The Broad Ax

A White Gentleman And A Colored Woman ARRESTED IN THE STREETS OF NASHVILLE, TENN.. FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT. MANY BAD HOUSES RUN IN SOUTHERN CITIES AND IN CHICAGO FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF MALE MEMBERS OF THE SUPERIOR RACE. THIS FACT IS NEVER REFERRED TO BY THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Vol. XII A White Gentleman And A C ARRESTED IN THE STREETS OF FOR DISORDERLY CONDUC MANY BAD HOUSES RUN IN S IN CHICAGO FOR THE EXC MALE MEMBERS OF THE S THIS FACT IS NEVER REFERRED NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT We have heard so much of the divinely made color line which the newspapers of the South say must not be crossed—it has been dinned into our ears so constantly that the white South is opposed to any mixing of the races; that we would almost expect, were these newspapers consistent, that anyone found crossing this forbidden line would be heralded as a person unfit for the association of any human being. But such is not the case. With an agility equal to the Supreme Court of the United States, when dodging questions having to do with the civil or political rights of Negroes, the newspapers suppress all the evidence as a rule, that shows that a white man is the guilty person. This week a white man and a woman of our race, in the broad light of day were arrested for their open and notoriously lewd conduct. Likewise they were fined in the city courts. The woman who kept the house, as was right, was also arrested. If she was not fined more than the others she should have been for there is no woman so contemptible as one who keeps a house for men of the white race to meet the demi-mondes of our race. Not a word about this crossing of the color line, so far as we have been able to find has percolated through the daily press of this city. Why was the incident suppressed? Was it because such cases occur with so much frequency that they possess no value as news items? This color line in so far as it pertains to white men associating with Negro women, is all bosh. The city FIGHTS FOR NEGROES. ROSENCRANS SPURNS PLEA. Head of Evansville School Board Reads Riot Act to Eenemies of Evansville, Ind., June 22.—In an effort to sound the School Board today, as a preliminary to going after the jobs of Moses and Beulah Davis, Colored teachers, who have bought a home in the heart of the fashionable white residence section of Evansville, Harry M. Lukens, who owns property next door to that purchased by the Davises, took his complaint to Maj. A. C. Rosencrans, president of the Board of Education. Lukens ran up against the most blunt spoken man in Evansville when he met Maj. Rosencrans, who has the reputation of never having trimmed his salis or cut a corner. President Rosencrans told Lukens that from what he had seen of the Colored people he would prefer them as neighbors to many white people that he knew. The major said he would not resent the coming of the Negroes to be his neighbors. "As I said in a speech at the Colored High School commencement," remarked Maj. Rosencrans, "the meaner the white man the more he hates the Nigger." In further explanation of his attitude, MaJ. Roseencrans, said: "The Davis family was about to leave to become teachers in the Hampden, Va, Colored college, and as I had been much impressed with their work here I was active in my efforts to get them to stay here. I talked to Superintendent Cooley, and he said it would be difficult to replace them, as good Colored manual training teachers are a rare article. I understand --- authorities, the newspapers and many if not most of the respectable white citizens of this town know that there are houses containing Negro strumpets run exclusively for white men. They further know that some of their "respectable" men have women, as it were, tied out where they can meet them. All of this, we repeat is known to the daily newspapers and the city authorities, yet they wink at it. Racial purity So far as the white man is concerned it is all bosh. If the white man with all the reins of government in his hands really believed in racial purity, he would break up all these assignation houses where white men Colored women and the baglons with their "Creole" strumpets would soon be a thing of the past.—The Globe, Nashville, Tenn., June 22. The above article is the gospel truth, for in every Southern city and even here in Chicago, many fast houses filled with the lowest class of Colored women, are run for the special benefit of white gentlemen, and if any Negro should happen to enter one of these houses and attempt to put himself on social equality with the elegant married half-drunken white gentlemen, who delight to sleep in the arms of the most repulsive kind of Colored women, he would be shot down like a common dog. But those connected with daily newspapers never have any time to call the attention of the public to these facts, will John Temple Graves, Ben Tillman, James K. Vardaman, Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Mayor Busse, Chief Shippy, and the other high steppers who claim to be Christians please stand up and lead us in prayer!—Editor. that the Davises have been somewhat ostracized by the Negroes here because Beulah Davis is so white that her Negro blood does not show. "This, I presume, has in part prompted them to get a good home in a respectable neighborhood. They are respectable. The white people of Tuxedo Place will be slow to try to have the School Board oust the Negroes from their positions as teachers when it is considered what the board is doing. The Negro teachers are entitled to the protection of all good thinking people and they have my support very decidedly."—The Star, Indianapolis, Ind., June 23. THE TAFTS. The Taft family has never indicated any good interest in the Afro-American and does not now. Recently it was announced that "The Clansman," Tom Dixon's fire-brand prejudice play, was scheduled to appear at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati. Charles P. Taft, Secretary Taft's brother, editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Times Star, and manager of his brother's alleged candidacy for the republican nomination for the presidency, owns the theater building. When leading Afro-Americans of that city called on him and asked him not to permit the dirty show to be put on in his theater, he refused to make any effort whatever to comply with their respectful, reasonable and very proper request. The result is "The Clansman" was produced at the Cincinnati Grand Opera House and the minds of many thousands of persons, already too thoroughly saturated with prejudice and hatred of the Afro-American, were poisoned even more against our HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, JUNE 29, 1907. people, if such a thing be possible. No wonder the Afro-Americoans of Ohio have spoken out so strongly against the alleged Taft candidacy, and even those who are trying to promote it. With Brother Charles aiding and abetting Tom Dixon's dirty work against the race with his infernal play, "The Clansman," and Secretary Taft out-Roosevelting Roosevelt in his effort to fasten the alleged Brownsville, Texas, riot crime upon "The Black Battalion," it is high time for others of our people beside those who live in Ohio to get busy along the same resolution line—The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. NEGRO KILLS WHITE MAN. Was in Bed With His Wife—Negro Surrenders—Goes to Jail. All is Quiet. SAYS HE KISSED A MULATTO. Clarence V. Gallagher's Wife in Separate Maintenance Trial Accuses Him of Carressing Yellow Servant Girl. Mrs. Josephine K. Gallagher, 563 Monroe avenue, destigling in her suit against Clarence V. Gallagher, Tuesda, told Judge McEwen in the court for that her nusband caresse and kissed a mulatton woman servant at her mother's residence in Kansas City on March 30, Gallagher is contracting freight agent for the Canadian Pacific and Soo railroad. The couple formerly lived at the Metro pole hotel. Judge McEwen put ther case over one week. Brother Gallagher who judging by his name must be a hot-loving, Frenchman with an Irish name forgo all about belonging to the so-called superior race at the time he brushes Des Arc, Ark., Tuesday.—How is this for the superior race. Tom Hartseil, a Negro living near Cacha river bridge, near Biscoe, caught J. E. Foster, a white man, in bed with his wife. He says that on returning to his house about 8 o'clock he was refused admittance until he threatened to force the door. When his wife opened the door the man attempted to jump out of the window and the Negro opened fire with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, killing Foster instantly. Hartseil has surrendered to the Sheriff, and all is quiet. There was no eye-witness to the scene.—The Citizen, Memphis, Tenn. Evidently Col. Foster belonged to that class of gentlemen who would be willing to mob and lynch any Negro who even attempt to look at a common white female hag, and if the Negro race in the South had many more Tom. Hartseil's who would crack down on every white gentleman who wants to monkey with all the white and Colored women at the same time, the race would be much better in every respect.—Editor. WANT ONLY SOUTHERN NEG ROES. Nashville, Tenn., June 25.—A conclusion was reached by the Nashville board of education last night that only Negroes born, bred, and educated in the south need apply for election as teachers in the Colored public schools of this city. The actions of the Board of Education of Nashville, Tenn., is very significant. It means that no Colored teacher who believes that the Negro is entitled to enjoy his civil and political rights can teach school in that city and only instructors who have graduated from such Jim Crow schools as Tuskegee, where the students are taught how to milk cows and so on will be employed hereafter. Special to the Citizen: SAYS HE KISSED A MULATTO. Clarence V. Gallagher's Wife in Separate Maintenance Trial Accuses him of Caressing Yellow Servant Girl. Mrs. Josephine K. Gallagher, 5630 Monroe avenue, testifying in her suit against Clarence V. Gallagher, Tuesday, told Judge McEwen in the Superior court that her husband caressed and kissed a mulatto woman servant at her mother's residence in Kansas City on March 30, Gallagher is contracting freight agent for the Canadian Pacific and Soo railroad. The couple formerly lived at the Metropole hotel. Judge McEwen put the case over one week. Brother Gallagher who judging by his name must be a hot-loving Frenchman with an Irish name forgot all about belonging to the so-called superior race, at the time he brushed aside his beautiful wife, in order to kiss and hug the mulatto woman. NEW CLUB HAS FIRST OPENING Members of Illinois Athletic Celebrate Finishing of Grill Room The first of a series of informal "openings" of the New Illinois Athletic club took place last Saturday at noon, when the club's grill room was opened to its members. "We are going to have the roof garden ready in two weeks at the outside," said President William Hale Thompson. "The dining room soon will be prepared and it will not be more than two months when we will have the formal opening of the entire clubhouse." The new club now has a membership of 3,900 and all of the available space for resilient members has been taken up." HOT BASE BALL GAMES TO BE PLAYED BETWEEN THE LE-LAND GIANTS, AND THE GIANTS OF LOUIS-VILLE. Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30, two hot base ball games, will be played by the Leland Giants and the Giants of Louisville, Ky., the famous Colored team of the South, at Auburn Park 79th street and Wentworth ave., for a purse of $500, will be tossed to the winners of the games. Rube Foster, head of the Leland Giants, feels confident that his team will walk away with the money. Games called at 3:30 each afternoon. An excursion train will be run from Louisville to this city which will be loaded down with friends and shouters of the Southern team. This promises to be the Society event of the base ball season. President Roosevelt Called Down Good and Hard BY CAPTAIN JOHN T. CAMPBELL OF THE SOLDIERS HOME, LA FAYETTE, INDIANA. The following letter was addressed to Theodore Roosevelt from La Fayette, Ind., on last Thursday: La Fayette, Ind., June 27, 1907. My Dear Sir:—As you are much given to "butting in," especially where you are not much concerned personally or officially, I want you to "butt in" regarding a recent case in Indiana. A citizen of Bethany, Brown county, Indiana, Thomas Vanest, was "white capped"—that is whipped and beaten by some citizens of Brown and Bartholomew counties till his life is almost extinct. Certain persons are suspected of this outrage, but they deny it. Now, as the champion of the weak and defenseless (Niggers excepted), I want you to send Gen. Garlington and Major Blocksom to these two counties with instructions to notify all the citizens thereof that if they do not within a short time tell who the persons are who committed this outrage that they all will be dismissed from citizenship in the United States. If after the lapse of the given time no one shall come forward and divulge the names of the guilty parties, then by executive order dismiss all the citizens of said counties from citizenship "without honor," and order that they shall never be again admitted to citizenship of the United States, and shall be denied all pro- WEST SIDE NEWS. By A. L. Simpson. Mrs. Ada White, the mother of Mrs. Frances Miller is on her way from Denver, Colorado, to visit her daughter, who lives at 753 Fulton st., Chicago. Mr. Henry Knox, who has been away from his family for quite a while will soon be with them again on a short visit. Mrs. Frances Miller late of Denver, Colorado is the temporary organist of Friendship Baptist Church. The Deaconess's Board of St. Stephens A. M. E. Church recently succeeded in raising $100.00 to send Mrs. Anna Payne to the Old-folks Home. The Rev. Brudanio the Cuban Minister and member of Providence Baptist Church, will probably be absent from the city for a while. Prof. A. L. Simpson the expert chiropodist has added Miss Maybell Gaskill the artistic manicurist and Miss Willie Cooper as book-keeper to his office force 155 W. Madison st. Eureak Bldg., Room 51. Drunkards warning reproduced at Oak-Park, Tuesday evening, was quite a success. Sunday, June 30th, will be the closing day for the West Side Sunday Club, for the summer you are cordially invited. It will be Ex-President's day. Mrs. Hannah Cooper is back from a short visit to South Haven. Send your subscription and notes for The Broad Ax to Prof. A. L. Simpson 155 W. Madison St, suite 51 Eureka Bldg. The Pekin. On next Tuesday evening, July 2, the Eighth Regiment, accompanied by Colonel Marshall and Staff, and band will attend a special performance of the big spectacular summer show, "Captain Rufus at the Pekin Theatre," captain Rufus," is a three act musical, military comedy-drama from the pens of Mr. J. Ed. Green, stage director of the Pekin theatre and Mr. Alfred Anderson, a playwright of well-known fame. One of the most prominent features of the show is a battle in the cave set to music which has never before been produced on any stage. On this occasion the Regiment will parade from their Armory at 37th street to the theatre. The theatre will be appropriately decorated for this occasion. Sevelt Called Good and Hard AMPBELL OF THE SOLDIERS' INDIANA. 一 tection under the laws of the United States, and shall not be allowed to take up homesteads on the public lands, and shall be denied passports to any other country. Be very careful not to inquire whether or not the said Vanest may have whipped himself, or have been whipped by his own family or near relations. If Senator Foraker should become a little obstreperous and raise a question in the Senate as to your lawful authority to deal out such summary punishment, just write a pert letter to the Senate and denounce the outrage over and over again, throw in many vigorous adjectives, and repeat in every paragraph as in the dismissal of the Negro soldiers at Brownsville, "There can be no doubt whatever" that some citizens of Brown and Bartholomew counties committed this outrage, and that other citizens who know who did it, and that by a "conspiracy of silence" they refuse to tell. True, the citizens are not soldiers of the United States, as were the members of the Black Batallion, but they are citizens of the United States, and that gives you as much right to go beyond the law for punishment as did the Negro soldiers at Brownsville. Please keep up the hasty pace you have set. Don't allow Foraker to slacken your gait. J. T. C. Rev. E. R. Badanure, thirty-five years old, Colored pastor of the Irving Avenue Baptist Church, was arrested the first of the week, charged with having stolen jewelry valued at $195 belonging to Mrs. Anna Sparks, 33 North Ada street, wife of a Pullman car cook. It seems that Parson Badanure worked his way mighty close up by the side of Mrs. Sparks. REV. GEORGE J. JOHNSON THE DIVINE HEALER IS HOLDING FORTH AT 4914 ARMOUR AVE. Rev. George J. Johnson, formerly, pastor of the Holy Mount Zion Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Fla., is now holding forth at 4914 Armourave, this city where he is conducting Divine healing meetings. Admission on Monday evenings, 15 cents, that is if you are sick with any contagious disease, and if not you can attend the meetings free of charge and hear for yourself. Thursday evenings an admittance 15 cts, well or sick and members of the white race are welcome, there will be meetings each Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. THE PENN-JONES NEW DISCOVERY. The best skin and scalp food on the market. It prevents ingrowing hair, it is good for chapped hands and face. Ask your druggist for it and if he does not handle same, have him to order it for you from the Penn-Jones Co., main office 188 Madison street, factory and branch office 3842 State street. --- Alexander's Magazine for June is certainly very creditable. It is entitled "The Catholic Souvenir Number." It contains a fine half tone cut of His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, and it is also numerously illustrated, with cuts of other prominent priests of that church, buildings and colleges in which Colored Catholics are instructed. It also, gives a full account of the work being carried on by the Catholic church among the Negroes in all sections of the United States. Every white and Colored Catholic should secure this number of Alexander's Magazine. It can be ordered from the publisher, 714 Shawmut ave., Boston, Mass. THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. A White Gentleman And A Colored Woman ARRESTED IN THE STREETS OF NASHVILLE, TENN. FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT. MANY BAD HOUSES RUN IN SOUTHERN CITIES AND IN CHICAGO FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF MALE MEMBERS OF THE SUPERIOR RACE. THIS FACT IS NEVER REFERRED TO BY THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. Vol. XII A White Gentleman And A C ARRESTED IN THE STREETS OF FOR DISORDERLY CONDU MANY BAD HOUSES RUN IN S IN CHICAGO FOR THE EXC MALE MEMBERS OF THE S THIS FACT IS NEVER REFERRED NEWSPAPERS THROUGHO We have heard so much of the divinely made color line which the newspapers of the South say must not be crossed—it has been dinned into our ears so constantly that the white South is opposed to any mixing of the races; that we would almost expect, were these newspapers consistent, that anyone found crossing this forbidden line would be heralded as a person unfit for the association of any human being. But such is not the case. With an agility equal to the Supreme Court of the United States, when dodging questions having to do with the civil or political rights of Negroes, the newspapers suppress all the evidence as a rule, that shows that a white man is the guilty person. This week a white man and a woman of our race, in the broad light of day were arrested for their open and notoriously lewd conduct. Likewise they were fined in the city courts. The woman who kept the house, as was right, was also arrested. If she was not fined more than the others she should have been for there is no woman so contemptible as one who keeps a house for men of the white race to meet the demi-mondes of our race. Not a word about this crossing of the color line, so far as we have been able to find has percolated through the daily press of this city. Why was the incident suppressed? Was it because such cases occur with so much frequency that they possess no value as news items? This color line in so far as it pertains to white men associating with Negro women, is all bosh. The city FIGHTS FOR NEGROES. ROSENCRANS SPURNS PLEA. Head of Evansville School Board Reads Riot Act to Eenemies of Race. Evansville, Ind., June 22.—In an effort to sound the School Board today, as a preliminary to going after the jobs of Moses and Beulah Davis, Colored teachers, who have bought a home in the heart of the fashionable white residence section of Evansville, Harry M. Lukens, who owns property next door to that purchased by the Davises, took his complaint to Maj. A. C. Rosencrans, president of the Board of Education. Lukens ran up against the most blunt spoken man in Evansville when he met Maj. Rosencrans, who has the reputation of never having trimmed his sails or cut a corner. President Rosencrans told Lukens that from what he had seen of the Colored people he would prefer them as neighbors to many white people that he knew. The major sai he would not resent the coming of the Negroes to be his neighbors. "As I said in a speech at the Colored High School commencement," remarked Maj. Rosencrans, "the meaner the white man the more he hates the Nigger." In further explanation of his attitude, MaJ. Roseencrans, said: "The Davis family was about to leave to become teachers in the Hampden, Va., Colored college, and as I had been much impressed with their work here I was active in my efforts to get them to stay here. I talked to Superintendent Cooley, and he said it would be difficult to replace them, as good Colored manual training teachers are a rare article. I understand 一 authorities, the newspapers and many if not most of the respectable white citizens of this town know that there are houses containing Negro strumpets run exclusively for white men. They further know that some of their "respectable" men have women, as it were, tied out where they can meet them. All of this, we repeat is known to the daily newspapers and the city authorities, yet they wink at it. Racial purity So far as the white man is concerned it is all bosh. If the white man with all the reins of government in his hands really believed in racial purity, he would break up all these assignation houses where white men meet Colored women and the baglons with their "Creole" strumpets would soon be a thing of the past.—The Globe. Nashville. Tenn., June 22. The above article is the gospel truth, for in every Southern city and even here in Chicago, many fast houses filled with the lowest class of Colored women, are run for the special benefit of white gentlemen, and if any Negro should happen to enter one of these houses and attempt to put himself on social equality with the elegant married half-drunken white gentlemen, who delight to sleep in the arms of the most repulsive kind of Colored women, he would be shot down like a common dog. But those connected with daily newspapers never have any time to call the attention of the public to these facts, will John Temple Graves, Ben Tillman, James K. Vardaman, Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Mayor Busse, Chief Shippy, and the other high steppers who claim to be Stcihlers please stand up and lead us in prayer!—Editor. that the Davises have been somewhat ostracized by the Negroes here because Beulah Davis is so white that her Negro blood does not show. "This, I presume, has in part prompted them to get a good home in a respectable neighborhood. They are respectable. The white people of Tuxedo Place will be slow to try to have the School Board oust the Negroes from their positions as teachers when it is considered what the board is doing. The Negro teachers are entitled to the protection of an good thinking people and they have my support very decidedly."—The Star, Indianapolis, Ind., June 23. THE TAFTS. The Taft family has never indicated any good interest in the Afro-American and does not now. Recently it was announced that "The Clansman," Tom Dixon's fire-brand prejudice play, was scheduled to appear at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati. Charles P. Taft, Secretary Taft's brother, editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Times Star, and manager of his brother's alleged candidacy for the republican nomination for the presidency, owns the theater building. When leading Afro-Americans of that city called on him and asked him not to permit the dirty show to be put on in his theater, he refused to make any effort whatever to comply with their respectful, reasonable and very proper request. The result is "The Clansman" was produced at the Cincinnati Grand Opera House and the minds of many thousands of persons, already too thoroughly saturated with prejudice and hatred of the Afro-American, were poisoned even more against our CHICAGO, JUNE 29, 1907. PETER M. HOFFMAN. The best and the most efficient coroner Cook County has ever had, and with his able assistants he is ever ready to conserve the interest of the public. people, if such a thing be possible. No wonder the Afro-Americans of Ohio have spoken out so strongly against the alleged Taft candidacy and even those who are trying to promote it. With Brother Charles aiding and abetting Tom Dixon's dirty work against the race with his infernal play, "The Clansman," and Secretary Taft out-Rooseveltting Roosevelt in his effort to fasten the alleged Brownsville, Texas, riot crime upon "The Black Battalion," it is high time for others of our people beside those who live in Ohio to get busy along the same resolution line.-The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. NEGRO KILLS WHITE MAN. Was in Bed With His Wife—Negro Surrenders—Goes to Jail. All is Quiet. Special to the Citizen: Des Arc, Ark., Tuesday.—How is this for the superior race. Tom Hartwell, a Negro living near Cacha river bridge, near Biscoe, caught J. E. Foster, a white man, in bed with his wife. He says that on returning to his house about 8 o'clock he was refused admittance until he threaten ed to force the door. When his wife opened the door the man attempted to jump out of the window and the Negro opened fire with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, killing Foster instantly. Hartwell has surrendered to the Sheriff, and all is quiet. There was no eye-witness to the scene. The Citizen, Memphis, Tenn. Evidently Col. Foster belonged to that class of gentlemen who would be willing to mob and lynch any Negro who even attempt to look at a common white female hag, and if the Negro race in the South had many more Tom. Hartseill's who would crack down on every white gentleman who wants to monkey with all the white and Colored women at the same time, the race would be much better off in every respect.—Editor. WANT ONLY SOUTHERN NEG ROES. Nashville, Tenn., June 25.—A conclusion was reached by the Nashville board of education last night that only Negroes born, bred, and educated in the south need apply for election ap teachers in the Colored public schools of this city. The actions of the Board of Education of Nashville, Tenn., is very significant. It means that no Colored teacher who believes that the Negro is entitled to enjoy his civil and political rights can teach school in that city and only instructors who have graduated from such Jim Crow schools as Tuskegee, where the students are taught how to milk cows and so on will be employed hereafter. SAYS HE KISSED A MULATTO. Clarence V. Gallagher's Wife in Separate Maintenance Trial Accuses Film of Carressing Yellow Servant Girl. Mrs. Josephine K. Gallagher, 5630 Monroe avenue, testifing in her suit against Clarence V. Gallagher, Tuesday, told Judge McEwen in the Superior court that her nusband caresse and kissed a mulatto woman servant at her mother's residence in Kansas City on March 30, Gallagher is contracting freight agent for the Canadian Pacific and Soo railroad. The couple formerly lived at the Metropole hotel. Judge McEwen put the case over one week. Brother Gallagher who judging by his name must be a hot-loving Frenchman witt an Irish name forgot all about belonging to the so-called superior race, at the time he brushed aside his beautiful wife, in order to kiss and hug the mulatto woman. NEW CLUB HAS FIRST OPENING Members of Illinois Athletic Celebrate Finishing of Grill Rooms The first of a series of informal "openings" of the New Illinois Athletic club took place last Saturday at noon, when the club's grill room was opened to its members. "We are going to have the roof garden ready in two weeks at the outside," said President William Hale Thompson. "The dining room soon will be prepared and it will not be more than two months when we will have the formal opening of the entire clubhouse." The new club now has a membership of 3,900 and all of the available space for resident members has been taken up." HOT BASE BALL GAMES TO BE PLAYED BETWEEN THE LE-LAND GIANTS, AND THE GIANTS OF LOUIS-VILLE. Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30, two hot base ball games, will be played by the Leland Giants and the Giants of Louisville, Ky., the famous Colored team of the South, at Auburn Park 79th street and Wentworth ave., for a purse of $500, will be tossed to the winners of the games. Rube Foster, head of the Leland Giants, feels confident that his team will walk away with the money. Games called at 3:30 each afternoon. An excursion train will be run from Louisville to this city which will be loaded down with friends and shouters of the Southern team. This promises to be the Society event of the base ball season. Servant Girl. President Roosevelt Called Down Good and Hard BY CAPTAIN JOHN T. CAMPBELL OF THE SOLDIERS HOME, LA FAYETTE, INDIANA. The following letter was addressed to Theodore Roosevelt from La Fayette, Ind., on last Thursday: La Fayette, Ind., June 27, 1907. My Dear Sir:—As you are much given to "butting in," especially where you are not much concerned personally or officially, I want you to "butt in" regarding a recent case in Indiana. A citizen of Bethany Brown county, Indiana, Thomas Vanest, was "white capped"—that is whipped and beaten by some citizens of Brown and Bartholomew counties till his life is almost extinct. Certain persons are suspected of this outrage, but they deny it. Now, as the champion of the weak and defenseless (Niggers excepted), I want you to send Gen. Garlington and Major Blocksom to these two counties with instructions to notify all the citizens thereof that if they do not within a short time tell who the persons are who committed this outrage that they all will be dismissed from citizenship in the United States. If after the lapse of the given time no one shall come forward and divulge the names of the guilty parties, then by executive order dismiss all the citizens of said counties from citizenship "without honor," and order that they shall never be again admitted to citizenship of the United States, and shall be denied all pro- WEST SIDE NEWS. By A. L. Simpson. Mrs. Ada White, the mother of Mrs. Frances Miller is on her way from Denver, Colorado, to visit her daughter, who lives at 753 Fulton st., Chicago. Mr. Henry Knox, who has been away from his family for quite a while will soon be with them again on a short visit. Mrs. Frances Miller late of Denver, Colorado is the temporary organist of Friendship Baptist Church. The Deaconess's Board of St. Stephens A. M. E. Church recently succeeded in raising $100.00 to send Mrs. Anna Payne to the Old-folks Home. The Rev. Brudanio the Cuban Minister and member of Providence Baptist Church, will probably be absent from the city for a while. Prof. A. L. Simpson the expert chircopodist has added Miss Maybell Gaskill the artistic manicurist and Miss Willie Cooper as book-keeper to his office force 155 W. Madison st. Eureka Bldg, Room 51. Drunkards warning reproduced at Oak-Park, Tuesday evening, was quite a success. Sunday, June 30th, will be the closing day for the West Side Sunday Club, for the summer you are cordially invited. It will be Ex-President's day. Mrs. Hannah Cooper is back from a short visit to South Haven. Send your subscription and notes for The Broad Ax to Prof. A. L. Simpson 155 W. Madison St, suite 51 Eureka Bldg. The Pekin. On next Tuesday evening, July 2, the Eighth Regiment, accompanied by Colonel Marshall and Staff, and band will attend a special performance of the big spectacular summer show, "Captain Rufus at the Pekin Theatre," captain Rufus," is a three act musical, military comedy-drama from the pens of Mr. J. Ed. Green, stage director of the Pekin theatre and Mr. Alfred Anderson, a playwright of well-known fame. One of the most prominent features of the show is a battle in the cave set to music which has never before been produced on any stage. On this occasion the Regiment will parade from their Armory at 37th street to the theatre. The theatre will be appropriately decorated for this occasion. sevelt Called Good and Hard CAPBELL OF THE SOLDIERS' INDIANA. 一 tection under the laws of the United States, and shall not be allowed 'or take up homesteads on the public lands, and shall be denied passports to any other country. Be very careful not to inquire whether or not the said Vanest may have whipped himself, or have been whipped by his own family or near relations. If Senator Foraker should become a little obstreperous and raise a question in the Senate as to your lawful authority to deal out such summary punishment, just write a pert letter to the Senate and denounce the outrage over and over again, throw in many vigorous adjectives, and repeat in every paragraph as in the dismissal of the Negro soldiers at Brownsville, "There can be no doubt whatever" that some citizens of Brown and Bartholomew counties committed this outrage, and that other citizens who know who did it, and that by a "conspiracy of silence" they refuse to tell. True, the citizens are not soldiers of the United States, as were the members of the Black Battalion, but they are citizens of the United States, and that gives you as much right to go beyond the law for punishment as did the Negro soldiers at Brownsville. Please keep up the hasty pace you have set. Don't allow Foraker to slacken your gait. J. T. C. PASTOR TAKEN FOR THEFT. Rev. E. R. Badanure, thirty-five years old, Colored pastor of the Irving Avenue Baptist Church, was arrested the first of the week, charged with having stolen jewelry valued at $195 belonging to Mrs. Anna Sparks, 33 North Ada street, wife of a Pullman car cook. It seems that Parson Badanure worked his way mighty close up by the side of Mrs. Sparks. REV. GEORGE J. JOHNSON THE DIVINE HEALER IS HOLDING Rev. George J. Johnson, formerly, pastor of the Holy Mount Zion Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Fla., is now holding forth at 4914 Armourave., this city where he is conducting Divine healing meetings. Admission on Monday evenings, 15 cents, that is if you are sick with any contagious disease, and if not you can attend the meetings free of charge and hear for yourself. Thursday evenings an admittance 15 cts., well or sick and members of the white race are welcome, there will be meetings each Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. THE PENN-JONES NEW DISCOVERY. The best skin and scalp food on the market. It prevents ingrowing hair, it is good for chapped hands and face. Ask your druggist for it and if he does not handle same, have him to order it for you from the Penn-Jones Co., main office 188 Madison street, factory and branch office 3842 State street. ```markdown ``` Alexander's Magazine for June is certainly very creditable. It is entitled "The Catholic Souvenir Number." It contains a fine half tone cut of His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, and it is also numerously illustrated, with cuts of other prominent priests of that church, buildings and colleges in which Colored Catholics are instructed. It also, gives a full account of the work being carried on by the Catholic church among the Negroes in all sections of the United States. Every white and Colored Catholic should secure this number of Alexander's Magazine. It can be ordered from the publisher, 714 Shawmut ave. Boston, Mass. --- THE BROAD AX JULIUS F. TATLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago Ill., as Second-clan Matter. CHIPS Mr. T. Lloyd, 2712 Wabash ave., is on the slick list. Dr. N. Croker has moved his residence to 5617 Wabash ave. Mr. Wm. Simmons, 3207 State st., will spend the summer in Northern Michigan. Mr. Frank Horner, 2723 Armour ave., is confined to his bed with pneumonia. Miss Johnson, a nurse at Provident Hospital died with Tuberculosis, Tuesday. Mr. Joe Seizer of Beloit, Mich., is spending a few days in the city stopping at the Keystone Hotel. Mr. Will Phillips, 3308 Rhodes ave. left the city, Monday to spend a few weeks in Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. C. H. Brown of St. Louis, Mo., spent the week in the city on business stopped at 2729 La Salle st Mr. Will Francis of St. Paul, Minn., spent a few days in the city on business this week. Dr. Curtis Chapman of Kansas City, is spending a weeks visit with his father at 3144 Cottage Grove ave. Miss Vella Crawford of St. Louis is spending a few weeks in the city the guest of Mrs. Bell, 351, 31th st. Rev. John Hurst, pastor of Waters Chapel, A. M. E., Church of Baltimore, Md. is visiting the city. Mr. W. E. Williams, 349 Swan st. has been confined to his home for the past week with a touch of pneumonia. Miss Hewlett Davis and Mr. Albert Barnett were married at the home of the bride's parents 4514 St. Lawrence ave., last Saturday evening. Mr. Wm. Phillips left this week for Detroit, Mich., where he will remain on duty for his firm until about the first of October. Mr. Julius C. Green, of 2816 La Salle St., will receive his diploma with the graduating class of Wendell Phillips High School. Mrs. James E. Thompson and daughter Miss Hazel Thompson will leave Chicago Saturday, June 29, to spend the summer at Batavia, Ill. Miss Ethel Thomas, daughter of Mrs. J. E. W. Thomas, of 3308 Indiana ave, is a member of the graduating class of Wendell Phillips High School. Mr. W. R. Sobers, our popular young tailor, will become active in social colings now, that the strangers are coming to the city. Mr. Sobers, is a prince of entertainers. Mr. Bert Williams of New York arrived in this city and is preparing to go to camp with the 8th Regiment, stopping at the Wilson House, 3211 Wabash ave. Miss Joseph of Denver, Colo, is spending the summer in this city, taking a course of study, at the Chicago University, the guest of Mrs. Davia, 6542 Vincennes ave. Mr. Chas, A. Jordan and Miss Helen McKinney were united in wedlock Thursday afternoon, June 27. We wish them happiness from start to finish. Mra. Edward H. Morris and Miss Elizabeth B. Slaughter left this city on Tuesday, for Philadelphia, to attend the wedding of Miss Dora Needham, on Saturday, June 29. After a three months visit with relatives in Colorado Springs, Miss Mabel E. Wilson will return to Chicago, Wednesday very much benefited by the rest and western climate. The Columbia Juniors, will entertain their friends at Rasch's Grove, Monday evening July 15. This will be a pleasant affair. Melville E Mitchell, President and Leroy Collins, Secretary. Miss Louise Cummins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Cummins, will graduate with honors from Hyde Park High School. Miss Cummins, completed the four years course, in three and a half years. "Sending the Multitude Away," will be the subject of a sermon by Rev. Dr. A. Graham at Odd Renows Hall, 3335 State st, second floor. Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. You should not fall to hear this." "S." When a girl goes into a fashionable shoe store she often stops and thinks a while before she removes her shoe in order that she might remember on which foot she put the stocking that had the hole in the toe or heel. Joseph J. Healy, 436 W. 47th st. has been coining money lately, and he has shrewdly invested some of it, in a vacant lot, adjoining his building, which he can sell any time at a good profit. A Georgia woman who swore she "wouldn't marry a man on the face of the earth," took one into the cupola of the State Capitol and married him there. It's hard to escape from a woman if she is determined to have you.—Ex. Mrs. Lulu Williams 2415 Wabash ave., gave a birthday Party, Tuesday, and she received many tokens from her friends, the occasion was greatly enjoyed by all, and Mrs. Minnie Howard of New York City was among the invited guests. Miss Anna Maggie Mollison, daughter of Lawyer W. E. Mollison, Vicksburg, Miss., is in the city, and the guest of Mrs. Robert A. Williams. 3544 Dearborn st. Miss Mollison is taking a course in Dress-making and Millinery at McDowells. Mr. D. A. Bethea, President of the St. Mark Literary and the compiler of "the Colored People's Blue Book," graduated June 27, from the Jenner Medical College with the Degree of "M. D." Mr. Bethea contemplates taking up a post graduate course next fall. Provident Hospital and several other institutions for the disabled received several bunchers of beautiful flowers last week as a cheerful remembrance to the inmates from Mrs. Chas. Jackson, 2613 Wabash ave. Miss Sprigs one of the efficient school teachers of Kansas City, Kansas has been visiting her cousin Mr. Ernst Sprigs. During her ten days visit to this city, she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Ratcliff, 4850 Dearborn street. Miss Sprigs will spend her vacation at Washington, D. C. her old home. The Colored Masons of the city are preparing to build for themselves a home This should have been done by them long ago for doubtless they have bought the Appolo Hall where they have been meeting, over and over again. A good Masonic Temple built by the Negro Masons, will be a credit for the race as well as a good in investment for the order. The Masonic Order of Chicago celebrated St. John's day sacred service at Bethel Church at 3 o'clock p. m. Sunday, June 23, A. L. 5907, A. D. 1907. About nine local lodges participated in the parade from the temple to the church. Mr. Geo. H. Jesse M. W. Grand Master was the especial invited guest. Rev. A. J. Carey delivered the sermon. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald 6130 Ada street, left for Lincoln, Neb., the latter part of last week, where she will have an interview with the Governor of that state, in reference to securing the release or the pardon of a young man, whom it is claimed was unjustly sentenced to the State prison of that State. Mrs. McDonald will be absent about two weeks. Doctor D. E. Burrows has shaken the dust of Armour ave., from his feet, and recently moved into a fine home which he has bought at 3562 Forest ave., and with his constantly growing and increasing practice, he is fast becoming one of the most popular and successful M. D's in the city. Mrs. Amanda Terrell, 3302 State street, passed away Sunday morning at 1 p.m. M. she was the aged mother of George J. Terrell, the rustling politician in the Town of Lake. Funeral services were neld over her remains, Tuesday, conducted by Rev. Father Massiah. Interment in Oakwood. Undertaker Jacob L. Parks had charge. Mrs. Emogene Washington Roach, age 29 years and residing at 2715 Wabash ave. died of perotonitis at Mercy Hospital, Weinuesday June 19, After a short spell of sickness. The funeral services took place last Sunday morning at St. James Catholic Church, 29th and Wabash ave. The remains followed by her relatives and many friends were carried to Mt. Olivet cemetery for burial. [Name not visible] DOCTOR A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS. President of the Black Diamond Desiably Impressed With the Idea of St by Afro-Americans. Black Diamond President of the Black Diamond Development Company, Who is Favorably Impressed With the Idea of Starting a Bank in Chicago Conducted by Afro-Americans. Black Diamond Development Co. Greeting to you our stockholders in the Black Diamond Development Company. We are pleased to send you an encouraging notice of our successes as well as our disappointments in bringing our company to the condition of a money making business. After many weeks of the most aggravating delays due: First, to the impossibility of getting pipe delivered to our properties for connections with the Kansas Natural Gas Company, the purchaser of our gas. Second, the great difficulty in keeping under control, our well No. 8, which, by the way, has a gas capacity nearly equal to our first five wells Third, the excessive rains and high water, making it impossible to do any work, for several weeks; that we have at last reached the end of our disappointments and unexpected difficulties. We are pleased to inform you that, this company, under the skillful management of Mr. Fred. A. Wescott has drilled and brought in three good gas producing wells, at an expense of $1500.00 each this year. Our well No. 9, will be located just West of our well No. 8, which is our best well. Word has just been received from our manager, Mr. Fred A. Wescott to the effect that: First, the Pipe line is all laid, completed, connected, and drips are in place. Second, that while testing the Pipe line on the 11th inst., the pressure of the gas from all of the wells was so great, that one of the points gave away, necessitating the shutting off of all of the wells at once, until repairs could be made. The testing of the pipe and the connections were Alderman and Mrs. John J. Bradley, 808 Garfield Blvd., are the proud parents of a new baby girl, which found its way into their happy home last Friday, and little Miss Bradley, No. 2, and its mother are getting along nicely, and the Alderman rigged up in his blue outing suit. has been setting up the cigars to all his constituents the past week. The Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama, which is so ably edited by Joseph C. Manning, reproduced in its issue of June 22, our comment on Booker T. Washington, and his new summer home which is located near the home of President Roosevelt Oyster Bay, New York; the Southern American is widely read throughout the South, and it is accomplishing a great work in tearing the false mask from the face of Booker T. Washington, at the same time contending for the civil and the political rights of the members of both races in the South. On Thursday afternoon, July 4th, there will be some excitement at the north end of Washington Park, as there will be a battle royal between the Grace Presbyterian Church Base Ball Team and the Emergency Base Ball Team for supremacy on the diamond. The Emergencies, has for several years defeated all comers in their respective class, they have since been reorganized. The line up the two teams will be as follows, Colors, Grace, Blue and White; Emergencies, Orange and White. Presbyterians, A. Johnson, catcher; H. Parker, 1st b; R. Brown, 2nd b; ```markdown ``` Development Company, Who is Favor- Starting a Bank in Chicago Conducted Development Co. then made by using wells No. 3 and at No. 5. Third: That on the 24th inst., after repairs had been made the meter was set, connected, and tested; the met working until nearly midnight. Fourth: That on Tuesday the 25th Kansas City, St. Joseph and many other cities in Missouri and Kansas, were burning Black Diamond gas. The following telegram just received from Mr. W. M. Budd our field Superintendent and Mr. L. L. Jones, Vice President of the company, who is now on the field, and was there when the gas was turned into the Pipe line of the Kansas Natural Gas Company. Night Message. Received at cor. Jackson boulevard and La Salle street, Chicago. 1063 KS WA 16 Paid 3 ex Nite. Chanute, Kans. June 25, 1907. F. A. Wescott. No. 188 Madison St., Chicago, Ills.. Gas turned in at 3:15 on way to K. C. everything OK. L. L. Jones, Wm. Budd, 843 p You have every reason to be proud of the company that you have helped to build and developed to the present condition of a splendid success. One good wise, and judicious investment, is worth a life time of labor. Every individual who has made money has been an investor. I wish to congratulate you on your business judgment, and good common sense in the part taken by you in this enterprise. You will be kept posted from time to time as new developments are made. A. Wilberforce Williams, President. L. Green, 3rd b; E. Howard, S. S.; A. Jones, L. F.; J. C. Green, C. F.; A. Logan, R. F.; E. Halfacre, pitcher. Emergencies:—Glen Williams, catcher; Al. Hackley, 1st b.; Gus. Williams, 2nd b.; J. N. Avendorph, 3rd b.; R. J. Thomasson, S. S.; E. Renfree, L. F.; Geo. Weir, C. F.; M. Mitchell, R. F.; A. G. F. Sims, and G. Ketchem, pitcher. Settles the Question "Arms. Pale ways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief azure, the ecutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch and in his simsir a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this motto, "E pluribus unum." "That settles the question," observed Mr. Hunt, "for that is the law. See that word 'his'. It could not be a ladybird." Mr. Pinchot'a Trip. Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, dropped in at the White House a few days ago to say goodbye to the president and Secretary Loeb prior to his departure for the west, where he will remain until the fall. He is to accompany the inland waterways commission on its trip on the Mississippi river and will afterward attend the public land meeting at Denver from the 18th to the 20th of June. This gathering is to be held for the general discussion of public land matters and has been inaugurated by Governor Buchtel of Colorado, who has been interesting the governors of the various western states in the meeting. From Denver Mr. Pinchot will go to Idaho and during the remainder of the summer hopes to visit a number of the forest reserves. --- --- Yours truly. BREVITIES THE HALL OF FAME. Sidney Webster, the recipient of Mr. Harriman's letter, was the private secretary of President Franklin Pierce. Maximillian Benedict von Goldschmidt Rothschild of Frankfort has been given the title of baron by the kaiser. M. Lepine, the prefect of police of Paris, has accepted the directorship of the Suez Canal company, made vacant by the death of the late M. Casimir Perier. Charles P. Taft, a former Ohio congressman, owner of the Cincinnati Times-Star and brother of the war secretary, is credited with a fortune of $20,000,000. Chauncey Dickson was recently installed as father deacon at a Catskill (N. Y.) Baptist church. The office was created for him because in September he will be 100 years old. William A. Flanders of Penacook, N. H., has quite a collection of old newspapers and almanacs, running back toward 1800, and old clocks that would make the searcher after antiques turn green with envy. Francisco Jose, who was born in 1788, is still alive and at work and a good shot with the rifle at Oporto, Portugal. He served in the Portuguese army which in 1810 opposed the invasion of the French under Napoleon I. Professor William Hallock of Columbia university is recognized as the leading meteorologist in this country and is the author of numerous books and treatises on weights and measures. Recently he was appointed official measureur to the New York Yacht club. William Rhinelander Stewart of New York is engaged in promoting the interests of organized charities. When he was president of the state board of charities he served without pay and is one of the few men in public life to spend his own money with a liberal hand to advance his purpose. George Westinghouse fills more roles in the industrial life than any other American millionaire. This is proved by his achievements as an inventor, financier, organizer and industrial crusader. All of the twenty-six distinct Westinghouse companies in the United States and foreign countries practically are under his control. General Anson Mills, owner of the Mills building and other valuable property in Washington and who retired from the army several years ago, is one of the wealthiest military men in the country, and his fortune is rapidly increasing. He made his wealth by inventing a machine which manufactures the cartridge belt that is now used by most of the armies throughout the world. FOREIGN FACTS. The coal yield of Great Britain is now about 236,000,000 tons a year. Toys occupy sixteenth place in Germany's export, with a total value of $15,000,000. Paris cab horses work only every other day and are fed on the days they work, not on the days they "rest." Germany has thirty-one agricultural colleges maintained by the state, and there are many agricultural schools of which half the cost is defrayed by the nation. The wages paid both skilled and common laborers in France are very low, while the cost of living is relatively higher in France than in the United States, with the exception of house rent and servants' wages. An endless chain made at Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, England, no less than two and a half miles long and twenty-five tons in weight, was recently forwarded to a Leicestershire colliery. The chain was taken from the forge to canal boats on wagons drawn by a traction engine. THE COOKBOOK To keep lima beans from boiling over put a small piece of butter with them at the time they are put on the stove. Delicious fritters can be made from stale cake by dipping the slices in cream, frying in butter and spreading a bit of preserve or fresh berries over the slices, served hot. Spinach will be much improved in color if it is quickly boiled in saited water until nearly tender, then drained and dropped into cold water until chilled. It should then be thoroughly drained, after which it is ready for use. Citron which has been in the house for some time will soon become hardened. A very good and easy way to soften it is to place it in boiling water and let it stand for about two minutes. When removed it will be softened and easily cut. The Butcher Bird. He's the northern shrike. In size he's like the robin. He's slate gray with black and white. He has a black band from bill to throat. In November he usually departs for the south. This band makes his eyes appear much larger. He is said to live up to his name by being a veritable murderer. He kills other birds, especially English sparrows, and puts the surplus in his graveyard. He prefers to dine upon field mice, but does no disdain snakes, which he hangs up to devour at leisure.—Philadelphia Record A VICTIM OF TRADE. Nature's "Craggy, Ocean Pyramid" Leased to a Quarry Firm. Great indignation has been excited by the story that the Marquis of Allsa has leased for the purpose of quarrying its granite the noble rock known as Allsa crag, says the London News. This stupendous crag, rising abruptly from the sea to a height of 1.114 feet and having a circumference of nearly two miles, stands sentinel at the entrance to the estuary of the Clyde, almost equidistant between the peninsula of Hintyre and the County of Ayr and within sight of the Irish coast, hence its sobriquet. Paddy's milestone The rock is an object of great natural beauty and inspires feelings of wonder and admiration. The thought of its demolition to make paving stones raises bitter resentment among a people who are at present collecting $50,000 to preserve the "aund brig o' Ayr" against the dilapidations of time, simply because their beloved peasant poet had endeared that structure in their hearts. Allisa crag, storm beaten by the foaming billows, has enlisted the muse of Keats and Wordsworth, and Daniel Defoe is among the many prose writers who have paid it homage. Apart from its recognition as nature's "craggy ocean pyramid," as Keats called it, the rock is of great strategic importance. It is the Gibraltar of the Clyde. Although unprotected, the rock commands the waterway that leads to Greenock and Glasgow. It has besides great geological and historical value. Scientists say it is of volcanic origin—thrown up from the bed of a crater like Berwick. Low and Edinburgh castle rock. Many basalt columns, four, five and six sided, resembling those seen at the Giant's Causeway and the island of Staffa, are also found there, and there are besides several interesting caves. Above the lighthouse on the eastern side there stand the ruins of an old castle, and the ruins of an old church and burying ground are known to have existed near by. The castle is said to have been the property of early monks. Quarrying operations to the extent of the material for 1,000 pairs of curling stones have been permitted at the rock for a number of years, but the wholesale deprivation of the granite, of which it is largely composed, is exciting stern opposition. Bargains In Horsefleash. Father Blind, winner of the Great Metropolitan at Epsom, who is said to have cost his owner no more than £40, is the latest addition to the long list of successful race horses which have been picked up for a paltry sum. The historic Eclipse, who won at least £5,000 during his brilliant career, was bought as a yearling for 75 guineas, which was, we believe, the exact sum paid for Pepo o' Day, winner of many big races; Deadlock, dam of Isinglass, came into Captain Machell's hands for the absurd price of £20, one twenty-fifth of the sum Major McCalmont purchased her for a little later; Rover, whose son, St. Gatlen, was sold for £15,000, changed hands for £50, and £30 secured two capital horses in Althorp and Carlton; Thraste, who beat Ladas so sensationally in the St. Leger, was actually given away by one of her owners, and Stockwell, a famous St. Leger winner and sire of three winners of the Derby, was bought by Lord Exeter for £180—Westminster Gazette. Pooled Their Resources Liang Tung Yn, the new Chinese minister to the United States, is a pretty good business man, according to the stories of some of his old classmates at Yale. When he was in college he was closely associated with a set of young fellows, ten in all, who had about the same allowance each month, $100. All the checks came at once, and after a day or so every member of the set was "strapped." Liang finally solved the difficulty. The checks were all pooled, and each $100 was to last the coterie three days. For exactly three days one man had to pay all the expenses of the ten. Thereafter every one was able to get through the month without being in danger of starvation. San Francisco as a Phenix. San Francisco as a friend. On the average a new building has been finished every forty-five minutes in San Francisco since the fire. The building permits issued in San Francisco in 1905 were about $22,000,000. That year was a record breaker up to that time. Labor Commissioner Stafford's report shows that $1,000,000 a week is now paid out for wages, or $62,000,000 per year, and as wages only represent about 50 per cent of actual cost of building it is conservative to say that San Francisco at present is building at the rate of over $100,000,000 per year. Pittsburg Leads In Pid Iron. Of the total production of 25,307,191 gross tons of plg iron in the United States in 1906 Pennsylvania made 11,247,860 gross tons, and of this output the Pittsburg district (Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties) contributed 6,220,863 tons. In other words, says the Iron Age, the Pittsburg district last year made nearly 25 per cent of the total production of plg iron in the United States and 55 per cent of the output in Pennsylvania. The Irony of Fate. After spending eight years in voluntary confinement, immured in a cell of his own construction, and undergoing great hardships and privations, an Italian, who was legally an escaped convict, has again fallen into the hands of the law, to discover that his self inflicted punishment counts for nothing and that he will have to serve the whole of the ten years' sentence originally passed upon him.—Wide World Magazine. HUMOR HE WANTED MORE One Million Not Enough For the Workman Seeking a Good Time. A man of extreme wealth, tired of taking care of his money, went to a secluded spot on a river bridge and jumped off. He was not aware that life savers always frequent secluded spots and that the best place to commit suicide is on Broadway at noon. And, sure enough, a poor workman leaped in after him and pulled him out, cold and shivering. As he stood there, dripping, it occurred to the wealthy man that what he had needed was not eternity, but just a cold bath. And he waxed grateful. "I am rich beyond telling," he said. "I will grant any wish. I will make real your wildest hopes." The poor workman replied instantly, "Then give me a million dollars." "A million dollars!" sneered he whose life had been saved. "That is the easiest thing in the world. But stop a moment—consider. It was money that made me try to kill myself. You had better go slow." "A million dollars," repeated the poor workman stolldly. "Very well; you shall have it. But since you have saved my life I will make this further offer: If at the end of three years you are not satisfied with your bargain come to me and I will do whatever else you wish." Three years passed, and the former poor workman came to his benefactor's door. "Aha, I thought so!" exclaimed the man of great wealth. "I knew you would come back. You know now how little mere money means. Now, what can I do for you?" "Alas, I have found how little happiness can be got with a million," was the sad reply. "Aha, I knew it!" exclaimed the man of extreme wealth. "And since you have found how little happiness can be got with a million, what will you have me do for you next?" "Give me another million," replied the former poor workman—Freeman Tilden in Judge. How He Gets Relief The Rev. E. W. Webber, a Maine minister, who was located for awhile in a Georgia town as pastor of a Universalist church, occasionally, relates this story: He was talking with William Dodson, ex-president of the Georgia senate. "I suppose you feel the heat greatly down here in the summer, don't you?" queried Mr. Webber of the southern man. "Well, it does get pretty warm here sometimes," admitted Mr. Dodson, "but every time I feel too warm I think of the visit I once made to Boston, and it sends the cold shivers all over me." A Mean Man. "George," chirped the young wife at breakfast, "I read where some loving and poetical husband actually wrote a poem on his wife's biscuits. Now, dear, if you want to pay me a pretty compliment, why don't you write a poem on the biscuits that I bake?" "It would be impossible," laughed the cruel husband. "And why, George?" And then the trouble began. — St Louis Post-Dispatch. Just a Lesson. "I wonder if the Bimbles are getting poor!" "I should say not! What makes you think so?" "Why, I want Bimble turning the wringer yesterday morning. They always used to have a washerwoman." "Oh, I understand that." "Then please explain." "Well, Bimble told me he expected to buy an auto, and he's taking lessons in cranking."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Was Fired. The railroad president was hearing complaints. "What is the charge against this brakeman?" he inquired. "This is a direct violation or one of our chief rules," observed the president warmly. "Fire him."—Bohemian. "He wants the earth." "Well, he'll be right in it when he dies."—Cleveland Leader. "He wants the earth." "Well, he'll be right in it when he dies."—Cleveland Leader. Exhausting the Supply. "I hate a gossiping woman like Mr. Talkative." "She does seem to know everybody else's business." "Yes, she never leaves anything for another single soul to tell."—Baltimore American NEW SHORT STORIES Satisfied With Small Results. T. V. Powderly at the informal conference of capital and labor that Andrew Carnegie held in his Fifth avenue mansion recently told a story about contentment. "Contentment is a good thing," Mr. Powderly began, "but it should never be carried too far. It is discontent, we must always remember, that brings about improvement. "Let me tell you a story about a too contented Scranton farmer. "This old man might have had a good modern shotgun, but he was con- B HE LAY UNCONSCIOUS FOR SOME MINUTES. tent with an old musket, a relic of the civil war. He was very proud of this antique firearm. When I lived in Scranton he was always boasting about his prowess at sparrow shooting with it. "One day he took a man out with him to show what he could do in the sparrow shooting line. Before he set out he loaded the gun. He put into it a half dozen screws, some rusty nails, a handful of buttons and a bit of file that happened to be lying on a rubbish heap. "The two men came to a tree, a great flock of sparrows rose into the air, and the farmer put up his gun and let drive. The report was tremendous. One sparrow fell, and the old man fell too. He lay unconscious for some minutes. "When he revived he looked at his watch. Then he sat up, patted his gun affectionately and said, with a contented smile: "She used me well this time. It mostly takes twenty minutes to a good half hour before I come to myself; but, by gosh, I always get my sparrow!" Leads to Confusion. The late A. J. Cassatt at a dinner at the Philadelphia Country club was once asked his opinion of the fashion of women riding horseback astride. "I don't altogether favor this fashion," said Mr. Cassatt, smiling. "I think it leads to confusion. "I was driving one afternoon on the Lancaster pike when a rider was thrown violently from a spirited bay horse. Luckily the accident happened in front of a pharmacy. "The pharmacist ran forth with his clerk. He propped up the head of the unconscious rider, and, seeing a gold cigarette case lying in the road, he took it up and read the address, P. S. Browne, 1817 Walnut street." "Jack,' the pharmacist shouted to his errand boy, 'telephone to Mrs. Browne, 1817 Walnut street, that her husband has'— "But just then a tiny gold hand mirror with a powder puff attachment fell from the rider's trousers pocket, and the pharmacist called: "I mean, Jack, to telephone to Mr. Browne that Mrs. Browne has fallen—" "Telephone Mr. and Mrs. Browne that Miss Browne has fallen off her horse" Loose Fasting. Dr. Edward Everett Hale at the divorce reform congress in Washington said of certain divorce laws: "The apologies put forward for these laws remind me of the apology that a gourmet bishop once made during Lent. "The bishop happened to sit at dinner beside an irreverent young woman. He ate his oysters, and then, with fisshing eyes, a heightened color and every indication of enjoyment, he fell to upon a plate of rich turtle soup. "The young woman, watching the bishop swallow this costly food, could not restrain a sneer. "I thought," she said, "that you fasted during Lent, bishop?" "The bishop put down his spoon and allowed his face to become passive. "Ah, I do fast in Lent," he said. "I subsist chiefly on fish." He swallowed a lump of meat worth about half a dollar. "Turtle," he added, "is a kind of fish." Bervanta and Eggs Mrs. Phelps Stokes in an address in New York said of the servant question: "Are there not too many mistresses who treat their servants as the lady did in buying eggs? "This lady entered a shop and said: "Have you eggs? "Yes, madam,' said the shopman. "Well,' said the lady, 'I want a dozen absolutely fresh eggs for myself and (she touched the arm of her maid, who stood beside her) a half dozen not quite so fresh for my maid here." CHOICE MISCELLANY The President's Name Strange as it may be, since it is spoken every day, if not every hour, by peoples of every nation, tongue and clime, comparatively few persons give to the president's name its correct pronunciation, says the Washington Herald. Even right here in Washington it is more commonly called, "Roosvelt" than anything else, while its facetious twist into "Rosenfelt" is not infrequent. Among that class of persons who make a stagger at giving it its proper pronunciation it becomes "Rosevelt" more often than anything else, though "Roosvelt" is a close second. For the several hundredth time within the period of his occupancy of the White House the president a few days ago tried to straighten out a visitor orthoepically in respect of the presidential patronymic. He spelled it out thus: "Ro-zle-velt "It is more nearly Ro-za-velt than it is Ro-zie-velt," the president explained patiently, "but if I should syllable it that way for you and you should follow my spelling in an effort to convey to others the historically correct pronunciation of my name somebody would be sure to give the broad sound to the 'a' and make it 'Ro-zar-velt,' so that it is safer to use the diphthong 'le' in order to avoid worse confusion. So remember that in my name the double o is just u, the s is z, and the e following the s is short a." The Camel. Admiral D. D. Porter, who once went to north Africa to secure camels for introduction into America, gives some interesting points about the value of these ugly but useful animals. He says: "In their campaigns against Algiers the French were surprised to see their camels, although reduced to skeletons, making forced marches with their loads. Mules in their condition could not have even carried their saddles. A camel's flesh is as good as beef. You can hardly tell one meat from the other. Camel's milk is very good, as I can testify, because I used it in my coffee. A camel generally drinks once in three days, and besides his four stomachs he carries a sort of reservoir in which he stores water. I have been told that even ten days after the death of a camel this reservoir can be opened and ten or fifteen pints of clear, drinkable water taken from it." T. M. C.'s Ten Dollar Bill T. M. C. may be interested to know that the $10 he or she received as a Christmas gift in 1905 is now in the possession of a New Yorker who is trying hard not to spend it. The Metropolitan bank passed it out a few days ago. It is a United States note, No. 44,566,198, and in the blank space on the reverse side is this typewritten greeting: To T. M. C. Merry Christmas 1905 and many more of them. Perhaps it was T. M. C. who added in precise handwriting on the opposite space: The best of friends must part. Auf Wiedersehen. —New York Sun. Garriage Luncheons. Luncheon served in carriages lined up along the curbstone is the latest fad introduced to Philadelphia. This innovation was witnessed when a carriage containing a man and a woman fashionably dressed was stopped in front of a Chestnut street restaurant. The coachman got down from his seat and hastened into the restaurant, and in a short time a waiter appeared on the sidewalk with a trayful of edibles. The food was handed into the carriage, and the occupants fell to eating in full view of passersby. The idea promises to become popular among shoppers, who, as a rule, find the public dining rooms crowded just about the time they want their luncheon, says the Philadelphia Record. Centenary of a Lottery Town. In 1807 Daniel Miller laid out 200 building lots on a large tract of land which he owned along the Susquehanna river near the mouth of Wilsonico Creek. He numbered tickets to correspond with the numbers of the lots and, placing them in a hat, charged $38 a draw. The drawer became the owner of the lot indicated by his ticket. The town was called Millersburg in honor of the founder. It is located in Dauphin county and will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary on Sept. 1, 4 and 5 next—Philadelphia Record. An Admiral at Three and a Hair. The present Marquis of Donegal, who is now three and a half years old, is by heredity high admiral of Lough Neagh, a naval command dating back to the time of Queen Elizabeth. The little admiral derives no pay or emoluments from his office, but he has several notable perquisites, among others the right to wear the uniform of an admiral of the fleet and to receive an admiral's salute. In addition the young marquis is hereditary governor of Carrickfergus castle and is at all times entitled to free quarters in that ancient fortress—Reader Magazine. French Army and Navy Pay The curious fact has come to light that, while French army officers have had their pay raised to meet growing prices, the pay of naval officers remains just where it was thirty years ago. The naval officer draws now considerably less at home than his brother of corresponding grade in the army, and the inequality becomes more glaring outside France, since the army officer serving abroad has his pay doubled, while that of the naval officer remains stationary. FACTS IN FEW LINES Goethe was eighty-two years of age when he completed "Faust." The Norwegians have whaling establishments in Iceland, Scotland, South America, Japan and elsewhere. While Australia has the reputation of a great sheep growing country, there are more of these animals in India. The number of different species of animals known to naturalists is roughly 156,000, of which 15,300 are vertebrates or backboned. In Greece the usual price of olive oil is only about 20 cents a quart at wholesale. When the yield is exceptionally large pure oil is still cheaper. The thin paper on which the Oxford Bible is printed is made after a secret process by the Oxford University Press. The secret is valued at $1,250.000. Professor Burt G. Wilder of Cornell is out with a declaration that cats ought to be licensed and that cats that are not worth licensing ought not to be permitted to live. The late Sir Walter Besant ten years ago estimated that there were fifty novelists in England who earned upward of $5,000 a year. There are now probably nearer 150. Mrs. Harding, testifying in a London court against her son, said he had been a brute to her since his boyhood. "In fact," she said, "a husband could not have treated me worse." A college of foreign languages has been opened in Canton, China, the part of the Chinese empire from which the greatest number of emigrants sail to distant parts of the globe. A record in sawing laths has been made by a crew at Smith's mills, at Machias, Me., when in one day of a little over nine hours 61,000 good laths and over 6,000 poor ones were sawed. At the Norwich (England) rural council Councillor Watts reported a case of a boatman who willed and bequeathed his son Fred to another boatman, who paid a half crown to make the transaction, as he imagined, legal. After handling $2,000,000 in currency Cashler John F. O'Brien of the city collector's office in Chicago fell from his seat in a dead faint. He got the money in all shapes, and the strain of counting and sorting proved too great. The Japanese premier, Prince Kung, tried to compliment General Grant in English when he was in Japan by assuring him that he was born to command. His words were, however, "Sire, brave general, you were made to order!" The adage which advises people who live in glass houses not to throw stones will have to be revised. The glass that is now used in making houses is not breakable. It looks like white marble and is used in the same way as that material. The Grosecloses brothers of Sully county, S. D., have a large tract of land which they are cultivating entirely without the aid of horses or other animals. Plowing, harrowing, seeding, harvesting and marketing are all done with motor machinery. A box containing a thousand cigars arrived at Buckingham palace recently. It was a present from Baron Rothschild to King Edward. For over thirty years his majesty has received a similar present from Rothschild. The cigars are worth about $2.65 each. The Merchants' bank in Salem, Mass. is a young men's bank. Henry M. Batchelder, its president, is the youngest bank president in the city. J. H. Glifford, the cashier, only recently passed his thirtieth year, while F. A. Brooks, assistant cashier, and A. H. Barnet, teller, are both under thirty. The steel bridge the Portland and Seattle railroad is building across the Columbia at Vancouver will be a mile and a half long, the longest steel bridge in the world. It will be finished next January. Twenty thousand tons of steel will be used in it, not including the weight of the double track. The drawbridge is 464 feet long. All mechanics in France are obliged to serve an apprenticeship of from two to three years, during half of which period at least they receive no wages and must board themselves. In addition to this each one must give up two years of his life for military service, for which he receives a cent a day and board and clothes. It will be seen that every mechanic in France must expend four or five years of his life without wages. One of the growing methods of cheating in New York is by "short change." The system has taken firm root in many ticket offices and shops and has notably increased when small payments are being made through dumb waiters, in which latter instance the person delivering goods says too little was sent down or that he returned more than the receiver can find and that there must have been a loss in transit. Just outside the city limits of Nashua, N. H., there have been all sorts of dog fights and so called- sport of that kind for years, but it is now at an end. Mrs. Jennie Klimball, a little woman, five feet high, decided that good citizens were right who did not want these things and that they should stop. So she became a deputy sheriff, and she was so diplomatic about it that it was not necessary more than once for her to make an arrest. Although a millionaire, Edwin U. Curtis has taken the position of United States treasurer at Boston. Early in life he took a fancy to politics, and, having plenty of money, he gratified his desire. He was elected mayor of Boston. Twice afterward he was nominated, but each time defeated. He does not care for private business and would prefer to be in public service. His salary of $5,000 a year in his new position would be only a small part of the profits he would find in a mercantile pursuit. LELAND GIANTS VS. GIANTS OF LOUISVILLE, KY. 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In Brasil and Venezuela 2 passport must be shown to the officials Defgre one is allowed to leave the coun- try for » foreign port—a vexatious ‘measure, enforced apparently for the sake of enabling a few officials to col- lect small fees. In Russia, as is well known, pass port regulations are enforced with the greatest stringency. . No traveler, in- deed, is permitted to enter the empire until he has obtained a passport and convinced the Russian consular off cers at the port from which he sails that be is nether 2 Roman Catholic priest nor a Hebrew. The question or Ginarily asked 1s, “What is your re ligion?” but it is designed to provide against the entry of either of these two classes. ‘When the traveler arrives at a Rus sian port with a passport that has ‘Deen properly vised and countersigned at a consular office, it is critically ex- amined by a police officer aad duly reg- lstered. At the entrance of the hotel another police officer takes possession of the document and in the course of twenty-four hours returns it with 2 permit for a limited residence in the couniy. It has been sald with but little ex aggeration that it is as difficult for ‘one to leave Russia as it is to enter It ‘When the traveler departs for another city in the empire, he must have the passport countersigned by the police ‘This process continues until he reaches the frontier, which he cannot cross un- Jets the passport has been vised and stamped by the police. Not infrequent ly tourists are stopped at the frontier ‘and subjected to serious inconvenience Decause they have neglected to comply ‘with the police regulatjons respecting passports. All this red tape causes an- noyances and irritation among tourists, who are apt to overlook the fact that Bussians as well as foreigners are com pelied to observe these police regula: tions. It is the business of the police to know where everybody Indges. ‘The same system prevails in Turkey, where it is not practicable for a for ‘igner to travel without 2 passport, Elsewhere in Europe passports are not required. They are relics of a bygone period when communication between countries was slow and infrequent— Ban Francisco Chronicle. =) Skin Like Armor Plate. ‘When’ she is in a freakish mood, na- ture seems to revel in making human beings who are a constant mystery to their fellow creatures. Such a man is ‘Herr Schwartz, the “armor plated man,” who is such ~ puzzle to the doc- tors of Europe. Her échwarts bas for some years been upe-rgoing an ossifi- cation of the whole is be“ and is rapidly developing = the lardness and immobility ofa 4u ils back has now become rigid, - muscles standing out hard and im able. In fact, he seems to be en ed in a Kind of armor plating, consisting of surface bone as hard as stone. He is no longer able to move his jaws and is compelled to take food in a liquid form through a tube, some of his teeth having been removed for the purpose. And yet this osseous man enjoys excel- lent health and not long ago was mar tied to a charming young Berlin wom- an—Boston Post. ‘Boston's Firat Building Law. ‘Two bundred and twenty-six years ‘ago @ house was burned in Boston, which led to the promulgation of the first building law. The fact developed at 2 legislative bearing recently, and ‘when told by Assistant Solicitor Child aroused great interest. The order gees cn aaa aa rsint E “About noon the chimney of Mr. ‘Thouias Sharp's house in Boston took fire. The wind drove the fire to Mr. Colburn’s house and burned that down also. For the prevention whereof in Gur new town indended this somer to ‘bee builded we have ordered that noe aman there shall build his chimney with ‘wood nor cover his house with thach, which was readily asented unto.”— ‘Boston Herald. At nearly all of the large dinners this year a fashlight photograph has ‘Deen taken of the feast, photographs Reing developed and ready for the din- @s by the. time the dinner bas beev Ired before by toe places whore tbe g dinners afe Geld. That such photo- wee we. been this has Son oad al tageclow couttrane which the flashlight man now bas for 50 ae 0 La avast mp successfully that not « vestige Sen ine be ome of the adjuncts of the large public dinners—New York Sun. ‘a situation that is not devoid pf numer. Something of the kind has just happened in Laxembourg. A man who nad deen arrested in German Lorraine had to be conveyed to Saverne through 0m reaching Bgttem- most carriage ae Jeaping te the platform, refused to re-enter the carriage on the ground that, as the country was nec tral, he could neither be compelled nor ' -He was detained, but the by, Sai wie the Slee i ‘Lowdon SELECTIONS, ” A BASEBALL SUPPER. How a College Team's Captain Enter- . tained Eight “Fans.” “Out on the first!” “That's a hot one!” “Willie scores one!” “Home run for Arthur!” These were the familiar terms that greeted each joke or at- tempted joke. The occasion was & novel entertainment recently given in a college town at which the captain of ‘the college team entertained elght of the most enthusiastic “fans” among his friends at 2 baseball diriner. _Count- ing the host, the party numbered nine. ‘Dinner was announced at 9 o'clock in the evening. With the assistance of his mother ‘and sister the young man carried out the whole arrangement with brilliant success. Before going ‘into the dining ‘room each man was given 2 place on ‘the “team” and by this means found ‘his proper place at the table. The din- ing table, which was square, was turp- ed and spread in such 2 manner as to represent the diamond of a baseball field. Instead of the usual cards there was at each cover 2 miniature fan Dearing the word pitcher, catcher, first Dase, second base, third base, right shortstop, left shortstop, right fleld, left field. The menu cards were diamond shaped and had “Official Score” print- ‘ed on one side, and on the other side was the menu, consisting of nine courses, or “innings,” as they were termed on the cards. They read, leay- ing ont the interpolations, as follows: FIRST INNING. SECOND INNING. In which the Losing Team Lands. ...S0vp THIRD INNING. Caught on the Fly......--sevesscseseseses Moumtain Trout on Diamond Shaped Toast FOURTH INNING. sustseees-Latub-Chops with Potato Balls FIFTH INNING. seueees-Turkey Croquettes, Green Peas SIXTH INNING. ‘The Umpire, When We Lose......+.-.-- saswsese-s-Lobster Salad, Cheese Wafers SEVENTH INNING. ‘What We Were Handed....Lemon Cream in Diamond Shaped Slices and Macca Fons. EIGHTH INNING. s-seesPreserved Ginger, Watets, Coffee NINTH INNING. SeteseeesseseesessDistribution of Favors ‘The favors were tiny horns, witl ‘which, at the suggestion of one of the Dboys, they rooted for the clever bost and the unique way in which they had been entertained —What to Eat. ‘The “Drago Doctrine.” What is the “Drago doctrine,” which fs to be excluded from the delibera- ‘tions of The Hague conference? It has nothing to do with the late Queen Dra. 2 of Servia, but derives its name from Dr. Drago, foreign minister of the Ar gentine Republic, who, imitating the ex ample of President Monroe, enunciated the convenient theory that debts owed to the citizens of one government by those of another may not be “collect ed” by force. Thig was when the combined fleets of England, Germany and Italy in 1902 appeared off Vene zuela and caused Mr. Kipling to write his “Rowers.” This “Drago doctrine’ was naturally hailed with enthusiasm by all the money borrowing republics of South America, but they were tol from Washington that it could not be ‘regarded as a subclause of the Monroe sone coer ere i ll le a Marita Discussing “Frauds In the Mail” in the North American Review, George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, says: It will be readily understood that the guarding of the mails for the purpose of keeping at the minimum the manifold abuses to which they are inherently subject is 2 task of great magnitude. But it is being better and more efficiently done every year, af- fording much justification for the re- mark which was made not long ago that “the postoffice department of the United States is the most effective ‘agency in the world for the detection and prevention of crime and the ap- prehension of the criminal.” ‘The Phonograph as a Witness. In Brussels ves a lawyer who re cently made good use of a phonograph in a lawsult. He had been continually aunoyed by the noises of hammering -at an iron foundry in his near neigh- Dorhood. Finding that complaints were unavailing, be brought the matter nto court. But before doing so be placed @ phonograph in his Ubrary for one ‘whole day. Wher the case came before ‘the coart he a and set going ¢ylinder. An uproar and din as from the forge of Vulcan was the result, and ‘the ingenious lawyer won his case. ‘Dae Shack dc thd Decddtbusht. In the simultaneous discharge of DicccSiagnt a chs was gies tal Re eee tee ‘The vessel of 18,500 tons skid- det iideways sevérdi yards, Usthiz many Gegress. The guns are fifty- ee eee eee pounds is Sat was Sa aay oa = bow. ‘She Sich ie ty de Rien tent with the state of affairs in Alsace: ‘Lorraine, for in spite of the six_and Sumare eee ‘majority of the population are us anti ‘German as ever.—London Globe. WOMAN AND FASHION ‘The New Cape Coat. (Cape wraps are seen op many of the most attractive Paris spring gowns. One model carried out in pastel blue cloth has a becoming little cape of the same material, with velvet collar and square fronts, trimmed with broad bias bands and silk tassels. ‘The novel feature of this coat is the manner in which it is fastened. There (33 ben ae FS, Gee Pe, Se Si LG : aN is) : ii Zener (fi |) et ay ees) AN NS NN \ yy SS PANE i) MV \ Se E8 eee ela ; is no opening in front or back. The large buttons on the shoulders are for use as well as ornamentation. Those on the left shoulder can be easily un- buttoned and the coat removed in that way. This isa striking and new style, but not altogether practical, though many of them are worn. ‘The second model 1s made of light tan broadcloth and worn with a prin- cess dress of tan chiffon velvet trim- med with straps of cloth. ‘One desirable feature of these coats fs that they look quite as well worn with one dress as another and make splendid wraps for the warmer weather. sail as alll Sanaa oe As though milliners had not put the woman who is no loager young sufli- ciently at a disadvantage by decreeing modes in hats that are becoming only to the ingenue, now the jewelers must prescribe a pew method of wearing the pearl necklace that, alas, none but the young may venture. It is a coquettish mode of arrangement that is properly sulted only to the unlined face. Doubt- ess many women who have long passed thelr youthful charms will be tempted to ensay it. A long rope of pearls is necessary, and the evening gown which accompanies it should be of empire type. The necklace is caught ‘up to the colffure at elther side of the head with circular clasps, pearl set and Ros tasneled pendants of the pearls. Beautiful clasps in interesting antique patterns come specially for the pur pose Of the two loops of the pearl rope which hang down tn front from the elasps one should reach to the base of the neck, beneath the chin; the oth- er should fall to the waist. These sway and quiver in lines of delightfal grace ‘with each movement of the wearer's bead. No jeweled dog collar ts worn ‘with the necklace when ft {s arranged m this way. nein tian. Many women prefer for all ordinary motoring to wear a separate veil tied over the hat and covering all of the head save the face and select thelr yells with a view to thelr becoming qualities as well as to their relation to the costume. If one can afford to sac- ifice a veil often, white chiffon is de- sirable, for nothing is more becoming, and the white motor veils with dotted or striped borders of black or of colot are very charming. They succumb to the dust quickly, of course, as do the light bive veils, in which many motor ‘women now look particularly well, but extravagance In the Interest of vanity is no new thing. . Suits For Small Boys. ‘The small boys are going to be com- fortable this summer. If they are not ft will aot be the fault of the shop- Keepers, who are ready with an almost unlimited supply of jaunty, cool suits ‘The accompanying cut shows one of the most popnlar models. White linen $s the material used for the suit, while e AW), ee darth 3 y Oe, ana eae, en sat De a ot trimmed with white. The upper part of the blouse is cut in sailor fasb- fon, but the lower part falls straight Gown and is worn with a loose belt suoge afte, fee manner of the Busses Blouse. makes 2 more childish garment than the regulation Russian model, or the sailor guit which blouses ES He as _Dinee pais of ta bray and checked gingham. Only Fair Play. ie LMANS WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE an . by) as Vv fy 4 \3 Se : Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 Blst and State Streets ad “Braciey ‘Tetephone Yarde 608 4M. Fualee BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE ‘Wifey—Be to my faults a little blind. | Habby—I'll be a little blind {f you'll ‘keep your mouth a little shutter. No Chance. “Do you think his interest in art will ‘ever amount to anything?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne. “He 1s too well off to become an artist him- self and not rich enough to become a connoisseur.”—Washington Star. Not In Her Estimation. “I suppose you regard marriage as failure.” “No,” replied the Indy who had secur- ed three divorces. “I've succeeded in getting « fair bunch of alimony each time."—Chicago Record-Herald. Implacable. “Jimson's widow threatens to break his will.” dete cele i ee lt | . 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 special sales-day and two of Fish Trad. Ing Stampe with each 10c purchase. ‘ We carry @ well line of Ladies’ Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor acts. A sprendid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men’s Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waleteoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A béautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy line of Neckwear and H 'rdkerchiefs. See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chaina, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins, Boys’ Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes a1d Shirts. | “Yes, but she can’t forgive him for ying during housecleaning time.”— a Plain Dealer. Delays Are Dangerous. Miss Gotrox—George, dear, I'm afraid our wedding will have to be postponed. ‘Mr. Owings—Impossible, darling. My creditors won't stand for it—St. ‘Louis Post-Dispatch. ‘The Trouble With Them. “Don't you know the reason some men can't get along in this world?” “No. You tell it.” “Well, they’re afraid of thunder, and they can't dodge lightning.”—Atlanta Constitution. Both Happy. Rounéebout—By the way, old man, how are you getting along with your wife now? Gayboy — Splendidly! We were dl- vorced last week.—New York Life. ‘The Absentminded Magnate. Gunbusta—Will you pass the butter, please? Rallrond Magnate (absentmindedly) No, sir; you'll get no pass— Oh, er- cuse me! Certainly!—Judge. - American Brick Co. - President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. 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