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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. The Proposed New City Charter Should Be Defeated For If Adopted It Will Create a Great Political Machine Which Would Be Under the Absolute Control of Mayor Fred Busse. Home Rule and Moderate Taxation Should Be the War Cry From Now Until the Polls Close Tuesday Eve., Sept. 17th. Vol. XII The Proposed Charter S Defe For If Adopted It W litical Machine W der the Absolut Fred Busse. Home Rule and Mod Be the War Cry Polls Close Tues Next Tuesday, September 17, the people of Chicago will be called upon to either vote in favor of adopting the new city charter or rejecting it at the polls, and all those who have not been born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and those who do not belong to the wealthy taxdodging class, and do not want to pile their just debts in the way of taxation, street improvements and so on only the backs of the poor laboring man and the small property owner and tax-payer, should vote against the proposed new city charter, which should be defeated by all means, for if it is adopted it will create the greatest political machine which has ever been constructed in this city, which would be under the absolute control of Mayor Fred Busse, and whenever he has the power to do so civil service will be blown in the winds, and no one will be permitted to work for the city, white or black, unless they fall down on their knees in his presence and look up to him as their lord and master. Home Rule and moderate taxation should be the war cry by those who are bitterly opposed to adopting the new charter, from now until the polls close Tuesday evening, Setember 17th, for if it is adopted taxes, as far as the small tax-payer is concerned, will be increased from 30 to 50 per cent, aside from special assessments, and as a result of this increase in taxes rents will advance 20 to 30 per cent and all of these extra burdens will fall on the backs of those who can ill afford to bare them, for they will never fall on the backs of the rich and high born, who feast on all the good things every hour in the day at the expense of the laboring classes. In addition to greatly increasing the taxes on property, all of which will have to be paid by the small tax-payer, for the rich or the large tax-payers always manage to stand in with the powers that be and they are never called upon to pay their just share of taxes, the new city charter further provides for a license tax upon any trade or business carried on wholly or in part within the city limits. This is an immense departure from the present law. Under the existing charter a few enumerated avocations, supposed to require police supervision, may be liable to a license tax; but under the proposed New Charter every kind of business, trade or calling, may be licensed. And, as the Mayor, under the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago (Sections 1324 and 1380) has large discretion in issuing licenses and almost absolute power in revoking them, every kind of avocation or business is made to depend upon the favor of the Big Boss. What Chicago needs is not increased taxation, but fairer collection. Let the authorities compel rich, tax-dedging corporations, estates and multimillionaires to pay their just and lawful share of taxes and the city will have abundant revenue without laying any additional burdens upon honest citizens! Under these conditions no small struggling business man who wants to earn a honest living for his loved ones, and leave behind him a good name which is more precious than all the gold in the world, should vote for it if he does, it will only be a question of time until he is taxed or licensed clear out of business. The New Charter opens the way for a vast increase of a new municipal debt and wholesale robbing, under it the city may become indebted to the extent of 5 per cent of the full value of all taxable property in the city as ascertained by the last assessment preceding the incurring of such indebtedness. According to City Statistician Grosser, taking the assessment of 1906 as a basis, the debt limit under the New Charter would be $106,565,824. After providing for debts already incurred for city, county, sanitary district and parks, amounting to $60,106,200, the City Council might incur a new debt of $46,459,624; or, according to careful figures of the Real Estate News (August number) a new debt of $52,493,975, and this limit would increase from year to year with the increased assessments. Forty-six to fifty-two millions of dollars to be spent (to begin with) by a gerrymandered City Council, every dollar of which might be squandered in the period of a single administration on some "beautiful city" scheme along the lake front, in which the masses of Chicago's citizens could have but little interest. And every year the people would be taxed to pay interest on the bonds and provide a sinking fund for the ultimate extinction of the debt! It is true that no bonds can be issued under the New Charter except after approval by the voters of the city. But this, in the light of past experience, is but a feeble safeguard. The City Council may submit the question at an ill attended special election upon only thirty days' notice; and it may so connect the question with other questions that an approval will be taken, in effect, by default. Let no person be deceived! The New Charter means debt—debt, and a high title of jobbery! Aside from these crudely pointed out objections to the New City Charter, there are many other objections which could be pointed out in connection with it and, by all means it should be overwhelmingly defeated at the polls Tuesday, September 17th. Mrs. S. A. T. Wetkins, 3634 Calumet Ave, have a formal whist party Monday evening in honor of her guest Miss Nicholson, of Memphis, Tenr Guests enough for six tables contested joyously for the handsome prices from nine o'clock p. m. to one o'clock a. m. after which a fine colation was served. HEW TO THE LINE. CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 14, 1907. MRS. MOSES RATCLIFF. One of the most faithful workers in St Marks M. E. church, 47th and Stats street who recently returned from a pleasant journey through the South. Mrs. Moses Ratcliff, 4850 Dearborn street, returned home recently from a visit to the South. She had a most delightful time throughout her trip of some six weeks. On August 15th she was entertained by the I. P. B. No. 9 at Van Hooks Grove, Tenn., Mrs. Savanah Price, President, White Haven, Tenn. She was also royally entertained at Ettas Station at the home of Mr. W. F. Clowers where she met a host of ladies. Mrs. Frankie Crump, Mrs Mary L. Herron, 717 S. Como street, Memphis, Tenn. President Household, of Ruth, No. 173, and Mrs. Annie Stitts were among those who made it pleasant for her. Mrs. Lillian Simpson residing at Weavers, Tenn., also entertained her and Mrs. Ratcliff, visited at Crystal Springs, and was entertained there just as nice as anyone could wish for at that and other places. She was MRS, MABEL DAMMOND SCORES FREE PRESS. Points Out That White Men Have Practiced Miscegenation For Hundreds of Years and Use All the Power of a "White" Government to Force a State of Concubinage Upon Negro Women. Some Race Prejudice Revealed Upon Part of the Lady.—Teaches Son to Honor "Negro Women" Instead of Teaching Him to Honor All Pure and Virtuous Women Without Regard to Race or Condition. Under a head line state that "Negroes demean themselves who marry white women," The Free Press publishes a communication from Mrs. Mabel Dammond in its issue of Sunday, September 1, that must have been exceedingly interesting reading to many thousands of white people, especially the white ladies, who hear so much from southern sources about the sensuous nature of Negro men. Mrs. Dammond's communication follows, in part: To the Editor of The Free Press: In Tuesday's issue of your paper occurs an editorial on "The Color Line in 'Marriage' in which you cite the specific instance of the marriage of "a Negro and a white girl, said to be very pretty." In mentioning the southern white man's attitude as to intermarriage between the Negro and the white races you are unmindful of the southern's attitude toward Negro women during slavery, when his greed for gain allowed him to indulge his sensuous passions to the total disregard of decency, morality and even the respect of his own wife and legitimate family. This reference to past conditions you might consider irrelevant were not the same vile practices, though not now from greed, but just downright immorality, engaged in by thousands of southern white men to-day. A pretty Colored girl of the south is to-day bounded most persistently by your met by hosts of friends which she had made through her excellent work, many of whom she had never come in contact with until her trip South, and who anxiously awaited her coming. Mrs. Ratcliff has by her kind heartedness and Christian character made life lasting friends in the Sunny South, among those who were eager to do everything in their power to add to her pleasure and happiness. It was her pleasure to visit Whitechapel M. E. S. C., Fords chapel A.M. E. Plunket's chapel and many other churches in Memphis and other points visited by her, and while absent, she endeavored to let her light shine as brightly in her church work as she always does at home. Her mother, Mrs. Amanda Donald, Memphis, Tenn., felt prouder of her than she ever did before, and left no stone unturned to make her visit long to be remembered! prominent white man of the south, a condition which obtains, not in isolated cases only, but throughout that section of the country generally. Courts a Base Mockery. Every species of intimidation is aimed against her and her parents by the white scoundrel, the courts of justice (?)—base mockery!—are really closed against the Negro girl and her natural protectors, and, as a result, thousands of Negro girls are being literally forced by the brutality of the southern white man into concubinage with him. This statement is made, not as a result of having read newspaper articles, for such acts do not appear in the daily papers when the white man is the criminal, but from my own personal observation, while employed for ten consecutive years as a teacher in a certain section of the south. In fact, you know of such conditions, for, not long since, an editorial in your own paper alluded to the young white politicians of the south who could illegitimately "raise a family of pickaninutes." Thus, you can see who in the main continue to play the part of promoters of racial intermixture. You say that laws have been passed restricting the intermarriage of the races in question. With what result? Simply a prevention of marriage. The moral standard of the southern white man has not been raised thereby. Understand, I am not an advocate of miscegenation, for I am unmistakably a Negro woman, and am proud of it. And so proud of my race that my son is being taught to have the highest respect for and admiration of the women of his own race, that he, like the Jews, whom you cite, may assist in preserving the grandeur of his race.—The Informer, Detroit, Sept. 7, 1907. Roger C. Sullivan member of the Democratic National Committee; will in the near future build six one-story store buildings, 50x128, at 770 and 772 West Lake street, to cost $35,000. President Roosevelt Dipped Into Life Insurance Funds George B. Cortelyou, His Campaign Manager, Spent $200,000 In His Election In 1904 Belonging to Widows and Orphans. The Rough Riding President Proves Himself To Be a Downright Hypocrite and No True Reformer. During the presidential election of 1904, it was claimed by several prominent persons who were in positions to know that George B. Cortelyou at that time Chairman of the Republican National Committee, who is now a Roosevelt candidate for president of the United States, and other eminent leaders of the G. O. P. of God and morality, had secured large sums of money from the officials of several life insurance companies, which rightly belonged to widows and orphans, which was spent to further the election of the Rough Riding President. In order to successfully deny those black charges Messrs. Odell, Bliss, and Chaucey M. Depew, who has always been much worse than a highway robber, induced President Roosevelt to rush into public print, and like a prize-fighting bulld brand every man a bare-faced liar, who even intimated that any one of his high moral saints had received one dollar from life insurance companies to be expended to further his political aspirations, but after much labor on the part of the New York World, it has proven, President Roosevelt to be the greatest liar of his whole bunch of liars, for last Sunday The World published the following list of the subscribers to the campaign fund and how the money was blowed in for the avowed purpose of debauching and corrupting the voters: "The mystery concerning the campaign fund raised by Edward Harriman on October 29, 1904, "at the personal solicitation of President Roosevelt" is set forth below. The amount of that fund, names of the subscribers thereto, and the manner of its collection by Harriman and Senator Chauncey M. Depew have been obtained from a source that leaves no room for question. The exact amount of the fund was $260,000, not $200,000 as has been stated. The names of the subscribers to it and the amount given by each of them are as follows: Edward H. Harriman $50,000, H. McK. Twombly (representing the Vanderbilt interests) $25,000, Chauncey M. Depew (personal) $25,000, James Hazen Hyde $25,000, Equitable Life Insurance Society $10,000, J. Pierpoint Morgan $10,000, George W. Perkins (New York Life Insurance Co.) $10,000, H. H. Rogers, John D. Archbold, William Rockefeller (Standard Oil) $30,000 James Speyer and banking interests $10,000, Cornellus N. Billss (personal) $10,000 Seven friends of Senator Depew $5,000 each $35,000, sent to Mr. Harriman in smaller donations $20,000; total $260,000. Money Turned Over to Bilsen. This sum, exceeding by $60,000 the amount estimated by George B. Cortelyou, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and B. B. Odell, chairman of the Republican State Committee, to be necessary to insure the election of Mr. Roosevelt as President and Mr. Higgins as Governor, was collected by Mr. Harriman and Senator, Depew and turned over by Mr. Harriman to Cornelius N. Bilsen, treasurer of the Republican National Committee. No. 49 osevelt Dipped Insurance ands His Campaign Manager, In His Election In 1904 dows and Orphans. Proves Himself To Be a Down- No True Reformer. Mr. Bliss gave his check for the full amount to Mr. Cortelyou. The latter retained $60,000 of it for his own uses in the state and gave his check for the remaining $200,000 to Mr. Odell. Mr. Odell deposited these checks to the credit of the state committee and drew upon this deposit for the full amount by state committee checks, upon the demand of the chairman of the Republican County Committee of the sixty-one counties in the state. "Took Care of" Weak Spots. Both funds—that disbursed by Mr. Cortelyou on behalf of the National Committee and by Mr. Odell for the State Committee—were spent without special reference to benefit particularly either President Roosevelt or Mr. Higgins at the expense of the other. The understanding between Chairman Cortelyou and Chairman Odell was that each was to "take care of" the weak spots wherever he saw them. Mr. Cortelyou had his own agents, in the field and devoted most of the money at his command to "taking care" of the labor and industrial vote. Mr. Odell disbursed the money he received in "greasing" the state machinery, which he then absolutely controlled. Naturally, neither of these gentlemen will describe the manner in which he spent the money raised by Mr. Harriman; nor will either discuss the details concerning its use." TAFT'S SUFFERAGE VIEWS. The position taken in the suffrage question by Secretary Taft in his Lexington, Ky., speech is, in effect, that it is all well enough to disfranchise and to degrade the Negro politically, provided the same treatment is applied alike to whites as well as blacks. We are willing to see you make subjects of the Negro in the South just so you will make subjects of some white people, too, and put them down on the same plane with the disfranchised Negro. This is the Taft idea. This doctrine is in line with the preachments of Booker T. Washington, whose advocacy of materialism has done not a little bit to bring up this country to a sentiment that has acquiesced in the relegating of his race back to a subject state under the government in which they were former voters. This doctrine is not stopping at the Negro, either, for it is taking in the plain white masses even now. So far as the Negro race is concerned, the Negro is waking up to the danger that has lurked in upon them through the teaching of Booker Washington. The masses of the whites in the South are going to awaken some of these days to the fact that it is a dangerous (doctrine that is being prescheduled by Taft, which simply implies that the country don't mind it if you put the poor whites and the Negroes in the South on the same disfranchised level. — The Americas: Alexander City, Alabama. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promote and as all lines uphold the true genius of Democracy, but Cabbages, Protestants, Pastors, Indiele, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republi- kals, Knights of Leder, or any one else can have the power to change language is present and competencies to meet. The Broad AX is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, over claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Year.....$2.00 Month.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 100 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago as Second-class Matter. BETHEL CHURCH PETITIONS THE RETURN OF DR. A. J. CAREY. The officers of Bethel Church are a unit in their desire for the return of the Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D., to the pastorate of that church for another year. To this end they have already drafted a strong petition to the Bishop and Conference praying for his re-annointment. Dr. Carey was assigned to Bethel Church three years ago after closing a most successful administration of six years at Quinn Chapel. When he took charge of Bethel all was chaos and confusion. Mortgages long past due were in the courts, chattel mortgages were on everything, even the pulpit and the bible on the pulpit. The membership was scattered, discouraged and disorganized. But when the master hand of Dr. Carey took hold of the affairs of Bethel Church, and with the assistance of the faithful trustees and members of the church soon cleared away the chattel mortgages, paid off all the floating debts, cut the first mortgage half in two and placed Bethel Church on a firm basis and on absolutely safe ground. No minister has come to Chicago in the last decade and accomplished as much in a financial way for Chicago Churches as has Dr. Carey. And not only that whenever the race has needed a fearless champion, a man willing to speak out and both dare and do in behalf of his race, Rev. Carey has been that champion. Chicago is unwilling to spare him and Bethel has the best wishes of the Community with them in their desire to retain the excellent services of Dr. Carey.—T. W. S. SOME CHANGES..AMONG THE PREACHERS IN THE IOWA CONFERENCE. The Iowa conference concluded its labors at Quinn Chapel Monday evening and the following were some of the most important changes made among the preachers by the conference. Rev. Fairbee Galesburg, Ill., transferred to Wayman Chapel, on the North Side. Rev I. N. Daniels transferred from St. Stephens on the West Side to Galesburg and Rev. Wilson is the new pastor at St. Stephens. Rev. Moore is the new pastor at Trinity Mission on 18th street. Rev. W. S. Brooks was returned to Des Moines, Iowa. Rev. Horace S. Graves will hold the fort at St. Paul, Minn., for another year. Rev J. C. Anderson, late pastor of Wayman Chapel, was held in space for the present. Reva George W. Gaines and H. H. Thompson were rehosen Presiding Elders for St. Paul and the Chicago District. This coming Monday, the Illinois Conference begins at Bethel Church, and the sessions will be largely attended. REV. GEORGE W. GAINES HEADS THE DELEGATES FROM THE IOWA CONFERENCE, TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE IN 1902. Among the first business transacted by the Iowa Conference, which colsed its labors at Quinn Chapel, Monday evening, was to elect delegates to the General Conference which meets at Norfolk, Va., in May 1908, and many of the followers of Rev. D. P. Roberts prayed and worked for him to head the delegation but their labors were in vain. ForPresiding Elder Rev. George W. Gaines, was selected to head the delegation and Reva. Roberts and J. C. Anderson were chosen to grace his heels, and it is freely predicted that Rev. Gaines, will be one of the first among the many candidates to receive the Bishop's mantle from the hands of the General Conference in 1905. Messrs. Will Simmons, Will McCullough, Frank Jackson, Hugh Marcell and Win. Caswell after spending the summer at Petchkey, Mick, have returned home. MEETING OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The ninth annual session of the National Medical Association was recently held in Baltimore, Md. The business sessions were held in Metro politan Hall, Orchard St. For the larger occasions, St. John's A. M. E. and the Zion Baptist churches were utilized. The meeting presented an inspiring photograsure of the marvelous advancement of the Afro-American in the world of medicine, surgery, dentistry and pharmacy. There were in attendance three hundred representatives of these masterly sciences, hailing from every medical school of any consequence in this country. The morning of the opening day after registering the delegates, was taken up in listening to the admirable annual address of President N. F. Mossell, of Philadelphia. Many good papers were read. Dr. Lofton's "Clinical Paper on Several Unique Cases of Bridge Work" was of unusual excellence. Interesting reports were heard indicating increased membership everywhere, and the establishment of Colored hospitals in nearly every city of considerable Negro population in the country. During the evening at Union Baptist church, a cordial address of welcome was delivered by the Hon. J. Barry Mahool, Mayor of Baltimore who said there was no groupe of constructive workers, who had so much to do with human happiness, as the good doctors, and the good dentist and the good pharmacist—their mission was of the utmost importance to civilization and he was proud to welcome to the largest commercial city of the South and the sixth largest municipality of the nation, so splendid a body of men and women, as are embraced in the National Medical Association. Mayor Mahool bespoke for the Association an increasing degree of usefulness as the years go by, and bade all Godspeed. An appropriate response was made by Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, of Chicago. In the course of Dr. C. H. Shepard's address he referred to several noted physicians and surgeons, whose achievements have attracted the attention of both hemispheres, mentioning, particularly Dr. A. M. Curtis of Washington, D. C.; Dr. D. H. Williams and Dr. Geo. C. Hall, of Chicago. On Wednesday many splendid papers were read and several important surgical operations were performed at Provident Hospital under the direction of Dr. J. E. Hunter of Lexington, Ky. By Thursday, Baltimore realized the fact that there was a very impressive meeting in her midst. The ladies in attendance, were beautifully gowned adding materially to the interest and estheticism of the occasion and the doctors had on their best "togs" to match. The report of Mrs. A. V. Gray, pharmacist, of Washington, D. C., evoked much favorable comment. The following officers were elected, after having a battle royal and when the smoke had cleared away, for the ensuing year: Dr. W. H. Wright, of Baltimore, president; Dr. Charles Robert, of New York, vice president; Dr. J. A. Kinney, of Tuskegee, secretary; Dr. I. A. Lawrence, of Elizabeth, N. J., assistant secretary; Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, of Chicago, treasurer; Dr. L. H. Fenderson Baltimore, corresponding dental secretary; Dr. Philip D. Lee, Milledgeville, Ga., corresponding pramaceal secretary. The place selected for the next meeting is New York, the last week in August. 1908. The festivities of the occasion were brought to a close by a grand reception Thursday night, at Lyric Hall. Just seven years ago the National Medical Association numbered only 25 members; today it has a membership of 350. This shows a substantial growth in numbers and it has also increased its influence; its annual meetings are luminous landmarks in the history of the Afro-American people in the sciences which are doing so much in the alleviation of human suffering and the prolongation of human life—E. R. M. TAKES WHITE MAN'S WIFE. Zachariah Reeves, 23 years old, a Negro, was arrested last Saturday in a flat at 1254 Indiana avenue for eloping with the wife and 12-year-old daughter of Joseph Rebec, a white man, in Buchanan, Mich. Rebec aided the police in the search, having traced the couple here from Buchanan. Mrs. Rebec and her daughter are thought to be hiding somewhere on the South Side, and are being sought by the police. A trunk containing their clothing was found in the Reeves Fat, who admitted he had eloped with the woman, and said it was their intention to get married if possible. He was held on a charge of aliding in the delinquency of a child. "I cannot understand why my wife ran away with the Negro," said Rebec, "as he has no personal claim which would explain her act in leaving me and a comfortable house." [Name not visible] DOCTOR A. WILBERFORCE WILLI AMS. President of the Black Diamond Development, who was re-elected Treasurer of the National Medical Association, at its recent meeting in Baltimore, Md. President of the Black Diamond Development, who was re-elected Treasurer of the National Medical Association, at its recent meeting in Baltimore, Md. GIRL BEREAVED BY HER MOTHER Mabel Ross, seventeen years old, was arrested Wednesday by Detectives Howe and Quinn of the Detective Bureau after Albert Jones, thirty-seven years old, Colored, had been locked up at the Central Station on complaint of the girl's mother, who said the couple had been living at Twenty-fourth and Dearborn streets for a number of months. Mr. Alfred Anderson of Providen Hospital, left the city Tuesday to spend six weeks in New York City and other Eastern points. Mrs. L. M. Harris and Mr. Edward Jefferson, of New Orleans, La., are spending the week as guests of Mrs. M. Love, 6006 Center Ave. Mr. Fred York of Springfield, Ill. after a pleasant visit of a week with When the girl was taken to the Harrison Street Annex her mother, Mrs. Blanche Marthe, 162 Irving avenue, faced her daughter in a dramatic meeting and said the girl would be disinherited by her and would lose an estate left to her by her wealthy grandfather. According to the police the girl was married a year ago to William Ross and then left him for the Colored man.-The Chicago American, Wednesday evening, Sept. 11. This is another case wherein a white lady was more than willing to put herself on social equality with a Negro. FOR SWEET CHARITY. Through the influence of Mesdames Dresden Bowman and Evans, of the King's Daughters Circle, a championship game of base ball has been arranged between "The Pekin Colts" and "The Teddy Bear" at Auburn Park Friday afternoon, Sept. 20, for the benefit of the Day Nursery at the Institutional Church. Mr. Rube Foster, the famous pitcher, will umpire and Mr. Luther Moore, the boy wonder, will be in the game. CHIPS Dr. Webb Curtis has returned to his home and practice in Hot Springz, Ark. Mrs. Ella Martin, 3134 Forest Ave., is visiting her brother in St. Paul, Minn. Anne May Spencer, a Tuskegee graduate, is in charge of a new millinery store in Columbus, Ga. There are over one hundred Negro business enterprises in two squares of an Indianapolis street. Mr. Roscoe Evans, 3333 State St., leaves the city Saturday to spend the winter in the West. Miss Ethel Bailey, 2436 Wabash Ave., is confined to her bed with pneumonia. Mr. Richard Ball, 3256 Forest Ave., after an absence of two months from the city, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Galloway, 5216 Dearborn St., entertained a few friends at whist Tuesday eve. Mr. John L. Fry of the Keystone Hotel and Robt. Motts are spending a few weeks at West Baden Springs. John Bacon, a Coloreal man, of Sioux Falls, Ia., has decided to erect a hand some apartment house in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Alfred Anderson of Providence Hospital, left the city Tuesday to spend six weeks in New York City and other Eastern points. Mrs. L. M. Harris and Mr. Edward Jefferson, of New Orleans, La., are spending the week as guests of Mrs. M. Love, 6006 Center Ave. Mr. Fred York of Springfield, Ill., after a pleasant visit of a week with his brother, Dr. York, 4711 State St. returned home Monday. Mr. W. J. Allen, 6006 Center Ave. entertained at dinner Wednesday evening Mr. E. Jefferson and Mrs. L. M. Harris of New Orleans, La. Mrs. Augusta Brown Hawkins, 4640 Dearborn St., entertained Mr. E. S Sprague of Portland, Oregon, at din ner, Tuesday evening. Dr. Robert Harden and Mr. Richard Kelly have returned from their eastern trip, where they combined business and pleasure. Mr. Amos Sayers age 67 died after a short spell of sickness, Sept 9, at the residence of his son Benj. Sayers, 6322 Rhodes Ave. Mr. Sayers fromer- ly lived in Phila., Penna. Mr. J. M. Sims and daughter Mrs. S. M. Sims, of Washington, D. C. spent Sunday in Chicago the guest of Miss Lucy Lindsay, 4110 Calumet Ave. Mr. James Hale Parker, Jr., has returned from his vacation in Southern Illinois and will make immediate preparations to enter the University of Illinois at Jacksonville. Mrs. Florence Kemp, of Nashville Tenn., and several other charming visitors to the city, spent Tuesday evening at whist, the guest of Mrs. Rosa Thompson Lively, 6618 Vernon Ave. The Leland Giants are still cleaning up everything before them. Last Sunday they routed The Athletics by 9 to 3. This coming Sunday the "Giants" will go up against the South Chicago's at Auburn Park. Mr. George Gray, one of Mr. Robt Mott's right hand men, severed his connection with the Pekin Theater last week to resume his position as chief clerk for the Pennsylvania railroad, a position he has held for 17 years. Mr. John Jones Wheeler formerly of Chicago, was married to Miss Louise Rebecca Bulkley of Lansingburgh, New York, Wednesday, Sept. 4. The bride and groom will make their home in Baltimore, Ml., after September 7. Mrs. Mary E. Fenwick, Oskaloosa, Iowa, mother of Dr. Louis Madison Fenwick, 6226 South Halsted street, this city, passed away at her lowa home Sept. 3. She was in her 79th year, and she will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends. J. W. Anderson, 79 East 32ml St. returned home Monday after spending a 10-day' vacation in Louisville, Ky. the guest of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Wheedee and is much delighted with the Southern hospitality that has been shown him. Stopping a day at French Lick Springs, Ind. The Pekin Inn Cafe, 2704 State street, conducted by Charles Lett, is one of the finest places in the city to drop in to get something good to eat everything in connection with it is a clean and an neat place a new pair. The waiters are polite and attentive, and the many guests which frequent the place at all hours of the day and night, never have any kick coming at the service they receive, and mine hostett is always on hand to greet his many patrons, with the glad hand and a pleasant smile! Miss Lucy Lindsay, 4110 Calumet Ave., entertained a small number of her friends at an informal musical Sunday afternoon from five to seven thirty. This marks the beginning of a series of like entertainments which will be given by our society folks throughout the coming fall and winter. The programme was contributed to by a number of the guests and a pleasant time was spent by all. Last Tuesday while transacting some business on the North Side, it was our pleasure to take lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Dee Parker, 179 Lincoln Ave., who in company with her daughter, Miss Rena, returned home the latter part of last week from a month's visit to Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. Parker is at all times full of business, he has full charge of four large flat buildings on the North Side, collecting all the rents and turning it over to their owners. There are very few Afro-Americans in this city holding any more responsible positions than Mr. Parker and it is needless to say, that all the members of his family are warm friends of The Broad Ax. FOR SALE TWO FLAT BRICK BUILDING. A two flat brick building for salon Berkley ave., near 41st street Price $4,000. Modern except heat $1,000 to 1,200 cash required to make the deal. Balance easy payments or terms to suit purchaser. The flats will bring in $40 to $45 a month rent This is a snap. Wake up and act quick before it is too late. For further information call or address Julius F. Taylor, 5040 Armour ave. NOTICE FOR PARDON. R. M. Mitchell will make application for the pardon of Joseph A. Kelley, who is now serving a one-year sentence in the Cook County Jail for the crime of larceny. R. M. Mitchell, Chicago, August 31, 1907. A Stinaing Rebuke. "The late Francis Murphy," says a Pittsburg man, "was perhaps the greatest temperance reformer our country has ever seen. Over 10,000,000 people, thanks to his labors, took the pledge. "Mr. Murphy, a plain, sincere man, hated snobbishness hardly less than drunkenness. At a dinner here in Pittsburg I once heard him rebuke, with a little anecdote, a snobbish millionaire. "He said there was a rich and snobbish Englishwoman living in the country. Her husband put himself up for a political place, and in order to help his campaign along the woman gave a garden party, to which every voter for miles around was invited. "Among the humble guests was a very independent grocer. The grocer made himself quite at home. No duke's manner could have been easier and freer. Indeed the man's total lack of subservience angered his hostess extremely, so that in the end, thinking to take him down a peg, she said to him significantly: "You know, Mr. Greens, in London shopkeepers don't go into the best society." "The grocer looked at her and nodded and smiled. "They don't here, either, ma'am,' he said." EDITORIAL FLINGS For 5 cents you can ride all day in the New York subway—if you are that big a fool.—Baltimore Sun. You can quote almost anything as from the Bible these days and not get caught at it—Detroit Free Press. Now they say that "laughing is a lost art in England." Does everybody read Punch ever there?—New York Herald. However foolish kissing may seem, the effort to regulate it on scientific principles is still more so.—Washington Star. It has become impossible to eat or drink without colliding with a Harvey W. Wiley warning—Charleston News and Courier. While the national bureau of fisheries is trying most landably to solve the future of the lobster, the whole question does not come within its jurisdiction.—Philadelphia Ledger. NEW YORK CITY. There is an average of 102 immigrants from Russia landing in New York city each day. It is estimated that New York city will require the expenditure of $4,000,000 for police and fire engine houses during the next three years. Though it may seem strange, there is hardly to be found in New York city a trunk store that is not personally advertising a special sale. There are now fewer household goods in storage in New York city than in fire years because there are more New Yorkers than ever going into urban homes—New York Herald. Selections MARCONI AT THE KEY. Making Thunder and Lightning in His Paris Workshop. The asphalted floor is covered with a carpet of rubber. The walls and ceilings are in hard wood. Strange instruments lie in each corner of the room. On a platform raised a yard above the floor, says a writer in the Paris Revue is a table with a transmitting key upon it and a large wooden lever also used in transmitting. Marconi is on the platform, his hand grasping the lever. "Now," he says, "be careful. When I signal to the electrician 50,000 volts will enter the room. Stand behind me and touch nothing. Do not approach those colls, because the current will not wait for you to touch them. It will leap out upon you." The signal given, a lever is pulled and a dull noise is heard. The needle of the voltameter begins to move on the dial and to attain all sorts of high figures. "Now," says Marconi, "I will communicate with the nearest station," and he presses the key of the transmitter. There is a blinding blue flash, and at each pressure on the key sparks nearly two feet in length start from between the two silvery balls of the induction reel. One of these balls is in communication with the earth and the other with a rod. Each spark represents an impulsion which is communicated from the battery to the rod, and from this rod the electrician sets in motion the vibrations of the ether called Hertzian waves. These waves expand in space in every direction at a speed of 300,000 kilometers a second—that is to say, seven times the circumference of the earth. They are independent of wind and temperature and glide above the surface of the earth and sea, striking on their way the wireless stations that lie far beyond the horizon. At each blinding flash that accompanies the movement of the key a noise like the report of a rifle is heard. It is an awe inspiring spectacle, the inventor calmly standing there pressing the key amid the lightning and the thunder. The operator is obliged to stuff his ears with wool. It appears, however, that recently Marconi has found means of doing away with the noise almost completely. A Big Suit Over a Small Sum. A Big Suit Over a Small Sum. A wealthy Frenchman recently bought a ticket at a Paris railway terminus, but missed the train he intended to take. While waiting for the next train, which left two hours later, he studied the company's tariff to pass away the time. He then found that he had been charged 14 francs 45 centimes, whereas the proper fare was only 14 francs 42 centimes. He asked for his money back at the office, but without result. An interview with the station master was also unsuccessful. He afterward wrote a number of letters to the company, but received no answer. He then commenced an action to recover the 3 centimes. He won the action in the lower court, but the company took it to the appeal court, afterward to the cour de cassation. Both courts dismissed the appeal, and the company was ordered to pay the plaintiff the 3 centimes. The cost to the company amounted to 8,250 francs, or $1,650—Railway and Engineering Review. Fishing For the Americans The question of early closing is causing much discussion in Vienna. At a recent meeting of the Commerce and Industry association the proposition to close retail stores at 7 o'clock in the evening was voted down. The chief speaker of the occasion said that to close a store at 7 o'clock would be ridiculous. He favored a resolution to the effect that dealers in food articles and household necessities be asked to close their places of business at 10 o'clock and that other places of business keep their doors open no later than 9 o'clock. A representative of a clerks' organization spoke of the early hours in the large cities of the United States and was answered by a store-keeper, who said, "It's all very well there, where the Americans are at home and can't get away, but here we have them only for a short time and must be ready for them." Cold Water Process of Canning Cold Water Process of Canning Wash the fruit thoroughly, and in case of rhubarb cut into small pieces as for plies. If gooseberries are used, top and tall them. Pack into glass jars that have been sterilized, then fill the jars to overflowing with freshly drawn water. Put on the covers and let them stand overnight. By the next morning, says the Circle, you will find that the fruit has taken up more or less of the water and that there is quite a vacuum to be filled. Drain off the water and fill again with fresh cold water to overflowing, letting the water come with sufficient force to drive out any air. Then seal closely and put away for winter use. Record In Bricklaying. In the erection of the office building for the house of representatives adjacent to the United States capitol at Washington an interesting fact has developed in connection with the brick masonry work. The first brick was laid at the site on the afternoon of July 5, 1906, and on July 3, 1908, there had been laid in the walls 11,000,000 brick. This is believed to be the greatest number of bricks laid on any building in one year in the United States and probably in the world. Building Magnus. QUAKER TURNED PAINTER Lad Who Has Become One of America's Greatest Artists. The magnificent mural paintings of O. Y. Turner are among America's art treasures. How near this famous artist came to being forbidden an artistic career because his Quaker parents objected on religious grounds is told in the New Broadway Magazine. When it came time for the small son to take his place among the wage earners of the family—and that time came early—he communicated to his father his intention of being an artist. As has happened so often, the father objected. Not only did it seem to him most unpracticable from a monetary standpoint, but also contrary to the Quaker doctrines. In a family where brass handles on furniture were removed because they were considered frivolous and were replaced by knobs of dark walnut this was not a matter of small importance. Moreover, the father had intended that the boy should be a pharmacist. A compromise was at last reached. The painting of pictures was out of the question, but architecture recommended itself to the Quaker mind as serving a utilitarian purpose. At the same time, with the possibility of making infinite charts and drawings, it approached closely enough to the pictorial to satisfy the young Charles. Three years of apprenticeship to an architect followed. Then, having come to the realization that the construction of buildings and the painting of pictures are decidedly different phases of art, the boy took a position with a photographer and eventually accompanied him to New York. From the tinting of photographs, a phase of work at that time immensely popular, he drifted into pastel work and water colors, finally taking up oil portraiture. His success overcame even the Quaker principles and dignified the work as a profession in the eyes of his father. Keeping Shop by Machine Near Amsterdam a traveler—who does not know a word of Dutch—perceiving the announcement "English spoken," entered a shop, "English, sir?" asked a youth behind the counter. Then he picked up a cylinder, placed it in a gramophone, and the instrument duly sung out—but in German: "Sir (or Madam), the proprietor, who speaks German, will be telephoned for and will return to the establishment in less than five minutes. Will you please be seated?" The tourist, who knows German, seated himself. In came the principal, who speaks excellent English. The stranger asked why the gramophone did not talk English. The explanation was: "It's my stupid assistant! I have a cylinder on which is recorded the message in English, he used the wrong one. There is no excuse for him; my English cylinder is tinted red at the ends, and the German one blue. Lucky for me, sir, that you know German, else I might have lost an esteemed patron." After all, that horrible engine has its sordid use!—London Chronicle. The Cecelian Waltz. "From the English descriptions of the Occelian walts we judge," says a writer in a Berlin paper, "that there will be a sixteen step prelude to the regular walts, that this introduction will save some of the old time minuet features and that when the walts proper begins it will be something like the dance which was in vogue when we who are now middle aged and a little more were dancers. The fast and furious walts which came from the country where everything is rush is beloved by the young people only because they do not know the dance of their parents. It was this, the graceful, slow and dreamy, that made the dance a soulful pleasure. It was this real poetry of motion that inspired Lanner, Gungi and Straus. Welcome, new walts, if you are like the old!" Areas of Our Largest Cities. New York is our largest city in area, with 209,000 acres. New Orleans has 125,000; Chicago, 122,000; Philadelphia, 82,000, and San Francisco, 77,000. Seattle has 49,920. Washington is next to Seattle, having 44,000 acres in its city limits. St. Louis, with more than 600,000 population, has an area of 83,276 acres; Boston, with 594,000, has 80,000 acres; Cleveland, with 414,000, has 22,422 acres; Pittsburg, with 345,000, has 19,418 acres; Cincinnati, with 332,000 inhabitants, with 23,616; Detroit, with a population of 309,000, has 18,398 acres; Minneapolis, with 214,900 people, has 34,105 acres, and St. Paul, with 172,000, has 85,483 acres—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Anatomy and Longevity. A great appetite has been generally regarded as a sign of fine health, but of recent years, since the experiments of Horace Fletcher, Professor Chittender, Dr. Wylie, Dr. Kellogg and others, opinions have much changed in this particular. It is the man who eats little who is healthiest and whose prospect of a long life is best. The venous appetite of many persons is from habit, not necessity, and the experiences of the Trappists show that this cravings of nature may be fully satisfied with little food. Big Dry Docka. Belfast, Ireland, now has the largest dry dock in the world. San Francisco will shortly possess a dock of even greater dimensions. The new dry dock in the latter city will be 1,600 feet long from gate to the landward extremity; width at coping, 34 feet, and at bottom 92 feet; depth will be and below coping, 30 feet 10 inches, or 244 feet 0 inches at high water. The interior facing of the dock will be of enforced concrete of an average thickness of 10 feet. WHAT HE GETS. He spends his money, likes to blow His coin—in fact, to burn it— To lend it to his friends, although He knows they'll not return it. Great admiration they evince When they incur such debts. They all declare that he's a prince— That's what he gets. Each time he in his pocket dips He shows his money's power. On funkles, one and all, his tips Fall in a golden shower. To plunge at something is his forte; He makes most foolish bets; But people say, "Well, he's a sport!" That's what he gets. He thinks that it is worth his while, But I can see his finish. For day by day his little pile Will woefully diminish. You've noticed how the world will cool To former fortune's pets; In the Trough of the Waves. The Heroic Bodgers (in horse trough, to would be rescue)—Neve' mind me. I can s-ahwlm. Save the women and children (continues to strike out man- felly for the shore).—Sketch. A Hard Job. There is an old Irishman in Baltimore who for many years was prosperous as a grocer. Not long ago, however, the old fellow lost his all in "a side line" and was compelled to look for a job. Through the influence of a friend he was offered the position of crossing tender at a small railroad station in Maryland. The Celt looked dubious as the duties of the office were explained to him and the meaning of the various flags was stated. "In case of danger you wave the red flag," explained the man told off to instruct Mike. "Wait a bit, wait a bit," interrupted Mike, with a doubtful shake of the head. "I'm afraid this job'd be too much for me. I could never trust myself to remember to wave a red flag whin there was a green wan handy."—Harper's Weekly. Once a Boy Himself. "That man remembers that he was once a boy himself," a Broadway jeweler remarked as a customer left the store. "He came in just now and said he wanted a watch for his boy for a birthday present and that he wanted the cheapest I had." "The old skinflint! And I know he is well fixed, too," the jeweler's friend commented. The other smiled. "I told him that those very cheap ones wouldn't keep good time," the other continued. "But he said: 'Oh, that's all right. Just give me one that has the back fixed on so that he can get it off. He will be satisfied.'" - Woman's Home Company. Fixed. During the recent stay in camp of the national guard of the District of Columbia one of the captains called a sergeant one day, saying: "Sergeant, note down Private Mooney—one day on bread and water for slovenly turnout on parade." "Beg pardon, captain," responded the sergeant, "but that won't make any difference to Mooney. He's a vegetarian." "Then," said the captain, "give him one day on meat and soup."—Harper's Weekly. Anything Better Than Home. "I am sick to death of everything," said the society woman. "Let's spend this evening where we've never spent one before." "Agreed!" said her husband. "Shall we try home or church?" "Church," she replied, sighing—Judge. So Singular. "Funny," said Baretop, "but there was a time when the barbers used to speak of my habit." At the Reception Casual Caller (to one next hm)—I was introduced to that squint eyed, red haired woman over there as Mrs. Somebody or other. Don't you think the man was an ailot that married her? Next One (meekly)—I can't just say. I'm the man—Bellimore American. What He Meant. "Mr. Nervy tried to hug me last night" said Tess. "Oh," remarked Jes, "that's what he meant then when I saw him hurrying toward your house. He told me he had a "pressing engagement."—Dix Melena Register. Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. POOL AND BILLIARDS CIGARS AND TOBACCOS WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 260 E. 22ND STREET Phone Calumet 2940 CHICAGO LURE OF THE CIRCUS. What Do Kids Care For "Lickin'a" When Traveling Show Is Around? "Hello, Jimmy." "Hello, Johnny." "Goin' t' th' circus?" "Nope. Gota work." "Aw, g'wan, y' don't have t' work. Come on with me." "Ma said I had t' clean th' back yard t'day er git licked. She said I couldn't go t' th' circus too." "What d'ye care what yer ma said? Be a sport and take a lickin'. Ye can't go to a circus only once a year." "Gee! I'd like t' go. I ain't seen a chrisn~since last summer." circus--since last summer. "Aw, come on with me t' th' circus, Jimmy." "They ain't no parade, is there?" "Nope. Jes' th' circus. Come on, Jimmy." "I ain't got no money." "Neither've L. Ye don't need no money. I'll show ye how't git in fer nothin.' "'S a long way out there." "Yep." "'S a long walk." "Aw, cut it out, baby. Can't we hop a car?" "Y-yes, I suppose we could." "Then come on t' th' circus." "I'll git licked." "Aw, what d'ye care for a little thing like that? I've been licked lots o' times. Lickin's don't hurt much." "N-no. N-not m'ch." "Come on, then, Jimmy." "T' back yard's gota de cleaned up." "We'll come back early, an' I'll help ye." "Honest?" "Cross my heart; honest an' true; black and blue." "I don't care much if I do git licked." "That's right, Jimmy. Be a sport." They reached the circus grounds. They gazed in youthful wonder at the tents, the crowds, the barkers, the big banners in front of the slideshow. "I don't think they've got a woman as fat as that one up there," said Johnny, gazing up at one of the banners. "Aw, yes, they have. I seen a woman bigger'n that in a circus onct." "Did she walk an' talk jez' like other women?" "Uh-buh. Honest she did." "Til bet a million dollars they ain't no man in there eats sords like that pitcher." "I'll bet they have. I seen a man do that once it too." "I'd like to see him do it." "So'd I." "I tho't ye said ye had seen one onet." "I mean I'd like to see it again. Of course I seen it onet." "I'd like to be in a circus, wouldn't you?" "Gee! I'd give most anything if I could be a circus actor. I like to wear pink tites and ride horseback all the time." "Aw, I'd ruther be a clown. They have all th' fun an' make everybody laugh." "I'm goin' to be a circus man when I grow up." "So'm I—a clown." "How're we goin' t get into th' circus?" "Come on with me. I'll show ye. I done it once before." They skirted the big tents, but husky and alert canvasmen and guards were everywhere. "I'd rather stay outside, anyway." "So'd I. Circuses are all alike. I heard pa say so." "I don't care much 'bout seein' it, anyway." "Neither do I. Let's go home, Jimmy." "All right, Johnny. Let's."—Milwaukee Free Press. Front Bedroom to Rent. For rent, front bedroom for man and wife, or two gentlemen, must furnish good reference. Apply to Mrs. Gardner, 3546 State street, top flat front. Frank H. Lewis, Prop. Phone Oak THE RAIL Imported and D Liquors Cafe in C N. E. Corner Fifty-first and DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST 2842 South State Street Cor. Twenty-Ninth CHICAGO Open Day & Night Private Rooms PEKIN INN CAFE 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 PATENTED DENTISTRY at Cost Until Sept. 1st. We control patents and discoveries by which missing teeth can be replaced without the old-time removable plate or briddee and by which loose and falling teeth can be tightened which by pyrrohea (Riggs disease) sorbate pyrrohea and cure Call and have us examine our teeth and you will get satisfaction. WHAT WE WANT As to introduce our work among the Colored people of Chicago. We will make small charges for material moll Sept. int. $3.00 — FULL SET OF TEETH — $3.00 — GUARANTEE $6.00 — BEST SET OF TEETH — $6.00 22k Gold Crowns ( cost material about $1.50 Bridgework ( cost material about $2.00 Re-Enameling ( cost material about $2.50 Gold Fillings ( 75 cents Silver Fillings ( 40 cents Porcelain Crowns ( cost material about $1.50 All work guaranteed 10 years. A work done under direct personal supervision. What a clergyman says about us:—I wish to say that I am well satisfied with the work done in your office. Your dentists are men who understand their business as are veterans. REV. PARK KSON, Pastor Hyde REV. Park KSON, Pastor Chicago. CHICAGO 182 STATE STREET SHORT STORIES. At the Pittsburgh morgue the body of a man who was killed trying to hold up a collector was viewed by 7,000 people. Henry Price, an aged musician of Mount Vernon, N. Y., applied to New York hospitals for permission to photograph the soul in transit, but his request was refused. In Fayetteville, N. Y., lives a fat hen that has no fear of the ax. In the will of Charles Brown, who died not long ago, was a provision that his residuary legatee, Mrs. Lucinda Brown, must take the hen and care for it until it died. A young Bath (Me.) couple presented themselves before a minister recently and asked to be married. After the knot was tied the groom coolly informed the preacher that he expected to get a job soon and would then pay his fee. A Cleveland skyscraper twenty stories high will be topped by a Goddess of Liberty holding a torch, from which a leaping flame of gas will be burning at all times. The exact hour of the day and night will be indicated by causing the flame to shoot high into the air during the minute preceding each hour. S A-B A N-D Y GUARANTEED HAIR DRESSING. For dry hair and scalp. For dry hair and scalp. Makes the hair grow soft, straight and glossy. Cures and prevents dandruff. Cleans and nourishes the scalp. 10c. 25c and 50c. Send 10c for sample. Money back if not satisfied. Mail orders filled. Write or call GEO. W. FIELDS & CO. 3916 State St. Chicago, Ill. Phone Douglas 4965 Lou Seldon, Mgr. Island 1787. ROAD INN Domestic Wines & Cigars Connection Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. 151st St. & L. & R. & R. RY. 23rd St. and Armour Ave. 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 Slate Hauling a specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Stree Phone 699 Calumet CHICAGO ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty 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 Falls, N. Y. Telephone Harrison 5657 FURNITURE MOVING TRUNKS DELIVERED Claim Checks given 110 E. HARRISON ST. CHICAGO Bet. Custom House Pl. & Clark St. 'TWAS EVER THUS. I held a hand at poker Which looked exceeding good, Five handsome clubs consorting In sable brotherhood. Alack, my hated rival Whom I would put to rout Remained not for the slaughter, But Dropped Right Out. I held a hand one evening Ridiculously small. Down thrashed and glittered One diamond—that was all. Alack, my hated rival, Despite my baleful glare, Moved not to take departure, But Stayed Right There. McLandburgh Wilson in New York Thrashes. THE BROAD AX Auburn Ball Park THE LELAND GIANTS VS. SOUTH SUNDAY, SEPT Games called at 3:30. Ball all times. China and also real ball Games due, Big GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Pines Telephone Ashland 263 Office Telephones Central 1339 Automatic 5649 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619, Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 303 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 9008 CHICAGO Tel. Douglas 1565 Notary Public Jesse Binga REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND RENTING FIRE INSURANCE Bates Building 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQ SORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO Phone 194 South A. B. SCHULTZ, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 2719 State Street Harris: 9 to 12 A.M. 3 to 6 and after 6 P.M. CHICAO Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 WORLD MATHS 10 15 WORLD MATHS 50 YEAR Pamela McCall Postmaster will be president of the city until 18 January. McCall's Hospital (The Story of Public Medicine) that are other Lily Agnes, who will be presented to public use in Friday, January 18th, at 10 o'clock. Lily Agnes Wanted. Publicans will be invited to public use in Friday, January 18th, at 10 o'clock. Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Makes JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 300 State St., CHICAGO. 79th St. and Westworth Ave. Best Games of Ball in the city by leading Pros. & Semi-Pros. Clubs CHICAGOS, AUBURN PARK, MENBER 15TH. est of order maintained at playing. Price, Admission $10, Ground 's Basket 10s. Brevities It is reported that C. B. Jefferson of the theatrical family has retired and will devote his time to growing fruits in Florida. High Constable William Jaby of Shamokin, Pa., who has only one leg, thrashed, unaled, two thugs who attacked him and landed both in prison. At eighty-one Gorton Anderson of Newport, R. I., still wields the razor. He is the oldest active burber in the United States and perhaps in the world. Thomas F. Ryan has offered to pay a pension of $5 a month to the 200 Confederate veterans who now live in Nelson county, Va., where Mr. Ryan has his home. William H. Baldwin, who had been for thirty-nine years president of the Boston Young Men's Christian union, has resigned after reaching his eightieth birthday anniversary. Dr. Warre, late head master of Eton college, has been presented with an album containing the signed photographs of nearly every master and boy who was at Eton at the time of his resignation. Thomas W. Lawson, the famous Boston operator in copper, is a grandfather. The little girl is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lawson. Mrs. Lawson was formerly Mrs. Herbert Barnum Seeley of New York. George H. Ware, seventy-three years old, an expert accountant of Providence, R. L., figures that in the last forty years he has smoked nearly three tons of tobacco in his meerschaum pine, from which he is inseparable. William Livesay of Preston, the son of Joseph Livesay, the famous founder of teetotalism in England, has just celebrated his ninety-second birthday. Mr. Livesay is in good health and as stanch a temperance champion as was his celebrated father. Captain Speltenhil, the Swiss aeronaut, has just finished a wonderful achievement, the crossing of the Alps in a balloon. This was his five hundred and thirty-ninth ascent, and his notebook does not record a single accident in any of them. One of the most remarkable personalities in Russia is Prince Khilkoff. He is called in Russian society "the American" because when young he shipped to America as a stoker and there set himself to learn all he could about railways by working as conductor, stoker, driver, brakeman and mechanic in the engine shops without allowing his princely rank to be suspected. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Richard Sterling, an American actor, has been engaged for the London production of "The Earl of Pawtucket." Madge Lessing has been engaged for a new production, called "The Belle of Hong Kong," which is to be seen in Philadelphia in October. A new vaudeville amusement company has been organized in New York with a capital of $500,000. William Morris is the president of the organization. Thomas Thorne and Harry Burkart, both well known to Baltimore theater goers, will be in the company supporting Miss Maude Fenley when she goes on her starring tour. Octavia Broske, a San Francisco girl, who had the prima donna role in "The Sultan of Sulu" last season, has been engaged for a prominent role in "The Prince of Pilsen." FACTS FROM FRANCE The president of the senate was recently petitioned in the shape of a flood of 400,000 post cards. France has no old age insurance measure, but a large amount is annually spent in relief to aged natives. There are to be no ceremonies when Paul W. Bartlett's equestrian statue of Lafayette in Paris is placed on its pedestal next October. In all France there are only 1,100 persons who are millionaires - in our sense of the word (in dollars). Of millionaires in France there are about 15,000, apart from the 1,100 already counted. A philanthropist at Bordesux has accepted $400,000 from M. Illa with when to found a day refuge for aged workmen and indigent of both sexes. The refuge is to be a vessel moored in the middle of the Garonne, where scaups are to be dispensed apparently in rainstream. GERMAN GLEANINGS Of the 51,000 breweries estimated to be in the world 26,000 are in Germany. In Germany glass baths are taking the place of the enameled metal variety. They are both cheap and artistic. A woman dentist recently stopped with gold a hole in the tusk of a eleven-clephant at Innsbruck, but a few nights later the silling, worth $70, was stolen. The Majesty of the Family. Every one who has lived south knows that peculiar brand of loyalty among old servants that expresses itself in a profound conviction that their family is the "fust family." Consequently every southern town and city is still full of "fust families." This particular "fust family" was making its annual pilgrimage to the White Sulphur Springs, the great coach laden with children and trunks as well as the mistress, with her nearest and dearest relatives. Old Simon, mindful of the glory of his house and filled with the all powerful dignity of an old retainer, drove the fat cat horses and admonished his small charges, who, edged in beside him on the box, crowded him to deseration. His master rode on horseback a little distance behind the coach and as they approached a railroad crossing was astonished to see Simon drive calmly before a passing train, which hurried the coach one way, horses another and family and trunks in all directions. Galloping up, he called to his coachman: "Simon, you old nigger, didn't you see that train coming?" "Yassuh." "You saw it coming and deliberately drove upon the track! What made you do such a crazy thing?" "Well, you see, Marse George." explained that bewildered individual, scratching his gray wool, "Ah thought when dey see it's we all's ka'ldge dey'd ston."-Saturday Evening Post. Come In Handy "Tell me, sir," said the self made man, "did you ever find any practical use for what you learned at college?" "Sure, I did," replied the college graduate. "One time when burglaries got into the house I scared them off with a college yell."-Detroit Tribune. The Borrower. "Choofers, can I borrow your auto tonight? I feel just like taking it easy and having a good time." "I'm sorry, but I've made arrangements to use it myself." "Well, will you lend me your lawn mower?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Familiar to Her. Rev. Dr. Howells-I have preached several sermons on the killing of Goliath by David. Mrs. Dashaway-Yes, I have frequently heard that there were sermons in stones.-Philadelphia Press. A Studious Career. "I suppose a great artist has to be studying constantly." "Yes," answered the prima donna. "If one isn't studying economy one is usually getting so much money that getting rid of it becomes a study."—Washington Star. In Self Defense. Brown-I met Short on the street this morning and struck him in self-defense? Green-Why, how was that? Brown-Before he had a chance to say a word I asked him to loan me a dollar. The Wise Father. "But I can't live properly on an allowance of $10 a week," protested the son. "Of course you can," replied the father. "You want an increase so you can live improperly."—Detroit Tribune. Among Girls. "All the fools are not dead yet," said the girl who had recently become a brunette. "No," replied her companion, "but I notice a good many of 'em are dyeing every day."—Yonkers Statesman. Times Have Changed. "A man's importance used to be judged by the number of servants he kept." "Yes, and now it is estimated by the number of detectives that follow him about."—Washington Star. Mrs. White (sympathetically)—So your husband is in trouble again, Mad? Mrs. Black (cheerly)—No, he's out of trouble dese now. Do scout'rel's in tail—Puck. That tends much to make you braver When you face midsummer heat. When you're cap-a-pill, immature. Late then courage seems to back you, like if heat could not attack you, All so nasty and so neat. FACTS IN FEW LINES In Russia there are eighty-six general holidays. Birthdays were celebrated as far back as the time of Pharaoh. Cape Colony has now 20,000 acres of vineyard, with 60,000,000 vines. Prince Bismarck of Germany would never sit down to a dinner with thirteen at the table. In Australia engagement rings are lent out by certain jewelers as part of their ordinary trade. No one in Saxony is allowed to shoe horses unless he has passed a public examination and is duly qualified. In Holland it is illegal for a cyclist to use a horn, as this instrument is reserved for the exclusive use of motorists. Moji, Japan, an obscure place a generation ago, is now a large city, with a foreign commerce worth $45,000,000 a year. It exports sugar, coal, timber, cotton yarn and cement and imports rice, wheat, sugar, raw cotton, oil cake, machinery and kerosene. The Alaska-Yukon exposition, to be held in Seattle in 1909, is to be located on University heights. The buildings and their collections of Alaskan products are to become the permanent property of the university after the exposition closes. Mrs. Katharine S. Hueppe complained to Magistrate Corrigan in New York that her husband was making a fool of himself by his odd way of doing business. "Don't interfere," said the magistrate. "If he wants to make a fool of himself let him do so." Professor A. L. Kroeber of the University of California is an expert on Indian languages, and he says that instead of being mere jargon, as is popularly supposed, they are well defined languages. He declares that California has more distinct Indian languages to the square mile than any other state. Miss Ellen Terry was, born in Coventry fifty-nine years ago. Two houses in that English city claim to be her birthplace. One house has the sign, "This is the birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry;" the other, just opposite, bears the legend, "This is the original birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry." The biggest cannon ball ever made weighed 2,600 pounds and was manufactured at the Krupp works, Essen, for the government of the czar. The gun from which this projectile was fired is also the largest in the world and is placed in the fortifications of Cronstadt. This gun has a range of twelve miles, and it has been estimated that each shot costs $1,500. Professor Francis Brown of Union Theological seminary has become a member of the general committee of the Palestine Exploration fund, which now has ten American members. Dr. Brown will be in charge the coming year of the American school at Jerusalem, and this, it is thought, will promote the co-operation of England and America in the work of verifying and illustrating the Bible. Only a few years ago America imported more portland cement than it manufactured. Now the tables have been turned, and this country has taken the front rank both in the production of cement and its use in construction. It has been estimated that the quantity of portland cement used in this country in 1905 would be sufficient to lay a sidewalk sixteen feet broad all around the earth at the equator. An ingenious device has been invented by a street railway employee and is being tested. Whenever a passenger stands on the lower step a buzzer sounds in the motorman's compartment and warns him not to start the car until the signal ceases, which it does the instant the passenger reaches the platform or the ground. Contact points are placed in the step which are brought together by the weight of the passenger. C. Parker Woodbury, a New York banker, will build for himself a glass house. He has engaged an architect to draw plans for the novel dwelling, which is to be erected at Beechhurst, N.Y. Bricks of compressed opalescent glass will form the walls. The interior and partitions are to be of the same material worked into thin slabs, and the roof is to be of glass. In fact, wherever it is possible glass is to be employed, as Mr. Woodbury is a great believer in sunlight. King Edward carries a gold key that has no duplicate. It opens his private writing desk. Every time the king quits his personal apartment an assistant secretary destroys the contents of the wastebasket, the blotting pads and even the wrappers of the newspapers that come from every capital of Europe. His majesty takes no risks of spying eyes, and it is an unwritten law that private secretaries shall not indulge in gossip diaries, after the manner of Samuel Peony. The historic house of Benjamin Franklin in Paris is for sale. This house which Benjamin Franklin built for himself is situated at 6 Rue de Penthievre, in the Faunbourg St. Honore, not far from the round point of the Champs Elysees in the eighth arrondissement. It bears on its facade the name of Benjamin Franklin, surmounted by his portrait in a medallion. It was also the residence of the Bonapartes and of Josephine and Hortense de Beauharnais. Boston is said to have the only woman guide in the United States to places of historic interest. She has equipped herself with so much useful information that she believes herself to be able to answer any reasonable question about Boston. Her specialty is taking about parties of women teachers and school children. Though an unusual thing in this country, woman guides are to be found in foreign cities. A number earn their living by showing visitors about London. WOMAN AND FASHION A Fall Coiffure. This loose and fairly mode of hairdressing is particularly comfortable and is especially desirable because of its simplicity, for a woman who has any knack in making her own collures can easily copy this fashion and with the various changes needed to suit A BECOMING STYLE OF HAIRDRESSING. each individual face can arrange her tresses in a becoming style. The hair is drawn loosely from the face and arranged paddour fashion on the forehead and at either side of the head. At the back it is fixed in a loose, sack-like way, and the ends are twisted and coiled into a figure eight and pinned in plase at an attractive distance from the paddour. Making a Hat Smaller. A large hat may easily be made smaller in this day, when bias bands on the edge are fashionable. When the rim has been cut it should first be bound with taritan so the rough straw will not cut through the ribbon. The strips should form a true bias and be wide enough to turn in about a quarter of an inch on each side after the binding is on. An inch on each side of the brim is the approved width, though this is more or less a matter of taste. Be careful in cutting, especially if velvet is used, to match the pieces carefully so that the nap and material run the same way. Measure the amount that just fits the hat, sew it together at the end and fit over the brim, stretching it in the middle and being careful not to stretch the sides or it will pucker. When measured sew the ends together and snap over the brim. Turn in the edges-on both sides and blind stitch on. Be sure the seams come at each side. A binding may also be put on by sewing one side rather tightly to the top of the brim and then turning over and blind stitching on the under side, but the first way is more satisfactory. Correct Colors For Autumn. Whatever the correct colors will be for early fall wear they are to lend themselves to combinations. The few selections already shown are inclined this way, and it is pretty certain that such combinations will rather take the form of harmonies than of direct contrasts, the wide stripes or fine stripings having the preference over the narrow effects which disported themselves in the realm of fashion last winter. French couturiers are loyal to a mode when they like it, and the way they have clung to stripes of all kinds and conditions is a flattering tribute to the beauty of the fabrics so patterned. The New Collar Stylish women have abandoned the dressy stock worn with their blouses in favor of the new starched linen collar in bat shape. This has no turnover piece. It is the straight, high collar that men wear with two "wings" turned back in the front. They are worn a little loose, not very high, and the cravat under it is very dressy and dainty. It is made of the sheer batiste or mull, folded into a half inch band to go around the neck at the base of the collar, then arranged into a fluted butterfly bow in front, lace edged. New Style Jumper Waist. A smart and very attractive variation of the jumper mode which has reigned a favorite during the past summer is the pictured waist of white lansdowne, trimmed with butter colored valenciennes insertions and edgings. The shallow roke of fagoted J. LANDWOOD AND LACE lansdowne folds and embroidery appliques is applied to the underbody, made of valenciennes insertions, and the edges of the jumper are outlined with white silk soutache and valenciennes edging. The sleeves are full puffs of rose patterned fine net over white silk, gathered into wide cuffs of the insertion and finished with double slitiness of white chiffon. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL AM BRADLEY & REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 11th Street CHICAGO REAL ESTATE for sale 100 FIRST PAYMENT, BALANCE LIKE RENT. BLAIN OF HIGH RENTS? See us and get a home of your own. M. D. NEIGHBORS & CO. Douglas 3916 STATE ST., CHICAGO. Ky W. 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Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Phone Yards 128. INOIS BRICK CO. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... 144,00 per day Output of Summer Yards..... 30,000 per day Telephone Yards 128. ILLINOIS BRICK CO. WILLIAM G. RUESTER, SUPERINTENDENT. 1994 N. W Telep 1994 N. Western Ave Telephone Lake W 1. Western Ave., Chicago Telephone Lake View 270. Telephone Yards 693 J. M. Fields CHICAGO