The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX COLONEL "PONY" MOORE The Ex-Lord Mayor of the "Red Light District" AN HONORED MEMBER OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S NEGRO NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE PRAYS TO THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT TO DECLARE HIM A BANKRUPT SO THAT HE CAN HOLD ONTO HIS BAG OF DIAMONDS AND AVOID PAYING HIS NUMEROUS CREDITORS. COLONEL "PO The Ex-Lord M "Red Light AN HONORED MEMBER OF BO TON'S NEGRO NATIONAL PRAYS TO THE UNITED STAT DECLARE HIM A BANKRU HOLD ONTO HIS BAG OF PAYING HIS NUMEROUS C Col. "Pony" Moore, the ex-boss Negro gambling king, and the former lord mayor of the "Red Light District," made his last tour of the Eastern summer resorts in 1905, in company with Dan Jackson, and it is claimed that Col. "Pony" spent four thousand dollars on that memorable trip in a vain effort to stand in with Mrs. Hannah Ellias, who was sharp enough to skin old man Platt out of seven hundred thousand dollars. But it seems that with all his diamonds, fine suits of clothes and money that Col. "Pony" could not or did not make much headway with Mrs. Ellias. Those two Chicago bloods struck New York city at the time that Booker T. Washington's Negro National Business League was on the billboards and the former owner of the Hotel De Moore, or the Palace or the Turf Exchange, 171-175 21st street, where many married Colored women, whose husbands were working like so many slaves to earn an honest living for them had been kuckoned down to cheap dirty or immoral white men for no good purpose, was honored with a seat on the platform, and to further honor Col. "Pony" the great beger of Tuskegee stepped forward and stopped the proceedings of his League and he then and there exclaimed that he had "the extreme pleasure of presenting the honorable Poney Moore to the delegates, that Mr. Moore was the wealthiest, the most successful and the most highly honored Colored business man residing in the great city of Chicago, that the delegates and the visitors should feel themselves doubly honored for being permitted to smile upon Mr. Moore, and needless to say that Col. "Pony" was voted in as a fullfledged member of Brooker T. Washington's so-called Negro National Business League. Shortly after his return to Chicago Col. "Pony" puffed up with his own self importance, backed up by his bosom friend, Major F. A. Denison, wrongfully made up his mind to spend one or two thousand dollars for the purpose of putting The Broad Ax out of business, throwing its type and heading into the lake, and driving its tramp or country editor, Julius F. Taylor, out of town, and many of the tin-horn gamblers and some of the soft brained Negro lawyers who delighted to tag after his heels felt that with his roll of money, which was then much larger than your leg, that whenever he made up his mind to blow at us real hard, that we would vanish like thin air. But to make a long story short, we never had the least doubt about the outcome of our tussle with Col. "Pony" for we felt all the time that we had right and justice on our side and that sooner or later we would clip his wings, and the result is that this week Col. "Pony" through his lawyer, Col. Edward H. Morris, who was for a long time attorney for the 'Gamblers' Trust," filed a petition in the United States District Court to have Col. "Pony" declared a bankrupt. The following is a complete list of his numerous creditors and his available assets, with which to pay his honeest debts. The Schiller Glassware Co., 214 Washington St., Chicago; contracted --- J. K. Reyder, $22$ State St. Chicago, III. : contracted in 1906, Chicago. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, AUGUST 10, 1907. COL. "PONY" MOORE. The Ex-Boss Negro Gambling King, who is Endeavoring to Break Away With His Bag of Diamonds in Order to Escape from Paying the Eighteen Thousand Dollar Judgment secured Against Him by Julius Imperial Distilling Co., 93 Illinois St., Chicago, Hl.; contracted in 1905, Chicago, Illinois, merchandise contract by petitioner. Judgment entered Cook county, $112.00. Cosmopolitan Fuel Co., 26th and Cottage Grove Av., Chicago, Illinois; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Illinois, merchandise contract by petitioner, $38.15. Fred Slaughter, $121 State St., Chicago, Hl.; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Illinois, merchandise contract by petitioner, $11.75. Fred Leibrandt, 3029 State St., Chicago; contracted in 1907, Chicago, II- Illinois, steam fitting contract by petitioner, $168.00. M. J. Keating Co., 4916 State St. Chicago; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Illinois, steam fitting contract by petitioner, $94.00. Daniels Scenic Co., 2321 Wabash Ave., Chicago; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Ill., merchandise contract, $50. I. E. French, 60 Wabash Ave., Chicago; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Illinois, merchandise contract by petitioner, $165. Herman Baasch, Wabash Ave and Congress St., Chicago; contracted in 1907, Chicago, Ill., merchandise contract by petitioner, $212. Property claimed to be exempted by state laws, its valuable, whether real or personal; its description and present use and reference given to the statute of the state creating the exemption: Five suits of clothes at $12 each, $60. One filled case watch, $3. Six pairs of shoes $1 each, a pair, $6.00. Eight suits of underwear, $1 each suit, $8. Three filled shirt buttons, 50c each, $1.50. Eight pair of hose, 25c each, $2.00. Hurd's Revised Statues of Illinois, Chapter 52, Section 13, Page 907. In the United States District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. I, T. C. MacMillan, Clerk of the District Court of the United States of America, for the Northern District of Illinois, do hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a true and correct copy of schedules "A" (3) and "B" (5) to petition of Poney Moore, bankrupt No. 14664, as same appears from the original filed in said Court on the 6th day of August A. D., 1907, and now remaining in my custody and control. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my office in Chicago, in said District, this 8th day of August, A. D 1907. It is claimed by those who are in a position to know, that when L. D. Lyons, brother-in-law of Col. "Pony" came here from Austin, Texas, that 'he had no diamonds, and that when he left this city for his southern home he was loaded down with a big bag of diamonds, which were supposed to belong to Col. "Pony" and that he shipped them south out of the reach of his many creditors. J. C. Stewart, 5434 Normal avenue, will on August 15, start on a long visit with his brother at Meriden, Okla., who is the owner of a fine farm, and whom he has not met for more than 30 years. F. Taylor. "Pony" Loses Glitter Can't Pay His Debts NOTORIOUS NEGRO GAMBLER DECLARES SCHEDULE AS BANKRUPT IS CORRECT. BEREFT OF HIS DIAMONDS GEMS WHICH ASTONISHED NEWPORT HAVE VANISHED AND MOORE DAZZLES NO LONGER Where is the two-bushel sack full of yellow diamonds which Poney Moore used to wear? If a stray dog, clutching a ham bone between his teeth, started to dig a private cemetery in Poney's back yard, would he unearth an oyster can containing a couple of quarts of the "rocks" with which the big Colored gambler used to bedeck himself? Poney Moore answers "no." He says that his bankruptcy schedule answers all questions. Poney and his "rocks" have parted company. His shirt front is a vast melancholy expanse and is unadorned. At one time a Twenty-first street "Koh-i-noor," almost as large as the taxes on a vacant lot in Berwyn, reposed in this shirt front. It was hell there by a padlock and was bolted in the back. It would have taken an expert safeblower a week to loosen Poney from his diamond. Debts Are Excessive Yesterday Moore was disconsolate. He has, $31,259.40 of liabilities and personal property worth $88.50. The largest slice in the liability column is the $18,000 judgment for libel that a jury gave Julius Taylor, editor of the Broad Ax, against Moore. After the judgment Moore discovered that he could have his board paid for quite a while. Taylor was anxious to pay $3.50 a week for Moore as long as the other stayed in the county jail. Moore didn't like the appearance of the jail, and when he found that all the prisoners had to turn in at 9 p. m., secured a writ of habeas corpus and peat the board bill. "I am broke," said Moore yesterday. "I have been up against a stiff game for the last two years. At one time I had everything that a man could wish for. Now I have very little. However, I have always been on the square. I played the game fairly, and the men who lost had no kick coming when I was dealing. My advise to young men is to cut out the sporting game. There is nothing in it. The man who settles down to a good, legitimate business has a sporting man beaten. It is chicken one day feathers the next for the sport. Been the square and earn your money honestly and by hard work and you will be happier than the man risks his money in some game of chance." Makea Newport Stare. Several years ago Poney Moore startled the East by appearing at the fashionable watering places and wearing a different costume every fifteen minutes. He took in Newport and Saratoga, and before he had been an hour at either place he made the color scheme in the vegetation look like a base imitation. His diamonds matched his clothes. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon he would appear in a tan suit with a tan diamond in his necktie. At 2 o'clock he would appear in a pink outfit with a rose diamond set around with pearls. At 4 o'clock he would wear a blue serge suit set off by an almost steel-blue diamond. In the evening he had a dress suit and two bushels of diamonds of all grades. Some of the diamonds were cut even finer than the dress suit. Saratoga stood agast and Harry Lehr wasn't headlined in the news items for a week while Poney was at Saratoga. In the schedule which Moore made es Glitter Pay His Debts MBLER DECLARES SCHEDULE RRECT. HIS DIAMONDS. HED NEWPORT HAVE VAN- DAZZLES NO LONGER. Tuesday in the bankruptcy petition he says he has five suits worth $60. This allows $12 for each suit. When Moore was the boss "Colored" gambler and saloon-keeper on Twenty-first street he used to pay that much for his neckties. His schedule also shows that he is wearing 25-cent socks and that he has three hats, worth $1 apiece. His watch is scheduled at $3. Saddest of all, however, is the fact that Poney has only $10.50 worth of jewelry. When his friends remember the glittering front that he used to put up they say that $10.50 wouldn't pay for the chamois skin bags which used to protect the Moore collection of diamonds in the old days. Moore's financial downfall began in the early part of Mayor Dunne's administration. Chief Collins had Moore's license taken from him and the big Negro once out of the saloon business, had no hold on the Negro vote of the South Side. He lost money in a number of ventures, and to-day according to his own confession, has just a trifle more than nothing in cash and a stock of philosophy which makes interesting conversation, but which won't pay the grocery bills. Chicago Record-Herald, Aug. 8. COLORED ODD FELLOWS CONVENED AT SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS THIS WEEK. Special to The Broad Ax. The Colored Odd Fellows from all the lodges of Illinois and Indiana convened in their twenty-fifth annual convention of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in this city Tuesday, August 6. More than three hundred delegates were present. Aside from the ladies connected with the Household of Auth. The meeting was held at the representatives hall at the state house. Mayor Roy R. Reece, formally opened the deliberations and warmly welcomed the delegates and their friends to the city. Response to the address of welcome was made by Dr. D. J. Smith of Peoria. Governor Charles S. Deneen also spoke to the delegates, in which he heartily welcomed them to Springfield. Response by Major John C. Buckner of Chicago and I only wish that every Negro in this state could have heard him. For its eloquence, logic, end reason I never heard or read any better. And it was conceded by all who had the good fortune to hear him, that it was a masterpiece. He paid a fine tribute to the Negro as a citizen, soldier and statesman; his loyalty to family and the fireside, my only hope is that his friends will prevail upon him to print it in pamphlet form so that the people of the whole country could have a chance to read it. The Chicago Patriarchs, No. 10, arrived today 100 strong and made a fine appearance on the streets. Mrs. John H. Coleman, 2540 State street, will leave August 20, for Oberlin, Ohio, where she will spend the next two months with those who are near and dear to her. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 6130 Ada street, left last Friday evening for Keokuk, IA., where she lectured at the Methodist church on Monday evening, August 5, and at the Baptist church Tuesday evening, August 6. --- --- --- No. 44 THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Christian, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, no long on their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Acr is a newspaper whose platform is clear enough for all, ever claiming the editorial clearance of its own matter. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Year $2.99 old Months. 1.00 According rates made known on application. BULIUS Y. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, M., as Bound-clam Matter. CHAMBER OF HORRORS. A tidal wave of bestial brutality seems about to overwhelm this country. It is almost entirely confined to the white race, thank God. Retribution for the crimes laid at th door of innocent Ngroes, many of whom were hounded, brutally beateen, shot or burned to death. Hundreds of women and girls have been outraged since the beginning of the year. The perpetrators were white. Only one case of lynching, and in that case the stepfather outraged his little daughter. Frequently several white men have despoiled some poor despairing virtuous girl. No one has been burned at the stake, however. In New York the demon stalks abroad and children in their cradles are not safe. Numerous instances of criminals blackened, disguised as Negroes, have been brought to light, but alas, until now the poor Negro had to bear the blame. Even President Roosevelt called attention to Negro criminality in his message. We feel safe in saying that despite the present awful condition no part of his writings in future will be devoted to the crimes of his white brother. Apart from assaults, criminal operations by the thousand are being performed yearly. Fifty thousand per year in Chicago alone! And still people talk of the depraved Negro!—The Union, Cincinnati, Ohio. "DON'T BE A PIKER," ADVICE OF PONY MOORE, BROKEN GAMBLING BOSS. "Don't be a piker. When you go down, go down and out." —Pony Moore. Pony Moore, probably the most widely known Colored gambler and politician in this section of the country, to-day gives out that bit of advice as he strikes the bottom in the "down and out" chute. From the heights of riches and influence he has dropped to the very bottom of poverty, and has had to seek the protection of the bankruptcy court to prevent the bottom falling out and dropping him into no one knows where. "When you go down, go down for the cunt," said Pony to-day. "Don't stagger around trying to stall and make believe you are still in the game when the next minute you may get another wallop. Go down 'bing, and stay down until you get enough back to come up strong. And above all, don't be a pliker. "Once I was the big noise hereabuts. When I wiggled a finger things were doing. "Cut No Ice" Now. "That's all gone by. I can wiggle myself to death now and no one cares. I don't cut ice any more. "That comes of getting to closely connected with certain supposed business men whose only business seemed to be to put me out of business. I have had mine and it is all over. All I have to do now is to fold the napkin." Moore's earthly possessions and the value placed on them in the petition through which he desires to obtain protection from his creditors are: Five suits of clothes . . . $60.00 One watch worth . . . 3.00 Six pairs of shoes . . . 6.00 Three hats . . . 3.00 Four fancy vests . . . 4.00 Eight pair socks . . . 2.00 Jewelry . . . 10.50 Moore has been proprietor of a saloon at $50 Thirty-first street. Formerly he had a place on Twenty-first street, which was popular with the sporting populace of the district, and at that time he was reputed to be wealthy. Feud Causes Downfall. But Pony Moore had his troubles. He and Julius F. Taylor, publisher of The Broad Ax, a political weekly, became involved in a feud that is declared by the hangers-on at South Side resorts to be still existing in all its bitterness. The difficulties between the two came to a climax in the Circuit Court and Taylor obtained a judgment amounting to $18,000 in a suit brought against Moore. Taylor is named in the petition as Moore's heaviest creditor, and the $18,000 judgment is his claim. Other claims ranging from $4.50 to $3,500 are mentioned.—Chicago Evening American, Aug. 7. DEATH OF COL. R. A. WARE. Last Sunday morning Col. R. A. Ware, 2232 Dearborn street, passed away after a long illness from the effects of lung trouble. Col. Ware was well and favorably known. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and K. P. He was Col. of the First Regiment Uniform Rank K. P. of Illinois, member of the Hannibal lodge, No 6, and Banner Company No. 3. He was also a member of Western Star Lodge, No. 1443 of Odd Fellows. He was born at Lagrange, Ga., 37 years ago last May. He leaves a constant and devoted wife, relatives and many warm friends to lament his death. It was his last request, that he should not be buried for one week after his death, and at 1 o'clock Sunday, funeral services will be held over his remains at Quinn Chapel. The K. P.s will have charge of it. The funeral procession will form at the undertaking rooms of Jacob L. Parks, 3155 State St., where his body has laid in state the past week, and they will proceed from there with the family to the church. Interment will be at Oakwood. PROFESSOR W. F. M. GOSS OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY ACCEPTS AN IMPORTANT CHAIR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Professor William Freeman Myrick Goss, who has just accepted the position of Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois, is an engineer well and widely known both in the educational world as well as in the field of scientific and practical engineering. Professor Goss was born in Massachusetts in 1859 and received his certificate of graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1879. He received the degree of Master of Science from Wabash college in 1884 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering was conferred upon him by the University of Illinois in 1904. In 1879 he was called to Purdue University to organize there the department of practical mechanics. Since 1890 he has been Dean of the Schools of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Laboratory at Purdue. As a result of his successful work at that institution he has become recognized as an authority on many aspects of the steam engine and has won for himself an international reputation in the field of railway engineering. He is a member of the leading engineering and technical societies of the United States and is the author of several engineering books and various monographs of a scientific nature. Professor Goss is to take up his work at the University of Illinois September first and will be Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of the School of Railway Engineering. This school is a newly organized one and the university intends to develop in it a complete and comprehensive scheme of training for the railway service, including railway organization and operation as well as railway engineering. The four following professorships have thus far been established: that of railway civil engineering; railway mechanical engineering; railway electrical engineering; and railway administration. Professor Goss will direct and develop this school as a part of the college of engineering will do much towards making this college of the University of Illinois the finest technical school in the United States. PONEY MOORE ENTERS DOWN AND OUT CLASS. Once Reputed to Be Wealthy and Dictator of Negro Politics, He Is Forced Into Bankruptcy. Poney Moore is "down and out." Once influential politician of the First ward and dictator for the Negro population of the South Side, he has suffered business reverses which yesterday forced him into bankruptcy. His liabilities are in excess of $31,000 and he has nothing with which to pay. Yesterday afternoon Edward H. Morris, attorney for the Negro saloon-keeper and politician, filed a petition in bankruptcy for his client in the United States District Court, stating Moore's liabilities to be $31,259.40. The assets named in the petition amount to $476.50, and $388 of this amount consists of debts due Moore on open accounts. The remainder of his assets consist of personal property worth $88.50. Moore's earthly possessions and the value placed on them in the petition through which he desires to obtain protection from his creditors are: Five suits of clothes ..... $60.00 One watch worth ..... 3.00 Six pairs of shoes ..... 6.00 Three hats ..... 3.00 Taylor is named in the petition as Moore's heaviest curditor, and the $18,000 judgment is his claim. Other claims ranging from $4.50 to $3,500 are mentioned.—The Record-Herald, August 7. WEST SIDE NEWS By Prof. Simpson. Mrs. Laura Allen A. Young widow has decided she is tired of doing hard work for nothing, and has entered Prof. A. L. Simpson's school of Chirropody and Mancuring and is learning very fast. She will soon be making her 3 and 4 dollars per day for a few hours work. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. I. Thomas, of 153 N. Sawyer avenue, on last Thursday, Aug. 8, lit up their spacious parlors, which was beautifully decorated with flowers and drapery and opened the doors to their many friends. The finest of music was indulged in, after which a sumptuous lunch was served. A well known West Side gentleman served as toast master. The picnic given at Glenwood Park by Providence Baptist church was one grand success. Providence Baptist people are planning to send their beloved pastor Rev. R. L. Darden off on a long vacation. The West Side Co-operated League will soon be ready to do business. Be ready when called on. Mr. Robert Thomas the big West Side politician and gambler of 809 West Lake street, says the $50 per week alimony he pays, isn't a haircut of his mustache. You learn Prof. A. L. Simpson's System of Chiropody and Manicuring with ease and rapidity. Terms reasonable. Give me a trial, do not give all of your money to Molet and Burnham, Suite 50 and 51 Eureka Bldg., 1:5 W. Madison street. A few days ago Dr. Charles Pickett was called to the office of Prof. A. L. Simpson to examine a finger of a young white boy which was a case of blood poison, and was eating its way into the hand, the doctor went to work on it and now has it out of danger. The boy has been under treatment at the Eastern Emergency Hospital for three weeks and they hadn't done him any good. Our Colored physicians are all right after all. Prof. A. L. S. This weeks puzzle. Bring answer with lastest Broad Ax to Simpson's office and get prize. Last week's puzzle is still unsolved Now wake up and get busy you smart set. THE LELAND GIANTS SCORE NOT ABLE VICTORIES Last Sunday the Spaldings went up against the Leland Giants at Auburn Park, 79th and Wentworth Ave. and as Rube Foster, the famous pitcher for the Giants, was at his best, the score was as follows, the "Giants" winning 4 to 1. Score: Leland Giants were again victorious over the All Stars, the score being 3 to 2, but on Wednesday at Logan Square, after a spirited game, the All Stars beat the Giants 6 to 2. This coming Sunday afternoon the Giants will play Jake Stahl's South Chicago team at 79th and Wentworth Ave. REMOVED HIS LAW OFFICE. William G. Anderson has removed his law office from 119 La Salle street to the Methodist Church Block, Washington and Clark street, Room 15. CHIPS Mr. Will Coleman of Oakland, Cal. spent a few days in the city last week en route to New York city. Dr. F. L. Etter of Paris, Tex., after a pleasant visit to Chicago, returned to his home Saturday. Mr. Chas. Bauchmon of Indianapolis, is spending a week in the city, stopping at the Keystone Hotel. Mrs. Dovie Campbell has removed to 5135 Armour avenue. Mrs. Campbell calls it "Grove" avenue. Mrs. Nanine Bostwick, a school teacher of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting with her old friend Mrs. J. W. Arms, 5050 Dearborn street. Mrs. Mattie Washington, Colored, of Terra Haute, Ind., gave birth to three boys and two girls. The mother and children are doing well. Mrs. Chas. H. Davis, her two daughters, and her mother Mrs. Lucy Johnson, will enjoy Michigan country life during the remainder of August. Mrs. George W. Hall, 4928 State St., left last Saturday for Paducah, Ky., her former home. She will spend several weeks on a vist. Miss Victoria D. Bonds, after a year's work teaching in the High school of Galveston, Texas, is at home with her parents, 6652 Wabash Ave. Mrs. J. S. Tandy, 5145 Armour avenue, spent the week in Springfield, attending the Grand Household of Ruth. The little girls of Mrs. Bryant's class in Grace Sunday school had a delightful club picnic at Wooded island in Jackson Park last Tuesday. Edward Tiderington, who now resides at 3526 Calumet avenue, will in a short time visit Saratoga, N. Y., where he will spend his two weeks' vacation. Mr. DeWitt Carter, 6314 Champlain Ave., left the city Saturday to spend a month's vacation visiting his brothers in New York and Washington, D. C. Miss Nanine Odem of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of Mrs. M. Dethenridge, 63d and Sagamon sts. Miss Odem will spend next week in Waukesha, Wis. Mr. John Slaughter of Milwaukee, spent a few days in the city last week. Mr. Maurice Ormond, one of our popular young men, is laid up with a crushed foot. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lewis, and daughter, Mrs. J. E. Thompson and her daughter Miss Hazel, and Mrs. J. Hockley Smiley, are visiting relatives and friends at Cleveland, Ohio. More than half the twenty clerks allowed the Cleveland postoffice this year are Afro-Americans who won their appointments in civil service examinations. At an entertainment recently given at the True Reformers' Opera Hall at Richmond, Va., President Roosevelt's picture was hissed off of a canvas by over five hundred Colored people. The pastor, officers and members of Bethel A. M. E. Church gave a complimentary recital to the university students and city visitors Monday, Aug. 5. Recital by Mrs. Selma Sloan-Butler of Atlanta, Ga., and local talent. The Douglass Center Tennis Club had a lawn tennis social Monday, August. Mrs. R. M. Stokes, president of Ladies and Mr. Geo. Tucker, president of the men. Refreshments and dancing was the programme for the evening. Mrs. Minnie Bishop, 3632 State street will this coming Monday start on a visit to Grand Rapids, Mich., where she will spend one week, and on August 20, she will accompany her husband on a three weeks pleasure trip to New York City, Atlantic City, N. J., and other Eastern points. S. A. T. Watkins who for many years served as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Chicago at the 85th street police station, has settled down to hard work, and he is doing a lively law business. His office is located on the fourth floor of the Real Estate Board Building, 59 Dearborn street. Mr. James H. Wilson, 3022 State St., and Miss Bernice Spradling, 4850 Armour Ave., were married Wednesday, Aug. 7, and left the city for their honeymoon in Kentucky, Virginia and other points in the Southland. Col. and Mrs. A. D. Gash, have closed up their beautiful Edgewater home, and with the other members of their family, they departed Tuesday evening for Elmer, Macon county, Mo., where they will spend two weeks, vacation with relatives and friends and in visiting the scenes of his boyhood days. The Negro whose boasted political independence never gets beyond turning down one Republican candidate only to turn up another of the same ilk, may be likened to a bear chained to a stake. He is free to go north, east, south or west,—but only to the limit of his tether. He may look fierce and "talk bass," but no one is frightened,—everybody knows the strength of the chain—The Mirror, Cambridge, Mass. OFF TO THE BLACK DIAMOND GAS AND OIL FIELD. An interesting feature of the Topeka Business League program, will be a visit to the Oil and Gas property of the BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. The party will be under the direction of directors L. L. Jones and S. Lang Williams. This will be a fine opportunity for the Stockholders and others to see and realize the greatness and importance of this Chicago Company. Dr. Booker T. Washington and all of the officers of the Business League are invited to join the CHICAGO PARTY. There will no more Stock for sale at the price of 50 cents per share after September 1st. L. L. JONES. S. LANG WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the Black Diamond Development Company. Sa-Ban-dy hair dressing guaranteed for harsh, stubborn or dry hair and scalp. Geo. W. Fields & Co. 3916 State St. EIGHT ROOM HOUSE AND LOTS FOR SALE. For Sale—8-room house, 3331 Vernon Ave., $3,950, $500 cash, balance like rent. Lots on easy terms Glencoe & Chicago Lawn. For Sale—9-room brick house, 32nd and Forest Ave., $3,250—$250 cash. 5-room cottage, Dearborn and 55th St. Bath, gas, etc., $2,000—$300 cash. 3916 State St. Phone Douglas 4965. PERT PARAGRAPHS A man can smile and smile and smell of Standard Oil still. The people who insist upon it that there is a difference between forgetting and forgiving are not long on forgiveness. I'M NOT ENGAGED - YET! Every time a good girl comes along the average man is either asleep or away. Faith in a dishonest man is a good thing out of place. Some of us are apt to mistake discontent for ambition. I'M NOT ENGAGED YET! Every time a good girl comes along the average man is either asleep or away. Faith in a dishonest man is a good thing out of place. Some of us are apt to mistake discontent for ambition. There is only one thing more interesting than an engaged girl, and that is a girl that isn't engaged. As long as a man does not sense any danger his conscience isn't apt to trouble him. The man who can't lose money hasn't got it. It would be discouraging to have so many faults if it were not for the excitement of concealing them or denying them to our friends. Nothing to improve. "So Biffkins has been disappointed in love." "Yes, the girl turned him down." "But he is a model young man—doesn't smoke or drink or associate with doubtful company." "That was just the matter. There wasn't a thing that he could give up for her sake." "He discovered his only daughter out walking with a runner for a hotel." "I suppose there was something doing." "Well, the runner lived up to his calling." WASHINGTON LETTER Plans for the Pan-American palace to be erected in Van Ness park, at the foot of Seventeenth street, have been approved by Secretary Root as president ex officio of the governing board and John Barrett as director of the bureau of American republics. The building will be located near the center of Van Ness park and will face the east toward the executive grounds. It will have a frontage on Seventeenth street of 165 feet and a depth of about 170 feet on B street. The style of architecture is a combination of the Latin-American with the classical, the Latin-American style being intended to represent the interests of the Latin-American republics in the building. The Pan-American Palace. The design will harmonize with the general scheme of improvement of the parks of the national capital. The building will be approached by a wide driveway. Three large arched doors, with Spanish grill gates, will open into a handsome high studded corridor, which opens into a large patio of the Latin-American type, which in turn opens into the main reading room of the library in the rear of the building. The patio is covered with a sliding glass roof, which may be closed in winter and kept open in summer, permitting the growth of tropical flowers and plants at all seasons. Staircases and Assembly Hall Two grand staircases, one on each side of the patio, lead to a Spanish foyer, which opens at the rear to a grand assembly hall a hundred feet long by seventy feet wide. This hall is dignified and elegant in style of treatment and is designed for the special use of important international conferences. On the north side of the assembly room is a large office for the governing board of the bureau, and on the other side are several committee rooms. On the left or south side of the patio are the offices of the director of the bureau and his immediate staff and the office of the secretary and his immediate staff. Fine Landscape Effects. The building will be surrounded by fine landscape effects, with a rear stairway leading into handsome gardens suitable for public functions in fair weather. The building will probably be built of concrete, with an abundant use of Spanish tiling and decoration. The roof will be of Spanish tiling. The outside foundations will be finished in marble, and the upper portions of the building will have a stucco finish similar to that in general use in Latin countries. It is hoped to begin work on the foundations in August and to complete the entire building in a year and a half. The building proper will cost $600,000, and the furnishings and decorations will cost $150,000, making a total cost of $750,000, all of which expense will be borne by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. The site of the building cost $200,000, which was paid by the bureau. Historic Banner on View. The historic banner which inspired Francis Scott Key to compose "The Star Spangled Banner" and which floated over Fort McHenry, in Chesapeake bay, during its bombardment by the British on the night of Sept 13, 1814, has been placed on exhibition at the Smithsonian institution, in this city. The flag is the property of Eben Appleton of New York, who has lent it to the government. It is about 28 by 30 feet and will be draped on the wall in the Hall of History of the institution. Uncle Sam's Prisons. Attorney General Bonaparte has directed that hereafter monthly reports shall be made showing the progress of building operations on the new United States penitentiaries at Leavenworth, Kan., and Atlanta, Ga., after the plan used by the navy department in reporting progress on battleships. Heretofore the department has been able to keep in touch with the work only by frequent trips by some of the officials of the department. Visitor From the Orient. Judge A. C. Carson of Manila, member of the supreme court of the Philippine Islands, who recently arrived in Washington, is here on a three months' vacation. He is one of seven members of the Philippine supreme court. The judge came to this country by way of the Siberian railway, crossing the Atlantic to New York. "It took just ten days to go from Vladivostok by rail to Moscow," said Judge Carson. "The trip was exceedingly pleasant, and the sleeping car accommodations were as good if not better than those on the Pullman cars of the United States." Plan Stately Church That there may be a great national Methodist Episcopal Church South in Washington the Mount Vernon Place M. E. church has purchased a fitting site in the triangle that lies between Massachusetts avenue, K and Ninth streets, just west of the square occupied by the Public library. It is proposed that the new building shall be one of the handsomest and most attractive church edifices in the city and that it shall be up to date both in architectural design and equipment. Free Alcohol The new denatured alcohol law goes into effect on Sept. 1 this year. This is the legislation that authorises the establishment of central denaturing bonded warehouses other than those at distilleries. The internal revenue bureau is now preparing rules and regulations under the new law, and it is the hope and expectation of the government that the manufacture of denatured alcohol may take a spurt when the new legislation becomes effective. Up to this time the results under the denatured alcohol law have been disappointing. CARL SCHOFFIELD. Sipping Away, =~ Qh, dear, oh, dear, ‘This fine new year ‘4s more'n half gone TU bet a dime ‘The sands of time Pretty steady. It seems to be But two or three Or tour weeks since We waieed i ‘greet with cheer ‘Whose coming had — : Oh, me! Ob, my! ‘How time does fy, ome Or Uke again ‘The chauffeur when ‘The cops are getting Funny. Who would have said To look ahead, It would be summer ‘Weather Ever time we found a And pull ourselves: pees alas! Si ne new year 220K i soon : Be time to ‘More resolutions ‘Started. “Do you think kissing is as unhealthy as they say?” “Who says?” “The doctors. They insist that the Derson who kisses ts liable to cateb something.” “I suppose there are cases of that sort. For instance, if a man kisses the hired girl and his wife sees him at tt, he is liable to catch something.” Figures may not le; but, carefully padded, they are calculated to deceive. It isn't recorded that the oll on trou- bled waters was Standard. A skillful fatterer never wants for material or lacks results, We ali admire a ready lar and love ‘& cheerful one. ‘When common sense takes vacation, anything is likely to happen. A woman is ever equally ready to make peace or to raise a disturbance. The Secret Out. ‘You wonder what is happiness And where it may be found. Is it in learning, wealth or love ‘That makes the world go round? Til tell you if you want to know, ‘ince you have asked the question, ‘True happiness, the standard brand, ‘Comes with © good digestion. ‘There are no hidden, mystic springs ‘To touch and set it free. No lamp to rub and bring it down Like apples trom a tree. Just do not eat the things that raise ‘A roughhouse with your liver; ‘You'll be as huppy as a clam ‘That thinks it owns the river. Some schools will tell you thinking se ‘Will chase away the blues And bring you happiness just lke ‘A paper brings the news, ‘But you will find that will not work pinsrery Kind of weather, jnless, perchance, you tan digest ‘A deefsteak made of leather. If you would find true happiness, ‘The real stuff every inch, Just drive away dyspepsia, ‘And it will be a cinch. Get your digestion so it works ‘All day the way it ought ter, 4nd you will be as full of joy ‘As lakes are full of water. Before and After. LOVE. per SS) Jas Cx = \ : 3 5? (Ne ee S*\ Xe, He called her sweetheart. love and pet ‘When he was out to get her, ‘But later on he igt them drop, ‘For then he knew ber better. Where They Grew. “Too bad,” said the first summer boarder. “We can't bave any fresh country vegetables for dinner today.” “What's the matter?” asked the second summer boarder. “Didn't the farmer have time to pick them?’ “No, it isn't that. The express train bringing out the canned goods from the city is four hours inte.” Few men forget i) pe good to thelr wives, for their wives won't let them. When a man's wages become salary tt is a sign that his wife is beginning to climb. No one who has companionship com- ing to him is ever lonely. Real shams are sot sham when they Gecelve no one. * pe All men are brothers, but some seam to have stepmothers. ‘Sometimes plenty of good bread and butter is all that is necessary to con- ‘Vert a pessimist Into an optimist. Ignorance of the law excuses Bo one tor employing 2 poor lawyer. = ! A soft beart is impressionable, but soft head is intolerable. | Feith may be able to move moun ‘tains, but needs a steam engine As 8 vehicle of expression. se Humor a? Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH TALK DOES IT. ‘Fou often seo a fairy queen, A maiden more or lens sixteen, ‘Who ties up with some ugly uy, A man who does#’t take your eye, And for a space you wonder why ‘The girl should pick this mother’s son But maybe he's the only one ‘Who ever poured into her ear ‘The things a lady likes to hear. And one not overhard to please ‘May wonder whet in him she sces, ‘While other fellows much more swell In single biessedness may dwet Whom she could capture just 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 fs one fellow stands 80 high ‘And able with such ease to reach "he handsomest and ripest peach ‘And fasten to it like @ 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 = Outsiders, though astute and wise, Cannot behold him through her eyes. To them forever is unknown The Une of talk in tender tone He hands her when they are alone, It fen’t all in looks and dress, In wit and learning, you can guess, It's only what he has to say That makes her follow him away. Plenty High Enouch. D fl af) ~ , > — (aX ye S Cae? 8 Issa s pe {i SS a) “What do you know about high art?” “I ought to know a whole lot J have a picture in the house that cost $750 without the frame.” A Poser For Him. “Ma, id your slipper grow on you?" “No, child. I bought it at the store.” “It isn’t a part of you, then?” “Certainly not.” “Does it have feelings?” “No; it is inanimate.” “Then, ma, how did it happen that it burt you worse than It did me the ether day when you spanked me?” What Cheered Mim. “It maust have been a terrible ordeal on the witness stand with all of them lawyers trying to tangle you up.” “They didn’t bother me much. I kept thinking about the witness fees L.was going to get.” Explained It. eo a ar ee “But I told her I would call” “She probably heard you.” bein Bt | ‘The slowest mortal in the world ‘On hand is always found, Perhaps the first man in the line, ‘When pay Gay comes around. | Something Wrong. “Did you find anything abnormal about this woman?” asked the lawyer “Well, she claimed to like to wash ishes,” replied the expert. a, ‘Their Estima- BQ tion. Se If every one could g 7 draw the pay a Be thinks that OH] be is worth, & The boss would i] bave to draw 2 check, “Pay So-and-so the earth” ae &) —— ‘Their Estima- tion. If every one could draw the pay He thinks that be is worth, The boss would Bave to draw a check, “Pay So-and-so the earth.” aR FER! FARAGHArT oO. Vanity is the mirror that refie.o ‘many 2 folly. ‘The man who makes bay 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 Goesn’t bave to prove anything. ‘The man who is willing to take ad- ‘vice doesn't need it. An unscrupulous business man bes no Illusions about the Golden Rule. Some men are bora 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 # surgeon to operate upon them is omler to sep arate them from their good opinion of themselves. ‘Toe woman who makes 2 record 04 & good bread maker has no time make a divoree record. ‘You will never be able to make peo- ee se Br be ears Som ‘them. , THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, til. Keep This In Mind! The Grand Elks Ball Will be given on Wednesday evening, August 28, at ‘Tattersalle, 16th and State ste, in honor of the visiting delegates to the Grand Lodge Session. ‘Admission 50c. Elke Orchestra, Alex. Armant, leader. HUMOR OF THE HOUR Teo Muck | ."You say that you love me,” she said; “that you would do anything for me. Tam 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 beasts, 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 Bavigate 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 lone- Some knocking the balls around alone.” ‘With « groan of despair he grabbed hs hat and ran. She had asked too much. He could not even for her love assume the risk of being referred to as @ mollycoddle.—Judge. Gwest Qureuntian. | Pearl—He must think the world of You, dear. He said you were a sweet ‘Ute bird. zara He must think I am a _ Pearl—Why 80? _ Ruby—Well, he said if I would only be his wife I would always live in clo ver.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Bad Season. “Yes,” said the poet, “I published my Dook of poems about a month ago, bat ft ten’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. mS 6 een < SS es Sy C BD 3 ie 8 y \\¥>- X coP 4 i Sy, Oy Coe uN SS Friend—You have a nice little home here in the suburbs, but I should think your husband would dislike catching ‘trains. a He dislikes ft so much that he frequently neglects to eatch the last train home at night— New York Mail. | ees 7 Exnlsining 1 te Mim. : a Oe ee “Are you going to Europe this sum- mer?” “Yes,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “Moth- ex 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 Coat. ‘Mrs. Hayrix—The paper tells uv a ‘Swell society woman in the city givin’ @ high tea. What do yew s'pose a high ‘tea is? Mrs. Oatcake—Oh, I reckon it be « ‘Kind what an oll paintin’ goes with ‘stead uv a chromo—Chicago News Resurrection. ‘Thistledown. thistledown, Floating into country town From the hillsides far away, ‘Can you find no piace to stay? | 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, Seve Oe tne, A Backward slip the years, and then ‘Youth and ehildhood live again. A Substitute. “Zhe olf man couldn't find his um- brelle, and he had to go away without ie” “Did it rain?” ‘Wo, but he had « brain storm.” ‘Telephone Calumet 185 DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST B82 South Sate Street Cor, Twenty-Nimth CHICAGO Open Day & Night Private Rooms Chas. Lett, Proprietor. ALA CARTE & TABLE DE HOTE SERVICE Music Every Evening. Special Attention to Parties and Wed- dings. 2704 State St. Phone Calumet 261 ‘CHICAGO. at Cost Until Sept. ist. Ne, control patents and discoveries by which ombasing teeth Sune be tee placed "without the old-time temovabic Plate or bridge and by which loose And™ falling teeth ‘caw’ be Ushtoeet by" which “pyorrhen Ciiggs’ “diseanet soreand bleeding guise ean: Ween Gali and have Us Sxamine your tecth nd you will get aatisfaction’ fa to introduce our work the Colca” peony oT cinta hh make small charges for material watil Sept ae $200 FULL sev oF TEETH. 92.00 GUARANTEED. $6.00 —BEST SET OF TEETH— 86.00 we (cost material aioe u.ze ra ‘(coat insterial about) 200 Beer ran eoei taatériai aba Sui) ae Sister Pitino... &@ Stan me ee All work guaranteed 10 vears Adi Bese done under direct personal sup- Srvision. Read'what a clergyman says about ust wish to ‘aay that fam orelt Satintied “with the Zork done im yous Offices Your ‘dentists: ate''men “eke Onderstand theft ‘business "and "ure entiemens” “REV. Jt SACKEON. 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You can sell them for five cents each, this will give you the cap- nat watch seu oun bar mare peers ing in order to find its way into the columns of this paper the same week it ia written, |_ Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and address all communi- cations to The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour avenue, at the newsdealers’ rate, allowing you @ good profit. ‘Thinking and progressive people read the Broad Ax. Your father, bro- thers, uncles and friends will buy the Paper from you. If you mean business write to Julius F. Taylor, 6040 Ar mour avenue, Chicago. Anbar Ball Park Z2=c==<: Games of Ball in the Peso en. ts some Pon Cue LELAND GIANTS V8. JAKE STAHL® SOUTH CHICAGOS. Auburn Park, 79th and Wentworth Avenue, Sunday, Aug. 11. Games called at 8:30. Best of order maintained at ail times. Come and see reaj bail playing. Price, Admission 2$¢, Grand PR LMG — Stand 860, Boy's Seats tte. eae ee ‘Phone Oakland 1550-199 Jee Dunn waeiseare COALS mee (GU oD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Ran Vannes] SEALS AR 82. ie A MCASS Tee Gaskins’ Billiard and Pool Parlors 3004 STATE ST. All Newly Furnished with Latest Tables and Fixtures. Will also ory see cee of Cigars (Chas Gaskins, Prop. First-Class — our ‘Tile and Slate Hauling « specialty. COAL, J. H. COLEMAN & CO. | Express & Van Moving ‘TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. (2540 State Stree: Phone 699 Calumet CHICAGO ICE CREAM CIGARS. = SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A. E. BAKER! NOTIONS | 000000 0000 ; 419-36TH STREET | ee . “HICAGO | 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 Palls, N. Y. SS ww a te for sale at the following news stands: Mrs. E. L, Holmes, 2508% 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. Sist street Cigar Store and News Stand. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. Gist street T. B Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 351 29th Bt W. 8, Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. __W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and ‘News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams’ Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and con feetionery, 3532 State st. Jackson Sisters, cigars, confection- ery 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. 5ist 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 Ran 4olph St, Detroit, Mich. ‘The Standard News Co 131 W. 53rd st., New York, City, N. ¥. Anybody has good job who might get a worse. Life may be a tough conundrum, but nobody wants to give it up. The lightness of @ man’s con- & versation is no - indication of the brilliancy of his intellect. A man consid- xs any woman charming who XE P® beds nia good qualities and ig ‘@ ores his bed ones. If women were as willing a3 men to let things slide the man would soon be GRAY gs MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LA# Gulte 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel, Central 569. CHICAGO. ‘Reaideoce 97 Macallister Piece ‘Telephone Ashland 363 Cuatral 1268 PS ematie 5040 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-330 Reaper Micck CLARK AND WASHINGTON 8T8. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Taw, _ es arose Gone Tetpioae Baia 372. JOHN E. OWENS S ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR. AT Law s 288 ASHLAND ‘BLOCK a comcane Tel. Dougias 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Bullding 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Dezglas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQsORS AND CIGARS z 3030 State Street CHICAGt Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 Siate Street Bo Siisitesr me ©=©CHICAO Phone Oakland 1828 F. A. Rawlins ‘The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure, 4834 State St.. CHICAGO Phone Dengins 1559 wit Te a | ee oe Fees bem aka ied ant wer Ladle blageninn. epee oat a Sa ee Gp jut 1 , ey Pe <p ie, Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them ‘satisfactory. Oe Oe eee Marcus Ruben (Inc.) spo State St, CHICAGO. FACTS IN FEW LINES One county in Mulne 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 George Eliot. 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 1859, 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 Tutchinsky. It is her boast that she never pays less than $1,000 for any couture. 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 names 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 Carnegie 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 slilight⁴. Carnegie reads about the case And doesn't mark them zero. Oh, no. He writes, "This certifies You are a full fledged hero!" "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." 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 mullein spreads a 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 liquid lilting 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. "He called me a liar." "Sue 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 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. Lisars earn their living by the sweat of their imagination. No really true man enjoys a practical joke- upon himself. 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 boulevardier. 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 busler 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 funed 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: 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 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 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 capellike 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 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. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets 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. J. J. Bradley Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trading Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Corrects. A spendiid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS S. Vice-President, JOHN S. Secretary, WILLIAM MANUFATURED Common and Sev Office and Yards: 45th and Rol Yards running winter and sum with the latest improved Wolf put of Winter Yards put of Summer Yards. Telephone Yards ILLINOIS BR American Brick Co. Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. 1994 N. Western Ave Telephone Lake V Telephone Yard M. JUNK, Proprietor JOS. P. JUNK, Manager 3700-3710 South Halsted Street and 897 to 929 Thirtyseventh Street CHICAGO Many a case of big head covers small brain capacity. We can stand other people's troubles because they always look small to us. Beware of the man who is patient under your criticism. He is probably laying for you. 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. 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 it 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 door make 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. "Mosquitos 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. News A man's heart is like a colt— not tractable until it is broken. The girl who says she will never marry doubtless means hardly ever. 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. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE American Brick Co. - Client and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: H and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Water Yards ..... 14,400 per day Summer Yards..... 30,070 per day Telephone Yards 128. INOIS BRICK CO. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Telephone Yards 128. WILLIAM G. KUESTER. SUPERINTENDENT. N. Western Ave., Chicago. Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards: 718 J. M. Fields CHICAGO