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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. The White Real Estate Owners and Agents In Chicago, 111. CLAIM THAT AFRO-AMERICANS AND ITALIANS ARE MORE DESTRUCTIVE TO PROPERTY THAN ANY OTHER CLASS OF HUMAN BEINGS. THIS BEING TRUE, IT IS NO WONDER THAT COLORED PEOPLE ARE CLASSED AS "UNDESIRABLE TENANTS" WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO OCCUPYING FIRST CLASS HOUSES AND MODERN FLAT BUILDINGS.—THEY MUST BE TAUGHT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LOG CABIN WITHOUT FLOORS AND FINE DWELLING PLACES, BETWEEN A TEN CENT CROMO AND A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR OIL PAINTING. Vol. XIII The White Ro Owners a In CLAIM THAT AFRO-AMERICAN MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN OTHER CLASS OF HUMAN THIS BEING TRUE, IT IS NO PEOPLE ARE CLASSED ANTS" WHEN IT COMES FIRST CLASS HOUSES A INGS.—THEY MUST BE BETWEEN A LOG CAB FINE DWELLING PLACE CROMO AND A FIVE PAINTING. On several occasions it has been stated in these columns that the majority of the Afro-American doctors in this city, seemingly, are not interested to any greater extent in that class of their patients who are effected with tuberculosis than to pull in the money from them, that they are disinclined to urge them to improve their sanitary surroundings, to keep their homes neat and tidy, to refrain from destroying and rendering unfit for habitation, the houses and flats in which they reside. It has also been stated in these columns that "the leading Afro-American preachers on the South Side are too busy in gathering in table and dollar money from the poor people in order to maintain themselves in grand style East of State Street," to admonish their followers to strive to improve their present conditions in life, and never permit themselves to injure other people's property, and to maintain their own homes in first-class shape. The Afro-American real estate agents are also too busy in looking for theirs to impart any advice to the Colored people along these lines. Therefore, it is the solemn but unpleasant duty of the newspaper to elaborate on some of the most potent reasons why there is so much and bitter opposition in permitting even the most respectable and educated class of Colored people to live in decent houses and flat buildings in this city, and why the white real estate owners and agents in Chicago are in a large measure justified in claiming that "Afro-Americans and Italians are more destructive to property than any other class of so-called civilized human beings. It may not be amiss at this point to state that within the past three or four months we have had a heart to heart talk with fifteen or twenty of the leading white real estate owners and agents in this city, touching upon this all important subject, and the majority of them have freely admitted that the "Afro-Americans and the Italians far excell all other races when it comes to destroying and defacing property." This being true, it is no wonder that Colored people are classed as "undesirable tenants" by white real estate owners and agents, when it comes down to permitting them to occupy first-class houses and flat buildings. It never occurred to us until about a year ago that many Afro-Americans who are always boasting of their culture and respectability, really delighted, either through their ignorance or pure meanness, to destroy other people's property. At or near that time, that is, one year ago, one of our Colored friends bought a strictly modern constructed brick flat building, which happens to be well located on one of the streets west of State street, and in winding up the deal for the property, its white owner, who is a very fine gentleman and friendly disposed to honest Colored. people, did not hesitate in declaring that "he had had dealings with Colored people for more than twenty years; that he had visited many of their homes in this city during that length of time, inspected them inside and out, that he very much regretted to say that with a few honorable exceptions Colored people do not appreciate fine living quarters, that they will not keep their property up in first-class shape; that that is the main reason why the great majority of white people objected to living among Colored people." Our Colored friend endeavored to convince the white gentleman that he was mistaken in relation to "Colored people not appreciating first-class surroundings; that if the white real estate owners and agents would only put their property which they rent to Colored people in a sanitary condition and permit them to live in fine houses and flat buildings in any section of the city they desired, that they would appreciate it, and not destroy nor deface the property. At these remarks he only smiled and shook his head. Being full of race pride, our Colored friend firmly made up his mind to convince the white gentleman otherwise, so, within a very few days after the papers fell into his hands in connection with the transfer of the property, our Colored friend engaged Colored painters, carpenters, plumbers and decorators, and gave them all instructions to overhall the building from top to bottom and put it in first-class sanitary condition, regardless of the expense, at the same time stating that all the Colored people "liked to live in nice clean homes or flats," and three days after our Colored friend had extracted more than one hundred big nails or spikes out of the doors, window frames and the other wood work, which had been hard finished throughout the building only a few years ago, but it was in such a bad condition that it was hard to tell what it was, and had carted away several wagon loads of dirt and rubbish out of the basement and back yard, consisting of old worn out busels and other garments which had been discarded by the ladies, and here our Colored friend must repeat his words, namely, "three days after he had expended more than one hundred dollars in re-decorating and otherwise improving the building, so that those occupying it could live in fine quarters," some of those living in it became highly insulted because our Colored friend was not in favor of permitting them to continue to stand on the rear porches and heave their ashes and other refuse into the back yard, and to write their names on the sides of the walls in the front hallway. Someone may thoughtlessly contend that these people resided west of State street, and being ignorant, they were not responsible for their conduct, that may be true, but only last fall Colored people moved into a six-flat building which is lo- CHICAGO, MARCH 21, 1908. 7 ALD. THOMAS J. DIXON. Successful business man and one of the most valuable members of the City Council, who will be re-elected to that body April 7th from the Second Ward. cated on Wabash avenue, between 33rd and 34th streets, it is a brand new building, and the better class of Colored people are supposed to reside in it, nevertheless, on entering the building it is no trouble to find the names of its occupants written all around on its walls and the walls faced and marred in every other way. Does not all the foregoing tend to prove that the Negro, whether he resides East or West of State street, must be taught to distinguish the difference between a log cabin, without floors, and fine dwelling places, between a ten-cent cromo and a five-hundred dollar oil painting? TAFT LAUDS NEGRO ADVANCE. Says Industrial Development Is Key to Race Problem. SOUTH'S LAWS UNDER FIRE. Partial Enforcement of Franchise Measures Censured. ment of such a law, but they do object, and have the right to object, to the partial enforcement of such a law in such a way as to exclude the ineligible black men and allow to vote the white men who are equally ignorant and ineligible. "If the Negro will make himself indispensable to the business prosperity of the south his political influence will take care of itself. Future Will Care for Itself. "As the Colored man becomes eligible under the laws imposing educational and property qualifications, his standing in the community will give weight to the vote he casts, and it is inevitable that in the end industrial success will bring him full political rights." The above utterances on the part of William H. Taft, is further evidence that he is playing to the galleries for the purpose of catching the vote of his Colored brother, and if he is elected president he will not raise his little finger in the way of assisting to enforce the three amend- New York, March 16.—Speaking before a representative Brooklyn audience at Plymouth church tonight, Secretary Taft expressed an optimistic conviction concerning the future of the Colored race in the United States. After presenting an array of statistics to show the progress of the American Negro since the day of freedom, the secretary declared that this growth in intellect, learning, and industry must continue. The fear of Negro domination in the south was, he said, a nightmare of the past. With the advantage of education and opportunity, the Colored population would take its proper place in the political affairs of the nation. The occasion of the secretary's speech was a meeting under the auspices of the Armstrong association and in the interests of Hampton institute of Virginia. Taft Praises Educational Work. Secretary Taft strongly commended the work done by Hampton and Tuskegee and reviewed the growth of law designed to affect the Colored race. He continued: "In a population where illiteracy is proportionately large, no one can object, certainly, under the federal constitution, to the establishment of electoral educational or property qualifications. "And I do not understand that the intellectual Colored men of the country object to the passage and enforce- ment of such a law,' but they do object, and have the right to object, to the partial enforcement of such a law in such a way as to exclude the ineligible black men and allow to vote the white men who are equally ignorant and ineligible. 'If the Negro will make himself indispensable to the business prosperity of the south his political influence will take care of itself. Future Will Care for Itself. Future Will Care for Itself. "As the Colored man becomes eligible under the laws imposing educational and property qualifications, his standing in the community will give weight to the vote he casts, and it is inevitable that in the end industrial success will bring him full political rights." The above utterances on the part of William H. Taft, is further evidence that he is playing to the galleries for the purpose of catching the vote of his Colored brother, and if he is elected president he will not raise his little finger in the way of assisting to enforce the three amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and to restore the ballot to the Negro in the Southern States. Fair Grounds and Amusement Company will Throw its Gates Open to the Public May 30th. On May 30th, the management of the Forest Park Fair Grounds and Amusement Company expect to have everything in readiness to throw its gates open to the public. James J. Gray and Joseph Grein, who are known throughout Chicago and Cook County to every man, woman and child, are at the head of this new amusement company, and as it is conveniently located to all the transportation lines on the west side, it will become one of the most popular places of amusement in or near Chicago. At the present time over two hundred workmen are working like beavers in constructing buildings, shutes, digging sewers, laying water mains, painting and decorating and getting ready for the opening day. Thomas Prior, director of amusements, has engaged some of the best bands in America, and on Decoration Day, May 30th, D'Urbano's famous Italian band of seventy pieces will discourse the sweetest of music. Dr. Leroy Bundy, the dentist, 31st and State sts., left the city and it is understood will open an office in Cleveland, Ohio. THE FOREST PARK The Afro-American Voters Made Teddy "Come Down" SAYS THE SPRINGFIELD, MASS., REPUBLICAN.—SHOWS THE POWER OF THE BALLOT WHEN INTELLIGENTLY WIELDED. THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE ENDEAVORING TO GET RID OF THE BROWNSVILLE IONAH. (Springfield Republican.) If the Brownsville affray has become an acute question of presidential politics, involving the chances perhaps of Secretary Taft as a candidate for the Republican nomination, it at least demonstrates to the Negro race what a powerful weapon is the ballot in protecting their rights and in coercing an administration to heed their protests against an act of outrageous injustice. Colored Men Still Power in Politics If Will Resent 'injustice. The fact that the Southern Negro is still a factor in Republican national conventions and that the Northern Negro is a factor in elections in a number of close states has worked a notable change even in the personal attitude of the president of the republic, while the Republican leaders in congress who are friends of the administration are frantically seeking ways of reinstating in the army the discharged Negro battalion. WHILE SAVING THE FACE OF THE EMINENT PERSONAGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Roosevelt's Retreat—Retreat No. 1. Mr. Roosevelt's own retreat has been masterly since he issued his original order discharging without honor a whole battalion for an elleged "conspiracy of silence" concerning a shooting affray which was chargeable, at the very worst, against not more than an unknown dozen of the battalion's members. Mr. Roosevelt then ordered that the discharged soldiers should be "forever debarred" from re-enlisting in the army or navy and "from employment in any civil capacity under the government." When the senate convened, after the president's action, it was discovered by the Republican constitutional lawyers that Mr. Roosevelt had no more right to debar these soldiers "forever" from civil employment under the government than he had to sell the White House at public auction. Mr. Roosevelt thereupon annulled said portion of his order, which was retreat No. 1. Increasing Protest Brings Retreat No.2. The storm of protest increased, whereupon it was proclaimed that, notwithstanding the president's order "forever debarring" the Negro soldiers from re-enlisting in the army, they might re-enlist if they would go before the war department officials and PROVE THEIR INNOCEENCE. That was not a very important concession, yet it was retreat No. 2. For it was evident that the Negroes were not "forever debarred" from anything whatever, not even from the army. Retreat No. 3—Wants to Do Restoring Himself and Hoodwink the Race. A year elapsed; the senate committee completed its inquiry into the case, and the presidential campaign obtained headway. Mr. Roosevelt now asks congress for a new law "permitting reinstatement by direction of the president of any man who in his judgment shall appear not to be within the class whose discharge No.24 American Made Teddy "Come Down" MASS., REPUBLICAN.—SHOWS THE BALLOT WHEN INTELLIG- S FOLLOWERS ARE ENDEAV- THE BROWNSVILLE JONAH. was deemed necessary in order to maintain the discipline and morals of the army." This is retreat No. 3, since it doth appear that Mr. Roosevelt is himself eager to restore the discharged Negro soldiers to their former status in the army, from which they had originally been "forever debarred." At this rate, the entire battalion may be reviewed on the White House lawn before the end of June, and invited to luncheon by the president before November. Conspiracy of Silence Forgotten— Even Democrats Admit No Soldier Proven Guilty. It may be assumed, of course, that if Mr. Roosevelt should reinstate one he would reinstate all. He still assumes that a few were guilty of shooting up the town; the "conspiracy of silence" has been forgotten even by its creators. But not even the senate committee's majority, MADE POSSIBLE ONLY BY THE ADHERENCE OF THE ENTIRE BOARD OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC SENATORS, WHO WANT TO DRIVE, NEGROES OUT OF THE ARMY ALTOGETHER, pretends that a single guilty soldier has been identified, or can be identified with all the voluminous evidence now at hand. This, then, is to be the way out. The majority report sustains the president to the extent of declaring that certain soldiers unknown shot up the town, and the president will hasten to reinstate those whom HE now thinks are innocent. Black Battalion Falls or Rises as a Unit—Can't Divide it, Even by Bribes. But how could he separate the innocent from the guilty, if the whole battalion should appear before him? The remarkable thing about that battalion is that it stands or falls as a unit. The years of searching fire into its ranks has not disclosed the alleged culprits. There is logically nothing left for the president but to reinstate the entire body of men whom he discharged in November, 1906, BURDENED WITH THE UNPROVED CHARGE OF BEING MURDERERS AND WHOLESALE PERJURERS. And Mr. Roosevelt in spite of his pride and his vanity, may come to it. No Jury Could Convict After Hearing Foraker's Plea of Innocence. It is not possible, at this moment, to review the evidence in this remarkable case, but there is not the slightest doubt, in our judgment, that the charge remains today as much unproved as it was in the first instance. THE REPORT ON THE EVIDENCE PREPARED BY SENATOR FORAKER POSSESSES A STRENGTH THAT WOULD PREVENT ANY JURY IN AMERICA FROM BRINGING IN A VERDICT OF GUILTY, IF THE CASE WERE SUBMITTED TO IT. It is not maintained that there is only one side to the question; what is now, 49 upon is that the defence is so guilty, M. that it negatives the prosecu- forts to prove guilty. (Continued on page two.) THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principle of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Prairie, Infantile, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republican, their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad M is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. JAMES Y. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. "Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HOW TO KEEP WELL Some Helpful Hints from the Health Department. BETTER HOMES FOR THE POOR. In this week's chat let us talk about better homes for the poor. By this we mean homes that are properly built and provided with proper means for plenty of light and air. It has been repeated in these talks many times that consumption is a house disease; and that the home and the workshop are the two enclosures in which consumption is most often contracted. It follows, then, that the proper housing of the people becomes a most important factor in promoting their general health and comfort. It is true; too, that many people living in modern, well-built homes are not alive to the value of fresh air and sunshine; and so they suffer accordingly the same ill-effects as do the poor tenement dwellers who live in rooms where, through either the greed or ignorance, or both, of the landlords, the important features of light and ventilation have been overlooked altogether. But, aside from the need of educating those who have good homes to the importance of keeping them well ventilated, there is the much larger need of better tenements for those who cannot afford to pay the high rents demanded for the better class of tenements. And right here in Chicago is a field where a genuine philanthropy can be made a commercial success. By this is meant that model, up-to-date tenements can be built here in Chicago and rented so as to yield at least 4 per cent on their cost, after deducting all expenses for maintenance. Here is what we mean by the model tenement. First of all, plenty of ground that is, enough for the building to stand on and leave some room for the children to play. There should be all the light and air possible. The buildings should be fire-proof and thoroughly sanitary. There should be outside light in every room; steam or hot-water heat; a gas range and proper toilet facilities for each apartment. A work of this kind has already been undertaken in New York City, where a noted philanthropist, Mr. Harry Phipps, has made a gift of $1,000,000 to be devoted solely to the construction of improved tenements for the poor. It is also a plan of the donor of this magnificent gift that the income derived from the rental of the buildings shall be devoted to the erection of additional buildings. Commenting on Mr. Phipp's work, the New York Evening Post urges that the trustees of the fund devote some portion of it to building homes or tenements for the Colored people. It says: "Their plight is grevious. Only the worst buildings are open to them, and at much higher rates than are asked of white people. The Negroes are great home lovers; as a rule they are clean and mainly self-supporting. Yet, decent Negro families are often forced into low and disreputable associations, for the reason that no other quarters are open to them, so that their need of good tenements is great." In the city of Washington model tenements are being erected and managed by the Washington Sanitary Housing Company. The work, according to Dr. Huber, is being based wholly upon the principle of securing a radical change for the better of existing housing conditions for the poor in that city. Two-story houses are being built containing three and four room flats with bathroom and sanitary plumbing, on sites formerly occupied by miserable, tumble-down shacks that were wholly unit for human habitation. These flats are rented at $7.00 and $8.00 a month. As an incentive to the tenants to take care of the apartments they occupy, one month's rent is set aside for interior repairs each year. Any portion of the sum Peachie is given to the tenant as a "Peachie on his rent." The houses so far are paying 4 per cent on the in- vestment and earning a surplus besides. Professor Goldwin Smith, known and respected everywhere; has started a practical reform of this kind in Toronto, although he has reached an age when most men cease to take an active interest in the affairs of life. This big-brained, big-hearted man has purchased a whole block of land on which he is building houses for workingmen. These homes are rented at low rates, and already the undertaking has been placed upon a sound business basis. The time is at hand for something to be done here in Chicago toward replacing the tumble-down, insanitary tenements in certain districts with clean, light, airy buildings such as have been built in other cities. One such building, if erected, would increase the value of surrounding real estate; and, if properly maintained and managed, pay a fair return on the investment. If only enough buildings of this character could be built, best of all, would be the effect they would have on the city's death rate. "P" PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE SOLDIERS. (Continued from page one.) Preposterous to Punish Any for Crime Not Fastened on Any One in Particular. The Brownsville case remains a mystery. But, until it is cleared up, it is preposterous to declare that any one should be punished for a crime that has been fastened on no one in particular. President Roosevelt and W. H. Taft, with a little money thrown to Booker T. Washington, and the other hungry leaders of the race, who always have their mits out for a little easy money, expect by his—the president's—action, in retreating from his former position, respecting his famous order in dishonorably discharging the three companies of the twenty-fifth regiment, and recommending that they be restored to their former positions in the army, those who prove themselves innocent of committing the crime of "shooting up" Brownville, Texas, to win the good favor of all the Colored people, thereby inducing them to vote for Taft for president or some one else equally as offensive as himself, and if the Colored voters throughout the country permit themselves to be taken in by such rot, then the president is justified in branding the Negroes as a race of murderers and rapists!-Editor. BIG EIGHT IN CHURCH. Plot to 'Oust Pastor--Razors and chairs Were Used. St. Louis, Saturday, March 14.—The New Hope Colored Baptist Church was the scene of a battle last night, in which razors were used, chairs were wielded and the affray was replete with action when the police interfered. Mrs. Sam Lewis, wife of Deacon Lewis, was arrested. Deacon Alfred Shannon was cut three times in the face and the collar of his coat was slashed into ribbons. The pastor, Rev. Frank Harris, was laid out by a blow from a chair. Deacon Shannon and Rev. Harris were taken to the hospital. Rev. Harris' condition is serious. It is stated the trouble rose over an unpaid gas bill, but Deacon Shannon declares the whole matter was simply a plot among disgruntled ones to "do up the pastah." REPORT OF THE Finance Committee of the First Annual Charity Ball for the Benefit of Provident Hospital. The finance committee of the first annual charity ball for the benefit of Provident Hospital, which was held at the First Regiment Armory, Thursday evening, January 23rd, has made its final report, which is as follows: Receipts to March 10th, $1,344.40. Expenses, $610.53. Balance, $738.87, which has been turned over to J. S. Madden, treasurer of Provident Hospital. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. The services at the Institutional Church will be as usual, with the exception of the evening services, it is contemplated that a song service will be the special feature, beginning at 7:45 p. m. The morning services will be preparatory to the coming rally which will take place Sunday, March the 29th. The pastor and members are expecting good results. Sunday night, March the 29th, will be a special service under the auspices of the Tuberculosis organization. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams president Views will be shown of an interesting character. It will pay all to see and hear. Last Sunday twenty-five persons were received into full membership, also over one hundred persons occupied one aisle of the auditorium, these were a part of the number who had come into the church during the pastorate of Rev. H. E. Stewart. The millinery class for children is THE MASTER OF THE WORLD Vice President of the Black Diamond Development Company, who returned Thursday morning from Chanute, Kan., where he inspected the property belonging to the company. Vice President of the Black Diamond Development Company, who returned Thursday morning from Chanute, Kan., where he inspected the property belonging to the company. L L JONES. proving a great success. Instructions every Friday afternoon. Free. Mrs. C. H. Burges has charge of the dressmaking class every Monday; Wednesday and Friday, from 1 to 5 o'clock; terms very reasonable. BELL'S LETTER TO MAY. Phswollef Inn, March 16, 1908. May dear: Just a few words or so, as I can not and will not talk over telephones, particularly, your party lines, and of course yours is one. The party on the line with you has either phono phobia or else she is suffering from disease which affects all rubber necks. Of course you will say that eves dropper, etc. Never mind, dear, if they could catch the bad about them alone, but they always manage to get in a few lines of news about some one else. Now girlie, never write me again about your past. What did you ever do? Bleached your hair and posed? Now I remember one other thing, the Silk Hose. The cad who repeated the girlish bet, is now dead, and if I were you I would tell daddy, and I know he will forgive you. I will tell him how it all happened if you wish. How ancient you are to take chloral for a little thing like that. We all have some little things in our lives. When my husband and I were sweethearts there was many a time we spooled when no one was around but the owl and the moon. Of course I was not so innocent as some folks were. Now, May, I have laughed myself sick over that tale of the rocking chair. You horrid old thing you! Now as to my calling and being friendly with J——. Simply this. No one can dictate as to those whom I shall accept as my friends. No one can belong to the W. club unless they bow down to her, but still she selects her own friends, and I am far too independent for her. My affinity will not necessarily and hardly ever be yours. But should we be so narrow as to cease friendship? With too few exceptions her friends are glad to have the honor of her company. On the other hand, I think she should, under the circumstances, feel flattered at any attention at all. I do not bow to gold. However, do not let this interfere with your friendship for her. Now about B——. I do not care for her. Will not write her because no woman who is not divorced has in my opinion the right to accept marked, remember I say marked, attentions from any man. If any one else was doing it B—— would be the first to talk. This is my opinion, but still others ask her and they tell me she was at the ball with Billy, waltzing around with that "Oh, Promise Me" air of hers. Yes, I heard there was to be a divorce scandal. The boys are telling a funny tale about Billy trying to tear the door down. How does the old crone stand for it, I wonder. She is so careful that she loses things. I met her on the Indiana avenue car looking like "ye old times," or rather a relic of them. By the by, you do not know, do you, that when I first came here you were not to the manner born of the crone did not give you social recognition, and the lionesses of today were then her social cubs. One must exclaim, "O tempores, O Mores!" Tell Daddy to catch his friend and give him a searchlight bath and a hair cut. You remember the evening at dinner when Madam M. B. H. said she hated to wear clothes either home or abroad and envied the animals. Well, I heard something today about her, really true, and I am not going to tell you, but I want you to read the 19th chap. of _____, understandingly, and I am sure you will guess what I mean. May dear, to organize a social purity club would mean the visiionse of society. You always get. things wrong. I said a society on pure food. Dr. my hubby has laughed at your social purity club, and said surely, Bell. May took too much Duffy's malt when she had la gripe. Chicago society savors too much of the stock yards to ever be associated with social purity. Yesterday, in speaking of a poor, dear, ugly little soul, I said to my friend, Mollie, now, if we looked like that we would never be spoken against, and coming through the door a dear old gray head lady, laughed and said, why, you remember, dear, she had her little interruption in the poetical rythm of purity and—came near separating when he found out, but all is quite again, however. So you see, dear, those old skeletons will come out now and then among the best women. But, really, Mae, if they spared me it was because I married young and perhaps now some old dame has said hard things. It may be also because I was not pretty. It is hard isn't it, to be so ugly when there are such good looking folks around. Dolly is working real hard, dear little tactful diplomat that she is. She always wears that no concern of mine smile and minds her own business so awfully well. Are you going to help her? The Dresden hates to go in the black belt, it smells so substantial, and oh dear, that soft coal is terrible on milk and cream complexions. Dr. says it is amusing to see the 400 late Saturday evening with their bundles of cheap meat wending their way toward the East. The latest fad is to join forces and register as an agent for the preventive tubercular association, and to aid in the prevention of the spread of this white black plague. All dogs and cats are to have anti-tuberculosis collars, and all alleys are to be fumigated and any dog or cat caught without the tag T. B., will be given the right hand of fellowship, and the first policeman coming that way will be given instructions to "put them out." All kissing is prohibited unless under the advice of the doctor. Are we not fortunate to be married? Anna would not have a Colored doctor because their wives talk so much. Dr. never tells me his business, therefore, I can not talk, and doctor has all he can do without Anna and her friends. The moon still shines along the Wabash, and Mr. B——, after all my talking, is still whistling "I'm just mad about Blondie, Dear." If the boon companion of Ye Grand Dame does not let a certain gentleman alone who is very heavily married she will be singing "I was happy 'till I met you, but the fault is all my own. What are you going to do Sunday? Let's pass for Mexicans and bob in at the Auditorium, and have lunch. There is a streak of Boheman in me, but Dr. keeps it down, nothing wrong. but one likes to get away from color effects occasionally. I met a certain doctor the other day and I had on my large auto veil, and he was going down a certain street and he forgot where he was going, following me. I was really amused and lifted my veil just as I met my own dear duck of a husband. Maybe he wasn't taken back to find me Colored. Billy Smooth is as soon as possible to be married. Mae, I saw Maude, and she was worrying about who Mrs. Smoth Fingers was. I laughed for awhile, for you know everyone knows. I have so much to say that I can not write. Run over. Yours with love and kisses, P. S. Fatty grows fatter every day and says to 'ell with the old cats whose claws he feels. He positively enjoys the rub and said he played for it so as to get even. First to thyself be true and 'till follow as the night the day, thou wilt be true to every man. Fatty is a Wech(er) man, but faith is not a thief, although Billy says Fatty went to a certain house and stole his Brief. CHIPS CHIPS Mr. Walter Hall, 3126 Wabash Ave. has been of the sick list for the past week. Mrs. J. Smith, 3031 Dearborn St., has been on the sick list for the past week. Mr. Chas Scott of Alaska spent a day in the city last week enroute to Old Mexico. Mr. Son Dresden, 4528 St. Lawrence Ave., after spending a few days at Joliet, Ill., is again in the city. Miss Olina Crampwell of Denver, Colo., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Jessie Mills, 3742 Armour Ave. Mrs. Bowman, 3110 Indiana Ave., who was recently operated on in Provident hospital is improving rapidly. Mr. Chas. Lewis who has been attending Meharry Dental School in Nashville, Tenn., is in the city for the summer. Indian Herb, the greatest blood purefier and liver regulator on earth. Free sample can be obtained at 3148 State street, upstairs. Mail us a money order for a year's subscription and receive the most dependable newspaper promptly at your home or place of business every week. Mr. W. R. Sobers, 5606 Lake avenue, entertained a small party of friends at dinner Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper, of New York. Mrs. Clara Belle Barley, 4157 Ellis avenue, will spend a few weeks in Urbana, Ohio. Mrs. Barley has fully recovered from her recent operation for appendicitis. Mr. James Parker is rapidly recobering from his recent operation for appendicitis and will be at his home, 6506 St. Lawrence avenue, about the first of the week. Mr L. L. Jones and Mr. William R. Cowan returned Thursday from the oil and gas field of Black Diamond Development Company, in Kansas. The reports are very encouraging for the company. Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, secretary of Committee on Prevention of Tuberculosis will speak before the Woman's Aid Society on the prevention and cure of consumption, next Tuesday, March 24, at 3 p. m. If there be a God and he had intended that we should know what awaits us beyond the Dark River he would have made it so manifest that diversity of opinion would have been impossible.—Blue Grass Blade. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Jacobs, 2832 Dearborn St., entertained a few friends at cards Tuesday evening. Mr. Wm. Masten, 5120 Dearborn St., who has been suffering with a severe attack of rehumafism for the past two months is very much improved. Mrs. George C. Hall, 3249 Wabash Ave., gave a dinner party, Friday evening for Miss Mary Morris of Cleveland. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. S. Laing Williams, Miss Jessie Gillespie, Dr. Spencer Dickerson and Miss Morris. Jacksonville, Fla.—Joseph Clayton, a Negro was acquitted in the United States Court here of peonage. Clayton was arrested on complaint of Arthur Turner, another Negro about a year ago, but the case was postponed from time to time. Turner having been found dead in a creek several months before the trial commenced. This is the first case on record in Florida, where the alleged peon, a Negro brought suit against a man or his race. Mrs. Frank B. George entertained about twenty couples at a dancing party Friday evening in the parlor of the Frederick Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash avenue, in honor of Mrs. Lottie Meredith Cooper, of New York City. The charming hostess saw to it personally that every one present had a scrimptious time. Mr. Noah D. Thompson will leave Chicago Friday evening next for Somerset, Pa., to be with his little son Noah Murphy Thompson, who will celebrate his third year birthday on Saturday, March 28th. Mr. Thompson expects to return to his desk before noon the following Monday, and will have traveled exactly twelve hundred miles to spend just twelve hours with his little son. One of the most charming affairs given in honor of Mrs. Lottie of Cooper since her arrival was the between last Friday afternoon given by Mrs. Ada Wicker, 3423 Deerhurst St. The table was beautifully decorated with a profusion of choice flowers and cut glass and the costumes of the ladies made a very brilliant picture. The menu was most elaborate eight courses being served. The guests were: Mrs. Lottie Cooper, Mrs. Mabel Washington, Mrs. Bessie Wollger, Mrs. Blanche Cornwell, Mrs. Mamie Miller, Mrs. Mamie Smith, Mrs. Orville Wilson, Mrs. Pearl Mottle and Mrs. Harris. BLACK DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT STOCK FOR SALE. For sale, 1,333 1-3 shares of the Black Diamond Development Company stock, which is successfully operating gas wells near Chanute, Kan. at 40 cents per share. The company is selling the same stock at 50 cents per share. For terms and further information address E. C. Duensing and Company, 1129 Armitage avenue. Phone Humboldt 3333. THE WHITE PLAGUE. Warmer. The Committee of Negro citizens on the Prevention of Tuberculosis have prepared the following program: Sunday, March 22; 4 p. m., at Hermon Baptist Church. The Men's Sunday Club, 759 N. Clark street. Speakers—Rev. Jordan Chavis, Dr. Thos. Wilson and Dr. A. L. Smith. Sunday, March 22, 8 p. m., at Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn street. Speakers—Rev. A. J. Carey, Dr. treo. Shears and Dr. G. C. Hall. Sunday, March 29, 8 p. m., Institutional Church, 3825 Dearborn street. Speakers—Rev. H. E. Stewart, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Stereopticon Lecture by Mr. Ball of the Sanitary Department. Sunday, April 5, 8 p. m., Zion M. E. Church, 38th and Dearborn street. Speakers—Rev. W. E. D. Jones, Dr. A. W. Springs, Mrs. A. M. Smith and Dr. Pickett. It is the intention of the Committee to hold meetings and furnish good speakers in every church, public hall and club throughout the city, wherever they may be able to secure an evening or afternoon. Anyone wishing a meeting of this character, may secure a speaker any Sunday evening or any evening during the week by communicating with the Secretary of the Committee, Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, at the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, 51 La Salle street. For Sale. Eight room house, stone front. 626 E. 46th Place, near Grand Blvd. Cheap easy payments, D. C. Smith. 3128 State street, Phone 7223 Douglas. First-Class Flats to Rent. To Colored parties—elegant new six room birch apartments; first and second floors; hardwood, mantels, mirrors, sideboards, porcelain bath, marble washstands, etc., $20 per month, 5016-5018 Armour Ave. Ethel was sitting at the dinner table dreaming. "What are you doing, Ethel?" "Nothing," was her answer. "What is nothing?" asked her father. "Close your eyes, pa, and you'll see it." The story is told of a gentleman who, entering a railway station, met a porter coming out with a dog under his arm. The gentleman asked, "Where's that dog going?" The porter savagely replied, "You don't know where he's going. I don't know where he's going, nobody knows where he's going--he's ate his jail!" POTATO PUFFS. Mash finely a pound of boiled potatoes, season with pepper and salt, and mix to a dough with a beaten egg and milk. Put on a baking tin in knobs, and cook in a hot oven till a golden brown, when serve with sprinkling of very finely chopped parsley. 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 canoeboat, 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 Murre, 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. Murre 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 cabled in the cellar of a house and a six-week-old calf in the parlor upstairs. Flippant Flings Hardly a day passes now that astute 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 Mohammed 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, go 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 Ardebil 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 Ardebil, while the Ardebil 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. Havemayer 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 bath 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."—Cinchnati 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 threepeace 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" tattooed on her arm. About 5:30 the next morning the girl knocked at his door and, on being remonstrated with, said: "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 $8,000,000 and is growing richer every day. Yankee ingenuity is gorging the patent office with records and piling up models in 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 Costimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence and grand duke of Tuscany, by Angelo Brondino. 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 stairs. Of course he struggled and was fussed. Because his nice mustache was mussed. But in his rugulch eye the while I was the portent of a smile— The pardon of the robber bold. Before the booty had grown cold. He always gladly wears my flowers And lets me call and stay for hours. And when, at last, I rise to go He would think I why you hurry so!" And every day I think I'll speak. But put it off from week to week. And watch his lips and eyes and nose And wonder if I dare propose. —Paul C. Willard in Judge. 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 kin have it. But I don't mind tellin' 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? Father (reading the paper)—Five cards of a—that is, a narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies.—Harper's Weekly. 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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 that were amusing 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 possum and a cone, 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 nungled pride, admiration and fear, for many of the townstalk 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 number 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 Polite Amenities He (brusquely)—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. Wandering Philosophers "Wot did de lady up at de last house say, Willie?" "Didn't say nothin'. Just pointed at the wood pile, an' I beat it!"—New York World. It Didn't Appeal to Him. "Don't you think that Miss La Fenche has a complexion like ivory?" "Perhaps so, but I never cared much for painting on ivory."—Cleveland SHORT STORIES A knife in the making passes through seventy different hands. The teaching 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 older 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. Nashua 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 biannually the city pays $120 a year. Perhaps the most novel quilt in existence was presented to Rev. E. Bruce Lyle, 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 $9,000, 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 wagons 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 if, 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 unearthed 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 collar, 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 tussas 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 obtitted 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 DOUGLAS ... 1865 JESSE BINGA INSURANCE REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO. ForSale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Fayette modern, hardwood through $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat brick heat, hardwood throughout $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room sell separate. Make terms $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, fax $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame buildup provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame JESSE BINGA, 3637 State St. Leland Giants Base-Ball and Now Organizing—for $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants included to dissolve that Association in order to increase: Capital for the purpose of buying a Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, W Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minutum Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley Riding, and all the latest fun making devices, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, guests, at it’s present location, 79th and West ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amuse value in a single season. Millions can be made. This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Oversee And Well Paying Plant, Where I Be Employed, between May and October of out fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom The Answer can only be effectively given by a vision. it has been made purposely low so that have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Shares Only Ten (16.00) Dollar Each You Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollar and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so 57th and La Fayette Ave., hardwood throughout. Hiley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Labash Ave., 2-9 room stone front porch. Make terms. Lille St., 6 rooms, frame, brick, Lille St., 2 flat, brick and frame, Lille St., frame building, 6 rooms. Born St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms. 3637 State St. Ph. Lets Base-Ball and Amuse Organizing—Capital $100,000 Members of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association in order to give room for the purpose of buying a Permanent H eb and Establishing For All The Amusement Park, With It's The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electi- ating, Hurley Burley, Double Sw est fun making devices and laugh pro- lass Summer Hotel, large enough to the Loop District in Chicago. Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Mon. Millions can be made by those favor Of The Race Owning And Buying Plant, Where More Than 1 May and October of each year, when the Life and Freedom of a Citizen use effectively given by subscribing for purposely low so that all Loyal Men rest in this Twentieth Century En- 00) Dollars Each You Squander Amusement Parks and Public Place come. Come! buy and build one of y and mail with Ten Dollars to the Lel- iation. Do it to-day so that we may c $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms, modern, hardwood throughout. $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone, 5-6 rooms, steam heat, hardwood throughout. $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front residences; will sell separate. Make terms. $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. 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 roor for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, 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 Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposefully 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 (1000) 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. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Assn. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- which I am sending as Part (or infall) as subs shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland & Association. I agree to pay $___ has been paid, at certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beauregard F. Moseley, Treasurer, 658 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock- holders are entitled to prefer- ance as employees and should inform the treasurer with their final reintroduction of their inten- tions to apply for employment. Name ___ Address___ City Enclosed p Part (or infull) as subscription fee for Stock of the Leland Giants Base $.....per month .....has been paid, at which time I am Ac- order say, street, ck- fer- build chair, ten- it. ad- ball 5 8 Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ which I am sending as Part (or infill) 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. 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. 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. "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 Pioneer Press. She Was Not a Beauty. "I don't see what excuse you had for kissing this woman." "I don't, judge, now that I see her in the daytime."—Town and Country. 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 835,000, a large proportion of whom are women. 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. Whenever you give another follow the best of it without its cooling you anything, you have made a good investment—Atchison Globe. --- For further information address Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. 6258 8 Halsted Chicago, Chicagol. After the Wedding Cash In Advance Industrial Items. Pith and Point. Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms, throughout. brick and stone, 5-6 rooms, steam without. room stone front residences; will terms. frame, frame, brick foundation. brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. building, 6 rooms, modern im- frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 All and Amusement Assn. Capital Stock 10,000 Giants Base-Ball Association, has con- ter to give room for the former, with it's giving a Permanent Home For The Leland For All The People, The Only First With It's Theater (Light Opera), nature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Durley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto services and laugh producing concessions, tote- large enough to accommodate 1000 Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes district in Chicago. Amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in be made by those Who Take Stock In Force Owning and Operating This Im- ere More Than 1,000 Persons Will for each year, where you can come with- dom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? by subscribing for Stock in this Corpora- that all Loyal Members of the Race can thirteenth Enterprise, Think of it, You Squander More than this amount s and Public Places, where you are not and build one of your own by filling out Dollars to the Lelar. Giants Base-Ball so that we may commence to build. Assn. 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. "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. "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. Ehlam Eyetop—So the chequer club argued here on the Panama canal, hay? How long did they argue, Jeff? The Storekeeper—Let's see. Halt a usage of peach, peek of pumice, part of dried peaches and a pumice of cinnamon. --- Prejudice. Accounts For It. 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 BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dayer. J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL AND S. Halsted Street THE Imported Lit. N. E. Corner F POOL AND BILLIARDS Phone Calcinet 2940 Telephone Yards 693 J. M. Fields 693 FIELDS LOANS ANCE CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr. AD INN Cestic Wines Cigars Collection Avenue, Chicago, M. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS EWIS TANAC B 239 E. 22ND STREET CHICAGO