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The Nameless Colored Man In His Long and Bitter Fight Against Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray Painted Him Ten Thousand Times Blacker Than the Hinges of Helll—He was the First Through the Columns of His Old Church Organ to Refer to the Female Members of Bethel Church as "the Sisters." In 1903 One of the Church Organs Sold Out to the Democrats for Twenty-five Dollars and a Jug of Cheap Fighting Irish Whisky! Vol. XI The Nameless In His Long and Bitter Fight A Murray Painted Him Ten Than the Hinges of First Through the Old Church Refer to the Members of Church and Sister In 1903 One of the Church Org for Twenty-five Dollars Fighting Irish Several of our good friends who are far more familiar with the past shady transactions and the crooked methods of the nameless Colored man, than what we are, assured us shortly after, we had used our influence with Mayor Edward F. Dunne, to select him as a member of the Charter Committee, that "he is too ignorant and unrefined to appreciate a kindly act, and that the only courtesy he would extend to us or the only pay we would receive for our trouble would be all the low cunning ties he could hatch up and print in the columns of the Old Harlot Church Organ." At the time our friends attempted to convince us of his ungratfulness we doubted them but they have proved themselves splendid prophets, and their predictions have been more than ruinied. For recently the nameless Colored man had a long three column poorly written, rambling article, in one of the Church Organs, wherein he attempted to prove and no doubt did prove to his own satisfaction, and to the entire satisfaction of the few weak-minded people who may happen to read the Old Church Organ in question, that Julius F. Taylor "has for the past seven years or ever since he has published a newspaper in this city his career has been anything but that of a man who loved and respected his race or their religious institutions. He claims to be an infidel and uses all the vulgar trade he commands at beletting Negro churches and their pastors and officials, and as the editor of a public Journal he wilfully, maliciously maligns and defames the character of our best men and women because they devoted to the principles of their churches. He has again and again openly charged several of our best pastors with being all around liberties, thieves and church looters, wholesale and indiscriminate of criminality with their pastors is a common thing for him to bring against our best women who devote their time to church work, and these awful charges does he publish without giving any reason except he saw or heard some one say they saw these ladies at different times, in the pursuit of their church work, go to their pastor's study, or that they were seen talking to preachers on the streets." Many bare-faced or infamous liars have appeared on the face of the earth within the past thirty or fifty thousand years, but of all the liars who have so far disgraced the name of man, none of them have been born greater liars than the nameless Colored man, who penned the above lines and we do not hesitate in hurling this would be saint preacher's lies back in his teeth with all the venomousness at our command, and the thing who uttered it is too dishonest to look an honest dog in the face. Right at this point before taking another step forward we want to again remind this nameless Colored man, who is ever ready to run and dart his degenerate, deceitful, hypocritical head behind the great name of Jesus Christ, in order to successfully practice deception, upon the gullable people by playing on the religious emotions, and whenever the nameless Colored man has an itching desire to throw his slimy mud at the writer he will start on a dead run, and duck his snake-in-the grass head behind the dresses of some of his unknown lady friends, who are not as prominent in church work as he thinks they are. That he has the honor of being the first thing connected with a Church Organ in this city to start the fight against Rev. A. J. Carey and to stir up all the stink in relation to Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, and to brand the female members of Bethel Church "As the Sisters." It will be re-called that shortly after Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, was installed as Pastor of Bethel Church, the Old Church Organ, began its long bitter fight against him, and after it had succeeded in painting him ten thousand times blacker than the hinges of hell—at the sametime chaging him with attempting to commit a criminal assault on the wife of one of the officers of Bethel Church "the charge was not made by a young, thoughtless girl, it was not preferred by a "chippy, who wanted to advertise herself, it was not made upon the impulse of the minute, but it was made calmly, clearly, in writing, by a woman whose word is her bond." At that same time and in the same bread, the Old Church Organ proved beyond a doubt that "its or his co-worker for the Lord was absolutely unfit to enter the homes of decent people, that owing to him giving full vent to his beastly passions he had no right to enter the sacred temple of God and from his pulpit, attempt to administer in the Holy ordinances of the church, that he should not be permitted to come in contact with the pure young girls belonging to the Afro-American race. These and many more black charges which the Old Church Organ, published to the world against Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, that he was forced to go up against a church trial before the official board of Bethel Church and the Old Church Organ cat-hopped Rev. A. J. Carey, for making a hot-foot race with his official board of Quinn Chapel, to Bethel Church in order to help out its Pastor. The Old Church Organ also had this to say in reference to the trial of Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray in its issue of May 18, 1901: "The charge was read in the official board. That was according to the discipline. The next step was for some Christian brother or some Christian sister to rise and move for an investigation of this awful charge, and to call for the testimony to prove the charge. Did any one do so? Not much. After the charge was read the victim of the shameful actions described in the charge was asked to leave the room. The preacher who was charged with conduct too indecent for my pen to write was allowed to remain in the room. Then the CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 8, 1906 "More Whitewash" BETHEL'S OFFICIAL BROAD DECLINES TO INVESTIGATE. HEARS A CHARGE, BUT REFUSES THE EVIDENCE. MUST ALL STAND TOGETHER. Rev. Abraham Lincoln Murray, Pector of Bethel Church, Chicago, who is charged with attempting a criminal assault on the wife of one of his officers. good brothers and sisters discussed the matter. "Some said it was spite work, and did not call for any evidence to prove the charge, and then decided to refuse to have any further investigation. So Brother Murray was vindicated by the officers of his church, who heard their preacher formally charged with an assault upon a woman, and then would not let her give testimony to prove the charges she made. "Now, what do you think of that? You fair-minded people, you Christian members of Bethel, you decent people in the church and out of it, what do you think of a board of church officials who will hear a woman complain that she was indecently assaulted by a preacher, and then refuse to let her have an opportunity to prove it? Think of it that in a Christian church a decent woman can has cause to make such a charge, and the shame of the whole affair is that officers—men and women—will refuse to investigate the charge, and by their act say they don't care whether the charge is true or not; they will stand by the preacher. "The good brothers and sisters who refused to investigate their preacher's conduct 'are lost to all reason.' Think of a serious charge against a preacher in a white church. Does he wait for charges? No. He calms his board together and says: 'There are rumors about my character. I demand a trial.' An innocent man denies a charge and demands proof. Does Preacher Murray demand a trial? Not a bit of it. He thinks of the good Christian brothers and sisters on his official board, and says in the language of the town, 'I don't have to.' In conclusion whoever the old thing is who is supposed to do some writing for the Old Church Organ had something to say in its last issue touching upon the writer and the Democrats, and all we have to say at this time is that the Old Church Organ in the spring election of 1903 sold out to the Democrats for twenty-five dollars, so Alderman Thomas Carey says, and some contend that "some on connected with it would not close the deal until he, it or she received a jug of cheap fighting Irish whisky!" Col. and Mrs. William J. Bryan and their daughter, Miss Grace, arrived in Chicago Tuesday morning on their way home, Lincoln, Neb., from their tour around the world. They were royally welcomed by the Jeffersonian and the Iroquois Clubs. In the afternoon a reception was held in his honor in the parliors of the last named club, and in the evening the first mentioned club gave a banquet at the Auditorium, where Col. Bryan held a reception which was attended by more than one thousand of his distinguished friends. The ladies of the Henry George Association also tendered a reception to Mrs. Bryan. JCE GANS THE CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT OF THE WORLD. Bat Nelson, the Dane, Fought Unfair, Was Defeated, and Was Hissed and Cursed by His Own Kind as He Disappeared From the Ring. The great prize fight between Joe Lewis and Bat or Battling Nelson, the Dane, was pulled off at Goldfield, Nevada, Monday afternoon in the presence of almost seven thousand people including many ladies, who proved themselves dead-game sports. The gate receipts amounted to more than sixty-nine thousand dollars, and it was the greatest one-sided fight in the history of the world. Battling Nelson, who seems to be a natural born coward, resorted to every low trick that could be conceived of in order to hold the lightweight championship belt of the world without fighting to defend it against all comers, and especially Joe Gans, who had already fought and licked the best white prize fighters in this country, but Bat Nelson was under the impression that he was such a superior being that Gans was far beneath his notice, and he looked upon him with scorn and contempt, and Gans was compelled to give away everything, reduce himself to a mere walking skeleton, before the lofty, proud and haughty-Dane would consent to come down from his high perch, and fight a Negro, and when they met face to face in the prize ring Gans, without a ring manager, who conducted his own affairs in connection with the fight, felt confident that he would easily put the boastful Dane to the bad. True to his word Gans fairly won the famous fight in the second round, but Referee Siler, owing to the fact that Gans was a Colored man, would not have it that way, and forced him to fight the unmanly Dane for forty-two rounds, who fought foul from the very start. Nelson time and time again butted Gans with his bullhead under the belt, and many times Gans struck him terrific blows in the jaw, which would lay him out stiff and cold, then Gans would walk up to him, assist him to his feet and he would give him a fair chance to catch his breath and to steady himself, but Nelson was so full of the "Nigger" and hatred against Gans that he would not thank him for his kind acts and good deeds. This holy spectical of a Colored man whipping a white man with only one hand, for Gans broke his wrist in striking Bat Nelson on his hard-head, continued until the forty-second round, then the Dane dealt Gans a heavy blow in the groin, way below the belt, and Referee Siler fouled him out and declared Gans the winner of the international prize fight, and as Nelson left the ring with his money which he did not earn, he was roundly cursed, hissed and hooted at by his own kind for failing to United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman And His Crowd of Mongerls in the South Are Scored by the Chicago Chronicle Which Is By Far the Best Edited and the Fairest Newspaper in this Country, When It Comes to Touching On the So Called "Race Problem." Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, delivered an address recently in Indiana on "The Race Problem," in which he discussed the different plans proposed for ridding the south of the Negro, and among other things said: "Another plan that I have heard of is that the whites and blacks should be amalgamated by marriage. As in Cuba, the result of such marriage would be a race of mongrels. Would you see us mongrels? We of the south would see you in hell first." shadows—white Negroes and slaves, sad eyed, hollow chested and scrofulous, whom the nabobs kept to attend their tables and wait on their wives and by whom they had mongrels in the tenth degree, who were through the law of nature stillborn. The idea prevails in the south—if Tillman has not at other times expressed it—that the white and the black races are more inclined to miscegnation at the north than at the south. Nothing could be further from the This is an intimation that it has been proposed somewhere in the north that the southern whites should intermarry with the southern blacks, and the intimation is, on the face of it. a falsehood. Tillman can not to save his life point out a single reputable northern journal or northern man that ever expressed such an idea. He makes the charge for the sole purpose of justifying a venomous reply to it. What he was seeking in particular was an occasion for expressing the horror that a southern gentleman has of "mongrels," and for saying something more hypocritical and contemptible even than the feigned accusation itself. He intimates that there are no mongrels in the South, but he must mean no legitimate mongrels, for as to bastards mongrels, there are probably more of them in South Carolina than there are whites "Would you see us mongrels? We of the south would see you in hell first." What must be thought of a southern man who would say this when he knows that every other man and woman he meets in the south is a mongrel, and when many of these mongrels have in their veins the best blood of the south? "Would you see us mongrels?" Indeed! How else, then, can anybody see you? In the days of slavery many a southern man brought up white children in the homestead and a progeny of mongrels in the quarters, and well would it have been for him at the day of judgment if this had been all, but it was not. These mongrels, known to his family and neighbors as his offspring, he afterwards sold under the hammer and shipped away to be worked to death, it being cheaper to replace them than to treat them with humanity. "Would you see us mongrels?" What does Tillman say to mongrels of mongrels? Anyone who ever visited the south in the days of slavery knows that the whites cohabited with the mongrels and with the mongrels' children until they produced a race of melancholy put up a manly fight, while Gans received the applause of the multitude for the gentlemanly conduct he displayed throughout the bitter contest. Gans now honorably wears the lightweight championship belt of the world, and white gentlemen will be forced to fight a Negro if they desire to get it away from him. The one great lesson to be drawn from this memorable prize fight is simply this, that if fifty or one hundred Afro-Americans would have the courage to stand up, face to face, and fight those who are opposed to the advancement of the race along civil and political lines, the same as Gans fought Nelson, they would revolutionize the public sentiment of the world! Senator Benjamin Hillman Mongerls in the South the Chicago Chronicle for the Best Edited and paper in this Country, so Touching On the So oblem." shadows—white Negroes and slaves, sad eyed, hollow chested and scrofulous, whom the nabobs kept to attend their tables and wait on their wives and by whom they had mongrels in the tenth degree, who were through the law of nature stillborn. The idea prevails in the south—if Tillman has not at other times expressed it—that the white and the black races are more inclined to miscegation at the north than at the south. Nothing could be further from the truth, and for a very obvious reason. The northern blacks are infinitely inferior to the southern blacks. In the south the blacks live in constant contact in the same family circle with the whites, and the result is that in their personal habits and in point of refinement they are often the equals of the whites. In the north the Negroes dwell apart, and their tendency is frequently downward. The southern man who cohabits with the maid in a wealthy family has not far to go in the social scale. The northern man who would have to hunt up his mate in a purlieu and sink himself below the brute creation to associate with her. In the very nature of the case most of the "mongrels" are born in the south.—The Chicago Chronicle, September 2d. The Chronicle states the whole truth in a nut-shell, for in the good old slavery days in the south the best looking Colored house-mails were compelled to recline in the bed rooms of the sons of their masters, and in the rooms of their male guests for the purpose of satisfying their passions and to increase their number of slaves for the market, and even to-day the most eminent white gentlemen in the south are not above consorting with Negro women night nor day, for the latest United States census reports show that "minety per cent of all the pastard children born to Negro women in the south are the offspring of white gentlemen that many of the women whom they eagerly embrace are uncouth, repulsive in their manners or appearances, and yet the white southern gentlemen like Ben Fillman feel highly honored in being permitted to associate with them. The truth of the whole matter is simply this: the vast majority of the Southern white men want to appropriate or keep unto themselves, not only their own women, but Negro women as well, and they are ever ready to mob, lynch and burn at the stake any-Colored man who attempts to look croat-ed at a white female strumpet. The Negro must either shoot or club this idea out of the minds of the white men of the South, if he desires to possess his women as his own. Sunday afternoon Julius F. Taylor addressed the Young Men's Literary Society which meets in Hyde Park Chapel on "The Civilization of the Ancient Egyptians." At the conclusion of our address a rising vote of thanks was extended to us and Revs. Sessions and Goggins, Attorney A. L. Williams, L. W. Washington and several others, were unanimous in stating that "they had never listened to such an exhaustive and instructive lecture on any subject." Miss Lewis sang a solo. 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Washington, 5613 Jefferson avenue, will act as the general agent for The Broad Ax, and news items and advertisements left with him not later than Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning prior to the day of publication, will find their way into its columns. PERSONAL MENTION. Walter M. Farmer, for 16 years an honored member of the bar in St. Louis, Mo., is now engaged in the general practice of Law. Suite 708, 171 Washington street, Phone Main 4153. Residence 4856 Langley avenue, Phone Drexel 6302. THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE PEOPLE OF HYDE PARK. By L. W. Washington. My article was quite a surprise to a number of residenters of this section of the city touching upon the financial interests of the Chicago Beach hotel. So many express themselves by saying that they are constantly learning something by reading The Broad Ax. The head bellman of this hotel, Mr. Stephen A. Griffin, will tell you about his department in his own way—read for yourself. His pay roll is $400 per month. The Colored bellman must advance with the times. Some few years ago it was not necessary for a bellman to be able to read or write, but not so at the present time. He must be able to do both, and not that alone, but he must be able to do anything that any other employee can do except the chief cook and the bookkeeper. He must be able to run an elevator; also run the telephone exchange; assist the night clerk in checking over the day clerk's work. In fact, to be a first-class bellman he must know the hotel work from A to Z. On my staff I have twenty-six men and they all can each one surpass the average white clerk in the small hotel. It does not pay to keep a poor man or a boy that is not willing to help you prove that the Negro can and will advance in the past five years by keeping good first class boys. I have been able to place Colored men in the check-room where before always had white; also in the washroom and barber shop where they also had white, and in the package-room one Colored and one white, where before they had both white, and a part of the time your humble servant clerks in the cigar stand where no Negro ever worked before. Among my boys I have five students from Fisk who are working their way through school, and they make good bellmen, for they lose no time. Several of my men are married men and they make the best bellmen and are always at their post of duty when they are not at home with their wives. Stephen A. Griffin. A duel with knives at 5539 Lake av. Geo. W. Blanchard an employee of the Hyde Park hotel and Washington Wills, had an altercation about the latter's wife, which sent both men to the County Hospital in a very serious condition. A preliminary trial was held and both men are now under $1,000 ball. The donkey show was a financial success at the A. M. E. Mission at 5539 Jefferson avenue. The joint debate at St. Paul's Baptist Church was won by Mr. W. D. Neighbors and L. W. Washington. The judges decided in favor of the Black man's emigration to Africa, 7 points in favor of the affirmative and one for the negative. Mr. A. L. Williams and Mr. Westley Edwards representing the negative side of the question. Mr. and Mrs. Jno, P. French and family left this week for Tuskegee, Ala., where they will have charge of one of the departments of the institute. ```markdown ``` THE CHICAGO UNDERTAKERS' ASSOCIATION DRAW THE COLOR LINE. [Name] F. A. RAWLINS. The enterprising and gentlemanly undertaker 4834 State street, who was debared from attending the sessions of the Chicago Undertakers' Association, on account of the color of his skin, after he put up five dollars to entertain the Southern delegates. The Chicago Undertakers' Association held its sessions at the Auditorium hotel the first of the week, and L. T. Christian of Richmond, President of the National Association, conducted the sessions which were opened with prayer, and as all the Afro-American undertakers in this city are forced into this association by the Liverymen's Association, for they will not drive for any undertaker, white nor Colored, unless they are members of the Undertakers' Association. And as F. A. Rawlins and E. M. Blackwell are members in good stand-ing, and as the first named gentleman had contributed five dollars to assist to entertain the Southern delegates they concluded to attend its sessions and when they attempted to enter the meeting they were refused admission on the theory that the color of their skin would insult the Southern delegates. So it seems that the Colored undertakers have a hard road to travel for they are boycotted if they fail to join the Association; then after joining they are spat upon, cussed and robbed of their money! GRAND LODGE OF MASONS MEET AND ELECT GRAND OFFICERS. A Constitutional number of lodges being represented the Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Illinois and jurisdiction convened in the city of Chicago in their fourth annual session on Wednesday the 29th of August, 1906. The Grand Lodge was opened in due and ample form. Bro. William T. Grant delivered a forcible and eloquent address before the Grand Lodge which was listened to with marked attention. The time of holding the annual session was changed to December 27th. The next annual session will be held in the City of Chicago December 27th, 1507. During the Masonic Year just closed four lodges of A. F. & A. Masons was organized and chartered under the jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the State of Illinois. The session was profitable and harmonious and was largely attended. The following Grand Officers were elected: Most Worshipful Grand Master, John G. Jones. Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master, A. W. Ford. Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden, William T. Grant. Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden, T. D. McFarland. Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer, F. A. Campbell. Worshipful Grand Junior Steward, J. B. Carter. Worshipful Grand Tyler, Henry Freeman. "I. WHITE BELLE FINDS HUSBAND IS NEGRO Leesburg, Ga.—Mrs. A. T. Wilson, married six months ago, has just found that her husband is a Negro. He has fled. Relatives of the woman are after him with the avowed intention of lynching him. A reward of $500 has been offered for his capture dead or alive. Mrs. Wilson was, prior to her marriage, Miss Eva Green, daughter of a prominent family and one of the belles of this section. Wilson, on his arrival here a year ago, passed as of French descent. He was wealthy and handsome, and soon began paying court to the beautiful Miss Green. The wedding was an important social event. RAWLINS. ly undertaker 4834 State street, who sessions of the Chicago Undertakers' As skin, after he put up five dollars to ing, and as the first named gentleman had contributed five dollars to assist to entertain the Southern delegates, they concluded to attend its sessions, and when they attempted to enter the meeting they were refused admission on the theory that the color of their skin would insult the Southern delegates. So it seems that the Colored undertakers have a hard road to travel, for they are boycotted if they fail to join the Association; then after joining they are spat upon, cussed and robbed of their money! Ever since their marriage until now the Wilsons, who own a handsome home, have entertained lavishly and have numbered among their friends all the leading families of this section. Mrs. Wilson did not suspect her husband had Negro blood in his veins until he informed her of the fact during a quarrel. She is prostrated and is continually watched lest she end her life. Her relatives are searching for the man.—The Chicago American, Sept. 4. "BETHEL CHURCH DAY." AT THE SANDY W. TRICE & CO. DEPARTMENT STORE. Monday September 10th, will be "Bethel church day," at the Sandy W. Trice and Company's new department store 2918 State street. For on that day ten per cent of the gross receipts will go to Bethel church and its pastor Rev. A. J. Carey is requested to send five or six of the most beautiful lady members of Bethel to assist in making sales on the above date. CHIPS Miss Gersta Smallwood will leave for her home in Washington, D. C., Monday, September 10th. Summer is passing. Have you laft in your winter's coal? Jack Frost is just across the lake. New system of dressmaking taught at Institutional Church, $10.00. Ten dollars for the entire course—to begin the first of September. Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, after spending several weeks visiting in Atlantic City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, returned home Monday. We are constantly in need of first-class waiters at the Windermere Hotel, a high-class family hotel in Hyde Park. Call Head Walter, Phone 508, Hyde Park. Did he say he won a hundred on the fight? Take his word for it and don't be mean enough to tell it to his landlord or tailor, for that might make an embarrassing situation for the "sport." In honor of Mrs. Jno. French, who is to make her home in Tuskegee, Ala., Mrs. D. P. French, 6447 Evans ave., entertained a large number of ladies at a box party at the Pekin theatre Monday evening. Rev. T. A. Clark, 3600 Forest ave., who is recovering his strength after his spell of sickness, will from now on work as hard as he possibly can. to help to elect Ernst Hummel treasurer of Cook county. Rumor has it that Mr. John Auter, the "well-to-do bachelor" of Evansston, is thinking of bringing a bride to his place of abode. Whether or not she will hall from the District of Columbia or one of the Twin Cities is the question. Mrs. J. Amberg Cotton, 4917 Dearborn street and Mrs. Frank P. George are enjoying their vacation trip to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Canada, Buffalo, N. Y., Cleveland and Toledo, O They will return home the first of the week. Mrs. E. L. Johnson and her sister, Mrs. H. B. Rogers, St. Paul, Minn., have been the guests for the past week of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson, 2914 Calumet avenue. They left Thursday evening to visit their old home, Urbana, Ohio. Institutional Church 3825 Dearborn street, August, 1906. The Class in Millinery will begin its work the first of September. The cost for complete instructions is in the reach of all. Day Nursery is in operation every day but Sunday from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Joseph Grein, the hustling inspector of weights and measures for the city of Chicago, continues to punch up the short weight coal and ice dealers, and Mayor Dunne made no mistake in selecting him for the trusted position he holds. Fred Conlin, "a white man," occupies a cell in the Whatcom county jail, charged with having raped his own 16-year-old daughter. Conlin must be a "black brute" turned wrong side out, for how could a white man commit so henious a crime?—The Republican, Seattle, Wash. The Broad Ax was the only newspaper in this city with sufficient enterprise to publish the address of the Niagara Movement in full, and yet one of the Church Orgs would like to make the people believe that it leads off in all things pertaining to the advancement of the Afro-American race. Sunday afternoon, September 9th, installation services will be held at the Central Baptist Church, 3705 State street. Rev. D. W. Edwards will become its new pastor. Revs. W. L. Martin, E. J. Fisher, D. H. Harris, W. S. Braddan, J.F. Thomas, Jordan Chavis, Attorney Walter M. Farmer, and W. H. Flynn are billed to take part in the program. Dr. J. R. Norrell has been chosen health officer of the city of Richmond, ind., to succeed Dr. T. Henry Davis, who has resigned and whose term there is only a short time remaining. Norrell is probably the first Negro in Indiana to receive an honor of this kind. Dr. Davis has been health officer continuously for thirty-four years and resigned to escape removal by the Democratic mayor-elect. Henry Pearson, proprietor of a prosperous hotel at Asheville, N. C., is a Negro and is proud of it. Because he was listed in a city directory as a white man he claims that his character and business have been damaged, and he is to enter suit against the offending corporation responsible for the directory. "I am a Negro," says Pearson, "and I don't propose to stand for being classed as a white man." There will be given at the Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn street, a grand Fall Festival from September 10 to September 14. Each night an interesting program. Thursday night to be called The Man's Night. All on the program will be furnished by the men. Also the serving will be by the men. The Church is to be decorated, and a grand time is anticipated. Attmission 10 cents. Season tickets 25 cents. The object of the entertainment is to raise funds for the activities and to lay in coal for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pratt, bride and groom, of Mobile, Alabama, arrived in Chicago Sunday afternoon from Buffalo, New York, stopping with Mrs. Fenton Harsh, 449 44th place, until Wednesday, they were the recipients of many pleasant courtesies by many of the Mobilians who live here. Mr. Julius N. Avendorf had them in charge and among other pleasures tendered a reception at his home, 65th and Greenwood sv. Tuesday evening. About seventy of Chicago's elite called. They left for St. Louis Wednesday evening after spending the afternoon and evening as the guests of Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall, 5736 Rosalie ct. The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., last week reproduced our article on the "Old Church Harlot Organ" under the heading, "Time for Another Lecture on Shams," and that Col. Edward H. Morris has become a prominent member of the Down-and-Out Club in the Second ward, and that the Old Harlot Organ will not run his cut in its columns each and every week." The Courant, Philadelphia, also dug up our little item for its many readers on "The Oamn dirty fellow or preacner who he is always blowing about what he has been in the past and remam- ing silent as to his immoral acts at the present time," which is evident that the brethren far and near are greatly interested in our fight on the "Sham Reformer" and the "Old ex- Bible pounder." FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT. Two nicely furnished rooms to rent, to man and wife without children, 5618 Jefferson ave. 2 flat, car at door. THE FIRST RADIUM. Its Production Almost Made Paupers of Curie and His Wife. When Professor Curie was run over and killed on a street of Paris not long ago the entire world recognized that it had lost one of its foremost experimenters. Yet it was only six years ago that the wonderful element, radium, which he and his wife discovered, passed almost unnoticed among the exhibits in a Paris exhibition, and a stranger, seeking the physicist, found him only through the lucky help of a street gamin. In the 1900 exhibition in Paris, says London Truth, the compilers of the catalogue and the jurors entirely overlooked the tiny vial containing its speck of radium, which the Curles had sent. An exhibitor of diamonds, annoyed because its presence spoiled the color of his jewels, had put it out of sight. An English visitor, however, who had read a reference to the discovery in an obscure journal, hunted it up and later set out to find the discoverers. He went to many places, the Mines School, the Sorbonne and elsewhere, but no one in any of them could tell him anything of the Curles. At last, by a strange chance, he ran across a gamin who had heard of radium from a chum who worked as an attendant at the City of Paris industrial laboratory, where Curle then worked. By this roundabout information the Englishman was brought to Professor Curle, who was a little amazed, but pleasantly so, to find that some one was at last interested in what they were doing. Mme. Curle, he said, had herself pounded in a mortar with her own hands all the pitchblende from which the speck of radium had been obtained. Pitchblende was costly, and she had not wasted a grain. She had ruined her hands in the work. They were then spending every penny for pitchblende. Mme. Curie had given up gloves entirely and was wearing very old and badly patched cheap shoes and old fashioned clothes. The professor had on old shoes and a threadbare coat—his only coat. Their little girl was dressed as cheaply. But by their economy and their diligence they had enriched humanity incalculably by their discoveries in radio activity and their isolation of radium itself. An Improved Postal Card Our postal card is in need of improvement. The writing on it is in plain view, to be read at leisure by any postal employee from the time it leaves the sender until it arrives at its destination. It is safe to assume that this has been the cause of no little trouble and embarrassment. During my first stay in Brazil I found that the postal card there in use was supplied with a flap or covering of dark paper which when gummed down completely hid the writing. This flap was attached to the back of the card, the edge gummed and perforated, the insertion of a finger tip being all that was required to open it. It served the purpose of a letter at half the expense. I fall to see why our government did not adopt this style of postal card long ago, the additional expense being so slight as still to leave a handsome profit—Chicago News. Shakespeare on Hand Some pessimists are inclined to think that Shakespeare is quite dead. Good news, however, comes from Hungary. A correspondent has recently seen a theatrical poster there which runs as follows: By Divine Permission, in the year 1906, on the 2d July, will be represented for the first time ROMEO AND JULIET. A sensational tragedy, universally renowned, in five acts, with songs, dances -London Tribune Richard Lion Heart Englishmen are now talking about "repatriating" the dust of Richard Lion Heart, which has been lying these many centuries in the abbey of Fontewault, near Saumur, in the valley of the Lolre, France. Negotiations to this effect are now pending between Sir Francis Bertie, British ambassador at Paris, and the French government, and it is expected that Britain's wishes will be compiled with. As long ago as 1869 Lord Derby begged Napoleon III. to permit the removal of the remains to England, but the negotiations were interrupted by the Franco-German war. Appraising a Gilded Jewel An insurance man who has been busy for some months with the problems of adjustment arising from the San Francisco fire says that one of the quercest questions was the loss on a Chinaman's joss, a big gilded god. "The adjuster found that some sixty or seventy minor josses were also insured. When he reported this we certainly had a merry time trying to figure how much a god was worth who couldn't care for himself. But we finally arranged a scale of values that satisfied everybody." FACTS IN FEW LINES A falcon has flown from Tenerife to Andalusia, 750 miles in skies. A church has down from Tenerife to Andalusia, 750 miles, in sixteen hours. From 1606 to 1688 Scottish bankrupts were compelled to wear a sort of convict dress, half yellow, half brown. A Winthrop (Me.) man celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday the other day by leaving off using tobacco in any form. He had used it steadily for eighty years. The national Baptist convention, the largest body of colored Baptists in America, has decided to establish a theological seminary of its own. It already has a large and prosperous publishing house. The largest and costliest building thus far undertaken in New York, the city of immense structures, is the magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, now being erected on Morningside heights. Among the curiosities of church architecture in America may be mentioned the fact that in Santa Rosa, Cal., is a church with a seating capacity of 200 which is built entirely of timber sawed out of a single redwood tree. The big elm tree known as the Lafayette elm, where Lafayette met his New Hampshire soldiers in the Revolution, has been struck by lightning and destroyed. The tree was more than a hundred years old and was planted by a patriotic citizen to mark the spot where the great general received his greeting from Granite State people. There seems to be a pan-Islamic propaganda movement afoot. Mushir Hosein of Oudh and Abdul Kadir of Lahore, who have spent some time in London, are now in Constantinople, and it is said they have been invited by Sheik Uli Islam, who is the Moslem archbishop of Turkey, to confer with him on the extension and propagation of Mohammedanism in Asia. Rellic hunters in New York have whittled up a dozen or more tables in the Madison Square roof garden, thinking they have secured pieces of the table at which Stanford White sat when Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants place a new table on the correct spot as soon as its predecessor has been so chopped up that it will not longer stand. Chairs are going about as rapidly. The last of the estates of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, which have been in the Irish land courts since his death, has been disposed of by the sale of houses situated in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The Avondale house and demesne, the home of Mr. Parnell, are now the property of the government and are used as a school of forestry by the Irish department of agriculture. King Leopold of Belgium, on coming out of the water after a bath at Biarritz, chanced to collide with a man who evidently did not know the king in a bathing suit. "What do you mean, sir?" he snorted savagely. "Be more careful! I would have you to know that I am a member of the Paris city council!" "Then I offer a thousand apologies," replied Leopold at once. "I am only the king of the Belgians." Buenos Ayres has more newspapers in different languages than any other city of its size in the world. The number of papers is about 180. Besides, of course, the "national" language, with its wide divergencies from Spanish, there are papers published in Castillan, in Catalan, in Italian, French, German and English; in Basque, in Norwegian and in Danish; in Arabic, Syrian, Hebraic, Servian and in several dialects. President Roosevelt has an account at the Riggs National bank in Washington. The bookkeepers have no end of trouble keeping the president's balance straight, because so many people who get checks from the president fall to cash them, preferring to preserve the checks as souvenirs. So many persons are willing to pay from $1 to $10 for an uncashed check signed by the president that hundreds of dollars are saved by him every year. Ever since 1840 the skull of Sir Thomas Browne has been on show in a museum at Norwich. It has now been restored to the vault whence it was taken. Sylvanus Urban in the Gentleman's Magazine condemns this morbidity and that of certain people who proposed to have Shakespeare's skull similarly examined. "Let such ghoulishly inclined busybodies," he says emphatically, "confinhe their attention to the anatomy of Jonathan Wild." Winston Churchill, who triumphantly carried through the parliament just adjourned the bill for a constitution for the Transvaal, has been given the sobriquet of the "Blenheim pup" and for several reasons. One is the fact that he is a Churchill, a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough who humbled the pride of the French at Blenheim. Another is the bulldog fashion in which he fights his political battles. His face is said also to have a bulldog look. He won his victory for South African autonomy as undersecretary for the colonies, a position that does not give him a seat in the cabinet. Mma. Flammarion, the distinguished wife of her equally distinguished husband astronomer, never allows any one to cut her husband's hair but herself, and she uses the shorn locks for pillows. Her home in Paris is full of such pillows stuffed with clippings. Telescopes, heliometers, sextants, astrolabs and other astronomical instruments are scattered all over the room among them. The Flammarions were married thirty years ago. Therefore, taking the average time of man's growth of hair between each cutting as three weeks, the treasured accumulation of over 500 hair cuttings must make a goodly pile. WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correction] In point of architecture Washington will soon be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is not far away now. The dream of the great man for whom the national capital was named will practically be realized. In buildings and bridges now under construction Washington is spending $50,000,000. Others which will cost $20,000,000 are projected. The senate and house office buildings will represent an expenditure of $7,000,000. The eastern front of the capitol is to be extended in marble at a cost of $1- $90,000. Supreme Court Building. A fine building for the supreme court is in contemplation. The railroads are expending $12,000,000 on a magnificent union passenger depot. Two steel bridges are to be thrown across the Potomac river, and the largest cement bridge in the world will span Rock creek. There will be a new war college for the army and several imposing university buildings, and extensive improvements are to be made at the navy yard and the soldiers' home. When the house and senate office buildings are completed the plaza east of the capitol will be nearly surrounded by one of the most magnificent groups of public buildings in the world. When the supreme court building goes up it will probably be without a rival. The Capitol Kitchens. During the last session of congress Elliott Woods, superintendent of the capitol, got from the senate rules committee an appropriation of $17,000 with which to go ahead and make of the senate kitchen and restaurant a cleanly and sanitary place. He also got from the powers that be in the house permission to spend a tidy sum for the overhauling of the house kitchen and its enlargement to twice its present size. To Banish Rats. Some idea of the conditions under which the senate cooks prepared the viands in the past may be given when it is stated that the senate kitchen was a regular paradise for rats. Now it has been decreed that the rats must go. To accomplish this a new floor, composed of broken glass, a sprinkling of lime, and over that four inches of cement and tiling, will be laid. No rat, it is calculated, could bore through the combination. The plumbing and sewerage will also be done over. There will be a cold storage room built, ten feet square, and in this all the perishable supplies for the restaurant will be kept. An Ice Making Plant. In connection with the cold storage room an ice plant will be installed with a capacity of two tons. This will be the first ice making plant installed in the capitol and will add the duty of manufacturing ice to the many other activities of the capitol caretakers. It will also presage the building of a still larger ice plant for chilling the air circulated in the house and senate chambers through ventilating shafts. Big six foot ventilating fans will bring fresh air into the kitchens. An important addition will be a bakeshop in which fresh bread and pastry may be cooked every day under government supervision. Government Mapmakers. A United States geological party under the direction of Charles Hartmann, Jr. is now at work completing the survey of an area of about 220 square miles between Hanover and Woodstock, N. H., undertaken largely through the efforts of Senator Proctor and Dean Fletcher of Dartmouth college. At the conclusion of that work surveys near Lake Winnepesaukee and Squam lake will be taken up. This work will not be completed this year. The maps will be useful to those interested in forest preservation, to Dartmouth college, railroads and power companies. Surveying Maine. A field party in charge of Hersey Munroe is now at work on topographic surveys of portions of Kennebec, Androscoggin, York and other counties in Maline. The party is now engaged in mapping an area of about 220 square miles about Lewiston, and on the completion of this work will take up and finish mapping an area between Auburn and Poland. That work accomplished some preliminary surveys will be made about Fryeburg and Hiram, including surveys of the roads. Elevations will also be ascertained preliminary to the work of mapping this section topographically near near It is believed that the mape made as the result of these surveys will be helpful to tourists, to railroad and power companies, to the state in its work of improving the highways, to cities and villages as well as to private citizens. They will be engraved on a scale of one mile to one inch and will show all differences of elevation for every twenty feet of rise above sea level. Every road and house will be shown and the shape of every hill outlined. National Art Gallery. By a decision of Justice Stafford in the district supreme court it has been determined that this country already possesses a national art gallery. This decision is interesting, first, because no one realized that there was such a thing as a national gallery in this country and, second, because it brings to the government and incidentally to Washington the Harriet Lane Johnson art collection, which is intrinsically valuable, very beautiful and will form the nucleus around which a real national collection eventually will be built up. The pictures have just been transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian institution and will be placed on exhibition as soon as possible. CARL SCHOFIELD WOMAN AND FASHION Negligee For a Girl. The attractive negligee herewith shown will please the most particular malden. The yoke may be finished with a rolling collar and high neck or without a collar and in open neck. The sleeves, too, may be long or short and 1 PRETTY DRESSING SACK. the waist may be drawn in or not, as desired. For a sack which the girl may fashion, this one is excellent, for there is little work in its making, and yet there is plenty of opportunity for elaboration if one wishes to trim it with lace or plaited ribbon. Adjustable Flounces. The vogue for petticoats with adjustable flouncees has flourished much more extensively abroad than in this country. The average American woman seems to shrink from a multiplicity of buttons and buttonholes, even though they may be bought by the yard and sewed on. But there is no denying that the silk skirts which have removable deep lingerie flouncees are far better foundations for certain thin gowns where a white lawn flounce on the petticoat is a demand than any cambric skirt can ever be. The silk runs to the bottom of the skirt and ends in a narrow ruffle. The flounce buttons on to it under a "blind" hem or it laces on to the skirt with narrow ribbon through rows of lace beading, one on the skirt and the other beading the flounce. Concerning Buckles. Fancy buckles are only just beginning to be again fashionable. They are to be seen on the smartest of the new gowns and seem especially adapted to the soft folds of the empire sash or girdle, but at the same time they are certainly effective with the wide silk or satin belts and consequently are used on the waistls finished with broad silk or satin belts and are in the back or front, as is most becoming. For Early Autumn Wear. The traveling costume that is smart in effect at the same time that it is comfortable is the one in greatest demand. Here is a model that amply fulfills both requirements and that can be made from linen, from mohair, from taffeta or from heavier tweed, home-spun or cloth. In the illustration, however, gray linen is finished with collar 1 SMART COSTUME of a darker shade and with pearl buttons. The coat is one of the best liked of the loose box sort, having a seam at the center back, which gives becoming lines to the figure and in addition to serving for the traveling costume makes an admirable all round general wrap for early autumn, while the skirt is one of the favorite plaited ones that are adapted to all materials of light and medium weight. The Silk Coat. They are going to wear a separate outer coat this year, and this brings in the long, loose black silk coat, which is going to be very fashionable. It should not be so loose that it hides the figure, nor should it be so tight as to draw, but it can be somewhat fitted at the back and sides, and the front need not be quite perfectly straight. Setin Coming In. Satin will be one of the leading fabrics in fall fashions. The continued liking for glossy alikes has gradually led back to it, although the satin of today and the satin of the past are two very different fabrics. Of old, body was one of its essential features, while suppleness and a minimum weight are now in demand. "I suppose you can remember when a lot of this land could have been bought for a song." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel. "But after seen' how much my daughter's singin' lessons cost that doesn't seem so cheap."—Washington Star. WIT OF THE WORLD. Humor From Italy, France and Austria. ter's singin' le seem so cheap Not "I have calls "I have called," said the party with the unbarbered hair, "to see if there is a vacancy in your joke department." "There will be," replied the busy editor, "as soon as the office boy gets time to empty the wastebasket."—Minneapolis Journal. "Certainly. Don't you know that I am attending him?"—Il Motto per Ridere. "My daughter tells me," said Miss Yerner's father, "that you wanted to see me." Young Widow—Oh, Herr Tim, my little daughter is perfectly enraptured with you. "That's strange!" stammered the youth. "Why, she—er—told me you wanted to, see me." — Philadelphia Press Visitor—Indeed, what did she say, then? Young Widow—She said, "Look here, mamma, there is a man I should like for a papa."—Salon Witzblatt. "But," persisted the rejected suitor, "don't you think it's possible for you to grow more fond of me in time?" "Well," replied the heartless girl, "they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder." -Bohemian Magazine. Uncle Prosdocimo, looking at his two little nephews playing at taking a fort, promised 2 cents to the victor. (Five minutes after the fort was taken.) "Well, one of you is a clever captain. How was the fort taken?" "Oh," said one, "I promised Gigl a cent if he would surrender."—Il Mondo Uroristico. Myer-Just look at that loud suit Green has on! A man who will wear clothes like that must be deficient in taste. M. Duraplat—Why have you taken only one return ticket instead of two? Mme. D.—For economy's sake, my poor Jules. You see, you are so ill. To take a return for you would be foolish.—Le Pele Mele. Gyer-I don't know. Perhaps he is hard of hearing-Chicago News. "Helgoh" sighed Hackney. "I wish I could sell all I write." "Well," remarked the editor, who had just got on the Hackney. "I wish you wrote all you sell." — Philadelphia Press. Would Be Tenant—Yes, this little flat is not bad, but 3,000 francs is dear. Haven't you anything under that? Janitor—There is the cellar.—Rire. Mistress—How could you be so stupid as to stand things on a freshly painted table? "Bliggins says he believes in the survival of the fittest," said the mutual friend. "He flatters himself," rejoined Miss Cayenne.-Washington Star. Servant—Please, ma'am, master just put something there. Mistress (in great wrath)—If the master is a fool, then at least he has the right to be, but you haven't, you silly girl—Wiener Salon Witzblatt. Goodley—Poor fellow! His story was very affecting, was it? Hardart—Yes, but it didn't affect my pocketbook.-New York Life. A Dutch woman kept a tollgate. One foggy day a traveler asked, "Madam, how far is it to A.F." Wanted children, either White or Colored to board and room, they will receive the care of a good mother; charges reasonable. Mrs. L. Coleman, 2830 Armour Ave., 2d flat. "Shoost a leetle ways," was the reply. "Yes, but how far?" again asked the traveler. "Shoost a leetle ways," more emphatically. "Madam, is it one, two, three, four or five miles?" From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc., for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written The good woman ingeniously replied, "I dinks it it is."—Lippincott's Magazine. How It Looked to Her. The Friend—I hear you are going to marry young Wilde to reform him. The Mald—Your hearing is good. The Friend—Well, if you don't succeed you won't be able to keep him out of jail. The Mald—That's all right. If he doesn't reform I'll not want to keep him out—Chicago News. "Oh, dear," exclaimed Mrs. Slapdash when they were finally seated in the carriage. "I've only got one of my earrings on! I left the other on my dressing table." Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. "Huh!" grunted her husband. "Just like my lectures on your carelessness—in one ear and out of the other."—Philadelphia Press. Write plain paper only, and cations to The avenue. Black Diamond Develo nond Development Co. Black Diamond Development Co. Chicago, Ill., July 25, 1906. Black Diamond Development Company are happy in Kansas Oil field that the second well has come value and volumn the first well. give the Company more than Two-Hundred Dol- The price of Stock is still twenty cents per confidently made by the Directors of the Com- the Stock purchased for ten cents, would be super share when five wells shall have been de- Company of Chicago Colored men has struck it of oil land is in the richest belt in the whole Kan- buy some of this stock while it is below the dollar selves of the last chance. was received by our Treasurer, Dr. A. W. Wil- ing. "Chanute, Kans., July 25, 1906. gas well, better than number one, 776 feet under arrive Friday morning—Fred A. Wescott, 9 a.m." get your subscription in for some of the Black Company's Stock. The following members of Board sale: Dearborn St. State St Prize No. 2. Stock Holders in the Black Diamond Development Word has come from the Kansas Oil field that the in and it far exceeds in value and volumn the first. These two wells will give the Company more dollars ($200.00) per day.. The price of Stock is still share. The prediction confidently made by the D pany that the value of the Stock purchased for worth at least a dollar per share when five wells veloped is coming true. The fact is that this Company of Chicago Color rich when eighty acres of oil land is in the richest easa field. People who want to buy some of this stock will mark, ought to avail themselves of the last chance. The followin telegram was received by our Trilliams, Wednesday morning. "Chanute, K Stock Holders in the Black Diamond Development Company are happy. Word has come from the Kansas Oil field that the second well has come in and it far exceeds in value and volume the first well. These two wells will give the Company more than Two-Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per day.. The price of Stock is still twenty cents per share. The prediction confidently made by the Directors of the Company that the value of the Stock purchased for ten cents, would be worth at least a dollar per share when five wells shall have been developed is coming true. The fact is that this Company of Chicago Colored men has struck it rich when eighty acres of oil land is in the richest belt in the whole Kansas field. People who want to buy some of this stock while it is below the dollar mark, ought to avail themselves of the last chance. The followin telegram was received by our Treasurer, Dr. A. W. Williams. Wednesday morning. 2940 State St. Number two aplendid gas well, better than num- control at midnight, will arrive Friday morning—F Now is the time to get your subscription in f Diamond Development Company's Stock. The follo- of Directors have stock for sale: Number two splendid gas well, better than number one, 776 feet under control at midnight, will arrive Friday morning—Fred A. Wescott, 9 a. m. Now is the time to get your subscription in for some of the Black Diamond Development Company's Stock. The following members of Board of Directors have stock for sale: Dr. A. J. Carey. S. L. Williams, 184 Dearborn St. Col. R. A. Ware, 503 State St Fred A Wescott, 1131-153 Lasalle St. Prof. H. T. Kealing, 631 Pine St. Philadelphia, Penn. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, 2840 State St The Board of Directors are confident that the Company will be in full operation by Nov. 1, 1906. For the time being the Board of Directors will hold meetings at 2840 State St., any one wishing information concerning the Company, or its Stock, can be had from any of the above named gentlemen. Get Stock now while it is low. ers are confident that the Company will be in full . For the time being the Board of Directors will be St., any one wishing information concerning can be had from any of the above named gentle- while it is low. The Board of Directors are confident that the Company will be in full operation by Nov. 1, 1906. For the time being the Board of Directors will hold meetings at 2240 State St., any one wishing information concerning the Company, or its Stock, can be had from any of the above named gentlemen. Get Stock now while it is low. Black Diamond Development Co.—W. W. A. --- HUMOR "Dear doctor, I heard Signor Luraschini say that you are a veterinary surgeon." Explieit. How It Looked to Her. Subject For Another Lecture Black Diamond Development Co., Prize No. 2. To A. Wilberforce Williams, Dr. A. J. Carey. S. L. Williams, 184 Dearborn Col. R. A. Ware, 503 State St Not Encouraging. Framed Up A Hint. Forsible Explanation: Stop Thief! Kezar Touched Him. A. Good Home for Children. Special Announcement American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, ThOMAS CARRY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARD: 1st St. & L. S. & M. S. Rd. 12nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO Tile and Slate Hauling a Specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Street Tel. 699 South CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1828 UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 LADIES! Pretty Faces Wins Hearts! LADIES! Pretty Faces Wins Hearts! You can win the admiration of your beloved by using CONCUM, the favorite cream of the Oriental beauties. It works wonders. It makes the plainest faces attractive. Imported. Jars, $1.00; bottles, 50c. Free with each Jar "Hindoo Book on Beauty" 10 15 50 YEAR MORNING AFTERNOON There are no marks Macmillan Prologue sold to the United States that of any other makes or purposes this is on sale at the Macmillan Prologue store. Lady Agnes Wentz. Mardi gras programs for Biblical day commissions. Flower Catalogue of 60 doo dial and Frost Catalogue (sharing 60 premium snow frost). Addmnt THE MOTEL CO. New York. J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 3256 FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Pool and Billiards Pool and Billiards Cigars and Tobaccos WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTENAC CLUB UP STAIRS 289 E. 22ND ST. TEL. CALUMET 2940 CHICAGO Do not use ordinary writing ink in your fountain pen, as it will corrode and render your pen useless unless cleaned very often. Take an old typewriter ribbon, turn over it a pint of hot water and let it stand a day or so, stirring frequently. Turn the ink thus made into a bottle, cork securely, and you have an ink which will flow freely and not corrode your pen. If the typewriter ribbon has considerable ink on it you can thin your ink by adding more water after the first pint is made. American President and Treasurer, The Vice-President, J Secreta MANUFAT Gcommon and ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The Broad Ax desires to engage Agents and regular Correspondents in all the leading cities and towns throughout the country. The highest commissions paid to live hustlers. Sample copies furnished free, For further information, address Julius F. Taylor, 561) Armour avenue, Chicago. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: The Afro-American News Office, 3104 State Street. O. S. Smith News stand, and Barber Shop 3700 Dearborn st. A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. Richard Pinn, 4836 State street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. W. S. Williams, Tonsorial Parlor, 399 31st st. J. R. Peters Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. Mrs. Kathyherine Hamlet, 5028 Armour Ave., cigars, tobacco, fancy groceries and news stand. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. Thompson Bros., Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 2636 $ \frac{1}{2} $ State street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3533 State st. Whitley Bros. 2724 State St., Gent's furnishings and new stand. The Stationery, 2970 State street, Cigars, Tobacco and News stand. The Afro-American News Co., 433 W. 35th St, New York City, N. Y. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St, Detroit, Mich. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad Az. COOK PRESENT ON MAKING JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found by experience that they are the most satisfactory and economical goods on the market. Our Complete Catalogue—a correct guide to proper dress in the Dining Room, Kitchen, or Bar will be sent free on application. tions how to order. Marras Ruben (Inc.), 390 State St., Chicago Brick Co. - OMAS CAREY. OHN SHELHAMER, RY, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. TURERS OF Sewer Brick THE HALL OF FAME. Ex-Governor John P. St. John has forsaken Kansas for Texas. Thomas A. Edison has never carried a watch. He never cares, he says, what time it is. Commander J. C. Fremont has been appointed naval attache at the American embassies in France and Russia. Sir Andrew Fraser, governor of Bengal, virtual ruler of 80,000,000 people, is the active president of the Calcutta Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Joseph Corbett of Camden, N. J., is chief assistant to her husband, "Steeple Jack," and works with him at great heights. Captain Sverdrup, the arctic explorer, who recently added 100,000 square miles of ice to the king of Sweden's dominions, spent his boyhood days on a forest farm. The Paris papers still insist that the Empress Eugene went to Ischl on a matchmaking errand. She wants, it is said, the hand of a granddaughter of Francis Joseph for Prince Louis Napoleon. Queen Maria Christina of Spain is said to be the only woman sovereign who has made a balloon ascent. She has a great love for adventurous pursuits, and delights in reading books written for boys. George Irving, the last surviving nephew of Washington Irving, marvelously hale and active at eighty-two, is living in New York. Mr. Irving is practically the sole remaining member of the Irving family. Lord de L'Isle and Dudley has at his Penshurst place a relic that he treasures very highly. It is a stool covered in faded blue velvet, edged with silver cord, and on it Queen Victoria knelt to receive the sacrament at her coronation. The secretary of the treasury has awarded life saving medals to Emile M. Wagner and Harry H. Kittel, cock swains on the battleships Alabama and Kearsarge respectively. Both men rescued shipmates who had been carried overboard. A polo player at sixty-five is P. F. Collier, owner of Collier's Weekly, a man of wealth. Mr. Collier is the most ardent of horsemen and has been playing polo for twenty-five years. Several times during recent years it has been his misfortune to be injured. Once he sustained a broken collar bone. But these mishaps have left his enthusiasm unabated. SHORT STORIES. The bust of Socrates in the Capitoline museum at Rome looks like the late Henry George. In Washington county, Me., there are 150,000 acres devoted to nothing but raising blueberries. Spain and Russia are the only European countries which produce more wool than they consume. There are at least six places in New York where macaroni is better cooked than at the best hotels in Venice, Naples, Rome or Milan. The Andubon Society of California has been organized at Los Angeles with about 200 members. The society will be incorporated later. The Lafeyette artillery company of Lyndeboro, N. H., is 103 years old and has the queer distinction of recruiting its ranks by handing down positions in the company from father to son. The annual auction of prizes, or unmarked logs, in the Argyll and Pea Cove booms in the Penobscot river, Maine, has been held. There were 350, 000 feet of logs in the lot, and they were sold for $13 per 1,000 feet. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Lace is used in every possible way, and on all materials of light texture. White cloth, in all its tones, from pure white, through cream, to zinc on the one hand and almost stone color on the other, holds the premier place in fashionable favor. Very smart are the smooth brown linen skirts cut en princese, topped with round waists of net made simply with a yoke of insertion bands and with an embroidered linen girdle or perhaps one of dull blue silk to finish. An odd scarf arrangement noticed on an all black null showed the length wound twice around the waist and brought up diagonally from either side to form two or three graceful loops on the bodice at the point of a lace voke. The old fashioned dolman has been revived and is here in all its pristine glory, as shapeless and ungraceful as ever. Suited it might have been to the Turkish men, with whom it originated, but not at all to the well formed woman of good carriage with no defects to conceal—New York Post. GERMAN GLEANINGS. Twenty-five years ago Berlin had 198 telephones. Today it has 35,000. Hamburg uses $7,500 worth of blueberries every year for changing white wine into red wine. Germany produces about $250,000,000 worth of minerals annually, of which coal and iron are the most important. In the town of Klingenberg, Germany, taxes are unknown. This year $50 was paid to every citizen from the profits of the municipal brickworks. A dozen golden cups and other valuable articles have been found in the Shine in the Binger Loch, where Dr. Hehnstus long ago maintained that the Nibelung treasure had been deposited SELECTIONS HEROIC TRAINING. Fierce Ordeal the Chinese Military Code Prescribes. Chinese military training of today shows a queer mixture of ancient and modern. methods. A correspondent writes from Hunan: "I, however, saw a performance which I doubt whether many foreigners have seen. Its object was to make the body strong and also insensible to pain. It was a most grewsem sight. The men came forward in threees, stripped to the waist, having tied their turbans tightly round their waists. Each picked up a sort of iron truncheon about twenty inches long, weighing at least fifteen pounds, there being three sizes. This truncheon was made of two bars of flat iron tied together. The operator, having made his bow to the commanding officer, seized the truncheon in one hand, swung it round, gave a snort and brought it down whack on his chest. The double irons gave a resounding clank. The beads of perspiration oozed out. "Three blows were delivered on the right breast, then three on the left with the other hand. Then the muscles of the arms were treated in the same way. Then both hands were used, and the club was swung over the head down the back. Then the forehead was subjected to three stunning blows. This was followed by subjecting to a similar thumping the extended thighs, where the full weight of the instrument came down, whatever it did in the other parts. "Some added variations and extras, but all finished by taking the truncheon in both-hands and driving the big end deep into their abdomen. This also was done thrice. It was explained to me that if they could stand this infliction of pain, for it was self evidently a tremendous ordeal, they would be unmoved by any ordinary knocking about. This I am willing to grant, but I seriously question whether the human body can go on standing what I then saw."—Chicago News. Russia Moves Slowly Observers of the west were some what surprised that the dissolution of the douma was not immediately followed by a popular uprising or an immediate panic in Russian securities. They forgot that Russia is an agricultural continent rather than a kingdom, that its capital is fettered in bonds of steel, that its swiftest means of internal communication are in the hands of the government alone, and that, with its douma suppressed, its people, the peasantry especially, have no organ through which their united will can be expressed. From the moment of the convocation of the states general the people of France were never without a mouth, and until the "bronze artillery officer" shot down the "sections" they were never without an "army of revolution." The Russian people move heavily and may take years before their general will is effective, their movement being that of the glacier rather than the avalanche. Still they are moving--London Spectator. Washing In France Only one American washing machine has ever been introduced into Bordaux, France, according to Consul Murphy. "There was," he says, "one such machine introduced here some years ago, but as it was not properly advertised or presented to the public in an intelligent manner it seemed to make but little impression. Washerwomen from the country monopolize the washing business, gathering the soiled linen one week and returning it the next. They boil the clothes, use chemicals to whiten them, rinse them in the nearest stream and spread the articles over grass, hedges and barbed wire fences to dry, which does not conduce to long wear of linen. The cleansed goods are then returned to the families, who send them to an ironer, where they are generally kept another week." Camille Saint-Saens Coming. Of the musical events of next season will be the first visit to America of the eminent French musician, Camille Saint-Saens, who is now seventy-one years old and for a number of years has suffered from an affection of the throat or lungs, which has made him spend much of his time in warm climates. He is one of the half dozen or so greatest living composers and a brilliant pianist as well. He will appear at only twenty concerts in this country, so that only the largest cities will be distinguished by a visit. New Life Saving Apparatus. M. Pierre Samois, who has invented a new life saving apparatus, went to the Louvre swimming baths a day or two ago to test it. The apparatus consists of two small circular metal buoys, through which the arms are passed. A belt connects the buoys, which are constructed in such a way as to be practically unsinkable. M. Samois' invention was put to many severe tests by expert swimmers, none of whom was able to remain under water a moment while wearing the apparatus. —London Globe. Cheapness of Swiss telephones. "I was in Switzerland in June, before the rush set in," said a globe trotter, "and what most struck me there was the height of the mountains and the lowness of the telephone rates. The government owns the Swiss telephone system, and a phone costs only $12 a year. This small fee gives you 800 calls, and for excess calls all you pay is 1 cent each." Anna Held will star in "A Paris Model," by Harry B. Smith, next season. Helen Whitman, now playing with the John P. Harris stock company at the Olympia Park theater, McKeesport, Pa., announces that she is under contract with the Kirk La Shelle estate for the coming season. Henry B. Irving will open his American tour at the New Amsterdam theater, New York, Oct. 8 in Stephen Phillips' "Paola and Francesca." He will be supported by Dorothy Baird and an English company. Maurice Campbell announces that Ernest Denny, who wrote "All-of-a-Sudden Peggy," which had such a long run at the Duke of York's theater in London last season, will come over for the first performance of the play given in America by Henrietta Crosman. Miss Violet Dale, known well as a mimic in the variety theaters, has been engaged for an ingene role in "The Strenuous Life," the farce in which Joe Weber is to star William Norris. Scott Cooper also has been engaged for the farce. He was in the original cast of "The New South." Robert Mantell is to make use next season of W. S. Gilbert's burlesque, "Rosencranz and Guildenstern," which the author of "Pinafore" and "The Mikado" wrote as his criticism of "Hamlet." The announcement by William A. Brady adds that Mr. Mantell will appear as King Claudius. EDITORIAL FLINGS The lid that the czar is compelled to sit upon has all the other lids beaten a verst.-Baltimore American. Mr. Upton Sinclair may be a remarkable young man, but he will not solve the servant problem.-New York World. A Sloux City prophet predicts a plague of locusts in the west. And then think of the presidential bees!-Baltimore Sun. The king of Spain is to build a yacht for racing, but until he has a special brand of tea to advertise he cannot hope to compete with Sir Thomas Lipton.-Omaha Bee. A current writer says the decay of England is attributable to tea. It might be well to prove the front end of the proposition before bothering with the rest.-St. Louis Globe Democrat Edison says he is going to make it possible to build a $25,000 house for $500 by simply pouring concrete into molds. It isn't likely, however, that this will put an end to unhappiness. People who have $25,000 houses worry because they can't have $50,000 residences.—Chicago Record-Herald. ENGLISH ETCHINGS. Some of the British police wear straw helmets in the summer. At Fulbourn, England, the poor receive sixpence each for regular church attendance. The Bank of England employs about 1,000 people, paying £250,000 yearly in wages and £55,000 yearly in pensions. Gramophones are used in English theaters to give "stage shouts," thus saving expense and insuring volume of sound. Worcester, England, has refused to give the government a site for a cavalry barracks, though one of the city councilmen used a strong argument. He urged that the presence of 1,500 soldiers in town would end the prevailing scarcity there of female domestic servants. FACTS FROM FRANCE The French government this year refused the usual reduction allowed to bodies of sick pilgrims traveling to Lourdes. The destiny of the population of Paris is astounding. In 1878 there were 254 inhabitants per hectare (2½ acres); today there are 322. Count de la Vaulx at Paris recently, in the course of his ascent in his new balloon, established a dirigible record by remaining eight hours in the air over the Bois de Boulogne. For six months since his arrest for uttering counterfeit coin a man in Paris has felged dumbness, but when his case came up for trial he spoke in his own defense. He was sentenced to penal servitude for life. OLD FASHIONED What has become of the old fashioned woman who told fortunes by coffee grounds? What has become of the old fashioned man who said he could whip his enemy on a sheepskin? An old fashioned man the other day met a small boy smoking a very large cigar. "Hello, cigar," the man said, "where are you going with that boy?" What has become of the old fashioned woman who "dressed up" for going downtown, summer or winter, by putting a shawl over the dress she happened to have on? - Atchison Globe. FRENCH PROVERBS. We pardon in the degree that we love. It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing. Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.—People's Magazine. True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. 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