The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE THE GRAND FREE BALL OF THE FELLOWSHIP CLUB Has Now Passed Into History. A Great Many of the Most Prominent Members of the Cream of the Four Hundred Cut and Failed to Receive Invitations to It.—Mr. and Mrs. Monroe L. Manning Requested to Withdraw from Oakland Music Hall on the Ground that Their Invitation Was Bogus.—They Being the Invited Guests of Doctor M. J. Brown, He Withdrew from the Hall With Them.—Much Backbitting and Wagging of Tongues Among the Leaders of Afro-American Society in Chicago. THE GRAND OF THE FELLO Has Now Passed Into History. Prominent Members of the Failed to Receive Invitation Manning Requested to With the Ground that Their Invited Guests of Doctor M Hall With Them.—Much B Among the Leaders of Afro-A It may not be out of place at this time, before touching upon some of the incidents in connecction with the Grand Free Ball, which was given last Thursday evening at Oakland Music Hall, by the Fellowship Club, to state that the vast majority of Afro-Americans, from the highest to the lowest, form the most ignorant to the most highly educated, are always dead willing to drink in all the evil, filth and foul sewer water they can, that they are ever ready to put a bad or false construction on everything they attempt to read and all the gossip they hear. To illustrate several year ago, one of the prominent Afro-American men in this city, read an article upside down in one of our Colored newspapers, and after doing so he was vain enough to believe that the article in question referred to him, so he had the editor of the paper arrested, and after he had spent four or five hundred dollars as attorneys fees, and had taken the witness stand in his own behalf, and swore that "no one believed he was guilty of doing the things mentioned in the article," he realized that he was barking up the wrong tree, and several other Afro-Americans within the past few years, have ran right up against the same snags in their mad attempts to prevent little "Nigger," newspapers from printing current gossip or things which seem to contain a semblance of the truth. Two or three weeks prior to Thursday evening, Feb. 20, the members of the Fellowship Club, which is composed of some of the exclusive leaders among the four hundred Afro-Americans in Chicago, began active preparations to hold their Grand Free Ball, which has now passed into history, on the date mentioned before. It may not be true, but it is said that Attorney William L. Martin, David Manson, Dr. J. A. Kelly, George H. Walker and lawyer R. A. J. Shaw, comprised the committee, which finally passed on all the invitations which were sent out in connection with that swell function, that on or about Feb. 12, the committee on invitations met at 3155 State street and it is claimed that after they had refused to consider or report on some of the names which had been handed into it by some of the other members of the club that they began to chop right and left, and that when they had finished chopping down all the dead ones that some of the most prominent members of the cream of the four hundred had been ruthlessly cut and slaughtered and utterly failed to receive invitations to it. It seems if all the reports are true that J. Gray and Mrs. Lucas, Dr. A. L. Smith and Dr. M. J. Brown, all joined in presenting the names of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe L. Manning, 3634 Calumet ave., as eminently qualified to be honored with an invitation to attend the grand and most exclusive affair. In fact the names of Mr. and Mrs. Manning, so it is said, were on the list sent into the invitational committee by vice-president and Mrs. Lucas, and many of the ladies say that for a long time prior to the ball that "Mrs. Manning whose ladyship and character are beyond question for the freely mingles with Mrs. Flower ```markdown ``` C. Hall, Mrs. E. S. Miller, Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, Mrs. John R. Marshall, Mrs. William Emanuel, Mrs. J. A. Kelly, and with all the other leaders of the smart set whose husbands can afford to rig them up in fine silks, satins and diamonds, and Mrs. Lucas, were mighty warm friends, that they seemed to be deeply in love with each other; that they were always together, that wherever you would see one you would see the other, that they were much closer to each other than two real fat people in a narrow bed. This being true, the members of the smart set were greatly shocked when it was whispered around among them that a coldness had sprang up between Mrs. Lucas, and Mrs. Manning and that they brushed by, almost without speaking, although it is asserted that Mrs. Lucas visited at the home of Mrs. Manning the Saturday before the ball, and Mrs. Manning is willing to sign an affidavit to the effect that on that same Saturday morning, while at her home Mrs. Lucas, informed her that "we had you on our list, but Dr. Brown presented your name and we with-drew it for Dr. Brown." At this point in the fight Dr. M. J. Brown, came to the front, in behalf of Mrs. Manning whom he considered from the start as one of his invited guests, and on Tuesday morning prior to the ball, Mrs. Manning called him up on the Phone, and informed him that "up to that time she had failed to receive her invitation, and that she wanted to know the cause of its long delay." Dr. Brown requested her to rest her soul in peace; that "she would receive it in due time." Shortly after this conversation between them over the wire, Dr. Brown called up Mr. Martin, and wanted to know why he had failed to send the invitation to Mrs. Manning, Mr. Martin fired back at him in pretty strong language, by exclaiming that he had been informed that "Mrs. Manning had been talking about Mrs. Lucas, saying some real mean things about her, that Mrs. Lucas had withdrawn the invitation, striking her name from the list: that he would deem it a gross insult to his wife if an invitation was sent to Mrs. Manning by anyone else; that he would at once resign from the Fellowship Club, if Mrs. Manning was permitted to enter Oakland Music Hall, on the night of the ball." In winding up the conversation Dr. Brown, replied that "he had always promptly paid his dues to the club; that sometimes Mr. Lucas was behind in his; that no ladies belonged to the club; that if its members were going to exclude all the dear ladies who had talked about each other they would not have a confounded one present at the ball, that as he was stood for Mrs. Manning, when the fight came up before the committee on invitations as to who was who, when the clean and pure in heart were divided from the unclean and impure in heart; that as Mrs. Manning had passed muster in every way he considered her his invited guest and he thought she was entitled to receive an invitation, but the up shot of this cross firing between Dr. Brown and Mr. Martin was that there was noth- CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 29, 1908. One of the leaders of the Four Hundred among the Afro-Americana in Chicago, whose husband as a member of the Fellowship Club, deplores the treatment it accorded to one of its invited guests at its last annual ball. One of the leaders of the Four Hundred among the Afro-Americana in Chicago, whose husband as a member of the Fellowship Club, deplores the treatment it accorded to one of its invited guests at its last annual ball. ing doing in the way of an invitation for Mrs. Manning. In his dilema, Doctor Brown, appealed to Doctor George C. Hall, the worthy and popular president of the Fellowship Club, and after explaining over the phone, all the circumstances leading up to the incident, the president responded, that "by an means, have Mrs. Manning to come and recommended that an invitation be extended to her; that the Fellowship Club was not run as a laundry for its members to wash their soiled linen and to rectify their personal grievances in order to get even with some one," or words to the same effect. So on the evening of the ball; Mrs Manning accompanied by her husband arrayed in all of her finery, marched into the hall, holding the invitation in her hand, and after getting their wraps checked, they seated themselves in one of the boxes, and they had not been occupying it long until they were spied by Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, then the storm broke forth in all its fury. Mr. Lucas demanded that they must be compelled to leave the hall at once, and if they were permitted to remain there over his protest, he would resign his membership in the club, and if all accounts are true, Mr. William L. Martin, secretary of the club, was selected to impart this cheerful and humiliating information to Mr. and Mrs. Manning. He intimated to them, that they held a bogus invitation, that their names did not appear on the regular invitation list. In the meantime Doctor M. J. Brown, had entered the hall, and after getting his coat checked and had started to move around among the throng, he was seized by Drs. E. S. Miller and J. A. Kelly, who began pulling at him in two opposite directions at the same time. Dr. Kellady being the stronger of the two, finally succeeded in getting him off into one corner of the hall, and after doing so, he was informed that he had raised h—ll, by inviting Mr. and Mrs. Manning there. Doctor Brown, declared that he had washed his hands of the whole affair, that if Mr. and Mrs. Manning were ordered to leave the hall as they were his invited guests, the only thing that he could do would be to withdraw with them, and after he and Dr. Miller had gone over the impatient situation, he next encoum tered Mr. Martin, whom he addressed as Judge Martin, and after exchangeing the courtesies of the evening, Mr. Martin, replied, that "he was feeling awfully bad, that Mr. and Mrs. Manning were in the hall, that their presence were offensive to Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Lucas, that they would have to leave." Dr. Brown declared that "they were his guests and if they had to withdraw, he would follow them, that he was a gentleman and would not start a rough house there, and bring disgrace upon him self and the other ladies and gentlemen present." It is claimed at this juncture of the disgraceful affair, that Mr. Martin exclaimed that "Mrs. Manning would have to leave the hall without any further delay or he would go to hell that very night." It is also said that then and there Dr. Brown appealed to Dr. George C. Hall, President, to save Mrs. Manning from so much humiliation on such a swell occasion; that Dr. Hall replied to the request of Dr. Brown by saying that "he must rush around the hall and see the other members of the club and get ready to fight the whole thing out to a dead finish or words of the same purport. Dr. Brown, so they claim very politely replied that "he was a gentleman and knew how to conduct himself among ladies and gentlemen; that as the president of the Fellowship club, had requested him to extend an invitation to Mrs. Manning and to have her to come by all means, the only manly and gentlemanly thing that he could do would be to leave the hall with her," and shortly after this conversation with Dr. Hall, it is claimed that Mr. Martin telephoned for a policeman to come to the hall; that when the big, burly, white policeman arrived he walked around the hall several times in order to warn the highly cultured ladies and gentlemen that they must behave themselves and that he was good and ready to take care of all those who wanted to do any fighting. Within a very short time after the arrival of the policeman Mrs. Manning, who conducted herself like a perfect lady, and who at that time was occupying a seat in one of the boxes with Mrs. B. G. Miller, was approached by her husband, Mr. Manning, who also conducted himself like a well-bred gentleman, who informed her that "they had better be BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN The South Carolina Anarchist Taken to Task by the Editor of The Herald, Binghampton, N. Y.—For His Treasonable Utterance and for Advocating Mob and Lynch Law from the Pulpit in that City. Everybody knows all about Senator Tillman. He is the apotheosis of race hatred and whenever he speaks upon the question, he is sure to give vent to his hatred, in language that is quite characteristic. Now The Herald has no fault to find with Senator Tillman beyond this—it does not believe in his attitude toward the Colored race, and it does not approve of the man in a great many ways. He represents nothing that is refined, nothing that is lovable, nothing that is intellectual. He is Ben Tillman, the uncle of the cur who shot down, in cold blood, the unarmed editor of the Columbia State, because he did not agree with him politically. Tillman lent the benediction of his presence to the trial, sitting beside the murderer to make it appear that he approved of what the man had done. Tillman told the Chautauqua audience at the Centenary Church, Monday evening, that he had himself been indicted for the crime of murder in his own state, and glorified the killing of men he simply did not like because they are black. Now you may perhaps understand in some measure why The Herald does not approve of Ben Tillman. But here is what we are getting at. Tillman came here to speak upon the race question at the Chautauqua and he did speak to an audience of probably fifteen hundred people. Now, as we understand it, the people who compose the Chautauqua audiences are mostly professed Christians. starting for home," and Mrs. Miller very graciously escorted her to the ladies' dressing room, and after securing her wraps, Mrs. Miller also accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Manning to the exit from the hall who were followed by Dr. Brown and on went the dance. And to their everlasting snape none of the ladies present who had in the past freely partaken of the generous hospitalities of Mrs. Manning, had the moral courage to raise their voices in behalf of Mrs. Manning and to declare that if "she must leave we will follow;" first-class white ladies and gentlemen love justice to such an extent that they never would have permitted one of those belonging to their own set to be treated in such a brutal manner; but come to think or it the words "right and justice" are foreign to the majority of first-class Colored ladies and gentlemen. The following are the officers and members of the Fellowship Club: Dr. George C. Hall, president; Mr. J. Gray Lucas, vice president; Mr. David Manson treasurer; Mr. W. L. Martin, secretary; Mr. Alf. Anderson, Mr. John R. Auter, Dr. Asa D. C. Barnes, Dr. E. M. Blackwell, Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. W. A. Buckner, Dr. John C. Davis, Dr. W. F. Garnett, Mr. L. N. Jones, Dr. Joseph A. Kelly, Dr. A. W. Mercer, Dr. E. S. Miller, Mr. J. L. Parks, Mr. Adam P. Perry, Mr. R. A. J, Shaw, Dr. A. L. Smith, Mr. W. R. Sobers, Mr. George H. Walker, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams. And their actions in permitting one of their members to use the entire club—to club a lady over the head and bring reproach upon her good name which will cling to her if she lives a thousand years, and then some, has caused much back-biting and wagging of tongues among the leaders of Afro-American society in R. TILLMAN An Anarchist Taken to Editor of The Herald, N. Y.—For His Trea- ce and for Advocating Law from the Pulpit Well, here is what took place when Tillman spoke: in an address, lasting more than two and one half hours, he touched upon the race problem, in truly Tillmanesque style, while his whole discourse was punctuated by profanity—and his audience applauded. It sounded like sacrilege in the church where it is taught every Sunday, that it is a sin to take the name of the Christian's God in vain. And yet the audience applauded. He told about being one of a mob that started out deliberately to kill some Negroes, one a judge of a court. His exact words were: "I don't mind telling you that we intended to kill some Niggers." At this, the audience applauded, although it must be admitted that there were hisses. He told how he and his kind had nullified the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution in his state. He did it with bitterness and said "We defy the Nawth to compel us to live up to the amendments. At this treasonable utterance his audience of Christian people applauded and laughed. He sneered at the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. His audience of Christians applauded. He called the Negro only one shade better than a baboon. His audience applauded. He glorified murder and told how he had been indicted for murder, and gave the impression that the indictment was legally justified. His audiences laughed as if it were something funny to hear a man boast of murder—wanton murder. He threw it in the teeth of every Northern man, that he was a fool and said the South defied the North ever yet. His audience applauded and laughed—and there were in that audience, men who had worn the blue in the days of Civil War. There were present those who had lost friends in that struggle where the South strove to prevent the abduction of slaves. He sneered at the mission work the North does among the Negroes and told a palpable untruth when he said that the North did nothing for the poor whites of the South. Again that audience of Christian people applauded. From first to last the reception to Tillman, the vulgar-profane—coarse —murder-glorifying —treason uttering—scowling—vicious —and uncultured Tillman—was such as one might, in reason, expect an audience of Christian people to extend only to a gentleman of refinement speaking upon a topic along the lines dictated by good breeding and a fear of God. Mind you, we have no criticism to make upon Tillman for his speech—it was what he had said he would deliver—but what could people, if they are really and truly Christians, find in his speech to applaud and laugh at? How does a good Christian—a truly sincere Christian—justify his approval of what Benjamin Tillman uttered in Cantenary Church Monday night? Nothing justifies cold-blooded murder nothing justifies profanity — nothing justifies such reasonable utterances as he made—nothing in the Christian's book of faith justifies applause when a man denies the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. There is no question of a race feud in the proposition as we put it. We have not touched upon the question of Tillman's hate of the Colored man. We strip his speech of all that and ask: Do Christian people (Concluded on Page Two) "Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Senator Tillman and his Unreasonable Utterences. (Continued from Page One) really believe that murder is nothing?—that treason is a thing to laugh at?—that profanity is to be approved?—that viciousness is to be commended?—that coarseness and vulgarity from a pulpit are humorous utterances?—in short, do they approve the utterances of him who stands up in the pulpit and speaks in favor of those very things that the laws of God and man condemn and forbid? Until Monday evening, it had never been the fortune of the writer to hear blasphemy uttered from a pulpit either in this or any other city. For the first time that evening, it was our fortune to hear murder glorified openly in a church. It was also our first experience in hearing treason bellowed from the place where every Sunday a disciple of Christ who came to earth, bearing the message, "Peace on earth, good will to men," discourses upon the duties of a Christian. We knew what Tillman would say. Him we do not criticize, because he but delivered the goods that he had been asked to bring with him. He did it. We went to hear him because of curiosity to know how a Chautauqua audience would receive his profanity, his coarse and brutal remarks, his gloating over murder committed and murder contemplated and his thousandth time assertion of his belief in those peculiarly Southern phrases of treason, for which millions of lives and billions of money were sacrificed, in order that the Union might live. Well, we know how it was received by that Christian (God save the mark) audience. There is no denying, that it comes as something of a shock to witness the spectacle of a church audience applauding, in church, the utterance of things that would be condemned in a dive. To us a church—while no more than a mere building—is yet a place that is fragrant with those things we love and revere. It is the place where the mother who teaches the child at her knee to say, "Now I lay me down to sleep," goes to recruit her spiritual strength and ask for the guidance of God, that she may have wisdom to teach her child to live an upright life. It is the place where we take upon ourselves the vows of matrimony, and it is the place where we hear the minister of Him who represents our hope of salvation, say softly, "Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble," and it is the place from which many of us will make our last earthly journey to "God's acre" there to rest until in all good time He who shall judge the quick and the dead, summons us to Him. If we have anything good about us, it is our love and reverence for The Church that stands to represent so much to all of us. Well, when an audience of Christian people can do what that audience did, at Tillman's lecture in the Centenary Church, we begin to think that home is a pretty good place, and that, after all, the morals of the sinful ones of the world do not differ much from the morals of those who profess to be followers of the meek and lowly Christ who taught that love and kindness are to be cultivated and hate and murder are to be condemned. Some people have no sentiment about the matter of a church and its holiness, but then there are those who could make a melon patch on their mother's grave and laugh about it if they were reminded of what they had done. Of such we are not one. "I don't mind tellin' you that we went there intendin' to kill" "If the truth is known, I'm under indictment for murder"—"I don't believe" in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man." "I don't care what the Constitution says, we will nullify it in spite of you." And an audience of fifteen hund- red Christian people applauded him vigorously. Are we really civilized? (Binghampton, N. Y. Herald, Feb. 12, 1908.) The writer of the above editorial asks the question, "Are we really civilized; we do not hesitate in exclaiming no and the great majority of the American people, those who believe in the teachings of the Christian religion, never will be civilized, in the full meaning of that word, for those who adhere to the teachings of that religion, have for the past three thousand years impressed this one idea upon mankind in general, that "their God permitted his only begotten son to be murdered in order to display His wisdom and power, here upon this earth." It is therefore an undisputable fact that "wherever the religion of the cross has prevalled, race prejudice, slavery, immorality, misery, poverty, degradation, drumkenness, vice, crimes, of every description, including murders, have always flourished like a green bay tree." And as the Bible from beginning to end is full of accounts of murders and all other crimes under the sun, and as the Christian religion is to a great extent founded on rapine and murder, it is no wonder that Christians, delight to listen to Ben Tillmen preach murder, anarchy and treason, from their pulpits!-Editor. HOW TO KEEP WELL. Some Helpful Hints from the Health Department. The Story of the "Ink Pot." In New York City is a block in one of the crowded tenement districts known as the "Lung Block." This block is packed with huge, grimy tenements, honeycombed with rooms from which both light and air have been excluded. One of the houses in the block is called the "Ink Pot." it is five stories high, has front and rear tenements and houses 140 people. The whole building is dark and dirty. Doctor Huber in his work, "Consumption and Civilization" gives the following record of just one room in the "Ink Pot." Here it is: Up on the third floor is a room with two little closets behind it. In one of these a blind Scotchman slept. He took consumption and died in the hospital. A few months later his little daughter was stricken with the same malady and died. Then the mother with one son left, moved away. But the room had never been disinfected and as the sunlight had no chance to get into it the germs were still there. Next a Jew rented the room; he was taken and in a few months was dead. The next victims were a German and his wife; she took the plague and died. Then an Irish family came in. The father was a hard worker, a man of steady habits and fond of his family. After six months he too came down and died. This is the record for only one infected room in only one house out of a whole block of foul disease-breeding tenements. There is one other room in the same tenement where the known record of deaths from consumption is equally appalling. Now, had the rooms we have been talking about been properly constructed a few days of air and, sunshine would have freed them from the deadly germs that cost so much suffering and so many deaths. As we have said in former talks, consumption is a house disease. It is not contracted in the open air and sunlight. Rooms that are properly provided with light and air and with windows so placed that the rooms may be flooded with sunshine are not likely to become breeding spots for disease. It is a wise provision of nature that germ life cannot live under the rays of the sun. Sunshine, air, light and cleanliness are the agencies that promote health. Darkness and dirt produce disease So then, the lesson we get from the little story of the "Ink Pot" is very plain and easily understood. It is this: Our homes and places where we live and work must be kept clean. They must also be well provided with pure air and sunshine. This means that we must open the windows and let the fresh air in; also raise the blinds and give the sun a chance. Bedding and clothing should be frequently aired and sunned. Next we should try to live right. Cultivate regular habits, eat simple but nourishing foods and, above all and over all, get all the fresh air and sunshine we possibly can. For in the matter of keeping well it will be found that too much fresh air is just enough—"P." Last Friday, Col. Noah D. Thompson, who is a prince among the ladies and press agent for the United States Express company, entertained Robert Wheeler, who has been in South America for the past two or three years, and ye editor at a fish dinner at Hillman's cafe. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ABD THE NEGRO. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax: The Negro must now make himself felt in American politics. They owed much to the republican party for many years. The party also owed much to them. They furnished one hundred and eighty thousand good soldiers to help put down the greatest rebellion, that ever failed. They furnished votes enough to keep the republican party in possession for many years after the war. After they had furnished the votes that turned the scales in favor of R. B. Hayes, he turned his back on them, withdrew the army that protected them and left them to their fate. Tilden could not have done worse by them, if he had been elected, and probably would not have done so bad. From that day to the present, the republican party has been letting go of the Negroes' interest till now it makes no pretense of trying to protect them in their rights. A republican party has grown up that knows not Lincoln, just as there was a Pharaoh came to the throne of Egypt who knew not Joseph. There are republicans who feel otherwise, but they are no longer in control. What must the Negroes do? They must cross the Red Sea, and no longer stay to serve their Egyptian task masters. They need not wait for the waters to separate, they can wade them. There is just as much reason for the Negroes to expect favors from a Democratic party and administration as from a Republican; in fact more so. Cleveland was as fair to the Negroes as any president since Grant. It is fair to presume that Bryan would as from a republican; in fact more than is the condition now. The South is in the saddle. Their speers are buckled on and sharp. They can ride the horse whither so ever they will. The Negroes will be forced to walk. But be patient—footmen can go where a horse can not. There are many by paths and short routes the footmen can take and cut corners and reach the good sooner than the horsemen who must take the longer and leveler roads. Continue to black the white man's shoes, while you are powerless to do better, but never concede that you are not entitled to do better work. If you do, he will kick you with the shoes you black. If he reminds you that he gave you your vote, remind him that you have paid him dearly for it. You have bought your votes at a dear price and paid for them including a big interest. Now it is yours. Use it as you like. There is more hope of favors from an open enemy than from a false friend. Be independent, and let it be known that you are such. If your vote is so hampered that it can not be used for your betterment, then it is worthless to you. Sell for what it will bring. Sell it to the enemy even. JOHN T. CAMPBELL. LaFayette, Ind., Feb. 22. MOB DRAWS COLOR LINE. Side Lights on the Cause of Lynchings. President Roosevelt's statement in a letter to Gov. Durbin some four years ago on this subject of lynching was that "it is color and not crime that gives rise to mob violence." This fact has further been demonstrated by developments since that time. It is clear now that the whole thing hinges upon the color of the rapist as to whether he is to be rescued by his friends or lynched by a howling and enraged mob. Just as The News has stated all along that it was the color of the accused and not the crime in many instances that makes him an easy prey on which the vengeance of the mob can be wrecked. The three cases in point prove the absolute correctness of this statement. It was in Gadsden, Ala., which witnessed many stormy scenes of race riots a year ago, that a white man named Frank Miller committed a cowardly and dastardly assault upon a respectable young white lady, who was alone in an exchange office, and yet this provocation was not sufficient to cause the "best citizens," who usually convert themselves into an angry and bloodthirsty mob when a black is accused, actually broke open the jail and released the rapist, only because he was white. Miller has since been re-arrested by the sheriff and remanded to jail, and there is no danger whatever of his being lynched. At West Point, Miss., a few months ago, a white man committed a fledgish assault upon a 10 year Old Colored girl, and was captured and placed in jail only to be rescued by night at the hands of friends, the jail being broke open. At Kosciusko, Miss, a white lawyer attempted to assault his lady stenographer, and was only banished from the town. At Brookhaven, Miss, three white men assaulted a Colored woman and her daughter in November, and they are still in jail and have not even had a trial. If these men were blacks the story of their crime would long have been written in blood. This, of course, makes the sophism that "it is necessary to lynch a Negro accused of an assault to make sure of his punishment," look ridiculous. A Negro's punishment is already assured whenever he faces a white jury, but it is hard to convict a white man, as he even has friends on the jury.—The News, Memphis, Tenn. KILLED IN KITCHEN FIGHT. NEGRO WOMAN SHOT IN DISPUTE OVER COFFEE. James H. Pauly, Who Did the Shoot In Gives Himself Up and De- Mrs. Elizabeth Girod, 36 years old, Negress, 6218 Morgan street, was shot and instantly killed early yesterday morning, by James Henry Pauly, 41 years old, also a Negro, living in the same house. The murder was the result of a quarrel between Mrs. Girod and Mrs. Louise Pauly, a white woman, wife of the murderer, over the ownership of a can of coffee. The heated words of the woman aroused Pauly from his sleep and going into the kitchen with his revolver in his hand he fired a shot that passed through the heart of Mrs. Girod and embedded itself in the kitchen wall. Confesses to Shooting. The shooting, according to Mrs. Pauly, was the consummation of a quarrel which had lasted for several months over the payment of rent, which was supposed to be equally divided between the occupants of the house, Mrs. Pauly asserts that Mrs. Girod had not paid her portion of the rent. Pauly was taken to the Englewood station and confessed to the shooting, but declared that it was accidental. Mrs. Pauly told the police that just before the shooting Mrs. Girod cried out to Pauly: "Mind your business. I am as good as you are and my color is whiter." When searched at the police station a ham bone was found in the vest pocket of Pauly. When Sergeant Fitzgerald took the bone from Pauly he exclaimed: "Leave that with me. It is my 'good luck,' I want it; it may save me later from death." Ham Bone vs. Rabbit Foot. When Sergeant Fitzgerald told the murderer that a rabbit's foot had been found in the dress of his victim, he smiled and said: "Well( this time the bone beat the rabbit's foot to it)"—The Inter Ocean. Feb. 24. The Colored people in Chicago contribute thousands of dollars each year in the way of helping to support the Inter Ocean and other daily newspapers, and the owners and managers of these papers in return for the money which they receive from the Colored people, delight in referring to Colored women as "Negresses," and they will continue to do so, for they know it is no insult to the great majority of Colored gentlemen if white men refer to Colored women in such a manner either through the columns of the public press, or in private conversation.—Editor. Tuesday, March 3rd, 1908. It follows that Mardi Gras day always occurs on the Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday. Common usage in the case of Mardi Gras at New Orleans has somewhat broadened its application so that it has spread to Chicago and will be fittingly observed at the Chateau by the four leading organizations of Mythology, Rex, Proteus, Comus and Momus. Twenty-five masked members from each of these organizations will, in richly gorgeous Mardi Gras Splendor, on Roller Skates, compete for three prizes in gold in a skate contest of sixty minutes, for both originality of costume and genteel skating. Then will follow the selection of the Prize Winners of the King and Queen and the time honored pagents or parade composed of 200 skaters in 200 variegated costumes (which will eventuate in a Grand March of all nations. "FAREWELL TO FLESH MEATS" will be celebrated in the cafe at 11:55 p. m. when the King and Queen and their subjects will take a sumptous repeat. A good time is in store for all who attend. General admission 10 cents. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association. The account of Prof. and Mrs. Will Miam Emanuel's twentieth wedding anniversary will appear in the next issue of The Broad Ax. CHIPS Miss Sylvester Williams, 3442 Wabash avenue, spent last week in Detroit, Mich. Miss Lillian Johnson, 3004 State street, was injured by a fall from the street car Saturday. Dr. Leonard Lewis, 4711 State St., entertained a small party of friends at cards, Saturday evening last. Mr. A. E. Manning of the Indianapolis World, Indianapolis, Ind., is stopping at the Keystone Hotel. Dr. E. W. Irving of Memphis, Tenn., is visiting the city the guest of Dr. J. Davis, 3251 Rhodes avenue. Dr. Alvester York, 4711 State St., was called to Springfield, Ill., where his younger brother died on Saturday the 22nd. Mr. Sam Williamson, 4742 Fifth avenue, who has had the la gripe for the past week is again able to resume duty. Mr. Alfred Hendricks of Indianapolis spent a few days i nthe city last week the guest of Mr. Fry, 3024 Indiana avenue. A few friends surprised Mrs. Susan Winslow at her home, 4528 St. Lawrence avenue, Monday evening in honor of her sixtelfth birthday. Mr. Irving Williams, an old Chicago boy, is in the city on business for the St. Paul Colored Gophers Baseball Club of which he is secretary. Mr. Titus Alexander, well known in Chicago, was married recently to Miss Taylor of Philadelphia. The happy couple are making their home in Goldfield, Nev. Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper of New York city, is the guest of Prof. and Mrs. Wm. Emanuel, 6350 Rhodes ave. Mrs. Cooper arrived Monday and will remain for a month or so. Mrs. Florence Woodard and her husband will the first of the week move to Barrington, Ill., where they will locate on a nice chicken farm and raise fowls for the market. Tuesday afternoon, March 3, a matinee will be given at the Pekin theater at which time a new production will be rendered, entitled "The Baseball Champions," written by Fenton Johnson for the benefit of the Phyllis Wheatley Home Association. John A. Linn, former clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County, emerged from the penitentiary at Joliet this week, where he had served almost two years for stealing some of the proceeds of his office. Mayor Busse went to Joliet to accompany him back to Chicago and to welcome him into the fold of the Republican party. Bethel Literary and Historical Club will give a very interesting programme Sunday afternoon at 4:30 in the lecture room of Bethel church, the following persons will appear. Mr. J. Max Barber will deliver an address. Dr. Osborne Cress will give a short talk and Mr. Sylvester Overton, the well known dramatic reader will recite "King John on his death bed." The programme will be interspersed with musical numbers by persons well known. The public is most cordially invited. M. L. BENSON, Pres. WEST SIDE NEWS BY PROF. A. L. SIMPSON, 73 S. HALSTED ST. There is a letter at my office, for Prof. A. J. Hall. Any one knowing his address will please call up my office. Monroe 3970, Prof. A. L. Simpson. Miss Birdie Bishop, who has spent considerable time in New York City and Boston, Mass., is at home again to her many friends, and in a few days will engage in business at 73 S. Halsted St., in the capacity of manicuring and hair work. Phone Monroe 3970. Subscribe for The Broad Ax if you want news branch office, 73 S. Halsted St., Phone Monroe 3970. Dr. Chas. H. Pickett, one of our young physicians has just been elected President of the West Side Sunday Club. Mr. Samuel Wharton is the man to see if you want a position at Star & Garters new theatre. Mr. Wharton's office is at 200 W. Madison St. Ground floor. NOTICE The Ideal Publishing Company, 2603 State street, wish to announce to their customers and the public in general, that Mr. B. F. Edwards, formerly associated with the Company as manager, is no longer with the above named company, and he has no right or authority to accept or transact any business for or in the name of this company. The above named company will not be responsible for any agreement or other business made or transacted by Mr. Edwards in the name of the company after January 1, 1908. The Ideal Publishing Co. 2606 State street, Chicago, Ill. SHORT STORIES Dates thrive on the Colorado desert. In Holland fifteen out of every thousand inhabitants are foreigners. The newly formed Chinese catnet has decided on the regular publication of a government newspaper. The great Guadalupe artiste well at Guadalupe, Mexico, which is to squirt a hundred feet high, floored and only goes half that now. There is one American book which should be counted among the bestellers. Over 3,000,000 copies have been sold. It is "The Horse Book," owned by the government. Judge Tuthill of Chicago decided that it is as much the duty of a mother as a mother to walk the floor with a crying baby and warm the baby's milk bottle at night. Rockingham Junction, N. H. will recently a thriving railroad center, has practically ceased to exist. The railroad station cafe has been closed and the telegraph wires taken out. Few persons realize the amount of work required to give an automobile body its completed dress. To attain new blue finish, for instance, it is stated that no less than thirty-two 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 causing a change in their diet. They now want spiced and highly seasoned dishes where they used to take creams and ices. 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 unineteen 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 Bicard is to be a member of the cast of "Pald 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 Reenseler 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 size of the world. A plant will be established at Milwaukee, Wis., 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—Atchison Globe. Brevities THe HALL OF FAME. Jeremian Meeker of South Orange, XJ. i inety-three, but never misses loca! 2oseball game, B. J, Lang, the Boston organist, is sercoty years old. He began playing fo eburces When he was only fiffeep. Peter O'Connor, aged eighty-seven gers, o¢ Filut, Mich,, who is @¥etee to foid weather, goes to bed late tm the fall incased in ‘blankets an@ remains there «:: winter. Mork F. Hoffman fs one of the most agile mail carriers in New Hampshire. ‘Wits a 100 pound bag on his shoulders be mede bis trip from Manchester to New Reston and Bedford on foot, beat- jug fs schedule over the same route wit! 2 ceam. ‘Tie French Acad@ity of Sciences bes ciected a8 corresponding member of the ceographical- section Sir George Dervic of Cambridge. Sir George. who is the second son of Charles Dar- win. is professor of astronomy at Cam- bridge. Dr. George Alexander, pastor of the University Place Presbyterian eburch of New York, acting president of Un- fon college, bas declined the permanent presidency of the institution. He says be is too far on im life to basard a step demanding the efforts of a younger and more active man. John B. Martin, proprietor of the Cafe Martin, in New York, who offer- ed money to his employees who would marry and who agreed to give pre- miums for children, bas been com- pelled to pay out in a year $5,150. ‘There were twenty-six marriages, for- ty-ine babies and one pair of twins. ‘The venerable W. J. Rolfe is hard at work upon a volume of Shakespear- ean 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 bis com- fortable morning walks is from Cam- bridge to Boston and back again. William: James Bryan, the new sen- ator from Florida, ts just one year elder 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 2 ne lawyer, a splendid speaker ‘snd 2 hard worker. The Sporting World. The Buffalo Derby, run at the Kenil- ‘worth track, will be worth $5,000 this year instead of $3,500. _ May Sutton, the tennis chainpion of the world, is now famous. A horse bas been named after ber in California. George B. Iliff, the noted legiess ath- lete, succeeded in lowering the world’s walking record at Akron, O., not long &g. He covered the mile in 12 min- Utes 12 seconds. At the Castleton stud in Kentucky, the property of James R. Keene, are Row three stallions each of which has Won more than $100,000 on the turf. = are Peter Pan, Kingston and a 2 Dr. Joseph H. Reilly has been select- 4 as the track team leader of George- town university for the present season. Dr. Reilly was on the Georgetown feam for several years and hds carried the dive and gray colors to victory in many contests. Flippant Flings. ‘If the raw food fad prevails, there ‘May soon be enough cooks to go round —Baltimore Sun. Positive, dodging street cars; com- parative, dodging automobiles; super- lative, dodging the water wagon—St ‘Louis Globe-Democrat. ana They called comic opera in = a Sones ‘Besic; in 1907, chatter 5 1008, ‘drivel and slush —Washingtou Berald, Womens have pledged themselves to ‘Weer uo wings on their hats but those crows. We will soon discover that the crow is a bird of amazing plum- ‘ee lu size, shape and color —Washing- ten Times ‘ Church Work. r -five years to wpa enn cae ies on Mieco 1°00 50,000 natives have (aver to Christiantty. Zhe v<~ Calvary Episcopal church © Pisvurg, 2 handsome structure, 3M 2cectly opened. ‘The chancel ferrite sione cost $15,000. 4n crigical plan bas been devised Bice the Holy eintty ebreh fKicssion. Jamates, destroyed by Se ret tl eat Seay ore te fo take Se $75,000 in favor of the: PRBions to be pall by 208 Me verti; installments of. flew York City. = Rem Xess telephigs “camteali? aie OWE 550.00 callé tac howe: Her York city coteumes =. cvirit and malt sea the aay, era a York's iy, meta fest $800,060 this yuan B00 ome than they cost Tork paid last ye ents aoa wed bout the same as fet . frnnen:—New York Herat. WINDMILL SIGNALING, May Se Utilized ‘by the Dutch Fer Ive ee casual observer viewing Dutch landscape there is nothing to arrest the attention in the fact that Possibly one or more out of a dosen Windmills -in sight are to all appear- ‘ances simply standing idle while the others continue their never ending If one watches the sails of the idle mills closely. it may perhaps be no- tced 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 en- ‘gaged in holding a conversation with ‘the proprietor of the other mill, which may be miles avtay—in fact, possibly barely visibie on the horizon. Quite recently the Dutch govern- ment caivied on a series of experi- ments in order to ascertain the value ‘of windmill’signaling for military pur- Poses and were surprised to find that communication could readily be estab- Ushed with far distant centers and that confidential messages could ‘be sent on from one mill to another and 80 forwarded throughout the length ‘and breadth of Holland in an inered!- bly short time by icans of secret ‘codes known only to the millers them: selves. ‘These codes have been handed down from generation to generation and jéal- ously guarded from outsiders with all the intense conservatism for which the Provincial Dutch are proverbial. Apart, however, from these secret codes, un- derstood only by the millers and local fFoups of mill owners, thereserists 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 un- til 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 carpen- ter are required.—Windsor Magazine. Old Horseshoes. ‘Vice Consul Ernest Vollmer reports that one of the constantly growing im- ports into the Chinese province of Shangtung through the port of Tsing- tau is old horseshoes, which leads him to give the following particulars: “One steamer alone in November brought 800 tons of this scrap fron from Ham- burg. The market for these wornout shoes seems to be almost without lim- it. Chinese iron dealers buy the horse. shoes and sell them to knife and tool manufacturers all over the province. It is claimed by thie 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 re- cetved under the feet of horses has given them a peculiar temper .abso- lately unobtainable in any other way and that tools made from them are su- perior to all others.” New Way to Collect Fares. ‘There isa new wrinkle in New York em 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 re- ceiver, looking more like a revolver than anything else, through which the conductor is required to receive all fares. When he comes along and in- stead of holding out his hand for the @ime shoves the muzzle of the nickel plated weapon in your face the shock is considerable. The contrivance is of course designed to prevent the con- @uctors from dipping into the cash. A rule is posted declaring that the con- ductor 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 San. ‘The Demonstratin’ Car. ‘This story may not be true The Gowntown motor car dealer on whom it ts laid denies it, but a certain poign- ‘ancy still remains. ‘The dealer got out of his car at Bighth and Main streets Friday morn- ing to buy 2 toy, motor car from 4 hawker who has a stand under the viaduct. “Tl take that car,” said the dealer, pointing at a toy which was spinning ‘around on the table. ‘The hawker reached in his sack and Grew out another. “That ove ain't for sale,” he said, igttaning. “It's my Gemonstratin’ car.” ‘Te "We related that after that the ‘hawker andthe motor car dealer cor- @ially shook bands, “‘but.no sale was made—New Orleans Picayune. | sia Kes mud : A Theatrical Experiment. An interesting experiment bas been ‘at Bournemouth. A grand has been built on to the Theater fim which people can walt be fete the thenter doors open for the ‘apd to which the andi ence are requested to retire between, the seth to permit of the theater being ventilated. Tea will be ‘fh this hall, and the orchestra there during the intervals— Globe. ena se THE BROKER'S VALENTINE. ‘T send you herewith, by a messenger ‘Who's dressed in the scantiest style, A large batch Of stock—you may have it on Tm case you should think tt worth B's issued by me as a share in my heart, And. though listed at par, my advice ‘Is to buy it dirt cheap, as you may at the start. 1 know we won't split on the price. Tou Jax It 1 ever have offered before yatock that I'm offering you here. Abem—well, the truth is I'm offering you ‘more ‘Than I've offered for many a year. In fact, you may have whet is known on ‘the street As “a controlling interest.” How strange! ‘You insist on the price for the issue com- Jest © here tn’ your heart ta exchtings. William Wallace Whitelock in Lippin- cott's, Sa ; ‘The First Nature Fakir. n, Bohemian Magazine. Geena a A Baltimore man who was recently &@ passenger on a Cunarder tells of an incident of his trip that led him to the conclusion that your average sea- man 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 2 bad cut on the head. The Bal- timorean was most solicitious in his in- quiries 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 be emerg- ed, white and weak, from his state room, he suddenly remembered the oor sailor. In the course of the day the Baltimore man saw the man with & strip of plaster on his forehead. “How is your head?” he asked sym- pathetically. “West by south, sir,” was the reply. Harper's Weekly. iii ci a A couple of girls, after the manner of girls since the world was young were recently discussing the affairs of their various frieids. “I don’t see why in the world Clars lets that little snob Charlie Blank come to see her #0 often!” the dark haired one said. “They are together almost constantly.” “Hum!” the blond commented, with & worldly wise little smile. “Well, I don’t. I wouldn't” her friend asserted. “He is not good look. ing and bas such ugly ways.” “Well, perhaps he has ugiy ways, but such handsome means,” the other said, and something very near a sigh got past the piece of fudge she has- tened to put into her mouth —St. Louis Republic. Werhed. “My friends,” said the campaign ora- tor, “beware of the unscrupulous heel- ex. [Applause.] “There are men s0 lost to shame tbat they will offer you « dollar for your vote. [Hisses.] Do niot listen to them. Spurn them. Be on your dignity. De- mand more.” [Continued applause.]— ‘Philadelphia Ledges. They Tried It. “I read in the papers of @ profes- sional 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 wo man, “The objectors must be a married men's team.”—Baltimore American. iiemtniiie. ‘Irate Wife—But what is the use of my talking when you just go to sleep? Do you bear? (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 listen- tng to you that I dosed off —Judge. Real Skin Game. “There ‘goes a man who bas been ‘working 2 skin game all his life.” | “Byer been arrested?” “Rope.” “That's strange. What kind of a ‘skin game does he work—sbell game?” “No, he is a tattoo artist.”—Pittsbers te ee oe ine a eee Good Colored Tenants Appreciated I have stove heated flats to suit every man's income. Iam no agent, I sent only my own property, you will save many a useless step when you, want a fiat if you first on me. Samuel Richardson, 14, La Salle St Sw. Cor, Madioon, Room 1, Td Main 2133. Otis —_—_—_———— I wish to announce to my many fiends I have from 4 to 8 rooms, stove ested flats to rent on the South and ‘West. Side, call if you are desirjous and, as-ot-the rent, I will loan $ your. effects. Rew. T a= ‘State St Please cut A, Corky S74? 1: Dr.J. William McDowell Physician & Surgeon OFFICE: 3102 STATE STREET. Hours, $10 a m., 24 & 6830 p. m. , Sundays by appointment. sional Deas Or. W. € MACKEY ivecceimice eee HOURS: 9 to 114M, 2 to 4 and? to SENDENCE, Se anwouR avaxuE HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M and Nights CHICAGO. 1 City Office, 500 Burton Bidg. 1 39 State Street Hours 47 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D. Langford, M.0, ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street FOURS—#12 m. 1:30 p. m After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264. Dr. A BL Schultz ae cee Sto1IZA M,3tod CHICAGO CE. 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Write for complete Catalogue FREE. a eaten Marcus Ruben (Inc.) goo State St, | CHICAGO. 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 be? 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 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 Cardial 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—Lipnott's. His Difficulty. "You wrong me," said Plodding Pete, "when you say I ain't willin' to work. I'm jes' dyn' 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 Silkman 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."—Bobolian Magazine. "Yes, Genevieve!" "These hats with the feathers make us look like little birds, don't they, Harold?"—New York Press. She in Café. "Your husband, the post, 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. Condensed Mark. "Delight, you are just the one for an editor's hide!" "Why so, darling!" "Because you're ideal supperhead and sweet."—Baltimore American. 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 rapgicker 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 rapgickers 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 plin much faith in little dingy string pieces, for he was some grades above the trained rapgicker 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 cares? 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 petitioned 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 necessities 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. Gae day he made a trivial 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 wouldn'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 hostels 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 four year in Japan. Telephone DOUGLAS ... 1845. JESSE BINGA INSURANCE REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO. LEASES NEGOTIATED, EXCHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. FOR SALE. live, 2-9 room store terms. flat brick building rooms, frame, brick flat frame and l frame building, 6 s and, 10 room res ST. Phone Doug case-Ball and unizing—Ca $100,000 the Leland Giants is position in order to give use of buying a Per- ment Park, With utes, Minature b burley Burley, D making devices and ummer Hotel, large Loop District in C oad, and amusement cons can be made The Race Owni Where More and October of each and Freedom of a ly low so that all L given by subs home! buy and buil with Tenn Dolls do it-to-day so that meusement Assn. € E inful) as subscript the Leland Giant pe been paid, at which name address y state $9,000—3444-3446 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front residences; will sell separate. Make terms. $5,000—40% Dearborn St., 2-flat brick building, stone foundations, 6-6 rooms. $2,250-3722 La Salle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $4,000-Forest Ave., near 32nd, 10 rdbm 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 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 to its 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, Miniature 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 Basa-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 Imense 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 (100) 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! buy 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. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- which I am sending as Part (or infull) as shares of the Capital Stock of the Lela Association. I agree to pay $_____ $_____ has been paid certificate. N. B. [The same being our forty-seventh man who has gone to smite elsewhere.] At other times they did not lean When carried by our kitchen queen (Whose other name was Dennis), But rose as straight as spire or tree, And then her medal seemed to be The campanile, Venice. The leaning tower was first to go, And when it hit the floor below The havoc was appalling! At other times she curled, And then, alas, we knew we heard The campanile falling! I see its shattered remnants yet. "Twas half our wedding dinner set— The other hat was Emma." My chateaigne her protest filed. "Pray leave," she cried, "ere I go wild, For Pelion on Gasa piled Would be your next, Laura!" -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. Modern Archaeology. Pet 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 much adored than the ancient Egyptians," said his friend. "What the Romans." பெயர்கள் பெயர்கள் பெயர்கள் All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beauregard B Halsey B Halsey Chicago, Illinois. All Stock-holders are entitled to preference as employees and should inform the treasurer with their details of the resuerer to apply for employment. For further information Leeland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement A ss n. 6 25 8 Halsted St. Chicago, I. 6158 LINES TO LOUISA. 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. "Robert, this spelling paper is very poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every word is marked 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."—Lippincott'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. "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. "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. Hiram Rhoton—So the checher club argued here on the Fannie canal, say? How long did they argue, Jeff? The Storkepenser—Let's see. Half a wedge of cheese, peek of plum, pait of dried peaches and a pound of mustard. Prejudice. Catching the Wayfarer. Accounts For It. As Times Change The Nibblers. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley. BRADLE REAL AND 4700 8. Halsted Street BRADLEY & F REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA 9 8. Halsted Street BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported Lie N. E. Corner F Phone Oakland 1787 THE RAILROAD Imported and Domesticated Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connect N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour A POOL AND BILLIARDS THE WILLIAM L THE FRONT CLU WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 239 E. 22ND STREET Phone Callnet 2940 Sandy 2 New Do Why don't you get in Store? Every Tuesday a ing Stamps with each 1 We carry a swell sets. A spendid assort Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, We make a specialty: Walstcoats, Pants, Shoes A beautiful line of e A fancy line of Neck See our Novelties in and Safety Pins. Sandy W. Trick 2918 State St New Department Why don't you get in the habit of doing you re? Every Tuesday and Friday special sales Stamps with each 10c purchase. We carry a swell line of Ladies' Shirtw A spendid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery ees, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan Setcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby H A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Sh A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchief See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chain Safety Pins. 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 Correts. A spendiid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, Laces, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and everything you wear. We make a speciality of Men's Balbriggian Underwear, Hosiery, swell Waltcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby Hats. Boys' Suits, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. - American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS Vice-President, JOHN S American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS Vice-President, JOHN S - American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY: Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: 45th and Robey Sts. Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards..... 10,000 sq. ft. Output of Summer Yards..... 10,000 sq. ft. Telephone Yards 128. Telephone Yards 693 PHONE Oakland 1787. RAILROAD and Domes Auctions & Cigs life in Connection first and Armour Av W. Trick 148 State St Department the habit of doing your Friday special sales-o purchase. of Ladies' Shirtwaist of Shoes, Hosiery, bracelets, Millinery and Men's Balbriggan Udendora and Derby Hat Percale Negligee Shi ear and Handkerchief jewelry, Watch-chaina an Brie masurer, THOMAS C J. M. Fields ELDS ANS E CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr. INN the Wines Chicago, Ill. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS NAC