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THE BROAD AX The Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Broad Ax The Preachers and Others Have Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Exclude It from the United States Mails for Hewing to the Line and Letting the Chips Fall Where They May. Vol. XI The Tenth Edition Broa Still Looking The Preachers a Made Unsucc to Exclude It States Mails f Line and Let Fall Where T October 21, 1905, "The Broad Ax" completed its tenth year in the journalistic world. Ten years ago or more, properly speaking, the 31st of August, 1895, we began its publication in Salt Lake City, Utah, and continued to do so each week until June 1, 1899. Then we discontinued its publication there and removed to this great metropolis, where we had formerly resided seven years prior to 1895, and began its publication here in this city July 15, 1899, and from that time to the present it has made its appearance once each week. Within one week from the time our little journal made its appearance in this city, ex-State Senator T. T. Allain, who has passed out of sight, contributed a long-winded article to one of the daily Republican papers in this city, in which he bitterly condemned "The Broad Ax," and denouncing the writer as an enemy and a black-hearted tutor to the race for presuming to assert our political independence, and be in connection with many other narrow-minded, ignorant, would-be leaders of the Afro-American Republic, so sorted to many under-handed men for the purpose of prejudicing the minds of the people against "The Proof Ax," and to cause it to flutter at once before it was really born. the incident is not referred to in a book of bitterness, but simply for the purpose of convincing those who may think otherwise, that "the Negro was honestly attempts to raise his voice in behalf of the true or the fundamental principles of democracy" do not recline on a bed of roses we pass through this world; that he is forced to be thrice armed, and to fight a double battle for the majority of the members of his own race are such servile political serts that they are ever ready to assist the white Repuglican masters to crush him down and out and force him back into political slavery. In the course of time several eminent divines in this city and their blind or deluded followers, with the assistance of three or four tricky lawyers including Charles S. Deneen, and the so-called leading Negro newspaper men who were envious and jealous of the success of "The Broad Ax," started on the warpath after our scalp for publishing the truth, or "hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they may, in relation to their immoral conduct at that time. The preachers started the ball to rolling, holding meetings in their churches for the purpose of denouncing us as an enemy to the race for daring to proclaim the truth, and nothing but the truth, through the columns of this paper, and for the further purpose of urging or persuading their weak-minded dupes to refrain from buying or reading "The Broad Ax." At one of the meetings held in one of the churches over $500 was raised and turned over to several slimy and rascally lawyers to enable them to assist State's Attorney Charles S. Deneen to secure our indictment, conviction in the Criminal Court, and imprisonment. Utterly failing in all their efforts in this respect, and being unable to trample us under their feet by pursuing those methods, the next thing to flash across their childish minds was to have "The Broad Ax" excluded from the United States mails. They also failed in their efforts, and like the former boss of the "Red Light District," who recently endeavored to do the same thing, they found it was mighty hard work to make any progress in that direction. Single handed and alone we stood up and successfully fought that entire combinatoln, and in spite of the numerous obstacles which the white and colored obstructionists have endeavored to throw in its pathway in the past, in spite of our Je-June, bitter and envious rivals, "The Broad Ax" has gone on or marched steadily forward, never looking to the right nor to the left, but straight ahead, and by persistently pursuing this policy or course for the past ten years it is now recognized in all parts of this grand commonwealth as one of the greatest champions of the rights of man. Here at this point we must again pause for a few moments to re-express our everlasting gratitude to those warm or generous hearted white men and women, residing in the grand magnificent valleys of Utah, who first rallied to the support of "The Broad Ax," and by their cheering words of encouragement, made it possible for it to "hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may." ad we shall ever or always hold them in grateful remembrance. It is true that when "The Broad Ax" first appeared on the journalistic sea it did not attract much attention except among its few friends, for it had no subscription list, but to-day it has staunch friends and supporters in many parts of this broad land, and its bright and sparkling editorials are eagerly read by United States Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Judges and by HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, DECEMBER 30, 1905 DOCTOR A. F. PERRY. One of Chicago's Most Prominent Physicians and Surgeons, Property Holder and Popular Citizen. Doctor A. F. Perry came into this world at Canton, Miss., and his early boyhood days were spent in the common schools in his native town, and graduated from the city High school at the age of fourteen. Being thoroughly bent upon acquiring a thorough education he entered Alcorn university while in his fifteenth year, and for four years he was under the professorship of the late United States Senator Hiram R. Revels. Then he entered the Straight university and took a special course, and after finishing his literary education, Doctor Perry set his sails for the Lone Star State. As there was then quite a demand for school teachers, he pitched his tent, so to speak, in Houston, Tex. Arriving there on Saturday he entered a competitive examination on that same day, and came out second to none, and was made principal of the Fifth Ward school. in the meantime he established and conducted a very fine drug store, the income from which greatly assisted him to add to his financial income. June, 1893, Doctor Perry came on to Chicago to visit the great World's Fair and after spending two weeks here he became so favorably impressed with the Windy city and its people that he was swept off his feet, as it were. He returned to his southern home and completed arrangements to dispose of his drug store and other property in Chattanooga, and he came North in April, 1894, and landed in Chicago to stay. On arriving in this city Doctor Perry immediately entered into the active practice of medicine, and he has been more than useful for nearly twelve years. Many of the best and most substantial people in this city would not have any other doctor than the subject of this sketch. He taught school in that city for two years, at the end of which time he saw an opportunity to better his condition, so he resigned and wended his way to Branham, Tex., where he became principal of the High school of that thriving and enterprising city, a position which paid him $125 per month, with honor to himself. He taught there for three years, and severed his connection with the school for the purpose of pursuing a course in medicine. In 1886 he entered the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., and graduated with honors in 1890. After emerging from that well known medical college Doctor Perry located at Chattanooga, Tenn., where he hung out his shingle, and he was successful from the very start. In a very short time he built up a large practice, and many other eminent personages, and copies of it have been sent to England, Germany, France and other European countries. From its inception down to the present time "The Broad Ax" has herocally and courageously advocated and contended for the rights of the common people, regardless of their color or nationality, and for the equality of all men before the law. It has been fearless and outspoken on all the leading topics or questions of the day. It has never hesitated in denouncing those who have attempted to ride rough shod over the rights and the liberties of the toiling millolns; it has made not the slightest difference to it whether those who attempted to do so were Democrats, Republicans or what nots. It has been the earnest champion of the restoration of the money of the constitution, which would divest the bankers or the money gamblers who have grown sleek and fat by robbing and plundering the people, thereby not only absolutely controlling them, but also the finances and the general gov- in the meantime he established and conducted a very fine drug store, the income from which greatly assisted him to add to his financial income. June, 1893, Doctor Perry came on to Chicago to visit the great World's Fair and after spending two weeks here he became so favorably impressed with the Windy city and its people that he was swept off his feet, as it were. He returned to his southern home and completed arrangements to dispose of his drug store and other property in Chattanooga, and he came North in April, 1894, and landed in Chicago to stay. On arriving in this city Doctor Perry immediately entered into the active practice of medicine, and he has been more than useful for nearly twelve years. Many of the best and most substantial people in this city would not have any other doctor than the subject of this sketch. His office is located at 2353 State street, Tel. Green 264. Doctor Perry is well and favorably known not only in Chicago, but throughout the entire country. In all business transactions his word is his bond. He is happily married, and his helpmate is highly educated and accomplished. He is the father of three beautiful, bright little daughters. The oldest is Miss Helen, who is ten years, Miss Melba eight, and Miss Dorothy is four years. Doctor Perry and his family reside in their own beautiful home, 4810 Langley avenue. Tel. Gray 5671. He is an honored member of the Odd Fellows, Western Star Lodge No. 1443, and medical examiner and court physician for the Foresters No. 7895. He possesses a bright or sunny disposition, and has the knack of making long and lasting friends. ernment itself. In three of the greatest political battles ever waged in this republic it has valiantly fought on the side of the masses, as against the interests of the blood-sucking trusts, the gigantic monopolies, the grasping money power, and the plutocratic classes. Hundreds of politicians peruse "The Broad Ax" each week, but there is no one politician-statesman or would-be statesman on earth, white or black, who can crack their whip over us and compel us to fall down upon our hands and knees in their presence, or to dance to their music, or to write to suit them. "The Broad Ax" is not very large, or rather insignificant in its size; nevertheless it has assisted in helping to shape the legislation of this great nation. This can be verified by referring to United States Senate document No. 182, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, page 76, which contains an editorial from "The Broad Continued on page 8.) The One Phase Of Phases Or the Future Destiny of the Afro-American and the Important Part He Will Play In the History of the World. As Viewed by Holt, the Logical and Classical Writer, Oregon, Mo. In all time past, as well as at present, labor has been despised and oppressed in proportion to its being necessary to the social existence. To such an extent has this been that the most absolutely necessary services have been done by helots and serfs or slaves. In all nations this has been done so, except in some rare little states high up in mountain regions, like Appenzelle, Switzerland, where by a few very simple preventives universal equality and comfort have been for ages preserved among a very dense population. Everybody must know that this degradation of labor and inequality has been caused by giving monopolies of land and other opportunities to a few persons in the start. This has given to the few the power of lords over the many. A great leader of armies would overrun a country and portion out among his genemls the lands and people and thus start a kingdom. As the discipline of armies makes the common soldier a slave to his officers, all the vast population both of soldiers and conquered peoples become little better than slaves. Thus England started as a nation. Our own country was a part of England until about one hundred and thirty years ago. We broke from her and set up for ourselves another England here, but as we had come to hate the word king, we made our head man to be called President. We also kept up slave trading and slave holding. Only about half a dozen of our leaders had the remotest idea of the freedom and equality of man, and one of these drew up the Declaration of Independence, into which he proved his own burning zeal for human rights by the following resounding words: "All men are created equal, endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Unfortunately this Declaration being so often repeated has come to be believed, to the extent of making us believe our founders made a government of Liberty—a real peoples' government—a democracy. And under this illusion the very slaves of the South and all the women of our nation have aided to celebrate the Fourth of July and their suffered emancipation from some imagined chains held by England over us. A very democratic writer in his own great newspaper but a few days ago gloried over our liberty, and spoke feelingly over our heroic soldiers who fought for our freedom at Bunker Hill and New Orleans." And so we glorify over our universal suffrage as "the most precious of boons, the sure guarantee of liberty and equality." A few years ago when manhood suffrage' was proposed in England the rulers were horrified. "It is our ruin; it must not be," "Pooh!" said the wiser ones. "Throw it as tut to a mad whale, as sailors do. Let them unwise themselevs by voting." And for about fifty years they have been so amused, and believe they govern. No.10 Destiny of the man and the Im- He Will Play In the World. Holt, the Logicalical Writer, on, Mo. But find themselves worse off than before. And they started a government with slavery and land monopoly over a half continent of infinite resources. They gave the power of law making Congress and President. The power of choosing the Congress and President they gave to citizens that were men of twenty-one years or over, or to about one-fifteenth of the people. And the nation has grown to be what we see it. Invention began to save labor until now one person can by machinery do what formerly one hundred did, and the land and machines and distributing means are all owned by a few persons, and now the great question has come to be the labor question. And strange to say that here as elsewhere, and now as before, labor stands far down, despised and condemned. The lowest, hardest, most dangerous and unpleasant, but most necessary labor, without which society must perish, is the most despised and least paid of all. And the men who do it the world over are looked on as despicable serfs, Strange contradiction and totally at war with our pretences as Christians, as followers of that God-like character in whose honor all the grandest temples of civilization are built, and before whose name "even Jews and infidels adore," and who ordered that "the last shall be honored as the first and the first shall be put down into the place of the last." And now the labor question, after ages of misrule, is looming up darker, more menacing and threatening than before. And behold the black man is the very foundation representative of the labor question. In past years and even yet pirates and robbers have caught his ruled ancestors in Africa, the blacks, just as they might have caught our white or red or yellow ancestors in Asia and sold them into slavery, to free them to do the labor that had to be done, and which they could not or would not do for themselves. And the descendants of these black captives grew up here and multiplied and throne until at the outbreak of the war of 1861-5 they had become "the most splendidly disciplined body of people for the race of life ever before known," to use the language of a Southern gentleman and scholar who had grown up among them and observed and written of them a valuable treatise. History repeats itself. The Puritans who settled New England were a race of people whom long years of persecution and oppression had disciplined as by fire. As we are guided wiser than we know, so these people, were appointed, elected to be the founders of a mighty race on the newly discovered world. Can anyone believe that the ten millions of the black race have developed from a few thousand stolen out of Africa and domesticated here for two hundred years so as to receive all the enlightenment of the age, and stand at last free, the highest representatives of their race and the equal of any race on the globe, unless the divine intelligences have some Continued on page 8.) CONGRESSMAN WM. SULZER TO THE FRONT. Julius F. Taylor, Editor "The Broad Ax." Chicago: I was greatly pleased to see the letter of Congressman Sulzer in "The Broad Ax," and your editorial commenting thereon, Mr. Sulzer is a coming political star of the first magnitude. He has just introduced into Congress a resolution on the Russian question, which if pressed fearlessly to its logical conclusions, is bound to raise a big political storm not only in our domestic politics, but in international affairs also. This Sulzer resolution is of fact the first step in a revision by Congress of the extraordinary performances and unconstitutional usurpations of power by the Presidential Executive during the late "recess." In the Russian and Japanese affair Roosevelt has established as a precedent that during the recess of Congress all the powers and prerogatives of Congress are abrogated, and the Constitution itself suspended, making the President an unrestrained and absolute autocrat and military dictator. In the greatest international affair in all history, an affair which involved the fate of the world and involved also America's highest material interests and even our liberties, this Mr. Roosevelt proceeded in the absence of Congress to play Emperor and settle the whole business off-hand Emperor-like, making a dive in his spectacular boat in a submarine torpedo by way of "exercise." With an audacity and disregard of constitutional restraint he proceeded before a gaping world in a manner which even the Kaiser of Germany would not dare to exhibit over the German people. The aggression was fragrant. The Constitution of the United States gives the Federal Senate co-equal jurisdiction with the Presidential executive over all of our foreign relations. This high constitutional prerogative is shared by the House of Representatives of the National Congress. Would Mr. Roosevelt have lost anything in true constitutional observing prestige as the executive head of a democratic republic if he had accordingly called an extra session of the American Senate on that momentous occasion, or if he had called into consultation at Oyster Bay the members of the Senate committee on foreign affairs with members of the committee of foreign affairs of the House? Would the world, effecting diplomatic relations at Portsmouth, have lost anything in dignity by such an observance of the "spirit" of the Constitution by the Executive? Could Witte have made the astounding and humiliating declaration he did on his return to Europe that he could never have humiliated Japan at Portsmouth and forced Russia's terms of peace on her but for the fact that Roosevelt himself was the loyal ally of the Czar, and had supported him (Witte) "at every point?" That was Witte's declaration during the negotiations. That declaration involves American honor. It demands Congressional investigation, and if true, demands Congressional action. For, with Witte's declaration unrebuked we stand in the attitude before the world of having inveigled Japan into a diplomatic "trap" under false pretenses in the interest of Russia. As to Mr. Roosevelt's moral responsibility for what is going on in Russia to-day, as involved in the Sulzer resolution, the case is clear. But for Roosevelt's premature interference in the mighty name of America after Toga's great naval victory in the straits of Corea, when Japan had the Russian brute by the throat and at her mercy, Russia to-day would be a republic, her brutal Cossacks disbanded and disarmed, with the imperial family and the grand dukes in exile, with the Kaiser and his "hangers-on" to keep them company. Russia a republic, with the reappearance on the map of Europe of the German republic of 1848, side by side with heroic France, all this sacrificed in order to pander to the colossal egotism of the Theodore Roosevelt, and safeguard and restore to power the Russian despotism is the bulwork of European dynastic rule. Put that achievement side by side with the murder of the South African republics in order to safeguard the British monarchy, and what claim has Roosevelt on the world's democracy? If the precedent established by Roosevelt in this matter is allowed to stand, farewell to constitutional guarded liberty in America. Under this precedent what power is there to prevent this autocrat during the long recess of Congress from hurling his armies into Mexico, for instance, under some easily trumped-up excuse for such a war, conquering that country, and having the entire military adventure over and the "job" cleaned up before the reassembling of Congress? The right, in fact the duty of Congress to review in defense of its pre rogatives the acts of the Presidential executive during the recess, is plain. It is absolutely necessary. The favorite saying of all autocrats, "when the cat is away the mouse may play," may suit those who believe in autocracy in government. But it has no place in a free representative government regulated by constitutional safeguards of liberty, and resting finally on the sovereign will of a free people. This great matter has been studiously begged by the persistent and hypocritical cry of "Peace." A single question or two will expose fully the true character of this cry of "Peace" as a subterfuge with which to hide the true character of the pro-Russian influences which made Roosevelt President, and which dictated the terms of peace at Portsmouth. If Russia had proven victorious in the straits of Corea, sinking the Japanese fleet, isolating Japan, cutting all communication with Oyama, with Togo a prisoner in the hands of the Russians at Vladivostock, and Japan a conquered vassal, another Poland at the feet of the Czar (a result confidently expected by the pro-Russian military and naval cabal at Washington, including the White House), would our pro-Russian President have in such case rushed eagerly forward to safeguard Japan and curb Russia? Would we have heard any cry of "Peace" then? To ask these questions is to answer them. Roosevelt was then, as he is now, under pro-Russian reactionary influences. To these influences he owes his elevation to power. Secretary Hay, the friend of China and Japan, had been practically succeeded by Loomis, who, with the German Ambassador, own the department of state. These are the facts. Let Mr. Sulzer press his resolution. Let the world learn from the floor of the House of Representatives of the American Congress that the American people are still the American government, and that no man, be he whom he may, can trample down with impunity, "Rough-Rider" like, the constitutional safeguards of American liberty. One constitution with one flag, the same in South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands as in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. Let the liberty bugle of 1776 and 1860 sound once more. CHARLES GANO BAYLOR. Providence, R. L. December 21st. WILLIAM L. MARTIN. Lawyer; ex-member of the Legislature of Ill.; ex-South Town Clerk, and member of the Fellowship Club. William L. Martin, who occupies one of the best suites of law offices in Chicago, at 155 Washington street, was born in Richmond, Mo., and as he approached manhood he fully became aware of the fact that "no man amounts to anything in this world unless he drinks in an education" and in time he worked his way through Oberlin College. At the end of his Junior year he was two terms ahead of his class, and being unable to return during his senior year of 1892 the faculty permitted him to complete his studies at the University of Chicago, which he did, passing second in the roll of honor, and with flying colors he graduated from Oberlin in '93, and later on he received and completed his legal training at the Chicago College of Law, which is a part of the Lake Forest University. Mr. Martin possesses great musical ability, having sung for years with the Musical Union of Oberlin College, with the Apollo Club in the World's Fair Chorus, the chorus choir of the University of Chicago—which acquainted him with the world's best oratorios and choruses. He is also a writer of much force and originality. With credit to himself he has served as record writer in the Criminal court, and was elected as South Town Clerk in 1890, that same year he was also selected as one of the commissioners to the Tennessee Centennial by Mayor George B. Swift. In 1898 he was elected to the Legislature of Illinois, where he honorably labored in the interest of all the people of his adopted state. He is vice-president and historian of the Fellowship Club, and enjoys a good practice among both races. Mr. R. E. Manning, manager of the Indianapolis World, spent a few days in the city last week, stopping at the Keystone Hotel. A. B. The keen, and wide awake manager of The Peoples' Pharmacies 29th and Armour Ave., and 27th and D'arborn Sts. George M. Porter, Ph.G., who in connection with Dr. M. J. Brown are the controlling spirits in the Peoples' Pharmacies, Twenty-ninth and Armour avenue and Twentys tenth and D'arborn streets, was born in Columbia, Tenn., and in the course of time he graduated from the Roger Williams university, Nashville, Tenn. A little over five years ago Mr. Porter came to Chicago, and by working night and day he was able to enter the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy, from which he also graduated with honorable mention, and he has the distinction of being the first and the only Afro-American to graduate from the school of pharmacy referred to For several years Mr. Porter practically conducted W. F. Taylor's Drug Store, and early last spring The Peoples Pharmacy Company succeeded to the business of Mr. Taylor and Mr. Porter became its manager, with Doctor M. J. Brown as its Secretary and the latter part of November under the management of these two energetic young business men. The Peoples Pharmacy Company, opened up another store, 27th and Dearborn street. Both stores are up to date and are well stocked with a first class line of drugs, toilet articles and in fact everything which can be found in modern drug stores. The Peoples Pharmacies are a center of activity in their respective communities. Those who favor the stores with their trade are promptly served by neat, polite and obliging clerks, and Messrs. Porter and Brown have demonstrated the fact that Afro-Americans can successfully conduct drug stores like men of other races. At either of their stores, customers can leave orders to have their trunks transferred to and from all statoins, and as local agents for the United States express Company, they issue money orders and forward packages to all parts of the world. Mr. Leapole Green of Springfield, Ill. spent the holidays in the city the guest of Mrs. E. M. Blackwell, 3228 State St [Name] F. A. RAWLINS. The best and the leading undertaker in the Town of Lake. F. A. Rawlins, who is well and favorably known in all sections of this city, ranks among the modern embalmers, undertakers and funeral directors. For five or six years past he has been successfully established in business at 4834 State street, and it goes without saying that he always succeeds in making lasting friends of those who engage his services to perform the last sad rites for those who were near and dear to them, and in every respect he conducts a first class establishment in his line of business. Mr. Rawlins is prominently affiliated with many secret societies. He is a member of Oriental Lodge A. F. and A. Masons, member of the Old Fellows, K. P's. True Reformers, and United Brothers of Friendship. He is also a member of the St. Thomas Church Club and a communicant of St. Thomas. He is a thorough business man, honest, polished in his manners and reflects great credit on the Afro-American race. FREDERICK DOUGLASS CENTRE 3023 WABASH AVE. The Sunday afternoon meeting will present a varied program. Dr. George C. Hall will lead in a discussion of the progress of our race during the year, with Mrs. T. D. Brown and Mr. S. Laing Williams to follow. Prof. N. Clark Smith will have charge of the musical exercises. Tuesday 2 p. m. regular meeting of the Woman's Club. Subject, Vacation Schools, led by Mrs. I. N. Blackwelder. It is hoped sufficient interest will be aroused to open one of these schools in this locality this summer. Thursday 8 p. m. the class in fiction will complete the study of Adam Bede. Friday 8 p. m. The Young People's Lyceum will hold its regular meeting. "D." DOCTOR W. H. DAVIS. One of the most successful Chiropodists in this city, a tax payer and a highly esteemed citizen. Doctor W. H. Davis, the well known Chiropodist, needs no introduction to the great citizenship of Chicago, for by hard work and the able assistance of his estimable wife Mrs. L. A. Davis, he has succeeded in reaching the top of the ladder in his line of business and hundreds of the best people in this city are numbered among his customers. The big politicians both Democratic and Republican, around the City Hall and at other points would not think of permitting any one else to serve them aside from Doctor Davis. Recently Doctor Davis moved into his own lovely new home, 3220 Prairie avenue. Phone Douglas 6750, and he is now amply prepared to receive and treat his numerous customers in fine quarters. He still however performs outside work by appointment. MRS. ANNA WELLS-FITTS. Active member of the Progressive Circle of the Kings Daughters, church worker and promoter of high class musicals. Among the active Afro-American business women in this city none surpass nor excels Mrs. Anna Wells-Fitts, the dutiful wife of Mr. B. W. Fitts, the up to date printer, 2803 State street. Mrs. Fitts is a practical printer herself. She is familiar with the cases, sets and distributes type and can make and lock up the forms. She can also run the job press as fast and as good as the most expert printer and the nice or fine job work turned out by Mr. Fitts passes through her hands first and under her watchful eye, before it is turned over to his customers. Notwithstanding her exacting duties in connection with her vocation, Mrs. Fitts finds a little time to devote to church work. She is a member of the Progressive Circle of the Kings Daughters and she frequently promotes musicals to assist the churches which she attends. She stands out as a successful business woman in the printing world. ST. MARK LITERARY STATE ST. NEAR 47TH ST. Last Sunday afternoon the subject before the St. Mark Literary was "The Literary Aspects of the Bible." The addresses by Messrs. L. A. H. Caldwell, B. F. Smith, Q. E. Whaley, and A. L. Williams, H. C. Fox, and H. D. Smith, were very good. Next Sunday will be the Emancepation Day Celebratoin. Mrs. Ida B. Wells—Barnett will be the principal speaker, others who will appear upon the program will be R. A. Cralley, J. E. French, Ben. C. Winfrey, and many others. KING JEFFERSON. The rising Afro-American poet in the west whose contributions in these columns are attracting favorable attention. THE NEW YEAR INAUGURAL. Shrill blows the horn; The year is gone; A new r one is setting on. Wake is the night; And sod the sight. T. e parted age has taken flight. Swern to ensue, An epoch new Its predecessor bids adeau. The whistle toots; The rifle shoots; Muskind moves on to fresh pursuits. The signals rise; The earth replies; Up leap their rockets in the skies. The heaven woke By sudden stroke Complacency on all invoke. The legeons loom; The cannons boom; The old year hurries to his tumb. The sentries sinout; The banners flout; The last year train is pulling out. In haste and din And joy maudlin. The new year Special limbers in. With hope and pride, Electrified. The world mounts on a twelve months ride. The churchy hum, The rap of drum. Fall like afaint beaticum. And everywhere. The hiber air A hazy joyfulness doth bear. A million throngs Acclaim their songs Accented on a million tongues. And sure and swift The ceaseless drift Of events seem to light and lift Swings peaceful as Elysium's tent. Both hate and fire Suppress their fire: The universe seems rising high'r. The push and press Of strenuousness. So paramount in our progress, In recess kneel. And mystic weal The whole of mankind seems to feel. Our purposes and creeds proclaim. And life will seem One long sunbeam Through which the rays of wisdom stream. Hope lifts her wings. And firmly clings To Providence for better things. The conscience clear Of charge may cheer The happy, happy glad New Year K. JEFFERSON Prof. N. Clark Smith with the same orchestra he had Christmas evening will furnish the same music New Years evening at the First Regiment Armory, Admission 50c. Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Bentley, of 345 East 41st street, entertained a number of young people with an informal dancing party Wednesday eve in honor of their guest. Miss Candace Parker of Spokane, Wash. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Bordie Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. Dent, Dr. A. A. Wesley, Mr. Paul, Mr. Lawrence Jones, Mr. Jas Alexander, Mr. Ed Alexander, Mr. W. W. Peebles, Mr. Al. Hendricks, Mr. Wm. Harper, Mr. T. A. Hudson, Mr. A. J. Booker, Mr. Theo Jones, Mr. F. Allen, Mr. Hunt, Miss Ethel Wyley, Miss Dora Johnson, Miss Cecilia Johnson, Miss Essie Arnold, Miss Fannie Smith, Miss Cora Wilson, Miss Mable Wilson, Miss Edwena McCabe, Miss McSpadden, piano, Mrs. Smiley, caterer. --- Bid for Presents. In the following quaintly formal letter the parents of Welsh brides sometimes bid their friends attend the wedding and bid them also not to come em-ty-handed: "Whatever donation you may be pleased to bestow will be thankfully received and cheerfully repaid whenever called for on a similar occasion. The parents of the bride and bridegroom-elect desire that all gifts due to them will be returned to them on the above date and will be thankful for all favors granted." Matrimonial Mishap. She—When I saw old Billyuns and his wife at Niagara a couple of years ago she was billing and cooing with him in a way to make you tired. He—That was the honeymoon. "And I saw where the other day in court she had forced him to pay he the best part of his income as almony." "That's the harvest moon."—Baltimore American. In the Presence of Power "This," said the ardent patriot, "is a country where every citizen is entitled to freedom of speech and, so long as he deserves it, the respect of his fellow men." "Just wait till you get summoned as a juror before some of our minor judges," replied the pessimist. "Maybe you'll change your mind and not brag so much."—Washington Star. Venturesome Princess. The king of Saxony's sister, Princess Matilda, ascended the cupola of St. Peter's, at Rome, and added her name to the list of royal personages who have performed the feat. It was only with difficulty that she was persuaded not to follow her father's example in climbing into the overhanging ball, a height of 408 feet. Greatest Diamond Expert. The credit of being the greatest diamond expert in Amrica is generally awarded to Gen. Mindil, who for ten years has had charge of the jewel room in the appraiser's office. New York. The importer who can bamboo boole Gen. Mindil as to the value of a precious stone has not yet come to the front. Russions in London In investigating the death of a child, London lodging-house inspectors found a room at the east end in which 19 Russians slept. Their beds almost touched. There was a stove in the middle of the room and no ventilation, and water was running down the window panes in streams. Repartee. "Your appalling ignorance interests me. For the sake of the experience, I'd give $100 to be as big a fool as you are for five minutes." "Yes, and the rest of your life you could boast of having had one lucid interval."—Cleveland Leader. None Too Soon. "Well, Kadley is dead. He was a mighty tough character." "Yes; killed out west by a premature explosion of dynamite, wasn't he?" "It was an explosion of dynamite, but I wouldn't call it 'premature.'"—Philadelphia Leger. Fatal "What made Jones give up his diplomatic career?" "An unfortunate physical ailment. He was attacked with looseness of the jaw and couldn't stop talking at a time when he should have kept his mouth shut."—Detroit; Free Press. Progress of China A nephew of the emperor of China and the chief engineer to the Chinese government are now in England making arrangements for the construction of a great military rife factory in China. The drug store of White & Rankin 36th and State streets, was robbed Tuesday night. The loss is slight. Mr. A. Barnett, who is attending college in Canada, spent the holidays in Chicago. Miss Marria Jones, of Troy, Ala., is the guest of her brother at 4827 State street. Douglas Club Dancing School. Yourself and friends are cordially invited to attend the fashionable Douglas Club Dancing School, 3310 Ellis ave. Every Friday evening for the purpose of learning The New Three Step Miss Daisie Hoggett and Prof. Thomas Russel will see that all of our patron are properly taught. A private place where you may meet with your friends to enjoy a sooth few hours. All respectable people Full orchestra. Mrs. N. C. Smith Manager; Prof. N. C. Smith, Musica Director. WISDOM COMES BY READING. Before purchasing books, etc., for the HOLIDAY SEASON, I cordially invite you to visit my store and examine my assortment, consisting of all tech NEW and POPULAR COPY RIGHT BOOKS by FAMOUS AUTHORS of the RACE. Remember the place. E. H. FAULKNER'S NEWS AND BOOK STORE, 3104 STATE ST. CHICAGO. MRS. ELIZABETH McDONALD'S Y EARLY REPORT TO THE BISHOP, OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS A. M. E. CONFERENCE WHICH CONVENED AT QUINCY, ILL. 1 pleasure in presenting for your consideration the detailed report cf missionary work during the pr conference year. I would be be pleased if the work already done more abundant success, but in consoled with the thought the we of to-day may see only the as it is cast upon the waters, the may be others who, in God's own will see its abundant re- source many days. It was to my denominational work that pleased to report a most beautiful growth of missionary sentiments and there prevails a more kindly bearing for the unfortunate than in forty days. The spirit of self-sacrifice is growing, people are becoming more and more willing to contribute the widow's mite for the benefit of the poor and needy. All church work has had the benefit of plenidid support and earnest cooperation of Presiding Elder Rev. Carson and our worthy Bishop, Rt. Rev. Bishop Shaffer. Much of my experience has come directly under their observation, so that the character of my work, as well as its measure, can best be told by them in their reports. A very important change in my work has been brought about by the operation of a new law passed by the last session of the Legislature. By former reports the conference knew that my public service was rendered without salary, year in and year out, for about ten years, six years of that time as a probation officer in the Juvenile Court. Our last Legislature, however, provided a salary for a limited number of probation officers of the Juvenile Court, and these were selected after a civil service examination. The examination was held, and I was among the many who tried to secure a place on the salaried P. The faithful Probation Officer who continues her labors in the Juvenile Court without pay in the interest of boys and girls who need some one to look after them. list. I never spent a year in school during all my life, and so I was not among those 'who were successful. However, my position as probation officer was not affected, and I am still on duty, but serve without a salary. During the last six years I have worked as probation officer of the juvenile Court. I have been under half salary only three months, so that I am no worse off than I was before. my disappointment I was glad know that three colored ladies of the civil service examination won positions. They are Mrs. Mrs Moore Smith, Miss Gertrude Smith and Mrs. Johanna Snowden. We are making good records and tong honors for themselves and race. My court work has been very heavy times. Many hard cases have to me, but I have had the ben- of the splendid support of Judge Jack. Chief Probation Officer Thurs- and the State's Attorney's office. Being relieved of considerable work ong the children by the other pro- fession officers, I have spent more of my time in mission work helping the layward, whose sins have brought on them the penalty of the law. I have found many cases which delivered pity more than blame, and in this connection I desire to acknowledge very helpful advice and aid from lawyer J. Gray Lucas, rendered free, without stint to deserving persons. My work for the coming year will be along the same lines, looking after children and parents when the children are either dependent or delinquent. At the same time I hope to continue to help the law breakers to turn their faces against crime and leave off their bad associations. In some of these cases I have rejoiced to witness wonderful changes for good. I recall one case when husband and wife were bound together only by common law marriage. They had so lived seventeen years and had eleven children, of whom six were living. Home surroundings were poor, but prayerful advice and earnest counsel changed the home life, the parents were married in the Juvenile Court, and Christian influence began to prevail. A number of young girls who were exposed to vicious surroundings were rescued, some of them changed to better homes, others placed in charge of child saving institutions In one case I spent much time trying to overcome the influence of the saloon upon the home life of the community. The awful evil done by selling liquor to children needs the vigorous opposition of all right minded people. I had one case especially harmful, but with the hearty help of Elder Reeves the custom was broken up. I conclude with an itemized statement which will show, in a measure, the nature and extent of my work. I have never made, and do not now make, any appeal to the public for help. I have thought, however, that the missionary work entrusted to me could be made more effective if some means could be devised to meet my expenses of car fare and the few necessary outlays of small sums in emergency cases. For the whole term of my ten years of service my necessary expenses have constantly exceeded the contributions, so that I not only give all my time and energy to the work, but at the same time I am compelled to pay out my own money, nearly half of the expenses of the work. My itemized report above referred to covers the time from the last conference down to date. It is as follows: Missionary Work Report—Distribution to Needy 5 pair of shoes, 375 parcels of cloth ing. 400 Christmas tracts, 10 Bibles 5 hymn books. Visitations. 45 county jails, 75 police stations, 35 hospitals, 4 Dunning asylum, 1 Kankakee asylum, 1 St. Charles Home for Boys Probation Work. 55 children taken on parole, 16 children sent to institutions, 7 women paroled from Joliet penitentiary, 9 boys paroled from Pontiac Reformatory, 1 paroled from jail, 5 final discharges from Joliet penitentiary, 2 patients placed in Dunning, 6 children placed in homes. Miscellaneous. 3 visits to La Grange, 1 visit to Milwaukee, 3 infants taken from houses of ill repute, 3 infants baptized, 100 prayer meetings held, 18 converts, two of them murderers; 1 paroled woman converted, married and doing well. Expense Account—Receipts. Hon, E. J. Murphy, Warden, Joliet $10; J. Gray Lucas, Esq., $8; Julius F. Taylor, $9; Wm. Whitman, Esq. $2; Mrs. M. F. Clift, 50 cents; Cash, $5. Total receipts, $34.50. Expense Car fare for year, 47.10; emergency charity cases, contributions, $25; cor respondence, $2.60. Total receipts $74.70. Excess of expense over receipts, $40.20. Respectfully submitted, ELIZABETH M DONALD, 6130 Ada Street, Chicago. MRS. NELLIE PHELPS CONDUCTS AN UP TO DATE AND NEAT CONFECTIONERY AND NO TION STORE. One of the neatest and most up-to-date confectionery and notion stores in Chicago is conducted by Mrs. Nellie Phelps, 131 W. 51st street, between Dearborn and Armour avenue. She only handles first class goods, such as staple and fancy groceries, milk and cream, candies, tobacco, cigars, stationery, etc., which she sells at reasonable prices. Mrs. Phelps also sells the leading daily papers as well as The Broad Ax. She is polite and attentive to her customers and her store is well patronized by the Afro-Americans residing in the neighborhood. Mr. Frank Allen of Lansing, Mich., is spending a few days in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Starks of 363 36th street, entertained at an elaborate Christmas dinner, Mrs. R. W. Carter, Miss Connie Hancock, Hr. Edward Goodbar, and Miss Lottie Gee, two of the latter are members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Starks was beautifully decorated with Christmas holy and evergreen. The dinner consisted of six courses, the beauty of which was, that the dinner was prepared by the charming young matron and hostess, Mrs. Starks. [Image of a young child] MISS HOCKLIETTA SMILEY. Our little friend and the bright daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hockley Smiley, who is rapidly learning how to r read this paper. Mr. DeWitte Curtis, of 5757 Lafayette avenue, gave a stag dinner for a few friends Tuesday eve Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roger, 3511 Indiana avenue, entertained a few friends with an Xmas breakfast. AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE WORK AMONG THE CLUB WOMEN OF IOWA. (Continued from page 3) [Name] HUBERT THOMPSON RIGGS. An Up-To-Date Business Man Who is a Credit to the Afro-American Race. The Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs at the First Regiment Armory, New Year's evening, Jan. 1st, 1900. Admission, 50c. Here is a "sure thing," a good time at the Armory, Monday, Jan. 1, 1900. Admission 50c. The Triangle and Inner Circle Clubs New Year's ball, First Regiment Armory, Monday, Jan. 1, 1900. Admission 50c. M. B. ROBERT M. MITCHELL. The Well-Known Lawyer and Past Supreme Chancellor of The Knights of Pythias. Daniel M. Jackson will leave January 5th for his post of duty in Mexico. Mr. W. Attwood, of Michigan, is spending a few days in the city on business. Dr. Wm. Carter, 4618 State street, was granted license to practice medicine last week. Mrs. Mlavina Lively is visiting her son Henry in Baltimore, Md. She will return to Chicago about January 15th. AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE WORK AMONG THE CLUB WOMEN OF IOWA. (Continued from page 50) persons: Aristides, Miltiades, Leontias, Thermostoces and Socrates. Third Meeting Give a brief account of Charles L. of England, the Crusades, the French Revolution, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Victoria, Fourth Meeting—Social day, Prize spelling bee. PROGRAMME FOR APRIL, 1906. First Meeting—English literature. Give a short sketch of the life of Chancey, name his greatest work and sketch briefly its plan. Reading: Canterbury tales. Second Meeting—Sketch the rise of the drama down to the time of Shakespeare; give the chief facts in Shakespeare's life; describe ten of its cranes; name the celebrated contemporaries of Shakespeare. Reading: Hamlet's Soliloquy. Third Meeting — Compare Byron and Burns, showing wherein their lives were alike and wherein different; name the principle works of each. Reading: The Cotters Saturday Night, Childe Harold. Fourth Meeting—Discuss the characteristics of the writings of Thackery and of Dickens; name the principal works of each. Reading: Vanity Fair, The Old Curiosity Shop. PROGRAMME FOR MAY, 1906. First Meeting—Business day. Second Meeting—Negro authors. Quotations. Paper, Reading Souls of Black Folk, Discussion. We would say that we hope these practical thoughts and suggestions will help our readers. Our women deal not with the high or the low, neither the rich or poor, but with the masses. We have no servant girl question or child labor unless in mining districts. The home life is the fundamental principle upon which we are builted. Our State has an enrollment of 354 women and 21 clubs. We look forward to nothing but success. Mrs. Belle Banister, of Keokuk, first Vice-President, and Miss Lella StormSheffy, stenographer for the firm of Woodson & Brown, our most efficient Secretary, have done all in their power to make the administration a success. To write of the success of the present President would be an embarrassing feature; suffice it to say that the election of President was unanimous, not one dissenting vote. As we said in the beginning, this blending of purposes and united action—unselfish aims—has made the Iowa State Federation one among the best of our Natoinal Federation. Mr. Theo. Jones, Sr., is spending a two months' vacation in California. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Knox entertained at their home, 4834 State street, Dec. 25th, 1905. The hostess displayed her delicacie in preparing a 5 course dinner which the guests highly enjoyed. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. S. Emmick, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Floyd, Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgan, Mr. Ed Knox and Miss Kuby, Miss Smith, Mrs. L. Q. Dean and Mrs. Dickson. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... 14,00.0 per day Output of Summer Yards..... 300,000 per day Telephone Yards 128. Telephone Market 1189 S.A. T.WATKINS Lawyer Assistant 89 DEARBORN ST. Prospecting Attorney. CHICAGO. HARRIS F. WILLIAMS Attorney and Counselor At Law 1403 ASSOCIATION BUILDING 153 LA SALLE STREET Telephones Central 4497 Automatic 4298 CHICAGO. Edward G. Alexander Attorney At Law SUITE 608 107 DEARBORN STREET Tel 5125 Central. CHICAGO Edward E. Wilson Lawyer 113 ADAMS STREET Room 380 CHICAGO Tel. 1222 Douglas Res. Tel. 653 Drxei DR. D. E. BURROWS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 3221 STATE STREET, CHICAGO. OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 and 8 to 10 p. m. Sundays 2 to 4 p. m. Except Wednesday and Saturday At Providence Hospital 9 to 11. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW Charlie Ford Past 74 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. American President and Treasurer, T Vice-President, J Secret MANUFAT Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 151st St. & L. S. & M. S. Ry. 251st St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tile and State Hauling a Specialty. COAL H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Street Tel. 699 South. CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1328 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embaler UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 The Eureka Club and Cafe ALL NEWLY FURNISHED. Home Cooking: Meals, Lunch and Short Orders served from 5 p. m. till 2 A. M. OYSTERS IN SEASON Good Music and Entertaining. CHAS. GASKIN, Gen'l Mgr. 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We will provide Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, no long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad AX is a newspaper whose platform is built enough, all paper claiming the editorial right to its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 8040 Armour Avenue, Chicago JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as second-class Matter. CHIPS John G. Jones arrived home Satur day from Pittsburg, Pa. James McDonald, 6130 Ada street, spent his Christmas with friends in Bridgeport, Ind. George Warner, the 18 year old son of Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5223 Dearborn street, was made a member of the Foresters last week. Rev. L. R. Christy, East St. Louis, Ill., spent the first three days this week in visiting his relatives and friends in this city. Doctor A. Beatrice Schultz, 2791 State street, returned home Wednesday morning from spending her Christmas in St. Louis. Prof. and Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, 6350 Rhodes avenue, entertained several of their friends to an elaborate corsed dinner Friday evening, Dec. 29th. J. Q. Grant, on Christmas day, visited his old friend, Rev. A. T. Hall, Batava, Ill., who was the founder of Quinn Chapel this city, and delighted his heart with presenting him with some tokens of friendship. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mack Weaver entertained many of their friends at dinner and dancing Wednesday evening at their residence, 3144 Indiana avenue. Mr. Weaver's recent return from St. Louis occasioned the joyous event. Mr. Henry Mitchell, Sr., who for years was employed as a clerk in the auditing department of the Pullman Co. resigned his position Dec. 23rd. About the 1st of the year Mr. Mitchell expects to be appointed to a clerkship in one of the downtown banks. Judge Murray F. Tuley, whose long and honorable career as an eminent and upright jurist which endeared him in the hearts of his fellow men was buried from his late home, 5135 Washington avenue, Wednesday morning Everything in connection with his funeral was plain and very simple. Congressman Martin B. Madden spoke at Olivet Baptist church Sunday evening on "Good Citizenship" and in announcing that fact, one of the papers ran the cut of Gov. Chas. S. Deneen in its columns, and labeled him with the title and honor which belongs to the popular Congressman of the First District, and while he was delivering his address the paper which was supposed to contain his cut and another paper was peddled around among the audience presumably to raise a little money to enable them to buy a few Christmas presents. ```markdown ``` [Name not visible] DOCTOR M. J. BROWN Secretary of The Peoples' Pharmacies 29th and Dearborn streets; Assistant Secretary of the J one of the best and brightest Afro-American bus Secretary of The People's Pharmacies 29th and Armour Ave, and 27th and Dearborn streets; Assistant Secretary of the Jenner Medical College and one of the best and brightest Afro-American business men in Chicago. --- # 7 The popular County Commissoiner, Real Estate owner, Contractor and Decorator who is deserving of re-election to his present position. The subject of this sketch, County Commissioner De Priest, was born in Florence, Ala., in 1871, and came to Chicago in 1889. His parents being poor, Oscar as a boy was put upon his own resources. By perseverance he secured a common school education, and at the age of fifteen began the struggle which has resulted in numbering him among the foremost and highest respected col- Upon arriving in Chicago Mr. D Priest followed his calling, and by strict application to duty built up what is to-day the largest painting and decorating contracting business conducted by any member of the Negro race in the Northwest. An idea of the extent of his business in this line may be gained from the fact within the past two years he has contracted for, and successfully done, more citizens in the city of Chicago than $25,000 worth of work for the Apprenticing as a painter in his native heath he soon demonstrated his ability, and within the short space of one year was commanding the wages of a first class painter and decorator. Thus equipped he journeyed to Chicago "to grow up," as he often expressed it, "with the metropolis of the West." Mr. Robert E. Burke, it is freely predicted, will be on top in the 21st Ward at the coming political upheaval. Mr. Alex. Williams, who was injured in the U. P. wreck is in the city feeling much improved, stopping at the Keystone Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. Allen will soon leave Chicago for their home in Portland, Ore., where they will be a home to their friends and well wishers after Feb. 1st, 1906. Dr. A. W. Williams, 6508 Langley avenue, entertained several of his male friends Xmas morning. The Doctor's fine wines and liquors was greatly enjoyed by his many friends and neighbors. The Appomattox Club under the presidency of Mr. Adolph Harris gave a "Catillon" Tuesday eve at the club parlors. The affair was largely attended and was considered one of the swellest functions the club has ever given. OSCAR DE PRIEST. Upon arriving in Chicago Mr. De Priest followed his calling, and by strict application to duty built up what is to-day the largest painting and decorating contracting business conducted by any member of the Negro race in the Northwest. An idea of the extent of his business in this line may be gained from the fact that within the past two years he has contracts for, and successfully done, more than $25,000 worth of work for the Chicago Board of Education. Ever since he attained his majority, Commissioner De Priest has taken an interest in politics. It was not until about six years ago that he actively "got into the game." Like most successful politicians, he started working among his neighbors, always in the interest of the regular ward organi- WALTER Eminent Attorney, Author and Na Brothers of Fr:indship. [Name] Eminent Attorney, Author and National Grand Secretary of the United Brothers of Friendship. Attorney Walter M. Farmer came in to this breathing and throbbing old case, and Mr. Farmer represented the world in the town of Brunswick, Mo. Colored women and won out. As he arrived at the age of maturity, Mr. Farmer has something aside from wind or blowing to show for his entered the Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., and graduated therefrom labors. He still owns income property in 1884. Then he began the study of law and entered the Law Department to this city to peruse the practice of of Washington University, at St. Louis, and with his wife he brought and in 1889, and he has the distinction of moved into an elegant new home, 4856 being the first Afro-American to graduate from that aristocratic institution. His law office is located at 155 Wash- Immediately thereafter, Mr. Farmer began the practice of law in St. Louis, and for the past sixteen years extraordinary success has crowned his efforts in the legal field. He has enjoyed a diversified practice covering all branches of law excepting "Admiralty" in all the courts in the State of Missouri, U. S. District and Circuit courts and the U. S. Supreme Court. One among his notable cases being a will contest in which a white lady left a colored woman $13,000. The rel- WALTER M. FARMER. zation. His energetic efforts in behalf of the Third ward organization without price or place soon attracted the attentoin of Congressman Martin B. Madden. The opportunity to reward Mr. De Priest for his splendid services in behalf of the Republican party and the Third ward organization came to Congressman Madden at the county convention in the spring of 1904, when he was nominated for the position of County Commissioner. In connection with his nomination there si a bit of unpublished history which demonstrated two things, namely, the strong friendship in which Congressman Madden held Mr. De Priest personally, and the determination to award recognition to the Negro portion of the ward. When the question of representation of the Third ward on the ticket came up for discussion in the caucus, so the story goes, Mr. Madden was allotted a judgeship. He insisted that in addition to that the ward was entitled to a Commissioner, but his protest fell upon d.f. cars. Finally, seeing that his wishes in this latter regard would not be complied with, he unhesitatingly "turned down" the judgeship so that the colored citizens of the ward would be r. conized by the nomination of a County Commissioner. Since his induction into office Commissioner De Priest has been in the forefront on all matters affecting the county's material interest. He is chairman of the very important committee of education and industrial schools, and a member of the committees on out-door relief, coroner and morgue, and the new court house committee, the latter having charge of the construction of the new court house, involving an expenditure of $5,000,000. In the various county offices Commissioner De Priest secured representation for the colored citizens by appointing men to positions without reference to the wards from which they came, both to permanent and temporary places. In 1898 Commissioner De Priest married Miss Jessica Williams, of Rockford, Ill., who, together with his six-year-old son Lawrence, constitutes his very interesting family. The Commisssoiner resides at 3832 Dearborn street, and as he is a property holder and taxpayer in Cook county, and as he is held in the highest esteem by all classes of his fellow citizens, and a vote getter from away back, the leaders of the Republican party will make no mistake in renominating him for County Commissioner. [Name] atives of the lady hotly contested the case, and Mr. Farmer represented the Colored women and won out. Mr. Farmer has something aside from wind or blowing to show for his labors. He still owns income property in St. Louis and last summer he moved to this city to perse the practice of law and with his wife he brought and moved into an elegant new home, 4856 Langley avenue. His law office is located at 155 Washington street, suite 12. In the past he has written many able articles for the public press in the interest of the race. He is a prominent member of the Masons, True Reformers, K. P's., and the United Brothers of Friendship. He is also the National Grand Secretary of the last named organization. He is an honored member of the Baptist church, a high bred man of affairs and success is bound to follow his efforts in his chosen profession in this city. M. MAJOR JOHN C. BUCKNER. An honored ex-member of the Lege Battalion, which was successfully made Natoional Guards; and he stands fortion of the civil and the Political rig ubr of the Legislature of Ill.: successfully merged into the E he stands forth at all times a the Political rights of the Afro- An honored ex-member of the Legislature of III.: the creator of the 9th Battalion, which was successfully merged into the Eight Regiment Illinois Natoinal Guards; and he stands forth at all times as an unbending champion of the civil and the Political rights of the Afro-American. Major John C. Buckner was elected to the Legislature in 1894 in the 39th General Assembly, and again in 1896 in the 40th General Assembly. As an honored and hard working member of that body, he was the author of the following bills which passed both the House and the Senate. A bill to reorganize the Illinois Militia, so as to provide for the admission of the 9th Battalion of colored men; a bill appropriating $50,000 for the Lovejoy monument at Alton; a bill opening up 35th street and changing the boulevard from 35th to 33rd streets, connecting with South Park avenue and Grand Boulevard; the bill providing for the parade grounds and park on the Lake Front now known as Grant Park; the bill revising the Civil Rights Laws of the state of Illinois. He also took an active part in the Spring Valley riot of 1895, and prosecuted the perpetrators of this infamous crime. Nineteen of the ring leaders [Name] [Name] DR. W. A. RICHARDSON. The prominent and leading dentist met with unbounded success in his p leading dentist among the race success in his profession. The prominent and leading dentist among the race in the west, who has met with unbounded success in his profession. Doctor W. A. Richardson, formerly Richardson cannot be surpassed. of Detroit, Mich., is a thoroughly equipped dentist. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has resided in this city for almost three years. He has been exceedingly successful since landing here. His office, 3160 State street, corner 32nd street, office Phone Douglas 1100, residence Phone Douglas 250, is fitted up with all the appliances, used in advanced or modern dental world. dentistry and as an expert dentist Dr. --- --- agriculture of Ill.: the creator of the 9th era merged into the Eight Regiment Illinois which at all times as an unbending cham- ments of the Afro-American. were sent to the penitentiary, seven to the reformatory at Pontiac, and 66 were confined in the county jail of Bureau County, with fines of $1,000 and six months' imprisonment. He also introduced a bill to suppress lynching and mob violence which passed the House but failed to pass in the Senate. The bill making Abraham Lincoln's Birthday a legal holiday in this state, is also a part of his work. He is the only colored man appointed as Chairman of an important standing committee in the House. He was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. The Major has for years honorably served as Deputy Internal Revenue Collector at this point. He is prominent in the civil and the political affairs in this city, county, throughout the state of Illinois, and being liberal minded, and very gentlemanly in his conduct, and an ideal patriotic citizen, he is held in the highest esteem by his fellow citizens. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] among the race in the west, who has offession. Richardson cannot be surpassed. He possesses a jovial disposition which greatly aids him to number his friends by the legions. Shortly after locating in Chicago, Dr. Richardson became united in marriage to Miss Rosa Hill, who was a daughter of Mr. Isiah Hill, an old settler of Chicago, and that fact has materially added to his popularity and prosperity in the dental world. ```markdown ``` MRS. CARRIE WARNER. Member of St. Thomas church and one of the most successful and wide-awake Afro-American business women in Chicago. Mrs. Carrie Warner who is one of the wide-awake Afro-American business Women of Chicago, was born in the little city of Troy, Lincoln county, Mo. She received her education in the schools of her native city. After budding into womanhood she and her mother removed to the city of St. Louis, where they resided for twelve years. While living in the last named city in order to earn an honest living Mrs. Warner labored very hard. She was not above washing and ironing for many wealthy families of that city which is to her everlasting credit it shows that she was not raised up with a golden spoon in her mouth. art of manicuring and facial treatment and she finally graduated from the Moler College, 435 Wabash ave., and without the least doubt she has thoroughly mastered her profession. For over four years Mrs. Warner has more than successfully conducted Chiropodist and Manicure Parlors at 182 State st., room 44, phone Central 5832, Residence Phone Blue 3985, and it is pleasant to state, that her rich and cheerfully furnished manicure parlors are frequented by hundreds of the best and the wealthiest white lives in this city which is sufficient to prove that Mrs. Warner is a popular and a successful business woman. Eight years ago she came to this city to reside, and being full of pluck and ambitious Mrs. Warner, decided to learn some trade or profession so that she could earn an independent living for herself; consequently she devoted her spare time to studying the ```markdown ``` MRS. JACOB L. PARKS. Who is the personification of the highest type of Afro-American womanhood, and she is a factor in the social life of this great city. Mrs. Jacob L. Parker, the devoted wife of genial "Jake" Parks, 3155 State street, who stands at the head of the Afro-American undertakers and eminers in this big town, was born in Detroit, Mich., She was formerly Miss Grace May Slaughter, and her parents were among the best and most highly respected members of the race in that city. In December, 1901, she became united on marriage to Mr. Parks. It was the grandest wedding ever held among the dream of the four hundred in Detroit and when they departed for Chicago hundreds of her friends escorted her to the depot and the presents received were too numerous to mention. foundation in his business she insists on living in small quarters in the rear of his establishment for the purpose of cutting down expenses, and late and early she could be found working to assist him to increase his business. She closed her eyes to society and it was all business with her, and Mr. Parks is willing to let the world know the without the assistance of his good wife he would not be near as prosperous as he is today. Mrs. Parks is highly educated in music, as well as a practical training art and when they departed for Chicago hundreds of her friends escorted her to the depot and the presents received were too numerous to mention. But as she has settled down to business life, it is difficult to induce her to participate in musical function. This fact however did not turn the head of Mrs. Parks who is a very sensible woman and in order to assist her husband to settle down to a solid art of manicuring and facial treatment and she finally graduated from the Moler College, 435 Wabash ave., and without the least doubt she has thoroughly mastered her profession. For over four years Mrs. Warner has more than successfully conducted Chiropodist and Manicure Parlors at 182 State st., room 44, phone Central 5832, Residence Phone Blue 3985, and it is pleasant to state, that her richly and cheerfully furnished manicure parlors are frequented by hundreds of the best and the wealthiest white ladies in this city which is sufficient to prove that Mrs. Warner is a popular and a successful business woman. She is a member of St. Thomas church and almost two years ago Mrs. Warner moved into a lovely little home of her own 5223 Dearborn st., and she has the tact of making fast freinds of those who have the extreme pleasure of forming her acquaintance. THE NEW YORK TIMES foundation in his business she insisted on living in small quarters in the rear of his establishment for the purpose of cutting down expenses, and late and early she could be found working to assist him to increase his business. She closed her eyes to society and it was all business with her, and Mr. Parks is willing to let the world know that without the assistance of his good wife he would not be near as prosperous as he is today. Mrs. Parks is highly educated in music, as well as a practical training and she sings and plays in a charming manner. But as she has settled down to a business life, it is difficult to induce her to participate in musical functions. She is an ideal domestic helpmate of her husband, nevertheless she is very popular and highly esteemed by the cream of the four hundred. FREDERICK DOUGLASS—AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY. BY DOCTOR OWEN MEREIDTH WALLER, BROOKLYN, N. Y. it is manliness, rightly understood and exercised. But manliness is not self-assertion, it is not boisterousness, it is not immodesty, it is to know what is due and becoming a man, and then to demand it. If we possessed the spirit of Mr. Douglass as ten millions of people there would be no New York race riots, and yet there would be ten millions of live colored people here. Says Mr. Douglass of the days of bondage: "The old doctrine that submission is the best cure for outrage and wrong does not hold good on the slave plantation. He is whipped oftenerest who is whipped easiest. You can shoot me, but you can't whip me, said a slave to Rigby Hopkins, and the result was that he was neither whipped nor shot. If the latter had been his fate it would have been less deplorable than the living and lingering death to which cowardly and slavish souls are subjected." There, I believe is the keynote to our present condition. Every man's house is his castle, and no man under God's sun has the right to order me to leave my wife, children and home, and run or exile myself from the ties of family and the results of my industry. Can you imagine anyone approaching Frederick Douglass door under any circumstances, or in any locality, and bidding him to leave all behind. "Know ye not who would be free, themselves must strike the blow," was a popular quotation with Mr. Douglass. The emancipation of the colored people was almost equally the emancipation of the poor whites of the South. "Everybody in the South," writes Mr. Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else." The poor white man has been enjoying this privilege now for many years in taking his spite out on the colored brother. It is time we put a stop to it. "Themselevs must strike the blow," says the spirit of Frederick Douglass, and while I do not advocate aggressive violence, I do say that I learn from the character of Frederick Douglass that every man has the human right and ought to defend his life, liberty and home with his life; to die on his threshold rather than surrender what Christianity and the civilized world deem inalienable from man. When the scholarly and courageous Catto fell in the streets of Philadelphia a martyr to manhood and his constitutional rights, and it so shocked the best settlement of Pennsylvania and the whole North that there were no further repetitions of such barbarous outrages. There are few acquisitions more needed and more necessary for our well being, if not for our future existence under the Stars and Stripes, than manliness. I deny that it was opportunity alone that made Frederick Douglass anything like all he was. He would have been Frederick Douglass in any period and under any circumstances, because he was a man endowed with physical and moral courage. Certainly his times gave him the conspicuous position and much of the popularity he enjoyed, but back of and beneath it all there were these man-making, sterling qualities. For one I believe that the manliness of Douglass more than his fervid oratory and all-round ability is what leaves the chasm between him and our conspicuous men of to-day yawning and unbridged. I have but to refer you to the recent apologetic's gathering of our foremost men, in many papers and speeches (National Afro-American), to give you an illustration of the thought advanced. instead of a plea for the inalienable rights and privileges of the Negro guaranteed by the Constitution of our country, it influenced me as being the most complete and able defense of the actions, methods and policies of the so-called Anglo-Saxon that I have ever heard. There was no lack of oratory, for the Negro has plenty of that, but the sublime, uncompromising, manly spirit of Frederick Douglass seemed to have been wanting. I for one cannot believe that office-holding should be the rudder for any man's tongue. Principle, and principle alone, must actuate those who would be leaders in our generation to-day. The mantle of Douglass has fallen upon no one who, as yet, has put in his appearance. I for one have been astounded at the opportunist and compromising tactics of those whom Almighty God has otherwise endowed with the ability to lead. Many have taken the position, perhaps with some reason, that we do not need one man to speak for us now. With them I agree, only to qualify my agreement to the effect that we need not one but a thousand manly leaders to speak in our behalf. There is only one man of color to day whom the American people will listen to, and however much I admire his great work in the South, I am compelled to say that the voice ringing clearly from Tuskegee to Boston Philip E. Linn Co. is not that of Frederick Douglass. It is the voice of one crying in the wilderness, but it is not rebuking Herod for his sins. This is evidenced by the fact that this Baptist is not clothed in camel's hair, but of fine linen; does not fare on locusts and wild honey, but is banqueted and invited to recline upon Herod's downy couches instead of rotting in the dungeons of Machaerus. The people intuitively recognize a man when he speaks orators, none of us statesmen, very few bankers, surely not the greatest editors, educators, for if we are lawyers, preachers, doctors editors, educators, seizing every opportunity to better equip ourselves for the work at hand, and doing this work consciously and with untiring industry. We are great in that we are faithful and yet not the greatest. I must notice another characteristic of Frederick Douglass that greatly influenced me, viz., his modesty and simplicity. There was nothing of the swashbuckle Knight about this man. He was conscious of his strength, and felt no need of impressing others with it by conceitedness. He knew that it was of itself sufficient to be known and recognized. His books and speeches show the cause rather than the man. The capital Is are as few as language will permit. His speech and bearing alike are indicative of a modesty and simplicity worthy of our imitation. The would-be leaders of to-day seem always fearful that some one will overlook their presence, while the presence of Frederick Douglass was felt. Then we have many who, though loud and conspicuous among us, become like lambs in leading strings when in the presence or employ of the dominant race, always cursing somebody at the safe distance of the barn door. I believe those best acquainted with Frederick Douglass will bear me out that his bearing and conduct were marked with the same consideration and deference to his race—brothers that distinguished his whole life under all circumstances and among all races and classes. Next to real manliness no acquisition would more lastingly benefit us at this stage of our development than that of modesty. Not subservance, not cowardice, not the manners of the lackey or lick-spittle, but a quiet dignity that while insisting upon our own rights is quick to recognize and concede the rights of others. A gentleman told me recently that, during one of his last speeches, Mr. Douglass said he would be able to concede without reserve the further progress of the colored people when they made less noise. Noise is a feature of savagery and barbarism, and to-day, in Europe, the highest excellence of culture and civilization in polite society is discerned in that quiet modest dignity of bearing, conversation and conduct that distinguishes the most favored aristocrats of the old world monarchies. The American people are complaining bitterly about our braggadocia, noise and bluster, and not without some cause. We live in the exaggeration of things. We use the biggest words obtainable to express the smaller thoughts, and yet for English, pure simple, modest and correct we cannot do better than peruse the writing of such men as Alexander Crummell and Frederick Douglass. This falling of ours as a people not only brings us in disfavor with the whole people, but hinders our advance in the right direction. The know-it-all in the school, college, or the competitive struggle of life cannot acquire more knowledge because, believing that he knows it all, he is unwilling to be informed. The strongest, manliest man is invariably the most modest, considerate and companionable. I would beseech our boys and girls, our young men and women, not only to copy the manliness of Douglass, but acquire his modesty and simplicity. We are not all the greatest lawyers, preachers, doctors and orators, none of us statesmen, very few bankers, surely not the greatest editors, educators, for if we are lawyers, preachers, doctors editors, educators, seizing every opportunity to better equip ourselves for the work at hand, and doing this work conscientiously and with untiring industry. We are great in that we are faithful, and yet not the greatest. [Name] President of the Sandy W. Trice and Company prominent in secret society circles and the most successful Afro-American merchant in the middle west. Sandy W. Trice, who has become the leading Afro-American merchant in Chicago, was born in New Providence, Tenn. He came to this city to reside in 1886, worked, saved his money until he accumulated a sufficient sum to enable him to attend the Wilberforce university. When he emerged from that institution of learning he returned to this city and established himself in business in 1900 at 2918 State street. He has in the past carried a full line of men's and women's furnishings, dry goods and notions. Lately he organized the Sandy W. Trice and Company, which is incorporated under the laws of Illinois, and on March 1st a department store will open up at his present location. Mr. Trice is the President of this new company, and its directors are composed of some of the best known men of the race in this city. In the social affairs among the race, as well as in the secret society circles, Mr. Trice is quite prominent. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, district No. 9, and has served as Grand Director and Deputy Grand Master. He is a member of Hannibal Lodge Knights of Pythias, True Reformers, and a member of the Trustee Board of Bethel church. In 1894 Mr. Trice was united in marriage to Mrs. Helena Fisher, and he freely admits that he owes his success in business to the keen foresight of Mrs. Trice, who has proven herself the equal of the best business men and women in any section of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McComer, 5512 Grove avenue, will celebrate their 25th marriage anniversary with a reception at their residence, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1906, from 8 to 12 p. m. Through the efforts of Mr. Julius N. Avendorf, a select "Subscription Dancing Party" is to be given at Oakland Music Hall January 5th, 1906. Mr. Avendorf takes great delight in promoting pleasure giving events and a good time is promised all who attend. SANDY W. TRICE. EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR 12-Holy war proclaimed in Caucasia.... Cossacks sack 21 rosters in Tiflis. Oct. S-T Troops slaughter many in Moscow rocting.... Another massacre at Tiflis. 22-All Russia tied up with railroad rocting. 23-Russia influenced by White, promises Russia, constitution.... St. Petersburg panic-strikes; strike spreads throughout empire ay siege, Gen. Ntoessen surrenders Port Ar- tun to Gen. Nogi-Jap 10,000; Russlan 11,000. H-Discovery employees cease work.... Troepoff allows students to hold mono- class 26—Russians cross Hun and battle commences. 29-Jaas capture American ship-taking supplies to Vietnam. Russians retreat across Hun; loses Russians; Japan; 5,000. 30-Czar issues manifesto, giving people civic liberty, inviolability of person, freedom of conscience, speech and assembly, extended suffrage, and a law-making body. Witte named as minister-president. Feb. 3—Russians re- rew Hun river fight; repulsed. ii—Russian people go wild with joy over manifesto. However, bloody revolution still continues. Arbitrary Finnish rule ensured the head, staff of Russian church, rossiism. Russia's firing on British feet was unjustified. Force battle along Russian Nov. 1-Hundreds stain at Odessa during day's fighting...Twenty killed in War saw riots...Political prisoners set free...1-Martial law proclaimed in Odessa...St. Mar. 3-British claim $225,000 under North sea decision. 5- Laps break through Russian wing in Mukden battle. $-Czar asks Kuropatkin's resignation; army in full rout. 6-80) peasants burned to death at Jedozvograd. 10-Japanese capture Mukden; losses in battalion; Japan: 60,000 Russian, 100,000 continue war. 15-Japanese capture Tie pass. 17-Russia asks $100,000,000 loan from own people. 18-Japanese capture Fakoman...Russian battle from beginning of Mukden battle to end. 19-Scores of Jews slain in Kishineff rioting. 22-Zemstvo agrees to uphold Witte, but demands constitution. 21- Kur ap at k in placed in commands of 1st Manchurian army. A. B. 26—Mutinous Sevastopol sailors shoot admiral, city in nautic. $24-$Roosevelt says in note to powers that he is willing to act as mediator to end war 29- Rebels at Sevastopol defeated in terrific three-hour battle; 4 warships sunk; half a city destroyed and 5,000 lives lost...Telegraphic communication be- - Troops at Harbin rebel, skipping officers - Livestock at Harbin, providing provision - Government independent of clear 24- Furious attempts in United States to secure peace. May 4- Typhoon damages Russian Pacific squadron. 2009 Russians slain in Courland; Moscow st. St. Petersburg prepared for siege. 28- Rojestvsky's flee almost annihilated in "Battle of the sea of Japan" by Admiral Togo. Admirals Rojestvensky and Engolot captured. strikes in the northeast of Karikorf in the south of the Gerany; cgar refuses minister's plea for a new constitution Jun—Russian army reported in revolt. Jun, 11—Russia and Japan agree to Roose lightning between strikers and troopers 14,000 wounded 25,000 killed. 14,000 wounded hira selected by Russia and Japan, respectively, as peace plenipotentiaries. August selected for time; Portsmouth, N. H., as place. Jul. 5—Japanese capture Sakhalin island. 24—Czar and kaiser confer in Finnish Jan. 15—Fall River, Mass., cotton mill strike after 6 mos. duration off. 10- Baron Komura presents terms of peace 11- Sakura uses indemnity and cession of Sakku's slavery presents delegate Rattlesnake of Weymouth accesed John Mitchell of sealing out Co- mmunity. Feb. 22- Shoe manufacturers of country organize national association at New York 22—President Roosevelt Intervenes in peace breach. Mar 10 - Na'ta tora New York subway strikers for vio- lation, empo- ployers contact 27-Czar approves president's plan. P 29- Peace declared between Japan and Russia. Japan concedes all disputed points, waiving indemnity and ceding territories to the United States. Armistice agreed to, ending war. 20-Employers secure injunction in Chicago strike. 14—Czar and mikado sign treaty of peace, officially ending war. officially ending war. officially announced by both government. 24 - Sympathetic strike in Chicago called off C. P. SHEA. 25-Disagreement causes renewal of Chicago teamsters strike. 25-Chicago strikers enjoined from Interfer- Jan. 19-Czar and family narrowly escape death when grape shell is fired at monarch from his own guns in St. Petersburg, as result of deep-lap plot. May 2- fierce Chicago strike rols; 1 killed, several fatally injured. Many negroes imports. 3 World's railway appliance exhibit opens at Washington. 22—"Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg marks outbreak of revolution. Working-men petition cajor for rights and in anarchism are stain and nearly 5,000 wounded. 4- Seventh session, international railway congress opens in Washington.... Chicago employers ask militia to quell strikers. Deneen refuses.... Strike causes business loss. 5- Negro union driver, Chicago, killed by mistake. 23—Czar flees to Peterhoff. Bombs thrown in St. Petersburg, many bombs killed. 24—Strikers and soldiers battle at Random. 150 killed. Polish frontier in revolt. 25—The on strikers at Riga, killing 22, wounding 50. Quit all, over country reported. 16-National Assn of Manufacturers meets 25-Thebes III, bridge across Mississippi 27-Slaughter in Rar. dom: 200 die. Jun. 4—Shea arrested on libel charge. Grand jury indicts labor leaders for con- fessional misconduct. 10- Twive, killed, 130 wounded in Lodz and Chelbier factory riots. 11 striking killed in collision between strikers and military. 160 mills close, throwing 40,000 out of work. 7—One killed, two injured in Saginaw, Mich., strike riots. 17—Grand Duke Sergei, uncle of czar, assassinated 22—Senius' funeral, held...500 killed in street fighting in Haku. 23—500 killed, 200 wounded in Crimea massacre. Oct, 4-Breweries of Michigan consolidate- Jos. Ramsey, Jr., deposed as Wabash railroad president. F. A. Delano succeeds. 10—Geo. Gould defeats Ramsey for control Wabash railroad at Toledo, O., meeting 14—Portland Exposition closes after most successful run. 1. askassin penitence to deceive 2. may May 1 - Soldier of the Army may demonstrations in Poland...62 die in POLAND Nov. 26-Samuel Gompers elected presi- lator of American Federation of Labor at Pittsburgh. 5-10,000 strike at Tiflis, Caucasia. 9-Massacres net 13 deaths in Melitopol; 16 in 17-Ivan Kalleff, slayer of Grand Duke Serg- ulus, executed. Casualities 24—Goverror of Baku slain by bomb, 2 others killed. June 4—Gov. Gen. Trepoff given dictatorial powers by czar. Jan. 3—Entire Noweki family of 10 persons in burning of Morris Run (Pa.) home.....In Ohio river towboat explosion. 20. 12—Troops kill 24, wound $3 in Warsaw ant Jewish riots. 26-At Calumet, Mich., 4 miners in explosion. 20 Troops and strikers battle in Warsaw 20 troops and strikers killed in provinces ...,5,000 persons killed in Odessa, damages, $5,000,000. 20 troops and strikers battle Kniat Azot Pominek mute knives, murdered trainees, trains guns on Odessa, burns quays and buildings and incites town to riot. $—Czar proclaims Odess in state of war $—Czar proclaims Odess riots. Odess riots. Muntany breaks out at Libau. 21-In Virginia, Ala., mine, 160, in explosion. 22-In Brooklyn, N. Y., church, 11, in floor collapse.... In Evitts Creek, Md., accident. $ Mar. §-Near Pittsburgh 7 in rear-end coll ville. Ky., by dynamite explosion, Pike- ville, Ky., by dynamite explosion, 9-At W. Pitson, Pa., 7 in fall of car in mine 14-In New York, 19, in burning tenement. 19-Near Thurmond, W. Va., 24 in mine ex- plosions. 13-24 mutineer leaders hanged at Odesca. 13-24 oust congress passes plan for constitution Entire Caucasian villages massacred. 'Oil industry at Baku wiped out by riot. 4—Bodies of 43 who lost lives in Ziegler, Ill., mine explosion, recovered. 11—Rioting at Baku brings death to 17. العربية 17-In Indianapolis theater panic, 6, 20 infured 25-In Wilkesbarre, Pa., mine, 10 in falling cage 25- In Dubois, Pa. mine, 12 in explosion. 26- In Laredo, Tex. 12 in cyclone; At Wilt- burton, Okla. 13 in cave-in. 27- May 19, 1946 in tornado 18- Mysterious Okla., wiped out; 100 die in tornado In wreck on Pennsylvania road 20 killed, 100 injured. 19- At Chicago, 3 in auto plunge into river. 19- Near Goshen, N. Y., 4 in crash of auto and train. 19- Californië, 25 in railway collision 21- 20th Century limited 18-hour train from Chicago to New York wrecked; 19 killed. July 5: In northern Texas, 24 in tornado. 6: At Searight, Pa. 6 in coal mine explosion. 7: At Little Falls Dam, Wis. 11 drowned. 8: At Wattstown, Va. 16 in mine explosion. 9: At Near Upton, Ind. 4 in freight collision. 10: At Watatsia, Mn. 7 in hotel fire. 11: At Near Dos Mines, Ia. 5 in mine explosion. 12: Boilers of gunshot Bentonium explosion off San Diego, Ca. 62 marines. Aug. 1: Near Vernia, Mn. 4 drowned. 7: Near Alexandra, Va. 5 by engine. 8: Albany, N. Y. 16 in collapse of building. 12: At Kishman, O. 15 in railroad collision. 13: At Ommrod, Pa. 12 killed in handside. 14: Off Florida coast. 22 drowned in gale wave. Sep 1: At McKeesport, Pa. 4 when flywheel bursts. 10: At Fattance, Pa. 25 in powder mill explosion. 11: In New York, 12 in accident to elevated train. 15: At Avon, Conn. 12 in explosion. 16: At Pinchington, Mich. 5 in boiler explosion. 21: At Mount Holly Springs, Pa. 5 in railroad collision. At Seattle, 6; at South Carolina, 6; in wreck of South Carolina coast, 6 17- At Port Royal, Mo., mother and 5 children loved to attend. 20—At Hot Springs, Ark, 6 in burning hotel, Near Fairfax, Ia, 4 in railroad colli- 21—At Haze, Kirk, Ark, 6 mine officials in explosion. 22—Near Kansas City, Mo, 12 in wreck on At Cayce, Ia, 6 in Rock Island wreck. Nov. 5- At Mountain View, Okla., 8 in tornado. 8- At Phoenixville, IL, 4 in powder explosion 9- Near Wilkesbarre, Pa, 5 in railroad collision 10- In New York treatment, 5 by fire. 11- At Parlin, N.J, 4 in powder explosion. 12- Near Parlin, Inl, 5 in railroad collision 13- At Bakersbridge, Mass, 20 in railroad 14- At Emporia, Pa, 9 in powder explosion. 15- Near Douth, Minn, 9 in steamer Matafaa wreck. Dec 1- On Milkie River, Ala, 9 in house-bear fire, Near West, W. Va, 4 in gas explosion 1- In Wyoming, 10 in coal mine explosion 1- In New York treatment, 6 by fire 1- At Lansing, Pa, 6 children by fire 1- Near Boys, Aa, 3 in powder explosion 13- Verbeck theater, Lorain, O, destroyed by fire, 5 lives lost, Explosion of 1,400 lbs. nitrolycerin at duppet company's dynamite works near Marquette, Mich, 5 men killed Jar. 5: First nation, bank of Farlamb, Mint, ocel, recover applite$4, mint, mints, Massachusetts, captain $2,000 St-Statenia Rope & Twine Co., N, Y, for 20-Far-American bank, Chicago; assets $1,200, liabilities $7,300. Mar. 5: Armed Brewing Co., Sauille St. Marie, Mich.; liabilities $8,000; assets $0, 7—Toc Co. Minneapolis: liabilities $200,000. 4—Ladoga, Ind. bank; assets $80,000. 19- Fyfe & Munson, Chicago, placed in re- search position. 20- Vickersburg, Mich., exchange bank. 21- Knight, Donnelly & Co, Chicago. 22- Rene Haute, Ind., national bank closed Jul. 5—Spring Valley, Ill., and Toluca, Ill. national banks alone Sep. 19—Minot, S. D., national bank closes doors. Dec. 18—John R. Walters's three banks in Chicago. Chicago National, Home Savings and Equitable company in liquidation. Local clearing house guarantees payment of $26,000,000. Public and private accounts involved. 27—Merchants Trust company. American Savings bank and Mechanics Savings bank. Memphis. Tenn., close doors; first named in liquidation. Necrology Jan. 1—Cardinal B. M. Langenieux, of Rhlems; aged 80. 3—Col. A. A. Rodman, author and soldier, at Washington, Ia. 4—Thodore Thomas, Chicago orchestra creator and leader; aged 63...Gen. E. R. Niles, aged 77, at Goshen, Ind. 5—Brig. Gen. N. C. McLean, at Bellport, L. I. 6—Ex-Gov. Lowndes, Maryland, at Cumberland. II—Slas Whitehead. author and soldier at Washington, Ia. 41. Odoreo Thomas, creator and leader creator and leader 69...Gen. E. Brown, 77 at Goshen, Ia. 5-Brig. Gen. N. C. McLean, at Bellport, L. I. 8-Ex-Gov. Lowndes, Maryland, at Cumberland. 11-Silas Whitehead, veteran editor, at Martha's 12-Ex-Gov. Silas Garber, of Nebraska, at Red Cloud. George Smith, of Fairmount, Feb. 5—Brig. Gen. Smith at Fairmont, W. Va..Banker Beckwith, of Oberlin, o- prominent in Chadwick case. 9—Admiral Crosby, U. S. N., retired, at washington. 10—C. Hackley, Muskegon, Mich., benefa- tor. 19-Rt. Rev. McLaren, of Chicago, in New York. 20-Regressman N. P. Otis (N. Y.) at Yonkers. 22-M. Kelly, millionaire coal operator, at Danville, Ill.…Seawall, Boutwell, Mass. 24-Mat. J. L. Stanford dies by poison in Honoulu, wife of Senator Stanford, founder of Stanford university…Geo. Rice oil operator, at Asbury Pk. N. J. 26-Rice, Wolcott (C.) dies at Monte Carlo. 6-Judge Reagan, sole survivor of confederate cabinet, at Palestine, Tex. 15-Brig. Gen. Barber, first Hawaiian military governor, (Conn.), in New York. Ex-Sen. Havaye, (Conn.), in Washington. 15-Ex-Gov. Luce (Mich.), at Coldwater; 15-T. H. Watts, head of United States Red Men, at Montgomery, Ala....Ed. Booth, Anamosa, Ia., oldest editor in U. S. Apr. 2-Judge Garnsey, at Joliet, Ill. 15-Gen. J. F. Grant, grand secretary of United States, odd follows, at Baltimore. 23-Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, most music character in American politics, at - Marshall Field, Jr, at Chicago, from self-inflicted gunshot wound. 25-Judge Murray, Tuley, Chicago mouseless *Xhaustion caused by overwork* Senator J. H. Mitcham and congressional member both of Oregon, were indicted for P. M. B. 2-Warner, Michigan; La Follette, Wisconsin; Hirgins, Minnesota; Ooote, Montana; Brooks, Wyoming; Cutter, Utah; inaugurated as governors of respective states 4-Ellihu ROOT. 5-GOV. C. Johnson, Minnesota inaugurated. Illinois legislature convenes. 5-Bobbins, Massachusetts, inaugurated governor. 8-Alams declared governor of Colorado by legislature 9-Denen, Illinois; Hanley, Indiana; Folk, Missouri; and Hoch, Kansas, inaugurated governor. 17-P. C. Knox elected to United States senators to succeed quay. E. C. Stokes inaugurated governor of New Jersey. 24-Gov. La Follette, Vils, elected U.S. senator. Feb. 7-Statehood bill, admitting Oklahoma and New Mexico, passes national senate. 5-Representative Connerford expelled from Illinois legislature. Failed to prove corrupted charges. Mar. 6-Special session of national senate opens. 4-lowa supreme court calls biennial election amendment to state constitution 30- Bowen, U.S. minister, ordered to Washington May 7- Illinois legislature adjourns. Jun. 2- U.S. tipped to Moroccan confer- rence. Minister Bowen dismissed. 25-Wallace, Palm Beach canal engineer, osted from office. 30- J. F. Strovs, Chicago, appointed to succeed Wallace. Jul. 1- Five packing corporations indicted by federal jury at Chicago. 6-Ethan Roof appointed secretary of state. 20-New York legislature orders an insurance insurer. Sep 11-D. E. Sherrick, Indiana auditor, outstretched from office by Gov. Hanley, because of alleged graft. 25-Sherrick indicted for embezzlement. Oct. 14-Missouri threatens to out New Lake Life insurance company. H. H. Sherrick of Indiana, charged with levying campaign contributions on post office embezzles. Nov. 1- Prince Louis of Battenberg, with special message from Edward to President McClelan wins in New York mayoralty election. Republicans sweep country. Fattison, democrat, elected governor. Wm. R. Hearst protests McClelan's election, charging fraud. New York grand jury indicts 12 for cell phone fraud. Wp. Wypypacker (Pa.) calls special legislative session to discuss reform. Gv. La Follette (Wis.) calls special session of legislature. H. W. Merlott (Wis.) indicted for violating federal status. H. G. Squiers, minister to Cuba, resigns; E. J. Morgan given post. H. Chipman Merlott acquitted on charge of killing marine in boxing bout. P- President Roosevelt delivers message to congress. Gv. La Follette (Wis.) delivers message to legislature and accepts United States senatorship. 22—Herbert Pearce, 3d asst. sec. of state, select● by president as 1st Assistant to Norway.... Chas. Denby, chief clerk, as successor to Pearce. Crimes Jan. 5- James Gillespie found guilty of stabbing 11- J. Miller, Cincinnati, killed wife, two babies and by shooting. 12- Chicago mother killed child and self with gas. 19-During quarrel Wilson, Kan., Marshall killed S. Hutchinson, postmaster and editor, and self. 21-Tucson, Ariz., gambler kills 3 men and commits suicide. 22-Washington, Wis., boarder kills landlady and self. Feb. 1-V. R. O'Shea, Chicago, found guilty of killing wife. 10-Inga Hanson, suing for big damages against Chicago Traction company, convicted of murder...Ex-Mayor McCue, Charlottesville, Va., hanged for confessed wife murder. 17- John Shaw, near Quincy, Ill., killed wife and self. 24—L. M. Hardy and wife, Homer, Mich., murdered in bed. 28—W. B. Hart, near Newton, Kan., killed daughter and self....F. Elster, Springville, wife, wife and self, Chicago detective kills Mulvell, note philanthropist and self. Mar. S—W. I. Neet, Tusla, I. T., killed wife and self. 13-Robbers joot Genoa, O, bank of $75,000. Apr. 2.-M. Nelson, near Poplar, la., kills daughters and self. 4-John Dow, negro, Sulphur Rock, Ark. kills 4 negroes. M-Man and wife, Riley, Kan., burned to death by robbers....F. G. Bigelow, press. First national bank, Milwaukee, confesses to $1,450,000 embezzlement....Con- 11-Bigelow pleads guilty of embezzlement; given ten year sentence. 12-Insane Theumcark, N. Mex., woman kills a children and wife. 13-Insane Ind., man kills self and wife. 14-Kleiber, Wis., woman slays 4 children and self. 15-At Wakinsville, Ga., 5 prisoners lynched for murders. 16-Graft indictments returned against 21 Mammals. 17-Ju, 2-Stanford, Ind., farmer kills wife, child and self. 18-Tim Doining, Chicago, kills sister and. 19-Johann Hooch, Chicago, reprieved by governor on day he was to hang. Aug. 2-Doella, Ark., regro kills 4 persons, and is sainted by posse. 1-C-F Pflister, leading Milwaukeean, in charge of big steal. 1-Aug. Beek, Rock Island, Ill., kills wife and self. 24-Johann Hooch, Chicago, again escapes gallows; superselecited. Sep 1-Parke, Sherman and Johnson found guilty of murder at Detroit, sentenced to 10 years in prison. 21-Chase kills Alice Watson and self at Tomogah, Nev. 21-Geo. Ford, Switzerland. Co., Ind. confections and wife and three children... 4 Chicago packers fined $2,000 for accepting trumpeter tickets $2,000 for accepting trumpeter tickets 30-Andover, Ill., mother kills 7 children and self: husband commits suicide... St. Louis, Mo., man kills son and self with poison. Oct. 2-Harry Leonard. New York, confesses to $25,000 bank swindle. 10-Chicago two others, filmed II., indicted for school fund speculations. 2-Fred Feerer. St. Joseph, Mich., killed Viola Lonsdale and self. 10-Chicago negro kills police sergeant, captain, two others, saying self. 11-Captain and four of crew on Philadelphia vessel, slain by mutineers. 15-E. H. Darrow kills son's wife and self in aUX city, Ia. 15-Wm. Coshocton, O., kills wife and self. 18-Harry McGasson, Frankerville, Ia., kills wife, daughter, sister-in-law and self. 18-Ummifice, Pittsburgh, Pa., who stole $10,000 in Express, captured at Bridgeport, Ia. 20-Chicago bride and groom commit suicide. 20-Bandits blow safe of Ridgeville (Ind.) bank, stealing $2,000... K. Smith, Scatonville, Ill., found guilty of murder. 59-Wm. Le Dee, at Chenoa, Ill. kills Chas. Nickel, mayor, and D. H. Jones; attempts to rob bank and defies capture for six days. Nickel, Richard, Richmond, kills wife, 2 children, a neighbor and self. Nov. 6-M. F. Andrews, murderer, slays paramour and wife. Nickel, fused new trial. 12-E. O. Cuniffie, who stock $101,000, sentenced to 6 years. 15-E. Rothamble kills sweetheart and self. 24-Wm. McWilliams, Independence, fa, kills wife and 5 children. Five convicts, Jefferson (City (Mo.) prison, kill guards and escape ... Newton C. Dougherty pleads guilty; sentenced to jail from Peorin, IL. Dec. 7-Brooklyn (N. Y.) pharmacist kills wife and mother-in-law. $-Mrs. Mary Rogers hanged in Windsor (Vt.) prison for saving husband. ...Wm. Mrs. James, who killed wife and 5 children, sentenced to death at Independence, IL. 15-Illinois supreme court denies new trial to Johann Hehch, Chicago wife murderer; charges Feb. 22. 17-State bank Colby, Wis., robbed of $4,500, robber captured, money returned. Foreign Jan. 3-Empress of China converted to [Portrait of a military officer] 8-In Aips during blizzard, 24 die by freezing. 9- Louise Mitchell revolutionary agitator dies, Mars- siles France KING OSCAR. 12-Garcia elected president of Ecuador. 17-As result of Nocard, Norway, avalanche, 20 perished in bushfires wave. Feb. 5-Procurator General of Finland assassinated at Helsingfors. Apr. 7- Nearly 100,000 are dead in India earthquakes. May 5- Portugal and Norway sign arbitration treaty. Jun. 6—'Trown Prince Wm. and Duchess Cecilia at Berlin at Berlin... M. Delacasse resigns as foreign minister of France. 7—Assassination w.h. Sweden, deposing King Oscar. Jul. 4—Swedish army ordered to mobilize. 2—Bomb thrown at sultan of Turkey at Constantinople. Attempt fails, but 24 permanent. 2—Swedish cabinet resigns. Aug. 2—New Swedish cabinet selected. Sep. 7—Tokio mobs attacked E. H. Harrison, who declared Italy earthquakes fatal to 2,000. 12—Togo's flagship Mikasa biowp up at Sasheo, killing 25%. 13—Bomb destroyed by earthquake, hundreds of lives lost. 19—'Zar inviles powers to peace conference at The Hague. 20—Bomb on Norway sign dissolution articles, agreeing to sever union Oct. 1—Fire at Hiroshima, Japan, destroys 13-Sir Henry Irving, famous actor, dies 27-Prince Charles, Denmark selected for throne of Norway. Nov. 6-Sir Gee, William, founder of Y. M. C. A., dies in London. 17-Count of Flanders dies in Belgium, 15-Glassow (Scotland) lodges house burns, 39 dying...German torpedo boat and cruiser collide at Kiel; 33 drowned. 20-Steamer Hilda wrecked off French coast; 128 drowned...Throne of Norway was Prince Charles of Denmark and accepted. 27-King Hankan VII takes oath to Nor- wegian constitution. 18—Anti-foreign riot at Shanghai; American vice consul attacked and fired upon by marines; 20 coolies 26—San Domingo swept by revolution; president flees from capital; new official selected Miscellaneous Jan. 1—Louis Allwhite, alleged murderer lynched at Newport, A.K. involved in child deaths, acquitted 22—Loss in Pittsburg, Pa., flood over $1,000, 000. Apr. 9- Jaques Faure sails over English channel in balloon. 29—Dr. D. K. Pearson, Chicago, gives $135,000 to southern colleges....Andrew Car- negie gives $10,000 for aged college professors May 5-1, N. Perry, Chicago, acquitted of 12-Nan Patterson freight of charge of killer "Cesar" Young...Negro lynched for kidnaping at Beemont, Mo. Jun. 6, Wisconsin storms cause $500,000 loss - Paul Morton, sec.-Sec. of Navy, elected Sailor of Excellent society - Salman of Excellent society acquired of Edward murder at Reading, Pa. Jul. 7, Normandy, Ky., negro lynched for assault. Aug. 1, Dr. Koch acquitted of charge of killing Dr. Gebhardt at New Uim, Minn. 10-Flia Ziegler, pot-seeking expedition lost for over two years, rescued. 22-Yellow (after reported in Brownsville, Missouri) county, Michigan, submerged 50 minutes in submarine torpedo boat Plunger in Long Island sound. 23-Yellow fever breaks out in Florida. 24-Two Silver City, Miss, negro murdered in Mississippi launched at Philadelphia. Oct. 7-Mob of colored citizens near Bain- bridge, Ga., lynch negro for assault. 14 Washington; John L. Hamilton, Hoop- ton, 13, elected president. 15 Capt. Tugart granted absolute invence from wite at Wooster, O. 16 L. Lo, hit by tornado, killed injured. 17 Terrific gale on great lakes kills 24. 18 President Roosevelt ends southern town by New Orleans visit. ... President Roosevelt reaches Wash- ington, Hollson, Tex., mob lynches $ negroe for murder. 15—Ex-Ackerman O'Neill, Chicago, loss of breach of promise suit for $15,000. 16—Ackerman, great great weeks 17 vessels, causing loss of 25 lives and property loss of $200,000. 6—Senator Depew resigns Equitable directorship. 7—Senator Dattieship Hawaii launched at Philadelphia, Pa. 18—Chas. A. Peabody elected president Mutual Life insurance company... Geo. W. Perkins resigns office in New York Life; Sussex, N.J. to accept 17—Edward S. Dreyer, Chicago banker, paroled; had served over two years sentence at Joliet, Ill. for misrepresentation of $118,000 Chicago misrepresentation funds. No 2. Chicago, who 5 man bowling championship of Ung- States at Milwaukee. PETER H. 25--Battling Nelson Chicago, co., whips Young Corbett in ground, April 11--American Baseball league opens season, J. Wrightia J. J. Carr, J.urtman, died at New Oklahoma . . W. H. Rogers, business mgr. Boston Nat- ional league com- pany BATTLING NELSON May 5-Britt knocks out White at San Francisco. 20-American schooler Atlanta wins race over ocean for Kaiser's cup, setting new mark. Jun. 2-Ellie Hannon whips Young Corbett in round bout in Frisco. 20-Corbett wins varsity race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 20-Yace wins four-mile race from Harvard. Jul. 3-Marvin Hart whips Root for championship of world, title conceded by Jérôme I-W. J. Glover, Jr., and C. D. Graham, successfully swim lower Nigrara rapids, time 58 minutes. 2-Hithips "Kid" Sullivan at San Francisco. Aug. 6—World's quarter-mike swimming record broken by B. K. Bleran, at Southampton. 17-Walter Stimpson, well-known sporting authority dies at Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 9- Battling Nelson, Chicago, knocked out "Jimmy" Britt, San Francisco, in 18th at Colma, Cal. 18-Columbus wins American Baseball Association game. Patch lowered world's record for mile with wind shield to 1,554 at Lexington, Ky. 12-Columbus National League baseball team wins world's championship from Philadelphia Americans. Hemery wins 28-mile auto race on Long Island for the first time. 18-McGovern whips Murphy at Philadelphia in 24. Nov. 3-Dan Patch equals world's pacing record; mile, 1.55%. 12-Dan Patch sets new world's pacing record; mile, 1.58. 30-Chicago university defeats Michigan at football, score 2 to 0, winning cham- mands of the west. 20 Jack O'Brien defeats Bob Fitzsimons in 13 rounds at San Francisco. 21 Jack O'Brien challenges James J. Jefferies to fight. Fires Jan. 1-In Chicago, three buildings destroyed, 12 injured; loss $25,000. 22-Brookhied. Wif. wipfel out by by fire. Omaha wholesale district swept; loss. 23-Brookhied. Wif. wipfel out by by fire. Omaha wholesale district swept; loss. Feb. 8–Half business district, Burr Oak, Mich. destroyed. 19–In Indianapolis wholesale district; loss, $1,100,000. 20–At Charlestown, Mass., plains and ships destroyed; loss, $1,000,000. 27–At Hot Springs, Ark. 3 lives lost, 2,000 homeless; loss, $1,000,000…At New Orleans, railroad terminals and residences May 4—Fire practically destroys Home City, Kan. 1—Business district of Flora, Ill., wiped out, Jun. 16—Fort Frandis, Ont., practically destroys Jul. 9—Business and residence blocks of Goldfield, Nev., burn. 10—Entire Gridley, Cal., business section destroys 12—In Humble, Tex., oil fields fire, 12 perish, 3,000 barrels of oil destroyed. Aug. 7—Hoboken docks, depot, train station, boat boats and buildings burned; loss, $500,000. 14—Business section, Stevenville, Mont., swept by fire. 22—Depot section Lotts, Ia., destroyed. Sep. 1—Almost entire business section Fremington, Ky., destroyed. 14—Business section, Grangeville, Idaho, destroyed. 14—Almost entire business section La Porte, Cal., destroyed. At Butte, Mont., fiercest fire in its history. Roff, I, T., business block destroyed. Oct. 4—Lumber yards and 75 dwellings destroyed at Rhinelander, Wis.; loss, $500,000. 6—Carlton, Minn., 10 buildings destroyed. 18—Entire business section Alturas, Cal., destroyed. 31—Pine Grove, W. Va., wiped out, causing loss, $250,000. 15-Burke, W. Va., wiped out....Half block business structures destroyed, Grantberg. Wis....Urbana, Ia., 12 business blocks destroyed. Dec. 1-Business section Arcadia, Fla., wiped out. 4-Illinois Steel warehouse, Chicago, destroyed; loss $1,000,000. 5-Business section, Manassas, Va., destroyed. DOWN EROS UP MARS" THOUGHTS ENATE OUR FUTURE GREAT NESS. REV. W. S. BRADDAN. the 20th day of Feb. 1895 Hon. Rick Douglass, the greatest Nei- of the World, was summoned by emperor to "Join the Vast Caravan moves to the pale realm of the sea." Silently, yet swiftly and suddenly was the curtains of flowered by the Invisiable hand, when the great world awoke on morrow, that Prince Among Was not for God took him." Carce had the heartless clouds settled about the rough box which slept the seer of Anacostil, than there went up a querry far and near, as too who would the Toga of the deceased leader the Negro Race? And immediate there sounded from north and east and west a countless num- of voces isaying "Here am I send one out of every hundred odd heroes who had seen the inside of academy or college stepped into arena doned the Toga, found that was a case of David fighting in Armor and wisely laid it aside had it snatched from their should- by a displeased public; and thus compelled they went on their way, ever but wiser men. I was at Boston when this sad event took place just entering my senior year at Newton Theo. Inst., and now well I recall how that every one was asking, who will fill the shoes of Hon. Fred Douglass? There was a young man of my own color taking his "Ph D" course at Harvard. And while every one was asking the question referrer to this embryodie "Ph. D." timidly [Name] REV. W. S. BRADDAN. D. D. Pastor of Berean Baptist Church 4838 Dearborn street. stepped from the seclusion of his book and M. D.s., tried the shoes, rattled about in them for a five, but blissful moments, like a pebble in a tin pail, and finding that he was not large enough wisely stepped back to the privacy of his books, bidding his time. Since then he has grown bolder and has tried not once nor twice nor thrice, but each time he has found that some more fortunate spell binder than himself was standing therein. And so it happened time and time again during those years of seeking a successor to Fred. Douglass first one and then another, now an ambitious but misguided preacher, now a briefless lawyer, now a ward politician and anon a backwoods editor each had their try at winning the subquit "The leader of the Negro Place," "The successor to Hon. Fredrick Douglass." but each being weighed in the balance of public opinion and found wanting were rejected. Shortly after the death of Mr. Douglas a young man who enjoyed the honor of being the principal of an industrial school in the black belt of Alabama, who had been in obscurity for many a year teaching those who come under his tutulage how to feed hogs, milk cows, and plant cotton and hoe corn; chanched to be invited to address an assembly of whites. At the south among which were not a few Negroes. The gist of his address was "Servants obey your masters," keep out of Academies, stay out of colleges, shun politics, don't aspire for the nobler things of life, content yourself in filling menial positions, be bewlers of wood and drawers of water (and in a few hundred years you may rise to greatness as does a man who climbs to lofty heights supported by a rope of sand.) No sooner had he concluded his remarks than the whites went wild with delight they patted each other on the back and hugged themselves with satisfaction and shouted "Eureka" until they were black in the face, and they fairly fell over each other in their eagerness to place the Toga so long and honorably worn by that Prince among men Fredrick Douglass upon the Pigima form of this traducer of his race and vandal of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Booker T. Washington, following the whites of the south, those of the north took up the refrain and creid "A Daniel has come to deliver his people." And then the Negro, poor dupe, opened his mouth and said to his masters, "If you pin Washington's ears down, and grease him with a few promises we will swallow him as our leader. And ever since then we have been trying to keep him on our stumach but time and time again he causes such a commotion in our interior organs by his public antics that it requires as heroic an effort to keep him there as though we had swallowed teped water and salt. But you ask what is there about the man or his doctoring that is so repulsive to an increasing number of writes and blacks? Tis his compromising, whining tacticts, his utter lack of consistancy. Any man who by word or implication teaches against the unrestricted exercise of the elective franchise and higher education is not a true friend to his race. He is a blind leader indeed who teaches that any race can become noble or great who contents itself with filling the lower positions in life when doors of larger and more noble walks are constantly opening unto them. Tis as impossible for a nation to take their place in the onward March, of greatness who does not else save hew wood and draw water, as it is to "stand a wet rag upon its end." Kindly permit this phran- tical remark before proceeding further. What I have said or shall say in this article is not inspired by malice or hate, not that I love Pro. Washington less but that I love the Negro race more. Every one must admit that Booker T. Washington has done a vast and excellent work in the Black Belt region of Alabama. But when he holds up his Institution and its teaching as the Panacea the hope of the future of the American Negro, then I say to him this Proverb, "Physician heal thyself." If our leader is sincere in his belief that Industrial Education "is the thing" for the Negro then why don't he exemplify this by educating his own kith and kin along these lines, instead of sending them to some expensive exclusive white school at the north? What is sauce for the Goose is sauce for the Gander. If Industrial Education best fits my boy and girl to grapple with life's problems and the wizard of Alabama urges me to educate them along these lines, then why don't he apply the same argument and rule in dealing with his own fillesh and blood? Why such rank inconsistency; It has the "Smell of Easu but the Voice of Jacob"? It bears all the car marks of there being method in the learned Prof.'s Madness. I for one am firm in my belief that our reputed leader thus preaches, not that he believes it (for his entire conduct belies it) but knowing as he does the natural prejudice enate the advancement of the Negro along higher lines of thought and achievement thus panders to the prejudice of the whites and stoops to conjure the Gold and Silver from their pockets. But since that little episode at Saratoga Springs "Eros has found his eyes," and 'twill take a long time to blind him again for the Southern whites have torn the mask from the Wizard's face but enough of this. We all recognize the fact that are the Negroes can demand a nich in the hall of fame they must have their Teachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Historians, Astrologers, Navigators, Engineers, Electricians, Bankers, Musicians, Philosophers and Merchants, in fact men and women to fill every honorable position in life. And I am con- ident that the day is not far hence when Justice and truth will get a hearing and "Ethiopia will yet stretch fourth her hands unto God," free in fact as well as in theory. But this blissful epoch will not dawn until we recognize the fact that the solution of the problems with which we are confronted be they Financial, Industrial, Moral, Ethical, Socialical, or Political does not lie in industrial education to the exclusion of higher education or vice versa; but in the happy blending of the two; and in the possessing of the qualities of true manhood, and not in that whinpering whinning chringing spirit before a white man so often seen. Let every mother's son of us recognize that there is always a demand for men; men who stand upright, as straight as an Indian and whether he be as as white as a swans, wing or as black as a Ravern, who looks the whole world in the face, for "a-that." We must learn the lesson that no one thing of itself will ever solve the difficulties with which we are confronted. Because you are invited to dine with a white man's family or occupy a seat on the same platform with Political Celebrities or even address their assembly or hold a star chamber conference with the Nation'sgeratest executive, while these honors may tickle your vanity or that of your friends, these things of themselves does not lift the masses, and I take it that the duty and ambition of every race lover is to life others as they climb. Let us not leave the impression with any with whom we come in contact that we are looking for favors, but rather that we demand Justice; and thus before the bar of Justice of the nation we demand it and if it is withheld then let us ten million strong appeal to God. We do not desire social equality such as marrying and giving in marriage, freely mingling with their sons and Daughters as some of the whites seem in fear, and what we do ask and shall yet receive as sure as there is a God in Heaven, is an equal opportunity to enter what ever avenue of labor trade science or industry that may be opened and we are competent to fill. We but demand an opportunity to step into the arenas referred to measure arms and clash steel with all comers, then if we prove ourselves to be lagards throws us so far into oblivion that it will require eternity itself to find us. But my Brethren let us be warned in time that once we enter these avenues, and bright doors of hope, are constantly being opened to us, let us quit ourselves like men, and work Like Trojans, realizing that our entire Race is on trial in us; and if we fail it will cast a sad reflection upon our race. In closing I want to give you a few don't and I trust that you will cut them out and paste them in your hat. Don't let any one fool you into believing that because your face is black, and so on that you are bared from doing anything save plowing cern and working over pots and kettels for it is untrue. Don't be impatient. Remember that it has taken the proud, blue-eyed Anglo-Saxons who now rule the world nine hundred years to reach the heights they now occupy. Don't be a pessimist, constantly throwing a wet blanket over the ambition and fire of enthusiasm of your brother. Don't get tired of your job. Remember that the noblest and best treasures of nature lie buried deep in the bowels of the earth, and none but the lion-hearted can reach them. Don't be selfish and think that if your nest is wool-lined even at the expense of your race, you are justified in whatever step you may take to accomplish it. Don't think that every time a white man invites you to dine, gives you a twenty-five cent (?) cigar, or walks with you down the street, that the race troubles are over. Don't think because you hold a little two by four political position that the millennium for your race has arrived, for it has not, but rather be a student who discerns the face of the times, and govern yourself accordingly,arising to meet every worthy opportunity, and remember this, while I make no pretense of possessing prophetic power, the time is not far off when our brethren in white will no longer judge us from the depth from whence we have come, but from the heights that we have gained." But this can only be after we have learned to present un unbroken phalanx, every man building over against his neighbor, working as independently as the trinity, yet as united as the God-head, practicing, thrift, economy, patience and faith. AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE WORK AMONG THE CLUB WOMEN OF IOWA. MRS. BELLE HARPER GRAVES PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S FEDERATION OF THAT STATE. Speaking of the work of the women of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, we are proud to say that, through many difficulties unknown to other states, they have won a place among the first of State Federations. For five years the women of this State have worked as with one stroke, each in her own way and that way blending into a perfect unity which meant upward, upward, onward, ever, this the host that will not shrink. Never will our ties be severed while we have those that will think. Much credit is due the first President of our State, Mrs. Helena Downey a tireless little mother, who worked with a will of steel until her term was gloriously ended, and then, not as many other leaders, fall to the rear, hoping to see her successor tail, but immediately took the work of State Organizer and Chairman of club extension and made this work her chief object. It can truthfully be said she never shrinks but ever works. Were we to dwell upon the many virtues of our several officers, our article would be entirely of characteristics. There are no most important features of our work—it is all important. The Club Extension Committee selects a representative woman from every congressional district, and she acts as an assistant to the State Organizer. In this way we reach many of our people in towns far away from the larger cities. By this plan we save much expense which would otherwise be caused by the constant traveling of either President or State Organizer. The Committee on Social Purity, under the guidance of Mrs. Gertrude Culberson, of Clinton, has held its own. The results of this committee should be more than thoughts and words, but deeds and actions should be its ultimate aim. Vulgarity of speech disgrace of divorce, unlimited amount of gossip, intemperance both in drink and over-serving at the club. Mrs. Belle Harper Graves. the begging for churches or charitable institutions by our girls, the playing of ragtime music and singing "coon" cong, the attendance upon cheap colored minstrels which only shows the ridiculous side of the Negro's nature, these things and many more are discouraged by this committee. We would not presume to make entirely perfect the membership of this Federatoin, but we have attempted to build the moral walls so high and with a circumference so great that none need escape its encircling influence. The Rescue work under the direction of Mrs. Cora Jones, of Oskaloosa, is as yet in its infancy. When we say rescue we at once think of one that has lost all the beauty of virtue—one that is an exile from the society of honest men and women. This committee stands for even more than this—it shelters and fosters homeless girls and boys until work is found for them, and they are started upon life's road without having been rescued from a life of shame. The following statement sent out by Mrs. Georgia Gray, of Cedar Rapids, will speak for itself: Believing that many things concerning this work must be taken up in spring, summer and autumn, I hasten to outline our work. The committee would call your special attention to the general outlook and special character of forestry work that has engaged most largely the activities of the clubs of the General Federation. Thirty-four states have taken up this work, and the committees are enthusiastically spreading the propoganda of tree planting and forest preservation. A very general activity is manifest throughout the length and breadth of country in aboriculture, or lined on both sides by trees, for you have seen it beautifully. Then let us plant trees on the highways as a first step to village improvement. We would encourage the planting of fruit trees in our yards. They are serviceable, not alone for shade. Second—Let us have pretty yards; it is an attractive setting for any home. Plant your gardens artistically, and add a few flowers here and there. Third—We would encourage little journeys to the woods that we may get acquainted with the trees; that we may learn more and more of the beautiful world at the beauty spread out before us; that our hearts will swell for love of nature, for mankind, and above all, for the Creator. TOPICS The object and need of forest preservation. Tree planting on streets and highways. The economic value of birds to the State. Artistic home gardens. We sincerely hope all clubs who take up this work will report to the committee the number of visits to the woods, number of trees identified, number of birds discovered, number of trees planted. MRS. G. GRAY, Chairman of Forestry Work of Colored Women's Federation of Iowa. The Household Economic Committee, under the leadership of Mrs. Anna Bettus, of Keokuk, has done a noble work. This committee has advocated that small homes bought and paid for are better than large rented homes and the occupants with but one hope, and that the raising of next month's rent; also that a ten dollar hat can be worn summer, fall, spring and winter and then made over is better than four $2.50 hats, one each season; the teaching our girls that the daughter or a washer woman that assists her mother at old hours is as much of a lady as the mother was who assisted her mother. Our mothers are canceling precious days making wall flowers and useless women of their daughters. The rich white women are learning how to cook; she knows what a beet or a carrot or a parsley is good for. The poor colored mother, or some one at least, find fault with Washington because he says teach them to excel in all things. This committee sends out the following circular for this year's work: HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS It has been said, "All good comes to those who wait," and we will not dey the virtue of patience; but can the present homemakers afford to wait until they are relegated to grandmother's armchair before they see the ideal home established? Homes are the manufactures of men, and as the homes are, so will the men be. Need we then vex ourselves over so many social problems when there are so many needed reforms in our homes? "The home is the center of the universe, and the mistress is the center of the home." In her hands are the keys of home happiness. She is the disbursing end of the marriage partnership, and on the wisdom of the spending depends the financial prosperity of the family; on efficient home management depends the comfort and happiness of the family; on proper care and guidance by the mother depends in a large measure the character and life success of the children; on the selection of the food and the preparation, together with the sanitary character and care of the house, depends largely the health of the family; on prompt action in emergencies on the immediate recognition of the disease, and on proper care in convalescence oftentimes depends the saving of life itself. In view of these facts the committee recommends that as far as possible each club inaugurate a department for the study of "Household Economics"; that-clubs send their papers to the Reciprocity Bureau for distribution among clubs generally. We recommend the following subjects for discussion: Household hygiene, dampness, darkness, dirt, importance of sunshine, window ventilation at night, sources of drinking water, surface water, etc. Principles of Cookery — Waste through injudicious buying; the value of fruit as a food; milk as a food, as a poison. Eggs—Their many uses, composition, foods depending on eggs for lightness. The food values of meats, varieties of flour. We further recommend that each club correspond with the committee concerning this work, and report papers sent to the Reciprocity Bureau. MRS. AMY JUNKINS, Chairman Household Economics Committee. The report for the Committee on Arts and Crafts at the last convention was as follows: From eight cities 37 dressmakers, 7 designers, 9 milliners, 12 basket makers, 16 lace makers, 8 china decorators. Allow me to say that one of the ladies that decorates received $52 for a hand-painted chop dish last Christmas. To show the character and gist of our worthy Chairman, Miss Maud Ousley, of Muscatine, I place her paper on Arts and Crafts within this article. One of the most important things that can be done is to educate our club members, and through them the community to an intelligent understanding of the artistic idea of the fitness of things which should be applied as naturally in the making of the smallest article as in the conception of the highest artistic design. By study courses and classes in handicraft these principles can be as definitely mastered as any algebraic formula. They will give a sure foundation for the growth of artistic taste, and they can be put into every day practical use in the furnishing and decorations of our homes and in the fashioning of our raiment. From this study we ought to become more intelligent as buyers, and more appreciative of artistic craftsmanship. Therefore the difficult and intricate problem called Arts and Crafts movement is in analysis an economic and social problem. If any club desires to foster local home industries and true craftsmanship it should its work by searching investigations of local conditions from the ethical and economic as well as from the aesthetic and ritual point. Mrs. L. R. Palmer, a graduate from Straight University, is Chairman of the Committee on Education. To speak of her worth and ability will only be to call your attention to her programme for a club year's work. PROGRAMME FOR DECEMBER 1905 First Meeting — Business day. Paper: Subject, selected, followed by discussion. Second Meeting — Household economics. Paper: What constitutes good housekeeping. Demonstration: Roast meats. Third Meeting—Temperance day. Study of alcohol and its effects upon the body. Fourth Meeting—Social day. Lecture, music reading. PROGRAMME FOR JANUARY, 1968. First Meeting—Business day. Parliamentary drill. Second Meeting — Mother's day. Paper: Child study. Discussion: Baths, clothing, table manners, religious training, patriotism, parental reverence. Third Meeting—Study of physiology. The bones, the muscles and integument foods, digestion, circulation, respiration. Discussion. Fourth Meeting—Music day. Biographies of composers, instrumental and vocal selections. Discussion: Resolved that ragtime music should be eliminated. PROGRAMME FOR FEBRUARY, 1906 First Meeting—Business day. Paper, subjects selected. Second Meeting—Study of civil government. State, government, civil government, law writ of habeas corpus, tax, civil liberty, international law, citizens right of suffrage, political rights, civil rights, origin of the constitution. House of Representatives and the Senate, President and Vice-President. Electors, how the number of electors are determined. Name the executive departments of the government, judiciary, the highest court, who presides, salary received, who is the present Chief Justice, what is the Court of Claims, power of Congress, outlines of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Third Meeting - Household economies. Papers. Subject: Pure food. Discussion. Demonstrations selected. Fourth Meeting—Study of Geo. Washington. The causes that led to the American Revolution; Washington's administration and the Declaration of Independence. PROGRAMME FOR MARCH, 1906. First: Meeting—General history. The three great periods of history, the time embraced in each, and the events marking their separation. State some effects of each of the following conquests; The Mohamedans, The Normans, the Greeks, the Roman, Second Meeting—The renaissance period. Name the most illustrious persons of this period. Tell to what country each belonged, and in what respect each distinguished himself. Give an account of Charles V. Give some account of the Trojan war and the literary productions to which it gave rise. State one important fact in the life of each of the following Continued on page 7.) Substitute for Tinfoil. Aluminum paper is now manufactured in Germany and recommended as a substitute for tinfoil. It is not the so-called leaf aluminum, but real paper coated with powdered aluminum and is considered to possess very favorable qualities for preserving articles of food for which it is used as a covering. Aluminum paper is much cheaper than tinfoil and will become a strong competitor thereof. Auto Road in Manitoba A movement is afoot to construct a 180-mile road for automobiles near Winnipeg, Man. It will be oval in form and the expense of construction will be met from the toils collected from those who use it. It is proposed to run some big races on the road, which will be oiled to keep down the dust. Circular Love-Letter. A recent candidate for parliament in England wrote an address to the electors of the town he wished to represent and a love letter to his best girl. He put the two effusions in the wrong envelopes. The printer was quite surprised at receiving an order to print 10,000 copies of the love letter in circular form. Boycott in Bengal The boycott of British goods in Bengal has, since the division of the province, taken a more serious form, and assaults on Europeans are frequent, particularly in Calcutta. The students have been warned that if they join in the political agitation they will be barred from government employment. Had Two Funerals. Augustin Poole, a veteran trainer, who fought in the Crimea in 1854-56, was thrown into a burial trench while wounded after the battle at Tchernaya, but made a slight movement that was noticed and was pulled out again, died in England the other day. He lived just 50 years after his first funeral. Wives Ali Around. An Arkansas City man who had twice been divorced took his third wife to the theater recently. His two earlier wives have become good friends, and when the couple took their seats the man looked around, and to his consternation saw he had three wives in a row beside him. "Running" All Right Mrs. Backwoods.—Our Henry's doin' real well in town. He's runnin' a hotel now, an' it's a big one, too. "He surely is. Got a letter from him this mornin' an' he sez: 'I'm a hotel runner now, an' it's a real swell place."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Pretty Icelandic Custom. In Iceland, that country of gentle and old-fashioned customs, it has always been the fashion to present to the baby when its first tooth appeared a lamb, to be its very own, cared for and tended as no other pet could be, and never to be part with. Criticism. "Now, 'Little Sunshine,' the heroine of my play," said the dramatist, "is the daughter of an illicit distiller." "In that case," remarked the coarse manager, "you'd better call her 'Little Moonshine.'"—Louisville Courier-Journal Liberally Tasted. The other day in London half a million bottles of wine, the stock of a dead wine merchant, were sold by auction. Three thousand bottles were consumed in preliminary tasting operations. From Bad to Worse She—I wish I could induce you to cease your attentions to me. He—You can. "How, pray?" --y marrying me."—Columbus Dispatch. An Easy One. "A lady whose hair is falling out writes to ask what she shall do with it," said the snake editor. "Tell her to throw it away," replied the receipt editor.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Cheerfulness. When a person who is deaf and dumb and paralyzed can be cheerful what excuse has the healthy person for being otherwise? Largest Islands. The largest islands in the world are Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Sumatra, Nipon, Great Britain and Celebes. Big Sheep Owner. Gov. Miguel Otero, of New Mexico, is the most extensive sheep owner in the southwest, owning a flock numbering 65,000. Pawnshops in Italy The government runs the pawnshops of italy and no interest is required on loans. Unyielding. Many a man feels that he could be quite comfortable if his conscience would meet him halfway.—Puck. Very Often. "Evil is wrought by want of thought. As well as by want of heart." In many parts of the Alps girls wear trousers when coasting. 9 Ax" in favor of the present national bankruptcy law. Within the past ten years many of the leading daily newspapers in all sections of the country have freely quoted from its columns, as well as weekly newspapers, and liberally commented upon its bright appearance. Right here it may not be improper to state that many Afro-Americans have the wrong conception as to the true mission of the newspaper. They entertain the idea that "no paper published in the interest of the race should be permitted to refer to those members of the race who violate the various laws and resort to everything that is immoral and indecent." As "The Broad Ax" never hesitates to speak out in this respect it is detested by those who are in favor of covering up wrong doing and putting a premium on vice and crime of every description. Seemingly they utterly fail to take into consideration the fact "that wrong is wrong, no matter whether it eminates from the blacks or the whites, and that right is right from whatever source it may spring. Therefore, the motto of "The Broad Ax" has ever been to condemn the bad in both races, and exalt the good, the true, and the beautiful, which may spring forth from them, for it believes that a dishonest, low-bred, crap-shooting, immoral Negro is not one whit better than an ignorant, whisky-drinking, bull-headed, uncouth, vicious, law-defying white person. They are both of the same colth, and the color of their skin or their station in life cuts no ice with this paper. For such characters should be frowned down upon by all decent or honest men. In conclusion it affords us much pleasure to again thank our many thousand friends and readers of "The Broad Ax" who are scattered throughout Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Utah, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Washington, D. C., Illinois and the great city of Chicago for enabling us to present them with a copy of the tenth anniversary edition of "The Broad Ax," and for so manfully and heroically assisting us to contend for the imperishable or the fundamental principles of democracy, which have been handed down to us by the illustrious Thomas Jefferson! ONE PHASE OF PHASES. grand object in view? It were to be so ignorant of the lessons of history as to amount to faturity, rottishness. Look over the landscape map of seas and continents. The earth is not one fourth inhabited, and is not populated by one-twentieth of its capacity. One-fourth at least of its surface is of a tropic climate. Besides vast portions of each continent there are tens of thousands of isles and peninsulas in the burning zones enjoyig the climate of paradise, and it is notorious that the pale faces degenerate and waste away physically and morally in nearly all these regions, while the very contrary is true of the dark-faced peoples. As to the blacks they thrive in all climes. Now, where this is being written, the black people here are enduring and withstanding the terrible blizzards that sweep down over the Dakota plains on sixty-miles per hour blasts with seeming indifference, although their dwellings are open and fuel scant, under conditions intolerable to the whites. "But there are so many crimes committed by the blacks." Inevitably among ten million people several are bad. But in proportion the whites are about the same, while in one respect the number of mulato criminals, the proportion is altogether against the whites, and yet this is lald unjustly to the blacks. The whites must bear it. And as the American now boasts of his descent from the once despised outcast Puritan, and proudly vaunts it as the very highest title to honor, so in the future the citizens of the great black empires now rising in the torrid zones shall, with equal pride, glorify themselves as descended from the former slaves held by the slave oligarchy of the United States. The Afro-Americans of these United States and Canada will ever be the fountain whence shall run the vast enriching, vivifying life into new black empires yet in the womb of time. Their descendants then will be millions without the least appreciable diminution from the original stock in this for their mother continent. And the people who can contemplate their own solemn responsibilities in view of their position, can never do anything unworthy of their high calling. The Bystander, Des Moines, Ia., got up an exceedingly fine Holiday number of the paper Dec. 22nd, which should make its many readers feel happy. The paper reflects credit on Brother Thompson and his staff. OFFICE 2840 STATE STREET Tel. South 1023 HOURS: 10 to 12 M. 2 to 4 and 6:30 to 8:30 P. M. Sunday, 2 to 4 P. M. CHICAGO OFFICE PHONE SOUTH 185 Residence: 3421 DEARBORN ST. Phone Douglas 1165 Hours: Until 9 a.m. And After 9 p. m. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. 'COR. 29TH & STATE STS. 7 to 9 p. m. CHICAGO. No extra charge to any part of the City. Large Chapel In Connection. Geo. O. Jones Funeral Director 701 WEST LAKE STREET Near Wood St. L' Station PHONE 1761 WEST Residence 3222 WABASH AVE. Office Phone Main 278 J. Q. GRANT & CO. COLLECTING AND MERCHANTILE AGENCY Suite 60 and 61, 119 LA SALLE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. A. E. Whiteley C. E. Whiteley Whiteley Bros. IMPORTED and DOMESTIC CIGARS GENT'S FURNISHINGS Fine Laundry Office in Connection. 2724 STATE STREET J. W. Hagan, Mgr. CHICAGO. High Grade Goods Only. Quick Service. Williams' Restaurant 148 CLARK STREET Open All Night CHICAGO W. Kemper Harreld TEACHER OF VIOLIN 6626 CHAMPLAIN AVE. Tel. Went. 2821. Hall's L 2975-77 STA Phone, Doug CHICAGO Tel. Went. 2821. All that is best in whiskey you will find in Old Underoof Rye It is thoroughly matured, soft and rich. CHAS. DENNEHY & COMP Chicago. AS. DENNEHY & COMPANY Chicago. CHAS. DENNEHY & COMPANY, Chicago. J. A. O'Donnell, H. D. Coghlin, O'Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Telephone Central 3089 Res. 904 W. 12th Street Blvd. Tel. 1626 Morgon ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. 806 Tribune Building 8. E. Cor. Dearborn and Madison Sts. CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTNAL 998 CHICAGO John Fitzgerald JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4737 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Residence 113 W. Garfield Boul, CHICAGO J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law Suite 611 167 Dearborn St., Cor. Monroe. Chicago. Tel. Cent. 5769. Res. Tel. Went. 4892. Captain 8th I. N. G. Regimental Quartermaster JAMES S. NELSON LAWYER SUITE 611, 167 DEARBORN STREET Tel. 5763 Central Hall's Laundry 2975-77 STATE ST. Phone, Douglas 1235 CHICAGO & COMPANY, go. CHICAGO HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Chicago's Most Modern, Most Complete and Most Convenient Department Store 81st and State Streets BRADLEY REAL EST AND IN 4709 S. Halsted Street Theodor JUSTICE OF Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Acknowledged. BADLEY & FIELD REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE ed Street Leodore C. Ma CE OF THE F Images, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents knowledged. Room 22, 27 North BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Theodore C. Mayer JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Drawn and Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. POLICE MAGISTRATE RESIDENCE East Chicago Ave., Police Court 337 Burling Street C. H. Smiley, Pres. and Treas. 76 E. TWENTY Two Phones, South 584. Phone D SANDY W. TR INCORPORATED UNDER 2918 STATE S Now is your chance. The Company will open a Depar- State St. Namely Sandy W. Trice, complete line of Men and Womens L tions. Shares ten dollars. A limi- Company's Sec'y. office. Pres, and Treas. J. Hockley 76 E. TWENTY-SECOND STREET, South 584. Phone Douglas 6581. Y W. TRICE & COMP. CORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS 2918 STATE STREET, CHICAGO. Is your chance. A joint stock con- dy will open a Department Store in the near- ly Sandy W. Trice & Company. The compa- nies Men and Womens Furnishing Goods Shoes, ten dollars. A limited number of shares are y. office. C. H. Smiley, Pres. and Treas. J. Hockley Smiley, See'y. Smiley Caterer 76 E. TWENTY-SECOND STREET, Two Phones, South 584. CHICAGO. SANDY W. TRICE & COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS. 2918 STATE STREET, CHICAGO. Now is your chance. A joint stock company. The Company will open a Department Store in the near future at 2918 State St. Namely Sandy W. Trice & Company. The company will carry a complete line of Men and Womens Furnishing Goods Shoes, Hats and No-tions. Shares ten dollars. A limited number of shares are on sale at the Company's Sec'y. office. DIRECTORS: Sandy W. Trice, Pres. Milton J. Trice, Vice Pres. A. T. Henry, 2nd Vice Pres. R. R. Wright, 3rd Vice Pres. Dee Parker, Trustee. A. J. Carey, D. D., Treas. 3151 Forest Ave. A. W. Williams, M. D. Sec'y Office 2840 State St. Phone South 1023, Chicago. NOIS BRICK ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., CH Telephone Lake View 270 Telephone Yards 718 N. Western Ave., CH Telephone Lake View 270 Telephone Yards 718 M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO J. J. Bradley FIELDS LOANS NCE Mayer E PEACE Documents Drawn 2, 27 North Clark Street. J. Hockley Smiley, See'y. Smiley Caterer STREET, CHICAGO. COMPANY OF ILLINOIS. CHICAGO. stock company. In the near future at 2918 The company will carry a goods Shoes, Hats and No- shares are on sale at the A. J. Carey, D. D., Treas. 3151 Forest Ave. A W. Williams, M. D. Sec'y Office 2340 State St. Phone South 1022, Chicago. CK CO. e., Chicago. new 270. is: 718 Telephone Yards 693 CHICAGO J. M. Fields CHICAGO RESIDENCE 337 Burling Street