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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Political and Social Doings at Washington, D.C. THE FORAKER NATIONAL LEAGUE CONTINUES TO DO GOOD WORK IN BEHALF OF THE NOMINATION OF THE OHIO SENATOR FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Political and Social D Was THE FORAKER NATIONAL GOOD WORK IN BEHAL THE OHIO SENATOR F UNITED STATES. NEWS FROM OUR CORRESPOND ENT AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Hon. W. T. Vernon, the Colored Register of the Treasury, is said to be quiet active in the interest of Secretary Taft's candidacy. Nevertheless it is a fact that while he is piloting his Washington visitors to the White House to shake hands with the President, the Colored Republicans in the Southern states are busy electing anti-administration delegates. Prof. Waring, head of the Baltimore High school (Colored), brought his graduating class over to Washington one day last week and while they were here they called on Senator Foraker. Principal Waring introduced each member of the class to the Senator, after which Senator Foraker greeted them in a short speech. It was a rare treat for the Baltimore students. Florida completed her state delegation Tuesday when the Third Congregational District Republicans met at Pensacola and elected two delegates instructed for Foraker. The Taft people held a rump convention. The Louisiana "Lily-wites" went down to an inglorious defeat on the twenty-first. The Democrat won by over fifty thousand. These Lily-wites" had a strictly anti-Negro candidate. They announced on the stump that they did not want the Negro vote. The small vote cast by them will discredit them in national politics and will demonstrate to the National Republican Committee that their claim of strength is, without foundation. Hon. Walter L. Cohen is the rightful leader of the Louisiana Republicans. Virginia will have twenty-four delegates on hand at the Chicago convention to contest the seats of the Lily-wites." What a sorry lot will the "Lily-wites" appear if they are seat home branded as imposters. In spite of the fact that the Taft people claim that their candidate will win out, yet it is significant that they are bolting wherever they think they have no show of delegates. In Arizona last Saturday the Taft people boiled after a Foraker resolution had passed the convention. New Hampshire Republicans voted down Taft resolutions in the state convention last Tuesday. The vote stood 736 against the Taft resolution to 15 in favor of the Taft resolution. The New York Press has an editorial in the issue of April twenty-first under the caption, "Shall the Republican National Convention nominate to win or lose?" This is one of the big Metropolitan dailles and a strong Republican paper. They point out, in this editorial that Mr. Taft would be weak at the polls if the Republicans should nominate him. The argument is strong and convincing, and goes on to show that such states as Wisconsin and New York would probably be won by the Democrats if we should nominate Mr. Taft. Dr. Robert E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Methodist Episcopal church published by the Colored people, was in Washington about a fortnight ago and while here called --- on Senator Fcraker Dr. Jones is one of the best newspaper writers that the race has produced. Great interest is often manifested in keeping up with the offspring of distinguished men and women. Washington has a good number of such people. The following list will show that the sons and daughters of our past leaders are, to a great extent adding laurels to their family names. Frederick Douglass has two sons here. Charles Douglass is a high class clerk in the Pension office. Lewis Douglass is one of Washington's foremost citizens although not engaged in active business because of impaired health. Charles Douglass has two sons; Joseph, the celebrated violinist, and Haley, a recent graduate of Harvard who is now both a teacher in the high school and student in medicine at Howard University. B. K. Bruce's son, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, is at the head of the Washington school system for the Colored youth. Young Bruce, who is a Harvard graduate, fills this position of responsibility with much credit to himself and with general satisfaction. Ex-Gov. Pinchback has two sons here, Bismarck and Walter. Both of them fill responsible clerk-ships in the departments. Walter is a graduate of the Howard Law School and a member of the District bar. Ex-minister Bassett, who was minister to Haytl during President Grant's administration has two sons here. Both are Yale graduates. One is a teacher in the high school and the other is a clerk in the Treasury department. Ex-Congressmann O'Hara's daughter is a teacher in one of the city schools. Ex-Congressman Menard's son is a clerk in the Government offices. The lamented N. Wright Cuney, one of the most brilliant politicians of recent years, has a son here, Lloyd Garrison Cuney, who holds a responsible position and who is a wortny son of an illustrious father. Hon. M. W. Gibbs, the veteran Arkansas diplomat and capitalist, has a daughter here who is an accomplished musician She is the wife of Hon. Napoleon Marshall a prominent attorney. Lawyer Marshall is a Harvard alumnus. The appointment of James A. Cobb and S. Laing Williams as special assistants to district attorneys come rather late in President Roosevelt's administration. Years ago political politicians played the game of politics by giving men jobs a short while before convention time. The practice seems to be alive even in this advanced age of "civic righteousness." The "line up" of substantial respectable and representative Colored men throughout the South shows that Senator Foraker is the choice of the great majority of them. Vice-President Fairbanks has quite a number of admirers and so has Gov. Hughes, Speaker Cannon, Senators Knox and Lafollette. It is indeed very noticeable that Secretary Taft's main support in the South comes from the "Lily-whites" and largely from a part of the few Colored office-holders. The Colored office-holders who are not for Taft are indeed few yet there are some honorable exceptions. CHICAGO, MAY 2, 1908. 1708 MRS. JOHN R. MARSHALL. The dutiful and popular wife of the commander of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, graciously assisted to receive the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus C. Harris, at the celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary. MR. AND MRS. ADOLPHUS C. HARRIS CELEBRATED THEIR TWENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY tess and the other members of the receiving parly. The cream of the four hundred turned out in full force and with the Last Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus C. Harris, 5247 Dearborn street, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary, at the Appomattox Club, 3144 Wabash ave. In every respect it was a very brilliant affair. Mrs. John R. Marshall, Mrs. Harry C. Hudson, Mrs. E. R. Mead and Mrs. G. B. Hawley, composed the receiving party. Col. John R. Marshall, presented the guests to the host and hos The S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society rendered Hiawatha, the masterwork of the Afro-Aglican composer at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on Thursday night to a large and appreciative audience. The director, Prof. Jno. T. Layton, deserves great credit for the success of the occasion Miss Mary Europe, the accomplished pianist, was the accompanist. Mrs. Katheryn Skeene-Mitchell, soprano; Mr. W. H. Richardson, baryton, and Mr. W. Wilcox Swan, tenor. Ex-Congressman Grosvenor, of Ohio, gave out a statement last week in the course of which he said that Joseph B. Foraker was Ohio's greatest statesman and orator. Senator-elect Wm. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, is making a great fight in his state against the Federal machine. He is an out and out Fairbanks man and is working hard to have Kentucky's vote registered for the Vice-President. Senator-elect Bradley is a notable example of what the South can produce in real Republicanism when the people are permitted to select their own leaders. The President sent a special message to Congress recommending that appropriation be passed for four battle-ships. The recommendation was turned down by the House. The House by a vote of 199 to 83 decided to appropriate for two additional battle-ships. The measure is now before the Senate. Senator Foraker is completely taking all of his time in the effort to have the soldiers honorably relinquited. As an evidence of this, he was compelled to cancel an engagement that he had made to address the Ohio legislature. This course he took in order to allow no opportunity to slip to compel a vote on the bill that he has offered. Secretary Oliver Randolph of the Foraker National League has received private assurance from quite a num- At the Appomattox Club tess and the other members of the reckling party. The cream of the four hundred, turned out in full force, and with the beautiful costumes and rare jewels worn by the ladies and with the parlors of the club artistically decorated and brilliantly illuminated made an enchanting scene to behold. Mr. and Mrs. Harris,, who are extremely popular and held in the highest esteem by an army of friends were just as gay and young looking as the day they were married twenty years ago, and owing to their popularity, they received, almost a wagon load of costly and beautiful presents, from their friends in all sections of the United States. ber of uninstructed delegates that they will vote for Senator Foraker for Persident at the Republican National Convention. If the contesting delegations favorable to Senator Foraker are seated the vote for the Ohio Senator will be very large indeed. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SILENT ON THE GREAT SPEECH DELIVERED BY SENATOR FORAKER ON THE "BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR." Booker Taft Washington the famous wizard of Tuskegee, was in Boston, Mass., last week, on his annual beging tour, and a representative of The Herald of that city, endeavored to interview him in his fine suite of rooms at the Parker House, as to his opinion, on the great speech delivered by Senator Foraker, in the United States Senate, on the "Brownsville Affair." But Mr. Taft Washington closed his mouth up tighter than a clam, and declared that, "he never discusses public questions." Although he has been advocating the nomination of William H. Taft for President of the United States, claiming, that, there is no doubt of his election. Not one word has Mr. Washington uttered in praise of Senator Foraker, neither he has, at any time raised his voice in behalf of the members of the 25th Regiment, whom President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft, dishonorably discharged and branded, as "murders and midnight assassins," without the slightest proof, that any one of them had committed any crime whatever, and yet, Booker T. Washington, who has proven himself to be, the criaging slave of Roosevelt and Taft, desires that the ten million Negroes in this country, must fall down and worship him, as their infallable god! Many Cold, Frozen Facts for the Afro- American to Diest WILLIAM H. TAFT AND HIS SHOUTERS AND RETAINERS. JOIN HANDS WITH THE LILY-WHITE REPUBLICANS IN THE SOUTH. ANY NEGRO WHO SUPPORTS TAFT FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DESERVES TO BE RE-ENSLAVED AN INTERESTING ARTICLE BY REV. R. H. W. LEAKE D. D. OF NORTH CAROLINA. The following article is reproduced, which is ably written by Rev. R. H. W. Leake, D. D., of North Carolina, for the purpose of showing the great amount of true love that William H. Taft, and the Lily-white Republicans entertain for their Colored brethren in the South and in other parts of this country: "We began with the Republican party at the close of the war in 1865 and remained true to the same until the amendments to the Constitution were ratified. But seeing the "Lily-white" Republicans whom we had supported all those years from 1865 until the adoption of the amendments, anxious to eliminate us from all party councils that they (the "Lily-white" Republicans) went to the polls and voted almost solidly for the adoption of the amendments in order to disfranchise the Negro, telling us that the Republican party could carry the state but for the cry of the Democrats of "Negro rule." They then appealed to us as a race to remain quiet and take no part in politics and they would carry the State. We took them at their word said nothing. After waiting until 1908 we thought we should rise up and work for the party of Lincoln and Grant the party that stands so much for the Negro's political and civil rights. What do we meet? Secretary of War Taft and his lieutenants, consisting of the office holders of the national government, telling the Negroes at every corner that he shall take no part in perpetuating the grand old Republican party. When we meet this state of affairs coming from the men for whom we labored and died calling themselves "Lily-white" Republicans, we stop to speak and will act East, West, North and South, so help me God! "We will admit that the Democratic party framed the Constitutional Amendments in N. C., but the very men for whom we had worked for thirty odd years fell over themselves to vote for these amendments, these amendments that forever disfranchise their best friends, the Negro. Mr. Taft's lieutenants and office holders have gone a step further than the Democrats for while the amendments disfranchised a large portion of Negroes many of them have gone to other States in which they can vote; but the "Lily-white" Republicans in North Carolina are striving to disfranchise the educated and thrifty Negro of the State. If they go to the precinct meeting and happen to be elected to a county convention, they are humiliated when they get to such a convention by the No.30 Frozen the Afro- can to Digest IS SHOUTERS AND RETAIN- ERS: LILY-WHITE REPUBLICANS SOUTH. TS TAFT FOR PRESIDENT OF DESERVES TO BE RE-EN- LE BY REV. R. H. W. LEAKE RTH CAROLINA. "Lily-white" pie counter gang who will not notice them, whose committee on credentials report every precinct that the Negro delegate represents by election as not being represented. Some few paid Negroes are telling others to come and get on the Taft "band wagon," but any Negro in America who would vote for a man whose leutenants are instructed all over the South to crush Negro manhood is not worthy his name written in dry sand on a windy day. Now the Negro, after forty years of freedom, who has not race pride够nor the manhood to strike back when he has been struck a most forcible blow by the so-called "Lily-white" that Negro ought to be reenslaved. We believe in the principles of the Republican party, the party of Lincoln and Grant, the party that Senator J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, and others like him stand for today. The Negro has never been an ingrate; he has never betrayed the flag of his country; he has never assassinated a President of the United States; and why should these recently white-washed "Lily-white" Republicans rise up against us under the directions of Mr. Taft? We know that there are some white Republicahs in this State who are in favor of fair play towards the Negro but they are set aside for the "Lily-whties" who was organized by a man that the Negro vote in the legislature helped to send to the United States Senate to represent this grand old State of ours. He made the President believe that if he turned out every Negro postmaster in the State the so-called "Lily-whitees" could carry the State, for they themselves always or could vote the State Democratic ticket. Their whole desire was to see the nation go Republican in order that they might fall heir by virtue of some kind of sham organization to what few federal offices that are given out by the President in the South. The only time they wanted the State to go Republican was when they saw a chance to break into the United States Secate, and just as soon as the Democrats got into power again they joined hands with them in disfranchising the Negro as a voter and eliminating him entirely from all party councils."—Ex. Ex-Congressman George P. Foster, has this week, sent out a letter, to all the voters in the Fourth Congressional distrist, reminding them of the fact, that he is a candidate for Congress, and is seeking the votes at the primaries August 8th. Of all those who believe in his ability to represent them in the lower halls of Congress. THE BROAD AXI Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholicism, Protestantism, Catholic, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republican, labor, or any other man can have so long as their language is proper and responsible is fixed. The Brood, is a newspaper whose platform is good enough for all, ever claiming the editorial need to speak its own mind. We communicate with receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Year. $2.00 Months. 1.00 VOLUME S. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Alg. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Dr. Drake, Statistician of the Department of Health, has recently made the statement that upwards of 2,000 persons in Chicago have become infected with consumption during the past winter. He adds that the winter months are the most dangerous period of the year on account of people living to closely housed. This statement of Dr. Drake's has suggested the need of caution in the matter of people moving into houses that have been vacated by other families. Many of these houses contain disease germs and doubtless the germs of consumption, as it is quite within the possibilities that some of the 2,000 infected cases that Dr. Drake calls attention to have been living in houses that will be vacated this spring. Renters should make it a matter of practice to refuse to move into a house that has not been thoroughly cleansed. As a rule, landlords do calcine and renovate for new tenants, and while this is effective as far as it goes, it does not cover everything by any means. The new tenants should see to it that the floor are thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and soap suds, adding thereto bi-chloride of mercury tablets enough to make a strong antiseptic solution. All wood work should also be thoroughly washed and houses aired as thoroughly as possible before occupancy. Neither should the airing stop after occupancy. Too many families are afraid to open their windows even during the pleasant months of the year. Better have a little dirt in the house and more fresh air. It is not enough that windows be opened a little while in the morning to air out a room; the, should be partially opened all day long and all night, in order that there may be a free circulation of air through the rooms at all times. This is a basic principle of home ventilation and should never be neglected. In Chicago, as in all large cities there is a tremendous percentage of the population who migrate annually between the 25th of April and the 10th of May. In many cases families move in on the heels of families that are moving out. The outgoing tenant rarely leaves the place that he is vacating in good condition for the reason that it is almost impossible to do so. It is therefore all the more important that incoming tenants should exercise every precaution against possible contagion or infection. In this connection, and on the subject of ventilation, housewives are especially urged to open their windows and doors daily and permit a free circulation of outdoor air in their homes. Children and adults should seek the open air and sunshine as much as possible. Care should also be exercised in the matter of dress. Don't discard winter underclothing too early for the reason that in this climate we are still subject and will be for several weeks yet to sudden and violent changes in temperature. It is never safe to discard winter underwear during the month of April. TURNER B. ASHBY. Turner B. Ashby, who is one of the well known north side politicians, celaned up quite a handsome sum in dealing in North Chicago Street Railway stock, within the past year. Mr. Ashby, is head of Junius J. Smith and Company, 100 Lake street, manufacturers of perfumes and their choice toilet preparations are handled by all the leading wholesale drug houses and department store throughout the country. Rev. W. S. Brooks, Des Moines, Ia. spent the past week in Chicago, on his way to the A. M. M. Conference, Norfolk, Va. MAN'S MISSION ON EARTH. The real mission of man on earth has been a subject of sharp discussion among scientists. Some say he is here to accumulate all that he can. Others say he is simply to be a law abiding citizen. Some say he is here to hold up the high standard of social life. There are others that say he is here to keep the species from dying cut. However, should we look deeply into the matter, and decide from a scientific knowledge and after a thorough analytical process had been employed, we would find that man's mission on earth is to benefit his fellow man and further to the best of his ability the science through which men are benefited. I will discuss briefly the above in order to show that the first statements are not wholly optimistic and do not give a satisfactory answer to analytical people of the question of man's real mission on earth. If man is here to accumulate, he would become peseismatic in his views, miserly in his accumulations, unaffected by the miseries of others until they butcher him. His love of accumulation would draw him to get wealth by unfair means. Finally he would care for no one but himself. If the man is simply a law abiding citizen, he starts out in youth with brilliant ideals, but when he becomes matured he settles down, perhaps marries, is honest, obeys the law and provides for his family. Such a mission is like unto a star that comes forth brilliant and with shining light then fades away before the morning sun. We will next discuss the social man. Probably he starts out in life with brilliant ideals, perhaps wins a place in society through the fortune made in the manifestation of his abilities. However, his love for work and science soon wanes when he falls in line with the social set. His life is taken up with entertainments, parties and dinners like the brain of a dying patient suck the juices of the poppy and seeks ease rather than struggle for their life. The idea that man's mission is to keep the species from dying out is almost absurd, is animal reason. It is true that this is a sub-division of man's mission, but not the real one. Man's true mission is to aid his fellow man and advance the science that will benefit his brother most. By so doing he becomes optimistic in his views, he has that instinct to be honorable, to labor for science's sake, to have a certain amount of love for his brother combined with a benevolent spirit. His whole soul and pleasure rests in his ability to help his fellow man. Some ask, why should man spend his life in toil for his brother; why spend his life in work when pleasure and enjoyment are present on every hand? We answer, who is our model, was not Christ in the height of pleasure when doing for his brother man; has he not told us, "to love thy brother as thyself;" is not Christ our model and leader? Then in endeavoring to live a life which is Christ-like, we must labor for our brothers' benefit. Let the social man wake from his dream; let the miser aid the needy; cultivate the seed of knowledge in the law abiding citizen, and then let the man who has grasped fame from his ability be not corrupted with fame, but still seek the hidden mysteries of his work. Let the man whom science has blessed not deliver of his brother to the monster decay, but rather with his sword of ability rescue. his weaker brother from the monster's grasp. —Webster D. Marlane. WHITE WOMEN AND NEGROES SIDE BY SIDE AT A BANQUET. Hear Pleas for Social Equality and Intermarriage of Races and Cheer —Girls Well Known in New York Society. New York—Social equality and intermarriage between races were advocated to-night at a banquet of the Cosmopolitan society of Greater New York, where twenty white girls and women dined side by side at a table with Negro men and women. Whether by accident or design, all of the white women except three found, when they reached the tables in Peck's restaurant, 140 Fulton st., that the seats beside them were occupied by Negro men. The Rev. Madison C. Peters, who had intended to speak, remained only long enough to view this startling seating arrangement. Miss Mary White Ovington, a Brooklyn society girl, who has been prominent in settlement work, and whose father is proprietor of the Hotel St. George, was the only white woman who occupied a seat at the speakers' table. At the left of Miss Ovington was seated Editor Villard of the New York Evening Post. His plea for "equality and abolition of cast spirit" a few [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and bow tie]. minutes later drew forth wild outburst. But the one table in particular which attracted attention was that at which half a dozen white women were seated, and where a young Negro, Captain H. A. Thompson, sat between two well known white girls from Green Point. These young women were Miss Isabel Eaton and Miss Marion Doolittle. They laughed and chatted with their Negro entertainer, while he re-told his experiences at San Juan hill, where he served as Adjutant of the Eighth Illinois Colored infantry.—The Inter-Ocean, April 28. a large brood of chickens that came home to roost and gave him a deal of trouble afterward. Roosevelt is now shaking his trees to prevent his chickens from roosting on them. Mr. Claypool thinks the trusts are working the Negro vote to punish Roosevelt. Does he think they are working the labor vote for the same end? It, too, is making trouble. If the Negroes will follow their opposition to Taft and Roosevelt to the bitter end, they will demonstrate that they are buying, and have a promising future. The New York Age has been bought up and turned against the anti-Taft Negroes. All the others TURNED BY BROWNSVILLE CASE. In "Views of the People" of April 18. J. H. Claypool, under the caption, "The President and the Negroes," like one who leaps from a platform resting on rollers, makes a ludicrous landing. I was surprised to read at the close of his letter: "For one who has done what he could for the development of the Colored race," etc. Yes, Tillman and Vardaman have done and are doing for the development of the Negro race all they can as they want it developed. One Hon. Mr. Heflin, M. C., did what he could a few days ago to develop part of the Negro race. He succeeded in showing that he had already developed an ass in his own person. I voted for Roosevelt. I believed the Negro soldiers shot up Brownsville because the President said so, though I strongly suspected they had great provocation for doing so. After reading nearly 2,000 pages of the Senate investigation of that affair, I don't believe a word of the charge that the Negroes did it. I believe the Brownsville people or some of them did it themselves. They were mad because the Negro soldiers were sent there. I could see before I read 500 pages of the investigation that the Southern members of the committee would vote the Negroes guilty. Their cross-examinations were largely trick questions, so that the Negroes could not answer with either a yes or a no without misstating their case. Foror always followed and cleared the matter, but the Negro haters showed their animus. I am not a Negro. I am descended from a long line of Scotch, English, Irish and Holland ancestors. But I have long sympathized with the Negroes because of the infamous injustice that has been heaped upon them. I am not a member of any trust, and have no interest in the success of any trust, yet, in my limited capacity, I am doing all I can to influence the Negro voters to oppose Taft and Roosevelt as Republican nominees for President. I am an independent voter, with a strong Republican leaning. I hope the Negroes will carry their opposition to Taft or Roosevelt to the polls. if Taft or Roosevelt is the nominee I shall vote for Bryan or whomsoever the Democrats may nominate. It will be asked: "Will such nominee, if successful, do any better by the Negro than have Taft and Roosevelt?" I reply: "He is not likely to do worse." I would rather be killed openly by an enemy than be assassinated by a false friend. Roosevelt seems to be trying to imitate Frederick the Great, when he set aside the verdict of his lawfully established court in the Miller Arnold case. But Frederick hatched To The Indianapolis Star: a large brood of chickens that came home to roost and gave him a deal of trouble afterward. Roosevelt is now shaking his trees to prevent his chickens from roosting on them. Mr. Claypool thinks the trusts are working the Negro vote to punish Roosevelt. Does he think they are working the labor vote for the same end? It, too, is making trouble. If the Negroes will follow their opposition to Taft and Roosevelt to the bitter end, they will demonstrate that they are gaining, and nave a promising future. The New York Age has been bought up and turned against the anti-Taft Negroes. All the others are anti. JOHN T. CAMPBELL. Soldiers' Home, Lafayette. From the Indianapolis Star, April 16. NEGRO COACHMAN IS NAMED IN LORD DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS. Letters Introduced in Trial of Rich Man Against His Wife at Bridgeport, Connecticut. Bridgeport, Conn., April 30.—Special.)—The trial of the divorce proceedings of Henry J. Lord, a wealthy poultry raiser of Trumbull, Conn., and Kansas City, against his wife, Emanuel Augustine Lord, in which their Negro coachman, Harry Cameron, is named as co-respondent, began this afternoon. The couple, who have relatives and friends in New York City, where they lived for a short time, were married April 2, 1902. Mr. Lord alleges his wife was guilty of in proprieties with their coachman on divers occasion at their handsome country residence in Trumbull. Letters were introduced addressed to Cameron, and claimed to have been written by Mrs. Lord, in which she used the most endearing terms. The custody of a 4 year old daughter is asked for by Lord. AN INFORMAL WHIST PARTY Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis, entertained at progressive whist, Tuesday evening in their beautiful home, 3228 Prairie ave., in honor of Dr. O. A. Taylor of Topeka, Kans. The invited guests were Mr. and Mrs. Monroe L. Manning; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. S. Laing Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer; Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Pearson; Miss E. Shaffer of Kansas City; Mrs. G. Slaughter, Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Dent, Mrs. C. Toler, Dr. O. A. Taylor—"C." TUSKEGGE INSTITUTE BAND CON CERT, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1908 ALABAMA HALL'LAWN, AT 4 O'CLOCK P. M., SHARP. Last Sunday at Tuskegee the following program was rendered: March, "Old Faithful," Holzman; Selection, "The Angels' Serenade" Braga; Waltz, "Roses" Ballau; Anvil Chorus, "Il Travatore," Verdi; Intermezzo, "Feather Queen," McKinley; "National Melodies." N. Clark Smith, Bandmaster; Thos. Montes, Principal Musician. MADAME HACKLEY'S RECITAL All Chicago is talking of the treat in store for the music loving public when Madame E. Azahra 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. CHIPS 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. What are you going to the Elk's Ball for? "Have a good time that's what!" Tatersalls, May 18th. Dr. D. H. Anderson, has moved his office from 3100 State street, to 3018 State street, Phone 5016 Douglas. Fred. L. McGhee, of St. Paul, Minn., who put us in the clock for $3.00, spent three or four days in Chicago the past week. E. P. Marshall, who manufacturers the best ice cream in Chicago, has removed from 2922 State street to 7271 State street, where he has better facilities for supplying the wants of his many customers. Rev. J. Madison Mason, B.D.D.D., who cleaned us up for $2.00, as his subscription to The Broad Ax, and who has gave up preaching and working in the post office, in order to become the leading traveling agent for the oldest church organ. Rev. William Gray, has become one of the general salesman in Woolf's clothing house s. w. cor. of State and Monroe streets, and he is the first Afro-American to be employed in such a capacity. Col. Robert M. Mitchell, 2731 Dearborn st., has been confined to his home with illness for some time, but he is on the mend and he is again able to visit his law offices 79 S. Clark street. R. L. Jackson, the job printer, 2718 State street, left Friday evening for Oklo., on important business, and before returning home he will visit other sections of the Southwest and the South. W. K. Crampton, 214, 28th street. who is one of the wheel horses of Democracy in the 2nd ward, met with a painful street car accident last November, and from that time to the present he has been forced to lay up in his home for repairs, but as the political pot begins to boil it will not be long until Mr. Crampton will be able to hustle around again. A Complimentary Banquet will be given to Dr. D. H. Williams, in honor of his 25th Anniversary in the practice of Medicine and Surgery, Wednesday, May 6th, 8 p. m. at Bethel A. M. E. Church, 30th and Dearborn sts. A Loving Cup will be presented from the Colored Physicians of Chicago. John E. Traeger, who made the successful race for City Treasurer, in 1907, when all the other democrats were defeated may be induced to become a candidate for member of the board of review, and if Mr. Traeger, should decide to enter the race he will put Roy O. West out of the running. Tom. Heflin, the would-be congressman from Alabama, this week paid to Thomas McCreary, the New York horseman, whom he accidentally shot, while shooting at a Colored man on a street car in Washington, D. C. a few weeks ago, a large sum of money and all expenses in connection with McCreary's confinement in the hospital, and Lundy, whom crack-brained Heflin endeavored to kill, has brought suit against him for twenty thousand dollars. Albert Morgan, who owns a nice home at 3427 Armour ave., and who has for many years worked for Wilson Brothers, manufacturers of gents furnishing goods, will at the primaries, August 8th, buck up against B. S. Samuels, for captain of the 9th precinct of the 3d ward, and Mr. Morgan who is warmly supporting Hon. Martin B. Madden in his fight for reelection to Congress from the First Congressional district, scent victory in the air. Col. Simon B. Turner the able and influential editor, of the Illinois Idea, Robert W. Lacy who will have the preachers to pray for his political success, Attorney Augustus L. Wil- llams, Col. Louis B. Anderson and Oscar De Priest, the present political boss of the Colored Republicans in Cook county are active candidates for County Commissioner, and Mr. De Priest is working hard to become the choice of the machine, so that his name will appear on the state ticket which he believes will enable him to slip through for another two years so that he will be in a better position than in the past to feather his own nest. "Lands intersected by a narrow frith abbor each other. Mounted, interposed make enemies of nation, but nothing in the history of mankind as a prolific cause of hate, strife and infancy, can at all compare with human folly called religion! And it is that identical religion which causes the biggest devil and the hotest for the eternal torture of the world which has most persecuted, most robbed, most massacred and most tured the living!—Examiner, Patis Tex. Former Representative Edward O. Green, A. H. Roberts, Dr. Alexander Lane, the present efficient member of the legislature of Illinois, Attorney James A. Scott, Dr. H. C. Cress and lawyer James N. Simms, are so avowed candidates for legislative honors in the first legislative district and it is freely predicted by the leading Afro-American Republican politicians, that the fight between them at the primaries August 8th will narrow down between Dr. Lane, and Messrs. Green and Scott. Alderman John H. Jones, the new chairman of the Building Department of the city council, returned home Thursday morning from a flying business trip to Des Moines, Iowa, where he has a contract for doing public work, amounting to more than one hundred thousand dollars, Alderman Jones, is one of the most successful contractors in Chicago, and for that reason he has been honored with the right chairmanship in the council. And the Clock Struck 1. Another Source of Worry. Bifkins—Airships will only add to the troubles of mankind. Mifkins—How so? Bifftins—Every time a man starts on a flying trip he will worry about how he is going to land—Detroit Tribune Church-That man going along there is one of the best known artists in town. Gotham-Is that a fact? "Yes, he owes everybody." — Yonkers Statesman. Reason Enough. "I can't imagine why she should have been out when I called." said Borem. "You can't?" queried Miss Cutting. "Didn't you just tell me she knew you were coming?"—Minneapolis Journal A Wifely Scheme "Why nag your husband so about that carpet? He has agreed to beat it." "Well, if he's thoroughly irritated he'll make a much better job." St. Paul Pioneer Press Strategy Mrs. Subbubs—How in the world did you get Bridget to come out here? Subbubs—Had her ride backward, so she never found out she was leaving town—Harper's Weekly. Not Her Style. He (angrily)—are you trying to make a fool of me? She (coldly)—Not at all. I never try anything ready made.—Baltimore American. Knicker—It doesn't always pay to be polite. Bocker—No. End seat hogs are never sugar cured.—Judge. Proof Enough. "I see that the man who invented the stock ticker died wealthy." "Then he didn't play it."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Evidently. Little Willie—Say, pa, now are railway stocks watered? Pa—From a pool, my son.—Washington Star. Knows Better Now. Ella—Figures won't lie. Stella—I used to believe that, but it was before I saw you in bathing.—Judge. Selections THE TELEPHONE. Its Marvelous Progress In Less Than a Generation. Of the 8,500,000 telephones in use throughout the world at present the United States and Canada have more than 6,000,000, with other countries practically nowhere. To include Canada is indeed only complimentary, since the United States alone has about 5,750,000 instruments out of the 6,000,000 in use. More than 30,000 towns and villages in this country now have telephone connections. Many are the strange ways in which this instrument, only one generation old, is utilized in various parts of the world. In San Francisco there is a Chinese exchange, while in many of the manufacturing towns of New England operators are often compelled because of the mixed population which depends upon the telephone to speak two or three languages in addition to English. Away over in the capital of Persia another novel use of the telephone is found. There the shah, whom it is practically impossible to see, has allowed his subjects the right to petition by telephone. A booth has been set up in the central square of the city, and there citizens can get their sovereign's ear and demand their rights in a way as curious as it is new. Each day a long line of petitioners assembles at the booth at daybreak and remains until sundown, when it is closed. Indeed, the telephone is proving a powerful democratic influence in bringing together rulers and their subjects. King Edward, the czar and the German emperor are reached by this means much more often than was formerly possible. They are indeed fast becoming more accessible than many of New York's money kings whose telephone numbers appear in no directory, the operators being forbidden to reveal them under any circumstances. Were this not the case, it is said, the millionaires would be flooded with numberless calls of every description. By revealing their numbers to only a few business and personal associates this bother is eliminated. Another novel use of the instrument in New York is the taking of testimony under oath by means of it. The annual number of telephone messages in the United States is almost incredible, totaling probably 7,500,000,000. Were one man to attempt to speak all these conversations it would have been necessary for him to have started about 3,000 years before Christ, since the call, allowing three minutes for each call, would occupy 5,000 years. Expressed differently, this number of calls would give every man, woman and child and even the babies in this country about 100 a year—a remarkable indication of the point of development which the telephone has reached in its brief life of thirty years as an organized business. Vegetarian Legislators. Vegetarian meals are a great success in the house of commons. A special vegetarian table d'hote has been provided in the members' dining room for some time. Perhaps not more than a dozen members adhere strictly to the use of "no flesh, no fish," but many are adopting a dietary containing a reduced consumption of meat. Sir James Alfred Jacoby, chairman of the kitchen committee, began about the end of last session to cater for vegetarian dishes which would appeal to members who were not vegetarians. He puts on the table "the vegetarian dinner at 1 shilling, guests sixpence extra," of which the following is a sample menu: "Creme boune femme, omelette Lyonnaise or curried eggs and rice, macaron an gratin or saute potatoes, milk pudding or rhubarb tart, bread, cheese, pat of butter."—London Tatler. The Russian Way. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, the czar's only brother, a bachelor and nearly thirty years of age, is having his first affair of the heart, but as the lady, whose name has not been made public, is of lowly birth the czar has not only refused his assent, but has ordered that she be banished from the country, with but the intimation that the decree will be rescinded as soon as the girl shall have married a man of her own class. General Kaulbars delivered this cruel message with such energy, promptness and dispatch that Grand Duke Michael's sweetheart and her parents departed from their estate within six hours.—Argonaut. Frankish Tombs Some interesting particulars are now available about the discovery a month ago of an extensive Frank cemetery at Hale-St. Paul, in Belgium. At the present time forty-five separate tombs have been opened, and in twenty-five of them have been found ornaments as well as a good deal of the black pottery typical of the Merovingian period. Three of the tombs seem to have been reserved for women, to judge from the ornaments found in them, which include bracelets, brooches and rings. The cemetery must have been in use for a long time, as several different ways of placing the bodies are noted.—London Athenaeum Potential Criminals "We are all potential criminals," was the startling statement made by Dr. Albert Wilson to a deeply interested audience at the Sociological society. "If we had had the heredity of some of these poor people (prisoners) or if we had had the environment we should have done the same as they."-London News WASHINGTON LETTER WOMAN AND FASHION [Special Correspondence.] About twenty of the surviving members of the "Iron brigade" residing in Washington assembled in the private dining room of the Queen cafe a few evenings ago for an hour of social pleasure. No formal speeches were in order, but the "old boys" got "close together" by talking over the old times, the trials, the dangers and last, but not least, the many pleasant associations of their army life. The "Iron brigade" was composed of the Second, Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin, the Nineteenth Indiana and the Twenty-fourth Michigan and Battery B of the Fourth regular artillery of the Union army of the civil war. How the Iron Brigade Got Its Name. The origin of the name Iron brigade was explained by General George B. McClellan in a conversation with Brevet Brigadier General John B. Callis, colonel of the Seventh Wisconsin regiment of Lancaster, Wis., now deceased, at the Continental hotel, Philadelphia, on the occasion of the general reception tendered General McClellan several years after the war. In reply to a question as to the origin of the cognomen Iron brigade General McClellan said: "During the battle of South Mountain, Sunday, Sept. 14, 1862, my headquarters were where I could see every move of the troops taking the gorge on the pike (Turner's gap, through which the National road passes). With my glass I saw the men fighting against great odds, when General Hooker came in great haste for some orders. I asked him what troops were those fighting on the pike. His answer was, 'General Gibbon's brigade of western men.' I said. 'They must be made of iron.' He replied: 'By the eternal, they are iron!' If you had seen them at the second Bull Run, as I did, you would know them to be iron!" I replied, 'Why, General Hooker, they fight equal to the best troops in the world.' The Lost Commander. "This remark so elated Hooker that he mounted his horse and dashed away without his orders. After the battle I saw Hooker at the Mountain House, near where the brigade fought. He sang out, 'Now, general, what do you think of the Iron brigade?' Ever since that time I gave them the cognomen of Iron brigade." The following dispatch was sent to General E. S. Bragg at Fond du Lac, Wis., who at one time commanded the Iron brigade: "The survivors of the Iron brigade, assembled in reunion tonight, send greetings to the last survivor of its old and honored commanders." City Playgrounds. During the past week deeds were placed on record transferring to the District the entire square bounded by Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth and Q and R streets, in Georgetown. This property is to be used as a public playground in accordance with the plan which seeks to provide a place where the children may engage in harmless sport without danger to their limbs and lives and without infringing the city laws. Parks In the River Sections. Naturally as the years go on this situation instead of improving will get worse, so that it is regarded as a wise step to begin now the acquisition of property where these play parks can be provided. This is more especially true in such a section of the city as Georgetown, which was laid out under a different plan from that of the old section of the city of Washington. That work of planning a city was done more than a hundred years ago, and no provision was made for parks or for the circles and the triangles and open spaces which rather freely dot the original plan of the city of Washington. Street Maintenance. About $454,000 will be expended in repair work on city streets and $250,000 will be spent in laying new asphalt streets in the District during the next few years. Officials of the engineer department are making preparations for this year's part of the work. Last year about $390,000 was spent for repairing new streets and repaving old ones within the city limits, and about $190,000 was expended in the construction and repair of county roads. Younger Men In Senate. The proportion of young men in the senate is growing rapidly. The number of old timers is dwindling steadily. But seven senators have served for three terms or a period equivalent to three terms. They are Senators Allison, Hale of Maine, Frye of Maine, Aldrich of Rhode Island, Cullom of Illinois, Teller of Colorado and Daniel of Virginia. Senator Allison entered the senate March 4, 1873, and is now in his thirty-sixth year of senate service. Senator Hale began March 4, 1881; Senator Frye, March 15, 1881; Senator Aldrich, Oct. 5, 1881; Senator Cullom, March 4, 1883; Senator Teller, March 4, 1885, and Senator Daniel, March 4, 1887 Passing of Old Timers. Senator Allison is past seventy-nine. Senator Hale is nearly seventy-two. Senator Frye will be seventy-seven in September, Senator Aldrich is sixty-six, Senator Cullom will be seventy-nine next December, Senator Teller will be seventy-eight in May, and Senator Daniel will be sixty-six next September. Both in years and length of service Senator Allison is the dean of the senate. Senator Cullom of Illinois, however, is less than a year younger than he, and Senator Teller is younger by only about fourteen months. Within a year Senator Teller will end his term and will quit the senate, and this will still further deplete the ranks of the old timers, while the question whether Senator Allison is to return is still unsettled and will not be determined until the Iowa primaries in June. CARL SCHOFIELD. Wrinkled Sleeves. Having decided to revive the long sleeve for separate waistls as well as for costumes, modistes are presenting this gown feature in an exaggerated form, exaggerated if one speaks of the length only, for new sleeves fit the arms with almost glovellike tightness. They reach well over the hand and finish in a point, with a becoming line at the wrist, which shows off a shapely arm and pretty hand to advantage. Mous H FITS THE ARM WITH GLOVELIKE TIGHTNESS. FITS THE ARM WITH GLOVELIKE TIGHTNESS. selines, chiffons and other thin materials fall in dalynt and soft folds when they are shirred down the side of the arm from shoulder to wrist, as in the accompanying smart illustration. The shirring forms a narrow upstanding frill on the outside of the arm and provides a strengthening line or foundation for the whole sleeve. Without this support the sleeve would require a lining. In many instances a tight foundation of mousseline is used with a shirred outside. Smart Neckwear. There is great variety in the neckwear of the moment, and even with the lingerie waist, without which so many women feel that life is impossible, collars and ties are now required to give the desired finish about the neck. The turndown embroidered collar is all pervading and is worn with all kinds of waists - taffeta, crepe de chine, chiffon or lingerie, as the case may be. There is an endless variety in these collars. Some are of the finest, sheerest linen lawn, with most exquisite embroidery and edged with narrow valenciennes lace, and where the edges meet in front there is a tie or stiff bow, the daintiest thing imaginable. These collars are not so stiff as the heavier linen, but the latter are certainly attractive and have both openwork and heavy embroidered designs, and the edges are scalloped. To wear with these are dainty tie bows and jabots. Prettiest of all are the plaited ties on the order of those worn by Presbyterian ministers of olden times. For the New Coats Plain stitching is no longer the principal decoration of the tailor made coat. Whether it be of cloth, linen or silk, it is trimmed either with braid or with straps or bands of different material, as shown in the cut. For the simple spring tailor suit facings and strappings of linen are frequently used even on a cloth jacket. The use of bands of silk on cloth, of cloth on silk, etc., is also a pronounced feature of this season's fashions. Not only are the trimming materials put on in bands, but shaped pieces cut T. in many different styles are used to trim the coats. In linen coats a linen of contrasting shade may be used for this purpose or striped, figured or polka dotted material. When the coat is of cloth the decorative pieces are sometimes of velvet, although for the spring linen or silk is more used. Trimmings of lighter or darker colored cloth or linen are also used on coats, either in straps, facings or shaped trimming. 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 commissioners. The Broad Ax can be bought through the STANDARD NEWS COMPANY, retail and wholesale agents. All goods shipped promptly to all parts of the country. Subscriptions, Advertisements, and news items taken at office rates. For the convenience of travelers, they can have their mail addressed care of The STANDARD NEWS COMPANY BUREAU DEPARTMENT. All visitors when in the city should call and register on our visitors book for publication. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGC. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE Suite 315-330 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON 418. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND BLOCK Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray, 5610 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res. 4855 Langley Av. CHICAGO F. A. 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ADD THE MOCALL CATALOG, NEW YORK This Should I An opportunity to show you time to make a profitable investment Association, Capital Stock $15,000 is the time to subscribe for stock in which to pay it. For particular St.. Tel. Doug. 3522. See circul ers. Names of Commi J. L. PARKS, MATTHEW M. HULETT, Dr.J.William McDowell Physician & Surgeon Hours—8 to 10 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 6 to 8:30 p. m., and nights. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 3100 STATE ST., CHICAGO. Telephone Douglas 4796. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 3111 STATE STREET Phone Doug. 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. RESIDENCE: 4842 ARMOUR AVENUE Phone Blue 6371 HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M. and Nights CHICAGO. City Office, 500 Burton Bldg. 39 State Street Hours 4-7 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D. Langford, M.D. Home Office, 2353 State Street FOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 Telephone, Calumet 194 Dr. A. B. Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M., 3 to 5 CHICAGO and after 6 p. m. C. E. Kreyssler Chemist and Druggist 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. 51st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 I will Freeze to Please MORSHALL Ice Cream, Sherbetts 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 operated by Colored People in Chicago E. P. MARSHALL 2922 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2190 Interest You our race loyalty and at the same agent in The Parkwood Cemetery 10.00, Shares $10.00 each. Now ; plenty of time will be given sars call at the office, 3160 State dars or consult the commission- issioners: FRANK W. KING, A. N. SIMPSON, E. S. MILLER. E. S. MILLER, Secretary. EARTH KNOWING through the STANDARD NEWS COM- pany. All goods shipped promptly to mns, Advertisements, and news they can have their mail addressed COMPANY BUREAU DEPARTMENT. and call and register on our visitors NEWS COMPANY New York City. J. Gary, General Superintendent. Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. 151st St. & L. S. & N. S. Rv. RAIL YARD: 152nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO W. R. Cowan A. C. Harris M. C. Cowan W. R. Cowan & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance 260 S. CLARK STREET Tel. Harrison 1075 CHICAGO Tile and Slate Hauling a Specialty. COAL J. H. COLEMAN & CO. Express & Van Moving TRUNKS EVERYWHERE. 2540 State Street Phone 699 Calumet CHICAGO ICE CREAM CIGARS. TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQ'SORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 3393 CHAS. GASKIN, Prop. EUREKA BUFFET 2940 State Street CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Cafe In Connection Chicago Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo. I. Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 East 31st St. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 39th St. Mrs. Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 2704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hadley 119 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St., Detroit, Mck. The Standard News Co 121 W. 53rd st., New York, City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 185th street, New York City, N. Y. ```markdown ``` Brevities THE HALL OF FAME. cous nee RO Reginald Teepe at college, it is ‘said, wrote a nt of poems of more than average merit. ae Pete ‘elghty-six, of, Colpo a it ort har bee tines Secretary Taft will deliver the Me- morial day oration at Grant's tomb, on the Hudson river, New York. ‘The president may attend. Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michi- gan was born in Pesinsylrania, served with a Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war and récelved is academic ‘and law education in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Olive Wentworth, who is eighty- five years old, is one of the smartest old ladies i Woodman, N. H. She does all of her housework, sewing and knitting, besides caring for a large Sock of hens. ‘One ‘ot the few survivors of the Mex- ican war residing in Connecticut is Ira Chapman. eighty, of Winsted. Mr. Chapman's grandfather, Robert Chap- man, was a Revolutionary soldier and attained the’ age of ninety-six. James Dorr of Worcester. Mass., sev- enty-three years of age. dropped into a Dowling alley the other day and after stating that it was the first time he had bowled in thirty-five years made an average of seventy-eight pins in eight strings. ‘The sum of $150,000 was left to Hen- ry Baxendale in England by bis fa- ther if he would return to the Plym- outh Brethren, but as he bad allied himself with a fraternity vowed to the simple life te refused to accept the bequest. Angus Morrison of Chicago suffered the poverty of riches when be visited St. Louis recently with $5,600 in cash im his pockets, and yet because of a soiled shirt and dusty coat he was un- able to obtain lodging. He was finally locked up for safekeeping. His majesty King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has conferred upon Harry St. George Tucker the degree of comman- Gatore of the Order of the Crown of Italy in recognition of the high regard im which the latter is held by Italian Officials who were received by him while he was president of the James- town exposition. “New York City. All of the immigrants who come to New York are not steerage passengers. ‘The cabins brought 143,120 last year. ‘New Yorkers are now moving faster im the direction of owning their own homes than ever before. Installment buyers are paying on contracts calling for $250,000.000. Experience in the metropolis prompt- ed a coal dealer to say of one of bis customers, “I don't think that be is a Very wealthy man, because he pays his bills as soon as I present them.” Chief Derry of the New York bureau of weights and measures reports that 5 per cent of the sellers in the city use false balances and measures and ‘that to sell coal one-quarter short of ‘the weight paid for is quite common — New York Heraid. P. Home Notes. In cleaning ribbons it is better not to fron them at all. Sponge with gasoline or ether and wrap around a ‘large bot- tle. Never fill a lamp completely. If it Js filled in 2 cold room’ and then taken fmto @ warm one expansion will occur ‘and the ol will overflow on the sides. | Finger marks disappear frodi Var- nished farniture when sweet oll is rub- bed on the spot and from oiled wood ‘when paraffin is used in the same way. ‘When a candle is too small for the socket of the candlestick and there is ‘Ro time to make a paper filler, light the andle and drop some of the melted grease into the socket. then quickly stick the candle in, and it will remaip firm as soon as the grease hardens. The Gamy Trout. It spawns on the reefs. It is found on beth continents. It is now artificially propagated. It belongs to the same genus as does the salmon. ‘When transported to warm waters it Decomes fat and lazy. ‘Mr. Fisherman likes it because of its re an at its splendid best in cool, sparkling mountain streams. ‘There are many varieties in both per cst sinic= waters 4s omnivorous. Everything from Jackknives to corncobs has been found © sRbe only way to tame that fellow Castro be to import, naturalize ‘him and then eleet him to cot > ‘Ledger. : ect that was said to be full of artoine 98-day ; Satcmiien:: the ‘gy tal? imitati a ort } & pee Rar atta 5D once. at Gy kinleasil te ek tote Ome ree ae nen 5 Sees 20 Nelle ee ON, ee Se eae Se SHIPS OF CONCRETE. Cost Hatt as Mum Ss trem Vewsels and Are Fireproof. Re-enforeed concrete has actually been employed in shipbuilding. In the Gret Paris exposition in 1855 a smail boat made of re-enforced concrete was sar dy Lambot. This vessel, which was of wipe petting covered poche sting ‘still afloat and ‘will soon te Installed in a technical museum. It was regarded as @ mere curiosity and led to no practical result. In 1896 Gabeltint of Rome built an ex- Perimental vessel of re-enforced con- ‘erete, which fs still in seryice on the ‘Tiber and jn excellent condition. The ‘same fiw bas since constructed a large umber of concrete vessels designed chiefly for stationary service as bridge Pontoons, for whieh purpose they sre eminently well Stted owing to thelr ‘small cost of maintenance, as they need not even be painted. Tt fs possible to bulld vessels of re- enforced concrete of any desired form and dimensions. ‘The frames and long!- tudinal beams are made of concrete re- enforced with round bars of iron, and the skin consists of a single or double layer of concrete stiffened with wire netting and made perfectly smooth and water tight by an external coat of pure cement. The boots cost almost nothing for maintenance. are Sreproof and can be constructed almost any- where. They cost about half gs much as fron vessels of the same capacity. Their Independewes ef imgvig wip yards makes them ae tally sulmbile for colonies and isolated inland waters. Re-enforced concrete armor on ¥ - ships has recently been suggested. 2 Italian engineer has been led by the success of concrete land fortifications, as revealed in the RussianJapauese war, to construct armor plates of re-en- forced concrete, covered with thin plates of steel, as a protection against the immediate effects of the impact of shells. The substitution of re-enforced conerete for steel armor on a first class battleship would effect a consid- erable saving. The practicability of the substitution will be decided by the result of experiments soon to be made on the effect of shots on the re-en- forced concrete plate—Chicago News. | The Manufactured Diamond. According to an English scientist. Europe is making a great fuss about manufactured diamonds. “They seem to forget that the ‘moment a real dia- mond is manufactured the goose that laid the golden egg is killed.” says the scientist. “When diamond dog collars become so numerous that any one can ‘wear them diamonds will no longer be valued. If it were possible to manu- facture diamonds it would pay the mine owners to buy up the formula, no matter what it cost, and it would pay the men eagaged in such experiments much more if they would turn thelr en- ergies to discovering a means by which rubber could be manufactured instead. If we could make a rubber as good ax the product of Africa we would bene- fit the whole world. Regardless of every effort. the supply has failed to keep up with the demand.” Cnet ot Gin il Rie: ‘The report that the gulf stream now runs with greater speed than formerly and its influence on the time required for the crossing of the Atlantic fur- nishes the theme for an article by Dr. Brennecke in the German magazine Umsbau. Dr. Brennecke analyzes the elimatic and geographical reasons for the ‘existence and continuance of the gulf stream and points out how the change in the wind currents and the density of the atmosphere all affect the life and power of the famous current. This is chiefly dependent, be points out, ‘on the location and areas of high and low pressure over the sea. A series of carefully made reports over a long pe- riod of time by the German marine ob- servatorium seems to indicate that the gulf stream now moves more rapidly a oe dee eg Meee A highly ingenious device for put- ting on the market “old” furniture, the faking of which is quite a considera- ble industry in the western midlands, has been told by a dealer. He bad eighty Welsh farmhouses on his books. im each of which he bad deposited for ‘the use of the tenant, but also in the hope that holiday people might desire to buy them, “old” dressers and cup- boards and tables. The inexperienced hunter for old furniture invariably looks for worm holes. They are pro- vided for him by a judicious pepper- ing with small shot, and lest he should be suspicious and probe for worm dust they are carefully “salted” with fine sand.—Manchester Guardian. Himself. A new kink in addressing envelopes has been noticed recently by some of the postofiice clerka Instead of the ‘word “personal” on these envelopes, to indicate that, the Iter is intended only for the eye of the person ad- Gressed, has been written “himself.” ‘In each case these letters had been sent from England. In some parts of sgnge vetoes ty the mopsine a to by the members of the f a ” ‘the infu- et ee am lish writers, or possi- bly the writers ‘were Irishmen living in Engiand—New York Sun. ‘ eee * Bfter Bitecte of the Grin. ‘Dr. Clouston of Edinburgh said it seemed as if no disease of whose ef- fects there was any correct record had such farreaching evil effects as this One, and among {te sequelae he env- ‘merated a depressing influence on the whole nervous energy, melancholia, ; forms of paralysis, ec 3 ems of 1 eu- Seo eae eee ity for work.—Dundee Advertiser. “i ‘ Dooce ae ESSE BIN 3687 State Steet —— Cuicaco. EASE MEOOTIATER, EXCHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. For Sale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms, modern, hardwood throughout. $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 fiat 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—3218 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern int provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. JESSE BINGA, 3637 State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 (eland Giants Bess-Bail and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing—Capital Stock $100,000 . 4 ‘The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has con- ciuded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with it's increases Gapital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Grants Base-Ball Club and For All The People, The First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light , Sigure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavillion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions. to- zether with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accomodate 1000 guests, at it's present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes rode 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 Im- mense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,0¢0 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come with~ out foat and Enjoy ‘The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? ‘The Answer canonly be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corpora- tion. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each You Squander More than this amoun? Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where yor. are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your >wn by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Lelar Grants, Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. Leland Giants Base Bail & Amusement Assn. 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Ill. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- Enclosed please find $___._. which I am sending as Part (or infull) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. : I agree to pay $.._._..____.per month until the full amount cop nnponesecesnseneenseecees has been paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock certificate, iaicemenaen Siectcne: | Name 5d counts rust be mae tothe erde? 2 fBeaureyare F. Moseley, Enieaas: hhnos All Stgeke felders are enitied to "preer. islrmite a Fresare wich their fects eperieccueeesme CNN =e ene ee eee For farther information a4. S Gress Leland Giants Ease-Beill and Amusement Assn 6208 ss, Halsted St Chicago, i. — The Cookbook. Melted butter is a tery good substl- tute for olive oll in salad dressing. Many prefer the butter to oll. Turnips Lolled in thelr jackets like beets are much better than when pared. Adding a little sugar to the water will correct any bitterness. Fish that is to be fried should be or- dered to be seit early, as It cooks much better if previously rolled some time in & clean cloti to insure perfect dryness. Scoop out as many large lemons as there are guests, scallop: the edges and fill the cups with French peas mixed with a stiff mayonnaise, Arrange the lemons on crisp lettuce leaves and serve with cheese and crackers. A woman who is past master ip sand- wich making prefers fried haw to boll- ed for sandwiches. She cooks the ham slowly in the frying pan, giving it just enough browning to improve the flavor. Then she reduces it by grinding to a veritable powder and mixes it-with mayonnaise. Ne ae eta Chapluigh—Surgery is making woo- Gerful strides, Miss Cutting. Why, it bas actually enabled men to live with- out their normal quantity of bwains. doncber know. ‘Miss Cutting—indeed!’ Are you speaking from personal experience, Mr. Ghapieigh?—Detroit Tribune. Taking It Literally.” “Bingie hasn't been himself since the stock slump.” “Bingle was one of the meanest, cur- mudgeous I ever met. It must be a great relief to his wife when he isn't himself.”"—Cieveland Plain Dealer. At the Ingect Congres. Ant~I hear they tore the centiped ‘up #0 that be was completely out of the } Yes. They didn't lew bie es. ve bim a lag saad oa baltimore Aten, - Utterly Unexpected. . “It’s the unexpected that always pen” V6 aie Sur ab out @ breakdown.” ARTE Aero ae Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob F*’einbers Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 8lst and State Streets 4. J. Bradiey eisase vemos 2. M. Ficise BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE 709 8. Halsted Street CHICAC. Frank H. Lewis, Prop. Low Seldon, Mor. =e Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection F] 11. N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IM. ood AND CIGARS AND BILLIARDS TOBACCOS WILLIAM LEWIS = THE FRONTANAC | cLwUB per 239 E. 22ND STREET Phone Calcmet 2940 - CHICAGO BASE BALL Amis Get Su THE LELAND GIANTS VISITING TEAMS Saturday id Sunday HUMOR OF THE HOUR Man or Boy? A certain officer of the army who is of tmmense stature, being six feet four inches in height and tipping the scales ‘at 240 pounds, has for many years been attached to a scientific bureau at Washington, and his writings are well known in the scientific world. Much of his work is done evenings, and some- times be finds it necessary to carry home reference books. One morning he gathered together several of the volumes, none of them rer small, and, putting them under ‘his arm, started for his office. He had ‘not gone far when he came face to face with a darky lad who, with an expres- sion of great wonder, planted himself ‘directly in the path of the huge officer. “Bakes alive, mister!” exclaimed the ‘wondering boy. “Is they sendin’ you to school ?"—Lippincott’s Magazine. Safety In Numbers. “Yes,” said Miss Passay, “Mr. Fox bas called upon me several times late- ly, but he always brings some other young man with him.” “I suppose,” remarked Miss Spelts, “be realizes that he can't be too care. ful in leap year.”—Catholic Standard and Times. » - American Brick Co. - rn MANUFATURERS OF Gommor and Sewer Brick 45th and Robey Sts. Site ete Majeure On Se Be Telephone Yarde 128. — Interesting Game. Pearl-I was squeezed in bridge whist last night. Ruby—Can I Wtip you, dear? I have some pin money left _Peart—Oh, this wasn't a financial squeeze. You see—er—Tom squeezed my band under the table—Detroit Trib- une. Use tn the Air. “Weren't you ever on 2 motor car?” “Yes; once.” “What make was it?” “I don't know. 1 was only on the frout of it for & second.or so, and it got away before I could pick myself up."—Philddeiphia Press. said the prudent man, y make a fuss and > misquoted.” —Washington ~ e a