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ATEST NEWS IF You See It In The Defender It's So From Slave Mrs. Carrie Tisdale. ave Pens to An REV. WM. BECKHAM DIES INDEPENDENCE, TENN Special to The Chicago Defender. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 25—After an illness covering several months Rev. W. Beckham, D. D., of this city, died in Independence, Missouri, was flashed over the wires by Rev. S. W. Bacote, D. D., who was well known to Dr. Beckham. Dr. Beckham was field secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, a position he has held for more than a dozen years. He was born in Zebulon, Pike county, Texas with his parents when quite young. He was ordained as a Baptist minister November 23, 1891, at Albany, Texas, by a presbytery of the First Baptist church of that place, composed of Rev. C. H. Chin, moderator; Rev. H. Maxie, clerk, and Rev. S. W. Bacote. He pastored in Texas for many years which he was a missionary under Rev. R. H. Boyd, who was at the time superintendent of missions of the General Baptist Convention of Texas. Dr. Beckham afterwards succeeded Dr. Boyd, when Dr. Boyd came to Albany. He was later housed in House. After working for several years in Texas, he became field secretary for the Publishing and Home Mission Boards in 1902, working with Dr. Boyd. When the boards were separated last September, the publishing board elected Dr. Beckham as its field secretary, and it was while on the job that he took his fatal illness. The funeral services were held at the First Baptist church of this city. PROF. SPINGARN TO SPEAK AT COLUMBUS, O Local Branch of N. A. A. C. P. Promises to Have Large Audience to Greet Speaker in First Appearance. Columbus, O. Dec. 25. (Special.)—Great arrangements are being made here by the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. for the Spirgin meeting here. The Spirgin's first visit to Columbus, and the local branch intends to make the audience he will address a record-breaking one. The pastors of all the churches here will co-operate with the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. to make the meeting a success. Among those in charge of making the arrangements are Attorney R. B. Barcus, Dr. Woodlin, John H. Bowles, Secretary John Jackson of the Y. M. A. Johnson Rev. Collins pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, Rev. Chandler, pastor of the Second Baptists church, and others. It is probable that the Chamber of Commerce auditorium will be selected for the Olacal's hard, Her strength, oh, must be true and tried, The angered fires to stand. Let Aric's day of trial be The furnace fires glowing free, I steel the forge may lend tried—neither break nor management cus. Dr. Secretary C. A. Dr. tor of St. chieftain lists chieftain able that auditorium NEW YEAR'S ISSUE OF THE DEFENDER New Year's day this year falls on Friday, and that week's issue of the Chicago Defender will go to press on Wednesday, December 30. All matter for publication in that issue must reach this office not later than Tuesday evening, December 29. No attention will be paid to matter received after that time. The office will be closed all day Friday, January 1. closed all --- VOL. IX., NO. 52. THE PORTER AND HIS WORTH TO THE PULLMAN COMPANY THE PORTER AND HIS WORTH TO THE PULLMAN COMPANY The Expert Bed Makers Poorest Paid Laborers—Average Pay Is $1.11 per Day. A Condition Without Parallel, Says Well-Informed Writer. There are few parallels in the history of men and institutions and perhaps none to the Pullman porter. A peculiar institution, American we might say, and the minds of the millions of people who constitute the living public and Kailah with "George," who, by way of familiar title, has become a part of our great transportation problem. What "George" Does. Let us see what "George's" work consisted of in one year: Interstate Commission's Report, 1912 There were 22,915,118 revenue passengers. Car operating revenue, $37,090,411. Porters and maids, 6,229. Equipment in service, 6,101 cars. The average daily wage, $1.11. Total number of car miles, 657, 856,162. The 6229 porters, we might say—because the maids do not constitute more than I per cent of this class of labor—operated 6,101 Pullman cars at a cost of $1.11 per day, and for this service the company's operating revenue of $37,090,411, and the total number of car miles 657,856,162, or average car miles per day, 396. Great Service. Little Pay. Remember this great volume of work has been accomplished without the blare of trumpets and minor mention. We are bringing these facts before you for the purpose of shouts of praise or glory? No. Nor to create an artificial organization; but simply to let the world know the effort of the Afro-American is at least worthy of common notice. Of no other body of man in the world of trade, industry or commerce of the nation is so much required and so little given in return. And man in the world given more consideration, yet none is required to serve the taskmaster with equivalent energy, brain and brawn and with so small return. Tried and True. It be truthfully said of the Afro-American, his shall be the furnace test and let the world hear our song: Bending like the welded steel. MISSION BOARD EALS FOR HELP. Pa. Dec. 25-For the Foreign Mission Mission Baptist Convention to the churches, h meeting services on of the year, to take at destination for their mis- teresting appeal this year toaches of the National tion in all the states. of foodstuffs have of their missionaries are working to do SATURDAY to Art SIX W I Pre grade step. Field Secretary of the National Bap- convention Ends His Work On Earrings --- Chicago Defender WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY SIXTY-YEAR-OLD WOMEN GRADUATE IN HAND PAINTING From the auction block to post graduate of an art school is a long step, but such is the case of Mrs. Car. Mrs. Dianah Dean. These tisdale and Mrs. Dianah Dean. These two noble women have triumphantly won applaud, not only of their own con-science but from their teachers and the public. They have been students; at the Reynolds-Max well painting* class and in June will receive diplomas. Being robbed of an education, days of slavery to secure an education, days of slavery to better their condition by going to night school. This did not satisfy them; they wanted to do more, and they took up the study of painting, doing hand work on china. Today they are doing a grade of work that would challenge the admiration of the most discerning critic. Appointed Matron of Home. It is appalling to think that this same Mrs. Tisdale, 65 years, was born a slave, sold on the auction block at the age of six years from mother and her and was hired out to work for her, being the younger, she worked to support her parents who were brought back to her after the war. She was deprived of an education but in association of good people learned the things that made for a strong and industrious woman. She continued to improve her mentality and while in Louisville, Ky., at an advanced age, was owed a home in Orlando. She was in Southern Illinois she was (Continued on page 7.) BADGERS DRAW COLOR LINE IN PRIZE FIGHTS BADGERS DRAW COLOR LINE IN PRIZE FIGHTS State Boxing Commission Bars Afro-American Fighters When It Refuses Permit for McVey-Langford Battle in Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 25 - Saturday Wisconsin went on record on the color question when the state boxing commission handed down an adverse ruling on the proposed Langford-McVey bout. The commission decided not to grant permission. The cause of the color of the participants. While not casting any reflections on Sam Langford or Sam McVey, the members of the commission stated that there have been so many scandals involving boxers of the Afro-American race that they will keep the state free as possible of any hint of collusion by barring them. This action was taken despite the fact that one of the local boxing clubs had announced that Langford and McVey had been practically signed up for a bout here next month. A year ago when a Kenosha promoter tried to match Langford with Tony Caponi the commission adopted a rule against mixed matches and it has always been among the promoters that the commission terminated on all bouts in which Afro-American boxers appeared. The municipal dancing schools, which are being held all over the city, are just like the city parks, free to all American citizens. The one at Odd Fellows' Hall was for the people in the vicinity, but no particular race. Wherever there is a class attend just as you would go to Lincoln, Washington and Jackson Parks. Don't fail to attend all of them if you want to. Appointed Matron of Home. Forecasted Years Ago CHICAGO, DECEMBER 26, 1914 A MERRY CHRISTMAS Science Fails to Prove Woman White AGED WOMEN STUDY FINE ARTS W. SIDNEY PITTMAN RACE ARCHITECT WINS FAME "Work Student" at Tuskegee Graduates with Honor from Drexel Institute and His Ability Has Stamped Him as Master of Art and Allied Subjects. Young Southerner Does Fine Work All Over the United States—Builds $75,000 Y. M. C. A. in Washington and Remodels Large Hotel in Norfolk. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 25—The leading architect of the race is W. Sidney Pittman of Washington, D. C., who some time ago was awarded a contract by the United States government for the plans of one of its buildings. He oversaw the honor of constructing the Afro-American school at the Jamestown exposition, as well as of several smaller buildings in connective nwth the department. He was later given the contract by the municipal government of the District of Columbia for the erection of the Garfield School building, writes Eliseo Bibb Thompson in the Los Angeles Tribune. Plans Many Schools. It has been his privilege to remodel one of the largest hotel buildings in Norfolk, Va., and to prepare plans for the construction of a $75,000 Y. M. C. A. building in Washington, D. C. In every section of the South may be added a large auditorium with his planning. He has constructed the large trades school known as the Voorhees Industrial School of Denmark, S. C., and the Kentucky state government buildings called the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, one of the most important structures that cost $30,000, one below the other a large auditorium and administration building. The planning and superintending of some of the largest and costliest buildings of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., have been done by this noted architect, as well as Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building the Emery dormitories, Rockefeller Hall and Carnegie Library. Honored Student at Drexel. Mr. Pittman was born in Alabama, of slave parents, about thirty-nine years ago. After attending the public schools of Montgomery and Birmingham he entered Tuskegee Institute as a work student" at the age of 17, when he began his way during the whole of the period of time and paying all his expenses, graduating at length in wheeledweight, structural work, normal training and a three years' course in architectural drawing. Tuskegee Institute, recognizing the ability of his gifted students, means PUBLICITY HELPS BAD CONDITION Jacksonville, Fla., People Believe There Will Be Less Killing By Policemen Since Facts Are Known—Chicago Defender Praised. Special to The Chicago Defender. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 25. The Afro-American citizens of this city believe that the publication of the facts in the cases of the large number of men who have been shot down without just cause by policemen since Oceana publication much good. The publication of these facts only became generally known when the Chicago Defender was circulated here a week ago. To Better Conditions. A well known citizen voiced the sentiment of the better element when he told the correspondent that there would be a change for the better when the thoughtful class of white people are brought face to face with the fact being affected by such unwarranted killings. That they will unquestionably take steps to put an end to the conditions, which are the cause of them, was the hope of every one. Smith and Carter Refused. Bail. Smith and Carter mentioned in the protest made application for bail last week. The Afro-American people opined on granting of their petition and Judge Gorman whom the hearing was held, refused to grant them bail and remanded them for trial February 17. HOWARD P. DREW, PREMIER SPRINTER OF THE WORLD Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 25 (Special)—Howard Drew is now wearing the colors of the U. S. C. on the cin- der paths. He holds the record for the 100-yard dash, jointly, making the fast time of 9:3. In the 220-yard dash the Trojan has made a mark of 21:1. In the last three years Drew has lost only one race, and that to Parker of the Olympic Club in the furlong, who was forced to tie the world's record to defeat Drew. Last fall Drew traveled through out the East and did not meet defeat at any time. In New York, at an indoor track meet, he broke, the record for the 70-yard sprint record. MISS PANKHURST WANTS PHILANTHROPISTS TO HELP COLOR QUESTION. Little or No Discrimination in England or France—Surprised at Ameri- The daily newspapers are authority for the statement that Miss Christabel Pankhurst, England's militant suffragette, was surprised when told that a girl with the slightest trace of Afro-American blood in her veins experienced a hard time in Chicago. Her first knowledge of the injustice of race prejudice came about early this year, and she missed Miss Kate J. Adams, who has chosen Cutter House, a refuge for unfortunate girls at 2113 Catumet avenue. The English visitor's attention was drawn to the stringency of the "color line" in America, when Miss Adams told her that a girl with a slight trace of Afro-American blood found great difficulty in obtaining employment in Chicago, although she was good looking and well educated". Miss Pankhurst said that in England very little discrimination be shown against such a girl, and in France and Italy she suggested Miss Adams found some English philanthropists in the case. The visit was so interesting to Miss Pankhurst she expressed her intention of going there again when she returns to Chicago after the holidays. HON. WALTER FARMER ADDRESSES MEN'S CLUB AT GRACE CHURCH Attorney Walter M. Farner spoke to the Men's Club Sunday afternoon at Grace Presbyterian church. His subject was, "The Darker Races in War and in Peace." The address was aby handled and full of information and embellishments. Mr. S. D. Fowler, a club member, was declared to be one of the host of the club. ' 3e club is growing every Sunday and a number of able speakers are programmed for 1915. Dr. S. C. Dickerson is secretary. RACE UNITY PLEA OF ISAAC FISHER IN FARM PAPER Editor of "Negro Farr ver" Issues a Strong Message to Race for Yuletide—Race Thinkers Differ in Methods Rendering Best Service—Time to Dispel Envy and Jealousy. GET TOGETHER, HIS CRY Writer Says That Methods May Differ, but if the Thought is the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number, They Must All Be Considered for Us. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Dec. 25.—Mr. Isaac Fisher, editor of the Negro Farmer of Tuskegee and one of the best informed men in the race and who has won a number of prizes offered by leading magazines in this country, has issued a strong message to the so-called radical and conservative leaders of the race. Professor Fisher says that "He that is not against us is for us." His message is: "Lay down your arms. Fight no more. Get together. Win your brother if you can, but revile him no more." He says: "Since freedom came we have learned the value of education and are worshippers at its shrine; have learned the power of wealth, the supreme beauty of integrity, and the meaning of true religion. Daily the activities of the most far-searing of the race are being directed toward teaching us to translate the abstract knowledge of these things we have learned into habitual action based on the knowl. (Continued on Page 7.) V, PREMIER SPRINTE HOME EDITION ICE 5 CENTS IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS FORBICN 18 CENTS TMAS man White NE ARTS PRICE 5 CENTS IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS POSITION IN CENTS M. Gaines $1.00 Friday Evening Whist Club .1.00 A Friend .1.00 Progressive Negro League .2.00 Eureka Fine Arts .2.00 Sears-Roebuck Boys .3.15 The Alba Rose Club .1.00 Do Lua Dance Dschool .7.00 Poinsettia Club .2.00 Cow H. Lewis .1.00 M. T. Buley .1.00 W. H. Terrell .1.00 Julius Avendor .1.00 Mrs. Johnson Chambliss .1.00 Samaritan Club .1.00 OUT OF TOWN NEWS. Correspondents failing to find their departments in this issue will] that they did not comply with instructions to have their in reach this office by Tuesday night. TENNESSEE MAN LEAVES COMMON LAW WIFE AND FAMILY $80,000 CASH Col. A. H. Jenkins Forsakes Relatives to the University of Pennsylvania = Leaves Money by WILL. (Special to Chicago Defender.) (Special to Chicago Defender.) Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 25., Col. A. H. Jennings, of Pearl, Shelby County, will hls., entire estate, estimated at about $100,000. Hides and harms seven children. He has been charged for his associates. He was well known but never made any attempt to seek association of those of his race. Nearly fifty years ago he came here from Tippah County, Miss., bringing his brothers and sisters. His brothers were born in Tippah County. He remained with his mother. Fortune prospered them. The farm was extended and a nice home built. Mrs. Jennings died. After his mother died he left his home and went to a small cabin in a far corner of the farm. Mrs. Jennings, he acknowledged in his will that he acknowledged in her will that he father of her children. For more than 20 years he lived in that cabin. Jennings was never on good terms with the remainder of his family, but about two years ago, it is said, when he was in trouble with the courts in what Judge J. P. Young described as one of the worst cases that had ever been tried before him, he came forward with a check for $10,000 scribbled on a piece from him, help his brother save his land from being sold to satisfy a court judgment. HON. W. W. JOHNSON ILL AT ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL Attorney W. W. Johnson, 3305 Forest Avenue, is very ill at St. Luke's Hospital with apoplexy. Drs. Paulson and Stephens are the attending physicians. It is the hope of the legal fraternity and the Masons, of which he is a high member, that the lawyer will be able to be on New Year's Day. MANY KIDDIES AND GROWN UPS MADE HAPPY XMAS Generous Response to Chicago Defender's Appeal for the Needy Sends Comforts and Goodies into Many Destitute Homes. WHOLE FAMILIES AIDED. Several Subscribers Call for Names in Order to Be Real Santa Claus—Many Secure Coal Certificates—Club Women Help. Through the generosity of the subscribers and friends of the Chicago Defender, Christmas Day was a happy off to many people in Chicago, who otherwise would not have had any good cheer on that day. Throughout the day food, clothing and goodies for the children were distributed to needy families through money contributed to the Defender's Christmas fund. All week and up to the time of going to press contributions continued to come in. Generous Response to Appeal Never before in the history of the newspaper to aid the observing poor has there been such a generous and prompt response to the appeal for the needy. Early in the effort contributed to the receipt. These made up two boxes, a bundle, which were turned over to Miss Stubbs, the social worker at Provident Hospital, to be distributed to the poor children of the district Thursday, when over 200 little ones were provided with comforts and sweets. To Aid Entire Families. Other manifestations of the Christmas spirit were several callers at the office who desired the names of the needy, either individuals or families, to be called in to their their wants in person. Others, mostly club women, took the published list of those in need of aid, visited them or sent their friends. In some cases it was reported that there was an error in the names of the needy and a second visit was required. Great Demand for Coal. That there was dire want in this city, especially on the South Side, was demonstrated in the demand for free coal certificates. Immediately following the announcements that they would build a new office, there have been many men and women who have braved the wintry blasts, and oftimes walking several blocks to secure a certificate. To the members of the Volunteer Fire Department, the credit for rounding up the largest number in need of this necessity. No Publication of Names Acknowledgment of the moneys received have been made in these columns from week to week, and the total up to press time follows this article. Next week a full report of the work will be made except that there will be no publication of the names of those assisted unless they are interested. The interested can have the names, addresses and full details of everyone reached by the Defender's Christmas fund by a call at the office. Permanent Aid Bureau. Beginning with the New Year, the Defender will inaugurate a *permanent aid bureau* in charge of a comp- ent worker, and all those respon- sible to our Christmas appeal will have an opportunity to continue their good work throughout the entire year. Subscription List. AWO. THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. S MY BLOOD BLACK OR WHITE ASKS MRS. A. LITTLE OF DETROIT White Husband of Erstwhile Society Leader Says She Has Afro-American Blood in Her Veins She Declares She Is White—Doctors Don't Know What She Is. FRANTIC WOMAN APPEALS TO U. OF M. PROFESSOR IN VAIN Learned Men Unable to Prove Her White Woman—Puzzle of Ages to Be Determined by America's Greatest Scientists, Huddlicka, Grant and Boas. --- (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 25. — Science stood againt with a little velvet-clad, golden-haired woman who Thursday walked from school to school, from gray-bearded professor to haid doctor, from gold-haired professor to haid doctor, where cauldrons bubbled, past glass-enclosed instruments, Into musty libraries, past rooms where patients groaned under the knife, into museums where grinning skulls mock her, and at last with only a record of failure behind her she walked with bowed shoulders of museums of the University of Michigan. She had come with a question to science. "Am I a white woman or a black?" Science said: "We cannot tell you." The hundreds of acquaintances and friends of Mrs. Arthur Little of 1609 Johnston School shocked when it was made known that her husband was to file a supplementary bill to his cross bill of divorce, setting forth that the bride of a year was of African descent, the daughter of an octoonor of Cincinnati. Stunned by Blow Mrs. Little was stunned by the blow, but swiftly rallied and began a fight to prove the claim to white blood and white blood only. While the police and county officials and newspapers of Denver are busy seeking records of her birth and her adoption into the family, the Cincinnati woman who has acted as Mrs. Little's foster mother since she was six weeks old, Mrs. Little determined to appeal to science, hoping that by tests of blood and skull formation or by some strange alchemy of her skin, she could ensure that no black blood moved in her veins, or that the golden hair, gray eyes, pink and white complexion belonged to other than the purest caucasian. With this in mind she journeyed to Ann Arbor to seek among the various hospitals to give her positive assurance of this fact. Dr. Victor Vaughan, dean of the school of medicine, was the first man approached. One of the highest authorities in the country and familiar with every atom and crop of God's heals that go to make up the body, he could only shake his head. "Medicine can do nothing," he said. "Every outward manifestation shows that you are pure white, and yet I would not dare make alludit to such a statement." Around him rose tieres of burned skin, strange fire burned beneath cauldron, the fire was sweet with chemicals, thousands of books were at his hand, a score of physicians about his office. He waved his hand to indicate them. "All of that is without the power to answer your question," he said. Every Test Fails. Professor B. Case in the museum, a man who knows the human bones. Without Exception. Every normal girl passes through a period when she waits for her name were Celeste or something of the kind. Columbus Journal. Mules in the United States Mules in the United States. Of the 7,500,000 mules that are estimated in the world, more than half are in the United States. Church, Tithes There is no sum voted for the Church of England in the annual Budget of Great Britain. The church derives most of her income from the government, and the church by her children, who could not give the whole, but willed a portion of their property or income to her for over. The government perished in the three times, which gave effect to the wills bequeathing them. Satisfying Circle Constraint Never pass by or palter with the clear voice of conscience, with the plain command of duty; never let it be doubtful to your own soul whether you are a true soldier or a false tritor. Never delibrate about what is clearly wrong, and try to persecute that it is not—Fredrick Temple. Sallors' Paradise "Fiddler's Green" is the Elysium of the sailors; a hand flowing with rum and lime juice; a place of perpetual music, mall dancing and tobacco. "Klondike's Products." The products of the Klondike are shipped almost entirely to this country. The company is having an export duty of 2/3 per cent. The Ruling Thought "Can any child here give me a reason why closer relations between Jews and Gentiles should be encouraged?" So asked a settlement teacher of the late school which has a hoped to work wonders. "Please, ma'am, it would be better for business" volunteered a little Jewish girl in the front row. **Ungkissing Suggestion.** "Writing much verse now" asked critic. "Not much," returned the "Only enough to keep the wolf" "Why, do you read it to himself?" asked the critic—New American. as maybe no other man in the state knows them, was next. He also shook his head. "Biology, zoology, chemistry, geology, the microscope, the most advanced instrument, bone and skin and blood that we have at our command cannot answer your question. I will give you the names of three men, one at the Smithsonian Museum, one at the University and one at the American Museum of Natural History at New York. These three men have at their command certain delicate instruments and have made a life study of racial character and have asked your questions. I am not certain." The woman went on to other schools, to the schools of medicine, to the college of chemistry, to the library, where she was directed to authors on the subject, to the sub-professors and doctors. One by one they shook their heads. They looked at her hair and touched its texture; they opened her mouth and looked at the roof of her mouth; spoke her words; she inspected her spleen; inspected her nails for the purple trace that is said to last to the last drop of African blood. Every simple test gave the same answer, "white," and yet all of science as it is is inspected. Michigan refused to give affirmative that the Little woman was white. Scientists to Solve Puzzle. As each man shook his head and directed her to another, Mrs. Little fought back the tears and repeated again and again, "Some one must be all these great buildings for, all these thousands of books and it seems men with their big glasses and who looks if they can't answer my single question. I know to my heart it's satisfies the truth that I want to science prove to the world that I am what I claim." Below her Mrs. Little left a little argument. Professors squabbled with one another and rushed away to consult authorities. And out of all the same, three men, a thousand miles away, idle were able to answer her, and they only after an examination so delicate and so minute that to the layman it would be incomprehensible. The second and the third of Daniel Boone, Kentucky pioneer, and in her trunk are photographs of her grandparents and bits of jewelry handed down from generation to generation, and these will be the need arise. Mrs. Little is now making arrangements, should she be unable to prove by birth records or witnesses that knew her parents in Denver her white blood, to journey to the eastern cities and to ask of America's greatest scientist, Dickie, George Grant and Franz Boss, the question, "Am I white or black?" Immunity of Children Professor Armbruster asserts that the reason very young children are relatively immune to infectious diseases is that they are more rapidly than those of older persons that the blood flows swiftly through the arteries; and this swiftness of flow makes it difficult for them to gain a foothold in the blood stream. Most Ancient of Customs The mind of man does not run back to the time when there was no dancing. Ever since the morning stars danced together for joy there have been dances grave and gay in celebration of all the happenings in the life of man. So interwoven with love, war and religion are the movements of the body that the dance has been an integral part of the history, art and literature in which are preserved the records of all generations. two forms of Lapor. There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed; there is another which has no such effect. The former, which produces a value, may be called labor, and the other unproductive, labor.—Adam Smith. When Correct Were Discarded When Coffees Were Discarded. Twin in their history have corns been discarded or rendered negligible. In the century, when whalebone corns were used in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, as if surfaced of such fashion; adopted a new standard of beauty. Full forms and rounded buns called for no artificial support, and the style of gowns was so altered as to meet this change. Free List Unknown There Some people will be surprised when they get to heaven to find that the free list is absolutely suspended during this engagement. Diet of Ancient Athletes The athletes of ancient Greece trained on new cheese, dried figs, grain, milk and warm water. Optimistic Thought We are only vulnerable through our own pretensions. Reward of industry. Our idea of a nice man is an industrious and well paid young fellow thirty four years of age who manifest the shame and disgrace of bachelorhood and marries a widow with five children—Houston Post. --- THAT YUMA FELLOW BY ESTHER LEARLE DOBYNS. "There isn't a man or a horse in the country that I can't tame," boasted old Squire Haines. "Hosses, yes, squire, we admit that," said Rancher Joe, "but you don't know how to shoot him. You just saw shoot up the town, Iztu, is mild compared to some of them. He did no harm. When he does, why—" and the drawing speaker touched the butt of a revolver at his hip pocket significantly "we plug 'em." I know your way of action when you get ready to drop on a man, but this Yuma fellow terrorizes the women and children with his wild ways and talk, and gives a bad name to the town. On well, he comes down here only once, but then him his sure, gets rid of his exuberant spirits and takes care not to be so outrageous that the sherif nabs him. "I could cure him—make him gentle as a lamp," declared the squire. "It'd be a work of choreography." He dispatched Joe. "Once a Yuma always a Yuma." "Bet you a hundred dollars!" challenged Haines. "I reckon you've forgotten that I've been a second Rarey with horses." You were a crockercatcher at that back in our home town." "And when they elected me justice of the peace, didn't I about reform the town?" "I give you that credit," assented Joe, "although some of the criminals let up on played you to a finish. Yum, Yum! With a nugging devil inside of em. You can't reach em. squire. Don't try." "Do you take my bet?" persisted Haines. Joe looked speculative. He viewed his little friend with intense study. Finally he drew a roll of bills from his pocket." "Done," he announced definitely, "provided—" Honest, artless Joe began to blush and stammer. Finally he blurted out: "That sister of yours—Hermie. You know I was spooney on a car, squire, ten years since back her. Now she comes West with you o.a. your visiting trip to old friends, and she's the same blooming rose. I've a tlimid, modest man, squire, and know I ain't half good enough for her, but I'm better and richer the. I was when I proposed to her in the old days and got turned down. Sure you haven't any objection to me as a brother-in-law, squire?" "Me," I should say not, Joe!" "Then let the bet go this way: If you lose you are to sort of take my part and bring the proposal up to Hermia in a delicate way. Sort of break the ice—see?" pressed Joe anxiously. "Why, I'll do it anyway, Joe!" cried the squire heartily. "All right. The bet goes on that basis." Haines fancied he was a great reader of human nature. At heart he was the most human soul ever lived. He had the touch of a persuasive kindness as to the treatment of his patients, and criminal. He had, in fact, done great philanthropic good in his time. Animals loved him, and he was really a wonderful horse trainer. He had used some unfortunate on a new and beautiful horse, and staying for a week at the little Oklahoma border town, he had noted the wayward Yuma, ltzu, and had resolved to reform" him. He had to send word to ltzu, down at the Yuma reservation, that he wished to buy some of the pretty shellwork of the native women. It was two days later when a long-hued, bronze-lead man came to his door. He was ltzu, and so he was accepted by the town in general. This Yuma, however, did not at once make for the settlement saloons, where he should have been beaten known. Mild, smiling, clear-eyed, and well-behaved, he somewhat established Halines. He bought a whole cartoon of shell and beaded stuff, which the squire purchased at a good figure. Then he invited itzu to stay with him for a wrestler. "I want you as a guest," he managed to make the native understand. "You are a fine, sensible specimen of humanity, and I want to reform you from wasting your time in drink." "No drink. Glad to stay," declared the Yuma, and the town marveled. Never were the crescentmass Yuma visited the hotel once. The stammered, genial and sober, enjoyed the goodly fare he was awarded free of charge. "Well, I've lost my bet," acknowledged Rancher Joe, coming to the hotel one day, where Halnes and his protege were. "him. he chucked the squire." "Never saw or heard anything like it," said Joe, "why—staring at the docile Yuma—he's gaste as a kitten." "Kindness—my system, see?" exulted the Yuma. "About Hermina, Joe—I've spoken to her." "You have." "Yes, and—suppose you drop in on us this evening?" "Nothing!" interrupted the squire, peremptorily. "I don't guarantee anything, nor do I know her mind. I do know, though, that she's delighted to see her old rockess, harum-scarum of man of principle and ambition. She's gagging on the shady side of girlhood, so. "Say, I'll be here, don't worry!" spoke Joe, all a dutter, "Reckon I'll square up on that bet now." Joe took out his pocketbook. He proceeded to select some bank bills. A sharp, sudden sound from the street disturbed his attention. "What's he calledled. "Ha! "waculated the Yuna. They all rushed to the window. Bang! bang! a piercing series of blood-curdling yells, a flying human terror mounted on a metted mustang—iztu brooke on a rampage, and shooting up the town! "I devastated Tartar, and then at the bland, power counterfelt iztu. Haines stared, agape. "I yum!" gassed the equire, breathless, "Cured" suckered Joe, catching "Bruder--my bruder, Iztu." explained Orvu, artlessly, pointing after the vanishing human cyclone on horseback. "A put-up job!" muttered the squirrel. "I think not," dearrived Joe. "The peaceful one... on me in peaceful mission. They must be twins, and you accepted him as it izu. He fell easily into the situation. Don't blame him." "Say—I'll double the amount I love you'll keep quiet at home about my wounds." "At home? Why, I'm not going to write to your home town about this little circumstance, good joke that it is." "No, but you may blab when you get there." "Get there? Why, who's going back with you?" "I think you are, if you mind your p's and q's with Hermin," grinned the squire, and he poked Joe in the rib. "You hit it right!" fairly radiated Joe that evening, after a delightful hour in Hermina's company, and returning the poke in the rib with interest. "And I'm the happiest man in Oklahoma—or out of it, either!" (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Thoughtful: Husband He was walking along the street with a new snow showel on his shoulder when he met an acquaintance who asked, "Oh, Mr. Baron, you can't be looking for snow this week?" "No sir, not this week," was the reply. "Nor yet this month?" "No, not hardly." "I should say it would be two months before you would have need of that showup." "But about two months." "But you got it it a bargain, per-haps." "No, sir, no bargain. In fact I paid ten cents extra to get it so far ahead of time. "So give my wife time in which to get used to the sight of it, there won't be any sudden shock when she comes to use it!" MANY BACHELORS IN BRITAIN Newspaper Points Out That There Is Plenty of Material For the "New Army." England is the land of bachelors, so there is plenty of material for the "new army" without any of the married men. Indeed, we could safely exempt not only the married but the betrothed and still raise an army of 500,000 men, as assuming, as we surely may, that only one man in two between 500,000 men is physically ill. One works out in this way: In England and Wales alone there are 4,250,000 men between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, and over 2,250,000 of them are bachelors. To give the round figures, to give the square figures, there are 1,275,000 married men; from twenty-five to thirty there are 760,000 bachelors to 750,000 married men (half and half), and from thirty to thirty-five there are 375,000 bachelors to 1,000,000 married men. This gives us our all recruitable ages in England and Wales alone. It remains to show that there are a million bachelors who are not engaged to be married (or rather who are certain not to marry, for the num- ber of men who are not married must be larger). Between twenty and fifty-five, naturally, most men are bachelors; to be exact, five out of six are unmarried. Between the ages of twenty-five and thirty one man in two is between thirty and thirty-five one man in three. Between thirty-five and forty one man in five is a bachelor, between forty and forty-five one in seven, and between forty-five and fifty one in eight. Men who are still unmarried between thirty and forty are pretty confirmed bachelors, so one may take it that one fifth of the total male population has no intention or expectation of marrying, and they are pretty confirmed the said bachelors. Assuming them to be physically fit, that gives them to be physically fit, that gives them to be 400,000 men. The remaining 100, 000 could be thrown in by Scotland and Ireland, representing the propor- tion of their population to that of England and Wales. - Manchester Guardian. The Latest Amusement Down in New Milford, which is in Connecticut, a new form of amusement has been discovered. Of course it may not appeal to all of us—but that is to be expected, you know. Not only that, but any one of half a dozen other diversions that might be mentioned, do we? The new game which is to put New Milford on the map with Petrograd, Cenestochaso, Preemysal and the other prominent places, is this: Catch a kettle and pour it into a store window alongside a can of corn containing 1,000 or more kernels. Stave the rooster for 24 hours. Then register your guess as to how many kernels it will eat at a meal and upkeep the game is said to be highly盈利 the game is said to be patting. It contains an element of cruelty, to be sure. This is held by some to add zest to the game. By others it is said to arouse indignation and digust. What the rooster thinks of it is not known. Some of us are easily amused, that's a fact—Detroit Free Press. Flowera Soothe the Nerves. Flowers act as a food and rest to the weary brain in the same manner that food allays hunger. In the daily routine of every woman's life her brain rests; sleep alone does not satisfy, and to fill this want there is nothing that will quite equal a few moments gazing at a pretty bouquet of bright-colored flowers or the inhalation of a fragrant scent. The mind of many a slick person has been diverted from their disease by the presence of a brightly-colored bouquet or some sweet-smelling scent; their brain being started on a new channel of thought that radially leads to recovery—Christian Science Monitor. Self-Control. One valuable way of practicing self-control is in checking grumbling, and an unnecessary display of vexation at petty inconveniences. A workman has fulfilled his task imperfectly, some order is wrongly executed, some one keeps you waiting unreasonably, people do not understand what they have in hand body. Try not to be disturbed, be just, and show the persons to blame where they are wrong, even (if it be needful) make them do the thing over again properly; but refrain from diffuse or vehement expressions of displeasure. A naturally quick, impetuous person will habitify a great help to calm an extent habit is a great help to calm the inward even spirit he needs—H. L. Sidney Lear. Clubs $ ^{n,d} $ Societies Weekly Gossip from the Social, Religious, Fraternal and Other Organizations THE PEERLESS CLUB PRESIDENT BERRLEE CLUB The President selected the officers for the ensuing year Tuesday. The president, Dr. Robert Greenell, the devoted activist and patriot Greenlee, president; M. Todd, vice president; Mr. Robert Lay, treasurer; caused that Robert to re-elect them to the same offices. ALBA ROSE CLUB The "Alba Rose" Social Club met on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1914, at the residence of Mrs. Rose Social Club, on the street. Giving to the fact that the year was the 100th anniversary of the great importance along business lines, the club responded to the request of the Chicago Rose Social Club, to show our appreciation towards the invitation of the O. E. Rose Social Club, will show our appreciation given to the Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1914, given by them Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1914. 6314 Dearborn street. After the social meeting, every evening enjoyed by everyone, every voice of enjoyment extended to Mr. Edward Joseph, for his dedication to the virtue of good host. We wish as he proved a very good host. We wish a Christmas and a Happy New Year. ROSAY SOCIAL CLUB. The Roary Social Club met at the residence of Mrs. Rose Social Club, on the street, Friday, December 18. The semi-annual election of officers was held and Mr. B. Shively, vice president; Mrs. B. Shively, secretary; Mrs. J. Shively, treasurer. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTER. Sunday December 27th at 4 p. m. Mr. W. H. A. Moore will speak on "American Negro Life and the Arts." Mr. Theodore Bryant, tenor, will give several numbers. The first supper social of the season was held last Friday evening with an attendance of about 30. Among those present were Judge Brown and daughter, Mrs. Wilmarth, Miss Wyatt, Miss Wertherlim, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Lynn, Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Hall, Dr. A. W. Williams, Mr. Stark, Mr. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Packard, Mr. Barnett presided over the discussion on "The Recent Action of the American Bar Association, the Wilson-Trotter Episode," and other topics of the day. Judge Brown opened the discussion. Mr. Beare gave several selections from Paul Lawrence Dunbar. At the last meeting of the Center Woman's Club it was decided to solicit clothing from our interested friends to meet the rapidly growing demands which are crowding upon us during the cold season. NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE Next Sunday afternoon, December 27th, 1986, was the first of the Christmas. Mr. L. J. B. Lowery, of a more در the little Equity engine, will address the members of the league at the reading room, 3305 State street. The Negro Fellowship is the first of the first day afternoon. It is the only Sunday in the year its meetings are suspended. This does not for the purpose of attending in a body of the same type. As a result, the Bethel Literary Society. The new school of the school is the growing literary efforts of our young students have developed more general information about the Negro among our people than any other one thing that has been seen in the past. It is the proud boast of the league years. It is the proud boast of the league that has taken part, the public has unanimously awarded the prize to its contestant. ALPHA SUFFRAGE CLUB The匹克Uffrago will hold its last meeting in the year, Wednesday evening, December 30th, at the club rooms, 3005 State street, at 8 o'clock, at the same time, the school will be held at different precincts, also on the municipal dance, which will have been held at the following day. All the night before, All women will be interested in the game. All women are also an alzemanic campaign are urged to become members of the mother's school. All the time the people are in the process of principle of politics, but to unite their strength for their own advancement. This club is the only one which has been able to do with any of the interests of its members, so far. As its membership grows it will be able to do more. The Acme Club, an exclusive literary and social organization, met Friday December 10, 2014, at Cornell Charity Club, 10 E. 36th place. The club crowned until the second Friday in January. CORNELL CHARITY CLUB. 18 at the residence of Mrs. Anna Clark. 18 at the residence of Mrs. Ann Clark. The election of officers and planning for the Christmas baskets to be given to the baskets to a family of from 4 to 15 members. The baskets to take this opportunity to thank the public for their raffle, which made it possible for us to give these Christmas baskets. Much more joy will be felt for Jones for her earnest efforts to raise much regret we received her reasons for much regret we accepted her reasons for much regret we accepted her reasons for much day Cornell will be the guest of the evening on the doorstep. Installation of officers. K. D. TILLMAN CLUB On Tuesday, Dec. 16, the K. D. Tillman Club met at the residence of Mrs. Ellen Mathews, 6134 Ada street. Although the attendance was small, owing to the extreme cold, yet a great deal of business was transacted. The Club joined in with the U. Christian Endeavorers and sent ten Christmas boxes to Oak Forest. THE YOUNG MATRON'S CULTURE CLUB. The Young Matrons met at the residence of Mrs. Foster, 3242 Vernon Avenue. After the regular business an enjoyable program was rendered. The prize winner this week was Mrs. Ethel Cleaves. The election of officers will be held the first Thursday in January. The series of whist parties have begun. Club convenes sharply at 2:30 p.m. JOLLY TWENTY The Jolly Twenty Club met Friday at Harrison, 1726 Nelson street. All the members, Harrison, 1726 Nelson street. all the business of the year after which a most successful year came. The Club played good fellow to the Club bred an innate of a home in St. Peters, bred an innate of a home in St. Peters, J. M. Craig was among the visitors. MATRIMONY CLUB THE PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE. The Progressive Negro League held an enthusiastic meeting at its headquarters, 30th St., on the 1st of March 1884. The occasion was known as "Old Folk's Day" and Mr. Charles A. Turner, chairman of the programme committee, had worked up a splendid programme for the first time, with a great deal of his work. The present and especially those who took part on the programme. The president and the entire executive body who were present, were highly支持的. The first one for the year. The chairman of the programme committee invited all who were present to return on the first Sunday in January to the "New Year's Day" conference, which "Bannner Programme" of the League. He asserted that never in the history of the League was there a programme like the one which has been proposed in the new year. Encouraging reports were read before the League and a letter was presented by Mr. T. Bailey, chairman of the League. The Committee was, at that time, had been received from Mayor Harrison, acknowledging the list of names of the members of the Public Service Commission and associated members, and which had been filed in his office and were taken up and applied to Special cases of charity. EUREKA FINE ART CLUB. The meeting of the Eureka Fine Art Club planned for Christmas eve afternoon, has been postponed until New Year's eve afternoon, the 31st. CHICAGO TUSKEGEE CLUB NOTES. The college will begin its regular meeting Sunday afternoon. Dec. 27, 1:30 p.m., at 3:15 p.m. will deliver an address on the Psychology Interest and it is suggested that as many students as possible will be sent to hear the same. Among other features on the program will be an instructor her brother Master Phillip Jones, and a graduate by Mr. Walter Buchanan, a graduate of the Agricultural and Mechanical College University. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, who has also attended the course in the Nurse Training Department of the Tuskegee Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania, Veterinary Department, the Armour Facking Company's plant, will be held in January. The Club anticlerical by the Hon. Geo. W. Ellis on Negro history from the medieval to the modern L C. B. A. CLUR. Branch 67 of the L C. B. A. Club, No. 1, met at the residence of Mrs. Cochran, 3032 Dearborn street, Saturday evening, Dec. 19. After business was transacted, the ladies indulged in whist and dancing. Deleous refreshments were served. Next meeting will be at the residence of Mrs. D. It. Hickey, 3553 Rhodes avenue. THE CLOTEE SCOTT SETTLEMENT. The Neighborhood Club held its regular meeting Monday evening. After all business a pleasant social hour was spent. Mrs. Milton Sudds is president and Mrs. Molly Land is secretary. The Neighborhood Club held a community social Tuesday evening, Dec. 22. The Select Dancing Class will meet Thursday evening, Dec. 31, at 8 o'clock. A nice program is being prepared and the Settlement Christmas tree will be lit up. All that evening, New Year's eve, Mrs. Ronson, standing teacher will admit only those who are especially invited or who are members of some other club, of which there are several. The Young Men's Glee Club will meet every Wednesday evening at 8 and Sunday at 7 o'clock. Embroidery and Crochet Club meets every Thursday at 3 p.m. The Salesman Choir is going to join the Flesible Sewling Club at 3 p.m. at the Settlement Thursday at 33. Tuesday at 8 p.m. Girls' Glee Club will meet at 9 o'clock. Children's Club meeting every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. ARBOR VITAIR CLUB N.Y.C. TEACH CLUB The Arbor Way Club has a regular bi-monthly Meeting. Dec. 18, at 10 a.m., at the Arbor Way avenue. All spent an afternoon at FOUNSETTA ENBROIDERY CLUB. FOUNSETTA Embroidery Club met Monday, at 10 a.m., at Mamlo Granberry, 3615 Forest avenue. EXTRAVAGANT LIVING If money were as easy to make as it is to spend what a delightful world this would be to live in, but unfortunately this condition does not exist. The teacher does not realise it until it is too late. The money is when you are making it, for invariably there will come that promised rainy day when you will be in Chicago. The Chicagoans have learned the lesson. They are denounced by the number of homes owned by them, and yet it is all practically of recent origin. Fifteen or twenty years ago the colored people there in the city, but they are them by the hundreds, and all of this came about through the easy system of payments, and yet it is to be wondered why so many continue to pay the rent, and not be applied on a home. It is much better to take time by the forelock and start today and be a home owner. The firm of Fred's H. Bartlett & Co. have a plan whereby you can make your own money and earn their ad on the last page of this issue. Ready Excuse: Stanley had contracted the habit of using bad language, and his mother was conducting an earnest campaign against this fault. "Stanley," she re-emphasized, "must mind making a misdirection follow a misdirected blow with the hammer, "what have I told you about awering?" "I want swearing," the boy defended himself. "Truly, wizard man," he said. I was, "O Lord! and that isn't a swear; it prayer! The sword says it in church." **Unpleasant Perspiration?** Armpits-Fest-Body Folds **Ocure** Bedroom Toilet Water - Does not need repression Correct All Ode Absolutely Dress Drastics - Department Store "SAVOLA" "FIXES THAT BAD SKIN" MILD BLEACH FACE CREAM An Ideal Preparation for Pimples, Liver Infections and Improvements Interactions of the Skin. Makes the Complexion Bright, Soft, Beautiful If you want to be readied for Your Beauty use "SAVOLA" AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE SAVOLA MFG. CO. 29 East 55th St., Chicago, Ill. 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"You used to say you depended on the wisdom of the plain people." "Yes." "You people play a trick on you and neglect to send you to congress," "That doesn't destroy my faith in their wisdom. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest man." -Washington Star. Dozen Work of Many Men At the Church of the Sacred Heart in Paris a 20-ton bell is toled by a Choir boy does the work which formerly required the services of five men. Perspiration During Sleep Under normal conditions human beings perspire about twice as much when asleep as when awake. Victim of a Painless Ache An. East side couple, accompanied by their fouryear-old marvel, started for a motion picture show the other night. On the way the little boy said: "Oh, mamma, I've got a tummy ache." Mother then suggested that they should return home at once, without seeing the movie. The little fellow thought better of it. "My tummy aches," he amended, "but it doesn't hurt."—Kansas City Star. 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This presents a wonderful opportunity to the softest Brush Price $1.00. Photo Autotic 2201 Manufactured by CAPELINE RADDRIZZATOR CHEM. CO. W. M. O'NEALL, Distributor 5104 So. State St. Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Cronow takes its name, legendary Slavic chieftain, said to be the founder of the attained importance in the Ages as the seat of a bishopric center of commerce and trade. In days there was a consider index of duties and obligations who ultimately identified themselves with destiny of the Poles. Left the City Man Thinking. A city man once had occasion to visit a farmer on business; and remained for dinner. The piece de resistance was literally a very tough chicken. Those at table, including the farmer's two young sons, struggled unsuccessfully to make some imitation. When their respective helpings, when Sam helped brother "Tom," he said softly, "I wish old Dick hadn't aided. Don't you." Natural Ice Mine I in the Alleghenies, just beyond Condersport, Pa. there is a cave a few feet below the surface which is a natural ice maze, the ceiling walls and floor being covered with ice perpetually. Curiously, during summer the keeper dunk in winter. The origin of this ice maze is mystery to scientists. AJOR R. R. JACKSON GIVEN BANQUET IN CASTLE HALL Re-Elected Member of the 49th General Assembly Honored by Pythians and Friends—Sepakers Vie with Each Other in Praising City's Noted Law Maker. JACKSON THE LEADER. Louis B. Anderson Tells Witty Story That Causes Convulsions of Laughter—Editor S. B. Turner Tells of His Proposed Work as a Lawmaker. Major General R. K. Jackson of the Uniform Rank, K. of P. of the World, soldier, citizen, statesman and orator, was banqueted Tuesday night by the Majors' staff at the Pythian Hall, 52nd and State streets. It was an event that was chosen by election to the 60th General Assembly of Illinois from the Second Senatorial District. Nearly a hundred of Chicago's most distinguished men were present, and with glowing speeches praised him as a leader, the like of many of his peers from the country. Captain Clint Hull was tasted master and Biggles one, of the comrades responsible for the feast. While the guests were served with a five-course menu, Rome's famous orchestra played patriotic music and the comrades of the Major were seated at a T-shaped table, with the "fighting Major" at the head, he was surrounded by such well known characters as Col. John R. Marshall, a life-long friend; Adj. Louis B. Anderson, his pal; gen. Lawrence, State representative S. B. Turne' and others. At the conclusion of the service Toastmaster Hill called upon a number who were announced to speak. Each responded intelligently, witty and humorously, and all had the highest praise for the Major, designating him as one of nature's noblemen. Major Jackson responded feelingly. He took for his subject "Comrades." He said: "I see friends right and left. It is a sublime thing to be cherished MAJOR B. B. JACKSON. and honored as you have done me tonight, and I will carry the memory of it to my grave. Every one here is my comrade. When my boys told me they were pleased pleased me more. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. These men have been loyal to me. They can be depended upon, and if they say they are with you, they will be true. They looked over the table and spoke his intimate acquaintance with them and of their loyalty and friendship. He praised the Knights of Pythias and thanked one and all for the honor and said he would give a good acclimatization to his life, and not only the race but the citizens of Chicago would feel proud of him as their representative. Every man arose and cheered him as he hurriedly left to take a train at 1 o'clock for Springfield. Those who were honoured delivered very fine addresses were: Cot. John R. Marshall, Attorney and Captain Louis B. Anderson, Dr. E. S. Johnson, Dr. E. S. Johnson, Dr. O. car De Priest, Ion. S. B. Turang, Major Allen A. Wesley, M. D.; Attorney Louis Johnson, Washington, D. C.; Attorney Louis Johnson, Washington, D. C.; Nelson, R. S., Abbott, C. B. Lewis. Officers. Gen. C. L. Hill, Staff Major, General; Gen. G. Geo. Terrell, Staff Major General; Col. Harry Hill, Staff Major General; Gen. J. M. Lawrence, Brigade Commander; Gen. J. M. Powell, State Adelcamp Brigade Staff; Col. H. Hibgs, Colonel First Regiment U. R. K. P; Capt. Chas. Seals, Adjutant First Regiment U. R. K. P; Major G. Van Lukes, No. 4 C. P; Major S. W. Jones, Major First Battalion Lieut. Col. Chas, Hunter, First Regiment U. R. K. P; Capt. E. Van Lukes, No. 4 C.; Capt. Geo. Smith, Regimental Q. M.; Capt. Jas. Snow, Colonel Co. No. 7; Capt. Samuel Amos, Captain Co. No. 5; Capt. Robert Elliot, Capt. Comp. No. 12; Capt. Edd. Rush, Captain Cavailry Co. B. Billis, Lieut. Henry Hayes, Lieut. Wm. Heywood, Lieut. W. E. Wright, Lieut. John White, Lieut. Samuel Alston, Lieut. N. Hardin, Capt. Lean- burgh, Lieut. H. Duncan, Capt. George Lefridge, Lieut. L. Davis The musicians were: Joe Taylor, banjo, mandolin; Harry Wynn, cello; R. A. oBone, mandolin, and C. A. Bryant, guitar. Scared the Scare Through a moving day accident little Tim had been left all day in a locked and lonely house. "Weren't you scared?" he was asked, when his absence from the ruined family had come and found the scared to flee. "Didn't it frighten you to stay there so long all alone?" "I was awful scared at first," was Tim's naive confession, "but this afternoon I was just sort o' sleepy. I guess I got so scared this morning that it scared the scared right out of my bones!" Forget Yesterday's Causes. How active springs the mind that leaves the load of yesterday behind—Pope. MT. CARMEL, C. M. E. CHURCH. The services were fairly well attended public at 11 a.m. m. Sunday School at 2 p.m. m. Key West, H. R. Harker, D. P. E. worth League had a large attendance. worth League had a large attendance. services each Sunday evening and you serve each Sunday evening and you serve each Sunday evening and you serve each Sunday evening and you address the league. Sunrise prayer meeting Christmas morning. Christmas meeting Christmas morning. Christmas meeting the pope are to be remembered by the pope. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH Christmas week has been one of full delight and enjoyment to the members of the church and Sunday of the Institutional Church. Mrs. A. J. Carey, the tireless wife of the pastor of the church, who is bending every effort for the uplift and improvement of the young people of the church and Sunday School and for the relief of the aged and distressed, distributed a large number of baskets filled with Xmas dinners for the poor, and saw that the children of the Sunday School were bountifully supplied with beautiful presents, luscious fruits and sweetest candles. The distribution took place on Wednesday night, and in it Mrs. Carey was ably assisted by Mesdames C. L. Burgess, U. S. Dinglespeel, Tessie Smith, Sarah Lough, B. V. Poindexter, E. H. Jiles and all the officers and teachers of the Sunday School. Ethanate preparations are being made watch meeting night and New Year's day, A young woman who was miraculously healed last Saturday evening after three doctors had said she could not live till morning. She said she could tell the story of how she was healed. The Allen Christian Endenovers of Chicago will hold a union service from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., led by Mr. K. B. Glover, chairman of the Association of Special Seniors, will be preached by the pastor and the Holy Churchill celebrated. Tomorrow morning the pastor will preach, “A Sermon in Retrospect,” appropriate for the dying year. In the evening, the pastor will be present. The General Seniors will hear from visitors who cordially welcomed at all our services, where they will hear good music, strong sermons and be greeted by polite ushers and a congenial conversation. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Shen's Club took charge of the evening service last Sunday. Lawyer Walton M. Farmer was the speaker for the occasion. His subject was “The Darker Races in War and Peace.” Special music was rendered for the church yesterday. The Shen's讲座 for the church were held last Sunday morning. Mr. David Mitchell sang a solo. The Christmas tree and entertainment will be given Christmas night. The regular Christmas program by the Sunday school will be given yesterday. Sunday during the Sunday school hour. The total for the Rally at present is $432.60. Mr. Winthrop led the prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. On the subject of the speech, the foreman of persons: Mrs. Shelton, Mr. Tandy, 5146 Federal court; Miss May Turner, 3334 State street; Mrs. Eunice K. Wright, Mrs. J. D. Smith, 6044 Ada Street. The meeting was held at the same time. The invited during the holidays. Mr. A. G. Williams is still sick. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon the first "I'lessant Sunday Afternoon" will be held at Bethel Church. The idea is borrowed from London, England, where it has been seen since 1880. The day is the 1st of January 1880, and the music to be rendered at this service will be of the highest order and Prof. James A. Mundy has spared no pains in training the choir for the occasion. I.Y.O.S. The organ was built in 1870, and is still with pipe oran numbers. The following is a part of the program to be rendered: Anthem, "The Lord Is My Light" (Henry Millen), choir anthem, "The Lord is the Lord," (John A. Sung) to God's (Gound) choir, anthem, O, (a) Introduction and Fuguetta (Bach), (b) Larrzo Xerxes (Handel), (c) March Fantelle Townes (M. Morrill), (d) The Lord is the Lord, (e) Miss Lilliam Nelson, (f) the solo, Mr. Opal, Cooper; xorano solo, "Cantalque de Noel" (Adolphe Adams), Mrs. T. A. Smythe; a violin solo, a reading and an address, "The Christmas sermon and special music will be rendered also. A week from tomorrow the quarterly meeting will be held, to which all are cordially invited. II.O.F.E. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The congregation of this church enjoyed the soul-stirring sermon by the pastor upon the theme. "Move the Stone That Stops the Blessing." It was pre-mature, and the church was full of person joined the church. The Christmas service will be held on Sunday, when the pastor will deliver a special sermon on "Universal Peace." The Sabbath school will be held on Sunday, on the 1st of January 1880. There will be watch night services Thursday night. The public is specially invited to all the services. WALTERS A. M. E. ZION CHUHCL Good meetings were the feature of last Sunday. Five persons were received into the church and eight received the ordinance of baptism during the day. In the afternoon the pastor and a large number of the members visited the new St. Martin's Church, at 12.00 p.m. on Monday, at 435 State Street, Rev. D. Barr, pastor. It was the occasion of the first quarterly meeting of the new church and was a great success. The pastor preached a sermon on "The Newness" in an appreciative audience at 11 o'clock Christmas morning. In the evening the Sunday school held its exercises. The children had an enjoyable time. A commendable program was resided in the church, and the church was re-erected. The music was excellent and all the children enjoyed it. The services on Sunday will be as usual. Dr. Callis will preach morning and evening. Rev. R. L. Darde, pastor of one of the Baptist churches on the west side, is expected to be invited to the service. The regular watch meeting service will be held on Thursday evening at 9 o'clock. The week of prayer will begin with the 3 o'clock service on January 3 and continue every evening during the week. The pastor will be present in these services by the Gospel Choir. The funeral of Mr. John S. Jackson, who died suddenly Thursday, Dec. 17, took place at his late residence. 421 East 37th Street, on Monday morning. Dr. Callis will be present in the service. Dr. J. E. Barnes of London, England, late of Monroyn, Liberia, who has been spending some time in our city, left for New York on Friday. The Missionaries were entertained very ebulatively by Mrs. Lalu B. Mowbray at her residence, 3145 Wabash Avenue, on Dec. 19. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Christmas service, at the church was interesting and profitable. The color rejuvenates. Miss Murrell Kiley sang at the morning evening service. Quite a few members of the church are on the sick list—Mr. S. J. Mann, Mrs. Franke Pohle has gone to Lansing. The church will hold a conference at $ 8 a.m. Mrs. Franke Pohle and Mrs. old-fashioned love fest. The pastor and officers have presided the first Sunday in the new year, and the service will be a service for the old year and the pastor will presch at the morning and evening services for the old year. The "Force and Power of Prayer." The "Force and Power of Prayer." The will teach steps in the way thou shou'lt step, and subjects will be discussed in preparation for the new year and in contemplation. SUNRISE FREE RIGHTS CHURCH Sunrise Free Rights Church hold its regular services as usual. prayer meeting at $ p.m. prayer meeting at $ p.m. prayer meeting at $ p.m. prayer meeting at $ p.m. community, every second Sunday, Origin of Automobiles The word automobile comes from two words; one Greek and the other Latin. The two words are auto and mobile. The former is derived from the Greek auto, meaning self, and the latter from the Latin mobius, adverb, movable. This is originally derived from the Latin movit, motus, meaning to move. We are unable to say who first suggested the name for self-propelled vehicles. Brought Home A party of tourists were going through a small town, having the time of their lives, laughing and joking. One of them thought she would have some fun, and called to a little girl stand quietly in front of the town. "To which the little girl answered, "Only the one you people are making."-Minnesota Minneaha. So Low You Can Only Feel I CLEVELAND LETTER SPARKS FROM -ATLANTA. Bv C. H. Gler. DULUTH, MINN. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 25—The members of the Book Club Dramatic Class scored a hit in presenting a player in one act, "Making Sister," at St. Mark's A. M. E. church, Friday evening, before an audience of 200 people. Ms. Eugene Watts directed the play and starred in *The Greer of 617 5th Ave.*, East, entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Reba Doctor, who left Friday morning for Cleveland, Ohio, to spend Christmas week with her parents. The other guests were Miss Cassie Hazel, Miss Blanch Black, Miss Zenie Taylor, Miss Amelle Colby, Miss Elnora Rodney, Miss Mary Bryd, Miss Margurteau Williams, Miss Macoelle Williams, Eugene Wanda, Miss Evelyn Wanda, Earl Smith, Newdome, Floodon and Eugene Watt, Jr. *J.* *M.* Waters of 728 6th Ave. East* entertained at a surprise party Monday evening in honor of her son, Eugene Watts, the eccentric and evergreen were the stars of the cards formed the amusements for the evening. Transparent Paper. To, chemically cause paper to become transparent, use the following materials: two ounces, absolute alcohol, 15 ounces, and ether, one ounce. The solution is made at first after the paper is dried, and then, in a distilled, which is the one to save and use. SAVED BY - AN - INSPIRATION Presence of Mind of French Soldier Saved His Life When Situation Seemed Hopeful. In Napoleon's campaign in Russia one of his generals, Philippe de Segur, had a peculiar adventure with a band of Kalmucks. The Kalmucks are wander- ing tribes of southeastern Russia. They are fierce warriors, and their capacity for battle could be a part of Russian armies. De Segur's pres- ence of mind saved him from being killed by them when the most despe- rate fighting could not have done so. Russians and Kalmucks would Russians and put to fight, when Segur suddenly discovered that he and a few French dragons had become separated from the French army and retrieved away with the retreating party. He and his men were surrounded by a band of Kalmucks. The situation seemed so hopeless that the men gave orders, passively allowed them "seem" to be struck down. De Segur determined to sell his life deeply and continued to fight. A Kalmuck lance struck him, and he fell to his feet and, getting behind his horse, continued the struggle. It was a hopeless contest, however, and in a few moments he would have been killed had not a happy thought occurred to him. The Kalmuck leader, a fine-looking Cossack, remained calm while his men were carried away with the fury of battle. The expression on his haughty face was one of shock and to murder a vanquished foe, and from time to time he called, "Nikal; Nikal!" Do Segur guessed that this was an accident. He shot impersonately to the Kalmucks that surrounded him, "Nikal!" Immediately the fury died out of their faces and they paused, motionless with astonishment. Their fury Sagur's life was saved by their child. He learned afterward that the word meant "Do not strike," and that while the impetuous Kalmucke had not been punished, he and they were puzzled and disturbed at hearing this word from one whom they supposed to be an enemy. De Segur was kept a prisoner until a man named Russia and Russia were arranged some months later. Accial Scouts During the present war, the aeroplane has proved very useful in scouting; indeed, the heavier-than-air machine is generally admitted to be superior to the airship for spouting out water, but the aeroplane is less conspicuous; it is faster; it makes a smaller target; it costs almost nothing to make in comparison with a dirigible balloon, and it can fly at a higher attitude. Sir John Kinnock is a high value to the aeroplane scout reports on the campaign in France. "One of the features of the campaign on our side has been the success of the Royal Flying corps. In regard to the collection of information, it is important that we are able to our aviators for the way they have carried out their duties, or to overestimate the value of the intelligence collected, more especially during the recent advances." For the 20 days of the war, the English aviators averaged nine noises a day of over a hundred miles each. "Youth's Companion." Coyote Invades a Home Coyotes have been committing many depredations in Crock county, according to a letter from Mrs. Fannie Morss, of Brond. One night the family of a dog unknowingly unintroduced unusual noise upstairs. Mrs. Knox went into the yard and could see a coyote tearing and blitting at the window of the upstairs room in an effort to get out. Mr. Knox shot the animal. An investigation showed that it had got into the bedroom a window downstairs, the tracks being plain on the bed. The animal went through several rooms, and the officers from Mrs. Morss says that there have been many reports of raid coyotes in that section, and that few go out after night without being well armed—Cottage Grove (Oreg). Dispatch to the Portland Oregonian. Whole Town Mourns Tiger Cat Brandon, WL, was for a time mourning the loss of one of its best-known and accomplished inhabitants, Baby, a tiger cat owned by Eds. Midge A. tiger cat owned by Eds. Midge A. the advanced age of sixteen years. He had a high chair, the same which was used by his master 70 years ago, into which he climbed at meal times and partook of his food from the window sill, enjoying the sushi and the sashimi of raw meat and fish, and to this his long life was attributed. He wished at the time of his death 14 pounds. When he wished to go from one room to another he would hang to the handle with one paw, and with the other with the other he would habitually stop, look and listen—for automobiles or dogs. The Gallant Gordong Riding, roaring, rushing like the lide, sings the poet of the Gordon Highlanders, who have suffered severely in the fighting in France. To the credit of the regiment stand the capture of the poet of the Gordon Highlanders of 1897, and the rush through the sheet of lead which helped to sweep the Roers off the ridge of Elandlaanje in 1899. In the desperate 28-degree wind of the winter, laying low January when the fate of Ladysmith hung in the balance, the Gordons had their full share of the fighting under the stalwart Miller-Walnut, and the men of the Gordon Highlanders viking killing, says Sir A.C. Conan Doyle. Another Wagon Hill on a small scale there was toward the end of the war, when at Reltz they put up a magnificent terrible punishment about 500 Boers. SPECIAL NOTICE. I wish to announce that the Wilson Parkors can be rented for social gath- erings, dances, club meetings and entertainments. Beautiful appointments, electric light and modern con- variances. Rates reasonable. Nicely appointed rooms for rent. Mrs. Hear- son. Wilshire. 3533 Wabash avenue Tol. Douglas 6918. Let Your Earnings Be Honest. Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.—Healed. WITH THE WOLVERINES WITH THE WOLVERINES Events of a Week in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo - The Latest News by Our Special Correspondents. Benton Harbor, Mich. Benton Harbor, Mich. Diec. 25—The services Sunday at the Second Baptist Church could have been better attended, but those who did turn out enjoyed them. Mr. and Mrs. King of the evening service, Mr. and Mrs. Woods an active part in fixing the church for the Christmas tree. The Christmas exercises will be held Thursday night. Bass of California and Mrs. Del Rancho will spend the holidays with their sister, Mrs. Val P. Mitchel, 302 Empire avenue. * * * Mrs. Alia Ellis and James Busche and family are yet unattainable. * * * Mrs. Min Woods has returned home from South Bend, Ind. UNION CITY, TENN. By Cassie L. Towlkes Union City, Tenn., Dec. 25.—The Y. M. C. A. and Y., W. C. A. are having excellent meetings every Sunday. Every one should enjoy these meetings as they are a great benefit to the race. . . . A debate was held last Monday night at the public school building. Subject: "Resolved, That the elder brother was a greater sinner than the prodigal son." Rev. R. A. Kirk, D. D., affirmative; Rev. A. M. Bishop, D. D., negative. The judges were Rev. Wm. Towlkes, Rev. Dangerfield Moore, Mrs. Washington. . . . Rev. R. A. Kirk was removed by the recent conference to another field of labor. We are very sorry indeed to give Rev. Kirk up as he has done good work here. . . . Mrs. Mattie Cross was the charming hostess to the Y. W. E. club, Friday afternoon. . . . Rev. Wm. Towlkes spent Saturday and Sunday in Dyer, Tenn. . . . Mr. Aurth Nash of Cairo, Ill., is in town. TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE. Special to the Chicago Defender, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Dec. 25— The annual Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held at Tuskegee Institute and will be held at 10 o'clock, 20, 1915. In addition to the meeting in the institute chapel an agricultural parade, to start from Milbank bank building at 10 o'clock, will feature possible hikes of agriculture as carried on by the Tuskegee Institute, the national government. A series of contracts will indicate the agriculture of the past with the present. A beginning in this direction was made last year, but the parade for 1915 intends to be more thoroughly instructed to include many not included in last year's parade. The conference program has been arranged with special reference to assisting the Negro farmers to get in a good position to operate with the agencies which are working to improve farming and financial conditions in the South. The morning session of the conference will be held at 11 o'clock, in the chapel, and the subject decided upon the Present Hard Times. A cordial invitation is extended farmers throughout the South, and those interested in their progress, presidents and principals of colleges, universities and industrial schools being conducted in the interest of Negro students, and take part in the discussion of the important subjects menlioned above. Deaths of the Week (From Records Department of Health.) George Armstrong, 48 years, 1503 Clark street; Dec. 17. John Adkins, 50 years, 3231 Vernon Avenue; Dec. 13. John Blocker, 37 years, 4402 Dearborn Avenue; Dec. 18. Joseph Benjamin, 60 years, 3333 Forest Avenue; Dec. 14. Edward Conkling, 49 years, 808 Wells Street; Dec. 18. Mary Canady, 55 years, 5636 Grove Avenue; Dec. 18. Anna Gott, 33 years, 4916 State Street; Dec. 15. John Jackson, 39 years, 424 East 37th Street; Dec. 17. Charles Neil, 22 years, 1714 Dearborn Avenue; Dec. 22. Lenora Rout, 1 year, 5057 Federal Avenue; Dec. 19. Martha Snowden, 58 years, 5140 Federal Avenue; Dec. 18. Hattie Thompson, 39 years, 616 South Leavitt Street; Dec. 13. Joseph Walker, 40 years, 1825 Federal Avenue; Dec. 15. Rena Ward, 68 years, 2535 Federal Avenue; Nov. 25. Thomas Ward, 71 years, 6137 Wabash Avenue; Dec. 15. A Card of Thanks We wish to thank our friends for their kindness, sympathy and beautiful doral offerings during the illness of our colleague Dr. Roberta R. Williams, the doctors and nurses at Provident Hospital. R. LOTTE R. WILLIAMS, REBECCA R. WILLIAMS. IN MEMORIAM. In loving remembrance of our be loved cousin, Elizabeth Webb, who departed this life one year ago, Decem 24, 1913. Her cousins, SOLDIERS, ATTENTION! This is not a call to arms, but one for assistance. Sergeant Frank Martin served 19 years in the army and four days after his discharge he lost his left arm. He was a member of the Army's Company U. S. Infantry. He was wounded in the right leg at San Juan Hill. He has applied for a pension, but as yet has received none, and therefore asks assistance. He is now raising funds to enable him to pursue his career as an ex-soldier willing to assist him can do through Mr. Emmett Donnelly, 703 Federal Building, Chicago, IL. A' Ban Bishop J. S. Flipper, in an address in Atlanta, gave a shrewd rap to the worldly habits which descrive the modern Sabbath. "In the millennium," said Bishop Flipper, "all the churches will be crowded to the doors; for the millennium, people will get surfaced million, people will get surfaced at last, with golf and motorizing and turn gratefully to the church for a change." XMAS CASH Easy money is hard to locate, but it is easy to borrow from us. If you are keeping house and want extra money to make the Holidays all they should be, just call on us. Privacy, easy terms and courtesy assured. BAKER & COMPANY 105 W. Monroe St. S. W. Cor. Clark St. Room 501 Fifth Floor Telephone Randolph 3208 GUESS WHO DEPARTMENT The little doll is who began to gap in church last Sunday? R. L. is she. The doll is who was seen with a mole? What was the comment passed on it, O. C.? The dude is who has been missed by the ladies during his illness? H. R. is the chap. The newlywed is who couldn't get out with the bunch last Sunday because his wife wouldn't let him? Too bad, M. S. The doll of 41st and State street is who has joined the P. D. C. club? H. C. is the fair miss. What it takes to stay away from C. T. W. and Walsh Jane, E. T. B. has got it. The are who were seen in the States S. T. B. The dolls are who are going to the keen. The dolls are who are going to the keen. E. B. H. W. J. I. and R. K. are they. The doll is who wore a certain dude's coat. LODGE DIRECTORY. Complete list of secretaries, residence Lady Biddy Circle Clerk, No. 199, C. O. F.- Lady Biddy Circle Clerk, No. 199, C. O. F. financial secretary, Tel Oakland 4455 financial secretary, Tel Oakland 4455 Birmingham, 318 W. N. Ave., recording secretary, Rose of Sharon Lodge, I. O. G. S. & Rose of Sharon Lodge, I. O. G. S. recording secretary, Tel Aut. 412 UNCLAIMED LETTERS. Mr. Percival Smith. Dieavowed the Gorset In the nineteenth century, directly following the French revolution, when men lived and dreamed in terms of freemen, women expressed their desire for an unarmedened existence by disavowing their corpse and adopting the long, easy lines of the empire gown. The fashion of the 19th century, style of the gown, and here, again, concessions were made to the figure, which rendered stays unnecessary. Daily Thought. It is only the reward that can receive much reward from men's praise; the old, when they are great, get too far ahead, and when they are careful what you think of them—Rusk. Deductive Reasoning "Mamma, what's a bookworm?" asked small Eloise. "A person who loves to collect and study books, dear," was the reply. A few days later woman called whose fingers were decorated with innumerable rings. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed Eloise, "look at Mrs. Smith's rings! She must be a ringworm." MERRY XMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR You who have an intelligent appreciation of Yuletide, know that this season brings, to old and young, happy thoughts of the hearth, loved ones, and home. You should make a firm resolve to be at your own fireside, in a home of your own, next season. $200.00 down will start you on a home. Why pay rent? We have a number of bargains in cottages, houses, 2 flat, 3 flat and 6 flat buildings. We send good-will to those we serve, to those who serve us, and to the expect to serve, believing that friendly-business is the best business. Anderson & Terrell Real Estate Brokers Renting - Loans - Insurance 3512 South State Street "Home of Real Estate Bargains." Telephone Douglas 208, Amto. 78-864. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT 3523 WABASH AVE. - MOST MODERN house on Wabash Ave.; rented house on Wabash Ave.; electric light, gas bath, hot and cold water; furnished titally furnished rooms; near car line and L station. 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Phone Mrs. Haytt. 6,12,18,26 3252 CALUMET AVE. — ONE OR TWO large, light and airy rooms, unfurnished, only two in kitchen; steam heat and all other modern conveniences; near car line. If You Want the Best Rooms With the Best Families in the Best Locities, See M. W. PONDER. 3256 Calumet Avenue, Phone Doug. 7016 TO RENT-TWO TO EIGHT APARTMENTS. FLATS FOR RENT. PIVE-ROOM FLAT, $884 VERNON AVE. 988, all modern improvements: stove heat. Apply $896 Vernon ave. south of 1. near 40th and Grand bivd. 212 Lincoln State Bank UNDER STATE 3105-07 South CHICAGO Douglas CAPITAL, $200,000.00 A COLLEEN GAME 14 months plus 2 weeks NICKELS CENTS 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. BUY THE CHICAGO DEPEND HOME COOKING, 3408 FOREST AV phone Douglas 1779—If you are look for real home cooking give us a trial, will find it just like home. Breaks 6:30-1:30 a. m.; dinner, 11 a. m. to 5 p.y. Nearly furnished rooms also. R. Henry. Jan. 30, 1 LOST AND FOUND. I WILL PAY A LIBERAL REWARD the young girl carrying a bright yell handbag who got on the Evanston Jackson Park L train between 39th and 31st streets, December 18, between 3 a. 3:30 p. m., and sat in the seat with me she has my large mink muff and will turn it to me or to any one who can do any information concerning it or whereabouts. I left it on the seat next to the window of the cast side of the train when I got off at Madison and Waesh avenue. The muff is a that one can taking seven skins in width, rather dark brown and has heads on the left end and falls at the right and center. Brown sawn lining, Keepsake, Mrs. Todd, 6158 Ingle side Ave., phone Midway 6145. ANGRY MOOSE CHARGES AUTO Giant Animal Becomes Enraged by the Glaring Searchlights on a Big Touring Machine. Fort Fairfield, Mr. -Mr. and Mrs. George S. Orbone of Linestong, and Mrs. Frank O. Orbone of this town, who were returning from Waterville by automobile, were attacked by a dog named Danforthe other night. The animal was attracted by the glare of the headlights, and made a savage rush for the car. It was only by the dog that Danforthe power on all the power suddenly that Mr. Orbone managed to avoid the carving forest giant. Mr. Orbone and the two women had walked through central Maine from Waterville, approached in the evening the headlights were turned on. They were driving at a moderate rate of speed through the thick wood near Danforthe crash sound in the bushes beside the road. Looking up, they saw the towering, shaggy form of a bull moose, who was caraged by the strong lights, which were full upon him. He stood for an instant, and then launched forward toward the front of the automobile, where the lights were shining. Realizing their danger, Mr. Osborne turned on all the power the car had in reserve. It responded, and the machine grazed the charging cable, speeding for an instant, Mr. Osborne shot the car through the woods road and out then into the open. GIRL ROUTS THREE TRAMPS Whips One, Rescues Baby, Scared Other Two Away and Doesn't Fall. Lafayette, Ind.-Hazel Lincoln, eighteen years old, battled with three tramps at the home of her father, James Lincoln, eight miles south of the city. The parents were away and the girl was left to care for a baby sister. Three tramps appeared at the door and asked for food. When told there was no food they demanded money. When she refused one of them asked to kill it. James Lincoln the girl he would trumped tried to take the baby, fro him. He ran into the yard and the girl followed him. Her cries for help frightened away the other two tramps and she finally escaped from the baby away from the third. Sheriff and posses capture two of the tramps. IS KILLED BY GOOD NEWS Father Runs to Tell His Daughter of Inheritance and Drops Dead. New York—Daniel F. Hawley of Tribs, Rockland county, overloaded by receipt of news that he had inherited legacy, dropped dead in the home of his brother, Bertram M. Wagner, in Leedsville. When he received a letter explaining that in his will his brother, Ralph I. Hawley, was dead, 400 estate, Hawley imparted the name to his grandson, Frederick Gardner, and started to run up the stairs to tell Mr. Wagner. When he reached the stairs exhausted he fell dead from the stairs old. He was six-twenty years old. The Price We Pay There is no sadder sight than the direct striving after the unconditioned in this thoroughly conditioned world. - Goethe. JEHEL A.M.E. CHURCH CROWDED AT PRIZE CONTEST ethusiastic Assemblage Spends Sunday Afternoon Listening to Bright Young Folk Advance Ideas on the Best Solution of the Race Problem in the United States. RIZES DIAMOND RINGS Irene McCoy-Gaines and Carey B. Lewis Declared Winners By Judges—Essays Interspersed With Excellent Musical Numbers. A large and enthusiastic crowd filled panel A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon, after the fifth annual essay contest under the auspices of the Bethel Literary club. This year participation was only to winners in previous contests and the interest was intense as to who would be the victors in this test of literary top-notchers. The program announced five contestants, Miss Leonora T. Curtis, Mrs. Irene McCoy-Gaines, Frank W. Henry, Joseph A. Marshall and Carey B. Lewis, also aatherine Wilmington, previously advertised as a contest, being prevented from participation by illness. Co-Operation is Solution. The afternoon as a whole was a delightful one. The subject for discussion was sufficiently deep to tax the best efforts of even more noted men and women than those who took part, although they were winners in contests where the subject was equalized, although the winners, however, grasped one ultimate thought—co-operation. Five earnest young people went many of their elders one better and were united in the belief that co-operation on the part of the race, the blending of effort to secure every political, educational and social role, was the only solution of the race problem in the United States of America. Five Splendid Essays. In leading up to this thought the assemblage of the most profound logic and the results of careful research in five of the best papers over read before any literary society in Chicago. No essayists ever pleased an audience as did Miss Curtis and Mrs. McCoy-Gaines. Aside from their charming personalities, their mastery of the subject and almost faultless delivery, there was something very pleasing in the fact that they solidum had to refer to their manuscript. Their effort brought forth great applause. Each of the male participants confined themselves to the reading of their papers, except Mr. Henry, who concluded his paper from memory. There was no attempt at oratory, but Mr. Marshall and Mr. Lewis frequently gesticulated in emphasizing a point. The selection of the winners was the work of five judges scattered through the audience. They were Major John R. Lynch, Major R. R. Jackson, Attorney Albert B. George, Dr. Brown and Mr. Eaukner. At the conclusion of the essays they required to an ante room to make their decision. During their absence Mr. J. Lochem explained that the papers as well been judged as to composition and knowledge of the subject and the only work of the judges at that time was to consider the delivery. He further explained that to offset the criticism of favoritism that attended previous contests the papers, all typed written, were handed to the two women before only designated by the publishers and that the authors were unknown to them. An average of 100 had been selected divided as follows: 50 for knowledge of the subject, 30 for composition and 20 for delivery. The Judges Return. The judges then returned. Major John R. Lynch was selected as spokesman and he announced the winners as Mrs. Irene McCov-Gaines with an A. H. Cary B. Lewis, Winner of Contest Essay Prize, Dec. 20, 1914, Essay Prize 1912, and presented with Gold Foundation Pen by Bethel Literature 1913. Cary B. Lewis, Winner of Contest Essay Prize, Dec. 20, 1914, Essay Prize 1912, and presented with Gold Foil Tain Pen by Bethel Literary 1913, average of $8, and Mr. Carey B. Lewis, with an average of $21%. The prizes, diamond rings, the gift of Dr. Louis Usselmann, the jeweler and optician, were handed to the winners. The contest throughout this contest shows that it is destined to be a permanent part of the literary life of Chicago. Excellent Musical Program. An entertaining part of the afternoon was the musical numbers. The Burleigh Girls Chorus, under the direction of Mme. Eudora Fisher-Lockett, gave two beautiful numbers, Mrs. T. A. Smythe, wife of the pastor, sang. Know that My Redeemer Lives!", and Edward Morris, Mr. Opal D. Cooper, rendered a selection and Miss Ethel Minson gave a solo piano. Mr. B. W. Fitts, manager, share the responsibilities of the affair with tr. J. E. Mitchem, a young man who is equipped oratorical ability of a doctor or a lawyer, the consensus of opinion that he should be one of the contestants for the next prize. All secretaries of fraternal orders are requested to send the name, dress and telephone of the secretary of your lodge or order. Do so at once. Will be published free each week. S MRS. IRENE McCOY-GAINES, Winner of Contest Efficacy, Inc. Series 1912 and Chicago Defender Popularity, Contest Diamond Ring Winner, ELMWOOD RE-OPENS; BIG CROWD PRESENT The New Elmwood cafe. 314244 South State street, had its grand opening Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 22. The famous cafe was crowded with charming ladies and well dressed men and women, and a splendid did entertainment by a first-class chestra and refined solos. The ladies were given souvenirs. Steaks, chops and chop sucy were served. Mr. J. Armstrong, the new proprietor, was formerly a railroad man on the I. C. and is well known and liked. In those who wish high-class entertainment patronize the New Elmwood. HEALTH DEPARTMENT WARNS AGAINST RATS Calls Rodents Chicago's Menace—Stags that Citizens Encourage Campaign of Extermination — Other Notes. (Press Service Dept. of Health.) The people of Chicago are entirely too different as to the menace of the rat in city. To be sure they agree that rats are an unmitigated pest and a nuisance; that they destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property every year; and that rats are the means of spreading disease other than Babylon plague. But in the face of these well known and undisputed facts concerning rats, Chicago has failed to encourage a campaign of extermination; neither have any steps been taken to enact much needed legislation to control the class of buildings that, because of their uses, are simply places for harboring and breeding these constantly present pests of city life. If this indifference to the importance of some decisive measures being taken for ridding Chicago of its excessively large and troublesome rat population is based on a sense of security from rat borne Bubonic plague, then the danger is that people have been led to believe. The facts are that the danger is by no means so remote as people may have been led to believe. Great trunk lines of railways connect the great cities of the North with the important cities of the South, and the cities of the South with the cities where Bubonic plague has broken out during the present year. In the effective work that is being done by the United States public health service to stamp out Bubonic plague and also along the lines of protective measures it has been found necessary to install hundred freight cars each week consigned from New Orleans to Chicago. Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the important fact that no American city, both from the health and economic standpoints, can afford to maintain a rat population. Safety from a health standpoint demands this as do economic considerations. If you have a vacant lot what are you doing with it? Has it occurred to you that there is some better use it may be put to than to let it lie idle and pay taxes on it? Of course, this is not the growing season, but next spring will be; and then what are you going to do? If your lot lies out on the west, northwest or southwest sides of the city, the soil is good and it will grow all kinds of vegetables. Why not, then, put the vacant lot to some good use? A great many thousands of bushels of potatoes may be produced on Chicago's vacant lots. May it be dependent on the soil for its living. Let us then make the land productive. Outdoor, winter air is good air. See that you get your share of it. Good health is good cheer always, no matter what else the trouble may be. Why not look first after your health and other good things will surely follow. TISS RENA BRAHANAN ARRIVES HOME FOR XMAS Miss Rena Brahman, 3253 Rhodes Ave, who is teaching at Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., arrived in the city for the Xmas holidays. She will be with her aunt Mrs. Taylor. NURSE GOES EAST. Miss Ethel Trent of Evanston, IL, a graduate of Provident hospital, has gone to New York and Boston for the holidays. WILLIAMS SINGERS HOME FOR CHRISTMAS The Williams Singers returned to Chicago this week to spend the holidays with their respective families. The world-famous aggregation of entertainers report a successful year and season. Every member of the group will be there when they look forward to a pleasant time during Christmas week. Among the pleasures planned will be the lighting of a huge tree one night during the week at the residence of the manager, Mr. Charles P. Williams, 6618 Vernon Avenue, and the distribution of gifts to the company of their friends. Shortly after January 1, the company leaves for their first tour of the South. READS DEFENDER IN LONDON ENGLAND Defender on Sale at 17 Sharing Road London, Eng.-Americans Scream for it, Says Dr. H. Reginald Smith. Dr. H. Reginald Smith, who sailed for London April 23, where he matriculated at the University of London, taking special work on the eye, ear, nose and throat, has returned to the city after being gone six months. A year ago he took a course at Fordham University, New York. Dr. Smith said when seen by a Defender reporter: "I read the Defender every week. I was never lonesome and the English people thought it wonderful." BERT WILLIAMS GUEST OF APPOMATTO CLUB. Noted Comedian to Be Honored Tight in the night to be the Club. Wash Avah Wash Avah Mr. "Bert" Williams, the distinguished comedian and premier, fun-maker, starring in the "Folies of 1914 at Illinois Theater, will be the honored guest tonight at Appomattox Club. There will be progressive whist from $ until 2 o'clock, after which there will be luncheon and Mr. Williams will no doubt be there with his friends. Prof. Wm. Emmanuel is chairman of the committee and he has planned a delightful evening for the members and guests. J. BERNI BARBOUR BACK. J. Berni Barbour arrived in the city the first of the week to transact some important business with Mr. Bert Williams. He just returned from the Wetlands, where he was a contract with Milton & Wiley, the music publishers, to write songs. SPANISH TENOR LAUDS ANITA PATTI-BROWN Peerless Soprano Sings for Constantino at Congress Hotel and Receives Letter of Praise. Friday last Mme. Anita Patti Brown, Chicago noted prima donna, accepted an invitation to sing for Signor F. Constantino and the eminent Spaniuten, at the Congress Hotel. So pleased was the noted visitor that he sent Mme. Brown the following letter: Congress Hotel & Annex. Mrs. Anita Patti Brown, Chicago, Ill. My Dear Mrs. Brown: I want to express my sincere appreciation singing for me yesterday. The sweet and helpful quality of your voice and its flexibility should gain great triumph for you on the concert stag. If it is your intention to make a concert tour of South America I trust that I will be fortunate enough to hear you again, as the perfect audience of your high range is most delightful. With my compliments and good wishes, I am F. CONSTANTINO. Dec. 18. It goes without saying that the Madison pleased and it is said that her adoring husband will have the letter, frame for a conspicuous place in his den. BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL Mme. J. Wallace, the well known hair specialist and beauty culturist, will open soon a school taking up a three month's course of instruction. Hair dressing; manicuring, facial massage; chiropody and millinery will be offered. Applications taken at once. Write or call for terms. 323 B. 38th street. TOM FLANAGAN ON JACK JOHNSON'S FIGHTING ABILITY Canadian Writer Discusses the Chances of World's Champion in Next Battle—Only Question, Is Age More Formidable Rival Than Man. CONDITION GOOD ASSET Says No Prizefighter in History of Ring Has Ever Taken as Good Care of Himself—The Final Fight Talk of the Year. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Toronto, Canada, Dec. 25—Admirers of Champion Jack Johnson in particular and fight followers in general will relish this last word, as it were, in things pugilistic for the year 1914. The subject is the matchless heavy-weight and the speaker is Tom Flanagan of national repute. Says Mr. Flanagan. "I have been asked to write some impressions of Jack Johnson and his fighting ability. It is easy enough to say, as Jim Corbett once told me, 'Jack Johnson is the cleverest man that ever stepped into a ring.' That, after all, does not explain very much. Come from such a scientific boxer who has been acknowledged as one of the fastest and ever smart that ever donned a glove—that sizing up of Johnson must be taken as spoken. Corbett, Jackson, Mace, as the shiftless man the ring ever knew, must stand down before Johnson, according to Corbett's estimate. And why should Corbett value Jack Johnson so highly? It isn't because he is the most successful champion. It was because he was simply the best that thought. I don't imagine he ever thought it would get into print through me, but Jim Corbett knows a boxer and he knows a fighter. It was as a boxer that the Californian sized up Jack Johnson, and he is a wonderfully clever man. In all his fights it wouldn't take much trouble to count how closely that have landed on him. Watching them closely in the Moran fight in Paris, I am sure one decent punched on him, except what he took for show sake. Moves Like Lightning. "They don't get to him. He is fast on his feet and his size of demands that his opponents carry the battle to him. Once they do they either leave themselves open or he makes an opening for himself. It is easy enough to lead into a man who still stands still to fight to toe to toe. Jack Johnson stands still enough until you think he has been caught, and then like lightning he either slidestep or a terrific cross a punishing upercut or a terrific cross or smothers all leads with his power and no maplots no big man ever had as short a road Johnson, but it is no handicap—rather an asset in his style of handling an opponent. Possibly Johnson has never been landed on before or since Ketchel knocked him down. How much even that hurt him was witnessed in the next round, when he lifted his opponent clear across the ring. That is why his fight with Jeffries, a powerful man, again proved his pledging punches that raised a dead weight of 225 pounds or more clean off its feet. Has Never Been Tested. "Johnson is no leader. His short reach probably accounts for that in some measure; but now it has grown into a habit, and he waits for the other fellow to walk into these ox-felling punches, and they all wade right into them. It is hard to tell what would the customer's opponent failed to adopt the customer's tactics and stood away, leaving it to Johnson to open the battle and keep leading. He never had to do it, and while no doubt his great speed and shiftiness, his cleverness and ring generalship would pull him through, he has never been tested in this line. "That is what strikes close followers of Johnson as making a fight with Jess Willett's problem. The big white giant is also off-balance battle, from all accounts. He has to be shift, too, and prefers to have his opponent bring the fight to him. And he can hit when they do, it is claimed. No Elixir for Age. "Perhaps Willard could force Johnson to the aggressive and solve the difficulty, if there is any. Johnson has proven his mastery of the world by using a style entirely defensive until after his opponents have opened up with aggressive work and then he has shown himself a real bear. There is also another point that strikes me as also very important. Jack Johnson's next fight will see him 37 years of age. While no prizefighter in the history of the ring has ever taken good care of himself as Jack Johnson, old stories to the contrary, all the same's age is age, and there is no elixir for it. Willard's Chance. "A47 Jack Johnson nor no other man can be expected to fight top speed for much over twenty rounds. Decidedly few of them could ever hope to get that distance at even a fair clap. Besides, Johnson is a mighty hard fighter as he does is a tremendous struggle. And he does is. If Willard or any other good man with a punch can hold out for twenty rounds he has a great chance to win a long fight against Johnson. Of course the better the man the greater chance he has of ending it in his favor. Time will tell, and Johnson's opponent, who has any chance to be a first-class man, show that he is more formidable rival than man in the ring game." A. CHRISTMAS PRAYER By, Ethel Williams Black, Oakland, Cal. Our Father, which art in Heaven, submissive to Thy law, we pray our sins be all forgiven, our hearts all freed from flaw, our vain desires we beg Thee check our footsteps Iend aright, and from our eyes remove each speck that blinds us to the light. Hallowed be Thy name, O Lord; let Thy sweet mercy reign, within our souls sink deep the word that heals all grief and pain, our wondering thoughts restrain and cheer, our cares and clouds dispel, from timid minds cast out each fear and teach us all is well. Give us this day our daily bread, and fervent be our creed, to suffer none to go unfed, while we may end his need. Let love and pity fill our hearts and charity for all sustain the strength that hopes imparts, to bless both great and small. Thy kingdom come in Thine own time. Oh, comfort us till then, Thy will be done in every clime, where toil the sons of men, and let Thy grace descend, a glow within each weary heart. So we --- may all Thy goodness know Thy love and peace attest. Our faults forgive, as we forgive the faults by others shown; teach us the way to rightly live, our follies to atone, from evil aims our minds set free and from temptations save and let the cross of Calvary redeem us from the grave. For Thine the kingdom must prevail against all the host of ill. Thy power and Thy glory quell the darts that sting and kill, and forever and forever hosannas let us raise that lures of earth may never divert us from Thy ways. SEALS' TOILET ARTICLES NOW ON THE MARKET Capt. Chas. H. Seals has now the market toilet articles for the hair surface. Immediately after the holidays Capt. Seals will start a vigorous campaign of advertising. Those who have used the articles declare they are the best goods manufactured. His acquarters are at 3315 South State St. SPORTING Sam McVey Masters Wills in Twenty Rounds. New Orleans, Dec. 25.—Sam McVey of Paris won from Harry Wills, the local heavyweight, at the end of twenty rounds at the new West Side Athletic Club December 20. McVey's slashing offense won him the verdict. The Frenchman won nine of the rounds, six were for Wills, while the other five were even. Both tried desperately for knockouts. In the fifteenth McVey came closer to a knockout than at any other time in the fight. After Wills had hooked with his right hand, he was leading to the rope with a terrific loft. He and the crowd rose from their seats. Wills fell into a clinch, however, and saved himself. It was announced that McVey will meet Langford here because the bout-between the two in Milwaukee has been called off. FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Chlef Sam Reaches Africa: The report given publicity by several papers that Chief Alfred C. Sams'ship, which left Galveston, Texas, several weeks ago, bound for the gold coast of west Africa, had been sunk in foreign waters by a German cruiser, seems to be unfounded as the following report has been sent to the Associated Press: Galveston, Texas, Dec. 10.—The steamship Liberia, which sailed from here last October with Chief Alfred C. Sam and a number of followers in the "Back to Africa" movement among an amma Negroes, has arrived at Salt Lake, Gulf of Africa. This information was cured here today—East Tennessee, Knoville. Jim Crow School Beaten. Morton, Pa.-The Afro-American residents of this borough have cause to be congratulated for the pronounced stand they have taken against Jim Crow schools in this community. Through the leadership of the Rev. I. H. Champ, pastor of the First Baptist church, the Afro-American citizens of Morton have been able to plan a group of white men added, a few Afro-Americans, to establish a separate school for Afro-Americans in this borough. This great victory was achieved on the part of Rev. Champ and his loyal supporters only through great and strenuous effort and dates back prior to the November election, when it was the purpose of the Republican citizens, so much so that the election as to reopen all the doors to the chenin. This was defeated through the organization of Afro-American citizens, who remained true and loyal to their leader, Rev. Mr. Champ, who unselfishly labored night and day to bring about the defeat and complete annihilation of John Redheffer, the Republican leader, and his associates. Lost out at the November election the Republican machine has been so completely demoralized in this community that it is a question whether they will ever come back. The Afro-Americans gave loyal support to the local option ticket. This they claim was on account of the treachery of the Republican leaders, who were endeavoring to force upon a separate school, which would have come through a loan that was voted for but was defeated at the last election. We are glad to note that the Afro-Americans of Morton have a complete and formidable organization, which they propose to maintain to fight every injustice that is heaped upon them. It is the purpose of the organization to nominate at the next primary election a councilman and a member of their race to the school board. A movement has been started to assemble the reason why the right Afro-American eligibles from the grammar school in Morton have been refused admission to the High School to which they are entitled.—Pittsburg Courier. Fair Warning. Maid at Country Hotel—Please, sir, will you use the hot water soon, as there's an 'ole in the can?'—London Punch. Infantile Paralysis. A famous German physician proves that infantile paralysis is often carried from one household to another by chickens, such as chickens ducks and cows. Mort Ancient of Tingles The most ancient of all intoxicating beverages was made from mare's milk, set aside and allowed to ferment. The drink still is the favorite tipple of the Tartar. Elephant as Beast of Burden. An average elephant, in point of strength, can do the work of half a dozen horses. Glory. If the ends be glorious, all that befalls us in seeking them is glorious also.—Flato. Optimatic Thought Optimistic Thought. We can abolish fat, but we can in a measure. DEFENDER ON SALE AT NORTHWESTERN DEPOT Readers of the Chicago Defender traveling over the Chicago & Northwestern lines will always find it on sale at the news stand on the second floor. If you forget to purchase it there, remember it is on sale at the "L" stations. THE FRATERIAL WORLD At their last regular meeting Phoenix Court, Heroes of Jeroch, held their annual election of officers for the ensuing year. Mrs. Saddle Carter was elected M. A. M.; Mrs. Wallace, junior matron; Mrs. Pleerson, recording secretary; Mrs. Phoebe Holmes, worthy treasurer. Last week Mrs. Jennie Lewis, 21 E. Westrest was elected and installed as the Southern Alpach Chapter of Masons and the World Princess of Queen Eater Temple, No. 22 S. M. T. Mrs. Sarah Stratton, 3618 Dearborn St., entertained a seven-course dinner a number of friends and some of the state grand officers. Among those present were Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, Mrs. State Grand Secretary; Mrs. Eliza Johnson, State Secretary; Scribe Elia L. Holmes, District Deputy Princess and J. B. Stuch, Deputy State Grand Master. The Progressive Club elected the following offices for the year: Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, president; Dorothy Dilawan, vice-president; Eliza Jackson, secretary; Ella L. Holmes, treasurer; Queen Mary's Temple, No. 50, elected the following officers: Mrs. Hattie Chavis, Worthy Princess; Sarah Bell, Vice Princess; Clara B. Chanklin, Secretary; L. C. Ducker, Treasurer. Queen Mary's is one of the best temples in the state. Mary Magdalene have elected these offices. Worthy Princess, Ima Jones, Secretary; Mrs. Nora Johnson, Treasurer; Mrs. Willis, Chaplain. Knights and Daughters of Taber Knights and Daughters of Tabor. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor are to be congratulated upon the splendid record the order has made during the year under the administration of Chief Grand Mentor Sir Louis F. Fitzgerald of the Illinois Jurisdiction of North America. The Illinois nacules and nacles are extremely proud of the prompt way the members have met the endowment, which goes to prove the rapidly growing popularity of fraternal organizations carrying endowments. Sinai Tabernacle is especially pleased over the payment of two endowments, one on Mia, Gaines, paid to her, Fitzhugh Gaines, and the other on Mrs. Mahalah Woods, Elizabeth Vansickle, 351 State street, the young special mention also for the year's work. Mr. Andrew Owens, the endowment secretary, and Sir J. C. Jones, grand treasurer, of Jacksonville, Ill. NEWS OF THE SICK List of Your Friends Under a Physician's Care at Home or In the Hospitals. Blessom Slosson, daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Lang Johnson, 3316 Vernon avenue, has been very ill during the week from an acute attack of a gripe. Her condition is somewhat improved at this time. Mr. Sonny Boly is reported seriously ill with pneumonia at his residence, 4111 Indiana avenue. Predrica and Virginia Blair, 3538 Knowwood avenue, have been very ill, but are recovering now. Mr. Patton Dowd is on the sick list. Mr. W. J. Price is slowly improving. WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE DOING IN CARIO Bright, Criap News From Calro, Ill. the City Beautiful—Headquarters of the Knights and Daughters (By Stephen Finnie.) Cairo, Ill., Dec. 25—Mr. George Chavers died suddenly December 19 of neurasia of the heart. He was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and Gate City Lodge No. 21, K. of P. He was corresponding secretary of the Mt. Olive Association and vice president of the B. Y. P. U. He is surmired by a wife and child, mother, sister by five brothers. Funeral were held at the Twelfth Street Baptist Church Tuesday, December 22, as Mt. Moriah Church, of which he was a member was recently destroyed by fire. Champion Nature Fakes "I know a nature taken," said Mr. Bache, the author, "who claims that a hen of his last month hatched, from a setting of seventeen eggs, seventen chicks that had, in lieu of feathers, fur. He claimed that these fur coated chicks were proof of nature's adaptation of all animals to their environment, the seventeen eggs having been of the cold storge variety." Read With a Purpose Reading without purpose is santering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for definite end in knowledge than from libraries blimmed over by a wandering eye—Edward Bulwer. To Keep Fresh Eggs A simple way of preserving eggs is to immerse them in water soon after they have been laid, and then put them in a cool, dry place in water in a collar or cool outhouse. Showlng His Hand "Henry VIII as a Gambler" is the title of an interesting contribution to history. And it must be admitted that he, held some queens—Washington Post. The Better Situation. When two loving hearts are torn asunder it might be to be the one that is driven away into action than the bereaved twin that petrifies at home—Charles Reade. Call for Various Kinds of Wood. As many as 72 different kinds of wood are used in the manufacture of umbrella handles, canes, and whips in the country. Character Building. We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character—George Elliot. All communications for this paper must be addressed to The Chicago Defender and not to an individual, or they will not receive prompt attention. THE HOTEL This magnificent stone building at the N. W. corner of Wahuna Av. and 44th St. is a fine example of the architectural conveniences. Most excellent alarm heat guaranteed. Built at office at the center of the building, basement, 44th St. entrance. Open evenings. Open Sundays. MRS. H. L. 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Correspondents must mail matter not later than Tuesday evening. Around and About Chicago Personal Mention, Social and Other News In Short Paragraphs JESSE BINGA, BANKER SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS BURGLAR AND FIRE PROOF Christmas! The word suggests to me 'the stable with the patient beasts, and she that held "The Beggar-born." I see the wondrous star that shone: 'The shepherd's sheep in the field; the wife tendering at his feet Their gold and frankincense and myrch. The infant amicu吻vouchsales to me A glaiming wizard; the whispering amazed depart. Pondering the mystery they have seen. Again the world, at Christmas-tide, Bawa revival states in Asia. Ambra raises their offerings bring, and worship Christ "The Saviour Child." Christmas has come! Let each glad heart chant, chant chant chant chant chant. And treasure at its festive board. The birthday of "The Holy King." Christmas! What more!mommes are choir! What has come and life its good! What has come and life its good! Half buried, spring to life again. The Chicago Defender wishes you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Mrs. Henderson McClure of Indianapolis, Ind. was in the city this week, the guest of her granddaughter, Miss Mercedes Officer, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. S. Olliver, 4217 Wahash avenue. It is said that as a result of grandma's visit Mercedes' stocking will be filled to the limit Christmas morning. Mrs. Joseph Crawford of Centralia, ill. was the guest of Mrs. Frank Long, 3400 Forest avenue, the first of the week. Miss Anna Pritchett, the charming little school teacher of Indianapolis, will spend the Christmas holidays in Chicago as the guest of Mrs. Bessie Mason Boyd, 3558 Rhodes avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Kier of 6560 Lafayette avenue will spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Scott in Evanston. A pleasant day was spent. When through reading this department turn to the classified columns. They are equally as interesting. Mrs. Amandie Randals, 6934 South May street, has returned from a four months' visit in Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Stokes of 5534 Drexel avenue entertained Mrs. Horace Carter and Mrs. George Geneto at dinner Monday evening, December 21. All passed an enjoyable evening. Mr. M. T. Bailey attended the bazaar of the First Baptist Church of Lake Forest on the 18th, where he met many former friends and acquaintances of the North Shore. Little Ruth Barr, who has been spending some time in a board school at Milwaukee, Wis. will spend the two weeks' vacation with her father, Mr. Frank Barr, who is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Rhodes, 4747 Evans avenue. Start the new year right. Make your family a present of a home. Mr. William Bell, 3612 Prairie avenue a steward, running in charge on the C. M. & St. P. railroad between Nwapolis and Austin, will enjoy the holidays with his wife, having been granted a thirty days' layoff. Mrs. Latosca Gray and son will leave next week for their home in Denver, Colo., after spending a year with her sister, Mrs. G. E. Thompson, 3571 Rhodes avenue. Mr. Raymond Middleton was given a banquet last Saturday evening at the Wilson Plaza, 3553 Wabash avenue. Mrs. A. Twigg, Jackson, Tenn., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. W. Reid, 3319 Forest avenue. Mr. and Mrs. R. Delaney will enjoy Christmas dinner in their own home, 4347 Forestville avenue, having moved there this week from 3632½ Forest Mr. Frank Long and sister, Mrs. Susie MaCauley, returned from Washington, D. C., last week Thursday, having accompanied the remains of their mother, Mrs. Emma Green, to that city. The Defender acknowledges with pleasure the Christmas greeting from Mrs. Theresa Macon, president of the Illinois Federation of Woman's Clubs. Miss Maria Hurgente, the talented young belle of Millwaukee, Wis., is in the city for the holidays, she is highly entertained by friends. Mr. Berni Barbour, who has been traveling out west, returned to the city for the holidays. Madame E. Azalia Hackley, the noted singer, was in the city Friday and Saturday and stopped at the Free Douglass Center. Her trip was purely a business one. She went to Springfield, Ill., and will spend the winter at Denver and southern California, returning to Chicago in April. The Defender is in receipt of an invitation to be present at the Christmas tree entertainment of the Dumas Club, Seattle, Wash. Thursday of this week the Gaudeau-Mars Charity Club gave a whist party at the home of Mrs. W. A. Williams, 3640 South Wabash avenue. It was for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Moseley and their daughter, Bertha, entertained a few friends Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Moseley have established a time honored custom of making Christmas a happy day in their home. They reside at 4321 Forestville avenue. Mrs. Emma Jenkins of Edwardsville, IL, is stopping with her sister, Mrs. Henrietta Wilson, 3533 Wabash avenue. Mrs. Jenkins Wilson comes to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Lula Jones, Thirty-ninth and State streets, who is quite ill. INFORMATION, WEDDING ANO NOUCEMENTS, $1.50; WEDDING ANO NOUCEMENTS, UP, UP; UP OF THANKS, $1.50 AND UP; BUSINESS ANO NOUCEMENTS, $1.50 AND UP. EVERYTHING PAID IN ADVANCE. Mr. Lucius Smith of Lexington, Ky., is in the city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Lewis, 3737 Rhodus avenue. Mr. Smith is the father of Mrs. Lewis and comes to have Christmas with daughter, grandchild and son-in-law. He is president of the Lexington Fair Association and one of the most substantial citizens of the Bluegrass state. He acknowledges Christmas greetings from Dr. and Mrs. Dale Hale, Williams. Mrs. M. S. Simmons, 3634 Forest avenue, left Thursday for Louisville KY, and Indianapolis, Ind. She goes to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dudley arrived in the city Monday from Detroit, Mich. Dudley spent Christmas at home for the first time in years. He is proud of his son, Sherman, who is doing excellently in the public schools. Dr. J. Edinestone Barnes of Liberia delivered an address on Sunday evening at Bethel A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Nonie Gilmore, 3244 Wabash avenue, will entertain with a New Year's dinner in honor of her husband's birthday. Dr. H. Reginald Smith, who has been to the Royal Medical College of London, England, for six months, returned to the city Saturday. He is at his office, 3401 State street. MATTER FOR PUBLICATION MUST NOT COME IN MIR ABBOTT'S NAME, AS MANY TIMES HE DOES NOT READ HIS MAIL UNTIL AFTER THE PAPER HAS GONE TO PRESS. Major R. R. Jackson and T. Wallace Swann left at midnight Tuesday for Springfield, Ill., on business. The nurses of Provident Hospital will have their Christmas party on Monday night at Esther Freer Home. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis left this week to spend the holidays in Peoria and to be present at the annual reuni- nion of the Lindsay family on Christmas day. Mrs. M. J. Clinkscale, 5392 Wabus avenue, leaves tonight, 22nd, for St Louis and Kansas City, to visit friends and relatives for the holidays. Mr. Caillaux, the noted pianist of Columbus, Ohio, is spending the holidays in Chicago. Mr. Caillaux has often appeared in recital at the Auditorium Theater, and has been requested to appear on program Sunday at Grace church. Mrs. Alcina Howard of 3517 Wabash avenue, was held up and severely beaten and robbed of her handbag and $7 in cash and a few other valuables. Mr. W. H. Thornton, 3439 Federal street, left Friday for his old home in Madison, Va., to spend the winter with his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton. Word has reached this office that Miss Hesh Bradley, Kansas City, Kan., daughter of Ex-Judge J. Bradley, is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jones, 6446 St. Lawrence avenue. Prof. and Mrs. Kemper Herrelid of Atlanta, Ga., have a bouncing baby for Christmas. Quite a large crowd attended the Phyllis Wheatley dance on Christmas afternoon at Johnson's Dreamland Hall. Mrs. Edna Dixon, 501 Bryant avenue, will entertain New Year's day in honor of her two sisters. Mr. Cary B. Lewis received a Christmas box from his mother in Louisville, Ky. It looked as though it was filled with "goodies." WITH THE WEST SIDERS. Miss Eula Mae Wilson, who has made her home with her aunt, Mrs. James Benoit, 428 North Sawyer avenue, for the past year, left the city Wednesday to spend the holidays with her father in Swainsetown, III. * ** * The West Side Embroidery Class celebrated its seventh anniversary Saturday, December 19, in the afternoon, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Benoit, and with a turkey dinner, to which the husbands of the class members were guests of honor. Nineteen members of the class were present. Each member presented the other with a piece of her own embroidery work. Under the careful instruction of the teacher, Mrs. Minnie Patterson, the class has become very proficient with the needle, and as a result in the exchange of presents many useful gifts were received. * ** * Mr. W. W. Mason, the young funeral director of West Lake street, is rapidly proving himself to be the equal of any in his line of work and is now being rated as one of the leading undertakers in the city. Through his manliness and business ability he has endeared himself to the public. He draws no color line, for it was only this week he had charges of the bodies of two white persons who committed suicide on Lake street last Saturday. * ** * The Defender is always on sale at W. H. Robinson's, 1937 West Lake street. News items left with him for publication will receive prompt attention. HYDE PARK NEWS Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Shephard, 5478 Woodaahn avenue, gave a very beautiful party in honor of their son Eugene, who was celebrating his 16th birthday, on the evening of Dec. 3. A four-course dinner was served by Medames Nellie Gothard and Mimile Walton. Games were played and the ladies exhibited much musical talent. Mrs. and present were Miss Brock, Scott, Louise Williams, Maxine Marshall, Aldine Connors, Lucille Carrington and Helen Russell Messrs. Hannial and Arthur Scurlock, Freed and Clarence Shephard and Elmer Covington. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Shephard are invited to attend mass with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dobbins, 5753 Lafayette avenue, Christmas morning, and afterwards to a Christmas breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, 508 Lake Park avenue, is recovering from a serious attack of lumbago. Mrs. Ashbury Turner, 5505 Lake Park avenue, is quite ill. Mrs, Hall, 5508 Lake Park avenue will spend the winter in Hot Springs 19, Susie Thomas gave a very爽尝 20, her home 5536 Lake Park avenue. Mrs. John Hunter, 1517 E. 52nd street, is very ill Mr. John Stigall, 5212 Lake Park avenue, received a telegram Sunday, Dec. 20, announcing the death of his父亲 Mrs. Stigall is expecting as her guest Christmas week Miss Josephine Newton of Providence, R. I. Mrs. Josephine Walker of 1515 E. 52nd street lost her husband last Wednesday. He died in South Carolina. Mrs. Marion Butler, former Miss Marion Gillard of Hyde Park, has just arrived from the East to spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, 5508 Lake Park avenue. MORGAN PARK Morgan Park, Dec. 25.—Mr. Lonery is very sick at her house on LaSalle street. * * The Golden Chamber Club, Nus. 7 and 2, will hold their Christmas dinner at 3224 l.a. Salle street. * * The entertainment given by the Bremen A. M. E. church at Pace Hall Saturday night, was a decided success. Every one enjoyed themselves nicely. * * The Arnett Chapel A. M. E. church was packed to its highest capacity at the quarterly meeting. Rev. J. C. Anderson of Quinn Chapel preached an able sermon. The Gospel choir was at its best, and the music and singing were fine. We all hope to have the choir with us again soon. * * Every one reserve January 7, 1916. for the treat at Pace Hall. * * Mrs. Bryant of 1323 Morgan avenue was quite sick this week. * * Little Jeannette Wilburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn of First street is able to be out again, after quite a spell of tonsilitis. * * Mr. Smith of 1321 Morgan avenue moved into the city for the winter. * * The people of the Park and of the different churches are trying to make this a happy Christmas for the poor. * * On Sunday, December 13 service at Bremen A. M. E. church, Blue Island, was well attended. The pastor, Rev. George W. Richardson, took his sermon, "Christ came, who is Jesus," for the 9th chapter of Romans, 5th verse. The sermon was inspiring to all. One united with the church. God is blessing the work. Pray for us. WITH THE BOYS AT SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. ADD With the Boys at Sears Roebuck Mr. Aaron Smith's sister, Mrs. Mildred Route, 5057 Federal street, mourns the loss of her little daughter, Leora, aged 19 months. She died Friday, December 18, at 5:30 p. m., and was buried Sunday at Lincoln Cemetery. * * * Charlie Rousseau of the window washing department has been lil at his house, 5356 Dearborn street, for the last few days. He hopes to be able to return to work after the holidays. * * * Mr. L. A. V. Meyers of department 18 has been ill since Monday at his residence. Mr. Meyers does all the photo work for the boys, and they wish him a speedy recovery. * * * We wish to thank the Chicago Defender's legal aid department, Mr. Ellies and Mr. Westbrook, for the work they did in behalf of one of our boys. NURSES Courtesy Los Angeles Tribune. Miss Lambda Vanderberg (seated), Organization of Nurses' Alumni Association and Other Members KEEP HEALTHY IS NEWSLOGANOFLOS ANGELES PEOPLE Doctors' Association Holds Successful Public Health Meeting —First of a Series of Sessions to Promote Knowledge—Citizens Enthusiastic. NURSES TO CO-OPERATE Miss Vanderbilt, President of Nurses Alumni Association, Outlines Work —Contributing Editor Writes of the Pioneers in Medicine and Surgery By Eloise Bibb Thompson, Contributor jaa Editor. Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 25—A public health meeting, conducted by the doctors' association, an organization consisting of ten or more of the local doctors, dentists and pharmacists, was held recently at Wesley Chapel, Eighth and San Julian streets. This gathering is the first of a series of public health meetings planned by the doctors' association to time to time for the purpose of social education as to the preservation of health. A goodly number of representative people were present, including the members of the Colored Nurses' Alumni Association, who, attired in uniform, were seated beside the doctors on the platform. The meeting was addressed by Dr. W. C. Gordon, who spoke on tuberculosis and the treatment for those afflicted with it. The meeting closed with a short talk by Miss Lamble Vanderbilt, president of the Colored Nurses' Association, who outlined the work planned by that organization originated six months ago for the purpose of study, of coming into closer contact with the members of its profession, thereby deriving mutual benefit. Miss Vanderbilt explained that these nurses, registered temporarily at M. L. Gottingen, VET Newton street, intended when not other employed to gratitious nursing in those cases where patients are unattended by a district nurse and are absolutely unable to pay for the services of a physician. Miss Vanderbilt, the graduate of Provident Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., having subsequently gained much experience in the field of Oklahoma, a civil service appointment, and from other responsible positions, including that of district nurse during the last summer at the Violet street playground station. She then mentioned the fact that three male nurses were about to enter the association, all of whom, as well as many others, were recommended from schools of good re OUT IN LILYDALE The Ladies' Settlement Club of Lilydale was organized and set up last Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. J. H. Christian, 9300 LaSalle St. * **. An old fellow came by the Willing Workstills Club on Wednesday night for the benefit of St. James A. M. E. church. An excellent program was rendered, and despite the inclement weather it was quite a success. * **. Mrs. J. H. Christian, 56 West 95th St. is still indisposed. * **. Miss Curtsey Patterson, daughter of Mr. G. W. Patterson, 144 West 95th St. arrived in the city this morning from New Orleans, La. * **. Mrs. J. D. Trotter of 16 West 94th St. received a slight injury last Friday by slipping down the ice steps at her home. * **. Mr. W. S. Ford is still ill at his home, 9301 LaSalle St., where he got a joint for 3380 south State St. has been indisposed from a week with a severe cold. * **. The Lilydale Improvement Protective Association Club will have its regular meeting at 16 West 94th St., Jan. 3, 1915. * **. Mr. J. Edward and mother, 9437 Perry Ave., have moved back to the city for the winter. If your drugstreet cannot supply you with Hays Hair Pomade will *end by mail on receipt of 25c in stamps. Crown Pharmacy, 3037 State Street. Hays Hair Pomade is not a vasalline, but a true pomade, straightens and softens the hair. pute, such as the Tuskegee nurse-training school, the great Freedman's Hospital of Washington, D. C., and Lincoln Hospital, New York City. The officers of the Colored Nurses' Association are Miss Lambia Vanderberg, president; Mrs. Jessie Addison, vice president; Miss Libbie V. Jenschall, secretary; Mrs. M. L. Gottschall, treasurer; Mrs. L. V. Skeward, critic. Those of the doctors' association are as follows: Dr. W. C. Gordon, president; Dr. A. C. Garrott, vice president; Dr. J. J. Leggett, secretary-treasurer. Work of Dr. J. P. Turner. One of the permanent medical instructors, Dr. John P. Turner, appointed by the director of public health for the public schools of Philadelphia, recently read a paper on "The Open Access at the Thomas Durham Public School, the international congress on home education, which met at Philadelphia a short time, Dr. Turner's experience as medical inspector of public schools, having under his daily supervision a district representing 3,000 children, where the most delicate skill and highest efficiency are required, fully qualifies him to produce a paper worthy of consideration by the international congress. The appreciation of Dr. Turner's ability by the above named congress has been shown by the fact that he has been recently appointed one of a committee of seven censors to review and pass on all papers read before the commission. In addition to his duties in named positions Dr. Turner is one of the official examiners in the Knights of Pythias, assistant surgeon in the Douglass Hospital and medical director of the Keystone Aid Society. Some Early History. The ability of Afro-Americans in the medical profession is being universally recognized, although their adaptability for this pursuit was observed in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when Dr. James Dernham, born a slave in Philadelphia in 1767, having purchased his freedom at an early age and secured much training in the medical profession, built up a lucrative practice, attracting the attention of a celebrated white physician, Dr. Benjamin Rush, who published an account of Dr. Dernham and spoke in the highest terms of both his character and his skill as a physician. The first man in the United States to become a member of a doctors' association was John V. DeGrueau, who in 1854 was admitted in due form as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. James McCune, another doctor of ante-bellum days, being unable to enter a medical school in this country, with whom he graduated with honor. Returning to this country after some time, he took up residence in New York and practiced his profession for more than twenty-five years. There are about 4,000 doctors in the country, many of whom have achieved national reputation and attracted wide attention in medical circles by their most difficult operations. The results of these operations have been described from time to time in the New York Medical Journal. Ink Which Bleaches. As the carbon of ordinary printing inks does not bleach in using printed material for new paper, a-French firm has patented a special ink. The-black pigment is a compound from tanbark extracts acting on ferrous sulphate; and this is incorporated with resin, or mineral oil and resin, or boiled linseed oil. The blue ink is bleached with an acid solution of a hypochloride, chlorine gas or hydrochloric or oxalic acid, the pulp being made perfectly white. Rose to the Occasion. Dad (from the hall)—"Why, Marjorie, how dim the light is in here!" Freddy (the flance, not a college graduate in vain)—"Yes, sir. Professor Munsterberg has a theory that brilliant light benumbs the intellect. We are experimenting to find the degree of illumination by which the attention is kept vivid and the mental functions active."—Judge. Good on Muddy Streets. Two London chauffeurs have patented a brush to be suspended on the outside of an automobile wheel to prevent its splashing mud. PAY YOUR TAXES. The Lincoln State Bank, Stlst and State street, has been selected for the convenience of the residents of the second ward to pay their taxes. Avoid the trip down town, and the long waiting in line at the main office and pay your taxes at the Lincoln State Bank KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS IN A WRANGLE OVER GRAND LODGE MEET Question of Who's Who in Columbus, Ohio, Likely to Send Grand Encampment to Another City—Rev. Gilliam and the Liquor Part of It. (Special to the Chicago Defender.) Columbus, O., Dec. 25—If the local committee on arrangements here for making arrangements for entertaining the supreme grand lodge and grand encampment of the Knights of Pythias, which meets in August next, does not make any further progress in the next six months than they have during the past four the meeting will be a monumental failure. As yet no definite arrangements have been made for encampment grounds, although four months have elapsed since the supreme lodge decided to meet here next August. It appears that the intention is to Columbus, extended by Rev. Gilliam Balch, was knocked out of the local lodges here or the state grand lodge. As a consequence the local lodges are not enthusiastic in rendering assistance, and the local committee on arrangements, which has as yet not definitely secured grounds, appears to not desire advice or help from the state grand chancellor. The state grand chancellor, representing the state grand lodge, it is claimed properly considers that the officers, and especially the state grand chancellor, of the state grand lodge ought to have a voice in all arrangements made for the reason that a failure to properly entertain the supreme grand lodge and adequately provide for the thousands of visitors expected will reflect as much against the state grand lodge as against the local lodges here. There also appears to be little interest taken on the part of the general public here in the forthcoming meeting next August, and for the reason that none of the citizens outside of the fraternity has been asked to assist. The committee on arrangements had expected to get the Driving Park, with all privileges, donated free, and expected that the liquor privileges alone for the week of the encampment would net more than sufficient to defray all expenses incident to the meeting of the supreme grand lodge and grand encampment. When the officials of the Driving Park, however, learned that between thirty-five and forty thousand visitors might be scheduled speculated on the amount of wet land that might be drunk up on the grounds would run into thousands, they insisted that the liquor privileges could not go with the park unless the committee on arrangements paid a daily rental of $200. Rev. Gilliam, who is a minister, ex-state supreme chancellor and the inviter of the supreme grand lodge's meeting here, and the most industrious member of the committee on arrangements, is a "dry apostle" and objects to the K. P. organization to saloon proprietor. The result is that everything is up in the air and the outlook for properly taking over the grand lodge and grand encampment is bright. It has been rumored in K. P. circles that unless something definite is accomplished speedily Rev. Gilliam may notify Supreme Grand Chancellor Green it would be best to select some other city for the next grand session of the supreme grand lodge. Colonel Jackson Wants Guarantee. It is also stated here that Colonel Jackson of Chicago, head of the uniform rank, is becoming rather solicitous and insists that a $1,500 guarantee and proper arrangement proper and adequate arrangements for the encampment. This $1,500 is not as yet in tangible existence, and unless the white chamber of commerce and the brewing interests and the street railway interests dig it up it may not assume tangible existence in the time allotted by Colonel Jackson. State Grand Chamber Meets Committee. The state grand chancellor came up to meet the local committee one day last week, but after spending a whole day here, it is said, failed to round them up and had to leave without meeting the members. It is admitted that unless the local committee shows a willingness to work more actively with the state grand officers, and the local lodge evites more enthusiasm, the state lodge was generally able to greater interest, and that while next fortnight, it will be to the interest of the supreme grand lodge and grand encampment to quickly decide upon some other city in which to meet next August. ```markdown ``` Fearlessness is the natural condition of children, and it should be not only carefully guarded but fostered to a growth that the future cannot affect. There are better and healthier methods of governing children than through fear; a wholesome regard for consequences is another matter, for without it obedience would be a hard lesson to learn. Even that was left out of the education of many grownups to judge by the reckless deeds which are a large part of the day's gleanings in news. Ordinary care would eliminate most of the accidents which befall humanity. Ceremony and Concert Ceremony and Cannon Balls. Who is a tale told about an officer who is conversing with Marlborough during a training on taking off his hat and bowing profoundly every time he spoke to the duke. That great man suggested that at such a time they might very well waive all ceremony. But the officer bowed deeply to his commander's suggestion, and just as he was bending down a cannon ball cleared him and took off the head of a comrade. The man on coming up again, and seeing what he was barked calmly: "Your grace perceives that one loses nothing by politeness." — London News. Military Dances. The Highland fling symbolizes victory. The schottische militaire, that was popular some years ago, was another Scotch dance with a military suggestion. Many old prints show that the bagpipe of Scotland accompanied the military dance, as it does today, and to its strains fighting is being done that emulates that of past centuries: Why have you a vanat room in your house when a small classified "ad" in The Chicago Defender brings the right kind of roomers? Try one. ESTABLISHED 1869 CALL Douglas 727 Auto. 71-629 DAY OR NIGHT WE Have No Branch Office Sell Every Style of Casket PROMPT AMBULANCE SERVICE Our Modern Chapel Is Free for the Asking. OPPICBRS: DANIEL M. JACKSON, President ABNER A. HODGES, Secretary GEORGE T. KERSBY, Treasurer AHMED A. RAYNER, Superintendent The EMANUEL JACKSON UNDERTAKING CO., INC., 2959-2961 South State St., Chicago ```markdown ``` Mr. Ernest H. Williamson, #6028-30 State St., Chicago, 111.; Dear Sir: Your note enclosed with the re- carefully perused and I would have other, very pressing business. The body was in fine condition the excellent job done. we buried viewed it complimented the life-like we thank you for your kind of assure you we will reciprocate. Tr of the business in wicked Chicago we Praterna Illison, State St., Chicago, 111. Uncounsored with the remains of Thos. M. and I would have answered sooner bu- t being business. us in fine condition and we must con- dons. we buried the body Sunday and monitored the life-like appearance. you for your kind offer to ship us what will reciprocate. Trusting you are get- n wicked Chicago we bag to remain. Praterally Yours, A.B.M. Your note enclosed with the resales of Theo. M. Johnson has been carefully perused and I would have answered sooner but was delayed by other, very pressing business. we thank you for your kind offer to ship us whatever you can and assure you we will reciprocate. Trusting you are getting your share of the business in stocked Chicago we bag to remain. ERNEST H. 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Mail matter in time to reach office not later than Wednes- NOVEMBER BROADWAY BROADWAY 400 AUTO. 518-8811 NOTARY NOTARY'S OFFICE CITY OF NY, AUSTRALIA Call Us at 212-655-1234 --- The officers and men of the famous 8th Regiment have arranged a Grand Reception and Ball for their legion of friends to be held at Seventh Regiment Armory, New Year's night, January 1, 1915. The Regimental Band will give an especially arranged concert from 8:30 to 9:30. At ten o'clock the Grand March will begin, afterwards the assembled multitude may dance to the strains of Prof. Berry's famous Regimental Band until far into the morning. Admission 50 cents. e Changed to 7th Regiment Armory New Year's ho annual New Year's ball given the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guard will be at the Sventh Regiment Armory, instead of the new army, as advertised. The change is unavoidable, due to recent cold weather, which prevented the contractors from finishing the work as promised. Grand march at ten o'clock. Admission 50 cents. MADAME MARIE HYRAM STARS IN STATE THEATER THIS WEEK Madame Marie Burton Hyram is at the Monogram this week. She is a favorite of this city. She is a graduate of the Chicago Musical College and is a melodious soul, one who stirs the soul and appeals to the nobler thought. Madame Hyram was given a warm reception and the audition and well-traveled which was under perfect control at all times. She is being urged to travel after the first of the year. MRS. MARTHA ANDERSON A STAR AT JACKSON TESTIMONIAL CONCERT. Madame Martha B. Anderson was one of the principal stars at the Gertide Jackson testimonial concert at St. John's Church. Mrs. Anderson was "Sparky Vulture." Mrs. Anderson's expression and interpretation were faultless. She is a soprano singer of unusual ability. On the S. H. Dudley Circuit. Week of Dec. 21, 1914. Washington, D. C.-S. H. Dudley Theater, Lew W. Henry, Mgr; Martin & Motley Stock Co.; Howard Theater, Andrew J. Thomas, Mgr; The Goodletts, Ramsey & Martin, Susie Suction, The Butlers; Fairland Theater, Brooks & Ross, Mgr; Murphy & Walker, Richmond, Va.-Hippodrome Theater, W. J. Coulter, Mgr; Dorsy, Ramsey, Mgr; A. L. Ackman, Va.-Boston Theater, C. A. L. Mgr; Jones Trio, James Crosby, Daville, Va.-Columbia Theater, W. A. Donley, Mgr; Glipin & Wood, Daville, Va.-Dixie Theater, R. J. Wilson, Mgr; Pearson & Jackson, Charleston, S. C.-Dixieland Theater, J. M. Miller, Mgr; Whitman Sisters' Comedy Co. Cambridge, MD.-Green's Opera House, Zel Bledaux, Mgr; Ricks & Talbert, Philadelphia, Mgr; New Standard The- ater, B. New Standard Theater, G. Greene Cuban Nightingales, Mgr; Pittsburgh, Pa.-Star Theater, A. Minsky, Mgr; Davis & Greer, Raussey & Nickerson, Detroit, Mich.-Vau- dette Theater, D. I. Dudley, Mgr; & Pjr, Lawson & Lawson Lau, Cincinnati, O Mgr, Cincoh Theater, T. Spencer Fincher A;: The Pewees, Marvelous La Vola, Melton & Turner, Louisville, Ky.-Ruby Theat- er, Bunce Collier, Mgrs.; Bering Bunce & Ela; Bering Church Park Theater, S. T. Beer, Mgrs Carter's Sunny South Co. Chicago III.-Grand Theater, S. H. Dudley. Necessity of Labor Labor is necessary to excellence. This is an eternal truth, although virtue cannot be taught to believe or indulence to heed it.—John Randolph. Double Lack of Understanding. One half of the world, dissatisfied with what it has, can't understand how the other half can be dissatisfied with what it hasn't. The Really Great Thing. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. No Hurry "When is the proper time to congratulate a bride and bridegroom?" "After they have lived together for at least a year and are still happy." You Receive What You Give. Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wilt or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets within it—Hazlitt. Spread the Light. If you are acquainted with happiness, introduce him to your neighbor—Phillips Brooks. Blindness of the World. The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been—Tennyson. True Test of Character. The test of your character should be that you are a joy-bearing agent to the world—Beecher. The town of Colim, India, is built on the shores of a steep hill, and the roof of one house is often on a level with the foundation of one on the next terrace. GRAND MILITARY EIGHTH FIELD AT SEVENTH REGiment NEW YEAR The officers and men of the arranged a Grand Reception and be held at Seventh Regiment on January 1, 1915. The Regimental ranged concert from 8:30 to 9:30 March will begin afterwards the S. H. DUDLEY STORMS GRAND THEATER NIGHTLY S. H. Dudley and his mule Patrick stormed the Grand this week. When the noted comedian made his appearance the house went wild with applause. No man ever entered upon this stage and received a bigger ovation than Mr. Dudley. There were box parties and special parties and hunts that took place and former Thelpians in the house. Even the "press gang" was represented to see and hear the man who has made millions laugh. Patrick, who is a "graduate" of the grammar school but hard headed, was his chief instrument to make the fun. Dudley kept the house roaring and when he discharged from the house he bacoe" and then used his natural wit, he seemed funnier than ever. He did some new songs and dancing that caused all to say Dudley is better than ever. If you have not seen him, take our advice and jok him over. The Ryan Brothers, cyclonic aerialists, were the fastest thing seen at the Grand. Colbert and Lewis in varieties and singing and singing. Jann Bammster & Co. playlet entitled the "Crash," were enjoyable, and Marie Dreams, the girl with the big voice, carried off several encores. Special matinee Sunday. Used for Services of Thanks for the Escape of Antwerp and for the Capture of Belgian (Correspondent United Press.) "Munich — Church choir plays queer music," in Antwerp I saw a man man climb a staircase in an ancient cathedral there and fasten a Belgian flag to a stone gargoyle. In the evening, at sunset, I saw Belgian choir boys standing in their white surplains among the bells, and heard their song of praise that floated over the old town like a benediction—because Antwerp had been saved from a Zepelin. In Munich I saw another church steele playing its role in war. It was raining, and the peak of the cathedral spire loomed dimly above the lights of the city hall square. But the tiny lights of candles carried by the choir boys fluttered in the bellypipe, in an orchestra, the boys sang a song of praise—because Antwerp had fallen. Russian Trick a Boomerang. The newspapers tell of a trick which a German general played on the Russians. In retreating from a town in eastern Prussia the Russians were forced to leave behind a large quinn bread. They poured gasoline on the town and the Germans entered the town they found the nearly mixture surmised by a sign which read: "We hear that you need both bread and gasoline. Here they are." About the same time the Germans captured a number of Russians. The German general ordered that the bread be given the prisoners, and not a Russian touched his prison fare that night. "Sidewalk Strategists" Busy. There are "sidewalk strategists" here, too. "We'll go to London when the proper time comes," says my waiter. "You know how Germany fooled the world with her 15-inch guns and her new submarines. Nobody knew she had such things. Well, we got another gun, and we got a submarine. We'll that will shoot 28 miles, and that's two miles more than the width of the English channel between Calais and Dover. "As soon as we take Calats, we will mount these big guns on granite foundations, shoot across the channel, and demolish the forts at Dover. Then we will within range of these guns, and we will keep a pathway clear across the channel of Dover. That way we can land all the German troops we need on English soil. At the same time we will take Ostend and from there we will send Zeppelin clear to London to attack the enemy. Time alone will tell how closely the kaiser's strategist will follow my waiter's plans. Few Have the opportunity. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" may be good advice to the one man in a million who is fortunate enough to have a horse given him. Unnoticed Pedestrianism. A reasonably active man walks about 297,200 miles in 84 years, just walking about his house and place of business. On Improvement. We cannot improve the world faster than we improve ourselves.—Creighton. Proper Reduction Oliver Leibnitz. I have not learned my principles from my prejudices, but from the nature of things.—Moutesquieu. Matter of Finance. Sometimes a man marries for money, but most times it is to get rid of it.—Florida Times-Union. BERT WILLIAMS WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING COMEDIAN Percy Hammond Noted Theatrical Authority Writes Upon the Peerless Funmaker in His Thwarted Stage Career—Amy Leslie Writes of Him Courageously. PREJUDICE HINDERS HIM Defender Asks How Long Will Prejudice Press Down the Bright Intellect At the Expense of Whatever Profession or Art They Represent. Every now and then there appears in the columns of the daily papers articles that have not for their headlines, lynching, crime and rape, of the Afro-American. Very frequently writers of national reputation take up the cudgel of some worthy and mortilorious member of the race and give some space to his character, fitness and worth. There are just hundreds in the race if they would only take a moment's time to find but suffice to say, Mr. "Bert" Williams is one who delight to speak of in compilations. It is pleasant to read such great writers as Miss Amy Leslie of the Daily News and Mr. Percy Hammond of the Tribune giving such glowing accounts of this deserving comedian. All of them speak of Mr. Williams as the world's greatest comedian—the all say if he was only in white skin he would turn the world topsy turvy. Is it not too bad that in America this topmost form as a hairstyle, cannot secure a more permanent place on the stage but just a better and simpler. The only reason is his skin is brown; yet his heart is white as snow. But not only that, this man who is a citizen and a gentleman, on account of American prejudice is subjected to insults of men who are not fit to be his bootblack. Mr. Williams is not only America's greatest entertainer, but were he given a "man's chance" he would be in the rank of Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr. The bitter part that the stage, one of the greatest educators of all times, is deprived of his man's ability and talent of his skin. The world suffer this to go and on? It is to be hoped that some great force will at sometime, sooner or later, right this great wrong. Amy Leslie Writes. Miss Amy Leslie of the Chicago Daily News sale of Bert Williams in a July issue of her paper: "Williams is one of the greatest comedians America has ever produced. His solemnity, his dignity of purpose in tremendously funny achievements, his big, melodious voice and his direct artistic aim, would, if in the skin of a white man, turn the laughing world topsy turvy with delighted amazement; as it is, no cleaner-cut, more ardently and gentlemany entertainer exists of his color." Mr. Percy Hammond's Story. Mr. Percy Hammond, writing for the Chicago bureau of the press, says, "Every time Mr. Barr Williams, the distinguished colored comedian, I wonder if he is not the patient repository of a secret address. In the midst of his decorous and explicit capers in the Follies I think that sorrow concealed, 'like an oven stopped,' must burn his heart to cinders. Here he is, unquestionably a comic artist of the first rank, doomed for the rest of his career to an environment of jigs and snags, and to the many songs from the Broadway hymnal and to utter the commonplace jests of the Broadway joke book against the fleshy background of a Broadway chorus. He may not, with success, aspire to make his genius an instrument of characterization in the more eminent realms of the theater, to fix his fame in the more permanent foundation of the drama. He must humbly proceed along his艺 pathway, exerting the knowing celebrants, and remaining, in the delicate and not descriptive phraseology of the press agent, a 'distinguished colored comedian.' "Mr. Warfield was able to discard the cap and bells of burlesque and become a great actor. I believe that in Mr. Warfield's days as a skillful buffoon he indicated no finer talents than does William's for instance, when he played the role of Mr. Ziogefold's current cantata. Mr. Barney Bernard, now established in a lasting and deserved reputation as a serious comedian, certainly showed no such abilities in his performances as a musical comedy Jew. The excellent Mr. Alexander Carr has acquired celebrity and a temperament since he sang shows and on their backs; he has also pioned of the endowments which mark Mr. Williams' quiet fun making in the Folks. Most of the good actors have come from musical comedy. Mr. Williams, because he is known as a negro, must stay there; and so the real theater is deprived of an unusual artist. Hillman is mostly Resentful. It was intimate that Mr. Williams describes this distress circumstance as a private wee and is mute concerning it. While he does not give expression to his thwarted aesthetic yearnings, he does at times hint his mild resentment at what he terms 'an American phase.' You may be surprised to hear that Mr. Williams describes the frontier between him and his audience as 'an enigmatic phase.' Tetose are the words used to describe him in a somewhat reluctant exposition of his emotions in the matter. I shall try to reproduce the suave elegance of his diction as he discoursed to me in the Stratford bar. Said he: 'This may sound snobish, but it isn't; I'm not a native of the United States, but a West Indian, and I must take sohe from my philosophy so long as I am a native of the United States. The rebellion is all out of me; for I know that it is up to me, and that this is the only civilization in all the world where a man's color makes a difference, other matters being regarded as equal. And you must admit that there's 'food for thought, not necessarily bitter, in the fact that, in London I may sit in open lodge with a man, and I am entertained in the home, and be entertained novelist, while here in the United States, which fought four years for a certain principle, I am often treated with an air of personal and social concrescence by the gentle- man who sweeps only my dressing room or, the gentleman whose duty it is to turn the spotlight on me if the stage directions call upon him so to do.' The Consolation of Recompense. "It is a tragedy," said my friend to me as we left Mr. Williams, the most perfect in dress and in manner of those remaining in the past after we had gone. Such tears as I may have felt impelled to shed were lessened, however, by the mean reflection that Mr. Williams receives from the public. Mr. Williams seek for his enlivening duties, and that he will now play in the plays of Charles Kiteh. One hopes that for his next appearance his authors will make it possible for him to expand a trifle; he is in peril of becoming monotonous from the sheer lack of material with which to work." Misery. Next to the boy who has money coming to him which he cannot coin it, a sensible person is the colored man who will chance to display it—Topope Caulhall. QUEER SCENES OF WARFARE Large Part of Battle of Monterey, in the Mexican War, Was Fought Indoors. At the battle of Monterey, in the Mexican war, our troops were able to command the streets of the city with their artillery, but they experienced much difficulty in driving the Mexicans from their city. Accordingly, as the city was built of stone and brick, the Americans broke through the walls from one house to another, fighting and driving out the enemy as they proceeded. Thus it appears, says an exchange, the battle of Monterey was largely fought indoors. In the time of William the Silent, when the Netherlands' were fighting the Spaniards, a number of Spanish vessels became frozen in on the Zulzen River. Dutch on horseback on the ice to attack the Spaniards. This is probably the only battle of record where cavalry was employed directly against a naval force. There have been battles fought underground. Chiefest of these was the fierce encounter pertaining to the siege of Haarlem in the Dutch wars. The Spanials mined and the Dutch countermined with equal industry and because the ground a terrific conflict ensued. Then the Germans the Versailles troops took Paris, the chased certain of the communist forces to the great sewers of the capital, and in these more than one sanguinary battle occurred. DIET THAT PROLONGS LIFE Cheese In Place of Meat is Recommended for Those Whose Arteries Are Hardening. Hardening of the arteries, which frequently accompanies old age is the result of a condition of the blood vessels in which the blood pressure is raised above normal in varying degrees. The result is a weakening of the vessels, making them likely to rupture even under normal blood pressure, but especially so when the blood pressure is high. The hardening of the arteries with high pressure is caused by certain poisons in the blood derived from food, particularly certain kinds of protein food. Meat, particularly red meat, is thought to be the principal offender; but all proteins are suspected of aiding in making the condition. The remedy is obvious; stop eating proteins, and proteins are absolutely necessary to do. However, it has been discovered that all proteins are not equally harmful. It has been found that cheese in various forms can be substituted for meat indefinitely, supplying the body with the necessary amount of protein without the poisonous purin bodies. As a result, the blood pressure is lowered, and in recent cases, hardening of the arteries is prevented. Tuxedo Rheumatism. The late Colonel Bobzin of North Carolina was famous for his scrupulous dressing. When the dinner jacket, or, as it was then called, the "tuxedo," was introduced into the state the colonel made haste to procure one of the new garments. He wore it at a dinner of the chamber of commerce of his native city and became the cyonasure of neighboring eyes. Next day he was observed hobbling down Main street for his "morning" at the Eagle house at a gait very different from his usual stride. "What's the matter, colonel?" asked a friend. "Tuxedo rheumatism," answered the colonel, with dignity, "tuxedo rheumatism, sir. I got it last night. A man of my years, sir, feels the need of his coattails after sundown." Novel Features In Lifeboat. An unstinkable sailing lifeboat, which is fitted with an auxiliary motor, is described in Popular Mechanics. The craft is built with a rounded bottom and broad beam, quite similar to the lines of a dinghy, while its top is decked. Two leaves doors in the craft, and capsizes it, the boat right-side up, its occupants sitting in the hold. When a wave strikes the craft and capsizes it, the doors are automatically closed. The passengers are then within the craft. An aperture in one of the dress furnishes them with air, while it is also possible for them to open one of the deck doors. The craft then closes the mast and by throwing their weight to one gunwale, right the craft again. Deer Had Chair on Head. An Indiana sportsman was telling about the experience of a tenderfoot friend he had taken out to hunt deer for the first time. They came on a handsome specimen quite suddenly and the sportsman, wishing to give his friend the first chance, told him to shoot. But the other gazed wide-eyed at the deer, which had a magnificent spread of horns. "Look at him!" he exclaimed; "he's got a chair on his head!" This so amused the hunter and the amateur was so astounded that the deer got safely away—Indianaapolis News. Willing to Help Beth Franklin went to a Broadway manager last week with the idea of starting a home for disabled actors. When she told the manager her intention he answered: "Fine! There is a whole bunch of actors in this town I will disable as soon as you are ready for them." "We are all agreed upon our verdict, gentlemen." inquired the presiding officer of the court-martial. "Yes, sir," answered Major Lafleche. "Yes, sir," repeated the other members, down to the junior one, Lieutenant Leblanc, who repeated the words in a dry voice and licked his lips more than "It is the only verdict possible under the laws of war," said Colonel Bolleau. "Let the prisoner be brought in." Two noncommissioned officers led the young follow into the tent. He was a fair-brained boy, not more than two or three and twenty. He faced the court impassively, but the fear of death was evident in his ashen face and twining fingers. The judge Marchand," said the colonel, "you have been found guilty of the crime of sleeping on sentry duty. There is only one punishment for that. Have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced upon you?" "Not much, sir," answered the boy. "I had not slept for three nights, owing to the forced marches. And the sergeant put me on duty two nights in succession, by error." "Let Sergeant averge be recalled," commanded the colonel, and presently the sergeant appeared within the tent. "Was the prisoner placed on sentry duty on two successive nights?" asked Colonel Boileau. "No, sir," replied the quietly. He was not sure, now that they questioned him, but having given his evidence, he was sentenced to a trouble. Besides, he insisted the young American who had returned at the outbreak of war to fight for his father's country. Marchand, with his American ideas, had been what is called a "lawyer." He had made trouble with the commissariat, with the little thieving corporal who sold the hay; altogether he was sergeant regarded as a bad influence in the war, that is to say, a man, not a machine. War had been declared four days before, and the company was moving by forced marches toward the frontier. In war time sleeping on sentry duty has, justly enough, only one penalty—death. Marchand could hope for no more this negligence might have cost hundreds of lives. He had been brought to America in childhood, and had grown up an American-in every sense of the word. His father, a silk importer, had prospered in the land of his adoption, and two months before, while on a business trip to his native land, had died suddenly and his mother had hurried to France. Then Mrs. Marchand had remembered some old friends in Nancy, and had gone there for a brief visit, while the son settled the Paris business tangle. Suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, war blazed out. Mrs. Marchand, shut up in Nancy, could get no news of her husband's embrace with new love for the land of his birth, had enlisted as a private soldier. The tragedy of the affair was that Nancy was not six miles distant, and the mother, waiting there, did not know but that Jean was in Paris. Colonel Bolleau faced the prisoner. "The sentence of this court is that you be shot at dawn," he said. The noncommissioned officers' took the young man to the guard tent. The court-martial dispersed. It was evening, and the company had been ordered to advance no further till it received orders. The firing squad which had been told off to perform the execution at dawn whispered 'together. It was a melancholy duty, yet a necessity, if discipline was to be maintained, for upon the vigilance of her soldiers the safety of the motherland depended. In his tent Colonel Bolleau scanned his war map, together with his aide, Jacqueline, the captain who had endeavored most strongly of all the men to find extinguating circumstances. When the business of the night was done Bolleau turned to Jacqueline. "It's a sad business," he said. "But it's a necessity. And, to be frank, Jacquevel, I suspected that young man of more than the crime of which he was accused. If it were only that I should teach Joffre, asking for a comment of sentence. "Of what do you suggest him, sir?" inquired Captain Jacquevel. "Esplenage," answered the colonel briefly. "He is not a Frenchman. Did you not detect his accent?" "Alsatian," suggested Captain Jacquevel. "Never," replied Bouleau. "I spent three months in Alsace. They have the heavy Teutonic guttural in their speech. The German burr of Marchand's. I think—" But what he thought was never said, for at that moment an orderly raised the flap of the tent. "A lady wishes to see you, sir, he said. "A Mme. Marne, of Nancy," Colonel Bolleau looked triumphantly at Jacquelau. "You see, he said. "A sparringed thing. No doubt another spy, passing as a relative. Well, show her in, Louis. And we'll keep her when she comes in," he added to Jacquelau, "unless she can tell a plain story." The tent flap was raised again and a little old lady came in. Despite his angry suspicions Colonel Bolleau rose and offered a camp stoup. For the little old lady was so typically French. "Well, madam?" he asked. "My son has enlisted in your company, colonel," said the little old lady triumphantly. Yes, there was triumph in her voice and all through the story she told him. For Mme. Marchand had in secret wished that her son might not forfeit his birthright, and, learning at Nancy, by a friend who managed to reach her, he can had enlisted, nothing would satisfy. So the must go to the place where he was and see him in the uniform which his father had worn. "And, thank heaven, he is here," she continued. "I walked from Nancy, starting at noon, to the door from Nancy, madam!" ingrusted the solenoid increasingly. "Six miles? . Pooh! That is not nuring. During the war of 1870, when my Phillipe was serving on the frontier. I walked from Nancy to Paris. And now I have come to see: my Jean in the midst of his comrades. To think that, with all his American citizenship he preserved his French heart—" madam d'Assouad, Colonel Bolleau grunty. "Assuredly. His father and I want to America when he was a baby, and he obtained citizenship at twenty-one. But a Frenchman never forgets France. Now take me to him, colonel!" Colonel Bolleau sat staring into the little old lady's face. She was typically French, so smartly attired, despite her widow's weeds. Captain Louis cavouged in a melancholy manne, and looked down at the ground. "My son is only a private now," continued Mme. Marchand. "But soon you will see him a corporal, and then a sergeant. He will be promoted for gallantry upon the field and made lieutenant, then captain, major—who knows but that the end of the war may see him a colonel!" Colonel Bolleau could find nothing to say. For a long while he sat staring at the little old lady. At last he arose. "Captain Jacqueline, you will offer our hospitality to Mme. Marchand until I return," he said, and, leaving the tent, went to the guard tent. Inside, between two corporals, sat Jean Marchand. He was seated bolt upright, staring out into the darkness. The terror had not yet come upon him, for it all seemed like a disordered dream, all the incidents since his enlistment. Colonel Boileau led the prisoner outside the tent. The corporals, springing to their feet, sabothed their officer. It did not seem strange to them that he should have come for Marchand—nothing seemed strange in times like these. When they had gone a little way Colonel Boileau shouted, "Halt!" The prisoner faced him expectantly. He did not know that the hour of execution had not been advanced. "Marchand," said the colonel, "your mother is here." Jean Marchand's hand went up to his hat, magnificently, in the manner he had learned. "Marchand, you will die at sunrise," said Colonel Boileau. "You will appear before your mother and tell her that you are a free man. She will think that you have been killed in action. Do you understand?" The young man nodded, and Colonel Bolleau brought him to the tent door. and conducted his mother out to him. Half an hour later a wagon, drawn by two torsees and escorted by a file of soldiers, arrived Mme. Marchand back to Natcha. Her eyes were brimming with tears of happiness at the thought of her son's life. Jean Marchand stood at the colonel's door. He was awaiting the soldiers who were to conduct him back to the guard tent. Colonel Bolleau took him by the shoulders and pointed southward. "Under lies Tourville," he said. "The East is recruiting there. Your future was there. Officially, you die at Bur. But Jean Marchand is not a unique name, and it is possible that another Jean Marchand may win honors in war and serve the army of his mother land." (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman) Sarber's Endanger Royal Lives. In the barber's chair a man is helpless, one wonders if such an idea occurred one wonders if such the Belgians when he was shamed by village barber the other day. If that modest Figaro had been a German spy, he would have been in a position to strike a blow which would probably have rejoiced the heart of the kaiser. The risk run by monarchs who subjugated themselves to be shaved by other hands than by a man brought to the notice of Charles one fine morning at Windsor castle. The barber who was shaving the king paused in his work to remark, as he held the royal nose between his finger and thumb, "Do you know, your majesty, do you want to carry your out throat if I wanted to?" being jumped from the chair in alarm, singing "Odisha! so you could." And that barber never entered the palace again. London Chronicle. When the world learns this lesson—when every child is reverenced as a loyal heir of heaven because it is brother of the Christ Child—then a great light will lighten the nations. Henry Van Dyke. Result of Warfare If we are tempted to make war upon another nation, we shall remember that we are seeking to destroy an element of our own culture, and possibly its most important element—Oscar Wilde. A Saving Person: Boarder—"What do you mean by calling us to breakfast at this hour? It's only five o'clock." Waltress—"The missus heard it thundering, and she told us to hurry up and serve breakfast before the milk soured." Battle of the Nervil According to investigations made by Napoleon III of France the battle of Navarre took place between the villages of Lourviol and Louvroil on the River Sambre. Significant Madagascar Dance Significant Madagascar Dance. In Madagascar when the men are absent at war the women dance for the greater part of the day, believing that this will inspire their husbands with courage, and doubtless many a man hard pressed on the field of battle does for example access of determination to vanquish the enemy when he thinks of his wife dancing tirelessly all day that he may win. Let the Present Be Sufficient. Wouldst thou fashion for thyself a gleemly life? Then do not fret over what is past and gone; and, spite of all thou mayest leave behind, live each day as if thy life were just begun.—Goethe. Canada and the United States. Canada and the United States. The dominion of Canada is 3,658,946 square miles. The nation of Continental United States is 3,025,000 square miles. Canada is as big as the United States with a territory to spare that is as large as three German empires and the state of New York. Bad Practice Discouraged. Getting married in Burma is not entirely a pleasant operation. Custom warrants the practice of throwing stones at the house of the newlyweds. Burma recently a band of Burman youth demanded money; before they would depart the law stepped in and sentenced the leaders to heavy imprisonment and corporal punishment. First Run Moving Pictures for the Whole Family. Conveniently Located and a Model for Beauty and Comfort. See the Beautiful Lobby. Everything Modern. HOME BAKING AND DELICATESSEN DAIRY LUNCH HOURS 19 A. M. TO 19 P. M. PHONE AUTOMATIC 76-622 The Largest, Best and Cheapest PRAOTICAL MUSIC SCHOOL Al Brass and Stringed Instruments, Violin, Piano, Mandolin and Guitar Visit the Free Monthly Recitals at our School by the Perpkin. Tickets Given at School. Conducted by W.L. JACKSON 3100 BVATE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. The LaVerdo Cafe and Buffet 3100-2 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietor CARL L. COTTON PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Letters, circulars, etc. done quickly and neatly at prices that you will appreciate OFFICE: 40 10 A.M. 2400 50, ST. A.M. Phone AUTO. 71-658 GOOD LETTERS PAY HOME Ope Sunday Phase. Bee BUY THE CHICAGO DEFENDER AT ALL "L" ST. LOVE SHOW MUSIC TO HAVE UNUSUAL TREAT AT DE LUXE CLASS The School That Helped the Poor Fund Will Give a Special Dance December 30. Following the custom of creating something to keep the dancing public in merriment, the De Luxe Dancing School will have a special dance on Wednesday night, December 30 at Dreamland hall. They will give a pre- New Year's dance, and the features namely three, of old old dances, three step, fourth step, step, barsourveau, Berlin, hesitation, schottische, plain quadrille and many others. It will pay you to study up on your old steps. We also will have an amplified orchestra to render old favorite pieces with these dances. Do not forget the date, Wednesday evening, December 30, at their hall (Dream- land school De Luxe. Yours in festivities. MIKE WILLIAMS, ERNEST BACON New York City and Maine New York city has a population greater than that of the "whole state of Maine." New York city has as great a population as the following states combined: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Requirement "I wonder if our boy will ever be a great man?" "Well, he has one of the main characteristics—he can't be a good signature—"Florida Times-Union. Advice From Lord Bace Bacon. Generally it is good to commit the beginning of all great acts to Arguus with a hundred eyes, and the ends of them to Brieareus with a hundred hands; first to watch and then to speed—Lord Bacon. Friendship. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; or the proud and prudent and peaceful—Thackeray. Review of New Books, Pamphlets and Other Literary Submitted to The Chicago Defender. NEGRO YEAR BOOK. Monroe Work, in charge of division of records and research, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., has issued the Negro Year Book for 1914-1915. Upon observation it is found that the book has been enlarged, revised and rewritten, and made a historical and sociological study, ready for schools, colleges and records to be at once a permanent record of events, an encyclopedia of historical facts calculated to be of great service to the race. During the past year through the kindness of readers of the Negro Year Book the editor, Mr. Monroe N. Work, has come into possession of considerable valuable material. So far as the facts furnished this way can be verified they have been or will be used to up the annual record of the race and to expand the historical statements, particularly destroys of receiving the names and copies of the writings of Negro authors, the names of inventors and inventions, of those who are making historical collections relating to the Negro, of those who are making investigations of Negro life and history, and especially the names of all publications of whatever kind by Negroes. In asking their co-operation in our efforts to make a bigger and a more trust you will do so in the confidence that you will doing something not merely for the Negro Year Book but for the Negro race as well. Owing to the increase in the size of the book the publishers find it necessary to charge 10 cents postage on single copies sent through the mail instead of 5 cents, as charged on copies of previous editions and as an advance advertisements of this edition. Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Price, 25 cents; by mall, 35 cents. Some men remind us of a comic opera without any plot. Looking back through the ages since the beginning of Time, there is no single institution which carries with importance to us as does the birth of Jesus. It is the news of its glad tidings of joy has since been the world's greatest hope. For nineteen centuries the ever invigorating spirit of Christ has lived in the hearts of Fittingly, each year we celebrate Christmas. It has a potential meaning to us—on that day the world acknowledges Christ, the Redeemer of mankind, for on that day He was given to us and to whom? Generosity is prompted upon what motive? Celebrating the world's greatest event, we gladly give with invisibility to our friends. It is a custom from the time to the ward those whom we love upon that occasion with generosity measured only by our means. Millions of dollars are spent for Christmas happiness. Should we celebrate the birth of that great man, who when He came, brought to the world Faith, Hope, Charity, Love, Truth, Meekness and Justice with elaborate display of gifts to those who hear the hearts we give not as He gave to us? Christ gave to the world the spirit of love and all the world He gave. His friends are all mankind. We cannot celebrate the birth of Christ through corporeal gifts. Money, jewels and costly presents given at Christmas for homage of Nazarene birth are useless in efficacy. We must give WHAT THEY WRITE ON WAR CORRESPONDENTS SEEM TO USE ANYTHING HANDY. Magnificent Work Being Done in the Field on seemingly an Endless Variety of Strange Materials. "About these war correspondents," said the patient investigator. "What I want to know about them is this: I never, by any chance, find a table of these correspondents." "A table?" i asked the listener. "Why. I suppose they can. If they don't write on tables, what do they write for writing?" "Ah." said the investigator, "that is just the point. What do they? It strikes me that one of the curious developments of this war is the variety of articles that these correspondents use for writing. The record is obtained from current journals. You will observe that I have here a plojo of French, English, and American newspapers. After reading them for half a day I am in a position to present interesting facts about war correspondents. "I find," the investigator continued, "that Correspondent No. 1 began his story this way: "I am writing this on my laptop, but I uprated coal scuttle which belongs to the train dispatcher at Senla." "Correspondent No. 2 starts out this way: "I am writing this story on the top of a battered tea canister." Correspondent No. 3 had found a tin wash for a battered tea canister and was using that for a writing desk. "I had found a 4 had been lucky enough to find a refuge in the collar of a house and was writing on a champagne case. No. 5 was less fortunate. He had to make shift with a flat-bottomed beet tin. He was scribbling scribbling with the flap of a soldier's knapsack for a desk!" It is discouraging to the rest of us," said the listener, "to think what splendid stuff those fellows turn out under such adverse conditions. It is not making the desk does not make the writer." "Conversely, it is equally certain that the writer is everywhere capable of making his own desk. Listen to him. He is not a teacher but at each all day, and am writing this on the saddle still buckled to the back of a dead horse belonging to a wounded officer. Something thrilling about this is "thrilling" said the listener. "It's magnificent." "And what about this? I am writing these dispatches on a heap of notes from the army corps of a bombarded cathedral." "I don't approve of that," said the listener. "If I had written on the remains of those salts and angels I should have taken." "Oh, I don't know," said the investigator. "Not many people get a chance to write war correspondence on thirteenth-century angels. It is not a good idea who do should like to talk about it." Words Not Adequate Human emotions may be portrayed with words. Anger and every emotion are common quilts, generally understood. But the external spectacle, the force over a 400-foot precipice, the active water over a river that hurts bolling water into the heavens, the hurricane, the battle, flood, earthquake, configuration—the elemental things they must be portrayed by the finest artifice. They must be perceived through an impact of the senses before full meaning. In a measure the gas well at White Point comes under the head of spectacles which cannot be portrayed. No man can imagine the million dots who toss that thick, it were the atmosphere as if it were the froth of eggs!—Corpus Christi Caller. Sit Pocket to Show Gu Can a revolver plainly visible through a slit in a hip pocket be classified as a "concealed deadly weapon"? This is a question that stumped Police Judge Kefer when Ernst Saed was shot in court by a police charge. Saed said in court he drove the revolver on a table. He knew it belonged to Constable Ernst Jones and stuck it in his pocket to keep unlucky Jones appeared, he said. Sentunt Jones was in possession, he arrested the weapon, was in his possession until near the city hall. He slit his pocket so that the revolver was exposed. He believed this would excuse him. It enabled a police officer to shoot his arrest. A conviction means a prison sentence and fine—Atlantic City Dispatch to New York World. to the world as He gave to us. The warmth of love should never be measured by the grudging hand of selfishness. Those who often give invisibly because of great means at their comings, are often the victims of Justice, but are worst than Indulgence. The infinite love of Christ has its definite source like all other great forces which are a part of the universe. We cannot give to this great spirit until we become a part of it. We cannot celebrate the birth of the spirit of love until we are believers in the trinity of Christ. Remember the belief in the spirit of love the obedience of the word spoken or declared in our church. It has a higher sanction, a lofter meaning, a more sacred performance than of action. The spirit of love expresses the highest tenet of the loftiest civilization of man through Dylan Inspiration. When the world will release itself from the thralm of slavish fatters will be when we believe in the spirit of love, the Christ that lives. Give to the world that warm ray of sunshine for the soul, the creator. Give, O give not through folly costly gifts of money, but the spirit of love. The sunshine of happiness comes with kind thoughts, kind words and kind action—for He gave to the world Faith, Hope, Charity, Love, Truth, Meekness and Justice. May we not bring to the world as God gave to us? TACT KEYSTONE OF SUCCESS Well Called Magic Gift That "Makes the wheels of the World Go Round." Tact is the sense of touch, declares a writer in the London Globe. Climbing plants, women and churchmen possess it. Ivy, the Miss Berryys and Cardinal Mazain live for all time as models of tact and wariness. It is a skill that requires a tact. To break through the panels of the door of a room one wishes to enter rather than turn the handle, is no mark of strength. Queen Elizabeth II has a political tact was matchless. Her love letters to the duke of Anjou and to her other swain are models of the answers a virgin queen should give to a man who is autocratic and flexible logic could support, with equal and tactful force, opposite sides of every possible question. Huxley, one of the greatest man of the nineteenth century, was a marvel of the past. He intellect but his abounding kindness made him a man of infinite capacity. The absence of tact is indicated by bad manners, by lounging, by inattention, by hesitation, by shyness and by coming down late to breakfast. Unaware of the situation, he is in the young man of the present day do not necessarily imply that the sinner against society cannot exercise tact when he wishes to do so. He is merely out of practice. Tact, like love, makes the wheels of the world go round. Anyone who has been in the past has been in the presence of colonies, with viceroyalties, or with courts is struck with the supreme importance attaching to the virtues of tactfulness and address. The latter quality is more physical than mental. It denotes skill practically applied to the task of man man can successfully deal with a difficult question sprung upon him at short notice. IMPROVISED STILL DID WORK Inventive Coole Helped Medical Missionary Out of an Exceedingly Tight Place. In a life-and-death battle with a cholera epidemic in Human province, Chim, in which an American medical missionary was the leading figure, one of the doctors successfully by one of the mental hospital coolies, according to a writer in the World's Work. Since every patient had a quart of distilled water with salt in it, the water could not be distilled fast enough. For two days the staff struggled along with makeshift white cloth and water, and the little money without the loss of time. This coolie solved the problem. In one day and at a cost of less than two dollars he built a still which later protruded six hours of distilled water every 24 hours. The still was simplicity itself. For cooking food the Chinese use large fast saucelier pans, made of iron. With one of these above and another below, the coilie made a drum of galvanized steel, which the side for a trough. Into the lower kettle for boiling it was poured. Up underneath a hot fire sent up a constant steam vapor. The upper kettle was kept cool by frequent changes of cold water. The vapor from the lower kettle, placed on the lower surface of the cool upper kettle, was dropped off into the trough, and filled bottle after bottle with distilled water. Simple Test for Water's Purity. It is sometimes useful to be able to obtain an idea of the purity or other water that is purified, without incurring the expense of an analytical and bacterological analysis. Among the constituents of savage are phosphates in comparative abundance. If a clear-glass bottle is nearly empty, the water to be tested, a lump or a small amount of whole coated tightly and placed in a sunny place for two or three days, the water should remain quite clear. If however, it contains phosphates in excess, a milkiness will have developed which case the suspicion of contamination will be confirmed to warrant a full recovery of the water supply before any more of it is used for drinking purposes. World's Debt to the Unfit The world owes much to the physically unit. It would be less worth living in today but for the brilliant conductor who has been a deaf man who have enriched it. In our craze for efficiency and for standardizing everything we are in danger of forgetting that there are other ways to be deaf. We cannot do without the consumptive Stevensons, the anemic Voltaire's the blind Milton's, the deaf Beethovens, the hunchback Alexander Pope, the deaf Bryons, the helpless Prescott. FAMILY IS ABLE TO BOAST OF A REAL TREASURE. The charm has worked again. We advertised for a servant girl, one who would appraise her horn of refinement, when she could hold her afternoons and evenings off, with no washing, no froning, no scrubbing, no baking, no mopping, no nothing. She came. She came in radiance with a new hat fluttering jawily over her head, but graceful sweep on her right brow. A mere touch at the door-ball and her presence was announced. We knew the moment we saw her that she was the long expected. She was the expected parlor and gave her a seat on the long sofa, right near the sheet of tanglefoot. In fact, she was welcome to two seats, but she politely yet firmly declined. We thought she would, but, then, we wanted to show her right side, and we were of a generous disposition. No, she would not remove her hat or her gloves or even her vell. She preferred to remain incoq, so that in case of a disturbance she wouldn't have her identity. It was a very difficult approach to approach the subject of wages. One glance at her was enough to tell that she had been neglected in the past. Her gloves were not auto-mounted, nor was her vell one with a handle. She was on the back seat of a red flyer. Her skirt was not a riding habit. Her boots were not built for long cross-country tramps. Her gold-headed umbrella was not a golf stick. She sat at her and think that all her life she had been deprived of all the opportunities that any domestic should enjoy. No doubt she had spent her evenings in the kitchen, eating bakery cookies and reading the fashion hints or toasting coffee with the aid of the electric toaster. Naturally we dropped our eyes to the hardwood floor, where they lift with a thump. This startled her and dropped the suggestion that some folks take a week or a week. Before she could boost her figures, we had her telephone for her trunks, and now she is safely located in the front suite upstairs, with free bedding and sleeping porch, so that she can receive a nurse—Gene F. Paul, in Judge Women in the World Refusing to take a dare, Mrs. Marla Morgan of Sedella, Mo., made a balloon ascension to the height of 1,200 feet to investigate the ground in safety with a parachute. Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, wife of former Congressman Littleton of New York, is given credit for having the government negotiate for the purchase of the famous Thomas Jefferson mansion. As a means of gaining speed the western Union Telegraph company in the New York city has equipped its 62 girl servers with a network of army of girls deliver messages in the company's great operating room, there by bringing about a saving of one-half in time. Women are employed as inspectors for women that work in 22 states. New York has 16, Pennsylvania, 10; Ohio, 8; Wisconsin, 5; Minnesota, 4; New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois 3 each. California and Maryland each 2. Florida and states there is one inspector each. Two Warlike Emperors By taking the field in person, kaler and czar will maintain the tradition of their families. Since Carlyle's "original Corad" took service under Barbarossa, there has been no Hozellenborn who was not a brave soldier. Carlyle proved it on the battlefield. In the war of 1871-71 every male member, it is said, of the Prussian royal family took the field, even including the musical composer, Prince George, who had received no military training. Carlyle's off is not less creditable. At Aussteritz Alexander I was in the firing line almost continuously, and emerged from the tumult at Dresden covered with blood. Czar Nicholas was spoken of as "absolutely ignorant of fear," and his sons gamed a similar reputation. Carlyle's courage was shown not only at Plevau, but in the last minutes before his assassination. His Part In the Conflict. Making the best of a bad situation, a campaign orator replied to the claims of a rival candidate for office in the 1960s, a petter has told you of the services he rendered in the late war: I will follow his example, and I will tell you of mine. He basely insinuates that I was a victim of the war's crisis. The truth is I acted a humble part in that memorable contest. When the tosin of war summoned the chivalry of the country to rally to the defense of the nation, he animated by that patriciate spirit that glows in every American's bosom, hired a substitute for that war, and the bones of that man, fellow-citizens, living in the valley of the Shenandoah*1 Thinking Charity If we could realize that, supposing we were all created alike and subject to the same circumstances, we should all make the same mistakes and blunders, our judgment of others would be different. There is no phase of charity so beautiful as thinking you give all you have to the poor, or to the poor, or to any other way, it availbeth nothing on us as you think unkindly and unjustly. Charity hurts no one by word or deed. J. N. Street. Awful Thought A little girl receiving her first religious teaching was much impressed by the unique character and omniposition of the Almighty. Saying her proteus was adored and爱戴, and earnest petition: "And, O Lord, please take good care of yourself, for if anything happens to you, O Lord, what are the rest of us going to do?" With the Cynic It is a sin that believe of others, but it is seldom a mistake - Smart Set. RACE UNITY PLEA OF ISAAC FISHER. (Continued from Page 1.) edge, and we are succeeding. pretty well. One Thing We Have Not Learned. "But, whatever our success in other lines, we have not learned the lesson which Jesus taught John, namely, that 'He that is not against us is for us.' Some Facts. "There are upward of ten millions of Negroes in the United States. They represent practically every stage of civilization, every element of culture, and every possible longing for the good and the true. Their training has been diverse, and their several ideals vastly different, because their environs in many cases have differed. Naturally advanced thinkers representing each group have appeared within the race. But in the presence of grave problems which touch the highest interests of the race these have differed in methods of rendering the best service to their fellows. The Tragedy. "But they have not only differed. Many of them, eaten up with zeal for the cause of the race, have, like John, sought for tobid, to ridicule, to hinder other persons equally as zealous from the race, in their own way. As a result bishops, our owny, envy and sometimes hatred have sundered the labors of men who differ in methods but are one in purpose, and who, working together, would be a great source of racial strength. He That is Not Against Us—The Men That is Not against us, and who, working together, would be a great source of racial strength. He That is not against us is for us. What do these words mean? In our case they mean that—" The men who insist that our race differences must be solved by peaceable and evolutionary methods are not against the race). Therefore they must be for us. "The men who are impatient because the race is asked to endure so much that is unfair are not against us (the race). Therefore they must be for us. "The men who believe in hand training are not against us (the race). Therefore they must be for us. "The men who declare that mental training is best are not against us (the race). These men therefore they must be for us. These men who believe that merit, worth and rightness sentiments will give the race the desires of its heart are not against us (the race). Therefore they must be for us." "Knowingly none of these is against us. Therefore all of them are trying to do something for us." "The Message." "Lay down your strength! Fight no more! Get together! Win your brother if you can, but revile him no more. Shake hands. We need you, brother on the right. We need you, father of the child. And we trust you both, because He that is not against us is for us." W. SIDNEY PATTMAN WINS FAME (Continued from Page 1.) for Mr. Pittman to complete a course in architecture and in mechanical drawing in institute, Philadelphia, Pa. So great an institute made upon the instructors of Drexel Institute by this student that the faculty voluntarily voted him a free scholarship in architecture and all allied subjects, a special mention being made of him by the president as one of its students" at the awarding of diplomas. Helps Beautify Tuskence. Helps Beautify Tuskegee. According to regular agreement Mr. Pittman institute after his graduation in Tuskegee institute and was placed in charge of the department of architectural drawing and of all of the planning and superintending of buildings for the institute. During the five years he remained at Tuskegee institute, he worked 40,000 words of buildings were erected on his plans, and, in addition to this, he planned structures in other parts of the South that were valued at $150,000. After resigning his position at Tuskegee institute Mr. Pittman opened a company that is regularly recommended by some of the most prominent business men of the city. He is the organizer of the Fairmount Heights Improvement Company of Washington, D. C., an investment company which has just completed a project and is the editor of the Negro Business League Herald, a monthly magazine devoted to the commercial and material advancement of the members of the National Business League. He is also the founder and president of the National Business Company, a corporation organized for the purpose of constructing a memorial to Lincoln and to the thrift and energy of the Afro-American in the form of a large theater and office building in the business district of Washington, D. C., and managed by the race. The corporation is capitalized at $400,000. ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. Garfield Wilson has left the city indefinitely, and the business of the orchestra formerly known as Garfield Wilson's Orchestra, is now under the sole direction and management of Wm. H. Brown, Jr. Mr. Brown apologizes for the lack of a specially solicits your future patronage. All contracts for engagements taken care of at 3310 Rhodes avenue. Phone Douglas 5729. 5-12-19 TO CORRESPONDENTS. In writing for The Defender, have matter to the office no later than to ensure publication. Write plainly and clearly. Use typewriter whenever possible. Right at Home There- The visitor to the links at Hayesford on the-Mud had had the oldest candle in the district allotted to him as his burden of burden. "Well," said the visitor, "as you have been living in the neighborhood so many years, I suppose you know all the ins and outs of this place?" "Oh, yes, sir, at least I am quite familiar with the ins" replied the candy. Proper Timber Area. Proper Timber in his arch. William Penny in his charter of rights, three acres, five acres of forest cleared one acre should be left in woods. Foresters today declare that on an average one-fifth of the farm should be in timber. "A great style, a wonderful execution," said old Herr Jäger, as Dorothy Ransome finished her first public planfoe recital. "But she has not the true interpretation." "I pleased John Ransome of the famous pianist, whom he had induced to come to Boston especially to hear his gifted daughter. Herr Jäger shrugged his shoulders. "He asked me. Interpretation is the musical values. Sometimes that comes—sometimes it never comes." "But Dorothy is so young. She is only twenty," pleaded John Ransome. "A age makes no difference," answered the musicalist. "He expressive shoulders once again. John Ransome was the big man of Crossways, Mass. He was a self-made man and occupied a magnificent mansion in the somewhat squilldown manufacturing town. He had not forgotten that he came to him. The Richard: and the Ransome were always good friends, even after Richard failed in business and was reduced to very modest size. His son Tom, and Dorothy had been his friends of, and of late, sweetbreads. That was where John Ransome set his foot down. "I do not want you to marry Tom Richards," he said to Dorothy. And, indulgent though he was, to the point of excess, toward each of his daughters, on this point he was adamant. He did not seek to influence her 'by threats or harbours, but by appealing to her genes of duty. "You are my only child, Dorothy, and I knew that you must marry some day," he said. "But it was your mother's wish that you should be married as she seemed likely to be, up a world success to marry a poor man, and together we toiled until we had made a fortune. She was animated solely by duty; I want you, she was not interested in our wishes. Put Tom Richards out of your head until you have succeeded—say for five years." That was a couple of months before Dorothy and she were on their way back to Paris, and just completed her education at the Conservatoire of Paris, and had every medal for which she was eligible. Now failure and not success had crowned John Ransome's efforts. And Dorothy. There had always been complete frankness between father and daughter. John told her, and noted, with something of bitterness that Dorothy did not seem to care. "It seems useless to go on," he said. "I have no wish to see you famous as a second-rate plantist. There is no need to earn your bread. I do not care if you never touch the planforo again." Dorothy came behind his chair and put her arms about his neck. "But her," she whispered, "now will you consent to my thinking of Tom." She was the most sighed. He knew that the young man had been sheed Dorothy told him, with tears, but firmly, that he could not come to the house for the present. She had not left him without hope, but to my five years seems an endless period. "Yes, my dear," said her father, bracing himself to meet the situation manfully. He was -more than repaid during the following weeks by seeing the old of gladness creep into his daughter's bed. There were red, and her air气. Tom was certainly a very fortunate young man. One day Ransome was surprised by a visit from his old acquaintance, Herr Jaeger. In fact the old man had met him and had hundred miles to see him. After dinner he explained the purpose of his visit. "Once, many years ago," he said, "I made a harsh judgment and spoiled a promising career. Since then, when ever I give an opinion, I think about to be repeated in my job and feel out of sorts on the night when I heard Mori Dorothy play. I have come to ask her to play again, so that I may perhaps revise my judgment." Dorothy went indifferently over to the place where the piece which had been the chief artist cert, the "Hungarian Rhapsody of Listen, and began to play. When she had finished Herr Jaeger was standing at her side, as if spellbound. My dear, I made a mistake," he said. "You are a genius. Your interpretation of the master is as wonderful as your technique. But you did not play like that at the concert." The door opened and the butter ants arrived. And Dorothy, forgetful of that, met him and was clapped in his arms. It was quite a minute later when she found herself standing in continuation before Herr Jaeger. The old eyes were smiling, but his eyes were most "Mr. Ransome, that is what I referred to when I said that the gift might come," he said. "Love is the gift, but every gift is not the same, but of every art, for art itself is nothing but the upwelling of all that is noblest and most self-forgetful into interpretation by the brain and hand and ear and eye. Your daughter will be the greatest pianist in Europe." John Ransome shook his head sadly. He knew that it was now too late to change Dorothy's plans. Her Jasper put on his hat. "My mother is lost to the world, Mr. Ransome," he said. "But for my part I would not have it otherwise. Good-by." (Copyright, 1941, by W. G. Chapman) A Thought Old friends are the great blessings of one's life. Conversa one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, and have a same mode of thinking. the gun, lying in cash. The enemy is a heavy cannon, which shoots its charge while飞 or explodes on contact. Its speed is produced by the pressure of from thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand pounds, and that exceeds it from the gun. --- SIXTY-YEAR OLD WOMAN GRADUATE IN PAINTING (Continued from page 1.1) elected president of the Ladies' Educational Convention and a missionary she entered the Chicago Religious Training School at Olive Baptist Church. Enters Art Class. The Rev. E. J. Fisher gave her encouragement. When it discontinued, she entered the Maxwell-Reynolds Bible Class and she began to paint. Her progress was wonderful. Her teacher taught her how to paint. The paint brush became her idea. She says, "God seemed to unfold my mind and soul to grasp the art." Mrs. Tisdale is quite an interesting character and has a son, Clarence Tisdale, the girl. She has sent him a hand painted shaving set for a Christmas present. Chats with Reporter. Speaking to a Defender reporter, she said: "I have made 21 different pieces of china. Oh, how I long for the opportunity that modern women have, but I have such an ambition that I am not so easy to look back and see how my old mother read the read the third reader at the age of 65 years. While I realize I cannot reach the top, yet I will be found trying. "God has blessed me with one son, we need to send me every week a good gift to every need. For Thanksgiving he gave a box full of good things to eat, including a big, fat, well roasted turkey. "My Tisdale is now taking piano lessons and is doing splendidly. "Three Score Years and Ten. Mrs. Dianah Dean, age 70, and one of the finest elderly women to meet in this city, was seen Sunday morning at Baptist church, where she worshiped. She also made remarkable progress with the brush at the Maxwell-Reynolds painting school. Mrs. Dean was seen Sunday night after church services and the sender reporter. "I want to show your picture taken," said the reporter. "What on earth have I done," she said, "to get my picture in the paper?" "What is it?" she asked, speaking of her china painting and what a fine lesson it would be to have the younger generation know what a masterpiece is, and that was doing and she readily consented. A Product of Mississippi. Mrs. Dean was born sixteen years before the war in Mississippi. Just after the war she moved to Topeka, Kansas, twelve years ago she came to church the first year of the pastorate of the Rev. E.J. Fisher. She is a consistent Christian and never misses her church service. In the cut is a brodery on the waist that was done by Mrs. Dean. From a shave to a finished artist is a great leap, and these two aged women should be an young people to take advantage of the many opportunities offered them. Unused to That Voice A sweet little child is Frances, but but there are moments when her busy mother finds her reiterated questions and repeated requests somewhat try-ing to receive a rather impatient reply to her request. Frances, who sat out of range of her mother's countenance, quaintly expressed her surprise and perplexity over that dear mother's unwonted and irritious. "If your face smiling, and so mischievous, she mirrors" inquired. "Your voice sounds awful strange!" Folly of Profanity Although the use of some expletive decently and in order may often be justified, it is something we should all try to avoid. Thoroughly well balanced men and women never let their nerves become wrought up to a pitch where sweating is necessary. They know that no matter how good scientific reasons there may be for expletives their use is a confession of weakness. Tip to the Jury. The great John Philipth Curran was once addressing a jury in an important case. During his speech he obeyed the judge shook his head. Fearing the judge would reverse influence on the jury, Curran warmed up for the moment and said: "I see, gentlemen, the motion of his lordship's head, but, believe me, if you have many time you will see that what he shakes his head there's nothing in it." 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Alfred Anderson, Associate Editor. IF I WUZ SANTA CLAUS. and th' mostest fun at our house Christmas was after Santa had been there an' druv sister Annie—she's th' littlest yout this name's Tommie, an' me, of course, he an' th' fireplace makin' Ma sze, "so muu will be kickin', with our horns, an' dret 'em ler' to their little hearts' contenure as I kern, ever helped me pay th' revery often git to stay home in th' day, season likely, Ma jes let him have his way somewhere in a mill an' leaves afore it don't come home again till way late after it much of us kids 'cept Sundays when that we dissent laugh, er have no fun at z Santa Claus I'd try to find a way more often than jes on Christmas day. REVEPORT'S UNENVIABLE RECORD KIT, LA., has been looked upon—an intricular spot in this glorious free of Imps hold full sway. There is not to be staged in this hole. For a in stringing or some poor unfortunate riddling him with bullets for commit how that the fun may be fast and more are set out the same fate. We that city has had the termen is not sufficient merely to regok place in this city recently, and more than enough of deplor addo parish. They have become is openly flouted, the courts flagranded. It is a condition that is work to a community which boasts safe and orderly government." We on the readers of the Times rem at least sit up and take notice for nurses" they have acted on the spur of "nob vengeance" before the machinery motion. But in these last cases there was no provoke men of a low order, to upset the law which is both the theory and practice of the lynchings were deliberately, if conspiracies which are calculated to shad id as lawless and barbarous. There is sort of thing. The time for denunciated inquiries has passed. The time does not justify is past. The time and Caddo parish stand before the officials are helpless, where the courts of law has been suspended, where mercy of the mobs and these mobs united to this condition of affairs is to fix to persons and to enforce the law we can be done if the proper effort is made. CHICAGO A LITERARY CENTER S BEING RECOGNIZED as one of is country for the reason that here are all of the prominent seats of learny premacy along all lines of endeavour city, fortunes are yet to be made, far loof of hope and opportunity has not citizen with the dark skin. Here are the man who has something thy'd sale, but for the sluggard there is is keen; that is why our doctors, in every line succeed; they put be and there throughout the city carmen and women seekers of light at the books and writings of the best of the day the Bethel Literary Society est, the subject being "The best solved States of America." It was prairie they say in playing cards, the rests being permitted to compete in audience that tested the capacity of church, and we venture to say that much larger vision of what their own betterment of all mankind. Each acts and figures dating as far back much maligned. We know too little to concede that we have not recognition. And it is only by surplus as given by these essay contents into the subject, that we awake free that we are men among men, feet have been discussed in other but we had th' mostest fun at our house Christmas day, urs' 'was after Santa had been there an' druv away; sister Annie—she's th' littest you know— is name's Tommie, an' me, of course, I'm Joe, ... th' th' fireplace makein' Ma sez, "so much noise ghors will be kickin'," with our horns, an' drums, an' toys sez, "Let 'em l' er to their little hearts' content, hbor, fer as I' aw, ever helped me pay th' rent." It so very often girl to stay home in th' day, s th' reason likely, Ma jes let him have his way. vorkin' somewhere in a mill an' leaves afore it's light in he don't come home again till way late after night. lon't see much of us kids' 'cept Sundays when we're all sed up 'at we dassent laugh, er have no fun at all. if I wuz Santa Claus I'd try to find a way around' more often than jes on Christmas day. SHREVEPORT'S UNENVIABLE RECORD. at least sit up and take notice for a few minutes of the times" they have acted on the spur of the moment and flicted "nob vengeance" before the machinery of the law had in motion. But in these last cases there was no sudden frenzy, right provoke men of a low order, to upset that restraining of the law which is both the theory and practice of organized Instead the lynchings were deliberately, if not cunningly, conspiracies which are calculated to shame a community world as lawless and barbarous. There is but one way to sort of thing. The time for denunciation has passed. hearted inquiries has passed. The time for attempted does not justify is past. The time for palliation is and Caddo parish stand before the country today as officials are helpless, where the courts are paralyzed, of law has been suspended, where responsible government of the mobs and these mobs unrestrained. The due to this condition of affairs is to fix the responsibility set to persons and to enforce the law which they have can be done if the proper effort is made. It ought to be S BEING RECOGNIZED as one of the leading lit- is country for the reason that here are gathered men all of the prominent seats of learning, vicing with preemacy along all lines of endeavor. Chicago is city, fortunes are yet to be made, fame is but around loor of hope and opportunity has not yet been entirely citizen with the dark skin. Here a price is paid for it. The man who has something the other fellow dy sale, but for the sluggard there is nothing. That n is keen; that is why our doctors, lawyers, dentists in every line succeed; they put brains into every e and there throughout the city can be found little men and women seekers of light and wisdom as it the books and writings of the best authors past and unday the Bethel Literary Society held their fifth est, the subject being, "The best solution of the race 'ted States of America." It was practically an elim- they say in playing cards, the rubber, only wins being permitted to compete. Five splendid in audience that tested the capacity of the immense I church, and we venture to say the vast majority much larger vision of what their own race had acbettement of all mankind. Each paper was filled acts and figures dating as far back as time, about much maligned. We know too little of our own ne to concede that we have nothing worth while recognition. And it is only by such pleasant joists status as given by these essay contestants and others into the subject, that we awake from our lethargy, el that we are men among men, women among acts have been discussed in other contests as "Our they were and their contribution to the laws who they were and their contributions to part played by the Negro soldiers in the that has the Negro contributed to the worldization. Brains rule the world and we we are more each day. THE WRECKING BUSINESS RISTABELLL PANKHURST is in charge for the time in "dear oil" Lunnon," or with Germany, she feels that she and their oars and watch others smash u in her home town. Force is one of route, it may not be right time having is worth fighting for. The women bad off as they are across the waterage, so there is little reason for them to miss. The cause of the women while be measured with that of the African freedom and rights denied them for they have not resorted to force to gain that they would be far better off. Patience comes a time when patience ceases so time is about at hand. Miss Pankhurst seeds of discontent where they little are and when they will sprout and crush their thick growth. MISS CHRISTABEL PANKHURST is in the city, militancy being suspended for the time in "dear oil Lunnon," owing to the slight unpleasantness with Germany, she feels that she and her followers can rest awhile on their oars and watch others smash up and tear down things in general in her home town. Force is one of her strong points in settling a dispute, it may not be right but time has proven that anything worth having is worth fighting for. The women in this country are not quite so bad off as they are across the water, for many states offer them suffrage, so there is little reason for them engaging in the wrecking business. The cause of the women while of great importance can hardly be measured with that of the Afro-Americans who have had their freedom and rights denied them for more than a century, and yet they have not resorted to force to gain their point. Perhaps if they had they would be far better off. Patience is all right in a way, but there comes a time when patience ceases to be a virtue, and fortunately the time is about at hand. Miss Pankhurst and her associates are sewing seeds of discontent where they little know, and who can tell just where and when they will sprout and crush out the flowers of today with their thick growth. AN INVITATION. EVERY OFTEN THAT THE PRESIDENT general public—to break bread with his approach a feeling of "Peace or Death over us and way down deep in our son's son of YOU would accept our in thought if not in person. No note will note by perusing the MENU CHRISTMAS—1914 GRACE CONSCIENCE, CLEAR GO TENDER MEMORIES ARTITY SERVED WITH DISCREET LOVE LONG LIFE STUFFED WITH USEFULNESS HEART, FOND AND TRUE, A LARGE PORTION ON SWEET THOUGHTS T WISHES FOR ABSENT FRID MIZPAH. IT ISN'T VERY OFTEN THAT THE PRESS GANG invites their friends—the general public—to break bread with them but as the gladsome holidays approach a feeling of "Peace on earth, good will toward men," steals over us and way down deep in our hearts we wish that every mother's son of YOU would accept our cordial invitation to dine with us in thought if not in person. No expense has been spared as you will note by perusing the MENU CHRISTMAS—1914 GRACE CONSCIENCE, CLEAR KINDNESS GOOD CHEER TENDER MEMORIES CHARITY SERVED WITH DISCRETION PEACE LOVE TRUTH LONG LIFE STUFFED WITH USEFULNESS HEART, FOND AND TRUE, A LARGE PORTION AFFECTION HAPPINESS SWEET THOUGHTS BEST WISHES FOR ABSENT FRIENDS MIZPAH. THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. CHRISTMAS—WHY MERRY? A man's voices ringing forth with the kind friend, alien and native, all are called Christmas spirit. MERRY CHRISTMAS secular and a sacred word. Merry is a language, there is nothing in the word coupled with a word that the world had traditions. It truly has no secuity even though it is, would not instinctive words from such foreign sources die, a common ground. What is the reason it not the song of the angels on the earth, good will to men. That is of Christmas, it is the very essence of it. Peace brings joy, good will be placed at peace with the world, and in harm that a joyful and merry heart that went between the two words. The Christmas flows back as it were, upon the ring with the other in that most beautiful Christmas spirit. MERRY CHRISTMAS—WHY MERRY? The whole world hears the echo of men's voices ringing forth with the glad sound. Old and young, foe and friend, alien and native, all are caught in the whirlpool of the Christmas spirit. MERRY CHRISTMAS, here is a combination of a secular and a sacred word. Merry is not in the vocabulary of sacred language, there is nothing in the word sacred in itself and yet it is coupled with a word that the world has adopted from sacred annals and traditions. It truly has no secular meaning. The world, secular even though it is, would not instinctively have brought together two words from such foreign sources did they not have a point of contact, a common ground. What is the church's wish foy Christmas? Is it not the song of the angels on that first Christmas morn? Peace on earth, good will to men. That is the supreme song, the ideal spirit of Christmas, it is the very essence of joy and happiness and merriment. Peace brings joy, good will brings solace, could one be perfectly at peace with the world, and in harmony and good will with all men, what a joyful and merry heart that would bring. There is no estrangement between the two words. The spirit contained in the word Christmas, flows back as it were, upon the merry, and the one intermingling with the other in that most beautiful sentiment which is embraced in the Christmas spirit. WINNING PRIZES. PROVE THAT SOME OF U. S. will mention the fact that Paul R. W. Welles, Cal., in a national competition, is from all sections of the country at prize recently. The competition is center located in the suburban districts plans for community stores, moved house, library and public playground wherever we are given an equal or more good, in fact it is incumbent JUST TO PROVE THAT SOME OF US ARE DOING THINGS we will mention the fact that Paul R. Williams, an architect, of Los Angeles, Cal., in a national competition, in which ten architects and artists from all sections of the country competed, was awarded the first prize recently. The competition called for designs for a sub-civic center located in the suburban district of Pasadena, Cal., and includes plans for community stores, moving picture show, church, apartment house, library and public playground. It is a noteworthy fact that wherever we are given an equal opportunity we always make more than good, in fact it is incumbent upon us to do more than the other fellow to receive equal credit, they generally mark off about fifty per cent on account of our fast color. But even with that handicap oftimes we come out ahead, which goes to prove we should always be ready to grasp an opportunity when it is presented. NEW AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION are adopted so rarely that a new one is a historical event. In the early days it was different, for the first ten amendments became effective in December, 1791, or only eighteen months after the ratification of the Constitution by the last of the thirteen states. Another amendment was adopted in 1789, and still another in 1804. No further additions were made to the Constitution until the adoption of the three war amendments in the period between 1865 and 1870. These were the laws providing for emancipation, reconstruction and Negro citizenship. Last year the income tax amendment was ratified and now we have reason to look for the adoption of two others—prohibition and woman's suffrage—both are becoming important factors in our body politic, and both should have the hearty support of every loyal citizen, as they are stepping stones to a better government. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS IN PRESENTING YOU WITH THIS, THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF OUR PAPER, IT OCCURS TO US THAT NOW IS THE OPPORTUNE TIME TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION FOR THE LOYAL SUPPORT AND LIBERAL PATRON-AGE GIVEN US DURING THE PAST YEAR. WE THANK YOU FOR THE SAME, AND ASSURE YOU THAT WE WILL DO ALL IN OUR POWER TO MERIT ITS CONTINUANCE. WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH CONTRACTORS in Dallas, Texas, according to a reader of the Dallas Dispatch, who writes at length to that paper complaining that when he applies for a job the contractors tell him they are "full up" and most of the laborers employed are Negroes. Think of employing a Negro in preference to a white man, even if the former does give better service! Strange things happen in Texas and this is one of them. JUST REMEMBER it isn't the postman's fault if one of your packages happen to be crushed. He is not responsible for the entire postal system. CHARITY MAY BEGIN AT HOME, but an awful lot of it went abroad this year at the expense of thousands of little sorrowing hearts right at our own back doors. DON'T SIGH FOR A BABY GRAND PIANO if a barrel of flour would do you more good. OF COURSE SHE'LL "AY, "I really didn't know I was under the mistletoe," but you show sorry about a little thing like that. JUST ONE WEEK OF GRACE and then will come the time for turning over a new leaf, the trouble with most people they get the leaf soiled before the day is through: IF WE ALL GOT WHAT WE DESERVE perhaps our Christmas' wouldn't be so merry. THE STORES WILL DO A RUSHING BUSINESS exchanging presents people don't want for those they do want. IT MIGHT BE WELL TO REMEMBER that to many people Christmas only means the 25th of December. Who Can Surely Point the Way? By RALPH W. TYLER On down the corridor of Time has come that bold, defiant, fearless declaration of Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death," and it has aroused from inaction to militancy thousands of men, who before had been reconciled to the futility of fighting the world; who now, thrilled by this defiant declaration, believe, and say, one had best be dead than live shorn of constitutional rights and privileges. Back from a period of three thousand years, frightened with the fragrance of peace, something divine-like whispers to us: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth," and so they divinely-inspired words seize hold of our unseen and patient aggressive force we hastile between misight, wondering all the while if the promise will be fulfilled; doubling if the red corpuscles of courageousness should be permitted to crystallize into the shrinking spirit of a slave. "We met the enemy and they are ours," sent over the blue waters of Lake Erie in 1812 hues and does now inspire men to battle, to blood and to death, midst the boom of cannon and the shriek of shells, for the honor, long-life honor, that comes to him who dares to fight against might and fears neither the legions of earth or the minions of hell when his rights are assaulted and his liberties curried. Timorously, from out between the covers of that Book of Books, shrinking behind "the word of God," there comes to us, "If any one smite you on the right cheek, turn him also the left," commanding us to suffer but not strike back. But what monumental courage, what a wonderful spirit of forbearance it requires to give heed DEFENDER'S LEGAL HELPS Husband and Wife Defender's Legal Helps—I understand that a wife cannot testify against her husband in court. If a husband mistreats his wife when no one else is present, how can a wife have him punished? Answer: Ordinarily husband and wife cannot testify against, neither for each other, but the laws provide that in cases where the husband has inflicted a personal injury upon the wife, where the wife is complaining witness in wife abandonment cases, where the husband is the agent of the wife and in a few cases the husband and wife may testify against her witness. Courant, Your Attorney Consult Your Attorney. Defender's Legal Helps—I understand and have been informed that an association of individuals must be incorporated to hold a leasehold estate, the same having been purchased, and you are not incorporated such holding is illegal. The association of such association and we are contemplating the purchase of a leasehold estate and would like to be informed on the matter. Answer: The Supreme Court of this state has recently held that it is not illegal for such association to purchase and hold such interest in real property, but would advise you to consult some attorney that you may be safe in your investment. THE EDITOR'S MAIL Anxiously Waiting For Paper. In a letter containing a subscription appeared the following: "Please try and get my Defender to me as early as possible each week, as I am always anxiously awaiting the day can get a new edition. It is true that the Defender may none appeals to me as does the Chicago Defender, and here's wishing The Defender a long, long and successful life." Eliziah Spear, 3226 South LaSalle Street." Desecration of the Dead To the Editor.—It is surprising how some people will go to the extreme in their efforts to obtain money. Many west side people who attended a recent funeral became indignant when one one assuming authority, decided (without ascertaining the desire of the family of the deceased) to take advantage of the large crowd and tax the generosity of those who came to pay respects to the dead, by ordering a collection taken. If it was true that the family needed financial assistance from the public there could have been a special set in order to be paid for, or for the relief. It seems ridiculous, likewise shameful, to use a funeral as the means of obtaining money. If this family did not need financial assistance of the public, then surely the generosity of those attending the funeral was severely abused.—G. B. F. The Right Kind of Calendars. To the Editor—Knowing your paper to be a defender of the rights, and a protector against the wrongs of our people, we think this an opportune time to call your attention to the style of calendars generally presented to Ethiopian patrons by firms and business men of other nationalities. The man who holds the highest office in the gift of the American people the other day told a story, and the gist of it was that in order to love a thing you must first know it. As to the refutation or verification of that statement we will leave it to the defenders of romance and adamantions. But, to think of it, after honest, endeavor, trying to keep paid your weekly premiums after good natured bargaining and purchases, you are affronted with a replica of a, people, many, of whom dialect you, and try to crush you simply because they don't know us nor to such a command even from Him, when inspiring martial music, the husbands, and the crowns and the honors await those who dare to fight, with their blood and their lives, injustice that strips them of citizen's rights and privileges. "The survival of the fittest" asms within the manly man all that fighting spirit needed to sail his barque over the tempest-tossed sea to the quiet harbor yonder where sets the glorious sun; or to make one's way through the reef in what foes woe the striving in spite of every achievement recorded that we are but a little higher than the patient, burden-bearing ox—no better than a dog. When one has gripped up his loins, grasped the battling ax firmly and with grim determination prepared to hurl himself against the hated foe; determined on "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"; determined to secure the hard hands clutching the battle-ax ax the hot blood cools, and the spirit of Christlike humility charges anger from its throne when from out the long-gone past serenely down through the ages comes, "Do unto others as you would that men should do to you." Torn by dissension, distracted by the babble of voices—the militant and the submissive urged on by the craving for the honors and glory that is the reward of the returned blood-stained conquering hero, and dissuaded by the siren song of peace in a far-off land, the enemy must we take to reap the largest need of praise and the most lasting and comforting peace. Which? Who can surely point the way? want the opportunity of ever knowing us. I say it is an affront, and worse. For instance, the writer has tried to think of a time in the last fifteen years when the Metropolitan Insurance Co has given calendars bearing replicas of other than the one and same people. Yet I dare say that on their debit are names of people representing the nations of the world. Now we know that calendars begin making calendars showing likenesses of our little ones (though for beauty, sweetness and interesting faces they are as a cluster of variegated pansy blossoms, and are more beautiful character studies than "The Annunciation," featured in the December number of a popular magazine, as a cover picture). No we are not asking to please feature the Ethiopians some time, but we do ask the many firms and catering to the masses, regardless of classes, that if we want to be a part of Yuletide spirit to choose a picture in deference to all their patrons, such as landscapes, animals or flowers. We are reminded of an incident that happened two years ago. The writer visited a long-established jewelry firm located on South State street. After making a purchase she was given a calendar on which was depicted faces resembling very ordinary white people, she politely, refused the cardboard telling she didn't decorate her house with such pictures, telling just why they didn't appeal to her, and ended by referring to the many calendars featuring beautiful scenery and animals one could secure. The project was so successful that soon seemed much surprised, and he asked the writer if she really meant what she said. She answered in the affirmative. Last Yuletide she again visited this same establishment, and for the moment the incident the year before was forgotten, but the head of the firm had remembered, and presenting a calendar said, "How do you like this one? I hope it will please you." And it did. It was a horse's and animals horsehouse, relieved with a floral design, giving a very pleasing effect. Then there was a South Street market house that showed the true Yuletide spirit by giving its patrons a picture suitable with a floral design. "How the case was perhaps simple thoughtlessness, which was rectified when shown the unfairness to many of their customers. But oh, Mr. Editor, if only we could imbue those who are lacking self pride (for all it is only an individual affair) with a goodly injection of the spirit of Trotterism. Why each protested unit would make such a howling protesting whole that we would be hearted all over the continent. And whether they knew us or not, whether they loved us or not, they would be compelled to give to us what they give to other nations—a respectful offering from many Ethiopian villages. Money from many Ethiopian villages helped make possible large financial institutions. And if it is so that they do not know us, why it is time they were being told a few things about us. Why, think of it, the common whites of the country, and the poor, for one is surprised at the amount of trash parading with the rich and mingling with the nobility, but to think these our enemy. These people of one color, one nation, who are burning and lynching us, these people who are fighting up, these people who are pillaging of these people being given us to hang up in our homes, for us to accept with a grin and a "thank you," why it is add insult to injury, and we should resent it. And there is no organ that can so ably voice our protest than the many Ethiopian weeklies and periodicals of the country. MRS. EDNA; V. FORD; 3743 Forest Ave. More About the Victoria Cross. To the Editor—Permit me to correct the error you made in your last issue, when you said that Gungus Snigh is the first one of the dark races to receive the Victoria Cross. RENT MONEY Dr Pre Hy NO O PR High Death Rate from Organic Heart Disease, Etc. That organic heart disease is steadily on the increase among all classes of people is a fact that compacts with the experience of medical men who have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine during the last ten or twenty years and who have a cognizance of the causes of death in the various causes come within their observation from time to time. In looking over the department of commerce, bureau of the census, as prepared by E. Dana Durand, Bulletin No. 112, we note that organic disease of the heart was given as the cause of death in $33,525 cases. This is stated to be the cause of more deaths than any other disease or group of diseases known in the abridged international list, notwithstanding the number of deaths from tuberculosis in all forms was 94,205. This great morbidity of organic heart disease prevails largely among persons of middle and advanced age. In the same table the death rate of the the whites, given as 211.8 per 100,000, which is much higher than that of the Afro-Americans, which is given as 137.8 per 100,000. The death rate of the Afro-Americans as given is nearly one and one-half times as large as that of the white population. Take the question of tuberculosis. The statistics give for the whites 126.2 per 100,000, whereas the cause of death from tuberculosis of the lungs in the Afro-Americans is given as 405.3 per 100,000 population, which is over three times as great as the death rate among the white population. Whether this great difference in the death rates between the two races is true or not we are not in position at present to say. We see plainly the duty of the Afro-Americans—physicians and social workers—to get busy and make a careful investigation into the health conditions and the death rate among the Afro-Americans, and gather facts, arrange and classify the facts, and present the world, and world, and the reading world, the thinking world draw its own conclusion after being in possession of the facts. Bearing Hard on the Afro-Americans. This question of the prevalence of lung consumption, social diseases and organic heart disease is bearing very hard on the Afro-American. He is being affected differently from the other members of the human family. First, it has greatly affected and limited his social standing. Many unreasoning people consider the Afro-American to be a carrier and distributor of certain diseases. Among them are syphilis, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, Cuban itch, etc. All medical students in nearly all of our medical colleges come out of the medical school with the fixed prejudiced idea, and they act upon this prejudiced idea that the large majority of Afro-Americans are symphilic and tuberculous. Verily twenty-five years ago, when we were in medical college, it was a hard and frequent saying of one of the professors "that in all doubtful cases of disease I deal with the Afro-American we would always be safe in treating the patient for tuberculosis or syphilis in some form; that in a large majority of cases the diagnosis would be cleared up by following the above line of treatment." Second, this erroneous teaching and doctrine has largely affected the Afro-American from an economical standpoint. A great many people are indisposed to hire or employ Afro-American as cooks, waiters, butlers, valets and other positions in which there is likely to be very close personal connection. Gunga Snigh is not the first one of the dark races to merit the Victoria Cross, but Sergt. Gordon, a West Indian of pure African descent. Gordon while fighting with his regiment, the West India Regiment, in West Africa, seeing his commander in imminent danger, of being shot, sprang before him and received the ball in his shoulder. For this heroic deed Queen Victoria herself pinned the cross on his head, and a great furre was made over him in England, his picture appearing in nearly all the papers. This was about 18 years ago. You may make any use of this letter that you like. A. R. WOODS, 19 B. 41st Street. P. S.—I know Gordon personally, he being a familiar figure in the city of Kingston, Ja. Preventive Measures First Aid Remedies Hygienics and Sanitation NO CASES ARE DIAGNOSED AND NO PRESCRIPTIONS GIVEN IN THESE WEEKLY ARTICLES tact. A certain white physician a few days ago spoke to us of the engagement of a wet nurse for a young baby of one of his wealthy, white patients on or near Lake avenue. The first question put to us was: "Is this wet nurse free from syphilis and consumption?" Having assured the physician that the wet nurse could show a clean巾 which she was accepted by the physician, she astonished and amazing chagrin, when she arrived at the residence of the patient who desired a wet nurse for her baby the mother shrank back on beholding the Afro-American wet nurse. She called her physician aside and said to him in abated breath: "I cannot consider the employment of a colored wet nurse for giving my baby syphilis or tuberculosis." This is a most damnable doctrine that has been long propagated even by some of our medical schools that know the truth of untreatless it has had a most telling and injurious effect on the Afro-Americans' economic condition. We as a race must face these facts and not get angry, abuse these ignorant people, nor throw mud by calling bad names; but we must face these things, trying to bear upon them convincing facts based upon plain facts. Third, by heralding to the world the statements during the last twenty-five or thirty years that the Afro-American is a poor insurable risk. The attitude of many of the old-line insurance companies has taken on three aspects: First, the absolute refusal to insure any person where it can be determined that he is of the least African descent, so that he can make any difference what his family condition may be. Second is that that will sometimes take him but he is not allowed to exercise any choice as to the kind or character of policy (faint he desires to take out). In other words, if he desires any insurance for the protection of his wife or children he must take the policy or kind of insurance that the insurance company sets aside for him along the "jim-crow" line. The third attitude of many of the older insurance companies, and in fact many Afro-American and accident insurance companies, will take some Afro-Americans after a very rigid medical examination, searching into the family tree and after much delay and various other forms of red tape; but will charge him from 25 to 33% per cent higher for the same policy than that charged to other races. In other words, if a caucasian is charged $100 for a certain policy, being the same age and occupying the same position as the Afro-American, the insurance company will charge $133% for the identical kind of policy. These are things for us to carefully consider. Please do bt forget to attend the Club, 315 Paymouth palladium library $K_1$ Real Wisdom Since courtey cannot be made compulsory, the next best course is to avoid rudeness, the second best is to overlook it. It is hardly worth while to resent the behavior of those whom we may never meet again, is it? We should be wise enough to avoid positions where we know rudeness is to we avoid streets with a bad reputation, we avoid streets with a clear idea of the experience we might meet if we ventured in them, especially after dark. Busy Individual An old man in the Potato Hill neighborhood is quoted as saying: "All I have to do is now to pull sheets off the calendar pad; I have all day to pull off the Thursday sheet, and make the pad read Friday, but sometimes I get three or four days behind. After I get the sheet on the pad changed, it is time to look for my grasses, which are usually lost. You may think old people have little to do, but they are really quite busy."—Kansas City Star. Good Manners to Help Boys Good manners attract and please, and should be cultivated by every boy who expects to win success and makes his life interesting to others. In the home, on the street, in the school, in the workshop or the office, or werever one may be, his relation to others should be characterized as gentle, courteous and thoughtful. These are virtues and graces that make life easier and pleasanter for all—Boy Scout Handbook.