oe, » eas Meta Nee pba abe ae err ty el Gian 2 GF as , NS ETRE SD Rag Reveals tor Was muse from MEN I OVER” better Than essman—Only ago Defender.] February 6— rat the Capitol, J. in his sixty: aplexy. Taylor ter of Congress Texas, his home: at Washington, yof the white con: state had “talked he decided not to 4s, and therefore iloscphy. resent his cre- n thine brought rot fitting, re- janitorship in ich he before presented his tsetl, perhaps, fas one man, + elected to Con- atter reaching esent his cre- vk this: means e succeeded in fob he dignified old. He per- + job as jani- rm as con- ZIMMER wb will long lecture made amer of Cook he so beauti- boys and girls. is to keep them ai Keeping them in 4 we spoke of two unfortu- who had no assistance, and aelped them and of the grand hey are now making. He also : Worthy men and women of ‘whom he had become inter- and when, they appealed to “~he helped them. We are say some are mem- Then he spoke he. ae members “* $y become ‘S feels are ‘ Su ater fest and L. PB. Mo Tacatitlae digs tice ath em te 1 That Idea. iso visitors of note this Ir, Peter Postel and Mr. y, both of Hopkinsville, «eNary 1s proprietor of La- Hotel barber shop. ‘They are in- sted in real estate and have made al visits to the Columbia Hotel, and ‘Thitty-first streets. Whon foned by a Chicago Defender re- t they declared that they were ‘making a quiet’ business trip," ‘rom other sources it was learned they contemplate purchasing the mbia Hotel and remodeling it into stclass, up-to-date hotel for the ©. wil not be a place for any one hii for the public. ‘Their plans de ‘ars fronts_on both streets, a ‘; und dining room, Mr. Pos- ~ brothar.indaw of Mr, Wil -vaston and is the guest of the em drotners, 2T-TO-HEART ON A 7JERY PLAIN MATTER ott’s Wonderful Memory and any of Hie Friends Surprised ¥ year is baa young but me has passed for those ye promised Mr. Abbott sthges of the year 1913 to Ing in their subscriptions. they will be surprised to « he remembers those prom- and {g greatly surprised when promises are not fulfilled. Now ‘y that you enjoy reading Tho > Defender—then why not pay Vly spirit has kept you on '@ lst—but with the prog- » year that “has weakened. ‘and others to whom we ‘hed in getting out the © to accept that “friendly im payment of thelr bills. This aeart-to-heart talk is to tell you nless you pay your subscription I not reedlre the paper any tl -S2ND.AUTO SHOW, WG. Massengell, Frank Henry N, Hill, automobile @ South Bend, Ind. tcok "0 automobile show last “isitors aro among the ~'vho have mastered Mess vehicle and | |. Noms nf the Churches Mn SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Regular services every Sunday at 11 @ m. and & p. mz Sunday school at 1pm; BY. PU. at 7 p. mj Prayer service Wednesday evening; teachers’ board Friday night. Rev. Harris Sunday morning preached a very befitting sermon, “Me and My House Will Serve the Lord.” In. the evening was holy communion. The collection for the day was $60. All members who have not pald in rally money please pay Sunday. Rev. D. Harrls, pastor, 6326 Marshfleld ave nue. ST. JOHN A, M. E. CHURCH NOTES. By Frank C. Lowry. Sunday morning service, 10:43 a. m. Sunday school, 1:15 p. m. Intermedi- ate C, E. prayer meeting, 6 p.m. Sen- for C. E. prayer meeting, 7 p. m. Wednesday evening service, § p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting, Wednesday evening, 8 o'clock sharp. Dr. Wilson delivered a good sermon in most persuasive language. His text was “But What Does the Lord Require of Thee but to Do Justly, and to Love Merey, and to Walk Humbly with Your God?" Large numbers continued to pour in at the evening service, and for their spiritual enjoyment an excellent pro: gram was rendered by the choir. ‘The sermons of the day were invalu- able in that they were instructive, in- spiring and soulstirring. Dr. Wilson appeared overanxious as he arose from his seat Lo deliver the message which he had for tong craved. The subject of Rev. Wilson's evening discourse was “The Mission of the Church to the Individual, the Home and the Com: munity." ‘Text, 1 Timothy i:15: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” QUINN CHAPEL. Twenty-fourth Street and Wabash ‘Avenue. Bishop Park, Evangelist Howard and Presiding Elder Cook were seated on the rostrum Sunday morning. After the decalogue the pastor lined 10 be sung by choirs Nos. 1 and 2 and the congregation the very beautiful old hymn, “Hark, My Soul It Is_ the Lord.” ete. As it was quarterly meeting day, Presiding Elder Cook preached an excellent sermon. After the sermon Rev. Howard made a very earnest appeal to the unsaved. At his call thirty came forward and joined the church. An overflow meeting was held downstairs. conducted by Rev. Dr. Jenifer. An after collection was taken for Provident Hospital and the Old Folks’ Home. Rey. Howard is holding a very successful revival. Large crowds every night. ‘The usual stream flowed to the Lord's Bank. ‘About six hundred communed in the afternoon, Rev. Smythe preached an able sermon, Sunday night Evangel- ist Howard preached a soulstirring sermon on the “Prodigal Son.” Every- “7+ preseat felt the power of the Holy st. Eight persons joined the ‘eh. 'HE'NEW HOPE FREE BAPTIST CHURCH. __ New Hone Free Raptist Church, 4024 ‘Federal street, held its regular serv- ices as usual Sunday. At 11 o'clock Rev. Harris of Lockport, lll, preached for the congregation. At 1:30 p. m. Sunday school held its services as usual, and was dismissed with the Lord's Prayer by Master Alonza Jones, 3020 Lasalle street, At 3 o'clock in the afternoon we had praise services, which was a glorious meeting. At § p. m, Rev. John Connors, pastor, preached for the attendants, Every Wednesday night will be preaching. Exery Friday night will be prayer meeting. Every fourth Sun- day will be our rally day. Come out and enjoy a good time with us. Rev. J. Connors, pastor. MT. CARMEL ©. M. E. CHURCH. Rey. C. H. Blachsher preached at 11 a.m, from Mark xviz16; theme. “The Great Commission.” At 2p. m. Rev. R. B. Reeves of Morgan Park preached from Matthew vil. AUS p.m. our own Rev. C, H. Blacksher again de- livered to us one of his wholesome ser- mons, Mt, Carmel's choir rendered some excellent music, The member- ship has learned to love this good shepherd. Your hearty co-operation is solicited and everybody is wel:ome. Lulu Brinkly, church reporter. $T. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. 5251 Dearborn Street—Rev. James Higgins, Pastor, Sunday, February 8, second quar. terly meeting of the conference year Services, 10:45 a. m., 3 and 7:45 p. m. Sunday ‘school, 1:30 p.m; T. W. White, superintendent. Christian En- deavor, 6:45 p. m.; Mrs, T. Wilts, president. Mrs. Delia Jonson will lead the meeting. Dr. W. D. Cook, P. E, will preach morning and ‘evening, Dr. A. J. Carry of Institutional Church will preach the sacramental sermon at 2 o'clock. Love feast Monday night. The ministers and their congregations are invited to be with us, WALTERS A. M, E. ZION CHURCH. Corner of Thirty-elghth and Dearborn Streets—Rev, H. J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. Our church membership is in a splendid working condition, and we are looking forward for success along all Hnes in our spring work. Our serv- ices for Sunday will be as usual. The pastor will preach in the morning; subject, “The Healing Power of Obedi- ence.” In-the evening his subject will be “The Joy of the Satisfied Sout.” Our Sunday school is rapidly growing, It holds its sessions at 1:15 p. m.; Mr. C. J. Jackson, superintendent.” . The Christian Endeavor is making some progress, and especially invites the at- tendance of the young converts and new members of the church; Mr, H. A. Callis, president. The members of the choir, together with the congrega- tlon, regrets the absence of Mr. Reece, the splendid tenor singer, who has tendered us such valuable services. The funeral of Mrs, Agnes Smith, the late wife of Mr. J, M, Smith, both members of our church, were held at our church Wednesday,, February 4, ST. LUKE M. E. CHURCH. 558 East Thirty-fifth Street—Rev, Edw. R. Lewis, Pastor, Service started promptly at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. After the regular 11 a m. opening service the pastor intro- duced Dr. Rowe as speaker and as a friend of St. Luke's. Dr. Rowe made a very plain and forceful talk. So forceful was his argument that when the doors of the church wére opened eighteen came forward and gave Dr. ‘Rowe their hand, this showing and proving to him that they had accepted Christ through him, His ambassador. Others showed their desire to become ‘Christians to the number of fourteen by assembling and kneeling at the altar while prayers were offered in their behalf. President Calwell gave us a very good program on last Sunday after- noon, Dr, L. H, Harlan was the speaker of the afternoon and left with us much to be digested. The lyceum was favored with a few remarks by Mr. John R. Lynch, who played such an important part in the politics of the state of Mississippi, He promised to call and speak for us at some other time. Note the program in part for next Sunday. Dr. F. G. Trapp, who united with us on last Sunday morn: ing, will be the principal speaker, and Miss C. 0. Dill, the accomplished plan: ist and soloist, will appear and sing a song entitled “Dear Lord, Remember Me." Miss Dill is a member of both our chureh and choir, THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. 3825 Dearborn Street. By U.S. D. Governor Edward F. Dunne will sheak at the Institutional Church to: morrow at 7:30 p.m, upon “The Life of Abraham Lincoln.” Rev, Julian 11. Lewis, A.B, of Yale, will preach the morning sermon at 1i a. m. Dr. Carey preached an excellent ser- mon on “The Mission of the Church" last Sunday. ‘Thirty-three persons came forward and joined in response to his earnest appeal. At night an- other large audience assembled, and the pastor preached with potency and effectiveness. ‘Tuesday evening Dr. Cook, P. E., held his second quarterly conference and was more than de lighted at the excellent reports, GRACE PRESEYTERIAN CHURCH NEWS. The revival is still im progress and many souls are being saved. There has been a large attendance every evening, and all join in heartily sing- ing the hymns during the praise serv- ice which precedes each meeting con- ducted vy Mr. Tinsley or Mr. Pierce. Over thirty-five persons have been saved ths far. Mr, Sisson addressed the meeting Monday evening. He was accompanied by a friend and Mr. Rerg- strom, Tuesday Rev, Newell of the Sixth Presbyterian Church preached; Wednesday night the pastor of the Normal Park Presbyterian Church, and ‘Thursday night Rev. Ray. Dr. Mill- ner, who assisted us at our big rally for building and improvement fund, preached Sunday evening. Rev. Jack- son preached in the morning, at whtch time five persons joined. MILWAUKEE, WIS: By Luna M. Seott. ‘Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Clark, 708 Clarke street, held their first reception Jan- vary 19. ‘Members of the Wideawake Club of Calvary Baptist Church gave a birth. day entertainment for the benefit of the chureh on Thursday, January 29. An interesting program was given. On Sunday, February 1, “Gosto- Church Day,” the attendance was large at both churches for morning and evening services. At St. Mark's A. M. B. Chureh a platform meeting was held at 3:30 p. m. for men to discuss Dlans to uplift the Negro of Milwaukee morally, politically and industrially. ‘The opening address was made by At- torney George H. De Reef. ‘The choir, under the direction of Mr. Walter Rev- ells, Sr., rendered music at at all serv: ices. At the Calvary Baptist Church special music was furnished by the choir. A paper on “Christian Duty” yead by Miss Willams was a sermon within itself, A short talk on temper- ance and two selections by a string quartet completed the program. In their efforts to raise funds to further the work the members of the Women’s Improvement Club are ex- Pecting the patronage of the public at the mask entertainment on Febru- ary 5. Chicago Defender on sale at Scott Bros.’ news depot, 328 State street; phone Grand 3892, $ The Englewood Boys’ Club gave a party at the residence of Mr. L. Shreeves, 6012 Aberdeen street, last riday night. The evening was spent in-games of all kinds and-music. Cake and cream were served. The boys are planning to give something swell after Lent. ‘Mrs. Akridge of 6934 Morgan: street entertained a few friends in honor of her husband’s birthday. Mr. ‘Wheeler entertained the guests with some of his best musical selections and then the hostess served them with the delicacies of the season. . ‘Mr. L. Shreeves graduated from the Beale Schoo! Thursday night. Mrs. W. B. Turner of 6040 Racine avenue entertained a few friends in honor of Mr. Turner's birthday. The evening was spent with games of all kinds and music.” The guests were served with a delightful luncheon, Mrs. B, Archer of 6116 Ada street returned home from Springfleld, Ml. having spent a delightful time ‘with relatives and friends. HE CHICAGO DEFENDER llllllllleEeEeEeE=Eeee ‘talian Town Home of Many Beautiful Churches. Cathedral Ie Ornate Outside Except for One Indifferent Dome, While Interior Lacks Harmony of Daclae ak Goasnitien: _ Rome.—Palermo is wonderfully rich in churches. The cathedral is beauti- ) ful outside except for one dome which it owes to @ wretch of an architect named Fuga, who spoiled the inside at the same time—about two centuries Bg. ‘The Palatine chapel not far away, affords ample compensation for the disappointment of the cathedral, It is Uned throughout with wonderful mo- jeaics all lald with a back ground of }dull gold. Ono seems to be in the heart of a great jewel. It is sald that from the Palatine chapel Wagner de rived his conception of the chapel in “Parsifal.” One goes by tram to the nearby town of Mon Reale up the mountain- side back of Palermo. Here can be had an ever-widening vista of hill, plain and bay, with always a fore- ground of orange and lemon orchards, fig trees and cactus hedges, ‘The village itself has stone houses covered with gay little balconies swung out like birdcages. Many of the streets are merely flights of steps ‘slipping under weed-grown arches. Add the flocks of goats and of children and an artist could easily perish with ‘despair at not being able to decide [where to begin. ‘The cathedral and adjoining cloister of Mon Reale are one of the most not. able sights in all Italy. The church is mosaic—lined like the Palatine chapel but larger, lighter and even more brilliant. The adjoining cloister is Saracenic as the Alhambra. it is a huge square inclosed by a walk of “coupled pillars.” There is endlese variety in the carving of these pillare and they are gay with varying designs in bright-colored inlay, On two a particular monk was car- featured among the carvings of the capitals. Once he is represented alone; again in an absurd company of birds. ‘fhe satire was startlingly mod: ern; only now we have it in the morn. ing paper, not recorded in stone to en- dure for centuries. When the pom. pous old prelate paced this cloister, did he hasten his steps a bit and turn away an irate countenance as he eevee part eee eo ae —-— 4 Geos SP ari ae eile en ae ae Be Hie doa aed Ge ee a ee eae ee ee Be hae ee, Le Palermo’s Ancient Battlements. passed the portrait pillars? There is none to tell, now that caricaturist and ridiculed have been for centuries re- duced to equal dust, ‘ ‘The Sicilians are lovers of the sun. The better classes take the air on their balconies or in their carriages. In the meaner streets the poor live, work, play and visit in the street itself. Their cave-like dwellings open directly on the highway. Before the doors sit the mother with her baby or her mending, the tatlor and the shoemaker and many folks of many occupations which they ply in the open. Washing and froning are car- led on outside the front door. The clothes are hung to dry on the sunny side of the way. Many are the colors of the garments thus displayed and various the hues of the added patches and many the holes lacking patches. We noted one patriotic vegetable shop which displayed portraits of the king and queen framed in onions and garlle. MAN IS PITTED AGAINST RATS Stableman Bitten All Over Body in Fierce Battle With Terror Stricken Rodents, Nutley, N. J.—In a fight with rats Charles Gilman was bitten all over the body, but he killed 17 of them. Gilman was cleaning a pit in the rear of the stable of West Nutley Hose éompany when, with a pitchfork, be uncovered a rat nest. The animals tried to run up the smooth concrete walls of the plt. Failing, they climbed up Gilman's trousers. Gilman dropped his pitchfork and tried to fight off the rodents with his hands. Each time he would knock one down, however, {t would come back. Finally, he picked up the pitch- fork again, aud, knooking off the rats one by one, killed most of them. Singing Distodged Pin. Sturgis, Mich—Singing proved as effective as surgery in the caso of Miss Mary Austin, who swallowed a pin. On the way to a doctor she stop- ped for her cholr practice and tho high notes dislodged the pin. Paasemaliar te Sutanen Chicago.—When Jacob Berger at- tempted to act as peacemaker in a quarrel between Mrs, Annie Showron- ska and a neighbor woman, he was severely burned by boiling water which one of the women threw on his head. Extinguishes Church Fire, Bt. Louis—While his congregation watched and cheered, Father J. J. Godfrey climbed the ‘steep roof of the Ferguson Catholic church and ex- tingulshed a blaze which tireatened to destroy the structure, Plus EXPERIENCED SERVICE Equals PERFECT SECURITY we own and otier, subject to prior sale, the following First Mortgage Real-Estate Gold Bonds, secured by Chicago income odes ee $20,000.00 (OO Mone Renan en a a Oe ee RR ee aa ee at Pe Oe ee an ee Cele a eee hs nc Sek coches! oS, Aad H NO Bee ce rd erence og eat 2) ee Pee ie ae ee eos S| ae H stu} da | ] pol Seer Pg eee ay ee es ey a a ae cai SENG) RI reac EE ec PURER eee Ee Ot PR AIO mare fo na | Secured by the STATE STREET THEATER building offices, 4 stores, ar 1 theater holding 800 seats, Location—3505-7-9-11 S. State St. * 1. _, These bonds mature at the rate of $400.00 each and every month with ir st 6%, and dated from Sept. 17, 1913. Bonds‘ are the direct obligation of Mr. Frank H. Salkin, owner of this build? other valuable Chicago real estate. } __ Title Guarantee Policy by the Chicago Title & Trust Co. ‘ COLN STATE BANK OF CHICA ote fora ari LIN CA ‘heDouelan866, 6 BAST sist St, Cor, State . Write or califor.our complete list of HIGH CLASS BONDS AND ¥ “Ming 5%, 346% and Fon, i I gee en Og a eS ne SHERWOOD SCHOOL EXONERATES EAVES. Takes Part in School Exercises— Dally Newspapers Call School Boy Fight a “Feud.” in a great city where three or four hundred thousand children daily go to school there are among the boys per- haps a hundred quarrels a day, Things would be miraculous otherwise, But whenever a rumpus Involves children of both races the “great dailies” al- ways characterize the affair as a “feud” and talk lke the retained at- torney of the white child or the paid prosecutor of the dark chila, Such was the account published a few days ago of an accident that happened to a white boy who lost an arm while “flpping” a train on the Penasylvania tracks at 57th street, One newspaper promptly laid the blame on Paul Eayes, who was really two or three miles away when the boy fell under the wheels, and in order to do so it printed six palpable lies within ten Ines. The trouble began by some of te young hoodlum of St. Ann's school mistaking Paul Eaves for a boy who had told of their stealing milk, He was waylaid and attacked on three different occasions, and finally on the 28th a gang of St. Ann boys chased him from 57th and Princeton to Gard and Parnell avenues, where he was obliged to take an elevated train to get away from them, The white bunch left their own school grounds and Went five or six blocks out of thelr Way to “hunt for trouble” and one of them found plenty of it, though no one rejoices at the Muir boy's misfortune. ‘The Sherwood school management did not blame young Eaves and he gradu- ated in the regular way on Friday, taking a part in the school exercises, playing a solo on the cornet, and sing- ing in the sextet and class songs, DO YOU KNOW HIM? a gee eo i OEE Wee GBC” gee» be ol eee : eee, ek The above is a good picture of Grant Buren, whose brother, Mr. Thomas M. Buren, 3227 Wabash ave- nue, 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 163% York street, third flat. A week later he received another letter from Bayone, N. J. Since that time he has not heard from him. He is married and was seeking work on the railroad. Anyone knowing his whereabouts or knowing anyone who knows him or any of his family, please communi- cate with his brother, 3227 Wabash avenue, or telephone the Chicago De- fender, Douglass 3339. ‘THEY CAN’T KEEP THE NEGRO DOWN Colored Race Has One Billion Dollars in Real Estate in the United States. It probably will startle the world when it realizes that the race has ac- quired over one billion dollars in real estate in the United States. ‘The col- ored people of Chicago now own over $5,000,000 worth of property. A prom- inent real estate firm offers an excep- tional opportunity to secure a home on the easy payment plan. See .Fred’k H. Bartlett & Co.’s ad on the last page of this isgue. INVESTQAS\QND HOME HUNTERS. Come to 632 Bowen avenue (41st place), Sunday, from 2 to 4 p.m, and See one of the best two-flat buildings for sale on the south side, Small pay- ment down and balance like rent will buy you a home, or earn from 10 to 15 per cent on your money. { Phone Dougias 5088 a Hotel Pullman 3639, 3641, 3643 S$. State St. Perce my lo olin Ain Frese Re lo id $1.1 oom Tacks Sabo cad Ot 3. A. JONES, Prop. CLEARING SALE . The 35th Street Bargain Store 3534 South State Street isl mer tnd So orc nent cannes F. RUTTENBERG, Prop. EDWARD FELIX | ICE CREAM PARLOR PHONE DOUGLAS 2928, | Mile, Cream, Stationery. Confestionery. Tobacco, Cigars, Newspapers, Bread, Cakes and Pies. Before buying Me. We gla Fish and Webér Stamps with Groceries Ice Cream and Sodas, A First-Class Lauudry Agency in Connection, EDWARD FELIX ‘a a 52 W. 30th ST. Mrs. Edw. Felix’s Hairdressing Parlor Stands open for all kinds of Hairdressing, Scalp Treat- ment, Hair Goods to order, Special care taken of the hands and nails, A compicte line of toilet articles. Tei. Douglas 2928 Senjre!MclOrder Busines 59 W. 30th St. MEN! Use Prescription 100 The best known re- medy 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 | Toone | Rata SH A Ollie Phones: Res. 133 Se, Wabssh Ave, enlace AP TSE Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Nes Gaon BLOT ATRL M0 BP. M7 PM te ‘Phone Oakland 2489 Madeline R. McFarland FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and* Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. - CHICAGO e : Ladies! e WANTED ‘To start in Hair Pomade and Hair Goods business. Musthave wide acquaint- ance. No capital needed. Must live out of Chicago. 2 R. McClain 50 West 35th Street CHICAGO, ILL. ce ae SARE ORS eR i So NS aap EA a OnE ~~. Cee MINI Same sin ce 2 2 EER SS Te (ce 2 ela ease [tia Sine Rae beste Mee Stee: ek ae pA lian | cian hy fae Ny Pi EI eee ae a hey Loe toy | gage iy Mn eS pea ON Ah ae ere. EEERENOORES MEN BLACKWELL & GREEN UNDERTAKERS Phone = Normal 7932 Calls promptly answered. Chapel in connection. All work guaranteed. Our prices the lowest. 1210 W. 63rd St., CHICAGO GUESS WHO? Copyright applied for The dude is who doesn't know how to know. The dude is the gent. Let it. L. teach you something, jouissance. Silm Sue [s] the most English dude in the world is Mr. It. The dude is who got all of the kisses at the social Feb. 27, Mr. K, R, is correct. The doles who looked "so sweet" Tuesday night—kisses to D.C., R. P, T. S, and P." You girls certainly look good—we English say so. The Wrong Mr. President is Mr. L. A. J. of the E. C. M. G. is, who can sure dance some tango? The young lady of the E. C. is who did not register? Miss R. P. T. is her initiates. Bibbs, Lucy, 15 yrs; 2810 Dearborn st.; Jan. 30. Dowmond, Chas., 68 yrs; 1651 Fulton st.; Jan. 31. Dobbs, Mary, 30 yrs; Oak Park, Ill.; Jan. 31. Kimco, Virginia, 41 yrs; 1825 Fulton st.; Jan. 28. Lewis, May, 4 mos; 5225 Federal st.; Jan. 28. Milton, Joe, 60 yrs; Harrison and Clark st.; Jan. 16. Peterson, Wm., 28 yrs; 18 15, 20th st.; Jan. 31. Shinley Anderson, 27 yrs; 2970 La Salle st.; Jan. 31. Spuplding, Arthur, 1 mo; 2918 State st.; Jan. 31. David, David, 36 yrs; 307 W. 29th st.; Jan. 17. Van Winkle, Leona, 20 yrs; 3129 Cottage Grove av.; Jan. 12. Woolley, Wm., 27 yrs; 2518 Dearborn st.; Jan. 27. MR. HART PASSES AWAY Mr. Hart, husband of Mrs. Anna Hart, 67 East 30th street, died Wednesday after, an illness of a few weeks. The funeral took place Friday, 12 o'clock, from the home. [Special to The Chicago Defender] Mattouo, III, February 6—At Davis A. M. E. Church services were held morning and evening Sunday. Rev. C. W. Roberts, pastor, preached. The services were directed by the choir, directed by Mr. John Powell. A beautiful solo was sung by Mrs. Carrie Elliott, soprano; other members of the choir, and Mrs. Arrey Barnett, soprano; Mrs. A. D. Jessie, soprano; Mr. A. D. Jessie, tenor; Mr. John Powell, tenor; Mr. B. E. Anderson, Suss; Miss Zella Powell, organist. The funeral of Mr. Philo Smith was davis A. M. E. Church last january 30. Mr. Smith was night of all the people and a number flocked to the church ear the remarks relating to his he largest flower in the world ws on the island of Mindanao. its itat is far up the Parag mount, 2,500 feet above the level of the The natives give it the name bolo. Its full-blown blossom, five-leed, is over three feet in dime- and weighs 22 pounds. The flowa- as first found in Sumatra and was d Rafflesia Schadenburgia, in hon- of its discoverer (whoever he was). Costly Justice. A colored gentleman, on trial for his life in a remote Tennessee town, was asked by the judge if he had anything to say, whereupon he replied: "All I has to say is this, Judge: If you hang me, you hangs the best bass singer in Tennessee."—"Everybody's Magazine. "We must try to keep business out of politics," said the patriotic citizen. "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin Stax, and "I'm going to help you. I'm not going to have any more candidates afraid to speak to me on the street simply because I subscribed to their campaign funds." - Washington S... "This old world at best is only an anvil and life a sort of Plutonian blacksmith that, with varying blows, strikes us into form. The blow that hurts us most may shape us best."—Exchange. FOR At 3650 Vernon A steam heated flat overlooking Grand FOR RENT At 3650 Vernon Avenue, 7 and 8 room steam heated flats, newly decorated, overlooking Grand Boulevard. If taken at once we will let them go to desirable and responsible tenants at $35.00 per month. East 37th St.-314-1st flat, 6 rooms, steam heat, all new, $20.00 per month. Deaths of the Week MATTOON SOCIET Largest Flower Costly Justice. WILL Save His Money The Hard Knocks Better watch out, M. P. hollering into the study room won't go very long. The Forest avenue dude is who has moved seven times in 1914? M. G. is right. The 51st and Wabash avenue doll is who is so popular at all of the high schools. The Wendell P. bunch are who since they have passed from IB to IA think it is useless to go to school any more? They know enough-nix. Monkey-face is Mr. J. F. is worried because she thinks she is losing some of her good looks? H. C. is the doll. Don't worry--you are as pretty as ever. A doctor's prescription for a cold is to first take a quick acting laxative, then a mustard foot bath, which will relieve most of the cold in the head. If preferred take a general hot bath, remaining in the water twenty minutes with a cold wet cloth tied on the head. But when this whole bath is taken a blanket must be wrapped round the body, or, better yet, a soft bath robe slipped on. Take hot lemonade or flaxseed tea. The signet ring and scals were used in Bible times as pledges of different kinds from owner to owner in business transactions. The "Gimmel," or wedding ring, also of Bible times, was a cunningly devised affair in two sections, and at the ceremony one was given to the bride and the other to the groom. This ring has been reproduced at several weddings in recent years as an odd fancy. One Way to Decrease Jans In Copenhagen the police have decreased the number of drunkards by a novel plan of "tit-for-tat". If a man is found drunk in the streets he is escorted home in a cab by a police officer, and the cab fare is charged to the publican who served the man with liquor. Needless to say, publicans take very good care that none shall drink too much on their premises, in case they should be called upon to pay the cab bill. Two negroes were discussing their young sons, and the first declared he intended to make his hopeful an astronomer. "At's a fine job," he concluded. "Yes," drawled the other, "Yoh done tol me dat afore, but whut's he gwine to do. in de daytime?" The pipe fish take care of their young in a manner that is entirely peculiar. The newly laid eggs are taken care of by the male, he having a sort of fold on either side of his body. Below these "flaps" he secretes the eggs, and when the young are hatched he continues to carry them in this pouch until they are old enough to look out for themselves. "Dat o' man o' yohs is a purty good provider." "He shows his sense." replied Aunt Chloe. "He wants to keep me busy occupyin' dihore skillet as a utensile insidt of a weapon"—Washington Star. Maid—"I've come 'to give notice, ma'am." Mistress—"Indeed?" Maid—"And would you give me a good reference, ma'am? I'm going to Mrs. Jones, across the way." Mistress—"The best in the world, Maggie. I hate that woman."—New York City Star. Like Many of the Rest. "When I married you," said Mrs. Naggers, "I thought to reform you." "Yes," answered the husband; "and like a number of reformers you seized the first opportunity to become a boss."—Kansas City Star. Domestic Servants in Britain. Domestic servants are employed in more than 800,000 homes in England and Wales. Curing a Cold. Significance of the Ring In His Spare Time. Male Protects the Yours Safer Way Her Opportunity Like Many of the Bear --- PILGRIMAGE OF LOVE By HAROLD CARTER. Langwith had lost Adela. He had been in love with her for three years, and during that time he had never dared to ask her the question which would put an end to his doubts. Adela was a rich woman, and Langwith, like many painters, was desperately poor. During those three years he worked feverishly, striving to make a name. Then, when he stood squarely upon his feet, and his pictures were becoming recognized for their worth, he told her of his love. And she refused him. He had gone away hopeless. She did not love another man, but she did not love him. She could not love, she said. Adela, rich, discontented, but ineffably dear to him, did not know her own heart. Langwith had a clear picture of her in his mind during that time of despair. Her beauty, her high breeding, her dissatisfaction with life would, he knew, make marriage inevitable for her in the future, and, he feared, would bring unhappiness with it. She had promised him, with tears, that if ever she changed her mind she would write to him. But three more years had passed away and he had not seen her since. She had gone away to Camways that summer, to a little seaside village, and after that she had traveled in Europe. It was more than a year before she returned to her house in the metropolis. No letter had come. Langwith had never tried to see her, but his love burned the fiercer for its impossibility of fulfilment. The third summer after he had lost her Langwish resolved to go to Camways. It was a pilgrimage of love. He wanted to live where she had lived that season, to see the things that she had seen and to try to enter viceriously into her life in this way. He went to Camways, put up at the little hotel, and found the restfulness of the little place unexpectedly soothing. He arranged to rent an old-fashioned cottage upon the cliffs, within a stone's throw of the hotel, where Adela had stayed. "It's been unoccupied for three years," the agent told him frankly. ```markdown ``` Langwith Took Out His Letters. "but I guess it's weather-proof. And you say you only want to stay for the summer." Langwith moved in. It was a delightful, old-world place, with a garden full of flowers set out by the last occupant and now rapidly reverting to the wild. Hardly had Langwith taken possession of it before the influence of the woman whom he had lost came over him like a flood tide. He dreamed of her, of his dead hopes and lost happiness, and surrendered himself to the melancholy of his reminiscences. He felt that if only he could see her he might induce her to give herself to him. Adela was unhappy; she would never be happy without the life companionship of somebody who understood her. He was awakened on the fourth morning of his stay by the call of the postman. He threw on his dressing gown and went down. "Party by the name of Langwith here?" asked the man. The painter nodded sleepily. "I just put a bundle of mail for you in here," said the postman, indicating the private mail-box which stood at the end of the garden. "Then it occurred to me that, having just moved in, you mightn't have the key." "I haven't," said the painter. "I didn't know you had free delivery here. But I guess it can be opened easily enough." The weather-worn box yielded to the slightest effort, and Langwith took out his letters. Among them was one that made his heart beat furiously. It was in Adela's handwriting. It seemed as though his longing had reached her in some tepathetic manner, and had been answered. Langwith hurried into the house and tore open the envelope. "You asked me to tell you if I changed my mind," he read, "and I have changed it. I cannot tell you what it costs me to make this confession, my dear, after the way in which I treated you. But I always loved you, only your sudden asking, after I had ceased to hope, startled and frightened me. I didn't know what to say; I could not tell you of my love then, and I said 'no.' This is all I can bring myself to say now. Write to me at once, or I shall go abroad and never dare to look you in the face again. "ADELA." The letter was dated two days before, from Camways. Adela was in the village! Langwith lost no time in getting dressed. He hurried over to the hotel, and when he asked for her he was trembling so that he could hardly frame his words. But Adela was not there. She had not registered there that summer, and nobody in the place could give him any information of her. Langwith in THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. quired everywhere. Adela was not in Camways. Yet she had been in Camways two days before. The mystery seemed insoluble. In the gray-twilight he went home, beaten. He entered the garden dejectedly, worn out with his emotion and his frantic pacing of the street. With head bent he passed up between the flower beds, toward the house. A shadow barred his entrance. He looked up hopelessly—into Adela's face. She was standing before the door, a silent figure in a cloak. She might have been a wreathe, so ecereal did she look in the twilight. Langwith's heart beat wildly; then he ran forward. He clasped her shrinking form in his arms. No ghost was this, but a woman of flesh and blood, warm to his touch and living. "Adela!" he whispered, still half incredulous. "When did you come?" "I have only just come," she whispered back. "But you—how did you come here?" "I came to be where you had been," he answered. "But my letter?" "I got it this morning, Adela." "This morning?" she exclaimed. "Why, I posted that letter three years ago. It was that dreadful summer when I realized that I had broken both our lives by my inexplicable unkindness." "Adela!" he exclaimed, a light breaking in upon him, "where did you mail that letter?" "I mailed it here, in this letter-box," she answered. "I used to come here to look at the flowers. That is why I came back today, because this place seemed somehow bound up with all my memories of you. And you only—got—it—today—" Lance with began to laugh hysterically. For three long years the letter had lain in the private box which Adela had mistaken for a public one. And now—now—it seemed miraculous that he should have rented the very house that she had loved, and taken the letter from the place where she had posted it. But, when he explained, her happy tears drove the memory of those years away. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chappman.) DROVE FAT MAN OFF CAR Successful Practical Joke Eddie Foy Is Said to Have "Pulled Off" in New York. They are telling in Broadway a story about Eddie Foy and George Cohan. Poy and Cohan one autumn afternoon sat side by side in a Fifth avenue bus when a fat, gaudily dressed man entered, his manicured and scented hands covered with huge rings. "George," said Foy, "I don't like that fellow's looks, and I'm going to make him get out before we reach Madison Square." "All right. Eddie," said Cohan calmly. Poy fixed his gaze on the fat man's glittering hands, and a change came over his face. His eyes seemed dull and staring. His jaw hung slack and loose. "We want ring!" he shouted suddenly, and he pointed at the fat man's hands and at the same time jumped up and down in his seat and waggled his elbows up and down in the air, just like a baby. "Ring! Me want ring!" Cohan took the cue at once. "Hide your hands," he said quickly to the fat man. "Your rings bother him." The fat man frowned uneasily, but he would not hide his hands. "Ring! Ring! Me want ring!" repeated Foy, and Cohen, as he strove to hold his friend still, said: "Don't give him a ring!" "Huh! I guess I won't," growled the gaudy fat man. "Give him a ring indeed!" And he looked at his diamonds complacently. Foy's eyes were now shining. His face was red and contorted. He hopped up and down and waggled his arms more vehemently than ever. "Me want ring!" he roared. "Ring! Ring!" "For heaven's sake," said Cohen, "hide your hands, man! Don't you see you're bringing on one of his spells? Hide your hands, or, by heavens, I won't be responsible for the consequences." A little pale by now, the fat man reluctantly put both hands behind his back. "This is the limit," he said, appealing to the other passengers. "Idots riding in omnibuses! Ain't that the limit, friends?" Cohen now seemed to lose all patience. "Oh, hang it," he said, "give him a ring or two, and let us have some peace. Can't you see I've lost my power over him?" But the fat man, tearing his pudgy hand from the persistent Foy's grasp, rose and ran full tilt for the door. "Conductor, stop!" he shouted. And he leaped off two blocks before Madison Square was reached. New Copper Wire. After many attempts to make a copper wire by electric deposit the task has at last been accomplished. The method requires a fine copper wire as a core for making the desired product, and the additional copper is deposited on it while it moves through a tank containing the solution. The fine copper wire is made endless and passed through a regular plating solution containing sulphate of copper and a little sulphuric acid. The wire passes over grooved rollers operated from outside while passing through the tank. After leaving the tank the wire passes through a small rinsing tank to remove the solution, and then goes to a roll around which it passes a number of times, returning again to the plating tank. The plating may thus be continued until the required thickness is obtained. The Clerk's Error. Travers (phoning taller)—What do you mean by sending a bill with my new suit? I consider it an insult. Taller (meekly)—Very sorry, sir. It's the new bookkeeper's fault; he evidently got you mixed up with those who pay. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 212 W. SCHILLER ST.-Nicely furnished, comfortably heated rooms; conveniences all modern, Near car line; terms reason- able. 7-14-21-29 2127 INDIANA AV.-Newly furnished room, not water, gas, no other rooms. Telephone services. 7-14 3614 CALUMET AV.-Phone Doug. 4113 Nice room to hot water, gas, other conveniences. To one or two gentlemen or working lady. 7-14 4335 FORRESTVILLE AV.-Some light furnished or unfurnished rooms, with all modern conveniences. Convenient to L and Near car line. Terms reason- able. Phone Kennedo 1300. 7-14 3338 VERNON AV.-Large light front room, all modern conveniences. Kitchen privileges. 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When we look into the long avenue of the future and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live and to be happy. —Stevenson. Seemed What She Wanted. "I see this medicine is good for man and beast." "Yes," said the druggist. "Gimme a bottle. I believe that's the right combination to help my husband."—Kansas City Journal. "Moving Pictures" Big Industry. It has been calculated that nearly 300,000,000 feet, or more than 55,000 miles of film are used yearly to satisfy the world's demand for moving pictures. Bather Spoiled the Effect "My wife was to give a rose tea, everything scented with roses." "A delicate conceit." "Yes, but things went wrong. The people in the next flat took that occasion to have onions and cabbage."—Kansas City Journal. FOR SALE -4235 Langley avenue; detached 900 brick; newly decorated. Small deposit down, balance like rent. 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Ancient Order of Forsters, makes every second and the third night night enlightenment at Odd Fellows Hall, 2331 State street. Frank W. Taylor, Fin. Secy., 5621 **Grove av** Phone Normal 7592. **Philip av** Phone Tremaster, Res- dent 2444 Dourborn st. Phone Calumet 3219 **Stanley Dorch, Chief Ranger, Res- dence, 6513 Wabash av. Phone Went 6466. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1911. Our London Office 17 Green Street Sharing Road London, England, W. C. CONVENIENT MEMORY. I've been some time figurin', an' ain't done figurin' yit. Why some folks will remember th' things they should forgit; An' things they should fergit about most generally you'll find Are jest th' ones 'at somehow sort o' hank aroun' their'mind. I borrowed from a neighbor, once some boards to fix my fence; He thot of that but clean forgot I loaned him thirty cents. I reccion it's convenient-like, perhaps I'll try it yit. Fergittin' to remember an' remember- in' to fergit. The weather man is still hopeful about that cold wave proposition. Now that you have gotten into the habit of going to church, keep it up. One of the hardest things women had to do the primaries was to tell itor of this paper went t Sunday. No comments, ee of the most prominent rea- given for lynching are "sus- ted," "charged" and "accused." If the Federals really want a good in their baseball league, why up "Rube" Foster, the great em all? old the women they could ey did. If you don't be- over the registration that you are a member Club," and it is your see that we have a in the City Council election. og came out, and he it, his shadow he plain, he sniffed in the air, was quite rare, and said, ce for me." He went ie, and said, "Fon my a more of winter you'll Fort Madison, Iowa, sen- Robinson; ten years entary for the theft of sent railway tickets and ten pennies. That is what might be called overmaking the punishment fit the crime. P. S.-No, the prisoner was NOT white. Even if February is a short month, it might be well to stop long enough in the mad rush for pelf to pay your subscription or to have it renewed. The world and Englewood admit there is but one paper that interests every member of the household, and that is (modesty forbids us mentioning The Defender). In order to let out, two customs inspectors who held office in Pensacola, Fla., and who refused to resign, the offices that they held were abolished by orders from headquarters. That leaves but two inspectors there now, both white. "Where there's a will there's a way," and they have both below the Mason and Dixon line. One-city-one-fare proposition became a reality last Saturday night at 12, and now patrons of the surface and elevated lines can travel to any part of this big city for five cents, transfers being given on every cross-town line, including the loop district, and when the comprehensive subway plan goes through Chicago will have the finest transportation system in the world. From South Chicago to Peoria is 10 miles; from Chicago to rido, nike; but this is the city where big things are, done, so we should not wonder at it. Money is a wonderful leveler. The little orphan Oklahoma girl who was made rich by the finding of coal oil on the patch of otherwise worthless land left by her father receives hundreds of letters from white young men who want to marry her. Her monthly income is only $15,000, so it can be readily seen these suitors love the girl for herself alone. Why they did not propose before they heard of her good fortune was due simply to an oversight. And this in Oklahoma, too, where "Jim Crowism" reigns supreme. Agak we say, money is a great thing. NEGRO FARMER. The "Negro Farmer," a journal published in the interest of those in the agricultural field, has just made its appearance and, though supposedly in toddling clothes, it has the earmarks of an old-time paper. It is well edited and there is something of interest to be found in its columns for both old and young. It is published at Tuskegee Institute, the place where they do things on a large scale, and do them well. So we welcome this newcomer in the journalistic field and wish it every success. OUR NEW LAWMAKERS If there ever was a doubt as to what the women would do if given the ballot it was dispelled last Tuesday, when the primary returns showed that nearly one-third of those who registered were women. This means that the complexion of our politics will be materially changed, and of course for the better. The gang will not have full sway as in the past, votes will not be on the market for a glass of liquor or a few paltry dollars. There will be a general housecleaning, not this year perhaps, but later, when all women fully understand and know the power of the ballot. There has been much speculation as to the advisability of allowing women to vote and arguments were advanced pro and con, which result that the rightful justice of giving them a voice in the making of the laws that were to be administered alike to women and to men. Many of the states have not yet given this suffrage, but it will be a short time until they will come to it. Illinois is always among the first in the line of advancement, and we welcome the women and predict great things for the future with their aid. MEASURING 11R A St. Louis paper says: "The tendency of white labor to drive colored labor out of the various trades is as apparent here as elsewhere. The causes are to a considerable extent above law. The substitution of the 'shifting parlor' for the old-fashioned 'kitchen' is a consequence. When Greek met Ethiopia the tug of war was short and decisive, because the Greek was the best fighter." The statement that the Greek is the bestighter is true, because he has had ages of civilization behind him; he has not been handicapped; he had the means to rent stores and desirable corners on which to build these parliars; he has put brains instead of brawn in the business. It is only in late years it dawned upon the Greeks and others that there was money to be made in the shoe-shining business, then solely controlled by the shiftless element of the colored race, for the intelligent class of both races thought such labor far beneath them; and so, with the armament above stated, they embarked, with the result that they now have a monopoly in that line of work. Has the colored man lost by being driven out of mental occupations, or has it forced him to better and greater things? Today we have representatives in every walk of life. They have accumulated this life's goods to the amount of $100,000,000. All of this must mean that we are doing something worth while. Adversities bring the best there is in us out. We complain more from habit than anything else. True, there are things confronting us that seem almost insurmountable, but as we draw nearer to them they do not look so mountainous. There is no better way to succeed than by putting on a bold front. The way to measure is by looking backward, not forward. VARDAMAN-BLEASE-WILSON POLICY.. We have had nearly one year now of Democratic reign, during which time as many hungry wolves as could gather around the plum tree have had their appetites in a measure appended. The ax has been used freely and every opposing political head has been dropped in the Democratic waste basement, office mide no difference; all must go, it has been years since the party now in power had an opportunity of nutting their hands 'n Uncle Sam's THE CHICAGO DEFENDER IN another part of this issue will be found a story about two or our Chicago clergymen, one the pastor of a poor congregation, the other of the richest and most aristocratic to be found in the city. They are both Baptists and in that particular alone are they alike. It is generally supposed the possessor of the true Christian spirit looked through glasses that made every race seem as one and every man a brother of the other man; that there was but one right way, one teaching for us all; that Christ came not alone to save one race but to save every race. Such is what is generally but not always taught by members of the cloth personal prejudices lead them far from the teachings of Him who said, "Come unto me all ye who are heavy inden and I will give you rest." Each winter in this big city we women who are forced to ask for charity, who have neither food or fuel. Something must be done to make charitable organizations taxed to them and yet they both partially relieve the suffering of these poor affluent, Among other churches who have aided in this humane cause we mention Ebenezer Baptist Church, presided over by Rev. J. E. Thomas, and the Immanuel Baptist Church, whose pastor is Rev. Johnston Myers. For the past month both have fed daily hundreds of these people and did much to relieve the situation. The effort put forth by Rev. Thomas and his little hand of followers was especially noteworthy, as it was done at a great sacrifice. The church is poor and the members for the most part poorer still, yet they gave freely of the little they had to alleviate the hunger of those even less fortunate than they; to their table every nationality to numbers up in the thousands came, only 20 per cent being colored. It was not a question of shade; it was giving in the spirit of the Divine. To Rev. Johnston Myers' beautiful and costly house of worship on Michigan boulevard also came hundreds in the same starring occasion. To give to these unfortunate, while just as much an act of kindness as the other, entailed no such hardship on the members, for millionaires and the members of means compose the personnel of that church. Into this seeming haven unfortunately (we say it advisely, unfortunately) strayed a few hungry black sheep—only a few, but that few was too many. Here, where charity to all and malice toward none should be enblazed in the very walls of the edifice, was found this firm but unwritten law, "No colored need apply." Look upon one picture and then upon the other and follow in mind's eye the changing look of despair, hatred and resolve that this across the face of a half-starred colored train turns away hungry from the bunded cities where his brother in white is feasting and wends his way through the cold streets of a still more cold city to that even he can call home. The colored man is not a beggar; he is seldom seen in that capacity. Even at his home church he represented but 20 per cent, and about 1 per cent at the white church of all who sought succhure. And were it not for the fact that he is shut out in many avenues of employment the percentage would be even less. This is an enlightened age, when it should not only be a duty but a pleasure to extend a helping hand to the man farther down. To whom, if not to our ministers, are we to look to lead us in the straight and narrow path? If there are two kinds of religions, which is preferable, the one preached and practiced by Rev. Thomas, or the one practiced but possibly not preached by Rev. Myers? Chicago, Ill., January 30, 1914—Editor Chicago Defender—Dear Sir: Among the many interesting topics of your paper the most interesting to me was "Germany's Invitation, Invitation Exhibition for Book Industry and Graphic Art." I was deeply interested when I read the lines running "we," meaning the whole Negro race, under conditions, will be left out, there being no representative from our race. I deem this a great mistake among our better learned men. I am confident there must be some one suited for this great opportunity and trist that I may read in your next paper one who has proven himself worthy. pockets. So greedy and ravenous are they that they are trying to break down the civil service laws that they might put incompetents in place. They yet have three more years, and if the preceding year is any criterion there will not be enough left in the treasury to wad an ordinary shotgun at the time of their exit, and exit it will be, and for good. The few Republicans and independents who are still in Congress and in the Senate are vigorously fighting these government sharks and keeping, as far as possible, the Blease and Vardaman element, who seem to have the upper hand in things governmental, from making a force of the Constitution of the United States. Our esteemed President is either in the hands of his enemies or his friends. In either case the result is the same, as far as his attitude toward the colored race is concerned. In every instance where he could have shown, if not friendliness, his impartiality, he has utterly failed. Is it because he is a weakling, a tool in the hands of verifiable traitors who holdly say, "I say, to help constitution!" to help constitution that in any other country would put the author behind prison bars—or does he wish openly to say to ten million American citizens, "You have no rights that the white man is bound to respect"? President Wilson must not forget that the colored voter played no inconspicuous part in his election, and for no other reason deserves better treatment at his hands. His oath of office to be President of all the people apparently is as easily broken as pie crust. It is never too late to mend, but now is the accepted time. It is up to you, President Wilson. PREACHING AND PRACTICING. EDITOR'S MAIL Yours. PATIENT READER. NO PLACE FOR SICK WOMAN BUT THE BRIDEWELL Case in Court of Domestic Relations Brings Out Appalling Fact—Doctor Says Young Girls Forced to Go to Bridewell Learn Evil from Older Women—Finally Taken in. The appalling fact that there is no place among Chicago's many hospitals and much vaunted charities where a woman of the streets whose condition makes her a menace, may be treated, unless she is sent to the bridewell and a record placed against her, was disclosed in the Court of Domestic Relations. Nannie Amberli, 22, an Afro-American girl, was arrested while soliciting in the street and brought into court on a charge of contributing to the dependency of her twenty day old baby. The girl, examined by the municipal physician, Dr. Anna Dwyer, was found to possess the mentality of a child of ten. She claimed she was unable to get work and that she was not strong enough to do housework or washing. She had an illegitimate child a year ago which since died. She has been following the profession of a prostitute until she went to the county hospital to have her last baby. Judge Tries to Find Place. When the child was 13 days old Nannie Amberli and the child were turned out of the county hospital. She had no money. She could not support herself save by soliciting. A policeman saw her solicit a man and arrested her. Then it was discovered that she had the baby, also that she had a disease which made her a frightful menace to the community. Judge Uhlir was adverse to sending her to the bridewell because of his belief, based on Dr. Dwyer's report on the mental irresponsibility of the girl, that she did not really understand the horror of the life she was leading. He was very confident there was some place where she could be safe, and that she had chance in life. And Judge Uhlir and Dr. Dwyer started to find the "some place." They spent considerable time searching, but they didn't find any place, not even the county hospital, willing to take the girl and treat her. Finally Sent to Bridewell. "It is a shame that such a thing should be in a city like this," Judge Uhldir declared. "Unless I am willing to have a record placed against this girl by sending her for six months to the bridewell, there is nothing that can be done for her. She cannot be separated from her baby because it is a nursing baby. There certainly is charity for this kind of thing, that girl cannot be hold responsible for what she has done and what her life has been. She is like a child in her mind. She should be given treatment, not only physical but mental, until she has regained her self-respect, then she should be gotten a position and permitted to start life with a clean slate." Dr. Dwyer said she had many diseased girls come to her and that there was no place for them to go. "If we send them to the bridewell, these girls with undeveloped brains, they come in contact with girls who are older and who understand what have been doing, girls who are wise." The Evil Side "Then the girl with an under-developed brain is taught just one side of the question—the evil side. "Many of these girls are not naturally bad. They need encouragement and they would try very hard to be good. They need treatment. And they can only get it in the bridewell, with a record filed against them." Judge Uhlir was finally able to prevail upon John L. Whitman, superintendent of the bridewell, to waive red tape and take Nannie Ambler there for treatment without a commitment. Y. M. C. A. TO LAY CORNERSTONE Many Invited to Exercises Sunday— Hampton, MA. Rev. V. Gallion, S. R., Re. Speak The laying of the cornerstone of the Y. M. C. A. of Evanson, IL, will take place Sunday, February 7, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Wilson, president of the white Y. M. C. A., will lay the cornerstone. Rev. H. J. Callis, pastor of Zion Church, 88th and Dearborn streets, and one of Hampton's noble sons, has been selected as the speaker for the occasion. The Hampton Club has been invited to attend in a body. The president of the club, Mr. R. S. Abbott, has promised to take the entire membership and to make a speech in behalf of Hampton as the secretary of this Y. M. C. A., in the person of our Mr. Talley, is a Hampton student. Mr. Talley believes in doing things and he has done something. The managing of the affairs of the Y. M. C. A. and the collecting of money for said institution proves it. We hope and wish for our Mr. Talley much success and happiness. The new location for the Y. M. C. A. is 1109 Emerson street. To the Point A lawyer residing in Washington, and noted for his laconic style of expression, sent the following terse and witty note to a refractory client who would not comply with his reiterated demands for the payment of his bill: "Sir: If you pay the 'inclosed, you will oblige me. If you do not I shall oblige you." Dubious Syntax, But True There are more people in this country eating too much than there are starving. Perhaps if the former didn't, the latter wouldn't. No Age Without Its Heroes. No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Caesar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinks its Socrates, the least commonplace poet, its Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw. Keep Healthy By Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams 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. KEEW By Dr. A A Week Measure Hygienic will be description Column. WILLIAMS. LEARN THE GAME. In the year of 1913, just closed, there were many so-called widely advertised "SURE CURES" for consummation. Many poor unfortunate consumptives traveled miles and miles, some across the continent, and many across the deep ocean, to take the "Friedman Cure." Many sold and pawned all of their belongings to obtain money to take this cure, but were sadly and hopelessly disappointed. Here in Chicago there was the "Ducket Cure," which brought many gasping, unfortunate patients to the door of the hospital where the treatment was being given, only to be turned away without anything being done for them. They were all drawn here through the glaring, bold and misleading newspaper advertisements. They came as most unfortunate will do, grasping the fortune of hope, only to have this hope frustrated. In St. Louis a so-called "popular cure" has been widely advertised, which is doomed to follow the fate of the "FRIEDMAN CURE" of New York and the "Ducket Cure" of tuberculosis here in Chicago. To learn the game is to learn how to leave all so-called "SURE CURES" severely alone. Secure for yourself a conscientious, intelligent and experienced physician who has your best interest at heart, and who will advise you best how to regain your health. Best Aids to Cure It is my unfortunate privilege and duty to see from fifty to one hundred consumptives every week. I am thoroughly convinced that the best aids to the CURE OF CONSUMPTION are these three: Rest, Nutritious Food, Plenty of Fresh, Pure Air. For many years, and in fact even now, men and women have pinned their fate to drugs for consumption and they are loath to give up the habit; for many years they have believed (and they are not to be censured for such belief, because many of the medical men did not have any better light on the subject who taught them) that consumption was caused by taking cold, and exposure to cold air, and that the sputum coughed up by the consumptive was only so much "cold" being expelled from the system. Consumption was never caused by colds and cold air and never will be. Therefore, learn the game and get rid of the old expressions, "just full of cold," "coughing up cold." When you learn the game of Rest— I mean by rest absolute rest in bed— when your fever (temperature) is above 99.8 or 100; when your sputum is bloody or tainted with blood; when your night sweats are exhausting and your appetite is poor, you have learned one of the greatest factors of playing the game of alding yourself to regain your health. Nutritious (Good) Food. Nutritious (Good) Food. FOOD is the second cardinal factor which must act conjoinly with Rest in Playing the Game of Curing Consumption. Your food must be nourishing, relishing and appetizing. To play this game successfully it is absolutely necessary to give your stomach a meal. You can do this without a good stomach in playing the Game of Curing Consumption is like a ship in ocean without its rudder. Anything that disturbs the stomach should be discarded, for it is through the stomach we get our power, force and endurance to enable us to play a square deal in the game of this battle-for health. Therefore we advise you to leave off all cough syrups, "patent cures", etc., because they more or less contain some form of opium or morphine, which only allay the cough, and very often disturb the stomach and do away with your appetite. It is best to learn to leave alone all so-called advertised cures, for none of them has ever been successful. I know of patients who have bought bottle after bottle of patent stuff—"sure cures." The tables and shelves are full of bottles which did them no good and often did them much harm in hastening them to a fatal termination. Strong Will, Intelligence and Courage. It requires a strong will, intelligence, courage, persistent effort, a strong force of character, to carry out the instructions of an intelligent, experienced physician in order to win this game; for one to cure himself; to aid in curing himself of tuberculosis. No coward, no feeble-willed, vacillating person was ever cured or ever will be cured of consumption, because a person of such a character is a "quitter," and it requires a "fighter," one with strong will, a courageous person, who will follow out the intelligent instructions of his physician to win the game, to get well of consumption. Pure, Fresh Air. To learn the game and to practice it requires more courage and force of character than the games of rest and good eating, as we all like to eat when we have a good appetite, and most of us like to rest when we are tired, but, O!—this Fresh Air Game! We are so imbued with the old, foolish, fogy, antiquated idea that a little fresh air will give us a "cold" or "consumption" that it makes some of us shudder when we think about hoisting or lowering the windows to let in a little sunshine, light or a few whiffs of pure, fresh air. These three factors must be used in any method of curing consumption. They must be used contiguity at one and the same time. Light, sunshine and fresh air are the greatest enemies and killers of the consumptive germ. It is too bad that many so-called intelligent people will insist on keeping the doors closed and the windows tightly closed, often hermetically sealed, during the whole winter season and insist on breathing and rebreathing the filth, death-laden air, not only from their lungs but from the lungs of the other members of the family, and often that of the dogs and cats that share the room or rooms with the family. Recapitulation. First—Leave off the use of all patient medicines and "sure cures of consumption" when you have a cough, bad cold, find yourself losing weight and feeling generally "run down." Second—If you have consumption, purchase for yourself a fever thermometer and take your temperature four (4) times a day—at 8 o'clock a.m., 12 noon, and 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. (Any trained nurse or your physician will teach you how to use and read your thermometer). If you find your afternoon or evening fever above 99.5 or 100, you should rest, rest either in a reclining chair or in bed, until your temperature is normal—even take your meals in bed. Third—You should eat from four to five times a day; eat from four to six eggs a day, cooked in any style except hard boiled, and drink from one to three quarts of good, rich milk at the same time each day, with plenty of meats—preferably red, meats—fruits, etc., but never overload your stomach. If your appetite is not good, consult your physician. Fourth—You should make it a point to spend from six to eight hours every day in the fresh air out of doors when without fever, and when with fever pull your bed near the open window (well covered) and remain there for a while. Finally, follow the advice of your counsel and experienced physician, and you will have learned the Game to Aid in Curing Yourself of Consumption. BOA'RD OF HEALTH NOTES Press Service, Department of Health Good air is good medicine for all of us all of the time. The windowless room is a curse to civilization and should not be occupied by either man or beast. Borrowed daylight is bad for those who are compelled to use it. Each domicile should have its own rightful share of God's light and air. In these days of improved facilities for rapid transportation, the twenty-five foot building lot should be abolished and no residence building should be permitted to extend from lot line to lot line. As fuel in the furnace will not burn unless the draughts are kept open, so the food we take into our bodies will not give us the greatest good without fresh air. The mouth is the seat of many of the communicable diseases. Because this is true, mouth sanitation is important. A clean mouth and sound teeth are pretty big factors in protecting our physical health; especially is this true of children. Teach the child to keep its mouth and teeth clean and it will be far less liable to attack from the usual epidemic diseases peculiar to childhood. Fortune indeed is the city that has a plentiful supply of pure, unpolluted water for all its citizens. Fortunate, too, for the citizens if they make a liberal use of such water for both drinking and bathing purposes. Eighty per cent of our blood, by weight, is water. This fact alone explains why we should drink water freely. The skin, next to our lungs and kidneys, is an important factor in renovating our systems. So we need clean skins. Here are some suggestions for bathing taken from the Department of Health Bulletin. Instead of soap use sal soda or bicarbonate of soda (baking soda). It will clean the skin quicker and better than many of the fancy toilet soaps and will not cause the irritation that some soaps do. When through bathing rub, dry with a rough towel, and wash the whole oath over with a cold solution of column salt and dry the body by this. This is an excellent skin tonic and a good brucer against colds and night sweats. Rock-ribbed, germproof health is largely attained by healthy skins. There is need for radical revision of a city's building laws that permit the erection of buildings with inside rooms or windowless rooms. Sometimes these are disguised as alcove rooms, opening into a larger room having direct light and ventilation. But too often these alcoves are curved off for or sleeping quarters and become too close to the breadth of diseases for diseases. The curtains catch the germs, the occupants of the alcove room catch disease and the needless death rate mounts higher and higher all the time. One Exception. Little Mary was coloring pictures with her Christmas set of paintings. She used a tint that failed to please and exclaimed: "Oh I didn't mean to do that! However, what's done is done and can't be undone—except, shoe SAILORS' GREAT FEAR FLOATING DERELICT ONE OF WORST PERILS OF THE SEA. Forsaken Ships, Practically Uninkable, Can Rarely Be Perceived Until Too Late To Avoid the Fatal Collision. The dismasted, battered hulk of a derelict, floating so low in the water as to be almost level with the waves, is, of course, a very great danger to navigation, especially in foggy weather. The majority of derelicts are sailing ships laden with timber. They may have been dismasted and rendered absolutely helpless in storms, partly demolished by fire, by collision with an iceberg, or by the mere force of the waves themselves. The crew, unable to make their ship seaworthy, may have abandoned it in the boats, or have been rescued by some passing vessel, but, whatever their fate, their forsaken ship. If laden with wood, remains practically unsinkable and is hither and thither over the ocean, in the mercy of the winds and currents. In course of time the swelling of the wood cargo may burst the hull assemble, but until this happens, or until the vessel is driven ashore and broken into matchwood against some ironshod coast, it will remain a terror to passing ships. Now and again a eteamer may be rendered helpless owing to its machinery becoming disabled by shortage of coal, by fire or by the loss of its rudder or propeller in heavy weather, its crew may decide to abandon it and take to the boats, but if they neglect to open the scaecocks on their departure their ship may float for many a long day. The erratic movements of some derelicts are almost unacquaint. Not so very long ago a Norwegian sailing ship called the Crown left Nova Scotia for a South American port. It was laden with timber, and while still in the North Atlantic ocean was overtaken by a terrible storm, which dismasted and left it a battered wreck. The crew, realizing it was useless to remain on board, abandoned it and took to the boats, never to be heard of again, but their ship, although it vanished completely for no less than three months, was sighted at the end of this time on the edge of the Sargent so sea, a good 700 miles away from where disaster overtook it. Sooner thanward it was sighted off Berm but then disappeared again, and still be drifting about the ocean. Another sailing ship was abandoned off Cape May. The crew endeavored to destroy it by fire on their departure, but, although it blazed furiously, the sodden, waterlogged cargo eventually extinguished the flames. A few weeks later the hulk was off the English coast and it was thought it would be dashed to pieces on the shore, but, altering its course, it proceeded to the southward along the French coast and was seen near the Azores. Having got thus far, it proceeded to cross the Atlantic, and after covering fully 6,000 miles in its wanderings an drifted ashore near Panama. uited ashore near Panama. Dareclots are sometimes salv bring in a large sum in salvage into the crews of the ships who them into port. On one occasion American steamer bound for Lliverpool with a cargo of cotton ran out of coff the north coast of Ireland. The sea was running high, signals of distress were made to a passing steamer which passed a tow rope to the heless ship. But the towing wire snapped and the crew were accordingly taken on board the newcomer, while the cabled vessel was left to drift. A Liverpool tug heard of the affair and being doubtless aware of the grief of the cotton cargo, determined to find the derelict and to tow it far harbor. After a protracted search it came upon it and eventually took it into Belfast. little worse for its buffeting. The enterprising tug netted not only £7,000 for its share in the proceeding, but an act of parliament, passed in 1896,令 unmarried any British ship sighting a derelict is bound to report the fact to the Lordlys agent, so that if the abandoned ship is in the track of ships a man-of-war may be sent out to destroy or bring it into port. Hymn Writer to Aid Girls. Fanny J. Crosby, the blind hymn writer, is president of the Golden Rule alliance recently formed for the purpose of securing funds to erect a home for blind girls who may be in need of care and education. Miss Crosby was for many years a teacher in the New York institute for the blind. There she formed the friendship of Grover Cleveland, who as a young pan was secretary in the school. Her work in the Bowery mission is rupleta with incident. Already, while the alliance is yet in its infancy, a wide field of usefulness is being opened. Several instances of sightless little ones have come to it for treatment and care and complete care has resulted in some cases, while in others provision has been made for permanent; care of blind girls. The problem of educating girls in similar conditions is a serious one. Miss Crosby gives out a statement in which alluding to her recent severe illness: she believes her life has been spared that she may complete the establishment of a home for blind girls. The Golden Rule alliance has headquarters at 75 Fifth avenue, New York. Home Made Floor Pollsher. Take a wooden box, such as starch or cocoa is shipped in, and stretch several thicknesses of carpet or flannel over the bottom, allowing it to come well up on the sides and tack smoothly. Make a handle of two stout pieces of wood, thirty-six inches long, and join their upper end to a shorter piece of wood as a cross piece and nail all to the box. Place three paving bricks inside of the box and it will weigh sixteen pounds, just the weight sold for use by women. Rub always with the grain of the wood. This, with the addition of housewife groom, makes the work perfectly workable. Our Local Department—Personal Mention—Religious—Social and you will find a line or two about yourself or your friends. Miss Nettle Russell of 5534 Drexel avenue entertained quite a number of young ladies and gentlemen at a whist party Thursday evening. All had a delightful time. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Marguerite Adams of 3520 Prairie avenue entertained a host of friends at a reception and dance in honor of her birthday last Thursday evening. Dame Rumor says that Mrs. M. Clinkscale, 5529 Wabash avenue, has purchased the establishment formerly known as the Seay Millinery, 3641 State street, and in a few days will open one of the leading "style shops" on the South Side. the guest of Officer and Mrs. J. Tucker, 3654 Forest avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Griggsby (newly have arrived in the city from Day Ohio. They will reside here. All matter sent to this office be mailed with a two-cent stamp; otherwise it will not be given coreration. Miss Nettle Calloway did excel service as registry clerk last Tuesday at the polls of the twentieth price of the Second ward. The ladies the precinct were well represented. Mrs. Amelia Luker of 3318 Ver Avenue has the honor of being oldest Afro-American woman in precinct born in Illinois. Miss A. B. Allen, 3541 Federal street, was quietly married December 22 to Mr. W. H. Gilbritt, and they have moved into their new home, a three-story flat building at 740 Bowen ave. Dr. M. A. Majors, 4709 State street. Phone Oakland 4662; Auto 73058. nue. Mrs. O. B. Wright is at her residence, 3575 Rhodes avenue, after spending a delightful week visiting friends and relatives in Indianapolis and Louisville. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Ethel Minerva Thomas and Mr. Lester Earl Kennedy on February 19 at 3308 Indiana avenue. Mrs. John Jay Peterson, 6022 Aberdeen street, who spent six weeks in the East, returned after visiting most of the larger cities, besides her home town, Washington. She more than likely will leave for the West in a few weeks. She says there is no place like Chicago after all. Mrs. W. M. Cooper, 33 East Thirty-seventh street, left the city Friday to make an indecline trip to Washington and California. All communications for this paper must be addressed to The Chicago Defender and not to an individual, or they will not receive prompt attention. Cicero Court No. 18 of Calanthe held its installation of officers Friday, January 23, at Bethel hall. Mrs. C. A. Curl had charge of the installation. Forty guests gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin L. Lumsy, 5221 Dearborn street, to attend a graduation party given in honor of their son, Franklin R., Jr., last Friday evening. Many presents were presented. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson, 3121 Dearborn street, entertained Thursday in honor of Rev. J. Francis Wilson, organizer of the B. Y. P. U. of Kentucky and missionary to Africa. Covers were laid for eighteen. Mrs. Warren Dobbins, 5753 Lafayette avenue, the wife of Mr. Warren Dobbins, is making a visit in the Southland. Mrs. Dobbins will be out of the city for two months. She made her departure January 24. Dr. M. A. Majors, 4709 State street, Phone Oakland 4662; Auto 73058. Plans are carefully being made for a social organization to be composed of married and single men with an exclusive standard that will make it one of the most prominent social organizations of the Northwest. The popularity of an organization or individual can usually be judged by the number of critics on the outside. Edward Prosser, Jr., 5425 Wabash avenue, celebrated his eighth birthday Saturday, January 24. His parents prepared an enjoyable spread, which was enjoyed by his many little friends. He received many nice presents. net 34, which is operated by J rent, E. C. Know, Wells, M. T. and Medames Lou Ella Young ; Knight, placed on the reg est the largest number of Second ward. Preacher, is now in in where he is conduct the Old Fellows' build- splendid success in he has been there. in his return from his home in New few days in the ! looking up old he city he was Bing REAL Southeast Cor. St. Auto. 71-766- FOR SALE—DO YOU WANT TO OW Do you want to get your full particulars, see W. H. Binga, Banker REAL ESTATE FOR SALE—DO YOU WANT TO OWN A NICE LITE ON Forrestville Ave for full particulars, see W. H. Riley, I9 E. 47th St. FOR SALE—APARTMENTS. $8,590.00—Buys a 3-flat stone building, nearly new, 7-7-8 rooms, hardwood floors, oak finish, steam heat; every room large and light; detach-but, $860 cash, returns to us. Reptiles for $120 per month. $5,500.00—Buy a 3-flat stone building floors, oak finish, steam steam; $300 cash, terms to 8,000.00—Langley Ave, near 48th St. hardwood floors, steam terms to suit 7,500.00—37th Rhodes Ave, edition; 7-1-7 rooms, hardw 6,000.00—Wabash Ave, near 48th St. hardwood floors, 546 room 5,000.00—Lafayette Ave, near 55th St. hardwood floors; will mall 3,200.00—Downtown Ave, near 56th St. mentions. Your rots will 3,500.00—Wabash Ave, near 25th St. up-to-date 6,000.00—21st floor, flat stone built furnace heat FOR SALE— 3,000.00—Langley Ave, near 37th St. to-date; $300.00 cash, 3,500.00—Langley Ave, near 37th St. $300.00 cash, 3,600.00—Wabash Ave, near 48th St. hardwood floors, steam terms to suit 3,500.00—3rd and Vermont Ave, 9 m $300.00 cash, $30.00 per $8,900.00—Laughey Ave. near 45th St., 3-flat stone building, 7-7-7 rooms, steam heat, steam heat, defaeced; small payment down; forms in 50. 7,500.00—35th St., near Rhodes Ave., 2-flat stone building, in first-class condition; 7-17 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. 3,500.00—Lafayette Ave., near 55th St., 2-flat frame, steam heat, 6-6 rooms, hardwood floors; will make terms. 6,000.00—42nd St., 2-floor stone building, modern, up-to-date, 6-6 rooms; furnace heat. FOR SALE—RESIDENCES. 3,600.00—Lungley Ave., near 37th St., 10 rooms, good condition, modern, up- 3,500.00—Lungley Ave., near 37th St., a 10-room stone; will make a sacrifice; $300.00 cash. 3,600.00—Wabash Ave., near 48th St., 5 rooms, residence, steam heat, cement 3,300.00—33rd and Vernon Ave., 9 rooms, steam heat, excellent condition; $300.00 cash, $300.00 per month; can't beat this for a home. 3,250.00—Bryant Ave., near Rhodes Ave., 9 rooms, furnace heat; $300.00 for forms. FLATS FOR RENT. the guest of Officer and Mrs. J. B. Tucker, 3654 Forest avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Griglsby (newlyweds) have arrived in the city from Dayton, Ohio. They will reside here. All matter sent to this office must be mailed with a two-cent stamp. If otherwise it will not be given consideration. Miss Nellie Calloway did excellent service as registry clerk last Tuesday at the polls of the twentieth precinct of the Second ward. The ladies of the precinct were well represented. Mrs. Amelia Luker of 3318 Vernon avenue has the honor of being the oldest Afro-American woman in the precinct born in Illinois. Mrs. R. Jackson has returned from Atlanta, Ga., where she has been visiting her daughter, Miss A. Burks, a successful teacher. During her absence Mr. Jackson painted a portrait of her in oil in a lavender evening gown trimmed with fur. INFORMATION — Wedding announcements, $1.50; wedding writ-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. Mrs. L. M. Baer of 3726 Wabash avenue is taking vocal instructions from one of Chicago's best musical professors. Mrs. Baer is advancing rapidly. When she shall have completed her course she will be classed among the world's best singers. At the local office, 3635 State street, everyone was busy this week geeting ready for the affair which is to take place there on Thursday evening, Feb. 26. Chief M. T. Balley was also busy in forwarding a package of death claims which he had received from Richmond to Mr. Frank Johnson, the California representative of the Grand Fountain, in care of the Los Angeles Citizens' National Bank (local claims of people who are now in California). He found time, however, to state that in a few days he expected a large package of death claims for people residing in Cifengo. Mrs. Lou Ella Young, the president of the Rosebud Department of the Western Grand Division, is preparing a circular letter to be sent throughout the Western Grand Division announcing the Rosebud meeting, which is to convene in this city the latter part of May. All parties concerned seem to be optimistic concerning the future success of the Grand Fountain. THE DEARBORN WHIST CLUB. The Dearborn Whist Club held its weekly meeting at the home of Miss Florence Hogan, 3903 Federal street, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 4. Mr. Edward M. Jones and Mr. Chas. Robinson were voted in as members of this club. A very sociable evening was spent, after which refreshments were served. Officers: Harry Wheeler, President; Evelyn Williams, Vice-President; Walter Wheeler, Secretary; Geneva Williams, Treasurer. EUREKA FINE ART CLUB. The Eureka Fine Art Club gave a progressive luncheon, starting at Mrs. Ethel Alexander's, 3625 Forest avenue, who served oyster cocktail, and thence to Mrs. Nettie Long, 3540 Calumet avenue, who served soup, crackers and olives; Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 3556 Forest avenue, salmon trout, creole dressing, special baked potatoes and pocketbook rolls; Mrs. B. F. Slaughter, 3406 Vernon avenue, fruit salad; Mrs. Teresa Britton, 3346 Forest avenue, image ice cream and cake, followed by a literary program, Madan Anita Pattie Brown and Mrs. Beatrice Miller were special guests. MEETING OF WAYS AND MEANS SOCIETY. The Ways and Means Society of Grace Presbyterian Church will meet at the residence of Mrs. B. Johnson, 3206 Wabash avenue, Monday evening at $ p. m.—Mrs. C. Studymire, Pres.; Mrs. M. B. Mitchell, Sec. ga, Banker ESTATE State and 36th Place -Douglas 1565 N A NICE HOME on Forrestville Ave. 2 rent free? Have you got $500.00? For Riley, 19 E. 47th St. 5, nearly new, 7-7-8 rooms, hardwood nest; every room large and light; de- sert, 2-flat stone building, 7-7-8 rooms, 2-flat stone building, 7-7-8 rooms, seat, detached; small payment down; 6-flat stone building, in first-class con- doors, steam heat. This is a snap. 2-flat steam-heated building, stone; a lovely home, steam heat, 6-6 rooms, e terms. 4-flat building, 6-6 rooms; small pay- pay for this home. 2-flat frame, 6-6 rooms. Modern, ling, modern, up-to-date, 6-6 rooms; RESIDENCES. 10 rooms, good condition, modern, up- a 10-room stone; will make a sacrifice; 8-room residence, steam heat, cement; in good condition, rooms, steam heat, excellent condition; onth; can't beat this for a home. TRUE REFORMERS CLUBS AND SOCIETIES CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE PHILOMATHIAN DRAMATIC CLUB. New to the limelight of prominence is the Philomathian Dramatic Club, which gave a dancing party and was not "stage-struck" in the least. We must confess that the brilliancy and gorgeousness of the affair blinded us with amazement and appreciation. But after a little we came to the conclusion that such a grand occasion was justly due to the club that had strived so hard to gain the uppermost summit of that much-sought-for pinnacle, commonly called "popularity." It took place at the Anne Walker parlors last Monday evening. Ethical and sociological workers are unaware of the good Mrs. Boody, the chaperone, is doing in that line. By organizing the dramatic club she is not only bringing the young together socially and preventing the craze for dancing halls and other places of like character, but she is teaching them the art of dramatics—an art that is educational. The Philomathian can proudly boast of being the only colored dramatic club for young people in Chicago. The club has already played "The Crumpled Rose Leaf," "The Medicine Man," written by a member of the club, and "The Fascinating Fanny Brown," the last a huge success. Now the club intends to produce one play within every two months. Members of the Colonial, Chevalier, Delsarts, Sigma Beta and Bachelor Girls' Clubs were present at the party. PASCOL BRINSLEY. THE ADVISORY BOARD OF P. W HOME HOLDS MEETING. The advisory board of the Phyllis Wheatley Home met at the residence of Mrs. S. Trice, 6438 Vincennes avenue, Thursday afternoon, January 28 It was interesting. Miss Jennie Lawrence turned in $8 more from tickets sold for the entertainment given October 15, making a total of $226.33 Mrs. McCoy og Detroit, Mlch., was a visitor. Mrs. Studymire, president. CORNELL CHARITY CLUB Mrs. Addie M. Willis entertained the Cornell Charity Club at her beautiful home, 5418 South Dearborn street, Friday afternoon. A lovely program was rendered. The hostess served a three-course luncheon. EUTERPEAN CLUB. A new club—namely, the Euterpean Club—has just been organized. Mr. I. A. Jackson is the president, Miss R. Price is the treasurer and chaperone, Miss S. Schwendel is secretary and Miss T. Price is assistant secretary. The club has about thirty members so far. On the evening of February 3 the Euterpean Club gave its first annual social and recital, which was given at the residence of Miss R. P. Travis at 3428 Dearborn street. There were about sixty young men and young ladies who attended this social event. All had a pleasant evening and an enjoyable time. We thank the one and all for their liberality and, most of all, for their excellent behavior. The next meeting of the club will be held at the residence of Mr. I. A. Jackson, 3128 Dearborn street. All members please be present. Euterpean Club. S. Schwendel, secretary; T. Price, assistant secretary. THE BILLIKEN HOOP AND NEEDLE CLUB. The Billiken Hoop and Needle Club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Russell, 3229 Vernon avenue. Dr. Schulz spoke to the club on woman suffrage and it was very interesting. After the business meeting we were served a delightful luncheon by the hostess. Mrs. Hattie Goode, president; Mrs. Chester Tanner, reporter; Mrs. Bufler, instructor. THE LYRIC LITERATURE CLUB. The Lyric Literature Club met at the residence of the Misses Pelkey on January 30. The roll was called, minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. Business of importance was transacted. Miss Ruth Boyd was a distinguished visitor, and favored the club with some of her choice selections on the piano. The meeting closed with an informal dance. Luncheon was served in the dining room, where the club colors of pink and green were carried out. The next meeting will be at the residence of the Misses Golns February 13. All mothers of the club members are cordially invited to meet with us February 13. INTRAMURAL CLUB. The dance party given by the twelve ladies of the Intramural Club at Johnson's hall, 3518 State street, Friday evening was one of the most pleasurable affairs of the season. Delicious refreshments were served, and the handsome gowns worn by the ladies were indeed a pretty scene. The guests departed at a late hour, declaring themselves royally entertained. Mrs. William R. Euper, president; Mrs. Gertrude Moore, secretary. THE FLEUR DE LIS ART SOCIETY. The Fleur de Lis Art Society met with Mrs. Palmer, 540 West Fifty-seventh street, Thursday. The ladies are progressing very nicely in their embroidery work, and have become quite enthused over their efforts. A delicious luncheon was served. Next meeting with Miss Mabel Lee, 4767 Fifth avenue. THE FORTNIGHTLY WHIST AND LITERARY CLUB. Met Monday, February 2, at the residence of Mrs. A. Bason, 3212 Forest avenue, with all members present. Mrs. Wimp and Mrs. Donivan were guests. The club was beautifully entertained by the hostess. Mrs. G. Green, president; Mrs. M. Bingham, secretary. THE CHI MYSTIC CLUB. The club convened in regular session January 29 at the residence of Miss Martele Braxton; Quite an interesting meeting was held. The club decided to give $2 for three weeks' slick benefit. After business an elegant repast was served by the hostess. The club gave a Kentucky oyster supper February 2 at the residence of Mrs. Laura Bowey, which was a financial success. Next meeting will be held at the residence of Miss R. Williams. J. Harris, president; J. Jones, editor. THE IDLE HOUR ART AND SOCIAL CLUB. The club met with Mrs. M. Campbell, 3520 Prairie avenue, Tuesday, being the club's social day, which was the pleasure of the afternoon. Mrs. M. Irvin won first prize; Mrs. Z. Harden, second prize; Mrs. H. King, booby. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Next meeting with Mrs. E. Dyson, 4156 Wabash avenue, February 10. Mrs. M. Banks, president; Mrs. E. Bailey, journalist. THE IDEAL WOMAN'S CLUB. The club were the guests of Mrs. Laster, 5123 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Black read an interesting paper on "Economy," the discussion of which was opened by Mrs. Lyle. Different members expressed themselves, but Mrs. Turner carried away the honors by making the best remarks. Friday, February 6, is election of officers. Mrs. B. Everage, president; Mrs. A. Jones, secretary. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ART CLUB. The Twentieth Century Art Club met at Mrs. B. Renfro's January 22 and at Mrs. E. Combs' January 29. Mrs. N. Howel, president; Mrs. N. McCall, secretary; Mrs. E. Combs, critic. THE NONPAREIL CLUB. The Nonpareil Club held its regular meeting with Messrs. D. Radelife and N. Bacon. 3661 Forest avenue, Friday. The meeting opened in the usual manner. A very interesting business transaction was held. The hosts served some refreshing refreshments. The rest of the evening was spent playing whist and joyful singing. The club adjourned to meet with Mr. L. Simpson, 3548 Rhodes avenue, Friday, February G. C. Roberts, president; A. Roberts, secretary; L. Diffay, club editor. THE K. D. TILLMAN CLUB. The K. D. Tillman Club met at the residence of Mrs. Pearl Adams, 6039 May street, Tuesday evening. The attendance was exceedingly large, and seven visitors were present. The hostess surprised the club with a musical program and a paper entitled "The Needle in the Home." Two papers on "The Comparison of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Schools" were read and discussed. A dainty luncheon was served, after which the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. E. Archer, 6116 Ada street. Mrs. P. Turner, president; Mrs. N. Harrison, secretary; Mrs. A. Lyons, editor THE CRITERION CLUB. The Criterion Club held its third annual installation of officers Sunday at the club rooms, 3708 Wabash avenue. The following officers were installed: R. T. Hill, Jr., president; G. E. Davidson, vice-president; K. E. Williams, secretary; A. E. Lowry-Colle treasurer; L. P. Johnston, auditor; T. S. Ewell, critic. The next meeting of the club will be held Friday, February 13. R. Hill, Jr., president; K. E. Williams, secretary. POINSETTA EMBROIDERY CLUB. The Poinsetta Embroidery Club meet with Mrs. C. Johnson on last Monday afternoon. Rapid progress in the tedious points of needle art is being made by the members. On Monday, February 9, the club will meet with Mrs. P. Lynom, 5239 Wabash avenue. H. Fumbanks, president; M. E. Butler, instructor. S. Q. J. WHIST CLUB. Mrs. S. Cave of 6332 Everhart avenue was the hostess on last Saturday from 2 to 6 p. m. to the S. Q. J. Whist Club. A splendid luncheon served at 3 p. m. was the forerunner of a delightful afternoon spent at cards. Mrs. Sublett and Mrs. Burton were visiting guests. M. Clinkscale, reporter. THE AMERICAN RARE ART CLUB. The club met at the residence of Mrs. L. Lewis, 203 Forty-seventh street. A delightful luncheon was served by the hostess. After an hour of fine art work arrangements were made for a grand drama and bazaar. O.D.O.Cure A Special Toucher Requisite for PERSPIRATION HAS NO EQUAL Permeates, freshens and cleanses the pores of the armpits, feet and bodily folds where the moisture and impurities from sweat, deposit and anno- destroys All Forms of Offensive- Perception The Pride of refined and fastidious people. Used by Everyone Used by Everyone Large Sized Bottle Sent Prepaid for $1 -A Dollar Worth Quantity discounts to DEALERS and Agents Address, O-DO-CURE TOILET CO. People Gaa Bldg. Chicago, Ill. PAGE Mrs. E. Kinney, president; Mrs. E. Dyson, reporter. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY ADVISORY BOARD. The board met at the home of Mrs. Trice, 6438, Eberhard avenue; Mrs. Hackley, hostess. There was a very large attendance and a great deal of business was transacted. These ladies are all splendid workers, having raised over $200 for the Phyllis Wheatley Home in less than one year. They will join the city federation. Mrs. S. L. Adams, secretary; Mrs. Clara Studymire, president. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER. Sunday afternoon, February 8, at 4 p. m., Mr. Charles Francis Brown will speak on South America, with stereopticon illustrations. Miss Marie Jefferson, of the American Conservatory of Music, will give vocal and piano selections. Tuesday evening at 8 p. m. there will be a joint meeting of the Child Culture Club and the Center Girls' Club, with stereopticon display by Mrs. Irene Goins. Wednesday evening the Boys' Unity Club transacted the monthly business at the supper table, when an apetizing spread was provided by the athletic leader, Mr. L. Lloyd Stone. Mrs. Edna Johnson was hostess. Saturday morning the heavy snow prevented many from attending the domestic science classes for girls. They will meet again on Thursday afternoon after school for a story hour conducted by Wetmore of the Chicago Klindergarten College. The musical numbers rendered Sunday, January 25, were highly appreciated by an overcrowded audience. Mrs. Patterson of the West Side Settlement Institution and Mr. T. Theo. Taylor rendered piano solos in a most artistic manner. Miss Maud Roberts very beautifully sang two solos, which were very appropriate. Mrs. Cone gave several selections from Dunbar and was forced to respond to several encores. HAMPTON CLUB MEETS. President Abbott and Other Members Endeavor to Build Up a Strong Organization—Enjoy Good Program. The Hampton Club met last Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Alberta Brown, 4840 South Dearborn street. The members were full of life and inspiration. The business was transacted rapidly and correctly. Mr. R. S. Abbott, president of the club, made a very interesting speech touching upon many topics of interest. He also made many suggestions for the club's future welfare. The members were very much pleased and thanked the president for the suggestions. Mr. Abbott is very much interested in the club and is anxious to get every student connected with the club. After the business the club and guests enjoyed an excellent literary and musical program that was arranged by Mrs. Essie Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is chairman of the program committee, and will arrange programs for each meeting. Her colleagues consist of Miss B. J. Wilson, Mr. H. B. Weston, Mr. M. C. Atkins and Mr. Clarence Williams. Mrs. Brown deserves great credit. She has done and is doing all that she can to help the club. The banquet tendered the club by Mrs. Brown after the meeting will ever be remembered by the members and guests. THE CHICAGO COLORED BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION. The Chicago Colored Business Men's Association met on Thursday evening at the Webb Studio, 3519 State street, for the first time since their new charter has been issued. Important matters were discussed, to be followed out during the year. Mr. Jesse Blinga, banker, who is president, feels very much encouraged with the past achievements of the association and looks forward to a bright future. M. T. Balley, the secretary, states that new members are gradually making application and he contemplates between eight hundred and a thousand members by the close of the year. Every man who is in business in city seems to be anxious to become interested in this movement. PROGRESSIVE NEGRO LEAGUE. The Progressive Negro League met in its regular meeting on Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shepard, 3743 Rhodes avenue, where a splendid program was rendered. Following this, the league was entertained by the host and hostess. The following persons were elected as officers for the ensuing term and will be installed on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 15: Ira Moseley, president; U. S. Harvey, vice-president; Elnora E. Claytor, financial secretary; Mrs. E. Thompkins, corresponding secretary; Sadie P. Alexander, recording secretary; Lottie Murphy, treasurer; Rev. E. P. Robinson, chaplain; W. A. Wallace, sergeant-at-arms, and Harold McKinney, journalist. After the election of the officers the president, Mr. Ira B. Moseley, called on M. T. Bailey to say a word concerning The Chicago Defender and to find out how many members present would enter their names as subscribers. The following persons subscribed for one year with paid-up subscriptions and other pledges were given: Mr. G. W. Fields, Mr. G. W. Nelson, I. B. Moseley, U. S. Harvey, Rev. E. P. Robinson, Mr. E. Stoner. Information was given concerning one Mrs. Ione Wallace, at 3449 Rhodes avenue, as to her condition and the condition of some small children she has, and four dollars was voluntarily donated by members of the league to Mrs. Wallace by a committee from the league. One of the essentials of the league is to distribute charity when and wherever it is convenient. The E. W. Bleden Literary Research Club of the Progressive Negro League has been formed. Mr. U. S. Harvey is chairman and Mr. H. J. McKinney is 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. 31st St. Garage and Repair Shop LIMOUSINE AUTOMOBILES AND TAXICABS CARS RENTED BY THE HOUR OR TRIP WEDDINGS AND PARTIES A SPECIALTY 12 East 31st Street CHICAGO Dave Peyton Leading Dealer orchestrations written, songs taken from ders given prompt attention. 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In its makeup was the usual villain and his beautiful female accomplice, the lamb, a young rich westerner and the latter's practical guardian. The youth falls in love with the designing girl, who gets him to sign away his fortune, but before it is too late the girl repents and saves him. Of course they marry, to slow curtain. It was well acted and took the stellar place on the bill. Harry Von Fossen, a black-face comedian, kept the audience in good humor with his witticisms and songs. It will be remembered that this artist was one of the leading lights with "A Trip to Washington." The Four Dancing Streglers, Simms, Brown, Wallace and Marshall, gave the bill a whirlwind finish. They danced, sang, played the piano, did some clever straight and comedy work, and brought round after round of applause. It was a performance worth seeing. New Monogram. The weather seems to make little JEROME FISHER GRADUATES FROM CRANE HIGH SCHOOL. Only Member of Race in Large Class —Contemplates Taking College Course. Among the large graduating class last Friday from' Crane Technical High School was Jerome Fisher, second son of Mrs. P. A. Fisher. 2131 Tilden street. Chicago has no nourer young man than he. Unlike many boys, he found pleasure in study and made a splendid record. He also went isher. yed on the basket a mark in foot-the football team at Danville on Young Fisher, not through with dales and contemplates entering the college course at Crane. His brother, Benton, was also graduated from this school last year and their friends expect to hear flattering accounts of them in the future. M. Budd Makes "Fortune in illing Old Copies of Newspapers Anything Published from 1833 to te. The Chicago Defender.] t. February 6.—I reckon thing in the world, when t. is yesterday's paper." "Backnumber." Budd, the sector and salesman of old ers, to me the other day when to him almost in despair for a newspaper published in His multitudinous reference il- for revenue only, long ago out- Manhattan Island and now occu- unlimited ground space on the arts of Long Island City. A large barn is used as a storehouse for his world's greatest collection of yesterday's newspapers. In the front is a rather up-to-date little shop with a double show window and everything most business-like. It took Budd just seventeen minutes by the clock to fetch me the copy of the paper I was after. While he was hunting for it my eyes fell upon a fran' i sign, reading: "Anything ever from 1833 to date, Back-udd." the Backnumber, King" in ulates that he has seven "spapers, each one valued m of two dollars. That worth fourteen million : he isn't worrying. postman brings him numbers. These come the world. The day received one from many orders from all States, all of which : of these were from g up things for clients, to obtain evidence inspapers. Other orders ing informa- back num- difference in the crowds at the New Monogram and the reason is plain to see—the patrons of this pretty little playhouse are always sure of getting not only their money's worth, but in many instances two or three times their money's worth. The pictures alone are worth the price of admission, to say nothing of the excellent vaudeville thrown in; and, again, who would not go blocks out of their way to hear Will Dorsey's famous orchestra? With this excellent set of musicians to back them up it is hard for a singer not to make a hit. Mr. Dorsey is a thorough musician and a composer with an envilable reputation. He has many good things up his sleeve, so to speak, that will undoubtedly add to his fame and fortune. The biggest and best thing on the bill this week was the Frisco Four, a quartet composed of two male and two female voices, and they could sing, together and separately. It was a pleasure to listen to them. Others on the bill were LaBlanche Young, Caster Trio, and Martin V. Richards. The bill for next week is, to be a hummer, THE BATTLE OF GETTYS- BURG. The most realistic portrayal of the famous battle of Gettysburg ever seen will be produced at the New Pekin Theater, 2700 State street, commencing Sunday. This new five-reel series represents the best work in film manufacture, and so perfect are they that the management does not hesitate in saying that they are the best ever produced at this or any other house in the city of Chicago. one dollar and fifty cents extra. So, you see, Budd makes money. Still, yesterday's newspaper when you must have it is worth the price! It has turned the tables in many a lawsuit. Budd buys one hundred thousand newspapers a year and sells five thousand. On these his profit is one thousand per cent. He has annual contracts with several of New York's most exclusive clubs to purchase their daily newspaper files by the month. This is how he secures most of his stock in trade. Budd's career has been an interesting one. His real name is Robert M. Budd, but he is always known as "Backnumber" Budd, which name is copyrighted. He even signs his checks that way. When he was a boy in Washington, D.C., Budd sold newspapers. When the Civil War broke out, he used to cross the Dixie line and sell papers to both sides on the battlefields for a dollar apiece. It was after the second Battle of Bull Run that Budd got his first big start. Some of the officers told him that they would give him five dollars apiece for papers describing that battle one month back. 1872 Budd moved to New York, and for years was a landmark in the neighborhood of Herald Square until the rents began to grow faster than his business did, and he had to move across the river. A few years ago a fire sent most of his stock up in smoke. A peculiar incident of this fire was that it destroyed the possibilities for the largest sale ever made in the old paper business. At the time of the conflagration Budd was negotiating with a London woman who desired to buy his famous collection of "first issues." The fact that he had on file letters from people with back numbers to dispose of enabled him, as he says, to "rise phoenix-like out of the ruins."—Wendell Phillips Dodge in The Technical World Magazine. 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. Protection Against Lightning Coral necklaces have often been worn for warding off lightning; also an eagle's plume, as that bird is supposed to be quite vulnerable to lightning from its connection with Jupiter. The Romans were also much addicted to wearing bay leaves as a preservative. The laurel, the holly and the fig trees are supposed to be quite free from evil effects of lightning. The elder Pliny said: "Lightning never strikes the laurel." SEVENTH ANNUAL February Dancing Party and Lincoln's Anniversary Given by the PEERLESS CLUB At Union Masonic Hall 3956 State Street Thursday Evening February 12th. 1914 Dancing — Whist ADMISSION 35 CENTS PEKIN THEATRE 27th and State Streets UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT HIGH CLASS MOTION PICTURES SOUVENIR MATINEE EVERY DAY EXCEPT SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND HOLIDAYS Continuous Show 2 to 11 P.M. Admission Adults 10c Children 5c DEFENDER'S LEGAL HELPS DEFENDER'S LEGAL HELPS Letters for This Department Must Be Signed with the Names and Addresses of the Writers. To the Readers of The Chicago Defender: Owing to the many letters of inquiry being received each day by the editor, concerning many legal questions, and as we are giving to our readers the best information every week as to the best methods for the preservation of health, we have arranged to devote each week in our paper answers to the many legal questions, and in co-operation with the Universal Legal Protective Association to assist the poor and needy with free legal advice and such other assistance as the circumstances of each case may warrant. There having been many cases brought to our attention of discrimination and injustice being done to those unable to secure the necessary advice and assistance for their own protection, and it is our aim to assist everyone applying to our Legal Department without fear or favor, until the time will come when all men shall have the equal protection of the laws without regard to their financial condition and that justice will be freely given and not bought by the highest bidder. Our Legal Department will endeavor to answer all questions from which the public as well as the individual will be benefited and we invite questions and offer to our readers all assistance that each case warrants. THE EDIFOR WHAT SHALL WE DO? So many of our subscribers who are in arrears don't want us to den them by mail and complain when we send a collector for our money. They promise to send or come js and bring the money—but they do not. This week we ask with all candor: What shall we do? THE CULTURE CLUB. The Young Matrons' Culture Club met at the home of Mrs. Emma Andrews, 4733 Dearborn St. The occasion marked our hostess' birthday, Which one? That's the question. The Ida B. Wells Club also met at the same place. About thirty were present. The final arrangements were made for the card party to be given at Mrs. Anna Johnson's, 3748 Rhodes Ave, next Monday evening, Feb. 9th, 8 p.m. Our hostess surprised us with an elaborate luncheon, after which we adjourned to meet next Friday, Feb. 13, at Mrs. Nina Blunt's, 214 E. 29th St, at 2:30 p.m. m. Mrs. Ethel Cleaves, Pres.; Mrs. Estelle Miller, Sec. I. B. W. CLUB. The I. B. W. Club met at the residence of Mrs. Ellen Foster, 4733 Dearborn St. It being the birthday of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Andrews, the two clubs met the young matrons and the I. B. W. A very nice time was enjoyed by all. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Coleman's, 4916 Dearborn St. Feb. 12, 1914. Mrs. Walton, Pres.; E. B. Coleman, Cor. Secy. THE WIMPS OFF TO BUF. FALO. Mrs. Edward D. Wimp and her interesting children, Marebelle, Edward and Benote, left for their home in Buffalo, N. Y., after spending more than a month with Mrs. Wimp's mother, Mrs. H. P. Lee. THE PEERLESS CLUB The club held their regular business meeting Monday evening at the residence of Mr. C. Worthington. The meeting was well attended. Miss E. Worthington and Mrs. R. Ray were guests. After the meeting Miss Worthington served a most delicious lunch. The next meeting will be at the residence of Mr. H. Greenele, 5742 Lafayette avenue.-R. Pearson, Pres.; H. Greenele, Sec. Training Animals. The psychology of animals is curiously like that of young children. Interest must be won; it cannot be forced. No appeal, save a direct one to instinct, is admissible. Penalties are quite meaningless except as obstacles in a particular path, and as such they must never arouse active fear. It will be seen therefore that the opportunities for cruelty are necessarily limited. Trainers may abuse their charges, but each time they do so they court disaster. Nature's Wise Process In the case of all fish which take care of their young, a curious adaptation of natural law to circumstances is found. Those which take the greatest pains and care in sheltering their offspring have the fewest eggs, perhaps less than 100 at a lay, while, on the other hand, species of fish which pay not the slightest attention to their young produce hundreds of thousands, and even millions of eggs, at a single lay. BLUE GRASS STATE Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 6.—Superintendent of Public Instruction Barkside Hamlett's annual report shows a tremendous growth in the educational work in Kentucky. The compulsory educational system has caused 50 per cent of attendance, which shows a marked progress of the elevation of youths for better citizens to the commonwealth. The schedule of the teachers salaries is another main important feature which has been one of the systematic arrangements which has come into effect since his administration. The report is illustrated with a large number of white schools and different departments of their work, and also an illustration of the Christian County Colored School, and the report of President G. P. Russell of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored People. The report contains over 700 pages of the industrial and handicraft work, which demonstrates a great advancement in the educational work of Kentucky. Supt. Hamlett's report is the largest that has ever been gotten out by that department, which is highly commended by the people of the commonwealth. The Kentucky Homeless Colored Children's Society of Louisville of which Rev. C. H. Parrish is president and Editor Lee L. Brown of the News is secretary and Miss Bessie Allen is the matron and one of the overseers, has the proud distinction of being the only institution in the state, white or colored, that wore her garments as white and as pure as the lilies before the probe committee of the Kentucky Legislature, and not one blot against the institution that would lower its standard with humiliation, while the white institutions of the same nature were branded as false; but the Kentucky homeless colored children, through their good discipline and management, put them in a class alone. Through their good management they were able to tell to a fraction of a penny of the $30,000 that had been given to them, and some left in the treasury. The probe legislative committee announced the institution in fine shape and purchased the property in Louisville and had it deeded to the state. The people both far and near can give the Kentucky Homeless Colored Children the Chautauqua salute, and may God the Almighty be their guardian star in the future as in the past. SALT LAKE CITY. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 6.—Last week being my first opportunity to call on the boys in Salt Lake since handling the Defender, it was encouraging. I stopped at the Ulnah Hotel, shaking hands with quite a few friends without question. Mr. Henry Osborn said "Send me the Defender for a year"; Mr. J. W. Johnson, six months; Mr. F. Ward said one year. Not having very much time, it was insisted that I should call on my return trip. The Olympia Social is just being opened by Mr. Joe Townson and Mr. Hugo Jenkins at 7 Midway avenue. They said to send them the Defender for one year, and just as soon as they get all set they will give me a standing ad. The Olympia Club is located in the very business part of Salt Lake and caters to the working class of men only. It is equipped with all modern conveniences, and is a place we should appreciate. Don't fail to give the Olympia a call when in Salt Lake. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 6—M. V. D. Wilder and Mrs. Louise Ferry of Chicago were called home on account of the serious illness of their brother, Mr. Lawrence Hunley, who still remains quite ill at his home on North Clark street. Mrs. Lucinda Mills, aged 64 years, wife of Henderson Mills of North Murry street, departed this life Thursday morning. She was active in church work, and a charter member of Golden Star Chapter, O. E. S.; also a past gand officer and grand representative. The funeral of Mrs. William Harrison of Wilberforce, O., was held at North Street A. M. E. Church Thursday afternoon. The resolutions from the Y. M. C. A. of Wilberforce University were read by Rev. J. S. Jackson. The floral tributes were beautiful. The Home Missionary and Brotherhood of North Street A. M. E. Church rendered a fine program Sunday evening. The papers and music were enjoyed by all. The regular monthly supper was given by the Brotherhood Tuesday evening. Mrs. C. L. Smith entertained on Wednesday evening with a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of her sister and brother-in-law. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Payton of Chicago. Covers were laid for ten. Mrs. Fannie Burnette of Piqua place entertained Friday in honor of Mrs. Martha Woodye of Windsor, Canada. Covers were laid for Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart, Mrs. Ethel Ray, Luciel Stewart and Nettie Burk. Miss Ada Ricketts of South Yellow Spring street, a graduate of Antioch College Conservatory of Music, has quite a number of pupils under her training. Send items not later than Tuesday to William Henderson's shop 'or call phone Bell 2011. DETERMINE COURSE OF SUN Scientists Give Great Luminary 400, 000 Years to Reach Apex That It Is Making For. In according with the recognition of two independent streams or drifts of stars, and the discovery that the sun belongs to one of them, a revision became necessary of the determination of the path of the sun in space. L.Abbe Moreux sums up in Scientia the recent work which has been done in ascertaining what is called the solar apex, beginning with that of Professor Kopold of Kiel, who was the first to bring to light in 1908 the systematic error which has been introduced in all previous determinations of this point. It is clear that this error might become considerable if while the sun were moving toward the apex of its own path it were also part of a swarm of stars moving with it. The redetermination of the direction of the sun's path among the stars has been accompanied by a new investigation of the speed at which the solar system moves in space. The new investigation, which has only been undertaken systematically since the beginning of the century, depends for its results on the application of the principle that the wave length of a ray of light must alter according as the source of light is moving toward or away from the observer. To apply it to the particular problem before us it becomes necessary to compare the radial movements of a large number of stars situated in the direction followed by the sun with the radial movements of the stars which the solar system is leaving behind. Movements of approach would be in the majority in the first case; movements of departure would be dominant in the second. By striking a mean, relatively to the movements of the stars employed in the calculation, the speed of movement of the solar system might be arrived at. When all the new determinations are correlated the following seem to be the results which embody the sun of observations up to the present time: That the sun is being carried in the direction of the constellation of Lyra, probably aiming at a point in the neighborhood of the star Vega, and a little to the south of it; and that the speed of its path is somewhere between 20 and 24 kilometers a second. If Vega were no farther away than our nearest neighbor Alpha Centauri, the sun would reach its goal in 70,000 years at latest, or 56,000 years at earliest. But Vega is nearly six times as far away, and the solar apex will not therefore be reached for some 400,000 years. Famous Flagpole. The Kew Gardens flagstaff, reputed to be the tallest in the old world, has had to be taken down owing to time and decay having weakened it at many places in its 150 feet length. Experts will have to decide whether it can be re-erected. For over fifty years it has been a landmark in Kew Gardens, and on the death of a reigning sovereign and the coronation of his successor it has borne a specially large Royal Standard sent down by the board of admiralty. This year, when it came to be examined by the men who are hauled to its giddy height by ropes, it was found to have so many weak places that it was demerer advisable to lower it to the ground, and this has just been done. The spar is a remarkably fine specimen of a Douglas fir, and was sent to Kew Gardens by Mr. Edward Giey, a timber merchant in the Canadian trade, in 1861. It came from Vancouver island, and was then 250 years old—London Mall. One of Those Trifles John Miller Gregory, playwright, short story writer and editor of Town and Farm, was invited to Cincinnati recently to help organize a branch of the Drama league. A meeting of society women was called and Jack was called on to address the gathering. Jack, by the way, is not at all "high brow," and at one time was the proprietor of the Consolidated Shows of which he writes so entertainingly. The chairman transfixed him with her lorgnette. "Do you know, me deah fellow," she drawled, "youah name has escaped me? You must pahdon me, I'm suah, for forgetting youah name." "Well," replied Jack with a smile. "the name of Gregory has been current almost since the time of Christ; it figures in the annals of the early Christian church—but one does sometimes forget those trifles, doesn't one?"—Chicago Inter Ocean Not an Octet. Cyril Maude, the English comedian, was talking about class distinctions. "The they are less marked with you than with us," he said. "Here you all talk alike—the shop girl's accent differs in no wise from that of a Stuvesant or a Roosevelt. But, with us, the lower classes talk a disgraceful jargon. "The 'h' especially! The lower classes can never master that 'h.' In my youth one heard a stage manager rehearsing 'Faust.' He had sprung from the people, poor chap, and he conducted the rehearsal like this: "'Old your 'and on your 'ips, 'old up your 'eads and look 'auhui.' You're not on 'Ampstead 'Eath now—you're in 'ades. Now 'asten off 'urriedly, with a look of 'ate.' "But, sir,' said I, 'there's only six of us.'" Manners in Russia Mme. Vlardot, the famous musician, gives one a poor impression of Russian manners from the account she narrates in her "Memories and Adventures" of a visit to the Crimea in 1886. Their "want of logic" amused her. "It enables them to be scrupulously clean in their persons," she says, "and yet they are not nice in their table manners. One substitutes his finger for his fork; another drinks out of the cream-jug, a third cools his perspiring brow with the break-knife. But, if their manners were doubtful, their music was divine. "The whole nation is thoroughly musical, down to the lowest." And in the matter of manners, as in other things, Russia has traveled a long way since 1886. CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILL. [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Chicago; Heights, Ill., February 6— Mrs. Jones of the Heights conducts a candy store on 16th street, near 5th avenue, and also has a restaurant on 16th street. But this is not all. They also own a nice home, which is on an adjoining lot. Mr. Blakey owns nice property in the Hights and just recently sold a valuable piece of property situated on the corner of 16th street and 5th avenue. Mr. William Brown was able to be out Sunday during the day. Mr. Wair is purchasing a nice home here. His property is situated on Lowe avenue. Mr. D. R. Johnson is beautifully situated on Lowe avenue. Mr. Merritt Russel and Mr. James Mallory own homes in West Chicago Heights. Mrs. Pigeon has a nice home joining lots with her mother, Mrs. Blakey on 16th street. There are several families buying homes at East Chicago Heights. These people are about two miles east of Chicago Heights proper and I think that the efforts that are being put forth by the people out here are arousing the whites, seeing the eagerness of our people in becoming possessors of real estate. The Chicago Heights Literary is doing its •best toward helping to better the people along the intellectual, moral and social line. Mrs. Van, who is conducting a restaurant, is very anxious to help along all lines. A Sunday Club will be organized on the 8th inst. The Negro Political, society and Educational Club of Chicago Heights, which meets at 1615 Butler street, is open every day from 5 p. m. until 12. It is progressing nicely and has made preparations to entertain all visitors and strangers. PHONE 3481 Billiard and Barber T. J. BRAZE 5220 Lake Ave HOURS: 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M. The Largest, Be PRACTICAL M Al Brass and Stringed In Mahdolini Visit the Free Monthly Recital Tickets Give Condu W. L. JA 3109 STATE ST. The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program FINEST THEATRE 3110-12 State St., Performers Send THOS. McCAIN MORT SHOE PHONE 3483 HYDE PARK Billiard and Pool Room Barber Shop T. J. BRAZELTON, Prop. 5220 Lake Avenue Chicago HOURS: 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M. PHONE AUTOMATIC 74-548 The Largest, Best and Cheapest PRACTICAL MUSIC SCHOOL Al Brass and Stringed Instruments, Violin, Piano, Mahdolin and Guitar Visit the Free Monthly Recitals at our School by the Pupils. Tickets Given at School. Conducted by W. L. JACKSON, 3109 STATE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville and Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA 3110-12 State St., Chicago, Ill. Performers Send in Your Open Time THOS. McCAIN MORT SHOECRAFT TOM LEMONIER, Mr The Pompeii Buffet and Caf 20-22 East 31st Street CHICAGO BEST EATS MUSIC SONG Decorum Perfect Service Ever Phones | Douglas 352 Auto. 71-515 Phones Douglas 352 Auto. 71-515 CULLOM NOT POOR MAN [Special to The Chicago Defender.] Springfield, Ill., February 6-7. Senator Shelby M. Cullom, who was buried here on Sunday, was not a poor man, as many people thought. According to his will, which will be filed for probate in this city, his estate is valued at over $100,000. Mr. Charles Pickett of Chicago and Washington, for many years his confidential messenger, it is understood, is handsomely remembered. Bequests to relatives are: Miss Victoria Fisher is left $20,000 and all household effects; Mrs. Eleanor Ridgely Parker, $40,000, and Mrs. Phelps Brown, $40,000. Judge Otis Humphrey is named as executor. Greeley's Religion. Horace Greeley was a Universalist in religion and was a regular attendant at the "Church of the Divine Paternity," of which the famous Dr. E. H. Chapin was minister. Greeley died in 1872, at the age of sixty-one, broken-hearted over his wife's death and his political discomfiture. Things He Wants—and Doesn't Get. "Man would be much happier if he only knew what he wanted," says a Louisville minister. And knowing that, he would be worried considerably less if he had sense enough to know that nine times out of ten he isn't going to get it. The Plaza Cat's 37th place at State street, has opened its doors for your inspection, James, Tracy, who for sixteen years has conducted a business at 3121 State street, is the congenial proprietor. The orchestra consists of Charles Hill, piano; Blaine Gaten, clarinet and saxophone; and Charles Gilliam, drums, bells, chimes, xylophone, effects, etc. Esmeralda Stratham and Ollie Powers, singling, complete the entertaining corps, which is undoubtedly the best to be heard on the south side. Your patronage is solicited. Pleasure and excellent service assured to help make the evening well spent at the Plaza, 3727-29 South State street. Afghans Becoming Civilized. Afghan recruiting Center. At present over 100,000 Afghan patients are said to visit medical missions on the border for special treatment. A large proportion of these cases are for diseases of the eye, caused by sun glare, dust storms and by flies, especially in the case of children. Also there are many bullet or knife wounds which require surgical treatment. The mission hospital at Peshawar treats about 7,000 patients annually, of which two-thirds are Afghanis. Father Had a Very Good Excuse Father Had a Very Good Excuse. A little girl from out of town was visiting a little Jamestown miss, the Optimist says, and the visitor noticed that no one asked divine blessing before the meal was served. "My papa always asks the blessing before we eat," said the little visitor to her chum. "That's all right," quickly replied the little hostess, who was eager to defend her pajama. "and my papa would, too, but he doesn't know any." —Kansas City Star. MYDE PARK Pool Room Shop CLTON, Prop. venue Chicago PHONE AUTOMATIC 74-548 Best and Cheapest MUSIC SCHOOL Instruments, Violin, Piano, and Guitar Is at our School by the Pupils. In at School. Posted by ACKSON, CHICAGO, ILL. New Grand Stage and Moving Pictures Monday and Thursday RE IN AMERICA Chicago, Ill. In Your Open Time CRAFT TOM LEMONIER, M. Douglas 352 Auto, 71-313 J. Let Madame Newell grow your hair; she has grown hair for, others, now let her grow yours. First treatment $1.50, including box of Jickey, and 50c every two weeks. Also Manicuring, Massaging, Chiropody and all kinds of hair goods cheap. We teach what we do. Call or Write— Mme. Newell's Beauty College 2703 Dearborn Street, 3rd Floor Phone Auto. 79613 Orders taken for fun goods. Agents Want KANGER RAISES IRE OF ELECTION COMMISSIONER Objects to Afro-American Woman Second Ward Registration, but Is Brought to Time—Law Strict in Such Cases—Think of It: A White Man from Texas Afraid of a Colored Woman. As a rule a man from Texas is not afraid of a woman of color, but registration day S. J. McDonnell proved an exception. This race feeling cropped out on the board of the sixteenth precinct of the Second ward. Mrs. Lucy B. Miller had been placed as a Progressive clerk on the precinct board with four white men. McDonnell, a Democratic judge, maintained he would not serve until Commissioner Czarnecki explained the penalty would be a heavy fine or jail sentence. "I'm from Texas," said McDonnell, and "I object to sitting on a board with a Negro. I would not mind a woman judge or clerk if she were white. I suppose I'll have to sit this day out here, but I'll see to it that I'm out of town on important business or have moved before primary day comes along." Abe Davidson, Democratic clerk of the board, declared that he would not canvass the precinct with Mrs. Miller. "You will canvass the precinct," shouted Mr. Czarnecki. "You have to or pay the penalty." Mrs. Miller, happy in the fact that she was backed by the law, did her work properly and "she should worry" whether the disgruntled judge is in town or on election day. SPORTING THE BLACK "SILK O'LOUGHLIN." re Miller Will Officiate Here his Season—Has Great Record. former mascot of Pittsburgh Nation- who is now known as Umpire throughout the baseball world east and northwest. Lowell Willer, who during the years was responsible for Pitts- winning the pennant in succession and now as authority in baseball, s ard and will doubtlessly be the tongue of every lover of the final pastime before the end of the wing season. "mips," as he is called by all fans know him, is one of the greatest seen or heard of in the north- joys the distinction of being member of his race ever oof in the County League in the te of Pennsylvania. During sons of 1906-7 being the mate mous John Mullin, late, of the League, who is now one of the American Association. tiller opened the season us and much touted-A-B anapolis and season and ode and friendship of and lovers of the games in the capitol city. MONG: THE FRATERNAL ORDERS. Judge Room Gossip and the Latest News of the Activities of the Varius Secret Societies. It is reported that 732 members of Sisters of Mysterious Ten register Tuesday. Sadie Cooper, the Grand Most Matron of the Heroines of 1940, expects a large turnout on Prin Sunday. Union Lodge No. 72 U. B. F., and Almer Temple No. 71. S. M. T., held a joint installation at Huellett's hall Saturday night. J. E. Bish and Mrs. Katie Cosby were the installing officers, after which refreshments were served. Dancing followed. Mr. J. A. Gillispie was elected master of the lodge and Mrs. C. A. Gillispie princess of the temple. A USEFUL TOILET WATER most attractive and as well a most and efficient toilet preparation we market in Chicago territory Do Cure Toilet Co., an en- and aggressive concern, inences in the People's Gas Build the products of this company the formulae, of eminent physi- icians and are manufactured under the supervision of a renowned chem- ist and sold by guarantee of the company under the Federal Food and rugs Act, Serial No. 15161. The Chicago representative of the Do Cure Toilet Co., a genial gene- man, this week was a pleasant caller at the office of The Defender. He and his company are high type and thorough business going, and we are sure any of our readers who have dealings with them will find the relation most pleasant. The Defender is justified to have its growing popularity recognized and to claim this responsible firm among its already long standing list of reputable advertisers GRINN KER. Nov. Stores ty Stores ty . pro- grates tates- ents, 9 St. noic- and "Chief Sam," from Africa, Promises House and Land to All Who Will Follow Him—A Graphic Description of His Work. "Is this man an impostor?" Writing to The Chicago Defender, A. C. Edmunds asks this question and says in part: Much is being said about a negro who claims to be a chief of some African tribe in West Africa. He has succeeded in collecting something like $25,000 from the ignorant and illiterate Negro of Oklahoma, Texas and other southern states. Styling himself as Chief Sam he has gone through the country lecturing and organizing clubs, electing officers and in every case being made treasurer, and selling shares in one Akin Training Company ship with which to take them he : to Africa where they were to receive free land and potatoes grow as large as a water bucket and maple trees grow as thick as hops and all they would have to do was to carry an ax to cut a chip, so as to let the good sweet juice out. Hundreds have sold their all. Some at a great loss and giving this man every penny. Many well to do Afro-Americans, men and women who found it lucky in the early days of Oklahoma, gave him large sums of money, thinking provisions had been made for their future lives in Africa and the land of plenty and liberty. At Boley, Okla, Chief Sam did not take so well in the community or else did not show satisfactory proof of credentials from the government he claimed to represent, and was put in jail but was released under five hundred dollars' bond; since then Chief Sam does not want any Boley people in Africa, at least he has not been back. It is said many from Braggs, Weekluka and other small towns have sold their real estate, household furniture, stock and crops and left for Calveston, where they were to sail in December of last year. Barefooted and Starving. Many are in suffering conditions and compelled to live in tents exposed, barefooted and starving, waiting, still have confidence in this man whom they claim, like Moses, sent by God to take his people home. Others having given up all hope of ever seeing or treading foot on the land of our fore fathers and denounced Chief Sam as an imposter, fake, thief, lie, brute and some say he is the devil himself. It is certain that Chief Sam or whatever this man might be named, has talked with ship builders and traders in the east concerning the purchase of a ship to sail for Gold Coast, West Africa in the near future. But whether this is a part of his scheme in case of investigation that is going on now is left to be seen. Chief Sam Disappears. But we do know that his ship was, according to his agreement, would sail in the month of December last year and again in January of this year. And we do know Chief Sam has disappeared and his whereabouts unknown. And many of these poor, foolish ignorant people are in dire distress waiting, hoping, praying that, the good ship on which they hold passage will come and take them safely that they know nothing about. But it looks as this will never be. And their hopes are fast fading and they must struggle and sweat again to gain back what they have lost by their foolish, ignorant and inexhaustible act. And they have the satisfaction of knowing that it is an evil mind that brings nobody good and I hope that this will teach them a lesson and they profit by their mistake. I do not say this man is an impostor, but his scheme looks shaky. And should he be other than he has represented himself or fall to carry out his agreement with these people he should be hunted down and prosecuted to the limit. Others who are bent on duping and preying on the ignorant, hard struggling people of our race will learn a lesson from the cause of Chief Sam. SPECIAL NOTICE To the Public and My Friends. You are cordially invited to visit Mrs. F. B. Jones, 34091 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 polish manufactured by a race man. All leading colored men's papers. One-day laundry. 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. HAYS HAIR Pomade Any-one with kinky, coarse hair that is stubborn, will always get satisfactory results from HAY'S HAIR 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 THE SICK. List of Your Friends Under a Physician's Care at Home or in the Hospitals. Mrs. Bertha Brown, 3524 Dearborn street, fell and severely sprained an ankle recently. She had not fully recovered when she contracted a cold, again requiring a physician. Mrs. S. L. Ward, 2958 State street, is improving from her illness, but is still confined to her room. "Out of all danger and recovering nicely," is the report from Mrs. Wm. Sloan, 5009 Dearborn street, who has been sick several weeks. Mrs. J. J. Stovall of 3565 Rhodes avenue, who underwent an operation, is doing nicely and expects to be out in a few weeks. Mr. Chas. Anderson, the invalid husband of Sister Fannie Anderson, is still confined to his bed at 3710 Dearborn street. Mrs. A. J. Lee is sick at her residence, 5473 Kimbark avenue. Mrs. Cook, the mother of Mrs. Ella Washington at 4504 State street, is ill. Mr. Will Kersey is out after being held up by robbers and getting his nose broken and both eyes blacked. Miss Cordella Coleman of 3439 Dearborn street, who has been ill for the past week, is convulsing. Mrs. Nellie Stafford, 6216 Aberdeen street, is reported on the sick list. Mrs. James Solomon of 3022 LaSalle street, has been confined to her bed for several days. Mrs. M. Conly of 5940 Aberdeen street, is still very sick. Mr. Watson of 6006 Aberdeen street is reported on the sick list. Mrs. Mary O. Gales of 3656 State street and Mrs. Frank A. DeVollin, 22 E. 38th street, are still on the sick list, as well as Mr. Frank Taylor of 3856 Dearborn street. Mrs. Ella Harvey, who has been confined to her home for some days on account of sickness, is able to be out again. Mr. Wm. Riley, an attache of Binga's Bank and manager of the Star Theater, is ill and has been removed to the hospital. Mr. James Henry Jones and Mrs. Donaldson are both very ill at 5222 Federal street. Lieutenant Cotonel Jas. Johnson of the 8th Regiment, I. N. G., has sufficiently recovered from his recent illness to be up and about his residence, 3650 Prairie avenue. Mr. Wm. Bronston, 3208 So. Park avenue, has been confined to his bed for more than a week. Miss Annetta Turner of 6012 Aberdeen street was able to go to church Sunday. Mrs. Thompson of 6234 Morgan street is better and is able to sit up. Mrs. A. Carr of 6034 Ada street is better and able to sit up. Mrs. Craighead of 6240 Throop street is convalescing. Miss Fannie Wright of 3318 Vernon avenue, who met with such a painful accident four weeks ago, is slowly improving, only sitting up at intervals. Mother Brown of Armour avenue is very ill. She is a member of Phoenix Court. H. O. J. Mrs. Catherine Gillespie of 3625 Vernon avenue is very ill this week. Mrs. Gillespie is well known in fraternal circles. Mrs. Alice Chatman of 3246 Vernon avenue has been a patient at Provident hospital the past week, as a result of blood poisoning. She had to undergo an operation on her foot. Miss Elisa Hall of 3339 Vernon avenue, who has been quite ill about five weeks, is convalescent, but still confined to bed. FARRELL JONES GRADUATES FROM LAKE HIGH. Farrell Jones, one of Chicago's leading young men, and one of the most popular boys who ever attended a high school in Chicago graduated last Friday week ago from Lake High "Jonesy" as he was called by his school mates was the only boy of the one in the school and has been for the last two years. He was left end on the Light Weight Football team which won the championship of the City and Cook County High School Leagues. Farrel was paid a high tribute by the faculty of the school to his mother who, with Mrs. Mitchell and daughter, Ethel, and Mrs. Ada Lou Thompson and Mrs. Geo. Hawley, attended the exercises. Farrell is in hopes of attending Illinois next September. [Special to The Chicago Defender] Torino, Ill., February 6—Mrs. Richard Johnson of Torino, Ill., entertained in honor of her husband's 32nd birthday Satday evening, January 31. A party of young people of Braldwood had planned a surprise party, but it got in the wind and Mrs. Johnson heard of it and was on the alert. Nevertheless at 9 p. m. a large crowd of Braldwood folks and a few friends of Torino gathered around Mr. Johnson, wishing him many more happy days, and Mr. Johnson felt very proud of the affair and had his five little bright eyed boys and girls around him. Braidwood, February 6.—Braidwood people were taken on a surprise last Wednesday when the news of wedding bells rung in their city. Who do you suppose it was? Miss Nettie Flimming, the organist and the Sunday school teacher of the little tots of Braidwood Church, and Mr. Wm. Anderson were quietly married. We wish for them a long, happy and prosperous life. Seldom. Whisky gets the blame for most of the crimes that are committed and it seldom succeeds in proving an alibl. Wrong. He who says misfortune drove him to drink is putting the cart, before the horse. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER ARCHAEOLOGISTS HOPE TO FIND ARCHAEOLOGISTS OF RUSSIA CZAR. Possibility That The Wonderful Collection Made by Ivan the Terrible May Not Have Been Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1812. A short time ago a professor of theology in the university at St. Petersburg, Russia, purchased at a shop in Moscow a manuscript copy of the Gospels dating from prior to A. D. 1000. On examination it was found to have belonged to the great library collected in his youth by Ivan the Terrible, when he believed that he had a divine mission. This library was supposed to have been burned in the great fire of Moscow of 1812. On a subsequent visit to Moscow the professor traced his book to the family of a laborer, who said that he had found it with several similar volumes in a subterranean passage near the Kremlin. The famous library of Ivan the Terrible is now supposed to be still hidden in some underground vault, which the efforts of generations have hitherto failed to discover. It was Ivan the Terrible—whose reputation as a great ruler has been obscured by the fascination of his extraordinary excesses—who established the printing press in Russia. There is a wide field of conjecture as to what might not come to light in the event of this curious library one day being discovered. Ivan the Terrible was in close communication with all the rulers of our hemisphere, from London to Peking; one branch of knowledge is almost certain to be well represented in this lost library, and that is the science of black magic. It is equally likely that new codices of Holy Scripture may yet come to light, for Ivan the Terrible undertook to print the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue. Only one thing is certain, that such a library existed and has never been found, nor is it even known to have perished in any of the numerous fires that devastated Moscow. References in the archives to its existence, as well as to the existence of the subterranean roadways, are sufficient to whet the keenest curiosity, but not enough to afford much practical assistance to the investigator. Apart from changes of surface features in the Kremlin, the level of the soil is six or eight feet above what it was in the sixteenth century. It is no doubt the knowledge, an unpleasantly vague knowledge, of the existence of these underground passages which causes the police on every occasion of an imperial visit to Moscow to seal up with wire and a lead seal every single opening, cellar shoot, surface drainage grid, to be found anywhere over the area of the Kremlin, and frequently to inspect the integrity of these seals. Legends of a labyrinth of underground passages have been current among the populace for centuries, but it is only within the last decade or so that the very extensive building enterprise on modern lines undertaken in Russia's "premier capital" has given substance to these ancient legends. When the main drainage scheme had been in operation a few years the alteration of subsoil conditions caused a sinking of the foundations of many of the more massive public buildings, which had to be underpinned, while new erections required much deeper excavation in order that a secure foundation might be reached. It was in course of these operations that many underground passages came to light, and eventually the newly fledged societies interested in the preservation of monuments of antiquity attempted to deal with the matter from the historical standpoint. Food and the Wild Birds Food and the Wild Birds. The Audubon society has issued an appeal to the people of suburban and rural communities in Ohio to feed the wild birds when sleet and snow cover the ground and trees this winter. This request deserves favorable consideration from all the people of Ohio who live in the open country. In the suburbs of the big cities wild birds can get along even in the most severe weather. Out in the open country, however, another story is apt to be told. There snow and ice have things their own way; a cold spell, following a thaw, is apt to make the whole country one great glare of ice and to put an effectual lock on the food storehouses of the wild birds. All winters are more or less hard on the wild birds. It is in periods of deep snow—particularly when there is a crust on it—that they are in the greatest danger of starvation. At such times men and women ought to be glad to come to the rescue with food, both for humanitarian reasons and because the wild birds are a great asset to any community, with their songs and their very valuable services in getting rid of insects that prey on plant life.—Cincinnati Times-Star. Good Advice. Andrew Carnegie, who, it is well known, attributes a great deal of his success to his wife's influence and advice, congratulated a young man in Pittsburgh on his approaching marriage. "It is wise to marry early," said Mr. Carnegie. "Your wife will help you to succeed. Consult her in all the important details of your business, and be sure to take her advice as often as possible." Mr. Carnegie's eyes twinkled. "For you'll find," he said, "as we all have found, that the most aggravating thing that can happen to a man is to go contrary to his wife's wishes and then fail." Suspicious. "Why do you advise me not to marry a girl younger than myself; you did it?" "I know it." "Well then—" "And day before yesterday I read to her the story of a man who died from potamine poisoning contracted while eating oysters—" "I don't see—" "And yesterday she served me with oysters for dinner." Prosperous Modiste Knew How to Make Clothes, but That's Not Secret of Her First Success. How one dressmaker got her start in New York is the pet story of the woman who started her. "She rented two rooms on the first floor of a Ninety-fifth street house," the woman said. "I occupied the floor above. I had seen her sign in the window for several weeks before I saw her. One day I met her in the hall. Two days later she called at my flat. "I'm in an awful pickle," she said, 'and I am going to ask you to help me out. There are two ladies downstairs who want some dresses made, but before they give me the order they want to see some of my work. With the exception of my own clothes—and you could pack all of them into a bandbox "I have nothing to show them. I find it very hard to drum up trade here. I haven't had a customer since I moved into this house, and I will lose those two women if I cannot make the raise of a few nice gowns to show them as samples. I have seen you go out several times in lovely dresses. Would you mind letting me have them for a few minutes? I will return them as soon as the women go away." "The pure nerve of the girl staggered me. "But you didn't make my dresses," I said. "They were made by a dressmaker, who runs a very fashionable shop." "So I supposed," said my neighbor. "Are they marked with her name?" "No," said I, "that woman's style is her trademark, and I ought not give another the benefit of it." "To a girl stood just there and looked at me, and the pitiful drooping of her eyes and mouth appealed to me more effectually than any words. The upshot of the matter was I loaned her five of my newest best gowns. Naturally the callers were delighted with them, and gave the girl a large order for summer clothes. I worried myself sick over the affair. "What will you do, I said, 'if you turn out poorly made garments? How will you square yourself?' "I shall not need to square myself," she said confidently. "And she did not need to. Her work, instead of being botchy as I had expected it to be, was beautiful. All she needed was an introduction, and after she got that, through gowns made by a fashionable dressmaker, her reputation and a good income were easily made." Explaining the Telegraph Explaning the Telegraph. As a general rule, the telegraph no longer arouses the wonder and awe that it did in our grandfathers. In remote countries, however, there are still people who have never heard of it, or who are unable to understand it. Das Echo tells of the perplexity that the telegraph caused in a small village of Bosnia. The government had installed a telegraph line from Prijedor to Bihatsch. "What is the meaning of this wire?" asked the astonished inhabitants of a village through which the line happened to pass. "It is a telegraph," said the headman of the village, who had been in consultation with the officials. "One can send a message along this wire, straight from here to Stamboul." The villagers were incredulous. "That is impossible. How can a message run along a wire?" The headman thought-awhile; then he hit upon the proper explanation. "Imagine," he said, "a dog that is terribly long, and whose tail is stretched like the wire on these poles; imagine that his tail is so long that he reaches from here to Stamboul. Now, suppose we pinched his tail here. Wouldn't he howl in Stamboul!" The villagers understood.—Youth's Companion. Bit of Strategy. Two men borrowed a horse and carriage to take them to a distant pond on a fishing trip. Arrived at the pond the men, by the exercise of great patience, although neither knew a harness from a whiffletree, managed to get the harness off the horse, after which they tied him to a tree with a neck halter. The fishing over, the men set to work reharnessing the horse. They found that they could manage everything but the bridle. They simply couldn't get the bit into the horse's mouth, for he wouldn't open it. Finally one of them said, after every ruse had failed: "Well, pardner, there's nothing to it but to wait." "Wait for what?" asked his friend. "Why, for the confounded animal to yawn." Insured a Tree for $30,000 The most valuable fruit tree in the world has had built around it a fence 20 feet high to keep out miscreants and has been insured against wind and fire with Lloyd's of London for $30,000. The tree is a six-year-old alligator pear and is on a Whittier ranch owned by H. A. Woodworth of California. Last year the tree made its owner $3,206, and he didn't kive it as much attention as the ordinary man gives to an old speckled hen. Fifteen hundred dollars of the money came from the sale of the pears at six dollars a dozen, and the remainder—in other words, the big end of the purse—came from the sale of budwood. Buds sold so rapidly last year at ten cents apiece that Mr. Woodworth raised his price to 22 cents in order to avoid having to ruin the tree to satisfy bud-wood hunters. Ducal Pastime. Pointing out the variety of titles to a group of debutantes at a tea in New York, Frederick Townsend Martin said: "On a boat returning from Europe I once heard a pretty girl say enthusiastically to a young man: "And so you met a duke—a real live duke!" "Yes," he answered, yawning. "Oh, tell-me," said the girl, with a rapt look, "what was the duke ding?" 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A Savings' Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. --- --- $1.00 for, Treatmast, 50c for Box of Pure Telephone Automatic 74-614. Phone Bursal 4090 5209 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. SURPLUS, $20,000.06 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3% Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Ill. PAGE SEVEN REV. THOMAS FEEDS HUNGRY WHITES, REV. JOHNSTON MYERS ‘TURNS NEGROES AWAY PAGE EIGHT Rev. J. F. Thomas, Pastor of Ebe- nezer Baptist Church, Aided Only By His Own Poor Con- gregation, Feeds Unemployed Every Day for a Month—None Turned Away—Negroes, Indi- ans, Mexicans and All Classes of White Race Eat Wholesome Meals and Are Thankful— Whites Average 20 to 1— “Done in His Name,” Says Venerable Divine. PASTOR OF WEALTHY WHITE CHURCH HAS HIS. OWN PECULIAR METHOD a es. ee Cee vee Crowd Every Day—Press and Pub- lic Call Him Great Leader, But He Has a Strange Conception of Chris: tianity When Race Appears—‘The Brother of Color” Is Quietly Taken Aside, Given a Nickel and Told to Purchase Coffee Down the Street— Says Church Would Be Overrun If Line Was Not Drawn. What is Christianity? Are there two kinds? ‘This question is perplex- ing the people of Chieago, It was Drought about in this way. Tov. Johnston Myers. white pastor of Immanuel Baptist Charen, one of the wealthiest churchws in this elty, and Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Ebene: zer Baptist Church, one of the poor- est, have been feoding the wnem- ployed. Rev. Myers refuses to feed a few half-starved Afro-Americans who ay- ply to him, while Rey. ‘Thomas feeds on an average of twenty white mon to every colored man that applied to him, ‘The situation is a remark- ablo one and The Chicago Defender pictures the wo divines for its rel: ers. Rev. Johnston Myers, Rey, Johnston Myers, pastor of Ta manuel Baptist Chureh, 24th street and Michigan avenue, is easily the foremost and most influential minis- ter in Chicago, He is. considered among the best theologians of his time and a forcible and convineing preacher, Great nature endowed him With many talents, but none greater than his wonderful ability to lead men und his marvelous power of or- sunization. ‘These splendid gifts and an almost Inspired love of Iumanity have made this man of God a mighty Torce in the religious life of the city and his echurei imbuing bis phiinn- Uiropie spirit has become the city's strongest center for charitable and settlement work. Backed by unlimited wealth, this chureh has spread out its arms and nearly every seetion of the city has a branch. ‘Through these Rey. John- ston Myers ministers te high and low of every creed 1 kind and Rreat is his name, And: sghtly 0. for who has worked hardef to bring into the fokt the countless unsaved: than he? Is it surprising that theological Siudents and even other ministers Aare around him and marvel at his xenius and success? No more ardent student of human nature exists than Rev. Myers. Tle studies fife at first- haud. “He mingles with the people and preaches in the churches of his brothers, ‘Truly this man has walked and talked with God, says the multi tude. ‘This piettire has not been over- drawn, but we want you to view an- other one, Rev. J. F. Thomas, From the aristocratic wealth of Michigan avenue, with its wealth of mansions and accessories of the rich, we take you to the narrow confines of the so called “Black Belt.” or. to be exuct, to the corner of 35th and Dearborn streets, Here stands an- other house dedicated to the worshin , &E“Gory, but -how--different, This is Ebenezei*Baptist Churey and its head is Rev. J. F. ‘Thomas. ‘This church almost totters in a strong wind, even as its pastor falters with the weight of advancing years, But, deprived of abundance and thankful for small Wlessings, this Httle band of Christians mareh hopefully on, serving the Lord. ‘This ittle plain looking church by hard struggle and great privation is their own, But that is about all, and it took them about eight years to accomplish that, Although it was the discarded home of some other con- gregation they hailed it as a haven of rest, when, like the children of old, they wandered up and down the land. Two decrepit stoves heat the main auditorium and antiquated is every part of the place. ~ Even a recent coat of paint outside fails to bide its weathen-benten condition. No Spur- Beon preaches from this pulpit, but . the most beloved man of God to all people in Chicago, Rev. ‘Thomas, _ whoge simple doctrine is Jesus Christ With tove anad patience he teaches the way: of eternal life, and with abiding faith he, too, ministers to the temporal needs of his people. A new church is their fondest bope. . To this end every penny that cau be spared is laid away, but it will take them a long time to aave enough dollars to Degin the work. “Blind Leading the Blind.” Friday marked the end of the fourth week that Rev. Thomas and the good people of Bbenezer Baptist Church, 26th and Dearborn streets, have fed the unemployed. It was about that time when the first ery for aid went up from the elty authorities fn what “yen seemeil a hopeless task to feed 1d: houso 70,000 idle men and wom en, Rey. Thomas decided to do- his part and called upon hls congrega- vo to help jim. ‘ * ae had ‘no preat meds. but thev. came from the beginning, anc when the number Increased food was brought from meager stores at home and additional supplies and money were solicited from friends and neigh- vorhood stores. It was like one blind man leading another. The response was prompt, but the people were poor —hut each day a wholesome meal was served to all who applied. None was turned away. Whites Outnumber Blacks. It was noted carly in the effort that mote white persons applied than any other race, but all were welcome, and Indians, Mexicans and.every known nationality among the whites have been fed at Ebenezer Baptist Church. ‘The total number served was 4,327. Of Unis number 75 were Mexicans, 1,203 Afro-Americans and 3,124 whites. “We did it in His name, and our only regret is that we conld not do more,” was the pastor's only com- ment when asked concerning the great ditference. What They Do at Immanuel. Fourteen and fifteen hundred peo- ple, it is estimated, partake of the benevolence of Rev. Johnston Myers at Imimanuel Baptist Church, 240) and Michigan avenue, every day. ‘There they form in Hine, and recently when three Afro-Americans. were aiscov- ered they were quietly taken aside and politely told that it would not please the others if they were fed to- gether. ‘They were each given a nickel and told to purchase coltee and rolls farther down the street. it was Rey. Thomas who first called attention to this unfair spirit. but soon the whole city knew it Other religions workers diseussed the matter and ‘The Chicago Defender made an investigation. Rey. Myers could not be fonnd at first but his secretary, talking over the telephone. admitted that Ue statement above was true, What Rev. Myers Said. Not satisfied with the secretary's confirmation that Immanuel Baptist Church diserimiated against Afro: Americans In feeding the poor. ‘The Chicago Defender continued its ettorts until it could locate Rev. Myers him- self, Saturday afternoon a reporter reached him by telephone. The con- versation was made over a. switch: hoard, with an editor at an extension. ‘The conversation in part is as fol lows: Question—We are preparing a story tout Ebenezer and. Immanuel Bap- tist Churches feeding the unemployed. aAnswer—Yes, Q—The report has been circulated that you discriminate against Atro- Americans and we want to hear what you have to say about it, A—Yes, Qs it true that oue day Inst week you took some half-starved Afro. Americans out of the live and gave them a zickel apiece and told them to go und buy coffee and rolls else. where? A—Yes. I remember. Qe—You particularly selected these men of color? A—Yos. ‘The incident is true. Q—Then you do discriminate? | A—No; we don't discriminate against anyone. Q—Wiy did you do this? Alt was our right. If we did hot we would be overrun with Negra people, situated as we are on the bor- ders ot the black belt. Reporter—Rev. ‘Thomas had no | means and he fed more white neopte Uian any other race. Q--Why don't you serve them? A—What is Quinn Chapel, Ebo- nezer and other Negro churches for? Rev. Thomas Not Surprised. Rev. Thomas was found at his resi- dence, 3629 Vernon avenue. When fol hat Rev, Myers had confirmed the report that Afro-Americans were discriminated against in the bread Hine, he said: “Iam not surprised at anything Rev. Jolmston Myers does or says. ] have known him for forty years, tong betore he came here.” He also de: clared thac he had the names of nine- teen persons that had been turned away from Immanuel Baptist Church. Rev, Myers has been heralded by the press and people as a leader and gveat charity worker but his actions in this matter have .caused consider- able criticism. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Joues asked the Oakland Cemetery Company recently, “Mow far_under- ground does the color line go?” ‘The Chicago Defender asks Rev. Ayers, “How far into heaven would you like it to reach?" “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy Jaden and 1 will give you rest," is a part of Moly Writ. Surely Rev. Myers is fa- miliar with that verse and should know that same spirit stiould govern every Christian minister. * City Officials Inconsistent. That Rev. Thomas received little en- couragement from those that should have helped is shown by the following ineldent. Priday last, when prepar- ing for his mid-day visitors, he was called to the telephone, It was one of the Municipal Lodging House offi cials, “We have heard of your good work out there,” said the party, “from many of our nightly lodgers.” ‘They ‘sav Gilat you treat them Gia: Wie had been invited to come and see the hungry men fed. So large was the crowd that attend- ed Ebenezer Sunday morning services were held up and down statrs. The pastor announced that later he would read a report of everyone who had contributed towards feeding the un- employed. Even the person giving a pint of beans would be mentioned in the report. Winston's Spicy Gossip of Men and Events in the Railroad World. By John R. Winton, arrived in Chicago Sunday, February 1, from the Alton railroad company, with good news for the B. of R. 1. P. of A. Mr. Ray is a sincere worker for the B. of R. T. P. of A. and the writer has known him for the past twenty years in Chicago, and Indorses Is every movement for the beuefit of the Brotherhood of Railroad ‘Train Porters of America, Mr. Ray runs to St. Louis, Mo. Messrs, Samuel Simmons, Avstin, and James Poyas were in’ the city January 29 in the service of the Serie raiload company from New York City in dining ear service. Mr. -Joseph Hendrick, 4538 State street, Chicago Defender news agent, who runs a pocket billiard hall, barber shop and cigar stand, is increasing the sales of the Defender each week. Mr. Walter Fraizier is holding the position of train’ porter in the service of the Chicago & Alton railroad com- pany to St. Louis, Mo. He will make Rood timber for the B. of R. 'T. 1. of A. He has been a link and pin man and a fearless train porter. Brother John O'Neil, 3430 Dearborn street, is holding the position as train porter in the service of the Minofs Central hetween Chicago and Cen- tralia. IM. Mr. O'Neil has freight tain experlence and knows the work from A to % Mr. J. H. Ballard, 501 Bast Thivty- sixth street, is in the service of the C. B. & Q. railroad company us x chair car porter between Chicago and St. Paul. Mim. Ie will no doubt be. come a meniber of the 8. of R.T, P. of A. soon, If you are a train or chair car porter it will behoove you to be a B. of RT P. of A. trainman, Above all things don't let that handkerchief hand man tell you anytiting, Ie is the man who hus been keeping you back for tite past forty years or more, You have something now to be proud of Just send in your names and addresses to Mr. Joba R. Winston, 413 Gottaze Grove avenue, Chicago. He fs the ox- ecutive chairman of the committee. Mr, N. H. Pryor, 321 West Plato, writes the reporter Uat he Is holding the position as train porter in the service of the C., B.& Q. railroad com- Pany, Me wants to become a member of the B. of RT. P. of A. and he did hot forget to mention the fact that he reads the Chicago Defender. When yon want to read and sub: serie to a newspaper of note. then Fou want to subscribe to the Chicazo Defender, $1.50 a year in advance, See or write Mr. J. R. Winston, 4913 Cottage Grove avenue. am. BLE, Anderson, 5110 Dearhorn street, is still on the same run to Mat- toon, JH, and takes an armful of the Defenders down with him every Sat- urday night. ‘Trains 7 and § on the B. & 0. rai road between Chicago and Pittshureh have not a Chicago porter on them any more, Something wrongs. All Pittsburgh porters. Someone must be retting their mitts greased ul Pitts. burgh. Tt is worth investigating. ‘There is no use having extra mon at Chicago if they are to receive this sort of a Jaek pot. We, the 8, of R. 1. P. of A. wish to announce that we are not connected with any other railroad organization in Chicago. We are made up of train and chair cay porters only, Mr, Grant Campbell is in the serv- fee of the A, ‘T.,& S. B. railroad com- Dany as a train porter to Kansas City, Mo. Messrs, R. C, Rickman, B. Jennings and FP. M. Goode were in Chicago Jan- nary 26 from Cincinnati in the service of the Monon railroad company. Mr. Charley A. Wallace, 6226 Green street, a train porter in the service of the Grand ‘Trak railroad system, is confined to his room with a lame back, ‘The doctor ordered him to remain in for a week or ten days. Mr, Wallace is one of the old standby porters of the Grand Trunk railroad company. All complaints regarding your paper, kindly drop the main office a card or a letter to 3159 State street, the Chi. cago Defender, and they will be pleased to adjust matters satisfac- torily; and if you owe for your paper please send in the money, as this is no free sheet. Our motto is “Pay as you go.” And again remember that newspapers are second-class matter, and if you pay for your paper you will receive it, John R. Winston. Walt il the Brotherhood of Rail- yoad Train Porters of America gives ball. AN of Chicago society will turn out and all Chicago colored papers will have an advertisement. ~ ‘That's all, and we'll pay for it. Mr, Oliver Bostick, late of the Penn- sylvania railroad company, who re- sides at 422 Fremont street, Engle- wood, is without a position on account of the passing of the full crew law in the states he passed through, ‘Train and chair car porters, intercede for him, He is all right and an expert enced train porter. Brother George A. Harrington, chiet usher at’ the B. & O. railroad com- pany’s station at Pittsburgh, Pa., is simply wild over the Chicago ‘De- fender, is the latest report by Brother A. L, Jackson. 6450 Champlain avenue. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. SS e the ~NJONES. AMEND rvices The "s:| MENT WILL AID > had ‘ @ un: ing a "") AFRO-AMERICAN Men | Senator Proposes That Colleges vad | Receiving Benefits by Act of Congress Shall Co-operate in Agricultural Work—Will. Pre~ vent Discrimination. (Special to The Chicago Defender.] Washington, D. C., February 6— It the amendment proposed by Sena tor Jones of the state of Washington to House Bill 7951 becomes a law it will mean much for Afro-American colleges in the South in which agri culture is taught, and will prevent any race discrimination thereafter In colleges where diseriminatfon does not now exist. ‘The amendment ‘is rather drastic fn its provisions, and greatly in the interest of students o! colleges in which agriculture is taught. Senator «Jones desires tw provide for co-operative agricultural work between the agricultural col Mteges in the several states recetving the Venefits of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, und of acts supplementary thereto. His bill t amend, offered in the Guited States Senate January 26, and which was ordered printed and to lie on the ta ble, $8 as_ follows: : Text of Amendment. “That no money shall be paid out under this act to any state to be ad ministered by any college in which @ distinction of race or color is madc in the admission of students, but pay. ment to any state in which there are separate colleges for witite and col ored students shall be held to be a compliance with the provisions ol the act if the funds received in such stute Le equitably divided as herein after set forth: Provided further ‘That in any state in whieh two o1 more such colleges have been or here after may be established, or in which there has been one college estab lished in perstance of the act of July 2. 1862, and also in which an educa Xion “Institution of like character has been established, or may be here after established. and is now aided by such state from its own revenue fo1 the edueation of colored students in werieulture and the mechanic’ arts however named or styled, or whether or not it has received money hefore under the acts of 1862 and 1890, above referred to, the legislature -of such State stall propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a Sust. and equitable division of the appropria tion hereinafter to be made to such suite between one college for white students and one institution for col oved students, and when approved by him ‘the share in said appropriations as determined by such division, of such college for white students, shall be administered by such college fot white students, and the share in said appropriations as determined by siteh division of such institution for colored students, shall be administered by such institution for‘ colored students,” THE CHEVALIER CLUB. ‘The regular mecting of the Chevalier Club was held at the home of Mr. Mor- ris Rice last Wednesday and was wel attended. Mr. Harry Greenlee of the Peerless Club addressed the club in a delightful, instructive talk. Mr, Green: lee explained the futility of over- Dleasnre and showed the advantage of edneational diseussios in the club. Mr, Pascal Barber, in immediate com- pliance to his talk, read an article on the racial subject. ‘The Inncheon de Inve served by the host supplied the supremest. enjoyment of the evening. —Mr. Deshon Jones, Pres.: Mr. Dave Petkey, See.: Pascxl Brinsley, Editor. THE TEXAS CLUB. Among the many elubs of Chicago there is one organization that might claim the distinction of having. the only Negro colonel of a regiment of soldiers, the only Negro physician who is a specialist in bacteria, the only Negro Assistant State’s Attorney, the only Negro professor In a Northern medical college and who himself is an expert in surgery, the organizer of the first Negro medical association, the only Negro representative of the Associated Press Bureau, the only theatrical costumer, and modistes, ste- nographers and exiegislators, six doc- tors, five lawyers and a host of men and women that are useful in many way to the race. THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY CLUB NOTES, At the annual Installation of officers two Sundays ago Prof. R. T, Greener addressed the University Society in a very instructive talk. The topic for general discussion was, “How Can a Club Become Use- ful in a Large City?” The general consensus of opinion was that this gould be best done by putting the best and beautiful before the whole of the society. Prof. Gréener installed the officers for the ensuing six/months. THE VOLUNTEER WORKERS’ CHARITY CLUB. The club met with Mrs. L. Howard, 6434 Vincennes avenue. Monthly whist socials have been inaugurated, the first of which will be Feb. 13 at the ‘Anna Walker parlors. In addition to the whist presents a prize will be awarded to the most popular club woman, “After adjournment the host- ess served refreshments, for which Mrs. N, Tivis expressed the apprecia- tion of the members.—A. J. Caldwell, Journalist Pro Tem.; M. Walton, Pres. CLEANED THE DOC’S BUGGY Which Waa Not What Boys Intended to Do, but That Was the End t'the Adventure. _x remember," said Uncle Josh, whe had Just finished a hearty dinner and was fn the humor for telling a yarn “{ remomber one balmy day in July when tho other boys and I decided tc steal old Doc Hoffum's horse and duggy und drive to tho river to g¢ swimming. Doc was visiting at ou1 house that day, and it looxed easy tc us to drive two miles over to the river and get cooled off aud ‘ther bring the horse and buggy back before the old man missed them, “There were a good many of us and-we were not dressed very fine Sim, for example, was attlred in Jong linen duater that-fopped out be hind. The springs allowed us to bump pretty hard, there being eo many pas sengers, but we got td-the river safe ry. . “We had a bully swim, but sitet said be thought we ought to wash the buggy white we were there. The wa) to do it, he said was to run the buggy into the river, “We unhltched the horse and pro seeded to back. the buggy fnte the water. But the buggy got away from us, and away ft went, much further than we expected. We couldn't hold it and so it disappeared entirely. A couple of bubbles came up and thal was allt : “While we were diving to locate the buggy the horse got away, and we all took after him. We ebased him around a clump of trees, half of us on ono side and half on the other to |head him off, Roth parties rounded the clump of trees at the same ume ana ran plump into a camp meeting mostly women! “We let the horse go then and by tbat tlme we had forgotten where we lett the buggy.” “I suppose some one stole all your | elothes while you were gone.” sug: gested the man from Topeka. | "No," sald Unele Josh, “we found jour clothes, and from thetr position ‘on the bank we figured out where the buggy dught to be. One of the camp J meeting people brought the horse back and we got a rope from him and ‘dived around until we got the rope tied to the buggy. Then we got It out on the bank. That ts the only thne Doc Hoffun's buggy was ever clean!” “Didn't ft hurt the buggy?" asked | tue man from Topeke. “Didn't harm a thing but the arse ‘The bath utterly destroyed that. Old Doe Hoffum often wonder ed What had become of the squeak for he missed It badly. The horse missed ft, too. It was « good, soothing sound that the two of them were ac customed to doze by as they Jogget over the road.” Even Thing. “Sin” began the man with the newspaper in his hand, as he turned to the man on his right, “this is au age of deception." “I quite agree with you,” was the reply, “Nothing is what it seems to be," “No, nothing.” “For instance, you have been try: ing for the lust ten_minxtes-to- get hold of my watch. I ‘wear a chain, end the natural inference is that there 1s a wateh on the end of it.” “But there {s no watch.” “No, slr. 1 wear the chain for an ornament, You have simply throw away your time.” “And on your part," said the man who had failed, “you took this scarf pin for a real diamond, and have made no less than three trials to se- cure it." “And it ts not a diamond? “No, sir—only a dry goods store rhinestone, but 1 wear {t for an orna- ment, and it serves my purposes. You have wasted your energies. It’s an even thing, however, and let's go for that old duffer as he gets off the car ‘and whack up on the boodle.” What! Against Veils in Girlington? The vicar of Girlington, Bradford, Rev. George Pedley, deals in his parish magazine with the wearing by women of motor veils and shawls In church. “Many years ago,” he writes, “wo forbade the use of shawls in church. Much was said at the time, but the Tulo is observed. Too often a shaw! is a convenient cover for an untidy head and dirty appearance. There is, however, a respectable makeshift springing up in the form of a motor veil. “There are all the signs of respecta- bility otherwise, and therefore assur- ance that the person possesses hat or bonnet. “Tylee lately this ‘get-up' has been seen at the service of holy baptism. We object to it. . . because it shows a sad want of reverence."—London Globe. May Have Meant the Clown, State senators are placed in a new ‘classification by an Italian who was desirious of becoming a citizen of the United States. He was being exam- ined for admission .bofore Justice rane in the Queens county supreme court, at Long Island City. Justice Crane came to the question: | “What is a state senator?” “I don't know,” was the reply. “Did you ever seo one?” asked Jus- tice Crane. “Oh, yes, I see them,” said the ap- pifcant. + “Where?” asked Justice Crane. After considerable thought the man replied: “Phey keep them in circuses, Tse them there.” He was advised to devote turther time to study.—New York Sun. Rare English Coin. A unique gold coin has just been parchased for the nation by the true tees of the British museum, with the assistance of private subscribers. It 4s the only known example of the gold ‘coinage of the Anglo-Saxon King Offa (A. D. 757-798), the most celebrated of all the Mercian princes, the frlend of Charlebagne, and the recipient of many present from that emperor. It 4s the earliest gold cola that ‘ean be @efinitely ascribed to any English Ring. Although struck by a Ghristlan king, it bears a Mkhommedad inecrip- tion in Arabic. ~ a How much money haye you paid out in rent? What have you to show for ie? Ate you going to lot “Old Age” catch you without 4 home to call your own? These are seribus 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 - tomake your Rent Money buy you a home. + We want you to take your choice of the Newly Decorated two apastment houses now being placed on special sale, located on Calumet Ave., Forest Ave. Langley Ave., Vincennes Ave. and Groveland Ave. Don't let your leaso stand ig tas Way sad don't wait unl Spring and pay more money fora 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, ~FRED’K H. BARTLET 0. | . BARTLETT & CO. ; Chicago’s Largest Real Estate Operators | Phone Randolph 3751 - 59-69 W. Washington Beautiful Mount Glenwood Cemetel, eat fe im @ . aw Pires ce as Fees i Ieee Stes PER aNCR i, 5, et as 2 Hs Se a Or A ee AN ee ae .. Pees eee [aes NAN eect een, [ENRUGSD CESS RecA th GANGS ABS AVL Pen PER Ses 228 90h a any Mount Glenwood Cemetery Association, + $125 South:State Streage?- Douglas 5574 . Auto, 71-868 a, CAPE LLIN E| -ccarttin: Raddriszator is. scalp a thorough shampooing. “‘Capelline"’ straightens the b Seared, wah oni eee oes ccemtmeris Came a oy cara tee ny Straightens the Most Rigid and Stubborn} SEPe ory semieht. Sale Hair, Makes it Pliable, and Yielding od gore ie is nd peice sual? OH Sete Bet eal ENS 5 Momicwes CAPELLINE RADDRIZZATOR CHEN -~ W. M. O'NEALL, Distributor 5104 So. State St. “Chicago, Hl. U.S. A ee ‘* . . Dress Making and Ladies’ Tailorin IN THE LATEST STYLE E. A. STEWART, 56 East 30th .- SY, cee JACKSONVILLE, ILL, Sm pee weet, Jacksonville, 1, Feb. 6.—Miss Durr can of Louisiana, Mo,, Is visiting het brother, Frank Mallory of South Main street. Miss Robinson has been on the sick list. Mrs, 12, Mosely and Miss N. Shelby are patients at Dr. Kinniebrew's Sani tarium, Both are improving nicely Mrs. T. Brown was mistress of cere: monies at Company 1, hall at the dedi: cation January 19. Mr, Cs Garrette of St. Louis, Mo. formerly of Madison, Mo. a pebble and plaster, was.in the city recently. Mrs, H. Wiliams of St. Louis, Mo. an amit of Mrs. A. J. Jones, died Jan: nary 28, Miss Lynch was here from Spring field, 1, recently. Miss E. Barnes, who was hurt re cently, is some better. Mr. B. Williams has returned from St. Louis. Mo. Deputy Sheriff Amos Duncan was in the city recently from Springfield, at tending to business. 4 pleasant birthday party was given January 27 in honor of Miss §. Smith, 1002 North Cox street. Mr. C. Roberts, who has been ill, fs some better, although his sittle dangh ter contifiues poorly. He has returned to Springfield, 1. Ars. W. A. Jobnson of West Mor. ton avenue is some better; also Miss 1, Robinson, Miss S. Lynelt, who was’ brought from St. Lonis quite ill, is some bet ter. Mr. and Airs, W. M, Parrish and Ganghter have returned from Missour’. Bir. W. M. Cooper of 500 South Clay avenne is somewhat improved. He has been very il. ‘The little child of Mrs. S. Mounts is quite in, Mrs, W. M. Blue of Sharpe street is on the sick lst. ‘The Pleasant Hour Club met Jan. wary 30 with Mrs. A. Coleman. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. B. Chapman, Mrs. C. H. Freeman and Mrs. @. Young. Excellent refreshments were served. 4 Mrs. G. Williams ond son, Luther, of Chicago, have been the guests of relatives here, and also ber, father. She was formerly Miss Ann Carter of this city. ; sr Mr. F, Mallory was completely sur. prised at his home on South Main street January 28 by a delightful party being given by a number of friends. ‘The party members met at the resi. dence of Mr. W. M. Parrish and pro: ceeded to the residence of Mr. Mal- Jory in a body. At a late hour sub- stantial refreshments were served ‘The affair was planned by O. Mag] and H. 1, Nasby. : Miss M. DeWitt royally entertained at dinner January 25. ° ‘Miss F. McDaniel of West Morton avenue has recovered from au attack of mumps and tonsilitis. —” + Mr. C. Tinsley of Wast Ma: * ». st is working in Hanr ‘al Paper company kne tective League... Mr. O. Mack has cago after spending iting friends. He reports 3° ‘Miss J. Allen has return? rollton. | While there s* gest “of-Airs., 1. Clark. ‘The chithligeuppe- * 29 and 30“at the A. fl. wellattended. 4." | The chittling supper’, 29 at the Second Bapttsuaures well attended. ° GLENCOE SOCIETY [Special to The: Chicago, Defender Glencoe, Ml, Feb: 6.—Miq/” 9 Kerble is couvalescing. Ju is quite well again, Mroh! y Jones and Mr. William ankle heen iil for the past.week, Mrs.)" Duke and Mrs, Minty Adams an Ported Ml. Mys. Hunter $s coma ing. Sunday school service -wit; at the -4. M. E, Church a ed Richard-Leé was soloist-for-the Sun- day school, Don't forget to hear the Anncreon Players the last of February in the new play at the A. M. E. Church. Glencoe, Ii, January 30.—The Angcreon Dramatic Club fs making jactive preparations for its next snonthly entertainment Feb. 28 at the’ | A. M. B. Chutch. “Home Ties,” a four . Ret Tiley lasting two hours and a half, wal be presented. Admission, as bo-. fore, has been made, low so that all | aay’ gee “the performance. | ‘Thursday evening, eb. 5, the Dra- matic Club presents “Old Acre Folk” at the First Baptist Church o Lake Forqit. ‘The cause of tits 'c Banization A ‘They ~ paying for the Sunday sshorl Miss Nannie “Keeble is contin. ded with a sever cold«cand. sov- throat, Mrs. Huntey-is‘able'to sit up awhile. Mr. John AINp fg,much bel ter. f ‘The opening of the spying cour in Mrs. Calloway’s milline ah brought new members Others ; Welcome. Meetings every Thursd, afternoon from oue to five at the res dencé of Mra, T. D. Jones. ‘Tho suggestion’ pt the Glencoe vi Jage school board /neeting that a nev school house be Yuilt for children div. ing between ntworth and Wood- lawn avenue ayl Park avenue on the edst-side of tfe track was not even/ consideged. he reason given, was so that tHe elildrengmay not have to” cross: Bre were some. colors ied the meet- ing. fi: y other rea- gon. se