The Broad Ax
Saturday, August 3, 1907
Chicago, Illinois
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THE BROAD AX
HEW TO THE LINE.
U. S. SENATOR JOS. B. FORAKER
Scores Ben Tillman For His Dribblings On the Negro Question.
The Buckeye Senator Declares That "Ben's Hatred of Race Has So Warped His Mind That His Abuse Goes For Nothing.
Vol. XII
U. S. SENATE
JOS.
Scores Ben Tillman in
the Negro
The Buckeye Senator
Hatred of Race Has
That His Abuse G
United States Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, last Saturday addressed the Chautauqua Assembly at Bellefontaine, and in doing so he scored Rip-roaring Ben Tillman, in the following manner:
"Before taking up anything else, I want to speak briefly in answer to some utterances of Senator Tillman. He has been making a speech in Ohio. It was on the race problem. This is his favorite topic. He is at his best when he talks on that subject, but his best is also his worst.
Answers Tillman's Remarks.
"In this latest speech he is quoted as saying:
"If after the war the North had not in its passion and sectional hatred gone far beyond the bounds of reason, decency and righteousness, there would to-day be no race problem.
"We resent and resist the doctrine of equality under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. * * *
"You have done wrong. The North has done wrong. It can remedy the feeling by repealing the fifteenth amendment and letting the states control the franchise."
"All the way through his discussion is in the nature of a protest against social equality. Nothing could be more wide of the mark. Everybody understood then, as now, that social equality cannot be forced upon anybody.
"The purpose of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments was to provide political equality, to put all citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, white or black, upon the same plane, so far as the political rights of citizenship were concerned.
South Got Deserts.
"What I want to answer is his charge that in hatred and passion the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were forced upon the South, and that in this way the North needlessly precipitated upon the South the evils they suffered during the reconstruction period. These amendments, if not fully demanded by the war itself, were made necessary by the situation created by the seceding states immediately after the war."
Senator Foraker discussed conditions at the close of the civil war at considerable length and then continued:
"If they had accepted the fourteenth amendment there would not have been any fifteenth amendment, for with the fourteenth amendment accepted and all the seceding states restored to their places in the government, the ratification of the fifteenth amendment by the requisite number of states would have been an impossibility. If, therefore, there be any fault to find with anybody on account of the fifteenth amendment it rests with these seceding states, for they by their refusal to accept the fourteenth amendment not only compelled reconstruction, but precipitated a submission and ratification of the fifteenth amendment.
"They accentuated all this by their treatment of the freedmen. It would be difficult to exaggerate the unfriendly character of the legislation affecting them that was enacted immediately after the war in most of the seceding states.
Cause for Amendments.
"It is no exaggeration to say that the spirit of this legislation was not
justice, but injustice, and that of the most malicious and revengeful character. This kind of legislation, coupled with refusal to accept what were thought to be generous terms of the fourteenth amendment, naturally createted a public sentiment in the North that secured the ratification of the fourteenth amendment and led to the fifteenth amendment, by which it was provided that no state should have the right to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. But it was not passion, neither was it hatred, that brought about these results, but only a solemn sense of duty. There was never a time, except only when the fifteenth amendment was adopted, that it could have been adopted and there has never been a time since it was adopted when it could have been repealed, and in my opinion there never will be a time when it can be repealed, simply because it was right then and is right now. It was a great forward step in the recognition by government of the right of citizenship governed to participate in their government and to have equal protection under it. If in some places it has failed to bring good results, that fact is due more to the bad faith that has been practiced to defeat its purpose than to any inherent trouble.
God Moves in Mysterious Ways.
"Except only to state these facts of history I have no desire to pursue this subject further at this time, but I cannot help remarking that God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. Out of the vanity and folly of Andrew Johnson and the obduracy and unreasonable conduct of the seceding states came the conditions that prevented the American people from stopping short in the great work of establishing the doctrine of human equality before the law for all men. That was not the work of the Republican party or the people of the North, but of the ever living God. The noble men who were the actors were but his instruments to register his decrees."
Senator Foraker is an honest man in every sense of the word, for it has been a many a day since one of the great leaders of the Republican party has had the courage to stand up and frankly tell the truth in reference to the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, and that if the whites in the South would have accepted the fourteenth amendment in good faith the fifteenth amendment would never have been forced upon them, and the Negro would not have been clothed with the same civil and political rights enjoyed by other American citizens. This has been our contention for many years, and we have also contended, that, what little liberty the Negro enjoys in this country, he owes it to the tolerant spirit of the American people and not to any political party.
As stated before, Senator Foraker is one among many politicians, who possesses the courage, to give expression to his views on all public questions, and on last Saturday he completely knocked the underpining out from under Benjamin R Tillman the South Carolina anarchist!
The Bachelor Club held their second annual outing at Glenwood Park Ill. Friday, Aug. 2.
CHICAGO, AUGUST 3, 1907.
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MRS. CARRIE WARNER. The most popular and successful Afro-American business woman in Chicago, who conducts fine chiropodist and manicuring parlors, at 182 State street.
DEMOCRATS TO FIGHT NEW CITY
CHARTER.
The Democratic County Central Committee, this week began active work in connection with waging a strong warfare against the adoption of the new city charter, which will be voted upon by the people the middle of September.
Literature is being sent out to the small property holders and taxpayers, calling their attention to the many flaws in the charter and increased burdens which they will have to bear in case it is adopted.
The following are some of the reasons why the committee favors its defeat:
"1. It increases the burden of taxation at least thirty-three per cent. This increased tax will be particularly burdensome on the small property owners, who in turn must raise the rent of stores, shops, dwellings, and flats.
"2. It denies to the people of Chicago the right of local self-government and establishes the unrepublican undemocratic, unjust and monarchical principles of unequal representation in the city council. A scandalous gerrymander by the legislature arranges the political map of Chicago so as to throw 4,200 voters in a republican ward and over 12,000 are thrown into a democratic ward.
"3. It fails to provide any means for the amending of the charter upon the initiative or demand of the people.
"4. It denies the city the right of charging for the use of subsidewalk space.
"5. While pretending to consolidate where consolidation was most material. Neither the county, the sanitary district, the improvement districts, nor the forest preserve district of Chicago and vicinity are consolidated with the city under this charter. The only consolidation apparent is between the city and park boards; a consolidation, especially in the case of the south parks, the wisdom of which is a matter of serious debate.
Sunday Saloon Question involved. "6. This charter expressly provides that 'the power of the city council to regulate . . . the selling . . . of intoxicating liquors shall be subject to the general laws of the state,' which prohibit the sale or giving away of liquor on Sunday. A vote for the charter is a vote in favor of the present dram shop and Sunday closing law of this state as enforced in
"7. The board of education and park board are made part of a powerful republican machine and the right of a minority for representation is ignored.
"8. It destroys the efficiency of the present civil service law and places every employee and official of the city, except the city treasurer, at the mercy of the mayor. It subjects every official and employee, including the members of the board of education, civil service commission, policemen, park police officers, teachers, janitors, laborers, and scrub women to instant discharge or suspension without the right of hearing or trial of any kind.
"9. Ignoring the popular demand for a direct primary, it preserves the boss managed primaries and destroys the last vestige of hope for the independent voter.
"10. It prevents the board of education from appointing, promoting, or transferring teachers or introducing text books except by a two-thirds vote, unless recommended by the superintendent of education."
BOOKER AND MACON COUNTY.
The Republican majority in the home precinct of the Chairman of the Republican county committee of Tallapoosa county is larger than the entire party vote in Macon county, the home of State Chairman Thompson and the seat of Tuskegee Institute.
If Booker's educational institution is helping the Negro upward to citizenship, if it is making good toward uplift to the civil rights of the Negro, the local influence don't show up. It is bad that Booker and his political protege can't rake up and scrape up fifty Republican votes in Macon county, the seat of Tuskegee Institute and home of the State Chairman and referee of his own making.
If Tuskegee Institute is solving the disfranchisement problem, if it is working it out, what's the matter with Booker and Macon county?—The Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama
Booker does not want the Negroes to vote in Alabama and the other Southern states, nor even in the Northern states, for the great Wizard of Tuskegee, is fully convinced that he can make more money by assisting in every way his Southern white friends, to keep the ballot out of the hands of the Negro, so that it will be a dead easy trick to rob him of his political rights and in every manner, shape and form—Editor.
THE SO-CALLED "RACE PROBLEM"
By Maude Meredith In the To-Morrow Magazine for August.
She Says That "The Whites Are Too Lazy To Work --- That the Negro Is the Real 'Hewer of Wood and Drawer of Water'."
The following article from the peer of Maude Meredith, in the August number of To-Morrow Magazine is worth anyones times to carefully read it.
"The cry of the South is, "The white race will not be ruled by the black." Why this outcry? I have seen no inclination of the black to rule. In the North he is a porter or table waiter; in the South, the laborer.
The Irish nation polices our country. The Irish and German control our city politics. I have nowhere seen the Negro try to rule.
I find the Negro race predominates in the South. Very well, what about it? I find, also, that this is the race, pre-eminently, that does the labor of the South. I find that they are, literally, the "hewers of wood and the drawers of water."
I have no been traveling over the South for three months and have never yet seen a white man or white woman do a particle of manual labor. I have looked over this laboring class, compared it with what I am accustomed to in the North and here are some of the results:
I have not seen a Negro murderer since I have been in the South. Have not seen a hold-up man on the streets. Not a posse of Colored train robbers. Not an assassin. Not a walking delegate haranguing a vicious crowd of "union" black men, urging shorter hours and more pay. Have not seen a man dirked, nor a woman terrorized by an impudent and fear-inspiring rag peddler.
All these things are a part of every day life in the North.
But I find that the Southern white feels that he wants to get rid of the descendants of the black man, whose ancestor his ancestor bought and brought here. He does not tell me that the Negro is to blame for being here, but that he wants to get rid of him.
What would the South do without the Negro? Who would do the work? Who would cultivate the fields, and who would cook the food, and who would run the patent laundry, which I see seems to consist of an iron kettle down by the branch?
If I had a sufficiently long scoop I would be glad to scoop up every Colored man and woman in the South, and set them down on the waiting fields of our great Northwest, where labor is so desperately needed. Luckily for the South, I cannot do it, for it would mean absolute ruin, stagnation and starvation for the people. But I am answered, "We intend to import laborers from Europe." Well, and you'll want to export some of them worse than you ever before wanted to do anything in your lives. When the people of the South, who are still branded with the stamp of the evil influence of slavery, who are used to the "meek" Negro, who expect him to do their work for low wages, live as he can, and not answer back, find themselves in the hands of vicious, high-tempered, exacting, overbearing whites, largely the scum of Europe, and find their lives are never safe from treachery nor their houses from thieves, then they will realize "where they are at." Here is something I clipped from the Savannah News: "The other day the Atlanta Constitution printed a communication recommending a better religious training for Negroes as
KILLED
THE PROBLEM"
In the To-Morrow
for August.
Whites Are Too Lazy
at the Negro Is the Real
and Drawer of Water'."
a remedy for criminal inclination.
There is no doubt that if all, or a part, of the money now sent to foreign missions were devoted to the moral education of the Negro children, there would be brought about a marked improvement in the Negro race."
If, instead of this silly whining about sending the Negro out of the country, the country would pay the Negro for his work, educate him, set him a good example, and give him a chance, there would be no "problem" to mouth over.
It is not so much "religion" that the Negro needs as knowledge. He seems to have quite sufficient religion, such as it is, but he needs to be taught ambition, cleanliness, the out and out Godliness of genuine, honest, hard work.
But who is to teach him? All he knows is the white man, who erstwhile owned him, who considered work the greatest disgrace—and still does—who does not know how to do good work himself, nor teach the Negro how to do so.
A man whose red nose and shaking hands told their own story said to me yesterday: "I've never done a day's work in my life and never intend to. I hain't laid by any crop this year. Couldn't get help." I asked if the Negro would not work. "Why," he answered, with the rising inflection of supreme disgust, "the —— Nigger don't want to work by the day; he wants to work by himself."
This seems to be the greatest sin of the Negro. He wants to have a home; wants, in short, to be a man. not a chattel. So far as I can see, he is eminently willing to be a black man. I don't find him saying an evil word of the white race. I don't find him trying to drive out the whites, or injure them, or defraud them. I didn't find black men marrying white women. I see no white women with yellow children. Yet the South is full of yellow faces.
The "race problem" is no problem at all, but the work problem is almost as great in the South as in the North. Not aas great, by any means, because the Southern whites are not stirring and energetic. They don't sow a thousand acres to wheat, nor plant a vineyard of three thousand acres, but what little work must be done they feel above doing.
However unjust in the eyes of God slavery may have been, the present outcome of it seems to have been a benefit to the Negro, a step in advance for the race, but it has certainly been as one Southernner remarked to me, 'Hell for the whites.' When the Southern white will get out his Bible and read, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might," the problem of the South will be solved."
Edward Hillman, the popular state street dry goods prince, who gives more work to Colored men and women, in his great establishment, State and Washington streets, than any other concern in the same line of business. Returned home last week from a four weeks business and pleasure trip to Paris, and other points in the old world, where he bought an immense line of the rarest novelties and fancy goods, for the fall and winter trade!
Mr. Fred York of Springfield, Ill., well known in Chicaago, is quite ill.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CONVENTION
ENDS.
John G. Jones of Chicago Elected
Grand Master by Colored Masons.
“Next Encampment in Virginia.
‘The Grand Encampment of Knights
Templar, of the United States and
Canada (Colored), which had been in
session in West Seneca since July 19.
came to a conclusion on Satuniay fol-
lowing the election of officers, The
encampment was a most interesting
one and several matters of import-
ance to the organization were dis-
posed of. Most Eminent Sir John G.
Jones of Chicago presided at the en-
campment. Addresses of more than
Fassing interest were delivered by
Grand Master Jones and William T.
Grant of New Orleans and others. A
vote of thanks was extemfed the Buf-
falo Knights Templar for the enter-
tainment of the visitors.
The officers elected are as follows:
Most Eminent Sir John G. Jones,
‘rand master, Chicago; Very Em!-
rent Sir Robert J. Fletcher, deputy
grand master, Sacramento, California;
‘Very Hminent Sir Alexander Payne.
grand Generalissimo, Washington, D.
©.; Very Eminent Sir C. W. Jones,
grand captain general, New Orleans,
Louisiana; Very Eeminent Sir B. H.
Stillyard, grand senior warden.
Wheeling, West Virginia; Very Emi-
nent Sir C. R. France, grand junior
warden, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania;
‘Very Eminent Sir J. H. Hollami, D.
D., grand orator, Catskill, New York;
Very Eminent Sir J. H. McGhee, D.
D., grand prelate, Mt. Meigs Alabama;
Very Eminent Sir H. C. Scott, grand
treasurer, Washington, D. C.; Very
Eminent Sir William T. Grant, grand
recorder, New Orleans, Louisiana:
‘Very Eminent Sir Charles A. Moore,
Geputy grand recorder, New Orleans.
Luoisiana; Very Eminent Sir Alex-
ander Oglesby, grand corresponding
recorder, Buffalo, New, York; Very
Eminent Sir E. G. Lane, grand stand-
ard bearer, Buffalo, New York; Very
Eminent Sir George W. Cough, grand
sword bearer, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
Very Eminent Sir J. B. Thornton, D.
D., grand warden, New York City;
Very Eminent Sir Edward Burton,
grand captain of the guard, Sitidell,
Louisiana; Very Eminent Sir N. F.
Henry, grand sentinel, Washington,
D. c.
Executive committee—Sir Knight
B. F. Rose, chairman, West Seneca.
New York; Sir Knight J. C. White,
Boston, Massachusetts; Sir Knight
W. H. Johnson, Washington, D. C.;
Sir Knight Oscar D. States, Boston,
Massachusetts; Sir Knight J. B. Moo-
dy, Bathe, Maine; Sir Knight 8. H.
Parther, Chicago, Illinois; Sir Knight
H. Burrell, West Seneca, New York;
Sir Knight Robert Jacox, Buffalo,
New York; Sir Knight F. A. Camp-
bell, Chicago, Mlinois; Sir Knight A.
D. Griffin, Portland, Oregun.
‘The next session of the grand en-
campment of Knights Templar of the
United States and Canada will be held
at Staunton, Virginia, in 1908—From
the Buffalo Evening Times, July 22.
1907.
ATTACKS NEGRO; GOVERNOR'S
AID 18 IN JAIL.
Gor. Napoleon B. Broward of Fiori-
da, dressed ina white fiannel suit,
visited the Tenderloin police station
tonight to see wnat he could do in
the -way of bailing out a friend, but
the friend was still there after the
governor had left. The governor and
iis staff were sitting in a hotel to-
right when two detectives appeared
and inquired for Mr. Angle, one of
the party. He was put under arrest
on & charge of felonious assault, mate
by a Negro elevator boy of the Her-
2]4 Square hotel, who charged that
Angle hed cut him with a» pocket
knife on Sunday.
‘Mr. Angle atmitted cutting the boy
‘and gave as his reason: “The Niggers
-up here don’t know how to treat white
folks.” ‘The boy had been insolent to
‘Mrs. Anglo, he said.
© This incident occurred in New York
City, where all Negroes have some
‘must be respected by
pera et
ALL EDITORS WANT NEWS.
My friend, help the editor in his
wildeyed search for news. When
friends come to see you, if you are
not ashamed of {t, tel him; when
your wife gives a tea party, if you
have recovered from the effects of
the gossip, drop in with the news;
vhen a baby arrives, fill your pockets
with cigars and call; if you go to &
party steal some of the good things
‘and leave ‘em with the item in our
sanctum. If your wife licks you come
in and Jet us see your scars and tender
sympathy through the paper. If your
mother-in-law has died don’t be bash-
ful about it; give in all the common
Flace news. In short, whatever makes
you feel proud ,sad, lonesome or gla
submit {t to our twenty-four carat wis-
dom and see our matted locks stand
up on end with gratitude, which will
pour from every pore like moisture
from the dew-be-sprinkled earth.
‘Tekma, Okla., Times.
DEATH ‘FAILS TO APPEASE MOB,
$0 VICTIM’S BODY IS BURN-
; a
‘Crisfield,’ Md. Lynchers Dig Up
Corpse of Negro and Cremate It—
Eager for More Violence.
| Crisfield, Md., July 28—Thelr pas:
‘sion unsated by the kicking and beat
ee to Weath of the —
Reed, who on Saturday, without pro-
yoeation, shot and killed Policeman
Daugherty, who had Reed's associate.
William Hildred, under arrest, a mo}
at an early hour this morning dug
Reed's mutilated body from its rude
grave in a swamp near town, rhidled
fi with bullets, and then, lighting 2
bonfire, tossed the corpse into the
fiames and stood about, watching un-
‘Ul it was reduced to ashes.
"Lemuel Showers, the keeper of 2
Lillfard room frequented by Negroes,
who loaned Reed the revolver with
which he shot Daugherty, was captur-
ed, today and lodged in the county
jail at Princess Anne.
It was not so much for the crime
committed by Reed, that caused the
highly civilized white Christians of
Crisfield, Md, to dig his body up rid-
die it with bullets, and then build a
Lonfire around it, but that fiendish act
was committed by the whites to prove
their superiority over the Negro, when
it comes to violating all the laws, and
to further prove that with all their
boasted civilization, they are the only
real bloodthirsty savages in America!
—Editor.
| $0,000,000 OIL CO FORMED IN
SOUTHWEST.
Barnsdali interests incorporate to
Fight Standard Oil Company.
Pittsburg Speciali—The _incorpora-
tion of the Barnsdall Oil Company 2
$10,000,000 concern, under the laws of
Telaware today, caused a slight rip-
ple in Pittsburg, where all those 2
terested have their headquarters
‘Theodore N. Barnsdall, head of the
new concern which will fight the
Standard in the west, is one of the
luggest independent: oil men of the
country being largely interested in
gas and oil in Kansas, Indian Terri-
tory ami Texas and the Barnsdall
company, it is learned tonight, will
taean the consolidation of all the
small companies of the West ani
Southwest.
It will be a Barnsdall affair from
first to last, as W. B. Clingman, H. B.
Keister and J. L. Furlong, who ap-
pear as the incorporators at Dover,
are all employes of the Barnsdall com-
pany at Pittsburg. Barnsdall in his
time has launched more big deals
than any man in Pittsburg, his deals
in the last fifteen years aggregating
$10,000,000.”
‘The articles of incorporation, filed
at Dover, say the objects of the com-
pany are to acquire by purchase or
ctherwise, oil and gas interests and
tc extract therefrom gas, petroleum
end other like substances. The com-
pany is to Yo business in any part of
the United States, also to run pipe
Imes and other means and methods
of supplying towns, cities and corpor-
ations with gas, both illuminating and
heating. :
Jobn J. Hayes, member of the firm
of J. J. Ryan and Company, 105 8.
Jefferson street, the leading manu-
facturers of brass furnishings, who 1s
a clear and level-headed business
man, is opposed to the new City
Charter, for he is of the opinion, that
its adoption will increase the taxes of
the small property holders and en-
large the powers of the mayor, ani
enable the worst gang of political
Pighwaymen to feather their nest at
the expense of the people, that have
ever struck this town.
EIGHT ROOM HOUSE AND LOTS
FOR SALE.
"For Sale—S-room house, 3331 Ver-
non Ave., $3,950, $500 cash, balance
like rent.
‘Lots on essy terms Glencoe & Chi-
cago Lawn.
NEIGHBORS & JOHNSON,
x ~ 3916 State St,
“Phone Dougias 4965. :
CHIPS.
‘The National Medical Associaticn
will hold {ts 9th annual session in Bal-
timore, Md., Aug. 27, 23 amd 29.
Miss Hazel Hart, of Indianapolis,
Ind., ig the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Walker of Evanston, Il.
Mrs. N. Penticost, 18 S. Homan
Ave. arrived home last week from 9
pleasant visit with friends in the
‘South.
Messrs. Wm. Caswell, Kid Logar,
Wm. McDowell, Fred Lewis, and Wi!)
Simmons are spending the summer at
Petosky, Mich.
Mr. Hugh Merrill, 3328 State St,
who has beeen to Petosky, Mich, for
the past month returned to the city
Wednesday.
Mrs. M. J. Wallace, 3247 State St.
jeft* Thursday evening for Galesburg.
TIL, where she will spend a few days
vacation.
Mr. Frank Gellespie, 3637 Wabas
Ave., left the ey Tuesday for Sara-
toga, N. ¥., where he will spend the
balance of the summer.
Charles Gaskin, has opened up 4
fire billiard hall and pool room at
3004 State st., which he will conduct
in first class order.
Miss Alice E. King of Cincinnati,
O., is in the city and is the guest of
Mrs. R. W. Carter and her daughter
Miss Connie, 3424 Dearborn street.
Mr. Hiram Walker, of Louisiana, is
spending a months vacation in the
city the guest of Dr. John Davis,
3251 Rhodes Ave.
Miss Sallie Boling, ot Philadelphis.
Pa,, is in the city to spend the sum.
mer the guest of her sister Mrs. Chas.
Brock, 4810 Langley Ave.
Mrs. Boger and daughter, Adelphia,
of Aurora, IIL, spent a few days in the
city last week the guest of Mr. H. H.
Boger, 3524 Calumet Ave.
Mr. Isaac Jqhnstone Reed, one 0!
our popular society men, ieft the city
Monday for a two weeks visit to Caso-
polis and other Michigan points. -
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Codozer, 3257
Wabash Ave., after a two weeks visit
to Milwaukee and points along the
luke returned to the city last Satur-
day.
In visiting Niagara Falls this ses-
son, the traveling public will find 20
Letter hotel to stop at than the Hotel
Vancouver. See ad in another column
of this paper.
Mrs. Sadie Scott, 5742 Grove ave.,
accompanied by Mrs. S. E. Tate, 5744
Grove Ave., left Tuesday morning for
Detroit, Mich., Cleveland, O., and Nia-
sura Falls. They will be absent until
September.
It is understood that the play “Capt.
Rufus” written by T. Alfred Ander-
‘son and Ed Green has met with so.
uch success that Messrs, Hurtig &
Seamen will produce it in New York
City with the original cast.
Mrs. Mary E. Smith, 2236 Dearborr
street returned home the latter part
of last week from Henderson, Ky.,
where she had been visiting her hus
band, who conducts a fine barber
shop in that Southern town.
The Leland Giants, will play the
Callahans All Professionals at Comis-
key’s South Side Base Ball Park, 39th
and Wentworth ave. Tuesday Aug
¢th and Thursday, August 8th, and at
Logan Square, August 7th. |
The Afro-Americans of Louisville, |
Xy., have just completed s fine office
building dedicated to the memory of
Frederick Douglass. It is « fine struc-
ture and is occupied by the leading
professional people of Louisville.
Mrs. Jobn Linden, 62nd and Drexel
ave. the dutiful and highly accom-
plished wife of John Linden of Lin-
aen Bros., Printers, 114 Sherman st.,
kas gone on month's visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mra, Bloomfield,
A theater party consisting of 1€
persons was given in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Robt. Crump 3243 Wabash
ave., at the Pekin Inn Cafe, Tuesday
evening, July 30. The tables were
most beautifully decorated with ferns
and flowers. The dinner consisted of
seven courses. Music from an orches-
tra enlivened the occasion and mad2
it a most charming affair. Mr. and
Mrs. Crump, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Miss
Fife, Miss Geneva Graham, Miss Josi>
pee Miss Manning and Messrs. T.
F. Motts, Bennie Summers, Joe Sizer,
Be B. Range, Jerry Mills, Chas. Lett
aud Mr. Brown were the invited
— A flash light picture was tak-
en of the interior of the banquet room.
| ‘The members of the Republican
State Committee of Ohio, have en-
corsed Secretary of War William H.
Taft, for president of the United
States in 1908, and in case he is no-
‘minated, President Roosevelt who re-
‘gards the Negroes as so many Re-
publican cattle, will foree or drive,
them into line for him.
Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, who for
‘a long time held forth at St. Stephens,
church on the West side, but now pas-
tor of St. Paul's, A. M. E. church, Des
Moines, Iowa, is in the city, and he
will spend a part of his vacation
with those who have sat under the
sound of his voice. Rev. Brooks !s
looking fine and it seems that coun-
try Ife agrees with him.
As the political pot begins to boil,
Mayor Busse has chosen the following
gentlemen as members of his kitchen
cabinet from their respective wards,
William Hale Thompson, Ist ward in
place of committeeman, Francis P.
Brady; former Judge Hanecy, 2nd
ward in place of committeeman
Chauncey Dewey, Congressman Mar-
‘tun B. Madden, 3rd ward in place of
‘State Senator and committeeman Sam-
a E. Ettelson.
| United States Senator Pettus, of
Alabama, whd was in his 86th year.
‘died at Hot Springs, N. C., the latter
art of last week. Senator Pettns.
‘was selected as one of the members
of the Senate ,to investigate the
“shooting up" of Brownsville, Tex..
hy members of the 25th Regiment and
‘before he had heard one bit of the
testimony in that affair, he was posi-
tive that the Colored soldiers were
guilty of committing that crime. Like
the late Senator John T. Morgan.
Senator Pettus, had long outlived his
usefulness for at all times he per
mitted the so-called “Negro question”,
tu vastly overshadow the little states-
rcanship possessed by him
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“She makes her husband do just
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“She must have him well trained.”
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Sure.
“That man can never see good in a
live man.”
“He's very discerning.”
“How do you make that out?”
“When a man gets good he is a dead
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Leek Pretty.
‘Rake up your yard and mow the grass
‘And all the rubbish clear,
Put on your company manners,
For Mars is drawing near.
He Knew Her.
“That hat looks good to me, hubby.”
“If it does I know another thing
about it.”
“What?”
“The bill for tt will look big to me.”
fe Practics.
“I hear they are going to form a
milk trust.”
“That ought to be easy enough. It
would come like second nature to them
to water the stock.”
Wanted the Attachments.
“He spends most of his time figuring
on how to get a living.”
“Why doesn't he go to work?”
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Special Announcement,
From on and after this date all an-
Rouncements of entertamments, etc,
for which an admission is charged,
will be considerea advertising, and
will be charged for at the rate of 12
‘cents @ line, seven words to a line
‘The money must accompany the mat
ter and reach the editor no later than
‘Thursday morning of the week in.
tended for publication. This rule will
also apply to all personal items and
matter for which no charges will be
made. In other words, all news mat-
ter must reach us either on Wednes-
day evening or early Thursday morn
ing. Address Julius F. Taylor, 5040
‘Armour Avente, Chicago.
‘WOMAN AND FASHION
Styles In Belts.
Styles in belts are not restricted this
season, except to correspond with the
character of a costume and to harmon-
{ze or contrast with the color of the
frock with which they are worn, for
just now kid, In both suede and glazed
varieties, 1s equally favored with the
dainty lingerie and showy elastic and
silk ribbon girdles. Of course this lati-
‘ade In the selection of belts does not
give women the right to make ridieu-
lous combinations, such as the use of
‘pompadour ribbon with a cloth skirt
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and colored shirt waist or to use @
wide, dark leather belt with an elab-
orate lingerie gown, but it makes un-
necessary the purchase of a great num-
ber of belts if in buying only those are
‘chosen that will be as appropriate with
morning dresses as with plain after-
noon frocks.
A lingerie belt prettily embroidered
‘and fastened with mother-of-pearl
buckles will look quite as well with a
dressy afternoon costume as with a
simple lawn gown, or a pompadour
ribbon girdle could be substituted, pro-
‘vided It were not too elaborate and
the metal buckles were not too showy
for wear in the daytime.
Leather belts in suede or the hard,
glazed kid, plain with the exception of
a small buckle tn front or perhaps an
ornament n the back, are always ap-
propriate for use with shirt waists and
separate skirts and are especially suit-
‘able for morning wear. In black and
white, gray, tan or brown such girdles,
in both wide and narrow models, are
much affected for business.
The Green Hat.
‘Whole hearted allegiance has been
given to the hat of malachite green
straw trimmed with masses of black
feathers and loops of black ribbon.
while another favorite, bright saffron
straw, trimmed with black and supple-
mented with a soft crown of filet lace,
is decorated with branches of roses in
Japanese blue and black. As a matter
of fact, in many cases the floral trim-
mings ‘are set off by one enormous
Diack rose, marguerite or, in fact, any
wide petaled flower, and this appears
to dominate the scheme giving distine-
tion to the simplest millinerial venture.
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‘The linen gowns for afternoon wear
are If possible more attractive this
year than ever before. Such exquisite
‘hades of blue, pink, mauve and green
are to be seen In such attractive ways,
made up with trimmings of finest lace
and lngerie, that it Is difficult to re-
strain from spending the entire amount
laid by for the summer outfit on
resses of this description. The em-
Droldered linens are also exceedingly
handsome and whether in white or col-
ore are among the most effective, if
not the most effective, of all summer
gowns. ian
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Oriental Effects.
An unusually pretty frock of fine
‘organdie is daintily trimmed with ap-
Dliques of white shantung. The filet
of the bodice is darned with pale
shades of brown, and there is a girdle
of changeable brown and pink silk.
Handsome enameled buttons also
‘adorn the corsage. The present fash-
fon of draping the figure In oriental
manner {s particularly loved by Eng-
Mshwomen, and their French sisters
Rave taken up the fashion with a fer
‘Yor, since many of the models for the
English races have been made in Paris
this year. 2
‘Seorsucker Clothes.
Lots of ironing can be saved by hav-
ng house dresses, aprons, etc., made
from old fashioned crinkled seersucker.
Ee ets ean, i cool and prety,
all it requires {s « little smoothing
er shaking after washing.
NEW SHORT STORIES
Vis tienes ot Gicie.
Mrs. Fanny Crosby, the author of
hymns, is still, though eighty-seveq
years old, in first rate bealth.
“Not long ago,” said a New York
clergyman, “I visited Mrs. Crosby in
Bridgeport and found her exceeding};
entertaining. I shan't soon forget sore
of the youthful memories that she re.
counted.
“Our talk turned to the subject of
children’s quaint misunderstanding of
Biblical metaphors and parables, and
she told an amusing story on this head,
“She said that a little boy came
home one day from school in a tiad in.
mor. Another bos, Jack Jones, tint
given him a thrashing, and he wanted
revenge.
“Oh,” said his mother, “don’t think
of revenge, Willie. Be kind to Jack
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he will become your friend.’
“Willie thought he would try this
method. He did not see Jack Jones
till the next day at recess. Just as he
was buying a lemon pie for luncheon
Jack appeared and said:
“ ‘Look here, I licked you yesterday,
but I didn't give you enough. Now
Tm going to lick you again.”
“and he planted a hard blow on
Willie's little stomach.
“Willie gasped and grunted, but In-
stead of striking back he extended his
pie to Jones.
“‘Here” he said tn a kindly voice,
‘Tl give you this. I make you a pres-
ent of it”
“Jack Jones, in glad amazement. fell
upon the ple greedily, and it had soon
disappeared.
“Gosh, it was good!” he sald. “What
aid you give It to me for?”
“Because you struck me,’ said the
heaper of coals.
“Instantly Jones hauled off and
struck him again.
“‘Now, go and get another ple,” be
said.”
Hichland Egotism.
Dr. Louis Klopsch, the editor of the
Christian Herald, had been congratu-
lated In his New York office on his new
decoration, the Onder of the Rising
Sun. This decoration had been given
Dr. Klopsch by the emperor of Japan
In recognition of his services toward
the rellef of the Japanese famine suf-
ferers—services that resulted in a fund
of $250,000.
“Yes,” sald Dr. Klopsch, laughing,
“my new decoration makes me feel
very proud. I feel as proud, In fact, as
a highland chief, and no one could be
prouder than that.
“A certain earl,” he went on, “once
gave a dinner in honor of a great bigh-
land chief, who rarely came down from
the hills.
“Though there were many illustrious
persons at this dinner, the proud high-
lander seemed none too well pleased.
In fact, he was curt and haughty with
the grandest.
“When the coffee came on the host,
leading his highland guest up and
down the great hall, asked him what
he thought of the company.
‘Och,’ sald the chieftain, ‘they're n0
bad. They're no bad chiels.”
“Then he frowned and proudly swell-
ing out his broad chest struck it «
blow.
“But the fact ts,’ he cried, ‘I never
met 2 man yet wha was the equal 0
seinen Get:
An Act of Sacrilege.
Charles M. Schwab said recently im
Pittsburg that the railroads had only
themselves to blame for the weakness
of thelr rails. He said that they
should use rails three times dearer
than the present ones—nickel steel, not
bessemer steel, rails.
“Let some man introduce this re-
form,” said Mr. Schwab, “and he will
have undying fame in railroad history.
He, unlike too many great men, will
never be forgotten.”
Mr. Schwab smiled.
“Speaking of forgotten fame,” he
said, “I am reminded of a story about
Westminster abbey.
“An antiquary one day visited the
abbey and found a stonecutter at work
im the little cloisters recutting the
name of Wilson, the great tenor of
Shakespeare's day.
“The antiquary began to tell the
stonecutter about Wilson, how he had
been Shakespeare's friend and Bea
Jonson's and Kit Marlowe's and how
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“The stonecutter, looking up from his
work, frowned and shook his head.
“‘T wish, sir,’ he said, ‘we'd knowed
he-was such a swell afore we run that
Grainpipe through him.’"” |
PERT PARAGRAPHS
Few men forget to be good to their wives, for their wives won't let them.
When a man's wages become salary it is a sign that his wife is beginning to climb.
No one who has companionship coming to him is ever lonely.
Real shams are not sham when they deceive no one.
All men are brothers, but some seem to have stepmothers.
Sometimes plenty of good bread and butter is all that is necessary to convert a pessimist into an optimist.
Ignorance of the law excuses no one for employing a poor lawyer.
A soft heart is impressionable, but a soft head is intolerable.
Faith may be able to move mountains, but needs a steam engine as a vehicle of expression.
Some people are pious because it is the only diversion that their temperaments fit them for.
When Father Sheared the Sheep.
Of all the things that I recall
From childhood's happy clime
I climb I like the best of all
The spring sheep shearing time.
When in the farmyard all the flock
Was gathered dozens deep,
Fd climb upon the old horse block
And watch them shear the sheep.
They clipped and clipped and clipped and clipped
With springy shears of brown.
And from the sheep the fleeces slipped
Like snow banks drifting down.
And now and then a careless wight
up the hill and the snow.
Not to the lammie's great delight,
I think I've heard them say.
It really seems as if I might Have learned a thing or two By watching how the fleeces white Rolled off from lamb and ewe, But I have felt the sharper's shears Make ravage long and deep, Just as his did in other years When father sheared his sheep.
Getting Him Down Easy.
"They used to be good friends. How he hates our worse than poison."
"Snake poison perhaps you mean."
Letting Him
Down Easy.
"They used to
be good friends.
Now he hates
her worse than
poison."
"Snake poison
perhaps you
mean."
Knew What He Wanted.
"I hear you are a candidate for office."
"Well, my friends have been kind enough to suggest it."
"What are you going to run on, the good government ticket?"
good government ticket.
"I hope not. Say, I expect to get elected, and it is only those who can't win who want good government."
Funked.
He could not win out in the race
Nor with the victors meet;
His was a not uncommon case.
He simply got cold feet.
He could not take his nerve in hand
And groom it till 'wasfit,
Nor boost himself to beat the band,
For he was nervy—nit.
And so they laid his boom away—
Oblivion complete—
And can't recall his name today—
The man who got cold feet.
"He painted a basket of fruit so natural that it made you hungry to look at it." "Yes, and it made him a blamed sight humerier trying to sell it."
From an Expert
"Low young should a man marry?"
"Before he is old enough to know better if at all," replied the old bachelor.
Constant War.
The baseball umpire has no doubt,
A most unpleasant station.
He always has to fight it out
And can't use arbitration.
"I hear he is a good husband."
"Yes; he provides his wife with everything."
"But other men do that."
"But he lets her cut his hair."
"Do you believe in trial marriages?"
"My dear," said the older one, "all marriages are trials."
TALK DOES IT.
You often see a fairy queen,
A maiden more or less sixteen,
Who ties up with some ugly guy,
A man who doesn't take your eye,
And for a space you wonder why
The girl should pick this mother's son
But she doesn't only one
Who ever poured into her ear
The things a lady likes to hear.
And one not overhard to please
May wonder what in him she sees,
While other fellows much more swell
In his address may dwell
Whom she could see as well.
The reason from the wise is hid,
But maybe he's the only kid
Who ever had the nerve to say,
"How very fine you look today!"
No one can understand just why
It is one fellow stands so high
And able with such ease to reach
The handsomest and ripest peach
And fasten to it like a leach.
You wonder how he baits his trap,
But maybe he's the only chap
Who ever looked into her eyes
And whispered, "You're about my eyes."
Outsiders, though astute and wise,
Cannot behold him through his eyes
To them forever is unknown
The line of talk in tender tone
He hands her when they are alone.
He looks and dress.
In wit and leisure guess.
It's only what he has to say
That makes his follow him away.
Plenty High Enough.
"What do you know about high art?"
"I ought to know a whole lot. I have a picture in the house that cost $750 without the frame."
A Poser For Him.
"Ma, did your slipper grow on you?" "No, child. I bought it at the store." "It isn't a part of you, then?" "Grunge's not."
"Then, ma, how did it happen that it hurt you worse than it did me the other day when you spanked me?"
What Cheared Him.
"It must have been a terrible ordeal on the witness stand with all of them lawyers trying to tangle you up."
Explained It
"But I told her I would call."
"She probably heard you."
Makes Him Move.
The slowest mortal in the world
On hand is always found.
Perhaps the first man in the line.
When pay day comes around.
Something Wrong.
"Did you find anything abnormal
about this woman?" asked the lawyer.
"Well, she claimed to like to wash
dishes," replied the expert.
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PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Vanity is the mirror that reflects many a folly.
The man who makes hay when the sun shines is amply able to make love when the moon shines.
Every man has his price and som have two.
An agnostic has the best of it, for he doesn't have to prove anything.
An unscrupulous business man has no illusions about the Golden Rule.
Some men are born afraid of women—they are bachelors; some have the fear of women thrust upon them—they are married.
You would have to give some people an anaesthetic and get a surgeon to operate upon them in order to separate them from their good opinion of themselves.
The woman who makes a record as a good bread maker has no time to make a divorce record.
You will never be able to make people look up to you by talking down to them.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
Too Much.
"You say that you love me," she said, "that you would do anything for me. I am going to put you to the test."
"Darling, I am ready to do anything, to dare anything, for you. If it will make you happy to see me enter a den of wild bears, I will do it. If you would have me jump from a high building to prove that I love you, I am ready to take the risk. Bid me navigate the rapids of Niagara in a barrel, and I will make the effort, so that you may know how deep is my affection for you."
"I shall not ask you to do any of the foolish things you mention. But won't you, if you really love me, go out in the back yard and play croquet with Aunt Mehitabel? She says she gets so lonely some knocking the balls around alone."
With a groan of despair he grabbed his hat and ran. She had asked too much. He could not even for her love assume the risk of being referred to as a mollycoddle.-Judge
Sweet Surroundings
Pearl—He must think the world of you, dear. He said you were a sweet little bird.
Ruby—H'm! He must think I am a bee.
Pearl—Why so?
Ruby—Well, he said if I would only be his wife I would always live in clover.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A Bad Season.
"Yes," said the poet, "i published my book of poems about a month ago, but it isn't going very well."
"Indeed!" remarked his friend. "You told me you expected it to sell like hot cakes."
"Well—er—hot cakes don't sell very well this weather."—Catholic Standard and Times.
Hubby's Dislike.
MARY A. BROWN
Friend--You have a nice little home here in the suburbs, but I should think your husband would dislike catching trains.
Mrs. Suburbs—He does. He dislikes it so much that he frequently neglects to catch the last train home at night—New York Mail.
Explaining It to Hlm.
"Are you going to Europe this summer?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Mother and the girls say that rich people are getting so numerous in America that we've got to go to the old world to get appreciated."-Washington Star.
Matter of Cost.
Mrs. Hayrix—The paper tells uv a swell society woman in the city giv'n a high tea. What do yew s'pose a high tea is?
Mrs. Oatcake—Oh, I reckon it be a kind what an oil paintin' goes with 'stead uv a chromo—Chicago News.
Resurrection
Resurrection.
Thistledown, thistledown,
Floating into, country town
From the hillsides far away,
Can you find no place to stay?
Buttercup, buttercup,
From the brookside looking up,
All the gold of summer skies
In your shining chalice lies.
Clover bloom, clover bloom,
Wake my heart with your perfume,
Whisper low of bygone days
And of green and shady ways.
Clover, thistle, buttercup,
Stir the drowsy memory up;
Backward slip the years, and then
Youth and childhood live again.
A Substitute
"The old man couldn't find his umbrella, and he had to go away without it"
"Did it rain?"
No, but he had a brain storm."
Phone Oakl
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Keep This In Mind!
The Grand Elks Ball
Will be given on Wednesday evening, A State sta., in honor of the visiting dele Admission 50c. Elks Orchestra, Alex. A
Will be given on Wednesday evening, August 28, at Tattersalls, 16th and State sta., in honor of the visiting delegates to the Grand Lodge Session. Admission 50c. Elks Orchestra, Alex. Armant, leader.
Frank H. Lewis, Prop.
Telephone Calumet 185
E. A. STACK
DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST
2842 South State Street
Cor. Twenty-Ninth CHICAGO
Open Day & Night
PEKIN INN CAFE
PEKIN INN CAFE
Chas. Lett, Proprieton.
ALA CARTE & TABLE DE HOTE
SERVICE
2704 State St. Phone Calumet 261
CHICAGO
PATENTED DENTISTRY
at Cost Until Sept. 1st.
We control patents and discoveries by which missing teeth can be replaced without the old-time removable plate or bridge and by which looses the removable teeth can be tightened by which provokes (Riggs' disease) sore and bleeding gum can be cured. Call and have us examine your teeth and you will get satisfaction.
WHAT WE WANT
NORTHWESTERN DENTAL CO.
Buy Your Houses and Flats From
Neighbors and Johnson.
Don't pay rent all your life.
Don't die and leave your children a
bunch of receipts.
BE YOUR OWN LANDLORD.
We sell to every man according to
his means. Terms to suit every
purse. Before buying see
Phone Douglas 4965.
YOUR HOUSE MAY BURN TO-NIGHT.
NEIGHBORS AND JOHNSON writes insurance in the BEST companies in the WORLD.
Have your household goods INSURED. Do it NOW.
BRIGHT BOYS AND GIRLS WANTED TO SELL THE BROAD AX.
Bright boys and girls can make money in every community by selling The Broad Ax. It will cost you nothing to begin, as we will send you a supply of papers for the first week free. If there are any bright boys and girls in any section of the country who want to start in business for themselves, make money and be independent, write to us at once, and we will send you ten papers free of charge. You can sell them for five cents each, this will give you the capital which you can buy more papers in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it is written. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communications to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue.
at the newsdealers' rate, allowing you a good profit.
Thinking and progressive people read the Broad Ax. Your father, brothers, uncles and friends will buy the paper from you. If you mean business write to Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour avenue, Chicago.
ROAD INN
Domestic Wines
& Cigars
connection
Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
August 28, at Tattersalls, 16th and
legates to the Grand Lodge Session.
Armant, leader.
Private Rooms
CHICAGO
Lou Seldon, Mgr.
LELAND GIANTS VS. CALLAHANS.
South Side Base Ball Park, 39th and Wentworth ave., Tuesday and Thursday, August 6th and 8th, and at Logan Square, August 7th.
Games called at 3:30. Best of order maintained at all times. Come and see real ball playing. Price, Admission 25c, Grand Stand 38c, Boy's Seats 15c.
Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave.
RAIL YARDS: 1st St. & L. & S. & N. Rv.
2nd St. and Armour Ave.
CHICAGO
Gaskins'
3004 STATE ST.
All Newly Furnished with Latest
Tables and Fixtures.
Will also carry a Fine Line of Cigars
and Tobacco
Chas Gaskins, Prop.
First-Class Service Guaranteed our
Patrons.
Tile and Slate Hauling a specialty.
COAL
J. H. COLEMAN & CO.
Express & Van Moving
TRUNKS EVERYWHERE.
2540 State Street
Phone 699 Calumet
CHICAGO
ICE CREAM
CIGARS, TOBACCO
SHIRT WAISTS
KIMONAS
MRS. A. E. BAKER
NOTIONS
419-36TH STREET
Underwear a
Specialty
CHICAGO
Hotel Vancouver
Hotel Vancouver
Niagara Falls
NEW YORK
First class in all appointments.
Rates $2.00 per day and upwards, near
the Falls, parks and depots.
For further information address R.
T. Dett, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
THE BROAD AX.
Is for sale at the following news stands:
Mrs. E. L. Holmes, 2508½ State st.
Cigars, tobacco and news stand.
J. W. Hagan, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st.
J. H. Malone, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 338, 30th street.
L. L. Jones, barber shop and news stand, 3842 State st.
A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street
Cigar Store and News Stand.
Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street.
T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 381 29th St.
Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 368 street.
Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave.
R. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st.
Jackson Sisters, cigars, confectionery store and news stand, 920 W. Lake Street.
C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street.
Mrs. J. W. Hadley 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand.
Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave.
The Informer News Co., 188 Bandolph St., Detroit, Mich.
The Standard News Co 131 W. 53rd st., New York, City, N. Y.
Anybody has a good job who might get a worse.
Life may be a tough conundrum, but nobody wants to give it up.
The lightness of a man's conversation is no indication of the brilliancy of his intellect.
A man considers any woman charming who lauds his good qualities and ignores his bad ones.
The lightness of a man's conversation is no indication of the brilliancy of his intellect.
A man considers any woman charming who lauds his good qualities and ignores his bad ones.
If women were as willing as men to let things slide the man would soon be noticing that things are mighty slippery.
Auburn Ball Park
LELAND GIANTS VS. CA
South Side Base Ball Park, 39th and Wen
day, August 6th and 8th, and at Logan 8
Games called at 3:30. Best of
all times. Come and see real ball play
Stand 35c, Boy's Seat
GRAY & MORAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sta. Tel. Central 569.
CHICAGO.
Residence 07 Macallister Place
Telephone Ashland 363
Office Telephones
Central 1389 Automatic 5940
MILES J. DEVINE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Suite 318-330 Reaper Block
CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS.
CHICAGO.
A. D. GASH
A. D. GASH
Attorney at Law,
84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago
Suite 615 to 619,
Telephone Main 3077.
JOHN E. OWENS
ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR
AT LAW
323 ASHLAND BLOCK
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FINE WINES, LIQJORS
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3030 State Street CHICAGO
Phone 194 South
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
2719 State Street
Houses: 9 to 12 A. M.
3 to 5 and after 6 P. B.
CHICAQ
Phone Oakland 1328
F. A. Rawlins
The Modern Embalmer
UNDERTAKER AND
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
When his work is finished
you have no displeasure.
4834 State St., CHICAGO
Phone Douglas 1550
The lines of my top white coat of pattern. This is an amount of their size, quantity and display.
Marcus C. Hargreaves (Top Grain) of Bristol and his wife, Margaret, of Magna, Ocester, are married for twenty years. $60 cap. and $100 dress. Both are married to the same woman, Jane Pace, Bristol district.
Lady Agnes Wansall, Bristol district, married to the same woman, Jane Pace, Bristol district, and Agnes Wansall sharing an proud marriage dress. Adhere THE MCALL O., Bristol District.
Waiters and Cooks
Prefer Our Make
JACKETS AND LINEN
because they have found them
satisfactory.
Write for complete Catalogue
FREE.
giving full instructions how
to order.
Marcus Ruben (Inc.)
390 State St., CHICAGO.
79th St. and Wentworth Ave.
Best Games of Ball in the city by
leading Pros. & Semi-Pros. Clubs
S. CALLLAHANS.
Wentworth ave., Tuesday and Thurs-
an Square, August 7th.
Best of order maintained at
playing. Price, Admission 25c, Grand
Seats 15c.
FACTS IN FEW LINES
De pe tee ee Pet dk pe egg ier SE
tng the siuices too soon sunk the
French submarine boat Gymnote at
Toulon, and she was ruined.
It is estimated that the total frst
cost of England's present navy was
1$670,000,000, and about $390,000,000 has
Deen spent in the last ten years,
In 1882 there was a ten hour move-
‘ment among the shipwrights and calk-
xs of New England, and several
strikes resulted, which proved success-
ful.
Having started its American series
‘with the Amerika, the Hamburg-Amer-
‘can steamship line continues with the
‘President Lincoln and next fall will
add the General Grant.
Theodore H. Davis, the archaeolo-
gist, has jst brought to this country
from Egypt an alabaster statue of
‘Queen Te! which dates back to 1900
B.C. It is to be presented to the New
York Museum of Art
‘Work upon the tunnel which is to
couple Turin with the Riviera has not
‘yet begun. The railway line between
Cuneo and Ventimegiia, by which it ts
approached on the Italian side, 1s, how-
ever, practically completed.
‘Work has been begun by German
philologists on material collected dur-
ing the last nine years for a dictionary
of the Egyptian language. The lan
‘guage goes back more than 3,000 years,
‘and there are more than 1,000,000 signs
‘used in it.
In every room in a certain Maine
hotel is pinned on the wall a large
sized piece of sandpaper. Over it ts
‘this request: “Please don’t scratch
your matches here.” Needless to say.
that is where all the matches are
seratched.
‘Two nine-pound shot were dug up
by workmen in Waterville, Me., re-
cently. It is thought that they were
fired from British warships or from
‘the American batteries across the har-
Dor during the occupancy of the town
by the English forces.
‘Out of 2 $3,000,000 appropriation by
the Cuban congress for the relief of
suffering. occasioned by the last win-
ter’'s floods in the different provinces
of the island a Havana paper states
that $203,000 has been allotted to road
building in Pinar de! Rio province.
In the new disense known as “tennis
elbow” there is usually local tender-
ness on pressure, with acute pain on
extending the arm. There is seldom
any swelling. The trouble is thought
to be due to tearing of the muscular
fiber, and it is very persistent, often
recurring even after long rest.
It is a woman, Miss M. E. Sullivan,
‘who supplies the United States navy
‘with Its stationery, note paper, menu
cards and Invitations. She is 2 Con-
necticut girl, bat she got the training
that makes it possible for her to do
‘this kind of work at Pratt institute.
‘Making card plates in the beginning,
she has worked up her splendid busi-
ness.
Excavations in Rome being conduct-
ed on the Palatine hill have shown «
curious and interesting circumstance.
"The Necropolis has been found to con-
tain remains of the ninth, eighth, sixth
and fourth centuries before Christ. All
fragments of the seventh and fifth cen-
“turies are Incking, and archaeologists
are engaged in 2 close study of the
field in order to find the reason.
In Arbury Park, Warwickshire, Eng-
Vand, the ancestral seat of the Newde-
ygntes, a tapered pillar in gray granite
‘en a three stepped pedestal has been
‘erected to perpetuate the memory of
George Eliot. Her birthplace is near
by, and her father, brother and nepb-
‘ew served the Newdegate family in
he office of lapd agent. The monu-
‘ment is the gift of F. A. N. Newde-
gate.
In the city of Springfield, Mass., is 2
rtvate art collection which is the lar-
gest and most varied owned by any one
Person in the country. It is the proper-
ty of G. W. V. Smith, who has spent
over fifty years getting it together, and
it is ranked with the New York Metro-
politan museum and the Wallace mu-
seum of London. Mr. Smith has Joaned
his collection to the city of Springfield
to make the pictures eventually the
property of the citizens.
‘Senator Palmer P. Woods of the is
land of Hawaii is going to make an
effort for the preserving of the Ha-
wailan language. There have been
efforts in the past to preserve the lan-
guage in its purity, but the encroach-
‘ment of commercialism, the introduc-
‘Hon of the English language as the
oficial tongue and the exclusive use of
English in the public schools have
gradually undermined all efforts to
Preserve some semblance of the beau-
fiful language of the native Hawall-
ams.
‘Probably uot one person out of 500
entering the south car in the elevator
shaft of the Fifth Avenve hotel ever
stops to read the little framed notice
‘which hangs in one corner, says the
‘New York Sun. But to the observing
Humor az? Philosophy
‘By DUNCAN M. SMITE
NO. INCENTIVE.
How could Horatius keep the bridge,
‘Defying miles of foemen.
And make the people hale him as
‘The very bravest Roman,
Obliging (hose who sang his praise
‘To press the loudest pedal
Whas'the fewerd 0d bot inetode
‘A bright C rmegie medal?
You wooter how the beave and rash
Gtx umdred ever aid =
tTore off thet charge when all the ral
‘Oe pendence would tured i
Wnt twes tie sense of g0ins ™D
‘The hil to that disaster
‘without medal at the cod
From our great ronmaster?
‘When Washington picked up an oar
And opened navigation
‘Upon the Delaware that day
SSS.
‘Though congress said, “Dear George
a
‘The kid that’s all the candy,”
‘He had to plug along without
"a matal tande by Andy.
Our motera heroes do not have
Fo tive on wareastted,
‘When they perform a daring deed,
‘No longer are they slighte*.
Carnegie reads about the case
And doesn’t. mark them sero.
Oh, no. He writes. “This certifies
‘You are a full fledged hero!”
Se He Could Use It.
8
“What is he going to call his story?”
“The Tale of a Rooster.”
“That is a bright idea. Then if it
doesn’t go his wife can use it to trim
her hat.”
No Chance to Know.
“Silas was telling me today that he
thinks them high financiers are going
to bring on the worst panic this coun-
try ever saw.”
“What does he know about it? Did
he ever run a livery stable?”
“No.”
“Or work in one?”
“No.”
“Ever own a barber shop?”
“Guess not.”
“Probably he has been to the legisla
ture or something like that. These
know it gll fellows make me weary.”
Blossom Time.
‘The pannicles of elder spread
‘Their starlike blossoms to the sun.
‘The clover lifts a blushing head
‘And browns its petals one by one.
‘The black haw bush with bloom is white.
‘The miullein spreads « velvet leaf
‘Down where the river's ripples bright
‘Are singing low that summer's brief.
A sweet perfume is in the air.
‘The air is vocal. too, with song
‘From feathered singers everywhere.
‘The Uquid Ulting runs along:
‘The burden of the song is sweet,
‘And sweet the earth. the air above,
And brief our season is, petite,
‘Doo brief for summer, life and love.
Changed His Mind.
“When be was small, be vowed he
‘would lick the teacher if he ever got
big enough.”
“and did he do it?”
“Not much. Just a few years later
she bad to get out an injunctjon to
keep him from marrying her.”
Micht Helo Him Alena.
“He called mea liar”
“Bue him for damages.”
“But I am a corporation claim agent,
and the jury might decide that I was
benefited rather than injured.”
For Mature Teething.
“Pa, do you cut your egeteeth on
silver spoons or ivory rings, or what?”
“You cut them on gold bricks, my
son.”
Depends on the Kind.
“He sings like a bird.”
“ah, does be?”
“Yes, like a rooster.”
) PERT PARAGRAPHS.
A little learning is 2 dangerous thing,
‘and less is more so.
‘Some people are so imaginative that
‘@ mere supposition rapidly grows until
‘it becomes a deposition.
i
Liars earn
their living by
the sweat of
their imagina-
tion.
Mo meally.true
man enjoys &
practical joke—
‘upon himself.
It ts a matter
of temperament
if you are rich
and of temper if
you aren’t.
‘When a man's mind wanders it is up
‘to the man to arise and wander with it
if he doesn't want bughouse terminals.
A rash man who has a firm wife
Se sage fo, gut whan coming to him.
“Most of the fying machine men are
en
Undoubtedly the first fall was inte
fore. é
‘CHOICE MISCELLANY
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Seattle Doesn't Whistle.
New York is big, busy and bustling,
but the metropolis, even while clipping
coupons and driving the innocents to
slabghter in the stock market, takes
time to whistle Chicago scampers
along at a pace which has amazed
the world, but the clear note of the
whistler can be heard even above the
grind of State street, while Michigan
avenue is a perfect paradise for
the whistling boulevardier. Dropping
down clbser to the gulf littoral, there is
New Orieans, languid, romantic, sen-
sual, dreaming in the tropical sun,
where between the lake and the river,
between Carroliton and Barracks, one
may never get beyond the range of
the whistler’s whistling.
Put Seattle to the test. Go ¢o the
corner of Pike street and First avenue.
walk to Yester way and return through
Second avenue to Pike and then add
up the whistlers heard while making
the journey. They will be fewer in
number and more timid in execution
than one may find In the same distance
om the busier streets of perbaps any
other American city. Seattle simply
doesn’t whistle as other cities whistle.
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Pramoted After Death.
It is doubtful if there Is any evidence
in the history of the United States ar-
my of an officer being promoted after
his death. It develops that there was
at least one such case in the Confeder-
ate army, however. Senator Culberson
of Texas, who is a close and accurate
student of civil war history, particular-
ly in so far as the Confederate’s pant
in It is concerned, ts the authority for
this statement. Writing to the Confed-
erate veteran regarding the south's fa-
mous artillerist, John Pelham—“the
Gallant Pelham,” as he was known in
wartimes—the senator says that after
Pelham’s death General Lee wrote to
President Davis recommending that,
notwithstanding the officer had passed
away, he should be made a lieutenant
colonel. Pursuant to the recommenda-
tion, Davis sent the promotion nomina-
tion to the senate, and It was confirm-
ed. Senator Culberson expressed the
opinion that this was the most remark-
able honor conferred on any man dur.
tog the civil war. The incident ap-
pears to be not well known, as most
postbellum writers refer to Pelham as
major, the rank he held when he died.
Washington Herald.
ities Ohne ei Cie
Not long ago a man who smokes
good cigars came back from Cuba.
There is x law limiting the number of
cigars that can be brought in free to
fifty. This particular man hadn't de-
clared his cigars, but he was found out
all right. The customs inspectors told
him about the law, and he was the
maddest man in all New York. When
he found there was no chance for him
he started in to throw the extra cigars
over into the water. The inspectors
let him do it, and he finally started to
walk off the pier. But the officers at
once seized the cigars that were left.
“You threw your cigars overboard, you
know,” was the explanation. ‘The man
fumed and swore, but it was no use,
and the last straw was added when be
was arrested and later fined for throw-
ing some of the government's cigars
into the water. He buys his cigars
right in New York now.—New York
‘Tribune.
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‘The Budapest police have arrested a
confectioner’s “housemaid” called Rosa.
They accused Rosa of being Alexander
Nemety, aged nineteen, who was want-
ed for a series of thefts, and the pris-
oner at once admitted the identity.
Nemety explained that he was tired of
hiding from the police and that be
Gressed himself in girl's clothes and
took service with the confectioner om
the strength of a servant's teference
which he had stolen for the purpose.
He acquitted himself excellently as a
housemaid and might not have been
detected if he had not slipped out in
his own clothes to revisit old haunts
and been traced back to the house—
London Standard.
Not For the Stout Woman.
A popular fashion that the stout wo-
man of a certain figure should avold
is the new way of putting on the Jap-
anese sleeves. They begin with the
armbole proper and are made, as you
Probably know, quite straight without
fullness, four tnches deep, with a
roll over cuff of contrasting fabric.
The new way Is to put them on at the
shoulder at top, then run them down
‘within three inches of the top of belt.
‘The armhole proper is the usual size
and finished with a binding. This
sleeve gives the capelike effect that
Jackets and many blouses are striving
to get.
Importance of the Little Coat,
The little coat plays an immensely
important part in the remodeling of all
gowns. In 2 window there was dis-
played the other day a little dinner
coat of Chinese bine silk. It was
embroidered in the oriental colors.
Scarcely a spot that was not touched
with the embrolderer’s needle. The
Ittle coat was cut like a kimono jacket,
very short, with very loose front and
straight back. There were chopped
Off sleeves made very wide.
‘The Doomed Paddle Wheel.
Some particulars as to the cost of
working turbine and paddle wheel
steamers off the British coast have
been published, showing that the tur-
bine steamer burned 0.472 ton of coal
per nautical mile and the paddle wheel
steamer 0.614 ton. The average speed
fhe ‘paddle steamer
knots, end the turbine steamer required
teen hein. .
Humor ax? Philosophy
By DUNCAN M. SMITE
H STATE & WASHINGTON NS
Saves
ON EVERY PURCHASE
SCIENCE HAS A HUNCH.
Some scientists who represent
‘A atrictly modern echool
Declare that people should make love
"And court and wed by rule.
‘The short would draw the taller ones,
‘The lean would get thé fat,
And marriages would all be made
‘On some such plan as that.
‘The wise committee would go forth
‘And fix up every deal—
Select a blond for u brunette
‘And leave them no appeal.
‘The blue eyed man would match a maid
Whose eyes were dark as Jet:
‘The gentleman with curly locks
‘A straight hatred lass would get.
‘The dispositions of the two
‘Would also enter in—
One who had energy to burn
‘A slothful mate would win;
‘The woman with a temper built
Upon a generous plan
‘Would more than likely be hitched to
‘Some meek and lowly man.
No one selected might express
‘A preference ot doubt.
Each would be told: “Here ts your
‘mate.
Now go and fight st out”
I greatly fear these sclentists
Kre too far in advance.
Stil girls and men will fall in love
‘Themselves and take @ chance.
Stirring Up Memories.
“I never like to be on the ocean in &
fog.”
“Afraid of bumping into some other
pont?”
“No, It isn't that so much as the con-
stant blowing of the fog horn. It re-
minds me of the dinner horn and keeps
me hungry all the time.”
Jacob F*einbere
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Sandy W. Trice & Co.
2918 State Street
Why don’t yow get in the habit of doing your trading in the New
Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special salesday and two of Fish Trad-
ing Stamps with each 10c purchase.
We carry a ewell line of Lad!es’ Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor
sets. A splendid 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, swel!
Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats.
A beautiful line of soft Percale N°gligee Shirts and Suspenders.
A fancy line of Neckwear and H*rdkerchiefs.
See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chaina, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs
and Safety Phis, .
Boys’ Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts.
“You will have to go to bed with the
chickens if you come to my place,” said
the jolly uncle from the rural districts
to his nephews who were about to visit
bir.
“Uncle,” said the overwise city boy,
“you have sized us up wrong. We are
no porch climbers.””
Push Up In Front.
Don't be sitting round all day:
Get somewhere!
‘Make a stab at it some way.
Get somewhere!
Bamenes= sort of drives you mad;
Get a hobby oF a fad.
Yes, and get it pretty bad.
‘Till you make the neighbors sad—
Get somewhere!
| Don't get rooted to 0 spot
Get somewhere!
Strike it rich as like as not.
Get somewhere!
(At the risk of seeming blunt
| Break away from use and wont,
Get a move and do a stunt;
Gee what things are like in front—
‘Get somewhere!
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Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER,
Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN.
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e Eating It All.
“You are growing so stout you must
have changed your boarding place.”
“No, but they have changed the style
of service.”
“What is the difference?”
“They used to serve the meals a ia
carte and now it is table d’hote.”
Presenting It to Strangers.
“Mosquitoes busy down your way?”
“Yes; they get a hump on themselves
occasionally.”
“Then they leave the bump on you, I
presume.” Ma
Climb a Tree.
An auto car has been Invented
‘That swims, they say, to beat the band
Or pounds as hard the boulevard.
“Are we not safe on sea or land?
ILLINOIS BRICK CO.
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Some people may be bigger fools
than others, but they will have to
prove it before we believe it.
A woman usually thinks that it is up
to ber to make her husband either re-
form or conform.
If more people would cultivate its ac-
quaintance truth wouldn't be stranger
than fiction.
A man’s heart
is like a colt—
not tractable
©) until tt is bro-
ken.
iy
oe
RX
‘The girl who
says she will
never marry
doubtless means
hardly ever.
Juaks Brewery
he A siort an-
swerturnsdown
e the would be
‘toucher.
The world is your oyster all right,
but you generally have to go through
& sea of trouble to get it.
‘The appearance of work gives many
people heart failure.
‘Many 1 case of big head covers small
brain capacity.
‘We can stand other people's troubles
‘Decause they always look small to us.
Beware of the man who is patient
‘under your criticism. He is probably
laying for you.