The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. The Committee On Military Affairs of the United States Senate UPHOLDS THE UNLAWFUL ACT OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN DISHONORABLY DISCHARGING THE THREE COMPANIES BELONGING TO THE 25TH REGIMENT. HON. J. B. FORAKER INTRODUCES A BILL IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE TO RESTORE THE INNOCENT MEN TO THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY. FRANK P. GEORGE. Dramatic reader, vaudeville and dance, Mrs. C. C. Lewis and Frank P. George in new repertoire, assisted by the best local talent, at Oakland Music Hall, Monday evening, April 27th. Watch this paper for further particulars. FRANK P. GEORGE reader, vaudeville and dance, Mrs. C. C. Lewis and Frank P. new repertoire, assisted by the best local talent, at Oakland Monday evening, April 27th. Watch this paper for further Vol. XIII The Committee Military Af United S UPHOLDS THE UNLAWFUL VELT IN DISHONOR THREE COMPANIES BEL MENT. HON. J. B. FORA THE UNITED STATES SE NOCENT MEN TO THE THEIR COUNTRY. The Committee on Military affairs of the United States Senate, after beating around the bush for a long time, finally decided last week, without the slightest evidence that some of the members of Companies B, C, and D. of the 25th Regiment, were guilty of "shooting up" Brownville, Texas, in August, 1906. The members of the Committee on Military Affairs sustained the unlawful act of President Roosevelt in dishonorably discharging the men belonging to the three companies referred to without a hearing on their part of any mind, except two or three, and after their report became public property. Senator J. B. Foraker, who has proven himself to be one of the greatest champions of human rights in the world, introduced the following bill in the United States Senate February 26, which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs: Senate bill 5729. To correct the records and authorize the re-enlistment of certain noncommissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C, and D of the Twentyfifth United States Infantry, who were discharged without honor under Special Orders Numbered Two hundred and sixty-four, War Department, November 9th, nineteen hundred and six, and the restoration to them of all rights of which they have been deprived on account thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any noncommissioned officer or enlisted man belonging to Company B, C, or D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, discharge without honor under Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, War Department, dated November ninth, nineteen hundred and six, on account of the shooting affray that occurred at Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August thirteenth-fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, who shall make oath before any duly authorized enlisting officer of the United States Army or, Navy that he did not participate in said affray, and that he does not know of any soldier belonging to any of said companies who did participate in the same, and that he has not at any time heretofore and does not now withhold any knowledge with respect to that occurrence which, if made public might lead to the identification of any participant in said shooting affray or any accessory thereto, either before or after the fact, and that he has answered fully to the best of his knowledge and ability all questions that have been lawfully put to him by his officers or others in connection therewith, shall be, and hereby is, made eligible to reenlist in the military or naval forces of the United States on his application therefor at any time within three months from and after the passage of this Act, any statute or provision of law or order or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding; and that upon CHICAGO, MARCH 7, 1908. [Image of a woman with a high hairstyle, wearing a white dress with a high collar.] MRS. WILLIAM EMANUEL. President of the Frederick Dougiass Center Woman's Club, the new Queen of the Four Hundred among the Afro-Americans in Chicago, who celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary February 27th. such re-enlistment he shall oe allowed ed full pay according to the rank he held and the pay he was receiving an enlistment : Provided, That all the rights and privileges to which the soldiers re-enlisting under the provisions of this Act were entitled, respectively, at the time or their discharge shall be, and hereby are, fully restored to them, and the record showing their discharge without honor shall be and hereby is, annulled, set aside, and held for naught, and the time elapsing since their discharge without honor until the date of such re-enlistment shall be computed in determining all rights to which they may be respectively entitled on account of continuous service as though they had been in the service without interruption, and they shall not suffer any forfeiture or any right or privilege by reason of such discharge: Provided further, That in any case where the regular term of enlistment which the soldier was serving at the time when discharged without honor has in the meanwhile expired, his record shall be, and hereby is, corrected so as to show an honorable discharge at the time of the expiration of such enlistment, and he shall be allowed full pay and all rights and privileges until that time; and in the event of the re-enlistment of such soldier under the provisions of this Act his term of re-enlistment shall be deemed to have commenced as of the time when his previous enlistment expired, and his service under such re-enlistment shall be without prejudice of any kind by reason of his former discharge without honor: And provided further, That in case any of the non-commissioned officers or enlisted men belonging to said companies and discharged without honor shall have died since they were so discharged and before the passage of this Act, but who shall have testified under oath or made affidavit before their death that they did not participate in said shooting affray or have any knowledge with reference thereto, their respective records shall be, and hereby are, corrected in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and their legal representatives shall be entitled to all pay that would have become due to them from the time of their discharge until the time of their decease. Sec. 2. That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prohibit the prosecution and punishment of any soldier re-enlisting under the provisions hereof as to whom it may at any time hereafter appear that he did not participate in said shooting affray or have knowledge thereof which he has withheld. as Center Woman's Club, the new Queen Americans in Chicago, who celebrated ary 27th. who at the time of their discharge without honor were serving terms of enlistment which have not yet expired shall be held to be for only the remaining portion of said unexpired term. It is expected, that when the whole matter comes up in the open Senate, as to the constitutional right of President Roosevelt to discharge the three companies of the 25th Regiment in the manner in which he did, a great fight will be precipitated, which will be led by that great defender of the civil and the political rights of all men—Senator Joseph Benson Foraker! WHITE WOMAN-KILLS HER NE- GRO HUSBAND. Says She Acted in Self Defense. Hartford, Conn., Monday March 2.- Gertrude Bernstein Williams, the white woman who shot and killed her Negro husband, Pearley T. Williams, will be arraigned charged with murder. Her defense will be self-defense, her claim being that the wounds were made by a whip, and that it was while she was being terribly beaten by her husband that she shot him. Negro Claims Woman Deceived Him and Demands His Freedom. Limad, Ohio (March 2)—Reciting that he has learned that his wife, who he asserts, told him that she was a Negro before he wedded her, is white, Henry Edwards, a well-to-do Negro business man of this city, to-day began divorce action in the Common Pleas Court. His petition recites that he married his wife in Lexington, Ky., after a lengthy courtship, and that she told him she had Negro blood in her veins and never by any hint let him suspect that she was of another race than himself. For this alleged deception he insists he is entitled to freedom. They were married five months ago. WOULD NOT RIDE IN "JIM CROW" COACH. Guthrie, Okla., February 29. W. P. Hart, a Negro attorney of Washington, D. C., arrived here yesterday as a special prosecutor in the suit of Oklahoma Negroes to enjoin the Oklahoma railroads from enforcing the "Jim Crow" law. On his way here he was ordered into the "Jim Crow" car when the train reached Oklahoma line. He left the train at Fallis and drove to Guthrie rather than ride in the separate coach. Attorney Hart is made of the proper Prof. and Mrs. Wm. Emanuel Celebrated Their 20th Wedding Anniversary IT WAS THE MOST BRILLIANT FUNCTION EVER HELD AMONG THE AFRO-AMERICANS IN ANY SECTION OF THE COUNTRY—MRS. LOTTIE MEREDITH COOPER OF NEW YORK CITY, CAME ON TO BE ONE OF THE RECEIVING PARTY—THE HOST AND HOSTESS RECEIVED MANY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PRESENTS PROF. WILLIAM EMANUEL President of the Appomattox Club, who celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary Thursday, February 27th. It has been our pleasure in the past to attend some of the swellest social functions given by the Afro-Americanans in Philadelphia, Pa., New York City, Washington, D. C., and other sections of the country. But in all candor and truthfulness, it can be said that so far it has not fallen to our lot to witness a more brilliant social function than the celebration of the 20th wedding anniversary of Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel, 6352 Rhodes ave., on Thursday evening, February 27th, for it was one of the finest affairs ever held among the members of the race in the United States. Their beautiful home was artistically decorated and brilliantly illuminated throughout for the occasion, and until long after the midnight hours, an orchestra composed of Colored musicians, discoursed the most enchanting music, which assisted to enliven the occasion and causing the guests to forget their worries and to wear their most pleasant smiles while being presented to the host and hostess. Shortly after 8 o'clock the receiving party wended its way into the front parlor headed by Prof. and Mrs. Emanuel, where they received the hearty congratulations of more than two hundred guests and friends of long standing, who expressed the hope that they might be spared to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary and others added to it. PROF. WILLIAM President of the Appomattox Club, w niversary Thursday, February 27th. kind of stuff, he is unlike Booker T. Washington, for the great wizard of Tuskegee, deems it an honor to ride in "Jim Crow" cars while traveling through the South, but when he comes up North rides in Pullman cars, and puts up at the best white hotels. R. Wm. Emanuel and Their 20th ing Anniversary GIANT FUNCTION EVER HELD AMERICANS IN ANY SECTION OF LOTTIE MEREDITH COOPER CAME ON TO BE ONE OF THE THE HOST AND HOSTESS RE- AND BEAUTIFUL PRESENTS. Those assisting the host and hostess were, Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper of New York City, who came on for the occasion, and Mrs. Blanche Cornwell, who served as little flower girls when Prof. and Mrs. Emanuel were united in marriage twenty years ago, Mrs. H. Williams, Mrs. Clifford Johnson, Mrs. Mamie Smith, Robert H. Harden, W. R. Sobers, Frank Waring and Joseph Crum. Julius N. Avendorph had the honor of presenting the guests to the host and hostess, and the members of the receiving party, and as an expert in this respect Mr. Avendorph cannot be excelled, and at the conclusion of the reception he was further honored in elaborating on the happy life so far led by the host and hostess, while they and the receiving party were seated around the bridal table, which was very appropriately decorated, enjoying the refreshments which were artistically served by Mrs. A. T. Smiley. The majority of the ladies present were costumed in the most beautiful gowns.which were of the highest creations of the dressmaker's art; and they were indeed charming to behold. The host and hostess received many rare and beautiful presents, and their hosts of friends only regret that it is impossible for them to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary every day, so that they could be entertained in such a hospitable manner all the time. M EMANUEL. who celebrated his 20th wedding an- Robert J. Roulston, who is a strong political factor in the 31st ward, was recently selected vice president of the Chicago public library board and all in all it was a wise selection, for Mr. Roulston is a first class business man in every respect. _ THE BROAD AX. ‘PUBLISHED WEEK! T. eer eae ar Tee i feo aes gees Saeed Ei oeetotee agate pmeesae gore zest pet Th hae ccc oxen fl resis smo. Slag tae ccecrttonr nt pal eunch, ——S— ae a “THE BROAD AX no Aneenr Aven Cg. suas ¥ TALON, Batter and Pubiener. ——— “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. | WHY? “Isn't it true,” askbd a friend who hhas been reading these health talks, “that consumption is on the decrease im the United Stateé?” “Yes,” I answered. Then why all this fuss and agite- tion about the awful ravages of a dis. ease that you admit is decreasing?” ‘The question was superficial and id not at all touch the real or vital part of the matter; but it set me to studying and thinking and with the re. sult that I want to put the gist of my answer in this week's talk. It is true that for the past two decades there has been a general de crease in the consumption death rate and this reduction is due to the im- Proved living conditions of the mas ses. For example: more people are bet- ter housed; fewer are living in cellars or in dark, damp, illlighted basements that are no better than cellars. There is a wider diffusion of knowledge on sanitary matters apd, as a conse. quence, an increased appreciation of the value of sunshine and fresh air, Then, too, there has been a marked improvement in the building taws reg. ulating the construction of tenements in all the large cities of the country. There has also been a lessening of the evils of over-crowding in tene ments, work-shops and factories. In temperance is on the decrease. The babies of the land are better taken care of, as a rule, than they were ten ‘and twenty years ago. They are more properly fed and clothed. This is true ‘also of the adult population. Wages have been increased and hours of la bor have been shortened. Fewer chil dren are employed in mills, mines and factories. These, it may be safely asserted are the causes which have contric uted to decrease the death rate from consumption in the United States from 25 per 10,000 to 19 per 10,000 for 1900, a decrease of 24 per cent. But think how much more might have been accomplished had the real fight against the spread of consump- tion been started in 1890. The de- decrease noted was simply the result of general conditions, favorable to hu- man.life and comfort. Yet, in spite of this decline of 24 per cent in the consumption death rate for the pe- ‘riod named, this disease still claims 150,000 victims each year. And, worst of all, this enormous army of human beings is swept out of existence at en average age ‘of thirty-five years. This statement alone, we think, an- ‘sswers the question. When a disease that is preventable claims one out of every seven persons that die in Iilin- ois, it is certainly high tirse some- ‘thing was being done to end so need- Jess ® sacrifice of human life. High time that some fuss was being made ‘about the matter—don’t you think so? ‘The house is the granary of the consumption germ. Were it not for the house this germ, says 2 noted au- ‘thority, would soon perish from the face of the-earth. It could not be pre- served. Sunlight, fresh air and water are its natural enemies. The first two ‘soon destroy it. But in the house and where air and sunlight are not per- mitted “to do their work, tuberealar matter will remain vital for a long time. This was shown in the story ee ee week. A Bo see to it that both these natural ‘ are given a chance in your snd you'll have better health more money.—“P.” oe MESSRS. BRYANT AND CASEY CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAY. . ‘The first part of the social season of 1908 was very pleasantly brought to close ‘Tutsday evening, when ‘Messrs. J. P. Bryant and W. 0. Casey esiebratéa ope of their birthdays, Which one, no oné present was able to say; and as @ birthday question is such a delicate one, it was referred to very cautiously. The home 4404 ‘Tangley Avenue, was brilliantly illum. fated and decorated with cut flowers. Progressive Whist was the feature of ‘Re evening until ten forty-five, at ‘Waich time a most elaborated lunch- eon was served accompanied by a sparkling companion. Congratulatory remarks and the awarding of the priz- es followed. Mrs. T. Ferguson, won first prize, “Lyrics of Lowly Life” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mr. Julius N. Avendorph won second prize, Seal Leather Card Case. Mrs. R. R. Jack: son, Handkerchief Holder and Mrs. Marion Johnson, Booby. Mr. Bryant deserves special mention as he proved nimself (A Past Grandmaster) in the are of culinary. The hostess, charm- ing as usual. Those present were, Lr. and Mrs. W. T. Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. Julius N. avendorph, Mrs. C. Johnson, Prof. and Mrs. Wm. Eman- uel, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wright, Mrs. R. R. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. T. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mr. W. C. Casey THE PARKWOOD CEMETERY ASSO- CIATION, CONTINUES TO BOOM, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF ITS NEW COMMISSIONERS. Since the reorganization of the Parkwood Cemetery Association, {t continues to forge to the front, under the business like management of its new commissioners. It will be recalled that the first at tempt to successfully launch the Park ‘wood Cemetery Association was made ‘in the latter part of 1906, but the majority of the men connected with the movement at that time, were un- [able to devote as much of their time ‘to the enterprise to make it a success as was necessary, and in the latter ‘part of August 1907, new blood was infused into it, and on January 8th 1908, it was granted a license by the Secretary of State of Illinois, and the Pariorood Cemetery Association is in conformity to the laws of this state, | doing business under the license so obtained. ‘The Parkwood Cemetery Associa. tion, is capitalized for $15,000, shares $10 each and plenty of time will be given purchasers to pay for their stock. Without any ifs or ams, a well con- ducted cemetery, by Colored business ae, would be a paying investment. For all the cemeteries in Cook Coun- ity are making money, and the Forest Home Cemetery Company, the Mount Greenwood Cemetery, and several oth- ers have bared the Negro from being buried within their gates. Even Oak- wood Cemetery on January 1, 1908 adopted a new scale of prices, in [which they charge $6.00 for graves for white children and $12 for Colored. For white adults 20, Colored $40, and when it is taken into consideration, that between eight and nine thousand people can be buried on one acre of ‘ground, and even a larger number ‘than this when they pile them on top of each other like they do in some of the cemeteries, there is no question sbout profitable returns on an invest- ment of this character. It 4s far from the intention of the promoters of the Parkwood Cemetery Association to establish a burying ground, simply for Colored people, but when they have secured a suitable plot of ground, men and women of all races and nationalities can find a rest- img place and no color "ine will be érawn. ‘The following substantial men are commissioners of the Parkwood Cem- etery Association; Jacob L. Parks, 3155 State street, chairman; Dr. Ed- ward 8. Miller, 3642 Wabash ave., sec- retary; Mathew W. Hulett, 2734 Dear- born street, treasurer; Enoch Cooper, 3426 Dearborn street, vice-chairman; Robt. M. Leach, 3216 State street, Frank W. King, 3604 State street and Arthur N. Simpson, 3227 Prairie aye. NOTICE TO SINGLE TAXERS. “The American Single Tax League, 27 Union Square, New York City, earnestly desires a complete enroll- ment of all believers in the principles of Henry George, in the United States, ‘and therefore requests all such to for- ward to the above address not only their own mames, but those of all oth- er Single Taxers, of their acquaint. ance, no matter where located. ‘This will place all such names in close tquch with the organized move ment now being carried forward, at & time when progressive methods of taxation are of the most urgent im- Portance to our country. Duplicate names are as valuable as the first cnes especially if they give particulsrs of interest shown, of occu- pation, leisure, means, infiuenco, as they greatly help us in selecting cor- respondents and committees” . _. May’s Answer to Bel eer Dear Beil:— Forgive my tardy reply. Dear old Daddy has just worried me so much this past week with hunting and guns I could scarcely call my soul my own. ‘When you get my letter post marked from here, I know just what you will say, but no! Bell truly, business neces- sitated it this time, not pleasure. Your letter made me think a great deal. I was at the Swellocratic Club and tonight as I sit writing like Lena Despard my sins rise up betore me. “As in a Looking Glass.’ That episode like that ghost of Hamlet's ‘brings up that old hateful past. It is chloral again. Bell, just so Daddy ever knows, but you know and so does G— Guilty consciences riakes cowards of us all. It is useless for me to discuss the Swellocrats, because you know everything by now. I met Ella's doctor who like you gave me such a roasting for being a coward, ete., because I did not do so and 80, but she said the entire club barring very few were all suffering wita Dementia Africono, a disease peculiar to Negroes only, which reached its greatest development East of State St, and that there was not even a remedy known for it, especially if the people had ever once lived in the ten- derloin. By the way Daddy consulted our corporation attorney concerning the legal responsibility of the sub- stance and shadows actions and he cited the case of the Ball Room girls versus the Astorbilts and you remem- ber the decision was that the Astor- bilts were of unsound minds, therefore not responsible, and the Ball Room girls lost their case. I saw Mollie anc Dollie at communion on the Sunday before I left, they looked charming and composed as usual. By the way at the Swellocratic Ball, lest I forget, the ‘ark was deserted long enough ‘ express regrets. She who must be obeyed, is still humming, “Just a cousin of mine, “Likely to see him around any old time.” Everyone was asking before I left about the Gray ‘Wolf, as to what meat upon which he fed, that he had grown so great. They say he eats Sylva’s liver meat fit on- iy for the gods and found only in the | tenderloin. Beatty is here from Eur-| ope and looks as pretty as ever. 1 hope to see her before she leaves. Lucile has just come in as I am writ ing and tells me the most elaborate affairs was the China wedding, noth- ing to equal before or since and ie presents were grand. The hostess is such a dainty, gracious little lady and she knows how to entertain. No doubt you will be out to the Special Matinee be sure and tell me how it went on. If I were you I would talk to those parties about the Wabash and tell them you fear results. I would not hesitate for the wife’s sake if nothing else. Daddy has cut from my calling list Mrs. Home Made, Mrs. Dollie Tredsen, Mr. Bob Smooth, Mr. Jim Slim, Mr. Billy Slim, Mrs. Smooth Fingers, and the 2 Mrs. Dishwashers, Bell dear, in conclusion, do not con- demn me for any apparent weakness in evading tne issue, but after all is it worth the while? Who is who in Chicago? ‘Mushrooms that come up in the night, are proclaiming themselves the leaders! They have perhaps their fol- jowers but the real people are not bothering their heads about so-called society. By the way you asked‘about the Stock and Real Estate Brbkers, yes, dear, they were nafled, too, Billy said he never gave them a thbught. Harry Lehr calls consuelo his lady tair, but I call her a Jarge bundle of pones and some little hair. Bell I un- derstand you are to start a Social Pur- ity Club is it truex How nice that will be for—“There are none so g00d, but who may run adrift in shame and sorrow, and the good girl of today may | pecome the bad tomorrow. Tell Dol-| Me if she does not send me that “4 joe.” I will write her up in the “Owl.” This is a deuced dull place and you|’ are Ukely to find me at my number | by Sunday. Of course you heard ee i a a ae ae BLACK DIAMOND ON A BOOM. Among the many enterprises launch ed by Afro-Americans, probably the largest and most promising is the Black Diamond Development Co. From its very inelpiency it was 8 large and promising undertaking, an¢ ‘as ft is even now amassing funds with which to pay, dividends, for its age it has distanced all of its rivals among race concerns, but it is pre paring for much greater things in its future career. Tt is now closing negotiations on a $23,600 deal including the pipe line to which it is paying toll for convey: ing its gas to market, besides other large concessions. ‘The ownership of the pipe sine alone, besides increasing the net in- come by two-fifths, puts the company in the strongest defensive position, as fit is in danger of having its gas bot- tled up as long as its means of con- veyance fs in the hands of others. With the pipe line and other conces- sions now under negotiations secured, the stock of the company should pe at par, and those who shall be fortun- ate enough to secure any of the stock, which the company is now placing on the market to raise the means to pay for the pipe line, will not only find themselves in possession of an imme- diate dividend payer, but one which will increase from year to year as the property is developed until they shall in course of two or three years find themselves in possession of some of the best dividend paying stock in the country. Geo. W. Murray, Secretary. TOOK BLIND NEGRO’S MONEY. ‘That Is the Charge on Which Georgia Justice of Peace Has Been Indicted. Atlanta, Ga—H. W. Hopkins, jus- tice of the peace in the 1,348th dis: trict, was indicted by the grand jury March 4th on two counts one true bill charging he collected $10 from a blind Negro beggar, Wright Weid- man, that was not entitled to him; the other true bill charging him with not keeping his criminal and civil dockefs as required by the law. WEST S'DE NEWS BY PROF. A. L. SIMPSON 73 S. HALSTED ST. _ The program committee is still play ing to full houses at the West Sid Sunday Club. Dr. Chas. Pickett President. The West Side Cooperative boy: ‘are going right along, it won't be lons before the boys will open up some thing for their people, (go it boys.) Mr. John Tribue our West Side at torney is still doing business at th2 same old stand, 200 W. Madison St, 2nd floor. Prof. A. L. Simpson has opened up @ new department in addition to his chiropody parlor, he is now prepared to do hair dressing facial massaging and manicuring, also shampooing. Your money is good. 73 8. Halsted St., cor. Madison, 2nd floor. Phone Monroe 3970. Mr. W. J. Coleman & Co., the West side decorators fitted and decorated Simpson's parlors, at a cost of 750 dol- lars. The Odd Fellows dance given over here a short time ago was a grand success. Mrs. Irene C. Camp is still travet- ing in behalf of her many lodges. Mrs. Camp is a very busy woman and de. serves great credit, really more credit than her people gives her. CHIPS. Rev. Bonds of Nashville, Tenn., is in the city the guest of Mr. 8. A. Mc. Elwee, 3242 Forest ave. Miss Mayme Seldon, 6414 Evans avenue entertained a few friends at whist Wednesday eve. ‘Mr. Jesse Jackson, 5021 Armour avenue, slipped on the ice and cut a long gash over his eye. When 2 woman throws a stone st ‘the devil, she is apt to hit her hus. ‘band square in the face—Ex. ‘Mr. and Mrs. RA. J. Shaw enter- tained.a small party of-friends at ‘Whist, Tuesday’ evening last. Dr. McDowell, ist. and State streets, left the city for St. Louis Monday to bury his wite, who died. ‘Mr. Don Wormley, formeriy of the Pekin Stock Co, who has been in the West for the past two months, is again in the city. ur Mr, and. Mrs. Moses Ratclit, who =e sag rtinfpedew by heed Deerborn strest, are now light house- Keeping at 3562 Forest ave. || Mrs. Melie Bryant Daily 6432 Cham plain ave., is the proud mother of | fine baby girl. Mother, father an daughter are well and happy. Albert Morgan, who cuts quite wide swathe in politics in the 34 ward, will put up a sti fight te win the captaincy of his ‘precinct. Rey. and airs. A. J. Carey are re Joicing over the new addition f% their happy family. It's a fine boy and mother and son are both getting along nicely. . F. H. Cowan's “Rose Maiden” was rendered by the Choral Study Club at the Institutional church Monday night to a large and appreciative audi. ence. About twenty-five gentlemen iden- tifled with the Niagara Movement were served a swell banquet by Mr. Jno. Fry, in the parlors of the Key- stone Hotel Monday evening. Miss Frances Greenwood returned to her home in Woodstock, I11., Sun- day afternoon after spending a week visiting her foster parents Mr. and ‘Mrs. Daniel Young 6618 Vernon ave. Mrs. Walter M. Farmer 4856 Lang- ley ave., returned home Sunday morn- ing from St. Louis, Mo, where she spent one month in visiting with her mother and many friends. Mrs. Lalu Williams, 2415 Wabash ave., gave a whist party last Satur. day evening in honor of her friend, Miss Lily Smith, of Knoxville, Tenn. | A fine luncheon was served. Mr. Perry of New York City, rendered several selections on the piano. The poor man, kept on the run to accomplish the coarse, but necessary task of supplying food to his belly has no time to lay the foundation of a glorious future. He usually finds that when opportunity comes, ambition is | on the still hunt for house ae Mrs. Carrie Warner, 5223 Dearborn street, lost her suit last week in the | municipal court, before Judge Gem- mill, against the Whitney Opera House, whose manager and ticket agent discriminated against her on ac- count of her color, will bring a new suit against the same outfit and con. tinue her fight to the bitter end. The attempt last Monday morning to end the life of Chief of Police Shippy while enjoying the comforts of his home with his family by a bloody assassin, was a horrible affair, and no pains should be spared to rid this city of its criminal element, for the past year no one’s life has been safe from robbers and murderers in Chi-| cago. { __ Mrs. Lottie Meredith-Cooper of New York city, who came on to attend the 20th wedding anniversary of Prof. and” Mrs. William Emanuel 6352 Rhofes ave., will spend one month in vibifing with her sister Mrs. Mamie Smith, 3320 Wabash ave., where she will heartily receive her numerous friends. Mrs. George King who resides out in Washington Heights, in the midst of all kinds of. beautiful Sowers in the summer time, while visiting the city the past week, without the least reminding paid her subscription to The Broad Ax, and it goes without saying that we wish there were about two thousand other ladies like Mrs. King. Alderman Peter Reinberg, who is sometimes called the “carnation king,” because he claims to raise more car- nations than any other man in the world, has enlarged his real estate holdings on the Northwest Side by the acquisition of 2,762 acres om the east side of Robey street, 293 feet north of Balmoral avenue. The land was purchased from Henry Miller. . Old John Temple Graves, who was for a long time the biggest crackéd- brain fool in the South, but who is a mighty small potato in New York city, has bid farewell to the Demo- cratic party, and for money he has joined Willlam Randolph Hearst's In- dependent League, and we would be highly delighted if all the long eared would maKe up thielr minds to march under the banner of William Randolph POR SALE. Stone front, furndipe heated reat- dence, Vernon ave,.$500 cash, bal- ance like rent. Wells & Neighbor, Phone 2284 Dougias, 3221 S. State Bt. Selections AN INGENIOUS a Made In New York For an & centie Potentate In India. A lock for which a New Yori tog, maker not long ago receives. cnjge taxed the ingenuity of all tf. vice, im his establishment. It is © 5 int op honor with the house, Wi!) jiogy thronghout the world, that nj. however ingenious, shall bat!) (j0 j. Veative faculty of the desizi..- ty, technical skill of the workme:, \Va. ever a customer wants he mi | \ i; The order in question cx.) the way from a rajah in India © the manner of dusky potentates | op fered from the dual possessie.. if yi. honest servants and magniti. : ji. monds. The diamonds had |... appearing at an alarming yj.) though only seven servants Ih! sc to the box containing the gen) aq been impossible to discover tl. )prit Whether the rajah dismisse! | <p. Inue or put them to death 1.) cion, the thefts regularly cons.) In his ‘extremity be heani «© the New York house. Am Ameries: out have contented himself with ji irisg a safe the lock of which w. swer to no key but his own. |: * jie Fajah desired something mr {ij wanted not simply to presen his Jewels, but to cateh the thief i) op. der was for a safe fitted with iste different keys, one for each © ti servants and one for himself. \ ne of glass about eight inches sar was to be let into the front of the <xfe The lock must be so constructs! the upon the opening of the safe hy any particular key the photograph «f the opener should appear tmmedliate'y ia front of the glass, to remain there ti another key was inserted. Thus {t would always be possible to te! why had last opened the safe. The clumsy ingenuity of thi ite made it a difficult one to reali far in a short time an apparatus sas de signed which would contain the seves photographs. This was fastene| ip side the safe and made to communicate with the lock. By a clever mechagica device the key of each servaut as it turned the lock brought the phote graph into view.—New York ‘Trilcne. The Knapsack Bridge. A Mexican engineer, Colonel Lopez has planned and perfected a new kin! of bridge made of knapsachs Tw framework’ of each knapsack }s made of symmetrically arranged jiiees of wood, which can be spre out ts means of hinges into hoards of known dimensions. The knapsacks 2:6 1 bered, and when the stron t le bridged ts reached the wosle forms can be promptly extracted! welt canvas or leather coverings snl «i Iy bolted into place. A nunilws of ¢ periments have been made by tl mt tary authorities, and it has been foun! that a knapsack bride will supp ct 2 Many men as can be crowides! upon it In the military schools there are ot working models of these brid. ant the men and officers, says the Mesicaa Herald, “have regular practice ‘0 the construction and operation of tle pt ente.” The idea can also be ayiel the scaling of walls or the eliming of barrancas. ilies Sl ie Aside from the lawyers. doctors. cle gymen and others who are class! #8 Professional men, merchants am 20 Ufacturers, the Insurance agents, trea Urers and others who work for a stated Yearly salary or on commission. there are fifty members of the lecis!ature ‘who come directly from the ltl ‘shop and mill and who work at a irale for a day's pay. This is an exceilest showing, and we venture the prelic tion that in Intelligence, honest nd industry these wage earning lezis!s(0r Will be found the peers of any sent Ds the people of the state to make oat laws.—Boston Traveler. London's Big Directory. Londen keeps on growing, snd 5 does its directory, the 1908 editir of which recently made Its appease ‘The London postoffice directors. it 's claimed, is the biggest book published. This one hundred and ninth »'icioa of it weighs thirteen and a «rtef Pounds, is eight inches thick an! ©? tains 4,608 pages. One wonders hor much longer It will be possib!e for the publishers to keep pace with the increase of the population of the me tropolis and confine the record of it t0 & single volume. ‘The Lean Male Prize. In competition for a prize wom? with long hair presented, thee aves for examination before a committee ' Berlin recently. The prize was a2" ed to Miss Elsie Burkhardt, «hos braid was 197 centimeters (about s°* enty and a half inches) jong. Parte's and other makers of hair grower 2 all parts of the empire are bes!°<in¥ the woman with the long bair for let ters indorsing their respective !0t!ons and Miss ‘peahente bas realized that capturing fs not a2 pons Jong hair prize Where the Globes Wert. A business concern in Park mv which rans about all night bas m'sse4 scores of incandescent light fobs lately. Since these globes are fairl expensive and the item of loss had > come pretty sizable a detective ** put on the job. It took him just ‘we? ty-four hours to find that the slob are as good as cash over the bars the Park row and Bowery sins one giobe, one drink of whisky.—N** York Sun. Brevities THE HALL OF FAME Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is said to have more degrees than any man in congress. Senator Clay of Georgia is one of the tallest men in the senate, and his hair, worn standing straight up, makes him appear at least two inches taller than he is. Frederick Wheeler, a capitalist of Los Angeles, Cal., is being talked of for nomination for the presidency by the Prohibition national convention at Columbus, O., next July. Dr. James A. Craig, professor of Semitic languages at Ann Arbor, invented a system of shorthand when a student at McGill university. He has used it constantly for thirty years. Hiram Martin of Reading, Pa., with a pocketknife made two miniature boats, one a steamer and the other a canoe boat, each nearly four feet long, and one year was devoted to the task during spare moments. Although he is several years past the ordinary, retiring age, Admiral Dewey, the highest officer in our navy, still remains in active service. The age limit does not apply to him because he received the formal thanks of congress on account of his victory in the Philippines. He is still one of the most efficient of workers. Professor John Bassett Moore, who became world famous for his knowledge of international law and has been holding the chair of professor of international law at Columbia university, New York city, has been compelled to temporarily retire from his duties because of an affection of the eyes. Professor Moore is a native of Delaware. Plays and Players. Cyril Scott, now starring in "The Prince Chap," is an excellent cross country rider. Herman and Hans Schumann-Heink, the sons of the great singer, are studying for grand opera. John E. Henshaw and his wife, May Ten Broeck, have a new musical comedy with a real plot called "The Hummers." It is now announced that in the spring Josephine Cohan will return to her brother's company as leading woman, and it will be once more "the four Cohans." Grace Elliston has been engaged to support Dustin Farnum when he appears in "The Rector's Garden." Miss Elliston created the role of Shirley Rossmore in "The Lion and the Mouse." The Cookbook. A little currant jelly beaten into the cake or pudding frosting will add greatly to its appearance and taste. String beans which can be bought throughout the winter are often wilted, and when this happens the beans should be soaked in cold water for several hours, when they will appear quite fresh and crisp. A cup of chocolate is much improved by a dash of cinnamon or by adding a third of a pint of coffee to each pint of milk. Very rich chocolate may be made by pouring a quart over the yolks of two eggs, beating constantly to prevent curdling. Some prefer a few drops or vanilla either - in the whipped cream or chocolate. English Etchings. England has 192 prisons. Three hundred English fishermen are drowned every year—nearly nine in 1,000 of those engaged. The city of London possesses a rate collector named White who has held office for just seventy years and is now rapidly approaching his fivescore years. A cabinetmaker, George Murr, who has died at Grantham, England, at the age of seventy-eight, was employed by the same firm for sixty-seven years. He not only worked in the same shop, but actually at the same bench. Murr took the only holiday of his life twenty-six years ago. Tales They Tell. An old woman in Hannibal, Mo., recently used a railroad ticket bought twenty-five years ago. A prisoner at Marshall, Mich., ate three electric light bulbs and a clay pipe in an effort to kill himself, but failed. A hen owned by W. F. Gresham, a farmer living near Leeds, Ala., laid an egg on which were "V. B. G., '08." The hen is named Vic. A sanitary inspector found in the foreign residential quarter in Alliance, O., a cow stabled in the cellar of a house and a six-week-old calf in the parlor upstairs. Flippant Flings. Hardly a day passes now that statute politicians fall to see a "deep significance" in something or other—Indianapolis News. Dr. G. A. Waterman, who says fatigue is not a germ, but a condition, may be right, but sometimes it is plainly a heritage—Louisville Courier-Journal. Senator Davis says that no man on earth ever made $1,000,000 honestly. Oh, we don't know about that! Waiting for a rich relative to die is honest enough, and it's hard work besides.—Washington Post. ANTIQUE RUGS Few of the Very Finest Ones Are Left In the Orient. Astonishingly few superlative antiques are left in the country that wove them. Except the one in the Palace of the Forty Pillars in Ispahan there seems to be none remaining of the essentially Persian types of the sixteenth century. The crusaders brought away the best of the eleventh century. You may see them in early Venetian, Flemish and Dutch paintings of palace interiors. At this day New York has more good rugs than Constantinople or Ispahan. Last year Robert Levy, a dealer, and R. S. Pardow of the Musee Orientale, both of Constantinople, came here for rugs. A Teheran, of which the center is now being used as a model for drawing in American public schools, is valued at $35,000. A Stanford White Hispano-Ispahan—made in Spain by Mohammedan conquerors who founded the caliphate of Cordova—auctioned last year on Fifth avenue for $4,000. Frederick Ames has gathered a lot. It was he who gave to the Boston museum its hunting rug, the like of which auctioned later for $35,000. While studying oriental gypsies A. T. Sinclair collected an odd hundred rugs. Sidney Colvin, Myron J. Bird and Mr. Allis own excellent examples. J. Pierpont.Morgan has in his London house $100,000 worth of rugs, which he no doubt will bring here when the tariff permits. The Yerkes collection is one of the finest in the world. It is a Bagdad of a sort limited in number, so far as is known, to four. One is in the Lyons museum, and two are in possession of noble European families. Yerkes also got the two Susanhards found with the Ardebll of the South Kensington museum. All three once could have been had for $700. The South Kensington museum paid $12,500 for the Ardebil. I don't know what Yerkes paid Vincent Robinson for the other two. It's a curious fact that one of the Yerkes rugs has the border of the Ardebll, while the Ardebll itself has a Farahan border. The Benquait collection, which you may see on Fifth avenue, is valued at $1,000,000. Several rarities were dispersed at the Marquand sale. H. O. Havemeyer left some well known Chinese pieces. Senator Clark has eight of different weaves which cost him $200,000, and the other day Henry Clay Frick paid $150,000 for six antiques. Throughout the country are scattered countless numbers, their value unsuspected by their possessors.—Franklin Clark in Everybody's Magazine. Bourget and Germany. Paul Bourget's attack on Germany and Germans has aroused much criticism not only in German newspapers, but in the papers where he expected to receive support. The Paris Revue says that Bourget's words arouse only painful sensations. "When he speaks of the venom of the miserable Kant and of the musical misdeeds of Wagner, he harms himself only and does nothing to lessen the fame of these men of genius. France smiles at the assertion that she is under obligations to Germany for nothing, for it is well known and has been proudly proclaimed by Bourget that his maternal ancestors came from Alsatia and originally from Germany. If for nothing else, France is indebted to Germany, then, for Bourget." Pigs' Bathrooms. "And this is the pigs' bathroom?" said the twentieth century farmer. "I have heard of hog wash, but I didn't know pigs bathed. Do they? "Yes, the modern pigs bathe," he said. "With squeals of rage and disgust he tumbles once a week into a hot batht and is thoroughly scrubbed with stiff brushes dipped into strong soft soap. This cleanliness keeps him always well, and it increases his weight 20 per cent. "All our agricultural colleges now advise the pig to bathe. By experiments they continually show that baths cause him to fatten a fifth better. The pigs' bathroom is a feature of the twentieth century farm."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Love and Tattooing The tattooing craze was the rage among the smart set in London at the time of the South African war. It is now the rage in the slums among the humbler classes, especially girls, who pay threepence for the operation. A tattooer tells the London Sphere that this business thrives on love. A girl came into his studio the other day and had "I love Jim Curly" tattoed on her arm. About 5:30 the next morning the girl knocked at his door and, on being remonstrated with, sald: "I don't care if yer charges me 5 shillin's." "Ere, kiver this up," she exclaimed, baring the tattooed arm. Flooding the Patent Office. It is undoubtedly a fact that an American will take out a patent on less provocation than any other man or woman in the world. As a consequence the patent office is piling up a swollen fortune, which makes it a bloated bondholder among the government departments. It has achieved a surplus of $6,000,000 and is growing richer every day. Yankee ingenuity is gorging the patent office with records and piling up models by the hundred thousand. An Art Find. An old painting which has been hanging on the walls of the Puritan club of Boston for twenty years past to "dill up the blank space" has been discovered to be a genuine old master, none less than the portrait of the great Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence and grand duke of Tuscany, by Angiole Bronzino. The club has refused an offer of $25,000 for the painting. IN LEAP YEAR. He loves me! He loves me not! The wind blows cold, the wind blows hot. I watch his lips, his eyes and nose And wonder if I dare propose. I wonder if he'd answer "Yes" And seal it with a warm caress, Or would he tell me to see mother Or volunteer to be my brother? Last night I took Jack unawares And kissed him. We were on the stair. Of course he struggled and was fussed Because his nice mustache was mussed. But in his rugulish eye the while I saw the portent of a smile— The pardon of the robber bold Before the booty had grown cold. He always gladly wears my flowers And let me call and stay for hours. And when, at last, I rise to go He'll say, "Why do you hurry so?" And every day I think I'll speak, But it out of week to week And watch his lips and eyes and nose And wonder if I propose —Paul C. Willeard in Indra A Matter of Horsepower. Country Yokel (to motorist)—Coward! Forty to one.—Pele Mele. Reserved For a Purpose A certain Kentucky justice of the peace was called upon to marry a runaway couple who drove up to his house. When the final words were said the bridegroom fumbled in his pockets and finally fished out a silver dollar. "Jedge," said he, "this here's all the cash I've got in the world. If you wants it, you kna have it. But I don't mind tell' you that I set it aside for the honeymoon expenses."—Woman's Home Companion. Ignorant Woman. "This thermometer," complained the old lady, "ain't no good. I can never tell by it how cold the room is." "My dear madam," said the rascally dealer, with a pitying air, "do you not know the word 'thermometer' is derived from two Greek words meaning 'a measure of heat?' Naturally, therefore, it isn't meant to measure cold."—Catholic Standard and Times. Hard to Weather It. Inquiring Friend—So your last play was a failure. Well, it won't make much difference to you. I presume. You have something laid by for a rainy day, haven't you? Gifted Tragedian—Yes, but I'm not prepared to meet a continuous frost—Chicago Tribune. Wait. Gramercy—If their rich uncle has acquired a mania for fast motor cars and flying machines, why don't they try to have him placed under restraint? Park—They think they'll get a quicker decision if they bide their time and await developments.—Harper's Weekly. A Fable Discredited. "You know the story of the hare and the tortoise?" "Yes," answered the jockey, "but it doesn't point any moral that I can see. At any respectable track that rabbit would have been outlawed for pulling the race."-Washington Star. Only Wanted a Chance She—I see where a fellow married a girl on his deathbed just so she could have his millions when he was gone. Could you love a girl like that? He-Sure, I could love a girl like that! Where does she live?-Puck. A Serious Mistake "Doesn't that man over there belong to the drawing room entertainers?" "To the drawing room, but hardly the entertainment. You see, he's a dentist."-Pittsburg Post A Slip. Jack (studying geography)—Father, what is a strait? 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He had never been forty miles from the settlement in his life and was barely able to read, and write, but he was naturally a sort of Jack of all trades, and somehow or other he acquired a tremendous reputation for sagacity. "Whenever an argument arose among the country folks Doc Johnson was pretty certain to be called in to decide it, and as he would rather have died than to have admitted ignorance on any subject some of his statements of fact were amazing in the extreme. "One day a farmer in the vicinity received a letter from his son, who had moved up to Iowa, saying, among other things, that the corn crop was looking bad and the country was being overrun by immigrants. The last word stumped the old man, and after puzzling in vain over its meaning he happened to see Doc and called him in. Johnson knew from the peculiar warmth of his greeting that he was going to be asked to solve some knotty problem and at once assumed the wisest air. "Doc,' said the farmer, pointing to the mysterious passage in the letter, 'what in thunder does that boy mean by immigrants? What air they like, anyhow?" "Johnson spelled through the paragraph and, noting the reference to the bad corn crop, began rapidly to put two and two together. "Immigrants!" he exclaimed to gain time. 'Why, I thought everybody knew what they was!' "Air they critters?" asked the farmer cautiously. "They is,' replied the Doc, 'a kind of a cross between a pissum and a coon, and I'll tell you what.' he added impressively—they're just simply death on corn.'"—New Orleans Times-Democrat A Difficult Trick When the new trolley line first ran through the little town it was regarded with unlended pride, admiration and fear, for many of the townsfolk stood in awe of the mysterious powers of the electric current. "Would I get a shock if I put my foot on that rail?" queried a nervous old lady after hovering on one side of the road, not quite daring to attempt the dangerous crossing. "No, madam," answered the polite conductor, "not unless you put your other foot on the trolley wire."—Woman's Home Companion. Only Human. Harvey—You should have seen Hot ayre swell up at that mind reading seance the other night when the blind folded lady actually told him the num ber of his automobile. Beattie—But he has no auto. Harvey-Of course not. But he looked astounded and acknowledged she was right-Puck. Another Argument "What do you regard as the most important thing in favor of the theory that Mars is inhabited?" "The fact," answered the popular scientist, "that an article assuming that side of the question can be made three times as readable as one taking the opposite view."—Washington Star. A Costly Fall. "She appears to have fallen in love with him." "Oh, yes, some time ago. But now she's suing him for breach of promise." "Counting upon getting damages for the fall, eh?"-Philadelphia Press. For Her Hearers. "Don't you think my daughter sang with great feeling at the musical last night?" "Yes. I noticed that she sang only two of the four verses of the song"—Chicago Record-Herald. He (brisquely)—I cannot understand why so many foolish women are so fond of dogs. She (sweetly)—Nor I that so many foolish women stick so to curs.—Baltimore American. "Wot did de lady up at de last house say, Willie?" "Didn't say nothin'. Just pointed at de wood pile, an' I beat it!"—New York World. "Perhaps so, but I never cared much for painting on ivory."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. SHORT STORIES. A knife in the making passes through seventy different hands. The lynching record in this country for 1907 shows a reduction of about 20 per cent over that of the year previous. F. M. Everett of Penacook, N. H., has an old cider tumbler of the date of 1755, of quart size, which was used as a communion cup. The task of rearing banana trees and raising the fruit has been successfully accomplished, by Edward B. Beals in his greenhouses in Springfield, Mass. Nashna has the most expensive ward room in New Hampshire. The voters of the Second ward assemble once every two years to bring in their ballots for governor and other state officers. For the privilege of using one room for about eleven hours blennially the city pays $120 a year. Perhaps the most novel quilt in existence was presented to Rev. E. Bruce Lytle, pastor of the Memorial Reformed church of York, Pa., recently. The quilt is of normal size, and the thirty-six different colored patches have the names of 674 of York's well known citizens worked on with silk. The Sporting World. The Harvester, at $0,000, comes near to being the high water figure at public auction for a practically unbroken youngster. Manager McGraw of the New York Nationals declares that he will increase Fred Tenney's stolen base record of sixteen in 1907 to thirty-two in 1908. Willie Keeler is said to be the wealthiest player in the national game. He is reputed to be worth anywhere between $100,000 and $200,000. Most of his investments are in real estate in Brooklyn. Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia is sending his crack steepechaser, El Cuchillo, to France to compete in the biggest event of the year. He figures that owing to the horse's success in America he would be handicapped out of all events over here. Jimmy Barry, the Chicago heavyweight pugilist, and Bill Papke are old pals. The two athletes acquired much of their brawn hustling coal wages around the mines in the vicinity of Spring Valley, where "The Thunderbolt" originally hailed from. German Gleanings. Gas poisoning from gas engines has become so common that German authorities urge that cylinders of oxygen be kept near and that engineers be taught to apply inhalations to resuscitate victims. Three hundred streets in Berlin are planted with 44,000 trees, which represent a value of $200,000. The care of the municipal parks and gardens requires 250 gardeners and 700 assistants, male and females, principally the latter. There is a tradition in Germany that it was customary in the middle ages to put an elderberry plant over buried treasure. A farmer at Oelsdorf while plowing close to such a bush unearthened a vessel containing 2,300 silver coins of the eleventh century. Modes of the Moment. Plenty of black silk jackets trimmed with braid ornaments and braid embroideries will be seen. The tailored coat and skirt of striped cloth, with the lingerie waist and linen collag, the gauntlet glove and broad brimmed sailor hat, are rushing to the forefront of popularity. The difficulties of tailoring lightweight goods have been so far overcome that now chiffon panamas, volles, the lightest of worsteds, taffetas and tussahs are shown in tailored suits. Jackets both in cloth and silk models are short, the majority in twenty-five inch lengths, and the "high" style will tend toward the close fitting garments, while the general demand will be for semi-fitting coats—New York Tribune. Industrial Items. Europeans expect a slump in automobile prices and a crisis in the industry this year. A Nottingham (England) miner has patented a safety pit cage which is said to be a great advance on all others. Women have obtained many positions under the New York city government as the result of competitive examinations. A new ice machine has been invented at Grasse, France. It requires neither steam nor fuel, and it saves 98 per cent of cooling water and 70 per cent of motive power as compared with any other freezing system known. The smaller models may be worked by hand. Old Fashioned. Telephone DOUOLAS ... 1865 JESSE BINGA 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 rooms $2,150----3718 La Salle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. $2,250----3720 La Salle St. 2-flat frame and brick, 5-5 rooms. $2,250----3722 La Salle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $4,000----Forest Ave., near 32nd, 10 room residence, $500 cash. Terms to suit. JESSE BINGA. 3637 STATE ST. Phone Douglas 1565. 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 Light (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 Immeense and Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in the Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! 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. which I am sending as Part (or infull) 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. FOR SALE. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Assn. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas: which I am sending as Part (or infall) as subscript shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giant Association. I agree to pay $_____ per has been paid, at whi certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Ac- counts must be made to the order of Beauregard F. Moseley, Treasurer, 6258 Halsed Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock- holders are entitled to prefer- ance as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their remittance of their reinti- tations to apply for employment. For further information ad- dress Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Assn. 6258 St. Louis, Missouri. All 6258 State The Simple Things. "Miss Gowitt surprised me by saying that she had tired of society and now likes the simple things best." "Yes. Didn't you know she's going with Charley Chumpley?" —Cleveland Plain Dealer. After the Wedding. Mrs. Benham—And I am really your wife? Benham—Well, that's the understanding I had with the minister when I paid him $5 for you.—New York Press. Cash In Advance "I pay as I go," declared the pompous citizen. "Not while I'm running these apartments," declared the janitor. "You'll pay as you move in."—St. Paul Ploner Press. She Was Not a Beauty "I don't, judge, now that I see her in the daytime."—Town and Country. Motor Cogg acop opport "The discover her woe "Tha "Accc "The Baltim 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, 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 385,000, 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. 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Ill. Enclosed please find $...... subscription fee for and Giants Base Ball and Amusement per month until the full amount at which time I am to recieve my stock 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. Prejudice. "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. Catching the Wayfarer 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 Hiram Ryetop—So, the checker club argued here on the Panama canal, hey? How long did they argue, Jeff? The Storekeeper—Left's see. Half a wedge of cheese, peek of peanuts, pint of dried peaches and a pound of snack- HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. Jacob Feinberg MARKET AND TELEPHONE DOUG 81st and Stat MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL AN BRADLEY & REAL ESTATE, AND INSURA BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported Li N. E. Corner F THE RAILROAD Imported and Domestic Liquors & Cig Cafe in Connect N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour A Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, Ill. POOL AND BILLIARDS WI THE WILLIAM L THE FRONT CLU Phone Calcutt 2940 Sandy 2 New Do Why don't you get it Store? Every Tuesday a ing Stamps with each 1 We carry a swell I 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. 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' Shirtwa s. A spendid assortment of Shoes. Hosiery ses, Ribbons, Gowns, Bracelets, Millinery and We make a specialty of Men's Balbriggan istcoats, Pants, Shoes, Fedora and Derby H A beautiful line of soft Percale Negligee Sh A fancy line of Neckwear and Handkerchie See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chain 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 spiendid assortment of Shoes, Hosiery, Gloves, Belts, fine Purses, 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. See our Novelties In Jewelry, Watch-chains, Fobs, Cuff-buttons, Studs and Safety Pins. Boys' Sults, Pants, Hats, Shoes and Shirts. - American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER American Br President and Treasurer, THOMAS Vice-President, JOHN SE Secretary, WIL 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 ..... 1200.0 per day Output of Summer Yards ..... 3000.0 per day Telephone Yards 128. Wholesale and Retail IT AND O TELEPHONE DOUGLAS and State Telephone Yards 693 LEY & F ESTATE, L D INSURANCE Phone Oakland 1787. RAILROAD and Domes Lauers & Cigar safe in Connection first and Armour Ave W. Trick 18 State St department the habit of doing you Friday special sales-d purchase. of Ladies' Shirtwaite ment of Shoes, Hosiery, bracelets, Millinery and Men's Balbriggan U Fedora and Derby Hats Percale Negligee Shirt ear and Handkerchiefs jewelry, Watch-chains, an Brie reasurer, THOMAS C president, JOHN SHE Sexcretary, WILL J. M. Fields ELDS ANS E CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr. INN the Wines Chicago, Ill. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS VIS NAC