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LATEST NEWS If You See It In The Defender It's So MAJOR Baltimore Min Brother of G Villa, Mexican Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor of Whatcoa Church, Tell, Representative of the About His Brother, Spencer, Which I Both Born on Farm Near Cambridge, Minister of General American Leader Whatcoat Methodist Episcopal are of the Chicago Defender All Which Is Villas' Right Name— ambridge, Md. BACK" ALWAYS MILITARY GENIUS Fanatic on the Subject, Inheriting His Father, Who Was a Slave— Nephews and Niece and His Chi- O ABROAD MAJOR YOUNG Baltimore Minister Brother of General Villa,MexicanLeader Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor of Whatcoat Methodist Episcopal Church, Tell Representative of the Chicago Defender All About His Brother, Spencer, Which Is Villas' Right Name—Both Born on Farm Near Cambridge, Md. ALWAYS From Birth He Was Always a Fanatic or His Fighting Blood from His Father First List of His Baltimore Nephews cago Relative. AFRO-AMERICANS MUST GO ABRO TO WIN From Birth He Was Always a Fanatic on the Subject, Inheriting His Fighting Blood from His Father, Who Was a Slave First List of His Baltimore Nephews and Niece and His Chicago Relative. AFRO-AMERICANS MUST GO ABROAD wars, and could recite all the decisive battles of the world, knew every general by name and every successful maneuver. He joined the Tenth cavalry, United States army, and remained there for over fifteen years, when he arose to a sergeant. At the expiration of his enlistment he left the United States and went to Mexico. He would always write occasionally, and after the death of our mother his letters were tardy. Writes Touching Letters. "All of his letters were filled with the troubles in Mexico. I have never made them public, as our correspondence was personal. I knew all along there would be war, and it has not come as soon as I expected. I am proud of my brother. He is a military genius. He has demonstrated to (Continued on Page 7.) MEXICO --- Courtney of the Chicago American General Pancho Villa, the black hero of the hour in Mexico, who has shown to the world if the American blacks are given a chance in West Point or Annaphora, would prove themselves as wonderful as Hannibal. Give us a man's chance is all we ask; and the wing that this man left the U. S. for—a man's chance. VOL. IX., NO. 18. "CONQUEROR ON HORSEBACK" (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Baltimore, Md., May 1.—Don Pancho Villa is an Afro-American. His right name is Spencer Young. His brother is the Rev. Alfred Young, pastor of the Whatecast Methodist Episcopal Church. A representative of the Chicago Defender had an interview with Rev. Young, and he had the following to say: "My brother was born on a farm near Cambridge, this state. He was the son of a slave. His skin was light yellow, with coal-black hair, heavy eyebrows, high checkbones and stern eyes. He was tall and well built, very muscular, and looked every inch a soldier. "My brother had a good education and is well qualified to lead men. He always had a floundish desire to be a soldier. He read books on all the Chicago Defender WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY SATURDAY YOU r CHI Nephews and Niece and His Chi- WAR TO ABROAD TO WIN MILITARY HONOR Birth (civil) Col. Ad OB list Su --- CHICAGO'S FIRST PROPERTY OWNER WAS A NEGRO. In 1777 there lived in a cabin on the site now occupied by the Kirk soap factory, near the corner of Kinzie and Pine, streets (North Side), a San Domingo Negro trader named Jean Baptiste Point de Saible. He occupied the cabin for seventeen years, finally selling it to Le Mai, a French trader, who in turn sold it to John Kinzie (for whom Kinzie street is named) in 1804. Jean Baptiste was the first man to acquire title to Chicago real estate, which has held good to this day, and was for this reason our first city father—Chicago's first city citizen. Every young person should investigate Frederick H. Bartlett & Co.'s remarkable inducements to purchase a home of your own on their easy payment plan. The wise will hasten to secure "free rent for old age." Owning a home gives one prestige. The general office of the company is at 69 West Washington street, but first read their advertisement on the last page of this issue. WANTS GRADUATES TO HELP TUSKEGEE. Birmingham, Ala., May 1.—(Special.)—Dr. U. G. Mason is urging all of the Tuskegee graduates and former students in the Birmingham district to contribute at least $50 each, the cost of an annual scholarship, toward the work of the Tuskegee Institute, and has himself contributed $50 as a starter, which amount he promises to contribute annually. Col. Franklin A. Denison Taking Advantage of War Fervor, Has Officers and Friends Solicit Enlistments in Local Churches Sunday. Col. Franklin A. Denison, commanding the Eighth Illinois National Guard, has taken advantage of the "war fervor" and is using it to have its full quota of enlisted men. Last Sunday morning he assigned several friends and officers of the regiment to speak at various churches throughout the city. Lieut.-Col. J. H. Johnson, a veteran of the Spanish-American war, spoke at Bethel Church. The lusty colonel was given a most respectful hearing in his appeal to young men to join the regiment, which is the only one of its kind entirely officered by race men from colonel to corporal. Attorney R. A. J. Shaw, a member of the non-commissioners staff, spoke at Ebenezer Baptist church, where there was a large crowd. He was introduced by Rev. Thomas, a soldier of the Civil War and formerly a chaplain of the old Ninth Bataillon. Mr. Shaw, who is an excellent talker, won not only friends for the regiment but a number who signified their intention to join. Adelbert H. Roberts, the silver-tongued orator, spoke at Quinn Chapel Church, where much enthusiasm was aroused. Lieut. Samuel McGowan, of the Third Battalion spoke on the West Slide Sunday morning and night. As a result of these appeals, and the fact that the new colonel has recruiting cards hung in conspicuous parts of the city, a large number were at the armory already for enlistment. Capt. Pusey Arnett spoke at St. Marks, Major C. L. Hunt, Saline Baptist; Lieut. Wadsworth Holmes, Hope Presbyterian, and Adj. Louis B. Anderson at Olivet. Adj. Anderson talked about the stars and stripes and how race men had kept it from being trampled in the dust. Through his eloquence, the brilliant attorney secured a number of pledges who went to the armory Monday night for enlistment. Word from Washington. Secretary of War Garrison sent word to Adj.-General Dickson of the Illinois National Guard for them to be ready at any time for mobilization and Springfield, Ill., would be the point. This word reached Col. F. A. Denison Monday night and in a short while it was communicated to his staff officers. Drilling Nightly. Companies A, B, C, D, E, and F have regular nights for drilling. The new men are much pleased with discipline and training that comes from being a soldier. There is drilling from an hour to an hour and a half. Corporals and sergeants take squads and give them instructions. The only question is, when will they be called to Springfield for mobilization? Drilling Nightly. CHICAGO, MAY 2, 1914 General Vi William H E.J.SCOTT SPEAKS TO ALABAMA BUSINESS MEN Secretary of Tuskegee Institute Makes Notable Address at Sixth Annual Session of Alabama State Business League. Special to The Chicago Defender. Montgomery, Ala., May 1.—Thursday night Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, and also secretary of the National Negro Business League, delivered the closing address before the Alabama State Business League, to an audience that completely filled the auditorium of the State Normal School. Mr. Scott referred, among other things, to the fact that the race under pressure of prejudice and segregation, is gaining in racial solidarity and race consciousness and quoted a recent writer on sociology to the effect that this racial solidarity and race consciousness was likely to increase as there was growing up within the larger world of the white man a smaller world of the black man. "Each advance in the education and intelligence," he said, "puts the race in possession of the technique of communication and organization of the white man and so contributes to the extension and consolidation of their world within the white world. He said that the race was bound to work together and to protect themselves economically. And then," he continued, "we have simply got to put down the costly and mean habit of so many of our people going to law to settle every petty dispute that arises among us. Ever since I was a boy, I have beheld the awful spectacle of grown men and women going into the courts to settle every petty dispute that arises between them, literally pouring into the courts a staggering sum total of money which might be kept in the race for its education, for its uplift. "I wish to suggest that the local business leagues throughout Alabama and the South take leadership in proposing the organization of arbitration courts for the purpose of settling all differences without involving the disputants in court trials." The speaker declared that at Baltimore, Boston and Birmingham such courts had been organized among Jews. He briefly outlined the working of such a court, declaring that criminal cases should not be handled, and that all parties should be honor bound to abide by its decision. The sixth annual session of the Alabama State Negro Business League which came to a close with this address of Mr. Scott's, was without doubt the best in the history of the organization. From the beginning, Tuesday night, until the close subjects were presented in a full and graphic manner by persons who had given time and study to them, and at no time did interest in the program lag. FIVE GRADUATE FROM NIGHT SCHOOL Principal Presented with Gold Watch at Louisville Commencement. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Louisville, Ky., May 1—Mrs. Essie Dortch was the principal speaker at the closing exercises of the Central night school at Ninth and Magazine streets, under the principalship of Prof. James H. Brown. There were five high school graduates this year. Miss Elsie Masterson and Mrs. Almira Lang rendered solos. Dr. Horace Morris, M. D., presented the diplomas. After the exercises refreshments were served. Professor Brown was presented with a gold watch by his pupils and teachers. GRACE BASEBALL TEAM TO ENTERTAIN. The famous Grace baseball team will give an entertainment at Masonic Hall Monday evening, May 4. Their many friends are earnestly solicited to attend, as the proceeds will be used to purchase new uniforms. MRS. CRAWFORD AND MRS. GOINS TO MARCH WITH SUFFRAGISTS Appointed Aids of Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Ikes in the Big Demon- station Planned for Today. The women of Chicago are very much enthused over the monster parade planned by Chicago suffragists as a part of their demonstration Sat- dury, National Suffrage Day. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Annette D. Fitch, committee, women of the Progressive party of the Second Ward, Mrs. Irene Goins, vice-pres- ident of the Political Study Club, has been appointed as one of the aids to Mrs. Medill McCormick and Mrs. Josephine Crawford, president of the Aloha Political Club, as aid to Mrs. Harold Ikes in the suffrage parade Saturday, May 2d. The parade will be north on Michigan avenue from 22d street, starting at 5 o'clock. All desiring to march will meet at Quinn Chapel Church at 3:30 p. m. STATE STREET;ITS PAINS, PLEASURES AND POSSIBILITIES The Disgusting Sight in the Tenement Window—The Unkempt Women in Their Gaudy Head Rags—Cigarette Fiends in Their Shirt Sleeves—The Parrot and the Can of Beer. THE GAY WHITE WAY. Pleasure Amid a Blaze of Light—Business Goes South and the Crowd Follows—Thirty-fifth Street Now Center—Where All Roads Lead to the Ball Grounds—What It Might Be. A walk along State street is to traverse the most wonderful thoroughfare populated with Airo-Americas in the United States. This is the opinion of travelers and there are quite a few of them among us. They familiarly call by name the prominent streets in the larger cities, but none of them compare with State street. Outside of the "loop" district there is no place like State street. From end to end it is an ever changing panorama of interest, fraught with recollections both painful and pleasant. This article, however, deals with that portion from 26th to 39th streets, commonly called "The Stroll." By Day and By Night. There are two times to view this avenue of mart and home, one is in the daytime and the other is at night. When the stroller is serious and his observations are of a practical turn he should travel the street by day. Perhaps the crowded windows of a tenement on the south side of the streets would attract him first. It is noontime. Three or four women with heads tied up with rags of various gaudy hues hanging out of the window, looking as if their backs would break, a man or two in shirt sleeves and a cigarette in their mouths and a can of beer and a parrot on the sill would at first appear ridiculous, or maybe it would disgust you. But reflection will show that the leisure of the males at that hour of the day and the complete forgetfulness of the fe- (Continued on Page 7.) ILLINOIS BUSINESS LEAGUE TO MEET. Springfield, Ill., May 1.—(Special.)—Attention of the business and professional men and women of Illinois is called to the second annual meeting of the Illinois Negro Business League, which will convene in this city May 29 and 30. Next to the National, the Illinois League promises to be the greatest agent in the state in stimulating business and financial progress among the people. Dr. A. H. Kennebrew of Jacksonville, the secretary, says that there will be a large number of delegates present. By Day and By Night. SATURDAY Major Chas. Young Captures Bartee; African Warrior Lone Star of the American Army, Military Instructor at Liberia, West Africa, Sees Active Service—Arrests Famous Kru, Who Has Given the U. S. Government So Much Trouble. Interferes with Men Sent to Ap Roughly Handled—Proves to Is Set at Liberty After Superi Interferes with Men Sent to Apprehend Assailant of Sid and Isle Roughly Handled—Proves to Be Sergeant of Militia No. 2 and Is Set at Liberty After Superior Officers Plead for Him. Buchanan Grand Bass, Liberia, Apr. 25.—Major Charles Young, United States military instructor, is seeing considerable active service here. In the late afternoon on the 16th instant he arrived from Rivercress by the launch, having on board Bartee, the famous Kru warrior. Bartee has been notoriously famous for the past year or two as the leader of the wars against the government. It is understood that Bartee and another Kru warrior were induced by Major Young to give themselves up to the government, and he brought them up to Bassa and took them up to Monrovia as prisoners of war on the 17th. Will Brown Strikes Nunly. On arrival of Major Young it appears that he and his prisoners went on to the barracks and one Nunly, a Kru man who was assisting the government in this mission, was behind the main party and for some reason was struck in the face by Willie Brown. When the matter was reported to Major Young he sent a cadet with ten armed soldiers to arrest Brown. While this company was passing along the street they were talking about what they would do to Brown when they caught him. N. B. Logan heard the conversation. He was not aware of Brown's misconduct, but it is alleged that he would do the same to them. Reports of the affair differ but there was an argument and the cadet ordered the soldiers to take Logan. He ran to the Dutch plaza, followed by the soldiers. He had been in service that day as deputy marshal and carried a revolver. When brought to bay he drew it and a tempted to discharge it, but it would not go off. Logan is Locked Up. In the scrimmage that followed Logan was wounded in the face and badly beaten. The soldiers fired on his revolver and took him before Major Young, who had him locked up. Logan proved to be sergeant of militia No. 2, and later when Captain Weaver and other officers pleaded with the major he was released. That night Major Young reported Willie Brown assault to the proper authorities and he will be dealt with accordingly for striking Nunly. Hon. Wm. Heads. H Truste Former President of the United C. Ogden—Presents Candidate at Forty-sixth Anniversary E Hon. Wm. H. Taft Heads Hampton Trustee Board Former President of the United States Succeeds the Late Robert C. Ogden—Presents Candidates for Certificates and Diplomas at Forty-sixth Anniversary Exercises. Contributions of Afro-American Shown in Pictures and Song- nual Report as Principal. Contributions of Afro-American and Indian to American Life Shown in Pictures and Song—Dr. Hollis F. Frissell Makes Annual Report as Principal. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Hampton, Va., May 1—Hon. William H. Taft was elected president of the Hampton Institute board of trustees to succeed the late Robert C. Ogden, who had served for many years the cause of education through Hampton. Mr. Taft at the forty-sixth anniversary exercises of the Hampton Institute presented to the "ustees the candidates for certificates and academic diplomas. He declared that Afro-Americans should use the economic freedom that they have and work along honest, industrious lines. Eulogizes Robert C. Ogden. Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, president of the Virginia Medical College in Richmond, delivered the "Robert C. Ogden Memorial Address." He paid a hearty tribute to the man who had had an abiding faith in the common man, in the common school, and in public taxation as a means of improving economic and social conditions. Pageant in Evening. "Gifts to the Nation," an evening pageant, showing in picture and son the contributions of the Indian and the Afro-American to the life of the nation; a demonstration of Hampton's practical training for farm life; an automobile tour among "the schools of the background"; a "plightage" of northern friends; Dr. Hollis B. Friell's annual report as principal of Hampton's vital relation to the public; an address by Mr. Taft on "The Mexican Question"—these were some of the interesting incidents of Hampton's anniversary. Funeral Services Sunday. Tom McCain, well known in sporting and fraternal circles, recently one of the proprietors of the Pompel Cafe, died last week at the County Hospital HOME EDITION PRICE 5 CENTS 1 CHICAGO FOREST IN AFRICA to Meet Vardas Elected Presid or Chas. Your captures Bartel African War of the American Army, Military Instructor of Africa, Sees Active Service—Arrests Famou even the U. S. Government So Much Troub AFRICA eet Vardaman ed President has. Young res Bartee; can Warrior an Army, Military Instructor at Liberia, active Service—Arrests Famous Kru, Who Government So Much Trouble. PRICE 5 CENTS CHICAGO AND SURRUDB FOREIGN 10 CENTS NATIVE SOLDIER IS LOCKED UP. with Men Sent to Appreh nd Assailant or Handled—Proves to Be Sergeant of Mili t Liberty After Superior Officers Plead for t to Appreh nd Assailant of Sid and Is proves to Be Sergeant of Militia No. 2 and Superior Officers Plead for Him. . Wm. H. Tafle leads Hampto Trustee Bo ident of the United States Succeeds the en—Presents Candidates for Certificates and sixth Anniversary Exercises. H. Wm. H. Taft leads Hampton Trustee Board President of the United States Succeeds the Late Robert en—Presents Candidates for Certificates and Diplomas -sixth Anniversary Exercises. FINE PAGANT IN EVENII*G. s of Afro-american and Indian to American Life n Pictures and Song—Dr. Hollis F. Frissell Makes An- port as Principal. American and Indian to American Life and Song—Dr. Hollis F. Frissell Makes Anbal. --- --- about what they would do to Brown when they caught him. N. B. Logan heard the conversation. He was not aware of Brown's misconduct, but it is alleged that he would do the a. me to them. Reports of the affair differ; but there was an argument and the cadet ordered the soldiers to take Logan. He ran to the Dutch plaza, followed by the soldiers. He had been in service that day as deputy marshal and carried a revolver. When brought to bay he drew it and attempted to discharge it, but it would not go off. Logan Is Locked Up. In the scrimimage that followed Logan was wounded in the face and badly beaten. The soldiers fired off his revolver and took him before Major Young, who had him locked up. Logan proved to be sergeant of militi- No. 2, and later when Captain Weave and other officers pleaded with the major he was released. That night Major Young reported Willie Brown's assault to the proper authorities and he will be dealt with accordingly for striking Nunly. obliging faith in the common man, in the common school, and in public taxation as a means of improving economic and social conditions. Pageant in Evening. "Gifts to the Nation," an evening pageant, showing in picture and song the contributions of the Indian and the Afr. American to the life of the nation; a demonstration of Hampton's practical training for farm life; an automobile tour among "the schools in the background"; a "plightage" of northern friends: Dr. Hollis B. Frissell's annual report as principal on Hampton's vital relation to the public; an address by Mr. Taft on "The Mexican Question"—these were some of the interesting incidents of Hampton's anniversary. from the result of an operation. His funeral will be held Sunday, and the Masons and Knight Templars will bury him with honors. Mr. McGain recently visited his mother at Macon, Ga. His illness was of short duration. {ustione, * € * ‘ i ™~ \ « ff | 5 Se =a _i SAGE TWO PRAIRIE STATE EVENTS The Latest News from Jackson- ville, Decatur, Peoria, Braid- wood, Torino and Other IIli- nois Towns. By éaclua Build. scare” DAs BSR Sieg the ReweOe pers. Major Otis B. Duncan, of the 2nd Battalion 1s much pleased, and has ao Informed Col. Franklin A. Den- nigon, of Chicago. The major states that his battalion ts ready for moblll- zation at a moment's notice. Spring- field will be the place of mobilization. s+ Wm, Hendern received a let- ter from Croix, France, whieh stated that Wm. Brown of ‘this place is working for the International far vester Company, at a salary of $1,200 ver year. Mr. Brown states that there fs no discrimination of any kind there. + ** ‘Che Ladtles’ Ald Soctety of Wiley M, B. Church met at the resi- dence of Mrs, R. & Peterford on houth Center street Friday afternoon. A very Interesting meeting was held, ‘After the business. was over the ladies passed to the diulug-room, where an elegant Imnch was served to the fol- lowing: Mrs. Mildred Valentine, Mrs, Callie Washington, Mrs. Gerurude Wik ig, Mrs, Alice Barttey, Mrs. fda Dud- ley, Mri. Eva Cooper, Mrs. Mamie dentry, Mrs. Amanda ‘Squirell, Mrs. Darnell, Mrs, Fanny Johnson, Mrs. Mollie Lirowning, Mrs. Bineford, Mrs. Daisy Portis, Mrs. Echols, Mrs. Jos- eph Courtuey, Mrs, BL W. 8. Mam mond, Mrs, iilanch Hickman, Mrs, Hattie Smith and Miss Queena Pete- ford. ‘The nest meeting will be at the residence of Mrs, Mollie Brown ing, G19 South Plum street, Friday afternoon, May isth. © * ¢ ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Black entertained Sunday with » 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs, Hopkins aud Mr. and Mrs, George Reed of Dayton, Covers were laid for ten, © * Miss Gustaya Delaney cutertained the Fortnight Embroidery Club Tuesday evening. ‘The evening was spent in embroider- ing, after which refreshments ‘were served, Those present were Miss Phoe Dixon, Miss Hessie Harris, Miss Eve Walker, Miss May Ramsey, Miss Rell Hines, Miss Audrie Harris, Miss Grace Washington, Miss Ruth “Hard- ing, Miss Myrtle Quisenberry, * + * ‘The Improvement Chub of Trinity A. M. E, Church gave i green social at the residence of Mrs. George Car- penter, SUS Enst Clifton street, Thurs: day evening, April 28, from 5 to 10, All members of the ‘club and their friends were ont in large numbers. +5 Mrs, Charles Axers of Chicago, Ills. is the guest of Mrs. Williant White of Mound street. * * * Miss Susie King has ret’ ned from a three months’ visit at Wilmington. * * * Miss Bessie Keller is ill at her home on Murray street, * * * Miss Blanch Routh is visiting at Chicago, IL, the guer. of Mrs. Bessio Ferguson. + * * Dixon Tabernacle No. 303 will meet Wednesday eventug at their hall oa East Main street; business of impor- tance. AN members are requested to be present at their new hall In the Odd Fellows building. ‘The Sir Kuights are requested to meet with the daughters. *** Miss Lizzie Mack and Miss Della Wilson of Cleveland are the guests of relatives. #* * The musical entertainment Friday night at Trinity A. M. E. Chureh given by ‘Mrs. Robert Walker and assisted by Mrs, Davis Taylor and Sherman Greg- ory and the Dunbar entertainment given by Mrs, Walker proved a grand success, clearing $59, and the musical and pig social given by William Lee and Miss Minerva Page Tuesday eve- ning was alsé a success. * * * The supper given April 23d at the A. M. E. Church, by the Ohio Chub, of which Mrs, Alice Hill is president, was well attended. *** The chicken pie sup per given April 29d, at the Second Bap- tist Church was well attended. * * * Mrs. Warren Bryant, of South Lurton Street, has had her house raised, whieh looks very nice. *** The Mt, Emery Baptist Church members gave a very successful supper Aprit 23d. ** * Mr. H.C. Mallory royally entertained about thirty-flve guests, mainly Sun- day school scholars, April 13th, at an fee cream and cake social. ‘Thanks are due to Mr. Mallory. * * * The Pleasant Hour Chib met Aprit 24th with Mrs. Grace Young. A very pleas- ant meeting was had. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. C. M. Sharp, Mrs. Robinson. * * * Mrs, Moss, of West Marion street, is some better, also Miss Josic House. * * * The K. of P. sermon will be preached May 34, at Mt. Emery Baptist Chureh. * # * The Second Baptist Church will also have their Rally, May 3d. * + * iss Jawis and Miss’ Bricks or New Lon- don, Mo., were the guests recently of Mrs, Thomas Blue of North Diamond street. ¢** Miss Louise Bell of Ash- Jand avenue, has heen suffering with toasilitis. * '* * Mrs. Surah Bell is now living at 708 Ashland avenue. © ** Tho Second Baptist Church held second quarterly meeting of Civic Lengue, April 26th. Rev. G. T. Shaw officiated. ¢ ¢ * Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waftull “are living on South West street. * * * Corporal W. H. Wright has been appointed Indoor Range Of- ficer for Company L, by Captain C. H. Freeman. * ** The Baby Show will be held May 7th, at the A. M. E. Church, * * * Mrs, Frank Taylor of North Cox street, is able to be about. Mrs. L. L.. Kiuniebrew and Mr. Carl Spencer rendered an excellent vocal duet April 26th, at the Secoud Bap- Uist Church, A very interesting Civic League meeting was held April 28th, at the McCabe Church, Six new members were added to: the League, among ‘Mrs, Jennie Jackson, 109 West 324 street celebrated her birthday Friday night last by entertaining at dinver Mesdames Myuriek and Deshwars, James Russell and Mr. Isobel, THE BLUE GRASS STATE. Home of Beautiful Women, Fast Horses and Fine Spirits Brought Into the Limelight. By Hardin Tolbert. Frankfort, Ky., May 1.—Special— The annual’ public rhetoricals of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial In- stitute was held at Hume Hall, and a large crowd was present. The pro- gram: Chant, “Lord's Prayer,” Audi- ence; Chorus, “The Miller's Wooing,” Normal classes; Oration, Mr. Clarence Washington; Instrumental Solo, Misa Mae A. Gordon; Essay, Mr. Robert Alexander; Vocal Solo, “I Hear You Calling Me,” Miss Ale H. Jackson; Recitation, ' Miss Beatrice | Harold; Overture, “Poct and Peasant,” Mr. Ellsworth Coleman; Oration, Mr. Charles Minor; Instrumental ' Duet, Miss Helen Ratcliff and Mr, Ewing Welch; Debate—Resolved “That the United States Should Abandon the Monroe Doctrine”; Aff., Messrs, B,D. Russell and Jefferson Wheeler; Neg:, Messrs, Lillius Phillips and 'U. 1 Poston; Vocal Duet, “Oh Tell. Us Mer- ry Birds of Spring.” Miss Virginia Covington and Elizabeth MeClaskey: Viotin Solo. Prof. ©, W. A. David Was the instructor of the participants and rendered yeoman service, He is professor of Latin. He 1s a graduate of Wilberforce University, and is tak. ing a summer course in the Chicago University, He is fair and impartial to all the students, ‘The first annual banquet was given by Lexington Board of Trade, Friday evening, April 24th, at the New Ga- raze of the Moon Auto Co, 188 De- waese street. Master of Ceremonies, Dr. P. D. Robinson, “The Afro-Amert can and the Automobile"; P. 15, Jack: son, “The Possibilities of the Afro American Chauffeur"; Dr. J.B, Hunt er, “Business Organization”; Dr. W. U. Hallard, “The Young Man in Dust ness"; Mr, Lewis Williams, Jn, “The Relation of the Doctor to the Husiness World": Dr, J.-M. Allen, “The Bust ness of the Chureh": Rev. If, 4. Fore man; “Edueation and Rusiness,” Prof. G. 8, Johnson; “My Business Expert ence,” Mr. RP. Bell; Miscetianeous Remarks, H. A. Tandy and J. 7. Clay. Fifteen Minutes Address, Dr. E. E Vaderwood, Frankfort, Ky., the prin: cipal speaker of the evening, he pald a high tribute to this organization, the first of its kind organized, Meeting turned over to the Lexington Board of Trade. Remarks by the president Dr. J.P, Lane; Purpose of the Organt zation, B. W, Chenaiult; Possibilities of the Organization, . D. Willis Rey, W. T. Silvey, the well-kuowr evangelist, has returned from Bowling Green, where he haw been eonduetin ‘a revival at the State Street Baptist ‘Chureh, which was a great success, DULUTH, MINN. By F. W. Mankins. Duluth, Minn,, May 1—The home of Mr. and Mrs, H. J. Shelton, 609 East Sixth street, was the scene of a pret- ty wedding Wednesday morning, when her daughter, Miss Ethel M. Donald, became the bride of Mr. J. F. Stevens, of Minneapolis. The ceremony was at 9 o'clock, und was performed by the pastor of St, Murk’s A. M. E. Church, Rev. Geo. Holt. A wedding breakfast was served to the immediate family. About 50 guests called during the re- ception that followed. Among those Present were Mr,’and Mrs. J. B. John- son of St. Paul, Mr, and Mrs. F. Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. W. F, Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Colby, Mr. and Mrs, Wm, Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. E, Watts, Mr. and Mrs. J. D, Mobley, Mr. and’ Mes, H. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. Merry, Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Smith, Me. and Mrs. J. H, Greer, Mr. and Mrs, Hi, L. Pittman, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. J, W, Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Posey, Mr, and Mrs. W. B. Richardson, Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Glenn, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Glenn, Mr. and Mrs. S. Coles, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Newsome, Mr, and Mrs. S. M, MeNeal, Mr, and Mrs, Geo. B. Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Holliman, Mr. and Mrs, H, Williams, Mrs. Anna Stokes, Mrs. N. Wagner, Mr. J. N. Richey, Mr. Harold Stokes, Miss Zella Glenn, Miss Annie Colby, Miss Georgie Richey. Mr, and Mrs. J. F. Stevens left in the afternoon for Minneapolis, where they will be at home. * * * The Florence-Wil- Hams Lodge No. 22, Order of the Eastern Star, entertained the mem- bers of the Dorie Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M,, and their wives, in the parlors of the church, Tuesday evening, April 28th, at their first annual spread, An impromptu program was given, with Mr. Geo. B. Kelley, Royal Patron, as toastmaster. PENSACOLA, FLA. By Walker W. Thomas, ‘The members of the Young Men's Pleasure Club delightfully entertained Friday night at Mono de Castle Park with the first hop of the season, Quite a large number of the young society set Were present, The pa villion was decorated for the occa: sion, while Collins’ entire orchestra of seven pieces furnished music for the occasion. * * * Mrg. Uriel M. Thomas, of St. Louis, Mo., is expected to arrive in the city about the first week In May to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Mathew Thomas at thelr home in Mono de Castle. * * * Mr, J. Cnsar Lewis arrived last week in Los Angeles, Cal., where he will spend some time as the guest of Mr. and Mrs, John Lewis. A large reception was given in his honor by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis on his arrival. * ** Mrs. B. V. Scott returned last week from New Orleans, La, where she was spending a few weeks with relatives. ** © “Only a Trip to Tangoville,” will be celebrated at Mono de Castle Park about the latter part of June. This affair will be given by one of the leading clubs of the city, and it promises to be an elaborate social event. ** * Walker W. Thomas, the agent, wi be delighted to bring the Defender to your home every Sunday morning. Leave your order at 428 N. DeVilller street, ‘Mrs, Mamie Hayes and family have removed from 5015 Dearborn street to 5156 Wabash avenue, Lake Forest, Ill, May 1—Rev. Brown preached the- second of his serles of entertaining sermons Sun- day morning and the services were largely attended, as was the service Sunday night." Services were held at the Methodist Church under Rev. Witson. coe ‘The literary had a very interesting debate Friday night. Professor Tives of Chicago spent several nights in Lake Forest this week, Mrs. Franks went to Chicago to attend church Sunday morning. Mr. James Henson, a nephew of Mrs. Sloan, was here from Chicago Sunday. SOUTH BEND, IND. ee a ee See lee Mann, head waiter at the Oliver, is a great admirer of the Defender, and sings its praise to everyone. Just 100 more like him will make it more in demand, To the readers of the Defender: Mr. Henderson, agent and reporter for the Defender is unable to get around to all of our patrons, but would ‘ue pleased to have all those he can- not see, to cull, phone or send all ‘social, chure, visiting, {less and ‘other news of importance to his ad- ‘dress, 809 W. ‘Thomas street, or phone 2621 Main, "No anonymous notes or letters tolerated. St. Peter Lodge No. 31, F. & A. M., wil give_a_musteal at the Masonie Temple, 5-15-14. ‘The best local tal- cut will assist in making this one of the most enjoyable affairs of the sea- son. An elaborate program has been arranged, and will be published in Our next issue. A cordial invitation is extended to the public. Miss Marjorie Weaver left the city Monday for a short vacation, Mrs, Samuel Rhyne will leave the clty on the first of May to visit rela- tives In Marion, Ind. Mr. Goss, proprietor of the Palace Hotel, fs ill with Ia grippe; ifs many friends wish for his speedy recovery. ‘too much credit cannot be given Miss Hattie May Dulin for her zealous efforts in trying to please each and every one, Special care is given in her duties as reporter for the Indi anapolis Ledger, Secretary of the B. Y. P. U., and assistant manager of the Dominion Cafe. Mr. Eddie Vonslin has left the city and will reside in Pittsburgh, Pa, indefinitely. Mr, and Mrs. Lee, of Mt. Zion, who have been ill for several weeks, are convaleseing slowly. A prize of $2.50 in gold will be awarded to the young lady bringing oF sending to Mr. J. A. Henderson, rep. Fesentative of the Defender, 809 W. Thomas street, the largest number of coupons printed below, before July 1, 1914. A simflar prize will be awarded to the Mrs. under the same conditions. Each coupon must have a different name of voter. But one voter can send as many coupons as he wishes. But all coupons must bear the mark of J. A. H., which will be marked by & secret code of Mr, Henderson, Guess Who or Why! The young man that said he would rather be in Niles, and then came back to 8. B. after ‘meeting the other fellow. Who said that J. H. had copped N.S? Why J, B. M. is now so irritable— ask M. G. “Said that M. M. was a base ball bug. Why 8. R. went to the ball game instead of Sunday school. Is in Peoria that worrles some one in 8B. Go to chureh and sit in the extreme rear, Said that A. D. was thinking of matrimony. Will be the most popular Miss or Mrs. in 8, B 1. G. is rushing now. Said that J. H. couldn't pray on Sunday and play a social game on Monday, Why G. W. is a kuocker. Remember, people that live in glass houses should close the shutters. Wedding bells will ve ringing for next month, She is wearing the em- blew. Sunday at the Churches. Mt. Zion Baptist, 10:30 a.m. Misses Hattie May’ Dulin, Esther, Hayes, Jessie King, and Mabel Ran- dolph, and Mrs. Young are the eandi- dates. 12:30, Bible Class, a short talk by the ‘pastor; 6:20 ‘p.m, B. Y. P. U.; 7:30 p, m., preaching by the pastor. Olivet A. M.E., 10:30 a. m.; prench- ing by Rev. Smith; 3 p.m, Sunday school; 4 to 6, Mothers’ day will be observed; 7:30, preaching by Rey. smith, Miss Ella Thomas, of Indianapolis, entertained a large and appreciative audience at the K. of P. hall, Thurs- day evening, April 29th, 1914. Miss Thomas is a highly accomplished musician, and Miss Laveta Siler, un- der whose management the entertain ment was held, is to be congratulated in selecting and inducing Miss Thomas to come to entertain the people of South Bend. Mr. W. H. Gordon ably assisted Miss Thomas. Miss ida Allen came in for several encores in sing- ing. Mr. W. T. Lowe Lein, Captain at the Oliver, has designed one of the very latest patterns in walters’ and full dress shirt fronts, which will be found serviceable and suitable for ail occasions. Mr. Lowe is trying to get a copyright on the same, and in a few days will open proposals for manufacturing of same. Mr. Lowe would like to hear from some colored bretiiren who would like to invest in. this venture. Particulars will be fur: nished on application. UPSILON DELTA PI, Miss Helen Perry, 4810 Langley av- enue, entertained the Sorority Satur- day evening with a stag. The affair ‘was quite novel and greatly enjoyed, THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. | UNION CITY. TENN. to the members of Pilgrim Rest Bap- tist Church, also the public, for the assistance that was given in the Rally last Sunday, which was quite suc- cessful, Rev. Harris delivered a great and wonderful sermon. His subject was “The Divine Humanity,” which was carefully explained. Much credit to the Willing Workers’ Club, es- Peciaily the ladies, who were: Miss Sadie Crowder, Capt. of Club No. 4; ‘Mrs. Brassfield, Capt. of Clud No. 9. ‘Mra. Eula Crowder and Miss Ola McCorry, of Fulton, Ky., were in the city last Friday, having some dental work performed by Drs. Cunningham and Girvin. They are fast becoming the leading dentists of western Tenn, Miss Hertha Nickolds and Miss Rosa Atwood, and Messrs. George Fregman and Herman Brown of Hick- man, Ky., were here Sunday visiting Miss Charlie C. Wells. The Y. M,C. A. and Y. W.C. A. met at the C. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon, with President Prof. W. R. Jarret presiding. Prayer was offered by Rey. W. B. Edwards and music by the C. P, Church choir, after which the roll was called by Secretary Mr. H. M. Hill, Each member responded with scripture verses, Scripture read- ing by Mrs. J. C. Adams. Lecture by Rev. A. M. Bishop, subject, “The Progress of the Church. After which A quartette was sung by members of the Cumberland choir which was en- Joyed by all especially the bass which was led by Dr. Jacob Jones, A yery interesting paper was read by Mrs, Cassie 1. Fowlkes: Subject, “Adults Attending Sunday School and What Effect Will it Have on the Younger People in After Days, All enjoyed the paper read by’ Mrs. B. H. Giryin: Subject, “The Duty of the Members of the Y. M.C. A. and Y. W. CA. Re- marks by Mr. BH. Kirk, A very excellent proxrain will be rendered {next Sunday at'the C. M. E. Church, at 3:15 p.m. All are invited, Messrs. Powers and Totten received many compliments upon the installa. tion of their new electrical instrument in their cafe. Mrs. Brigg of Martin was in the city a few days past, Mr. Esau Morton has returned home from Cairo, 1. Mrs. Diy Petway is visiting rela- tives in Paducah, Ky., this week, Mrs. Lizzie Brown was the charm. ing hostess of he F. L. C. Club Mon- day afternoon: After business Mrs, Brown, in her sweet, charming way, | served a dainty ice course. The next meeting will be with Miss Zula Cald- well. “ Dr. S. L. Cunningham made a flying trip to Martin Tuesday. Mrs. Ollie Powers most royally’ en tertained the Y. W. E. Club Friday afternoon. After business and needle work, Mrs. Powers, in her lovely way, served 2 very appetizing course. The next mecting will be with Mrs, W. M. Fowlkes, on Matthews Ct, May 1, 1914, Mrs. Woodring, of Hickman, Ky. was in the city a few days ago. Dr. B. H. Girvin was in Hickman, Ky., Tremble, Martin and Fulton, last week on business. Quite sad was the sndden death of the son of Mr. Brown last Wednes. day. Rev. A. M. Bishop preached two wonderful sermons at the C. P. Church Sunday. Mrs, Mary David is on the sick list, but is much improved at this writing Mr. Steave Foulce is doing nicely after undergoing a serious operation ‘on his eye. ENGLEWOOD NOTES Mother's Day at New Hope. Mother's Day services will be held the 10th of May, with addresses by leading women of the race. This service will be under the direction of the Englewood Lyceum. The recital given under the direction of the Ladies’ Aid, by Mr. Theodore Taylor, Was a grand success, on Monday night. ‘The young people's societies are full of activity, and the forming of a jun- ior society, with Mrs. J. Price and Miss Ethel Mae Brunfleld as super- intendent and president, with thirty- five children speaks well for this de- partment. Mr, D. W. Jefferson has been elected president of the senior C. E. Society, which was addressed by Mr. Lowery of St. Johns A. M. E. Church. Mr, John H. Dorsey was taken ill on Sunday morning, the 26th, and died that evening. He was the father of Mrs. Jessie Dorsey Young of 4336 Vincennes avenue, STORK LIMITED. New Colonel Arirves at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Denison. , A bouncing baby boy weighing ‘twelve pounds arrived at the home of Mr, and Mrs. F. A. Denison, 5413 Calumet avenue, Friday morning, May 1, at.¢ o'clock. When seen by the Defender reporter the colonét's eyes were twinkling and he said, “Ah, my boy, another recruit for the regi- ment.” His first word was ‘I am ready, father.” Another voter added to Chicago. The nurse says they are doing fine, “Any late war news?” was asked. "No, just waiting,” he said. MARION LEE HONORED ON 18TH BIRTHDAY. ‘Tuesday evening, April 28, Mr. and Ars. T. H, Lee gave a delightful parts in honor of the eighteenth birthday of their daughter Marion at the fam- ily residence, 4767 Fifth avenue, Near- ly one hundred of Chicago's best young men and women were present. The entire evening was spent in dancing, which the young people enjoyed very much. Many beautiful presents were received. Each guest recelved a plece of the birthday cake on leaving. WHITEWASHING BY MIILT PR The old style method of decoration and purification commonly called whitewashing, has not gone out of style, but Is now done in an up-to-date manner. Geo, A. Mullen, 42 W. 35th street, Is an expert in that line, He Whitewashes by brush or machine. You ean get his telephone number by reading his ad in our display columns. SPARKS FROM THE RAIL FOR RENT 15 FLATS IN THIS BUILDING Pea is ; ' i ey ree eee ee 7225-7237 Vincennes Road Stone Front Modern Electric Light $20.00—7 Rooms, Steam Heat—$25.00 OPEN FOR INSPECTION JESSE BINGA, Banker REAL ESTATE Southeast Cor. State and 36th Place Auto 71-766---Douglas 1565 | Mr. H. H, Harrison, better known as Jack Letenwell, of New York City, N. ¥., was in the city on a cafe car, from New York and return to Cleve- land, O. Too bad that Mr. S. H. Gladden did not meet him in Cleve- Jand. Mr. W. Jordan, 810 South Washing- ‘ton street, was in the city April 24th, on the private car “Olemphia,” also his friend Mr. J. L. Anderson, of New York City, on private car “Rocket.” Mr. Anderson 1s very much interested in the progress of the B. of R. T. P. of A. Mr. Marion J. Horton, formerly of 145 West 135th street, New York City, who resides at 4730 South State street, whl make a tour through the state of Missouri, Kans., and Texas, giving Jectures to railroad men. Mr. J. W. Cox, 142 W. 47th street, holds a position in the service of the Pullman Company to Denver, Colo., over the lines of the C. B, & Q. Ry. On March 3rd last he stole a march on the boys and was united in marriage to Miss Anna Black, a native of Nash- ville, Tenn. Mr. John R, Winston, 4015 Cottage Grove avenue, left chicago Monday, April 27th, for Pittsburgh, Pa., to ac- cept his new position as train porter on trains 7 and 8, between Pittsburgh end Chicago, in the service of the B&O. RR Co. Mr. Charley Hobbs, 4615 Federal street, who is in the service of the Minois Central, on the Panama Lhn- ited, buffet smoker, wus robbed of 3200 Worth of jewelry, April 18th. Soneone telephoned his wife that the train had been wrecked and that her husband's lex was broken, and she was wanted at the station at once. While she was away, the thieves did their work, and the police of the 30th Street station are hot on the trail of this band of robbers. Mr. G, A. Maupins, 2162 Groveland avenue, who js in the service of the Pullman Company, is on the sick list, suffering from a wrenched back, ‘Mr. James R. Maupins, 2162 Grove- lvl avenue, has returned after en- Joying a 16-day vacation. He was in Detroit, Michigan, Memphis, Tenn., Evansville, Ind., Cairo, IL, and St. louis, Mo, Mr. Maupins is in the service of the 1. C. Ry. Co., on a par. Jor car ou trains 9 and 20. Carpenter's Place, 4546 State street, was packed at his grand opening, April 25th, With Prof. Wallace ‘Smith full band, and Georgia Bill was on the job, and Robt. E. Porter kept splendid order, and Richard Black- lark, head waiter, And a few railroad men were out. Mr. Thomas MeCain, who died Fri day, April 23rd, from an operation, will be laid at rest Sunday, May 3rd, by the Masons. ‘Mr. Edward Baker, of Detroit, Mich., is still on the job as parlor car porter, in the service of the Pere Marquette Ry, Co. between Grand Rapids and pet igiag i Phone Auto 72-364 sas is BIGGS’ MILK DAIRY, FARM PRODUCTS ! Wholesale and Retail [eee om Sa ee Oe a | Binge! Modern Distritiating, Ue evecare t, DAES, cuter ont to thee Seo ae ee ESncts ln S—A—a counter incr suitor, aM of ean ae Cas direct fom the tem" RR | 321 EAST 37th STREET Sg Recs oe cHicaco Bes ek, ya fy oe | — OO ORT a GRE Poultry Feedi # CE st EN 7 on Biggs Bros. Daity Farm (©): oer Slee . BASS, IND. RPDS AP nese Pa si eee eee meee ———————— Hot and Cold Water Home Cooking a Specialty Furnished Rooms Mrs. Pearl Alston-Brown, Prop. Railroad Men Only 210 Puyallup Avenue, TACOMA, WASH. Phone Main 1192 Furnished Rooms for Respectable People A few choice rooms completed for light housckecping. Convenient walking distance to all car lines and elevated trains. ‘Strangers accommodated, MRS. D. GREENUP, Prop., 3210-3212 Wabash Ave. 4 Phones—Dougias S518—Auto, 75746 C.B Nichols, Mur. KALAMAZOO, MICH. Kalamazoo, Mich. May 1—Mrs. Jennie Locklier, of 529 Walbridge street, Mrs. Alice Brown, of Indianap- olis, Ind,, Mrs, Mattie ‘McCurdy, of Richmond, Ind, and Mrs. Rachicl Allin, of East Main street, were the guests at a family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Dungill, 52% Walbridge street. Everyone enjoyed themselves to their eapacity, Mrs. Edith Hill is Improving. Mrs. Singer was the guest last week of Mr. and Mrs, F. M, Hill, Mrs. Newsom has been on the sick ist, but is improving. Miss Ethel Mitchel is on a vacation. Mr. Stafford is improving, Mr. and Mrs, Earl Mitchel have moved (0 Otsego. Remember the Stafford & Green varber shop. ‘The Dunbar Club, formerly known as the Lincoln Club, is preparing to issue invitations for the installation of the newly elected officers. The af- fair promises to exceed that of last year, which was thought by many to be the best ever held. Phono Douglas 3688 _ Hotel Pullman 3639, 3641, 3643 S. State St. Finest and largest colored hotel in America. First class accommodations for married and single people, Everything new and up-to-date. Rooms by Day, 50c, 75c and $1.00 By Week, $2.50 and up. J. A. JONES, Prop. Looking for a Tailor? Are you looking for some- body who will build your new Spring Outfit and do it rightP See i Adams, The Tailor 2939 South State Street MOUND CITY HAPPENINGS. St. Louls, Mo. May 1—The exer- cises by the public schools at the Coliseum last Friday night, the 24th, for the benefit of the Provident Hos. Pital, Was a great success, and will add greatly to the fund that is being raised to build (he institution. Mr. Frank Boyd, an old resident of St. Louis, died suddenly while at work Friday night in his barroom at Comp- ton and Plne streets, Mr. William Wilkerson, u barber, one of the most prominent men of his profession, died last week. {He was well-known, and had a host of friends. Many floral de- signs were received from his custo- mers, who were white. Mrs. Pope-Turnbo, the well-known hairdresser, and Prof. A, 5. Malone, of Quincy, Ill, were married Tuesday. -. 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Miss Marte Burgette, of Milwaukee, is the guest of the Misses Bessie and Ethel Baker, of Railroad avenue, this week. ‘Mr. Marion Jones was a visitor in Glencoe this week, and reports his farm is 0. K. Mr. Perey Baker and wife made a flying trip to Glencoe. Both seem happy on their farm. ‘Mr. W./F. Wilson and wife are pre- paring to take thelr new house near South Haven, Mich. EDWARD FELIX | ICE Cc PHONE DOUGLAS 2928 R | Newspapers Bread Cokes sos pice Pobacon, hears, eee A re Clas eater Steers ee Grams EDWARD FELIX s 8 52 W. 30th ST. —_—_—_—_— Mrs. Edw. Felix’s Hairdressing Parlor for alt kinds of Hai ing, Scalp Ts a Pes Se Fel. Douglas 2928 Sears eds Bere: * 52 W. 30th Se. BUY YOUR ICE CREAM WM. MAXWELL 5244 STATE STREET BUY THE CHICAGO DEFENDER AT ALL “L” STATIONS. News of the Churches GRACE PRESBYTERIAN Grace Presbyterian Church Communion service will be held Sunday morning, May 3rd. A committee of ten have been appointed to see about improvements which are necessary to be made about the church. Each member of the church and congregation is asked to contribute one dollar toward this work. Miss Maud Roberts has charge of the choir, and several new members will be added thereto. Sunday Morning Service, 10:45 p. m. Sunday School, 12:45 p. m. Evening Service, 7:45 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p. m. NEW HOPE FREE BAPTIST CHURCH. Held regular services Sunday. At 11 o'clock Rev. Susie Noyd preached. At 1:30 the Sunday school met with a large attendance. At 2 p. m. Rev. Mary Jones preached. At 8 p. m. Rev. Scott preached. Every Wednesday night preaching and every Friday night praise services. The second Sunday of each month is Sunday School Rally Day. Rev. Mary Jones will leave for Conference Wednesday morning, which meets at Indianapolls, Indiana. QUINN CHAPEL CHURCH Last Sunday was quarterly meeting day at Quinn Chapel. There was a very large crowd present at 11 o'clock Presiding Elder Cooke preached a lively and instructive sermon from Hebrews, 4th chapter, 16th verse Theme, "The Throne of Grace," and "The Manner and Method of Ap proaching the Throne of Grace." Rev Scott preached the Sacramental sermon at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the house was crowded. The Holy Ghost was felt and manifested throughout the entire audience. Love Feast was celebrated Monday night. Sunday, May 10th, will be Rally Day. Bishops, Schaffer, Lee and Parks will be present, one of them will preach. The Sunday school is doing actual work under the leadership of Superintendent Fisher. Every department of the church is working hard to make the Rally a success. The Sunday school is anticipating a big time Thursday night. HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHI. Illustrating his subject, "God With Us," by the splendid success achieved in two years, the pastor's sermon was very encouraging to the faithful. Dr. F. Fox, the Secretary of Presbyterian Brotherhood, had charge of the evening service and got a happy response from the men, which led to the appointing of a committee to form a club in this church. The music, under the direction of Mrs. B. F. Syre, is a feature in each service. The solostol next Sunday morning will be Mrs. L. Lundsey, and the pastor will speak on "Insulting Our Best Friend." Last Tuesday evening the Sunday school room of Bethel church was the scene of a most enthusiastic crowd of Allen Christian Endevorers. It was indeed encouraging to those interested in this splendid work to see the young men and women pouring in, in a manner that bespoke real manhood and womanhood. And then to hear them as they rendered their excellent numbers on the program. Mr. Robt B. Glover, the District President, had a right to feel proud and give vent to his feelings. For this was an extraordinary occasion and a new page in the history of the Allen Christian Endeavor League of the Chicago District. Each society seemed to vie with the other in point of attendance. But when the reckoning time came, Quinn Chapel had the highest percentage and won the first banner. Trinity Mission, the second. Societies as far distant as Evanston had representatives present and delighted the home Endeavorors with their words of encouragement and inspiration. So grand in every detail was that Rally the writer was asked by a visitor if this was the C. E. Convention. Much credit is due Mr. Glover for his untiring efforts put forth for the success of this Rally. May in the future he receive the hearty support of every C. E. society that the Allen C. E. League of the Chicago District may be pushed to the front. ST. LUKE M. E. CHURCH. Rev. Edw. R. Lewis. Pastor. The community is thankful for the work and influence the church is giving, and shows its appreciation by being present at the various meetings held each week. On Sunday evening we will have Rev. Jacob Bernheim, an educated and converted Jew, and Superintendent of Marcy Home, to speak for us. He comes well recommended by some of the best ministers of the Rock River Conference. The choir rendered splendid service on last Sunday at the corner stone laying; with their energetic and efficient choreuster much can be expected of it in the future. On Wednesday evening Rev. E. L. Gilliam, of Columbus, Ohio, preached at St. Luke to a very large audience. The pastor is indeed grateful to those who were present on so short a notice. Your action devoted both interest and respect. The Sunday school begins at 12:30 o'clock. The Epworth League in conjunction with the Lyceum, opens at 6:30 p. m. Miss Leah Tubbs has been ill for the past week. She is a member of our Sunday school and church. The choir will render special music for the service Sunday evening. Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp—Willmitt. ST. MARY'S A. M. E. CHURCH. Sunday, May 3rd, is the third quarterly meeting of the conference year. Services at 10:45 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7:45 p.m. Sunday school at 1:30, T. W. White, Superintendent. C. E. at 6:45, Mrs. T. Willis, Pres. Dr. W. D. Cook, P. E., will preach morning and evening. Dr. T. A. Smythe of Bethel A. M. E. Church, will preach at 3 o'clock. Low Feast, Monday night. The ministers and their congregations are invited to our services Sunday. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Cor. 38th and Dearborn Streets. Rev. H. J. Callis, Pastor. The services on last Sunday maintained their usual interest and attendance. In the evening we were specially favored. Our choir and the choir of Quinn's Chapel A. M. E. Church exchanged places. The innovation met with marked approval, and Prof. Morris deserves great credit for his new idea. Our congregation was highly appreciative of the splendid music rendered us by the visiting choir. The services for the approaching Sunday will be, as is usual for the first Sunday in the month. The Holy Communion will be administered at the morning service. Sunday School will convene at 1:30 p. m., and the Christian Endeavor at 6:30. The pastor will occupy the pulpit in the evening. Dr. Callis left the city Monday for Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he has been engaged all of the week in assisting to so arrange the temporal and spiritual affairs of the A. M. E. Zion Church as to put that organization on a strong foundation in Grand Rapids. Dr. Callis visited and labored in the Michigan city at the call of the Rt. Rev. Geo. L. Blackwell, presiding bishop over this district. Our pastor returned Friday night. The social held at the home of Miss Mildred Francis, on last Wednesday evening, was an excellent affair in spite of the inclement weather. "Rebecca at the Well" was rendered very acceptably under the direction of Mrs. Clarence Taylor. The proceeds from the social are to assist the Christian Endeavor Committee of the Bazaar. ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. Monday evening, May 4th, at the Mock Annual Conference will be gathered persons from every village and hamlet, ranging from a Locus preacher to a sliden elder and bishop. If you want to enjoy a good laugh, come and hear the reports to be read by each pastor, and see the latest in missit clothing. Say! but it is going to be great. You want to be there when those pastors from a way down there come to the front in their crying brogans and relieve their newly tailored jeans of a long sack of coin. This is the scene in the unique financial drama that will brighten the faces of every member and interested friend of St. John; this is the part that will put St. John in splendid shape and will enable her pastor and members to accomplish that for which they have so patiently labored. One hundred and forty-three dollars will wipe out the mortgage. Two hundred dollars would clear up, very nicely, all of our floating debts. It is hoped by the pastor and members that through this effort, not only the above amounts will be raised, but a neat little surplus realized to start a new building fund. NEW HOPE C. M. E. CHURCH. Special to the Defender Evanson, Ill., May 1—At both services Sunday an enjoyable time was bad. The pastor seemed especially himself in the morning service, in which he gave his hearers a literary and spiritual feast on the subject, "Seeking Wisdom." The growth of the Sunday school is one of the marked features of the church. The Criterion Literary and Athletic Club gave their initial entertainment last Monday evening. The program was unique and the financial end a success. Get ready for the Second Annual Banquet given in honor of Rev. William Y. Bell, our pastor, Monday evening, May 4, 1914. A neat menu has been planned for the occasion, and the program will be most elaborate, including all the city pastors and many of the civic leaders of our city. Along with this, there will be speakers from some of the principal churches of Chicago. On Tuesday evening of May 5th, Rev. Bell will leave for St. Louis, Mo, the seat of the General Conference of the A. M. E. churches, where he will represent the Mo. and Ill. Conference as a delegate, a much coveted honor. The election of Rev. Bell, who is so young in the ministry, as a national representative of his church, is simply another symbol of his ability. Parrot Made Trouble The entire street railway system of a city in Australia was tied up when a pet parrot escaped from its home and magged its chain across two wires, causing a short circuit. Knlocker-"What is the ideal library?" Bocker-"A cook book, a check book, and a dictionary for the baby to sit on." Immense Output of Liner The $60,000,000 worth of linen which is the average yearly output of the United Kingdom would wrap the earth at the equator seven times. Costly Food. Some genius may yet be able to make breakfast food of wild oats.— Vancouver World. True Sport. Our idea of a true sport is one who'll give the proceeds of a jack-pot to make some widow's baby happy—Detroit Free Press. GUESS WHO? The popular little doll is who is making a tour over the United States, Canada and Mexico. The doll is who looked some more good in her new white suit on Easter Sunday? G. T. is that charming young damsel. The dolls she adores are who are strictly English dresses, but no English or American money? The young people are who had one morning Thursday night at 47th and State street? The doll is who was so disappointed because her friend took another girl to the store to buy her dress. The dolls are who were seen on 31st Deaths of the Week Brown, Nettle, 27 yrs., 2129 State st., Apr. 25. Brown, John, 63 yrs., 641 La Salle st., Apr. 3. Boyd, Chas., 68 yrs., 1451 E. 57th st., Apr. 3. Brown, Jauenth, 9 moth., 245 Swan st., Apr. 27. Boles, Leon, 26 yrs., 5330 Dearborn st., Apr. 27. Conley, Maria, 67 yrs., 5910 Aberdeen st., Apr. 23. Curtis, Mary, 70 yrs., 6652 Wabash av., Apr. 21. Debollin, Elizabeth, 49 yrs., 24 E. 38th st., Apr. 22. Dobley, Roby, 1 yr., 549 E. 36th st., Apr. 21. Fuller, Lem, 38 yrs., 100 W. 22nd st., Apr. 21. Foute, Milred, 89 yrs., 1946 Larrabee st., Apr. 26. George, John, 33 yrs., 4065 Dearborn st., Apr. 26. Green Gertrude, 45 yrs., 3206 Federal st., Apr. 26. Herron, Salice, 62 yrs., 3892 Prairie av., Apr. 5. Hammond, Beatrice, 5 yrs., 3216 State st., Apr. 21. Lester, Gertrude, 45 yrs., 3206 Federal st., Apr. 21. Montgomery, Walter, 25 yrs., 1341 State st., Apr. 18. McHudley, Helen, 29 yrs., 732 E. 65th st., McAfee, George, 17 yrs., 2716 Federal st., Apr. 21. McJonald, Alice, 49 yrs., 145 W. 45rd st., Apr. 17. Ostrom, Robert, 1 yr., 1118 Balmoral College st., Apr. 21. Payne, George, 38 yrs., 3638 Wabash av., Apr. 4. Powell, Oliver, 20 yrs., 5817 Lafayette av., Apr. 21. Rowley, Vianl, 1 yr., 4414 St. Lawrence av., Apr. 21. Roman, John, 23 yrs., 816 Church st., Apr. 21. Sames, Willbert, 25 yrs., 2723 Wabash av., Apr. 25. Skinner, Wm., 40 yrs., 3030 La Salle st., Apr. 14. Smith, Joseph, 26 yrs., 2621 State st., Apr. 25. Stirris, George, 6 yrs., 355 N. State st., Apr. 1. Turkey, Mary, 28 yrs., 5215 Federal st., Apr. 27. Wright, James, 57 yrs., 2953 Warren av., Apr. 21. Webster, William, 53 yrs., 914 S. State st., Apr. 20. JAMES CONRAD BURIED. Funeral services for James R. Conrad, 6517 St. Lawrence avenue, a well-known and well-to-do contractor, who died Monday, April 21th, was held Thursday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. R. M. HARVEY'S MOTHER DIES R. M. Harvey, proprietor of the Tuxedo Barber Shop, 2024 State street and one of the Chicago Defender's most active south side agents, returned to the city Thursday, from Versailles. Ky., where he attended the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Annie M. Harvey. Mr. Harvey was called to her bedside on April 5th, and she died April 11th. She is survived by one son and two daughters. CORPORAL SMITH DEAD Corporal Joseph Smith, of Co. F, 8th Infantry, departed life Tuesday, April 28th. He was an active member of the Regiment, and popular among the officers and men. He will be greatly missed by all the boys. The officers and members send their sympathy to his bereaved family. Corporal Smith was also a member of Court General Robert Elliot, Ancient Order of Foresters. Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 2d, at Quinn Chapel, at 10 a. m. OBITUARY. The funeral of Mrs. Dida Lucas took place Wednesday, April 22, from her late residence, 62 East 32d street, Rev. J. F. Thomas officiating. Interment was at Mt. Glenwood cemetery. Her sister, Mrs. Anna O'Donnell, wishes to thank the many friends for their beautiful floral offerings. Sparel Ob. Sparc List The peddler who sold painted sparrows for canaries in Hastings prove that the old Yankee inventiveness is in no danger of dying out.—New York World. Once more, lest you forget; the "city beautiful" movement offers a broad field of public service to every good citizen.-Birmingham Ledger. Strange Woman. "Was it a quiet wedding?" "Decidely! Both the bride and the groom were so scared they could hardly speak above a whisper." Words of Confidence. Trust thyself.—Emerson. And No Heart for the Job. The man who is his own worst enemy has a fool to overcome.—Boston Transcript. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER HESS Who? and State streets with two Chicago Beach bell-hops? The doll M. M. is who was seen down at M. N. in Lincoln with W. D. The dude E. P. is who had better beat it to the wounds soon or else? The doll is who thought herself as popular last Tuesday at the party on E. B. Easman Avenue. E. F. R. is she. Who it was that lied up to your picture found on his best girls dresser, then lost the girl? Poor C. B. The West Side dude M. W. is who told the first British secretary of war, Sir W. Clarke, was killed in a naval action. His duties were those of a secretary to the commander-in-chief, and, as such, he accompanied the duke of Albemarle to sea in 1666, and was killed on June 1. His official salary was at first $2.50, and subsequently $5 a day, out of which he paid his clerks. Headed In the Right Direction The young man caught smoking a cigarette in a powder mill sald he was looking for a place where he could rest without being annoyed. If they'd left him alone a few minutes longer he'd have found what he was looking for. Time's Changes. "Before we were married you said you'd lay down your life for me," she sobbed. "I know it," he returned solemnly; "but this confounded flat is so thy there's no place to lay anything down." To Clean a Refrigerator When white spots appear on the refrigerator lining take all the food out and rub the zinc with kerosene. Leave the refrigerator open for several hours, then wash with ammonia and warm soapsuds and let dry thoroughly. His Good Deed "What good deed did you perform today?" the first class scout was asked. "Mother had only enough castor oil for one dose, so I let my sister take it," replied the hero.—Buffalo Express. Truth Bluntly Expressed A boy gets scolded for mussing his hair and tearing his clothes. But when he gets older and tries to look like a tailor's ad, he isn't nearly as much of a comfort to his parents.—Exchange Hls Specialty. "Did you hear about Muggins taking up settlement work?" "Yes; he usually works his creditors for 50 cents on the dollar."—Town Topics. That Sincere Flattery Imitation is the curse of modern life, and it is almost as bad to imitate one's self of yesterday as to imitate someone else. A man should have the courage to be himself—the today himself. Friendship's Duties "How many coolnesses would be avoided could we learn to see that friendship, like all other relations in life, has more duties than rights!"—L. Soubey. Partly True. Anyway The man who thinks he has learned all he can, has merely learned all he will—at least until his hath shrinks. Dally Thought. Shallow men believe in luck, strong men in cause and effect—Emerson. Age a Tyrant. Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.—La Rochefoucauld. WALTER B. ANDERSON ANDERSON REAL ESTATE RENTING LOA 3512 South State Telephones: Douglas 200—Auto. 79-864 FORE 507 B. 34th Place, 4 rooms, steam h 508 B. 34th Place, 4 rooms, steam h 509 B. 34th Place, 4 rooms, steam h 501 K. 34th Place, 7 rooms, steam h 502 K. 34th Place, 6 rooms, steam h 503 K. 34th Place, 6 rooms, steam h 3138 Rhodes Avenue, 6 rooms, steam 3138 Rhodes Avenue, 6 rooms, steam Agent: No. 707, 6 p.m. day and Wednesday from 11 to 4 p.m. 449 Bryant Avenue, 6 rooms, steam 4514 North Avenue, 8 rooms, steam 4524 Eberhardt Avenue, 6 rooms 4534 Rhodes Avenue, 6 rooms, steam FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. 5437 DEARBORN ST., 2nd FLAT, phone Drexel 1300—Furnished rooms for man and wife or single gentleman. 2-9 501 BRYANT AV., NEAR 35th AND kilnouses AV., 3rd npt.—Nicely furnished, heat, electric light and all other indoor conveniences; suitable for man and wife. 4355 FORESTYLLE AV., PHONE KEN- wood 1000—Furnished and unfurnished rooms; conveniences all modern, heat, light and surface car lines; only respectable people need apply. 2-9 3542 DEARBORN AV., newly decorated and nicely furnished light and room; convenient to Indiana and 35th st. car lines. 2 3527 INDIANA AV, PHONE AUT. 72-681 —Front room with alcove, uninfirmed, also large, light back room, furnished. 2 3545 PRAIRIE AV, TOP AUT. —Well lighted side bedroom, steam heat, hot water, hot air and other modern con- veniences. Apply to B. Biggshert. Conven- tion to 50th st. and Indiana car lines. 2 3545 PRAIRIE AV, 2nd FLAT—Nicey furnished, light and airy rooms; steam heat, hot water and all other modern conveniences; near 50th st. and Indiana car lines; prices, $2.90, $2.50 and $2.5 per week. 2-9 3716 FOREST AV, 2nd FLAT, PHONE Doug. 3244—Nicey furnished, light and airy front room; steam heat, hot water and all other modern conveniences. 2 3716 FOREST AV, 1st FLAT—Nicey furnished; near 50th st. and Indiana conveniences all modern; near 50th and Indiana car lines; very homelike for right party. 2-9 3300 WABASH AV—Handsomely furnished rooms to rent, very reasonable; railroad men preferable. 2-9 3540 PRAIRIE AV, 3D FLAT—Light and room, furnished or unfurnished modern conveniences; near two car lines. 2-9 3443 WABASH AV—Fine large, light room; modern; reasonable; handy to car line; married couple or gents preferred. Phone Doug. 3662. 3rd flat. 2-9 109 W. 22D ST. TOP FLOOR—NICELY furnished rooms; all modern conveniences. Tel. Auto. 79-341. 2-9 3528 GALUMET AV—Phone Doug. 8491 or Aut. 71594. Nicely furnished light room; cool room; comfortable conveniences; suitable for light house; keeping for man and wife; convenient to car line. 25-2 3540 PRAIRIE AV, 3D FLAT—Light and air room, furnished or unfurnished; modern conveniences; near two car lines. 25 3447 RHODES AV, FIRST FLAT A—Nike large, air, steam heated room, hot and cold water and just around the corner from car line. Phone Doug. 2072. 25-2 3413 WABASH AV, 2D FLAT—Nearly improvements; two minutes walk to the l and the 35th St. car line. Phone Douglas $222. 25-2 3413 FOREST AV—Phone Douglas 512S. Nicely furnished rooms, containing all modern conveniences; suitable for man and wife; large single parties; a ventilent to car line. 25-2 3424 VIRONN AV—Phone Douglas 263S and Aut. 7367. Large front room for man and wife; improvements all modern; mining water; furnished or unfurnished; 25-2 3726 CALMER AV, 2D FLAT—Phone Douglas 7769. Two nicely lit light and airy rooms; one will rent for $3.80 and the other for $10.00 per month; for gentlemen; they are heated by steam and contain all modern ventilences. 25-2 FLATS TO RENT. 760 E. 41st ST.—Four-room flat for rent; in splendid location and the rent is reasonable. WANTED—Some reliable, responsible person to rent my house at 67th st. 6 rooms for free for myself. Apply to Harry Green at the above number. 3219 CALMET AV—Three-room, flat; steam heat, gas range; modern. 3235 PRAIRIE AV—Four eight-room flats; $23.00 to $40.00; strictly modern; steam heat; light and airy. CHOICE FIVE — ROOM FLATS. ON first, second and third floors; with bath, gas, clean open plumbing, and situated neighborhood; convenient to J. and surface car lines. Apply at 3976 Veron av. 6328 RHODES AV., 2nd FLAT—Six-room flat; bath and stove heat; 18-25 rent for $21. 9128 VERSON AV.—Room flat, steam heat and all modern conveniences; telephone Douglas 4136; newly decorated. 25-2 4544 ST. LAWRENCE AV. SECOND flat—$ large rooms; steam heat and janitor service; $73.50 per month. BUSINESS CHANCES. WANTED-Four young lady solicitors to sell map syrup direct to families. Call Monday, 3 to 4 p. m., 2530 State st. furniture store. WANTED-To sell half interest in a busy carpet cleaning and weaving business. 5111 State st. 11-18-23-2 SEE WILLIAM MAXWELL FOR Shirts, Collars and Neckwear 5244 State Street Announcement Anderson & Terrell beg to announce that they have just opened another large apartment building for high-class colored people, located in the heart of the best residential district in the city of Chicago. One-half block from 35th street car line, one block from Cottage Grove Avenue car line. This building is known as the Le-Chateau, located at 507 and 509 East 34th Place. It contains eight (8) 5-room flats and eight (8) 4-room flats. All light and airy rooms, golden oak trim throughout, steam heat, strictly modern. Your attention is respectfully called to the excellent neighborhood in which the building is located and to the convenience to transportation and the moderate rents. Flats from $20 to $27.50 We solicit the patronage of the general public and can assure you that it will be our duty to maintain a substantial and honorable standard already established by us. We have a large list of 2, 3,4,5,6,7 and 8-room flats and houses and cottages for rent to select from. See us Before Renting or Buying. Anderson & Terrell REAL ESTATE BROKERS Rentling, Loans, Insurance 3512 South State Street "Home of Real Estate Bargains" Phones: Douglas 205-Auto. 79-864 The Hungry In The would be "perfectly foolish" al and Cabbage,—with fresh bread cup of coffee and a big hunk of To cook this dinner to best time—with least possible fuel ex Wife should own a A woman serves a tray of food to three men seated at a round table. The Hungriest Man In The World would be "perfectly foolish" about a dinner of Corn Beef and Cabbage,—with fresh bread—baked potatoes—a good cup of coffee and a big hunk of apple pie to finish up with. To cook this dinner to best advantage in double quick time—with least possible fuel expense—the Hungry Man's Wife should own a "Composite" Gas Range Fifty thousand Chicago Hotel—complete dinners in "Compete with only one fire burning. This Wonderful has been made possible by this one. We display this range in some all our branch stores and at our downtown building. Branch S. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The Peoples Gas Line Lincoln State Bank UNDER STATE 3105-07 South CHICAGO Douglas CAPITAL, $200,000.00 Fifty thousand Chicago Housewives will cook tonight complete dinners in "Composite" Gas Range Ovens with only one fire burning. This Wonderful Economy has been made possible by this one range, The "Composite." We display this range in some fifty different shapes at all our branch stores and at our big sales room in our big downtown building. Branch Stores open till 9 o'clock on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. Lincoln State Bank of Chicago 3105-07 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. Douglas 200 A DOLLAR IN THE BANK OF WORLD POWER YOUR PORTER NICKELS CENTS 61 25 5 10 4 5 3 10 2 5 This Registering Home Bank FREE to our Savings Depositors; will start you saving and keep you at it. A Savings Account is the first step to wealth. Open one with us. Mrs. A. Butler Hat Shop Order Work a Specialty 3412 State Street, Chicago ONE PRICED DENTISTS High Class Sanitary Office. High Class Work, Guaranteed 10 Years. Established 1893. Examination Free. GOLD CROWNS.......$3 PORCELAIN CROWNS BRIDGEWORK, Per Tooth. SILVER FILLINGS....50c Boston Dental Parlors New States Theatre Bldg. 3507 SOUTH STATE STREET Open Evenings and Sundays Phone Douglas 4047 Phoenix Oakland 2430 FINE MILLINERY Feathers Cleaned, Dyed and Curled HATS BLOCKED 4746 State St. - CHICAGO MEN! Use Prescription 100 The best known remedy for all affections of the urinary passage, kidney and bladder troubles. This Valuable Tonic Is for Sale at LaBastide's Drug Store 3702 S. State Street Telephones | Douglas 616 & 617 Automatic 21-874 riest Man World about a dinner of Corn Beef and—baked potatoes—a good apple pie to finish up with. An advantage in double quick expense—the Hungry Man's housewives will cook tonight onsite" Gas Range Ovens— Ful Economy some range.The "Composite." some fifty different shapes at our big sales room in our big stores open till 9 o'clock on day evenings. Bank of Chicago SUPERVISION State Street O, ILL. 200 SURPLUS, $20,000.00 Commercial Banking Savings and Checking Accounts Foreign Exchange Safety Deposit Vaults Mortgages and Bonds 3% Interest on Savings Deposits Your Patronage Solicited Depository and Correspondent, Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, Ill. PAGE THREE THE WORLD OF SPORTS PAGE FOUR FOOTBALL BASEBALL BASKETBALL AMERICAN GIANTS WIN OPENER AS BIG CROWD CHEERS AMERICAN GIANTS WIN OPENER AS BIG CROWD CHEERS Blank the Fast Gunthers After Knocking Star Pitcher Out—Final Score Is 4-0—Young Thinks if De Lave Had Started a Battle Royal Would Have Resulted—Umpiring Good, but Goeckel Missed. WADE A PUZZLE THROUGHOUT. Boxes All Taken Before Game—Automobiles Galore—Fair Sex Much In Evidence—Largest Crowd at Any Semi-Pro Park in City—Giants Fast, Despite Long Trip. They pried the lid off, those American Giants, and it was some opening game too. The largest crowd that attended any of the openings of the semi-pro parks in this city jammed the 33th street grounds Sunday, despite the cool weather and the other attractions offered on the South Side. Automobiles were busy hours before the game, and the box office was stormed when it opened. Boxes were all sold out long before the game started and the grand stand was well filled. The bleachers were all taken, many going out there to keep warm. The Giants were given a hearty welcome when they took the field in practice, the fair sex joining in. They showed little effect of their long journey, displaying much ginger. Francis at third, Lloyd at short, Barber at first and Munroe at the keystone sack brought continued applause as they pulled time and again big league stuff. The famous M. Goeckel was much missed, but the umpiring that Kelly and Fitzpatrick gave was fair and square, and the usual squabbling was missing on the part of the two teams. Once or twice the Gunther batters shook their heads when called out on Wade's fool benders. Big Magnates Making Sad Error. Several of the Gunners are from the various leagues where men for the major leagues have been picked. Others have played with the team last year when it won the championship of the Lake Shore League. Many have played against such stars as Farrell and Fisk and Stanley. Yet the big league magnates have overlooked a team that can beat these men and have utterly failed to recognize such stars as Patway, Lloyd, Hill, Wade and others that the mighty Rube has gathered. Any one of these would be a drawing card by himself and would bring to the owners much more colored patronage than they now have got. It is to be hoped that the Federal League will cause such a scarceness in talent that these stars or others of the darker hue will be given a chance to earn some big money honestly along with the Indian, the Chinaman and other races, especially the Cubans, who are much darker in color than some of the race men. Giants Bat Bradshaw Off Mound. Barber was an easy out, second to first. Hill doubled to left and went to third on Duncan's out. With two down the crowd began calling for Lloyd to bring home the bacon. Two balls were put across and the ump called a strike. Lloyd fouled off the next as the crowd gasped. Three and two and a man on third. Asmussen signaled for a certain ball, but Bradshaw shook his head no. The ball he did deliver Lloyd sent to the left for two sacks, scoring Hill, while the crowd stood on the seat and yelled like maniacs. Lloyd immediately pilfered third and again the multitude arose. Gans singled and Lloyd scored. Three Gunther pitchers went out back of the bleacher seats and proceeded to warm up. Whether Bradshaw saw it or not we don't know, but the first ball he pitched Munroe whaled so far that he was sitting on third when it got back in the infield. That ended the first inning, as far as scoring, as the next was an easy out. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` The Gunthers could do little with Wade and his support. Bradshaw gave way to De Lave, formerly of the Springfield Three Eye League team. This youngster is some pitcher, and in the seven remaining innings the Giants collected only two hits. He fielded his position well and was applauded for his good work, showing that the Giants' fans are not partial. Francis started the seventh by being hit after he had ducked one and Anderson let De Lave's peg get away and Francis biked to second. Two fielders' choices and a bad peg by Hannaway let him score. Wade pitched a masterful game and was given good support. The score: R. H. E. Am. Giants.3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 *-4 6 0 Gunthers. .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *-5 5 Two-base hits—Hill, Lloyd. Three-base hit—Munroe. Struck out—By Wade, 8; by De Lave, 2. Bases on balls—Off De Lave, 2. Umpires—Kelly and Fitzpatrick. Time—1:50. It would have been a peach of a battle if De Lave had started instead of Bradshaw. Lloyd went back of second and got a seemingly impossible drive and pegged to Barber at first, pulling him off the bag. It went for a hit, for neither he nor Munroe seemed able to get it. It landed in the big fellow's paws and there was nothing to it. I Lloyd stole third in the first, and it --- BY FRANK A. C. YOUNG. was about the prettiest steal ever seen. He tried it again later on, but was nalled. It was a fine attempt, but the force kept him from holding his foot on the bag. We missed Goeckel, but the umpiring was good. Wade in backup up Barber at first pulled some classy playing. De Lave woke up and began to pull the same stuff. Gans had three put-outs in the left garden and Hill two in center. Duncan in right never had a chance. The ladies were there in all their finery. One made an awful scramble getting away from a foul off Lloyd's bat. One behind the screen nearly fainted when a foul from Munroe's bat came straight toward her. St. Joseph Sunday at 3:30 RENFROE TO LEAVE GRACE TEAM. Famous Pitcher of No Run-No Hit Fame Can't Find Time for Practice and Quits, so Club's Record Will Not Be Spoiled. The Grace team will lose its only charter member and veteran in the person of Eugene E. Renfroe. He has been the standby of the team since its birth, playing active, classy ball each year. He is the only pitcher on the team who has a no hit-no run game to his credit, and has been one of the hardest hitting men that ever wore a Grace uniform. His reason for leaving the team is that his duties keep him from getting out to the games in time to practice before the game is called, and he wishes to give the younger candidates a chance to keep up the team's good record. HOWARD P. DREW WORLD'S UNBEATEN SPRINTER I (Special to The Chicago Defender.) St. Louis, Mo. May 1.—Wednesday night Loulou Young of St. Louis was given the decision over Young George Dixon of Chicago in the eighth round. Clever fighting was shown by Dixon, but he was outmatched by the young bull of St. Louis. Carter of Chicago was knocked out in the eighth round by Murphy of St. Louis. Carter was saved numerous times by the gong. Holland and Johnson fought a fast fight from start to finish but Holland was soon defeated and knocked out in the seventh round. PASSES AWAY Former Member of Grace Presbyterian Baseball Team Succumbs After Long Illness. James Leon Boles, age 26, was buried from his home on Tuesday afternoon at 5330 Dearborn street. He died after a lingering illness of more than a year's duration. He was the only son of a widowed mother. Young Boles was a former player on the Grace Presbyterian baseball team and for awhile was with the American Glants. Rev. Moses Jackson officiated. His body was sent to Kansas City, Kan., for interment. The funeral designs were many and beautiful. SPORTING NEWS FROM THE COLLEGES EXPERT COMMENT HOWARD P. DREW WORLD'S GREATEST SPEED MARVEL HOWARD P. DREW WORLD'S GREATEST SPEED MARVEL Does the "100" in 10 Flat in the Mud—Also Takes First Place in Broad Jump—Attracts Attention of President Sullivan of the A. A. U. DEFENDER'S PREDICTION COMES TRUE Four Years Ago, When in His Second Year at Springfield, (Mass.) High, It Forsaw in Him the World's Greatest Dash Man. Howard P. Drew, the world's greatest runner at that distance, traveled all the way from California to Pennsylvania and won two events in the national championship games held last Saturday at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, held under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Just twenty thousand persons braved the rain to see these great athletes run, and under the weather conditions no one expected any great performances. Notwithstanding the fact that Drew had traveled from the Pacific coast he caused much concern when he took his place in the trial of the century dash, for the simple reason he was not only pitted against the cracks of the country, but that just a few weeks ago he ran the century under perfect conditions in $9\%$, and there had been not only much talk both in his favor and against him, but the A. A. U. had refused to let the record stand. Pitted Against the Fastest. Many were hoping that he would repeat, and many were to the contrary. To the former the weather conditions were disappointing, and to the latter they were ideal. However, Drew was away with the crack of the gun, and when he broke the tape he had covered the distance in just 10 flat. In the finals he was up against Jones of Georgetown, Bond of Michigan and Knight of Chicago. This time he made it in 10%, winning with ease. The second, third and fourth places went to the above as named. Drew was also entered in the broad jump, which he won with a leap of 22 feet. Referee Sullivan, after seeing Drew run his trial heat in 10 flat on a water-soaked track, said that he was ready to believe that his performance in California was accurate. Granger of Dartmouth ran with the relay team that represented the Green. They finished fourth in the two-mile relay championship, which went to Illinois. Ben Bowser was with Syracuse relay team that won the one-mile college relay. In this way the Carlisle Indians finished fourth. Defender's Prediction True. Monday Howard P. Drew established a new world's indoor record of : 09% for ninety yards at the games of the Loughlin Lyceum held in the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn. The former record, : 09%, was made in this city four years ago by F. A. Frey. Just four years ago Drew was running at Springfield, Mass., under the high school colors and making the century in 10 and a fraction, and oftentimes in ten flat. After seeing him work out several times the Defender through its sporting editor predicted that Drew would not only equal the record made by Arthur Duffy, formerly of Georgetown University, but beat it, and we have patiently waited. To his and our own satisfaction he did it. Although the record doesn't stand, Mr. Sullivan admits that he firmly believes that the little speed merchant made the time. TANNER WINS CITY CHECKER TITLE. Crack Afro-American Player Beats All Comers -Clubs Scour City for Material Who Meet Defeat at His Hands -To Compete for Cup. George Tanner won the title in the city checker tourney which recently closed. Mr. Tanner won the championship by defeating Mr. F. R. Wendemuth in the final round by the score of 2 to 0 and a draw. Mr. Tanner won the black side of the Swicher and the white side of the 24-20 Dundee. The fourth game of the series was unnecessary. Mr. Tanner has been up against the best that this city could produce, the white clubs scouring around and trying to get all the material that they thought could possibly be able to trim him. But he won. Thirty-six players took part in the qualifying round and sixteen played in the final round, which was played on the double know out plan. Mr. Tanner played consistent checkers throughout and in the closing rounds was especially strong and deserved to win. To promote the interest in checkers the South Side club has donated a all-ver cup valued at $150, open to the checker players of the world and to be defended every ninety days in sixteen-game matches. When the holder of the cup is challenged the challenge must be accompanied with $2, and when the cup is won ten times by any player it becomes his personal property. To start the ball rolling Tanner will play Wendemuth. COLLEGE NOTES The Upsilon Sigma Kappa was en- tertained Saturday evening, April 4, by Miss Beatrice Lee, 5259 Dearborn street. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER MILLION FOR A KNOCKOUT BLOW. Frank Moran Will Not Only Receive That Amount If He Lands it on Jack Johnson, but Will Lift "The White Man's Burden." (Special to The Chicago Defender.) Philadelphia, Pa. May 1.—One blow worth $1,000,000. That is what Frank Moran, the big blonde Pittsburgh boxer, says a knockout punch will mean to him if he lands it on Jack Johnson, the present heavyweight champion. Such a blow will also lift "the white man's burden," placed by Johnson when he won the title from Jim Jeffries at Reno, July 4, 1910. "IF" he does it will cause as big a stir as the blow Dewey delivered at Manila bay. Johnson and Moran are matched to fight for the heavyweight title in Paris on June 27, the eve of the Grand Prix, the biggest event of the French turf. KING'S DAUGHTERS HAVE LARGE RALLY Large Number of Circles of Illinois Branch Take Part in Meeting at Grace Presbyterian Church Sunday Afternoon. More than a dozen circles of the Illinois branch of the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons held an interesting and successful rally at Grace Presbyterian Church Sunday afternoon. Sunshine Circle No. 2 arranged the program and acted as host. The circles represented were Alert, Annabel, Christian Progress, Dally Light, Ever Ready I. P., Ever Ready G. P., Florence Nightingale, Harriet Hilton, Hermosa Inasmuch, Loyal, Progressive, Quiet Workers, Sunshine Original, Sunshine No. 1, Sunshine No. 2, Thanksgiving, Steadfast, Whatsoever, Willing Workers R. F., Willing Workers Jr., Workers for the King. The program in part was as follows: Duet by Misses Anderson and Barth; reading of the King's Daughters' psalm by Mrs. Anna Horn; prayer by Mrs. McKinley; addresses by Mrs. Kinnieburg of Loyal Circle of Forest Park, Miss Cora Mowbray of the Alert Circle, Mrs. Christman of the Original Sunshine Circle, M Harriett Ganick of Inasmuch Circle, and Mrs. Bennett. The Willing Workers Jr. sang, and refreshments were served in the lecture room. The exercises were late in beginning, many of the visitors being present before those in charge made their appearance. MISS BEULAH MEDLEY ENGAGED Mrs. Arabella Medley announces the engagement of her daughter Beulah La to Mr. William H. Riley. [Image of a man in formal attire with a mustache]. Rev. J. W. Robinson ST. MARKS M. E. CHURCH LAYS CORNERSTONE WITH IMPOSING CEREMONIES The cornerstone for the new $2,000 auditorium of St. Mark Methodist Episcopal Church was laid Sunday afternoon, April 26th. The day was ideal. The sun shone bright but not hot. The wind blew gently without the slightest chill. No gathering clouds were to be seen anywhere to threaten even an April shower. It was a day for which the St. Mark people had prayed. A time for which many had longed to see. The chapel, which seats 400, was crowded to an overflow at the morning service. Chairs were brought in. Men stood and gave their seats to women. The Reverend E. L. Gilliam, pastor of the Seventh St. M. E. Church, Columbus, O., who was the presiding elder when St. Mark was organized, April, 1895, preached both morning and night. Dr. Gilliam preached two able and deeply spiritual sermons. Two persons were converted. In the morning his subject was "Faith." At night "What Must I Do to Be Saved?" The service for the laying of the cornerstone was held in the open air. The crowd began to gather at 1:30. When the U. S. Scout Boys, Major Stephen Horde commanding, arrived at 2:30 they were compelled to hold the crowd back. Promptly at 3 a'clock the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Illinois F. & A. M., escorted by a platoon of Chicago police, the 8th Ill. Regt. Band, the Knight Templars, Shriners, and Blue Lodges with Acting Grand Master Joseph Moore and staff, arrived. The opening hymn, "All Hall the Power of Jesus' Name," was sung by the St. Mark, Fulton St. and St. Luke choirs. Invocation by the Rev. E. R. Lewis, pastor St. Luke M. E. Church. Hymn, "Hall Thou Once Despised Jesus." Scripture lesson read by the Rev. Dr. H. J. Callis, pastor of Walter's A. M. E. Zion Church. Anthem, "Glory," by St. Mark choir. The Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias arrived, headed by their band and escorting the Major-General Robert R. Jackson and staff. They had been detained by the CHICAGO GIRL IS CARNIVAL QUEEN Miss Mabel Smith, Winner in Popularity Contest, Is Crowned at Recent Fete—Wins Diamond Ring. Miss Mabel Smith won the honor of being the most popular girl in the state of Indiana and was crowned P. queen of the recent carnival at Indianapolis, Ind., and presented with a diamond ring for securing the largest number of votes in the contest. She is a Chicago girl, having lived in Indianapolis one year, and is a stenographer for the Freeman. She is the daughter of Mrs. H. S. Smith, 3850 Dearborn street. MOUND BAYOU BANKER SPEAKS AT BETHEL CHURCH. Hon. Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, Miss., cashier of the bank of that town, politician, vice-president of the National Negro Business Men's League, and a big stockholder in the Cotton Seed Oil Company, was the principal speaker at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday night. G. H. Mays, secretary of the Oll Company, was among the speakers. Mr. Banks told of the wonderful progress made at a town that is solely an Afro-American from "stem to stern." The advancement along material lines of Mound Bayou was discussed by Mr. Mays and Dr. George Cleveland Hall. Robinson death of a brother Knight, whose funeral they had to attend. These Sir Knights presented a most thrilling picture with their ostrich plumes and gold basked uniforms glistening in the April sunshine. Men, women and children gazed upon them with increasing admiration. Upon all lips could be heard the brief but pointed exclamation, "Isn't it beautiful! Isn't it grand!" With the Knights of Pythians resting on 50th street between Wabash and Michigan avenues, and the Plumed Knights Templar resplendent in their beautiful uniforms, as well as the Shriners and Masonic Blue Lodges drawn up in front of the cornerstone on Wabash avenue between 50th and 51st streets, many declared the occasion to be the greatest that has happened in Chicago. There were fully 5,000 people present. After a brief interruption the program was continued. Anthem, "O Come, Let Us Sing," by Fulton St. choir. The Rev. H. M. Carroll, pastor of Fulton St. M. E. Church, in very fitting and appropriate words introduced the principal speaker, Rev. Chas. B. Mitchell, D. D., St. James M. E. Church, 46th and Ellis avenue. Dr. Mitchell said: "We are engaged in mighty big business today. We are laying the cornerstone of the Church of Jesus Christ, where men shall not be buried but born into a new and an eternal life; where men shall not be destroyed, but saved both soul and body. The presence of the church makes for the safety and protection of life and property. It is worth more to a neighborhood to build one church on the corner than if Chief Gleason would put 100 policemen in that neighborhood. Whenever the church of Jesus Christ has gone civilization has followed." The St. Luke Choirs sang "Praise the Lord." The Rev. Dr. Gilliam was then introduced and gave a brief historical sketch of St. Mark. The cornerstone was then laid by the Acting Grand Master, Joseph Moore, with the beautiful and impressive ceremony of the Masonic order. St. Mark raised $2,000 on this occasion. Too much praise cannot be given Wm. Odeneal and Thos. H. Gause for the financial success. --- Miss Mabel Smith. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF PROVIDENT HOS- PITAL AND TRAIN- ING SCHOOL. The program for the graduating exercises of Provident Hospital this year is one that will attract a large crowd on Monday night, May 4, in the assembly room of the Y. M. C. A., 38th and Wabash avenue. Mr. Charles W. Chestnut, author of "The House Behind the Cedars," and prominent in literary circles, will be the principal speaker. He is Ohio's noted literary son and a speaker of force and power. Mr. George H. Webster, president of Provident Hospital will deliver the annual address. Miss Sophonesa Breckenridge, a speaker of rare ability, and who has interested herself in race questions, will deliver an address. Miss Maud Roberts, Chicago sweet saprano singer, and Hugh Buchanan will render vocal selections, accompanied by Miss Gertrude Jackson. Father Joshua B. Massiah opens the program with prayer. Of the eight graduates, only one is from Illinois and none from Chicago. One is from Jamaica and another from Italy. The graduates are Misses Lella Stubbs, Boston, Mass.; Elizabeth Lille, Cynthiana, Ky.; Yolanda Marle Charleshton, Rome, Italy; Chandler Battle, Wilson, N. C.; Florence Mahala Heron, Manchester, Jamica; Mabel Hill, Cynthiana, Ky.; Rhylogrete, Webb, Peru, Ind., and Willie Edna De Priest, Rockford, Ill. The exercises begin promptly at $ p. m. BIGGS THE PURE FOOD MAN. In this time of rank adulteration of food stuff, the dealer who is on the square and handles only pure goods is a jewel. Such a man is Biggs, the dairyman, at 321 E 37th street. Those desiring fresh eggs, milk, cream and butter will always find the freshest at his place. The Biggs Brothers are producers, their goods coming direct from their own farm at Bass, Ind. Read their ad, in another column and give them a trial order. Baltimore, Md., May 1—Trumpeter Frederick Harris of Company E, Fifth Regiment Maryland National Guard, has identified General Villa as a native of Maryland and a sergeant in the Tenth United States cavalry until fifteen years ago, when his enlistment expired. Mr. Harris for more than eight years was a member of the Second regiment, coast artillery, stationed along the Texas border. DOLLAR FOR EACH YEAR ON BIRTHDAY Rev. J. F. Thomas Remembered In Unique Way and Tendered Large Reception. Rev. J. F. Thomas, the beloved pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, was 70 years old last Saturday and was the recipient of many presents. The Pastors' Aid Society, of which Mrs. Eliza Jackson is president, tendered him a reception that lasted from 12 o'clock noon until midnight. At the morning service on Sunday Mrs. Jackson, representing the Aid Society, presented him with a purse containing $70.00—a dollar for each of the three score and ten that he has lived. The drama given at Providence Baptist Church last Monday was a grand success, the actors excelled their past records. Rev. Brewer gave a surprise party on his wife last Tuesday. Mr. Johnson, director of the vocal class of Providence Baptist Church, Day School, married Miss Mattie Mills, a member of the choir. There is a rumor that Miss A. L. Dooley of the west side, is engaged. A number of the newly-weds and newly-engaged are wondering if they shall need the 8th in Mexico. The women say if they call the 8th they will go as nurses. Those living in that vicinity can purchase the Chicago Defender from Robert Reinger, 1658 West Lake street. He will have it on sale beginning to-day. OPENING OF CHATEAU CAFE, GALA EVENT Fashionable Crowd Greets Dr. H. H. Boger When Beautiful Dining Place Opens Doors Under His Management —Costly Soups for Bakers the reopening of the Chateau Café under the management of Dr. H. Boger yesterday afternoon, was a thing of beauty. Messages of congratulations were continually coming in throughout the afternoon and, yes, Dr. H. H. Boger, "Mine Host," at the Opening of the Chateau Cafe. ing. Everything was carried out to a queen's taste. Each lady received a beautiful string of beads and the gentlemen a handsome belt buckle. The lady's were tastily gowned and the atmosphere was permeated with the fragrance of the latest flowers of the season. The musical numbers under the direction of Mr. Garfield Willson were clever and amusing. The menu, prepared by Miss Maud Hurley, surpassed the Blackstone. THE GOLDEN WEST What the Race Is Doing in the Land of Sunshine and Flowers, by The Chicago Defender's Special Agent and Correspondent. By G. A. Lewis. Los Angeles, Cal., May 1—Mr. and Mrs. Sol Thomas, 769 Ceres avenue, are entertaining their niece, Mrs. Lulu Thomas-Cook of New York, who is a member of Alda Overton-Walker's Happy Girls. The company is delighting large audiences at the Pantage Theater this week. The Chicago Defender is very popular in this city. Among the latest subscribers I have secured are: Mr. W. Wilson, manager and director of the Los Angeles Entertainers, the most popular quartet in southern California; Dr. J. W. Ball, the leading chiropodist, at 430 Bryne building; Mr. J. E. Massey, chef, Salt Lake K. R.; Mrs. R. H. Scott, who runs the up-to-dating house at 538 Ceres avenue, and Mr. Harry Frye of the Salt Lake K. R. Mr. Noah D. Thompson of the Thompson Realty Company, 123 North Broadway, is a great admirer of The Defender. He says that the race should be proud of such a fearless journal. His wife, Mrs. Eloise Bibb Thompson, is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Tribune. The Los Angeles agency of The Defender is at the Pullman barber shop, 519 Cores avenue, where Mr. Ben Smith always has it on sale. OAKLAND, Cal. May 1—Although fruits and other sweets have made this part of the country famous, J. W. Nuby & Son have made a name for themselves, as dealers in the world's greatest after-dinner panama, cigars, Nuby & Son are the well-known retail cigar dealers at 1738 Seventh street, whose special brands are used throughout California. No race firm in the West is as progressive as they are, and their word in the product of Havana is final. In addition to their regular line they handle newspapers, among them The Chicago Defender. Through their efforts The Defender is the fireside companion in this vicinity. DR. GEO. C. HALL MOVES TO SOUTH PARK AVENUE. Among those who moved May 1 was Dr. Geo. C. Hall. This time the well-known physician, surgeon and race leader moves into his new home, 3408 South Park avenue. This change does away with his public office which he has maintained for the last twenty-five years. Under the new plan his handsome South Park avenue residence will be both home and office. J. Dr. George Cleveland Hall. In a special suite at that number he announces weekday office hours from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. On Sundays medical attention can only be by appointment. A reporter for The Chicago Defender learns that he plans to thoroughly renovate his apartment building at 3249 South Wabash avenue and that a prominent family has already rented the flat that he occupied. PANAMA INTERESTED IN MATRIMONY CLUB Stirs Lonely Bachelor to Thoughts of Love—Wants to Seek Hand of Chicago Girl. Andrew J. Clement of Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, is still anxious to know more in detail about the matrimony club whose items are published solely in the columns of The Chicago Defender. In a letter to the Defender he urges that Dr. Harry Garnes, president of the club, inform him as to the object and scope of the organization. From the tenor of his letter, the young man is very anxious to marry a Chicago girl. ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. George Cleveland Hall announces the removal of his office and residence May 1, 1914, to 3408 South Park avenue, Chicago. Hours, 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays by appointment only. Telephone Douglas 4111. REAL HOME COMFORTS If you are looking for a room where you can enjoy the comforts of home read our classified columns. Only first-class people advertise in The Chicago Defender. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC "All Passes, Art Alone Endures". GLOBE - OPP. BLACKSTONE WABASH AVENUE Starting With Mat., Sunday, May 3rd MORT STEECE'S FAMOUS VERSION OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Interpreted by 40 People and a Pack of Siberian Bloodhounds DAILY MATS.....10, 20 and 30c NIGHTS.....10, 20, 30 and 50c PAGE SIX MUSICAL AN "All Passes, Art REVIEW OF THE THEATERS By Tony Langston. THE GRAND. The bill the last half of last week was a good one, and Miss Josephine De Vance, who at one time took a prominent part in the famous Pekin Stock Company, was easily the best act on a well balanced bill. Miss De Vance has a most winning personality and delivered her numbers in excellent style. The great Lutz & Co. have an act entirely out of the ordinary. Lutz himself is an armless wonder, but the manner in which he can use his feet is more than remarkable. His versatility surpasses anything that could be expected from a man without arms, and his display of marksmanship was wonderful. Neal and Neal opened the bill, and aside from the heavyweight balancing feature the act was very ordinary. Cooper and May could well confine their efforts to their dancing, as their vocal efforts were almost painful. "The Editor," a 15-minute newspaper drama, was fairly well acted by Cliff Dean & Co. Billy K. Wells, monologist, put on a conglomeration of nonsense that suited a few. Thompson and Cross are booked for the last half of this week. --- A realistic newspaper skit, entitled "The Editor," was one of the good offerings the first half of the week at the Grand. It was presented very creditably by Cliff Dean and company. The scene was laid in the editorial rooms. A reporter had just brought in a cracking good story about the ruin capital was working on labor. The editor accepted the story, although it was in direct opposition to the policy laid down by the owner of the paper, who catered to the money interests. The owner not being on the spot, the paper went to press, with the story creating, as might be supposed, the wildest furor. A touch of comedy is thrown in by the telephone operator, and altogether the skit is nicely worked up. Cooper and May, terpsichorean artists, were a shade the best artists in their line seen at this house in some time. Their dances were unique, and they kept time with the precision of a clock. An exceptional novelty was found in the act billed as "The Great Lutz and Company." Here is a man, armless, who did everything with his feet as dexterously as the ordinary man does who has the use of his arms. He played several instruments, sawed and split wood, drove nails, tied Buffalo Bill in sharpshooting, and dozens of other things equally as marvelous, all with his feet. Billy K. Wells, a monologist, had a few things to say that were bright, clever and laugh producers. The large audiences went away fully repaid for the evening spent at the Grand. . NEW MONOGRAM. Morton and Wilson, classy singing and talking, opened the bill here and delivered as usual. Baby Mack, a real juvenile, made her initial appearance on this time, and qualified. Sellman and Jackson repeated their success of last week at the old house, and the bill closed with Marshall and Thomas, a big-time act for true. Matt is as funny as ever, and Thomas, his new partner, is himself a clever comedian. It was the best bill shown here for a long time. OLD MONOGRAM. Spencer Finley, monologist, scored a decided hit here, and the cleanness of his work was in direct contrast to some of the stuff pulled here from time to time by male "singles." Smith and Mayo are a clever team and do some real good dancing. The Pelican Trio in a novelty singing and dancing act went big, and Muriel Ringgold, comedienne, deserved all the applause she got, which was some. Among the well-known performers booked for the near future are Miller and Johnson, Buster and Rockpile, Pinkey and Lorraine, Cumby and Warfield, Davenport and Davenport, Hattle Garland, James Bailey, and Sam Davis and Tim Owlesy, who are now teaming and making good in the East. THE ALAMO. The Griffin Sisters, who are managing this house, are booking acts that are of the classiest order. This week Babe Brown, soubrette, opens the bill with a neat singing and dancing act, and is followed by Joe and May Simms, who are too well known to need comment, and Fisher and Fisher, tango dancers, who have won prizes galore in some of the biggest houses in town. Five reels of feature pictures are also run at each intermission. Matinee here Sunday at 2:30 p. m. THE LINCOLN. The offerings at this house this week were up to the high standard set by Leo Salken, the manager; and "The Drug Traffic," which was run for the first time on the South Side, resulted in the biggest business done here in six months. "The Child Redeemer," "Mystery of the White Car," "Lucille Love," "Disaster of Shaft 19," "Road to Ruin" and "War Is Hell" are among the other special features run here during the week. GLOBE Starting With Mat., Su MORT STEECE'S FA UNCLE TO Interpreted by 40 People and a DAILY MATS..... NIGHTS.... THE STATES. The States was taxed to capacity on several different occasions during the current week, which can easily be explained when you consider the quality of pictures which were used. "Jealousy," "The Hour of Dawn," "Justice," "The Yaqui's Revenge" and "The Mysteries of Paris" are a part of what was seen here during the week. THE PHOENIX. Special features were shown here during the week, among them "Kathlyn". No. 9 and several special war dramas which filled this popular house to overflowing. Business is always big here. THE POMPEI CAFE Last Friday witnessed an unusual ceremony at the Pompei when the photographs of over three hundred celebrities, all handsomely framed, were unveiled before a crowd of professionals that taxed the large grill room to capacity. Speeches were made by the Griffin Sisters, Fry of Fry and Moss, Sam Arnold, Joe Shoecraft and Tony Langston, the latter dwelling at length on the career of the Pompei since its inception. The genial proprietor, Joe Shoecraft, made appropriate remarks concerning the originals of each photo, and the evening will be long remembered by all those present. The following well-known performers waited table: George Williams, head waiter; Tom Lemonier, Andrew Tribble, S. Frye, A. G. Moss, Sam Arnold, Will Thomas and Matt Marshall. The pictures unveiled comprise what is without doubt the most complete set of theatrical and professional photos ever assembled in one collection, and will have to be seen to be appreciated. Sunday the handsome photo of the late "Bob" Motts, loaned to Mr. Joe Shoecraft by "John Bull," will be unveiled. Intimate friends of the founder will deliver short speeches and Miss Mary Ray will sing. THE ELMWOOD CAFE. Messrs. Russell and Dago have re-organized their entire staff, and their Sunday 5:30 concerts and Thursday matinees are always well attended. Each lady receives a handsome souvenir on Thursdays, and their entertainers are re-enforced by the best talent obtainable. Last Sunday was carnation day, and the genial proprietors distributed over a thousand beautiful carnations. Ollie Powers is now managing the grill room, and Charles Hall is the chef in charge. After the ball game Sunday, beginning at 5:30, the entertaining will be continuous. MARSHALL AND LEMONIER Marshall and Lemonier will join hands, to be seen at Cincinnati May 11.' They will make the Klein time—Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Washington and Detroit. Both are well known stage artists. ON AND OFF THE STROLL By Columbus Bragg. Mabel Burell, an up-to-date entertainer of the par excellence Savoy Cafe cabaret, plays with ease duets with musical moke. Mr. Wesley Dungee, the xylophone soloist and trap drummer, would make a good musical team in vaudeville, as Miss Mabel is good looking, magnetic, absolutely conscientious, and as full of tricks as a kitten with a ball of yarn, showing now and then she has a vivid instinct for ingenuous emotions as well as a keen idea of how to put her songs over. Her accent and demeanor are of the Parisian style, so chic; she shows she knows the familiar fires and languors. Success is stamped all over her face and future destiny, being guided by Mr. Elder Paris, the popular manager of the Savoy Cafe and mixologist. Mr. Bud Williams assists with his sweet singing. Kelley and Catlin are the Colonial Theater, the Chinaman and a real coon, two real actors, not performers. That's why they are heading the bill. Moss and Frye are at the McVicker's Theater. Those boys continue to demonstrate if you got the goods you can as yet deliver them in the best houses. They are working all the time. (What you mean) a sure enough act that all. Don't copy. Majestic Quartet will leave in a short time over U. B. O. time for the East. They sing. A quartet. Cross and Thompson, an up-to-date character act. The Indian and coon will head the bill at the Grand. Now these are some more actors, not performers. They are the big-time boys. Years ago Mr. Cross was manager of colored shows and employed and helped a many performer to the front. He is clever. I am putting it mild. At the Monogram Marshall and Thomas head the bill, while Miss Baby Mack does a single, Palmer and White, Sellman and Jackson make up the bill at the Monogram No. 2. The Spillers—there are six of them. I mean a first-class musical act. Mr. Spiller, formerly of Spiller and Bailey, musical nokes; they played all international time. Mr. Spiller still survives, showing through all handcapped conditions he's the fittest of them all. Now working over U. B. O. time. On par with any musical act in the world. That's why he has been booked all over the world's best stages. An artist—that's all. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER In all colors $5.00 trimmed summer wear effects. Speci LINCOLN M 3218 S OPEN EVER The McCarvers will be seen on the Stroll in the near future. Pelican Trio head the bill at the Monogram No. 1. Miss Muriel Ringold does a single. Smith and Mills, and Spencer Finley, monologist, make up the program at this popular vaudeville house. Miss Josephine De Vance, a very dainty little soubrette, headed the bill at the Grand Theater the last half. A decided hit. Miss Petite Esmerelda Strathaw, the little, dainty, cute entertainer at the Plaza Cafe, although imposing, striking living picture, she knows the potency of politeness, dignified as well as daredevil in attitude, entrancing, charming, endeavoring at all times to put the appropriate atmosphere by presenting and portraying her song number. She is simply a little, sweet masterpiece. The management, assisted by the popular Billy Starks, will get out an injunction to keep Billy Starks from joining the Eighth regiment, as he is contracted to play in the famous play, "Abjah." To foil the fighting ambition of the great comedian the manager of "Abjah Ethiopic Classic Play," has secured the services of his wife to keep him out of Mexico. Will let you know the decision in the next issue. In the meanwhile Mr. Starks is such a fighter that all he would have to say to Mexico is "Vanish!" and the Villa and his bunch would disappear in a vapor. A magician, that boy Miss Lola Wicks, the girl with hypnotic eyes, well she can't make those eyes behave, little winsome girl with a big voice, very musical, artistic, makes you wonder where such a tiny, cute body can store such a volume of tone, and such a world of magnetism. She has the gift of personality that makes an audience warm up quick, her rags and dances go great. The manager of the Elmwood says nothing too good for his patrons. He is proving it by augmented orchestra. Where will these cabarets end up? Now Mary Garden and George M. Cohan have joined hands—oh, I mean our own Elivia Johnson and Irwin Miller—to do vaudeville, and they will do it, too. A good act. Mr. Miller's winsome creole wife is sick. They play Indianapolis, Ind., the home of the great "Freeman." Come back here, you. Miss Hazel Elliott, little 3-year-old girl, has been chosen to be a fairy princess in the "Ahjah," the phantom of spirits. She is very apt. Her personal attractiveness is well endowed with requisites for a princess. She gets her physical charms from her piquant and magnetic mother personalities who entertain at the El Cento Cafe. The many friends of Brooks and Bowen are glad to know they are making good in New York City. They are Chicagoans. Miss Marie Young, formerly with the Red Moon, and who has been posing for a moving picture company, is in Philadelphia, Pa., on a visit. Miss Daisy Brown, formerly with the Red Moon, and who is stopping with Miss Esmeralda Statem, the petite entertainer, Twenty-eighth and State streets, will be one of the principal characters in act at the Grand during the week of May 11. Andrew Trible will feature the act and Jerry Mills stage manager. Bob Kelly, one of the most widely known theatrical men in the country, is in the city. His many friends are glad to see him. Report comes from the Star Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa., that Lizzie Wallace and Rosa Brown were the best act on the bill. They are clever dancers and singers, with stylish wardrobes, and then, too, they are from Chicago. Miss Maud Robert will be one of the principal soloists at the Umbrian Glee Club in May at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Althia Smith, wife of Chris Smith, the composer, has a new song that will be out in a few days. Professor Dorsey says it's great. There is mail at the Defender office for Mme. Jennie Watts-Brown, the dramatic reader. Mrs. L. M. Harper of 3320 Vernon avenue is traveling with the Tallaboo company. She is considered one of the best stars. She has been dined in great style in Louisville, Ky. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Mort Steece's Production at the Globe Theater the Best of its Kind Before the Public. Mort Steece's famous Uncle Tom's Cabin Company will open at the Globe Theater Sunday matinee, May PETER H. Sole Owner of Uncle Tom's Cabin Company. 3, and continue until May 11 inclusive, giving matinees daily at 10, 20 and 30 cents; nights, 10, 20, 30 and 50 cents. There are forty people in a carefully selected cast, a pack of Siberian blood- hounds, and new special scenery, making this production the best of its kind now before the public. New Act Opens at Star Theater, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 1.—The Three Dancing Devils, who appeared at the Star Theater last week, are bound to make a name for themselves among the show-goers. They made Pittsburgh audiences stand up and take notice of their rapid-fire dancing that took the house by storm in each performance. These three young ladies were with the Darktown Follies. They appeared here a few weeks. Owing to some misunderstanding with the management of the Follies they thought they would go out on their own hook, and they will no doubt make the management of the different show houses engage them when they hear the public demand their act. Ethel Williams, Adele Johnson and Grace Taylor are the trio's names. They are eastern maids and are capable of packing any house to its doors when they hit the footlights for their act. ANITA PATTI BROWN RETURNS TO CHICAGO Madam Anita Patti Brown, the famous songbird, returned home today after completing a season of successful recitals which began in the British West Indies last fall and continued throughout the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, finishing in Columbus Friday evening. It is rumored that the madam will appear in the loop district at one of the recital halls with an all-star cast from the East early in June on an exclusive program from the race's composers which is being managed by one of our most progressive musicians, backed numerically and financially by a number of interested persons of the opposite race. UMBRIAN GLEE CLUB PRESIDENT THREAT ENED WITH ARREST Dramatic Editor. Dear Sir: Please pardon this seeming accusation, but either you inadvertently mentioned our little conversation of a few weeks ago, or some one overheard us talking. I am fearful lest serious trouble arises, and will suggest if you know where the Umbrian Glee Club lives please phone them to stop talking at once. I think their number is Quinn, May 19. Advise them to get a larger place for their concert, as people are talking over town about their "Evening with Race Composers," and their good judgment in choosing as their debutante Miss Maude Roberts, Chicago's own sweet soprano; also for securing Mr. Wm. Hamm, the operatic basso, and Mr. Thomas Allen (the club's own Caruso) for stellar roles. Tickets are going TOO fast! The president of the club has just received a letter from the assistant fire chief, warning him against overcrowding Quinn Chapel Tuesday, May 19, saying three deputies would be on hand to enforce the law: so please, Mr. Editor, tell your personal friends to go early and get ahead of the law, as the club always begins on time. I think the party who carried the news into the loop district should be locked up until after the concert, don't you? Their excuse for talking so much I heard was that it is the EIGGEST and BEST show the club has ever given, and they want everybody to hear it, when the general admission is only twenty-five cents and all other seats two bits. I beg to remain, yours very truly. SPRING _COPYRIGHTED_ $5.00 trimmed hats, midsummer wear, all the new effects. Special . . $1.98 Take a peek at our windows SONG RECITAL The 1910-11 Club of the Berean Baptist Church presents Professor A. E. Greenlaw, basso contante, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, supported by male quartet of Williams' Jubilee Singers, Madam Pettiford, Madam Winfrey and other good talent, at Institutional Church, Dearborn street near Thirty-ninth, Thursday evening, May 14, 1914, at 8:30 p. m. It is the desire that all turn out and show their appreciation, as this is Professor Greenlaw's first appearance in the city. Funds to build a new Berean Baptist Church at Fifty-second and Dearborn streets. C. S. Smith, manager. 25-9 A neat and intelligent young lady, well versed in domestic science and owning a beautiful residence, wishes to marry an industrious man. Give particulars in first letter. Address Miss E. Levy, 238 Cherokee street, New Orleans, La. REMOVAL NOTICE. Dr. W. H. Britt will remove his office from 4901 State street to 4710 State street May 1. "I see where a lot of jobless actors have resorted to bootblacking." "Stars will shine, you know." Common Ground. It makes mighty little difference, says the Boston Transcript, what altitude records aviators break, they're all planted at a uniform level. Mr. Stubb's Mean Warning. "One-half of the women in this world retail gossip," remarked Mr. Stubb, as he lit his after-super clerger. "Quite considerate of you not to say all of them retail gossip," snapped Mrs. Stubb, as she washed the dishes. "Oh, no, only half, Maria. The other half wholesale it." Daily Thought. With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case, and the knot that we cut by some fine, heady quarrel scene in private life or in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbor's vices, might yet have been woven by the hand of sympathy.-Stevenson. Keep Faith With Yourself. Success in life means keeping one's faith with oneself and with one's friends. It means being content to travel along the path of righteousness in spite of the fact that worldly good and ease do not lie along that path. Most of all it means "to be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less," and to take joy in the world and to spread happiness and joy to all near you. Most of 'Em Do. "Dear me, it's so hard to buy for a man." "Yes, I hate to spend the money that way, too." 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EASY TERMS DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL Author of "Slavery Days," "Our Inheritance" DEMOCRACY Author of "S The word Democracy is derived from the Greek root "demos," meaning the people. When we use the word Democracy we mean, "the government of the people, for the people, and by the people." Whether or not Democracy is the highest form of government obtainable is dependent upon the people. Moral cleanliness, civic purity, education, Christian virtues, higher ideals, are essential to the masses, in order that the highest and most advanced form of government may be obtained under it. In the year 1776 the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seacoast being represented in a convention at Philadelphia, adopted the famous Declaration of Independence which has since become known as the most concise declaration of human rights ever conceived by human mind. It is declared universally to be the recognized rights of human liberty. In the clearest tones it emphasizes the rights of property, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Its founders were the builders of a new form of government utter inconceivable by the most learned of that day; they were pioneers not only in the primitive forest which stretched from Nova Scotia to the Peninsula of Florida, and thence to the Pacific Ocean, but they were pioneers also in the building of a new formula of ideas concerning the abstract right of government. That they, who wooed these wild forests, subdued the treacherous savage; conquered the obstacles of Nature, and withal declared this vast wilderness to be their home, were imbued with a divine inspiration, one of fealty, love and veneration of that which is beautiful and grand in the universe, confirms the great affirmation of human rights: the "Declaration of Independence"? It has been one hundred and thirty-six years since this compact was entered into by the Thirteen Colonies; during which time our population has increased from less than three million people (at the formation of the union there were a half million slaves) to ninety million. The territorial area has increased from thirteen states to now forty-eight; it includes the lands between the two great oceans; the Atlantic and the Pacific; from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the territories of Porto Rico, Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. Our economic growth, still more wonderful than all else, remains the gigantic mountain which attracts universal recognition. This is not surprising in view of the fact that our population of 90,000,000 during the year of 1907, was supported by manufactured products amounting to $15,000,000,000; and agricultural products valued at $00,000,$$$$, while our mineral products amounted to $$$,000,000,000, aggregating $$$,$$,000,000 or $00 per capita. We have 254,076 schools, 207,707 churches, 6,043 national banks, 328,000 miles of railroad and 10,000,000 children attending public schools. We are absorbing Europe's population. They are coming to our shores at the rate of a million each year. These marvellous strides of accumulated wealth and greatness, although seemingly irresistible against the approach of danger, nevertheless, are menaced, threatened and endangered by and through a lawless temperament which has become a sovereign. It strikes at the vitals of our civilization and its insidious powers are surely and truly eating away the foundation. Every man, every dollar, and every institution included in the area of this vast combination of states and territories, are seriously imperiled, because the restless tide of lawlessness is sweeping away the pillars of our national support, which are patriotism, honor and justice. Has Democracy with us proved its efficiency along the lines of fundamental progress which gives stability to law and order, thereby insuring political justice to the masses, and thus strengthening the character of their institutions, or have we had majority rule base and unit, because of its leadership, Democracy in name, but in principle injustice and misrule? Should we not declare "Democracy on trial," when we realize the vile use of legislative prerogative exercised by our trusted representatives, they whom we have chosen to protect us? We, the masses, the people, have been betrayed! Our chosen representatives have been tools of scheming corporations and their interests. The God of Money rules the minds and passions of men. Money bondage has secured a vassalage upon us which controls the church and the state. Capitalism has so thoroughly entrenched itself through commercialized politics that it has become a ruling factor in our national life. We have government of monopolies where the will of the people is defeated. A representative government proving itself to be a school of crime. Our legislators in some instances have been proven criminals of the lowest type. If such conditions are true under a Democratic form of government, is it not sure proof that such a government is repulsive, repugnant and subversive to the people's rights? The world knows the history of the scandals at Albany, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; Los Angeles, and San Francisco, California, and numerous other FORWARD cities could be added to the list where we have the same factor to consider, namely: that of official dishonesty. We have a government of mobs and lynchers whose strength has grown with years of unmolestation into a sovereign of lawlessness. The bestial activities of the mobs from the darkest chapter of modern history. Its crimes are so prevalent that we accept its decisions with as much readiness as we do the decision of the courts of justice. * * * The growth of lawlessness is stimulated through the spirit of jim Crowism whose common source was American Slavery. Its origin, its birth and existence dates back to the first slave ship which sailed into our port. Thus we began our tutorship in crime as early as the year 1619. And while our achievements have been many, recited by astonishing facts and figures, yet, there is the parasite of lawlessness firmly implanted into our political system which threatens its extinction. How long can political freedom live when its voice is silenced by a lawless power? How long can a government exist which can not subjugate the lawless element? Satan forged with cunning hand, Morgan forged with insane hand. We quote our beloved and martyred President, Abraham Lincoln, because, with his life we depict the truest type of American manhood. He saw in the institution of slavery the grim spectre of lawlessness—the greatest menace to our national institution. "Let reverence for the thp law be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in the schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in the primers, spelling books and almanacs; let it be preached from the publits, proclaimed in the legislative halls and enforced in the Courts of Justice; and in short let it become the political religion of the nation. Let the old and young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions sacrifice unceasingly upon its alters." Today we are a trust-ridden, money-cursed, unionized nation. One interest is organizing to protect itself against the solitiness of another. Lawlessness, gradually but surely, is destroying the spirit of freedom. Shall we not declare "Democracy on Trial." STATE STREET: ITS (Continued from Page 1.1) males of the interior of their flats and of their persons bespeaks no good to themselves or to the community. Up Against the Patrol Box. You stroll on. The corners are crowded with loud talking men and unemple women. You have to make a wide detour to get by—so far as they are concerned the highway belongs to them and they have no thought of the passers-by. At 29th street the crowd, and it was a typical one, discussed the Mexican war, backed up for comfort against the patrol box. They did give way when an officer approached to "pull the box," but he saw no harm in the idlers and laughingly moved away. The business places next catches your eye. You are pleased with barber shops. They look neat and clean, and there are a few bootblack stands, a grocery, a tailor and a few other business establishments besides saloons, but you find no Shoe stores. Carpenter shops. Painters and decorators. Fish markets and other lines of busi ness. The Gay White Way At night it changes to the sublime. The street is ablaze with light, the sidewalks are crowded and there is music and laughter everywhere. Nearly every block has a theater or two and together with the buffets, with their entertainment of singing and dancing, the Midway is outdone. Plentifully interspersed are the gaudy chill, chop suey and ice cream parlor, and until the police curfew rings at 1 o'clock the pleasure bent populace enjoys life to the extent of their pocket-books. Follow the Crowd. "Follow the crowd" was the old advertising stunt. In the days of the Pokin you followed the crowd north, but they returned back to 31st. They still gather and linger a while at 31st street but the crowd has now moved south. Now the gay part of the street is from 31st to 35th streets. Thirty-fifty street is the center of attraction. Several popular theaters and a number of moving picture houses are off from the corner and the crowd likes the sport. From that point all roads lead to the south side hall parks. Many gather there before the game and only leave when the saloon lights go out. They circulate within a radius of a block or two food and pleasure and only go home to sleep. One of the greatest needs in this section of the street is a first-class restaurant—a place on the same high plane as Alex Stevens' "Waldorf" of some years back, or like the more recent Pekin Cafe, when the crowd went that way. By this complaint is meant a place to eat up and above the street, where the after-the-theater party or those who care to dine out at any time can select from common sense menus the best in the market, properly cooked and well served. There need not be the elaborate and sometimes gorgeous decoration that characterizes some of the eating houses already established, but rather let simplicity and quality take its place. Music or other entertainment is optional, but a high-class place to eat will fill a long-felt want. What It Might Be. If the Afro-American would take advantage of their present opportunity they could make this street the greatest mart in the world. The present scale of prices for purchaseable property is considered low, or even to rent on long term leases now will be to offset the regret that your parents had after the great fire. There is an opening along State street for every legitimate line of business. Follow the crowd. The crowd is going south. Go south with it. Soon the boundary line will go to 39th street and in time it will extend to 47th street. In plain English, make hay while the sun shines. BALTIMORE MINISTER VILLA'S BROTHER (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1.) the world what a man of my race can do if given a man's chance. He proved his leadership in Mexico and now the whole world knows it. He inherited his fighting blood from his father, and loved to ride a horse, and that's the reason he joined the Tenth cavalry. "After he had served in the Tenth cavalry he saw how his people were humiliated, and no member of his race treated with decency at West Point and Annapolis, he went to Mexico. He was not given a chance here, but Mexico received him with open arms, and now she is proud of him. One of his friends serving in the army was on board a ship sailing from Manila. The ship stopped at Japan. The soldiers (white) went ashore. The captain's wife asked if the fighting Afro-Americans would be allowed to go ashore. 'Why, no,' he said. When the soldiers reached America and after the expiration of their enlistment, they went to Mexico. Villa knew their military ability and strategy. Americans in Mexican Army. Americans in Mexican Army. "Over two hundred joined his army, and many of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry and Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry soon became officers, such as captains, majors and colonels, an honor denied them in the United States. This is the kind of military timber he has in his army." "Has Villa any relatives aside from yourself?" was asked by the Defender representative. "Yes." he said; "there are my children, Howard, Robert, Charlie and Samuel Young, his nephews, and Miss Lena, his niece. All are university graduates, and Howard conducts a drug store at Washington, D. C. He also has a niece by marriage, Mrs. Beatrice Blackwell, 36111% Calumet avenue, Chicago, Ill." The representative was introduced to the relatives, all of whom resembled their uncle. Villa Hides Identity. Mr. Young, now known as Villa, went to Mexico and lost his identity as an Afro-American and made his headway because barbarous Mexico treated him as a man. He stands today the most colossal figure in all Mexico. Only his assurances on Thursday stand between the United States and Mexico is preventing war and great bloodshed, as he alone of all the constitutionalists has recognized the humanity in President Wilson's policy, and is making mediation possible. His loyalty to the American flag, his birth in and love for this country has caused him to use the diplomacy now in evidence in all of his dealings in the present crisis. It was just Thursday of this week that the American press gave him credit for being an Afro-American. Remember Flipper's Treatment. If the truth were known many of the leading and influential men of Mexico and South America are race men and have merely lost their identity. The inhuman treatment of Lieutenant Flipper at West Point caused him to become sick and disgusted with the United States. It was a case of this country not recognizing brain. He left America, and went to Mexico. His mechanical skill was soon recognized. He joined with Huerta. He made a breastwork in a pass in the mountains where 5,000 Mexicans could kill and subdue 500,000 Americans. Anxious to Meet Vardaman. "You may also state that one of my brother's fondest hopes is to meet Senator Vardaman of Mississippi in battle." Thing to Be Settled First THING TO BE SETTLED FIRST. "Your society started out to decide a number of questions of great scientific importance." "Yes. We arranged to consider the manifestation of the psychic impulse in protoplasmic life and the molecular energy developed by the prismatic transmutation of light waves and kindred topics." "And have you done so?" "No. We've only been in session a week. We haven't yet decided the question of who's boss."—Topeka Journal. Didn't Take Kindly to His Don't take Kindly to His Suit. "I has come," a trifle condescendingly began the saddle-hued young idler, "to ax yo' for de han' o' yo' daughtah, sah, and—" "Aw, yo' has, has you?" ominously interrupted Brother Cookett, the honest old white-washer. "Well, sah, I'll dess comprisse wid yo'. Stidder givin' yo' de hand o' muh daughtah, I'll give yo' muh foot—yo' triflin', yallah, no 'count, gee-yah pickin' scoun'rell!"—Kansas City Star. Widespread General Deception. Dancing is largely a matter of self-deception. No man is really as graceful as he feels. Honor and Justice A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice—Landor. "The trouble with the pace that kills," says the Philosopher of Folly, "is that it doesn't kill enough of them." THE CHICAGO DEFENDER Recent Discoveries Seem to Prove That Lower California Was the Site of First Paradise. The skeleton of a pygmy at least two hundred thousand years old, just unearthed near Los Angeles, is expected to send long-established theories of anthropological science crashing into the ash heap with other exploded beliefs, and probably prove that the Garden of Eden was in Lower California. Scientists who have examined the find of Frank S. Daggett, head of the California museum's research department at Exposition park in Los Angeles, see in the bones a cold fact that chatters the heretofore generally accepted "uncontrovertible" dogmats of scientists who have tinkered with the earth's crust in an attempt to solve the riddle of the universe. Professor Daggett has been directing a force of workmen in the La Brea asphalt beds in their labor of digging for extinct animal specimens. The dwarf's skeleton, which is only three feet two inches long, was discovered in an admirable state of perfection within one hundred yards of the fashionable Wilshe boulevard. That a race existed of which modern man knows nothing and which roamed the American continents ages before the earliest date assigned to the most ancient remains dug up by scientists, is the belief of Professor Daggett and his associates after a close study of the pygmy bones and a comparison of them with other famous collections. "I am confident," said Professor Daggett, "that long before man appeared in the countries of the old world a diminutive race thronged the section now occupied by Los Angeles and its environs. There, I believe, was the home of the human race, the Garden of Eden, I might say. "The moment we uncovered the skeleton I was beside myself with joy, because in those bones I saw proof of my theory that the American continent was peopled prior to the time of Adam and the creation as referred to in the Bible. The bones will also shatter the theory that the first people to inhabit this continent came from Asia." Professor Daggett is jealously guarding his remarkable find, believing himself a steward acting in the interests of the whole world of science, so important does he regard his discovery. Very few of his associates know the secret of the skeleton's hiding place, the professor believing it best to keep it hidden until the state can make proper provision for guarding it while on public exhibition. Dickens Souvenir Manager Ben Harmon of the Nell house, Columbus, O., has in his possession an old silver salver in use at the time the English novelist, Charles Dickens, stopped at the Nell house. Tradition has it that the tray was used by employees of the hostelry in serving Dickens. The salver was recently presented to Mr. Harmon by a Columbus lady, whose great-grandfather secured it immediately after the famous Englishman left the hotel. Time and long use had worn the silver edges of the tray to such a degree that it was necessary to apply a generous coat of solder to keep the whole intact. The inscription of the name "Nell House" can still be seen in the bottom of the salver, although worn very faint by its long use. It is one of Mr. Harmon's prized possessions, and occupies a place of honor on his private desk. Hunting Ground for the Author. The hunting ground for the author in search of a title is the Bible. Hall Caline has drawn therefrom "The Woman Thou Gavest Me," "The Prodigial Son," "The Scapegoat"; Miss Marie Cereli went to the same source for "Wormwood" and "Barabas," Miss Braddon for "One Thing Needful" and "Thou Art the Man," Marion Crawford for "Whosoever Shall Offend," Whyte Melville for "Black But Comely," Thomas Hardy for "The Loadeicen," Kipling for "Many Inventions," W. J. Locke for "Where Love Is," William Black for "A Daughter of Heth," William Le Queux for "As We Forgive Them," Walter Besant for "Children of Glideon" and "The Fourth Generation," and so on. The list might be prolonged to fill the window twice over. Plan Tablet to Ancient Wits. It is proposed to erect a tablet in St. Leonard's church, Shoreditch, London, England, to the memory of the Elizabethan actors who are recorded in the parish registers to have been buried there. The list includes the following: Will Somers, Henry VIII'S jester (died 1560); Richard Tarlton, Queen Elizabeth's famous clown and possibly Shakespeare's Yorick (died 1585); James Burbage, the builder of the first English playhouse (died 1597); Richard Burbage, the original impersonator of many of Shakespeare's characters (died 1618-19); Gabriel Spenser, William Sly, Richard Cowley and other actors in the original and early productions of Shakespeare's plays. Remarkable Bee Hive. A beehive of extraordinary dimensions has been removed from the roof of Castlehill, an Ayrshire (Scotland) eighteenth century mansion. The hive has been known to have been on the roof for 50 years. Its accumulated weight was endangering the structure. Myriads of bees were killed to enable the workmen to remove the slates. The honey store was in perfect preservation, and about half a ton was removed. Leason From History. F. Irving Fletcher, at one of the Sphinx club's dinners in New York, began a historical review of advertising with the words: "None understood the value of advertising better than Samson. Samson took two solid columns. The result was that he brought down the house." BREAD IN FORM OF SHEETS Arabian Finds a Couple of Yards Handy in Many Ways, as a Waterproof, for Instance. Instead of baking bread in loaves, the inhabitants of Asla Minor, Arabia, Turkestan and the Tigris-Euphrates valley make it into sheets. These sheets are about 40 inches wide and twice as long, and the natives make almost as much use of them as the American Indian does of birch bark. If they need an awning for protection against sun or rain, they unwind a roll of this bread, and carry it back and forth over a pole several times, much as a camper puts up a dog tent; for if it has a coat of almond oil or mutton tallow, the bread is fairly waterproof. It is a comical sight to see a teamster or camel driver of the Levant travel placidly through a heavy shower with a couple of yards of bread sheeting thrown over his shoulders, and to see him tear off pieces here and there and chew on them if he feels hungry. The bread is made of durum wheat flour mixed with the pulp of sultana raisins, which give it a sweet taste and a slight fragrance like that of honey. The Arab uses his sheets of bread, which look like chamois leather, for a makeshift blanket, and it is said by travelers who have tried it that it keeps the heat in and the cold out almost as well as a real blanket. But some of the Russian engineers at work on the construction of the trans-Siberian railway did even better, for they made a pasta of the bread by boiling several pieces, and then stuck together two strips of the sheeting, each a metre wide by two metres long. Thus they manufactured a sleeping bag, and a very comfortable one, too. The Turkish peasants use this flat bread for window panes, and in the bazaars we venders of merchandise wind up pieces as a grocery does a paper cornucopia, and use them to hold small amounts of nuts, Turkish candies, or squares of sugar. Of course, the purchaser eats the bag with its contents. In the same shape the bread sheeting is used for holding the fruity drinks of the Rosphorus; but it will not stand hot liquors, even when it is coated with almond oil. Thanks to the raisin pulp, the bread is of remarkable elasticity, and can be bent back and forth without cracking. It has actually been used for bookbinding.—Youth's Companion. "Timidity" Led to Red Hat "Timothy Led to Red Hat." Cardinal Kopp, who died recently at Troppau, Silesia, was a telegraph operator on the Hanoverian state railways at the age of 20, and so poorly was he paid that he was often woefully in arrears with his board and lodging. An unexpected bonus of $15 seemed a fortune to him. At the end of a year's apprenticeship he was to have joined the regular staff had not the supervisor of his department. Von Griesbach, made the following, confidential report, which has just been published: "Telegraph Clerk George Kopp has made earnest endeavors to become an efficient operator, but his timid and diffident character ill fits him for the public service. He lacks force, confidence, presence of mind and quickness of decision in grappling with emergencies. "On the other hand, Kopp has shown considerable industry and zeal. He is intellectually somewhat above the average, so that I can confidently recommend him for administrative work. At the same time I suggest that his definite appointment be postponed for another two months." Thus, "damned with faint praise," Kopp never got his appointment at all, and eventually he resigned. Twenty years later, as Prince-lishop of Breslau, he sat at state banquets at the emperor's right hand. Poor View. An Irish widow who lives in a small frame house on the West side in Chicago has a still smaller cottage in the rear of her house that she rents to an aged Irish woman who lives alone and rarely stirs out. Not long ago the landlady was telling the tenant of some things she had seen in the paper and said: "An'them Turks and Bulgarians! They do be havin' a terrible time. 'Twas only yesterday that the Turks grabbed thim by the hair an' pulled thim down the street." "Glory be, that's awful!" exclaimed the tenant. Then she sighed and added: "That's just it, though; you never see anything when you live in the rear."—Saturday Evening Post. Wise Economic Move Throughout the South there are great areas of land where forests of white pine once stood, of which nothing remains but the stumps. There is a great deal of wood in these stumps, and many efforts have been made recently to make use of this material. There is now in operation at Sldell, La., a plant designed to extract the valuable elements from these stumps, and it is said to be the most successful effort of the kind that has ever been made. The tar, creosote, pine oil, turpentine and charcoal made from a ton of stumps have a market valuation of $14.20, recovered at a total cost of $7. The process followed is a combination of both steam and destructive distillation. Countering on Mr. Sawyer. The Rev. Roland D. Sawyer, the Democratic representative from Ware, was appearing before the committee on the judiciary in favor of a bill to improve the morale of the legal profession. He was glad, he said, that an earnest effort was being made to uplift the attorneys and the profession. Then, crossing his hands on his breast, he remarked with true ministerial dignity: "You know when our Lord was on earth he had serious controversies with the lawyers." "I understand. also," interrupted Representative Bowser of Wakefield, "he had considerable trouble with the local clergy." Ingenious Smuggling Trick. The smuggler's ingenuity is inexhaustible, as M. Gernez, a customs inspector at the frontier station of Felignies, France, has recently discovered. He was inspecting a goods train, one of the wagons of which was filled with sacks of potatoes, when his suspicions were aroused, and on taking out some of the supposed tubers he found that they were packets of tobacco cleverly done up in wrappers closely imitating potato skins. Ancient Cult of the Flycatcher. Beelzebub was the fly god of Ekron (referred to in II Kings 1:2, 3, 4 and 10). The great god Baal was sometimes worshiped as the "lord of the fly," as he who drives off the flies. The flies were then and are now man's worst enemies in Palestine and Egypt. We remember well how we had to be continually fighting them off with fans when we were travelling in those lands. The flies settled on the eyes of the children and literally sucked out their eyesight.—Christian Herald. Many Women Workers. Twenty-eight thousand women workers are employed in the mills and factories of Belfast, Ireland. The Bitter Path. It is defeat which educates us—Emerson. Rock Balanced Over Village. A 20-ton balanced rock overhangs the village of Thomary in France. T. PARKER Phone {Douglas 4305 Auto. 73-267 SPECIAL EXPRESS BAGGAGEMAN Moving and Storage—Quick Service. Trunks to and from all depots on transferred to all parts of the city. Coal by bag or ton. Wood and ice on sale. 3302 WABASH AVENUE PHONE DOUGLAS 6150 EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT Spencer C. Dickerson M. D. "SCIENTIFIC REFRACTION" 3601 So. State Street HOURS 112 m. n. p. CHICAGO Office Phones: Res. 5133 So. Wabarb Ave. Oakland 4662. Auto. 73-058 Phone Dresel 8815 Dr. Theo. R. Mozee DENTIST 4709 S. STATE STREET CHICAGO Houra 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 7 P. M. to 9 P. M. Sundays by Appointment CARL L. PUBLIC STEE Letters, circulars, etc. done quickly an OFFICE, 4 to 10 p.m. 3109 SU. STATE ST. Phone AUTO. 71-685 GOOD LET 1133 So. Wabash Ave. Phone Dresel8815 Just call the end and dence and your eyes for the call 323 phone to order, fr Lenses du paired 50c after free f ARL L. COTTO C STENOGR done quickly and neatly at price FOOD LETTERS PA CARL L. COTTON PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Letters, circulars, etc. done quickly and neatly at prices that you'll appreciate OFFICE, 4 to 10 p.m. 3109 SU. STATE ST. Phone AUTO. 71-685 GOOD LETTERS PAY HOME— On Sunday Phone Douglas 1549 Morris Cohen Staple and Fancy C and Fruits receive cuts of Fresh Meat. try our specialty. 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DEARBORN STREET Meals from 15 Cents and up Phone Douglas 883 Helen A. Brown Hair Dressing, Shampooing and Manufacturing Wigs, Transformation Pompadours, Switches, Puffs, etc. Dying, Bleaching, Old Switches Removeted or Dyed. Combings Made up. ALSO OFFICE OF THE Faultless Lace Cleaners Curtains, Fine Lace and Lingerie, Waists, Dresses, Spreads, etc. High Class Work Guaranteed. H. A. BROWN PROPRIETRESS 708 E. 43rd Street NEAR LANGLEY AVE. JOHN H. HARRIS BLACKWELL & GREEN UNDERTAKERS Phone - Normal 7932 Calls promptly answered. Chapel in connection. All work guaranteed. Our prices the lowest. 1210 W. 63rd St., CHICAGO 9,000 Persons in Chicago are Blind HELLO, THIS IS DREXEL 1461 Call this number or drop me a card and I will call at your re-fence and thoroughly examine your car for charges for the call. Day or night. Eye glasses and spectacles made for use from X20 up, guaranteed. Lenses duplicated for frames repaired 500 up. All patients booked after free for 1 year. DR. W. H. 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Change of Address—I please give both the old and new address, and in writing to the paper, always be careful to give both the state and postoffice, as well as name. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1911. NEVER AGAIN. he long and long ago a maid a tender note; simply wanted her to know My life to her I would devote. My heart with love was all a As easily she could denote In every line I told A fact o'er which caused a deal of woe; from my mind was quite remote nought that she would ever show lawyer all the things I wrote. She did—he sued—they took my "- To keep her sinking heart af- We wiser as we older g- Since then no maid has Once in the long and long ago I sent a maid a tender note: I simply wanted her to know My life to her I would devote. My heart with love was all aglow As easily she could denote; In every line I told her so— A fact o'er which I do not gloat. Our parting caused a deal of woe; Though from my mind was quite remote The thought that she would ever show A lawyer all the things I wrote. She did—he sued—they took my "dough" To keep her sinking heart afloat. We wiser as we older grow; Since then no maid has got "my goat." CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME. ANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LIBERAL MINDED PEOPLE OF RTHI. They are ever first in any settlement and uplift of mankind, prov not to be within their borders. There ion in spending time, money and ener avages living in jungle lands thousand ded to enlist American sympathy and AMERICANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE BROADEST AND MOST LIBERAL MINDED PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. They are ever first in any movement that tends for the betterment and uplift of mankind, providing that mankind happens not to be within their borders. There appears to be a wild fascination in spending time, money and energy to enlighten some tribe of savages living in jungle lands thousand of miles away. All that is needed to cultist American sympathy and aid is to give the proposition a foreign flavor. Distance certainly lends enchantment. It is not an uncommon thing to find the entire governmental machinery in motion and the people at large all worked up over the mistreatment or supposed mistreatment received by an American citizen, who happens to be in some foreign land. American honor and pride is at stake, and some reparation must be made for their wounded feelings. The Monroe doctrine makes them assume a parental interest in every country on this side of the waters, and this "big stick" is constantly held before their gaze that they might not forget their powerful neighbor and submit peacefully to the dictates of the great "I ams." The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments guarantee all that is dear to every loyal citizen—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution of the United States from every point of view is a masterpiece and has no equal. Were its precepts followed out and strictly adhere to by the people, Paradise would have less attraction for us than it now has. But, unfortunately, they are not. It appears a difficult lesson to learn that one must keep his own house in order before assisting the other fellow to do likewise. What must civilized countries think when they read of black men and women, citizens of this gloriously free (?) land, being riddled with bullets or burned at the stake because of some imaginary crime committed. And by whom? These same sanctimonious souls who think by contributing a pithec to some foreign mission their conscience can be eased. Only a few days ago 10,000 "under dogs" signed and sent this petition to the powers that be at Washington: "Resolved, That we petition and request Congress to appoint a commission to be composed of three Congressmen, three Senators and six citizens, the majority of the citizens to be colored, to investigate and report to Congress at the earliest convenience their findings as to whether or not previous condition of servitude is being forced upon the colored people, and, if so, that suitable legislation be enacted to correct whatever evils that may exist. Resolved. That we petition Congress to pass no legislation that will in the least transgress the letter and spirit of human rights provided for in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, but that such legislation be enacted as will in the future prohibit Senators and Congressmen, after they have taken the oath of office to defend the constitution and the laws, from engaging in the unconstitutional and undignified efforts in creating in the District of Columbia and in the nation, race dissention, race antagonism, and racial upheavals in society leading to lynchings, mob violence, racial disorder, and the suppression of the laws." Think of American citizens pleading with their own government not for special favors, but for simple justice, and then picture if you can the kind of a civilization we are living in. A race of people mistreated in any CHICAGO DEFENDER other country as the colored race is here would turn to the rankest kind of anarchists. But we are law abiding, peaceful people, believing in the old adage that everything comes to him who waits—actively. So we drift along with the tide, getting a foothold here and there, protesting and stamping out the demon prejudice whenever and wherever we can. And above all we are being cemented together in a way that portends only disaster to our enemies. There is no time to get discouraged or to bemoan our fate. Carry the watchword, "Progress," and all will be well. DEFEND THE FLAG Discussion has been rife among colored people all over the country as to the part they should play in event of war with Mexico. Should they volunteer to fight in this country in view of the abridgment of their rights, and suffering, as they do, almost every injustice at the hands of the dominant race in America? Well, if not volunteer and fight at the country's call, what then? If not patriots in America, where can they be patriots? If this flag is not their flag, what flag? How can justice ever be secured if not constantly working meritoriously to that end. Patience, yes, and time and suffering, but how secure the reward at any less cost? If the Negro imagines his treatment here is much worse than anywhere else in the world, let him travel everywhere and find out that the Anglo-Saxon race is dominant universally in this age, and that the survival of the fittest is a world axiom, not peculiar to America. Certainly he must not sulk in this crisis any more than in piping times of peace. A half loaf is better than no loaf at all, and let him look to his own laurels lest he be shoved further down the scale of human affairs. The best way to secure our rights is to merit them, and the best test of merit is to demonstrate our loyalty to the country in which we live and to which we owe allegiance. A BILL APPROPRIATING $150,000 has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Martin B. Madden to aid the exposition to be held in this city in August, 1915, celebrating the half century anniversary of freedom. The exposition is intended to bring together proofs of the achievements of the race, and from all indications it will be a very creditable affair. Congressman Madden can always be relied upon to do anything in his power that will tend for the betterment of the race. In him we have a powerful, influential friend. In all the years he has been representing this district, peopled to a great extent by Afro-Americans, not once has he faltered or refused to go on record as a champion of the rights of all men regardless of color. And in him we find one instance of a great man being appreciated to the fullest by those in his own home town. Vive Congressman Madden. IN A RECENT EDITION OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE is a splendidly written article by Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, on "What should be done to reduce the death rate among Negro children." He cites that there are two principal causes, intrinsic and extrinsic. First of all to reduce the death rate there must be better educated parents, housing conditions must be improved, mothers must learn to prepare proper artificial feedings, the indiscriminate use of soothing and cough syrups and unnecessary drugs must cease, and last but not least, mothers must not listen to the busybody neighbors' suggestions as to what to do for a sick child. Follow only a reputable physician's advice. These and other timely hints were inculcated in his article, and the readers of The Defender have reason to thank Dr. Williams for the helpful talks on health that are from his pen each week in this paper. NO CLEANER OR BETTER SPORT CAN BE INDULGED IN THAN BASEBALL, and it is little wonder that the "fans" are having hundreds of recruits each season. The great and only "Rube" Foster, with his splendid aggregation of ball players, opened the season last Sunday to a record breaking crowd, after his triumphant tour of the west covering something over 12,000 miles and out of the thirty-two games played winning twenty-six, a record truly to be proud of. The team this year has been strengthened by the addition of four of New York's crack players. This organization is a credit to the city and should have the moral and financial support it deserves. The decorum at the park is all that could be desired, and there is no reason why the entire family should not enjoy the splendid exhibitions. It is a habit well worth forming. BELIEVING THAT A GREAT MANY PEOPLE get into trouble through ignorance of the law, an employee in the municipal court recently had published and distributed a pamphlet setting forth the common things that are punishable by law, such as carrying concealed weapons, expectorating on the sidewalk, slander, etc. He goes on the theory that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and the majority of defenders plead to the judge ignorance. It is certainly a novel way of lessening crime and should be productive of good results. The man that has a general knowledge or rather a little smattering of everything is better fitted for life's battle than the man who knows one thing so well all else is lost sight of. THOUGH THE WATCHDOGS OF THE SOUTH, Senators Vardaman of Mississippi and Smith of South Carolina, opposed vigorously the nomination of Robert H. Terrell as municipal judge for the District of Columbia, the Senate confirmed the nomination. It is about time this august body asserted itself and refused to be led longer by the scum of the Democratic party. Judge Terrell has made an enviable record on the bench as an honest, upright, just, God-fearing man, and his reappointment is but a fitting tribute to his worth and to the people he represents. "We CATER TO WHITE TRADE ONLY" was a sign found in the window of a barber shop run by a colored man. On being questioned as to why he discriminated he replied: "Simply a matter of business. A colored man gets only one shave a week, while a white man gets three a week with a tonic, massage or shampoo." Our people are the best explainers in the world. But can we expect other people to do what we refuse to do? HOWARD DREW, THE SPRINTER, has again covered himself with honors, having traveled 100 yards in 93-5 seconds, equalling the world's record, and promises to lower that by one-fifth of a second in the near future. A great many people have seen the time they would have given a fortune to run half that fast. IT IS TO BE HOPED MAY will be more restful and quiet than April was. It is so inconvenient carrying an overcoat on one arm and an alpaca suit on the other in order to keep up with such freakish weather. PRESIDENT WILSON when he picked up the gun evidently didn't know it was loaded. BUY THE CHICAGO DEFENDER AT ALL "L" STATIONS MEANWHILE TEN MILLION PEOPLE right here at home are crying for protection—American citizens who not only take pride in saluting the flag, but who was willing to fight and even give up their life for it. SPEAKING OF WAR, Colorado is carrying on a medium sized brand of it herself. NOCASES ARE DIAGNOSED AND NO PRESCRIPTIONS GIVEN IN THESE WEEKLY ARTICLES M. The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute has just issued a new leaflet and card filled brimming full of helpful and wholesome information of advice on the prevention of consumption, things that help to make people get consumption, and many important suggestions. Said leaflet and card may be had upon request at the office of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, 10 South La Salle street. I would advise those who have not read it and are interested in the welfare of themselves and neighbors in the community to secure said leaflet and card and pass it along to the neighbor who has not read it. Consumption Curable. The leaflet takes the advanced ground that consumption is curable, and can be cured right here in Chicago; that it is all foolishness and tomyrotor to be taking various consumptive cures and running to Colorado, Arizona and California with the hope of the climate bringing about a cure of your condition. Early Examination. The leaflet states that the earlier the examination is made and the trouble discovered the better are your chances for recovery. It advises you to be examined without delay if you have any of the following symptoms: 1. If there is a gradual loss of weight or being below weight. 2. Being tired all the time; gradual loss of strength; becoming weak. 3. Fever in afternoon or early evening. 4. A lasting cough or a cold. 5. Loss of appetite. 6. Hoarseness, continued or recurring hoarseness. 7. Night sweats when you are not too heavily covered or the room too hot. 8. Coughing up or spitting of blood. Things That Help to Make People Get Consumption. 1. Bad air; tightly closed, stuffy rooms; dirty and dusty living and sleeping rooms. 2. Dirty milk, or milk from cows kept in dirty stables. Milk from tubercular cows. Food uncovered so that dirt and dust gets into it and flies get into it. 3. Not enough sleep. Going to too many late dances. Frequenting overcrowded and poorly ventilated theaters, halls and churches. Use of alcoholic drinks, such as beer and whisky, to an excess. 4. Overwork. Work in crowded and dusty rooms with closed windows. Lack of outdoor exercise and air. 5. Irregular eating. Going to work or to school without breakfast. Insufficient food during the day of quality and quantity. Things to Do to Keep Consumption Away. 1. Get as much fresh air and sunlight as possible. Light is a great killer of germs. 2. Keep your living and sleeping rooms clean and let air and sunlight in. Go outdoors awhile every day. Especially let the children play awhile outdoors every day. 3. Have good nourishing meals at regular times. 4. Practice deep breathing for a few minutes outdoors several times a day. Breathe through your nose and keep your mouth closed. 5. Very Important.—When you move to a new place see that the rooms are thoroughly cleaned. It is best to have the rooms fumigated, if possible, before you move in. Let me insist that you pay much attention to this fifth advice, because there are many people dead today on account of neglecting to see that the house is properly cleaned and fumigated before they move in. The health department will gladly do the fumigating for you if you will properly notify it. 1. Splitting on sidewalks and floors spreads disease, especially consumption. No split, no consumption. If you must spit, spit in a piece of paper and burn it when you get home or near a furnace. 2. When a person is very weak with consumption the hospital or sanitarium is the best place for him. With an advanced consumptive at home the family and friends are greatly in danger of getting the disease, unless he or she is kept in a room entirely separated from the other members of the family, the sputum expectorated in paper napkins and burned in a furnace or coal stove. If the consumptive is clean and careful and the other members of the family are clean and careful the dangers of infection will be greatly minimized. 3. It is not necessary to go to Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona or to the mountains or any far-away place to MAY 2,1914 Department of health notes a marked increase in the number of complaints received against dirty vacant lots, overflowing manure boxes and similar neighborhood nuisances. Such complaints are unmistakable signs of a certain kind of spring fever—the fever for cleanliness. $100 TO $500 DOWN Balance Same as Rent NEWLY DECORATED 2-FLATS and COTTAGES PRICES $1,975 TO $5,750 The following bargains will be OPEN FOR INSPECTION from 2 to 4 p. m. daily. Be sure and see them. 541 E. 36th St., near Vincennes Ave. 2-story brick, newly decorated, 2-flat, stone trim, hardwood floors, cement basement, asphalt street, cement sidewalks; lot 25x150, two street frontages. 3228 Calumet Ave., brown stone front; newly decorated; 2-flat; rooms all light; large brick barn; near 33rd Blvd.; good transportation. 523 E. 36th St., newly decorated, 3-flat; lot 50x150; two street frontages; hardwood floors. This is a decided bargain. See it to-day. For special appointment to see any of our several hundred bargains, 'phone our Mr. Thomas, between 10:30 and 12 A. M. Buy from BARTLETT'S and save commission charges and save money. TITLES ARE ALL QUARANTEED FRED'K H. BARTLETT & CO. Owners CHICAGO'S LARGEST REAL ESTATE OPERATORS MERCHANDISERS OF REAL ESTATE Telephone Room 3751 58-83 W. WASHINGTON ST. --- be cured of consumption. You can be cured right here in Chicago or its vicinity. 4. Medicine dopes do not cure consumption. Do not waste your money in buying so-called "consumption cures." They are frauds and make your condition worse. Fresh Air Club. Join the fresh air club and enlist under the banner of the fresh air club. Learn its creed. Commit it to memory, and live by it as you do the apostles' creed. You might even cut this out and send it to a friend. Creed. 2. I shall try to breathe fresh air. 3. I shall try not to fear "night air." 4. I shall try to keep clean. 5. I shall try to get enough sleep. 6. I shall try to eat plain pure food. 7. I shall try to keep my window open. 8. I shall try to keep my house clean. 9. I shall try not to split. 10. I shall try to play out of doors. Will you accept the above creed and live by it? A button will be given to you by the institute. SOME SIGNS OF SPRING (Press Service, Department of Health.) Robins and bluebirds. Springing grass and budding trees. Tops, marbles, fishing tackle, flower planting and garden making. Open windows, housecleaning, with rakes and hoes in demand for use in dirty back yards. General revival of all outdoor sports and games, such as baseball, tennis, golf and other health-promoting and care-removing pastimes. Notable increase in the demand for fly swatters, with here and there a good housewife urging her husband to get busy with those fly screens for the doors and windows. Planting trees, sowing grass seed, raking lawns, making pansy boxes, filling the outdoor flower boxes, with most people seeking every opportunity to get out of doors. Now and then a boy plays hockey from school. Big movement to raise money for the summer care of Chicago babies. Newspapers, churches, civic and social bodies and the people generally united in the plans to lower Chicago's baby death rate. A mighty good sign, don't you think? Health officials reporting many cases of clean-a-citis throughout the city, and predict it will become epidemic unless prompt measures are taken to check it. The general disposition, however, is to let the disease take its own course. Oddly enough, everybody only wishes it were more catching. If you are a close observer you no doubt have noticed most if not all of these signs in your own neighborhood. In fact the more we have of the things that are indicated by these signs of spring the better off we shall be. Fresh raked lawns, clean back yards, renovated vacant lots, newly made flower beds, and streets and alleys cleaned spick and span are all mighty good signs and are perhaps more noticeable in the spring than at any other time of the year. One reason why they are good signs is that we can make them ourselves. They are signs of good cheer, too, for all who see them. They mean much for community, safety and comfort, and contribute mightily to the beauty and healthfulness of our surroundings. DEFENDER'S LEGAL HELPS 1NSURANCE. To the Readers of the Chicago Defender: We wish to call the attention of our readers to all insurance companies doing business on the weekly premium basis. We have had called to our attention the refusal of such companies to pay the principal sum to the beneficiary upon the death of the person insured, the said refusal being due to some statement made in the application inadvertently at the time the application is made. We are aware of the fact that the agents of the various companies fill in the application blanks, request the person to be insured to sign his name, receive the first premium and inform the insured that he will receive his policy in a few days. After an examination of several application blanks of such companies, which require no certificate of a physician or examination previous to the acceptance of the applicant, we find many statements in the application which are very objectionable and to which we wish to call the attention of our readers. One reads as follows: "I am in sound condition mentally and physically, and have no infirmity, deformity or defect except as here stated." The agent generally writes "No exceptions." Another reads: "I have not been disabled by either accident or illness, nor have I received medical or surgical attention during the last ten years, except as here stated." He writes again "No exceptions." Now, these questions should be well considered before being answered, as they have caused more loss to persons who have been paying their money to insurance companies than any other causes. Therefore we call the attention of our readers to all application blanks for insurance, and warn them not to sign any application blanks without reading all questions many times, and then when the policy arrives look carefully over the same, and should you find anything in the policy objectionable, even the copy of the application which is generally made a part of the policy by reference, then go at once to write the general office, saving a copy of the letter, and have the same corrected or cancel the policy and pay no more premiums. You are also warned to see that all questions are truthfully answered in the application and do not consider anything the agent may say to the contrary, as he has no authority to change the terms as written in any way, and when you sign your name to any written document you are legally held bound to all contained in the written document. DEFENDER LAW DEPARTMENT DEFENDER LAW DEPARTMENT. MAY 1, 1914. From Our Exchanges Our Sentiments, Too. We see from news accounts that Gov. Blease has offered to lead a detachment of South Carolina troops to Mexico. The Commander-In-Chief of the United States armies will lose a splendid opportunity to rid South Carolina and the country of their most dreaded and troublesome pest if he does not accept the offer and send him at once to the front—to the place where a Mexican ball is sure to reach him.—The Pledmont Advocate, Salisbury, N. C. Newspaper Law. The Times at Neosho, Mo., says "Judge James Ellison of the Kansas City Court of Appeals handed down the following decision in the case of O. D. Austin of Bates County Record vs. Burge, other members concurring, and published in 137 S. W. Report, p. 618: "The preparation and publication of a newspaper involves much mental and physical labor, as well as an outlay of money. One who accepts the paper by continuously taking it from the post office receives a benefit and pleasure arising from such labor and expenditures as fully as if he had appropriated any other product of another's labor, and by such act he must be held liable for subscription price."" It is possible to avoid temptation by attending strictly to one's own business.