The Broad Ax

United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman In His Anarchistic Lecture In Orchestra Hall Tuesday Evening, Nov. 27, Exclaimed "To Hell With the Law." HE DECLARED THAT "NEGRO WOMEN DEEM IT AN HONOR TO CONSORT WITH WHITE MEN." THAT "WHITE WOMEN IN THE SOUTH WOULD RATHER SUFFER DEATH TEN THOUSAND TIMES THAN TO PERMIT THEM SELVES TO CONSORT WITH NEGRO MEN, WHOM HE COMPARED TO WILD BEASTS OR BABOONS." FORTY POLICEMEN SAT ON THE STAGE. AND TWO HUNDRED OTHERS WERE SCATTERED THOUGHOUT THE HALL, GUARDING HIM FROM BEING SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD. SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN THE CITY RETURNED THEIR TICKETS AND REFUSED TO OCCUPY THEIR SEATS IN THE BOXES. MANY LADIES LEFT THE HALL AND REFUSED TO LISTEN TO HIS VILE AND VULGAR TALK. MUCH DISORDER REIGNED THROUGHOUT THE LECTURE. Vol. XII United States Benjam In His Anarchistic Le Tuesday Evening "To Hell With the HE DECLARED THAT "NE HONOR TO CONSORT W THAT "WHITE WOMEN IN ER SUFFER DEATH THAN TO PERMIT THAT WITH NEGRO MEN, WH WILD BEASTS OR BAB FORTY POLICEMEN SAT O AND TWO HUNDRED O THOUGHOUT THE HAL BEING SHOT DOWN IN SOME OF THE MOST PROM TLEMEN IN THE CITY ETS AND REFUSED TO THE BOXES. MANY LADIES LEFT THE LISTEN TO HIS VILE A MUCH DISORDER REIGNE TURE. When it was announced some time ago that "United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, would speak in Orchestra Hall, on the "Race Problem;" for the benefit of the Chicago Union Hospital, several prominent Colored men and women, called on the ladies having charge of the affair, and very politely requested them for the good of both races in this city, to ask Senator Tillman, to select some other subject other than the "Race Problem," the ladies in question gave their word and honor that Senator Tillman had finally consented to lecture on the "Annexation of Cuba," and that he would refrain from riding around on the back of the Negro. Many other Colored people labored under the impression that the ladies were telling the truth, on the other hand there were many others who had some misgivings in this direction and for the life of them they could not see how Senator Tillman, could intelligently discuss the Cuban question without harping on the Negro in America, and the words of those who assumed this position came true, for when he appeared in Orchestra Hall among the very first words he spoke was that "he had not been requested until a few days before that time to change from the "Race Problem" to the Cuban Question, and that it would be impossible for him to discuss the latter subject without dragging in the American Negro to the fullest extent. It may be fitting at this point to attempt, to describe the arrival and the departure, of Senator Tillman, to and from this city, when he arrived at the Northwestern Depot shortly after noon on Tuesday he was surrounded by many policemen who had been detailed to carefully guard him while escourging him to his hotel; he was hissed and hooted at as he and those composing the receiving party marched through the streets, and instead of being received with open arms by all the people as a United States Senator should be, he cowed behind the policemen including six Colored officers, for protection like a coward and a desperate criminal. The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the city on Tuesday afternoon and until he made his appearance on the platform in Orchestra Hall, on that evening several newspapers issued extra editions with glaring headlines extending clear across the front pages of the papers telling ali about the arrival of Senator Tillman, and the movements of the Colored men who won a great moral victory in their fight against him and his mob and lynch law and shot-gun polley. On that evening near eight o'clock the writer in company with L. W. Washington, secured two tickets and entered Orchestra Hall, which was not filled throughout the evening, and about half an hour after being seated, Senator Tillman came forth on the stage accompanied by forty police men in plain clothes, and almost two hundred other officers were scattered throughout the hall, and on the sidewalk, he was loudly applauded by the elegantly gowned ladies and gentlemen who occupied the boxes and by his admirers in all parts of the hall. he was introduced by Ex-Justice of the Peace Miles S. Macon from the back woods of Ga., and after some side remarks, and after blowing over the fact that he was a United States Senator. He waded in not to discuss his advertised subject "Shall the United States Annex Cuba!" but the "Negro Question," and as we have stated a thousand times he knows no other subject or question to talk on. In his Anarchistic talk, after, relating how he and statesmen like him in S. C., had stuffed ballot boxes, had distranchised the Negro in his state in order to prevent the Negro from voting, someone asked how about the law? he stopped short in his so-called lecture and shouted at the top of his voice to "Hell with the Law!" The scene which followed filled our heart with terror, for all the white men and women acted like mad or wild animals and they grew red in the face while applauding his treasonable frothings at the mouth. Right here we cannot refrain from stating that no man in the world today is as dangerous to law and order and to American institutions as Benjamin R. Tillman, and if his ideas of civil government are to prevail then it is only a question of time until all the people residing in this grand and glorious Re- CHICAGO, DECEMBER 1, 1906. J. MAYOR EDWARD F. DUNNE. Has immortalized himself by refusing to preside at Tillman Anarchistic meeting in Orchestra Hall, Tuesday evening, November 27, 1906. public will revert back into a state of savagery and anarchy. As he proceeded some white gentleman wanted to know how "he accounted for so many white or light shades among the Colored people!" In answer to that question he declared that they "were the result of white men cohabiting with Negro women that Negro women deem it an honor to cohabit with white men; while that every white woman in the would rather suffer death ten thousand times than to premit themselves to consort with eNgro men, whom he compared to wild beasts or baboons." In the near future we may have something more to say on this part or his disjointed and would-be lecture. a few ladies left the hall during his vulgar talk. The following patronesses occupied boxes. Mmes—W. A. Alexander, Jule R. Brower, John Crerar, Charles A. Chapin, D. Mark Cummings, John E. Dean E. D. Howland, John L. Jackson Francis J. Kennett, Edward A. Leitch W. R. Linn, O. T. McClurg, Elisha Miller, Malcolm McNell, Lawrence J. Reed, T. G. Springer, Franklin P. Smith, Herbert L. Swift, Fenton B. Turck, Frederick W. Upham, Dr. Sara C. Buckley, and the following are some of them who were absent. Mmes—P. D. Armour, T. B. Blackstone, L. A. Carton, J. H. Channon, Henry C. Lytton, Edward F. Dunne, C. F. Elvy Throughout the evening, Senator Tillman endeavored to the best of his ability in his ravings to cause a protest or an outbreak on the part of the Colored people present, who had paid in their money for the purpose of aiding charity. He would stop in the midst of his unintelligent mutterings, raise his hand and point his finger in the direction of some Colored person, and exclaim in the most contemptable manner, "There sits a full blooded or a yellow "Nigger," and so on. Then the highly cultivated ladies and gentlemen, who are continually boasting of their superiority over the Negro, turned around in their seats and gazed at the Colored person whom Senator Tillman had pointed out to them. But not the slightest outward sign of protest or disapproval as to the insult he had heaped upon them, was visible in their expression. Even when he declared, that, "The white people in the north, had made the Negro a ravisher of white women in the south," they did not raise their hands or voice in protestation against this terrible charge on the part of Senator Tillman, which proves that the Negro possesses more self control than any other race of people on earth. On the other hand, if he had been addressing an audience composed of any other nationality, and had insulted them and vilified them to the same extent as he did the Negro, he would have been shot down in cold blood a thousand times right on the platform. Much disorder prevailed in the hall throughout the entire lecture, which was not indulged in by the Colored people, and the only man, arrested was a white man by the name of Israel Gordon, residing at 140 Blue Island ave., he called Senator Tillman a liar, while he was engaged in cussing and damning the Negro. Many prominent ladies and gentlemen returned their tickets and refused to occupy their boxes, and quite a few ladies left the hall during his vulgar talk. The following patronesses occupied boxes. Mmes.—W. A. Alexander, Jule F. Brower, John Crerar, Charles A. Chapin, D. Mark Cummings, John E. Dean, E. D. Howland, John L. Jackson, Francis J. Kennett, Edward A. Leicht, W. R. Linn, O. T. McClurg, Elisha Miller, Malcolm McNell, Lawrence J. Reed, T. G. Springer, Franklin P. Smith, Herbert L. Swift, Fenton B. Turck, Frederick W. Upham, Dr. Sara C. Buckley, and the following are some of them who were absent. Mmes.—P. D. Armour, T. B. Blackstone, L. A. Carton, J. H. Channon, Henry C. Lytton, Edward F. Dunne, C. F. Ely, Augustus W. Green, Wallace F. Grosvenor, William Hauser Gray, Dr. Caroline B. Hopkins, Dr. Ella Cleverdon, D Farnowsky, Princess Engalitcheff. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith and Mrs. George W. Dixon who is one of the most highly cultivated ladies in this country, and who in the future will withdraw her financial support, from the Chicago Union Hospital. "I'LL STIR SENATE," SAYS JEFF DAVIS. Declares the "Old Boneyard" Needs an Old-Fashioned Row. Brook Haven, Miss., Nov. 24.—"There will be something doing in the old town of Washington when I get to the United States Senate," declared Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas, who addressed a big audience of farmers here this afternoon. "What is needed in that old boneyard," continued Governor Davis, "is an old-fashioned row and a shaking up of the fossits. With General Lee, kind spirited Bob Taylor of Tennessee, Pifchfork' Tillman of South Carolina, the fearless Vardaman of Mississippi and myself, there will be a first-class sensation." The farmers yelled themselves hoarse whenever Governor Davis referred to the candidacy of Governor Vardaman, who is opposing Congressman John Sharp Williams for the United States Senate. COLORED WOMAN'S ASSAILANT WHITE. Planter Given Life Term in Prison for His Crime. De Kalb, Miss., Nov. 8.—W. T. Boyd, a white planter, was convicted in the Circuit Court to-day of criminal assault on Mandy Watkins Colored, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Counsel for both sides agreed on this form of punishmet, and no appeal will be taken. The New Revolution For Liberty and Justice Is On FROM THIS DAY ONWARD THE POPULARITY OF SUCH RED-HANDED ANARCHISTS AS BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN, JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, JAMES K. VARDAMAN, JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, JEFF DAVIS, HOKE SMITH, THOMAS NELSON PAGE, REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., AND THEIR BROOD IS ON THE DECLINE IN THE NORTHERN STATES. MAYOR EDWARF F. DUNNE IS OVERWHELMED WITH TELEGRAMS AND LETTERS OF CONGRATULATION FOR DECLINING TO PRESIDE AT THE ANARCHISTIC MEETING IN ORCHESTRA HALL TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 27TH. REV. A. J. CAREY, DOCTOR CHARLES E. BENTLEY, ROBERT M. MITCHELL, J.. MAX BARBER AND JULIUS F. TAYLOR VISITED THE MAYOR AT HIS HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Saturday, November 17, The Broad Ax contained the following in reference to the lecture which was to be delivered by United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman in Orchestra Hall, Tuesday, November 27. "Every brave and liberty loving Afro-American in this city should rise up in his might and peaceably assemble in front of Orchestra Hall Tuesday evening, November 27th and make an honest effort to prevent United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina the bloody advocate of mob and lynch law for innocent Negro men, women and children, who is a disgrace to the United States Senate, a disgrace to the race which he claims to represent and a disgrace to this nation, from lecturing there for the benefit of the Chicago Union Hospital. He claims his subject will be the United States Annex Cuba? This will only be used as a cloak for him to stab the Negro in the house of his friends and he should be choked off before he has the opportunity to spew out his race poison in this community." The Tuesday morning after the appearance of the above lines, which have been extensively commented upon by the great daily newspapers in all parts of the United States, and even in Europe, Rev. A. J. Carey, Rev. J. C. Anderson, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Walter M. Farmer, Robert M. Mitchell, S. A. McElwee, John Q. Grant, Noah D. Thompson, J. Albert Jaxson, and Julius F. Taylor, called on Mayor Edward F. Dunne, for the sole purpose of urging him to use his good office as the chief executive of the great city of Chicago to endeavor to induce Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, from advocating mob and lynch law and the shotgun policy for Colored men, women and children during his lecture in Orchestra Hall Tuesday evening, November 27th. In this interview Mayor Dunne, informed, the gentlemen referred to that if it was in their power to furnish him newspaper clippings and other evidence which would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Senator Tillman upheld or advocated mob and lynch law and the shotgun policy for Colored people, that he would be guided by his own judgment in the matter. Then and there the writer informed Mayor Dunne that quotations from the speeches of Senator Tillman, delivered in the United States Senate, and elsewhere from 1898, down to the present time, would appear in the columns of the next issue of this paper, and that they would prove that he is a strong advocate mob and lynch law and the shotgun policy for all classes of Afro-Americans, and that we would on Saturday, No. 6 November 24th, place a copy of The Broad Ax in his hands for perusal. On Sunday afternoon Rev. A. J. Carey, Dr. Charles E. Bentley, Roberu M. Mitchell, J. Max Barber, and Julius F. Taylor, through the heavy rain wended their way to the lovely home of Mayor Dunne, 3127 Beacon street, and on arriving there the gentlemen were ushered into the spacious front parlor where they were cordially and warmly greeted by Mayor Dunne, and by Miss Gearid, and by several of his other bright and lovely children, after humbly apologizing to the mayor for disturbing and annoying him on Sunday afternoon, he was informed as to the mission of the gentlemen, and without any further ceremony Mayor Dunne declared that he had not only read the quotations from Senator Tillman's speeches in The Broad Ax, but he had also familiarized himself with his unjust utterances from other sources, and that he had fully made up his mind to write Mrs. Keeler a letter declining to preside as chairman of the meeting in Orchestra Hall. Tuesday evening, November 27th when Mayor Dunne finished speaking each gentleman warmly grasped him by the hand and heartily thanked him for boldly taking his stand on the side of justice and humanity. True to his word, Mayor Dunne on Monday morning furnished the daily press with a copy of the following letter which he sent to Mrs. Keeler: Chicago, Nov. 26th, 1906. "My Dear Madam: Since my last interview with you it has been brought to my attention by the stenographer who took the speech that Senator Tillman, in one of his recent addresses, declared, 'I believe in shotgun practices and assassination to maintain white supremacy.' He is also quoted in three of the Chicago papers within the last forty-eight hours as declaring that 'he would a any time lead a mob to lynch a who assaulted a woman.' He is also quoted as saying that 'lynch law is all we have left.' Reconsiderers His Promise. "In view of these extraordinary utterances of Senator Tillman I must reconsider my promise made to you some weeks ago to preside at his lecture to-morrow night. My presence under these circumstances, and view of the further circumstance that the senator has announced that he tends to accentuate his views at the lecture upon this subject, might be construed by the public as my being in sympathy with such views. I am not in sympathy personally or officiety with mob law, lynch law or assassination. Yours truly, "E. F. DUNNE" Just as soon as it had become known that Mayor Dunne, had abso- THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the trust of the public and the gentleman, Gentleman, Pentate, Indiele, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republic- al Knights of Labor, or any one else can have simple say, so long as their language is proper and responsible is fixed. The Broad is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, fl. as Second-class Matter. 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. Tillman and His Toadies. Incarnate valor has come and gone. Senator Tillman has hurled defiance at the universe and carnage has not followed. The universal peace society will rejoice. Beyond that there is small cause for felicitations. Some hundreds of ostensibly self-respecting white people and a score of Negroes paid their money to hear an incoherent, disjointed harangue interlarged with profanity and flavored with abuse of northern citizenship. We may marvel at the intellectual or the mentality which takes pleasure in hearing itself bullied, but we can not ignore the facts. Times change and we change with them—at least, some of us do. Northern sentiment and self-respect have changed, for instance. Twenty years ago Benjamin R. Tillman could not have drawn an audience of fifty people in Chicago even though he lectured gratis. People would have ignored if they did not actually resent his reactionary doctrines and his stale and mossback theories. They certainly would not have flocked to hear him abuse them, filling his pockets with money in return for the privilege The audience at Orchestra hall Tuesday night affords proof that people—some people — change with the times. The northern people have changed, evidently. The south as exemplified by Senator Tillman has not changed. The north permits itself to be abused—nay, pays for being abused—to its very face by a swashbuckler who merely substitutes more euphonious terms for the old standbys, "mudsill." "Nigger lover" and "damned vankee." It pays for the rancorous billingsgate of a Bombastes Furioso who struts about boasting of his courage when he knows full well that he is not in the slightest peril. Can it be wondered at that Senator Tillman, seeing the opportunity to gratify his acquisiteness and his malice by the same process, treats his northern audiences to insults directed at themselves? In very truth Senator Tillman is more admirable than the northern people who go to hear him. He makes no compromise with his convictions; he softens not one whit the bitterness of his contempt. He indulges to the full the scorn which he feels for the people who employ him to insult them. Such a man may be a semisavage, a firebrand and a reactionary, but he is not a truckler, cringing beneath the lash of insolent arrogance. That much can not be said of the northern people who go to hear him.—The Chicago Chronicle November 28. To this we say Amen! Amen! Mavor Dunne Does Well Mayor Dunne has lecided that he cannot countenance, by his presence, the lawless utterances which Senator Tillman is expected to make in his speech tonight. This is the only proper decision for a public official charged with responsibility for the enforcement of the laws and the maintenance of public order. The head and front of Benjamin R. Tillman's offending is not that he holds that white men are born to rule over black men. That is merely a personal opinion. Mr. Tillman's offense is that he makes this personal opin- ion the justification for lawlessness. He has recently said that he would gladly head a mob any day to lynch a black man who has assailed a white woman. Why does he not say that he would gladly head a mob to lynch any man, white or black, who had assailed any woman? He would then advance a proposition at least debatable, though not likely to be generally adopted in a civilized country. What Senator Tillman does propose is that the white majority of citizens shall declare the black minority of citizens outlaws whenever they are accused of a certain crime, while reserving to white men, guilty of the same crime due process of law. It is deplorable that any American—especially a man in high public office—should go about inciting one group of Americans to declare mob law against another group of Americans. Of course, Mayor Dunne could no more decently preside over a meeting at which such counsels were to be given than he could over a meeting where Emma Goldman was to speak. The only capacity in which Mayor Dunne could properly be there would be in that of a police official sent to repress any disorder that might occur. As it is not necessary for Mayor Dunne personally to play the policeman at the meeting, he does well to stay away altogether.—The Inter Ocean, Tuesday, November 27th, 1906. Tillman's Dirty Dollars Causists have sought to maintain the idea that the end justifies the means, but the verdict of Christian civilization is against the contention. Thinking humanity can not approve the compromise between rich and wrong which is involved. It is an incongruity, therefore, for a professed charity to seek the aid of a professional slanderer in building up its financial resources. The appeal of the Chicago Union hospital to the vituperation and the acquisitiveness) of Benjamin R. Tillman was an inconsistency. Is charity at such a low ebb in Chicago that it can not be supported without importing a savage huckster of envenomed phrases to insult northern people from the lecture platform? Is it possible that the taste of Chicago audiences is so perverted that it will not be satisfied with anything save rancor and vilification aimed at the very people who pay the orator? And if it were so could an altruistic charity consistently exploit such vulgarity in the hope of gaining money by it? It is always to be remembered that Senator Tillman was not the only available lecturer nor the most popular one. There are scores of platform speakers far more eloquent, far more respectable, far more interesting and far more intellectual than he. If a southern lecturer were desired a hundred men could have been named all of them the superior of Senator Tillman in every desirable qualification. Yet Mr. Tillman was selected and his selection was persisted in after everyone had full knowledge of his slanderous harangues against the people of the north. When southern gentlemen may be had why should northern people hire southern swaggerers and bullies to talk to them? The attitude is inconsistent, incongruous and stultifying. No northern man with respect for himself and certainly no public charity can consistently encourage a man who is merely a purveyor of malice, slander and all uncharitableness. If money ever is tainted it is so when it comes from such a source. Every Tillman dollar is a dirty dollar whether applied to charity or not. The Union hospital should be investigated. That it is foolishly managed is self-evident. That it is loosely managed is probable. That it is not what it pretends to be is easily possible.—The Chicago Chronicle, Nov. 28. 1906. Mrs. Mary Hagenback, 6349 Marshfield Ave., is confined to her bed with an injured knee. Misses Mable and Blanch Hill of Sedalia. Mo., will spend this week in the city the guests of their cousin, Miss Ethel Wright, 6123 Ada St. PETER REV. M. E. L. HILL. The Queen Esther church. Feet which is the first church of the at 3 Women's Evangelistic Union of America, located at 5251 Dear-Tuesday born street, will hold services the meet coming week as follows: Prayer Meeting ... 6 to 8 a. m. Preaching services .11 to 12 a. m. Sunday school .12:30 to 1:30 p. m. Praise services ... 2 to 5 p. m. Christian endeavor 6 to 7:30 p. m. Preaching by the pastor, Rev Mary E. L. Hill...8 p. m. NEGO PASTOR THINKS WOMEN MISUNDERSTOOD SITUATION. In a statement issued late last night, the Rev. A. J. Carey, pastor of Bether church and chairman of the committee of Negroes which attempted to prevent the lecture of Senator Tillman, stated the position of his committee, saying: "Notwithstanding the fact that Senator Tillman did speak, we are confident that our protest was not unfriendly, neither barren of good results. "Whereas, at first the mayor of this great city was indifferent as to the Senator's appearance, not averse to the expression of his views on the face question, but to the contrary was inclined to sanction them by his presence, he now in open letter declines to preside and refuses to be present because of a better knowledge of the man gained through a more careful reading of his utterances, as requested by the committee who waited upon him. Such an attitude in the chief executive of the city and the similar stand taken by Colonel James H. Lewis, a public official, who also refused to appear on the same platform with a man who advocates lynching and assassination, has a most wholesome influence upon this city in particular, and upon the "country in general. This is evidenced by the resolutions adopted and wired Mayor Dunne by organizations, publications, and individuals from New York to Tennessee, and the many personal communications which have come to me from many of the best citizens of Chicago and elsewhere. "This apathy of the American conscience which permits such agents as Senator Tillman's lectures and the presentation of "The Clansman' to pursue their destructive work unchallenged and unhindered must be thrown off. The important question is 'How?' "Not alone are the good results seen in the public official, but also in the gentleman who refused to permit his son, the church soloist, to fill his number on the program; in the prominent men and women who refused to occupy the boxes reserved for them, and in the patronesses who withdrew their names. These we consider healthful signs. "One surprise has been that the women in whom we expected the loftiest ideals were not unanimous in their desire to have the engagement called off. "First of all, Senator Tillman's language is not that of a cultured gentleman. His profanity and obscenity, to say nothing of his atrocious views, should bar him from the presence of ladies and gentlemen. "An invitation to a man of this kind was the first surprise, the second being that the ladies having the supervision of the affair did not, when the question was presented to them, see it in a different light. We had Sundav Services. Feet washing, December 2, 1906, at 3 p. m. Weekly Meetings. Tuesday night after prayer meeting, the poor treasure .....8 to 10 p. m. Thursday night, Bible class .....8 to 10 p. m. Friday night class meeting for pastor's table .....8 to 10 p. m. All are welcome. Rev. M. E. L. Hill, pastor. Mrs. Buelah Craig, Secretary. All orders for Thanksgiving baskets were filled by said church reason to believe that the ladies of Chicago would appreciate the wisdom of the precedent set by the ladies of Cleveland, who caused an engagement with Senator Tillman to be canceled, choosing Dr. Gunsaulus of this city to fill it in his stead. The ladies of Augusta, Ga., near the Senator's home, rose to the occasion and a similar engagement with the Senator was canceled. Nevertheless, we take the biame upon ourselves and prefer to believe that we failed to make it sufficiently clear to those in charge that Senator Tillman's presence and utterances here would lower the moral tone of our city, would breed hatred and discord between the irresponsible of both races, would tend to incite one class of Chicago's citizens to declare mob law against the other class—in short, would add to the history of American rioting and lawlessness another chapter. "Chicago needs to congratulate herself upon the fact that the event passes with so little bloodshed. I was informed by reliable eye-witnesses that the one breath needed to fan into flame the smoldering fires of the Atlanta riot was furnished in a minstrel that night which exaggerated in caricature the strained racial relations that existed in Atlanta because of the campaign methods of Governor Hoke Smith. Being aware of a similar wave of feeling in Chicago at present caused by the cartoon canvass against, F. L. Barnett, and fearing that Senator Tillman's speech would furnish the occasion for an outburst of racial animosity and, antagonism, we directed our efforts along the line of prevention and did what we deemed wisest and best."—The Inter Ocean, Wednesday, November, 28th, 1906. Mrs. Fred Mackey, 4421 Dearborn St., is on the sick list. Mr. Will Marion Cook, after spending a month in Chicago, has returned to New York. Mrs. Sadie Johnson and daughter, Ethel, are spending a week in Detroit, the guests of Mrs. Julia Owen. Mr. Fred Simms of Aurora, spent Thanksgiving in the city, the guest of Mr. Robert Dale, 2829 Armour Ave. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Thomas, 2926 Calumet Ave., were tendered a box party at the Pekin Tuesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. F. Johnson. Mr. James Martin of St. Paul, Minn., spent last week in the city, the guest of his uncle, Mr. Franklin Moore, 3121 Armour Ave. CHIPS Mr. T. Alfred Anderson's play "A Count of No Account," will be produced at the Pekin Theater, starting with the week of Dec. 10th. Mr. S. Salsbury, of Williams & Walker, entertained a number of the company and a few friends at dinner at the Columbia Cafe Monday eve. Mr. Bismark Lanique and Paul Mosley of St. Louis, Mo., spent Thanksgiving in the city, the guests of Mr. Phil R. Miller, 2808 Dearborn St. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gellispie, 170 E. 32d St., entertained Dr. and Mrs. J. R. White, Mr. J. L. Fry and Mr. A'jed Anderson at a course dinner Monday evening. The Colored Men's Republican organization of Cook County have appointed a committee of reputable men to raise funds to defray expenses to contest the Municipal Court Judge election. Cole & Johnson are meeting with great success in the west with their production of "The Shoo Fly Regiment." They will be seen in one of the local theaters during the coming season. Mrs. Geo. Horde, 320 West 47th street, last Monday evening entertained twenty ladies in honor of Mrs. A. L. Murray of Atlantic City, N. J., who is visiting her friends in this city. Wednesday evening, Dec. 19th, at 8 o'clock, Miss Lillian Mae Clark, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Clark, 3600 Forest ave., will become united in marriage to Mr. M. Clinton Baler. The mayors of the following cities have forbidden the Clansman to be plaved in their respective cities: Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Macon, Ga., Philadelphia, Pa., Pensacola, Fla. Mobile was the first city to sta this direction—Ex. Senator Tillman reminded his audience two or three times that he had been a United States senator for two terms and was a candidate for re-election. He might have known, and it will do no harm to tell him, that then have been United States senators who reflected more of discredit on the senate than the senate reflected of credit on them and that he belongs to that class. If he had any appreciation of the unity of a United States senator he would have assumed that everybody knew that he belonged to that body and that it was in bad taste for him to brag of it. —The Chicago Chronicle, November 28. WOMAN AND FASHION Wrap For Small Malden. A smart little coat of dark red broad cloth, with collar, cuffs and belt of vel ret still darker, is sketched as a sug T SMART LITTLE COAT. gestion for the small malden's new wrap. The box plaints in front and back not only add flare to the skirt, but lend the wearer a robust appearance which is most becoming. Might Be Worse. Husband (during the spat)—Then you admit that you married me for a home? Wife—Yes. Husband—Well, that isn't so bad. I was beginning to think you had married me for spite—Detroit Tribune. Furnished Room to Rent. NICELY furnished room to rent to two gentlemen; gas; bath: telephone service. 3420 Prairie Ave. HUMOR FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS How Obedience Cost Little Marjory Her Cake. Little Marjory is fond of cake, but lest she appear too greedy her parents have carefully taught her when a plate of cake is offered always to take the piece nearest her. This rule of etiquette, "Always take the piece nearest you," has been repeated to Marjory till she has had it thoroughly impressed upon her. Marjory and her mother were dining at a neighbor's house the other day when a plate of delicious cake was passed around. Despite much arguing, she steadily refused to have any cake. Her mother was surprised, but let the matter pass for the time being. It was after the return home when her mother asked Marjory why she had refused to have any cake at the neighbor's house that day. "Well, mamma," she answered with a plaintive sigh, "you told me always to take the piece of cake nearest me didn't you? Well, there wasn't any piece nearest me. It was all over on the other side of the plate." New York Press. Alone. Entering the mansion, we find its mistress weeping silently but copiously into a delicate handkerchief. "May we inquire the occasion of your sorrow?" we ask gently. "Just to think?" she wails, "Myself and my daughters left absolutely alone and unprotected." "What? Your husband and your sons—surely they"— We pause, fearing that we have blundered upon some mighty catastrophe. "My husband," she weeps, "is in prison for merging some trusts; my oldest son is doing ninety days for reckless automobilizing, and now word has come that my other son has been sent to jail for some college prank or other." Sighing because of the relentless hand of the law, which smites without regard to the number of gentle hearts it crushes, we tipete away and leave the woman in her grief—judge. The Unexpected. "You look sad, Bilkins. Anybody sick at home?" "No. I'm a little disappointed, that's all. My mother-in-law wrote some time ago that she was going to spend the winter with us." "Oh, that's it!" "Hold on. When we got her letter I started right in to fix up things to make it pleasant for her." "Eh!" "And now, confound it, she writes that she can't come!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer And He Was Back. "I don't see why you can't be at the head of your class," said Tommy's mother. "Your teacher tells me you're pretty far back in school." "Weil, say, mom," exclaimed Tommy, "there's no pleasin' you at all! Didn't you say last summer you'd be delighted to have me 'back in school?' —Catholic Standard and Times. Poor Old Chromo Picture Dealer—This, madam, is merely a chromo, and it is not expensive. Mrs. Newrich—Ah, to be had cheap, I suppose! Of course Chromo is a very obscure artist and cannot command high prices—Tit Bits. A. Billxille Estimate "We don't want no better world to live in than this one," says the Billville Banner. "It's true that old trouble comes round mighty regular, but we never want to die as long as there's a fiddle to make us dance."—Atlanta Constitution. New Idea For Play Manager-I've got a new idea for a melodrama that ought to make a hit. Playwrite-What is it? Manager-The idea is to introduce a cyclone in the first act that will kill all the actors.-Chicago News. A She—I have a confession to make my dear. For a whole year after we were married I searched your pockets daily for letters. He—And did you find any? She—Only those I gave you to mail- Meggendorfer Blatter. The Motor Crase. "Don't you sometimes envy these very wealthy people their enjor- ments?" "No," answered Miss Cayenne. "I never cared for the smell of gasoline." —Washington Star. Mayor Dunne Receives Many Letters Commending Him for Refusing to Preside at the Tillman (Concluded from Page 1. lately refused to preside over the meeting to the present time he has been overwhelmed with telegrams and letters of commendations praising him for his noble stand for the right, which simply means that a "New Revolution for Liberty and tice is on," that from this "day onward the popularity of such Red Handed Anarchists as Benjamin R. Tillman, John Temple Graves, James R. Vardaman, John Sharp Williams, Jeff Davis, Hoke Smith, Thomas Nelson Page, Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., and their brood of half devils and bat savages, is on the decline in the Northern States. The following are some of the The following are some of the many telegrams and letters received by Mayor Dunne: Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 26, 1906. Mayor Dunne, Mayor City of Chicago. Your disapproval of Senator Tilman's views is justified by America's highest citizenship. JAMES M. BYNES. New York, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1906. The Hon. Mayor Dunne, Chicago: Your manly dignified refusal to preside over meeting addressed by leading advocate of the murder trust is applauded by every true American who believes in the supremacy of the constitution and lawful procedure. It is a disgrace to Chicago and civilization that any man should be permitted to publicly advocate the killing of American Citizen's who only seek the rights guaranteed to them by the Organic law of the Nation. Irish American. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26, 1906. To the Honorable Mayor Dunne: I wish to give thanks and congratulations to you in behalf of myself and family. For the courageous stand taken in the behalf of the Colored citizens of Chicago, by refusing to introduce Senator Tillman in his lynch law and shot gun rule in this community hoping that you will always bravely and truly uphold the laws as you have, with special favors to no one and equal justice to all. I remain obedient and a law abiding citizen of Chicago. S. LEVY Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26, 1906. I write to let you see that we the Colored people thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the words of sonsolation you spoke in reconsidering your engagements at the meeting of Senator Tillman that has such dirty thoughts of the Colored race. I am a young Colored girl of 23 years and I could talk to Mr. Fiend of the Colored people and he would think I was a white girl as both my grandparents are white men. God alone knows how much I appreciate your words I read in this evenings paper. God will bless you for those words of consolation of the race as well as myself. Your reward will be made in heaven. I assure you. Excuse writing but I assure you my heart is heavy with thanks to you hope I have made no mistakes in writing you these words. I am Yours and Oblige, Maude Wise, 251 Rush st. South Chicago, Ill., Nov. 26, 1906. To the Honorable Mayor Dunne, Dear Sir:— Allow me to congratulate you upon your decision not to preside at a meeting where the Speaker has stated that he will even go out of his way to advocate Anarchy and Treason. His recent speech if correctly reported is in part an extract from the speech of Jeff Davis made at Little Rock, Ark., the day that State ceased from the Union, I well remember the arguments he set forth, and the language used, as I was there. 8810 Commercial ave. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 26, 1906. To the Honorable Mayor Dunne, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir: Chicago, Ills., Dear Sir:— Your act in declining to serve as chairman of meeting in which Mr. Tillman was to discuss the race problem is highly commendable and will not only be sanctioned by the Colored people of the country but the best white citizens also. It is pitable to think of the conditions that are at present existing between the two races of people brought about by Mr. Tillman, Vardaman, Dixon, and others and I hope that your manly act will encourage others to adopt your plan and even yet as discouraging as the outlook is for us may be the turning point of this disagreeable conditions of things and place the two people on Dear Sir:—I roomed with a soldier that spent 7 years with George Washington in our war of the Revolution from 1776 to 1783. I was eight and the soldier eighty-four in 1838. (My grandfather.) I am now 76. Allow me to applaud the grandest act of your life as I consider it, refusing to preside at a meeting to endorse the most dangerous man in the land, Senator Tillman, and to insult the race of Lincoln's proclamation aimed to lift up from bondage of 150 years, without pay or property and schooling, a crime. This, too, is an insult to the dignity of labor, the Grand Army and Decoration day, as also Lincoln's memory, cheered on the anniversary of his birthday, the 12th of Feb., by 17,000,000 children in the schools of this country, ten days before the festival in memory of George Washington, alike honored July, 22d. From 508 Reaper Blk. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 27, 1906. To the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Mayor. Dear Sir:—It is not only my privilege, but duty, to express to you my thanks for your refusal to preside at a meeting where the speaker has in his former addresses defied the laws of our country, and your good and sound reason for your declination. The reason Mrs. Keeler gives for your action is beneath a lady. I wish to second the telegrams of approval which you have received from our eastern citizens, and regret that our Chicago clubs have not followed their lead. Yours very truly. Tours very truly. ISRAEL P. RUMSEY. Commission Merchant. 97 Board of Trade, Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 27, 1906. Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Mayor, City Hall, Chicago. My Dear Judge Dunne: I wish to congratulate you most heartily on the manly and courageous stand you have taken with regard to the lecture of Senator Tillman: Lynch law and violence have no place in our institutions, and I am glad we have a mayor who has the courage to say so. Yours very truly. E. A. OTIS. Bethesda Luther League, 10341 Avenue L, East Side Chicago, Ill., Nov. 27, 1906. Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Mayor of Chicago. Dear Sir:—There are many things for which I admire and sincerely respect you. Your position with reference to the Tillman lecture is one of these. Sincerely yours, S. G. HAGGLUND. Chicago, Nov. 26, 1906. Mr. Dunne, Mayor of Chicago, City Hall. The most highly esteemed gentleman in the land not for fear but for right and justice. Your stand is a noble one, and may the Great and Kind God, from whom all blessings come, crown you with heavenly bliss, for the great example you have set for the good of the nation, and more especially for Mr. Tillman whose very soul is stained with the blood of a poor trampled race. May God forgive him, and some day bless him. God forbid that we, the Colored people of America, should ever let our hands be stained with the blood of such a man as Mr. Tillman. Yours respectfully. The Colored Woman's Penny Toledo, O., Nov. 27, 1906. This reflects public sentiment and Chicago should be proud of Edward F. Dunne. Respectfully. Dr. A. E. SCHEBLE. 1304 Jefferson St., Toledo, O. My Dear Sirs—Permit me to express my admiration for your attitude in the matter of Senator Tillman's lecture in Orchestra Hall this evening. Your unwillingness to preside at the lecture and at the same time your determination to guard the assembly against all violence are attitudes so thoroughly consistent and at the same time so entirely in accord with the true American spirit, that I cannot forbear, this word of appreciation. I am with greatest respect, Sincerely yours, Rev. J. A. BONDTHALER. Pastor of Normal Park Presbyterian Church. Chicago, Nov. 27, 1906. Hon. E. F. Dunnne, Mayor of City of Chicago. Dear Sir:—Permit me to tender you my hearty thanks for your manly action in refusing to preside at the Tillman lecture In 1862 I did my little all to help abolish American slavery and a two years' residence in 1870 in the far south gave me an insight to the real sentiments of those who live off the labor of the Colored man. Give him an even chance with those who come here from other lands and who have not nearly so good a right to our help or sympathy. Yours respectfully. E. M. ARDEN. Cleveland, O., Nov. 26, 1906. Mayor Dunne, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:—The enclosed clipping with comment Tillman only incites the mob and in that respect at least is an anarchist. The Mayors of Philadelphia and New York refused to permit him to lecture in those cities in recent weeks, and I sincerely trust that you will at least take the stand that our school officials here took last week when they too, refused to permit him to use any of our public school buildings in which to lecture next month and therefore brought about the cancellation of his engagement. As a sample of the kind of anarchistic rot Tillman indulges in in his lecture. I am enclosing you a clipping which is an Associated Press dispatch to a local daily paper, giving the gist of a lecture at South Haven, Mich., Saturday evening. One reading will convince you of the rottenness and harmfulness, as well as falsity of the man's views anent Afro-Americans. His statement relative to the younger element of "Negroes," the one encouraging "the bloodiest of race wars," relative to the black man's heel being on the white man's neck in South Carolina, "that in referring to the 'farmers' wives of the South being prisoners for fear of Negro intrusion, are a pack of lies upon their very face. They are as ridiculous as they are harmful. "I expect a struggle," said Tillman in the lecture referred to. He is trying his level best to encourage and bring about "a struggle, the bloodiest of race wars the world has ever known." Here is another instance of the wish being father to the hope and thought. What in the world is this, if not incipient anarchy, if not the thing itself? Tillman ought to be barred from every city in the north, as he is from most of those in the South, the same care being exercised in Havana, Cuba and New Orleans to stamp out and keeep out yellow fever and smallpox. Very respectfully yours, H. C. SMITH. Editor Cleveland O. Gazette. Member of Ohio Legislature 1894 5-6,7 and 1900-01. New York City, Nov. 27. Mavor Dunne, Chicago. In refusing to preside at meeting of Senator Tillman this eveninf who wishes to inflame the minds of Chicago citizens against the persecuted Negro, accept my sincere gratitude for the manly and courageous stand you have taken for God, the constitution and the brotherhood of man. It is edifying in this age of graft and insane commercialism to find an honest and independent city official who respects his oath of office, appreciates his father laud and uses his power to arrest the wave of irrational and morbic prejudice that has for years swept our land with inhuman riot, diabolical crime and cruel and fendish murder. This is but another evidence that in some communities the law still lives in America. Justice is triumphant and that honor, integrity and mercy are still amongst us, that liberty and equality before the law are still a monument in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The temple Washington built, Grant saved, Lincoln adorned. JOHN HALLIGAN, Independent League Candidate for Congress 15th Congressional Dist., New York City. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Things Were Going All Right. As I rode up to the shanty of a Nebraska pioneer and bellied to bring some one to the door the man came from around the corner of the house with a shotgun in his hands. I asked for a drink of water and got it and then asked: "Folks gone away or sick?" "No." "Expect trouble, that you have that gun handy?" "May be trouble, but I scassly think so." "Aren't you putting in any new crops this year?" "Not yet." I took another look around and then started to ride away, but he halted me and said: "Stranger, things may look a little blue to you around here, but they are going all right. The old woman has gone to town to sue a feller who sold her a snide sewing machine. My son Joe has gone with her to sue a widder woman who promised to marry him and then thrown him down. My daughter Mary has gone with ma and Joe to sue a feller for breach of promise, and I'm stayin' home to pop the sheriff if he comes along to foreclose a mortgage on the farm. We are all right, and old Nebraska is all right, and the only thing I'm kickin' about is that we are too goldurned happy as a family"—Chicago Daily News. A Well Judged Pun. One of the judges of a city court who likes a pun and also likes to "potter around the house" was busying himself with a bottle of gold paint and a brush gliding various articles of furniture under his wife's direction. "What about this little chair?" he asked, pausing before one of those highly ornamental but useless, pieces of parlor decoration. "Do you want me to give it a rub?" His wife hesitated a moment, because she was thinking of painting it a light green tint, as that color seemed so cool to her for summer, and she did not answer. "Come, burry up!" urged the judge, poising the brush in a judicial manner. "What do you say—gulty or not guilty?"—Judge's Magazine of Fun. Servants. "You seem to forget, sir, that an officeholder is merely the servant of the people." "And you seem to forget, sir, that the servants generally run the whole shebang."-Philadelphia Press. Appreciative "I understand your wife lectured you for an hour last night." "Yes," answered Mr. Meekton. "She told me about a few of my faults." "Didn't it annoy you?" "In a way. You see, when a woman of Henrietta's gifts condescends to make a speech it does seem a shame to have such a small audience."—Washington Star. Jumper Styles. The so called "jumper" and "pina-fors" tops that have been so popular for girls from four to forty-four and over are to continue their vogue both for extra waists and whole gown models. Plaid waists with sleeveless jumpers of the skirt material, slashed and strapped in various ways, are among some of the most desirable modes exploited. For the growing girl or for her mother these styles are equally fit, though there is always a certain difference made to suit the individual. Sleeves Grow Long. It is noticeable that the sleeves are gradually and almost imperceptibly lengthening, especially for morning wear. The severe tailor made gown will invariably have the long coat sleeve. More dressy gowns, however, will have the three-quarter length, with turned back cuffs of contrasting material and color. Imagination Bacon—The author of that new novel has a wonderful imagination. Egbert—Why, have you read the book? "No, but he said that 10,000 copies of the volume had been sold."—Yonkers Statesman. No Excuse For It. "They say that a great deal of the flour we buy is impure." "Not so loud. Don't let my wife hear you. She'd use the story as an excuse for the awful bread she makes."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. NEW SHORT STORIES Frank Miles Day, the well known architect and essayist of Philadelphia, stepped carefully from a Persian rug of dull green and old rose to another rug of rich blue, for the polished floor between was dark and smooth and slippery, like ice. "Rather a good polish there, I think," said Mr. Day's host, a resident of Rittenhouse square. "Remarkably good, indeed," said Mr. Day. The host just then slipped and nearly fell, and the architect, with a laugh, went on: "A friend of mine has beautiful floors and the other day sent for a floor polisher. "I want these floors polished," he said to the man as he led him about T. "I WANT THESE FLOORS POLISHED," the house. "They are, you perceive, fine ones. They ought to come out as lustrous as rosewood. Do you think you're capable of doing them justice? Give me some proof of your thorough competence." "That's easily done, sir," the polisher replied. "You just go and ask Colonel Snow, next door but one, about my work. He'll tell you. Why governor, on the polished floor of Colonel Snow's dining room alone five persons got broken limbs last winter, while two ladies slipped down the grand staircase during the Easter week ball, and one dislocated her hip, while the other fractured three ribs. You ask Colonel Snow, sir. I polished that floor and that there staircase of his'n." A Pleasant Prospect. Superintendent E. C. Brennan of the volunteer life saving corps said of a freakish invention for life saving: "The man who tried to save life with that thing would have a pleasant prospect before him. Every minute or two a cord would be bound to snap or a pulley would be bound to break. The poor life saver would have as unpleasant an experience ahead of him as a friend of mine had last spring on a trout fishing trip. "My friend went trout fishing in Pike county. He got board at $3 a day at a small wooden farmhouse near a good stream. "Arriving late at night, his first meal at this farmhouse was breakfast, and when my friend came downstairs the next morning breakfast was spread on the kitchen table. "It was a splendid April morning. The sun had just risen behind the mountain tops. The dew sparkled on the grass. Birds sang. The air was sharp and sweet. "My friend was tremendously hungry, but he could not help smiling when he saw six boiled eggs ranged in a row beside his plate. "'Come, come, madam,' he said to the farmer's wife, 'I admit I've a good appetite, but you really shouldn't have boiled all those eggs. Two should have been enough.' "Waal,' said the woman, 'ye mout with all well try them six fust, an' if there hain't no good ones among 'em I'll boll ye half a dozen more.'"—New York Tribune. Sherman's Capacity For Friendship. General Sherman's capacity for loyalty to his old soldiers was so expansive that it included their children. One of these, Mrs. Lousse Morgan Sill, author of the poem "In Sun or Shade," relates an instance of the general's friendship for herself and her sister after the death of their father, General Morgan L. Smith. In settling the latter's estate some information was needed, which only General Sherman could supply, and it was needed in a hurry. At that time the general was living in New York and was being lionized socially. He was not a young man, and the wear and tear of social requirements was more or less burdensome. Mrs. Sill, then a young girl, wrote him hurriedly for the information needed, and his reply came by the next mail. It gave the full details required and covered two sheets of note paper. In it the general stated that he had just returned from a dinner party, and, though it was after midnight, he wrote at that hour in order to promote the interests of the children of his "favorite general, Morgan L. Smith." But-if they had been the children of one of his favorite soldiers, were he a brave one, it would have been all the same to Sherman—Harrer's Weekly. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Miss Amella Bingham is the latest actress to be mentioned as a future star under the Shubert management. Sir Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore will be seen in "Captain Drew on Leave" when they come to America. When Ethel Barrymore completes her tour in "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire" she will be seen in a new comedy, "Kathleen," written by H. V. Esmonde. Miss Lillian Russell says that her favorite operatic role was the heroine in "The Grand Duchess." Her favorite dramatic role is yet to be written. George Edwardes, the Loudon producing manager, is responsible for the statement that the speculation of the theatrical trust in that city last year involved them in a loss of $330,000. Liebler & Co. will produce a musical version of "Mrs. Wiggs." It will be a novelty in that it will be the first time a musical production has been shabby costumed by intention. There will be no chorus. "The Sweet Girl," an English version of "Das Suesse Maedel," an operetta popular for the past few seasons in Germany, has recently been produced in Nottingham, England. The piece has been often promised, but has never yet received an American presentation. SHORT STORIES. It is said that 7,700 husbands deserted their wives in the city of New York last year. The earliest creatures which were furnished with eyes were the trilobites. The sense of hearing did not exist for ages afterward. With face lathered on one side and the other neatly shaved, the driver of a New York hook and ladder wagon was observed racing his equipage through the streets. He was only half shaved when the alarm came. The following announcement to the hungry was posted one day in the front of a restaurant conducted by a Greek in the Horseshoe section of Jersey City: "Kornut beeef and garbage in fin stile too-day." The proprietor said he made the sigh all by himself. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California suggests for language reform that an international academy might be founded to have authority in the matters of language changes, just as the French academy and the Spanish academy have done. EDITORIAL FLINGS. Boston is 276 years old and has an undoubted right to wear spectacles, eat soft food and be cranky—Chicago Tribune. A spiritualistic medium who aspires to do something striking should get into communication with the shade of Noah Webster.—Rochester Democrat. Pittsburg is to have a new $10,000-000 union station, but from the stories we have been hearing about her she is more in need of an addition to her fall.—Washington Post. A dog has succeeded in swimming across the English channel. Some disappointment will be felt that it was not a man that did it. But the benefits to accrue to the world from the fact will be just as great in the case of the dog as the man.—Pittsburg Dispatch. GERMAN GLEANINGS. In Germany more than 500 out of every thousand women reach the age of fifty years, while only 413 men live so long. Every month about 3,700 articles are left in the Berlin street cars by their owners, about 600 of them being women's purses. Experiments made in Germany show that butter keeps best if mixed with 3 to 5 per cent of salt. If the percentage of salt is over 6, the result is less satisfactory. The empress of Germany has contributed a large sum of money to aid in the formation of an institution to be devoted to the saving of infant life, the mortality of infants in Germany being surpassed in Europe only by that of Austria and Russia. BOHEMIAN PROVERBS Do the hard things first. It's hard to work, but harder to want. The heart that loves must be prepared to suffer. The world doesn't owe you a living. It was here first. Money isn't everything, but it often makes a good imitation. The seven ages of man—Baby, Willie, Will, William, Billie, Bill, Old Bill. Some people imagine that cunning and wisdom are synonymous, but cunning is as plentiful as wisdom is scarce. It is a shock to the man who thinks he is world famous to discover that there are people in the next block who never heard of him—Paul Vincent in Bohemian. MEN AND THEIR EYES. Dante Gabriel Rossetti had gray blue eyes. Von Moltke, the soldier, had bright blue eyes. Julius Caesar had black eyes of great brilliance. Darwin's gray eyes looked out from under heavy overhanging brows. Robert Louis Stevenson had brown eyes, humorous and very expressive. 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Bo great is the craze for plaids that. even footwear hes suécumoed to It, and now in addition to plaid stockings and very pretty ones at that—shoes with leather yamp and plaid cloth up per are worn. ‘Waistcoats Popular. _ ‘The waistcoat is to be much of a feature of street suite this season, as last. The tendency this fall is toward waisteoats of velvet to match the suit or of checked velvet. Fashionable Colors. In broadcloth the range of colorings ts particularly beautifdl—soft hyacinth blues, the new Russian greens, jacque- minot, red and the crushed fruit shades. White Cottars, Piala alli colla®s to Sit sbtrt walats | with neat turnovers of white always are good style. ‘Waist In Shadow Stripe. ‘The waist here shown is made of a shadow striped foule in tones of brown, with collar auf cuffs of a plain brown cloth. The shield and half cuffs » - ag AK : tet A SNC EAA ANS PSPS ES aN aw SSR SUS ANE : Os — a eA) Nig 4 UREN hh = pen Hiyy Weg ES are of lace, or they might be made of the plain material, braided. The front yest effect is gained by narrow tucks turned toward the front. The sleeves may be full lenxth or shorter, and the waist is suitable to development in any of the new waistings, including me hair, silk, cashmere and voile. EMANUEL’S WONDERFUL. Foot Lotion—Ointment cures corns and perspiratoin. Sore feet, etc. Ask the druggist, ointment 50 cents, per box, Lotion per bottle 50 cents. 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 flat. L. W. Washington, General Agent tor ‘The, Broad Ax In the Hyde Park District. From on and after this date until further notice to the contrary, L. W. 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CHICAGO Tel.-Douglas 1565 Notary Public | i Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND | RENTING FIRE INSURANCE | Bates Bullding | 3687 STATE STREET CHICAGO | : Sandy W. Trice & Oo. 2918 State Street i l NeW VEDArMENt store 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 Trad- ing Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies’ Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor sets. A spierdid assortment of Shoes Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men’s Baibriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pante, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale N>cligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy ilne of Neckwear and H*ndkerchiefs. See cur Novelties in Jewelry, Witch-chaine Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs 2nd Safety Pins. Boys’ Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes a+4 Shirts. | Sea Montgomery's DR. J. ARTHUR COTTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ioe me 2todp.m ‘Tel. 8243 Calumet : top m CHICAGO Tetam cuca vows { Rigas me Dr. W. 4. Marshall Physician aad Surgeon Vours—10 to 12 A.M. 2 to 6:30 P.M. and Rights—Sundays, 3 to 5 P. M. Special Hours by Appointment. $482 STATE STREET CHICAGO Medical Examiner and Court Physician for the Foresters No. 7895, Re BRICK C0. Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street oat ie eee cHicao ee see re eu Dr. M. J. Brown holds tree clinics at Provident Hos- vital free dispensary eye, ear, nose and throat department, Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday. Huurs 2 to ¢ To JUS Breer SOUTH SIDE TAILORING CO. Not Incorporated. ‘ io tetan M-Ontsa, Pro: Sars mis Se ME ct cwict Atation bad Las ee, ‘Telephone Hyde Park S937, S501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO