Wisconsin Weekly Blade

Official Organ of Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth. Illinois and Wisconsin Jurisdiction. 7,000 Members The Wisconsin Weekly Blade ILL., SPECIAL TO THE We are now facing one of the greatest crises the Republican party has faced in sixty years. A thing that not only hurts the Negro but the Caucasian as well. The Negro is 100% Republican and his vote was cast for the uplift of his race, and for the party that has done so much for him. We have people of all classes coming to this country from out of the bonds of slavery only to bring about trouble. They try to make slaves out of the poor Negro who shed his blood that this country might be free. There never was a time that the Negro has failed to answer the call of his country. When the Immortal Lincoln through the gift of God lifted the Negro from the bonds of slavery it was not until every ounce of strength had been used by the white man of the North did he consider the Negro power, and he is still power. After the North had restored peace, they came back to their homes in the North and left, the poor Negro to wander about on the plains like wild beasts. What happened? The Southern white man with all his hatred fell upon him, took all his belongings and disfranchised him of all his rights. In the South if the Negro had his just dues there would never be a National Democratic administration. We hope when the Republican party return to power it will see that the Negro is given fair treatment and the 14th and 15th amendments are enforced. The Negro has always been peaceful and patriotic. And we trust the day is not far distant when this down trodden, despised and rejected race will come into its own. The Court of General Robt. Elliott No. 7895 A. O. of Foresters will hold their Thanksgiving ball at the 8th Reg. Armory on the 30th. Music by K. of P. band. Mrs. Julia Ridley of 3555 Prairie Ave. and Mr. Henry Lee, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., were united in holy bonds of wedlock on the first. Many were the congratulations The Armour Ave. Christian church S. S. will hold their Thanksgiving dinner at the church. All members are invited. The Hon. Nelson Crews of Kansas City, Mo., delivered an able address which was said to be one of the best heard in Chicago in years. A new addition in the Oddfellow building is an uptodate drug store. Mr. Lewis Jones, father of Mrs. Robt. Smally, is in the city from Atlanta, Ga. He will be pleased to meet all his old Atlanta friends. He enjoys the distinction of being the oldest Oddfellow Chaplain in Georgia, becoming a member 1870. Special to the Blade. The first Negro bank to be established in South Carolina has recently begun operation in Columbia. The Penny Savings and Loan Company, capitalized at $10,000, was recently commissioned by the Secretary of State to do a general banking business and the outlook is most promising. Among the incorporators are Mr. I. S. Leevy, a merchant tailor and prominent member of the National Negro Business League, Mr. John Cornwell, a successful barber, and Dr. B. A. Everett. Send your news to 708 Cherry St. for the Blade or leave it at The Question Lunch room, 193 4th St. It does not matter whether you are a subscriber or not. The Blade will print your news if it is sent to us on time. A NATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPINION AND CIRCULATION Peoria, Ill. News for the Blade may be left at Miss Bell Lee, 409 7th Ave. Phone Main 3734-R-2 or at G. T. Jackson, 917 Monson St. Phone Main 2335-L. At last the young people of Peoria have awakened. A meeting was held last Sunday at the residence of Miss Fay Harper, 911 Monson St. and the L. M. and S. Club was organized for the advancement of the young people. The following officers were elected: Mr. M. Hansbery, president; Miss Fay Harper, vice-president; Mr. M. Sheperd, secretary; Miss F. Banks, assistant secretary, and Miss S. Gibson, treasurer. Mrs. M. E. Murphy of Jacksonville, Ill. has come to reside with her cousin, Mrs. N. Reed of 310 N. Adams St. Mrs. Lizzie Carpenter left for her home in Streater, Ill. Mrs. Lucy Hill of 1115 Fifth Ave. is ill. Mr. Alex Hughes after a very long illness, departed this life. Funeral services were held from the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. He leaves a wife. Mrs. Ham Moseley of St. Louis, Mo., was the guest of Mrs. J. Conway last week. Miss J. Conway entertained the following persons: Mrs. Ida Muse and Mrs. Lillian Plant and others. Ray Jackson left last week for New York, then to Chicago with the ponies. Rockford, III. Mr. Earnest Kithel of Canada is in the city visiting friends. The Blade together with the host of friends of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley sympathize with them in the loss of infant boy on 11th. Mr. J. T. Upshaw of Metropolis, Ill., is in the city with his brothers William and Thomas with the view of making him his future home. Mr. Clarence Garner has left the city for Rochester, Minn., to enter Mayo Bros, hospital for an operation. We wish him a successful recovery. "The Country School" drama, will be staged at K. of P. hall on the 29th inst. by the L. S. C. Club. Come and see the Kiddies. Mr. Jos. Franklin and Miss Frances Melvin are on the sick list. Many strangers from the South land have come to our city to live, let us welcome them to our churches and clubs. The program given by H. H. 1973 was a grand success. Mr. Leroy De Priest is now enrolled in the automobile department of the I. C. School. We wish him success. Miss M. Bowden is now connected with the Emmerson B Company. Miss Rosa Taylor, D. G. M. W. Councilor, is to be in Rockford on the 22nd inst. to visit the Court of Calathne, No. 38. Messrs. Tilman Weathal and Leroy Henderson will give to the good society of Rockford a dancing party on 17th inst. The Douglass Hotel is the place to get first class accommodation both in the point of meal and lodgings. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgers are in charge. Mr. Yancey of the firm of Pryor and Yancey is in the city for a short stay. Mr. Adrian Roberson of University of Illinois is on the sick list. Madam Guffin, the popular elocutionist, will be heard at Woodruff hall on 22nd under the auspices of the Nonpareil Club. The Blade has made good in Milwaukee and we thank Editor Josey and his staff for the interest they have shown in our city. MADISON, WIS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1916 Two contrasting freaks of nature are the Island of Fire and the Lake of Snow. The Island of Fire is called the Home of Hot Devils. It is situated in the midst of a large lake of boiling mud in the island of Java. The steam and gases which arise from the sticky mud form themselves into bubbles attaining a diameter of five or six feet and sail high up in the air like balloons, carried bither and thither by the wind and finally exploding with a loud crash. The biggest snow lake is seen from the summit of Hispar pass, in the Karakoram range. It is more than 300 square miles in area. In Switzerland the sea of ice might better be called the sea of snow, as the surface is broken up by solar heat, which makes a minute fissuring in the ice, giving it the appearance of snow. Berries of the Nightshade The berries of the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) are such a tempting fruit for children that both they and their parents ought to know the plant and the terrible danger of eating its berries. These are the source from which the poisons atropine and belladonna are made. The deadly nightshade grows from three to five feet high on strong branched purple colored stems. Its pointed, oval leaves vary in size and stand in pairs on short foot stalks. The flowers are purple, pendent and bell shaped. These appear in June and July and give place to shining black berries in August and September. This poisonous herb is of the same family as the tomato and potato—New York World. Getting It Right. Harold, aged four, was trudging the distance of many blocks with his father to Sunday school, and the long tramp was almost too much for him. The father, glancing back, noticed the small boy's fatigue, and slackening his pace asked: "Am I walking too fast, son?" "No," returned the small boy, puffing and panting breathlessly, "it's me. papa."—Exchange. Color Harmony: "I'd like a box of cigars, please," said the young wife, blushing rosily. "They're for my husband. It's his birthday tomorrow." "Does he prefer them light or dark?" inquired the salesman. "Oh, light by all means. He has a blond mustache."—New York World. Croguettes Ready Made. Mrs. Youngbride (to her butcher)—have just thought of something for dinner my husband is very fond of You have chickens? Butcher—Yes'm nice and fresh. Mrs. Youngbride—Well, please cut out the croquettes and I'll take them with me.—Boston Transcript. Used the Log. "We were three days from port when the engineer reported that there was no more coal in the bunker." "What did they do then?" "The captain ordered them to spill up the ship's log to keep the fires going."—Exchange. Duty Dances. "Those you dance with your own relatives and those with the women your wife insists on your dancing with."-Detroit Free Press. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Let In the Sunshine * All household furnishings and clothing should be exposed to direct sunlight for a number of hours at least every few days.* * Direct sunlight is the best disinfectant known. It kills germs in a few hours. Diffused sunlight or daylight may have as good effect, but in a much longer time.* * Shutting the sunlight out of the house is an unhygienic custom. It should go as has gone many of the ideas and customs belonging to the dark ages.* * For that reason sunshine should find its way into the home daily, and its presence should be welcomed as a messenger of cleanliness and good health.* * The drawing of shades and the closing of windows to keep the carpets and draperies from fading should be discouraged. It is better to have carpets and draperies that are faded than to have boys and girls with cheeks that are faded.* * Roses in the cheeks are more valuable than roses in the carpet.* --- TOOK AWAY HIS BREATH. When Davison Heard Morgan Wanted Him For a Partner. "Mr. Morgan wants to see you in his library at 3 o'clock," was the message received one day by the vice president of a New York bank. He hadn't the slightest idea what the veteran financier could want with him. He had met Mr. Morgan, as most other financiers had, during the parlous days when the master mind of them all was trying to stem the 1907 panic, but had not seen anything of Mr. Morgan until the spring of the following year when, with Senator Aldrich and other members of the monetary commission, he had spent a Sunday at Mr. Morgan's London home. Between then and the receipt of the above message in the fall of 1908 he had seldom spoken to Mr. Morgan. Promptly at 3 o'clock the young banker, wondering what the matter could be, rang the bell of the famous Morgan library. On being ushered in he almost collided with Mr. Morgan at the entrance to his private room. Mr. Morgan shook hands and bade the puzzled visitor be seated. "Do you realize it is pretty near the 1st of January?" he asked. The young banker, very much at sea, agreed that it was. This was about the middle of November. "Are you ready?" asked Mr. Morgan. "Ready for what?" queried the astonished visitor. "For what?" echeed Mr. Morgan. "You know I want you to come and join my firm on the 1st of January." "You never said anything about it. Mr. Morgan." "I thought you knew by my expression what I thought of you," said Mr. Morgan. "Mr. Morgan, have you ever fallen from an eighteen story building?" It was Mr. Morgan's turn to be astonished. "No," he replied, scrutinizing his vis- "Well, I never have before, and if it will take me a minute or two to catch my breath." Mr. Morgan laughed. And that was how Henry P. Davison, then only forty, was notified of his selection as a partner in the greatest international banking firm in the United States.-B. C. Forbes in Loslie's. TASTE AND MANNERS Sometimes They Are Linked and Are Also Both Bad. What is the difference between taste and manners? It may be bad manners to knock a man down, but it is not necessarily bad taste. A rich man in Philadelphia gave a reception and issued invitation cards upon which were engraved his picture. This was not bad manners. It was certainly bad taste. A large, handsome woman once broke into a meeting of President Lincoln's cabinet, interrupting the proceedings. The homely Lincoln arose and, addressing her, said: "Madam, what do you wish?" She replied: "I came in here to take a look at you." Lincoln smiled. "Well, madam," he replied, "in the matter of looking I have a distinct advantage of you." That was both bad taste and bad manners on her part, and on the part of Lincoln it was good manners and good taste to refrain from throwing her out of the window, as in strict justice he should have done. Good taste is largely a matter of experience united to natural abilities. To go up to your father-in-law in your wedding breakfast with a bottle of champagne in your band and slapping him on the back, calling him "old sport," is not only bad taste and bad manners, but wretched sense, especially if the old gentleman is worth a million. To be told that your friend is too busy to see you in his office and then to call him up over the nearest telephone is not necessarily bad taste, but bad manners. The two may go together but this is not an invariable rule—Life. Tart Retort. Every small town has its prominent citizen who appears before the city fathers and "talks right out in meeting." Not every town, however, has among its councillors a member with sufficient moral backbone to answer back, as did John Hammier of a western town whose name is of no consequence. Concluding his arraignment, the prominent citizen hurled this thunderbolt at the board, "I'd soon put up as a candidate for a lunatic asylum than put up for the town council." "Well, you'd stand a much better chance of getting in." dryly responded Mr. Hammer—Argonaut. MR. AND MRS. GEO. E. BUCKNER 419 W. MAIN ST. ENTERTAIN On last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Logan Davis of Racine, who had been visiting her son and daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Davis, was royally entertained by Mrs. Geo. E. Buckner. The occasion was one of much merriment. Several instrumental selections were rendered by the Misses Marion and Gladys Buckner. CAPT. AND MRS. A. T. STEWART 726 W. Wash. Ave. at Breakfast. Messrs Fiddler and Shelton Guests. While in the city last week at the Orpheum Theatre, Messrs. Fiddler and Shelton were at breakfast with Capt. and Mrs. Stewart. They were loud in their praise of their host and their hospitality. Manufacturing Display Have you seen our manufacturing window? It is well worth your time to spend a few moments looking this over. We have everything here that the jeweler uses in plying his trade. All this work is done in our own shop and the work is guaranteed to be satisfactory. GAMM'S 3 West Main At the Old Stand Who said it cost be well dressed We refute the fancy novelty a STYLEPLUS CLOV Men who have been for their clothes he because they comb with good tailoring- Smart Furnishings--Shirts, N Hats, Caps, Underwear, L Robes, Bath Robes--moderat Boys' 2 Trouser Norfolk Suits $4.50, $5, $6.50, $7.50 Boys' Overcoats (m $3.75, $4.50, OLSON & VE paid it cost a lot to all dressed these days to refute the statement wi cy novelty and blue seri PLUS CLOTHES $17.50 who have been paying high their clothes have turned to use they combine guarantee good tailoring--Suit or Overco shings--Shirts, Neckwear, Collars, Underwear, Hosiery, Pajamas Robes--moderately priced. Mer Norfolk Suits Boys' M $6.50, $7.50 $2.95, $3.5 Boys' Overcoats (many suitable for girl $3.75, $4.50, $5, $6.50, $7.50 N & VEERHUSEI Men who have been paying higher prices for their clothes have turned to Styleplus because they combine guaranteed fabrics with good tailoring--Suit or Overcoat $17 Smart Furnishings--Shirts, Neckwear, Collars, Gloves, Hats, Caps, Underwear, Hosiery, Pajamas, Night Robes, Bath Robes--moderately priced. Boys' 2 Trouser Norfolk Suits Boys' Mackinaws $4.50, $5, $6.50, $7.50 $2.95, $3.75, $4.50, $5 Boys' Overcoats (many suitable for girls) $3.75, $4.50, $5, $6.50, $7.50 OLSON & VEERHUSEN CO. THE STORE OF CERTAIN SATISFACTION SUIT SALE Every Ladies' Suit marked down for the in progress and will y Ladies' Suit in our stock ha down for this sale which press and will continue for 10 Every Ladies' Suit in our stock has been marked down for this sale which is now in progress and will continue for 10 days. ALTERATIONS FREE Hinrichs Dry Goods Company chs Dry Goods Com Hinrichs Dry Goods Company 3 South Pinckney Street --- --- --- The Blade will publish an elaborate Christmas edition of special articles, eu and write-ups of and from the leaders of the race. Among those who will contribute will be: Rt. Rev, Bishop J. S. Flipper, Georgia, Major R. R. Wright, Hon. H. L. Johnson, Washington, D. C., Prof. H. S. Murphy, Oklahoma, Dr. C. T. Walker, E. R. Carter, Emmett J. Scott, A. B. Singfield, Nannie H. Burroughs, Major General Morris Lewis, Illinois, Hon. Jas. F. Adair, New York, O. P. Mack, Kentucky, Miss Ruby Thornton, Major G. T. Jackson, Pres. N. W. Collier, Florida. Buy your Footwear at the Popular Priced Shoe Store 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 Any Size--Any Style Family Shoe Store 214 STATE 3 doors from Grand Theatre at a lot to these days? statement with these and blue serge THEES $17 when paying higher prices have turned to Styleplus bine guaranteed fabrics -Suit or Overcoat $17 Beckwear, Collars, Gloves, Hosiery, Pajamas, Night ely priced. Boys' Mackinaws $2.95, $3.75, $4.50, $5 any suitable for girls) $5, $6.50, $7.50 ERHUSEN CO. in our stock has been is sale which is now continue for 10 days. ONS FREE Goods Company --- NO.24 A National Journal of Opinion and Circulation. Entered as second-class matter June 8, 1916, at the post office at Madison, Wis., under rthe Act of March 2, 1879. Address all communications to THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY BLADE, 312 N. Henry St. Money sent by express money order, or registered letter at our own risk, otherwise at risk of the sender. J. A. Josey, Editor and Manager. L. J. Ousley, Contributing Editor. Phones 6756-3369. SUBSCRIPTION: One year $1.50 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 NOTICE. NOTICE. The D. G. L. is not responsible for any financial obligation of The Blade. NOTICE! All matter for publication in The Blade must reach our office no later than Tuesday morning for that week's issue. Write on one side of the paper only. Every P. S. and W. R. of Illinois and Wisconsin jurisdiction are requested to send the names of their officers and the nights of their meeting to The Blade for publication. Also to furnish us with the news of your locality. "THE SOUTH" AND NEGRO QUESTION. The South has always been wrong on the Negro question. When the sentiment of the world declared that slavery was wrong, they argued in its favor, and predicted that the Negro could not survive in freedom and would lapse into heathenism without a master. They further argued that he could not be educated like other men, but all of this has proven false. And just as they were wrong about slavery, and that the Negro could not exist without a master, and that he was incapable of the highest education and development, so they are wrong with reference to the Negro's rights to the ballot box, participation in government and equal protection and consideration before the law. Our white neighbors have been the ruling race so long, that they think, just as all people who have been in power, that they are always right, and others are wrong; that no race except their own, has any rights that they are bound to respect. This is history repeating itself. It comes from a long lease of power, and it crystallizes itself in the well known doctrine, "That might makes right, and that others have no rights that white people are bound to respect." Our white neighbors hold their hands up in holy horror at the acteeties and massacres of the weaker classes in Armenia, Mexico and Russia; and yet, they do not seem to be conscious of the fact that the same things are being committed upon Negroes and their very doors. In the words of Holy Writ: "They see the note in other's eyes, but do not see the beam in their own." If there is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations, who created out of one blood all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. He must look with indignation upon the injustice, proscription and oppression practiced upon an innocent, faithful and long suffering people. And in His own good way, will deliver them from their oppression, as He did the Children of Israel, by the might of His strong arm. Let us be patient, for all wrongs will be righted, and we will come into our own if we faint not. "His purposes are ripening fast, Unfolding every hour, The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower." --- RACE PREPAREDNESS AND EFFICIENCY. Preparedness and efficiency are the watch words of the hour. Are we as a race making the proper preparation intellectually, morally, and industrially? The Blade fears that we are not. When we reflect that so many of our people are as idle, indolent and thoughtless as mosquitoes, gallinippers and flies, easy victims of the spider, we feel constrained to sound a note of warning. We have often been struck with what easy prey the fly and the mosquito are to the spider, who weaves his web and retires to his hole and awaits the issue. The next thing you know, these insects are caught in his web and become his easy victims. This is a striking illustration of a majority of our race. They are living in the midst of the most enlightened people in the world—who are intelligent, strong and powerful—a people who have had centuries of training in civilization. They must needs deal with them, whether they will or not. Now, how can we expect to play our part without making the necessary preparation and coming up to their standard of preparedness and efficiency? In this great struggle, it is a survival of the fittest, and it is impossible for a people, who are unprepared and inefficient, to survive. They must go down in the great contest; for even after we have made every effort to prepare ourselves intellectually, morally and industrially, even then we must fall far short in measuring up to a people, who are so far ahead of us in the scale of civilization; and to fail to prepare ourselves in the midst of such environment, the inevitable result must leave us victims like the fly and mosquito to the spider. Then, it behooves us to gird up our loins and leave no stone unturned in preparing ourselves to play well our part. We should not forget that the moral, intellectual and educational of any race of people must be chiefly their own work; that it must come from within and not from without. Whining and finding fault will accomplish nothing. We must deliver the goods, and the only way to deliver the goods, is by thorough preparedness and efficiency. We must be prepared to do our work as well as anybody else. The public will not be satisfied with anything less; and, if we would succeed as a race, we must prepare ourselves to meet competition, to match organization with organization, and to meet efficiency with efficiency. It is strange to the Blade that we have not learned this lesson long ago; for we can never come into our own until we learn to depend upon ourselves and prepare ourselves to do our work as jam-up as any other people. SPARKS FROM OTHER ANVILS Colored folks should remember that they have a hard row to hoe, and they should hoe it. Practice politeness towards white folks and you will involuntarily practice it towards colored ones. "Death is only a dream." Some white folks believe in making some other folks have these dreams. Colored folks, do not imitate the follies and foibles of the bad white folks. Tread in the footsteps of the good ones. Don't forget that the names of our white friends in the Southland are Legion and we have not yet learned the names of our white enemies. Colored folks, be polite to white people and teach your children to be the same way. Remember that just as you act towards white folks, you should act towards colored ones. When you see colored folks acting outrageously, look out and you will find that they are limiting some white folks that they have seen acting in the same way. Colored folks who are not ready and willing to stand up for their rights, regardless of the consequences to themselves, are not worthy of those rights. Do not forget that. A man should always be glad to go home. So many of those Christians hereabouts say that Heaven is their home, but they "run like the dickens" when you talk of sending them there. Send in or telephone your news to The Blade, Phone 3369. If you have company or if you intend to take a trip let your friends know it through the columns of our paper Ask your grocer for The Globe Bread. For Birthday and Wedding cakes yhone 533, The Globe Bakery Co. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands forgiveness. Bruised with blow on blow, Lord God, what evil have we me? James the gate, all gold and ethyst, pass by the glorious goal un- sued, a Negro"—in a day like this n. —James D. Corrothers in The Century. COL. R. B. PIXLEY A Fried to a Just and Deserving A Close Observer. The Blade is delighted to inform its thousands of readers that it has at all times found Col. Pixley to be a man of broad and liberal views, ready to assist a deserving enterprise. We have always been accorded the best of treatment and given due consideration by him whenever we called up on him. Of course, as any other man of affairs, he weighs matters and places them on their weight, and upon this he acts. We trust that he will continue along this line, and see that things coming before him are worthy before he places his approval. "If we didn't have to give back any change think of the money we merchants would make." "We all have our troubles," said the magazine publisher. "Sometimes it frets me to have to print any reading matter, but I suppose it must be done." —Kansas City Journal. Vindicated Self Esteem. Vindicated Self Esteem. "The Worgsges seem to have a high opinion of themselves." "Yes. You see, the same cook has consented to remain in their employ for three or four years. So they feel entitled to think that they are rather nice people." - Washington Star. "Is Smithers an active church member?" "I should say he is; so active that the finance committee can never find him when subscriptions for the pastor's salary are due"—St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Contentment, my boy, is the art of being happy with what you've got even if your neighbor has a little more."—Detroit Free Press. Brave men ought not to be cast down by adversity—Sillus traficus Just received, the plete line of B Samples. Nothing but AL $15.00 and up coats. Your Clothes Cu Cleaning and Pres J. H. received, new and the line of Fall and W apples. g but ALL WOOL for 00 and up, suits or s. Clothes Cut and Made g and Pressing Proper J. H. KEMP, Just received, new and complete line of Fall and Winter Samples. Nothing but ALL WOOL fabrics $15.00 and up, suits or overcoats. Your Clothes Cut and Made Here Cleaning and Pressing Properly Done J. H. KEMP. 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District Grand Chaplain—Arlie Towels, Harrisburg, Ill. Secretary on Fraternal Greeting—Mamie J. Blue, Jacksonville, Ill. LODGES—NOTICES LODGES—NOTICES Phylis Wheatley Household, No. 4863, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets fourth Saturday night each month, G. A. R. Hall. Marion Buckner, M. N. G. Phoebia Hines, R. N. G. A. E. Hill, N. G. C. M. Josey, W. R. Friendship Chapter, No. 66, O. E. S. Meets second and third Saturday nights each month, G. A. R. Hall. Mary Jones, Worthy Matron. J. W. Brown, Worthy Patron. Marion Buckner, Worthy Sec. Fresh and up-to-date drugs at Lewis, State and Gilman St. It is the request of the City Editor that you furnish him with local news. Capital City Lodge No. 72, F. and A. M. Meets first and third Wednes- day night each month, G. A. R. Hall. O. M. Davis, W. M. T. E. Hines, W. Sec. Enterprise Lodge, No. 9109, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays night each month, G. A. R. Hall. E. Champ Warrick, E. S. J. Anthony Josey, P. S. Harrisburg, Ill. Queen Ester Household of Ruth No. 602 meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month. Ester B. Messer, M. N. G. Lorena Mae Joon, R. N. G. Flora Washiton, N. G. Chas, E. Messer, W. R. Quality MILK CREAM ICE CREAM BUTTER ZILISCH PURE MILK CO. 629 W. WASHINGTON AVE. Telephone 979 Madison.. MRS. N. OWENS Dealer in ALL KINDS OF HAIR GOODS SWITCHES, WAVES, FRIZ- ZES and HAIR CHAINS Mailorders promptly attended to 420 Sixth Avenue Phone 182-J Baraboo, Wis The Oldest Trust Company in the State of Wisconsin The SavingsLoan&Trust Company Steensland Building, Madison, Wis. Capital and Surplus, $300,000 Pays 4 per cent. for Your Money. Debentures, Certificates, Savings, Trusts Make your Deposits by Mail. Money to Loan on Real Estate Security OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS E. B. Steensland, Pres. and Treas. W. A. P. Morris, Vice-Pres. J. G. O. Zehner, Vice-Pres. E. F. Riley, Secy. S and Trust Officer. I. M. Kittleson, Assistant Secy. W. D. Curtis A. E. Proudfit S. T. Swanson Stanford P. Starks A. E. Proudfit A. F. Menges Herman Fland BE HAPPY And Buy the Famous Malt and Snow Flake Bread also Rye, Graham and Bran Baked Rye. TheGlobe Baking Company 219-223 East Main Street Special orders for Birthday or Wedding Cakes Velvet Ice Cream It's All Cream Kennedy Dairy Co. 618 University Ave. Phone 778 Phone 778 Capital City Cigar Co. 108 S. Pinckney St. Madison, Wis. Wholesale Cigar Jobbers Phone 523 Some of our leading brands: Upmann's Repeater Upmann's Ideal Upmann's Fleur de Upmann Garcia & Vega Clear Havana Chas. Denby Lucius Clear Havana Clear Title When other Corn Cures Fail Try Red Cross Corn Harvester. The Menges Pharmacie "The Best Ice Cream" Order for Parties, Sunday Dinners OLSON'S Phone 1440 Washington Building CASES TRUNKS TRAVELING BAGS and all kinds of Leather Goods Largest Stock in State Chas. Wehrmann & Son 116 King St. Phone 666 MERCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK 23 WEST MAIN STREET OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 MADISON PACKING OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO 9 DISON PACKING CO. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO 9 307 W. JOHNSON ST. Largest and most Sanitary M in the City. and most Sanitary Market in the City. e 4920. GRAND THEATER Largest and most Sanitary Market in the City. 'Phone 4920. GRAND THEATER 204-206 STATE ST. HIGH CLASS MOTION PICTURES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Wm. Farnum in The Fires of Conscience Fox Feature Fox Feature THE STAR HAIS GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. We want agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c a box—one 25c box proves it value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full six box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send a money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. Northern Branch, 113 Clark St., Evanston Ill. Southern Branch, P. O. Box 812, Greensboro N. C. Persons in the South can get their goods three days earlier by writing THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro N. C. Northern Branch, 113 Clark St., Evanston Ill. Southern Branch, P. O. Box 812, Greensboro N. C. N. C. Persons in the days earlier by GROWER, M. N. C. Persons in the South can get their goods three days earlier by writing THE STAR HAF GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro N. C. How'd you do without Hausmann's Beer on your table It stimulates the It builds up stimulates the appetite It builds up your system It stimulates the appetite HausmannBrewing Phone 33 ausmannBrewingCo Phone 33 ```markdown ``` THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. Granulated sugar tastes sweet. Powder it in a mortar more fine, and it becomes less sweet. Just owing to this fact it is very hard to convince people that fine sugar is not adulterated. Put a grain of quinine, mixed, into a pound of granulated sugar, and the sweetness increases. Common salt increases the sweetness of cake and other foods as well. Cooks are aware of this and act accordingly. Raw sugars, which contain very negligible quantities of the sweeter sirups, taste much sweeter than granulated sugar. Yet their sugar contents are as we have said, much less. This is due to the salts in the raw product. The refiners' imitation stuff is even preferred to granulated for making apple pies, etc. The sugar, unextracted, but used when we eat a potato or an apple, is really a sweet compound and in the case of a good apple may be tasted very distinctly as we eat. - London Globe. Steer Bulldogging. In perhaps the most daring sport of all—steer bulldogging—is revealed a feat you must see to believe. A man jumps from the back of his running horse as he overtakes a Texas long-horn. If his judgment is good he seizes the stiltleto-like horns and drags the steer to a standstill. Then begins a struggle worthy of a gladiator as the man, using the horns as levers, bends and strains every muscle to throw the great beast by twisting its neck. If he succeeds in this the classics of the game require him to hold the steer's upper lip in his teeth, at the same time raising his hands for the count of four seconds; hence the term "steer bulldogging." This sport is absolutely harmless in every respect to the four legged animal, but his two legged competitor must use consummate skill, strength and nerve to protect himself and conquer his antagonist—Charles W. Furlong in Harper's Magazine. Trust of a Bird A farmer in the neighborhood where I reside was crossing one of his fields one day when he was suddenly arrested by a skylark fluttering down upon him and adhering to his person in the most affectionate way. While he was wondering at its intentions a sparrow hawk, which had evidently been in close pursuit, swooped past. Instantly taking in the situation, he stood perfectly still for nearly five minutes, while the lark nestled contentedly between his feet. Then, seeming to recognize that all danger was over, it left him, rose into the air and began to sing in its loudest and most jubilant tones. A bird whose love of freedom and aloofness from human contact are proverbial, it seemed to have known with unerring instinct where to find a protector in its extremity.—London Standard. Church Music. One cannot read the Psalms without the conviction, which grows with every repetition, that here is the poetic voicing of the deepest, highest and most intense experiences possible to the soul of man. They were intended for singing, and from the day of their use in the Jewish temple until now they have been the foundation of very many of our sublimest musical productions. It must not be overlooked that only the highest intelligence, the most vivid imagination and the deepest inspiration can bring forth works of the first order. If there is the commonplace to be found in church music its cause is to be discovered in the human agent and not in the lack of inspiring force in religious feeling - George Whitfield Andrews in Musical Quarterly. Solved at Last "This is about the worst dinner I ever sat down to," he said as he surveyed the table, "but I spose I ought to make certain allowances." "Yes, John," replied his wife. "If you would make certain allowances you would have no occasion to find fault with your food."—London Tit-Bits. A Theory. "Why are meat and eggs so expensive?" "Possibly," replied the man who thinks it's his duty to answer every question, "because they're among the few articles of food that can't be imitated in a factory."—Washington Star Most Buoyant Material Probably the most buoyant material in the world is the pith from a giant sunflower grown in Siberia, which can support thirty-five times its own weight when on the water. Cork, on the other hand, has a buoyancy of only one to five and reindeer's hair one to ten. Repartee. He (during the spat)—Well, if you want to know it, I married you for your money. She—I wish I could tell as easily what I married you for.—Ex-change. Kokomo. Kokomo, in the language of the Indians who at one time inhabited that section of Indiana, signifies "a young grandmother." "I didn't know you had any idea of marrying her." "I didn't. The idea was here." Capital Letters The systematic use of capital letters in writing and printing was not common until about the year 1430. Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?- Horace. Feeds Hens Prefer When Given Choice Recent tests at the Missouri agricultural experiment station seem to show that the hen knows better than many other people how to select the food that will help her most in laying eggs and keep her in the best condition. Some old ideas with regard to poultry feeding were proved sound and some others were discredited by the heps. They almost all showed a decided preference for wheat, which is very generally used as a poultry feed. Kaffir stood next in popularity, but oats and sunflower were not eaten as much as many people would have expected, probably because the hen is not able to digest much food containing a high percentage of crude fiber. The hens that did eat sunflower seed were seen cracking them and eating only the softer portions inside, possibly because they wanted to get rid of the crude fiber in the shell. Bran is often used in poultry feeding, but the hens in this test which could get other foods almost always chose it instead of bran. Alfalfa leaves were tried, but none eaten to any great extent. Animal food of some kind, such as the beef scrap or sour milk, is generally regarded as very necessary for laying hens, but most of the hens in this test did not eat much more beef scrap while laying than while not laying. Two actually ate more of it when they were not laying. Other tests at the Missouri station have shown that the use of either beef scrap or sour milk makes the hen's eggs record at least twice as good as though she were fed no animal food whatever and that sour milk is slightly better than beef scrap for this purpose, in addition to being cheaper and easier to get on most farms. Alcohol seems to possess an especial gift for banishing grease. When grease has been spilled or spattered on the floor and has penetrated into the pores of the wood alcohol removes it better than anything else. A wad of soft paper dampened with alcohol will quickly remove grease from the stove or sink or a greasy cooking utensil, and if the paper is then burned the disagreeable task is quickly over. Alcohol satisfactorily renews the soiled collar of storm coats and is better to remove spots from black goods than gasoline. Alcohol is pleasant to use as a cleanser, since it quickly evaporates, leaving neither odor nor stain. It is also perfectly safe. Light as Chaff Rather a Leading Question. A colored woman had been haled before a police magistrate of a southern town charged with inhuman treatment of her offspring. Evidence was clear that she had severely beaten the child, about nine years of age, who was in court to exhibit his battered person. Before imposing sentence his honor asked the woman whether she had anything to say. "Kin Ah ask you look on." Before imposing sentence his honor asked the woman whether she had anything to say. "Kin Ah ask yo' jes' one question, jedge?" inquired the prisoner. The judge nodded affirmatively. "Well, yo' honah, Ah'd like to ask whether yo' was ever the parent of a puffently wutless culled chile?"- Country Gentleman. The Bashful One "I wonder," said the youthful astronomer, who was slow to do what was expected of him, "if- if you would let me associate you with some star-Venus perhaps, the star of love?" "Well, no," said the lady addressed thoughtfully, "I would rather you thought of me as Saturn." "Indeed! Why?" "Oh, well, you know, didn't you tell me that Saturn has a ring?" He bought one the next day. Slow Service. Captain Sparks had just been placed in charge of the country fire station, and looked a very important personage as he conducted a visitor around the premises. This, notwithstanding the fact that the engine resembled nothing so much as a sweet roast potato oven joined to a village pump, and other uncanny looking appliances which were neither useful nor ornamental. L.F. The visitor or was duly impressed, but one thing puzzled him. "Why." said he. "you don't seem to have either a telegraph or telephone installation in the village. How do you summon year men when a fire breaks out? The captain was equal to the occasion. "Oh, that's simple enough." he replied. "We sends 'em all a postcard." The Gas Range IT IS CLEAN--for there are no ashes, no coal, wood or kindling, no soot, no smoke. The range itself is neat and clean and easily kept so. It does away with cause for worry both in keeping fires hot and in results of cooking. TI IS CONVENIENT for all heat wanted and is ready at the turn of the valve. The prices of the ranges are from $16 up. We have just the right size for your kitchen. Why? Why, simply because the electric Iron cuts the work in two. Your iron is always hot. There is no waiting, no waste of energy, no dread of injuring fine clothes. It saves labor and clothes and gives you more time for other things. We are willing that you should see what the electric flat-iron will do. We do not urge you to accept our word for it. Try it, if you will, in your home. A phone call will bring one. You decide if you wish to keep it. PHONE 4400 Madison Gas and Electric Company Bargains in Household Goods We have arranged a new department where all odds and ends, and slow sale goods are placed on sale at prices that move them quickly. We want you to visit this new department. The Union Transfer & Storage Co. STORAGE-MOVING-PACKING-SHIPPING St. Benedict Settlement 823 WINNEBAGO STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS. Home for Colored Working Girls and Women Strangers in the City. Either Catholics or Protestants All are Welcome. Either with or without means. MRS. L. DUNCAN