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OUR REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTMAS or the Holiday Season The Meek and Lowly Jesus of Nazareth Was Not the Founder of a New Religious System Nor Doctrine. Vol. XII OUR REFLECTION ON or the Holi The Meek and Nazareth Was M of a New Reli Nor Do Once more all the people residing in all parts of the so-called civilized or the Christian world are in the midst of the holiday season, for this coming Tuesday December 25th, is Christmas, and with joyful hearts and good feeling many of them will celebrate Christmastide in honor and in commemoration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, who was born in the land of Judea over nineteen centuries ago. From his great contemporaries Philo and Josephus, we learn that Joseph, his father, and Mary, his mother, who was also the mother of three of four other children aside from Jesus, that "they were extremely poor, and were unable to give him any educational advantages, that all but eighteen months of his life was devoted to working at his trade, that of a carpenter." Consequently Jesus grew up to manhood totally unacquainted with any of the rudiments pertaining to an education; it is true that when he began to preach the people were attracted to him by the wonderful magnetism which he possessed and the bold stand he assumed against the priesthood, for Jesus was the greatest socialist or anarchist or infidel of his day and generation. It is also true that Jesus was unlike Moses, Buddha, Zeno, Mahomet, Confucius, or Socrates, for all those great moral teachers or philosophers were the founders of new religious systems or doctrines but Jesus did not give expression to one single new thought nor truth during the eighteen months of his ministry. Even the golden rule which his followers claim he was the author of was promulgated by Confucius, the great Chinese lawyer and philosopher, five hundred years before the Christian era; it was the mission of the meek and lowly Jesus to re-clothe and re-voice those touching and enobling sentiments which had become dim in the hearts of the multitude at the time he walked and talked to those who had gathered around him. What Jesus desired principally to do was to reform the Jewish priesthood, and for endeavoring to perform that act the Jewish people finally succeeded in persuading the Roman authorities to arrest Jesus for violating the Roman laws. He was tried, found guilty, according to the Roman and Jewish laws and customs, and forty days after his death upon the cross the Church of Christ was established in the holy city of Jerusalem, and the elders of that church were all circumcised Jews. That new sect did not progress very rapidly, and at the end of two hundred years it had almost become extinct. Its adherents were at the first meek and humble—they were very careful to refrain from impressing their religious ideas upon the gentiles and the pagans, but as time went by Constantine, the Great, Emperor of Rome, who murdered his wife and children, became a convert to the teachings of the religion of the cross and he adopted it as the religion of Rome; then its adherents became bold, dogmatic and extremely revengeful to those who refused to march under its banner. Tertullian, one of the Latin fathers of the church at that time and a devoted follower of the saluted Constantine, exclaimed, "I expect the greatest of all spectacles, the last and eternal judgment of the universe. How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates who persecuted the name of the Lord. Liquifying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the followers of Jesus; so many sage philosophers blushing in red hot flames with their deluded followers; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ." To a greater or less extent the adherents of Jesus, in this, the twentieth century entertain the same bitter ideas and hatred against those whose religious views are contrary to their's and to a large extent their sentiments are in harmony with the sentiments which Tertullian entertained against that same class in his day and time. It is, therefore, a remarkable fact that the 500 million people who are scattered throughout the world who profess to have the name of Jesus encircled in their hearts will wrangle for their religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, and endure any and everything for it but they utterly refuse or fail to live for it. Many of the theologians and the other followers of Jesus have for almost two thousand years continued to rail against the Jewish people or the Roman authorities for causing his death. They seem to lose sight of the fact that if he was sent to this earth from his heavenly father for the special purpose of judging the living and the dead and to redeem mankind from sin and corruption, it made no material dieffence whether he embraced death upon the cross or died from some disease, for he was subject to all the laws of nature, and none of natures' laws were suspended when he entered nor when he left this world of pain and sorrow. Every rational being is willing to agree with the theologians that Jesus suffered intense agony while he was upon the cross, but that suffering or pain only lasted a few hours, and it was nothing in comparison to the honor and the glory which has been and will continue to be heaped upon him by his five hundred million followers, for it must be admitted that Jesus is ten thousand times more alive today and a million times more beloved since his death upon the cross. There is no disposition on our part on this occasion, to enter into a long discussion on the merits or demerits or the superiority. of the religion founded by the followers of Jesus, who boast that it excels in purity, morality and benevolence all the ancient or older systems of religion. Suffice it to say on this point that wherever the religion of the cross has prevailed race prejudice, slavery, immorality, HEW TO THE LINE. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, looking slightly to the right. The background is a dark, blurred texture. There is no visible text or additional details in the image.] --- ALDERMAN JOHN BURNS. Who has made a splendid record in the city Council in the past four years, is being boomed by his many friends, for City Clerk of Chicago. misery, poverty, degradation, drunkness vice and crime of every description have always flourished like a green bay tree. And more evil and injustice exist in the world to-day than existed prior to the advent of the Christian religion. In conclusion, from the bottom of our warm, sympathetic heart, we again wish the numerous friends and readers of "The Broad Ax" a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! On Tuesday Christmas day, no doubt the churches will be crowded to hear songs and praises chanted unto Jesus, but the religious exercises will be entered into more from custom and formality than anything else. Loudly and over-dressed women will be in evidence, and they will be so busy in inspecting each other's new bonnets, rich silk dresses, diamond rings and long automobile coats that they will be unable to inform anyone what the preachers were talking about or whether Jesus died for the good of humanity five hundred or five thousand years ago. The gentlemen who may happen to drop into the churches will be engaged in figuring up how to make ten million dollars the coming year by increasing the prices on all the necessities of life, thereby squeezing the very lifeblood out of their unfortunate fellow-creatures, that the remarks of the ministers generally speaking will not leave a lasting impression on their minds. The remainder of the holiday season the theatres, the ballrooms and the banquet halls will be crowded, and the Christians, or those who pretend to reverence the name of Jesus, will vie with the ungodly, the Jew, the heathen, the freethinker and the infidel, in indulging in social excesses, eating, drinking, and in celebrating his death upon the cross in Bacchanalian style. They will cling to the olden idea, "eat, drink and be merry to-day, for to-morrow you may die." In the midst of all these social gayeties, wealth and elegance, the needy the poor widows, the little orphans, and the outcasts will be almost ignored and forgotten, for there are numerous homes and hovels throughout the Christian world where the bright sunlight never enters and hope has never been, where day follows day in never changing toil, and life leads only to the prison or the work-house or the grave. Realizing the truthfulness of these reflections let each and everyone of us from henceforth embrace the "religion of the future, the religion of love, reason and humanity! Then, without any selfish motives, we will feel that we cannot perform any holier nor higher duty for the gods or for suffering humanity than to cheer the faint-hearted, raise the fallen, administer to the sick and the afflicted—throw our protecting arms around the motherless and fatherless little children—scatter flowers and sunshine into every darkened home. In conclusion, from the bottom of our warm, sympathetic heart, we again wish the numerous friends and readers of "The Broad Ax" a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! We give several columns of this is sue of The Sentinel to a reproduction from The Broad Ax, giving an account of the wonderful meeting held in Chicago as an aftermath of the Tillman flasco. It will do our readers good to read every word of it. Beyond question it was a wonderful meeting and one which not only the Chicagoans may take pride, but the Colored people throughout the country have just cause to congratulate themselves upon its success. It was an illustration of those conflicts where defeat is turned to victory. The Colored people of Chicago put up a great fight, and while they did not succeed in keeping the firebrand out of that city, nor prevent his hurling his insult into the faces of the race and of the good people of Chicago, they nevertheless broke the stinging points off his poisoned darts, rendering them not only practically harmless, but positively helpful to our cause. It has been a long time since people have been stirred as they were in Chicago. The incident aroused to a high pitch much of the latent fire which still exists in the bosoms of our friends. There were some remarkable addresses made at the meeting, full of wit, humor and solid good sense and true patriotism. It is hoped that the fight will be kept up on this montebank—but that it will be a fight where appeal is made to intellectual and moral forces and that there will be no threat or thought of appeal to violence. However great the provocation, let us keep our good temper. Let the wild ass bray; the more he gets mad, the quicker he will be whipped out of his boots. Tillman is the collossal misfit of the age. Where is the Negro who would be willing to exchange places with such a wretch?—The Sentinel East St. Louis, Ill. Melville G. Holding, manager for the American Window Plate Glass Company, Pittsburg, Pa., has removed his office from 16th and Canal st., to suite 516 Ogden Bldg., 34 S. Clark street. The next issue of The Broad Ax. will contain a full report of the great speech delivered by Clarence S. Darrow, in Bethel Church, Sunday afternoon, December 16th. VALE, TILLMAN! SPECIAL NOTICE "AM I My Brothers Keeper?" Rev. F. A. Nimits Refutes Statements Made by Senator Tillman, Relative to the Race PROBLEM. The lecture of Senator B. R. Tillman of South Carolina, delivered here on Nov. 6 elicited unfavorable as well as favorable comment from those who heard him, although but few of the senator's statements were refuted Rev. F. A. Nimits, pastor of St. Paul's M. E. church, declined to let the master pass unnoticed and in a masterful way, by delivering an address Sunday evening, in which he pleaded for true and unselfish brotherly love and a fair deal for all classes, the pastor challenged with truth and honesty every doubtful statement, every critical reference and every unreasonable assertion of the statesman, who is known in national legislation for his uncouth and unrefined manner of expression. Taking for his text, the line "Am I my brother's keeper? IV. 9-Gen," the speaker convinced his hearers that few Chirstians answer the question correctly. Rev. Nimits expressed himself as not finding fault with the method and those concerned with such, by which the appearance of the Senator was secured in the city, but the fact that our intelligent citizens approved with their cheers and applause some of the most ungentlemanly, decided unchristian and repulsive statements, seemed hard to understand. "Should I pass such an imposition upon our intelligent citizens of this, a purely Christian community, unchallenged, then I am only worthy that God drive me of the power of speech,' is what the speaker said in introducing his subject. Mr. Nimits referred briefly to the scoffing sarcastic manner in which the Senator dismissed his reference to the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. He showed that the Senator was false in his statement that the Negro is now uncivilized; he denied the charge that the Negro woman and the Negro race is naturally immoral. In this connection he referred to the debased social condition of the Negroes in the slave time and for which the white masters were entirely responsible, giving their slaves no other treatment than accorded to so many cattle. He also accounted for lynching to be merely race hatred, in which intelligent and refined people lose their reason for the time being. Crimes equally as atrocious are committed in the higher circles of society in the north, but the white criminals are protected from the publicity of their atrocity. Examples were given from trials of people in New York 400 set. That the Negro people are less intelligent naturally, was directly refuted by dwelling upon the Egyptian type of civilization of prehistoric time, the Egyptians being a branch of the Hamitic, race, the first Ethiopians known to history. Mr. Nimits defined Senator Tillman as being a state's right man, with the ardent and direct purpose in lite to re-establish the olden time aristocracy by demolishing the democratic principle involved in extending free citizenship to the Negro race, there being no political meaning applied to aristocracy and democracy. Dwelling upon the education of the Negro, the pastor presented a number of clear cut arguments, quoting prominent educational and religious men. He proved Mr. Tillman's defense of South --- Carolina's valor during the Civil war and the Revolution to be absolutely false, showing that Massachusetts was the leading commonwealth in every respect. These arguments were based entirely on definite historical events. The close of Rev. Nimits address was an especially splendid effort, in which by his capable manner the pastor portrayed the soldiers of the Union battling side by side with the Negro. A glowing tribute was paid to the black man through the words of Gen. Jarson, Rev. Beecker and other eminent characters. Siding with Senator Tillman some right judge that Rev. Nimits is incapable of handling the subject properly. Rev. Nimits himself admits the fact it must not be taken for granted however, that Tillman is considered a frantic. In his discourse, Rev. Nimits ably refuted such facts and statements which only a casual observer would doubt. He only pointed to facts in history which corroborated his statements. In a masterful and careful way, the pastor during the entire address refrained from venturing his own personal opinion of the Senator or his statements. What the Senator said was repeated and counter arguments presented. After the address, when questions were called for, C. W. Curran stated that judging from his observations of three years' residence in the south, Senator Tillman does not represent the better class or type of people in the south. He is a type of the disappointed land and slave owner, those not pleased with the national government; he is only a damagee unsatisfied with present conditions or a one who desires to see a general upheaval of social conditions, whether they be right or wrong.—The Gazette, Stevens Point, Wis. For the benefit of the many readers of The Broad Ax it may not be out of place to state that Rev. Nimits, is one of the ablest white ministers in Wisconsin.—Editor A WHITE MAN'S TREATMENT. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 12.—W. H. Daniels exp-police officer of Norfolk, thirty-eight years old, who was charged with having criminally assaulted nine-year-old Annie Ruby Bryant of Berkley Ward, in September last, in a hearing before Police Justice Simmons today, was dismissed of the charge, on the ground that the evidence was not strong enough to hold him. The little girl was in court and testified that Daniels assaulted her, Daniels, in a clear statement, denied the charge made by the girl. This article simply speaks of a white man's idea of justice when a white man is the defendant. Just suppose, what would have happened, had the man been a Negro? It would simply have been a lynching by the mob on the outside of the court-house, or a lynching by a jury on the inside of the court house. If the innocent Negroes who are in their graves and the innocent Negroes in the jails and penitentiaries could be mustered out in public array—we would have an army of so many thousands strong, that it might serve in some day to call attention to the great crime against the Negro for which some one will have to answer.—The St. Luke Herald, Richmond, Va. THE BROAD AX. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promulgate and at all time uphold the 'truth' principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, Protestantism, Presbyterianism, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republics, Knuth of Labor, or any one else can have the 'truth' language is proper and the 'truth' is Dead. The Broads 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, IL, as Second-clam 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. Senator Tillman's Offense. Whatever may be thought of Senator Tillman's motives, there can hardly be difference as to the fact that the spirit in which he discusses the race-issue, his speech at Chicago being characteristic, is a grave hindrance to any useful solution. It breathes defiance, bitterness, intolerance, and in every syllable exasperates the baser passions which at best are hard to deal with on such a question. Mutual animosities are the very essence of the race issue, but Senator Tillman, instead of striving to allay and remove them, seems to strain all his energies to inflame them. This incompatible and arrogant attitude on the part of a southern man of undoubted ability and influence is in every way to be regretted at this time, when there are many ominous signs of increasingly critical strain between the races in those extensive sections where they are in closest contact. While it exasperates northern sensibilities and indeed seems as if expressly designed by the Senator to have that effect, even more harmful consequences fall upon the south, multiplying the discouraging difficulties with which the progressive and earnest minds of both races there are bravely and conscientiously struggling. The fact that we cannot get away from is that the two races are here, mainly massed in a half dozen southern states, and here they will remain. It is not a question whether they shall live together, for that is settled beyond the power of recall, but of how they shall live together, whether peaceably, tolerantly, even helpfully, or in a relation of intensifying hostility ripening inevitably into a day of war and horror. What is needed is the precise reverse of the spirit which the South Carolina Senator perversely exhibits —moderation patience, even benevolence and at least forbearance. The element from which most is to be hoped is the moral and high-minded sentiment, in the south, reinforced by the intelligent self-interest of the progressive business community. It is steadily doing much and getting into position to do more to ameliorate race adjustments, and it is little short of a high crime for any man, north or south, and especially for any southern man of note, to throw obstacles in the way and to make worse a situation already bad and dangerous.—The Mirror, Kansas City, Mo. Tillman Spoke in Chicago In the face of a determined opposition, Senator B. R. Tillman spoke in Chicago Tuesday evening, Nov. 27th and confined himself to the discussion of the "Race Question" of this country. Lest serious trouble be precipitated, Mayor Dunne ordered some forty or more plain clothes policemen to guard him while in the city, and every reserve in the city was about the hall where he spoke. Even Tillman, with all of his bragadocio superiority, must have keenly felt the cool and unfriendly reception he received at Chicago. Mayor Dunne, himself a Democrat, refused to preside at the meeting on account of not caring to introduce Tillman to a Chicago audience so damnable and disreputable is the character of the man. When told of the opposition to his speaking in the city and the prospects of an injunction being served on him and the hospital association to prevent it, he whined, like the cur he is, and began to talk about suppressing "free speech," which he said was responsible for the great Civil War. That it was the suppression of free speech that caused that internecine war everybody now knows, but it was the long suppression of the free speech of the black man instead of the white man that caused it. It's just such Blatant mouth Southern firebrands as Tillman that are retarding the growth of the South, and it will continue to be the cow's tall section of the United States until there are no more Tillmans and Vardamans to disgrace her in the North. Had such criminals as Tillman and Vardaman spent as much time in teaching the Negro how to be men instead of scullions they perhaps would feel a great deal different tovard the black man than they do. With the clansman being driven from the playhouse of the North and Tillmanism driven from the lecture fields, or, when presented, done so at the peril of the actors or the speakers, it begins to look as if protesting on the part of the Negro in the North amounts to something after all. Slowly that protest spirit is going to travel South, and the day is not far distant when a strong protest from the combined Negro population of even a community in the heart of the South will be heard or blue and black blood will flow in copious quaintities. The Negro has prayed for relief ever since he was emancipated and yet his condition has grown worse from year to year. He is now waking up and is saying: "What's the use. It's death if you live and death if you die, so why not sell but as dearly as possible"—that is to say, when you start over the dark waters by criminal violence take all the company you can with you. The Lord still lives, but the man who sits down and waits for the Lord to fight his battles here on earth will find himself welghed in a balance and found wanting. But, after all, the Hospital Association seemed about as anxious to have Tillmanism talk as did he himself, for it was offered $5,000 cash by prominent Negroes to have Tillman cancel his engagement, but refused it, which clearly shows it had an ulterior motive in having Tillman there aside from the monetary consideration. — The Republican, Seattle, Wash. Well said! Well said! brother Cayton; BEN TILLMAN AND THE TIMES DISPATCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch has been vehemently defending Senator Tillman in his right to speak in Chicago and elsewhere. This was before the speech was delivered. After the publication of his remarks, it makes the following observation in its issue of Nov. 29th, 1906: Of course, Senator Tillman must rot be suppressed by Negro intolerance, but we wish he would suppress himself. He is getting a good bit of free advertising that helps his lecture business, but he is making a sorry spectacle of himself prancing up and down the country, abusing the Negroes calling them natural born liars and thieves, and declaring that "lynch law is all we have left." In strutting and mouthing in this silly and disgusting way, he certainly does not represent the decent white men of the South, and they are growing very tired of his antics. No possible good to either race can come out of his violent and incendiary speeches, and if he does not stop advertising himself in this way, the public will conclude that he is doing it for revenue only. We do not see that there should be any doubt about his doing it for revenue only, "for he himself hath said it"—The Planet, Richmond, Va. OHIO CHURCH CANCELS TILL MAN'S ENGAGEMENT. Result of Cursing Which Taunts of Chicago Colored People Goaded Him to Make. (Special to The New York Times.) Bellaire, O., Dec. 10—Senator Tillman would not promise not to swear he came here to lecture, and as a result Bellaire will not hear him declaim tomorrow night, as had been honored. Tillman had been engaged to speak before the congregation of the First M. E. Church of the town, but, after the recent Chicago episode, when he is alleged to have sworn at some one in the audience who was annoying him, the Bellaire trustees wrote, asking him to pledge himself not to swear when in Bellaire. The senator's answer was in effect that he didn't know anything about Bellaire, and that the town would have to run chances the same as he would do. That settled it. The date was cancelled. Notwithstanding this fact there are several eyed fools in this city, who claim that "the fight made on Senator Tillman by the Colored people in Chicago was in vain." TO MY OLD FRIENDS AND PATRONS. I wish to announce to my many old friends and patrons, that I am permanently located at 264 E. 31st street, near Michigan ave., Phone Douglas 9477, and for the holdiday season I am displaying a fine and complete line of watches, diamonds, and jewelry. My experience at the bench for 35 years as a watchmaker, enables me to do first class repairing, and one trial will convince you of this. Give me your jewelry trade and repairing, and you will be assured of entire satisfaction. Soliciting your continued patronage, and hoping to have the pleasure of serving my many old friends and patrons and the public in general who favor me with their work. 264 E. 31st street TILLMAN AND SOUTH CAROLINA. Tillman, the lecturer, does not seem to be indorsed by the leading journals of his own state. The Charleston New and Courier asks: "Why do the northern people invite him? Is it because they want to hear him or because they want to embarrass the south?" And the Columbia State says: "The north unfortunately insists upon taking the Tillmans and Vardamans seriously—which is more than is done for them in their own land." But, as the Boston Transcript remarks, "When their own land makes one a senator and the other a governor it looks like something more than a practical joke."—Springfield, (Ill.) News. TOO MUCH FUSS OVER TILLMAN. The Negroes of Chicago made entirely too much fuss over Ben Tillman during his slimy visit here. All that could be done and all that was necessary to be done about his coming here to traduce and blackguard the Negroes so far as the Colored people were concerned was done weeks ago by a level-headed set of men and women under the management of the Illinois branch of the Niagara Movement, without any noise or public advertisement for the chief Negro-hater. Nothing good to the race has grown out of the public howl made on the eve of his lecture except Mayor Dunne's refusal to preside at the lecture, which could have been secured without giving Tillman the extra amount of free advertisement we gave him. It is unfortunate that the alarm and call to mob violence and desperate measures was raised at the time. It is more to be regretted still that some of our best and coolest headed race workers allowed themselves to fly off at a tangent and at once become public distractors at the behest and call of a man and a newspaper which for the past seven or eight years have used their influence in Chicago to impress a certain class of white people that the Negroes and their churches and preachers and good women are unfit for civilized society. The average Negro is too quick to forget and often lets down his own personal and professional dignity by a little over-zeal and the love of doing for his people. There was too much fuss over Tillman.—The Conservator, December 1, 1906. The wind jammers, cowards and trimmers composing the Illinois branch of the Niagara movement in this city, cannot and they will not attempt to do one thing for the better, ment of the Afro-American race, without the consent of Mrs. C. P. Woolley, who has on many occasions declared through the columns of the daily newspapers that "the Negro is not the equal of the white man and to a greater or less extent every Negro must have some white person to boss him." Owing to the fact that we are so busy, at this season of the year, we scarcely have time to express our boundless contempt for the writer of the above article, and we have no more space to waste on silmy and immoral creatures who expend all of their time in barking and snapping at our heels. Man Who Wanted to Protect Women Accused of Cruelty. (Special Telegram.) Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 18—Colonel James English, Jr., chief of the staff of Governor Terrell, who wanted to organize a "ku klux klan" for the protection of southern women, was to-day sued for a divorce by his wife, who is a daughter of Mrs. Rebecca Lowe, formerly president of the National Federation of Women's clubs. Cruelty and intoxication are alleged. Col. English, is a fair sample of that class of white gentlemen in the South who put in much of their time in consorting with a certain class of Negro women, and the rest of their time they put in in drinking whisky, gambling, flogging their wives, and in leading a mob to defend the honor of some lady whom they would not be above ravishing. MR. AND MRS. JOHN W. HARDY CELEBRATED THEIR 20TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Appomattox Club, Holds Election of Officers. The Appomattox Club, held its election of officers last Saturday evening, and the fight was very interesting. Mr. A. C. Harris, succeeded himself as President, by a vote, which showed he was the most popular man in the club. His opponent was E. H. Wright. The list of officers are as follows for the year of 1907. President, A. C. Harris, 1st Vice-President, Col. John R. Marshall, 2nd Vice-President, Prof. Wm. Emanuel, Correspondent Secretary; David Hawley, Financial Secretary; Col. James Johnson, Treasurer; James Nelson. Directors for one year Paul Herrin, Wm. Whorton, Frank Brown, James Woodard, L. B. Anderson and Abe Jones. Two years, John Morton, W. H. Curd, and B. F. Moseley. PITTSBURGH PEOPLE INVEST IN BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY'S STOCK. At the special stockholders meeting of the Black Diamond Development Company, held at Bethel Church in November, Mr. Henry Jones, who was sent by Pittsburgh stockholders as a delegate to this meeting to represent their interests, invited the members of the Board of Directors of the Black Diamond Development Company to visit Pittsburgh and give his friends a chance to purchase Black Diamond Development Company's stock. In accordance with this invitation Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Rev. A. J Carey, L. L. Jones and Fred A. Wescott left for Pittsburgh on Tuesday December 4th. A meeting had been arranged for Thursday night and was held in Ebenezer Church, at which time each of the Chicago delegates delivered an address, outlining to the people the history of the Black Diamond Development Company and what it had accomplished during its first year of existence. The other speakers of the evening were Rev. Willis W. Brown of Ebenezer Church, Rev. J. M. Townsend of Wylie ave., Church and Rev. I. S. Lee, all of these gentlemen, in glowing terms, vouched to the public as to the reputation of the Chicago visitors and as each one of these gentlemen had personally gone over the proposition prior to this meeting and had satisfied themselves to such an extent that they had purchased stock for themselves in the Black Diamond Development Company, they were able to advise all the Pittsburgh people to buy all the stock they could afford to; as the proposition was practically new to Pittsburgh people several requests were made at this meeting for personal interviews later in the week. The requests were granted, and Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, L. L. Jones and Fred A. Wescott remained in Pittsburgh for 10 days, having as their headquarters the parlors of the Colonial Hotel 1300 Wylie ave., were all visitors were received and prospective buyers of stock were given an opportunity to go into details regarding the Black Diamond Development Company. This visit to Pittsburgh resulted in the Chicago men bringing back subscriptions for several thousand shares several of which ran as high as $500. As the delegates are all business men in Chicago and are unable to leave their several offices for any length of time the Chicago people will be given an opportunity to purchase what little stock there is remaining unsold. Chicago people should certainly not allow outside cities to come in and take advantage of Chicago's good opportunities, when it is first offered to Chicago people. If Chicago's reputation is to be sustained in "knowing a good thing when they see it" the balance of this stock will not be allowed to be circulated in other cities. The Black Diamond Development Company paid every dollar it owed in the world on November 1st, and had completed the payment on its property and all of its contracts. They have entered into a contract with the Standard Oil Company for the sale of all of its gas for all time to come. Since Nov. 1st they have increased their holdings from 80 acres to 630 acres and have let a contract for the drilling of 25 more wells in addition to the five wells already drilled in their property. The pipe line will be connected to the Black Diamond Development Company's gas wells on Feb. 1st, and there will never be another share of stock for sale by the Company after Feb. 1st, as the income from the sale of gas will be sufficient to pay for all of the new property and the drilling of 25 wells besides paying good dividends to every stockholder. Any member of the Board of Directors will be glad to offer you all the information pertaining to stock in the Black Diamond Development Company and furnish you with any of their literature, such as reports on the property, maps, etc. Every stockholder in the Black Diamond Development Company is to be congratulated on the interest they have taken in interesting their friends in buying stock in their Company, and as every stock holder is a partner in the business they should not lose one moments time in getting their friends to buy stock in their Company as the success of the Company mean their success. Every stockholder can learn something to his advantage by personally calling on any member of the Board of Directors. Black Diamond Development Company Special Messenger dispatch- ed to Pittsburgh. Owing to the interest manifested by Pittsburgh people in the Black Diamond Development Company and wishing to have some of their representatives pass upon the Black Diamond Development Company's title to property, and the validity of their contracts Mr. J. W. Lindgren. Secretary to Fred A. Wescott, manager of the Black Diamond Development Company, was intrusted with the responsibility of transferring these valuable papers from Chicago to Pittsburgh to be delivered into the hands of Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Treasurer. Mr. Lindgren received a telegram from Pittsburgh at 6 o'clock at night, instructing him not to trust these papers to the mail, but to take first train for Pittsburgh. At 8:30 o'clock he boarded a Baltimore & Ohio train at Grand Central Station on Friday night, and on Saturday noon delivered to Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams all of the necessary papers. Mr. Lindgren knowing the value of the papers and their safety intrusted to him, was more than glad to reach Pittsburgh, his destination and relieve himself of the responsibility which had rested on him during his trip. Pittsburgh people were quick to realize the importance of this move and many congratulations were outed the Board of Directors for their manner of doing business and in using every precaution to protect the interests of the stockholders. THE FOLLOWING LETTERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. I took charge of the remains of the late Daniel Hammond of 5118 Lasalle st. and conducted his funeral on which occasion there were a number of sleeping car porters present. Mr. Daniel Hammond was a member of F. A. RAWLINS. the Sleeping Car Porter's Voluntary Subscription Fund Association. The simple manner, and perfect system, also the prompt manner, in which the death claim was paid highly commends them to any one. I take pleasure, in recommending the Sleeping Car Porter's Voluntary Subscription Fund Association, the promptness in which the benefit on the death of my husband Daniel Hammon was settled. I am well pleased wishing them much success. Respectfully, HATTIE HAMMOND. 5118 LaSalle st. Chicago, Dec. 15, 1906. CHIPS Dr. A. York 4711 State st., will spend the holidays in Springfield, Ill. Mr. Tenny Bluret 3022 State st., left the city Wednesday to spend a month in Detroit, Mich. Mr. Fred Crowthers, 3821 Dearbron st., is confined to his bed with pneumonia. Lieut. Jno. E. Hawkins 2728 Wabash spent Tuesday in Joliet, Ill., on business. Mr. J. Harry Harris of Milwaukee spent last week in the city he stopped at the Keystone Hotel. The Williams & Walker Co., spent Tuesday in Chicago en-route from Racine, WIs., to Joliet, Ill. The Fellowship Club gives a dance Xmas. night at the Douglas Club for its members and friends. Alderman P., J. O'Connell, will if he lives be returned to the City Council from the 31st ward. Mr. and Mrs. M. Stephenson of Momence, Ill., are in the city spending the holidays with their daughter Mrs. J. Jones, 576 West Monroe st. The Professional matinee of "The Count of No Account" given at the Pekin, Friday for Cole & Johnson was a grand success. Mrs. P. J. Morris of New York City is expected in the city Monday to spend the holidays with Mrs. Mattie Smith 2816 Wabash ave. Mr. and Mrs. Sam wheeler 4728 Langley ave., entertained a few friends Thursday night in honor of their guests Mr. and Mrs. Robinson of St. Paul. The State of Illinois is considering the purchase of the property on the corner of 30rd and Dearborn sts, where it will build an armory for the Lighth Regiment. Tuesday night was Eighth Regiment night at Cole & Johnson's show. The downstairs was packed with uniform men while the boxes were occupied by the officers. If a few white men who are mixing up the races were lynched, this white heat of lynching would probably cool down a bit.—The Cambridge Mirror. Former Alderman Charles J. Boyd, has started his Aldermanic boom after resting up for three or four years for re-election to the City Council from the 30th ward. Michael G. Walsh, who came near busting into the City Council several years ago is now one of the efficient Deputy Coroners of Cook County and he is still popular with the Republicans in the Town of Lake. "The Negro in the future will have to look to the South for his friends," said: an eminent Negro preacher at Teyarkana last Sunday. When Christian folk look to hell for their succor then will it be time for the Negroes to look to the South for their friends. --The Republican Seattle, Wash. The Bachelor Club gave its first annual dance Monday evening at the Douglas Club, House, 3518 Ellis ave. and its vice-president Prof. W. Kemper Harreld the dishonest dude French dancing master has failed to come up with the five dollars which he has skinned us out of and we need it in our business for Christmas. Assistant States Attorney F. L. Barnett this week filed a petition in the county court in which he asks a recount of the votes, which were supposed to be cast for Thomas B. Lany. Mr. Barnett claims he was duly elected and was fraudently "counted out" and taking everything into consideration that may be true. Garrett Burns, manager for the Thalmann Printing Ink Company of St. Louis, Mo., located at 415 Dearborn street, "Permit me to rise up in meeting to state, that The Broad Ax is O. K., and each week it arrives at my apartment at The Colonial Hotel, 6325 Monroe ave., and its contents are eagerly perused by a majority of the 200 guests stopping at this hotel." Ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Mayor Edward F. Dunne and Wm. E. Dever, seemed to be most prominently in the Democratic running for the nomination for Mayor of this city this coming spring, while Alderman Thomas J. Dixon, Alexander H. Revell, John J. Hanberg, Walter J. Rayner, Fred Busse, John H. Jones, Frank I. Bennett and E. J. Brundage are the leading Republican candidates for Mayor of Chicago. The white man should be the lasu to talk about rape, for in every damnable way has he forced black women—wives, mothers and sisters, and this with a threat of death. A proof of this can be seen in the so-called Colored people (something like 40 per cent. of the race) that requires close scrutiny to say from whence they came.-The Advocate Portland, Oregon. The President's essay on the Negro problem in his message to Congress, as the Atlanta Independent facetiously remarks, looks as if it was written by Booker T. Washington and revised by John Temple Graves. Give Mr. Roosevelt another chance and he will add that the conferring of the ballot upon the Negro was the greatest crime of the nineteenth century.—The Globe Nashville, Tenn. Honest Indian! Now that all smoke has lifted, it is difficult to say who got the best or the worst of it, as the case may be, Senator Tillman or the Chicago Negroes. If Senator Tillman, if the ladies who invited him, if the people who paid for the show, if these saved any satisfaction in their achievement, certainly Chicago Negroes have reasonable cause to ask themselves: "Whose funeral was it?" Plainly Senator Tillman and those of his way of doing are alligator meat if they wince not under the gruelling Chicago Treated him to—The Witness, Houston, Texas. If anybody took Ben Tillman's ravings in serious vein, he would be impeached for his anarchistic yell, "To hell with the law!" The fact that a United States Senator and a law-maker, solemnly sworn to support the Constitution, is allowed to parade such revolutionary braggdaes in the face of the people, without being taken seriously, is one of the unsolved mysteries of the times. Herr Most and Emma Goldman, in their palmiest days, were not more dangerous to peace and order than this uncivilized ruffian who—we hope—misrepresents the State of South Carolina. Tillman should be suppressed!—The Freeman Indianapolis, Ind. As to the motive of Tillman, it is two-sided the force of prejudice and greed of gain. The same may be affirmed of Dixon and Vardaman. They all are making money at the expense of Colored Americans. But judging from the late experience of Dixon in Philadelphia and Tillman in Chicago, it is safe to say that their days of success in their unholy business are numbered. If they are to live at the race's expense, then it is only natural for the race to have some say in the matter. They have just begun their say, and each demonstration will be more and more emphatic. All praise to the Colored men of the above mentioned cities for their manly protest against these unmanly men who are growing rich at our expense.—The Weekly Guide. Baltimore, Md. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Several years ago, when the University of Chicago held its decennial celebration, John D. Rockefeller was its guest for several days. A bewildering succession of functions followed one another in such quick succession that each affair was from one to four hours late. At the great banquet on the closing day Mr. Rockefeller in his after dinner speech told the following story: "I have felt for the past twenty-four hours like the Boston business man who lived in the suburbs and came in to his office every day. One winter afternoon he took the train for his home, but a terrific snowstorm was raging, and about halfway to his suburb the train was snowed in. All night the passengers were imprisoned, but early in the morning they managed to reach a nearby telegraph station, and the Boston man sent the following dispatch to his office: "Will not be in the office today. Have not got home yesterday yet."—Lippincott's Magazine. Pat's Reloinder. Patrick, lately over, was working in the yards of a railroad. One day he happened to be in the yard office when the force was out. The telephone bell rang excitedly for some time before Pat came to the conclusion that it ought to be answered. He approached the instrument very cautiously and slowly put the transmitter to his mouth as he had seen the boss often do. "Hillo, there?" he called. "Hello!" answered some one at some distant place. "Is this eight—six—naught—four—eight?" "Aw, g'wan! Phat d'ye think Ol am, a box car?" sarcastically replied Patrick—Judge's Library. Speaking His Mind. "My dear, if you insist upon getting cigars for me on Christmas I wish you would get them in a pretty box if you can." "Why?" "Because the box may be found useful later on." "But really, George, you can't expect me to pay as much for the box as I do for the cigars." "No, my dear, I can't. You are quite right. And any box that didn't cost more than the cigars you usually give me wouldn't be worth its house room, would it, dear?" — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Out of Proportion. I've got a tweenty, weenty, wanty cat; It's got the biggest, loudest, 'normous meow. I just can't 'magine where he keeps it at; It's big 'nough to belong to any cow. —Woman's Home Companion. The Occasion of Revelations. "I suppose you know all about this titled son-in-law you are to have?" said the familiar friend. "I don't know as I do," confessed Mr. Cumrox. "It appears like nobody knows all about anybody these days until somebody in the family goes into court for a divorce."—Washington Star. Distance Leads Safety. Distance Leads Safety. Eva—I see where they can send a wireless message almost 3,000 miles. Jack—Ah, thank goodness! Eva—For what? Jack—For the opportunity. I am going 3,000 miles, call up your father and ask for your hand.—Detroit Tribune. Worse and More of It. Father (eighing)—These ten years have I been waiting in the hope that my wife would give up playing the piano. Friend—Well, and now— Father—Now my three daughters play—Figaro. CLERKS' HOURS IN GERMANY An Effort to Do Away With the Long Midday Insurval. A discussion is going on in commercial circles in Germany regarding the respective merits of the English and German systems of arranging the hours of work in banks, company offices and big business houses. It has always been customary in Germany for clerks and accountants and all workers of this class to begin work considerably earlier than is the case in England and to terminate work in the evening much later than is usual in London. Work begins in German offices, as a rule, at 8 o'clock in the morning and is frequently not concluded before 8 o'clock in the evening. Partial compensation for the early beginning and late termination is obtained by taking a two hours' pause at midday, but even with this break the total hours worked in German offices considerably exceed those in English offices, especially as a half holiday Saturday is still an exceptional arrangement in Germany. An agitation is now going on for the abolition of the long midday interval and of the introduction of the hours of work usual in English offices. Many German business men, however, resist the innovation and persist in maintaining the old fashioned system. Many German stockbrokers, company directors, directors of banks and captains of industry adopt a curious arrangement by which they dine at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and afterward return to their offices from 6 till 8 o'clock in the evening. Those Germans who have practical experience of office work in England are unanimous in declaring that English clerks do just as much in six or seven hours as German clerks in nine or ten hours and advance this as a strong argument in favor of the general adoption of the English hours of work in offices. A few of the big banks in Berlin have already got as far as a working day of eight hours, from 9 o'clock in the morning till 5 o'clock in the afternoon, with two hours less Saturday, when they close at 3 o'clock.-Berlin Letter in London Standard. Electricity In the Home. In a $3,000 or $4,000 house it is a very common matter to wire for electric lights, but by giving the subject a little further attention with your electrical contractor and the architect it is possible to arrange outlets for lighting socket heating devices at very little extra expense. Such receptacles would be taken off from the lighting wires in a very simple manner. The cost of operating later at lighting rates would not be large, for the reason that the electrical devices which will be used on such a circuit consume only a small amount of electricity and are generally used for only short intervals. They would comprise, for example, the chafing dish, the coffee percolator, heating pad, cigar lighter, shaving mug, curling iron, baby milk warmer, small frying pan and many others.-Cassier's Magazine. A Bale of Cotton. In order to see how far a certain bale of cotton was shipped before being manufactured into goods W. H. Parks, Jr., of Ennis, Tex., placed a note in a bale which was shipped in the autumn of 1905 asking the person who finally received and opened it to write to him and tell him where the cotton was used and what price was paid. The bale traveled many thousands of miles, as is shown by this letter, which Mr. Parks received recently from Reval, Russia, which is situated on the Baltic sea: Reval, Russia, Aug. 23 (Sept. 5). The bale of cotton in which your letter and blank memorandum were found was received at the Baltic mill, Reval, Russia, via Bremen, bought from Gebruder Frite of that city at £3.5d. a pound. A Tree Freak. A rare proof of the vitality of certain trees is offered by a poplar in the village of Gunten, on the Lake of Thun. When, about twenty years ago, a fountain was placed before the postoffice building of that place the builders used for a shank and girder of the water conduit a young poplar trunk which they drove into the ground and in which the pipe was inserted. After a short time the trunk began to throw out shoots, and today it is a tall tree, with heavy foliage. The water pipe is now completely overgrown, and it is a strange sight to see a jet of water stream forth from the interior of the uninjured tree. Chinese Pirates When Chinese pirates are caught and convicted they speedily pay the penalty of their crimes. A newspaper of the far east publishes this bit of news: "Seven of the pirates who took part in the attack on the river steamer Salam were beheaded in Canton. The prisoners were brought on to the ground in baskets, from which they were immediately released. They were then made to kneel in a row. Promptly on the stroke of 12 the executioners took up their positions in front of the doomed men and cut off their heads in very quick succession, to the accompaniment of loud shouts from the Chinese spectators." Balloon Ropes. A New York concern has begun the manufacture of a specially made rope for balloon purposes. One prominent aeronaut has given it an order for 60,000 feet. Heretofore these explorers of the faithless upper regions have been compelled to import the rope needed for their excursions. The kind now being made in America is hand spun from the finest Italian fiber and laid up with the utmost care so as to produce the greatest possible tensile strength with a minimum weight. SELECTIONS MIDDIES IN THE MAKING Our Naval Cadets Learn to Splice Hopes, Furl Sails, Etc. It is probably not generally known how the United States government trains the youth upon whose shoulders will rest the responsibility of maintaining the high standard of the navy. His apprenticeship, according to Leslie's Weekly, is not unlike that of any other young man learning a trade, the fundamental principle being the proper kind of tools and when and how to use them. A midshipman's tools, so to speak, are ships, thus rendering a thorough knowledge of seamanship an essential part of the training. This begins with lessons in spiking hemp and wire rope, after which the young men are given practice in handling sails on the indoor mast in the seamanship building, which is an exact counterpart of the mizzenmast of the training ship Severn and is seventy-two feet in height. The midshipmen go aloft, furl, reef and set sails, etc.—in fact, go through the entire seamanship drill. A net is spread at the foot of the mast for protection, as a fall on the concrete floor would be far more serious than on the deck of a ship. Accidents, however, are infrequent. Drills on the Severn begin early in the spring and continue throughout the cruise, which lasts from June until September. The midshipman thus becomes accustomed to ship life. The work is hard and the discipline severe during these drills. There is little tendency to shirk duty, and the future admirals do everything on shipboard, on deck and aloft, even to clearing up the deck and stowing away the ropes. From a picturesque point of view seamanship practice on the Severn surpasses all other similar exercises. It seems that on shipboard the sense of the reality of the thing is ever present, and one accustomed to witnessing these drills notices that on the deck of the old Severn the middies are more active, more in earnest, and the manner in which they climb and swing around the rigging does credit to an old sailor. Each man starts in with a practical seaman's duties and as he continues his course is advanced to the duties of the petty officers and later to those of the junior commissioned officers. Our Bigness. Bigness is said to be a quality which appeals especially to Americans. However that may be, a purely scientific interest justifies the spreading of information contained in a recent bulletin of the United States geological survey about the size of the United States. The area of the United States proper, exclusive of Alaska, island dependencies and the Panama strip, is given as 3,026,789 square miles. The absence hitherto of an official standard resulted in a discrepancy between the computations of the census bureau and the general land office. A conference was called between these departments and the geological survey, and the bulletin of the geological survey is the result. Youth's Companion. The Table Top Cold "You have, madam," said the physial clan. "what I call a table top cold." "What is a table top cold?" the lady asked. "It is a cold brought on by marble tops in the late fall and winter. You ladies always wear short sleeves, and you always lean your bare arms on the ice surface of marble tables. This contact sends a chill all through you—a chill that you disregard. But in the morning you awake with a heavy cold. "Marble table tops in the winter should be covered with a cloth if they are going to be leaned on. Then the table top cold would disappear."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Real Estate In Korea One of the most astonishing regulations has been made regarding the transfer of real estate in Korea. No one is to be allowed to sell or buy real estate except by permission of the governor. This is apparently a move on the part of the Japanese to prevent the selling of any land in Korea except to people that they approve, for the governors are, of course, under the Japanese advisers. It makes no difference that foreigners have as good a right to buy land as the Japanese. The matter will have to be tested in the courts before the powers will allow their citizens to be curtailed in their privileges in the peninsula.-Korea News. A Plague of Malaria The excessive prevalence of malaria in Greece is engaging the attention of English physicists. It is said to be checking the development of rural life and is a very serious thing for the nation. Out of a population of 2,500,000 there were 250,000 cases of malaria annually, and the deaths were about 1,700. Last year the number of cases increased to 960,000 and the deaths to 5,916. Professor Savas of the University of Athens and physician to King George is initiating a movement to deal with the plague. A Mechanical Man. Frederick Ireland, a German inventor, has produced a mechanical man, made of wheels and springs, which enable it to walk, write and ride a bicycle. A writer in L'Illustration (Parts) gives a description of the remarkable invention and says "all that it lacks is speech and hearing." The inventor has named his androide enigmarie HUMAN: THAT'S ALL. Don't wonder when some other chap Does things you'd never do; Don't marvel at the blunderings Each morning shall renew; Don't puzzle over ugly traits That other folks display; Don't let yourself be scandalized But anything they say; Don't ask for explanations when You fall to comprehend; Don't ask them of an enemy; Don't ask them of a friend; Don't let yourself be worried—should We stumble, don't be sorry. We're simply human beings, and You'll find us nothing more. —Birmingham Age-Herald. Queered Himself. "See here, kid, you're needn't be com- in' round here no more tellin' me yer loves me! Don't yer suppose I know dat you've been lettin' that Clancy girl chew your pepin gum the whole week?"—New York World. He Showed Them: "I want to know," said the attorney for the plaintiff, who was cross examining the witness, "just what the defendant said when my client told him he was a bigamist and that the facts had been found out." "He didn't say anything," answered the witness. "Well, what did he do?" "He acted kind o' hasty." "I want to know exactly how he acted." "Want me to show you?" "Yes." The witness suddenly reached over, grabbed the attorney by the hair, threw him down on the floor and proceeded to hammer him. "This is the way he acted," he said, "till the other fellows interfered. Some of you chaps pull me off, will you?" It was tough on the lawyer, but it won the case for him.—Chicago Tribune. Just Possible. "I wait fifteen minutes on the corner for a car this morning," said the landlady as she poured the tea, "and when one finally came along the motorman wouldn't stop for me." "Had he ever boarded here?" asked the man at the pedal extremity of the mahogany. "Not that I know of," replied the landlady. "Why do you ask?" "Oh," replied the other as he continued to saw at his steak, "I thought perhaps he recognized you and didn't want you to board his car."—Chicago News. In the Arctic Region "What's that thing yonder which looks like a barber's pole?" said the arctic explorer. "That," said the scientist of the expedition, "is only a frozen rainbow." "Alas," exclaimed the chief explorer, "I took it for the north pole and was about to suggest that we tie the flag to it and go home!" "You forget," said the scientist, "that we ate the flag for dinner yesterday!"—Atlanta Constitution. A Sense of Restitude. "Our corporation never does anything that I am not perfectly sure is right," said Mr. Dustin Stax. "How can you be sure?" "We have a fine staff of lawyers hired to demonstrate that anything we want to do is all right."—Washington Star. Like a Mosquito. Patience-That Miss Altow reminds me of a mosquito. Patrice-Why, how ridiculously funny! Patience-Well, she does. She goes right on singing, whether people talk or not- Yonkers Statesman. Best of Proof Diggs—Your friend Bright has an idea that he knows a whole lot. Biggs—Oh, I don't know. He is always lamenting the fact that he knows so little. Diggs—Well, that proves my statement—Chicago News. A Warm One. Eskimo Sultor—Yes, my love, I have ten sleds, fifty dogs, a hundred tons of blubber, and— Pa Eskimo—Aurora, tell that young man to stop letting off so much hot air. I'm afraid he'll melt the house.—Puck. As to Breakdowns She—Would you rather walk or ride there? He—Well, I've been out in the motor car so much lately that I think I'd rather ride for a change.—Puck. Lokical Redaction Her-I wonder why it is that a big man usually has a little wife? Him-I don't know, unless it's because a little woman usually has a big husband—Detroit Tribune. HUMOR BOBBY ON THE HUMAN BODY A Juvenile Essay Containing Some Litherto Unpublished Information The human body was first supposed to be made up of 208 bones, but later discoveries have developed the fact that it contains 208 bones and an appendix. An appendix is something which is added on, like a postscript on a woman's letter, and means about as much. Its principal use is to afford a revenue for doctors and surgery specialists. Operations on the human system are the correct thing in polite society. Pa says there is one woman in our town who has nothing left in her but her palate and her tongue, she has been operated on so much. Last Sunday our Sunday school text was, "Praise the Lord, oh, my soul, and all that is within me." I said to pa, "Mrs. So-and-so wouldn't be very strong on that, would she?" And he laughed and said no. A railroad brakeman is in a class by himself. He doesn't have anywheres near 208 bones in his body. I know a brakeman, chairman of a grievance committee of ten, and when he goes to count the members of the committee on his fingers he can never get a quorum because he hasn't enough fingers left. It says in my physiology that in the human frame is a network of nerves, a sort of system of fine wires which carry messages to and from the brain. For instance, if you put your finger on a hot stove the nerves of the arm carry a message to your brain that your finger is getting burned, and your brain flashes back instructions to take your finger off the stove. The other night I had my fingers in a can of jam in the pantry when by eardrum sent a message to my brain that ma was coming. My brain answered back to take my fingers out, but the message was delayed in transmission, and I didn't move quick enough. Ma caught me. For a few minutes the wires running up my spine to my brain were crowded with good government messages as to what was going on on the firing line. Now when I go to sit down my brain advises my arms to put a pillow on the chair.—Bobby in Judge. On the Job. When the thermometer dropped below zero Mrs. Rodgers was much disturbed by the thought that Huldah, the new kitchen maid, slept in an unheated room. "Huldah," she said, remembering the good old custom of her girlhood, "it's going to be pretty cold tonight. I think you had better take a flatiron to bed with you." "Yes, ma'am," assented Huldah without enthuisiasm. Mrs. Rogers, happy in the belief that her maid was comfortable, slept soundly. In the morning she visited the kitchen. "Well, Huldah, how did you get along with the flatiron?" Huldah breathed a deep sigh of recollection. "Vell, ma'am, I got it most warm before morning."—Everybody's. Wise Youth. "Yes," sighed the unfavored suitor, "Evangeline's father told me never to call there again. I tell you I am feeling pretty blue." "Well," said his chum, "before I would feel that way I should call in spite of the old gentleman." "Oh, no. I would rather feel blue than to run the chance of feeling black and blue."-Chicago News. Simply Manipulated "He has invented a skidless auto wheel." "That ought to bring him a fortune." "Yes." "How does the thing work?" "It's very simple. All you have to do to prevent the wheels from skidding is to keep the auto in the garage when the pavements are wet."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Winner. Patience—She is what you would call an athletic girl. Patrice—Indeed! "See that ring she wears? She won that by jumping." "You don't say?" "Yes. She jumped at a marriage proposal.—Yonkers Statesman. The Terrible Infant. The Child (after silent inspection)—Well, I don't understand why ma says it's easy to see through you, Mrs. Jenks. You're go thick—Brooklyn Life. Thinking of Shop "I'll be as steadfast as steel," murmured the beautiful girl. "Common or preferred?" inquired the young broker absently.—Washington Herald. There Are Others. "Clerk seems to be actually jealous of his chanfeu." "No wonder. He has to pay the man more than he earns himself."—Puck. Reabtished 27. Phowe Oakland 1550-1352 JobnJ. Dunn weputs J COALS sare WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. a Yano SLE eo ROO oe aes a COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Yan Moving ‘TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. ‘Tel 699 South _ TNCARS Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins _ ‘The Modern Embslmer 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. 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While in Kokomo, Ind., recently be undertook to locate the grave of the Miami chief Kokomo in order that the residents of the city might erect s monument in memory of the noted chief for whom the town was named. Godfrey had a number of relics, in- cluding a dress 125 years old that was worn by Frances Slocum, who was stolen when a child from Susquehanna, Pa., and was known as “the White Rose of the Mfiamis.” Is This Sot ‘The average magazine Is a literary swill barrel, and the man who conducts tt enjoys no acquaintance with real literature or he would not occupy his position. To know literature would destroy his taste for trash, and trash is what be bas to purvey in order to retain his constituency. — Chicago Chronicle. 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 Goog 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. LW. 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 adver- tisements 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. @pectes Anpemseeness From on and after this date all an Rouncements of entertainments, etc, for which an admission is charged will be considered advertising, and ‘will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the mat. ter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week in tended for publication. This rule will also apply to ali personal items and wnatter for which no charges will be made. in other words, all news mat- ter must reach us elther on Wednes- dey 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 commun!- cations to Thé Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS a WANTED. The Broad Ax desires wo engage Agents and regular Correspondents ip all the leading cities and towns throughout the country. The highest Sommissions paid to live hustlers Sample copies furnished free, For further information, address Julius F. Taylor, 6049 Armour avenue, Chicage. THE BROAD Ax. te for sale at the following news stands: - The Afro-American News Office | s108 atate Sureet, | ©. 8. Smith News stand, and Barber Shop 3700 Dearborn st. A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 5ist street Cigar Store and News Stand. ‘Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. Gist street Richard Pinn, 4836 State street T. B Hall's Cigar store and Laundry office, 261 ten Bt. W. 8. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street gars, tobacco and aews stand. W. 8. Williams, Tonsorial Parlor, 399 Zlst st. 4. 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, 028 Ar- Rour Ave., cigars, tobacco, fancy gro- ceries and news stand. W. P. Jobnson, Notion Store. and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams’ Shaving Pariot snd News Stand, 2903 armour ave. ‘Thompson Bros., Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 2636% State street. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and con fectionery, 8532 State st. Whiteley State Gent's | ‘The Stationery, 2970 State street. Cigars, Tobseco and News stand. The Afro-American News Co., 439 W. 85th St, New York City, N. Y, _ The Informer News Co, 188 Ran. St. Detroit, Mich ——————an mane ene CHOICE MISCELLANY | ‘The Whispering Telephone. ‘The secrephoue is the whispering tel ephone. A message can be whispered into It so that a person standing but 4 yard away cannot hear what Is being maid, while every word Is correctly transmitted to the receiver at the otber end of the line a mile away or more. For this to be done the message must be actually whispered. If spoken more loudly, of course, the speaker can be beard more than a yard away from the transmitting instrument. Properly used, however, a message can be sent 4m privacy even with people quite close. ‘As present experience goes, it re- quires some little practice to pitch the voice correctly 80 as to get the best re- sults with the faintest whisper, But ‘the lesson is not difficult to learp. Peo- ple with high pitched voices will undoubtedly make themselves heard more distinctly at the other end of the Ine with less noise at the transmitting end than is possible for those with lower pitched voices. The instrument is claimed to be practically imperisha- ble and cannot get out of order with ordinary use. : i at Butte hill, far famed as the riches! mineral producing spot in the world, is an Insignificant rise of land, not over 800 feet above the river level in the valley. It is approximately two and a half miles in length by two miles in width and is an frregular oval in shape. The richest ore producing por- tion, however, is ceniered in a space of about two square miles. Within that Umit there are no fewer than forty principal shafts from 1,000 to 2.400 feet in depth, besides many smaller and less important developments and Prospects. Underground there is a net- ‘work of drifts, cross cuts and galleries frequently intersecting each other and connecting the deep workings of difter- ent mines. It is estimated that there are more than 500 miles of such under- ground excavations. The output from this single hill is upward of 14,000 tons of ore a day, yielding more than 10,000 tons of refined copper a month, exclusive of gold and silver, which is fully a 50 per cent larger production than any other cupriferous district in the world. Switseriand’s “White Ceal.” This term—in French, bouille blanche —refers not to a mineral dug from the earth like ordinary coal, but to the wleaming glaciers and foaming tor- Tents of the mountains, which supply enersy by the descent of their waters under the force of gravitation as effee- tively as coal supplies it by undergoing the process of burning. From coal steam is derived, from waterfalls elec- trie power. At present Switzerland de- rives 300,000 horsepower from its streams. But this is only a fraction of the power available, and the federal government is about to refer to a form- al vote of the Swiss people the ques- tion of how best to utilize this store of Power, whose symbol glitters on the ‘snow crowned peaks, whether through exploitation by the state or through private enterprise. iil alia i i Frequent earthquakes of late have enormously Increased scientifie curios- ity about the earth’s interior. On this subject Sir Oliver Lodge observes in Nature that “it has long been suspect- ed that the earth is dn iron planet, and now, through the work of Strutt and others, the evidence both for and against is intensifying. It is just worth voting as a matter of simpie arithmetic that a core of metallic iron of density 7 covered with a crust of Tock 500 miles thick of density 25 makes an average terrestrial dens- ity of 5.6, but recent evidence points to a crust much thinner than the above. It is to be hoped that the ‘bor- ing’ proposals of the Hon. Charles Par- sons will before long attract the atten- tion they deserve.”—London Telegraph. Cana@ies Ferester. In the opinion of the Dominion su Perintendent of forestry Canada un doubtedly holds the first place among the timber producing countries of the world, and notwithstanding the great drain now put upon Its resources in this respect by the demands of foreign countries he thinks that its lead may be increased by judicious management of its great forests. The virgin white pine, he says, cannot last many years longer, but in the Douglas fir, the ce: dar, the western white pine, the spruce and the hemlock Canada possesses all but. inexhaustible treasures. ‘The spruce is the most widely distributed. Various species of it extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast and from the American border northward to the limit of tree growth. noe Los Angeles, Cal, owns one poor lit. tle seal, which is kept In'e small in closure at Eastlake park. The food that ts fed this seal consists of fish, which costs the city $000 a year. ‘The lake in Eastlake and Westlake parks and one of the city reservoirs are filled with carp in such number that they are a nufsance. It is proposed to turn the seal loose in the different park Jakes and reservoirs and allow him to feed on the carp until the fish are ex- terminated. It is claimed It will take years for the seal to eat up all the fish. In the meantime the city saves $600 a year. — * Out of Sight. T heard a bit of slang which is new to me. A salesgir! in a dry goods store ‘was imparting to s companion otfe of the thrilling confidences which young saleswomen generally exchange. The girl who beard the news raised her Bow, wouldn't ‘your eye out?"—Lockwood (Mo.) Times, - J. A. ODonnetl, 1H. D. Coghtin, O’Donnell & Coghlin Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Rindoloh St. ~ Chicago GRAY g MORAN | ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Ciark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central ‘569. CHICAGO. =e Residence ST Macallister Pines ‘Telephone Ashland 368 Office Telephones Central 1239 ‘Automatic 6940 . ATTORNEY ATLAW Suite 318-330 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. H Gir: RN AN WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE om ~~ ee Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 BSist and State Streets ———————_— _— ee Seer Telephone Yards 693 —— BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 4709 &. Halsted Street CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Taw, _ 84-86 La Salle St eet, Chicaco, ‘Suite 655 0 619, ‘Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E.OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR aT Law asleneeataee raarvens caval caceas ee ee a Sandy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Why don’t you get in the habit of doing your trading In the New Store? Every Tuesday and Friday speciai sales-day and two of Fish Trad_ ing Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies’ ‘Shirtwaists, Underwear and Con sets, A spiendid assortment of Shoes Hosiery, Gloves, Balts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear, [ ‘We make a speciality of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale N ‘cligee Shirts and Suspenders. - A fancy line of Néckwear and H ‘rdkerchiefs. See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys’ Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. Telephone Main 4839 Residence, 6626 Champlain Ave. Tel. Wentworth 2821 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law | SUITE 51, 119-121 LA SALLE 8T- CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING | FIRE INSURANCE Bates Bullding 3637 STATE STREET a CHICAGO - American Brick Co. - | President and Treasurer, ThOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN MANUFATURERS OF Gommonr and Sewer Brick 4 Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. tia cern gas i Wr Nisa ess ntsc csetiricecckk access 14u00 par ar Telephone Yards 128. ii. L. JONES. 8. GRAY. Tw Twentieth Century Barber Shop Agent for the Black Diamond De velopmen Company. Stock for sale now 25c Per Share. Fine Stock of Cigars. 3842 State Street, CHICAGO. Phone Douglas 7434. o Me PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hours: Office: Stwollam 233—22ND 8T. 2todp. m Tel. 8243 Calumet TweIpm CHICAGO | moms { SEER BgyaG4s oe Dr. W. H. Marshall Physician and Surgeon Wours—10 to 12 A. a. 2 to 5:36 P.M. and nights—Sundays, 3 to 5 P. M. | Special Hours by Appointment. 3432 STATE STREET CHICAGO Medical Examiner and Court Physician for the Foresters No. 7895, q ILLINOIS BRICK C0. WILLIAM c. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. a Phone 194 South oa _A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. e ‘2719 State Street eed eee CHICAO | Te hese Yaras 718 dunks Hrewery oe . JUNE, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHIcaGco | Dr. M. J. Brown holds tee clinics at Provident Hos pital free dispensary eye, ear, nose and throat department, Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday. Hours 2 to + ge actu one SOUTH SIDE TAILORING GO. Not Incorporated. George M. Oatts, Prop. Pa ate Stee 1800 wp Biri Attention bald Lanes ae ‘Telephone Hyde Park 5927, 5501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO