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SEVEN VITAL REASONS WHY THE PROPOSED NEW CHARTER SHOULD BE DEFEATED AT THE POLLS SEPTEMBER 17th. IT IS A MOST VICIOUS MEASURE AND IF ADOPTED, IT WILL WORK UNTOLD HARDSHIPS ON THE SMALL TAXPAYERS. T WAS CONCOCTED AND THROWN TOGETHER BY COLD-BLOODED AND SCHEMING POLITICIANS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MILLIONAIRE TAX-DODGER "Home Rule Practically Denied. In contradistinction to the present charter which grants the city a large number of specific powers and which provides that all laws in conflict therewith shall not be applicable, the so-called new charter subjects all the legislative powers of the City Council not only to all existing laws of the State not rendered inoperative by the charter, but likewise to all general laws that may be passed after its adoption. And to make the grant still more precarious, the Legislature reserves the right to repeal it at any session. Power to amend the charter by popular vote is specifically denied as to taxation, public utilities, education and all those matters affecting very seriously the welfare of our societies and the personal rights and liberties of the people of Chicago. Home rule is granted only in so far as the almost unlimited exercise of the police power is concerned. In this regard the City Council may even add restrictions to those already provided by the laws of the State. This alone should defeat the charter at the polls. Vote "Against it." Higher Taxes and Bonded Indebtedness Instead of giving us a better, a more equitable and uniform system of taxation, the new charter increases the tax rate to 5 per cent for city purposes only. In addition to assuming the bonded indebtedness of all the parks, the city may increase its own bonded indebtedness about forty million dollars. The interest falling due on this bonded indebtedness, and the sum required to be laid by annually to pay the bonds when due, are both outside of the 5 per cent and must be added thereto. With the tax levied by the drainage board, which has been doubled b y the legislature and with the additional bonds that may be issued by that body and with the county and State tax added, present real estate and personal property taxes will be almost doubled, especially if the additional $100,000,000 valuation recently established by the Board of Assessors is to prevail. In addition to this already heavy burden the small property owner is not relieved for years to come, if at all, of the unjust system by which special assessments for street improvements are levied. It is admitted even by the advocates of the new charter that taxes will be raised to net about $6,000,000 more revenue a year for ordinary expenses. The annual interest charges and sinking fund requirements of the large bonded indebtedness, made possible by the new charter, will increase this very materially. The small property owner and the large class of renters will bear this additional burden, while the man of wealth whose money and bonds may be concealed and the powerful corporations, will escape as they do now. This section alone should defeat the charter. Vote "Against it." III. Consolidation of Park Boards Dangerous. The proposed consolidation of taxing bodies affects only the park boards. The powers of taxation now exercised by the Lincoln Park, West Park and South Park boards will be exercised by the City Council, which body will also have to confirm the nominations of nine park commissioners to be named by the Mayor, three from each side of the city. The legislature, however, reserves the right to establish other new taxing bodies by providing that "nothing in this section contained shall apply to drainage, improvement or forest preserve districts." How dangerous this consolidation may become is established by the fact that the new charter permits the sale of any part or all park property by the City Council with the consent of the park commissioners, while to-day not more than one acre can be sold at one time. How about the submerged and made lands along the lake shore? They will not be safe from sale to interested corporations or others. franchises-Without Consent of the Property Owners-Referendum Killed. By a cunning substitution of certain words for the words used in the draft of the charter convention, the legislature has probably made possible the granting of franchises by the City Council for the laying of street car and elevated road tracks on any street or alley in the city, without requiring such corporations to first obtain the written consent of a majority of the property owners in each mile, as now required by law. To show its utter lack of good faith the legislature has, however, made provision that the city itself must have this consent before it can begin to operate any street railroad. The referendum petition apparently provided for taking a popular vote on franchise ordinances is made almost, if not altogether, impossible to obtain by other provisions of the charter, through the imposition of conditions that can hardly be complied with. Result: The referendum is killed by the new charter. It is a serious question if perpetual franchises may not be given under certain provisions of the charter. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for reducing the membership of the City Council. This section alone should defeat the new charter. Vote "Against it." V. Civil Service Reform Made a Farce. Civil service reform is made a farce under the new charter, through the provision under which every employee can be summarily removed, or reduced in grade or salary by the head of a bureau. That the legislature was not sincerely in favor of the merit system is clearly shown by the fact that it excepted from the provisions of the law the army of employees working in the Municipal courts. To fortify boss rule the legislature has increased the number of wards from thirty-five, but has reduced the number o faldermen from seventy to fifty. It still more emphasized its contempt for home rule by gerrymandering the wards in a most unequal manner. This section alone should defeat the new charter at the polls. Vote "Against it." VII. Efficiency of Public Schools Endangered. By leaving it to the City Council to specify the amount of taxes to be levied for school purposes, the effi- CHICAGO,AUGUST 24,1907. 1 Ever true to the interest of the common people and the small tax-payers, Mr. Gray will bend his best energies in helping to bring around the defeat of the new City Charter, which, if adopted, will impose greater burdens on the middle class of people. ciency of the public schools is endangered. At the last moment the legislature inserted into the draft of the Charter Convention words legalizing ninety-nine-year leases of school lands. This provision was made in the interest, and for the benefit, of certain newspapers which are favoring the new charter. The members of the board of education are subject to removal by the Mayor, and this provision cannot fail to have a demoralizing effect upon the corps of teachers, and the proper management of school affairs generally." These seven reasons are more than sufficient why the New City Charter, should be defeated, at the polls, September 17, for it was hatched out and thrown together by the most corrupt gang of political harlots, that have ever mixed their silly forms, in the affairs of the city of Chicago. —Editor. "I know of one political leader whose support Busse secured by promising to him the gambling privilege in a certain district. I understand that this privilege is worth from $50,000 to $70,000. Do you think that he can go back upon his pre-election promises to this man? No; he has sold those pickings for so many votes, or he contracted to purchase so many votes, and now that he is in power he must pay. "I am convinced from what I have personally seen and from what I have heard from honest men that the forces of evil considered Mayor Busse's election a signal triumph."—The Chicago American, August 19. Kev. Father Callaghan is barking up the right tree, for all kinds of gambling is running at full blast, and the lawless and murderous elements under the Divine guidance of Mayor Busse, seem to be running Chicago to suit themselves! 'BUSSE PAYS HIS ELECTION DEBTS BY LIFTING LID.' "Vice of all kinds is just as rampant today in Chicago as it was in those palmy days when the city was known as the home of the crook and those other parasites who prey upon society. There is a perfect understanding between those who conduct the vicious resorts and the police." This declaration was made by Rev. Father P. J. O'Callaghan. Gambling, wide open saloons in which women, unescorted, drank without molestation by the police, and the flaunting of vice of every sort, were prevalent throughout the city all of Saturday and Sunday night and until dawn today. Despite apparently official orders issued from the chief of police that saloons must be closed at 1 o'clock, that women are barred from wine rooms and that gambling must cease, viciousness went on unchecked. Policemen in uniform witnessed the orgies and made no protests. In many instances the officers were participants in the all night revels. The conditions in every part of the city brought an open charge of amazing directness from Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan, pastor of St. Mary's church, under charge of the Paulist Fathers, that through a wide-open town Mayor Busse is paying his election obligations. Orders to put on the "ld" are only for effect on the public, says this well known priest. "I know of one political leader whose support Busse secured by promising to him the ganbling privilege in a certain district. I understand that this privilege is worth from $50,000 to $70,000. Do you think that he can go back upon his pre-election promises to this man? No; he has sold those pickings for so many votes, or he contracted to purchase so many votes, and now that he is in power he must pay. "I am convinced from what I have personally seen and from what I have heard from honest men that the forces of evil considered Mayor Busse's election a signal triumph."—The Chicago American, August 19. Rev. Father Callaghan is barking up the right tree, for all kinds of gambling is running at full blast, and the lawless and murderous element, under the Divine guidance of Mayor Busse, seem to be running Chicago so suit themselves! DOCTOR A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAMS TO ATTEND THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Last evening Doctor A. Wilberforce Williams, President of the Black Diamond Development Company, and Treasurer of the National Medical Association, left for Baltimore, Md., to attend the Ninth Annual session of the Association which convenes in that city, at Metropolitan Hall, Orchard street and Druid Avenue, August 27, 28 and 29. The committee on arrangement, has selected Doctor Williams to respond to the address of welcome, which will be delivered by Hon. J. Harry Mahool, the progressive Democratic mayor of Baltimore. Many important papers on various medical subjects will be read and discussed by the most eminent M. D.s throughout the country. Doctor Williams will return home September 1. Governor Charles S. Deneen this week opened his campaign headquarters in the Great Northern Hotel, and all the big Republican politicians who draw any water are beginning to climb into his band wagon; for even at this distance from the convention, it is a dead certainty that he will be re-nominated in spite of the efforts of some of his small fry opponents. Following the Color Line White Man and Negro In Black Belt CONCLUSION OF A SERIE OF ARTICLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE BY RAY STANNARD BAKER. "I come now to the reverse of the picture. When the Negro tenant takes up land or hires out to the landlord, he ordinarily signs a contract, or if he cannot sign (about half the Negro tenants of the black belt are wholly filiterate) he makes his mark. He often has no way of knowing certainly what is in the contract, though the arrangement is usually clearly understood, and he must depend on the landlord to keep both the rent and the supply-store accounts. In other words, he is wholly at the planter's mercy—a temptation as dangerous for the landlord as the possibilities which it presents are for the tenant. It is so easy to make large profits by charging immense interest percentages or outrageous prices for supplies to tenants who are too ignorant or too weak to protect themselves, that the stories of the oppressive landlord in the South are scarcely surprising. It is easy, when the tenant brings in his cotton in the fall not only to underweigh it, but to credit it at the lowest prices of the week; and this dealing of the strong with the weak is not Southern, it is human. Such a system has encouraged dishonesty, and wastefulness; it has made many landlords cruel and greedy, it has increased the helplessness, hopelessness and shiftlessness of the Negro in many cases it has meant downright degeneration, not only to the Negro, but to the white man. These are strong words, but no one can travel in the black belt without seeing enough to convince him of the terrible consequences growing out of these relationships. A case which came to my attention at Montgomery, Alabama, throws a vivid light on one method of dealing with the Negro tenant. Some nine miles from Montgomery lives a planter named T. L. McCullough. In December, 1903, he made a contract with a Negro named Jim Thomas to work for him. According to this contract, a copy of which I have, the landlord agreed to furnish Jim the Negro with a ration of 14 lbs. of meat and one bushel of meal a month, and to pay him besides $96 for an entire year's labor. On his part Jim agreed to "do good and faithful labor for the said T. L. McCullough." "Good and faithful labor" means from sunrise to sunset every day but Sunday, and exce- A payment of five dollars was made to bind the bargain—just before Christmas. Jim probably spent it the next day. It is customary to furnish a cabin for the worker to live in; no such place was furnished, and Jim had to walk three or four miles morning and evening to a house on another plantation. He worked faithfully until May 15. Then he ran away, but when he heard that the landlord was after him, threatening punishment, na came back and agreed to work twenty days for the ten he had been away. Jim stayed some time, but he was not only given no cabin and paid no money, but his food ration was cut off. So he ran away again, claiming that he could not work unless he had a place to live. The landlord went after him and had him arrested, and although the Negro had worked nearly half a year, McCullough prosecuted him for fraud because he got $5 in cash at the signing of the contract. In such a case the Alabama law gives the landlord every advantage; it says that when a person receives money under a contract and stops work, the presumption is that he intended to defraud the landowner and that therefore he is criminally punishable. The practical effect of the law is to permit imprisonment for debt, for it places a burden of proof on the Negro that he can hardly overturn. The law is defended on the ground that Negroes will get money say way they can, sign any sort of paper for it, and then run off—if there is not a stringent law to punish them. But it may be imagined how this law could be used and is used, in the hands of unscrupulous men, to keep the Negro in a sort of debt-slavery. When the case came up before Judge William H. Thomas of Montgomery, the constitutionality of the law was brought into question, and the Negro was finally discharged. Often an unscrupulous landlord will deliberately give a Negro a little money before Christmas, knowing that he will promptly waste it in a "celebration," thus getting him into debt so that he dare not leave the plantation for fear of arrest and criminal prosecution. If he attempts to leave he is arrested and taken before a friendly Justice of the peace, and fined or threatened with imprisonment. If he is not in debt, it sometimes happens that the landlord will nave him arrested on the charge of stealing a briber or a few potatoes (for it is easy to find something against almost any Negro), and he is brought into court. In several cases I know of the escaping Negro has even been chased down with bloodhounds. On appearing in court the Negro is naturally badly frightened. The white man is there and offers a special favor to take him back and let him work out the fine—which sometimes requires six months, often a whole year. In this way Negroes are kept in debt—so-called debt-slavery or peonage—year after year, they and their whole families. One of the things that I couldn't at first understand in some of the courts I visited was the presence of so many white men to stand sponsor for Negroes who had committed various offenses. Often this grows out of the feudal protective instinct which the landlord feels for the tenant or servant of whom he is fond; but often it is merely the desire of the white man to get another Negro worker. In one case in particular, I saw a Negro brought into court charged with stealing cotton. "Does anybody know this Negro?" asked the judge. Two white men stepped up and both said they did. The judge fined the Negro $20 and costs, and there was a real contest between the two white men as to who should pay it—and get the Negro. They argued for some minutes, but finally the judge said to the prisoner: "Who do you want to work for, George?" The Negro chose his employer, and agreed to work four months to pay off his $20 fine and costs. Will promulgate and all those who uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Cathedral Presbyterian, Episcopal, Indie Lutheran, Mongol Tibetan, Buddhist, Roman Catholic, and many others, their city, or long as their language is proper and respectful is Excel. The Broad Act is a newspaper whose platform is based upon for all, ever expanding the universal right to speak its own word. THE BROAD AX rony. A Negro named Dan January was in debt to a white farmer named Levi Carter. Carter agreed to sell the Negro and his entire family to another white farmer named Patrick. January refused to be sold. According to the testimony Carter and some of his companions seized January, sound him hand and foot and beat him most brutally, taking turns in doing the whipping until they were exhausted and the victim unconscious. January's children removed him to his home, but the white men returned the next day, produced a repe and threatened to hang him unless he consented to go to the purchaser of the debt. The case came into court and is still pending, but the general impression is that the white men will never be punished. January was in Jackson, Miss., when I was there; I was told that he still showed the awful effects of his beating. Keeping Negroes Poor. This system has many bad results. It encourages the Negro in crime. He knows that unless he does something pretty bad, he will not be prosecuted because the landlord doesn't want to lose the work of a single hand; he knows that if he is prosecuted, the white man will, if possible, "pay him out." It disorganizes justice and continues the ignorant Negro mind as to what is a crime and what is not. Negro will often do things that he would not do if he thought he were really to be punished. He comes to the belief that if the white man wants him arrested, he will be arrested, and if he protects him, he won't suffer, no matter what he does. Thousands of Negroes, ignorant, weak, indolent, to-day work under this system. There are even landlords and employers who will trade upon the Negro's worst instincts—his love for liquor, for example—in order to keep him at work. An instance of this sort came to my attention at Hawkinsville while I was there. The white people of the town were making a strong fight for prohibition; the women held meetings, and on the day of the election marched in the streets singing and speaking. But the largest employer of Negro labor in the county had registered several hundred of his Negroes and declared his intention of voting them against prohibition. He said bluntly: "If my Niggers can't get whisky they won't stay with me; you've got to keep a Nigger poor or he won't work." This employer actually voted 60 of his Negroes against prohibition, but the excitement was so great that he dared vote no more—and prohibition carried. A step further brings the Negro to the chain-gang. If there is no white man to pay him out, or if his crime is too serious to be paid out, he goes to the chain-gang—and in several tStates he is then hired out to private contractors. The private employer thus gets him sooner or later. Some of the largest farms in the South are operated by chain-gang labor. The demand for more convicts by white employers is exceedingly strong. In the Montgomery Advertiser for April 10, 1907, I find an account of the sentencing of 54 prisoners in the city court, 52 of whom were Negroes. The Advertiser says: "The demand for their labor is probably greater now than it has ever been before. Numerous labor agents of companies employing convict labor reached Montgomery yesterday, and were busily engaged in maneuvering to secure part or even all of the convicts for their respective companies. The competition for labor of all kinds, it seems, is keener than ever before known." The natural tendency of this demand, and from the further fact that the convict system makes yearly a huge profit for the State, is to convict as many Negroes as possible, and to punish the offences charged as severely as possible. From the Atlanta Constitution of October 13, 1898, I have this clipping: VARDAMAN DIDN'T MAKE IT. From the plantation of Vardaman in the swamps of Mississippi to the capitol at Washington is a great ways further than from the aforesaid habitat of the Mississippi Governor to the state house of his own prejudice ridden commonwealth. It appears, however, that there is yet hope for even Mississippi. It seems that the road to Washington was too long for the Governor to make it to the Senate chamber on his anti-Negro hobby horse. There are those who will figure it out, nevertheless, that Mississippi has lost in failing to get rid of Vardaman, although it would take sending him to the United States Senate to do it. The country at large is shaking hands with itself on the proposition that this great nation of ours is shared the spectacle of a man of Vardaman's callibre in the Senate of the United States.—The American, Alexander City, Alabama. TAKE IT AS YOU WILL. A minister was imploring a friend to repent his sins. "Well," said the signer, "if you will answer one question I will become a Christian." "What is the question?" asked the man of God. "It is this: Who was Cain's wife?" "My friend," replied the preacher, "you will never be able to embrace religion until you quit bothering about other men's wives."—Ex ```markdown ``` SANDY W. TRICE. President of the Colored Men's Business League of Chicago, and head of the Sandy W. Trice and Company's Department Store, 2918 State Street. Sandy W. Trice, the leading Afro-American merchant in the middle west, returned home the first of the week from attending the meeting of the Negro National Business League, at Topeka, Kansas. He was well pleased with everything in connection with the three days' sessions or the League, and he does not hesitate in saying in "being present and freely rubbing up against the best and the sharpest business men of the country, filled him full of new hope and inspiration, and he is more fully determined than ever to work twice as hard as he has in the past in order to forge further ahead in the business world. In company with W. L. Taylor, President of the True Reformers Bank, Richmond, Va., and Messrs. Henderson and Jones, Mr. Trice after leaving Topeka, stopped at Chute, Kan., where the party was received by Fred A. Wescott, Secretary of the Black Diamond Development Company and considerable time was spent by them in inspecting the eight gas wells so far completed and now in operation, and the other property belonging to the company. Mr. Trice, witnessed with his own eyes the hands on the big meter, as they registered the number of cubic feet of gas, as it eminated from these wells, and from there piped on into Kansas City and other points. He is highly elated over the prospects of the Black. Diamond Development Company, and freely admits that "If he had a few thousand dollars to spare he would invest it in the stock of that company. NEGROES SEEK FEDERAL COURT. Object to Negro Women Working In Chaingang on Streets. Macon, Ga., Thursday, Aug. 15.—Feeling that they had been outraged by the city authorities in having a woman of their race work on the chain gang on the streets, the Colored people here filed a writ of habeas corpus through the United States attorney. The charge is made that there was no amendment to the city charter by which the public works could be legally operated after the final decision in the famous Johnson and Pearson cases, which were decided in the States and national Supreme courts. The woman was fined upon a misdemeanor charge and did not merit any severe punishment—The Citizen, Memphis, Teen. Card of Thanks. I wish to extend through the columns of The Broad Ax. to the member of Western Star lodge, 1443, G. W. O. of O. F. and Hannibal lodge, No. 6, K. of P., and Banner Company, No. 3, U. R. of K. P.'s of which my late husband, Col. R. A. Ware, was a member, and members of all the lodges and U. R.'s of K. P. of jurisdiction of Illinois; and to the pastors, Rev. B. P. Roberts of Quinn Chapel, who preached the funeral and Rev. J. P. Thomas of Ebenezer Baptist church, who assisted in funeral services, Miss Estelle Jones who rendered the beautiful vocal solo, Mrs. Anna Townsend and the faithful stewardess and members of Quinn Chapel and the host of friends who attended the deceased so faithfully and who rendered such kind services and labored so patiently and devotedly with the family during his long illness, and after his decease, Aug. 4, 1907. Mrs. R. A. Ware, 2222 Dearborn street. CHIPS Mrs. Mary R. Smith has removed from 2220 Dearborn St., to 2618 State St., Sat E. Mr. Walter Quinn of New Jersey, spent a few days in the city last week on route west. Mr. John V. Johnson, 5830 Wabash Ave., is reported seriously ill at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mr. Wm. E. Wright, 306 32d St., who was recently injured by a street car, is able to be out of doors. Mrs. Serata Allen of Toronto, Can., is in the city for a month the guest of Mrs. Claypool, 4832 Dearborn St. Mr. "Oatrie" Powell, a well known young man about town, was confined to the Dunning saylum this week. Mr. William Howard Clark, one of our popular young attorneys, is spending his vacation in Waukesha, Wis. Romey Bradford, 3116 La Salle St. met with an accident by the overturning of an automobile last Tuesday. Mr. Chas. Bauchman of Indianapolis, Ind., after a pleasant two weeks' vacation in this city, has returned home. Mrs. Frank Williams of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting the city. She is the guest of Mrs. Julia Williams, 5020 Armour Ave. "Capt. Rufus" which had such a long run at the Pekin, is meeting with the biggest kind of success in New York. Mrs. Dr. W. H. Marshall, 3432 State St., is visiting relatives of her husband in the South. Will return in Sept.—Cheraw, S. C. Miss Alle Simms of St. Louis, Mo. well known in Chicago, is spending her vacation in Niagara, Buffalo, and New York City. Miss Howard of St. Paul, spent a few days in St. Louis last week while in Chicago she is the guest of Mrs. Robt. Taylor, 3638 Dearborn St. Mrs. J. D. Chandler, 6351 Rhodes Ave., left the city Tuesday for a six weeks' visit among friends and relatives in Virginia, Maryland and New York. Mrs. Sally McGuire of Kansas City, after spending two weeks visiting her aunt, Mrs. Gray, 2417 Dearborn St., left the city for St. Louis, Mo. Tuesday. Julius Abel, of Baltimore, Md., white, was fined $100 and costs on the charge of assaulting Ella Carter, Colored, on the street. Abel paid the fine and was released. Mrs. A. B. Brooks of Hot Springs, Ark., and her daughter, Miss Lillian, is spending her summer vacation in visiting with her sister, Mrs. F. A. Rawlins, 4834 State St. Laurence Jones, of Marshalltown, in, recently received the degree of A. B. at the Iowa State University. He is the second Negro to be thus honored at this institution. Keystone, W. Va., a mining town with a population of 20,000 three-fourths of whom are Colored, has a white mayor, a Negro deputy and an entire police force of Colored men. J. W. Anderson, 79 E. 32d street, will leave the city Saturday, August 31st, to spend his ten days' vacation in Louisville, Ky., the guest of Doctor and Mrs. Whedbee, 1133 W. Chestnut street. Mrs. Ellen Johnson and daughter, Miss Dorah Johnson, 5820 Wabash Ave, left the city Sunday evening for Atlantic City, New Jersey, to attend their sick son and brother, John V. Johnson, who has a severe attack of Mrs. M. J. Doherty and her interesting little daughter, 946 Garfield Blvd., the loveable wife of the efficient superintendent of streets, M. L. Doherty, are spending their vacation in Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. Felix, Mrs. Joe. Franklin. Mrs. W. A. Jackson, Miss Leona Franklin and Mr. Edw. Bailey of New Orleans are being highly entertained by Mrs. M. Love and Mr. W. J. Allen, 6006 Center Ave. Mrs. Mayme Dianne Clark, formerly of Chicago, but now of St. Louis, spent a few days in the city last week en route to Northern Michigan, where she and a party of friends will spend the balance of the summer. Complimentary to his brother, Mr. L. D. Easton, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Alex. Easton entertained a large number of gentlemen at a Dutch Lunch Saturday evening last, at his residence, 4022 Wabash Ave. Frank J. Lehr, one of the popular German-American politicians in the Town of Lake, recently bought a fine building at 5243 S. Halsted St. He resides with his family on one of the upper floors and he conducts a first class Buffet on the ground floor. Mrs. Moses Ratcliff, 4850 Dearborn St., who is visiting with her mother in Memphis, Tenn., and other cities in the south is having a most delightful time. In a recent letter from her, she states that she is enjoying herself visiting the various churches and is being royally entertained by the good people of the south. The Leland Giants have scored more victories the past week. Under the leadership of Rube Foster, they cleaned up the Gunthers 5 to 0, and last Sunday at Auburn Park, the Giants cleaned up the Marquettes, 5 to 0. This coming Sunday, August 25th, at Auburn Park, 79th and Wentworth ave., the Giants will play Stahl's famous ex-League South Chicago nine. Among the prominent visitors from the south whom we have noticed frequenting our business houses in the neighborhood of State and 29th St. are Dr. A. A. Kelly and L. I. Euell, merchant tailor, of Hattiesburg, Miss. Mr. A. A. Guyot, liverman, of Pass Christian, Miss. Mr. G. V. Raby, Hotel proprietor of Gulfport, Miss., and Mr. E. D. Baker, Jr., liverman of New Orleans, La. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald the great and most tireless rescue worker among women and children, now has five little girls at her home, 6130 Ada street, where they are taught everything that culture and refinement can make them, to become good and noble women, and the scrupulous cleanliness that precludes her entire beautiful home should be a grand object lesson to her young charges. Milss Augusta, Adelaide Traeger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Traeger, 1021 W. 54th Place, after a long illness, peacefully departed this life Tuesday, August 20th. Miss Traeger was in her 22d year. She is survived by two sisters, Misses Mary and Emma and one brother, John E., Jr. Funeral services were held over her remains at the family residence Friday morning. Interment, Mt. Hope. Ex-Congressman George P. Foster, who for three or four terms creditably represented the people residing in the fourth congressional district in the halls of congress, may be induced by his friends and the politicians in the district, to make the race again for the same position in 1908. At the present time Mr. Foster is representing the Fidelity and Liability Insurance Company, with offices on the fifth floor of the First National bank blldg. The contest for the United States senatorship, between Senator A. J. Hopkins and Hon. William E. Mason, from now on, promises to be a hot one. Many of the prominent women throughout the country are bitterly opposed to the re-election of Senator Hopkins, because he delivered a speech in the Senate against unseating Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and these women will line up in the fight in favor of the election of ex-Senator Mason. They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Be this as it may, when week after week we see the gross ignorance even of the English language which is displayed by a majority of the Negroes' who essay the role of "newspaper editor," we are free to admit that a little knowledge is sometimes an exceedingly disgusting thing.—The Pilot, Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago is full of this same class of Negroes, who think they know all about running a newspaper.—Editor. The city of Peoria, Illinois, has honored Ingersoll with the unveiling of a monument reared in that city to the memory of the Great Apostle of human liberty and peace, but in so doing it has honored itself more. The people of that city have demonstrated their absolute indifference to the accursed waves of Christian calumny. The world will yet admit that Ingersoll did more than all the preachers of his day to nerve the Eagle's wing for its imperial night—Blue Grass Blade. Wanted First-Class Housekeeper. Wanted Housekeeper—Experienced, comely Colored or creole girl, extremely neat and clean, who has worked in a high class, up-to-date family. Must be quiet, light in color, and well trained, and furnish unquestionable reference. State age, wages and where previously employed. Address J. M., care Editor of The Broad Ax, 5040 Armour Ave. Humor SCIENCE VERSUS SENSE What the Witty Irishman Thought of the Chinese Coole. "Ah!" breathed forth the learned professor, peering down into the trench. "May I speak with you one moment?" "Longer than that, sorl" answered the laborer, climbing out. "Oi can't rist in a moment." "Excuse me for the assumption, but your principal article of diet is Irish potatoes, is it not?" "Oi wudn't deny it if Oi cud!" "Then I can be of inestimable service to you. Not long ago we scientists made tests to discover the relative strength giving qualities of various foods. The result was we discovered that the Chinese cooly, who lives on rice, is able to carry just twice as much as the Irishman, whose chief food, as you yourself admit, is potatoes. Now that you know the superiority of rice over potatoes as a food of course"— "But I don't know it, sor." "But didn't I tell you our tests showed that the cooly carried twice as much as the Irishman"— "Ys, but that only proved th' cooly to be a dom fool, not that rice is better than pratice." "Sure! 'Th' Chick carried all he could, an' th' Oriishman didn't, that's all. All 'foreman's ignorance is th' laborer's bliss. It's a fool that lets his boss know all he con do." — New York World. Brilliant Display. The Romeo of 1910 gently steered his air yacht to the vine covered balcony. "Darling," he whispered romantically, "I can see a dozen stars." "Do be careful, Romeo," cautioned the fair Juliet as she picked a rose from her marcel wave. "If pa comes out you will see a thousand stars." And even then the old gentleman could be heard hunting for his cane.—Des Moines Register. He Grassed It Out A certain medical specialist was in the habit of using a notebook to assist his memory. In the course of time his aged father died. The worthy doctor attended the funeral as chief mourner with due solemnity. At the close he was observed to draw out a notebook and to cross out the words: "More. Bury father." Anonymous. "Mem.—Bury father."—Argonaut. Real Fake. Pearl—Yes, when they were engaged he told her he had the sweetest nature in the world, but after their marriage she found out he had a nature like a bear. Ruby—Gracious! He must be one of these "nature fakirs" you hear so much about—Chicago News. Right In His Line. WANTED A MILL HAND EXPERIENCED IN PUNCH BLE DE WORK ENQUARE IN OFFICE Teddy (the pugilist)—Well, dis is dead easy. Dat's right up me own street—Scribner's. He Felt 'Em. Bacon—They say there are over a million species of insects in the world. Egbert—That's no news to me. Don't you suppose I ever went to a Sunday school picnic in the woods?—Yenkess Statesman. Reasoned Out. "Time is money, pa, and money talks, but does time talk too?" "Sure, my son; don't you remember the cuckoo clock we used to have?"—Woman's Home Companion. MAN, COW, FIDDLE. Trio Commemorated on a Tombstone in a Connecticut Cemetery. In the old cemetery of Central Village, near Palmfield, Conn., is the only tombstone known in New England erected to a cow and its owner. In several cemeteries have been found records that horses, dogs and even cats have been laid at rest beside their masters, but in no other instance on record has a cow had a slab erected in her honor. The cow's name was Rosa, and the inscription says that she gave two pounds fifteen ounces of butter from thirteen quartes of milk in one day. This was a pretty good record for a cow, and a Jersey at that, the inscription goes on to say. On the opposite side of the monument is the inscription, "All Ready, Mr. Cady," and below are the words, "At Rest." Above is the outline of a saddle crossed with a bow. Gurdun Cady, to whose memory the stone was erected, was known from the Massachusetts line to Long Island sound and from Providence to the Connecticut river half a century ago as the finest saddler that ever drew a bow at a country dance. He had two loves, Boose and his saddle, both of which found a place on his tombstone. Marm Kenney's celebrated inn at Stafford was one of the most popular fields for Cady and his saddle. From the time he started until the final fourth of the bow, when he chanted, "All promenade to seats," there was something doing every minute. Some of the residents have can recall many a time when they danced to his music until the sun's rays lighted the ballroom. He would yell in between times special instructions to uncert. maids and awalna. Once, seeing a yo g man at a loss what to do in the mk. of a set, he sang out, "Swing that girl with the yellow apron on!" And the girl was promptly swung. All such diversions were worked in with his prompting, and no one except the persons addressed paid any heed. Ten dollars a day or night and all expenses of traveling was the usual charge of Cady for his services in rendering "Money Musk," "Chorus Jig," "The Irish Washerwoman" and "Hull's Victory," which comprised his repertoire. During the dancing season he was continually on the road from one inn to another. Outside of his love of music his most conspicuous trait was his love of cattle. Before he died he made arrangements to have the name of his favorite cow Rosa handed down to posterity with his own—New York Sun. Nature Fakes. After a careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence bearing on the subject, says the Indianapolis News, the investigating committee reports that, notwithstanding their long life and apparent respectability, the following are undoubtedly nature fakes: The bull in the china shop. The wolf at the door. The fly in the ointment. The dog in the manger. The fish out of water. The bee in the bonnet. The flea in the ear. The rat that was smelled. Pigs in clover. Horse and horse. Time files. The Welsh rabbit. The man on a lark. Our Naval Strength In the latest issue of the Naval Annual, published by J. Griffon & Co., Portsmouth, England, the editor, Mr. T. A. Brassey, declares that the most important change in the relative strength of navies during the year is the fact that the United States has become the second naval power of the world. He bases this classification mainly on the number and character of the battleships built and building by each country, and after establishing their absolute war value, as expressed in the terms of guns, speed, protection, habitability and hardiness, he fixes the precedence in the sea hierarchy as follows: First, Great Britain by a long lead; second, United States; third, Germany; fourth, France; fifth, Japan; sixth, Russia, and seventh, Italy. Clocks and Music. Camille Saint-Saens, the French composer, boasts that, like Mozart, he chose his relatives with the greatest discretion. His mother was an artist, his aunt an accomplished musician. The child showed very early an extraordinary susceptibility to musical sounds, and he delights to tell how, when he was a lot of three or four, his great-aunt would get all the clocks in the house and set them striking, making him tell her the difference in the vibrations and imitate them with his voice. To this early training he attributes much of his remarkable memory and faultless ear. Sensitive Earthquake Recorder Sensitive Earthquake Recorder. The ordinary seismograph or earthquake recorder registers the motion of the earth under a "stationary" pendulum of 100 or 200 pounds. A new instrument by Dr. Wierchert, made at Göttingen, has a suspended pendulum weighing nearly seventeen tons, and a series of levers causes its indicator to magnify the earth motion 2,200 times. So sensitive is the apparatus that it showed tremors due to a gas engine located a mile and a half away. A Bit of British Temp A suit or bridal tamper. Why should not the Tower of London be fitted up as a hostelry for American millionaires only? Prices double those of the Ritz or Carlton. Beefeaters included as valets for any one taking a suit of rooms. Crown jewels on hire for the night. Chambers with blood stains extra—London Bryantander. Brevities THE HALL OF FAME Samuel Sapul of Clearfield county, Pa., is eighty-one years old and is serving his township for the twenty-seventh year as its tax collector. Senator Newlands of Nevada is fond of using flowery language in his speeches. He is rich and was formerly a strong advocate of free silver. The largest baby ever born in Chicago measures one foot eleven inches, weighs eighteen and one-half pounds and will be christened Fred Busse Ross in honor of the mayor of Chicago. Secretary Curtleyyou proposes to apply civil service rules in the treasury department without reference to sex and has begun by promoting several deserving women to better places and higher salaries. The Echo de Paris confirms the statement that the first visit of M. Falliegen abroad will be to London in April or May of 1908. The president's visit to England will have a semi-official character. A young son of well known Castle Hill (Me.) parentage bears a combination of historical names. Millard Fillmore's son married Andrew Jackson's daughter and their first offspring was named Andrew Jackson Millard Fillmore. Commander Nicholson, who navigated the Oregon on her tampon record breaking trip around South America in the Spanish-American war, had been promoted to captain and was given command of the new battleship Nebraska on July 1. N. Gilbert Whitmore of Eastondale, Mass., although seventy-one years old, is said to be the oldest weapon maker in the country. At one time he made and presented to General U. S. Grant a sporting rifle of exquisite workmanship valued at $1,000. Professor W. A. Henry of Wisconsin, one of the leaders in American agriculture, has purchased a tract of land in Wallingford, Conn., and proposes to make his home there after thirty years' service in the State university of Wisconsin. Following the custom of many years, "Old Man" Fritz, keeper at the St. Louis Country club, recently sold his crop of whiskers for $8. Fritz lets his whiskers grow to his waist every three years and then cuts them off and sells them to the hairdressers. Francis Kay Pendleton, whom Mayor McChellan has appointed corporation counsel of New York city, is a son of the late Senator George Pendleton of Ohio, who was the candidate for vice president on the same ticket on which the mayor's father, General McChellan, was the nominee for president in 1894. THE SPORTING WORLD. Outfielder Jude, the Indian of Columbus, has twice this season made five hits in five times at bat. Sonoma Girl, with her heat in 2:06! at Libertyville, establishes a world's record in a race, trotting, for a green snare. It is now definitely settled that an international cricket match will be played in New York next fall between the Marylebone Cricket club of London and American club teams. Orby, the great colt that won the English and Irish Derbys in the colors of Richard Croker, may be retired to the stud at the end of the racing season. Croker is undecided whether or not to race him next year. Comlakey emplays no scout for his Chicago club. In fact, he takes players cast off by other major league clubs and makes stars of them, for instance, Hahn, Dougherty, Altrock, Donahue and McFarland. Commy never sold a cent for Sullivan, Tannehill, Davis, Jones or Isbell. PITH AND POINT. A little present is often but another name for a bribe. The larger the bluff the smaller it looks when called. When a man earns his money he never has any to burn. A fool doesn't envy wise men. A fool never meets a man who is wiser than himself. Time gets away from an old man almost as quickly as money gets away from a young man. When a man first makes a fool of himself he gets an awful jolt—but he soon gets used to it. Remember, young man, if you are not satisfied with your job, the chances are that the boss will not refuse to accept your resignation.—Chicago News. Editorial Flings The preservation of the mosquito was one of the most irritating of the numerous mistakes of Neah—Boston Globe. A New York judge rules that it is not wrong to kiss a girl on the street. Not wrong perhaps, but one can think of better spots—Cleveland Leader. "Men in this country sleep the much," says Dr. Wiley. What! Has that man been experimenting with night watchmen?—New York Herald. Maria Copell condemns man in general. She says he's no good and a coward and a mutt, but she omits to show her sisters how they can get along without him—New York Amber- SHORT STORIES. A boy of twelve in New York has five rows of teeth, or sixty teeth in all. Some expert has figured out that there are only 2,000 professional baseball players in the country. Dr. Thomas Darlington of New York says keeping dogs in the city is a crime against the city and cruelty to the animals. The sight of surgical instruments so frightened a man in a hospital at Norristown, Pa., that he leaped from the building and ran screaming into the street. By a formal order issued from the war department the memory of the late General Shafter, who commanded the American troops in Cuba during the Spanish war, has been honored by bestowing his name upon the military post on the Kahauil reservoir near Houlcuih, Hawaiian Islands. Thirty-two years ago Mrs. Thomas Buker of Bath, Me., wrote two letters to her husband, Captain Buker, who was then traveling along the Mexican coast in a sailing vessel. The letters were never received by the captain and were recently returned to Mrs. Buker by the Mexican government. ENGLISH ETCHINGS There are over 12,000 shops for the sale of milk in London. Tithes were first instituted in England in the reign of King Egbert, about 600 A. D. Cholera has not been epidemic in Europe since 1886, when it appeared in both London and Liverpool. It is estimated that the total first cost of England's present navy was $870,000,000, and about $390,000,000 has been spent in the last ten years. Before the trial of a suit for damages was begun in a London court the other day it was remarked incidentally that the defendant, a laundry proprietor, had been dead eleven years. An innovation in English county cricket was seen in the Yorkshire versus Sussex match at Sheffield. Before each delivery the ball was wiped with a towel, which was intrusted to the care of the umpire while the ball was in play. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Shakespeare has been translated into Japanese, and the thesians of the mikado are making his plays popular. As to vandeville, way back in the early sixties Milen Terry made quite a success in that popular style of amusement. Burr McIntosh, who left the stage some time ago for professional life and the lecture field, is going to return and star in "Pudd'nhead Wilson" and other plays. Boston gave the stamp of its critical approval to the first performance of Richard Carle's new play, "The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl." Both music and lines are said to be bright. Among the twenty-two attractions which A. H. Woods will have on the road next season two are musical, and the list includes ten new melodramas. The others are old successes. HOME NOTES. If a narrow ribbon or tape is run into the feelings of kimono sleeves, they may be tied in a bow and kept out of the way when one is working about the house. You will need less laundry soap if it is thoroughly dried before using. For this pile it in such a way as to leave open space between the bars to allow free access of air. When kerosene oil has been spilled on the carpet, cover the spot thickly with either fuller’s earth or buckwheat flour and leave twenty-four hours at least before brushing it off. In some households bureau scarfs have been laid aside and the top of the dresser covered with a heavy glass slab. This can be easily wiped off and polished. As this glass is so thick there is little danger of it being easily broken. FACTS FROM FRANCE It is proposed to substitute solitary confinement during six years for the death penalty in France. No death sentence has been executed for some time. Trial is now being made in Paris of a new system of paving. Steel is laid on a bed of cement after the fashion of wood paved roads, the interstices, too, being filled with cement. A bird dealer in Paris raises canaries of an orange red tint by feeding the parent birds on cayenne pepper. In time he expects that the eggs will produce birds of a bright red hue. About $80 per year is charged for an unlimited telephone service in Paris, but in addition to this the subscriber must purchase his own instrument, which may be any one of a number of different kinds. The Plain Woman. She need not appear plain. She should experiment with her hair. She must study her colfurce from all points. It is the same with a dress or anything else.—St. Louis Republic. Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Keep This In Mind! Will be given on Wednesday evening, August 28, at Tattersalls, 10th and State sts, in honor of the visiting delegates to the Grand Lodge Session. Admission 80c. Elks Orchestra, Alex Armant, leader. Fisherman—Ah! That's a good beginning, a frying pan! I have only got to catch a fish now and I shall be all right—Bon Vivant. The Wise Bachelor Some men would be more independent if they recognized their wives as bellagirants. A woman will never believe anything very bad about a man she has once seen wiping his eyes at a pathet to play. No man is ready to get married until he doesn't care how many times a week he has the same kind of meat for dinner. No woman ever really knows her husband till she has heard him hunting in the top bureau drawer for a clean handkerchief. Nothing in the world is so pathetic as a girl who has made up her mind to reform some man and first begins to doubt whether he is going to let her.—New York Press. The Locksmith's Chance On the park bench sat two lovers. The passing locksmith dropped his kit and laughed long and uproarously. "Why do you laugh!" asked the park policeman. "Oh, just to get even," confided the locksmith. "You know love always laughs at locksmiths, so I thought it would be a good chance for the locksmith to laugh at love." And then the old man laughed himself out of sight—Chicago News. Now It Happened. Gyer—I was in a railway wreck seven years ago, and I never got over it. Myer—You must have been badly hurt. Gyer—I wasn't hurt at all. I didn't get over it because I crawled from under. See?—Detroit Tribune. Perfectly Proper. Stickler—Here! You've started your note to Borroughs "Dr. Stir." Don't you know that sort of abbreviation is very slovenly? Markley—No, sir. "Dr." is all right in this case. He owes me money—Philadelphia Press. A Precaution. "Do you believe in corporal punishment?" "Well," answered the father of several sons, "perhaps it is just as well occasionally to convince our boys that we are not mollycoddles."—Washington Star. In Suspense. An escaped murderer wrote a friend: "Jim, do you think if I'd give myself up that they'd suspend judgment?" The latter replied: "No, John. I rather thinks they'd suspend you."—Atlanta Constitution. An Ideal System. "What is your impression of an ideal railway system?" "An ideal railway," answered the weary traveler, "is one whose trains arrive as punctually and safely as the dividends."—New York Life. Temating Odds "Why is it that a fellow's friends always think he is making a mistake in selecting a wife?" "Oh, I suppose they can't resist the temptation when they have so many chances of being right." Why He Quit It. Percy—Are you still keeping up your deep breathing exercise, old chap? Ferry- Are you still keeping up your deep breathing exercise, old chap? Ferry- I have discontinued it for a time, dear boy. I am rooming next door-to a glue factory just at present-Judge. Frank H. Lewis, Prop. Telephone Calumet 185 DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST Open Day Night PEKIN INN CAFE Chas. Lett. Proprietor. ALA CARTE & TABLE DE MOTE SERVICE Music Every Evening. Special Attention to Parties and Weddings. 2704 State St. Phone Galumet 261 CHICAGO at Cost Until Sept. 1st. We control patents and discoveries by which missing teeth can be re-founded without the old-time removable plate and by which loose and falling teeth can be re-arranged by which proprhea (Riggs' disease), sore and bleeding gums, 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 Colleged people of Chicago. 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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. Lou Seldon, Mgr. Island 1787. ROAD INN Domestic Wines & Cigars Connection Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. s In Mind! STAHL'S SO. CHIGAGO NINES vs. LELAND GIANTS At Anburn Park, Sunday, August 25th. Games called at 8:30. Best of order maintained at all times. Come and see real ball playing. Price, Admission 250, Grand Established city. Phone Oakland 491-222 John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Double In... COAL & WOOD Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. Ran Vantage | just St. & L. R & H. & Ig. and St. and Amherst 490. CHICAGO Gaskins' Billiard and Pool Parlors 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 Stone Molding a specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. 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Come and see real ball play Stand $5c; Boy's Re ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Anhland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 800. CHICAGO. Broadway 57 MacMillan Place Telephone Anhland 386 Office Telephone Central 1200 Automobile 800 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 210-220 Ranger Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 90-90 Lea Plaza Avenue, Chicago 606-519-4111 Telephone State 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 900. ADMILAND BLOCK CELLPHONE CENTRAL 600 CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1585 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL, ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 335 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQJORS AND CIGARS 8030 State Street CHICAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 8710 State Street Houston, 210 12 A. M. 5th and 11th St. P. n. CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1896 F. A. 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Torx and ‘erody, hich mien toe nse ‘sue. ‘ceesful warrior. |” “Our old laws bid the soldier om the Seno Stee am the twelfth aay ‘bim~to-eat tion liver For the eleventh @ay'tHe ancient writ. ‘ings advise cerpent-soup, which will ee ee al . custard, ‘the enemy by changing color like the chameleon; on the ninth day, a broth ef crecodiie that he may pursve the ememy tn the “water no less cleverly than on land. “Next. spleen, which will give pan tos REA bate at apuaon, langht; next, kites’ heads, for. the rec Segre: ep saan ean rete eany. for Seabees sea, Fn ee stew- SoReal ereaere = breast, so that the soldier may be cruei and pitiless. ‘And'@nally on the day of Satta sia saan Seceapered sovent 2 rod made “ot the desiccated blood of the leopard, so that he may tear the foe to pleces asthe leopard tears his prey.” 7 ‘The young diplomat laughed. “We have still,” he said, “hundreds of mandarfos and thousands of sol- Giers who think that this dict system modies ‘better warriors. than all the modern Grilling end gunnery and sci- ence in the world.”—Exchange. Three Giant Locometives. ‘Three jocomotives, now building for the Brie railroad at the Schenectady ‘works of the American Locomotive ey mes be Pe bei ae adie ecEgeheWgporetine, alone. without tt 3 Welgh 205 tons, and will Baul on the level 320 londed freight refs. pre. train, trp. miler Jong. “—" = Secale ee a WHI have, sitioen Give wise ar ranged fn’ ty groups of sieht cs. Toe wher tacatans ore than POFty-thiée téét lonig, dnd the in- side diameter of the targest firebox fommtation fing is eight feat It is ‘provided ‘404 tubes two and oue- quarter inches in diameter and twen- rane Ane tene. Tha mater ta the : 42,700 pounds and tan utes 23700 Doma ‘One of the frebores would make a goed sized liv- {ng room, being ten and one-half feet Jong and nine and one-half feet wide taside, and havigg.s grate area of 100 square feet_—New York, Herald. ‘Ties Tattered Flecs- ‘There is 2 curious reagon for the or ‘Ger which the Kaiser has just issued tc ‘the effect that the colors of regiments are to be taken from their cases only ‘em the most important occasions. The fiags of the German army are in « de Plorable condition, even the new ones, for the colonels of regiments which Dave bad new colors given them of Jate years to replace the old anes which ‘went through the Franco-Prussian war hated parading with brand new colors, as if the regiment had never been in section. They winked at the subalteras, ‘who slit the new flags and gave them the dilapidated air of the old colors ‘But the emperor was furious st this imitation, and so be bas had the sham glories put back into the cases. Mew Methed Mirrcrs,_ Copper very closely resembies silver {m many respects, but hitherto no method has been known of depositing St from aqueous solutiogs on glass 80 ‘gto form mirrors like those so long made with sflver. This is now accom- Blished by reducing cupric oxide by ‘gm aqueous solution of pheny! hydre- ‘sine in presence of potassium hydrox. ide, Some mirrors made in this way ‘have been shown to the Londen Royal society by Dr. F. D. Chattaway and ‘ave 2 coberent metallic film as bril- Mant and uniform as that of the sil- yer on giass reGectors used in tele- scopes and much more beautiful on ‘mecount of the color. Accidents on Warships. Occasional: accidents are as much te be looked for on a warship as in an industrial plant If the officers and ‘@tew are to be fit for service in time of war they must practice with the Rig guns. They must engage in work ‘where momentary carelessness and the ‘Reglect of some seemingly trivia! pre- caution may mean sudden death or permanent disablement. On 2 battie- tages aes sane mal vigilance is the price of safety,, S24 in spite of the utmost vigilance ees c mae | Wai Sakae Wee i 4 ‘At present every British salior is al- ee A iat 2 Fe oe > ‘without grog, fa ees mabacteentee of 2 penny. ‘Total in future will get 3 eee ts fete wes FACTS IN FEW LINES ee ee ee a peng oht tienes fac catthewataee and she ‘was rained. eee cost present navy. was Tenet pee Deen spent in years. ess ee ee ment ‘Shipwrights and calk- fen of New Bagiasil and’ several Seeiegt rpeeiing, Pen, proves wecgeee Having started fts American series ‘with the Amerika, the Hamborg-Amer- Sean steamship line continves with the President ‘Lincoln end next fall will add the General Grant ‘Theodore .H.-Davis, the archaeolo- gist, has just brought to this country from Egypt an.alabsster statue of Queen Tel which dates back to 1800 B.C Itis to be.presented to the New York Museugptarts: > ‘Work upon, the tunnel -which is, to ‘couple Turin with. the Riviera as not bn ve hy atch ED Sprache co Tie ae bow Werk hes been begun by German Pallologists on material collected dur ng the last nine years for a dictionary ef the Egyptian language. The lan- guage goes back more than 3,000 years, 0d there are more than 1,000,000 sigs ped to it, ; ‘ STrad Dp Schoen ta al'caceth Sink hotel is pinned on the wall a large ised piece “of sanidpaper. Over it is this request? “Please sfon’t scratch your matches here.” Needless to say. that is where all the matches are scratched. ‘Two nine-pound shot were dug ep by, workmen in Waterville, Me, re- ceitiy. I¢ is' thought that thes were fired from British warships or: from the American batteries across the har- bor during the occupancy of the town by the English forces. ‘Out of 2 $3,000,000’ appropriation by | the Cuban congress for the relief of puffering occasioned by the last win- ter’s floods in the different provinces of the island a Havana paper states ' that $208,000 has been allotted to road building in Pinar del Rio province. In the new disease known as “tennis ubow” there ts usually local tender- pess on pressure;-with acute pain en fheNarmi. Théte te seldom Sy atchis al wok conte jo be due to fearing of the muscular Eber, énit it fs very pentistent, oftea ecurring even after long rest. It is # woman, Miss"M. X. Sullivan, who supplies the United States navy with its stationery, note paper, menu ards ‘and invitations. She is a Con- jecticat girl, but she got the training hat makes it possible for her to do his kind of work at Pratt institute. (aking card plates in the beginning, be bgs worked up her splendid busi- — Excavations in Rome being conduct- 4 on the Palatine hill have shown a marion and interesting circumstance. fhe Necropolis has been found to con- ain remains of the ninth, eighth, sixth md fourth centuries before Christ. All | ragments of the seventh and fifth cen- aries are lacking, and archaeologists |' re engaged in a close study of the eld in order to find the reason. : In Arbury Park, Warwickshire, Eng- | and, the ancestral seat of the Newde- mates, a tapered pillar in gray granite @ a three stepped pedestal has been rected to perpetuate the memory of |: Jeorge Eliot. Her birthplace is near | y, and her father, brother and nepb- | w served the Newdegate family in |' he office of land agent. The monu- || nent ts the gift of F. A. N. Newde- | ate. In the city of Springfield, Mass. is a |' rivate art collection which is the lar- | est and most varied owned by any one | erson in the country. It is the proper | y ot G. W. V. Smith, who has spent | ver fifty years getting it together, and is ranked with the New York Metro- | elitan museum and the Wallace mu- gum of London. Mr. Smith hes loaned |: js collection to the city of Springfield » make the pictures eventually the poperty of the citizens. Senator Palmer P. Woods of the is |, ad of Hawall is going to make an |! Hort for the preserving of the Hs. |! matin language. There have been |! forts in the past to preserve the lan- page in its parity, but the encrosch- |! eat of commercialism, the introduc- | on of the English language as the |, ficial tongue and the exclusive use of | mgilch in the public schools have | raGually undermined sil efforts to |) peserve some semblance of the beas- |; ful language of the native Hawail- | ¢ oe Prebebly ‘aot one person out of 800 |? tering the south car in the elevator waft of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever pps to read the little framed notice CHOICE MISCELLANY Resttin Decent Whictie. New York is big, busy and bustling, bat 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 bas amazed ‘the world, but the clear note of the ‘whistler can be heard even above the grind of State street, while Michigan ‘avenne is a perfect paradise for ee wie teers Vj Detpvias dows closer to the gulf littoral, there is ‘New Orieans, languid, romantic, sen- sual, dreaming in the tropical sun, ‘where between the lake and the river, Detween Carroliton and Barracks, one may never get beyond the range of the whistier’s whistling. Put Seattle to the test. Go to the corner of Pike street and First avenue, walk to Yester way and return through Becond avenue to Pike and then. add oa ‘They will be fewer in Sa act bate Saad te execution than one may find in the same distance on’ the usier streets of perbaps dny ether American city. Seattle simply doesn't whistle as other cities whistle. —Seattie Post-Intelligencer. Breameted After Panth Tt ts doubtful if there is any evidence tm the history of the United States ar wy of an officer beng promoted: after a at ‘such case in the Confeder ‘te army, however. Senator Culberson /ef Texas, who Is a close and accurate student of civil war history, particular ly tm so far as the Confederate’s past ‘tu ft is concerned, is the authority for ‘this statemént. Writing to the Confed- erate veteran regarding the south’s fe- mous artilierist, John Pelham—the @ellant Pelham,” as he was known in wartimes—the senator says that ‘after Petham’s death General Lee wrote to President Davis recommending that, notwithstanding the officer had passed away, he should be made a lieutenant colonel. Pursuant to the recommenda- tion, Davis seat the promotion nomina- tion to the senate, and It was couiirm- ed. Senator Culberson expressed the opinion that this was the most remark- able honor conferred on any man dur- ing the civil war. The incident ap- pears to be not well known, as most postbellum writers reter to Pelham as major, the rank he held when he died, —Washington Herald. ee ae Not long ago 2 man who smokes goed cigars came back from Cube. ‘There is a law limiting the number of cigars that can be brought im free to Afty. This particular man hadn't de lared his cigars, but he was found oat ‘ail 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 be started in to throw the extra cigars ‘over into the water. The inspectors Jet him do it, and be finally started to walk off the pier. But the officers at ‘ence 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 throw- fag some of the government's cigars tmto the water. He buys his cigars fight in New York now—New York ‘Tribune. a eo a ae omen et ont ena ‘The Budapest police have arrested a eonfectioner’s “housemaid” called Rosa. ‘They accused Rosa of being Alexander Nemety, aged nineteen, who was want- €d for a series of thefts, and the pris- ower at once admitted the identity. Nemety explained that he was tired of hiding from the police and that he Gressed himeelf in girl's clothes and took service with the confectioner on the strength of a servant's feference ‘Which be had stolen for the purpose. He acquitted himself excellently as a housemaid end might not have been Getected if he had not slipped out in ‘is own clothes to revisit old haunts an been traced back to the house— London Standard. Net For the Stout Woman. 4 popular fashion that the stout wo- man of a certain figure should avoid ‘ts the new way of putting on the Jap- anese sleeves. They begin with the armhole proper and are made, as you probably know, quite straight without fullness, four tnches deep, with a gol 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. a ee ee ‘and finished with a binding This sleeve gives the capelike effect that Jackets and many blouses are striving to get. Iepertance of the Little Gost | ‘The little coat plays an immensely | mportant part in the remodeling of al gowns. In & window there was dis played the other day 2 little dinner @oat of Chinese bive silk. ft was embroidered in the oriental colors. Scarcely a spot that was not touched with the embroiderer’s needle. The IMttle coat was cut like a kimono jacket, ‘very short, with very loose front end M@traight back There were chopped ff aleeves made very wide. | ‘The Doomed Paddie Wheel. Some particulars as to the cost of working turbine and paddle wheel steamers off the British coast heve been published, showing that the tur- time steamer burned 0.472 ton of coal per nautical mile and the peddle wheel steamer 0.614 ton. The average speci ef the turbine steamer was 22.2 knots and that of the paddle steamer 20 knots, and the turbine steamer required eas help. ie Hamor a? Philosophy aL EN | H Stay aes WHERE EVERY PATRON saves ON EVERY PURCHASE ‘By DUNCAN M. SMITE SCIENCE HAS A HUNCH. | SPedeg mecere aaoat A strictly modern school | And court’and wed by rule. ‘The short would draw the taller ones, ‘On aoe euch plan as that oes Pastas cece Mana leave thet He apoeal. ‘The blue eyed man would match a maid ‘Whose eyes were dark as jet; ‘The gentleman with curly locks ‘A straight hatred lass would get. ‘The ispositions of the two ‘Would also enter in— One who had energy to burn A siothful mate would win; ‘The woman with a temper built ‘Upon ® generous plan ‘Would more than likely be hitched te ‘Some meek and lowly man. No one selected might express ‘A preference or a doubt. Each would be told: “Here is your Now go and fight ft 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 & fog.” “Afraid of bumping Into seme other boat?” “No, it Imn’t that so much ae the com stant blowing of the fog horn. It re- minds me of the dinner horn and keeps me hungry all the time.” Jacob Feinberg a MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets 4. 4. Bradiey ‘Telephone Yards 686 4 . Fields BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE (GRO & Haleted Street CHICAGO “ » fe if ae } : e er [i Ys x Sandy W. Trice & Co. | 2918 State Street NeW vedariment ditore Why don’t you get in the habit of doing your trading In the New ‘Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special saleeday and two of Fish Trad- ing Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies’ Shirtwaists, Underwear and Cor ects, A sprendid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men’s Baibriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waletcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hate. A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy line of Neckwear and H®"dkerchiefs. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chaina, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pine Boys’ Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. “You will have to go to bed with the chickens if you come to my place,” said ‘the jolly uncie 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 ‘0 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 = hobby of a tad. ‘Yea, and get it pretty bad. ‘Til! you make the neighbors aaé— ‘Get somewhere! Don't get rooted to one spot. Get somewhere! Strike it rich as like as not. Get somewhere! At the risk of seeming blunt ‘Break away from use and wont, Get @ move and do @ stunt; See what things are like in front— ‘Get somewhere! 1 . - American Brick Co. - President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. vi Ere eencoey, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Gommor and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. = ies pee pee meee oe Ge re oe __ Telephone Yards 128. _ Eating It All. “You are growing 90 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 ‘eccasionally.” “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? ILLINOIS BRICK CO. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Some people may be bigger fools than others, but they will have to prove it before we believe it. A woman usually thinks that it is up to her to make her husband either re- term or conform. If more people would cultivate its ac- quaintance truth wouldn't be stranger ‘than fiction. A man's heart is lke « colt— not ‘ tractable Oh ‘until it is bro- ken 4 ‘The girl who mys she will never marry doubtiess means hardly ever. is ever : BS A short am ‘wer turns down poy eee ‘toucher, ‘The world is your oyster all right, Dut ‘have to go through cfeeewene ‘The appearance of work gives many ‘people heart failure. ‘Many 8 case of big head covers small ‘ent capacity, We can stand other people's troubles Decnube they always look mural to ee ‘Beware of the man who is patient ‘uuder your criticiam. He is probably laying fer you.