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Halsteb St anfr Hslsted Street to Western AYMMM S5th to 100th Streets i The schools will close for the summer vacation June 24. The best theatre in Englewood is the Harvard Photo Play House. Get the Monday -will be observed as a holiday on account of Memorial day falling on Sunday this year. If it's service you want at a nominal cost see our page 6 and then ask our representative to call on you. Miss Delia Norton of 64th and Peoria Sts.

will spend Decoration day in Muskegon, Mich. Mrs. E. L. Robinson of 6530 Bishop St.

entertained the Fancy Work club Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Rose Diedrich of 66th and Green Sts. entertained the Friendship club at her home Thursday afternoon. Mrs.

Hayes of 1426 73d PI. has her brother-in-law and niece, of Gilbert Plains, Canada, visiting her. i A miscellaneous shower was given in honor of Miss Clara Csterbosch Friday of last week at the home of Miss Pearl Osterbosch, 1426 73d PI. Frank C. Bruner will deliver a patriotic address at the John P.

Altgeld school this afternoon. His subject will be "Old Liberty Bell." The pupils of Miss Emma Parmentier will give a recital at Ogden Park reception hall the evening of Monday, May 31. Church ads, church news, church announcements and the Sunday school lesson will found on our "Church Great preparations are being made by the merchants of 63d St. for an "Englewood Bargain Days" on June 21 and 22. It promises to be the greatest bargain opportunity ever offered in this part of the city.

The Garfield W. C. T. TJ. held its regular monthly meeting May 21 at the home of Mrs.

P. E. Palmer, 5723 Normal Mrs. M. V.

Divilbiss, president, presiding. Instructive talks were given by Mrs. Helen Hood, state president, and Mrs. Brubaker, state superintendent of the W. R.

R. Reception services were then held for new members, a large attendance being present. Meeting adjourned. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess. Next meeting is to be held June 4 at the home of Mrs.

Alma Siebert, 597 W. 65th St. D. J. Summers of 6752 Ada St.

will visit his old home in Allegheny, the coming month. Decoration day will fall on Sunday this year. 'Thoburn church will give a picnic and excursion to Dellwood Park Monday, which takes the place of Decoration day. Have your rugs and carpets cleaned by the thoroughly reliable methods of Wm. A.

Whitmer, 668 W. 63d St Phone Wentworth 43. (tf) The oiling of the streets west of Ogden park is a great improvement and will do much to keep down the dust, as well as improve the driveway. Our want cornmn is the best and cheapest advertising in the city. It beats the classified columns a mile.

Try them at one cent a word. William Eger, son of Charles Eger of 6659 Halsted has returned from Colorado very much improved in health and will spend the summer at home. Church ads, church news, church announcements and the Sunday school lesson will be found on page 2--our big church page. Send us your news and announcements, by Wednesday morning. Mrs.

Allison Gilmore of 6810 Loomis St. is chairman of the entertainment given for the benefit of the Ephpheta school of deaf children to be given today at Neighborhood hall. It is a most deserving charity and should be patronized by our people. H. V.

Waggoner, the electrical expert of 6338 Peoria is spending the off summer months fishing and hunting on his farm near Boyne Falls, Mich. "Wagg" is liable to shoot an elephant and catch a whale before he returns. Louis Weiss, proprietor of the Bristol cafe at 6319 Halsted over which there was so much agitation to prevent the granting of a license some months ago, was in the Englewood police court this week for assaulting one of the waiters. It was revealed at the trial that Weiss does not pay the waiters, but compels them to rely on the "tips" paid them for their salary, and this waiter refused to wait on a customer because he would not tip him. Weiss was discharged, as also was the waiter.

EXTEND STREET CAR LINES There has been no single thing that has kept back the growth of this part of the town so much as the limited street car service, and the failure of the street railways to extend the lines. It is our pleasure to announce from the best authority that the following lines will be extended this year: Ked- zle from 63d to 67th St. (Marquette Ashland from 79th to 85th State from 81st to 95th and Robey from 63d to 69th St. OUR WANT COLUMN Is the best medium of reaching people In the south part of the city, and our rate of one cent a word Is exceptionally low, hut we must Insist that all such ads be paid for In advance and either brought to the office or sent by mall as we cannot afford to make bills and send collectors for same. This applies to everyone whether you are a friend to the editor or office boy, and we will positively make no exceptions, so please do not kick if your request to violate this rule is refused.

Several Haleted St. saloon keepers have been arrested, charged with running baseball pools. Englewood police have been asked to look for Margaret, the twelve-year- old daughter of R. M. Bardach of 1145 63d St.

Frances Foley, the seventeen-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Foley, died at their home, 7029 Ada last Friday and her funeral occurred Monday morning. Services were held at St. Brendan's church and the remains were interred at Mt.

Olivet cemetery. Emil Johnson and his little daughter, Violet, of 6037 Peoria are recovering from the injuries they received in being run over by an auto last week at 63d St. and Normal Blvd. It was a very narrow escape both for Mr. Johnson and his little girl, and their friends are congratulating them.

WITH THE SACRED FUG SHE LOVES OSTIA ONCE WAS BUSY CITY Excavations of Roman Seaport Show Evidence of Its Former Commercial Importance. DRAWBACKS TO NEW IDEA Cutting Down of Hours of Sleep Will Be Sure to Meet With Much Opposition. "American In their straightness and regularity," is one description of the streets of Ostia, the old port of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, once s. busy city, now dead and forgotten by ail but the archeologists. The place is, in its way, as interesting as Potapeii.

The latter was an upper middle class watering place, while Herculaneum was a Roman Newport. But Ostia was an ordinary Roman business seaport and city, and the discoveries just made there enable one to reconstruct the life of a busy imperial center of 2,000 years ago. The work that has been accomplished enables the visitor to realize as never before the life lived by the energetic commercial people who inhabited the seaport of the Eternal City, and gives a clear idea of the kind of town it was. There are traces of five or six bathing establishments in Ostia. The chief baths, which are to the north of the street called the Val del Vlgili, with their large palaes- tra or place for exercise, take up a whole block, and there are to be found splendid mosaics of the second century, that representing Neptune driving four water horses being perhaps the finest of the kind known, while even the room which is supposed to have been the porter's lodge has a good mosaic pavement in an Egyptian design.

The shops, fountains and porticos bordering the streets of old Ostia which have been brought to light in the recent excavations complete the picture and make us realize that life was not so very different in the faraway past from what it is today in many an Italian town. A specialist who has pursued hia studies with devotion, announces that sleep is a mere habit of the human mind and body that may be thrown off completely through gradual relinquishment It is his view that the average man may add 20 years to his conscious existence by disposing of his sleep habit. The cult has progressed to the extent that many men are now in a way to eliminate their hours of repose, with some show of success, but there is vast complaint from their families during the preliminary stages of the cure. The man who has been sleeping eight hours is not enabled to shade the interval of rest to four hours without seriously disturbing his household. One who retires at midnight and arises at four o'clock in the morning awakens other inmates of his home, both on retiring and arising.

There is some inherent defect in human nature that leads one to go blundering about a house, knocking over chairs and shaking down the furnace, when he should be preserving a deep silence. For this reason the home treatment of the Bleep habit is not likely to be popular. What should be done, for the protection of normal humans, is to hive the sleep- habit patients in barracks where they may strangle sleep at will without disturbing others. To curious strangers the barracks would be a show place, where the lights would ba always shining like beacons and where the activities of life rnigh 1 proceed as at noon. There is some demur to the sleep treatment for the reason that it adds one meal a day to the requirements of the patient--a requirement that is practically prohibitive to many.

DESIRE TO BE CALLED "GAY" "Lightly Amusing" Persons Are Generally Tiresome, If They Are Not Actual Bores. Some of us are always amused at the different ways in which people try to be clever or pretend to be gay and lively. Some show it by spending vast amount of money on dinners and being rude to the waiters. chatter all the time, and Imagine that if they show their front teeth steadily for several hours somebody will call them brilliant conversationalists. Some like to make a great noise and carry on a perpetual fire of banter, of which "You'ne another" is a vivid specimen of the repartee.

Others on the other hand, imagine that if they are daringly decollette and make goo-goo "eyes" at everybody posterity will range them among the great fascinators of.their generation. Not a few find a fund of hilarity in placing a cushion over the door and a piece of soap in the bed, while others hope that if they talk long enough and loud enough they may eventually utter a mot and claim the fame of being a wit forever and ever afterward. As a matter of fact, however, a brilliant light conversationalist is one of the rarest things in the whole world. Such a one is born, though time and experience may elaborate the gift Lots of people talk--talk an awful lot--but very few are worth listening to. Above everything else in gayety there must be no sense of "strain." Better be silent than force your humorous "note." A witty conversation lies not so much in what is said as the whimsical way a person saVs It.

That is why so many books of humor Invariably get "all-edged" mentally inserted by the reader between brackets. That, too, is why so many people who amuse you once drive you frantic with boredom the second time. It is so difficult to be lightly amusing, and amusingly light, without being merely frivolous and Enquirer. Sea Moss. This term is popularly applied to any of the Polyzoa, which are com pound marine animals, several of which share a common horny skeleton, or polyzoary, which is plant-like in form.

According to the bureau of fisheries, several hundred thousand pounds of these skeletons have been imported annually from Europe, chiefly from France and Germany, for dec- and millinery purposes, and the supply has now been practically cut off by the war. It therefore seems opportune to develop a domestic industry, as sea mosses, probably equal in quality to those heretofore imported, are said to be abundant on our coasts, especially in New England. Those with large bushy fronds are the most valuable. Those Innocent Father James Healy, the Sydney Smith of the Irish metropolis, figures in many anecdotes told by Judge Bodkin In his "Recollections." Father Healy was poor, and used to say, good- humoredly, that he did not know how he would live at all if it were not for the "outdoor relief" he received. A fine clutch of young ducks reached him, and, seeing them sporting in the water, be exclaimed, with a whimsical compassion, "Poor Innocents, how they themselves, never thinking that my green peas are growing on the other of the garden wall?" The Square Meal.

Otir language is a riddle. A man will eat a pound of round steak, a pyramid of mashed potatoes, half a dottn oral biscuits, a triangle of pie, drink two cups of flat coffee--then It square Blade. EXERCISE MAKING FOR GRACE Even the Ordinary Household Task Sweeping May Be Turned to Advantage. All forms of directed exercise make for grace, asserts a writer in the Woman's Home Companion. A woman who wishes to be beautiful in the use of her body should learn to dance, swim and abqve all, to use her muscles well in the ordinary actions of life.

When you are stooping to dust the rounds of a chair, do not bend over rigidly from the waist, but bend your knees, slightly, and flex the whole body toward the point where your hand is. When you sweep, grasp the handle of the broom firmly, step briskly and accurately in its path as you sweep, and be careful to hold up your shoulders. No sport in the world has a more beneficial effect upon womanly grace than the prosaic work of sweeping. Never loll in a chair. If you wish to rest, lie back in it, pressing your back firmly against the support, relaxing your hands and finding a comfortable place for your head.

When you sleep, stretch your limbs out fully and lie down--that is, lie BO that you actually feel the support of the bed beneath you. This method will relax your muscles. Float ever, droop never, forever, old flag! Though the armed world assail you, what coward would lag To rise In defense of our beautiful flag? By a thousand campfires have the vows of our sires Ever been that the flag should stilt reign; And they battled and bled till the rivers ran red, But the flag floated free from all stain. Let us keep It unfurled to enlighten the world- Right's emblem as ages go by. Ever glad to the sight is that banner so bright As it ripples in glory on high.

--Walter G. Doty, in National Maynxlne. BEST TO SIDE WITH OPTIMIST With Things Understood, Why Not Join With the One Calculated to Make things Happy? Optimism is a virtue which every one should cultivate. It not only makes us happier and brighter, but also more popular, for every one loves to be with an optimist. Even pessimists are stirred out of their constant gloom if surrounded for a time by a number of persons who persistently look on the sunny side of life, no matter how dark the outlook.

After all, optimism or pessimism Is all a frame of mind. Both words simply describe conditions, and, since tiic fc cc, not choose the one which will make us happy. Optimism means looking on the sunny side of life, seeing only the good in all things. We can easily cultivate this viewpoint if we ill only try. and it makes such a Jifference in what we see.

We can look at the same persons and see quite different traits. We also see other in re beautiful things in whatever direction we look. Is it not much better to see only the good, the beautiful in everything us, than to see only the evil? We can fill all our lives with happiness by searching for good. Just as we can fill our lives with misery by looking for evil. "Seek ar.

1 ye misery find," vt-fcatovsr be the object of your search. So let us make our life eearch one for the best things of life and keep our eyes away from the mud of scandal, malice and criticism. Of course, we could probably find plenty of such evil if, like the pig, we spent our time rooting around in the mud, hut who wants to emulate the example of this gross animal? Success. The Greeks had a foot race In which speed and endurance were not the only teats. Each man at the start was given a lighted torch, and the laurel wreath was for the one who came in first, "with his torch alight." Success in life is not merely reaching the goal, but more important still, in keeping the light of God burning in our hurrying Had Dangerous Plaything.

A fine afternoon for two children wai spoiled the other day by a policeman who discovered them playing with dynamite In a vacant Jot In New York. When the policeman appeared the children fled. As they ran they dropped some of the playthings they had taken from a building under construction. The policeman found the playthings to be sticks of dynamite and percussion caps, used in blasting. The policeman chased the children, lo their homes and then made them pick up the dynamite and caps he hadn't recovered and restore them to the plane from which they had taken them.

FIRST TROOPS TO ENTER RICHMOND Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers Lays Claim to the Honor. OR many years there was discussion of the claims of several bodies of Union troops for the honor of having been first Into Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, on April 3, 1865, a few hours, or possibly only an hour, after the last men of the gray had filed out of the city. The chief claimants for the honor have been the Thirteenth regiment of New Hampshire volunteers, of which John M. Woods, former mayor of Som- ervllle and now department commander of the Massachusetts G. A.

was a member, and the body of colored cavalry, the Fifth Massachusetts, and that day led by Charles Francis Adams, son of the then minister to England. There has been much said, and there much to say, on both sides. The actual priority would seem to belong to the New Hampshire regiment, and of the facts of the story of that great day are summarized here. Informal Surrender. The mayor of Richmond with some of the citizens met General Weltzel a little before seven that morning a little outside the limits of the city.

To that point there had advanced a detachment of Union pickets, perhaps 60 to 70 men. Here an informal surrender took place. Then General Weitael and his staff proceeded into the city, followed by Lieutenant Prescott and his force of pickets, and preceded by a squad of the general's orderlies from the Fourth Massachusetts cavalry, commanded by Major A. H. Stevens.

The general established his headquarters, as IB well known, In the house which Jefferson Davis had made the White House of the southern states. James Ford Rhodes says that the evacuation was completed by seven in the morn- Ing, and Nlcolay and Hay say that Lieutenant Prescott reached capltol square soon after that hour. General Weitzel soon sent back an aide with orders to get the first brigade he could find and bring it in to act as a provost guard. At the same time he sent word for all the rest of the troops to remain outside the city and take possession of the inner line of Confederate defenses. Marched Into City.

The first brigade met by the aide proved to be Gen. E. H. Ripley's brigade of Gen. Charles Devens' division of the Twenty-fourth army corps.

This brigade was headed by Devens with the New Hampshire regiment to which John M. Woods belonged. They marched into the city with colors fly ing and bands playing and reached the capitol some time between eight and nine, on a glorious spring morning. Meantime the second order had been sent and carried about, but somehow it failed to reach the regiment of'col ored cavalry which had then for sev eral weeks been in the command Colonel Adams. They were posted on the extreme right of the Union line and tljey obeyed an earlier reques from General Devens and it was the only order of which they knew any thing, that they advance into the city and thus this colored regiment, headec by the grandson of one president an the great-grandson of another, earned for Itself a share of the glory of that morning.

General Weltzel himself in his n- port says: "At daybreak I started various divisions towards Richmond. General Devens' division came up the New Market road and the cavalry, under Charles Francis Adams, came up the Darbytown and Charles City roads. I directed them all to halt at the out- ikirts of the city until further orders. then rode ahead of the troops, he Osborne Pike, and entered the ity hall, where I received the surrender of the city at 8:15 a. m.

Troops Placed En Position. "Majors Stevens and Graves had en- ered a little after 7 a. m. 1 ordered in immediately after my ari rival a brigade of Devens' division under General Ridley as provost guard, and ordered all the rest of the troops nto position along the inner line of redoubts about the city. "The first troops to reach the city were the companies--E and H--of the Fourth Massachusetts cavalry, who were the escorts to Majors Stevens and Graves, and their guidons were the first national colors displayed over the city.

Next came the pickets of the Twenty-fourth corps. After that, as I was in the city and not on the outskirts, I do not know what came, and it is a matter of dispute, both divisions claiming the credit." Wherever the credit goes it will fall somewhere in New England, and probably upon New Hampshire for priority, and Massachusetts will have a full share. THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY. "Under the roses the Blue; Under the lilies the Gray." Oh, the roses we plucked for the Blue, And the lilies we twined for the Gray, We have bound In a wreath, And in silence beneath Slumber our heroes today. Over the new-bound sod The sons of our fathers stand And the fierce old flght Slips out of sight In the clasp of a brother's hand.

For the old blood left a stain That the new has washed away, And the sons of those That have faced the foes Are marching together today. Oh, the blood that our fathers gave! Oh, the tide of our mothers' tears! And the flow of red, And the tears they shed, Embittered a sea of years. But the roses we plucked for the Blue, And the lilies we twined for the Gray We have hound In a wreath, And in glory beneath Slumber our heroes today! --Albert Blgelow Paine. Fooled Enlisting Officers. They tell a tale of an amusing incident that occurred at a recruiting headquarters in Indiana, where an old man with flowing gray beard and white hair offered himself as a soldier.

Of course, he was rejected. He said nothing, but, hastening to a barber shop, had his hair dyed and a clean shave. Then he came' back, and, declaring his age as "rising thirty- five," was unrecognized and promptly enlisted. Illinois Woman a Major. Governor Yates of Illinois made the wife of Lieutenant Reynolds (Seventeenth Illinois volunteers) a major.

She accompanied her husband through a long campaign, and was present at the, battle of Pittsburg Landing. However, she did no fighting, and her commission was a reward for the important service she did in taking care of the wounded. Will Be Last March. Time was when the of the G. A.

R. were dominant in politics and social life. Now they have been decimated by the withering fire of time, and soon the last of them will have gone. Their survivors, one by one, are losing their grip on the present, and turning more and more to the past which was the climax of their lives. Time and.

again there has been an effort made to do away with the annual parade of the veterans, on the ground of the hardship it worked on the marphers. Reason lay with the objectors, but the sentiment of the public, loath to give tacit admission of the passing of the honored ones, no less than the indomitable spirit of the old soldiers themselves, prevailed. Now it is announced the veterans will march once again, and then never more keep step to fife and drum. Wisdom will approve the decision, but the heart will not. Borrowing is the canker-worm of every man's BERG'S SPECIAL CASH MONTH! to be sold at less than manufacturer's cost.

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ENGLEWOOD STORE NOT ALL ARE FOND OF MUSIC Some of the Lower Animals Have a Positive Distaste for It, the Camel Particularly. "If you want to make a camel run play some music within his hearing," was a dictum laid down at the Royal Asiatic society in London by Prof. Inayat Khan. He was lecturing on the subject of the effect of music upon animals. He told some singular stories of experiments which he and others had conducted over a number of years.

In India houses are set apart for the and goats, buffaloes, sheep, chickens and other animals are kept in those houses in order that the musicians may test their sensitiveness to music. One cow, said the professor, became particularly fond of music, and showed a decided preference for one certain Indian instrument. It takes, however, a long time to make a horse fond of music, and it prefers wind to stringed instruments. At the sound of the bagpipe the cows began to jump and dance, but whether this was to be regarded as a eign of Approval or disapproval the professor did not say. Birds began to dance when a guitar was played before them, and this evidently was intended to signify approval, because on one occasion when the music ceased one of the birds went up to the player and tapped hie cheek with its beak, signifying that it wanted more music.

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Expert Renovators on Straw, Pelt, and Panama Hats. No Boot Black jobs, Why Joaeph Was Sad. Forlorn little Joseph had called upon me with a crumpled note which he reluctantly dragged from a pocket. It was from the admitting agent of an orphanage, explaining that Joseph could not be taken into the institution until his head was "cured;" and it gave some details regarding the family, the worthiness of the mother, and her exceeding poverty. The agent hoped that I might relieve her by expediting Joseph's admission.

I tried to make the child's daily visit to me (interesting. The treatment waa not painful, but the end of each visit--he came with patient regularity every day-left me as dolorous as, himself. One day I tried, hy promise of a present or any treat he fancied, to bring out some expression of youthful spirit-all anavailingly. "But you vnust wish for something," I urged; "1 never knew a boy who For the first time the silent little lad showed enthusiasm. "I wish you wouldn't cure my head, so I needn't go to the orphan W.

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