The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE The Democratic State Convention of Illinois HELD FORTH AT SPRINGFIELD THIS WEEK THE FIFTY-FOUR DELEGATES CHOSEN TO THE DENVER CONVENTION WERE INSTRUCTED TO WORK AND VOTE FOR THE NOMINATION OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COL. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, JOHN P. McGOORTY AND DOUGLAS PATTISON, THE THREE GOVERNOR-TORIAL CANDIDATES, ADDRESSED THE CONVENTION. EIGHT DELEGATES-AT-LARGE AND EIGHT ALTERNATES SELECTED. STRONG PLATFORM ADOPTED, AND THE REPUBLI CANS SEVERELY ARRAIGNED FOR MISCONDUCTING THE AFFAIRS OF THE STATE. Vol. XIII HELD FORTH AT SPE THE FIFTY-FOUR DELEGATE VER CONVENTION WE AND VOTE FOR THE N BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT COL. JAMES HAMILTON L AND DOUGLAS PATTISC TORIAL CANDIDATES, TION. EIGHT DELEGATES-AT-LA NATES S STRONG PLATFORM ADOPE CANS SEVERELY ARRA ING THE AFFAIRS OF T Thursday the Democratic State Convention of Illinois, convened in the armory at Springfield: and notwithstanding the fact that no candidates were nominated for the various state offices, both sessions of the convention were real lively. Free P. Morris, served as temporary and permanent chairman, and George McConnell acted as secretary. After the fifty-four delegates were chosen to the Denver convention, and the eight delegates-at-large had been selected, Col. James Hamilton Lewis, Hon. John P. McGoorty, and Douglas Pattison, the three leading candidates for governor, were invited to address their fellow democrats. The following are the delegates, and platform adopted: Delegates-at-Large: Roger C. Sullivan, of Cook County; Samuel Alschuler, of Kane; Fred J. Kern, of St. Clair; Harry M. Pindell, of Peoria; Carroll C. Boggs, of Wayne; Edward P. Dunne, of Cook; Andrew J. Hunter, of Edgar; Reddick M. Ridgely, of Sangamon; Alternates; Henry Phillips, of Cass County; H. R. Lemon, of Madison; William E. Dever, of Cook; Albert Watson, of Jefferson; Walter I. Manny, of Brown; Isaac B. Craig, of Coles; Joseph S. Martin, of Cook; Paul A. Dratz of Cook By Districts:—1st. Dist. Michael Kenna, Wm. L. O'Connell, John T. O'Nell, Robt. Redfield.—2nd Dist. Edward P. Brennan, E. B. Tolman, Gilbert W. Morgan, Thomas Healy.—3rd Dist. Geo. E. Brennan, Edward Carroll, James A. Long, Peter Kipley.—5th Dist. Edward J. Rainey, John Larney, John W. Downey, John I. Novak.—5th Dist. William Loeffler, Thomas P. Scully, Frank Vavricek, Dr. George Sultan.—6th Dist. John J. McLaughlin, Thomas Cusack, Ross C. Hall, John W. Eckhart.—7th Dist. Patrick A. Nash, Frank C. Burke, Edward Keeley, Joseph H. Frances.—8th Dist. John Powers, John Brennan, Michael Barron, James Donnell.—9th Dist. Harry R. Gibbons, Thomas J. Webb, Ed. R. Diederich, John C. Schram.—10th Dist. Peter Reinberg, John T. Connery, Thomas C. Clark, Daniel A. Grady.—11th Dist. John R. Cromin, Robert S. Egan, J. C. Donnelly, Robert T. Kelly.—12th Dist. M. T. Moloney, W. H. Hefferan, J. G. Doyle, John Dooley.—13th Dist. James P. WIL son, Wm. B. Brinton, Robert McNeil, Edward Devine.—14th Dist. Ben T. Cable, A. M. Thornton, David Turnbull, T. J. Richard.—15th Dist. Jackson R. Pearce, F. L. Marshall, John T. Piatt, A. M. Foster.—16th Dist. Stephen Wolschlag, Wallace Matthews, James R. Hopkins, John P. Code.—17th Dist. Charles M. Pierce, L. D. Jaskson, Thomas Kennedy, James B. Lloyd.—18th Dist. Free P. Morris, William L. Cundiff, L. F. Good, Norman Bennett.—19th Dist. Frank V. Dilatush, J. M. Gray, Fred B. Hamil, W. W. Reeves.—20th Dist. M. F. Dunlap, W. E. Williams, H. W. Pogue, W. C. Perry.—21st Dist. F. W. Burton, T. N. Jett, H. W. Johnson, L. B. Hill.—22d Dist. H. O. Tonsor, Silas B. Cook, George Verner, Joseph F. Long.—23rd Dist. Samuel L. Dwight, George N. Parker, George P. Ramsey, John J. Baker.—24th Dist. C. B. Thomas, W V. Cholser, H. R. Fowler, R. A. Ewen.—25th Dist. William H. Warder, William R. Borders, Frank M. Caldwell, Clarence O. Hudson. Presidential Electors. AT-LARGE R. F. Kinsella, Sangamon County; C. O. Johnson, Whiteside County. BY DISTRICTS 1st Richard W. Clifford, 2nd Peter A. Foote, 3rd Dr. W. Drobbins, 4th Nicholas R. Engel, 5th Alderman Michael Zimmer, 6th Stephen D. Griffin, 7th Frank Bubitz, 8th Abras Preis, 9th John S. Cooper, 10th John A. McGarry, 11th Philip Freiler, 12th Dr. M. E. Blanchard, 13th Jacob Meffley, 14th W. H. Hartzell, 15th Jonas W. Olson, 16th Thomas Cain, 17th Silas A. Rathbun, 18th Henry Beckman, 19th T. B. Shoaff, 20th S. A. Thompson, 21st J. C. McBride, 22d William A. Moody, 23rd Rudolph J. Casserman, 24th D. M. Kinsail, 25th James M. Joplin. THE PLATFORM. "We, the representatives of the Democracy of Illinois in convention assembled, congratulate the party in both state and nation on the splendid prospect of victory at the coming election in November. To take advantage of the opportunity now presented to us is a duty which the Democratic party owes to all the people." ©Themeless Tax-Dodging by Rich Must "Shameless Tax-Dodging by Rich Must Be Stopped." Every man who owes the state of Illinois a dollar as taxes, as services or as a debt, should be compelled to CHICAGO, APRIL 25, 1908. [Name not visible in the image] The liberal minded and progressive Governor of Minnesota, and Democratic candidate for the nomination of President of the United States! pay. The shameless tax-dodging of great corporations, the looting of public funds for the benefit of favored contractors, the fraud of state employees, who do up work, must be stopped. The public money pocketed by former state officials must be returned to the state treasury. * * * law to supplement the federal law on that subject. Bryan Is Indorsed as State's Candidate Without Reserve. Recognizing the broad statesman ship, matchless eloquence and untiring efforts of our great leader, the Hon. William J. Bryan in the "We Are Opposed to All Sumptuary Lawe." We believe that orderly customs and habits long pursued should not be disturbed by intoeurance, and we hereby declare in favor of that fundamental doctrine of democracy and free government, which gives to the individual the largest measure of personal liberty so long as he does not infringe on the personal rights of others. We are opposed to all sumptuary laws. The imperialistic administration of our national government in Republican hands has brought the nation to a point where the very form of our government is threatened. * * * For nearly a century and a half this form of government has endured and has been adequate to every demand made upon it, by changing conditions, political, economic or industrial, and under it we have grown from a few scattered settlements to one of the great powers of the earth. Republican Administration "Marked by Failure." The utter incapacity of a Republican administration, dominated by a plutocracy and imperialistically directed, to legislate for the people is marked by the failure of the party in power at Washington to check exploitation of the masses for the benefit of the few. It is with pride that we point to the efforts of the Democratic members of the Forty-fifth General Assembly in the promotion of the lakes to the gulf ship canal. * * * We, therefore, pledge ourselves as being in favor of the constitutional amendment providing for a bond issue for the construction of the lakes to the gulf ship canal. Commends Demands of Labor for Immediate Legislation. The Democratic state convention, in conformity with the fundamental principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, commends the demands of organized labor upon Congress for the enactment of immediate legislation preservatory of the rights of the toiler as an American citizen. "To the end that the working man shall not be left entirely destitute by accident incurred in behalf of society and without fault on his part, we believe that Illinois, should speedily enact an adequate employer's liability law to supplement the federal law on that subject. Bryan is Indorsed as State's Candidate Without Reserve. Recognizing the broad statesmanship, matchless eloquence and untiring efforts of our great leader, the Hon. William J. Bryan in the cause of humanity, we, the Democracyof Illinois, honoring a native son and taking pride in his distinguished leadership, instruct the delegates to the national convention of our party at Denver from this state to support his candidacy for the nomination for the Presidency and to use all honorable means in his behalf. We further instruct the Illinois delegation to the Denver convention to act as a unit on all propositions." Harmony prevailed throughout the convention and some ten or twelve Afro-Americans, wearing badges indicating that they were delegates, rubbed up against Rogers C. Sullivan, John P. Tansey, Col. James Hamilton Lewis, and the other big leaders of the party. NO NECESSITY FOR IT. Secretary Taft, speaking in Kansas City recently, is quoted as saying, in substance that restricted suffrage, is better than violence and that the greatest friend that the Southern Negro is likely to have is the broadminded Southern white man who sympathizes with the Colored man and knows his value to the South. As to Secretary Taft's belief that restricted suffrage is better than violence we beg to state that there is no necessity for either. "Restricted, suffrage, as enforced in the South, is nullification of the Constitution of the United States. The president of the United States takes a solemn oath that he will enforce the provisions of the constitution president after president has permitted the constitution to be set aside, in direct violation of their oath of office. Secretary Taft seems to justify this perjury upon the ground of expediency. He has practically served notice that if he is elected he will permit this subversion of the organic law of the land to continue because "restricted suffrage is better than violence. The Negro's best friend is the man, be he from the North or South, who will have the courage to enforce in every respect the plain, unequivocal provisions of the Constitution of the United States. If we are to judge by his recent utterances William H. Taft is not that kind of a man—Ex. Interesting Review of Reconstruction Days in the South THE AFRO-AMERICANS BEING UNABLE TO COPE WITH THEIR FORMER MASTERS AND THE "CARPET BAGGERS." LOST THEIR POLITICAL INHERITANCE, WHICH CAN ONLY BE REGAINED THROUGH THE SHREWDNESS OF THEIR BRETHREN IN THE NORTH BY JOHN T. CAMPBELL We find ourselves in a moving world, and we have to jump into its affairs on the run, like boarding a moving train. We are obliged to act in some way, and we in the beginning of our activity, from our ignorance oftener act wrong than right. But every body acting all kinds of ways from all kinds of motives, often give an average result not desired by any of the actors. The resultant action in human affairs is much like what is called in Physics the prallelogram of forces. Say, of four forces, the south is pushing due north; the west is pushing to the northeast; the east is pushing toward the northwest. The north is pushing to the south. But the oblique push northward of the east and west helps the south, and the north is overborne. Since the election of President Hayes, the South has pushed against the north. The east has pushed to ward the northwest, not to help the south, but for a different purpose. The west has pushed to the northeast, not to help the south, but for a different purpose, but both the east and the west pushes did help the south, and the north has been crowded back, till much of our victory in the civil war, has been lost, and all the balance strongly threatened. All the minor forces which make up the major force seem blind to all results except the desired result at their elbows. They push for that regardless of its aid to the undesirable result from the aggregate, or major force. We were obliged to give the Negroes great political power in the re-construction period. It was that or give it back to the rebels who had once abused it, and openly threatened to abuse it again, for they then thought we were obliged to give it back to them. We did not like the alternative, but bad as it was, it was not as bad as a worse one. A worse one was to put the rebels back into power. So we placed the power in the hands of the Negroes. They were too ignorant to know what to do with it. While they were not to blame for their ignorance, they were ignorant "all samle." Negro members came into the legislature dressed in their old master's spike tailed coat and plug hat. Somebody had to signal them how to vote. The men who did this necessary work got the name of "carpet baggers," because they took no more baggage than they could carry in a carpet bag. The only way these carpet baggers, could get their pay was to signal the Negro members to vote an issue of state bonds. They got some of these bonds. They found it so easy that they signaled to vote some more. Then still more, till the scheme broke down of its own weight. A considerable number of rebels joined in this reconstruction movement, and were soundly hated by the other rebels, and often murdered by them. Julius F. Taylor, Editor. The Broad Ax: Review Construction Days in the South BEING UNABLE TO COPE WITH MATTERS AND THE "CARPET BAG INHERITANCE, WHICH CAN THROUGH THE SHREWDNESS IN THE NORTH. At last the men who gave the power to the Negroes and really run the state governments, were obliged to help take the power away from them. Everything the war left was rapidly going to ruin. The Negroes really voted a burden on themselves when they voted these debts, for they were the only workers. Their work had to earn the taxes that paid these debts. Some of the Negroes were really smart, but they of course joined in with the carpet baggers. I never sympathized with the white rebels, for they were first offered the work of re-organizing and running the state governments. But they refused to do anything but carry on a rebellion with their votes which they had lost with their guns. They deserved their punishment. But it had to come to an end. When it came to an end the Negroes were downed and outed. They because of an ignorance they were not to blame for, lost their opportunity. They are wiser now, and could do much better, but their opportunity is gone. How shall they regain it? It can be regained, but slowly of course; but when regained it will be held. The northern Negroes will have to do the main part of this recovery. "They can so dispose of their votes as to compel a benefit to the Negro race. They have as good a right to do this as has the manufacturer to use his vote in support of a tariff. When they learn their present power and how to use it, their power will increase, and they will in time become a respected and dreaded power in this nation, like that of the Jews in every country in which they have settled. The Negroes are heading right at this time. May they have courage enough to persevere to the goal. La Fayette, Ind., April 19, 1908. JOHN T. CAMPBELLE. SCHOOL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL AND MAY PARTY. During the vacation week ending May 8th, the school children will be entertained by unique roller skating program at the Chateau De Plaisance, 5324 State Street. There will be several prizes awarded to the best skaters. Among them, a ticket for a box seat at the Pekin theater, a trip to Milwaukee, and a season ticket to the rink. In addition, the winners will be crowned King and Queen of the May party on the 8th. Those wishing a good time will do well to attend as the Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association always gives value received. The farewell benefit given to the "Base Ball Champions," by the Phyllis Wheatly Home Association, Tuesday afternoon was leargely attended by the leaders of society in general and was a grand success both for the authors of the play and the association. No.29 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Will promigrate and all its duties uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, Catholic, Inbeldel, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republican, Christian, say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Art is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for ever claiming the editorial right to speak for own interests. Communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. THE BROAD AX 4940 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JASONS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HEALTH DEPARTMENT TALKS. Dirt, Disease, Danger and Death. CARE OF SCHOOL ROOMS. A dirty, badly kept school room is a menace to the health of the community in which it is located. It means needless danger, disease and death. Therefore, the proper care and maintenance of school rooms, becomes a matter of vital importance, as affecting the public health. In a recent talk we had a few words to say as to the ventilation of schools, churches, and places used as assembly rooms. But the matter of ventilation is only one of many important matters that should be carefully looked to in connection with the proper care and maintenance of school rooms. To begin with, all class rooms, halls, cloak rooms and toilets must be kept scruppiously clean. And in doing this work properly there is, or should be, a daily and a periodical cleaning. The entrances, stairs, halls and cloak rooms receive a great deal of outside dirt that is brought in by the pupils, and for this reason they should be both swept and scrubbed daily. Class rooms should be swept daily and in addition should be thoroughly alred after being swept, or, better still, all windows should be opened while the sweeping is being done. No sweeping should be done until the floors have first been sprinkled with saw-dust that has been dampened with a disinfectant solution. The dusting of desks and all furniture should be done with cloths that have also been dampened with the disinfectant. Feather dusters should never be used. Toilet rooms, walls and floors, should be constructed of non-absorbent material and washed dally with hose and broom. They should be kept so clean as not to require the use of deodorants, which, as a rule, only kill one kind of noxious or offensive odor by creating another equally disagreeable. The accumulation of dust and dirt in a school room is such that in spite of the daily cleaning there is need of periodical renovations more thorough in character than can be done in the daily process. At least once a week it is desirable that all wood-work be washed and all floors thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and soap. Windows should be kept bright and clean at all times. As a rule, washing twice a month will keep them in good condition. During the vacation months, all school rooms should be thoroughly disinfected. And after this is done, all floors and wood work should be scrubbed and washed. Air and sunlight should have admittance during the week the rooms are not in use. The practice of closing school rooms and allowing them to remain so during the vacation term is not wise and should be discontinued. All books and pencils should be submitted to disinfection at stated intervals during the school year. In order to prevent, as much as possible, the needless accumulation of dirt and filth, all outer garments, such as cloaks, overcoats, headwear, overshoes and wrape of every kind, should be hung in cloak rooms not connected with the class or assembly rooms. Metal door mats should be placed at all outside entrances, and the pupils should be required to clean their shoes before going to their respective class rooms. Contagious diseases are not contracted, as a rule, in the open air. Consumption, pneumonia and influenza are had air diseases. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and other child diseases are house diseases, usually contracted in the home, shop or school room. So, if our homes, shops, stores, factories and school rooms are kept clean and free from disease germs, the result will be a marked decrease in all kinds of contagious diseases. Hence we should be interested in helping to bring about and maintain the very highest standards of sanitation in both our public and private schools and to lend our best efforts to aid those who, as officials, are directly charged with this important work.— "P." OUR SMART PRESIDENT. Well, after all, Roosevelt is a peculiar man. His letter to the attorney general to apply the interstate law and enjoin all railroads that do not give equal accommodations to Colored passengers looks like a "square deal" if one did not discover, after careful scanning, that it was "the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery." Separate coaches for races or nationalities is wrong, whether the accommodation is equal or unequal. The Americans would not dare impose it upon the Germans, the English, the French or the Italians. Such separation is a badge that means to designate the one separated as unfit or inferior, or as a contamination. If his namby pamby attorney general Mr. Bonaparte, who calls the Negro a common rat and the Caucasian a Norway rat determines that the common rat must be kept separate in travel in order to prevent the contamination or deterioration of the Norway rat, and that the accommodation, equal or not equal, is what the difference in the differentiated circumstances of the races make equitably equal, then, by order of the president and by the opinion of the attorney general, we have permanently established a national "Jim Crow" car scheme. Separation in travel, under any circumstances, may be a great disadvantage where intercourse on the way is necessary for commercial or other reasons; it quarantines the Negro and points him out as a nuisance or an obnoxious infection; and where the nation does this, as per president to see that it is equitably done, it is in the nature of upholding a species of very objectionable and unconstitutional class legislation. When we ask for one thing we don't want another; we don't want the vender to say that he has not what we ask for, then try to palm off upon us something which he calls equally as good. It may be called smart for the president of the United States on the eve of an election to do a lot of wool-pulling, but the motive of the action looks so much like double dealing that it can deceive none but the most mentally dense and unwary. Why did not the president wait until after the election to issue this order, like he waited until next day after the election to issue his order dismissing the Negro troops, in the first case is because he wants Negro votes; in the second, because he got their votes and then didn't care a continental. But you can't fool the people all the time, not even the unsophisticated Negro.—The Advance, St. Louis, Mo. NEW YORK WHITE MAN MARRIES COLORED GIRL AT KEYPORT. --- A wedding took place in Keyport a few days ago which put the tongues of the white and Colored citizens in motion and they have been wagging over since. The contracting parties were Miss Tressa Richardson, a well known Colored girl of that place and Charles Parker a young white man of New York. The couple were married at the residence of the bride's father, William Richardson, Broad street, Thursday, April 16, by Presiding Elder C. D. Hazell of Atlantic City--Ex. THE EDITOR FEELS HURT. A man may use the mole on the back of his neck for a collar-button; he may ride a freight train to save 3 cents a mile; he may light the lamp with a splinter to save matches; he may stop his watch at night to save wear; use a period for semicolon to save ink, and pasture his grandmother's grave to save hay; but a man of this kind is a scholar and a gentleman compared to a man who will take a newspaper and when asked to pay for it put it back in the postoffice marked "Refused."—Okmulgee (I. T.) Democrat. JAMES McINERNEY, THE EFFICIENT SUPERINTENDENT, 30TH The people residing in the 30th ward, are to be congratulated for the efficient manner in which its new superintendent, James McInerney conducts all the affairs in connection with his responsible position. Mr. McInerney is leaving no stone unturned, in his untiring efforts in having all the streets and alleys throughout the ward put and kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and he deserves the highest commendation of all of its citizens for his good work in this respect. KEITH'S THANKS. The principal, teachers and pupils of the Keith school desire to express their sincere thanks and deep appreciation to the entertainers on the Dunbar program, to the pastor and officers of Bethel A. M. E. church, to the pastors and congregation of the churches in this district, to the daily and weekly press, and to the friends and patrons of the school, for the support given to our school entertainment which enabled us to clear over one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) for the purchase of books for the school library. Grateful acknowledgment is also made for the receipt of a large number of books generously donated by many race-loving citizens; prominent amongst them being Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the United States Treasury, who sent twenty-five rare volumes from Washington, D. C. Albreta Moore-Smith. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE NURSES OF PROVIDENT HOSPITAL. Tuesday evening, April 28, at eight o'clock, graduating exercises of the nurses of the class of 1908, of Provident hospital, will be held at Bethesda Baptist Church, Wabash Ave. and 38th Street. The following young women will graduate as full fledged nurses: Tallahassee Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio; Pearl Shines, Birmingham, Ala.; Nora Hewitt Martin, Birmingham, Ala.; Nannie Lillian Wilson, Birmingham, Ala. The program to be rendered on the occasion: Prayer.....Rev. Eli. T. Martin President's Address, Mr. G. H. Wilson Vocal Solo—Love's Spring Tide (Hammond) Miss Helen Hughes Address.....Rabbi Joseph Stoltz Violin Solo—Ballade et Polonaise (Veauxtemps) Mr. W. K. Harreld Address.....Bishop C. T. Shaffer Vocal Solo—The Nightingale is a Lyre of Gold (Whelley) Lyfe of God (Whitley) .....Miss Helen Hughes Charge to the Nurses..... .....Miss Isabell McIsaacs Presentation of Diplomas and Pins School Hymn. Benediction MADAME HACKLEY'S RECITAL All Chicago is talking of the treat in store for the music loving public when Madame E. Azalia Hackley of Philadelphia makes her appearance in recital at the Institutional Church. Thursday evening, May 15th. Madame Hackley has just returned from a year's study abroad and the whole country is being charmed with her singing, and according to musical critics of the leading daily papers, she is the greatest soprano of the race before the public today. "Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, of rare effectiveness and training as a soprano, charmed a vast audience by her vocal powers. She introduced each number with explanatory remarks, which gave the listeners clearer views of the passions, sentiments and thought portrayed by the song. She believes in the language of sound. and her clear melodious soprano voice was well adapted to interpret the shades, coloring and tones of the most difficult composition. She is deservedly popular."—St. Louis Advance. All elements of Chicago society will be out in full force to greet our new "Queen of Song." Admission 50 and 35 cents. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES Sunday April 26, there will be quarterly meeting and communion service at 3 o'clock p.m. The pastors and members of Quinn Chapel, Bethel Zlon, St. Mary's and St. Johns churches will be present, this will be the last quarterly meeting in this quadorum The pastor expects to leave the 29th for Norfolk, Va. Monday, April 27th Membership receipts, free admission. Much progress has been made in the Activities this year. The sewing class in charge of Mrs. Ida Barnett is doing much good, the class meets every Saturday at 2 o'clock p.m. The Kitchingarten, Kindergarten and Millinery classes will close about the middle of June.—"S." DEDICATION DAY AT SCOTT M. E. CHURCH. Sunday May 3, will be dedication day, at Scott M. E. Chruch, 618 Fulton Street, and the services will be as follows: 11 a. m., Dedicatory sermon and dedication of church by Bishop S. B. Scott. 3 p. m., Dr. Wm. A. Quayle preaches for us at the Union Park Congregational Church, Washington Boul, and Ashland Ave. 8 p. m. Bishop Scott preaches at Scott Church. Wait! Wait! Elk's Ball, Tatersalls, May 18th. Will you be there? Where? Elk's Ball, Tatersalls May 18th. Waltz, ("Home Sweet Home,") with me, to Great Lakes 43. Tatersalls, May 18th. Mr. Chas. Washington, 3810 Grand Boul. is employed by the Pullman Co. in Wyoming. What are you going to the Elk's Ball for? "Have a good time that's what!" Tatersalls, May 18th. Mrs. Pudine Carter Hackley of Jersey City, will spend the summer in the city visiting friends. Mr. Wm. Francis of St. Paul, spent a few days in the city this week. enroute south on legal business. "The Public," has removed from the First National Bank Bldg., to the Ellsworth Bldg., 357 Dearborn street. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs. Richard Drew, 5746 Wabash Ave. Thursday, mother and son doing well. Mr. Delbert Lee, 4828 Evans Ave. returned to California after having spent a week in the city with his family. Mr. George T. Kersey, will address the "Sons of Mississippi Club" Sunday, at 3 o'clock, at Odd Fellows' Hall 3335 State street. Dr. W. A. Evans, Commissioner of Health, addressed the "Sons of Mississippi Club last Sunday, at Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 State street. Mrs. Luther Moore, 404 Bowen Ave. is the proud mother of an eight pound baby-girl which arrived Friday, Luther lost a few bets, but he is satisfied just the same. Mrs. Blanche Newsome Gray, 2111 Indiana Ave. arrived in the city the later part of last week from Europe, where she has spent the past two months. A grand social will be given Monday evening, April 27, 1908 at the residence of Mrs. Wilson, 3211 Wabash ave., by the Chicago Social Club for the benefit of the Brigade Staff. Hon. George P. Foster, after being urged by his many friends and former supporters, has decided to enter the contest for the nomination for Congress, in the Fourth Congressional District, and at the present time it looks as though he would be an easy winner. William Lewis President of the Frontanac Club, 2131 Clark street near 22d and the following members of the club, including Ed. Morton, general manager, George Foster, secretary; and Pap. Steele, manager, entertained their many friends, Sunday afternoon, and gave away several Merry Widow hats to their lady friends. Walter Evans, Jaybird Foster, Willie Moore, Clint Steward, Clarence O'Croggins, Dunk Coleman, Wm. Marsnall, D. W. Raynor, Charlie Free State, Steve Mackey, Tom Clay, Fred. Burch, Bob Albright, Bud Sneed, Geo. Allen, Joe Boyd. Black Rain. One of the services of science is in destroying superstition, and a notable example of this was afforded recently in Ireland. On the night of Oct. 8 last a fall of black rain, leaving inky pools in the roads, occurred in many parts of the island. It was noted at Lord Rosse's famous observatory at Birr castle, and an investigation of the meteorological conditions prevailing at the time followed. The result was to show that there had been a movement of the air over the central part of the British islands such as to carry soot from the manufacturing districts of England over the Irish channel. Examination of the black rain showed that its color was due to the presence of an extraordinary amount of soot—Youth's Companion. Clock on Eiffel Tower The Elfel tower in Paris is now being used for another practical purpose. Not long ago a wireless telegraph station was installed, and now on the sides of the second section, hundreds of feet above the ground, a luminous clock warns the gay Parisian of the passing span of life. The apparatus flashes forth every minute in huge figures, visible at a great distance. This system was found the only practical one, as the ordinary clock dial would be indistinguishable at such a height—Dundee Advertiser. Did the Tail Wen? An absolutely new dog story has been found. We clipped it from a London paper. Here it is (salt to taste); A gentleman was out shooting the other day when he had the misfortune to shoot his dog. For a moment he was too much overcome to see what damage he had done, and before he had recovered himself the animal, a black retriever, had come up to him, bringing in its mouth its own tail, which had been shot clean off.-Chicago Journal. 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 calliphate of Cordova—a 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. Plerpont 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 Marquard 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?" didn't know pigs bathed. Do they? "Yes, the modern pigs bathe," he said. "With squeals of rage and disgust he humbles 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."—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" 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 by the hundred thousand. An Art Elod. An old painting which has been hanging on the walls of the Puritan club of Boston for twenty years past to "fill 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 Angelo Bronzino. The club has refused an offer of $25,000 for the painting. Selections AN INGENIOUS LOCK Made In New York for an Ecocentric Potentate In India. A lock for which a New York lockmaker not long ago received an order taxed the ingenuity of all the experts in his establishment. It is a point of honor with the house, well known throughout the world, that no order, however ingenious, shall baffle the inventive faculty of the designers or the technical skill of the workmen. Whatever a customer wants he must have The order in question came all the way from a rajah in India. After the manner of dusky potentates, he fered from the dual possession of the honest servants and magnificent diamonds. The diamonds had been appearing at an alarming rate, though only seven servants had access to the box containing the gems, it had been impossible to discover the enquiry. Whether the rajah dismissed his praise or put them to death on suspicion, the thefts regularly continued. In his extremity he heard of the New York house. An American would have contented himself with procuring a safe the lock of which would answer to no key but his own. But he rajah desired something more. He wanted not simply to preserve his jewels, but to catch the thief. His order was for a safe fitted with eight different keys, one for each of his servants and one for himself. A piece of glass about eight inches square was to be let into the front of the safe. The lock must be so constructed that upon the opening of the safe by any particular key the photograph of the opener should appear immediately in front of the glass, to remain there till another key was inserted. Thus it would always be possible to tell who had last opened the safe. The clumsy 'ingenuity of the idea made it a difficult one to realize. But in a short time an apparatus was designed which would contain the seven photographs. This was fastened inside the safe and made to communicate with the lock. By a clever mechanical device the key of each servant as it turned the lock brought the photograph into view. -New York Tribune The Knapsack Bridge A Mexican engineer, Colonel Lopez has planned and perfected a new kind of bridge made of knapsacks. The framework of each knapsack is made of symmetrically arranged pieces of wood, which can be spread out by means of hinges into boards of known dimensions. The knapsacks are numbered, and when the stream to be bridged is reached the wooden form can be promptly extracted from their canvas or leather coverings and quickly bolted into place. A number of experiments have been made by the military authorities, and it has been found that a knapsack bridge will support as many men as can be crowded upon it. In the military schools there are new working models of these bridges, and the men and officers, says the Mexican Herald, "have regular practice in the construction and operation of the puente." The idea can also be applied to the scaling of walls or the climbing of barrancas. Statesmen Wage Earners Aside from the lawyers, doctors, clergymen and others who are classed as professional men, merchants and manufacturers, the insurance agents, treasurers and others who work for a stated yearly salary or on commission, there are fifty members of the legislature who come directly from the bench in shop and mill and who work at a trade for a day's pay. This is an excellent showing, and we venture the prediction that in intelligence, honesty and industry these wage earning legislators will be found the peers of any sent by the people of the state to make our laws—Boston Traveler. London's Big Directory London keeps on growing, and so does its directory, the 1908 edition of which recently made its appearance. The London postoffice directory, it is claimed, is the biggest book published. This one hundred and ninth edition of it weighs thirteen and a quarter pounds, is eight inches thick and contains 4,698 pages. One wonders how much longer it will be possible for the publishers to keep pace with the increase of the population of the metropolis and confine the record of it to a single volume. The Long Hair Prize In competition for a prize women with long hair presented themselves for examination before a committee in Berlin recently. The prize was awarded to Miss Elsie Burkhardt, whose braid was 197 centimeters (about seventy and a half inches) long. Barbers and other makers of hair growers in all parts of the empire are besieging the woman with the long hair for letters indorsing their respective lotions, and Miss Burkhardt has realized that capturing the long hair prize is not an unmixed joy. Where the Globes Went: A business concern in Park row which runs about all night has missed scores of incandescent light globes lately. Since these globes are fairly expensive and the item of loss had become pretty sizable a detective was put on the job. It took him just twenty-four hours to find that the globes are as good as cash over the bars of the Park row and Bowery ginmills—one globe, one drink of whisky.—New York Sun. THE BROAD AX. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, Protestantism, Inclined, Farmers, Single Texers, Protestants, can. Knight, Farmers, Protestants, have much to long on their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad IA 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. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HEALTH DEPARTMENT TALKS. Dirt, Disease, Danger and Death. CARE OF SCHOOL ROOMS A dirty, badly kept school room is a menace to the health of the community in which it is located. It means needless danger, disease and death. Therefore, the proper care and maintenance of school rooms, becomes a matter of vital importance, as affecting the public health. In a recent talk we had a few words to say as to the ventilation of schools, churches, and places used as assembly rooms. But the matter of ventilation is only one of many important matters that should be carefully looked to in connection with the proper care and maintenance of school rooms. To begin with, all class rooms, halls, cloak rooms and toilets must be kept scruppiously clean. And in doing this work properly there is, or should be, a daily and a periodical cleaning. The entrances, stairs, halls and cloak rooms receive a great deal of outside dirt that is brought in by the pupils, and for this reason they should be both swept and scrubbed daily. Class rooms should be swept daily and in addition should be thoroughly aired after being swept, or, better still, all windows should be opened while the sweeping is being done. No sweeping should be done until the floors have first been sprinkled with saw-dust that has been dampened with a disinfectant solution. The dusting of desks and all furniture should be done with cloths that have also been dampened with the disinfectant. Feather dusters should never be used. Toilet rooms, walls and floors, should be constructed of non-absorbent material and washed daily with hose and broom. They should be kept so clean as not to require the use of deodorants, which, as a rule, only kill one kind of noxious or offensive odor by creating another equally disagreeable. The accumulation of dust and dirt in a school room is such that in spite of the daily cleaning there is need of periodical renovations more thorough in character than can be done in the daily process. At least once a week it is desirable that all wood-work be washed and all floors thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and soap. Windows should be kept bright and clean at all times. As a rule, washing twice a month will keep them in good condition. During the vacation months, all school rooms should be thoroughly disinfected. And after this is done, all floors and wood work should be scrubbed and washed. Air and sunlight should have admittance during the week the rooms are not in use. The practice of closing school rooms and allowing them to remain so during the vacation term is not wise and should be discontinued. All books and pencils should be submitted to disinfection at stated intervals during the school year. In order to prevent, as much as possible, the needless accumulation of dirt and flth, all outer garments, such as cloaks, overcoats, headwear, overshoes and wraps of every kind, should be hung in cloak rooms not connected with the class or assembly rooms. Metal door mats should be placed at all outside entrances, and the pupils should be required to clean their shoes before going to their respective class rooms. Contagious diseases are not contracted, as a rule, in the open air. Consumption, pneumonia and influenza are bad air diseases. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and other child diseases are house diseases, usually contracted in the home, shop or school room. So, if our homes, shops, stores, factories and school rooms are kept clean and free from disease germs, the result will be a marked decrease in all kinds of contagious diseases. Hence we should be interested in helping to bring about and maintain the very highest standards of sanitation in both our public and private schools and to lend our best efforts to aid those who, as officials, are directly charged with this important work. "P." OUR SMART PRESIDENT. Well, after all, Roosevelt is a peculiar man. His letter to the attorney general to apply the interstate law and enjoin all railroads that do not give equal accommodations to Colored passengers looks like a "square deal" if one did not discover, after careful scanning, that it was "the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery." Separate coaches for races or nationalities is wrong, whether the accommodation is equal or unequal. The Americans would not dare impose it upon the Germans, the English, the French or the Italians. Such separation is a badge that means to designate the one separated as unfit or inferior, or as a contamination. If his namby pamby attorney general Mr. Bonaparte, who calls the Negro a common rat and the Caucasian a Norway rat determines that the common rat must be kept separate in travel in order to prevent the contamination or deterioration of the Norway rat, and that the accommodation, equal or not equal, is what the difference in the differentiated circumstances of the races make equitably equal, then, by order of the president and by the opinion of the attorney general, we have permanently established a national "Jim Crow" car scheme. Separation in travel, under any circumstances, may be a great disadvantage where intercourse on the way is necessary for commercial or other reasons; it quarantines the Negro and points him out as a nuisance or an obnoxious infection; and where the nation does this, as per president to see that it is equitably done, it is in the nature of upholding a species of very objectionable and unconstitutional class legislation. When we ask for one thing we don't want another; we don't want the vender to say that he has not what we ask for, then try to palm off upon us something which he calls equally as good. It may be called smart for the president of the United States on the eve of an election to do a lot of wool-pulling, but the motive of the action looks so much like double dealing that it can deceive none but the most mentally dense and unwary. Why did not the president wait until after the election to issue this order, like he waited until next day after the election to issue his order dismissing the Negro troops, in the first case is because he wants Negro votes; in the second, because he got their votes and then didn't care a continental. But you can't fool the people all the time, not even the unsophisticated Negro.—The Advance, St. Louis, Mo. NEW YORK WHITE MAN MARRIES COLORED GIRL AT KEYPORT. A wedding took place in Keyport a few days ago which put the tongues of the white and Colored citizens in motion and they have been wagging over since. The contracting parties were Miss Tressa Richardson, a well known Colored girl of that place and Charles Parker a young white man of New York. The couple were married at the residence of the bride's father, William Richardson, Broad street, Thursday, April 16, by Presiding Elder C. D. Hazell of Atlantic City.-Ex. THE EDITOR FEELS HURT. A man may use the mole on the back of his neck for a collar-button; he may ride a treight train to save 3 cents a mile; he may light the lamp with a splinter to save matches; he may stop his watch at night to save wear; use a period for semicolon to save ink, and pasture his grandmother's grave to save hay; but a man of this kind is a scholar and a gentleman compared to a man who will take a newspaper and when asked to pay for it put it back in the postoffice marked "Refused."—Okmulgee (I. T.) Democrat. JAMES MoINERNEY THE EFFICIENT SUPERINTENDENT,30TH WARD The people residing in the 30th ward, are to be congratulated for the efficient manner in which its new superintendent, James McInerney conducts all the affairs in connection with his responsible position. Mr. McInerney is leaving no stone unturned, in his untiring efforts in having all the streets and alleys throughout the ward put and kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and he deserves the highest commendation of all of its citizens for his good work in this respect. KEITH'S THANKS. The principal, teachers and pupils of the Keith school desire to express their sincere thanks and deep appreciation to the entertainers on the Dunbar program, to the pastor and officers of Bethel A. M. E. church, to the pastors and congregation of the churches in this district, to the daily and weekly press, and to the friends and patrons of the school, for the support given to our school entertainment which enabled us to clear over one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) for the purchase of books for the school library. Grateful acknowledgment is also made for the receipt of a large number of books generously donated by many race-loving citizens; prominent amongst them being Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the United States Treasury, who sent twenty-five rare volumes from Washington, D. C. Albreta Moore-Smith. GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE NURSES OF PROVIDENT HOSPITAL. Tuesday evening, April 28, at eight o'clock, graduating exercises of the nurses of the class of 1908, of Provident hospital, will be held at Bethesda Baptist Church, Wabash Ave. and 38th Street. The following young women will graduate as full fledged nurses: Tallahassee Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio; Pearl Lee Shines, Birmingham, Ala.; Nora Hewitt Martin, Birmingham, Ala.; Nannie Lillian Wilson, Birmingham, Ala. The program to be rendered on the occasion: Prayer..... Rev. Ell. T. Martin President's Address, Mr. G. H. Wilson Vocal Solo—Love's Spring Tide (Hammond) Miss Helen Hughes Address..... Rabbi Joseph Stoltz Violin Solo—Ballade et Polonaise (Veauxtemps) Mr. W. K. Harreld Address.....Bishop C. T. Shaffer Vocal Solo—The Nightingale is a Lyre of Gold (Whelpley)..... .....Miss Helen Hughes Charge to the Nurses. .....Miss Isabell McIsaas Presentation of Diplomas and Pins School Hymn. Benediction MADAME HACKLEY'S RECITAL All Chicago is talking of the treat in store for the music loving public when Madame E. Azalha Hackley of Philadelphia makes her appearance in recital at the Institutional Church, Thursday evening, May 15th. Madame Hackley has just returned from a year's study abroad and the whole country is being charmed with her singing, and according to musical critics of the leading daily papers, she is the greatest soprano of the race before the public today. "Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, of rare effectiveness and training as a soprano, charmed a vast audience by her vocal powers. She introduced each number with explanatory remarks, which gave the listeners clearer views of the passions, sentiments and thought portrayed by the song. She believes in the language of sound. and her clear melodious soprano voice was well adapted to interpret the shades, coloring and tones of the most difficult composition. She is deservedly popular."—St. Louis Advance. All elements of Chicago society will be out in full force to greet our new "Queen of Song." Admission 50 and 35 cents. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES Sunday April 26, there will be quarterly meeting and communion service at 3 o'clock p.m. The pastors and members of Quinn Chapel, Bethel Zion, St. Mary's and St. Johns churches will be present, this will be the last quarterly meeting in this quadorum. The pastor expects to leave the 29th for Norfolk, Va. Monday, April 27th Membership receipts, free admission. Much progress has been made in the Activities this year. The sewing class in charge of Mrs. Ida Barnett is doing much good, the class meets every Saturday at 2 o'clock p.m. The Kitchingarten, Kindergarten and Millinery classes will close about the middle of June.—"S." DEDICATION DAY AT SCOTT M. E. CHURCH. Sunday May 3, will be dedication day, at Scott M. E. Chruch, 618 Fulton Street, and the services will be as follows: 11 a. m., Dedicatory sermon and dedication of church by Bishop S. B. Scott. 3 p. m., Dr. Wm. A. Quayle preaches for us at the Union Park Congregational Church, Washington Boul. and Ashland Ava. 8 p. m. Bishop Scott preaches at Scott Church. Wait! Wait! Elk's Ball, Tatersalls, May 18th. Will you be there? Where? Elk's Ball, Tatersalls May 18th. Waltz, ("Home Sweet Home,") with me, to Great Lakes 43. Tatersalls, May 18th. Mr. Chas. Washington, 3810 Grand Boul. is employed by the Pullman Co. in Wyoming. What are you going to the Elk's Ball for? "Have a good time that's what!" Tatersalls, May 18th. Mrs. Pudine Carter Hackley of Jersey City, will spend the summer in the city visiting friends. Mr. Wm. Francis of St. Paul, spent a few days in the city this week, enroute south on legal business. "The Public," has removed from the First National Bank Bldg., to the Ellsworth Bldg., 357 Dearborn street. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs. Richard Drew, 5746 Wabash Ave. Thursday, mother and son doing well. Mr. Delbert Lee, 4828 Evans Ave. returned to California after having spent a week in the city with his family. Mr. George T. Kersey, will address the "Sons of Mississippi Club" Sunday, at 3 o'clock, at Odd Fellows' Hall 3335 State street. Dr. W. A. Evans, Commissioner of Health, addressed the "Sons of Mississippi Club last Sunday, at Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 State street. Mrs. Luther Moore, 404 Bowen Ave. is the proud mother of an eight pound baby-girl which arrived Friday, Luther lost a few bets, but he is satisfied just the same. Mrs. Blanche Newsome Gray, 2111 Indiana Ave. arrived in the city the later part of last week from Europe, where she has spent the past two months. A grand social will be given Monday evening, April 27, 1908 at the residence of Mrs. Wilson, 3211 Wabash ave., by the Chicago Social Club for the benefit of the Brigade Staff. Hon. George P. Foster, after being urged by his many friends and former supporters, has decided to enter the contest for the nomination for Congress, in the Fourth Congressional District, and at the present time it looks as though he would be an easy winner. William Lewis President of the Frontanac Club, 2131 Clark street near 22d and the following members of the club, including Ed. Morton, general manager, George Foster, secretary; and Pap. Steele, manager, entertained their many friends, Sunday afternoon, and gave away several Merry Widow hats to their lady friends. Walter Evans, Jaybird Foster, Willie Moore, Clint Steward, Clarence O'Scroggins, Dunk Coleman, Wm. Marshall, D. W. Raynor, Charlie Wm. State, Steve Mackey, Tom Clay, Fred. Burch, Bob Albright, Bud Sneed, Geo. Allen, Joe Boyd. Black Rain. One of the services of science is in destroying superstition, and a notable example of this was afforded recently in Ireland. On the night of Oct. 8 last a fall of black rain, leaving inky pools in the roads, occurred in many parts of the island. It was noted at Lord Rosse's famous observatory at Birr castle, and an investigation of the meteorological conditions prevailing at the time followed. The result was to show that there had been a movement of the air over the central part of the British islands such as to carry soot from the manufacturing districts of England over the Irish channel. Examination of the black rain showed that its color was due to the presence of an extraordinary amount of soot—Youth's Companion. Clock on Eiffel Tower The Eiffel tower in Paris is now being used for another practical purpose. Not long ago a wireless telegraph station was installed, and now on the sides of the second section, hundreds of feet above the ground, a luminous clock warns the gay Parisian of the passing span of life. The apparatus flashes forth every minute in huge figures, visible at a great distance. This system was found the only practical one, as the ordinary clock dial would be indistinguishable at such a height—Dundee Advertiser. Did the Tall Wag? An absolutely new dog story has been found. We clipped it from a London paper. Here it is (salt to taste): A gentleman was out shooting the other day when he had the misfortune to shoot his dog. For a moment he was too much overcome to see what damage he had done, and before he had recovered himself the animal, a black retriever, had come up to him, bringing in its mouth its own tail, which had been shot clean off.-Chicago Journal. 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-Ispanah—made in Spain by Mohammedconquerors 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. Sinclaircollected an odd hundred rugs. Sidney Colvin, Myron J. Bird and Mr. Allis own excellent examples. J. Plerpont 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 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 Benqualt 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 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 still 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" 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': "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 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 "fill 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 Angiololo Bronzino. The club has refused an offer of $25,000 for the painting. Selections AN INGENIOUS LOCK Made In New York For an Ecocentric Potentate in India. A lock for which a New York lockmaker not long ago received an order taxed the ingenuity of all the experts in his establishment. It is a point of honor with the house, well known throughout the world, that no order, however ingenious, shall baffle the Inventive faculty of the designer or the technical skill of the workman. What ever a customer wants he must have. The order in question came way from a rajah in India, a manner of dusky potentates fered from the dual possessions honest servants and magnitudes. The diamonds had appearing at an alarming though only seven servants to the box containing the gem been impossible to discover. Whether the rajah dismissed inue or put them to death clon, the thefts regularly cont In his extremity he heard of the New York house. An American would have contented himself with presenting a safe the lock of which would answer to no key but his own. But the rajah desired something more. He wanted not simply to preserve his jewels, but to catch the thief. His older was for a safe fitted with eight different keys, one for each of his servants and one for himself. A piece of glass about eight inches square was to be let into the front of the safe. The lock must be so constructed that upon the opening of the safe by any particular key the photograph of the opener should appear immediately in front of the glass, to remain there till another key was inserted. Thus it would always be possible to tell who had last opened the safe. The clumsy ingenuity of the idea made it a difficult one to realize. But in a short time an apparatus was designed which would contain the seven photographs. This was fastened inside the safe and made to communicate with the lock. By a clever mechanical device the key of each servant as it turned the lock brought the photograph into view.—New York Tribune The Knapsack Bridger A Mexican engineer, Collected Lopez has planned and perfected a new kind of bridge made of knapsacks. The framework of each knapsack is made of symmetrically arranged pieces of wood, which can be spread out by means of hinges into boards of known dimensions. The knapsacks are numbered, and when the stream to be bridged is reached the wooden forms can be promptly extracted from their canvas or leather coverings and quickly bolted into place. A number of experiments have been made by the military authorities, and it has been found that a knapsack bridge will support as many men as can be crowded upon it. In the military schools there are now working models of these bridges, and the men and officers, says the Mexican Herald, "have regular practice in the construction and operation of the pente." The idea can also be applied to the scaling of walls or the climbing of barrances. Statexmen Wage Earners Aside from the lawyers, doctors, clergy and others who are classed as professional men, merchants and manufacturers, the insurance agents, treasurers and others who work for a stated nearly salary or on commission, there are fifty members of the legislature who come directly from the bench in shop and mill and who work at a trade for a day's pay. This is an excellent showing, and we venture the prediction that in intelligence, honesty and industry these wage earning legislators will be found the peers of any sent by the people of the state to make our laws—Boston Traveler. London's Big Dicstory London keeps on growing, and so does its directory, the 100th edition of which recently made its appearance. The London postoffice directory, it is claimed, is the biggest book published. This one hundred and ninth edition of it weighs thirteen and a quarter pounds, is eight inches thick and contains 4,698 pages. One wonder how much longer it will be possible for the publishers to keep pace with the increase of the population of the metropolis and confine the record of it to a single volume. The Long Hair Prize In competition for a prize women with long hair presented themselves for examination before a committee in Berlin recently. The prize was awarded to Miss Elsie Burkhardt, whose braid was 197 centimeters (about seventy and a half inches) long. Barber and other makers of hair growers in all parts of the empire are besieging the woman with the long hair for letters indorsing their respective actions and Miss Burkhardt has realized that capturing the long hair prize is not an unmixed toy. Where the Globes Went. A business concern in Park row which runs about all night has missi- scores of incandescent light glob- lately. Since these globes are fairly expensive and the item of loss had be- come pretty sizable a detective was put on the job. It took him just twi- tety-four hours to find that the globes are as good as cash over the bars of the Park row and Bowyer dimin- one globe, one drink of whisky. New York Sun. Humor > WERE DEATH ON CORN. Gives a Little Lesson in Toe Dee ctural History. amore used to be an eccentric old gsncter 12 our neighborhood,” saia Splanter from one of the Upper par- goss, “who went by the mame of Doc jesse. He bad never forty (piss from the settlement a lte goa vas torely able to read and write, pot be was naturally a sort of Jack of gi trades, and somehow or other he gequired « tremendous reputation for sagacl’s ‘Wher ver an argument arose among fhe country folks Doc Johnson was pretty coztain to be called im to decide end ss be would rather have died fin to Dave admitted ignorance on subject some of bis statements of FE Sor amazing in the extreme. “One usy a farmer in the vicinity geceive! « letter from his son, who had gored up to Iowa, saying, among oth- @ thincs, that the corn crop was look- rg tau ond the country was being rerun ty immigrants. The last word gumped the old man, and after puz- ging in vain over its meaning he hap pened to see Doc and called him in. Gebnsoz knew from the peculiar warmth of his greeting that he was gmng to be asked to solve some knotty poblem and at once assumed the wisest cir. “Doc.” said the farmer, pointing to the mysterious passage in the letter, what in thunder does that boy mean Wy immigrants? What air they lke, gayhow? “Johuson spelled through the para- gph and, noting the reference to the tad corn crop, began rapidly to put two and two together. “Inmrerants? he exclaimed to time. ‘Why, I thought everybody (owel what they was! “air they critters? asked the farm- ee cautiously. “They 1s,’ replied the Doe, ‘a kind ea cross between @ possum and a oo, nd I'll tell you what,” be added impressively—‘they’re Jest simply death @ cora."—New Orleans Times-Demo- aa 2 A Difficult Trick. - When the new trolley line first ran fironzh the little town it was regarded with mingled pride, admiration and fax, for many of the townsfolk stood hhawe of the mysterious powers of the dectrie current. “Would I get a shock if I put my foot ox that rail?” queried a nervous 4 ndy after hovering on one side of ‘Ge road: not quite daring to attempt ‘he dangerous crossing. “No, madam,” answered the polite esaductor. “not unless you put your ter foot on the trolley wire.”—Wo- ‘man's Home Companion. Only Human. Esrves—You should have seen Hot- (gm swell up at that mind reading tance the other night when the blind- felded Indy actually told him the num- ber of his automobile. Beattie—But he has no auto. Earvey—Of course not. But he look- @ astounded and acknowledged she Was right —Puck. Ancther Arcument. “Whst do you regard as the most im- Wertant thing in favor of the theory fut Mars is inhabited?” “The fact,” answered the popular Sdentist. “that an article assuming fict cide of the question can be made free times as readable as one taking ‘the opposite view.”—Washington Star. A Costiv Fall. “She appears to have fallen in love With bin.” “Ok, ses, some time ago. But now — scing him for breach of prom: “Counting upon getting damages for ‘he f01!, ch?"—Philadelphia Press. For Her Hearers. “Don't you think my daughter sang — great feeling at the musicale aight?” “Tes. I noticed that she sang only two of the four verses of the song.”— hicago Record-Herald. = Polite Amenities. = Ee (brusquely)«1 cannot understand Wty so meny foolish women ae #0 ee of dogs, ‘ou ((sweetty}—Nor many ‘feetiah momen laa ‘so to curs—Baltt- re Amcrican, Wandering Philosophers.” S = o era de Indy up at do last house Sir ant : 't say nothin’. Just pointed Rove" vce, ax” T beat tee New ork Bey, ————— f Didn't Appeal to Him. wz you think thet ‘Mien Za Pen © complexion like Svory?* Maries ‘ca ieayneeveland oa re - SHORT STORIES. - A Knife in the making passes seventy different hands. oe ‘The lynching record in this country for 1907 shows a reduction of about 20 ‘Per cent over that of the year pre | B. M. Everett of Penacook, N. H., ‘bas an old cider tuinbler of the date of 1755, of quart size, which was used as’ communion cup. _ The task of rearing banana trees ‘and raising the fruit has been success- fully accomplished by. Edward B. ‘Beals in his greenhouses in Springfield, Mass. Nashua has the most expensive ward Yoom in New Hampshire. The voters of the Second ward assemble once every two years to bring in their bal- lots for governor and other state of. cers, For the privilege of using one Toom for about eleven hours biennially the city pays-$120 a year. Perhaps the most novel quilt in ex- Astence was presented to Rev. E. Bruce Lytle, pastor of the Memorial Reform- ed church of York, Pa, recently. ‘The quilt is of normal size, and the thirty- six different colored patches have the Rames of 674 of York's well known citizens worked on with silk. The Sporting World. ‘The Harvester, at $9,000, comes moar to being the high water figure at pub Ue 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 any. where between $100,000 and $200,000. Most of his investments are in real ee tate in Brooklyn, Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia ts sending bis crack steeplechaser, EI Cuchillo, to France to compete in the Biggest event of the year. He figures that owing to the horse's success in America be would be handicapped out of all events over here. Jimmy Barry, the Chicago heavy- weight pugilist, and Bill Papke are eld pals. The two athletes acquired much of their brawn hustling coal wag. ms around the mines in the vicinity of Spring Valley, where “The Thun- Gerbolt” originally hailed from. German Gleanings. Gas poisoning from gas engines has become so common that German au- thorities urge that cylinders of oxygen be kept near and that engineers be taught to apply Inhalations to resus eftate victims. Three hundred streets in Berlin are planted with 44,000 trees, which rep Fesent a value of $200,000. The care of the municipal parks and gardens Fequires 250 gardeners and 700 as- sistants, 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 unearth- @4 a vessel containing 2,300 silver coins of the eleventh century. Modes of the Moment. _ Peenty of eck all Jackets trinmes with braid ornaments and braid em beolderies will be seen. ‘The taflored coat and skirt of stripes loth, with the lingerie waist and liner collar, the gauntlet glove and bros: brimmed sallor hat, are rushing to th forefront of popularity. The difficulties of tailoring Ught weight goods have been so far over come that now chiffon panamss, volles, the lightest of worsteds, taffetas and tussahs are shown in tailored sults. Jackets both in cloth and silk model are short, the majority in twenty-five fnch lengths, and the “bigh” style wil tend toward the close fitting garments while the general demand will be for semifitting coats.—New York Tribune. Industrial Items. BWuropeans expect a slurp in auto mobile prices and a crisis in the ip @astry this year. A Nottingham (England) miner bas patented a safety pit cage which ts said to be a great advance on all oth- cai ‘Women have obtained many post tions under the New York city gov. exament as the result of competitive examinations. ‘A new ice machine has been invent e4 at Grasse, France. It requires nel. ther steam nor fuel, and it saves 9¢ per cent of cooling water and 70 per eant of motive power as compared with ‘any other freezing system known. The qmaller models may be worked by end pppenss FS Old Fashioned. ‘What has become of the old fasb- fened people who wore red flannel un. Gerwear? ‘What has become of the old tasb- fened man who was referred to as & goed old soul? ‘What has become of the old fasb- feed woman who referred to her @othes 25 “duds?” ‘What bss become of the old fash- foned town family that bought s Geessed hog every winter? “What has become of the old fash- fened niin who before leaving home @ 2 Journey made arrangements with ‘e:anighbor to assist his wife in putting 1a new Decklog in the fireplace?—Atcht gen Globe. ¢ FACTS IN FEW LINFs New South Wales h : has no work ‘The use of tanbark has fallen off 15 er cent since a 1000, although its value Culture of new fruit berry, is to be tetroncet. tote tan country from its Swedish bome. Rew rhanagement of the Metro- es New York city, is talking of introducting grand opera ‘There is more than $250,000 in the treasury. of New York city due to former employees of the city, but ‘Which has never been called for. ‘Two gothic figures torn from French eathedrals by the mob in the French Tevolution have found their way to the Kew York Metropolitan Museum of ‘The Carpenters’ union of Winnipeg, Man., boasts of three men who have been continuous members of the or- ganization for more than thirty-six years. Consul John H. Snodgrass of Pre- toria reports that mica fs found in many places in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Rhodesia in paying quantities. Another attempt has failed to wrest from the sands of the Mexican shore Une the treasure supposed to be lying ‘With the bones of the steamer Golden Gate, which was burned off Manzanillo tm 1862. The custom of using convicts in ‘treadmills is still practiced in some English prisons. The speed is about thirty steps a minute, and if a man misses a step 2 crossbar strikes the calves of his legs. Luther Burbank now promises a hardy banana that will grow in the north and thus enable the thrifty house- holder to step into his dooryard and gather sufficient fruit to make a de- Uiclous appetizer for the more serious things of the breakfast. While repairing the road between ‘Talous-les-Vignes and Conde-sur-Marne, France, workmen found two horse skulls of unusually large dimensions. The skulls were still very hard, and from all indications the horses were buried there hundreds of years ago. A caravan of gypsies which has been resting on the Franco-Belgian frontier since October is unable to retreat or ‘advance, as the French gendarmes re- fuse to allow It to go forward, while the Belgian gendarmes are equally firm im their refusal to permit it to return. Waycross, Ga., with a population ef 9,000, has no poorhouse, nine out of ten of the white population own .heir homes and 93 per cent of the children attend school. The saloon license has. annually for the last sixteen years been fixed at $30,000, and no one has offered to pay the amount for the privilege of opening a saloon. . ‘The municipality of Valparaiso is about to erect a theater building with ‘& seating capacity of 1,605 on the site of the one destroyed by the great earthquake of August, 1906. It is to be up to date and as nearly earth- quake and fire proof as can be built. Large quantities of steel will be used im {ts construction. In connection with the death of the king and crown prince of Portugal it. 4s noted that the members of the house of Braganza bave died two at a time since 1640, when the Braganzas came to the throne of Portugal. It is a mat- ter of history that whenever death has extered the family two have been taken within a few bours or days. Consistent. “Did you go to see the mint while you were in Philadelphia?” “No, sir,” answered Colonel Stillwell “1 voted for probibition, sir, and I am not going to subject myself to any ‘Deediess temptations, sir.”—Washing ton Star.~ . Easily Decided. “Do you believe,” queried the fond mother, “that a child should be cor- rected in the presence of strangers?” “Certainly not,” growled the fussy bachelor. “‘A child should never be ip the presence of strangers.”—Boston | The Society Woman. -_ “Bpeak every day to some one whow ‘you feel is your superior,” urged her confessor. “Yes, but supposing all the servants have left?” interrupted the society wo -man.—New York Life. Not That Kind. — Billy another new spring sult?” es.” “What tallor did he go to?’ “He didn't go to any. He went toa Sawyer.”—Baltimore American. I will Freeze to Please Ice Cream, Sherbets or Frappes, $1.00 ‘per gallon and up. ‘Special prices to churches. 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He bad never omy focty qoiles from the settlement in his lite and was barely able to read and write, put he was naturally a sort of Jack of il trades, and somehow or other he acquired a tremendous reputation for sagaclty. ~\henever an argument arose among the country folks Doe Johnson was preity certain to be called in to decide tt, and as be would rather have died tien to have admitted ignorance on xy subject some of his statements of [T° were amazing In the extreme. One day @ farmer in the vicinity received a letter from his son, who bad moved up to Iowa, saying, among oth- ex things, that the corn crop was look- tng bad and the country was being overrun by immigrants. The last word emmped the old man, and after puz- ging in vain over its meaning he hap pened to see Doc and called him in. Jounson knew from the peculiar ~«rmth of his greeting that he was omg 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 ‘mmigrants? What air they like, eayhow? “Johnson spelled through the para- graph and, noting the reference to the bad corn crop, began rapidly to put two and two together. “dmmygrants? he exclaimed to gin time. ‘Why, I thought everybody knowed what they was! “air they eritters? asked the farm- e cautiously. “They is,’ replied the Doe, ‘a kind of 2 cross between @ possum and a von, and I'll tell you what,” be added impressively—‘they’re Jest simply death ex corn.’"—New Orleans Times-Demo- eet = A Difficult Trick. - ‘When the new trolley line first ran through the little town it was regarded with mingled pride, admiration and fear, for many of the townsfolk stood th ewe of the mysterious powers of the dectrie current. “Would I get a shock if I put my foot on that rail?” queried a nervous eid 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 ether foot on the trolley wire.”—Wo- man's Home Companion. Only Human. ‘Hervey—You should have seen Hot- ayre swell up at that mind reading seance the otber 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 look- 4 astounded and acknowledged she ‘was right—Puck. Another Arsument. “What do you regard as the most im- portant thing in favor of the theory the: Mars is inhabited?” “The fact,” answered’ the popular sctentist, “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.” “Ol, yes, some time ago. But now ties suing him for breach of prom “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 musicale last night?” “Tes. I noticed that she sang only two of the four verses of the song.”— Chicago Record-Herald. Sin Benen Ee (brusquely)I cannot understand why so many foolish women ate #0 fend of dogs, 5 Sue ((sweetly}—Nor I that so many feotish women stick so to curs —Balti- ‘More American. Wandering Philosophers.” [a \ <4 o | @ “Wot did de indy up at Ge last house &y, Wilier" $ “Didn't say nothin’. Just pointed $6 rod pile, an’ I beat tt?”"—New Xork Weng, a It Didn't Appeal to Him. “Dect you thiuk thet ‘Mise Ta Miche bes a complexion like ivory?” Perhaps so, but I never eared much Rr msting on tvory."—Cleveland | Plata Dealer” SHORT STORIES. A knife in the making passes througt seventy different hands. ‘The lynching record in this country for 1907 shows a reduction of about 2 Per cent over that of the Dre- vious. = F. M. Everett of Penacook, N. H. has an old cider tumbler of the date o! 1755, of quart size, which was used #8 & communion cup. ‘The task of rearing banana trees and raising the fruit has been success. fally accomplished by. Edward B. Beals in his greenhouses in Springfield, ‘Mass. Nashua has the most expensive ward Toom in New Hampshire. The voters of the Second ward assemble once ‘every two years to bring in their bal- lots for governor and other state offi- cers. For the privilege of using one room for about eleven hours biennially the city pays-$120 a year, Perhaps the most novel quilt in ex- istence was Presented to Rev. E. Bruce Lytle, pastor of the Memorial Reform- ed church of York, Pa., recently. The ‘quilt is of norma! size, and the thirty- six different colored patches have the mames 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 pub- ‘Me auction for a Practically unbroken youngster. . Manager McGraw of the New York ‘Nationals declares that he will increase Fred Tenney’s stolen base Tecord of sixteen in 1907 to thirty-two In 1908. ‘Willie Keeler 1s said to be the Wealthiest player in the national game. He is reputed to be worth any- Where between $100,000 and $200,000. ‘Most of his investments are in real es- tate in Brooklyn. | Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia is ‘ending bis crack steeplechaser, El ‘Cachillo, to France to compete in the ‘Diggest event of the year. He figures ‘that owing to the horse’s success in America be would be handicapped out of all events over here. Jimmy Barry, the Chicago heavy- ‘weight pugilist, and Bill Papke are old pals. The two athletes acquired @nch of their brawn hustling coal wag- ms around the mines in the vicinity of Spring Valley, where “The Thun- Gerbolt” originally hailed trom. German Gleanings. Gas poisoning from gas engines has become so common that German av- ‘thorities urge that cylinders of oxygen be kept near and that engineers be taught to apply inhalations to resus- eitate victims. ‘Three hundred streets in Berlin are Planted with 44,000 trees, which rep- Fesent a value of $200,000. The care of the municipal parks and gardens Fequires 250 gardeners and 700 as- sistants, 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 unearth- @4 a vessel containing 2,300 silver eins of the eleventh century. Modes of the Moment. Plenty of black silk jackets trimmed with braid ornaments and braid em- broideries will be seen. ‘The tallored coat and skirt of striped cloth, with the lingerie waist and linen collar, the gauntlet glove and broad brimmed sallor hat, are rushing to the forefront of popularity. The difficulties of tailoring lUght- weight goods have been so far over- come that now chiffon panamas, volles, the lightest of worsteds, taffetas and tussabs are shown In tailored sults. 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 semifitting coats—New York Tribune. Industrial Items. Europeans expect a slump in auto mobile prices and crisis in the tn- @astry this year. A Nottingham (England) miner has patented a safety pit cage which ts said to be a great advance on all otb- =. ‘Women have obtained many post- tions under the New York city gov- exament as the result of competitive examinations. x ‘A new ice machine bas been invent e4 at Grasse, France. It requires nel- ther steam nor fuel, and it saves 9 per cent of cooling water and 70 per ‘eant of motive power as compared with ‘any other freezing system known. The gmaller models may be worked by ect ents Sa 2 Old Fashioned. ‘What has become of the old fash- fened people who wore red flannel un- Gerweer? ‘What has become of the old fash- foned man who was referred to as & gnod old soul? ‘What has become of the old fash- feued woman who referred to her Gothes as “dds?” ‘What bss become of the old fash- foned town family that bought 8 @zessed hog every winter? ‘What has become of the old fasb- fened néhn_ who before leaving howe x 2 Journey made arrangements with @ neighbor to assist his wife in putting fs new backlog in the fireplace? —Atcht gon Globe. FACTS IN FEW LINEs —_— — wen ‘The use of tanbark has fallen off 15 er cent since = 1900, although its vane Culture of a new fruit, the lignon berry, is to be introduced into this — from its Swedish home. new thanagement of the Metro- — sep ern: New York city, talking 1 : ; icting grand opera ‘There is more than $250,000 in the treasury of New York city due to former employees of the city, but ‘which has never been called for. ‘Two gothic figures torn from French cathedrals by the mob in the French evolution have found their way to the reg York Metropolitan Museum of ‘The Carpenters’ union of Winnipeg, Man., boasts of three men who have been continuous members of the or- ganization for more than thirty-six years. Consul John H. Snodgrass of Pre- toria reports that mica is found in many places in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Rhodesia in paying quantities. Another attempt has failed to wrest from the sands of the Mexican shore Une the treasure supposed to be lying with the bones of the steamer Golden Gate, which was burned off Manzanillo in 1802, The custom of using convicts in treadmills is still practiced in some English prisons. The speed is about ‘thirty steps a minute, and if a man misses a step a crossbar strikes the calves of his legs. Luther Burbank now promises a hardy banana that will’ grow in the north and thus enable the thrifty house- holder to step into his dooryard and gather sufficient fruit to make a de Uclous appetizer for the more serious ‘things of the breakfast. ‘While repairing the road between ‘Talous-les-Vignes and Conde-sur-Marne, France, workmen found two horse skalls of unusually large dimensions. The skulls were still very hard, and from all indications the horses ‘were buried there hundreds of years ago. A caravan of gypsies which has been resting on the Franco-Belgian frontier since October is unable to retreat or advance, as the French gendarmes re- fase to allow it to go forward, while the Belgian gendarmes are equally firm tn their refusal to permit it to return. Waycross, Ga., with a population ef 9,000, has no poorbouse, nine out of ten of the white population own their homes and 93 per cent of the children attend school. The saloon license has annually for the last sixteen years been fixed at $30,000, and no one has offered to pay the amount for the privilege of opening a saloon. ‘The municipality of Valparaiso is about to erect a theater building with &@ seating capacity of 1,005 on the site of the one destroyed by the great earthquake of August, 1906. It is to be up to date and as nearly earth- quake and fire proof as can be built. Large quantities of steel will be used fm its construction. In connection with the death of the king and crown prince of Portugal it is noted that the members of the house of Braganza have died two at a time since 1640, when the Braganzas came ‘to the throne of Portugal. It is a mat- ter of history that whenever death has entered the family two have beep taken within a few hours or days. vonsistent. “Did you go to see the mint while you were in Philadelphia?” “No, sir,” auswered Colonel Stillwell “I voted for prohibition, sir, and I am not going to subject myself to any peediess temptations, sir.”"—Washing ton Star.~ Easily Decided. “Do you believe,” queried the fond mother, “that a“child should be cor rected in the presence of strangers?” “Certainly not,” growled the fussy bachelor. “A child should never be tu the presence of strangers.”—Bostor Post. aeean ‘The Society Woman. “Bpeak every day to some one whon you feel is your superior,” urged her confessor. “Yes, but supposing all the servants have left?’ interrupted the society wo - man.—New York Life. Not That Kind. “Has Billy another new spring suit? “Yes.” “What tailor did he go to?” . “He didn't go to any. He went toa fawyer.”—Baltimore American. Saar eee I will Freeze to Please Ice Cream, Sherbets or Frappes, $1.00 per gallon and up. Special prices to churches. SODA FOUNTAIN PUT IN FREE OF CHARGE. ‘The only Ice Cream Factory owned ‘and opetated by Colored People tm Chicago EP. MARSHALL 2022 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2190 This Should Interest You An opportunity to show your race loyalty and at the same time to make a profitable investment in The Parkwood Cemetery Association, Capital Stock $15,000.00, Shares $10.00 each. Now is the time to subscribe for stock; plenty of time will be given in which to pay it. For particulars call at the office, 3160 State St.. Tel. Doug. 3522. See circulars or consult the commission- 2 gs Names of Commissioners: J. L. PARKS, FRANK W. KING, MATTHEW M.HULETT, A.N. SIMPSON, ENOCH COOPER, E. S. MILLER. R. M. LEACH, Dl eo ase . E. S. MILLER, Secretary. Qa ae, SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING ‘The Broad Ax can be bought through the STANDARD NEWS COM- PANY, retail and wholesale agents. 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GASH hi Attorney at law, 94-86 La Salle Street, Chicace Suite 615 40619, ‘Telephone Main 3077. a ee JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR, AT Law 328 ASHLAND :BLOCK AELEPWONE CEWTMAL w98 cmicace Phone Main 4158 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter ML. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res, 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO Phone Oskiand 1538 F. A. Rawlins ‘The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4834 State St., CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 Phone Calumet 1579 . Morgue and Private Chapel. C. JOHNSON UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY R. W. GREEN, MGR. 2712 State Street Chicago WA ae tea ot ate Sear eee ; ie Dr. J. William McDowell | Physician & Surgeon ingest teeth hee 8:30 p. m., and nights. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 3100 STATE ST., CHICAGO. Telephone Douglas 4796. Dr. W. E. MACKEY S111 STATE STREET Phone Doug. 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M., 2 to 4 and 7 to OPM RESIDENCE: 4843 ARMOUR AVENUE hens bss ort | HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M and Nights CHICAGO. idle City Office, 500 Burton Bidg. 39 State Street Hours 47 P.M. Phone Central 3207 W.D, Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street SOURS—$12 m. 1:30 p.m. After 7:20 p.m. Phone Calumet 264 Telephone, Calumet 194 Dr. A. BL Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 2to12A M3 to CHICAGO and after 6 p.m. CE Kreyssler Chemist and Druggist 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. Sist St. CHICAGO vOocene 246 and Oakland 245 Good Colored Tenants Appreciated I have stove heated flats to suit every man’s income. I am no agent, I rent Se ee ae ee a flat if you first call on me. Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle St, S-W. Cor., Madison, Room 1, Tel Main 2133. Otis Block. To the Readers of The Broad Ay I wish to announce to my many friends I have from 4 to 8 rooms, stove heated flats to rent on the South and West Side, call if you are desirious and has not the rent, I will loan on your personal effects. See the Rev. T. A. Clark, 3742 State St. Please cut this out. GRAND | ROLLER | EVERY AFTERNOON and EVENING a CHATEAU de la PLAISANCE 532426 State Street BEST RESTAURANT IN THE CITY IN CONNECTION MUSIC BY ARMANT ADMISSION 15 CENTS Leland Giants B. B. & 4. Assn, 6258 Halsted Street Jsea J. Duna wisveesie PCOALS | mez | WUGp Pt eeenaeanies Ram, Yampe:{ So's. and Asmear Are W. B. Cowan & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance The aad mess mesos 0 soectann J. H. COLEMAN & C0. Express & Van Moving MRS. A. E. BAKER Nonens aden a ee Foxe ‘Tel. Douglas 335 THE ELITE BUFFET Phone Douglas 3393 CHAS. GASKIN, Prop. 2940 State Street CHOICE WINBS, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Cafe In Connection Chicago try it i a a 0 | ye Lb 4 Baa $ Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them Write for a Catalogue | ivi full it ? how | Cane bap ps ta Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St, CHICAGO. ; TME BROAD Ax. ts for sale at the following news stande: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. Gist street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo, L Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 East Sist St C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mra. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. Glat street. T. B Halls Cigar Store and ‘Laundsy office, 351 teth St Mrs, Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. 8, Cole, 354 Thirty-frst street, sigars, tobacco and news stand J. R. Peters Cigars, ‘robaceo and News Stand, 338 B. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street ‘W. P. Johnson, Notion Gtore and News Stand 3704 Gtate st. ‘Turner Wiliams’ Shaving Parlor and News Stand, $903 armour sve. BR Davis, cigars, tobaccc, and son fectiowery, 3533 State st. © C McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. ‘Mrs, J. W. Hadley 116 W. Sist st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. ‘Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries aad news stand 5038 Armour ave. ‘M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 8512 State Street. ‘The Informer News Co, 183 Ram doiph St, Detroit, Milet. ‘The Standard News Co 191 W. Uiré st, Now York, City, % ¥. Standard News Company, 4 W. 186th street, New York City, M. T WASHINGTON LETTER [Special Correspondence.] In the death of Senator William James Bryan of Florida the senate has suffered its eight loss within a year. The first death was that of Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan. Then the venerable and beloved senators from Alabama, the Damon and Pythias of that body, Morgan and Pettus, both of whom had passed the age of eighty years, suddenly to their graves in the recess of congress preceding the present session. Senator Mallory of Florida was the next to go, dying in the Christmas recess of this session. His death was followed only a few weeks ago by the unexpected demise of Senator Latimer of South Carolina, who succumbed comparatively early in life to a combination of stomach trouble and an operation for appendicitis, which was found to have been unnecessary. Then Senator Redford Proctor of Vermont passed away, to be soon followed by Senator William Plinkwe Whyte of Maryland. Senate Hae Its Superstitions. Washingtonians hold fast to certain well defined superstitions regarding deaths in the senate. Thus it was that when Senator W. J. Bryan, the youthful successor of Mallory, took his seat and the two new senators from Oklahoma had been sworn in and George Peabody Wetmore was finally chosen to succeed himself, thereby completing a full membership of the senate for the first time in many years, the veterans of the senate chamber began to whisper among themselves, "Who will be the first to die?" That there is a tradition of the senate that a full senate means an early death of a senator can be readily confirmed by the curious, but it would not be an easy matter to find out when and where this grewsome tradition arose. Senator Latimer, who died soon after this tradition began to be whispered about, was one of the men in the senate whose deaths were the least expected. Deaths In Congress. There is another common superstition about deaths in congress which usually verifies itself, and that is that not fewer than three members of each congress die before their terms expire. Already this number has been exceeded in the Sixtieth congress, although the Sixtieth congress is now only four months old. Technically Senators Morgan and Pettus should be added to the list because they were, until they died, entitled to sit in a special session of the Sixtieth congress, which really began its existence March 4 last. As no special session was held, however, although the members draw their salaries from March 4, the congress has sat only since the first Monday in last December. President Roosevelt's Portrait. For some time past President Roosevelt has slipped away from his many duties at the White House to give half an hour's sitting for a three-quarter length portrait, which is being painted by P. A. Laszlo, a noted Hungarian artist, who has an international reputation and who has painted portraits of many of the crowned heads of Europe. Among the monarchs he painted was the late King Carlos of Portugal. It was the last portrait for which King Carlos sat and was painted two years ago in Paris. Mr. Laszlo's commission to paint the president was undertaken at the request of Captain Arthur Lee of England, who was former secretary of the British embassy in Washington. Captain Lee served with President Roosevelt in Cuba, and the portrait which Mr. Laszlo is engaged on will depict Colonel Roosevelt in rough rider uniform, with whip and gloves in hand. Invited to Firemen's Convention. Invited to Fireman's Convention. About six years ago President Roosevelt was made an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen when he attended the annual convention of that organization in Chattanooga. Nearly every year since he has been invited to attend the conventions. An invitation was extended him the other day by J. J. Hanrahan, grand master of the organization, who said that the annual convention will be held this year in September in Columbus, O. The president repeated what he has so often said to others—that he will not accept any more invitations this year. To Mark Soldiers' Graves. Representative Porter of New York, at the request of the Niagara Frontier Landmarks association, has introduced a bill providing for the erection of a monument to the officers and enlisted men who fell at the siege of Fort Erie in 1814. It is proposed to erect the monument at Fort Erie, on Canadian soil, and the question is whether the United States could do this. There is no precedent in congress for such a procedure, but it is thought likely that the consent of the Canadian government could be secured for the erection of the monument. Loeb Holde Secretarial Record. Secretary Loeb remarked to one of his visitors recently that he had been in the office of secretary to the president longer than any one of his predecessors. Secretary Cortelyou served under two presidents, but he did not become secretary to Mr. McKinley until 1900, and he resigned the office in 1903 to become secretary of commerce and labor. His term of office was therefore less than three years, the date of his appointment in the cabinet being Feb. 18, 1903. It was on the same day that Mr. Loeb was sworn in as secretary to the president, although he had been in the White House offices since September, 1901, as assistant secretary. Nearly all the other presidents' secretaries have served four years or less, but Mr. Loeb passed the five year mark on the 18th of last month. CARL SCHOFIELD. WOMAN AND FASHION An Economical Gown. A suggestion is here given for a charming gown to be made out of one of the new dainty batiste robes which appear in such lovely colors in the shops now. This is a pale blue embroidered robe, finished in scallops. The skirt has the strips of embroidery edging used to form panels by extending lengthwise into the skirt band. The blouse has the embroidery formed into a cape or fichu-like piece gathered ```markdown ``` A DAINTY BATISTE ROBE at the waist into a buckle. The underwist and sleeves are of tucked net. Black velvet ribbon outlines the embroidered edge, this in turn finished with tiny valenciennes edge. Narrow black velvet ribbon bands the sleeves. The cost of such robes is $7.50, with velvet and net. It should easily come within a cost of $10 when finished. Variety In Linens. The linens now come in so many different weights and of so many different makes that it is quite possible to buy a linen at this season that can be worn from the very minute it is made. There are linen styles to suit early spring as well as linen styles for late midsummer. And one of the best importers is showing tailor made linens in deep blues that are to be put on now and worn, or at least that can be worn, in a very few days. Handsome Linen Gown. A handsome linen intended for very early wear is of Copenhagen blue. It is very heavy, and to make it more seasonable it is trimmed with black velvet. There is a collar of velvet, a plain narrow turnover band, and there are flare velvet cuffs turning back from the three-quarter sleeves. The style, which is that of coat and skirt, is rather full in its line. Slim Frock Effects. The handsomest of the princess dresses have a wide band of trimming extending all the way down the front, and there are embroidered fronts all in one piece reaching from the gulpe to the hem of the gown. This long straight front panel gives a woman height, and, if the lines are good, the panel makes her appear slimmer and more statuesque. Boot Must Match Gown. The necessary item of shoes is a thing not to be reckoned with easily. That the boot must match the gown is now a style which is unquestioned, but the matter of purchasing the cloth and having it made up into boots is so expensive that one hesitates at the outlay. Fortunately boots now come ready made with tops that match many materials. A Lewis Model. The spring hats are charming, and the illustration shows a Lewis model of good style. The shape is novel in K. IN ZAFESTRY BLUE STRAW. outline, showing a straight high crown, succeeded by a rather narrow brim turned up at the sides, and is made of fancy straw braid in tapestry blue. Tucks Are Popular This Season Tucks Are Popular This Season. Flat inch or half inch tucks are seen in many ways this season. A blouse of cream lawn is one mass of these flat inch wide tucks, the shoulders and sleeves made in one piece and the yoke of white net embroidered with flowers in solid thread. Telephone DOUGLAS ... 1865 READING INSURANCE JESSE BINGA REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO. ForSale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Belle modern, hardwood throw. $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat bed heat, hardwood through. $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 ft sell separate. Make ten. $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 rooms. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, bright. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., frame 8 provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat floor. JESSE BINGA, 3637 State Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizing-$100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland are included to dissolve that Association in order increased Base Ball for the purpose of buying Giants Base Ball and Establishment Parks, Up-To-Date Amusement Parks, Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Min-Pavillion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burd Riding, and all the latest fun making deyergeth with a First Class Summer Hot guests, at its present location, 79th and ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and an value in a single season. Millions can be This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Racismen And Well Paying Plant, When Be Employed, between May and October out fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom The Answer can only be effectively given tion, it has been made purposely low so t have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each Any Holiday around Amusement Parks wanted and never welcome. Come! buy the attached Coupon and mail with Ten I and Amusement Association. Do it to-day. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement A 57th and La Fayette Ave., hardwood throughout. Hiley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Labash Ave., 2-9 room stone from marate. Make terms.alle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick.alle St., 2 flat, brick and frame.alle St., framing building, 6 rooms.born St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 room.3637 State St. Ph Plants Base-Ball and Amuse Organizing—Capital $100,000 Laders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association in order to give room for the purpose of buying a Permanent Club and Establishing For All The Public Amusement Park, With It's The Chutes, Minature Ry, Double Screet fun making devices and laugh in Class Summer Hotel, large enough location, 79th and Wentworth Ave.ars to the Loop District in Chicago.base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy.ason. Millions can be made by those use. Favor Of The Race Owning And Paying Plant, Where More Than Ten May and October of each year, when The Life and Freedom of a Citizen be effectively given by subscribing for the purposely low so that all Loyal Men interest in this Twentieth Century Era.00) Dollars Each. You Squander and Amusement Parks and Public Place.come. Come! buy and build one of the mail with Ten Dollars to the Lea.ociation. Do it to-day so that we may Ball & Amusement Assn. 6258 Hall $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 in- provements. $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 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 Capitae 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, at its present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant. Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy. The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a great interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Share Only Ten (1000) Dollars Each You Squander More than this amount. We Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:-- which I am sending as Part (or infull) as shares of the Capital Stock of the Lelah Association. I agree to pay $...... has been paid certificate. Enclosed Part (or infall) as subscription fee for Stock of the Leland Giants Base y $ ..... per month has been paid, at which time l k Ac- order eley, street, rock- order, should their inten- ent. in ad- Ball 258 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 HUMOR OF THE HOUR Ever Met Him? "Fine day," observed the sallow passenger with the eyeglasses. "Huh?" "I say it's a fine day." "Oh, yes," answered the man, who was trying to read a newspaper. "Be a lot of trouble with the fruit, though, when the cold weather comes along next month." "Huh?" "I say there'll be a lot of trouble with the fruit when the cold weather" "— "Oh, yes." "It's all right, though, I guess. Whatever happens is right." "Uh-huh." "I see old Jake Schaefer beat the young fellow last night." "Beat him?" "Yes. Playing billiards, you know." "Uh-huh." "I don't know anything about billiards myself, but I am told it's a fine game." "So?" "Yes, but I'd rather see a good game of baseball. Wouldn't you?" "Uh-huh." "Don't you think Taft stands a good chance of getting the nomination next June on the first ballot?" "Uh-huh." "Who do you think will be put up for vice president?" "Or maybe it'll be La Follette?" "Uh-huh." "Anything new in the paper this morning?" "Yes. Man killed in an elevated train." "How?" "He was talked to death." The sallow faced passenger with the eyeglasses gulped once or twice and breathed hard, but had nothing further to offer—Chicago Tribune. Just as Terrifying. Lazy Lemuel—Talk erbout bravery. I ain't afraid uv ennothing dat walks. Soiled Samuel—Neither am I, but dat ain't sayin' much. A cake uv soap can't walk—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ```markdown ``` All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order Treasurer, 6258 Haisted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock-accounts must be made in accordance as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their information to apply for employment. For further information address Island Giants Base-Ball 6258 Haisted Street, s.n. 6258 Haisted Street, Chicago, Illinois. "I say it's a fine day." Bayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms, through. brick and stone, 5-6 rooms, steam out. room stone front residences; will rooms. frame, brick foundation. brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. building, 6 rooms, modern interior. frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. St. Phone, Douglas 1565 and Amusement Assn. -Capital Stock 1,000 Giants Base-Ball Association, has come to give room for the former, with it's a Permanent Home For The Leland For All The People, The Only First With It's Theater (Light Opera), Nature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Key, Double Swing, Boating, Autoices and laugh producing concessions, toel, large enough to accommodate 1000 Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutesict in Chicago. Amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in made by those Who Take Stock In Owning And Operating This Image More Than 1,000 Persons Will of each year, where you can come withm of a Citizen unmoleted or annoyed? by subscribing for Stock in this Corpora-tat all Loyal Members of the Race can 80th Century Enterprise. Think of it, You Squander More than this amount and Public Places, where you are not and build one of your own by filling out dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball so that we may commence to build. 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 Mrs. Caroline C. Furbush of West Newton, Mass., has presented to the navy department for the Naval academy at Annapolis a valuable historical painting by Thomas Birch of the "Battle Between the Constitution and the Guerriere." Birch was an artist of a century ago and was one of the first designers of United States coins at the Philadelphia mint. He painted his naval battle picture in 1828. Emperor William, who is no mean judge of works of art, has pronounced a painting owned by J. Pierpont Morgan now on exhibition at Berlin the finest among forty masterpieces of English artists. The picture, which is a portrait of Miss Elizabeth Farren, who was the Countess of Derby many years ago and is by Sir Thomas Lawrence, was among the great paintings in the collection of Mr. Morgan at London. A plan is on foot to conserve the waters that supply the Yosemite and Bridal Vell falls so that each will flow three months more a year than at present. These falls usually go dry about August. By building reservoirs in the headwaters of Bridal Vell and Yosemite creeks it is believed that sufficient water can be stored to maintain the flow over the falls until late in October. A preliminary survey indicates that the project is feasible. There is a persistent rumor of an engagement between the Princess Patricia of Connaught and the Count of Turin. The Princess Patricia is the daughter of King Edward's only living brother, and it is said that she might have been queen of Spain had she desired so doubtful an honor. The Count of Turin is the son of the Duke of Aosta, who was once king of Spain, but who abdicated, dying about fifteen years ago. The Count of Turin is also first cousin to the king of Italy. Florence Lister-Kaye has become a Roman Catholic in order to marry Captain Vaughan, a nephew of Rev. Bernard Vaughan, the famous priest. Her conversion has so angered her father, Sir Cecil Lister-Kaye, and her mother, Lady Beatrice Adeline, the Duke of Newcastle's sister, that they have disowned her. But her aunt, herself a convert to Roman Catholicism, has taken up the young woman, who is in her twenty-third year. Miss Lister-Kaye in a niece of the dowager Duchess of Manchester. 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: 45th and Robey Sts. 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