The Broad Ax

MANY AFRO-AMERICANS Murdered Or Assassinated In the South Who Are Not Guilty Of Raping White Women. WHITE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMEN PAINT THEIR FACES BLACK FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAVISHING THEIR OWN FEMALE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. THE VIEWS OF FORMER GOVERNOR ATKINSON OF GEORGIA ON THE DANGER OF MOB AND LYNCH LAW AND OF PERMITTING ANY WOMAN TO SWEAR THE LIFE OF A MAN AWAY AT HER SWEET WILL. Vol. XII MANY AFRO Murdered Or A the South Wh Of Raping Wh WHITE CHRISTIAN GENTLE BLACK FOR THE PURPO OWN FEMALE RELATIVE THE VIEWS OF FORMER G GEORGIA ON THE DAN LAW AND OF PERMITT SWEAR THE LIFE OF A M WILL. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, intimated in his mad running off at the mouth, in the United States Senate, last week, that "Judge Lynch" with the aid of the fair and unfair ladies in the South never makes a mistake in selecting victims for his court among the Negroes, who have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be guilty of raping white women, but as we proceed it will be no trouble to prove that this bold statement on the part of the old Negro hating Ben Tillman is as far from the truth as the sun is from the earth. It is almost useless to state that Tillman, Vardaman, Jeff Davis, John Temple Graves, Hoke Smith, Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr. and the other advocates of mob and lynch law for the Negro, always fail to explain in their tirades against the Colored man, that more than ninety-five out of every hundred Negroes mobbed and lynched in the South are not guilty of committing the nameless crime on white women and that white Christian gentlemen in that benighted land of race prejudice and ignorance paint their faces black for the sole purpose of ravishing their own female relatives and friends. It will be recalled that on the night of November 29, 1901, at Columbia; South Carolina, which is only a short distance from where Ben Tillman resides that Miss Langstone the leading belle of that Southern town, was attacked in her bed room by two men with their faces painted black, which caused them to resemble big black Negroes, and when she screamed at the top of her voice for help, the two men started to flee from her home. A neighbor by the name of Clarence Babb, heard her cries for help and as he ran into the house he noticed the two men fleeing from it, so he fired away at the supposed Negroes, and brought one of them down, who proved to be Henry S. Sullivan, who was an intimate friend of the Langstone family, the other white gentleman escaped. Mr. Sullivan was locked up for the remainder of the night, but he was finally set at liberty by the court and he was dubbed a good fellow by the fast set, for being almost slick enough to rob Miss Langstone of that priceless, jewel, which is always harped about so much by Ben Tillman. March 1, 1904, Mrs. Mary Taylor, the wife of a prominent white farmer living several miles from Gainesville, Texas, was unmercifully raped by a white gentleman who had painted his face black in order to pass for a Negro, Mrs Taylor declared at the time that the reason she could tell the gentleman was white was that while he was struggling with her she pushed up his sleeves and be- held his white arms, and that his ears were white as he had failed to paint them black. Only last year another white lady was assaulted in her home, in one of the thriving towns in Texas, and on giving the alarm the husband of the lady began to blaze away at the Negro ravisher and when the white gentleman rushed upon the would be dying Colored man, or baboon as the Negro is painted in the South, to his great horror he discovered that he had shot his own brother dead in his tracks, who had painted his own face black to enable him to pass as a Negro, so that he could satisfy his beastly desires on his sister-in-law, without being detected. More than a dozen cases similar to these have come to the light of day in all parts of the South within the last two or three years; but this is nothing new for whenever any race of people sink so low in the scales of civilization, that they experience not the slightest compunction, in buying and selling their own flesh and blood, for the sake of pilling up wealth, so that they can live on easy street, they are amply prepared for the commission of any and all crimes! The latter part of October, 1897, Gov. Atkinson of. Georgia, convened the legislature of that state in extra session for the special purpose of enacting some kind of a measure to suppress mob and lynch law, and in discussing the subject of lynching, Gov. Atkinson, who was a brave and manly man, whom we had the pleasure of meeting in Salt Lake City in 1808, declared that: "I feel the more deeply upon this question because from the best information I can secure I believe that during my administration there have been in this state several men lynched who were not guilty of the crimes with which they were charged. "To adopt lynch law is to put the life of every man in the power of any woman who, for any reason, might desire his death." Former Gov. Jelks, of Alabama, in speaking of lynching Negroes recently, declared that: "When I had been in the governor's office three years, I carefully inquired into the facts of every one of the five lynchings that had taken place. It would astonish you to know that out of the nive who had met violent death at the hands of a criminal mob, three of them were without offense before the law." Those five men who were mobbed and lynched were all Negroes, and the remaining two of the five no doubt were also innocent of committing the crime of rape, but as death had sealed their lips, they were prevented from making a defense in their own behalf. Gov. Jelks concluded his re HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 2, 1907. [Name not visible in the image] MAJOR EDGAR BRONSON TOLMA N. The new President of the Iroquois Club, who could make a winning race, for Judge of the Superior Court, to succeed the late Judge Gary. marks in this respect as follows: "Are any of the persons lynched white? Oh, no. They have the blood of Africa in their veins. The lynchers seem to draw the line at white men. All parties agree that we ought not to lynch white people." With these undisputable facts before us Ben. Tillman, who should be put on a feather bed and sent on into the next world with all of his imperfections resting on his Anarchistic rattle brained head, and be compelled to associate with the devil and his angels, for as many million years as there are grains of sand on the sea shore, has the brass and the murderous nerve to stand up in the United States Senate and proclaim that "Judge Lynch never makes a mistake in his court and that all Negroes punished by him are guilty of ravishing white women." Scat with such a vile and loathsome thing as Ben Tillman! In conclusion we honestly believe that unless white Christian gentlemen refrain from painting their faces black for the purpose of raping their own female relatives and friends and then charging their hellish crimes up to the Negro, and if they do not cease from shooting Colored women through their hearts, for refusing to consort with them, it is only a question of time until the ten million Afro-Americans in this country will send a mighty shout up to the high heavens. "Turn loose the bloody dogs of war, I will be repaid, for vengeance is mine sayeth the gods!" THE BROAD AX IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. Within the past ten days every United States Senator has received from seven to three copies of The Broad Ax, containing all the articles on Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, from November 24, down to and including the issue of the paper January 25. Each and every senator will also receive a copy of the present issue. Every Southern senator, received a marked copy of the 11th, anniversary edition containing our reply, to the editor of The Banner, Nashville, Tenn. Which appeared in connection with his editorial on "Senator Benjamin R. Tillman in Chicago, Senators Spooner, Patterson, Foraker, Nelson and the others who led the fight on the South Carolina Anarchist, also received marked copies of the 11th anni- versary edition of The Broad Ax and some of the thunder which they so successfully hurled at him, was gleaned from the columns of this paper. Notwithstanding this fact, there are many big Afro-Americans in this city, who claim that a little "Nigger" newspaper is no good, unless it devotes all its space for five cents or for nothing in setting forth their gossip or tom foolery. "NAMELESS CRIME" BY WHITE ASSAILANT. On Little Georgie Wheeler, Age Eleven Years. SAM SWANSON (WHITE) Sam Swanson, Who Raped a Little Eleven-year-old Colored Girl, Out on $1,000 Bond. Another white man has been arrested, charged with the dastardly crime of criminally assaulting an innocent eleven-year old Negro girl. Angry and determined Negroes have been seen on the streets all day Thursday and Friday, and at one time during Thursday evening crowds were very determined to find the assailant. This is the third case that has been reported to the authorities within the past five or six months, which does not mean that more have not been committed. It appears now to be very dangerous for a Negro girl to be alone, when white brutes are in the vicinity, and none ever punished for their crime. Sam Swanson, a ruffian, in the image of a man, who had a wife, is the villain charged with the crime. It appears that the chi. victim, little Georgia Wheeler, eleven years old, was employed at the boarding house, No. 147 Fourth avenue, North, to do the light chores, and at the same place, her assailant and his wife boarded. "Little Georgia," as she is generally called, reported to her father the act of her "moral murderer," and her father at once reported the "nameless crime of the brute" to the officers. Swanson was at once arrested and taken before Justice Dodd, where it appears he is allowed to go almost soot-free, as his bond was fixed at only one thousand dollars. Such an outrage upon the children of any people is (Continued on Page 2.) SIDE LIGHTS ON THE "RACE QUESTION" ONE COLORED WOMAN SHOT THROUGH THE HEART FOR REFUSING TO CONSORT WITH A WHITE GENTLEMAN. ALL AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE SOUTH ARE CONSIDERED LEGITIMATE PREY BY THE TWOLEGGED BEASTS WHO BOAST OF THEIR SUPERIORITY OVER THE BLACKS. NEGROES HELD IN A STATE OF SLAVERY, ROBBED, PLUNDERED AND WHIPPED IF THE ATTEMPT TO LEAVE THEIR MASTERS. AN APPALLING CONDITION IN THE SOUTH LAND ASSEMBLED BY MRS. KATE KINSEY BROOK. As stated in the last issue of The Broad Ax, the wealthy Afro-Americans, those who pretend to pose as the real leaders of the race and claim to love liberty and justice, and want to see the truth prevail at all times, should lead off in a movement to engage Mrs. Kate Kinsey Brook, to make an extensive tour through the North, East and West and lecture on the true state of affairs in the South, where all the so-called best friends of the Negro are supposed to reside, and To-morrow Magazine should find its way into the homes of thousands of Colored people, for having the courage to publish her more than wonderful article in full, which she concludes as follows: her heart, and said: "Say you prayers now, for I am going to kill you." The woman though he was joking and told him to take his gun away. He answered "I told you I would kill you you run away, and I am going to do it." Then he sent the contents of his gun through his heart, killing her instantly. From these cases which might be repeated ad infinitum it really will be seen that the question of rape is two-sided. The consistency lies in the fact that the white man, who ruins many Colored women as chooses, on the slightest move the part of a Negro which seems to look like the same thing, harms him to the nearest tree, or "The next case was that of a young Colored girl about eighteen years of age. She really was a beautiful girl, finely formed, a typical specimen of the race. I knew she had a Negro sweet-heart whom she expected to marry, and for this reason I was surprised to notice after she had been away for a time, that she was undoubtedly enciente I said nothing to the girl herself but later asked the facts of her grandmother. The tale she told was heart-breaking. A young white man in the neighborhood had driven off the Negro lover at the point of a gun, and threatened to shoot him dead if he ever showed his face around there again. The reprobate then forced the girl, still with the gun, to leave the house, go into the woods with him and submit to his desires. He told her grandparents if they attempted to stop him or tell anyone what he had done, he would shoot them down like dogs, and that he would shoot the girl on the spot unless she obeyed him, in fact they were all terrified into non-resistance. I asked her grandmother what she intended to do about the matter. She said there was nothing to do, unless they waned to die, but let her go on submitting to the white man. I suggested that she speak to the district attorney and she replied: "What's the good of the law, Miss Katie, when you is likely to get shot in the back on the way home from town. It's an awful thing to think that you may be shot in the back any minute. We would try to slip away in the night and hide from him, but he says he will follow us and kill us. There is just nothing to do but let him do as he pleases." Another case; a Negro woman who tried to break a relationship that had been forced upon her by a white man. She ran away from him but later she met him in the woods and he shot her down like a wild beast. He pointed his gun straight against No.15 ON THE "RACE STION" NOT THROUGH THE HEART SORT WITH A WHITE GEN- GEN IN THE SOUTH ARE ATE PREY BY THE TWO- BOAST OF THEIR SUPER- CKS. E OF SLAVERY, ROBBED, APPED IF THE ATTEMPT TO S. IN THE SOUTH LAND AS E KINSEY BROOK. her heart, and said: "Say your prayers now, for I am going to kill you." The woman thought he was joking and told him to take his gun away. He answered: "I told you I would kill you if you run away, and I am going to do it." Then he sent the contents of his gun through her heart, killing her instantly. From these cases which might be repeated ad infinitum it readily will be seen that the question of rape is two-sided. The inconsistency lies in the fact that the white man, who ruins as many Colored women as he chooses, on the slightest move on the part of a Negro which seems to look like the same thing, hangs him to the nearest tree, or fills him so full of lead that there is nothing left to lynch. The Negro has no court of justice and he must bear the burden silently, without any right to appeal to the laws of the country, of which he is a citizen. The law is there for his protection, but the old Negro grandmother struck the keynote when she said: "What's the good of the law when you're going to get shot in the back on your way from town?" The law which protects the Negro in his family relations is effective in the same degree that the property rights are effective, and that is, almost not at all. It seldom occurs to a Negro in the South that he has any property rights or that he is exempt from a debt if his property is less than the homestead allows him The Negro is being held in a condition of actual servitude, quite equal to the slavery of former days. The black man has been given to understand that he must remain with his landlord until his debts are paid. Through the workings of the credit system, he is kept everlastingly in debt, and feels that he dare not leave the place where he is, until out of debt. There is an unwritten law in the South that if a Negro leaves one plantation for another, the new landlord must pay the debt to the old one before the change can be made—merely the survival of paying for a slave. The Negro in debt is as much a slave as before. In some cases the Negro slips away in the night. If the landlord can discover him in a certain number of days after his flight, he can seize anything of which he is possessed to apply to the debt. If the Negro is able to hide until the time is past, then the landlord cannot legally "seize him out," although he frequently does so without considering the legality of his action. Whatever the white may do, the Negro will be afraid to question the justice of the act. When the fact is taken into consideration that, in many PUBLISHED WEEKIY. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, Protestants, Protestants, Infidelity, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republicans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their language is proper and responsibility 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. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, ill. 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. Mr. L. M. Lawrence 3407 State st., is confined to his home sick. Mrs. Eliza Dishman left for her home in Denver, Colo., Tuesday. Mrs. Joseph Crum and daughter are visiting mother and grand-mother in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins 3632 Calumet ave., entertained a few friends at whist Thursday evening. What grew my hair where it was not and covered up a bad bald spot, Farmer's Hair Tonic and Cream. Mr. S. W. Thompson who has been visiting his wife and children in Los Angeles, Calif., since Xmas, returned to the city Thursday. Mr. Wm. Wharton entertained a small party of friends at an eight coursed dinner at the New Columbia restaurant, Wednesday evening. Carter H. Harrison, will return home from Pasadena, Calif., within the next ten days, to take a hand in the contest for Mayor of Chicago. Mr. Chas. W. Fillmore of Washington, D. C., who has been spending the past week in Chicago on business returned to his home Wednesday night. Mrs. Alexander Lane 1939 Archer avenue who is a prominent member of Quinn Chapel, says that The Broad ax is getting better and better each week. The members of the Appomattox Club, will give their Third Annual Masque party, at their club rooms, 3144 Wabash ave., Thursday evening, Feb. 7th. Alderman Henry L. Fick, has another year to run yet before the head guys, of the Municipal Voters League will deem it their duty to either tap him or punch him up a little. James A. Quinn, formerly the energetic city sealer of Chicago, has removed his handsome mustache, in order to have a little more time to boom Carter H. Harrison for Mayor of Chicago. Before the war, in the old slavery days Colored men were bought and sold for from one thousand to three thousand dollars, but Prof. W. Kemper Harreld has sold his honesty and everything to us for the small sum of five dollars. On the account of a great improvement in her health. Mrs. James E. Thompson with her daughters Mrs. J. H. Smiley and Mrs. Arthur Woodard have decided to postpone their trip to Southern California where they intended to spend the rest of the winter. Every race loving man, woman and child should read that excellent article published by The Broad Ax, Chicago, of last week, on The Crimes of the White Man in the South, and thereby help solve the great race question.—The Intelligence, Tampa, Fla. All the big politicians aside, from John P. Hopkins, Roger C. Sullivan, James J. Gray, Thomas Carey and Col. William Loeffler, have been smoked out on the mayoralty contest, and they are now engaged in putting in their time, in shouting for Carter H. Harrison and Edward F. Dunne. The Grand Jurors. Association of Cook County will meet Monday, Feb. 4th, 8 p.m., in the Methodist Church Block, (cor. Clark and Washington Streets). Lecture Room. Bishop Fallows and Judge Albert C. Barnes will speak on the Inderterminate Sentence Law. Dr. Harry Minton of Philadelphia spent last week in Chicago the guest of Mr. John Auter of Evanston, while here Dr. Minton was entertained at the Avendorph subscription dance, on Tuesday evening and on Friday evening a theatre box party was given in his honor by a number of young men at the Pekin. Tillman's defense of the Colored soldiers reminds one of the devil defending heaven and condemning hell. Better a thousand times over for the Negro that he be wrongfully punished by Theodore Roosevelt than be commended by Ben. Tillman. "Deliver us, Oh Lord, from our friends," may the Negro pray, with Tillman pretending to protect his rights.—The Republican Seattle, Wash. --- Mrs. W. A. Buckner, 3532 Wabash ave., "I want to express my greatest admiration for The Broad Ax, and the great work it is doing in fighting the cause of the race, and what we need are plenty of manly men like you, who are not afraid to express themselves on any subject that is for the upbuilding of the Afro-American race." Tillman may be right in his contention that "the white man is made from superior clay to the black man," but if so it took a great many centuries for that superiority to develop itself, for the world's greatest ancient characters were of the black race. The world's greatest geniuses were Solomon and Hannibal—both of the black race—The republican, Seattle, Wash. The Fifteenth annual prize masquerade Ball given by the Manasseh Society No. 1 at the Coliseum Annex, Monday evening last was attended by about twelve hundred persons all of whom seemed to enjoy themselves to the fullest extent. A large number of our Society folks attended the ball out of curiosity "just to see how Colored men with white wives would act." That they acted just like any other self respecting element no one will deny. The Triangle and Inner Circle clubs met at Mr. F. L. Cuffees' 3942 Dearborn st on Monday evening, enjoyed their annual dinner and elected the following officers for the ensuing year. Capt. J. R. Ratcliffe, Pres.; J. Lacey; V. P.; Geo. M. Turner, Sec.; J. W. Ward, Treas.; J. R. McAlister, Stewart, Wm. H. Jackson ticket agent. They will give two entertainments a year for charity and the public will be advised of their accomplishments through these columns. Mrs. Jennie E. Watts an old time resident of Chicago, but now of New York City arrived here last Sunday morning, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, 448 37th Place. Mrs. Watts who is one of our warmest lady friends is the very picture of health and she is looking much better than she ever did before. Wednesday evening, her two sisters Misses Lillian Leona Smith gave her a birthday party, which was largely attended by her old friends. Her husband H. M. Watts who for a long time was one of the musicians at Wing's 22nd and State street, has bought a nice home on Cruger ave., near Morris Park, in New York City, and she will return home Wednesday. One afternoon last week two South Side Society women were accosted on the street by a white man who persisted in questioning them concerning their address and when he could see them. The only reason the ladies did not order the scoundrels arrest is because there was not an officer in sight neither was there a Colored man about to whom they could report the man's conduct. In speaking of the incident one of the ladies said "this is the second time I have been accosted on the street by a white man—the first insisting upon my leaving the street car and joining him at supper." The chances are a hundred to one that these cowards who insult women on the street—pick their chances when there is not a man in sight who might come to the assistance of the person or persons insulted and give them the thrashing they deserve. They are the same low-bred rascales who have a fit when they discover a Colored man seated beside them at a lunch counter or in a street car. Most of them are Southern born, and the sight of a Colored man talking to a white woman suffices to make their blood boil and wish they were "down home where a crowd of us could get together and lynch that "Nigger" to the first tree. We do not advocate lynching the hybrids as the case would be if conditions were reversed and the South the place of action, but we do hope that some good man will be near at hand the next time our ladies are approached, and take charge of the culprit in the manner best suiting the case.—T. CROWD HISSES STAGE "MICK." Last week in New York city, while Russell Brothers were playing in Hammerstein's Victoria Theater, and assuming the roles of Irish servant girls, more than two hundred people hissed and greeted them with, catcalls, and such a noise was kept up until the curtain was rung down, and that part of the Irish play was eliminated from the program. On that same evening it was also announced that the United Irish Societies will pursue the same course in every local theater where, in their opinion, actors are holding the Irish race up to ridicule and scorn. This plainly indicates that the Irish people will not stand for having their race villed or slandered, but we regret to say that there are some so-called liberty loving Irish-Americans in this city, who entertain the idea that Colored Americans have no moral right to protest against Ben Tillman boldly advocating mob and lynch law and the shot-gun policy for all Colored men, women and children, and branding all Negroes as wild beasts, savages and baboons. Miss Grace Knighten, after spending several months with friends in New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, returned to the city Wednesday morning and is stopping with her sister Mrs. A. F. Tervalon, 5032 Dearborn street. instances, the Negro is deliberately kept in debt; that the landlord and merchant, between them, make it impossible for him to get out of debt, the same as prostitutes are exploited in northern cities, the injustice of it all is strikingly brought out. It becomes apparent how little chance the Negro has to advance, so long as he is held back by bonds which never can be broken without using force to free himself from the voke, and the whites will not abandon the system until they are forced to do so. Under the present system the merchants make a tremendous profit, it being "a bad year" that he does not make 100 per cent on the investment. Part of the profit is turned over to the landlord. The Negro is "between the Devil and the deep," no matter which way he turns. A white man can go to law and claim exemptions, and keep the little he has, perhaps a few hogs, a broken down mule, a decrepit pony, or an outcast cow. The Negro has no exemptions, or if he has, he is ignorant of the fact, and would not dare to take advantage of the law even if he ununderstood his rights as a citizen. Within the past three years Negroes have been whipped in the South. In Louisiana two years ago they still were talking agitated about a terrible whipping which had been adminis- MRS. KATE KINSEY BROOK. The Second Harriet Beecher Stow c, who has the courage to shed some light on the true condition of affairs in the South! tered to a Negro in a town about four miles from my home. It used to be that the Negroes, when they became so in debt to a landlord that they could not see their way out, would run away over the Arkansas line and there start a new life. Up to a short time ago, it was the custom to gather a posse of white men in the neighborhood, ride over into Arkansas and whip these Negroes back to Louisiana, if they could be located, and force them to go on working the land from which they had run away. These Negroes were actually whipped with blacksnakes. Since the "Peonage" cases have stirred up so much agitation the whites have been afraid to whip the Negroes, and have been rather more careful about forcing them to remain on the land than they used to be. However, Arkansas has set her foot down on the whole procedure of whipping Negroes out of her territory, so this matter has been somewhat straightened out. Another force which has made it advisable for the whites to lay down the whip is the fact that today, most of the Negroes carry revolvers, and they do not hesitate to affirm that they will shoot a white man who attempts to whip them, even though they know they will be either shot or lynched the next minute for doing it. They prefer death to whipping, at least, so they have told me. At any rate whipping has rather gone out of style in Louisiana in two years. The right of the Negro to vote is the merest farce, but he is not so much intimidated in the exercising of his franchise right as he used to be, and an intelligent Negro can vote without danger of personal assault, but the blacks have become so accustomed to fearing to vote, that they have quite gotten out of the habit. For this reason the Negro vote amounts to nothing at all as a factor in politics, unless the white people wish to vote down prohibition, when the Negro vote is made use of. If there should be evinced the slightest sign of a general Negro vote, the white population would rise up and intimidate them into staying at home on election day. The Negro is wanted in the South as a beast of burden, and as nothing else. So long as he is willing to remain such, to hold himself as a servant, and to ask no questions about his rights as a citizen, the South wants him. Just the moment he begins to open his eyes to his possibilities the South throws off all pretense of friendship and recognizes in him a menace to her civilization, which it is her duty to muzzle. If the Negro is lacking in the quality of virtue, the white man is to blame for it. The difficulty started far back in slavery days. It was the duty of the slaves to increase and multiply and replenish the purses of their owner, hence he encouraged the pro-creative act. When the Negroes did not breed fast enough to suit him the white man took a hand in the matter himself, and helped along the process of evolution and incidentally added to the value of his personal property, by bringing into the world as many half-breeds as he was able to produce. But now the white man complains bitterly because the tendency of the Negro of today is to reproduce his specus irrespective of the law. The tendency was inherited from his ancestors, and originally was fostered and encouraged by the white owners themselves. As a matter of fact, immorality is still encouraged in the Negroes, and when not absolutely encouraged, is winked at. The law of Louisiana, at least, has been made very elastic, in order that a Negro may marry as often as he pleases, and secure a divorce without difficulty. It is strange that there should be one divorce law for the white man, and another for the Negro. Perhaps the erudite law makers and interpreters can explain it. The fact remains that without going into court, without spending more than, perhaps, fifteen minutes of his time, without the expenditure of more than $15, the Negro can secure a divorce, which entitles him to marry again. I have wondered, always just where the "graft" comes in, "graft" there is in this for someone. In many cases Negroes are married by a preacher. All preachers will not perform the ceremony under the circumstances, but there are many who do. In such cases the marriage does not "bear the Eagle brand," as one Negro woman expressed it. But no one interferes with the relation thus established. It is told that one woman went to town to secure a license to marry, who had been married and divorced so many times the Recorder would not help her out any longer, and would not give her a license. She went right on, serenely, and married the man, who was not divorced from his own wife and they have never been molested in any way. It is readily seen that there must be unwritten law, as the State does not sanction it except in that it does not put a stop to it. Incidentally who gets the money paid for Negro divorces secured in this loose way? Does it go into the public treasury or does the lawyer split up the $15 with the official? Why don't you turn that woman out and I get another wife? She is no good to you. You ought to have a wife that could get out into the field and work," was the advice of one landlord. Outside of other tendencies toward immorality, the crowding of large families into one or two small rooms, to put it mildly, cannot but lead to broad views on the subject of virtue. Entire families, as many as ten persons often sleep in one room, in which they also cook, sit, live, move and have their being. Morality is much like cleanliness. It depends a great deal upon the environment. Perhaps we would not be so ultra-clean if, in order to take a bath, we were to carry water up three or four flights or stairs from a basement, as so many of the poor in the cities must do, and then bathe in ice-cold water in a cold room because too poor to buy coal. In judging the moral standard of the Negro, put yourself in his place, realize if possible, all the conditions that surround him, take everything into consideration, including the bad example of his teachers, the slave-holders, and then judge. Summarized, the conditions as SPECIAL! EXTRA! SPECIAL! A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE Entirely re-written and re-staged, will be the attraction. The Phyllis Wheatley Club is endeavoring to raise funds to purchase a home for working girls to be located at 3523 Forest ave., Chicago. This is a particularly worthy charity and every one should take advantage of this opportunity, to not only assist in alaudable undertaking but also spend an enjoyable evening at NOTE-The performance will be under the direction of Mr. J. Fd. Green. MRS. ELIZABETA LINDSAY-DAVIS, Pres. MRS. THOS. PEARSON, Chairman. I found them in Louisiana are somewhat as follows:— 1. Negroes are lynched in the South for reasons other than rape. They have been lynched for no other reason than that they were "biggitty." 2. The crime of rape for which the Negro is so often lynched is seldom rape, in fact. The actual act committed is distorted into that crime. 3. The white women of the South, by giving way to hysteria, and expecting to be raped by every Negro who comes to their door, keep themselves constantly in a frame of mind to distort facts. At the slightest move they will go off into hysteria and before the real facts come out the Negro is dead. 4. White men of the South through lack of thought, deliberate prejudice, absence of self-control and giving way to the emotion which craves excitement, are, in many instances, the cause of the murder of innocent Negroes. 5. Negro girls and women are constantly being assaulted by white men. They are considered legitimate prey. 6. The Negro, as a matter of fact, has no property rights in the South which he dares to claim. 7. While under certain conditions the Negro can vote, through fear he does not exercise that right. 8. The immortality of the Negro is due, mainly, to conditions provided by the whites originally instituted by the former owner of slaves. 9. The education afforded the Negro of the South is a mockery and a farce. 10. Through collusion, between the merchant and the landlord, the Negro is kept constantly in debt and through the workings of the unwritten laws of the South he remains a slave to the landlord as long as the debt is unpaid. You cannot persuade the white people of the South that the Negro is not worthlessly lazy. You will be told that it is impossible to get a Negro to work. The cause of this is easy to locate. The Southern people expect to pay a Negro "two bits" for a day's work and require that he shall give them a dollar's worth of work. The Negro figuring the matter out, quietly takes the difficulty in hand and straightens it out to his own satisfaction by giving "two bits" worth of work for "two bits." When he is paid a dollar for a day's work, and put on his honor, he gives a dollar's worth of labor, and even more, in return. I was utterly unable to impress upon Southern employers that their labor was "serub" purely and simple because they paid "serub" prices, and that they would have better quality of work, if they paid living wages. They thought I was crazy because I paid a black man a dollar, a day for ordinary labor. The black man has a stomach which craves food, just as the white man's stomach demands attention. It costs the black man even more than it does the white man to buy food. No one would dream of expecting the white man to work for less than a dol- lar a day. At least one reason why the Negro is lazy is because he is underpaid. It is the way he has figured out whereby he can balance the ledger. On one hand you have the whites, tyrannical in their attitude toward the Negro, strangely inconsistent in their relations with him, now treating him almost as an equal, speaking to him intimately taking him into their confidence in regard to their family affairs; on the other, the whites standing on their dignity and denouncing him for assuming the same attitude toward them. The whites have the idea firmly fixed in their minds that the Negro was born for the express purpose of bearing their burdens, serving them, making a living for them, while they take life easy and the attitude would be assumed toward every foreigner coming to our shores if these people could get the power to enforce it. Meanwhile the Negro is gradually becoming acquainted with his possibilities, realizing where the trouble lies, understanding the remedy which would change conditions, knowing that he will never be given a chance to rise in the worth or claim his rights unless he uses force to throw back oppression. The fact is, the Negroes are advancing faster than the whites. Unless the white people of the South awaken to the idea that conditions have changed; that slavery has ceased to exist; that the black man is a human being, endowed like them with inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a volcano will burst forth that will sweep everything before it. The whites are now sowing the wind, they will reap the whirlwind and fifty million northern whites will when the time comes stand ready to help see that justice is done to our guests—our brothers of African blood. The end. "THE NAMELESS CRIME." SAM SWANSON (WHITE) RAPES A LITTLE COLORED GIRL. (Concluded from Page L.) enough to make strong men much less angels weep. The question has been asked. How long will the officers of the law and the guardians of the sacred sanctity of homes countenance these shameful crimes on the part of brutes in the guise of men. A man has been turned loose who dares to step too far. There are some scoundrels who are not satisfied with the assaulting of our women, but are now turning their attention toward the cradle—they will take our babes to satisfy their lust. O God of justice, how long will the authorities wink at such refarious crime by allowing such villains out on bond—and bond that signifies nothing? Mr. George Wheeler, the father of the child, and his friends, will see if there is justice to be had and if crime will be punished, when committed by one who chances to be of the proud Anglo-Saxon race. It is a noticeable fact that when a white man assaults a Negro woman, or when he even is charged with taking the babes from the cradle, he seems to get but little notice from the reporters of the daily papers and those who are supposed to hand out justice. The Banner and the American could scarcely find a place small enough in their papers to report the arrest. This is what appeared in the American friday: "Sam Swanson, a carpenter, appeared before Justice Dodd Wednesday morning, and was bound over to the Criminal Court in the sum of $1,000, to answer a charge of criminal assault. Swanson's victim is alleged to be Georgia Wheeler, an 11-year-old Colored girl. George Wheeler, father of the girl, swore out the warrant. The assault is said to have been committed at 147 Fourth avenue, North, where Swanson and wife boarded, the victim serving as house maid at the place. Bond was made by Swanson." This could not be found unless one would look among the reading ad's. How different it would have been had the color of the persons in the affair been just the reverse.—The Globe Nashville Tenn. There is only one course for Mr. Wheeler and another Colored men, to pursue, if the courts in any part of the country fail to punish Christian white gentlemen, for raping Colored women and little children, and that is to arm themselves to the teeth with repeating winchester shotguns, and go a gunning for this class of white gentlemen. THE AIMS AND THE OBJECTS OF THE AFRICANI HOME PURCHASE ASSOCIATION. The Africani Home Purchase Association, incorporated under the laws of Illinois, November 19, 1906, with a capital stock of $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares of $100.00 each, offers its stock to the public and issues this statement as to its object and purpose. The object of the Association is to accumulate funds for the purpose of prchasing, and improving homes, lending money to its members to build homes, engage in business or other industrial pursuits. The company's possibilities for success are unlimited because it has taken advantage of the demands and the surrounding circumstances, and now presents an enterprise that will meet the demands. The fact that Colored people because of their color are forced to live in alleys, or over barns, and in hovels, infested with air sorts of disease germs, and midst surroundings destructive of both health and morals, demand that something be done to eradicate this condition and thereby elevate the physical, moral, and religious standards of the Colored people of Chicago. That hundreds of Negro boys and girls are yearly qualifying as book-keepers, clerks, stenographers, etc., without any places of employment, demands that places be made. That there are in the city of Chicago thousands of men, women and children earning all the way from $5.00 to $50.00 per week, who could afford to lay aside $1.00 per week is a favorable circumstance. Recent exhibitions of prejudice demonstrate the necessity of a close union of moral and financial forces, and strenuous competition, which is and will be brought to bear are circumstances which will force the support of Colored enterprises by Colored people. The Africani Home Purchase and Loan Association has been brought into existence to meet the demands of the hour, and to profit by the surrounding circumstances. And you dear reader may share in the profits in the following manner: Subscribe for one or more shares in the Africanani Home Purchase and Loan Association, and pay into the funds of said Association $1.00 per week for one hundred weeks, when you will receive back $100 for each share of stock held by you, and from 15 to 30 per cent, as dividends on your shares. If you desire after your shares have matured, to leave them as an investment, or if you pay cash in advance 5 per cent, interest additional will be allowed. You may also borrow from the Company $100 for every share of stock, held by you, providing good security is offered. Every shareholder shares equally in the earnings of the Company, whereas if you deposit your money in the bank, the banker gives you only 3 per cent. and keeps from 25 to 30 per cent. for the stockholders. We give you all your money earns, which will not be less than 15 per cent. Another advantage not to be overlooked is that it furnishes employment to numbers of Colored people. The Association proposes to make dividends for its members, by purchasing houses, flats, etc., and renting out the same to the members; lending money and receiving a good rate of interest thereon. The interest of the stockholders is protected by every means the wisdom, foresight and experience of the legislators of the State of Illinois, and those who were intrusted with the bylaws, and the attorney general could devise; and losses by means of dishonesty among officials is impossible, because every person intrusted with any of the funds of the Association are placed under sufficient bonds to protect the Association from losses. The corporate powers are exercised by a board of nine directors elected annually by the stockholders. In consideration of the facts recited and the opportunities offered, we claim the right to expect your kind consideration and earnest co-operation. The offices of this company are located at 5540 Lake Avenue, its officers and directors are as follows: A. L. Williams, President; Henry D. Jones, Treasurer; Wm. D. Neighbors, Secretary, directors; L. W. Washington, Frank Fields, A. P. Pierce, D. S. Williams, L. W. Perkins, G. M. W. Speer, Henry Jones, A. L. Williams and Wm. D. Neighbors. AMERICAN SECULAR UNION AND FREE THOUGHT FEDERATION. Compiled by E. C. Reichwald. This report in book form comprising 214 pages on enamel paper, is a valuable contribution to Free Thought literature. Besides giving full account of the Twenty-seventh Annual Congress of American Secular Union, and Free Thought Federation held in St. Louis, October 15-20, 1904, it contains a theses for organization by Prof. Ernst Haeckel, and important addresses by Judge C. B. Waite, John E. Remsburg, Dr. Moncure D. Conway, and others, also more than one hundred half tone portraits of prominent Free Thought veterans. Price of Book 50c. Orders received and promptly filled by E. C. Reichwald, Secretary, American Secular Union and Free Thought Federation, 141 South Water street, Chicago. BIG BENEFIT AT THE PEKIN THE ATER, FOR THE PHYLLIS WHEATELY CLUB. The big benefit performance to be given at the Pekin Theatre, Wednesday night, Feb. 6th, bids fair to be the most successful of any similar function yet given at this Theatre. The benefit will be given in aid of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, which is endeavoring to raise funds for the erection of a home for working girls, a most worthy and timely charity. Seats for this performance are selling rapidly and all indications point to a packed house. The bill will be the old Pekin favorite "The Man from Bam" entirely rewritten by Collin Davis and Arthur Gillespie also new musical numbers by Joe Jordan. It will be staged as usual by J. Ed. Green, and he promises something out of the ordinary in stage setting and choral effects. Mr. Robert Motts, whose generosity has made this occasion possible is to be heartily commended for his philanthropic interest in the Club's project, and it goes without saying that his efforts in this direction will be appreciated by our people. 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. FARMER'S HAIR TONIC AND CREAM. When all else fails try Farmer's hair tonic and cream. On sale at The Peoples' Pharmacies 29th and Armour Ave., and 27th and Dearborn Streets, also at 4822 and 4856 Lahley Ave. WOMAN AND FASHION An Attractive Waist the pretty and attractive blouse waist that is simple at the same time makes one of the most necessary elements in any woman's wardrobe. It is a bit more dressy than the severe tailored shirt waist, yet is not quite so dainty as the one in lingerie style, made either of lawn or fine silk, and is altogether useful as well as thoroughly R. attractive. This one can be worn with skirt to match or as a separate waist, suiting both purposes equally well, and is available for almost all seasonable waistings, wool and silk and even the mercurized one that so many women like to wear throughout the entire season. It can be either lined or unlined and made with three-quarter or full length sleeves. In the illustration it is stitched with silk and combined with tucked taffeta, trimmed with a tiny edge of velvet and little velvet buttons, but the vest and the collar and the trimming on the cuffs can be of any contrasting material that may be liked. Jet Very Fashionable. Jet jewelry appeared in the summer also, and now that the winter season is well under way this fashion has well nigh amounted to a craze. Old treasure boxes are being searched and old jet bracelets and pins and earrings brought forth and mended and worn with much satisfaction. And why not, since the smart shops are displaying modern replicas of them as the "latest novelty?" Velveteens Popular. The chiffon velveteens and even corduroys are on view in some charming shades. For the younger generation they are vastly liked in sensible colorings, braided with several widths of tressed strands, from a soutache up to a four inch width. Plaid braids find favor here, and in the darker colored costumes they show up to delightful advantage. All In Fur. Fur cloths imitating the natural pelts are much used materials in children's wraps this season. Coats, caps, muffs and neck scarfs are made of them, while not infrequently one sees a small youngster clothed from head to toe in this new fabric, and leggings are also made of it. For Boy or Girl. The one piece dress is a boon to the mothers of all small folk. It is so simple that several can be made with very little labor and expense, and it suits the youngster as no other garment can do. This one is appropriate for boys of two and four and for girls up to the mature age of six, the only difference in the dresses worn by the two sexes S A ONE PIECE DRESS. being found in the closing, which in one instance is on the left and the other on the right side. This one is made of fleece lined white plique and is warm at the same time that it is dainty and attractive. There are a great many materials, however, that are used for dresses of the sort. The unlined plique is liked by many mothers at all seasons of the year, and for the darker, more serviceable frocks such materials as serge und panama cloth are greatly liked. There is the effect of a wide double box plait at both front and back, and the moderately full sleeves are tucked at the wrists. FACTS IN FEW LINES Over a hundred counties in Texas have gone "dry" by local option. Peary says if you want rabbits to taste good you should live on dog meat awhile. Since last year the coal companies of India have advanced prices nearly 100 per cent. Fifty years ago flour was $10 a barrel, pork $80 a barrel and butter 50 cents a pound in Minnesota. The Russian navy has fifty-three admirals, vice admirals and rear admirals and only eight battleships. The "Who's Who" for 1907 is such a bulky volume that the London World says the question now does not seem so much who's who as who isn't. Some scientists believe that North America was in contact during prehistoric ages with Africa and with Europe, the former connection coming first. No live creatures except bees will be carried by post between Great Britain and Nicaragua, according to a parcels post agreement just concluded between the two countries. There is in India a large element of wealth which is wholly inactive. The hoarded wealth in the form of ornaments, jewelry and buried treasure has been estimated at many millions. It is largely held by princes, rajahs and other nobles. It has been stated that the average earnings of the laborer in India is 27 rupees or about $9 a year, but a table in the Indian directory of 1935 enables one to figure out the average earning for the cooly laborer to be 56 rupees, or about $18.66 a year. During the early fall, when the negroes of the south are shocking corn, they build the shocks over several large, ripe watermelons, then leave them until Christmas. The shocks protect the melons from freezing and also keep them cold enough to be fresh. Japanese articles are stated by a Russian editor to fail to make much headway in the Manchuria markets, being for the most part articles of luxury, such as silk textiles, cabinets and toilet accessories, which are beyond the means of the masses of the people. Probably the smallest inhabited house in the country is at Llandysysul, South Wales. Built by the owner, a bachelor, who occupies it, it has a frontage of five and a half feet, is six feet from front to back, six feet from the ground to eaves and about four feet more to the ridge. Near one entrance of the Cathedral of Seville hangs a patched and painted crocodile, which once served as a princely love token that failed of its mission. In 1260 it was sent by the sultan of Egypt to a beautiful princess of Spain, who declined a suitor whose first present could scarcely be said to speak of affection. The fact that America, through its missions, puts as much money into India as England does and draws out nothing, whereas England draws out $100,000,000 a year, was cited by Mr. W. J. Bryan as evidence that the United States was the most altruistic nation in the world, when this statement was challenged by a group of Anglo-Indian officials in India. The rapid reconstruction of a trestle was recently carried on at Galveston, Tex. Fire destroyed 400 feet of the long railroad trestle which extended from the mainland to the city and stopped traffic. The construction force and materials were immediately started to the work, and by midnight of the same day the trestle was sufficiently repaired to allow traffic to be resumed. Some of the most noted Parisian artists have contrived to transform Edmond Rostand's country home, Arraga, in the south of France, into a fairyland. The walls of his magnificent apartments, whose windows look out over the crests of the Pyrenees, are covered with the very delightful tales which Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers have immortalized. Germany and Japan have made good use of the idea, first suggested in the United States, of equipping ships with products for sale abroad and sending the vessels to the ports where trade might be developed. In that way, according to a report transmitted by Consul General Michael, Japan got her first order from the Argentine Republic, with which she now has considerable trade. While preaching in Pueblo, Colo., a few years ago Rev. Edward J. Wilcox found himself in the embarrassing position of being unable to pay his debts. Knowing that if he stuck to the pulpit he would have small chance of getting even with the world, he quit preaching and went into the mining business. Today he owns mines in Colorado worth $3,000,000, besides a great deal of other valuable property. It has just been discovered that Gashavant G. Pandit, a very wealthy high caste Hindoo and a protege of the gaekwar of Baroda, is working as a common laborer in an acid factory at Roscoe, N. D. Pandit, though said to be worth millions, works and lives as the other laborers do. Industrial conditions in India are in a deplorable state, he declares, and it is his intention to take part in the task of revolutionizing them in his native land. It has now been settled without question, says the Brass World, that the best trolley wheels are those which contain no lead. The constant arcing of the wheel and wire burns out the lead and causes the wheel to wear rapidly. If a trolley wheel is found which contains lead it is certain that it will wear out rapidly. It is very difficult to obtain scrap metals on the market which do not contain lead. For this reason trolley wheels must be manufactured from new metals. HORSEFLESH AS FOOD. It Is Cheap and In Rapidly Growing In Favor In Europe In Belgium, as in other European countries, the sale of horseflesh is becoming a recognized branch of the butchering business, according to Consul McNally of Liege. Scattered through Liege are many shops selling horse meat exclusively, a horse head attached to the front of the shop or a sign indicating the business within. While it is not forbidden for a meat market to handle both beef and horse meat, it is quite unusual to do so, dealers carrying their separate lines. When the meat is dressed and exposed for sale the only noticeable difference is in the color, which is of a deeper red and has a coarser fiber than the beef. Those accustomed to eating horseflesh are loud in its praise and declare it to be as palatable as beef and that many persons eat horseflesh under the impression that they are eating beef. There is no doubt that horseflesh is growing in favor. It sells for about half the price of beef or mutton. The dealers in horse meat are most active in proclaiming the prime quality of their article, and a campaign of persuasion is now on. They contend that the horse in ancient times was held in high esteem; that the eating of horseflesh was common before the eighth century and that in China the horse has been eaten for 600 years. The first European people openly practicing hippophagy were those of Denmark in 1807, when Napoleon invaded that country. The Germans also attribute that practice in their country to the same person during the wars of 1815, at which time the food supply was very low. The first hippophagic slaughter house was created in Prussia in 1847, also a year of great famine In Belgium the eating of horseflesh dates back to 1870, from which time it has been increasing steadily. In Liege many colts are slaughtered for sale as well as young horses. The animal undergoes the same rigid inspection given to beef. mutton or pork. The number of horses and colts slaughtered for Liege in 1904 was 1.287, and it is estimated at 2.000 head for 1905. The choice cuts of horse meat sell for about 20 cents a pound, while the beef commands about 35 cents. Jews In the Senate: Simon Guggenheim will be the sixth Jew to sit as a member in the United States senate. The first Jew chosen to that honor was David Yule, who represented Florida from March, 1840, to March, 1853. He was born in the West Indies, and his name was David Levy, by which he was known when he was elected as a member of the house of representatives in 1841. The second Jew in the senate was Judah P. Benjamin, who served from 1852 to 1857. He also was born in the West Indies. He represented Louisiana. Benjamin F. Jonas was born in Kentucky and represented Louisiana in the senate. Joseph Simon was a senator from Oregon from 1898 to 1903. Isidor Rayner was chosen as a senator from Maryland in 1904—New York Tribune. Finds a Monkey Man. An interesting discovery has been made by the well known Heidelberg scientist, Professor Klaatsch, who is now pursuing anthropological studies in Australia. The professor says that while examining some Australasian natives arrested for killing a white man in Port Arthur he found that one of the men had feet and hands of exactly the same shape and appearance as those of monkeys. The natives on his inquiries stated that in the hitherto unexplored regions between the rivers Daly and Victoria numerous people have similar hands and feet and otherwise bear a strong resemblance to large monkeys. This is the first time that these characteristics have been discovered in a human being.-London Mail. Denmark and Its Eels. Denmark, for reasons partly of gastronomy and partly of trade, is distressed at the aversion shown by the eel for its shores. The fish is now and for some years has been abandoning the Little Belt in great numbers for the Atlantic, never to return. People are beginning to ask themselves if the taste of eel pie is to vanish from Denmark forever. An ichthyologist who has spent some time in observing the creatures has come to the conclusion that they always glide off in dark waters. This has suggested the bright idea of running a deep sea cable along the track most frequented by the emigrants and lighting the water up with electric lights so as to fascinate the fish into remaining where they are. An Automobile House What is asserted to be the only automobile house in the country is now in Chicago. It has a parlor, bedroom and kitchen, a hot water heating system and a gasoline range, along with all the other comforts of home. It is propelled by a three cylinder gasoline motor, set in motion by levers, so that all the owner has to do when he is tired of one set of scenery, climate or neighborhood is to place himself in an easy chair in his parlor, turn on a lever and start for pastures now. Books and Microbes The habit of pampering books is a characteristic vice of the age, and we are glad to find Sir Lauder Brunton, in the Lancet, writing in a way that shows him to harbor no weakness of that kind. Sir Lauder has discovered that dust is often responsible for so called cold in the head. Whenever he turned over the books in his library he found that a cold followed. His remedy is to sponge the top of a book with a solution of carbolic acid before opening it—London News. SELECTIONS This Medicine Is Good, Too, For All Forms of Blood Disorders. This winter, at last, will prove a harvest for the doctors and patent medicine manufacturers unless great care is taken to dress warm and keep the feet dry. This is the advice of a well known local physician and should be heeded by all who are subject to rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles and especially catarrh. While the latter is considered by most sufferers an incurable disease, there are few men or women who will fail to experience great relief from the following simple home prescription, and if taken in time it may prevent an attack of catarrh during the entire season. Here is the prescription, which any one can mix: Fluid extract dandelion, one-half ounce; compound kargon, one ounce; compound sirup sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and use in teaspoonful doses after each meal and again at bedtime. These are all vegetable ingredients and can be obtained from any good prescription pharmacy at small cost. The compound kargon in this prescription acts directly upon the eliminative tissues of the kidneys to make them filter and strain from the blood the poisons that produce all forms of catarral affections. Relief is often felt even after the first few doses, and it is seldom that a sufferer ever experiences a return attack within the year. This prescription makes a splendid remedy for all forms of blood disorders, and such symptoms as lame back, bladder weaknesses and rheumatic pains are entirely dispelled. As this valuable prescription comes from a thoroughly reliable source, it should be heeded by every afflicted reader.—New York World. House Heating In 100 A. D An unusual type of Roman villa has been unearthed on the site of the ancient Roman encampment in Britain at Caerwent. The remains have been found to be in an excellent state of preservation. A departure from the conventional practice of the Romans in the designs of their residences, as revealed by previous excavations in that country, is the provision of extra rooms abutting on the four sides of the courtyard. In the basements two completely perfect heating devices or hypocasts were found, together with the peculiar blue tiles utilized by the owners for conducting the heat from the stove in the basement and radiating it through the upper rooms of the dwelling. In the basement some exquisite specimens of Roman paving were unearthed. Adee's Shoes. Assistant Secretary of State Adee probably owns more shoes than any other man in Washington, excluding dealers. He keeps about a dozen pairs in his office at the state department and as many more at his home. Mr. Adee has not accumulated his shoes because of any fad, but merely for the comfort that he has learned can only be obtained by having constantly on hand a multiplicity of shoes. It appears that when he arrives at his office in the morning after a brisk walk from his home he immediately changes his shoes and that through the day he makes several other changes whenever his pedal extremities begin to feel uncomfortable. For the most part the shoes are all of the same general pattern—Boston Transcript. Pecans In Rio Grande Delta. Pecan groves are to become a feature of the development of the Rio Grande river country in Texas. Several large orchards have already been planted, and this season several thousand more acres will be put out. The delta of the Rio Grande is said to be the ideal section for the production of pecans. The trees can be made to bear in three years after planting, but the general period there is six or seven years. On the Mexican side of the river pecans have been grown for many years in the little sections that were irrigated. This first attracted attention on the American side. The demand for pecans is always in excess of the supply, and pecan orcharding is certain to be profitable in the south—St. Louis Republic. Curious Method of Mining The increasing depth to which it is necessary to go in following the vein of kaolin, or potter's clay, mined near the Housatonic river in Connecticut recently caused the introduction of a novel method of mining. Wells from 50 to nearly 200 feet in depth are driven, and two pipes, the outer four inches and the inner two inches in diameter, are introduced. Water at a pressure of forty pounds per square inch is forced down through the smaller pipe and rises through the larger one, bringing with it about 5 per cent of solid matter, of which 75 per cent is pure kaolin. Weds. Armless Patient. A remarkable romance has just been associated with the Accident hospital at Widnes, Lancashire. A young man met with a terrible accident at the railway station, Widnes, which rendered it necessary for his arms to be amputated at the shoulders. He was tenderly nursed by a pretty young member of the hospital staff, and the feelings of friendship between them gradually ripened into love. The nurse has just married her armless lover. She has some small private means and intends to work for herself and her husband—London Mall. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARD: sent St. & L. S. & M. S. 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Douglas 3250 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO 10 15 50 YEAR There are seven McQuill Photograms sold to the United States in all of our other units of production. This is an all-time favorite of our other units of production. McQuill's Magnifying The Queen of Paradise goes anywhere than any other Lady Magnifier. (See magnifying glass below for more details.) Please contact us at 1-800-722-2222, www.mcquill.com. Lady Agnes Wentz. Hardware and Baking. Hardware and Baking. and Frutious Catalogue Drawing on presiding and Grove. Addressee THE McCALL CO., New York. because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. READY FOR THE PRESS CHICAGO CAVE DWELLERS Not for Prenohrs 820 Pages, Cloth, $1.00 POST PAID A Story of the Underworld and the Overworld By Parker H. Serccombe, Editor, To-Morrow Magazine, Chicago. Only a limited edition of this remarkable book will be printed. Each copy will be signed by Serccombe Him- self and automatically num- bered from 1 up. First orders is it will get the most auction to accept No. 1, which goes to Mrs. Serccombe. Address TO-MORROW MAGAZINE, For the Supporter and Improver and The New Criterion, 2228 Calumet Ave. Chicago, Ill. 10 CENTS THE COPY. $1 A YEAR. --- THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: George M. Oatts, 5501 Lake ave. Mrs. E. L. Holmes, 2508½ State st. Cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. W. McKinley, news stand, Northeast corner State and 47th st. L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson ave., General agent. L. L. Jones, barber shop and news stand, 3842 State st. A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 261 29th St. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. R. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 8532 State st. Whiteley Bros. 2724 State St., Gent's furnishings and new stand. The Stationery, 2970 State street. Cigars, Tobacco and News stand. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. W. H. Gans, news stand, 2805 State street. J. H. Hadley, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 110 W. 47th street, near State. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St., Detroit, Mich. Howard Music & Art Company, Buxton, Iowa. News items and advertisements left at these places will find their way into the columns of The Broad An. L. W. Washington, General Agent for The Broad Ax In the Hyde Park District. From on and after this date until further notice to the contrary, L. W. Washington, 5613 Jefferson avenue will act as the general agent for The Broad Ax, and news items and advertisements left with him not later than Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning prior to the day of publication, will find their way into its columns. Special Announcement From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc. for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue. The Lost Ring of the "Fayre Rosa mund." The coincidences by which many of the famous rings now in valuable collections have been recovered after hundreds, and in some instances thousands, of years, are in many cases so remarkable that the most highly improbable of the ring and fish stories beloved of anglers would seem to bear by comparison the stamp of the plainest and most unvarnished truth. A farmer ploughing a field in Yorkshire came upon a heavy gold ring, and, without giving it a moment's further thought, tied it as an ornament to the farm-dog's collar. It chanced, however, to catch the eye of one learned in such matters, by whom it was at once recognized as being of early Saxon workmanship, and on further examination it was found to have Queen Aethelswith's name itself graven inside the hoon. Another ring, supposed to have belonged to Fair Rosamund, which was dug up at Godson Priory in Oxfordshire, where she is said once to have been imprisoned, is very beautiful in workmanship and very delicate in design. Representations of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus, and a nimbed saint clad in monastic habit, on separate panels, are joined together with forget-me-not flowers, whilst within the hoop there runs the legend in small black-letter characters, "Most in mynd and yn myn herrt, Lothest from you ferto departt," which, if its supposed ownership be true, may probably have been a gift from Henry II himself. NEW SHORT STORIES A Southern Princess. The reputation of John Sharp Williams, the minority leader of the house, as a story teller is too firmly established to need any comment. Whenever he gets started in that direction an impromptu audience is always sure to assemble. However, he is careful to avoid putting too much humor in his speeches delivered on the floor of the house, as experience has proved that a statesman with ambition cannot afford to be known as a mirth provoker. Here is a story told by Mr. Williams to a select coterie of friends: "Years ago, when I was a student at Florence, Italy," he began, "a certain duke, whose name has escaped my memory for the moment, gave a swell D 'WHAT PART OF THE SOUTH ARE YOU FROM?' 'WHAT PART OF THE SOUTH ARE YOU FROM?' ball. In some way myself and several other fellow students received invitations. Before starting for the duke's place I was informed that a distinguished Algerian princess was to be at the ball. She was said to be creating quite a sensation in the city, and naturally I had some curiosity to see her. "Arriving at the duke's palace, I beheld a very dark skinned lady with thick lips, who was pointed out to me as the distinguished Algerian princess. Everybody was talking Italian, and I could understand very little that was going on. My suspicions were aroused, however, and, edging my way close up to the so called royal personage, I whispered: "Say, nigger, what part of the south are you from?" "Her royal highness turned on me with a surprised look and replied. 'Ts from South Carolina, boss, but please don't give me away.' "I didn't."-Washington Post. In Praise of Peace. Alfred H. Love, the president of the Universal Peace union, told the other day in Philadelphia a peace story. "At this Christmas season," he said, "men talk sincerely about loving one another, about the universal brotherhood of man, and in the same breath they assert that it is right to burn and maim and kill in war. "They are not so logical as a young colored recruit who served in the Philippines. "This young man at the end of his initial engagement was haled before his captain. "So you ran at first fire, did you? said the captain scorfully. "Yes, sah, an' I'd 'a run sooner, sah, if I'd known it wuz comin'. "Have you no regard for your reputation, Calhoun? "Mah reputation hain't nuffin' to me, sah, 'longside o' mah life." "The captain smiled and twirled his mustache. Here was an intelligent young man. He'd talk him over to the right point of view. "Even if you should lose your life, Calhoun, he said, 'you'd have the satisfaction of knowing that you had died for your country." "Wot satisfaction could dat be to me, sah, when de power o' feelin' it wuz gone? "Then patriotism means nothing to you? "Nuthin', sah. I wouldn't put mah life in de scales ag'in for any government dater existed, for no government could replace de loss o' me." "Calhoun, if all soldiers were like you, the world's governments would all go to pieces." "On de contrary, sah, dey'd last for eber, for if all soldiers wuz like me, den dere couldn't neber be no fightin'."—Washington Star. Not Enough Evidence. Not many years ago a prominent citizen of Haverhill was arrested for the unlawful sale of liquor. On being searched a half flask of brandy was found. That being the only evidence, the judge charged the jury. They had been out but five minutes when they returned, and the foreman queried: "Your honor, how do we know the flask contains brandy? I would like to take the flask into the jury room." He was given the flask, and soon the jury returned. "Have you agreed?" the foreman was asked. "We have," he answered. "We find the defendant not guilty." And, exhibiting the now empty flask, he added, "There was not enough evidence to go around." The defendant was discharged. Boston Herald HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley BRADLEY & REAL ESTATE, AND INSURANCE 709 S. Halsted Street Sandy W. Trick 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you are? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales. Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwears. A spendiid assortment of Shoes, Hosieries, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan, Lisscoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts a fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chain, Safety Pins. Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trading Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Corsets. A spendiid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. Telephones Oakland 1489, Gray 3331, Blue 3983 W. E. Carlmore & Co. REAL ESTATE LOANS AND FIRE INSURANCE Money Loaned on Mortgages OFFICES 120 W. 51st St. 5252 State St. 4901 Dearborn St. CHICAGO L. L. JONES. S. GRAY. We make a specialty of Men's Bailbrigan Underwear, Hoslery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS Vice-President, JOHN SHE Secretary, WILLIAM MANUFATURED Common and Sev Office and Yards 45th and Roll Yards running winter and sum with the latest improved Wolf depot of Winter Yards depot of Summer Yards Telephone Yard ILLINOIS BR American Brick Co. Agent for the Black Diamond De- velopment Company. Stock for sale now 25c Per Share. Fine Stock of Cigars. 3842 State Street, CHICAGO. Phone Douglas 7434. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Output of Winter Yards ..... 14,400 per day Output of Summer Yards ..... 30,000 per day ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 994 N. Western Av 1994 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Yard unk's Br Junk's Brewery M. JUNK, Proprieter JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO --- GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Aahland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 9098 CHICAGO Telephone Main 4839 Residence, 6826 Champlain Ave. Tel. Wentworth 2821 J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney At Law SUITE 51, 119-121 LA SALLE ST. CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO The Twentieth Century Barber Shop PHONE | OFFICE DOUGLAS 8009 EES, DOUGLAS Physician and Surgeon *Wours*—10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 5:36 P. M. and nights—Sundays, 3 to 5 P. M. Medical Examiner and Court Physician for the Foresters No. 7895. Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Houm: 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 and after 6 P. CHICAG holds tree clinics at Provident Hospital free dispensary eye, ear, nose and throat department, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hours 2 to 4 SOUTH SIDE TAILORING CO. Not Incorporated. George M. Oatts, Prop. SUITS made to Order $15.00 up. PANTS made to Order $4.00 up. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing. Strict Attention paid Ladies' work. Telephone Hyde Park 5927. 3444 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE 5501 LAKE AVE. CHICAGO The death is announced in London of the Hon. David Murray, London, and Adelaide. The eldest son of the late Provest Murray, Anstruther, Mr. Murray emigrated to Adelaide in the early '50s of its last century, and established a general merchant's business in different parts in New South Wales. In the year 1870 he was elected one of the representatives of New South Wales to the Legislative Chamber. WHERE EVERY PATRON Jacob Feinberg Telephone Yards 693 BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Ested Street CHICAGO Dady W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street Department Store If you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trad- with each 10c purchase. In a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor- ridid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Isis, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. A specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell ants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. Line of Neckwear and Hardkerchiefs. Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs ins. BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co. - Client and Treasurer, THOMAS CARRY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: H and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Water Yards ..... 1440.0 per day Summer Yards ..... 3040.0 per day Telephone Yards 128. NOIS BRICK CO. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CARRY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 128. WILLIAM G. KUESTBR. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards 718 k's Brewery Telephone Yards: 718 J. M. Fields CHICAGO