The Broad Ax

John Temple Graves The Wild Eyed Anarchist, In His Address to the World, Brands Himself As An Unmitigated Liar! In Atlanta, Many Fast Houses Filled With Colored Women Are Running At Full Blast For The Benefit Of White Men. One Afro-American Mobbed And Lynched In That City For Consorting With A Low White Female. Another One Met His Death At The Hands Of The Mob For Speaking To a White Woman On The Street Who Had Asked Him For Information Concerning The Direction She Wanted To Go. The Gateway City Is The Hell-Hole of The South! Vol. XI John Tem The Wild Eye His Address Brands Hin Unmitiga In Atlanta, Many Fast H men Are Running At Full Men. One Afro-American Mob For Consorting With A Lo Met His Death At The H To a White Woman On T For Information Concerning Go. The Gateway City Is Th In his address to the world, John Temple Graves, the wild eyed Anarchist, and the bold and bloody advocate of mob and lunch law for Colored men makes an extraordinary attempt to justify the bloody work and the more than atrocious acts of the mobs which murdered some of the best and most law abiding Colored men and women in Atlanta, and Booker T. Washington, Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois, Bishops Henry M. Turner, Wesley J. Gaines, or any other eminent Colored man or woman would have met with the same fate if they would have appeared on the streets of Atlanta at that time, whiningly contends that five "Negroes assaulted white women in that city in one day, and that eleven assaults have been committed upon white women by Negroes within the past seven weeks, that the Negroes are such repulsive and hideous monsters, that they committed eight of these assaults right out in the open streets in broad daylight, within a stone's throw of other residences." One was pulled off early in the evening, in the brilliantly lighted parlors of a city residence, and three others occurred in twenty feet of the man of the house the criminals escaping before the household men could reach them." It is ridiculous in the extreme for any one to endeavor to create the impression that a Negro would be able to assault a white woman in a brilliantly lighted parlor early in the evening, with the men of the same house only twenty feet away, accomplish his purpose and break away from the woman before he was detected by the men folks. No one but a wild eyed Anarchist and bloodthirsty savage like John Temple Graves could invent or believe such a tale, and if the woman was assaulted in such a manner, the assault was committed by a white gentleman with his face painted black, for the so-called best white men of the south are not above resorting to such low and damnable tricks, whenever they feel like raping their relatives and female friends. This undisputed fact has been proven many times, not by the word of any Negro, but by the white women themselves as several cases of this kind will be referred to in another column of this paper, and leading on up to the work of the mob, it is admitted that Hoke Smith, the successful candidate for Governor of Georgia and many of his friends and supporters sent out over the state and the city of Atlanta thousands of white men with blackened faces, to terrify and frighten white women and for the further purpose of increasing race hatred, and the crimes or assaults committed upon the white women by white gentlemen were in each and in every instance charged up to the beastly Negroes. Further on in his address to the world, he states that two weeks prior to the formation of the mob he was at the head of a movement to compel the Negro editors, preachers, and teachers under threats of a practical boycott, to cease spending all their breath and energies in the denunciation of lynch law and to preach with all their ransomed powers hell and damnation to the rapist. They responded loyally, and for the first time since we have had a race problem the white man has had the full and hearty co-operation of the respectable Negroes in the suppression of the rapist." After the best class of Afro-Americans had heartily responded to the demands of John Temple Graves and his committee, and after many of them had really stultified themselves, by admitting that the Negroes were guilty of committing crimes which had been committed by white men, how were they rewarded for their labors and their trouble? We will step aside and permit John Temple Graves to answer that question: "The lid of the volcano was off, monstrous things were done in the name of retaliation. Old and young Negroes, Negroes good and bad, innocent and guilty, were cut and slashed and killed. To every plea of mercy was shouted back the fierce response: You had no mercy on our women and we will have none on you! Seventeen Negroes were killed and more than thirty injured. The press has told you of it." "Do you ask how this riot can be rebuked and this mob made impossible for the future? I will answer frankly that it is likely to occur a dozen times." In his long harangue or address to the world this old hardened sinner and apostle of mob and lynch law for Colored people, concludes as follows: "The white women have been trembling prisoners in their homes and their husbands, sons and brothers have been held in the necessity of guarding them unceasingly. There are few men who dare to leave their families after nightfall, either to attend public meetings, pay a social call or to worship in the churches of their choice. There is no hope of solution of this problem. "The siliciest man in the South is the time-serving statesman who declares that there is no race problem, and the question, if left alone, will settle itself. The race question is more impending and threatening now than it has been in twenty years. The tension is sharper, the antagonism deeper, between the races. The hope of a permanent agreement has slender foundation. The horror of Saturday has doubtless left a blot on our civilization, but ERNST HUMMEL. The Most Popular German-American in This City, Whose Clean Record as an Honest and Faithful Public Servant Insures His Election as Treasurer of Cook County, November the 6th. It will clear the atmosphere and keep the Negro in order for five years. The Negroes are whipped and humble, and there is no danger apprehended anywhere. "But the trouble is likely to be reopened with another wave of crime next summer. Whenever there is the provocation there will be the mob. The press crucified me for saying this at the New York chautanqua in 1903. I ask you if the statement has not been vindicated by events I demonstrated that lynch law does not deter the rapist. He is willing to die for the having of his desire. But vengeance deters, and but for the mob there would be ten assaults where there is one. the white law-making powers from the highest to the lowest are such imbeciles, both in body and mind and that they have sank so low in the scale of humanity and have reverted back to savagery to such an extent their true state or condition, that they are utterly unfitted or incapable of executing or enforcing the law which they themselves created and placed on their statue books without the aid of any Negro. Third it is extremely pathetic to read the closing part of his address to the world where he sets himself up as an inspired prophet, and calls on the people in general to help the white of the South to separate from the Negro when we take into consideration "Wrong? Yes. Worthy of all condemnation. Yes. But the fact remains it is here and here to stay. We are studying rape now as the scientists have studied yellow fever and smallpox. We are looking for the germ. Maybe we shall find the 'stegomycic fasciata,' but until we do the most law abiding section of the Union in everything else will continue in the old fashioned way to protect the lives and chastity of our women. How can you help us? By giving two paragraphs to the denunciation of rape where you give one to lynching. What is the ultimate end? Separation of the races—the possible logical, inevitable solution. These two opposite antagonistic races can never live together on the same government under equal law. Never! Help us to separate." Three important deductions can be drawn from these vaporings which sound like the wallings of a dying cat: First, Georgia has never been the most law-abiding state in the Union, for it was one of the first of the rebel states in the South which attempted to shoot the Union to death, for the purpose of enabling the uncivilized crackers, and the whisky swilling, tobacco chewing, semi-savages within its borders to maintain slavery, so that they would be in a position to buy and sell their own flesh and blood, for the sake of adding to their wealth, and at no time since the formation of this government has the people of Georgia been in harmony with the established laws of the land in relation to the true status or the inherent rights of the Negro. Second in one full breath John Temple Graves admits that white supremacy, or the civilization established in the South by him and his kind is a rank failure, for with all the courts and every bit of the city and state machinery for the administration of the laws throughout the southland in the hands of the whites and with a sure enough death penalty hanging over the head of any gro who attempts a criminal assault upon a white woman, and with twenty or thirty white men to one Negro, in all the large cities and in most of the Southern states, John Temple Graves proclaims to the world that the white law-making powers from the highest to the lowest are such imbeciles, both in body and mind and that they have sank so low in the scale of humanity and have reverted back to savagery to such an extent, their true state or condition, that they are utterly unfitted or incapable of executing or enforcing the laws which they themselves created and placed on their statue books without the aid of any Negro. Third it is extremely pathetic to read the closing part of his address to the world where he sets himself up as an inspired prophet, and calls on the people in general to help the whites of the South to separate from the Negro, when we take into consideration the fact that for more than two hundred and fifty years, the vast majority of the most highly cultivated white gentlemen "on the South have spent or bent all of their energies in bringing forth the greatest crop or brood of mongrels and bastards that have so far existed in any portion of the civilized world. No one will seriously object if John Temple Graves and his associates should separate from the Negro, and especially from the Colored woman at night time and hie themselves to Russia or some other savage country where they will not come in contact with the Afro-Americans, but as the Negro was brought to this country against his will he will remain in it in spite of the anarchistic bellowings of John Temple Graves. One would naturally conclude, after reading what the whites residing in Atlanta have had to say respecting their detestation of the Negro on account of his filthy appearance, that white southern gentlemen would never condescend to hug and kiss lewd Colored women, but such is not the case, and at the present time there are many fast houses in that city filled with Colored women, running at full blast for the benefit of white men and the best business men, the leaders of the most fashionable society among what is called the superior race in that city may be observed in their half-drunken condition staggering in and out these houses day and night, and freely consorting with the Colored inmates. Others may be seen mingling with their private Colored mistresses whom they maintain in grand style. These same white gentlemen are ever ready to shout for race separation as long as they can keep the Colored women and are the first to come forward for the purpose of mobbing and lynching any Negro who dares to imitate them with the very lowest white female strumpet, for within the past three years a white woman who was one of the most notorious prostitutes in Atlanta, induced a Colored man to enter the house she was stopping in and in a very short time it was surrounded by a crowd of gentlemen who battered in its doors and windows, seized the Negro, and promptly mobbed and White Men With Blackned Faces Terrified And Assaulted Their Own Women In Atlanta And Throughout The State Of Georgia. True Story Of The Reign Of Terror Which Existed Prior To The Formation Of The Mob. As Many Whites Killed And Wounded As Blacks. (To the Editor of The Chicago Chronicle.) Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25.—The disgraceful race riots that we have had in Atlanta for the last few days are the direct fruits of reckless anti-Negro agitation, first for a year by Hoke Smith and his organ, the Journal, and later by a hair-brained marplot who edits the Atlanta News. Neither is John Temple Graves innocent. In a dignified way the has helped to stir up these fierce passions that now rock the gate city of the South. Mr. Graves assumes a grand air of fairness in his recent letter to the New York World, but in all that pageantry of high-sounding phrases he sought to place the blame upon the Negro and to excuse the lawless white man. There has been no "carnival of rapes in this community," as Mr. Graves asserts. There has been a fearful carnival of newspaper lies. Such a campaign of race hate has been conducted in Atlanta for the last year, and has particularly for the last month, as will outstrip all former campaigns of the kind. For more than a year Hoke Smith went up and down the state calling for the disfranchisement and general humiliation of the Colored people. He was determined to beat his opponent; for the office and so left no stone unturned in his effort to ingratiate himself with the poor whites by abusing the Negro. Then just before the election some of his friends sent out a number of emissaries with blackened faces to terrify white women and to further increase race hatred. The trick worked. The whites elected the man who said "down with the Negro," overwhelmingly. Then it was that the News began its campaign to start a race war. John Temple Graves, known the country over as a Negro hater, had been ousted from the News, had now started another paper that was outstripping the News in popularity and therefore the editor of the News felt lynched him for assaulting or raping a white lady. Less than two years ago, a white woman asked a Colored man who happened to be passing her on the streets of Atlanta, to give her some information concerning the direction she wanted to go. In a very polite manner the Negro informed her as best he could, and shortly after doing so he was arrested accused of assaulting a white lady. The woman declared that she was the first to speak to the Colored man, that he simply answered her questions, and that he made not the slightest attempt to harm her," but her explanations and pleadings to spare his life were in vain, and he was mobbed and lynched on the theory that he was a bad or a dangerou Negro, and that he had no right to raise his hat and speak to a white lady on the streets in broad daylight. The foregoing plainly indicates that Atlanta or the Gateway City is the hell-hole of the south! No. 50 Men With Red Faces Their Own Women In Atlanta Of Georgia. Of Terror Which existed Prior Mob. And Wounded As Blacks. 一 that he must say more hateful things than Graves about the Negro in order to keep the class of subscribers Graves had received for the paper. Therefore he launched a campaign of sensation that outdid even the Journal. Every act possible by a Negro man was called assault or attempted assault. One young white woman cut her own throat in trying to commit suicide. It was all laid to a "burly black brute." Armed posses scoured the woods for days looking for the brute. When the young woman got well she confessed that she herself had tried to commit suicide. That was mentioned very obscurely by the newspapers. Later two other white girls were brutally dealt with by some brute. Some "burly black brute" was responsible, although the deed was committed in the dark. Bloodhounds were carried to the scene. They followed a scent to a white man's house. They were called off and started again. Again they went to the white man's house. Somewhere remote from the place a suspicious looking Negro was arrested who will most likely pay for the crime with his life. About that time the News editor grew reckless. He cheered and praised mob rule and offered $1,000 reward to mob leaders who would lynch "brutal Negro imps from hell." He called for the organization of a Ku Klux Klan. Toward the end of last week reports of assaults and attempts at assaults began to multiply. And I have no doubt that some of them were genuine cases. The most brutal elements of any people can be stirred to crime by other crimes. The newspapers had poisoned the minds of a few low brutes by glaring suggestions. Saturday, the day before the night of the riot, attempts at assault followed thick and fast. One case—a case out of town—seems to have been genuine. None of the other cases could be established as attempts at rape. In one case a white woman discovered a Negro in her back yard, screamed and was knocked down by a fleeing Negro whose purpose was unknown. Another case was quite similar. A woman got in the way of a man who was trying to get out of the way as quickly as possible and was knocked down. In a third case an old lady went to close her window blinds at bedtime. In the darkness she imagined she saw a Negro lurking in the yard and screamed. The police who were near at hand discovered no one. Still this was an attempt at assault. "Extras" of the Atlanta News and the Journal telling of these assaults followed each other with amazing rapidity. Great glaring headlines a foot deep were across the papers. The people on the streets became excited. A horde of hoodlums as if by magic got together and began to beat passing Negroes. At first the police were enlookers enjoying the fun. When they saw to what (Continued on page 2.) THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Free in the name of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Brand NFT is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial freedom of the press. Load communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be held in advance. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher Enclosed to the Post Office at Chicago IL... as Second-class Matter. L. W. Washington, General Agent for The Broad Ax in the Hyde Park District. From on and after this date until further notice to the contrary, L. W. 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. DO NEGRO MEN PROTECT THEIR WOMEN? The resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Commerce at Atlanta breathed forth a spirit of charitableness peculiar to the old traditional reputation the South has enjoyed for chivalry and the high value it places upon its womanhood. One of the things agreed upon was that mobbing did not serve even as a palliative for the crime which is said to be the cause of men banding themselves like drunkards, when raging in "delirium tremens." The point most strongly emphasized by this committee was the one looking to the protection of the white women of Atlanta. To this we offer no objections when necessary. Will the Negroes of Georgia and everywhere else catch the spirit and begin to organize for the protection of their women? This is fast becoming the dominant question among the best thoughts of the best minds of those of an inquiring turn? There are many Negroes who love their homes; their wives and daughters, and would fight to the death any one who attempts to invade the sanctity of their castles or crosses the threshold of their homes for purposes not in keeping with decency and honor. But there are too many Negroes who are too glad to point out women of their race to white men and speak of them in the most unsavory terms. There are too many Negroes who will accompany white men to the domiciles of Negro women of easy virtue for the small sum of 25 cents and think by doing so they have performed a great service. There are too many Negroes who will sit or stand and let white men speak uncomplimentary of Colored women without even presenting it and it often occurs that the conversation is mutually agreeable. To reverse the situation, let a Negro ask a white man to conduct him to the domicile of a white woman of easy virtue—you will see deference depleted in the countenance of the white man. Let a Negro ask a white man questions which are too horrible to appear in print, about white women of whatever station in life—the result is likely to be a fisticic encounter—for white men will protect their women against all invaders and in this connection he will die before he will suffer a Negro to destroy his racial integrity. The Negro must learn that the race can not rise higher than its women and they can not stand for virtue and no noble womanhood as long as Negro men will stand and see them suffer indignities without even raising a protest. Give us a race of men who will protect their women—The World, Indianapolis, Ind. THE FALL AND WINTER OPENING OF SANDY W. TRICE & CO. Announce their fall and winter opening. They have a complete line of ladies' and gentlemen's furnishings. Everything in the line of wearing apparel. You are invited to come and inspect our stock before purchasing. Come and give us a call. We will be glad to show you our line of goods. We want you to see that this Colored store is selling the same quality of goods that the Big Down Town stores sell at the same prices. It will cost you nothing to look at them and "see THREE RAPE CASES WERE PURE INVENTIONS—TWO WHITE WOMEN LEFT THEIR BRUTAL HUSBANDS AND WENT TO LIVE WITH COLORED MEN. By Parker H. Sercombe, Managing Editor of "To Morrow" Magazine. If humanity's brutal treatment of gro, for well I know that the same the weak, unprotected and impover- brutal system of life that has base ished always and everywhere else our white race has also destroyed the were not sufficient to stamp our civ- natural spontaneous character of the illization thus far a failure, and our colored man; in other words, ever brutalization under the modern sys- with the advantage of a briefer Christem complete, surely a true story of tian training he has not been able the Atlanta race riots (a story that to withstand its brutalizing influence will never be told by the white folks) Wherever the Negro has been at would stand as evidence of our total tacked the one charge which the depravity sure and complete. whites have made has invariably I do not refer here to the orthodox total depravity based on the idea that primitive man came into the world in a whirlwind of villany, but I refer to the competitive system of life under which we are living where- PARKER H. SERCOMBE. Managing Editor of "To-Morrow" Magazine and one of the Boldest and Most Fearless Writers in this Country. in like tigers in a jungle we are kept in constant warfare with each other and while still theoretically boasting that we have risen above the plane of animalism, by a constant exercise our power over others, we descend to depth of deceit and utter abandon entirely impossible to reconsicle with our civilization and institutions. Every one familiar with the facts in Atlanta knows that this war against the blacks in Atlanta was maliciously planned and fomented for weeks and months prior to the outbreak and that at least three of the reports of attacks on white women by Negroes on the day of the outbreak were pure inventions timed in order to give impetus to the movement by those to whose interest it was to break down Negro prestige. Besides the evidence that three of the reported attacks on white women were pure inventions, I have it on good authority that the other two cases where white women had been cohabiting with Negroes for a considerable period, the blacks in both cases having gained the regard of these women through the latter having become disgusted with their drunken, lazy and brutal white husbands whom they abandoned. I am in no sense pleading the cause nor extenuating the crimes of the Neing is believing." See what we have. If our prices do not compare with the down town stores we do not ask you to purchase. Please give us a trial. Sandy W. Trice and Co., 2918 State St., Chicago. J. Max Barber, Editor of The Voice of The Negro Forced to Leave Atlanta for Writing Letters to The New York World and The Chicago Chronicle on the True Situation in That City. While the mobbing and lynching of innocent and "law abiding Colored men and women was at its height in Atlanta, and while the wildest kind of reports were being sent out thick and fast from that city as to the number of white women who had been assaulted by "Burly Black Brutes," the New York World wired J. Max Barber, editor of The Voice of The Negro, which is by far the best magazine published in the interest of the Afo-American race, to wire it a letter setting forth the true situation of affairs in Atlanta. He complied to its request and a few days later he wrote an article for the Chicago Chronicle which appears in another column of this paper. The New York World was the first to reach Atlanta, containing Mr. Barber's letter, and it threw the lying newspaper men into a panic, and they rushed to the telegraph office to ascertain what Colored man had sent out the report, and as the operators are under oath, they were forced to tell, and Col. English, president of the Fourth National Bank, owner of The Atlanta News and one of the police commissioners, sent for Mr. Barber and when he appeared before him he was informed that "he had been charged with sending the report to the New York World, but he did not think he was guilty of doing such a trick, and in order to save his life or his bacon, he should write a statement for all the meners in Atlanta gro, for well I know that the same brutal system of life that has based our white race has also destroyed the natural spontaneous character of the colored man; in other words, even with the advantage of a briefer Christian training he has not been able to withstand its brutalizing influence. Wherever the Negro has been attacked the one charge which the whites have made has invariably been the assaulting of white women, and statistics in every state of the Union, north and south, will show that where one white woman is debauched by a Negro fifty Negro women are debauched by white men and among the countless thousands of yellow Negroes in the United States there are twenty who had white fathers to one whose father was black. To those who understand the psychology of a mob the reports from Atlanta present a most convincing picture of the contemptible hypocrisy of those in authority. In the face of the stories of inoffensive Negroes at work and passing through the street on errands being shot down like gophers and the published record of three dozen Negroes and only two white men being killed, the soldiers with wagons are sent into perfectly quiet Negro districts where there has been no disturbance whatever, houses are searched, guns and ammunition are taken from their owners and placed in wagons, and surveillance placed over, not the aggressors, but over those who have endured all the abuse. We do not hear that the authorities visited the residences of the whites and disarmed them, notwithstanding that it was they who did all the killing. It is surely a tribute to the advancing prowess of the Negro if in three or four generations of competition with the whites he can make himself so felt and feared that the former not satisfied with a fair competition, find it necessary through bluster, defamation, and invention to destroy his prestige, weaken his stamina and prosecute him into subservience and by other unfair means lessen his power to compete in the fields of politics, trade, and in the affairs of love and ex. Even as those in authority do not tell the truth about the Cuban insurrection, even as those who profit by the existence of the United States Indian Bureau, never will make an honest representation of the true condition of affairs, so the reports from Atlanta sent out by white newspaper correspondents will be shaped to the interest not of the oppressed but of the aggressors with the result that millions of readers will be fooled except they are among the congno-scenti who read "To-Morrow Magazine." denying that he was the author of the article and go before the grand jury and make a similar statement; that he would be in danger of losing his life or that he would be indicted and sent to the penitentiary. And as Mr. Barber did not feel like stultifying himself and knowing full well the methods which they employ in the South to rob Colored men of their property, and railroad them to the penitentiary, he decided to accept Col. English's advice and leave Atlanta for good and Mr. Barber arrived in this city Wednesday morning, and is stopping at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bentley, 354 E. 41st street, and in the future The Voice of The Negro will be published in Chicago. J. MAX BARBER'S LETTER TO THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE ON THE ATLANTA SITUATION (Concluded from Page 1.) lengths the mob was going they tried to check it but it was too late. The snarling rifraff had smelled blood and like jungle tigers would have more of it. When all the Colored people in the heart of the town were beaten and killed the mobs turned to the barber shops and restaurants where Negroes worked. Nobody was spared, not even the bootblacks. It was far in the morning before the mob was dispersed and then only by state troops. Although the papers did not so report, it is true that almost as many whites were killed as blacks and quite as many were wounded and had their wounds dressed at the hospitals. The city is now having trouble with the Colored people and for good reasons. The Colored people armed themselves and prepared for further trouble. When mobs now venture in Negro settlements they are given a dose of lead. If a fight ensues the soldiers and police come, disarm and arrest the Negroes and leave the whites untouched. A few officers of the law have met death at the hands of the Negroes because of this fact. Officers do not seem to know that this is a situation where lawbreakers, white and black, create trouble. This morning a company of representative black men met some of the representative whites of the city in the Chamber of Commerce and held a conference. The whites are now as much terrified as the blacks. They were assured that if they would stand by the law-abiding blacks this class would see to it that the blacks would cease firing upon the whites on the outsirts. The blacks were assured that all law-abiding citizens would be protected. Consequently things look a little better to-night. But this whole trouble can be laid at the door of one or two reckless agitators and among them is a daily newspaper editor. Be it said to the credit of this community that he has been roundly rebuked for his sensationalism by expressions of disapproval from the white business men, the ministers, the grand jury and the mayor of the city. Many decent Colored people are leaving Atlan never to return. The above description of the trope condition of affairs, which existed in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia shows to what extent the whites of the South will go to and what damnable and reprehensible methods they are willing to resort to in order to place the Negro in an unfavorable light, before the civilized world. J. Max Barber, editor of The Voice of the Negro, is the name of the Colored gentleman who penned this article to The Chronicle. CHIPS Mrs. Martha Root, 4320 Evans avenue is on the sick list. Alderman William E. Dever will be elected as one of the municipal judges. Miss Carrie Stewart, 4715 Dearborn street, is confined to her home, sick. Mr. Geo. Lee, 4818 Wabash avenue, after a three-week's trip in the West returned to the city. Dr. P. M. Johnson, of Toledo, Ohio, is spending a two-weeks' visit in this city stopping at 3211 Wabash avenue. Mr. J. H. Williams, 2316 Dearborn street, who has been confined to his bed for the past three weeks is able to be out again. Mrs. Reeder, 351 Thirty-first street, left the city Friday to spend the winter months in Arizona to regain her health. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. King 613 Park avenue entertained a small number of friends at cards Wednesday evening, Oct. 3rd. Mr. Fred Johnson, of Detroit, Mich.. is visiting the city on pleasure and business combined, stopping at 2832 Wabash avenue. Mr. Will Brent, clerk in the Post Office is on a month's furlow. He will spend most of his time in Quincy, Ill, his home town. Prof. W. Kemper Harreld, 6626 Champlain Ave., continues to lie, and he will not come up with the right thing and pay us that five spot. It is rumored around the City Hall, that Alderman Mike Kenna, the First ward statesman may run for mayor of Chicago in the spring of 1907. Miss Nannie Reed after an absence from the city of over a year is again here renewing old acquaintances, stopping at 2518 State street Mr. James Brown, of New York city spent last week in this city en route to Denver, Colo. where he will spend the winter for his health. Mrs. Rose Waters Pope, of St. Paul, is spending a pleasant visit in this city, the guest of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Pope, 3242 Forest avenue. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Jefferson have moved their residence from 3153 State street into their own beautiful flat building 4314 Forrestville avenue. Justice Theo. C. Mayer, proposes to put up a stiff fight in his race for Municipal judge and it looks as though he would be an easy winner. Isaac B. Williams (white) of Columbus, O., and Elizabeth Fister, a Colored woman of Cincinnati, were married in Washington, D. C. last Saturday. Harry R. Gibbons, the regular Democratic candidate for Sheriff of Cook county seems to be going some, and he will run headquarters of his own either in the Tacoma Building, or the Brevoort House, where he will be prepared to give the right tip on his candidacy and hand out new dope to those who seem to be glad to march under his banner. "Some people seem to think that they ought to apologize when you do them an injury." Booker T. seems to think the Negro race should apologize for living. Booker T. Washington, Jr., attending school at Rowley, Mass., went with companions Monday to Newburyport and then disappeared. No trace has been found. Mrs. James E. Thompson 69 East Twenty-second st., who has been considerably under the weather for the past month is able to be out again among her many friends. Dr. Geo. Beddo, the efficient veterinary dentist has just closed a contract with Marshall Field & Company to care for all the firms horses which number over fifteen hundred. The Liberty Pleasure Club, will give its third annual complimentary ball, Coliseum Annex, Monday evening October 15th. Music by the Eighth Resignment Orchestra. Miss Dianato Hackley returned home after an extensive visit to her brother in Jersey City and friends in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlantic City and Philadelphia. J. E. Webb, who has charge of the Country Club, Evanston, Ill., and one of its property holders and substantial citizens, is a lover of his race and a firm supporter of The Broad Ax. Mr. Frank Hamilton, who has been in the employment of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at Salt Lake City, is spending a few weeks in the city stopping at the Keystone Hotel. Miss Myrtle Hart, of Indianapolis, will reside in Chicago during the coming fall and winter. On Oct. 22M she will appear in an all star concert under the management of Mr. Julius N. Avendorf. Wesley Barley, the wide-awake Afro-American, architect, 1732 Michigan avenue side entrance, has completed plans for the improvement of the home of Mr. Tyler, 7112 Langley avenue. Mr. Will Allen of Portland, Ore., passed through the city Saturday, bearing the body of his younger brother Earnest Allen, who fell from a window and killed himself. Burial will take place in Nashville, Tenn. Invitations to the twenty-fifth marriage anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. J. Chavis 3560 Vernon avenue have been issued to their many friends for Tuesday evening, Oct. 16th, from seven to eleven p. m. Ernst Hummel, who is making a winning race for treasurer of Cook county has opened up campaign headquarters in room A. 6, Brevoort House where he will each and every day meet and confer with his friends and supporters. The funeral services over the remains of young Frederick Gray, who was shot by his employee last week, were held at Bethel Church Sunday afternoon. Rev. A. J. Carey assisted by the members of Great Lakes Lodge of Elks officiating. A large crowd attended; interment, Oak-woods. Justice John K. Prindiville, has never displayed his race prejudice against Colored people, since he began to sit in judgment on their cases, at the Harrison street Police Station, and on November 6th many Afro-Americans will record their votes in favor of his election as one of the new judges of the Municipal Court. United States Senator Thomas C. Platt, who assisted to rob life insurance companies and their policy holders out of vast sums of money, which he claims he expended to help to elect Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States in 1904, and his young fresh wife have busted up. The senator, who is too old to be monkeying with women who are full of life or passion, claims that Mrs. Platt and her handsome coachman, J. H. Hedges, have been loving and kissing each other and slipping off in the dark and doing other things which were distasteful to him. ExMayor Carter H. Harrison, returned to the city the first of the week from his summer home in Huron Mountain, Mich., and for the winter he will hang out with Mrs. Harrison, and the young Harrisons at the Virginia Hotel, as he is trimming his salts to occupy his old quarters in the City Hall after the next spring election. He will not chase off after false gods, but he will remain with the crowd of old time politicians, pass up his friends on the Independence League ticket and whoop it up for the regular Democratic ticket. WOMAN AND FASHION For Schoolgirls. A very trig little outfit for the schoolgirl is shown here, when as well suited to home construction. The coat may be made of brown broadcloth or chevet, with a collar of velvet in a darker shade. The buttons, which close in and trim the sleeves, should be of the cloth or velvet. The skirt is a straight gathered one, the most practical style T ATTRACTIVE COSTUME FOR GIRLS. for general wear. The bretelles are of the material of the skirt and intended to be worn over a shirt waist of another material. They fasten on to the belt in front and back, and, being all in one piece, they do not slip off the shoulder. The dress is a becoming one and very sensible. The skirt should be untrimmed, unless for a row of braid, velvet ribbon or a fold of the material about the edge, while the bretelles may be adorned similarly. Fancy Belts. Fancy belts are made of soft leather or of silk. Those of plain kid are sometimes shaped at the back or or namented with tiny gilt buttons, the buckle or clasp being also of gilt Belts of silk webbing, studded with steel beads, are closed with jeweled buckles and slides and are equally smart in black, white and colored. Japanese leather is greatly favored and Pompadour and Dresden silks produce charming results. Brains All over the civilized world there is a strong demand for brains that are a little above the average in quantity for purposes of dissection. Scientists have for the most part nothing better to dissect than the brains of paupers and lunatics. These, however, leave much to be desired, and it is to the interest of the human family that the brains of cultured and learned people should be placed at their disposal. A certain number of such brains are forthcoming. In the great majority of cases they are bequeathed by their respective owners.—New York Tribune. Sirius and the Sun. A new estimate of the comparative amount of light received on the earth from the sun and from the brightest (apparent) fixed star in the heavens, Sirius, has been made by Mr. Ceraski of the Astronomical observatory of Moscow. The sun, according to his estimate, sends us about 17,000,000,000 times as much light as Sirius does. But this of course is a matter governed by relative distance, so that if the earth were halfway between Sirius and the sun Sirius would appear between sixteen and seventeen times as bright as the sun. 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. EMANUEL'S WONDERFUL Foot Lotion—Ointment cures corn and perspiratinol. Sore feet, etc. Ask the druggist, ointment 50 cents, per box. Lotion per bottle 50 cents. TWO FURNISHED ROOMS TO RENT Two nicely furnished rooms to rent gas and bath, first flat, 5742 Grove ave. SPECIAL NOTICE. The story of the origin and the achievements Benjamin Banneker, by Col. Clarke Irvine will not appear until the next issue of The Broad Ax. New system of dressmaking taught at Institutional Church, $10.00. Ten dollars for the entire course—to begin the first of September. Se ar GHORT STORIES “NEW SHORT STORIES sorprised President Cleveland, puring the second Cleveland admin- jstration Secretary of State Gresham called at the White House, accompa- ied by @ young man who bad been ap- polnted consul at Triest om the recom- mendation of the secretary. The ap- pointee had made a visit to the capitol to thank the president in person for {he honor and to Inform him that he desired to decline the appointment. He hed so informed the secretary of state, eho said to him, “You must make {nown your declination to the presi- gent, and I will take you over to the ‘White House.” ‘When the secretary presented the young man, to the president the ap- pointee thanked the president and tendered his resignation. “fr, Secretary,” said the president, sapig is quite unusual. I don’t know ‘a aa| AA ae | l | We when such an incident has come to my notice. Have you any other candidates like this?” The secretary said he had no expla- nation to make, as the young man bad simply said be did not wish to accept. “Young man,” said the president, ad- dressing the secretary's friend, “I ac- cept your resignation as consul to Triest and appoint you consul general to St. Petersburg.” The announcement staggered the ‘young man and the secretary as well. “Mr. President,” said the secretary, “this gentleman did not expect another tender after his declination of your first.” “I don't suppose be did,” the presi- dent replied, “and that is why I make the second appointment. I want to re- tum the surprise.” ‘The second tender, however, was de- cetined. A few years afterward, when Cleve- land was in private life, the man whom he had twice honored met him at a dinner in New York. When the repast was over and the guests were being presented to the ex-president, the younz man in question reminded Cleve- land that he had honored him with an appointment. “How did you like the place?” asked Mr. Cleveland. “I did not accept,” was the reply, “and then you gave me a second ap- pointment.” “Ah, and how did you like that?” “T also declined, Mr. President,” was the reply. “Let ‘me shake your hand again,” said Cleveland. “I have a recollection ‘of some Democrats who declined once, but I do not recall just now that any one ever did it twice.”"—New York ‘Tribune. His Votes Were Elsewhere. During the canvass of his state in 1899 to gather votes enough to send him to the lower house of congress Nicholas Longworth went to the west- era end of his county to become ac- quainted and to capture votes. Now, the town of ‘Harrison is partly in In- Giana and partly in Ohio, the center of the main thoroughfare being the divid- ing line. Going to a store, Mr. Long- Worth made himself very agreeable with the proprietor, bought cigars for the crowd, jollied every one and then asked if they were all going to vote for him. ‘There was a long, loud laugh, snd when it was over the Obloan ask- “What is so funny?” “Ob, nothing,” remarked the proprie- tor, “except that you are on the Indl- ua side of the street. Your Ohio vot- ¢rs are across the way.” Mr. Longworth was heard to mum- bie a stricture on towns that are on the dividing line, at the same time making & quick jump back into Ohlo—Pitts- burg Press. A Deedhesd. Francis Wilson was talking at the Players’ club about the ignorance of dramatic Iterature that Is too preva- lent in America, according to a writer in the Springfield (Mo.) Republican. “Why,” sald Mr. Wilson, “ cour Dany was playing “She Stoops to Com ver’ in a small western town last win- ter when 2 man without any money, Wishing to see the show, stepped up to the box office and said: “Pass me in, please.’ “The box office man gave s loud, harsh laugh. “Pass you in? What for? be asked. “The applicant drew himself up and ‘Suswered haughtily: “‘What for? Why, because I am Oliver Goldsmith, author of the play.” “Ob, I beg your pardon, sir,’ Te piled the other in 2 shocked voice as be frriedly wrote out an onder for @ HUMOR OF THE HOUR All About a Book. “Will you please take that book out of this seat?” “What for?" “Id like to sit down here.” “Plenty of other seats in this car, are there not?” “Yes, sir, but this happens to be the one I want.” “Just 80.” @ause.) “Will you take that book out of this seat?” “No, sir.” “You will not?” “I will not” “I think it's hoggish for a man to pile his baggage on the seat alongside of him.” (Another pause.) “Once more, will you take that book ‘out of this seat?” “Once more, sir, no.” “Then I'll throw it out of the win- dow.” “I advise you not to do It.” “Sor” “Yes; you might get yourself into trouble.” By way of reply the irate passenger Picked up the offending book and hur!- ed it through the open window. “Now, sir,” he demanded, “what are you going to do about it?” “Nothing. The book isn't mine.” “Whose is it?” “I think it belongs to that husky Jooking fellow in the other end of the car, who seems to be coming back to look for It.”—Chicago Tribune. Am Elucidation. “Ab,” sighed the poet, “she comes and goes, uncertain, evanescent; now appearing, now vanishing; now charm- ing us with her wiles and ways and casting over our hearts the spell of her Presence, luring us and leading us on to believe that she is ours forever; again hastening from us just when our clasp grows warm, just when we have come to know the dulcet sweetness of her voice; as fickle as a shadow, as”— “What In the world Is he ‘talking about?” asked the large lady with the purple beads in the rear seat. “A cook, I think,” offered the other large lady with the turquoise rings and the new lorgnette.—Judge. => B i LY a Ge sy ate eo Ws oj i 1 7 A> a ex, Nile > t a R m b/ \2 4) : Ry 3 “Old Gotrox is a distant relative of yours, isn't he?” “Yes; and the richer he becomes the more distant he {s.”—Brooklyn Life. ore, | Delighted Client—I understand you have won damages for me? Attorney—Yes, sir; $10. Delighted Client—Good! What are your charges? ‘Attorney—In view of the small dam- ages awarded I will reduce my fee to $50.—Oblo State Journal. Py aan It was just like Graddison. He met Carver running for the train or some- thing. “are you in a hurry?” asked Graddison. “Not at all,” replied Carver. “In that case,” said Graddison, “I ‘won't stop you.”—Boston Transcript. | Modesty. “You ought to be ashamed to eat & meal you haven't earned.” “Lady,” said Plodding Pete, “wit food at its present price it "ud be im- possible fur my bumble efforts to earn de kind of 2 meal my refined tastes demand.”—Washington Star. ‘Nateral Query. “Hie was talked about a great deal at one time—mixed up in politics, you know.” “Yes?” “Yes, but he’s out now.” “Indeed? Break jail or pardoned?"— Philadelphia Press. Raral Engiand. ‘Traveler—Can you tell me, my man, where the Roman camp is about here? Bustic—Naw, sir; I've heerd tell as there used to be e Roman camp about Sieg at semen pte ay See ae By the Sad Sen, Bame old summer ‘As of yore, Same old breakers ‘On the shore. Bame old music ‘By the band, Game old bathers ‘On the sand, Bame mosquitoes, ‘Bame old bites, ame old people ‘Out o nights; ‘Candy, popcorn. ‘Pressed in slabs; ‘Lemonade and ‘Boft shelled crabs: Game old flavors In the alr; Bame old sameness ‘Drerywhere “Washington 8 CHOICE MISCELLANY pS eres rae What is stated to be the most elab- orate bedstead ever produced in Bir mingham has just been turned out to the order of an Indian rajab. ‘The ‘style is what is known as the crown canopy and is of the best brass throughout. It stands to the height of fifteen fect, is eight feet long and six feet wide and will cost close upon four figures. Surmounting each of the up- Tight pillars Is bird with open wings, and projecting from the sides are brackets carrying bronze figures sym- bolical of the seasons. Over the head of the bed Is bronze figure bearing a white metal circular plaque with em- bossed portraits of the king and queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Edward of Wales. On another plaque of bronzed brass are photo- graphs of Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Glad- Stone, Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, ‘Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain. At the foot of the bed are a clock and a barometer and beneath them a bronze Inscription plate bearing the title of the potentate for whom and under whose special instructions the bedstead has been designed and made.—Dundee Advertiser. i tii A Chinese cook in one of the homes across the bay from San Francisco was terribly worried about bis cousins who were in the burning town. Sing knew that Chinatown had been de- stroyed. He had tried to go across to rescue his relatives, but nobody was al- lowed to land. He went about bis duties with lag- ging footsteps and mournful face. For two days he ate nothing, and the sym- Pathy of the entire family was extend- ed to him in his trouble. At last he appeared one morning at breakfast time with a face wreathed in smiles. “Me found cousmis,” he announced Joytully. ‘On being questioned he said that they were lodged in the two rooms which he rented for his own use in the lower part of the town. They were all weil and he was “velly happy.” He took forty pounds of rice to them that they might not be hungry. “But, Sing, how many cousins have you? Forty pounds seems a great deal.” He smiled his charming oriental smile and spread his hands, “Me eighty cousins.” ‘aceen: iemaienn it Giuaiens Ranches in Mexico are of no mean size. Ex-Governor Terrazas of Chibua- hua has 17,000,000 acres. The Zuloaga family is said to hold 5,000,000. Prop- erties of 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 acres are not uncommon. Among the Ameri- cans who have large ranches may be mentioned Fleming & Ross, the River- side Cattle company, with 2,000,000 acres and a fine herd of Herefords; Phoebe Hearst of California, who has a magnificent place west of Minaca; the Millers and the three Mormon col- onies. Gordon, Ironsides & Ferris, a Canadian company, has 1,000,000 acres; Lord Beresford, a relative of the adm!- ral, has a large ranch, where he raises fine horses; another Englishman nam- ed Irmstead owns a large property. Smaller places of from 40,000 acres up- ward are numerous. The price of land now runs from 50 to 75 cents gold per acre, with a strong tendency to rise— Modern Mexico. Picture Induces Hay Fever. In Paris there is just now proceeding & discussion on hay fever, concerning ‘whic an amusing instance of the ca- pricious nature of the infection is re- lated. A lady was quite proof against catching the sneezings of hay fever from either hay or any other flower or plant except one, The mere sight of a rose used to set her sneezing violently. Knowing her weakness, she carefully avoided these flowers, But one day she carelessly stopped before a still Ife painting representing a basket of roses. Almost instantly she was seized with a sneezing fit Clearly imagina- tion has its part in the case—London Globe. English Remarks on Ice. ‘The great fault which Americans have to find with England when they come over here for a visit in the sum- mer Is the absence of ice. In the states fce is a cult. Wherever the traveler may be, even if he is in the backwoods, he finds ice. But in England the thing is looked upon as an almost unobtain- able luxury. “Ob no, sir,” says the English purveyor of drink with an amused smile, “we've got no ice. But you will find it nice and cool.” Nice and cool means that an egg would not actually boll in it. No wonder Ameri- cans say that England “cuts no ice.”— London Globe. ‘Decline of Beer Driakias. Local petriots in Munich are dejected at the latest statistics concerning the consumption of thelr famous beer within their own borders. Only a few years ago they proudly boasted that the annual consumption per head of the population was 115 gallons. This has now sunk to the mere bagatelle of sixty-five gallons. The shrinkage is at- tributed to the gradual spread of tem- perance principles, to the antibeer prop- ‘aganda in public schools and to the fact that employers of labor are ceas ing to give free beer to their work peo- ple—London Telegraph. Eaforcing = Sanitary Ordinance. ‘The other day the subdivisional mag- istrate of Godda Sonthal pergunnes ‘whipped respectable Marwari gea- tieman for allowing filthy water te accumulate in front of his bouse—La hore Tribune. Waiters Wanted. We are constantly in need cf first- class waiters at the Windermere Ho- tel, a high-class family hotel in Hyde Park. Call Head Walter, Phone 508, Hyde Park. A Good Home for Children. Wanted children, either White or Colored to board and room, they will receive the care of a good mother; charges reasonable. Mrs. L. Coleman, 2839 Armour Ave, 2d fiat. AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. ‘The Broad Ax desires to engage Agents and regular Correspondents im 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, 601) Armour avenue, Chicage @uentet Anetumeement From on and after this date all an- Rouncements of entertainments, etc, for which an admission ts 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 mat. ter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week In tended for publication. This rule wil! also apply to ali personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news mat. ter must reach us either on Wednes day evening or early Thursday morn- Ing in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week It is written, Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communt- cations to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, THE REAL COLONEL SELLERS ee eee ae ee ‘Twain Knew Him. In the opening chapter of his “Auto- Diography,” printeo in the first fort- nightly number of the North American Review, Mark Twain ils thus of the original Colonel Sellers: Many persons regarded “olonel Sel- Jers as a fiction, an invention, an ex- travagant impossibility, and did me the honor to call him a “creation,” but they were mistaken. I merely put him on paper as he was. He was not a per- ‘son who could be exaggerated. The in- eldents which looked most extrava- gant, both in the book and on the stage, were not inventions of mine, but were facts of his life, and I was pres- ent when they were developed. John T. Raymond's audiences used to come near to dying with laughter over the turnip eating scene; -but, ex- travagant as the scene was, it was faithful to the facts in all its absurd details. The thing happened in Lamp- ton’s own house, an iI was present. In fact, I was myself the guest who ate the turnips. In the hands of a great actor that piteous scene would have immed any manly spectator's eyes with tears and racked his ribs apart with laughter at the same time. But Raymond was great in humorous por- trayal only. In that he was superb, he was wonderful—in a word, great. In all things else he was a pygmy of the pygmies, || ‘The real Colonel Sellers as I knew him in James Lampton was a pathetic ‘and beautiful spirit, a manly man, a ‘straight and bonorable man, a man ‘wits a big, fgolish, unselfish heart in ‘his bosom, a man born to be loved, and he was loved by all his friends and by his family worshiped. It is the right word. To them he was but little less than a god. The real Colonel Sellers was never on the stage. Only half of im was there. Raymond could not play the other half of him. It was above his level. There was only one man who could have played the whole of Colonel Sellers, and that was Frank Mayo. James Lampton floated all-his days in a tinted mist of magnificent dreams and died at last without seeing one of them realized. I saw him last In 1834, when it had been twenty-six years since I ate the basin of raw turnips and washed them down with a bucket of water in his house. He was become old ard white headed, but he entered to me in the same old bfeezy way of his earlier life, and he was all there yet—not a detail wanting. The happy light in his eye, the abounding hope in his beart, the persuasive tongue, the miracle breeding _imagination—they were all there, and before I could turn around he was polishing up his Alad- din's lamp and fiashing the secret riches of the world before me. Actress’ Arm as = Relic. “This is the arm of Mme. Allcoyne, the celebrated actress, burned in the great Paris bazaar fire. It was ampu- tated and presented to Dr. Baker of Worthing after the inquiry held in Paris.” fo runs the notice that hangs be ueath a grewsome relic in the saloon Der of the Black Bull at Whetstone, ‘Middlesex. Charred and mummified, tt ls nailed to the wall within reach of ‘any one and occupies the place of bon- or among such monstrosities as a two headed kitten and a double bodied dog. ‘The name, “Mme. Alicoyne,” is not found in the records of the terrible isaster of May, 1807, and another story has it that the arm was removed from the boty of an actress after the fire at the Opera Comique in Paris in May, 188T—Lendon Mail. - American Brick Co. - MANUFATURERS OF Gommor and Sewer Brick 45th and Robey Sts. | 2S repeat of Summer Yards.....ccecceccceccereeseess tonenes SOOO per daw Telephone Yards 128. Jas. J. McCormiek, SAMPLE ROOM. WINES, LIQUORS AND O1OAMB (068 SOUTH HALSTED STREET med John J. Duin ohn J. Dunn | wives HCOALS sacri WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave: a Yana BSE RLS AMS AE CHICAGO Dr. John E. Shaw Veterinary Surgeon Office, Hospital and Dog Kennels 5807 WENTWORTH AVENUE Phone Wentworth 350 ‘CHICAGO eae asd te esilig a pean COAI, J. H. COLEWAN & CO, Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. Phone Oakland 1328 F. A. Rawlins ‘The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure, 4834 State St.. CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS: MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 000000 C900 * 419-36TH STREET Soe * CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 3254 THE ELITE BUFERT FINE AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO Pool and Cigars and Billiards Tobaccos WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTENAC CLUB UP STAIRS 239 E. 22ND ST. Tel. Calumet 2940 CHICAGO 4 es ie OTe merece Ease eners DES Sree Lanouist&lllsleyCo. General Contractors TME BROAD AX. te for sale at the following- news stande: The Afro-American News Office 3104 Btate Street. ©. S. Smith News stand, and Barber ‘Shop 3700 Dearborn st. A. F. Tervalon, 124 W. Sist street Cigar Store and News Stand. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. Sist street. Richard Pina, 4826 State street. 7. B Half Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th 8t. W. 8, Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, Cigars, tobacco and aews stand. W. 3. Williams, Tonsorlal Parlor, 399 Zlst ot J. R. Peters Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. ‘Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street, Mrs. Kathyerine Hamlet, soa8 Ar- mour Ave., cigars, tobacco, fancy gro- ceries 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. Gigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 2636% State street. B. Davia, cigars, tobacco, and con- fectionery, 3532 State st. Whiteley Bros. 2724 State St, Gent's furnishings and new stand. The Stationery, 2970 State strest. Cigars, Tobacco and News stand. The Afro-American News Co., 439 W. 35th St, New York City, N. ¥. ‘The Informer News Co. 188 Ran- dolph St, Detroit, Mich. News items and advertisements ieft at these places wil find their way into the columns of The Breed Ax => We t i Fa —<f \ WAITERS AND COOKS Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found by experience that they are the most satisfactory and econo mical goods on the market. Our Complete Catalogue— @ correct guide to proper dress in the Dining Room, Kitchen, or Bar will be sent free om application alice ‘Marcas Ruben (Inc. ), 390 Stats St., Chicage READY FOR THE PRESS - CHICAGO CAVE DWELLERS Not for Preachers erage ee Se AStory of the Underworld and the Overworld "ie hers” Magazine, Chicago. |, Only a limited edition of see nearae peltand cotamaticaly nom orders in wil got the low Nori, which goes to Mx BE Secombe. Address “10 CENTS THE COPY. $1 A YEAR. SELECTIONS OCEAN AVALANCHES Some of the Great Engulfing Waves of the Glutton Sea. There is one consolation about the two great earthquakes which destroyed respectively the two great cities of San Francisco and Valparaiso, and that is that they raised no seismic waves to speak of. This was because the earth tremors were wholly on land and did not extend beneath the bed of the ocean. It is when this latter eventually happens that these terrible waves are created, causing widespread havoc. For instance, it was this kind of ocean avalanche that engulfed Lisbon, with 50,000 of its inhabitants, in 1755, and in 1883 a submarine earthquake started in the straits of Sunda a so called "tidal" (seismic), wave that traveled twice around the globe and drowned 35,000 people. In 1891 again a submarine earthquake threw up a wall of water seventy feet high and more than 300 miles in length, which overwhelmed the greater portion of the Niphon islands. On this occasion 84,000 houses were swept away and 10,000 people lost their lives. Worse still was a huge wave which in 1898 wiped out of existence in a few minutes the cities of Arequipa, Iquique, Tacua and Chencha, drowning 25,000 persons and destroying property worth £80,000,000. The waters of the Pacific first retreated nearly half a mile, then rushed forward with irresistible force, so that great ships were carried far inland and there left high and dry for future generations to wonder at. At Port Royal, Jamaica, again, many houses were engulfed forty fathoms deep, with above 3,000 of their inhabitants, while about the same time an earthquake made wave so completely demolished Catania, in Sicily, that of the town and its 18,000 inhabitants not a trace remained. — Pearson's Weekly. How Would You Like This Laundry? Prices are high in South Africa, and bills for laundry are frequently exorbitant. Persian, Kaffir and Cape women do the work after a fashion. "One usually pays $5 per month a head," says a woman correspondent, "and the woman who washes for you takes everything for that, but is apt to vanish for a month on end with your clothes. You seek and find her after infinite difficulty and discover her in the bosom of her family, her husband and sons arrayed in the clothes of your mankind, if you have any, and her daughter and herself in yours. I walked in on my laundress one morning after seeking her ten days and found her in my best white silk tea gown, squatting on the earth cooking herself a meal, while her daughter sat near in my valenciennes lace petticoat and tea jacket peeling potatoes."—Chicago News. Absinth Bonbons "Look out for absinth in bonbons," says a large candy dealer. "They are on the market, and they are loaded. I doubt if any are on sale as yet in Philadelphia, but they have been offered to us, and I have seen samples of them. I have no doubt they will soon be seen here. It's likely that their stay will be short, however, for the authorities and the temperance people will surely be after them. Four of the kind of bonbons that were sent to us would make a pretty stiff drink of absinth, and an innocent customer might get laud out cold before he knew it. Those sent to us were from Europe, where, I understand, their manufacture has resulted from certain restrictive legislation concerning the sale of alcohol."—Philadelphia Record. Remembering Niagara. If you didn't buy a red glass tumbler, with your name written on it in Spencerian characters while you wait, you'd forget all about ever having been to Niagara. As it is, when people ask you, "Have you seen the falls?" you inquire: "Niagara falls? Niagara falls? Name sounds familiar somehow. Mother, were we ever at the falls?" And she answers: "Why, yes, dear. Don't you remember? You got that red glass cup there." And you say: "Oh, yes, yes, yes! Why, certainly. Very pretty view there, as I recall it" I stick up for souvenirs—Eugene Wood in McClure's. City Koines. We hope it is true, as reported, that the antinolise movement is making headway in other cities. It certainly is not doing that in Chicago. In this town the notion always has obtained that noise is indispensable to activity and that the noisiest man must necessarily be the most active one. It is going to take a long time to eradicate this fallacy. In the meantime the interior of the loop is about as restful a place as a great battlefield. It is a perfect hell of noises, most of them absolutely wanton and unnecessary—Chicago Chronicle. War of the Future. It cannot be long before the torpedo controlled and directed from a dgpot ship becomes an actual factor in modern warfare. The advantages of such an arrangement are so obvious that progress in this direction will be watched with the greatest interest. A machine made war, governed as all wares are simply by the question of cost, is a consummation devoutly to be wished.—Engineering Times FACTS IN FEW LINES Female characters were first played by women in 1602. During the reign of Edward the Confessor of England the practice of employing surnames began. Weaving cotton in Africa is slow and difficult work. A skilled workman can weave about three yards a day. Bokharn, the most populous part of Turkestan, is gradually being changed into a desert by the incursions of the sand dunes. An official return just issued by the Japanese government gives the wealth of Japan at the end of 1904 as $6,510,403,000, or $145 per head. The first arctic expedition was made by Corte Real, a Portuguese, in the year 1500. This was fifty-three years before that under Sir Hugh Willoughby. According to Borough President Coler, Brooklyn in a few months will receive an addition to its water supply of 50,000,000 gallons a day from artesian wells. The purest breed of Arab horses are the Kochlian, whose geneology has been preserved for 2,000 years. They are said to be derived from King Solomon's stables. The estimated number of cantaloupes shipped from the famous Rocky Ford district in Colorado last season is 12,000,000. Seven hundred cars were sent out, being an increase of 108 cars over the previous season. While looking over some old articles a Wilton (N. H.) man ran across an old map of Massachusetts which was printed in 1820 just after the census was taken. The map gives Boston as having 43,233 people and the whole state 523,287. When Richard Harding Davis met Ll Hung Chang in St. Petersburg he was asked how old and how rich he was and what he did. He replied, "I write books," "Why do you write?" said the viceroy. "Are you not strong enough to work?" One of the few bells cast by Paul Revere now in existence is to be taken from the belfry of the old Baptist church in Warren, R. I., to be recast at Troy. A member of the church will oversee the task and will write an account of the undertaking for historical purposes. Captain Cook's chest, the one which he carried with him on his voyage of discovery over a hundred years ago, occupies a conspicuous place in the home of Rev. R. Crosby of North Branch, Mich. The chest has been in the possession of the Crosby family for many years, but was recently shipped to America by the English branch of the family. Motor car reliability trials were held in Scotland recently, and the drivers were astounded at their reception along the route. In every town and village the women and children lined the roadside and shouted enthusiastic welcomes. Sprays of lilac and other flowers were thrown into the cars as they passed and invitations to stop were given. For peach harvesting J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, Conn., never employs any but Italians. When the season is at its height he has 150 of them working in the orchard. Italian waiters in Delmonico's, Sherry's, the Waldorf and other places go there on their vacations and go to work in the orchards. They love to be near the fruit. Advertisement in Five Islands (N. S.) exchange: "J. R. Fuller, dealer in soft and hard coal, ice cream, wood, lime, cements, perfumery, nails, putty, spectacles and horseradish, chocolate caramels and tar roofing, gasfitting and undertaking in all its branches, hides, tallow and maple sirup, fine gold jewelry, silverware and salt, glue, codfish and gents' neckwear, undertaker and confectioner, diseases of horses and children a specialty." The so called "potato king" is a shrewd negro of the name of Groves, who lives on a farm near Kansas City, Kan., and raises and sells more potatoes than any other man in the world. Besides his own production he buys and sells the potatoes of others. In Kansas City he maintains a commission office and employs some ten stenographers and bookkeepers. Realizing that such a large business needs a well trained head, he has sent his son first to the Kansas Agricultural college for an agricultural education and then to a business college for a business education. Rev. Charles Wolfe, the author of the immortal poem entitled "The Burial of Sir John Moore," was accused not long ago by a magazine of literary piracy. It was said that Wolfe had cried the poem bodily from the French. The matter has been given wide currency in the press, owing to the great popularity the poem has enjoyed for nearly a century. Now it has been discovered that the French poem was a literary hoax perpetrated by Rev. Francis Mahoney ("Father Prout") and published in "Father Prout's Reliques" among the "Songs of France." It is really a clever translation of Wolfe's English verse. Mme. Curie's appointment to the chair at the Sorbenne in Paris lately occupied by her husband, though the first instance of its kind in France, is not wholly an initial triumph of feminine learning in European universities. As far back as the middle ages tradition has it that the University of Bologna possessed a lady doctor of canonized law. Petrarch was one of the pupils of the beautiful Novella, daughter of Jean d'Andre, whose mantle at the University of Bologna fell on to her shoulders when her father was too old to wear it himself. The university, however, seeing her beauty, hid it behind a curtain, and the students never saw the face of their lecturer. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Giles Shine has been secured for the role of Patrick O'Brien in "The Chorus Lady." Miss May Hosmer and Francis Bogg after several seasons in stock are out with a "Two Orphans" company. The singer Caruso has already invested a large number of his American dollars in a villa on Lake Como, Italy. William Dills, a character comedian last summer with a stock company in Portland, Ore., has lost all his savings through the suspension of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, Chicago. In Clay Clement's forthcoming play, "Sam Houston," Miss Marie Taylor will be seen as Roaring Kate, a historical character of Sam Houston's day. The actress is a niece of General Houston. "In Command" has been selected as the title of the new musical play by Ben M. Jerome, which will be produced under the direction of the Ben M. Jerome Amusement company on Nov. 1 in Elgin, Ill. The scene is Panama. There will be ten stock companies in Chicago this season if all present plans carry—the Players' theater (Donald Robertson's), the New theater, the Chicago Opera House, the People's, the Bush Temple, the Marlowe, the Avenue, the Calumet, the Howard and the Mindel. FACTS FROM FRANCE. A Paris joiner named Dereboul made a bet that he could consume ten yards of sausages. He won it, but died afterward from congestion. For the first time a party group has been formed in the French chamber for the defense of the rights of women headed by Henrl Cheron. Making postal cards carrying insulting allusions to the German emperor is a pleasing Parisian industry. The partisan political postal card is quite common. The Paris budget committee in taking up the estimates for 1907 struck out the salary of Diebler, the public executioner, tius foreshadowing the disappearance of the guillotine. French officials are considering a scheme for providing a standing army of long service men, one feature of which is to be the compulsory enlistment of all French schoolboys in national rifle corps, so that from their earliest years they may be accustomed to habits of discipline and knowledge of arms. NEW YORK CITY. New York city has ready for duty in the state militia 10,367 men. During the last twelve months $40-218,000 in precious stones were brought to New York city. Out of every hundred persons in New York city sixty-one are unmarried, thirty-one married, five widowed and three divorced. New York being an alleyless city, its streets are too often marred by long arrays of ash and garbage cans. Along ten Harlem blocks 322 of these iron-clad decorations (?) were counted on a recent morning. In the 865 square miles of water that is in New York city, with its 353 miles of water front, is wasted enough energy every day to supply the continent with needed power. In this body of water the tide daily raises and lowers 6,000,000 tons of water an average of four feet—New York Herald. PITH AND POINT. Fools brag where wise men only admit. Most people like to tell their imaginary troubles. Habit is stronger than either judgment or passion. The man who lacks polish doesn't always lack humanity. After all, the easiest way to do a thing is to do it right. In prosperity the proud man knows nobody; in adversity nobody knows him. A man's worth to others sometimes depends on how much they can work him for. It's a pleasure to make wishes, and that is about all the satisfaction the most of us get out of them.—Chicago News. DON'T QUARREL Life is too short for quarrels Keep away from people's pet abominations, avoid subjects they are sensitive about. Don't quarrel with any one if you can possibly help it. One quarrelsome member of a household can poison the entire home atmosphere. There is no pain equal to that of being unable to forgive because it is too late. It is only ugly, stubborn pride that keeps you from asking or granting forgiveness. Remember that "many go forth in the morning who have never come back at night," and never let any of your dear ones go off in the morning with hard feelings between you and them.-Brooklyn Times. EDITORIAL FLINGS Have you tried the peekaboo style of spelling yet?—Toledo Blade. And think how cheap the man must feel who has just finished paying the installments on his new dictionary.—Washington Post. American girls who marry German barons should remember that in Germany desertion is not punishable by law. Doubtless it it argued the wife suffers no hardship.—Boston Transcript. J. A. O'Donnell, H. D. Coghlin, O'Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph Sts. Chicago GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 383 Office Telephones Central 1389 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 315-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON 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 Yards 6016. John Fitzgerald JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 4737 SOUTH HALSTED STREET. Residence 113 W. Garfield Boul. CHICAGO Telephone Main 4839 Residence, 6828 Champlain Ave. Tel. Wentworth 2821 J.G RAY LUCAS Attorney At Law SUITE 51, 119-121 LA SALLE ST. CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO Over Montgomery's Drug Store. DR. J. ARTHUR COTTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hours: Office: 9 to 11 a. m. 233—22ND ST. 2 to 4 p. m. Tel. 8243 Calumet 7 to 9 p. m. CHICAGO PHONE { OFFICE DOUGLAS 8009 RES. DOUGLAS Physician and Surgeon Wours—10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 5:36 P. M. and nights—Sundays. 3 to 5 P. M. Medical Examiner and Court Physician for the Foresters No. 7895. Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Hours: 9 to 12 A.M. 3 to 8 and after 6 P. M. CHICAG Dr. M. J. Brown holds tree clinics at Provident Hospital free dispensary eye, ear, nose and throat department, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hours 2 to 4. SOUTH SIDE TAILORING CO. Not Incorporated. George M. Oatts, Prop. SUITS made to Order $15.00 up. PANTS made to Order $4.00 up. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing. Strict Attention paid Ladies' work. Telephone Hyde Park 5927. 5501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 4709 S. Halsted Street CHI POLICE MAGISTRATE Hyde Park. Tele South C Charles H. Callahan JUSTICE OF THE PEACE INDENCE: Greenwood Ave. 9206 Commune CHICA Theodore C. May VICE OF THE P Images, Deeds, Notes and Legal Documents Knownledged. Room 22, 27 North RESIDENCE: 6448 Greenwood Ave. Theodore C. JUSTICE OF THE Mortgages, Deeds, Notes and Legal and Acknowledged. Room Theodore C. Mayer JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Mortgages, Debts, Notes and Legal Documents Drawn and Acknowledged. Room 22, 27 North Clark Street. POLICE MAGISTRATE RESIDENCE East Chicago Ave. Police Court 237 Burling Street CHICAGO Sandy W. Trick 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing y Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales ing Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwa sets. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby H A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Sh A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchie See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chain and Safety Pins. CHICAGO Lady W. Trice & 2918 State Street Department S If you get in the habit of doing your trading in Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two with each 10c purchase. A swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwe- ld assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, H ants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Susp line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. Lovelities in Jewelry, Watch-chains. Fobs, Cuff-b ns. Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading In the New Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trading Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Corsets. A spiendid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains. Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. ILLINOIS BRICK CO NOIS BRICK ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM C. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., C N. Western Ave., Ch 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards: 718 Junk's Brew Telephone Yards: 718 Junk's Brewery 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 9206 Commercial Ave. CHICAGO. Mayer E PEACE Documents Drawn 27 North Clark Street. e & Co. set t Store for trading in the New day and two of Fish Trad- tits, Underwear and Cor- Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, everything you wear. Underwear, Hoslery, swell tits and Suspenders. Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Stude CK CO. e., Chicago. w 270. Is: 718 ewery J. M. Fields CHICAGO Telephone South Chicago 2582 RESIDENCE 337 Burling Street