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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. New York Republican Club Appeals to Nation to Stop Colored Prejudice and Demands that Congress Enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments Issue Powerful Document in Behalf of Colored Americans Through Its Committee on National Affairs--Andrew B. Humphrey, Secretary of Constitution League, Chairman of Committee The Address Should Be Read by 10,000,000 Colored Citizens New York Repu- Stop Colon- that Colo- and Issue Powerful Docu- Committee on Nati- of Constitut The Address Sho Race Prejudice Increasing. We call on all American citizens to oppose the rising tide of race discrimination that threatens to overwhelm us. The situation is far worse than it was ten years ago. The late Carl Schurz not long before his death wrote: "Here is the crucial point: There will be a movement either in the direction of reducing the Negro to a permanent condition of serfdom—the condition of the mere plantation hand, alongside of the mule, practically without any rights of citizenship, or a movement in the direction on recognizing him as a citizen in the full sense of the term. One or the other will prevail." Carl Schurz's prediction has become true sooner than he expected. The American people are apparently moving swiftly in the effort to reduce the Negro to a permanent position of inferiority. Race discrimination and race hatred are growing by leaps and bounds. We call on all by voice and pen and ballot to put down this spirit. Especially do we urge our foreign born citizens to join in smiling down this deadly evil. Proscription a Scourge. This is their fight as well as the Negro's. Do they not see that if success should come to those who are striving to separate the people on account of color or race, their turn may come next? A distinguished Southerner of Louisiana was recently asked: "What will you do if the Italians continue to swarm into the South and secure a majority of the voters in your State?" His answer was: "We will treat them as we have the Negro—we will disfranchise them. The Southern Anglo-Saxon men must rule and shall rule," and in the adjoining state of Mississippi, as we learn from The Associated Press despatches, the people of several towns have under consideration a plan to expel children of Italian parentage from the public schools. The importance to the foreign born citizen of the fight, therefore, to give the Negro a "square deal" is that if the fight continues to go against him, and the Negro is placed permanently in the disfranchised class, there will soon be a demand for discrimination between different classes of immigrants. The Hebrews, who have been discriminated against for generations and who now in Russia and Roumania are realizing the awful results of race hatred, surely will be found fighting for justice for all. On what principle of consistency can they encourage our native to espouse their cause in foreign lands, and fail to do all they can to right the wrongs of native born citizens in this country. The Italians will not be found wanting in this fight when they understand it. The Germans, the Irish, the Scotch, the Scandinavians, the Russians, the Greeks, the Armenians, in fact, all nationalities coming to our shores have histories and traditions that will impel them to be on the side of justice and against oppression. Such Bitter Prajudice Unknown Abread. The singular and awful fact is that this bitter determination to discriminate against the Colored race is chargeable to the native born American. The immigrants have little or none of such prejudice when they come here. In Europe and Asia there is very slight prejudice against a dark skin, and in the West Indies and Central and South America, almost none. It is a sight that lowers this nation in the eyes of the whole world, to see a great and in many ways a highly civilized people like the white people of the United States engage in a cowardly brutal effort to crush and keep down a race of nine millions of people. Let us endeavor to look at the situation from an outsider's standpoint, as it looks to the Canadians and Europeans, and not as it looks to us, for it is well known that continuous contact with any form of wrong and crime, renders persons or people hardened and indifferent to it. The American people claim to love their constitution. Oaths to honor and obey it are constantly made, and yet the race discrimination has grown to be so strong that this sacred Constitution is trampled under foot and despised in many states. Two of its amendments, especially the 14th and 15th, are openly defied. Taxation Without Representation. Again the right of representation is supposed to be inborn in every American. Taxation without representation was the primal cause of our Revolution and separation from the mother country. The Constitution of the Nation and of the forty-six different states, specifically declares against taxation without representation, and yet nine millions of citizens born on our soil, in every way having the same political rights as the other seventy-six millions, and paying taxes upon hundreds of millions of property and taking part with high honor in the Nation's wars, are absolutely debarred from representation at Washington. Highhanded Robbery of Rights. Of 891 congressmen and 92 senators that frame our laws, not one is of this race. By fraud, intimidation and murder they have been, and are now deprived or representation while forty representatives of their stolen votes sit in the nation's capital. These representatives having robbed the black man of his bail lot, are using the stolen right to legislate for themselves, and against him. The great and farseeing statesmen of Civil War times, foresaw the evil conditions that now exist and provided the remedy, while we, their indifferent and commercialized successors, stand by and refuse or fail to apply the constitutional remedy specifically designed to destroy this infamous law breaking conspiracy. They forbade race discrimination in the right of suffrage, and provided a penalty of reducing the representation of any state denying or abridging the right of suffrage. Reduction of Representation Just. There are brave white men in the South who would grant justice to the black race if the North would lead, and in no way can they be so helped as to proportionately reduce representation in the states that refuse suffrage to the black man. When the Southern States began to enact legislation by which the Negro was deprived of the privilege of voting, those who advocated these dishonest measures urged, many of them sincerely, that by thus taking the Negroes out of politics, better and kinder relations would be established between the races. It has not worked that way; indeed, we should have known that it would not. The drift has been steadily in the direction of a wider separation and more unfriendly relations between the whites and the blacks. The Southern whites, now in absolute control, are determined to prevent the Negroes from voting, even if fraud, intimidation and murder continue to be necessary to accomplish it, while the Negroes are growing in their determination to secure the rights, guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States. Let us recall to our fellow citizens that the great Franklin said: "You may take away the ballot from the rich and strong, for they can get along without it, but you must never take it from the poor and weak, for that is their one defense in a republic." Ballott the Safeguard. With the exercise of the voting power comes everything—freedom, manhood, rights, proper consideration, protection for life, property and the family—yes, protection for the wives and daughters of black men. The astonishing facts in this connection are that Colored men have been charged with assaulting white women, and have been lynched for it, but who ever heard of white men being lynched or punished for assaulting Colored women, and it would seem that this latter happens far more frequently than the first. Purity of Negro Women Unprotected. Furthermore, a black man who repels an insult to his wife or sister in some section of our land does it at the peril of his life, and the Colored woman who resents insults from white men does so at the peril of her life. Recently in Rome, Ga., a white man shot a Negro woman who resented his attentions. His bail was fixed at $100. Commenting on this "The Vicksburg American" says with great candor: "This short item presents the whole of the Negro's side of the race problem in a nutshell. It is the logical outcome of the determination of the whites to demand all and give nothing. We condemn the Negroes for immortality; we preach sermons and write editorials about the duty of the race to elevate itself and answer with the shot-gun when they try to do so. One of our favorite preachments to them is that the morality of its women is the cornerstone of a race's excellence, and yet the Negro woman, pursued or insulted by a white man, must submit or run the risk of being shot down." Prejudice in the North. While this evil is rapidly gaining ground in the South we must not shut our eyes to the fact that this prejudice against the Colored man appears to be growing stronger in some sections of the North. In some communities they are not permitted to work as motormen or conductors on street railways, nor as trainmen on steam railways, nor as artisans. It is to be feared that there are a great many people at the North, especially in those communities into which Southern people have moved, who are more than willing to deprive the Colored man of all opportunities of livelihood and manhood. How is it in the South? What are the facts? Colored men, men with degrees from American and European colleges and universities, physicians of distinction, hundreds of whom met in Philadelphia recently in a great convention, preachers of character and frame, college professors and college presidents, bank presidents and successful merchants, all are forbidden to ride in cars with white people, but are obliged to ride in what are known as "Jim Crow" cars. This has all been brought about in very recent years. Ignorance of Southern White Leaders Concerning the Negro. Leading Southerners, such as Senator-elect John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, in the November "Methopolitan Magazine," in carefully prepared articles and in public speeches, declare that they know the Negro, for they live with him, and we in the North do not know him. The contrary is true. They know only the plantation Negro and the house servants. They do not know these educated, public spirited, large minded leaders of the black race. How can they? They shut their eyes to the wonderful advancement of thousands of the Colored race. These so-called white leaders are fifty years behind the times. They live in the past; they have not changed, and think that the Colored men have not fledged. The "sublime assurance" that usually accompanies ignorance is found in the speeches and acts of these white leaders. With the habit of all wrong-doers, from the beginning of the world till now, the shout: "Let us alone—we are not doing anything wrong." By a continual exaggeration of the Colored man's vices and a studied suppression of the proofs of his advancement the leaders of the Southern whites are trying to make us believe that they are the martyrs and the Negro is a brute. By the scarecrow of therated social equality and the bugaboo of Negro domination they have poisoned their own section and the poison is spreading north. Bitter Determination to Keep Negroes Down. What is the real reason for these things? Simply, as Carl Schurz said, "A bitter determination exists to crush and keep down the Colored man." The old statement that "he belongs to an inferior race and should be kept in slavery" is now used as an excuse to rob of him of his rights. Stripped of hypocrisy and subterfuge and, in all its nakedness, this new American creed says: "Let no black men be given an opportunity to rise, lest they become the equal of the whites." Shouting vociferously and constantly that the black is an inferior race, the demand is that the Negro shall not have an opportunity to rise in the world. Thus it is that this bitter animosity seems to be directed, not against the most ignorant and debased of the black race, but against the most influential, the best educated, well-dressed and well-behaved. No amount of honesty and thirtf or culture of head or hand or heart can make them safe from insult, injury and even death. The men who commit these acts and the defenders of such actions, say: "If the Nigger tries to be like us white folks, he must be struck down—he must be taught to keep his place." It is a brutal, despicable, indefensible and un-American attitude, and as President Harrison so aptly said, will bring our posterity to a heritage of woe unless we meet the issue bravely, right this national wrong, and avert a real national danger. World Watching United States Treat- ment of her Colored Citizens. Because we live in America and become accustomed to this attempt to keep down the Negroes, we must not forget that they have the sympathy of the whole cityillized world in their efforts to rise; that the human race generally does not look down upon a man or despise him or hate him, be WILLIAM H. WEBER. The proficient Secretary of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, who will be re-nominated and re-elected to the same position in 1908. cause of his skin color. In the sacred writing of both the Old Testament and the New, it is affirmed that God is no respector of persons, and we believe His desire to be that His children, both black and white, should live together in this world in peace, justice and mutual helpfulness. State se doins shall have their representation in Congress proportionate reduced. Therefore, in view of the origin and history of the Republican party, and its principles and policies outlined in its National platforms, and especial in view of its important accomplish South Uncivilized. There are portions of our country which are declared by foreign observers to be as uncivilized as any in the world. In what other country have men been killed for the color of their skins, as was done in Atlanta, Ga., when men rushed into barber shops and killed men while at work at their trade, because they were black. In Arkansas, recently, two young Colored girls were killed by white men, according to the accounts published in their own local papers, because they had slapped a white boy's face. Former Governor Northern, of Georgia, a citizen of the highest standing, an Confederate soldier, a loyal Democrat, identified with public movements for the benefit of his state and probably understanding conditions in the South as well as any man living, in a recent speech on the subject of murdering Negroes, said "Many are trying to belittle this great question. It is greater than all the other problems combined. Just now we are lapsing into barbarism and our civilization is slipping from us. Something must be done." What can be done to eradicate this race hatred and prejudice against color? We realize the difficulty that all people have had since the earliest records in dealing with race hatreds. This difficulty is increased because it has no reason, no conscience; it is rooted and imbedded in prejudice, but some things can be done and should be done. We must strike, not timorously and apologetically, but openly and frankly at race discrimination and hatred wherever they show themselves remembering ever that race hatred grows rapidly, and that its ferocious and barbaric spirit must be exterminated. We call on all citizens, and especially the foreign born, to join in the demand that the Constitution to which they have sworn allegiance shall be observed by all. The Constitution and the Right. We demand the enforcement of the Constitution, especially that the 14th and 15th Amendments be obeyed now. These forbid the United States or any state to limit or take away the right of suffrage by reason of race, color, or previous condition of servitude and if suffrage is taken away, the No.11 H. WEBER. board of Assessors of Cook County, who tuted to the same position in 1908. State so doing shall have their representation Jim Congress proportionately reduced. Therefore, in view of the origin and history of the Republican party, and its principles and policies outlined in its National platforms, and especially in view of its important accomplishment of incorporating the last three great amendments into the Federal Constitution. Resolved, 1st: That the Republican Club of the City of New York reaffirms its previous demands for the enforcement of the Constitution of the United States, both in letter and spirit. Resolved 2nd: That we denounce, regardless of locality, all attempts to create race hatred and prejudice, and its accompanying injustice, as a danger to any community and a menace to the ultimate peace and welfare of the Republic. Resolved, 3rd: That we insist upon the recognition of all political and civil rights of all citizens, national and local, regardless of race, color or creed. Resolved, 4th: That we demand the immediate enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments by means of the power given to Congress in these amendments, which each specifically declares that "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Respectfully submitted by the Committee. Andrew B. Humphrey, Chairman, William Greenwood, Secretary. New York. December. 10. 1907. RAID JOHNSON'S OLD RESORT. Harrison street policemen last night raided a gambling resort in the basement of Henry Smith's saloon, 464 State street, the place formerly conducted by "Mushmouth" Johnson, the Negro "gambling king," who died a few months ago. Smith and seventeen inmates, whom the police say were shooting craps, were arrested. All were Negroes. The above was the only item of news pertaining to the doings of the Colored people in this city which found its way into the Sunday morning newspapers December 15. SPECIAL NOTICE. None but the regular agents for The Broad AX, in Chicago, will receive their copy of the next issue of this paper, until Monday morning, December 30. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the principles of Democracy, but Gothicism, Protestantism, Infidelity, Farmer, Single Taxes, Republican knights, Knights of Labor, or any one else, have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad is a newspaper whose platform is broad for all, ever claiming the editorial power of its own mind. BRILIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, M., as Second-class Matter. EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMIT- TEE WHICH FAILED IN PREVENT- ING THE "CLANSMAN FROM STRIKING TOWN. Assessed $4 to Defray the Expenses In Connection with the Huge Joke. The full and exclusive account in the last issue of The Broad Ax, of the dismal failure of the select committee of 15 distinguished Afro-Americans, in preventing the "Clansman," from showing in this city, created a great sensation, for the people were anxious to learn, all about the dismal failure, which enveloped the committee. The greatest joke of the season in connection with the unprofitable mission or efforts on the part of the members of the committee is, that State Senator, Sam Ettelson, who should have been heaved through the window from Judge Barnes, Court into Washington street, for declaring, that he was only playing "politics at the expense of the Afro-American by putting up a weak fight against the "Clansman," and Oscar De Priest have assessed each one of the 15 gentlemen, who immortalized themselves for doing nothing, $3.68, which is supposed to be expended to defray the expenses incurred in the way of Sheriff fees and court cost, and several members of the committee, are cruel enough to intimate, that they believe that "State Senator Ettelson and Oscar De Priest are figuring on coming in possession of a little easy Christ mas money." EPS NEGRO PROPERTY OWN PHILADELPHIA The Negroes of Philadelphia own 802 pieces of property valued at $2,488,673, which is an average of about $3040 each. The largest number of properties are valued between $1000 and $3000, and nearly three-fourths of them are $3000 and under. The highest single valuation is $29,000 and the lowest a lot for $75. Though the assessed valuation is supposed to approximate as nearly as possible the real value of the property, still after careful comparison, I am of the opinion that the above represents an investment of between four and a half and five million dollars by the Negroes concerned. Besides the above there are about forty church edifices owned by Negroes valued at from $1000 to $600,000. There are many Negroes who own real estate outside of the city. Two are known to the writer to have more than $25,000 worth of real estate in other places, while many others own a lot or small farm outside of Philadelphia. The largest individual Negro property holders in the city owns not less than 23 city houses assessed at from $9,000 to $18,000, and owns property also in New Jersey and Virginia. He was born in Virginia of slave parents, and came to Pennsylvania after he was 21 years of age. He has steadily built up a good business, and amassed a large amount of real estate, besides being financially interested in many of the business and industrial movements among the Negroes of the city.-Southern Workman. ASK HIGH COURT TO RESCUE COX. "Friends of Patrick Cox, the Irish immigrant Judge Landis has ordered extradited to Ireland to stand trial in County Mayo on a charge of murder, intend to renew the fight to prevent his deportation and take the case to the United States Supreme Court. P. H. O'Donnell and William Dillon, the attorneys for Cox, declare there is still a chance for a writ of habeas corpus which would prevent the extradition of their client, and that is by appealing the case to the Supreme Court. "If we fail to defeat the extradition of Cox then I will go to Ireland and defend him," declared Attorney William Dillon last evening. "But you can depend on it that Cox will never go back to Ireland." Cox has been a prisoner in the Cook County jail since September 3. His flight is a pathetic one because of the fact that his mother is incarcerated. his relatives in Ireland are too poor to aid in his defense. The Irish Nationalist Societies of Chicago have interested themselves in the fight against his extradition. The murder charge preferred against Cox by the British government is that of killing Edward Murphy, who was returning from a wake in the village of Belmullet, County Mayo, February 23. Cox served a term for assault and battery and then came to the United States in June. In the meantime Murphy died and Cox was arrested here at the request of the British Consul. Extradition was resisted on the grounds that the charge could not be more than manslaughter and this not an extraditable offense." THE ONLY WOMAN FUR CUTTER KNOWN IN THE NITED STATES. Mrs. Gertrude B. Needles was born in Philadelphia, but at present she is a resident of 24 W. 135th street, New York city. For several years she has been fore-lady in a fur manufactory, and now she has started in business for herself. Furs of all descriptions are made up and remodelled in the latest style and at reasonable prices. A fact worthy of mention is that she is the only woman fur cutter in the United States. Her work is of the highest order and she has all that she can do. Having a pleasing manner and an engaging personality she readily gains customers. This is quite a venture for a woman to undertake and she deserves great credit. It takes courage as well as tact to start a business and this little woman possesses both. Those who send her their work may rest assured that they will be pleased with the result. Her enterprise should prove an incentive for other women to engage in business. The field is large always for energetic workers. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," is an old adage, but a very true one.—Ex. THE AFRO-AMERICAN CITIZENS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, STAND BY SENATOR J. B. FORAKER. The following letter has been sent to the Hon. J. B. Foraker, Washington, D. C., by the leading Afro-Americans of Cincinnati, Ohio. Hon. J. B. Foraker, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. We a committee, representing the Colored citizens of Cincinnati, deem it expedient and appropriate at the beginning of this session of Congress to inform you that we are fully aware of the gallant fight you have made and are making in the Brownsville investigation, and we extend our heartfelt thanks and deepest gratitude for your noble efforts towards securing justice for our soldiers, who were, without trial, discharged without honor, notwithstanding the many years of meritorious service. We pray that success may crown your work and that you may attain the highest honor in the gift of American citizens. Geo. W. Hays, L. W. Gray, D. D., N. C. Vaughan, M. D., John McRoberts, R. D. G. Troy, J. Franklin Walker, D. D., A. Lee Beatty, A. J. DeHart, D. D., William Copeland, W. H. Brown, W. A. B. Kerr, M. D., Sam Lewis, Chas. W. Bell, S. C. Townsend, W. P. Dabney, J. L. Jones, Frank Hurdle, J. E. Jackson, Warren King, Priestly Hardin, E.A. Williams, M. D., E. E. Gather. Hands that help are better than lips that pray. The man who does not believe in intellectual liberty is a barbarian. Riches and honor acquired by injustice are to me but floating clouds. I will not sacrifice the world I have for one I know not of. I will not live here in fear when I do not know that which I fear lives. I belong to the great church that holds the world within its starlit ales; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. $50 in Gold for Short Stories and Poems. READ OF OUR OFFER. If you can write a good story or a poem, enter the great contest which the publisher of Alexander's Magazine has inaugurated. There are many Paul Laurence Dunbars, in the Negro race if only they can be found. They must be found, and it is with this object in view that we are making this liberal and extraordinary offer of $50 in gold as prizes for the best stories and poems coming from pens of members of the Negro race. CONDITIONS. No story or poem will be considered unless it comes from the pen of No story shall exceed 2600 words. Poem not to exceed 100 lines. Each manuscript must be accompanied by at least $1.00 for one year's subscription to Alexander's Magazine, a photograph of the author, cost of return of manuscript in case it is not suited to our purposes. We are willing to pay a fair price for any story or poem which may not be a prize-winner, provided it is what we want. GREAT PRIZE OFFER. First prize for best short story, $25; Second prize for second best short story, $15; Third prize for best poem, $7; Fourth prize for second best poem, 3; Making a grand total of $50. Fifty Dollars in Gold as Prizes to be distributed among the readers of Alexander's Magazine ought to appeal to our literary friends. Each manuscript will be submitted to five competent literary critics of National fame who will act as judges in this great contest and the prizes will be awarded directly after the close of the contest. Send in your stories and poems at once, with subscription price for the magazine. Enter this grand race-elevating contest—Address, Charles Alexander, Publisher, 714 Shawmut avenue, Boston, Mass. THE REKIN INN CAFFE. Is serving a Splendid Special Sunday dinner with a bottle of wine. Messrs. Rice and Daniels are the only people who have ever given real Twentieth Century Service in Auditorium style. You will meet the majority of the best people of Chicago at these Dining Parlors. This must be so because the critic says so. All we ask is for you to pay us a visit once and you will come again. The Pekin Inn Cafe, 2704 State street. CHIPS CHIPS Dr. L Bundy has moved to 3261 Rhodes ave. Mrs. H. H. Boger, 3511 Indiana ave. is on the sick list. Mrs. Daniel Young, 6646 Vernon ave has been sick for several days. Mr. Wm. Howard Clark will spend the holidays in Louisville, Ky. Mr. Jno. Fry and Mr. Moses Wylie have joined the Vandyke Club. Mrs. Maud Jackson, 5121 Armour ave., is recovering from her recent illness. Mr. Orrin Thomas, 2951 Dearborn st., was appointed a Police officer a few days ago. Mrs. Laura Lapsley, 5120 Dearborn st., has been confined to her bed for the past week. Mr. Joe Jenkins, 6640 Evans ave., is spending a short vacation from his work in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hagenback, 6349 Marshfield ave., are spending a month in Hot Spring, Ark. Mr. W. E. Wright, 1814 Dearborn st., left the city Monday to be gone a month in the West. "Irish," Martin well known in Chicago who has been confined to Dunnin-ing, was released. Negroes own two and a half millions of dollars worth of taxable property in Jackson, Miss. Mr. Floyd Moore, 4314 Forrestville ave., was operated on at the Post Graduate Hospital, Thursday. Mr. Jas. Tuppins retudned from Xenia, O., where he was called by the death of his brother Wyllis. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Owens, 3241 Dearborn st., entertained a number of friends at cards Friday evening. Mr. W. L. Haley, 3156 Forest ave., after a pleasant visit to Louisville, Ky., returned to the city Monday. Mrs. P. J. Thomas, 6124 Ada st., who has been seriously ill for the past month is again able to be out. Mr. E. Cole of St. Louis, a student in pharmacy is clerk in Porter's Drug Store, 29th and Armour avenue. Mrs. Clara Belle Barley, 4157 Ellis ave., has been confined to her bed for the past week with a severe attack of appendicitis. Mmes. James E. Thompson, J. Hockley Smiley and Miss Hazel Thompson have returned from Las Vegas, New Mexico. J. W. Anderson, 79 East 32nd st., returned from New York city, Saturday, where he had been the past 10 days investigating the Title and Abstract to some property owned by his father in the suburb of that city. Mr. Moses White formally of Chicago, but now of Omaha, Neb., is spending a few days in the city renewing old acquaintances. Charlie Cook popular in the neighborhood of 30th and State st., was given a 60 day senetence in the bridewell for handeling stolen property. Henry S. Anderson 6450 Champlain ave., will leave the first of the week for Burlington, N. J., where he will spend the holidays in visiting with his sisters. W. A. Spotsey, 5027 Armour ave. who is greatly interested in the success of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association, has been on the sick list for the past week, but at the present time he is improving and he will be able to resume his labors shortly after the holidays. Robert E. Burke, the head and front of the Cook County Democracy, and Albert Schonbeck the past visited Col. William J. Bryan, at his home Lincoln, Nebr., and if nothing happens Mr. Burke, at the head of his crack Club will march through the streets of Lincoln, the first of July on their way to the Denver convention. Mrs. Ellen Johnson, 5830 Wabash ave., mother of the late "Mushmouth" Johnson passed away the middle of the week. She was well onto seventy years old, she was unable to recover from the effect of the death of her son, and funeral services were held over her remains in Bethesda Baptist chruch, Thursday afternoon. Next Wednesday, December 25th, is Christmas and the day will generally be observed, throughout the Christian world, and many presents will be exchanged, among the followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, and as it is customary we wish all the friends and readers of The Broad Ax, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 6130 Ads street, recently entertained the newly elected officers of the home which she has established for dependent children, at which time an oyster supper was served, and over $60 was realized for the benefit of the home. Miss Eva Morris, Miss Seigel and Miss Broomfield furnished the music for the occasion, and many of Mrs. McDonald's white friends who are interested in her reformatory work were present. Tuesday, John Greenleaf Whittier's birth, was celebrated throughout the country. If he would have lived until this day, he would be 100 years old. He was the great Quaker poet, of the anti-slavery period, and his writings in behalf of the slave in chains, accomplished almost as much as Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in assisting to abolish that cursed institution and the name of Whittier, should ever be held sacred in the memory of every Afro-American. Ferdinand L. Barnett, Assistants States Attorney, who made a winning race in November 1906, for Municipal Judge, and was seemingly counted out, by both Republicans and Democrats, will begin his contest, with Municipal Judge Thomas B. Lantry, December 27th, which has been ordered by County Judge Lewis Rhinaker, and it is believed that when all the ballots are re-counted, that Mr. Barnett will be declared the victor, and that it can easily be proven, that gross frauds was resorted to, in order to deprive him of his election as one of the Municipal Judges of Chicago. The campaign of 1908 will be interesting. The Negro vote throughout the North can no longer be regarded as Republican. The experience of the past two years of the Negro in the heavy voting centers like Chicago, where every office in the county and city is in the hands of the Republicans, from High Sheriff to Police, and from Mayor to Bridge Tender, with a far less number of Negroes in office than under the Democrats, spells trouble for the G. O. P., for the Negro will not vote for those who claim to be his friend before election and desert him thereafter. He wants a friend the year around and will find one next November.—The Illinois Idea, December 14, 1907. MILLINERY TRAINING SCHOOL MILLEMEN TRAINING SCHOOL At Bethesda Baptist church, 3823 Wabash ave. January term begins, January 6, 1908. Afternoon class at 2 p. m.; night class at 7 p. m. Madame Randolph, teacher. SIX ROOM HOUSE FOR SALE. For sale six room house at May- wood, Ill., $2750.00, new, modern, oak trim, bath, two blocks from Aurora Elgin depot, Small payments down, balance monthly. A number of good Colored families have settled in this neighborhood. O. J. Westcott, 200 S. Fifth Ave., Maywood, Ill., or 1107 Security Blvd., Chicago, Ill. A GOOD TIME FOR GOOD PEOPLE AT THE CHATEAU DE PLAISANCE. 5324-26 State Street. The Chateau De Plaisance, is the latest enterprise in the city, where all good people are not only welcome but made happy by a high class cultured entertainment on Roller Skates, the best known Physical Exercise to build or reduce one to Normal size and condition and at the same time amuse and enthuse those who look on or participate in the whirling enchantment of these Minature Autos, REFRESHMENTS. In connection with the Rink, is a first class French, American and Chinese Restaurant, where food and refreshments of all kind can be had at surprisingly popular prices and in the summer garden where can be seated Two Thousand person, a Band Stand for Ffty Musicians and all of the paraphanalia that go to make the exacting requirements of a pleasant Summer afternoon and evening The December Program, $100 In Gold. 1907. During the month of November, the Management distributed to its patrons quite a sum of prizes and medals for fine fancy genteel Skating, and will double this amount by the rendition of the following program. December 7, 14, 21, 25 and 28.—School Children's Grand March on Roller Skates, from 2 to 3 P. M. Prize awarded for the best behaved. 1 pair Steel Ball bearing Roller Skates to be presented January 1, 1908. Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 28 and 29.—Ladies Skate Contest from 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Prize for the best and most graceful skater. 1 Set Sterling Silver Tea Spoons. Dec. 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 28 and 29.—Young People's Tournament from 8 to 9:30 P. M. No one allowed in this race under 14 years of age and over 18 years. Prize for best and most clever skater, Manicure Set. Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 28 and 29.—Amature's Debute, on Roller skates from 9:35 to 10:30 P. M. For the best of this lot who can navigate on Roller Skates three times around the main rink unassisted in three minutes without falling three times. Prize, Commission as a Skater and Permission to Leave Amature's Retreat. Those three times on Roller Skates previously, eligible to enter the test. Dec. 7, 8, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 29. Department Race from 11 to 11: 30 P. M. Three best and most graceful skaters on the floor picked from not less than Fifty Couples, number allowed in contest. The prizes are, Three Medal Prize Badges Xmas 1907. Free For All. Every evening from 11:45 to 12 M. Prize for the most polite and genteel skater, Midnight Supper Xmas 1907. All contestants must register their names and address with the Manager as the prizes will be awarded New Years day, Jan. 1, 1908, when there will be a contest between the Champions. Those holding Championship Badges eligible only. Prize Five Dollars in Gold. Skating every afternoon and evening. Come out and learn and win health, wealth and fame. N. B.—The management reserves the right to change this program at will. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association, 6258 Halsted Street. Office Phone Went 215 Rink Phone Oak 3567. Prize Winners Thankgiving Day. 1st—School Children's Grand March. Prize, Season Pass, Lorena Gory. 2nd—Ladies and Gentlemen's Skate Contest. Prize, Ladies Toilet Set, Miss Rena Backenburg and Harry Thornton. 3rd—Endurance Race. Prize, One Dollar in Silver, Walter Burton. 5th—Department Race. Prize, three medal Prize Badges, 1st to Miss Rena Backenburg and Harry Thornton, 2nd Miss Bell and Walter Burton, 3rd, Miss F. Backenburg and H. W. Taylor. 6th—Free for all, Most polite and genteel skater. Prize, Midnight Supper, Mr. Isaac Bacon. OUR NEIGHBORS "There, Kitty," said Mrs. Smith, proudly exhibiting the picture to the servant, "that is a portrait of me, painted when I was a child." Kitty gazed open-mouthed at the production. "Lor', mum," she said, after some moments, "what a pity it is we have to grow up, ain't it!"—Exchange. A gold spoon is to be presented to Mrs. Salome Sellers, the oldest "Real Daughter" of the American Revolution, who recently became a member of Deborah Sampoon chapter of Brockton. The presentation will be by the National Society. Mrs. Sellers is 107 years of age, and was born in Deer Isle, Me., Oct. 15, 1800—Boston Herald. Humor Angelina Would Have to Go Hungry if She Married Rastus. As their wedding day approached, they sat down one evening to figure a hit on household expenses. He got out pencil and paper and put down coal and wood and gas and rent, but as they came to provisions a worried look appeared on his face. “Ah 'spec' its gwine ter cost a heap ter feed us, Angelina,” he remarked, with a deep sigh, as he paused to sharpen an his pencil. “Huh! Doan' you' 'spec' Ah kin cook widout wastin'?” she asked. “to 'jes' go on now an' put down wot well hab fo' one Sunday dinnah, an' you' dun see it ain't gwine ter cost sich a heap, 'kase Ah' make wot's left ober his' all week. Go on, Rastus, an' den we'll figer on de price later. Now, one five pound chicken.” "Uh-huh, mah lub." "One quart ob potatoes." "Uh-huh, mah empress." "One loaf ob bread." "Uh-huh, angel ob paradise." "A quart of onions." "Whub bub queen ob!" "Uh-huh, queen ob kings." "One dozen bananas." "Uh-huh, gem of rubles." "A pot ob coffee." "Uh-huh, mah pink dove." "An' a mince pice. Well, Ah reckon dat's about all. An' now"— "Hol' on, dar, Angellina!" he interrupted as he looked over the list. "Yo's dun made a big mistake yere." "How's dat?" she asked. "Why," he said, "yo's only dun named wot Ah generally eats mahself fo Sunday dinnah. Wot yo' gwine ter hab?" She looked at him speechless with astonishment for a moment or two; then realizing that with his appetite they could never marry on $14 per week she uttered a shriek that was heard all over the neighborhood and swooned at his feet.—A. B. Lewis in Judge The Fringe of Art Eilhu Vedder, the painter, lives in Rome, where he has a beautiful apartment, and in Capri, where his white villa looks down on the sea. "Eilhu Vedder," said a New York illustrator the other day, "is as bohemian as ever. Fame has not spotted him. I visited him last year, and his bohemian ways were delightful. "You know they tell a story of a visit that he once paid to Alma-Tadema in London in that glittering house which Mrs. A.-T.'s money, made in grateful, comforting cocoa, bought. "The morning after his arrival, very early, before even the servants were up, Vedder began a thunderous knocking on his host's sandalwood floor. "Alma-Tadema turned in his gold bed, threw back the lace coverlet and sat up. "Who's there? What is it? he cried in a startled voice. "I say, Tadema," shouted Vedder, where do you keep the scissors that you trim your cuffs with?"—Washington Star. Truly Admirable An Illinois politician who once delivered what seemed to him an excellent and striking speech on the trust question was most anxious to ascertain its effect upon the Democratic part of his audience, these for the most part being Irish. "Was the speech to your liking, Pat?" he asked an old friend in the audience. "Sure. It were a grand speech," averred Pat in a tone of such sincere admiration that the politician felt moved to investigate further. "Was there any part of it more than another that seemed to hold you?" the speaker asked. "Well, now that ye ask me, I'll tell ye," responded the Celt. "What took me most, sir, was yere perseverance—the way ye wint over the same thing agin and agin."-Harper's Weekly. Sandy's Opinion. MacPherson—That whusky's no bad. It's seven years old. Sandy (saying the "wee drapple" in the glass—Eh, but it's precious sma' for its age!—Sketch. A Break. "What a queer remark that man mads about the bride!" said the first wedding guest. $9,000—3444-3446 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front residences; will sell separate. Make terms. $5,000—4034 Dearborn St., 2-flat brick building, stone foundations, 6-6 rooms $2,150—3718 La Salle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. $2,250—3720 La Salle St. 2-flat frame and brick, 5-5 rooms. $2,250—3722 La Salle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $4,000—Forest Ave., near 32nd, 10 room residence, $500 cash. Terms to suit. JESSE BINGA, 3637 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 1565. HOUSES AND FLATS FOR RENT. 3916 La Salle St., 2nd flat, 6 rooms, toilet $20.00 723 Fulton St., 5 rooms, modern 20.00 6159 Loomis St., 4 room cottage 14.00 5510 Ingleside Ave., 1st flat, 4 rooms 15.00 4822 Wentworth Ave., 6 rooms, modern, 1st flat 15.00 4822 Wentworth Ave., 6 rooms, modern, 2nd flat 16.00 4824 Wentworth Ave., 15 rooms, 2nd flat 20.00 5528 Grove Ave., 8 rooms, bath, gas, furnace 25.00 3515 Armour Ave., rear, 2nd flat, 5 rooms 10.00 3525 Armour Ave., 1st flat 9.00 Selections GREATEST OF PORTS. New York Has Four Hundred and Four Miles of Dock. More than twice as many vessels clear the port of London, to be sure, one every fourteen minutes as against one every half hour for New York, but the average cargo value is only $47,242 whereas that of New York is $92,807. In point of tonnage New York exceeds London by 1,000,000. This is due to a difference in the character of the ports that must be borne in mind in comparing them. London is England's one commercial center and aside from Liverpool its only great place of export and import. On the other hand, New York is not the commercial center of America. When the manufacturer of shoes in Boston sends his goods to Baltimore he either sends them by rail or by vessel direct without entering New York. If he wants to send his goods to France or Germany he sends them from the port of Boston. That is, the chief ports of the Atlantic coast, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Norfolk, Philadelphia and Boston, engage in a coastwise and foreign trade in entire independence of New York. Less than 28 per cent of New York's tonnage is represented in coastwise trade. Fully 50 per cent of London's commerce, amounting to $1,370,000,000 annually, or $685,000,000, represents foreign trade, whereas of New York's $1,200,000,000 annual commerce $864,000, 000 represents foreign trade, or an actual excess over London of $179,000, 000. To accommodate this enormous trade New York has 404 miles of improved water frontage—that is, 404 miles of docks. This is half the distance between New York and Chicago. London has less than 200 miles of similar water frontage, Liverpool has less than 100 miles, while Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam or Havre has each less than Liverpool. Practically all the available water frontage of these foreign ports has been absorbed by their docks, while New York has improved only a little over one-half of its available shore. When all the available coast is improved, as it must be rapidly, it will measure nearly as many miles as lie between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi river.—Broadway Magazine. When the Elevator Steps. When the Elevator Steps. In some of the downtown skyscrapers the elevator service is suspended on Sunday, and the janitors and their families, who in many buildings are quartered on the topmost floor, have to descend and climb from twenty to thirty flights of stairs whenever they want to get in touch with the outside world. In one building, which is twenty-four stories high, the ten-year-old daughter of the janitor makes three round trips each Sunday—one when she goes to church in the morning, one when she attends Sunday school in the afternoon and another when she goes to meet her playmates after dinner. Each flight consists of twenty steps, making 900 steps to a round trip. Three trips make it 2,880 steps, a mountain climbing record—New York Tribune. Short on Princesses Short on Princesses. By the birth of the little son and heir to Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck the number of unmarried English princes is now increased to eleven, and if to these are added the two sons of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg there may be said to be thirteen princes for whom wives will have to be found at some time. It is not worthy that at the present time Europe is suffering from a dearth of young princesses. Of late boy babies have appeared in all the royal families, and even as matters now stand it is difficult to see how these little princes are to be mated in the future. Telephone DOUOLAS ... 1565 BINGA INSURANCE STATE STREET CHICAGO. MARGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. FOR SALE. room stone front residences; will sell brick building, stone foundations, 6-6 frame, brick foundation. stone and brick, 5-5 rooms. building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. room residence, $500 cash. Terms to me Douglas 1565. PLATTS FOR RENT. toilet ... $20.00 ... 20.00 ... 14.00 ... 15.00 toern, 1st flat ... 15.00 toern, 2nd flat ... 16.00 flat ... 20.00 furnace ... 25.00 5 rooms ... 10.00 ... 9.00 Such princesses as there are likely to be seem too old for the small boys who are coming so quickly on the scene. Santos-Dumont Makes a Bet. M. Santos-Dumont has made a bet that in eight months he will have constructed a hydroplane capable of traveling at a speed of sixty miles an hour. This idea of a gliding craft or hydroplane is no new one. So long ago as the year 1831 a Frenchman named Garpon built a sort of flat bottomed boat for river navigation which was to all intents and purposes a hydroplane, in that it drew less than an inch of water. Its means of propulsion, however, consisted of small, old fashioned engines working a ridiculous apparatus at the rear that resembled a fish's tail and fins combined. London's American Colony. A correspondent writes: "The consular estimate of the number of citizens of the United States permanently resident in London either for business, pleasure, profit or because generally they prefer to live outside the United States is 5,000. Of these the names of 8,500 are known to be in the London directory; about the remaining 1,500 there is more uncertainty, and the number itself is an approximate calculation—London Times. Making a Monkey of Him. Reggy Sapp—Ye-as, the young lady from Boston said I reminded her of a beautiful flower. Weally, don't you think I resemble a pansy? Miss Tabasco—Yes, a chimpanzee—Chicago News. Edith—If Jack Barlow were to propose to me I wouldn't know whether to say yes or no. Maud—Well, don't worry, dear; I accepted him last night—New York American. A Shrewd Scheme. Gerald—How did you succeed in getting your father to consent to our marriage? Geraldine—I got mother to oppose it. —New York Press. A Twr. Mr. Wr. wooed Miss Phr. And he lr. When Miss Phr. left, then Wr. Kr. sr. Then Miss Phr.'s haughty sr. Slapped bold Wr. Mr. Wr.'s cheek now wears a Painful brr. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 124 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 181 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 381 39th St. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, robacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 412, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parior and News Stand, 2803 Armour ave. B. Davin, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 2803 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2005 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hailey 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5023 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 188 Bancolph St., Detroit, Mck. The Standard News Co 121 W. 53rd st. New York, City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 125th street, New York City, N. Y. Dr.J.William McDowell GRAND ROLLER Owners and Renters will find it to their advantage to call on us, if you want to sell, buy, rent or exchange property. We build, remodel, repair and decorate at the most reasonable prices Farm Lands a Specialty. Occupants for furnished rooms. We make valuations for fire adjustments. List with us and we will certainly treat you right. Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give roor for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions. together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at it's present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Publica Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning and Operating This Immense and Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in the Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come!买 and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. Physician & Surgeon OFFICE: 3102 STATE STREET. Hours, 8-10 a. m., 2-4 & 6-8.30 p. m. Sundays by appointment. Phones Residence, 4792 Douglas. " Office, 4796 Douglas. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 3111 STATE STREET Phone Doug, 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. RESIDENCE: 4842 ARMOUR AVENUE Phone Blue 6571 HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M. and Nights CHICAGO. City Office, 500 Burton Bldg. 39 State Street Hours 4-7 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D. Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street HOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 The Centres (NOT Real Estate, Real Suite 26, 81-83 SOUTH CLARK STREET Owners and Renters will fin'l, if you want to sell, buy, rent or execl We build, remodel, repair and d Farm Lands a Specialty. Occu We make valuations for fire adj List with us and we will certain Call { ON US on US UP to ON YOU Frank H. Lewis, Prop. Phone Oak THE RAILER Imported and Dried Liquors or Cafe in O N. E. Corner Fifty-first and POOL AND BILLIARDS WILLIAM THE FRO CL Phone Calumet 2940 Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizing $100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland cluded to dissolve that Association in ord increased Capital for the purpose of buyin Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishin EVERY AFTERNOON and EVENING At— CHATEAU de la PLAISANCE 5324—26 State Street BEST RESTAURANT IN THE CITY IN CONNECTION MUSIC BY ARMANT ADMISSION 15 CENTS Leland Giants B. B. & A. Assn. 6258 Haisted Street Phone Douglas 2338 Real Estate & Renting Loans & Insurance 3345 STATE STREET CHICAGO,ILL. Telephone Calumet 185 E. A. STACK DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST 2842 South State Street Cor. Twenty-Ninth CHICAGO Ral Bureau (INC.) Plating and Loans ET Phone Central 5337 to their advantage to call on us, change property. corate at the most reasonable prices plants for furnished rooms. instructions. only treat you right. 81 and 88 S. Clark St. Telephone Central 5887 Opp. New County Building Lou Seldon, Mgr. and 1787. ROAD INN Domestic Wines & Cigars Connection Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS M LEWIS ONTANAC UB 239 E. 22ND STREET CHICAGO Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL VARDE: 151st St. & L. S. & R. S. RY. 152nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO W. R. Cowan M. C. Cowan W. R. Cowan & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance 260 S. CLARK STREET Tel. Harrison 1075 CHICAGO Tile and State Hauling a specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Street Phone 699 Calumet CHICAGO ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A E BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO Gaskins' Billiard and Pool Parlors 3004 STATE ST. All Newly Furnished with Latest Tables and Fixtures. Will also carry a Fine Line of Cigare and Tobacco Chas Gaskins, Prop. First-Class Service Guaranteed our Patrons. I will Freeze to Please MARSHALL Ice Cream, Sherbet or Frappes, $1.00 per gallon and up. Special prices to churches. SODA FOUNTAIN PUT IN FREE OF CHARGE. The only Ice Cream Factory owned and operated by Colored People in Chicago E. P. MARSHALL 2922 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2190 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. M. MILLER Expressing, Moving COAL AND Packing and Shipping a Specialty. all Depots, Boats and 3345 STATE STREET Expressing, Moving and Storage COAL AND WOOD Packing and Shipping a Specialty. Three Trips Daily to and from all Depots, Boats and Freight Houses. SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING The Broad Ax can be bought through the STANDARD NEWS COMPANY, retail and wholesale agents. All goods shipped promptly to all parts of the country. Subscriptions, Advertisements, and news items taken at office rates. For the convenience of travelers, they can have their mail addressed care of The STANDARD NEWS COMPANY BUREAU DEPARTMENT. All visitors when in the city should call and register on our visitors book for publication. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 383 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 315-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Attorney at Law. 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CERTNAL 908 CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Draigas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQJORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4134 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. ing and Storage WOOD Three Trips Daily to and from Freight Houses. Telephone Douglas 2338 Tel. Central 4660 Brevities Lord Charles Beresford, the British admiral, so well known to Americans, has given his consent for his daughter's conversion to the Catholic faith. It is said in Pittsburgh that Mr. Carnegie has in view a plan to give substantial aid to the cities and towns that are struggling to support Carnegie Libraries. The kaiser has tried pretty much everything but business. He is a composer, a painter, a sculptor, a maker of armies, a preacher, and now he has an art store. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada, on his retirement from office will write a history of the Dominion. In his early years he did considerable newspaper writing. He is a master of the English language. Louis Madellin, lecturer of the Alliance Francaise in the United States for the coming year, will lecture in the United States and Canada on historical subjects at the leading universities and expects to return to Paris in May. Clark Williams, who has been appointed by Governor Hughes as superintendent of banks of New York state, is vice president of the Columbia Trust company of New York. Mr. Williams was graduated from Williams college in 1892. Rev. John Green Brady, three times governor of Alaska, has lost what money he had, and at fifty-eight he has got to begin again. He risked his all in the Reynolds enterprises in Alaska, which were wrecked by the failure of the Reynolds bank at Valdez. Abbas II., the khelidhe of Egypt, is one of the most cultured of oriental rulers and is thoroughly European in his tastes and habits. He is an expert linguist, a devotee of music, a composer, a practical agriculturist, a teetotaler and about the only Egyptian man who is not a cigarette smoker. Both the president and Mrs. Roosevelt are fond of music, and each of their six children inherits the love and has had the advantages of the best teachers. Mrs. Longworth is perhaps the best musician in the family, being a graceful performer on the piano and able to accompany Mr. Longworth in his almost professional skill on the violin. Louis Gold, one of the best known builders and real estate men in Brooklyn, has had a most interesting career. He was born in the province of Wilma, Russia, and fied Russian persecution and emigrated with a number of others to Argentina. There he was held in peonage, from which he escaped and came to the United States. Today he is rated as one of the Brooklyn millionaires, although he is only thirty-two years of age. NEW YORK CITY. The board of estimate of the city says the municipality will spend $15,000,000 more in 1908 than during the present year. Daily in New York city 49,500 persons pay the street car lines 5 cents for the privilege of hanging fast to straps for from three to fifty miles. Most of the new houses being built in the borough of Brooklyn are of frame construction, costing on an average $4,100 each, while a majority of those in the Bronx are of brick, each one costing about $6,500. What was an almost impassable waste of two miles of rocks and brush a quarter of a century ago is now one of New York's most fashionable thoroughfares, possessing natural beauties and artistic structures not surpassed in the city. It is Riverside drive.—New York Herald. ENGLISH ETCHINGS Of London's population 280,000 are members of some sort of clubs. Measurements made in London schools prove that the children of the well to do are better grown for their age than the children of the poor. Asked by a London police court magistrate recently how often her husband assaulted her, a woman replied, "Not very often—only three or four days a week." There are only three engravers of shearland in England. One lives at Bath. As a joke he has suggested to his two London fellow workers the propriety of a trades union. In England and Wales there are about 1,000,000 persons over sixty-five years of age, and in the course of a year more than a fourth of that number are compelled to accept poor relief. EDITORIAL FLINGS Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish beneums the fact that it is "no expensive to be rich." If she only knew what, it is to be poor—Detroit Journal. The prices of commodities have advanced to the point at which even wild cats come higher than formerly—Louisville Courier-Journal. Germaine is now pasing as an old man full of sorrows and regrets. Had he obtained his deserts years ago he would be a dead man full of government lead—Washington Post. The Beaver County Association of Undertakers has raised the price of funnels 10 per cent. With the cost of living on the jump and the price of funnels increasing, what is a poor man expected to do? Philadelphia In- CHOICE MISCELLANY A New Fashion in Wine It is quite time that a new fashion in wills should appear, declares Law Notes. The old style has been to make wills as full of holes as a sieve for the lawyers to fight about. It now seems to be the growing practice in New York to have one's will subjected to expert antemortem construction and criticism. The idea is for the testator to assume that he is dead and to discover by an independent expert examination during his life what is likely to happen to his will after his death. Daniel S. Ramsen of the New York bar, author of "Remsen on the Preparation and Contest of Wills," recently said: "The plan of submitting wills to a rigid criticism after they have been made and before the testator's death is new in the sense of its becoming popular. It is also justified by results. In a majority of cases such examinations reveal one or more weak spots, and frequently grave errors are found in wills drawn by lawyers of high standing. A little caution on the part of Mr. Tilden would have prevented his fasco. As a result of this movement I predict that the rising generation will be spared much litigation, and many fortunes will be saved from the blight of family discord." Twelve Years In a Bath. A tepid bath, which has lasted over twelve years, has just come to an end in the State hospital at Brunswick owing to the death of a patient named Ferdinand Schilmme, a bricklayer, who injured his spine through a fall in November, 1894. The lower portion of his body was completely paralyzed through the accident, while his stomach and other organs were badly injured. Several operations proved unsuccessful. The patient showed remarkable tenacity of life, but suffered excruciating pain, which rendered his stay in bed unendurable. The surgeons therefore decided to render existence more comfortable by immersing him up to the breast in a tank, through which water ran continuously. There he has lain ever since, with a supporting band round his breast and his head on air cushions. He soon became accustomed to the position, and, as his hands were free, he learned to knit and to carve wooden toys, becoming eventually so expert that he earned a good subsistence and was able to support his aged mother. This lengthened stay in the water, however, induced tuberculosis, from which he died—Berlin Cor. London Telegraph. Teeth Plugging "You remember," said Mr. Killkinton, "that grand old song, 'Grandpa's Teeth Are Plugged With Zinc?' Well, I always supposed that that zinc business was simply a grotesque humorous sight of fancy. I never thought that ahybody's teeth could really be filled with zinc, but now I am not so sure about that. Lately I have had four teeth filled, and no two have been filled with the same material. One was filled with amalgam, one with gold, one with porcelain and one with gutta percha, and now the material they used to fill grandpa's teeth with in the song doesn't seem to me anything like so ridiculous as it did. I have seven teeth yet to be filled, and if the dentist keeps on as he has begun, using something different for every tooth, why, I wouldn't be surprised if before I got through I had one tooth at least filled with zinc."—New York Sun. A Prayer For Pie Answered. An act of Providence which is considered one of the most unique in local huntsmen's history occurred near Milnot, N. D., recently. Attorney Ben Bradford, Sam Clark, editor of the Reporter, and two other business men had spent a successful morning in pursuit of game and were finishing their noonday meal. At its conclusion one of the party bemoaned their forgetfulness in neglecting to bring ple. Hardly had he mentioned the fact when across the prince came a buggy drawn by a runaway pair of horses. The team was stopped, and on the seat, with a knife inserted under their crusts, were found two apple pies.-Minneapolis Journal. It Won't Funny. "The Clerk of the Day" in the Boston Transcript tells this story: "Two of the Clerk's neighbors were recently battling over the Commonwealth Country club links. All went fairly well, all though bogie remained practically intact, until they reached a tee overlooking a pond. Each drove furiously, if cautiously, a half dozen balls into murky depths of that pool. Stand near by was a little girl, stupid, curious. After the twelfth ball h plunged to rise no more she quar blankly, but sincerely, of the golf Day, mistar, what is the fun in it?" The Tobacco Meth. Tobacco dealers in India are greatly troubled by a moth or fly that finds its way into a box of cigars or tobacco and lays an egg that soon develops into a destructive worm or grub, which bores through the wrapper into the body of the cigar and rulns it. Hardly anything will keep these pests out except to incase each cigar in a bottle or whip it in heavy tin foll. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Old Liberty Bell. Contrary to general belief, the old Liberty bell is not the property of the nation or of the city of Philadelphia, but of four sisters who are heirs of John Wilbank, the man who made the new bell shortly after the old one was cracked and who took the old bell as part payment. According to the Home Magazine, three of the sisters—Mrs. James B. McClosky, Mrs. G. D. Emerson and Mrs. S. B. Coward—live in Philadelphia. The fourth, Mrs. S. W. B. Diele, lives in Washington. By an order of the assembly of the province of Pennsylvania the Liberty bell was cast by an English founder in 1751. Soon after arriving in this country the bell broke, but was recast from the same metal in the same form and with the original inscription, "Proclaim liberty throughout the land." The ownership passed from provincial authorities to the state, but in 1818 it was purchased by the city of Philadelphia, together with the old statehouse and grounds. During the celebration over the arrival of Lafayette in 1824 the bell was rung so vigorously it became cracked and a few months later was ordered repaired by a new bell cast by John Wilbank. The latter bell is hanging in the steeple of Germantown hall. Our Navy's Officers. In the eyes of foreigners there are some startling defects in the personnel of our navy. Perhaps the principal one is the age of the flag officers and captains. Not a navy in the world numbers so many men of advanced years in command. All our admirals are between sixty and sixty-two. It is probable that in the event of war lasting a year not one-half of the officers at present in command would possess the physical vigor to remain on active duty. The extreme youth and lack of experience of the main part of the crews of these ships is another weakness. The percentage of veterans in the complement of each vessel is small. Our battleships are much under officered with experienced subordinate officers, gun division officers particularly. The men-of-war of all other nations carry many more officers than ours and more experienced than the American youngsters now available for such positions. This gap between our veterans and youthful men and commanders is due to the neglect of congress, which permitted five years to elapse after the Spanish-American war before the number of midshipmen was increased at Annapolis. — Broadway Magazine. The Professor's Lot. Only a short time ago a college teacher seriously in public of the banker, the lawyer and even of the burglar as being in touch with life in a truer sense than is the university professor. And the professors' frequent reference to the poor rewards and all the outward hardships of their work indicates some little envy of the goods of life which come to the merchant, the lawyer and the physician. Yet there is no lot on earth that offers greater rewards and greater opportunities. And when an individual has grievances the blame is often placed primarily on the president, since the form of organization encourages the professors to place the responsibility anywhere but on themselves. It would be more fitting if their constitution gave no excuse, but constantly invited each to perceive that with himself it rested whether he would succeed or fall—Gene M. Stratton in Atlantic. Most Costly Thing In the World. Some idea of the difficulties in the way of extracting radium from the pitchblende waste may be appreciated when we learn that pitchblende, the mineral that is richest in radium, contains but one-millionth part of 1 percent of radium, less than the proportion of gold in ocean water. We would think it a pretty thankless task to mine gold, or extract it, from sea water. But the work would be far easier, and we would get more gold from a cubic yard of sea water than we would radium from a ton of pitchblende. Perhaps, then, it will not be hard to appreciate how little radium there is in the world—less than twenty grains, certainly not half a teaspoonful of pure radium bromide. A grain of gold can be had for five cents or less. Diamonds are worth by weight much more, perhaps $10 a grain, but the cost of radium is truly fabulous—$7,200 for a single grain—Harper's Weekly. China's Pernicious Tax System. Peking is now quite safe for foreigners to go freely in all parts of the city, except in the Forbidden City, where the emperor's palace is situated. The Chinese are developing slowly along the road toward western civilization, but so far they have not attained any great speed. Men who have spent their lives in the east and know the country thoroughly declare that China will not develop materially until she has a good government. The present system of collecting taxes, which has been in vogue for centuries, is the mother of all graft, the incubus under which the nation is suffering, and will keep the country back until the system has been completely wiped out-New York Times. Trying Ordeal For a Hunter. While parridge shooting at Burxed a sportman suddenly had hundreds of wasps settle upon him. They crawled upon his hands and face, but he kept his nerve; did not interfere with them. The wasps scared the gentleman's friends, and they got some distance away, being afraid to go near him. After about ten minutes the wasps flew off in a body without having stung him. Londoners BUCKING AN ICE FLOE An Incident in One of Peary's Arctic Exploration Trials. One of the most striking passages in Robert E. Peary's "Nearest the Pole" is his description of the action of an ice floe which threatened his ship. He writes: "Its slow, resistible motion was frightful, yet fascinating. Thousands of tons of smaller ice which the big floe drove before it the Roosevelt had easily and gracefully turned under her sloping bliges, but the edge of the big floe rose to the plank sheer, and a few yards back from its edge was an old pressure ridge, which rose higher than the bridge deck. This was the crucial moment. For a minute or so, which seemed an age, the pressure was terrific. The Roosevelt's ribs and interior bracing cracked like the discharge of musketry, the deck amidships bulged up several inches, while the main rigging hung slack and the masts and rigging shook as in a violent gale. Then, with a mighty tremor and a sound which reminded me of an athlete intaking his breath for a supreme effort, the ship shook herself free and jumped up till her propeller showed above water. The big floe snapped against the edge of the ice foot forward and aft and under us, crumpling up its edge and driving it inshore some yards, then came to rest, and the commotion was transferred to the outer edge of the floe, which crumbled away with a dull roar as other floes smashed against it and tore off great pieces in their onward rush, leaving the Roosevelt stranded, but safe." On another occasion it required thirty-five and a half hours of incessant strain and struggle to clear a way through the obstructing ice floes to the open water beyond. Mr. Peary says: "The Roosevelt fought like a gladiator, turning, twisting, straining with all her force, smashing her full weight against the heavy floes whenever we could get room for a rush and rearing upon them like a steeplechaser taking a fence. Ah, the thrill and tension of it, the lust of battle, which crowded days of ordinary life into one! The forward rush, the gathering speed and momentum, the crash, the upward heave, the grating snarl of the ice as the steel shod stem split it as a mason's hammer splits granite or trod it under or sent it right and left in whirling fragments, followed by the violent roll, the backward rebound and then the gathering for another rush were glorious." At such times the physical tension was intense: "Every one on deck hung with breathless interest on our movement, and as Bartlett and I clung in the rigging I heard him whisper through teeth clinched from the purely physical tension of the throbbing ship under us: 'Give it to 'em, Teddy; give it to 'em!' More than once did a fireman come panting on deck for a breath of air, look over the side, mutter to himself, 'By thunder, she's got to go through' then drop into the stokekhold, with the result a moment later of an extra belch of black smoke from the stack and an added turn or two to the propeller." A Whirlwind Bhin "Typhonold," a word derived from a Greek term meaning whirlwind, has been applied to a new type of boat invented by a French engineer, who seeks to do away with the present day screw propeller. The new screw is placed at the bow of the boat instead of at the stern, and it is believed that by it the centrifugal displacement and the central void of the present type are converted into benefits, and the limit to the advantageous increase in velocity of rotation of the propeller is removed. The apparatus is designed to work by suction in the manner of a waterspout. The inventor figures that his boat, with a thirty-two and a half inch screw, will go through the water at a rate of more than sixty-two miles an hour. The Picture Postal Card. The picture or souvenir postal card is probably doing more to make the world known to the untraveled than all the geographies and gazetteers. There is scarcely a village anywhere in the domain of the postal union that has not had its picture taken for a postal card impression in black or white or in colors, and thus its humble fame has been carried over seas and introduced to the four corners of the Union. All the aliens and prodigal sons cannot return for the old home week celebrations, but, thanks to the man who invented the picture postal card, they may be reminded the old home scenes at an expenditure of a few cents—New York Sun. Tough Remedies. Tibet's army is to be modernized, and with it probably will be the grand lama's military medical staff corps. The sick Tibetan soldier, it was reported a year ago, was put through a sort of faith healing process. An army physician of the old school chakhal a prescription on a board. The martial patient washed off the lettering and drank the rinseings. The plan of the younger doctor was simpler. He scrawled his prescription on a piece of paper and gave it to the invalid to chew and swallow. Windmills and Electricity. Windmills and Electricity. The use of windmills for generating electric current has given favorable results in the tests for the Danish government made by Professor La Cour. The four wing wheel proves to be the best form. 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