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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. 1 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. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian, Infidel, Farmers, Single Taxa, Republican, and many others, in their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ida is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. JULIAUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, M. as Second-class Matter. 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 Saturday following the election of officers. The encampment was a most interesting one and several matters of importance to the organization were disposed of. Most Emlent Sir John G. Jones of Chicago presided at the encampment. Addresses of more than passing interest were delivered by Grand Master Jones and William T. Grant of New Orleans and others. A vote of thanks was extended the Buffalo Knights Templar for the entertainment of the visitors. The officers elected are as follows: Most Eminent Sir John G. Jones grand master, Chicago; Very Eminent Sir Robert J. Fletcher, deputy grand master, Sacramento, California; Very Eminent Sir Alexander Payne grand Generalissimo, Washington, D.C.; Very Eminent Sir C. W. Jones grand captain general, New Orleans Louisiana; Very Eminent Sir B. H. Stillyard, grand senior warden Wheeling, West Virginia; Very Eminent Sir C. R. France, grand junior warden, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Very Eminent Sir J. H. Holland, D.D., grand orator, Catskill, New York; Very Eminent Sir J. H. McGhee, D.D., grand prelate, Mt. Melgs 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, deputy 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 and 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, Sliddell, 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. Moody, Bathe, Maine; Sir Knight S. H. Parther, Chicago, Illinois; Sir Knight H. Burrell, West Seneca, New York; Sir Knight Robert Jacoo, Buffalo, New York; Sir Knight F. A. Campbell, Chicago, Illinois; Sir Knight A. D. Griffin, Portland, Oregon. The next session of the grand encampment 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 IS IN JAIL Gov. Napoleon B. Broward of Florida, dressed in a white flannel suit, visited the Tenderloin police station to-night to see what 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 his staff were sitting in a hotel toright when two detectives appeared and inquired for Mr. Angle, one of the party. He was put under arrest on a charge of felonious assault, made by a Negro elevator boy of the Herald Square hotel, who charged that Angle had cut him with a pocket knife on Sunday. Mr. Angle admitted 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. Angle, he said. This incident occurred in New York City, where all Negroes have some rights which must be respected by Southern white men. 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 it, tell him; when your wife gives a tea party, if you have recovered from the effects of the gossip, drop in with the news; when a baby arrives, fill your pockets with cigars and call; if you go to a party steal some of the good things and leave 'em with the item in our sanctum. If your wife licks you come in and let us see your scars and tender sympathy through the paper. If your mother-in-law has died don't be bashful about it; give in all the common place news. In short, whatever makes you feel proud ,sad, lonesome or glad submit it to our twenty-four carat wisdom 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 SO VICTIM'S BODY IS BURNED. Crisfield,' Md., Lynchers Dig Up Corpse of Negro and Cremate It—Eager for More Violence. Crisfield, Md., July 28.—Their passion unsated by the kicking and beating to death of the Negro James Reed, who on Saturday, without provocation, shot and killed Policeman Daugherty, who had Reed's associate, William Hildred, under arrest, a mob at an early hour this morning dug Reed's mutilated body from its rude grave in a swamp near town, riddled fi with bullets, and then, lighting a bonfire, tossed the corpse into the flames and stood about, watching until it was reduced to ashes. Lemuel Showers, the keeper of a billiard room frequented by Negroes, who loaned Reed the revolver with which he shot Daugherty, was captured, 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 riddle it with bullets, and then build a bonfire 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. $10,000,000 OIL CO FORMED IN SOUTHWEST. Barnsdall Interests Incorporate to Fight Standard Oil Company. Pittsburg Special:The incorporation of the Barnsdall Oil Company a $10,000,000 concern, under the laws of Delaware, today, caused a slight ripple in Pittsburg, where all those interested have their headquarters Theodore N. Barnsdall, head of the new concern which will fight the Standard in the west, is one of the biggest independent oil men of the country being largely interested in gas and oil in Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas and the Barnsdall company, it is learned tonight, will mean the consolidation of all the small companies of the West and Southwest. It will be a Barnsdall affair from first to last, as W. B. Clingman, H. B. Kelster and J. L. Furlong, who appear as the incorporators at Dover, are all employees of the Barnsdall company at Pittsburg. Barnsdall in his time has launched more big deals than any man in Pittsburg, his deals in the last fifteen years aggregating $100,000,000. The articles of incorporation, filed at Dover, say the objects of the company are to acquire by purchase or otherwise, oil and gas interests and to extract therefrom gas, petroleum and other like substances. The company is to do business in any part of the United States, also to run pipe lines and other means and methods of supplying towns, cities and corporations with gas, both illuminating and heating. John J. Hayes, member of the firm of J. J. Ryan and Company, 105 S. Jefferson street, the leading manufacturers of brass furnishings, who is 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 enlarge the powers of the mayor, and enable the worst gang of political highwaymen 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 Vernon Ave., $3,950, $500 cash, balance like rent. Lots on easy terms Glencoe & Chicago Lawn. NEIGHBORS & JOHNSON, 3916 State St., Phillips Dodge, 4055 CHIPS CHIPS The National Medical Association will hold its 9th annual session in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 27, 28 and 29. Miss Hazel Hart, of Indianapolis, Ind., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Walker of Evanston, Ill. Mrs. N. Penticost, 18 S. Homau Ave., arrived home last week from a pleasant visit with friends in the South. Messrs. Wm. Caswell, Kid Logan, Wm. McDowell, Fred Lewis, and Will Simmons are spending the summer at Petosky, Mich. Mr. Hugh Merrill, 3328 State St., who has been to Petosky, Mich., for the past month returned to the city Wednesday. Mrs. M. J. Wallace, 3247 State St., left Thursday evening for Galesburg, Ill., where she will spend a few days vacation. Mr. Frank Gellespie, 3637 Wabash Ave., left the city Tuesday for Saratoga, N. Y., where he will spend the balance of the summer. Charles Gaskin, has opened up a file billiard hall and pool room at 3004 State st., which he will conduct in first class order. Miss Alice E. King of Cincinnati, C., 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, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city to spend the summer the guest of her sister Mrs. Chas. Brock, 4810 Langley Ave. Mrs. Boger and daughter, Adelphia, of Aurora, Ill., spent a few days in the city last week the guest of Mr. H. H. Boger, 3524 Calumet Ave. Mr. Isaac Johnstone Reed, one of our popular society men, left the city Monday for a two weeks visit to Casopolis and other Michigan points. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Codozer, 3257 Wabash Ave., after a two weeks visit to Milwaukee and points along the lake returned to the city last Saturday. In visiting Niagara Falls this season, the traveling public will find better 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 Niagara Falls. They will be absent until September. It is understood that the play "Capt. Rufus" written by T. Alfred Anderson and Ed Green has met with so much success that Messrs. Hurtig & Seamen will produce it in New York City with the original cast. Mrs. Mary E. Smith, 2236 Dearborn street returned home the latter part of last week from Henderson, Ky., where she had been visiting her husband, who conducts a fine barber shop in that Southern town. The Leland Giants, will play the Callahans All Professionals at Comiskey's South Slide Base Ball Park, 39th and Wentworth ave., Tuesday August 6th and Thursday, August 8th, and at Logan Square, August 7th. The Afro-Americans of Louisville, Ky., have just completed a fine office building dedicated to the memory of Frederick Douglass. It is a fine structure and is occupied by the leading professional people of Louisville. Mrs. John Linden, 62nd and Drexel ave., the dutiful and highly accomplished wife of John Linden of Lincoln Bros., Printers, 114 Sherman st., has gone on a month's visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bloomfield, Toledo, Ill. One branch of the Legislature of Georgia, has passed a disfranchising measure for the Negro, and when it becomes a law, it will meet with the hearty approval of Persident Roosevelt, members of his cabinet and the strong Republican Congress. Miss Nora Comerford, bookkeeper and cashier for John J. Dunn, the most extensive wholesale coal merchant in the Town of Lake, has returned to her duties after pleasantly spending two weeks in visiting with friends at Boston and Springfield, Mass. A theater party consisting of 16 persons was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robt, Crump 2343 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 orchestra enlivened the occasion and made it a most charming affair. Mr. and Mrs. Crump, Mrs. Mary Wilson, Miss Fife, Miss Geneva Graham, Miss Josta North, Miss Manning and Messrs. T. F. Motts, Bennie Summers, Joe Sizer, M. E. Range, Jerry Mills, Chas. Lett and Mr. Brown were the invited guests. A flash light picture was taken of the interior of the banquet room. The members of the Republican State Committee of Ohio, have enclosed Secretary of War William H. Taft, for president of the United States in 1908, and in case he is nominated, President Roosevelt who regards the Negroes as so many Republican cattle, will force 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 pastor 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 is looking fine and it seems that country life agrees with him. As the political pot begins to boll, Mayor Busse has chosen the following gentlemen as members of his kitchen cabinet from their respective wards, William Hale Thompson, 1st ward in place of committeeman, Francis P. Brady; former Judge Hanecy, 2nd ward in place of committeeman Chaucey Dewey, Congressman Martin B. Madden, 3rd ward in place of State Senator and committeeman Samuel E. Ettelson. United States Senator Pettus, of Alabama, who was in his 86th year, died at Hot Springs, N. C., the latter part of last week. Senator Pettus was selected as one of the members of the Senate to investigate the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Tex. by members of the 25th Regiment and before he had heard one bit of the testimony in that affair, he was positive 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 permitted the so-called "Negro question" to vastly overshadow the little statesmanship possessed by him. I'M NOT SHORT # Cash, Not Shape "What kind of a husband do you prefer, Flora or a tall one, a faf one, a blond or a brunette?" "Most any kind just so he isn't short." "She makes her husband do just what she wants." "She must have him well trained." "No, not specially. When she wants him to do anything she tells him to do just the opposite." 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 one." Look 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 it will look big to me." In Practice. "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." "He spends most of his time figuring on how to get a living." "Why doesn't he go to work?" "Oh, he doesn't want that poor a living." Special Announcement From on and after this date all announcements of entertainments, etc., for which an admission is charged, will be considered advertising, and will be charged for at the rate of 12 cents a line, seven words to a line. The money must accompany the matter and reach the editor no later than Thursday morning of the week intended for publication. This rule will also apply to all personal items and matter for which no charges will be made. In other words, all news matter must reach us either on Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning. Address Julius F. F. Taylor, 5040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. WOMAN AND FASHION 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 harmonize or contrast with the color of the frock with which they are worn, for just now kid, in both suede and glazed varieties, is equally favored with the dainty lingerie and showy elastic and silk ribbon girdles. Of course this latitude in the selection of belts does not give women the right to make ridiculous combinations, such as the use of pompadour ribbon with a cloth skirt BELTS OF POMPADOUR SILK AND EMEROID-ERED LINEN. and colored shirt waist or to use a wide, dark leather belt with an elaborate lingerie gown, but it makes unnecessary the purchase of a great number of belts if in buying only those are chosen that will be as appropriate with morning dresses as with plain afternoon 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, provided 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 in front or perhaps an ornament in the back, are always appropriate for use with shirt waists and separate skirts and are especially suitable 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 supplemented 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 trimmings are set off by one enormous black rose, marguerite or, in fact, any wide petaled flower, and this appears to dominate the scheme giving distinction to the simplest milliner venture. Embroidered Linen Gowns The linen gowns for afternoon wear are if possible more attractive this year than ever before. Such exquisite shades of blue, pink, mauve and green are to be seen in such attractive ways, made up with trimmingss of finest lace and lingerie, that it is difficult to restrain from spending the entire amount laid by for the summer outfit on dresses of this description. The embroidered linens are also exceedingly handsome and whether in white or colore are among the most effective, if not the most effective, of all summer gowns. A Midsummer Dream. This stunning robe is of white swiss, with borders of blue and embroidered M. panels of blue and white over the shoulders and down the skirt. Oriental Effecta An unusually pretty frock of fine organdle is daintily trimmed with appliques of white shantung. The fletf 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 fashion of draping the figure in oriental manner is particularly loved by Englishwomen, and their French sisters have taken up the fashion with a fervor, since many of the models for the English races have been made in Paris this year. Seorsucker Clothes Lots of ironing can be saved by having house dresses, aprons, etc., made from old fashioned crinkled seersucker. It washes easily, is cool and pretty, and all it requires is a little smoothing or shaking after washing. NEW SHORT STORIES NEW SHORT STORIES The Heaper of Coals. Mrs. Fanny Crosby, the author of hymns, is still, though eighty-seven years old, in first rate health. "Not long ago," said a New York clergyman, "I visited Mrs. Crosby in Bridgeport and found her exceedingly entertaining. I shan't soon forget some of the youthful memories that she recounted. "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 bad humor. Another boy, Jack Jones, had given him a thrashing, and he wanted revenge. "Oh,' said his mother, 'don't think of revenge. Willie. Be kind to Jack 8 "WHAT DID YOU GIVE IT TO ME FOR? Heap coals of fire on his head. Then 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 ple for luncheon Jack appeared and said: "Look here, I licked you yesterday, but I didn't give you enough. Now I'm going to lick you again." "And he planted a hard blow on Willie's little stomach. "Willie gasped and grunted, but instead of striking back he extended his ple to Jones." "Here,' he said in a kindly voice, 'I'll give you this. I make you a present of it.' "Jack Jones, in glad amazement, fell upon the ple greedily, and it had soon disappeared." "Gosh, it was good!" he said. "What did 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,' he said." Highland Egotism. Dr. Louis Klopsch, the editor of the Christian Herald, had been congratulated in his New York office on his new decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun. This decoration had been given Dr. Klopsch by the emperor of Japan in recognition of his services toward the relief of the Japanese famine sufferers—services that resulted in a fund of $250,000. "Yes," said 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 highland chief, who rarely came down from the hills. "Though there were many illustrious persons at this dinner, the proud highland seemed none too well pleased. In fact, he was curt and haughty with the greatest. "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,' said the chieftain, 'they're no bad. They're no bad chiels.' "Then he frowned and proudly swelling out his broad chest struck it a blow. "But the fact is,' he cried, 'I never met a man yet wha was the equal o'mysel.'" An Act of Sacrilege. Charles M. Schwab said recently in Pittsburgh that the railroads had only themselves to blame for the weakness of their rails. He said that they should use rails three times dearer than the present ones—nickel steel, not besserne steel, rails. "Let some man introduce this reform," 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 in 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 Ben Jonson's and Kit Marianne's and how all these men had loved and honored him. "The stonecutter, looking up from his work, frowned and shook his head. "I wish, sir, 'he said, 'we'd knowed he was such a swell afore we run that rainforest 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. ```markdown ``` M E Their Estimation. If every one could draw the pay He thinks that he is worth. The boss would have to draw a check. "Pay So-and-so the earth." ```markdown ``` 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 THE RAILF Imported and De Liquors & Cafe in Co N. E. Corner Fifty-first and A Keep This N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 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 Is to introduce our work among the Colored people of Chicago. We will make small charges for material until Sept. 1st, $3.00 — FULL SET OF TEETH - $3.00 — GUARANTEED - $6.00 — BEST SET OF TEETH - $6.00 22k Gold Crowns (cost material about $1.50 Bridgework (cost material about) 2.00 Re-Enameling (cost material about) 2.50 Gold Filline Silver Fillings Porcelain Crowns (cost material about) 1.50 All work guaranteed 10 years. All work done under direct personal supervision. Read what a clergyman says about us—“I wish to say that I am well satisfied with the work done in you office. Your dentists are men who understand their business and are gentlemen.” REV. J. L JACKSON. Pastor Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago. 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 TELEPHONE CENTRAL 908 CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 325 FINE WINES, LIQJORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. 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 One county in Malne last year shipped 10,700,000 bushels of potatoes. Carelessness of a workman in opening the sluices too soon sunk the French submarine boat Gymnote at Toulon, and she was ruined. It is estimated that the total first cost of England's present navy was $670,000,000, and about $390,000,000 has been spent in the last ten years. In 1832 there was a ten hour movement among the shipwrights and callers of New England, and several strikes resulted, which proved successful. Having started its American series with the Amerika, the Hamburg-American steamship line continues with the President Lincoln and next fall will add the General Grant. Theodore H. Davis, the archaeologist, has just brought to this country from Egypt an alabaster statue of Queen Tel which dates back to 1800 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 Ventimeglia, by which it is approached on the Italian side, is, however, practically completed. Work has been begun by German philologists on material collected during the last nine years for a dictionary of the Egyptian language. The language 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 is this request: "Please don't scratch your matches here." Needless to say, that is where all the matches are scratched. Two nine-pound shot were dug up by workmen in Waterville, Me., recently. It is thought that they were fired from British warships or from the American batteries across the harbor during the occupancy of the town by the English forces. Out of a $3,000,000 appropriation by the Cuban congress for the relief of suffering occasioned by the last winter's floods in the different provinces of the island a Havana paper states that $303,000 has been allotted to road building in Pinar del Río province. In the new disease known as "tennis elbow" there is usually local tenderness 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 a Connecticut girl, but 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 business. Excavations in Rome being conducted on the Palatine hill have shown a curious and interesting circumstance. The Necropolis has been found to contain remains of the ninth, eighth, sixth and fourth centuries before Christ. All fragments of the seventh and fifth centuries are lacking, and archaeologists are engaged in a close study of the field in order to find the reason. In Arbury Park, Warwickshire, England, the ancestral seat of the Newdegates, a tapered pillar in gray granite on a three stepped pedestal has been erected to perpetuate the memory of Memory Ellot. Her birthplace is near by, and her father, brother and nephew served the Newdegate family in the office of land agent. The monument is the gift of F. A. N. Newdegate. In the city of Springfield, Mass., is a private art collection which is the largest and most varied owned by any one person in the country. It is the property of G. W. V. Smith, who has spent over fifty years getting it together, and it is ranked with the New York Metropolitan museum and the Wallace museum of London. Mr. Smith has loaned his collection to the city of Springfield to make the pictures eventually the property of the citizens. Senator Palmer P. Woods of the island of Hawaii is going to make an effort for the preserving of the Hawaiian language. There have been efforts in the past to preserve the language in its purity, but the encroachment of commercialism, the introduction of the English language as the official tongue and the exclusive use of English in the public schools have gradually undermined all efforts to preserve some semblance of the beautiful language of the native Hawaiians. Probably not one person out of 500 entering the south car in the elevator shaft of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever stops to read the little framed notice which hangs in one corner, says the New York Sun. But to the observing few this little notice tells a story: "In this very space forty-eight years ago was placed the first passenger elevator ever built in the world." In 1850, when first installed, it was one of the curiosities of the city, and visitors from far and near came to witness its operation. It is probable that no woman in the wide world possesses so many fearfully and wonderfully made gowns as Princess Tschinsky. It is her boast that she never pays less than $1,000 for any costume. Recently she had a remarkable gown made in Paris, on which her family coat of arms was reproduced in jewels on a white satin gown. All the stones had to be pierced, but, though their value was thereby deteriorated, the costume as it was returned from the modiste's represented a value of at least $75,000. NO INCENTIVE How could Horatius keep the bridge, Defying miles of foemen, And make the people hale him as The very bravest Roman, Obliging those who sang his praise To press the loudest pedal When the reward did not include A bright C niegle medal? You wonder how the brave and rash Six hundred ever did it— Tore off that charge when all the rules Of prudence would forbid it. What was the sense of going up The hill to that disaster Without a medal at the end From our great ironmaster? When Washington picked up an oar And opened navigation Upon the Delaware that day Ere yet we were a nation. Though congress said, "Dear George you are, The kid that's all the candy." He had to plug along without A medal made by Andy. Our modern heroes do not have To live on unrequited. When they perform a daring deed, No longer are they shlighte'. Carnegie reads about the case And doesn't mark them zero. Oh, no. He writes, "This certifies You are a full fledged hero!" So He Could Use It. "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 country 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 legislature or something like that. These know it all fellows make me weary." Blossom Time. The black new bird with bloom is white The mullein spreads a velvet leaf Down where the river's ripples bright Are singing low that summer's bright A sweet perfume is in the air. The air is vocal, too, with song From feathered singers everywhere. The liquid lifting runs along. The burden of the song is sweet. And sweet the earth, the air above, And brief our season is, petite, Too brief for summer, life and love. Changed His Mind. "When he was small, he 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 had to get out an injunction to keep him from marrying her." Might Help Him Along. "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 exeteeth 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 he?" "Yes, like a rooster." PERT PARAGRAPHS. A little learning is a dangerous thing, and less is more so. Some people are so imaginative that a mere supposition rapidly grows until it becomes a deposition. Liars earn their living by the sweat of their imagination. No really true man enjoys a practical joke- upon himself. It is a matter of temperament if you are rich and of temper if you aren't. Liars earn their living by the sweat of their imagination. No really true man enjoys a practical joke—upon himself. It is 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 is sure to get what's coming to him. Most of the flying machine men are careful to keep their feet on the earth. Undoubtedly the first fall was into love. CHOICE MISCELLANY Seattle Doesn't Whistle. New York is big, busy and bustling, but the metropolis, even while clipping coupons and driving the innocents to slaughter 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 boulevard. Dropping down closer to the gulf littoral, there is New Orleans, languid, romantic, sensual, dreaming in the tropical sun, where between the lake and the river, between Carrollton and Barracks, one may never get beyond the range of the whistler's whistling. Put Seattle to the test. Go to 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 on the busier streets of perhaps any other American city. Seattle simply doesn't whistle as other cities whistle.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Promoted After Death. It is doubtful if there is any evidence in the history of the United States army of an officer being promoted after his death. It develops that there was at least one such case in the Confederate army, however. Senator Culberson of Texas, who is a close and accurate student of civil war history, particularly in so far as the Confederate's past in it is concerned, is the authority for this statement. Writing to the Confederate veteran regarding the south's famous 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 recommendation, Davis sent the promotion nomination to the senate, and it was confirmed. Senator Culberson expressed the opinion that this was the most remarkable honor conferred on any man during the civil war. The incident appears to be not well known, as most postbellum writers refer to Pelham as major, the rank he held when he died.—Washington Herald. Wiser Now About Cigars. Not long ago a man who smokes good cigars came back from Cuba. There is a law limiting the number of cigars that can be brought in free to fifty. This particular man hadn't declared 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 he was arrested and later fined for throwing some of the government's cigars into the water. He buys his cigars right in New York now.—New York Tribune. Thief's Ruse to Escape Arrest. The Budapest police have arrested a confectioner's "housemold" called Rosa. They accused Rosa of being Alexander Nemety, aged nineteen, who was wanted for a series of thefts, and the prisoner at once admitted the identity. Nemety explained that he was tired of hiding from the police and that he dressed himself in girl's clothes and took service with the confectioner on the strength of a servant's reference which he had stolen for the purpose. He acquitted himself excellently as a housemald 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 woman of a certain figure should avoid is the new way of putting on the Japanese sleeves. They begin with the armhole proper and are made, as you probably know, quite straight without fullness, four inches 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 Importance of the Little Coat. The little coat plays an immensely important part in the remodeling of all gowns. In a window there was displayed the other day a little dinner coat of Chinese blue silk. It was embroidered in the oriental colors. Scarcely a spot that was not touched with the embroiderer's needle. The little 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 turbine steamer burned 0.472 ton of coal per nautical mile and the paddle wheel steamer 0.614 ton. The average speed of the turbine steamer was 22.2 knots and that of the paddle steamer 20 knots, and the turbine steamer required less help. SCIENCE HAS A HUNCH. Some scientists who represent A strictly modern school Declare that people should make love And court and wed by rule. The short would draw the taller ones, The lean would get the 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 a 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 haired lass would get. The dispositions of the two Would also enter in- One who had energy to burn A slothful man 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 or a doubt. Each would be told: "Here is your mate. Now go and fight it out." I greatly fear these scientists Are too far in advance. Still girls and men will fall in love Themselves and take a chance. Stirring Up Memories. "I never like to be on the ocean in a fog." "Afraid of bumping into some other boat?" "No, it isn't that so much as the constant blowing of the fog horn. It reminds me of the dinner horn and keeps me hungry all the time." Couldn't Roost. "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 him. "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! Sameness sort of drives you mad; Get a hobby or a fad. Yes, and get pretty bad. Till you make the neighbors sad— Get somewhere! Don't get rooted to one spot. Get somewhere! Strike it rich as like as not. Get somewhere! At the right of the blunt blunt Break away from use and wont. Get a move and do a stunt. See what things are like in front— Get somewhere! 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 la 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 hump on you, I presume." 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? 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 her to make her husband either reform or conform. If more people would cultivate its acquaintance truth wouldn't be stranger than fiction. A man's heart is like a colt—not tractable until it is broken. NEWS The girl who says she will never marry doubtless means hardly ever. A short answer turns down the would be toucher. The world is your oyster all right, but you generally have to go through a sea of trouble to get it. The appearance of work gives many people heart failure. Many a case of big head covers small brain capacity. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. 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