The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Anti-Tuberculosis Meeting Held At Fullerton Hall Sunday, Feb. 9th. Committee of Colored Citizens Named To Help To Fight Against the Spread of This Death Dealing Disease. Anti-Tubercul Held At Fu Sunday, Committee of C Named To Against the Death Dealin Sunday afternoon an anti-tuberculosis meeting was held in Fullerton Hall, Art Institute, which was well filled with representative and the thinking class of Afro-Americans and quite a few of the opposite race both men and women were also present. Doctor Henry B. Favill president of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, which maintains headquarters at 51 La Salle street and which has associated with it in the great work which the institute is performing, some of the best and the leading M. D's, in the city, and other prominent men and women who are bending every effort to arrest the onward march of tuberculosis, which lays the cold hand of death on thousands of helpless victims each year in Chicago, presided. Dr. Favill made an ideal chairman and dwelt at considerable length on the aims and objects of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, and the campaign of education which it is now engaged in carrying on among the people in all sections of Chicago. Dr. George F. Shears, was the first speaker, and in referring to tuberculosis, he declared, that "It was no respector of persons, that many of the master minds, in art, science, literature, medicine and in all the higher walks of life among the white race, have fallen victims to the king of all diseases, that it is impossible to estimate the great loss which the world sustained by the deaths of so many eminent men at the hands of tuberculosis, that it claimed and struck down the late Paul Laurence Dunbar at the noontide of his fame, and that many other prominent Afro-Americans have long before their time been rushed into eternity by tuberculosis." Doctor George C. Hall was the next speaker and he proved himself more than equal to the occasion. He did not hesitate in declaring, that "Race prejudice forced Colored people to live in houses, the majority of which are in an unsanitary condition, which is largely responsible for the spreading of tuberculosis to an alarming extent among the Afro-Americans in this city, that "This disease can be checked when the sanitary conditions are improved, that as a general rule, white real estate owners and agents will not rent houses to Colored people until after they have become unsanitary and have been abandoned by the whites, that "The wealthy whites compel their servants to either sleep in damp basements or out in the barns, that "The servants by no doing contract tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases, which they in turn impart to their wealthy employers, striking down some of its members and others that they come in contact with, that it is useless to talk about arresting the spread of tuberculosis until radical reforms are evolved along these lines." Dr. Hall, talked straight from the shoulder, without mincing his words and there was sound truth in what he had to say. Doctor A. W. Springs was the next speaker, and he made a plain common sense talk, which was heartily received by the audience. State Senator Edward J. Glaken came next, and he imparted much valuable information to his hearers along legislative lines, in favor of establishing institutions exclusively for patients effected with tuberculosis. He has succeeded after much hard work in getting a bill through the Legislature of Illinois empowering all cities, towns and villages throughout the state, to levy an extra or a special tax for the purpose of establishing and maintaining sanitariums which would be independent of the state. The measure is now before Governor Deneen, and if he signs it, it will become a law in a very short while. In case it does become a law, by spreading a tax of 4 mills in Chicago, would create a $1,000,000 fund each year, which would be expended, to establish and maintain a sanitarium in this city for the treatment of all people effected with tuberculosis. Doctor A. Wilberforce Williams, followed Senator Glaken, and it was freely admitted by Health Commissioner Evans, Dr. Henry B. Favill, Alexander M. Wilson, Superintendent of the Chicago Tuberculosis institute, that, he made the best and the most practical speech of all the speakers. That there are a very few doctors in Chicago or in fact in any section of the country, who have studied tuberculosis in all of its ramifications, more closely than Dr. Williams; and Health Commissioner Evans, informed him that he would be pressed into service, to lecture on tuberculosis throughout the city. By all means Dr. Williams should have his remarks published in pamphlet form and scattered broadcast throughout the country for the benefit of humanity. Ferdinand L. Barnett, followed in the footsteps of Dr. Williams and during his timely remarks he had much to say in relation to the unsanitary condition of Armour ave. and Dearborn street, and throughout the "Black Belt" it is very unfortunate for the Afro-Americans residing west of State street, for at all large or important meetings or monuments in which the whites become interested in with their Colored fellow citizens, for some cause or other those who are generally selected to represent the poor Colored people living on Dearborn street or Armour ave., reside away over on the east side of State street, among the whites, and they do not visit the homes of those living on the street and ave. referred to except on business. This being true, those who get out of touch with the great mass of any race of people, and reside among another class of people that does not need their example of right living, cannot in the very nature of things expect to accomplish much in the way of improving the moral or the sanitary condition of those they leave behind. More will be said in these columns along this line in the near future. More will be said in these columns along this line in the near future. Dr. W. A. Evans, Commissioner of Health of Chicago, was the last speaker, and among other things he boldly declared that "four times more Colored people in Chicago, than whifes die each year, from tuberculosis; that their mode of living in unsanitary quarters, and drinking in so much bad or foul air at all times was the chief cause why so many Colored people in this city were being swept away by tuberculosis; that the HEW TO THE LINE. M. C. H. Whose 91st Birthday should be celebrated this coming week, by the Afro-Americans, throughout the United States. For with his matchless oratory or eloquence he swayed the people, on two continents, during the agitation of the Slavery question in America, and his labors in behalf of his fellow creatures in chains, will never grow dim in the hearts of those who truly love Justice and Liberty! Health Department stands ready and willing to do everything in its power, in the way of bettering sanitary conditions in the sections of the city in which the majority of the Colored people reside; thereby to a great extent checking the further spread of this death dealing disease." The commissioner of Health, in winding up his talk also declared in the plainest language at his command that after all that "can be said and done in this regard it is up to the Colored people to rid themselves of tuberculosis." At the conclusion of the meeting a "committee of Negro citizens of Chicago on the Prevention of Tuberculosis" was organized as follows: Dr. A. W. Springs, President; Drs. A. L. Smith and A. W. McCurr, vice Presidents; Dr. George C. Hall, Treasurer; Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Secretary; Noah D. ThompsonfI Assistant Secretary. The executive committee is composed of the following persons: South Side—F. L. Barnett, Dr. A. L. Smith, Mrs. E. Lindsay Davis, Mrs. D. G. Smith, Dr. M. J. Brown, Julius F. Taylor, J. Max Barber, Noah D. Thompson Dr. George C. Hall, Rev J. B. Massiah, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, and Oscar De Priest. North Side—Julius B. Streets, Dr. Thomas Wilson, Rev. J. H. Ferribee, Mrs. Martha Anderson, Mrs. M. Halliday and Dr. A. W. Springs. West Side—Dr. A. W. Mercur, J. R. Gordon, Dr. Charles H. Pickett, Rev. R. E. Wilson, and J. W. McDermott. The committee whose members will work in conjunction with those interested in the work carried on by the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, held its first meeting at its headquarters, 51 La Salle street Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and after partly perfecting plans to carry on an educational campaign among the people, respecting the improvement of their sanitary surrounding, the committee adjourned to meet again Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock Feb. 26. Mrs. Dora McDonald, after one of the most sensational trials, in the history of the criminal courts of Cook County, was early on Wednesday morning acquitted of the murder of Webster Guerin who lost his life about one year ago in his studio in the Omaha Building, with no one present but himself and Mrs. McDonald, who seemed to be dead in love with him. Her attorneys Col. James Hamilton Lewis and P. H. O'Donnell, put up the greatest legal fight of their lives and won the day for her. A VOICE FROM ARMOUR AVE. ON THE ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS MEETING. Everyone sincerely hopes that the meeting held at the Art Institute last Sunday afternoon will be productive of much good. It was certainly a useful and very interesting meeting to all present apparently for the demonstrations. I did not entirely agree with all that was said and was rather amused at our East Side speakers of Color talking about Armour ave. and Dearborn street. Of course they used to live over there in the long ago. Yet things have progressed somewhat since their exodus from Armour ave. and lots of folks on Armour ave and Dearborn street take baths in the old way behind the kitchen stove with good old fashioned hard soap, although some are without bath tubs. As to pure air, we have all known ever since we first learned our lessons in the modern school about covering the window at the top and raising it at the bottom and most of the houses on Armour ave. and Dearborn street are pretty well ventilated at least the old ones for the landlords are not doing much repairing. The quality of food sold in this vicinity with the Governments tag was one thing that I had hoped would be gone into because that is one of the things we are not instructed as how to tell when meat is bad and perhaps filled with these germs spoken of. The call has come for our friends on the East Side to come over and help, you with hand and hand and help us live better lives. It is pretty hard to tell what is going on down on Armour ave. and Dearborn street when you live over on Rhodes and Vernon and other streets East of State. We all know how to breathe good air, but we must have something to breathe in. In conclusion I would say that, Negroes no more so, than any people from a warm land, die from consumption. The Negro under the same environment, born from good material will not incur any disease any quicker than the white race. Children of the white race born of diseased parents will have the same lack of resistive force that the Negro child has of a like parentage. In admitting that the Negro is more susceptible to any disease, dependent upon light; air, clothing and food, there can be no just comparison for the fact that there seems to be no law governing the building and renting of unsanitary houses to Negroes and this condition must be remedied before you can carry out these health plans so far suggested. (A voice from Armour ave.) Death Of Major Alanson W. Edwards At Fargo, North Dakota. He Was the Founder and for Many Years the Editor of the Daily Argus and Also the Daily Forum, and Was One Of Our Oldest And Warmest Friends. Major Alanson W. Edwards, passed away from among his family and friends, at his beautiful home Fargo, North Dakota, last Saturday after a long spell of illness, he located in 1879, at Fargo, and founded the Daily Argus, which was one among the first daily newspapers published in North Dakota, and for many years he was its owner and editor. in 1891, he disposed of his interest in the Argus at a large profit and that same year he founded the Daily Forum, in that flourishing and enterprising little city, and he was its editor until a few years ago. He was one of the boldest and most fearless writers in this country, for he was a complete master of the English language and at no time did he hesitate in the least in calling a spade by its proper name. He came into this world in Loraine County, Ohio, and while in his boyhood days his parents moved over into Illinois and located at Edwardsville, this state which was named after some of his relatives. He was also related to Ninian Edwards, one of the early governors of Illinois. The latter part of April, 1879, the writer wended his way to Fargo, on our way to the far West, and shortly after arriving in that wild and wooly town, it was our good fortune to come in contact with Major Edwards, who induced us to remain there and not to go any farther west; stating at the same time that "he would assist us as best he could to engage in business for ourselves," which he did, for at that time it was just as much as he could do to make both ends meet, in order to run his paper and to provide for his large and interesting family, for at that time he was not a rich man by any means, and during all the intervening years right down to the day of his death, he was one of our best and oldest friends; in fact he was more than a friend for we always regarded him as being more and truer in every way to us than a brother. It was through his influence that we were selected to serve as a United States Grand Juror in 1884, and it fell to our lot to be the first Colored man west of the Mississippi River, to serve Uncle Sam in that capacity. In 1888 in company with Mrs. Taylor, we attended a family reunion at Harrisburg, Pa., and he gave us a letter of introduction to Hon. J. B. Foraker who was at that time, Governor of Ohio, a warm friend of Major Edwards, and has also been one of our friends since that time to the present. March 15, 1903, Major Edwards, was appointed Consul General at Montreal, Canada, and here is what was said in the columns of The Broad Ax, March 21, 1903 in reference to his appointment. "Major A. W. Edwards, editor of The Forum, Fargo, N. D., who is one of our oldest and warmest friends in the Northwest, was recently pointed Consul General at Montreal, Canada. It was through his influence that the writer finally became interested in newspaper work. A way back in 1885, he first induced us No.19 Major Alanson lands At Fargo, Dakota. Founder and for the Editor of the s and Also the m, and Was One est And Warmest to write an article for his paper, and from that time on, until we went out of business in Fargo, the latter part of 1889 he urged us and encouraged us to continue to practice the art of writing for the press to adopt a vigorous style of writing, that in time we might become an editor. Here it may truthfully be said that we feel that what little success which we have met in the newspaper world we owe it to the advice imparted to us by Major Edwards, and it fills our heart with joy to learn of his appointment as Counsul General at Montreal, Canada." Several weeks after the above comment on his appointment appeared in The Broad Ax, we received the following letter from him, which we took the liberty to publish, April 25, 1903. Montreal, Canada, April 14th, 1903. Friend Taylor: I have read with much interest of "how you became an editor." And have succeeded well too, "I am pleased you have demonstrated that it was in you! senator Tillman has been wondering, "What's to be done with your people," as he "proposes setting up nights," as it were, to demonstrate, "that Negro equality," can never be realized. To the friend who told me this and asked my idea, I said: "When I was going through South Carolina in 1865, we lost our mess equipment, and when my comrade who carried his own equipment brought me a steaming hot cup of coffee, I never stopped to inquire whether, I was violating the laws of equality or not, I just drank the coffee, and felt exceedingly gratified to the donor who so graciously supplied my needs." "By the way, I see a report that quite a colony of Colored southerners, have located out in Kidder county, and are making homes there on newly acquired government lands, I have often advocated that method. The prejudices do not exist in North Dakota, as in South Carolina, people have so much to do they have no time to consider "equality." "If the new comers will work, that's the main point! And my observation is, the Colored freeman of our State, are of that sort." "I can recall more than half a hundred high school graduates in Fargo and personally know, a half dozen or more stenographers occupying positions of trust. That's the way North Dakotans, solve the problem, and there's work for all." "Pardon me for referring to this matter, I only started out to say to you, 'I'm thankful for your kindly compliments and with kindly seatments of regard to Mrs. Taylor, and trusting that you both shall continue to prosper." As stated before, Major Edwards was instrumental in changing our whole course in life, and we exceedingly regret our inability to pay the proper tribute to his memory as a citizen, soldier, and lover of his fellow-men; and to fittingly express our sympathy for his family, over their great loss! "Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Free, Knight of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibly fixed. The Broad is a newspaper whose platform is to inform and inform, thus 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. New Year..... 89.90 New Month..... 1.00 SUMMER F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. "Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HOW TO KEEP WELL. Some Helpful Hints from the Health Department—Printers and Consumption. There are few trades more subject to an excessive death rate from consumption than that of the printer. The statement is made by a well-known expert for one of the leading life insurance companies. And he adds that this is fully borne out by the experience of his company with printers as risks. Tabulated figures show that out of 1,384 deaths 527 were from consumption, a death rate from this disease alone of over 38 per cent. But this is not the whole story. In addition to the deaths from consumption, 1.2 per cent died from some other tuberculous disease, 7 per cent from asthma, 1.2 from bronchitis, 10.5 from pneumonia, and 1.7 per cent from other respiratory diseases, making a total mortality of 53.7 per cent from disease of the lungs and air passages Now, we said last week that consumption, bronchitis, pneumonia and influenza were bad air diseases. This means that impure air is a big factor in producing these diseases. The figures just given as to the death rate among printers also mean—if they mean anything—that printers need to go on strike for more fresh air. That while they are demanding and are receiving good wages, a plentiful and unfailing supply of good air should also be written in the contract. Another appalling feature of the high death rate among printers from consumption is the fact that most of the deaths occur while the victims are young and in the early prime of their working lives. In proof of this statement, glance at these figures: Out of 299 printers that died between the age of 15 and 24 years, 142 or 47.5 per cent died of consumption; out of 392 deaths between the ages of 25 and 34, 217 or 5.4 per cent were caused by consumption, while between the ages of 35 and 44, out of 297 deaths there were 116 or 39.1 per cent; and between the ages of 55 and 64 only 9.5 per cent. But in this trade the consumptive mortality is excessive for all the age groups under 60. According to the U. S. census of 1900 there were 141,000 printers and pressmen, about 8,000 lithographers and about 3,000 electrotypers and stereotypers, making a total in these allied trades, in each of which the consumption death rate is excessive, of 152,000. The average consumptive death rate from these trades is 39.9; that is, 39.9 per cent of all deaths among printers, pressmen, lithographers, stereotypers and electrotypers are due to consumption. Add to this the deaths in the same trades from other forms of tuberculosis, bronchitis, pneumonia and influenza, all bad air diseases, and you have a total of over 50 per cent. The writer used to be around printing offices a great deal. He happens to remember that the printers had a habit of knocking on their cases whenever an unusual or startling piece of news came into the composing room. Certainly the facts and statements submitted in this week's talk should at least make the typo "sit up and take notice," and possibly call a chapel meeting to discuss fresh air and how to get more of it into their work places not forgetting either their brothers, the pressmen, in the basement. It is doubtless true that the conditions under which printers work are improving all the time. But the fact remains that they are still bad enough to be largely responsible for the high death rate among those who follow this calling. Then, too, the work places are not wholly responsible. There are other factors which enter into the problem, among which are irregular habits, lack of proper food and rest. But, in any event, it rests largely with the printers themselves as to the things to be done to stop the frightful death rate in their ranks from consumption.—(P.) CALL OF NATIONAL POLITICAL SUFFRAGE, CONFERENCE OF COLORED AMERICANS, The positive and notoriously hostile attitude of the government of our republic toward its citizens of color under the present Republican administration and the approach of the party nominating conventions in this year 1908 produce a crisis for one-eighth of the citizenship of these United States of America. The open alliance between the President and the nullifiers of the Constitution in the South constitutes the most fragrant collusion between a Republican President and the Southern Democrats since the emancipation of the American slaves 45 years ago today, save in the cases of Andrew Johnson at the close of the Civil War or of Rutherford B. Hayes at the close of the Reconstruction. But it has remained for the present chief executive of the United States to prescribe in official documents an inferior grade of education for one class of citizens, and to thus officially brand that class as concealers of criminals and as rapists, while the defaming and discharging in disgrace of more that a hundred soldiers, all Colored, without a trial or chance to be heard in their own defense is a denial of justice and constitutional rights visited upon Colored citizens unprecedented in our country's history. The placing of the nation's sanction upon the segregation of citizens for and because of color in public travel but completes the Federal maltreatment of the Colored citizens under the present Republican administration, leaving him stripped of rights, branded and in contempt. In view of these unusual and extraordinary conditions, in view of the attempt of the present Czarocratic regime to perpetuate itself in power in Imperial fashion, in view of the open candidacy for the Republican party's nomination for the presidency of one who in his official position as a cabinet officer has in public speech in the south condoned their disfranchisement of citizens for color in admitted violation of the federal constitution, and who has supinely endorsed in toto the brutal and autocratic discharge of Colored soldiers without trial by executive decree, you as one of a class which almost from necessity has for two generations by its solid support and with a loyalty that sacrifices friends, the chance to make terms with the enemy and even life itself, kept the Republican party almost continuously in power, but one who is free from party obligation, are invited to a National Conference of Colored men, and of avowed friends to be held in the City of Philadelphia, Pa., on the 7th day of April, 1908, to counsel together as to the wisest course to be pursued politically by the Colored citizens of the country especially those unrobbed of the ballot who are willing to use this weapon for the rights and liberties of their class, under the present abnormal condition of affairs. This conference will have special reference to what demands shall be made of political parties as to the national platform and most particularly to what candidates for the presidential nomination most deserve the support of the Colored voters. Please come prepared to make a stand for equal rights and for constitutional liberty for all in these United States without regard to race, color or creed. ALEXANDER WALTERS, President of the Afro-American Council. WILLIAM H. SCOTT, President of the Suffrage League of Boston and vicinity. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER, President of the New England Constitution and Suffrage League. Boston, Mass., Jan. 31, 1908. NEGRO SOCIETY IS ENJOINED FROM USING NAME OF ELKS. Chancellor Heiskell Makes Restraining Order Permanent Against Organization With Headquarters Here. The Negro organization styling itself the Benevolent Order of Elks, with headquarters at Chicago, was perpetually enjoined Monday, Feb. 10, from using the name or wearing the emblems of the white organization of Elks by Chancellor Heiskell, at Memphis, Tenn. The Negro organization was recently enjoined temporarily from using the Elks' pin or button, or the ritual of the order. In this decision making the injunction permanent Chancellor Heiskell said that the name and secrets of an order could no more be usurped than could a copyrighted name of an article in trade." A certain Dallas Colored minister whose congregation was tardy in raising his accustomed allowance last Sunday, said to the brethren by way of admonition: "Brederen, you must 'member I can't preach here and board in heaven.'-Ex. THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOME ASSOCIATION. The members o the Phyllis Wheatley Woman's Club, re-incorporated recently, and from henceforth, it will be known as the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association. Many of the most self sacrificing women, who are ever ready to work for the uplifting of those who need help are connected with the association, and they are putting forth every honorable effort to raise money to assist in paying for a home at 3530 Forest ave., which will be used as a home for young girls, coming to this city from the South seeking employment, where they can find a safe home, until they can get themselves adjusted to the new order of things. The women connected with the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association are worthy of the highest consideration, and any one desiring to render them any financial assistance, can send their contributions, to Mrs. A. E. Hunter financial secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association, 3029 La Salle street. A NEW COLORED THEATRE. A $19,000 brick theatre building and dancing hall is being erected at 1287 Mt. Vernon avenue, by Samuel Clark, a Colored man, and it is expected that the building will be completed by March 1. The theatre, which will be for the use of amateurs at present, is fully equipped with a stage 36 feet deep and 40 feet wide and the house has a seating capacity of 700.—The Colored World, Columbus, Ohio. It is too bad that there is not some Colored man in Chicago, enterprising enough to construct a fine large hall which could be used in which first class dances could be held and all the important gatherings among the Afro-Americans. MASKED CARNIVAL AT THE CHA TEAU DE PLAIANCE The Chateau de Plaisance, 5324 State street, will be a scene of pleasure and beauty next Wednesday night, February 19th, when Photographer Jones, at 10:30 P. M. takes a flash light of the varigated colors of the immense audience and skaters under the Kaleidoscope Calcium, which will be used on the occasion of this masked Carnival on wheels of the Leland Glants further efforts to amuse and please its many patrons. Those who skate can not afford to miss this affair, the first of its kind in twenty years. The recent damage to the Rink has been fully repaired and the French American Chinese Restaurant will be in full operation. Face masks can be had at the Rink. Prizes will be awarded for the most original and unique costumer and a good time in store for all who attend. A COLORED MASON OF CHICAGO 'RECOGNIZED AND HONORED ABROAD Mr. H. S. Collins, a prominent Colored mason of Chicago and a member of Chicago Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. Masons who has been absent from Chicago for over eighteen months, last week returned home. And while away he visited masonic lodges in England, Berlin, Germany, Spain, Belgium, France and was recognized and highly honored by the masons and lodges in those countries. There is no prejudice in those countries in the masonic fraternity against a mason because he may be Colored. The Chicago Lodge that Mr. H. S. Collins is a member of and was made in two or three years ago is chartered and under the jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Saint John Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the state of Illinois that Lawyer John G. Jones of Chicago is the Grand Master of and Mr. S. H. Prather is the Grand Secretary of. Many invitations have been issued to the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel, which will take place at their palatial residence, 6352 Rhodes ave. Thursday evening February the 27th. Prof. and Mrs. Emanuel were joined in wedlock in the year 1888 at which time they were known to but few Chicagoans out side of the Meredith family and the family of the late Rector James E. Thompson. Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper of New York City, who served at the wedding as flower girl, will assist in receiving the guest on the 27th and many others, from out of town are expected to attend the anniversary which promises to be the most brilliant social affair of the season. William Hale Thompson, president of the new Illinois Athletic Club, may be induced to go up against Alderman John J. Coughlin, and make a hot race against him for his seat in the City Counell. CHIPS Last evening Charlie Dunn 3430 Vernon ave., entertained in honor of the Misses Hagan of Peoria, Ill. Miss La Monte of Paris, Ky., is visiting the city stopping at 2966 Dearborn St. Dr. Jas. Alexander formally of this city, but now located in Chattanooga is visiting friends in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Ed. Mallory of Jacksonville, Ill. is visiting the city stopping at 3213 Wabash Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Frank James 3732 Dearborn st., entertained a number of friends at whist, Tuesday eve. Wednesday February 12, was "Lincoln Day," and it was generally observed throughout the country. It is rumored that Mr. Robt. Motts has leased a theater on Clark near Division Sts., and will interchange plays with the Pekin. We understand that one of our old Chicago boys, Robt. Sampson of La Porte, Ind., is soon to wed one of the Southland's prettiest daughters. The new Democratic headquarters of Cook County, have been opened up at 91 Clark st., Secretary John P. Tansey in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Edwarn Hagan of Peoria, Ill., and their daughters Misses Edna and Grace Hagan are visiting Barnes, 5313 La Salle street. Mr. E. Thurston 3721 Dearborn st., entertained a small party of his gentlemen friends, last Saturday evening at cards. A fine supper was served at 12 o'clock. Mrs. J. H. Coleman, 2540 State st., left Thursday morning for Oberlin, Ohio, where she will spend some time in visiting with her relatives and friends. The Democratic State Convention of illinois, which will select delegates to the National Convention which meets in Denver, Col., July 7th will be held April 14th. The Democratic National Committee has opened up headquarters at the Auditorium Annex. National Secretary Urey Woodson in charge of the same. Mrs. Minnie Bishop, 3632 State st., has been under the doctors care for the past two weeks, but she is gradually improving and will soon be able to eat her regular rations each day. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Allen 3132 La Salle st., are the proud parents of a new baby boy, born February 4th. Dr. Edward S. Miller and Mrs. B. B. Carey assisted the stork to bring the new arrival into the world. Mother and son are doing well and all are happy. Mr. W. C. Brenner who was buried last Sunday afternoon from Quinn chapel died, Feb. 3rd, at his late residence 4957 Calumet ave., where he had been confind to his bed for several weeks with pneumonia. Mr. Brenner was a member of Golden Fleece Lodge No. 1615 G. U. O. of O. F. the members of which turned out in large numbers at the funeral. The Appomattox Club commemorated Lincoln Day, with appropriate exercises at their club house 3144 Wabash ave., Wednesday evening, Feb 12. Judge Mancha Bruggemayer of the Municipal Court was the speaker of the evening and musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. Martha Broadus Anderson soprano and Mr. W. D. Collins of Indianapolis, basso. John P. Hopkins, and his steadfast friend John McCarty, left Chicago, Wednesday morning, for New York City where they sail today for the shores of Morocco and while taking in the sights of the old country for "rest cure," they will travel through Italy, Spain, Africa Tunis and Algerians, returning home in time, to attend the Democratic State convention April 14. A very handsomely engraved invitation is being sent out to "Chicago's Select" by the Fellowship Club, for their Pre-Lenten Party, which will be a full dress event and take place at Oakland Music Hall on Thursday evening, February the 20th. The following are officers of the club. Dr. Geo. C. Hall, Pres., Mr. J. Gray Lucas, V. P. Mr. David Manson, Treas.; Mr. W. L. Martin, Secretary. Advice from Kestler, Ga., where a Negro secret society hall was blown to atoms with dynamite several days ago, say two other halls near Kestler were dynamited. At least five halls have been demolished within a month. The Negroes are in terror, as they believe white men are dynamiting the halls on account of the difficulty in procuring labor, which is charged to the influence of the secret societies.—Ex. We are told that God keeps a daily account of our every action in a divine record to which reference will be made when we apply for admission at the golden gate of the New Jerusalem, but would it not be well for Man to turn the tables and keep an account of the acts of God in order to determine whether he be deserving of our worship and praise? Try it!—Blue Grass Blade. Fortune's Freeman, which is logically and brilliantly edited by T. Thomas Fortune, and published at No. 4 Cedar street, New York City, has found its way to our desk. It is gotten up in magazine form, consisting of 16 pages which are filled full of good lively reading matter, and it is all right in every respect except that the lower N. is used in spelling the word Negro. Selections EVANS' BIG FLEET. The Way It Would Have Toyed With the Spanish Armada. Speaking of the fleet of American battleships now on its way to Pacific waters as an "armada," as some writers appear fond of doing, is comparing very great things with things very small. It is true that the Spanish armada in 1588, to which allusion of course is made, filled a large place in history and was a very spectacular affair in its day, but its power as compared with that of the fleet under Admiral Evans was the power of a crow compared with that of an eagle. The "invincible armada" of Spain, which set out to invade and capture England in 1588, was a formidable demonstration of naval power for that period, though it met with complete disaster. The armada consisted of about 130 vessels, some of them of great size, but all wooden and without any protection against even the feeble artillery of that day. They carried in all 2,431 guns and more than 19,000 men, besides the working crews. As the soldiers could not help work the ships, they were really in the way and much more helpless on shipboard than modern marines. The cannon which formed the armament of the ships were mere toys compared with those of the present day. Finally the ships were all sailing ships, cumbrous built, hard to maneuver and liable to be put out of action by adverse winds. Torpedo boats and monitors were unknown at that day. The American fleet consists of sixteen first class battleships, eight armored cruisers, nine protected cruisers, six gunboats, six torpedo boat destroyers and three monitors. The ships carry a total of 2,184 guns, any one of which could sink the biggest ships in the Spanish armada with one shot from a distance that the heaviest gun in the Spanish fleet could not cover half the way. The concentrated fire of all the ships in the Spanish fleet would not make a dent in the armored sides of one of the American ships, while a single broadside from the latter would sink or disable the entire armada. Finally the American ships, being worked by steam and electricity, are entirely independent of wind and weather. After they had steamed through the Spanish armada once, from end to end, coming out scathell, there would be nothing left of the armada—Kennebec Journal. How the World Grows In a little more than a hundred years, according to government figures, the population of the world has grown from 640,000,000 to 1,600,000,000, an increase of 150 per cent. At the end of so many hundreds of centuries, in other words, there were in the world in 1800 only 640,000,000 of persons, and in 106 years, from 1800 to 1906, to this number had been added 960,000,000. The total commerce of the world in 1800 was about $1,500,000,000; in 1900 it was more than $20,000,000,000. Other figures show that in wealth and the growth of various industrial agencies the increase has been far swifter than that of population. The overpopulation of the world is not a present menace to the thinkers of today, but the thinkers of a period when there were less than half as many people in the world as there are now seriously debated the imminence of the catastrophe that the overcrowding of the earth would produce.—Boston Globe. The Plight of Mouchet Twenty years ago a famous work on "Solar Heat" was produced by Professor Bernard Mouchot. This clever old gentleman has just been discovered starving in Paris, eighty-two years of age, and on the point of being turned out of a poverty stricken home for nonpayment of rent. At the age of seventy-five he married a young woman, who subsequently passed off a relative as the professor in order that after his death the younger man could continue to draw his pension. Unhappily the impostor went first, and as Bernard Mouchot was supposed to have died the pension ceased. The professor could not claim the pension without exposing the fraud of his wife; hence his present plight. SHORT STORIES. Dates thrive on the Colorado desert. In Holland fifteen out of every thousand inhabitants are foreigners. The newly formed Chinese cabbage has decided on the regular publication of a government newspaper. The great Guadalupe artesian at Guadalupe, Mexico, which used to squirt a hundred feet high, is the only goes half that now. There is one American book which should be counted among the best books. Over 3,000,000 copies have been sold. It is "The Horse Book," by the government. Judge Tuthill of Chicago declares that it is as much the duty of a man as a mother to walk the floor with crying baby and warm the infant milk bottle at night. Rockingham Junction, N. H. recently a thriving railroad center practically ceased to exist. The road station cafe has been closed the telegraph wires taken out. Few persons realize the amount work required to give an automobile its completed dress. To o new blue finish, for instance, stated that no less than thirty painting operations are required. English Etchings. Deaths from hunger and destination in the United Kingdom average more than 500 every year. A letter addressed to "The Man Who Wears the Tallest Hat in Bristol" has been correctly delivered in that English city. A London physician asserts that cigarette smoking is increasing among women to such an extent as to be causing a change in their diet. They now want spiced and highly seasoned dishes where they used to take creams and icees. An interesting experiment is in progress at Sunderland, England. The thousands of unemployed continue to suffer more from the cold than from hunger. To mitigate this the elementary schools are opened every evening and provided with light, fires, reading matter and games. Modes of the Moment. Shoes are to be much observed this spring, for the street skirts are shorter, and shoes are more elaborate. Bright colors are promised for spring and summer millinery to give tone to the darker shades, which are prophesied for gowns and suits. The negligees of the season are very sheer, which means that one must wear very fine underwear, and this indicates that the petticoat must be of lace and the corset cover of equally beautiful material. A touch of gilt is upon the gowns of the season, and the prettiest costumes both for the house and the street are those enlivened by a little gold to waken them from their dullness and make them accord with the brilliancy of the modes.—Brooklyn Eagle. Tales They Tell. A live snake five feet eight inches long kept in the barber shop of Louis Schulz of Trenton, N. J., is petted by the barber's customers. Irvin H. H. Whaley of Galestown, Md., ate two ounces of black pepper on a wager, but the services of a physician were needed immediately. Adolph Goldblatt of McKeesport, Pa., has a boy nineteen months old who weighs sixty-five pounds and who is said to eat more than a pound of meat a day. John Smith of Traverse City, Mich., set out a trap for mink recently. When he went to see what he had got he found a trout ten inches long securely caught by the lower jaw. Plays and Players. Amy Ricard is to be a member of the cast of "Paid In Full." Edgar Selwyn has written a play called "The Energetic West." William Morris is to head a western company to play in "The Witching Hour." Albert Parr has replaced Van Rensselaer Wheeler in the cast of "Tom Jones." Arrangements are being made to produce "The Secret Orchard" in England, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Industrial Items. Canada has begun to make tin plate. The demand for aluminium still exceeds the supply. Prussia's zinc mines produce half the zinc of the world. A plant will be established at Milwaukee, Wils., to make gas from old straw, corncobs, cornstalks, etc. Germany takes the credit for having the largest trades union in the world. It is composed of metal workers and has a membership of 335,000, a large proportion of whom are women. Pith and Point. It sounds doubly bad when a smiling man is profane. If you get along, you must do well today; you can't always be waiting until tomorrow. After a man has made a mistake and been found out how he does long for time to fly! Whenever you give another fellow the best of it without its costing you anything, you have made a good investment—Achison Globe. Brevities THE HALL OF FAME Jeremiah Meeker or South Oranga N.J. is ninety-three, but never misses a local baseball game. B. J. Long, the Boston organist, is seventy years old. He began playing in churches when he was only fifteen. Peter C'Connor, aged eighty-seven years, of Plint, Mich., who is averse to cold weather, goes to bed late in the fall incased in blankets and remains there all winter. Mark P. Hoffman is one of the most agile mail carriers in New Hampshire. With a 100 pound bag on his shoulders he made his trip from Manchester to New Boston and Bedford on foot, beating his schedule over the same route with a team. The French Academy of Sciences has elected as corresponding member of the geographical section Sir George Darwin of Cambridge. Sir George, who is the second son of Charles Darwin, is professor of astronomy at Cambridge. Dr. George Alexander, pastor of the University Place Presbyterian church of New York, acting president of Union college, has declined the permanent presidency of the institution. He says he is too far on in life to hazard a step demanding the efforts of a younger and more active man. John B. Martin, proprietor of the Cafe Martin, in New York, who offered money to his employees who would marry and who agreed to give premiums for children, has been compelled to pay out in a year $5,150. There were twenty-six marriages, forty-nine babies and one pair of twins. The venerable W. J. Rolfe is hard at work upon a volume of Shakespearean proverbs and also upon another work relative to Shakespeare about which he is silent at present. At eighty years of age Mr. Rolfe is a robust and vigorous personage. One of his comfortable morning walks is from Cambridge to Boston and back again. William James Bryan, the new senator from Florida, is just one year older than the law requires to make a man eligible to a seat in the United States senate. He is tall and of athletic build, with a frank smile and of the type which has made the drawings of Howard Chandler Christy famous. He is a fine lawyer, a splendid speaker and a hard worker. The Sporting World. The Buffalo Derby, run at the Kenilworth track, will be worth $5,000 this year instead of $3,500. May Sutton, the tennis champion of the world, is now famous. A horse has been named after her in California. George B. Iliff, the noted legless athlete, succeeded in lowering the world's walking record at Akron, O., not long ago. He covered the mile in 12 minutes 12 seconds. At the Castleton stud in Kentucky, the property of James R. Keene, are now three stallions each of which has won more than $100,000 on the turf. They are Peter Pan, Kingston and Delhi. Dr. Joseph H. Reilly has been selected as the track team leader of Georgetown university for the present season. Dr. Reilly was on the Georgetown team for several years and has carried the blue and gray colors to victory in many contests. Flippant Flings If the raw food fad prevails, there may soon be enough cooks to go around.—Baltimore Sun. Positive, dodging street cars; comparative, dodging automobiles; superlative, dodging the water wagon.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. They called comic opera in 1905 libretto and score; in 1906, words and music; in 1907, chatter and tunes; in 1908, drivel and slush.—Washington Herald. Women have pledged themselves to wear no wings on their hats but those of crows. We will soon discover that the crow is a bird of amazing plumage in size, shape and color.—Washington Times. Church Work It took thirty-five years to build up a church of six members in China, but since 1900 50,000 natives have been converted to Christianity. The new Calvary Episcopal church of Pittsburgh, a handsome structure, was recently opened. The chancel furniture alone cost $15,000. An original plan has been devised for rebuilding the Holy Trinity church in Kingston, Jamaica, destroyed by the earthquake a year ago. Five young men are to take out twenty year endowment insurance policies aggregating $15,000 in favor of the church, the premiums to be paid by 200 members in weekly installments of 40 cents each. New York City. New York's telephone "central" answer 158,050 calls each hour. York's city municipal courts will cost $20,050 this year, which is $200,000 more than they cost last year. New York paid last year $21,000,000 in interest and will pay this year $24,000,000. about the same as the federal government - New York Herald WINDMILL SIGNALING May Be Utilized by the Dutch For Military Purposes. To the casual observer viewing a Dutch landscape there is nothing to arrest the attention in the fact that possibly one or more out of a dozen windmills in sight are to all appearances simply standing idle while the others continue their never ending task. If one watches the sails of the idle mills closely, it may perhaps be noticed that they move slightly from time to time and then remain for awhile at a different angle. If this is so, the miller is in all probability engaged in holding a conversation with the proprietor of the other mill, which may be miles away—in fact, possibly barely visible on the horizon. Quite recently the Dutch government carried on a series of experiments in order to ascertain the value of windmill signalling for military purposes and were surprised to find that communication could readily be established with far distant centers and that confidential messages could be sent on from one mill to another and so forwarded throughout the length and breadth of Holland in an incredibly short time by means of secret codes known only to the millers themselves. These codes have been handed down from generation to generation and jealously guarded from outsiders with all the intense conservatism for which the provincial Dutch are proverbial. Apart, however, from these secret codes, understood only by the millers and local groups of mill owners, there exists a series of windmill signals with which every one of the inhabitants of the country districts is familiar. At times, for instance, a mill may stop working suddenly and the miller be seen to come out and with the aid of a long pole with an iron hook at the end, like a gigantic boat hook, reach up and drag down the descending sail until the arms assume a certain position. Every one knows immediately that some accident has happened to the wooden machinery of the mill and that the services of the local carpenter are required.—Windsor Magazine. Old Horseshoes Vice Consul Ernest Vollmer reports that one of the constantly growing imports into the Chinese province of Shangtau through the port of Tsing-tau is old horseshoes, which leads him to give the following particulars: "One steamer alone in November brought 300 tons of this scrap iron from Hamburg. The market for these wormout shoes seems to be almost without limit. Chinese iron dealers buy the horseshoes and sell them to knife and tool manufacturers all over the province. It is claimed by the Chinese that the temper of this class of iron makes it the best obtainable for knives and cutlery and also good for other tools. The reason ascribed for this is that the constant beating the shoes have received under the feet of horses has given them a peculiar temper absolutely unobtainable in any other way and that tools made from them are superior to all others." New Way to Collect Fares. There is a new wrinkle in New York on the ten cent automobile buses of Fifth avenue which is warranted to give any one a start the first time one meets it. It is an automatic coin receiver, looking more like a revolver than anything else, through which the conductor is required to receive all fares. When he comes along and instead of holding out his hand for the dime shoves the muzzle of the nickel plated weapon in your face the shock is considerable. The contrivance is of course designed to prevent the conductors from dipping into the cash. A rule is posted declaring that the conductor may not touch anybody's fare. If you need change, he is authorized to return the full amount, and then you must tuck the dime into the slot of the machine yourself.—New York Sun. The Demonstratin' Car. This story may not be true. The downtown motor car dealer on whom it is laid denies it, but a certain poliquancy still remains. The dealer got out of his car at Eighth and Main streets Friday morning to buy a toy motor car from a hawker who has a stand under the viaduct. "I'll take that car," said the dealer, pointing at a toy which was spinning around on the table. The hawker reached in his sack and drew out another. "The that one ain't for sale," he said, grinning. "It's my demonstratin' car." It is related that after that the hawker and the motor car dealer cordially shook hands, but no sale was made—New Orleans Picayune. A Theatrical Experiment. An interesting experiment has been initiated at Bournemouth. A grand hall has been built on to the Theater Royal, in which people can wait before the theater doors open for the performance and to which the audience are requested to retire between the acts to permit of the theater being thoroughly ventilated. Tea will be served in this hall, and the orchestra will play there during the intervals.—London Globe. Tea Maniacs. "Nipping," the curse of the "business man," has gone out or is going out in London. Tea is one of the substitutes for it. It produces a race of tea maniacs; but, after all, that is a milder form of disease than the alcohol habit of a generation ago.-London Eastern Press THE BROKER'S VALENTINE. THE BROKER'S VALENTINE. I send you herewith, by a messenger small, Who's dressed in the scantiest style, A large batch of stock—you may have it on call, In case you should think it worth while, It's issued by me as a share in my heart, And though listed at par, my advice is to but it dirt cheap, as you may at the start. I know we won't split on the price. You ask if I ever have offered before The stock that I'm offering you here. Ahem—well, the truth is I'm offering you more. The Ive offered for many a year. In fact, you may have what is known on the street. As 'a controlling interest' How strange! You insist on the price for the issue complete? Just a share in your heart in exchange. -William Wallace Whitelock in Lippincott's. The First Nature Fakir. Bohemian Magazine On the Job. A Baltimore man who was recently a passenger on a Cunander tells of an incident of his trip that led him to the conclusion that your average seaman is not apt to waste much thought on his personal troubles. This sailor had met with an accident the second day out, the result of which was a bad cut on the head. The Baltimore was most solicitous in his inquiries as to the seaman's welfare when he next saw the captain and would undoubtedly have continued his sympathy had not a rough sea called to mind his own sufferings. Several days later, when he emerged, white and weak, from his stateroom, he suddenly remembered the poor sailor. In the course of the day the Baltimore man saw the man with a strip of plaster on his forehead. "How is your head?" he asked sympathetically. "West by south, sir." was the reply -Harper's Weekly. Ways and Means A couple of girls, after the manner of girls since the world was young, were recently discussing the affairs of their various friends. "I don't see why in the world Clara lets that little snob Charlie Blank come to see her so often!" the dark haired one said. "They are together almost constantly." "Hum!" the blond commented, with a worldly wise little smile. "Well, I don't. I wouldn't," her friend asserted. "He is not good looking and has such ugly ways." "Well, perhaps he has ugly ways, but such handsome means," the other said, and something very near a sigh got past the piece of fudge she hastened to put into her mouth.—St Louis Republic. Warned. "My friends," said the campaign orator, "beware of the unscrupulous heeler. [Applause.] "There are men so loot to shame that they will offer you a dollar for your vote. [Hisses.] Do not listen to them. Spurn them. Be on your dignity. Demand more." [Continued applause.]—Philadelphia Ledger. They Tried It. "I read in the papers of a professional debate where one team refused to meet the other team while they kept a feminine member on the ground that they could not argue with a woman. The objectors must be a married men's team."—Baltimore American. Soporific Irate Wife—But what is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Do you hear? (Bang!) What is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Tired Husband — On the contrary, Jenny, it was only because I was listening to you that I dozed off—Judge. Real Skin Game "There goes a man who has been working a skin game all his life." "Ever been arrested?" "Nope." "That's strange. What kind of a skin game does he work—shell game?" 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Telephone Douglas 2338 Tel. Central 4660 HER MESSAGE. It Would Take a Load Off John's Mind When He Got It. After a bitter family quarrel the husband had declared that he wouldn't speak to his better half again in five years. As usual, she went him a few better and retorted that it would be a good ten years before he would hear her gentle voice again. A few days later the wife called up her brother on the telephone, and the following conversation took place: "Hello! Is this you, John?" "Yes. What is it, Sis?" "You know, John, that Dick and I have quarreled?" "What! Again?" "Yes, and it's all his fault." "Oh, certainly! What's the trouble this time?" "Why, he got angry just because he received a bill for a fifty dollar hat I ordered." "I don't bl— That is, the wretch!" "In't he? We are not going to speak to each other again for years and years." "Bosh! Slap him on the back and call him old sport and make it up. You folks can't go along that way." "We managed all right until the hired girl left last night, but now there is no one to deliver our messages to each other." "Gee, it must be tough to have to call in one of the neighbors to ask your husband for car fare to go shopping." "Oh, it's not as bad as that. He sees that I have plenty of money without asking for it. Now, John, I want you to give Dick a message from me." "Sure! I'll come up tonight and spank both of you for acting so childish." "No, the message can't wait that long. I want you to phone him immediately after I leave the instrument. I'll hurry upstairs so he will have to answer it." "All right, Sis. Where is he now?" "He's trying to cook himself an egg. You know the girl left." "Poor dev—I mean the fool! Well, what shall I tell him?" "Tell him, John, that there is a can of sardines in the pantry and that I will make the coffee just as soon as he gets out of the kitchen."—A. B. Lewis in Judge. It Was a Stage Brand. Gertrude, aged four, had been to the matinee. Later she tried to describe the play to a grownup friend. "They drank wine," said Gertrude. "and then they all went out." "Well," said the friend expectantly, "and what happened next?" Gertrude worked her small brain hard. "I guess," she said, "they spit it out."—New York Press. A Cordial Cook. "How do you like that new cook of yours?" asks the neighbor. "Is she nice?" "Nice?" enthusiastically echoes the other. "Nice? Why, she treats me as though she considered me her equal." With a sigh of envy the neighbor changes the subject--Lippincott's. His Difficulty "You wrong me," said Plodding Pete, "when you say I ain't willin' to work. I'm jes' dyln' to work." "Then what's the trouble?" "I'm too conscientious. Whenever I git a job I'm so anxious to fill it well dat I gits stage fright."—Washington Star. But Not For Paying Back. "I see Slickman has bought an automobile. I didn't think he had sufficient means to spend money that way." "Oh, he has all kinds of means of borrowing and spending money."—Boheman Marazine. "Yes, Genevieve!" "Those hats with the feathers make us look like little birds, don't they, Harold?"—New York Press. She in Calice. "Your husband, the poet, must take great pleasure in seeing himself in print." "Yes, but if he'd get a job I might have the pleasure of seeing myself in something better than print."—Kansas City Times. TWINE ECONOMY. One Ball Served a Busy Postal Employee Seven Years Though it handles some thousand million dollars a year, the United States government is not unappreciative of the value of small things, such, for example, as a piece of secondhand twine. Perhaps the ordinary raplicker wouldn't regard it as a good business principle to stoop for a discarded twelve inch string when he is hurrying through the city at dawn in keen competition with all classes of raplickers for what there is of commercial value in the ash barrels and scrap heaps. But that may be due wholly to his inability to foresee some of the future possibilities in the practice of noticing such trivial things. Similarly it may be that a certain government employee who attached himself to the New England division of the United States railway mail service six or seven years ago did not pin much faith in little dingy string pieces, for he was some grades above the trained raplicker 'in the social scale. Yet he stooped to pick up such string pieces as came under his observation in the ordinary routine of his business, and it resulted in the bestowal upon him of a distinction which has not come to his companions of less economical tendencies. How much it counts toward his promotion in the service is problematical, but it has carried his name and fame with favorable comments to the attention of the United States postoffice authorities, says the Boston Transcript. When this man reaches the next step up and his salary is increased accordingly, he will have some difficulty in dissociating his luck from the little string pieces he has picked up in his years of service, and his mind may be coached by a little justified pride in the following official paragraph clipped from the most prominent position in a recent general order of the New England division of the United States railway mail service, over the signature of his superintendent: "A clerk in this division, appointed in 1901, with the exception of having been furnished with one ball of twine, has never made a requisition for an additional supply, having reused the twine which he saved from packages received by him." A Fight For Moonlight Under the headline "A Fight For Moonlight" the Morgenpost of Berlin says: "Artists and all lovers of the beautiful are arrayed against the municipal authorities of Venice, by whom it has been proposed to illuminate the Grand canal with gas. The canal has never been brilliantly lighted except on festival occasions, but who care? The moonlight has been sufficient. Modernism in all its forms has been at work along the waterways, and now the moon is to be eclipsed, probably because it frowns upon the motor boat. The charm of the Venetian night, the indescribable light and shadow effects, the mystery, romance and imagination lurking in the dark corners of the palace walls, all these will vanish before the loud, shrill, poetry destroying light." The protest movement has taken the form of a monster petition to the city authorities, and the artists, authors and lovers of the beautiful who have signed it say that this is a "fight for Venetian moonlight." Paris Not a Gay City. It is a fixed idea in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon that Paris is the gay city, the home of engaging frivolity, the spot where the grasshopper perennially chirps and dances in prosperity, defying the fabulist. The truth is far different. The visitor may figure the gay city to himself as a siren in pink, but the resident knows her as a shrewd old lady, stuffing an old stocking with fat coppers or fatter silver pieces. She is, indeed, enriching herself at the expense of her long suffering inhabitants, for "everything is becoming dearer" is the cry of the housekeepers in Paris. Articles of consumption and other necessaries have increased alarmingly in price since the year 1902. In five years bread has risen 15 per cent, beef 22 per cent, veal 14 per cent, mutton 25 per cent, pork 27 per cent, butter 14 per cent, cheese 25 per cent, fish 50 per cent, etc.-Modern Society. A. Showman's Proposal "Have I had many proposals?" laughed Blanche Bates when she was lately asked the question by an inquisitive acquaintance. "I should think I had! Got lots of fun out of some of them too. The most comical one I ever had was from a man who owned a traveling show. I didn't care for him one atom, but he was extremely importunate. One day he made a frantic appeal to me, using, as he thought, an unanswerable argument. "You'd better have me,' he urged. Now, think over it. Take a few days, but think over it. You know you won't have to go in the parade."—St. Louis Republic. The Cute Jap. It is the ambition of every up to date Jap to learn English at the first opportunity. At one or two of the Japanese hotels I was rather puzzled and a little flattered by the eager and almost anxious politeness with which Japanese youths offered to come for a walk with me. But I discovered that they only wanted a free lesson in English—Strand Magazine. Telephone DOUGLAS ... 1865. REAL ESTATE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO. LEASES NEGOTIATED, EXCHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. $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 $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. Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room 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 Its 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 its present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is 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 this 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. which I am sending as Part (or infall) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. I agree to pay $.....per month until the full amount $.....has been paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock certificate. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- which I am sending as Part (or infall) as shares of the Capital Stock of the Lela Association. I agree to pay $ _____ $ _____ has been paid certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beauregard F. Moseley, Treasurer, 8258 Haisted Street, Oklahoma, Illinois. Stock- holders are entitled to prefer- ance as employee and should treat W. Treasurer with their final remittance of their inten- tions to apply for employment. For further information ad- ress Lelaion Giants Base-Ball Association A. n. 6258 Haisted St. Chicago. Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ LINES TO LOUISA. [The same being our forty-seventh man who has gone to smash elsewhere.] A week ago we had a maid Whose memory will never fade. You should have seen Louisa! She piled the plates on which we dined So very high they called to mind The leaning tower of Pisa. At other times they did not lean When carried by our kitchen queen (Whose other name was Dennis), British who was like a tree, And then her model seemed to be The campanile, Venice. The leaning tower was first to go, And when hit the floor below The tree was broken. At once another crash occurred, And then, alas, we knew we heard The campanile falling! I see its shattered remnants yet. Twas half our wedding dinner set— The other half was Pisa. Would be your next, Louisa!' —Earle Hooker Eaton in Harper's Weekly Evidently. She—This wine doesn't seem to go to your head as quickly as it does to mine. He-No. That is probably because it has farther to go. Pat was having an argument with a friend who was well posted in ancient history. "How foolish of you to contend that the ancient Irish were more advanced than the ancient Egyptians," said his friend. "Why, the Egyptians must have even understood electricity, as wires corresponding to our own telegraph wires have been found in Egypt." "That may be," answered Pat, "but the fact that no wires have been found in Ireland proves beyond a doubt that the Irish were in the habit of using wireless telegraphy." — Philadelphia Ledger. Prajudice "Robert, this spelling paper is very poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every word is marked ed wrong." "It wouldn't have been so bad," protested Robert, "but Annie corrected my paper, and she's mad at me, and for every little letter that I got wrong she crossed out the whole word."—Lip pincott's. Cogger-The good parson told me I should always be trying to lift up my fellow man. Motorwood-What did you answer? Cogger-I told him I would put a scoop on my automobile at the earliest opportunity-Chicago News. Accounts For It. "The star actress in the play was a discovery by the manager. He found her working in a laundry." "That accounts for it." "Accounts for what?" "The way she mangles her part"—Baltimore American. As Times Change "Politics is getting to be wonderfully interesting," said the observer. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "it is mighty interesting; but, between you and me, it isn't near so much of an investment as it used to be."—Washington Star. The Nibblers. Hkram Ryetop—So the chacker club argued here on the Panama canal, hay? How long did they argue, Jeff? The Storekeeper—Lee's see. Half a wedge of cheese, peck of prunes, pint of dried peaches and a pound of crack- en. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J: J. Bradley BRAD REAL AN Telephone Yards 693 BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 4709 S. Halsted Street CHIC THE Imported Liv N. E. Corner F THE RAILROAD Imported and Domesticated Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connect N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour A Imported and Domestic Wines LIQUORS & CIGARS Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. POOL AND BILLIARDS WI THE WILLIAM L THE FRONT CLU Phone Callnet 2940 Sandy 2 New De Why don't you get it Store? Every Tuesday you ing Stamps with each 1 We carry a swell sets. A spiendid assort Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, We make a specialty Walstcoats, Pants, Shoes A beautiful line of s A fancy line of Neck See our Novelties in and Safety Pins. Sandy W. Tribe 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you are? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtw s. A spiendid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery ces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan letcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby H A beautiful line of soft Percale Nogligee Sh A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchief See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chain and Safety Pins. Sandy W. Trice & Co. 2918 State Street New Department Store Why don't you get in the habit of doing your trading in the New Store? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales-day and two of Fish Trading Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtwaists, Underwear and Corrects. A spendiid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Pursees. Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waistcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Shirts and Suspenders. A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchiefs. See our Novelties in Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. Ameri President and T American Br President and Treasurer, ThOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... square per day Output of Summer Yards ..... square per day Telephone Yards 128. Phone Oakland 1787. RAILROAD and Domes Lauers & Gig safe in Connect first and Armour Avi W. Trick 18 State St Department the habit of doing y Friday special sales purchase. of Ladies' Shirtwa nt of Shoes, Hosiery bracelets, Millinery and of Men's Balbriggan Fedora and Derby Hat Percale Negligee Sh wear and Handkerchief Newelry, Watch-chains an Br J. M. Fields FIELDS ANS E CHICAGO LOU Seldon, Mgr. INN the Wines Chicago, Ill. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS NAC