The Broad Ax

Afro-Americans Residing East of State Street ARE AS DESTRUCTIVE TO PROPERTY AS THOSE RESIDING WEST OF THE GRAND DIVIDING LINE. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR OF THE BROAD AX. WHILE ACCOMPANYING A RENT COLLECTOR ON HIS ROUNDS. In the issue of The Broad Ax, of March 28, the writer related part of his experience and observations, while accompanying a rent collector on his rounds among the Afro-Americans. Only half of one day's experience was set forth in that issue of the paper, and if anyone, especially a member of the opposite race, would have attempted to convince us that "Afro-Americans—those claiming to be reined and respectable, resided in such untidy and unsanitary surroundings, like many of them do, living west and east of state street, we would not have believed them "and the impression would have been strongly implanted in our mind that "the person who endeavored to convince us otherwise was filled full of race prejudice against the Colored race." But someone has said that "the eating of the pudding is the proof of its sweetness and goodness," this is true in relation to our experience and observations, while accompanying the rent collector. In the afternoon of Feb. 1, we continued our journey south on Dearborn street and Armour ave. with the rent collector, and in doing so we behold many sickening and disgusting sights, in many of the houses which we entered, where first-class Colored people are supposed to reside, large chunks of the plastering had been in some way or other knocked from the walls, and the walls otherwise scared and marked up with lead pencil marks, showing that the parents had no control over their children residing in those houses, or that they did not care how much they destroyed the property as long as they paid rent for the house or fat. Some of the bad rooms, which we managed to keep into were so slimy and untidy, that it is hard to conceive how any civilized human being could sleep in them or even live in any part of the fat or house. As to the majority of the back yards along Dearborn street and Armour ave., they were simply frightful to ease upon, many places where the rent collector halted to gather in the cyn, the families living in the first or lower flats, complained about the families residing in the second or upper flats, standing on the rear porches and back steps, while being managed in the honorable past time of heaving coal gushes and other refuse down into the back yards. Several times we caught Colored ladies and gentlemen in the net of doing this same thing, and while passing to the rear as one house the slopes and ashes came near stirring us on the hand, and it was a free sight to see the fine coal gushes and other dirt flying through the rilr, in the houses and matting down on the newly washed clothes and overpricing clothes and around the corner of these blitz rehearsal rooms, we came places which fell under our observation, the ashes and other refuse was from three to four feet deep in the back yards and to add to this beautiful picture, here and there the head of an old dead dog or cat could be plainly seen sticking out of the great mass of dirt and filth. Some of those who read this article may arrive at the hasty conclusion that we have been hitting "the pipe," but this is no pipe dream and anyone can see these same horrible and revolting sights if they will take the trouble to walk in the rear of the buildings up and down Armour ave. and Dearborn street. Our second day's rambling with the rent collector landed us away out at 63rd, and langley ave., right in among the hightoned Afro-Americans and while looking around in the front hallway of a fine modern flat building which is occupied by Afro-Americans, which is located not very far from where those two streets cross, we noticed that the front door knob was missing and the speaking tube was not in sight, and in calling the rent collector's attention to these defects, he went on to say that when "one of the families moved into the building last fall they were so vain that they wanted everyone to see their new traps, and in order to show them off they moved in the front way instead of in the rear and in pulling the piano through the front hall, they broke off the door knob and the speaking tube which they promised to replace but up to that time they had utterly failed to keep their word." DR. DANIEL N. WILLIAMS. had been occupied by white people, but the Colored gentleman turned out the whites, put his flats in first class shape and rented them to Colored people who were not accustomed to living in fine quarters, and as they had the place looking like hog pens he would be forced to put the families out and hunt up new tenants." Boarding a Hyde Park car, the rent collector and ourself continued our journey on north to 35th street, then over to Calumet ave. it war about five o'clock in the evening, when we arrived in front of a fine looking brown stone house which is located on that ave. between 35th and 37th streets, and on ringing the door bell, a very fine looking lady admitted us, and she immediately began to make apologies as to her appearance and the disordered condition of her beautiful home, for it was wash day with her, and to our utter surprise she had the wash tub setting right in the center of her lovely dining room and dirty clothes laying around in every direction on the hard wood floor which had been highly polished at one time, while the lady was engaged in counting out her rent money to the collector, she not knowing us, we rushed back into the kitchen under the pretence of wanting to get a drink of water and in doing so we came near breaking our neck in stumbling over several large lumps of soft coal and a hatchet which were laying on the floor and evidently the lady had been using the hatchet to bust up her coal right there in her fine home. On leaving Calumet ave., we struck out for Wabash ave., and on walking in front of a nice looking house on that avenue between 26th and 29th streets, the rent collector, was gently reminded by butting up against the closed door, that the former tenant had moved away without leaving his new address, and the only thing in sight, which had not been carted away was a big pile of coal ashes, which had been dumped right in the middle of the parlor floor. Further south on that same ave., we made the second and third stop for the day, at the second stop, the lady occupying the house paid $65 per month rent, and in order to let it be known that Colored people lived within, she had her front steps covered or over with coal ashes, whereas she should have used salt to melt the snow and saw-dust to prevent people from falling on the ice. At the house where we made our third and last call for the day the lady had removed one of the inside doors, and she had it setting against the house in the front yard, no doubt for the acidification of her white neighbors. the foregoing seems to indicate that "Atro Americans residing east of State street, are just as destructive to property, as those living west of the grand dividing line! BEN TILLMAN WILL CLOSE HIS MOUTH DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Senator B. R. Tillman has announced his intention to tour Europe and be out of the country during the present political contest. If the Democratic campaign managers are not paying the expense of the trip, they certainly should do so. In his absence more Colored folks could be induced to enter the Democratic ranks than by any other method. Now, if some one will send Congressman Heflin up in a balloon, with the registered guarantee that he will land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (on an island), the consummation of things long hoped for is at hand.—The Planet, Richmond, Va. To tell the truth and nothing but the truth, Old Ben Tillman's political star has been petting out at both ends ever since he ran up against The Broad Ax in 1906, for it robbed him of his former sting and now he's a dead cock in the pit. KILLS THREE; DEFIES POSSE. Ohio Horseman Resists Militia After Triple Crime. Kills Negro Girl in Jealousy, Her Mother, and an Old Man—Holds Pursuers at Bay. Washington Courthouse, Ohio, May 5—Bert Devaney, a horseman, shot and killed Miss Lida Bird a Negro girl, this evening at her home on John street. He then turned the gun on Mrs. Bird, mother of the victim, inflicting probably fatal wound, and later shot and killed Silas Shackleford. It is also reported that Shackleford's son has been killed by Devaney. Holida Barn Against Pease. Devanay has taken refuge in Shackleford's barn, and, refusing to surrender, a sheriff's pose and members of company M. Fourth infantry, O. N. G., have surrounded the barn, with the intention of storming it. The motive for the crime is not known, but is supposed to be jealousy. Devanay is white and 48 years old. Miles Bird was 38 years old and was graduated from the city schools three years ago. Devanay calmly leased his receiver after the shooting and hurried across the north-eastern part of the city, taking refuge in Shackleford's barn. Shackleford stepped into the barn to discover the cut and was killed. Dr. Daniel H. Willlams, Founder of Provident Hospital PRESENTED WITH A RICHLY ENGRAVED LOVING CUP. BY THE COLORED PHYSICIANS IN CHICAGO, IN HONOR OF HIS 26TH ANNIVERSARY IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. OTHER TOKENS OF FRIENDSHIP AND CONGRATULATORY LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS RECEIVED FROM THE M. D.'S OF NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA AND OTHER SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. DR. A. BEATRICE SCHULTZ, ENGINEERED THE AFFAIR WHICH WAS A BRILLIANT SUCCESS. Wednesday evening a complimentary banquet was tendered to Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the founder of Provident Hospital, by the leading Colored Physicians in Chicago, in honor of his 25th anniversary in the practice of medicine and surgery, at which time an elegantly engraved loving cup was presented to him by his admiring M. D.'s in this city. The affair was held in Bethel church and prior to the banquet, hundreds of citisens shook hands with Dr. Williams during the reception in the parlors of the church, and warmly congratulated him over the success which has crowned his efforts in the successful practice of medicine and advanced surgery in the past 25 years. The following inscription is engraved on the loving cup. Committee: Dr. A. L. Smith, Chair; Dr. M. A. Majors, Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. M. R. Bibb, Dr. W. A. Buekner, Dr. A. W. Williams, Dr. A. E. Schultz, Sec'y. Dr. D. E. Burrows, Dr. W. D. Langford, Dr. C. Golden, Dr. J. W. Lewis, Dr. L. M. Fenwick, Dr. H. R. Smith, Dr J. A. Kelly, Dr. A. W. Mercer, Dr. H. A. Turner, Dr. I. M. Garnett, Dr. A. Lane, Dr. T. S. Officer, Dr. A. A. Wesley, Dr J. A. R. White, Dr. W. H. Marshall, Dr. Marie Fellows, Dr. W. W. Bradley, Dr. D. H. Anderson, Dr. E. S. Miller, Dr. J. A. Cotton, Dr. C. D. Bell, Dr. A. B. McKissack, Dr. S. C. Dickerson, Dr. C. P. Cooper, Dr. W. M. Carter, Dr. C. D. Trice, Dr J. W. McDowell, Dr J. F. McKinley, Dr U. G. Dailey, Dr A. R. Cooper. The New York Medical Society, Through Dr. Robert L. Cooper, husband of Mrs. Lottie M. Cooper, presented -Dr. Williams with a cut glass and solid silver ink stand and Dr. A. Beatrice Schultz, presented New York's present to him and read all the congratulatory letters and telegrams received from various sections of the country. And all in all it was by far one of the most enjoyable and brilliant affairs ever held among the Afro-Americans in the middle west! F. A. RAWLING THE SUCCESSFUL UNDEBTAKER HAS MOVED HIS The first of May F. A. Rawlins, who has been successfully established in the undertaking business, for a long time at 4834 State street, moved into his own building, 4817 State street, which he bought a short time ago. He has five living rooms on the second floor, and the main floor has been newly decorated and fitted up in a first class manner in every respect, suitable for conducting his large and increasing business. He also has a nice chapel, in connection with his undertaking arrangement for the convenience of those who wish to hold religious services over the dead. Mr. Rawlins is the personalization of what a Colored man can accomplish, in the business world, in six or seven years time, providing he is full of spirit and ambition. Attention C. J. Watters, Consul General J. Nolton and J. J. Boss, have renewed their law office from 118 N. Daily street, to 100 Dearborn street, Real Estate Building, and they ee — eae ap ee pare Peper es ee ee : os Ln ar ere Peer oe ea ne ee eee bee eee <P? Se es ne = t °F a De ~ a Wl - ae i fA * Of = . j | ‘ ; : 2D = Nee oS Ss Nx ss : : 2 {ANE i= a . et See eee 3 RA ste eel ee abel 4 rene ee at et foe. at eo Sowt Tee 4 AT AK | a oe eee en. a) Sd ae mak mesons Bio 6S Pircacf cSomacmiettoes = par | ‘ta BROAD. rae armen 1 ¥. | Entereg oe Clasg. Matter, 19, 1002 at the Post [Omics at iinct anit ssmeeaet Mareh | ! aver. ot 2 , HEALTH - OSPARTMENT /-TALKS, é Dae 2 eheng When haps: Carvtare '< Dieseee. time is not far away. The com- house fiy is a nuisanqe; worse ‘this, he is a pest—a menace to - ! For this reason, in this week's Jet us consider the fly and be . several years physicigns have studying fies as of Se waa more copoly part they play in the spread of typhoid fever and other -tm- diseases. Investigations al- made disclose the fact that hhquse fies undoubtedly carry the of disease on their feet and sp mann thm tr mre ewe mosynitoes. 5 As is well known, fiics swarm and “brgad~in filth. During the summer they are everywhere; stables, privy vaults, garbage bpxes, de- ‘aninial matter of all kinds with them. From thege places migrate to our homes and are Ming over the viands in process ot im the kitchen and follow- them even to the dining room ‘New York City a commission of men has traced the ot Sateen ae eee in certain borouglis|of that city to the prevalence of the fommon fly. It was found that) the ac of the house fiy is in proportion to fhe temperature; and the the dur- which: it is most active, and. of ‘most numerous, Sad Sate saeco tan presen of typhoid and in ‘was also shown that _ several of a malignant form of radiated from @ single ; amd that they entirely dis- when proper disinfection of water closets had been enforged. In instances local outbreaks of were traced directly tp trans- by files by use of staining pate pains ievenstirees OSS of the fiies from the filth, which was thejsource of infection, direct to the kitchen. ‘Thus it will be seen how easy it is for R common house fly carrying of dangerous disease germs in ff mouth and on its feet to scatter of these same germs in the ba- ‘milk or any other article of bu- food with which it may opme in house fly is not born jn the A few files live over eagh win- ter fm cracks and crevices. the warm weather comé they out snd the female fly speks a and convenient place, geperally a pile, where it deposite about ‘white eggs. In warm weather will hateh in Jess than eight ‘Their growth is made jn the IN PONE: SEMEMERANOE OF io aes o> tigen Ee ieee ge ‘Whe departed this lite May 9, 1907. The tears unbidden to my eyes, _ Mow naturally they flow; Sere See wi cnet ne ate » Who-died « year ago. > ‘A loving husband, fond, sincere: hk man whose life was pure; F mourn thee, miss thee, Robert dear: “Tniter stall sve thee more, ‘No—not on earth! In heaven thou art ‘Beyond the starry sphere, ‘Where neither life nor death can part; Tihope to meet thee there. Dust to Ite narrow cal! beneath; | Boul to its place on high; ‘They that have seen thy look in death | No more may fear to die. ot gone trom memory, wor from love’ “But gone to the Father's house above. 3544 Dearborn St. Wife. form of larvae or maggots. Inside of ten days they develop into flies ready to lay more flies. It is asserted that 95 per cent of al! house files are born amid horse manure and that the remaining five per cent are born in similar sub- ‘stances. With these facts in mind, it is apparant that files can most readily be destroyed while in the larvae stage. ‘Stable manure that has been thorough- ly disinfected with chloride of lime will not breed them. But this is ex- pensive. The better way is to have all manure promptly removed from the residence districts. But as files breed trom the egg to ‘the fly in less than ten days, all stable manure shodld be removed at least twice a week. This is important as no manure means no files.—“P.” NATIONAL MASONIC JUBILEE TO BE HELD AT NEW ORLEANS, LA, OCTOBER 8 ,1908. . Hon. John G. Jones, 33, of Chicago, Ii, and Grand Master of the Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the State of Illt- ‘nols and also Sovereign Grand Tom- ‘mander of the United Supreme Coun- cil of thirty-third Ancient, Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the United States has been invited by the St. An- drews Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Ma- sons of the State of Louisiana to de- liver a masonic address at the Na- ‘tional Masonic Jubilee of Colored ma- ‘sons of the United States that will be held at New Orleans, La, October & 1908.—"“C." CHIPS. | ‘Wait! Wait! Elk’s Ball, Tatersalls, May 18:h. Will you be there? Where? Eik’s Ball, Tatersalls May 18th. Waltz, (“Home Sweet Home,”) with me, to Great Lakes 43. Tatersalls, ‘May 18th. ‘What are you going to the Eik’s Ball for? “Have a good time that's what!” Tatersalls, May 18th. Edward G. Alexander, has opened up a nice law office for himself at 260 South Clark street, where he will be pleased to meet his many friends. Dr. P. J. Scott the most widely known Afro-American optician in Chi- cago, has removed his office from 2708 Btate street to 2960 State street, whero he has fine and comodious quarters. ‘Miss Grace Knighten, who has for come time past been residing in Phila- delphis, Pa. arrived in the city Sun- Sey mdening to visit her mcthet,| oe DR. A. BEATRICE SCHULTZ. Secretary of the commistee of M. D's. who presented Dr. Danie! H. Wil- llams with the Loving Cup. i= 5 Coa / a [: x es & ie = OR. A. WILBERFORCE WILLIAN'*S. ‘Turned on a large volume of “Black Diamond Gas,” while serving as Toast Master at the banquet tendered to Dr. Daniel H. Williams. WEST SIDE NEWS. By Prof. A. L. Simpson, 73 8. Halsted St. Phone Monroe 3070. | Chicago, Ill, May 6, 1908. | Mr. Louis B. White was stepping about some, with his St. Louis bride ‘Sunday. Our West Side Sunday Club was deserted Sunday owing to members ond friends lending a hand some other place, which was very much appreci- ated. ‘Still they carry guns. One man shot another one’s pallet down last week at 659 Fulton street. Woman in case. | Mr. Unarles Pickett, of 741 Fulton street, is lying quite low at his res- idence. ? Mrs. Irine Camp is a constant reader of The Broad Ax and says it aids ber considerable in traveling. ‘Mrs. Knighten, 5004 State street, who has been quite sick and her sisters, Mrs. A. F. Tervaion and Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Wm. Emativel will give a se ries of Caffeteria Luncheons at her res idence, 6852 Rhodes Ave, May 18th and 30th for the benefit of “Friends and Neighbors” house. A Dr. 0, A. Taylor, of Topeka, Kans, "Who for the past four weeks has taken a-Post Graduate course, at the Illinois Post Graduate School, ‘left for his home in the West Thursday evening. He has the honor of being the first Negro physician to secure a certificate from the above mentioned school. Tuesday evening May 19th a musical and social will be given by the Help- ing Hand Club, for the benefit of Bo- rean Baptist church, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charies Smith 5363 Dear- born street. Elegant refreshments which will be prepared by Mrs. Sintth will be freely served. ‘The superstitions Colored “aunty” who says ‘that Tillman's nervous breakdown is “a judgment sent by hq Lord for his meanness to Ne- groes,”’ may be forgiven, even i her ‘Mr. and Mrs. Parker, of 3731 Rhodes dive., were guests of Mrs. Cooper on Fulton street Sunday. They were much impressed with the West Side Prof. Alex Simpson our energetic chiropodist and manicurist is still doing business at 73 S. Halsted street, cor. Madison, Suite 13 and 23. (Call on Friday.) Miss Virginia Hardin, Mant- ceorist. Mr. Henry Cooper, of 23 N. Curtis street, is lying very low. Mr. Wm, Jones who has been in the ‘employe of Hannah and Hogg for the ‘past 9 years in the capacity of stock clerk at 188 W. Madison street, has recently been promoted to agent of the building. That's going some. Madame Birdie Bishop who has been engaged in business at Madison and Halsted streets for some time. Re- cently sold out her business at a very luxtous price. The madame expects to travel East in search of better health. conclusions fall to square with the scientific aspect of the case. Provi- dence surely does “work in'a mysteri- ous way His wonders to perform.”— Ex. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. Chicago, Ill, May 5, 1908. Dr. Edward 8. Miller and Dr. Wik lam A. Richardson desire to announce | to their friends and patrons that they have removed their offices trom 3160 State street to the south east corner ist. and State St, in the Gerity Block number 3101 State street. ‘They have fitted up the entire sec- ond floor as a suite of offices and are now ready to recetve their patients at the new location: ‘RMEA’S NEW CITIZEN DIRECTORY closes May 16th; will not accept peas beeeis Sat sate, Cave bev, for advertising space, must send it im by the 16th. ; EW. RHEA, 6614 Evans Ave. President Roosevelt Is In Favor of “Jim Crow’ Cats for Afto-Americans THE LEADERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO Have BEEN IN POWER FOR MANY YEARS, REFUSE To En. FORCE THE FEDERAL LAWS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. : - THE MAJORITY OF AFRO-AMERICANS ARE SO POLITIC. ALLY BLIND THAT THEY CANNOT COMPREHEND THE TRUE STATE OF AFFAIRS. a | More and more ‘it is being made plain to the American Negro that in |his case at least “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” ever since the days when Rutherford B. Hayes aban- jdoned the Southern Negro to South. jern white marauders and assaseins, & real attitude of the Republican party toward the Negro has grown ste@dily worse, xotwithstanding the fact that the Negro has been the prin- cipal means of keeping that party alive. To be sure, Negroes have been appointed and even elected to office by Republican office holders and to- a but at no time since the intelll- gence and training of the black man warranted it has the Republican party accorded the race the tenth part of ‘the representation in office to which pe race's support of that party's cani- dates has clearly entitled us. | Base ingrate as the Republican party is to its overly faithful Colored ‘sappariers in the matter of office ‘holding, our just grievance in this par- ‘ticular is, by comparison, one of the minor complaints which the more in- telligent of the unpurchasable Negroes are now in large numbers planning unitedly to resent. Excepting for the second Cleveland administration no other political party has had at any ‘one time uncontrolled power in na- tional legislation and the executive department of the government since the suppression of the rebellion and during by far the greater part of the post-bellum era what the Republican party really wanted to do, within con- stitutional limitations, it has had un- restrained power to do. What result has accrued to the Negro by repeated- ly supporting, practically unaminous- ly, this party in congressional and presidential contests? A long series of insults and rebuffs, the most brazen and stinging ingratitude, and a long ine of betrayals to the enemy. When, since the days of Hayes, has the South, in any of its reactionary issues directly violating both the spirit and the letter of the constitution—when has the South in any such issue met anywhere near the real and active opposition by the federal government which that government controlled by Republicans, has had it in its power to offer? Why does Negro slavery exist today in Mississippl, Arkansas and other Southern states? and why has this institution, which the consti- tution gives the national government plenary power to suppress, continued to flourish through successive Repub- lican administrations? Why, under an overwhelmingly Republican na- tional regime, can the South, with impunity and by the most open and blatant confessions, practice nullifi- cation of the constitution, provided, of course, the crime is one having the Negro only as its direct object? One of the’ latest and most direct and express concessions to Southern lawlessness and robbery is contained in Roosevelt's letter to the Interstate Commerce Commision with reference 10 the iscriminations so shamefully practiced on every Southern railroad. The president's letter is the emptiest kind of sophistry. Its chiet element of danger lies in its clever inshdious- ness. ‘There are millions of soif-re- specting Negroes in this country who know and fully realize the fact that’ here is no honor connected with rid- ng, eating or associating with aby men or woman because he or she is white, Whenever su_1 a Negro feels nonored by any such occurrence the eeling of hosor proceeds from his eee tndom tes pretation saab ence, from ‘ he and noble and lofty che r women im question; and, heo-~ such feelings of honor have no yore to do with the race of the white yer son than with the color of his «ves or the shape of his chin. Bur ou sands of the self-respecting and ict Hgent Negroes who view the muter im this way have never had a:iy 2 tual contact with Southern r.i-vad conditions. Such Negroes win greater or less danger of lettine t\wir self-respect get the better of 1) im determining their attitude towards Roosevelt's letter to the Commision with the result that they would ap prove of that letter instead of ord: ing it the strong condemnation which it should receive from them. The practical fact of the mater is that the separate coach law~ were never designed or intended by their framers to be instrumental in attord ing equal accommodations for «hive and Colored passengers. Even i it were possible, which it certainly «ili not, be enforce equality, equality will ‘not be enforced. Anyone at all {a miliar with conditions in the South knows that many a train carrying from 20 to 30 white Pullman pas:+n gers carries also not more than three or four Colored passengers who would pay to ride im parlor cars or sleepers. Why waste time talking about su:b nonsense as requiring railroads «© keep an extra Pullman on every uci run? The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis RB. R. has already complird with Roosevelt's equality program ss regards soap and towels, not by put ting on such conveniences for its (ol ored passengers, but by taking them of its “white” coaches. Here is Instance, and it is typical, of a ru! refusing to de what it easily could ! ford to do.in the way of prope:ly treating Colored passengers. Wy then, talk about making it do what it cannot reasonably be asked to Wo. that is, what it cannot possibly afun! to do, in the way of affording 9 and separate accommodations? Another Tact which the self-re-*) ing Negro should not lose sight’ o! in this connection is that the Negro is to continue, according to Roosev''t pleasure, as the only class on the train which is to be set apart from the :«st of mankind represented theron. ited Indians, yellow Japanese and Ciinx men, brown Hindoos and Filpiuos Jews, and decent and unprejudi~t Caucasians may all freely intermins'e and with them even prejudiced w)i'* Americans are equally privileged»! " Americans are equally privilege! '” associate; but the Negro alone is '° be excluded from association ~!' the unprejudiced of all other rec~ ind why? Im obedience to the bs and lying sentiment that he is © entitled to the respect and consi" ation which should be and is accor"! te all other races of mankind. Roosevelt says that “there is not! ing in the law which forbids sepa'' accommodations.” We reply, THERE I8 NOTHING IN THE CONSTITU TION WHICH FORBIDS THE FED ERAL GOVERNMENT: REGULATIN': INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Indv<d there is nothing in that instrumest ‘° sanction amy such thing as cons’es~ delegating to any state the power “(0 regulate commerce among the s¢v¢'s! states” for this ts one of the powers Searsoehy seas tr fotos! gor rament in Article 1, Section VII. ‘Whom ts the’ Negro really to blame jor separate, that is inferior, scco™ is blame to rest entirely Gouthern Democratic. state admin's rations, which ean keep up this dis tmination only as Jong ss the h Noam. f eral leaves eee eee ae r— iad pedeeiooe, Dae be All Chicago is talking of the trend in store for the music loving public when Madame H. Asahi Hackley of Philadelphia makes her appearance in recital at the Institutional Church. Thursday evening, May 18th, 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 loading 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 25 cents. WHEN NELLIE OVERSLEEPS. When Nellie overseeps you'll find That Nellie unshaved. I've dressed in haste. You'll also see if you're not blind That I have had no time to waste. I have had no time to waste. Not wait the while the coffee steeps. I'm often dressing on the street The morging Nellie overseeps. But from the house I make a run, And down the steps I go by leaps, I tell you what, there is no fun The morning Nellie overseeps. A man is running away from a dog. A girl is running towards him. The "Quilty One—Bother this apple business!" First it's Adam, then it's me, gets into trouble over them. — Sketch. The President's Revelation. While President Roosevelt was holding an open air reception at Syracuse a tall crogo pushed his way forward through the crowd and eagerly grasped his hand. "Yo'am me war bo'n on the same day, Mistail Roosevelt!" the darky enthusiastically said, his shining black face almost cleft from ear to ear by a grin. "I delighted indeed to hear it!" warmly responded the president, taking a fresh grip on the black hand and laughing heartily. "So you and I were born on the same day? Well, well!" ρ "Yo'am am foy-seven yeahs old, suh?" "I am," was the quick answer. "An! yo'am war bo'n on Octobah 17, 1558?" "Yes." "Yaas, suh," then exclaimed the darky, shaking all over with rapture, yaas-as, suh, Mr. Roosevelt, yo'am me is bohe twins!" — Woman's Home Companion. Dining In Paris. "Paris is perhaps cheaper than New York," said General Horace Porter, "but good things come high there as well as here. It is true that you can get cheap food delicately prepared in Paris, but it won't satisfy you as more expensive meals will. "Now, a friend of mine dined with a young artist at a famous table dhote in the Latin quarter. 'Pretty good dinner for 2 francs, eh?' said the host at the conclusion of the feast. 'First rate!' answered my friend. 'Let's have another.'—Woman's Home Companion. Fair Warning. Mr. Yallerby—Be mah wife, honey, an 'anyt'ing yo' wishes fo' I'll see dat yo' gits it. Miss Moketon — I's yo' own little chocolate drop, den, Hennery. But remember one 'ting. NEW SHORT STORIES Explorer Peary had just come from the White House. "You will get there yet," an admirer said to him. "You become a better and better explorer every trip." "Well," said the other, with a modest smile, "there are tricks in every trade, of course, and so we live we learn." He smiled. "The longer we live the more we learn," said he. "I knew an old grocer in Cresson who had learned a lot. I stopped before his shop one day and looked curiously at a great line of barrels, barrels of apples, some marked with an A and some marked with a Z. "Why are these barrels marked differently, Uncle Josh? I said to the old man. 'They seem to be the same kind of apples.' "They is the same kind, son,' the old man replied, 'but some customers want a barrel opened at the top and some at the bottom.'" Heasler Justice and the Law. Speaking of the perversity of country "squires," State Senator John S. Fisher, chairman of the Pennsylvania capitol investigation commission, told this story recently: "We have one old codger out in Indiana county who fears neither lawyer nor court. Not long ago Dick Wilson had a case before the 'squire,' and, knowing his man, he went to the office fortified with a dozen or more supreme court decisions. "Wilson argued his case, cited several opinions and finally remarked, LAURENCE "MR. WILSON, I RECKON YOU'VE READ "ENOUGH." 'Squire, I have here some decisions by the supreme court of Pennsylvania, which I shall read.' "Wilson finished one decision, when the justice interrupted saying: "Mr. Wilson, I reckon you've read enough. Those supreme court decisions are all right so far as they go, but if the supreme court has not already reversed itself I have no doubt that it will do so in the near future. Judgment is therefore given against your client.'" - Philadelphia Public Ledger. Sure to Be Promoted. A grizzled old colonel who is a veteran of the civil war and who has since seen hard, active service in several Indian campaigns, the arctic regions, the Spanish war and the Philippine insurrection, did not view with pleasure the recent promotions of younger and almost unknown officers who were jumped over his head. Strolling about his camp in the Philippines one day, says Everybody's Magazine, he came upon one of his officers fondling a monkey. "Colonel," said the officer, "this is the most remarkable monkey I ever saw. Why, he can take a stick and go through the manual of arms almost as well as one of the soldiers." "Sh," cautioned the colonel, glancing about in great alarm. "Don't tell anybody. Supposing the war department heard of it, they'd make him a brigadier general." Self Divided. "I interviewed Alfred Vanderbilt in Paris," said a foreign correspondent, "on the coaching run he will make this summer from London to Brighton. I know that run well—I made it myself once on a May day—a run of sixty miles over a firm, white road, between parks and gardens loud with bird music. "Now, I am rather fat, and as Mr. Vanderbilt talked he noticed this. "If you make the run with me,' he said, 'don't order two seats for yourself, as a fat friend of mine did, for comfort's sake." "No,' said I. "My friend ordered two seats on the Brighton coach last year,' said Mr. Vanderbilt, 'and found when he came to occupy them that the clerk had booked him one outside and one inside." The Lady Didn't Object. When Lord Roseberry travels he likes to be as well wrapped up as possible, a habit which sometimes has amusing results. One day he was going north ensconced in a big fur rug, with a round fur cap pulled right down over his head and nestled singly in the corner of a first class smoking carriage. Presently a passenger got in, glanced once or twice at Lord Roseberry and then, taking the cigar out of his mouth, asked hesitantly: "Do you object to smoking, madam?" The "lady" intimated by a shake of the head that "she" did not, and shortly afterward Lord Roseberry astonished the nervous passenger by removing his wrape and lighting a cigar himself.—Home Chat. FACTS IN FEW LINES There is a woman's prison in Houmania that has only women officials. A new monthly postal service across the Mahara has just been established. The messengers are mounted on camels. Jewish societies in London are agitating the problem of restoring the pure Hebrew of antiquity to use as the Jewish national language. The mine owners in the Transvaal expect a considerable reduction in profits when the 30,000 on more coolies here employed are repatriated. The volume of freight sent by water from New York can better be realized when one considers the fact that 1,350 tons are loaded on ships every hour. Throughout the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí about 13,000 miners are employed. The products are gold, lead, mercury, zinc, clambar, copper and silver. The price of meat has become so exorbitant in Chile because of two dry seasons that the government has temporarily suspended the duty on cattle from Argentina. Samuel E. Graves, a miner near Katala, Alaska, who has been swallowing gold for three years in order to conceal thefts, has been operated on, and an ounce of nuggets were found in his appendix. The Luxemburg government is treating incorrigible vagabonds to bread and water for the first four days of their imprisonment and to the lowest scale of ordinary diet twice a week afterward. The prisons are said to be emptying fast. A cotton mill in Zurich has among its employees 125 Italian girls, for whom a special lodging house has been built. It is looked after by six Catholic nuns, who are paid by the firm. Each girl pays 90 centimes a day (17.4 cents) for food and lodging. The olive crushers of Spain had a meeting the other day, at which some claimed that without adulteration exportation would be impossible, while others insisted that only their absolute purity would insure the sole of Spanish olive oils in foreign markets. A Russian girl, aged twenty, shot herself dead in a forest near Lindan. She left a letter inclosed in a volume of Tolstoy explaining that she had taken her life because she found it too dull and asking to be buried as a pauper, as she did not wish to reveal her identity. The native pearlers oppose the assumption that the pearl fisheries of Burma are becoming exhausted and need a long rest. They claim that the productiveness of the banks is as great as ever and that the shortage noted is entirely due to the class of divers having deteriorated. Johnny Goff, who was Roosevelt's guide during his Colorado hunt, is now living near Cody, Wyo. One of Goff's neighbors, when contemplating a trip to Washington the past winter, mentioned the fact to Goff. "Say, if you go," said the guide generously, "temme know. I'll drop the president a line and have him look you up." Dr. George C. Nichols of Philippsburg, Me., owns one of the oldest signboards in the country. Eighty years ago, when a ferry was in operation over the Kennebec river from Philippsburg to Georgetown, this sign was located on the main highway and read, "To Arrowsic and Georgetown over Lees ferry." At present all the world is building warships. In the shipyards of Europe and Asia, public and private, there are now under construction 41 battleships, 21 armored cruisers, 13 scouts, 94 destroyers, 62 torpedo boats and 106 submarines. Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Russia are all urging work on war vessels. La Nature asserts that the military population of the German empire numbers 608,853 men. In Alsace-Lorraine are quartered 81,109; at Metz, 13,035; in the environs of Metz, 11,819; at Strassburg, 15,408; environs of Strassburg, 1.133; at Colmar, 5.032; at Muhhouse, 3.850. The other garrisons on the frontier are much less important. Portraits of cabinet ministers are painted at Washington by all sorts of artists with all kinds of paint and hung in their departments, and it is reported that Secretary of State Root has recently attempted to bribe a messenger in the war department to carry to the cellar and lose the "portrait" painted for him when he was secretary of war. The request of Emperor Francis Joseph to his people to celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of his reign, if they wish to celebrate at all, by "doing good to the people" has been regarded by Dr. Hermann Fische, a large landowner near Czernowitz, who has given 500,000 kronen for the erection of a children's hospital at Czernowitz to commemorate the Francis Joseph jubilee. A record in tiger shooting is surely established by the feat of his highness Nawab Mohammed Nasrul'ah Khan Bahadur, heir apparent of Bhopal. It is reported that he recently killed nine tigers in two days. Once in a single beat of a jungle four tigers appeared and were shot dead in five minutes, and on the second occasion five tigers fell to his highness' rifle in one night ever one kill. Vienna' had added the word "settlement" to its vocabulary because no German word, says the Neue Frele Presse, can properly describe the new institution which has been established in the outskirts of the city. It is a house with a garden where children are taken care of while their parents are at work. The settlement house is fashioned after similar places in England and America, and the people who have visited it are enthusiastic about it and designate it as a "practical charm." 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- SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING 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. Subscriptionz, 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. Suite 1219-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. 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McCall Postage (The Queen of Postage) pay the postmaster for the mailing of letters, envelopes, and parcels. The postmaster also pays the postmaster for the mailing of letters, envelopes, and parcels. Every postmaster gets a half dollar from the Postmaster. Lady Anne Warehouse. Business Improvement District of the City and Province. Cartel of the Postmaster and Postmaster General are posted. Address THE MCCALL, 50, New York. This Should An opportunity to show you Telephone Douglas 4796. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 3111 STATE STREET Phone Dug. 4101 HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 3 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. RESIDENCE: 4642 ARMOUR AVENUE Phone Blue 6871 HOURS: 7 to 9 A. M. and Nights CHICAGO. City Office, 500 Burton Bidg. 39 State Street Hours 4-7 P. M. Phone Central $207 W.D. Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 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 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 operated by Colored People in Chicago E. P. MARSHALL 2922 STATE STREET Phone Douglas 2190 Interest You our race loyalty and at the same ment in The Parkwood Cemetery 10.00, Shares $10.00 each. Now ; plenty of time will be given dars call at the office, 3160 State dars or consult the commission- sioners: FRANK W. KING, A. N. SIMPSON, E. S. MILLER. E. S. MILLER, Secretary. EARTH KNOWING through the STANDARD NEWS COM- All goods shipped promptly to cons, Advertisements, and news they can have their mail addressed COMPANY BUREAU DEPARTMENT. old call and register on our visitors NEWS COMPANY New York City. Established city. Phone obtained upon John J. Dunn Wholesale and Retail Bunner Inc. 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L Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 Eust 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, 321 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, 'robacco and News Stand, 338 B. 27th street. Mrs. A. B. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2003 Armour ave. R. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2905 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hallely 118 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Eathereine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 2312 State Street. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St. Detroit, Mich. The Standard News Co. 128 W. 51st st. New York City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 62 W. 1928 street, New York City, N. Y. ```markdown ``` Humor VISITING YOUR FRIEND. No Place Like Home, After All, So a Victim Believes. Visiting has ever been a form of discomfort. Your friend, who has a new home, a lately replenished library, a unique garden or something which represents money enough to make him vain in his possession, cannot rest until he has dragged you from a happy home to cater to this feeling of vanity. As for yourself, you put it off as long as possible. Of course you want to go. The thought of not having been able to get to see him has, you assure him, filled you with perpetual gloom. But circumstances over which you have had no control have forbidden All this you assert until the fatal moment arrives when you realize that no further subterfuge is possible, and, with many protestations of anticipatory delight, you start off. Your friend meets you at the station with his auto. He explains its workings, its superiority over all others, as you proceed back. If it breaks down on the way, as is more than likely, he smiles brightly. Such a thing has never happened before. He knows, of course, what the cause was. He mentions it carelessly, thereby implying that it was of so little consequence that it was scarcely worth while to avoid it. You arrive at his house. Filled with enthusiasm and reveling in a new victim, he proceeds forthwith to drag you over its weary length before you have had time to change your shoes. "Fine room this!" he exclaims, with a burst of honest pride, and so on. By and by, when he is getting tired, his wife, like a relay pony, takes up the lecture where he leaves off. So plastic are we that at the time by a sort of fictitious warmth you really seem to be enjoying yourself. You exclaim in wonder over the fact that you have been so long in getting there. And when at last a week later, you reluctantly leave you tell him, with tears in your eyes, that you had the time of our life. It is only when once more you find yourself joyfully in your own humble apartments, with its faithful bed, whose very imperfections have endearled themselves to you, that you cry out in deep gladness, "Thank God it's over, for, after all, there's no place like home!"—T. L. Masson in Puck They Prayed Running. Harry and Ethel were crossing a field on their return from Sunday school when they encountered a bull. At the animal's approach they fied in terror. Faster and faster they run, yet nearer and nearer came the bull. "We must pray," panted Harry. "You do it." Ethel pleaded "We'll kneel down right here." "No; we'll pray running. You ought to do it. You're a girl." "O Lord--O Lord--I can't!" sobbed Ethel. "You do it." The proximity of the bull demanded immediate action, and Harry rose to the occasion. Loudly and fervently he prayed: "O Lord, for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful!"—Success Magazine. Trapped. "I saw the cutest thing today," began Miss Passy coyly. "It was a painting of the—er—what is the name of that little god that represents matrimony?" "Well, now," said Mr. Timmild. "you've got me." "Oh, Mr. Timmild, this is so sudden"—Philadelphia Press. Gunner--Hot times out at the ball game. The players were slamming balls all the afternoon. Guyer--And how about the blender lites? Gunner--Oh, they were slamming the umplire!--Chicago News. Co-operating With Reform. "Do you think racing will ever be stopped?" "The trouble I have always had," replied the hard luck specialist, "is that the horses I bet on always want to stop."--Washington Star. Liftman (for the second time)—Naw smokin' in the lift. Navvy—I ain't smokin'. Liftman—Well, don't you call that a clear? Navvy (trying once more to make his 'smokin' draw) — Naw, of course he ain't. It's a bloomin' lung developer—Taller. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Rooster Muzzle. They were like fairy helmets-little wire helmets no bigger than a walnut. "They are rooster muzzles," said the city farmer as he led the way past the pea beds on the window sills, the potato field on the back porch and the flourishing mushroom crop under the outhouse. "Rooster muzzles!" "Even so. Muzzles, not to prevent roosters from biting—for even the gamest fowl has never been known to snap—but to prevent them from crowing. See here." They had reached the tiny chicken run. The city farmer caught a rooster and gently slipped a muzzle over its fierce head. "Now," said he; "it cannot crow. It can't wake the neighbors with its crows at daybreak; hence, thanks to this muzzle, it is at last possible to keep chickens in the most crowded city quarters. "Harrison Weir invented the rooster muzzle. A rooster to crow, you see, stands erect, flaps his wings, throws back his head and opens his beak wide. If he can't open his beak no crow can come from his little red throat."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Artificial Dyes. A recent investigation as to the chemical industries of Germany shows how rapidly artificial coloring agents are taking the place of the natural dyes formerly used. The change is indicated by the decrease of imports of various logwoods. Among these are bluewood, native to Mexico, Haiti, the British West Indies, the Dominican Republic and the United States; yellowwood, which grows in Austria-Hungary, Mexico and South America, and redwood, indigenous to British India, the west coast of Africa and Mexico. For ages the Arabs have used the redwood of India for sandals. During the last forty years the cultivation of madder has become nearly extinct in western Europe. Cochineal has been almost entirely driven from the market. Indigo alone holds its place strongly, although the competition with artificial indigo is now very keen—Harper's Weekly. The Panama Hat "The panama hat will still be the most correct hat for summer wear," said a Broadway hatter. "Only fine panamans will be worn, though. I am stocking nothing under $42. "The panama will always be correct because it is at once handsome and costly. It is not a durable hat. It can be folded like a handkerchief and then returned unharmed to its original shape. It can't be passed through a finger ring. It can't be used with impunity as a drinking cup, a pillow, a baseball, a doormat. "No, a good panama must be treated carefully. Rough handling will split it the same as any other straw. And with the best of treatment it will only last a few years. "For the panama is not an overdurable hat. We have learned that our idents about it in the past were mostly fallies." Exchange. The Largest Mergue New York is to have the largest morgue in the world. It is to be seven stories high and will accommodate 275 bodies. Twenty enormous refrigerators, costing $50,000, with plate glass front and couches, will hold the unidentified dead so that they may be viewed. The percentage of unknown dead of New York is increasing every year. Once Washington square was the potter's field. The poor and unknown dead of half a century did not kill it. If Washington square was laid out like a cemetery now, with every grave having its separate plot, one year's interments of the poor and unknown would fill it. The deaths from accident, suicide, drowning and violence are more than 5,000 in a year. Pittsburgh Dispatch. A Fair Sized Wager. "The biggest election bet I ever knew to be made was a wager of $85,000 that George B. McClellan would be elected president in 1863," said Arthur B. Wright, a veteran Chicago politician. "This amount was wagered by a well known sporting man of that period, and the loss of the sum put a big crimp in his bank roll. Looking back at the campaign of 1864, it seems absurd now to have supposed it possible for McClellan to defend Lincoln, and yet plenty of good judges rather liked the chances of the Democratic candidate." —Baltimore American. Native American Wit. During the last session of congress a newly appointed representative called on a brother congressman to ask him to support a certain measure. The new representative is an accomplished member of one of the well known Indian tribes. The elder member, with a patronizing air, smiled his disapproval of the request made and asked, "How did they happen to send you to congress?" "Well, you know, the country never sends its best men to congress," quickly replied the Indian representative. Boston Post. The Forty-sixth Star In order to make room on the flag for the forty-sixth star, which must shine there on the Fourth of July, the rows will be entirely rearranged. There will be six rows, four containing eight stars each and two containing seven. This leaves two vast spaces for future occupation. A change in the flag involves an expense of many thousands of dollars. The army will need about 2,500 new flags, and the treasury department will have to supply about 450 for federal buildings throughout the United States. For Sale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and L. modern, hardwood th. $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 fl. heat, hardwood thro. $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2 sell separate. Make $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 roo. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 fl. JESSE BINGA, 3637 S Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizlm $100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland cluded to dissolve that Association in on increase. Capital for the purpose of bu Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishin Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Pa Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, M Provillion, Roller Skating, Hurley Riding, and all the latest fun making o omer with a First Class Summer H musts, at its present location, 29th a tide on the Electric Cars to the Loop D. The Public is Base-Ball mad. and value in a single season. Millions can This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The R renme And Well Paying Plant, W Be Employed, between May and Octo out fear and Enjoy The Life and Fre The Answer can only be effectively giv it, it has been made purposely low s have a Share and Interest, in this Twe Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Eac Any Holiday around Amusement Pa wanted and never welcome. Come! but the attached Coupon and mail with T ten and Amusement Association. Do it to- Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas: which I am sending as Part (or infull) a shares of the Capital Stock of the Le Association. I agree to pay $ has been p certificate. 57th and La Fayette Ave., hardwood throughout. Ley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Jabash Ave., 2-9 room stone from garage. Make terms. Mille St., 6 rooms, frame, brick. Mille St., 2 flat, brick and frame. Mille St., frame building, 6 rooms. Oorn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 room. 3637 State St. Ph Us Base-Bail and Amuse Organizing—Capital & $100,000 Members of the Leland Giants Base-Bail Association in order to give room for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home and Establishing For All The Pet Amusement Park, With It's The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electrifying, Hurley Burley, Double Swim fun making devices and laugh pro- gress Summer Hotel, large enough location. 79th and Wentworth Ave. is to the Loop District in Chicago. Base-Bail mad. and amusement Crazy. Millions can be made by those. Favor Of The Race Owning And Buying Plant, Where More Than 10 May and October of each year, when the Life and Freedom of a Citizen use effectively given by subscribing for purposely low so that all Loyal Men best in this Twentieth Century Entrance. Dollars Each You Squander in Amusement Parks and Public Place. Come! buy and build one of your and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland. Do it to-day so that we may do $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 inu provements. $2,800—3040 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With Its Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at its present location, 29th 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 Share and Interest in Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. Part (or infall) as subscription fee for Stock of the Leland Giants Base $.....per month .....has been paid, at which time I a Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ 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. Melted butter is a very good substitute for olive oil in salad dressing. Many prefer the butter to oil. *Turnips boiled in their 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 ordered to be sent early, as it cooks better if previously rolled some time in a clean cloth 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 in sandwich making prefers fried ham to boiled 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. Chapligh- Surgery is making wonderful strides. Miss Cutting. Why. It has actually enabled them to live without their normal quantity of bwains, doncher know. Miss Cutting-Indeed! Are you speaking from personal experience, Mr. Chapligh?-Detroit Tribune. "Bingle hasn't been himself since the stock slump." "Bingle was one of the meanest curmudgeons I ever met. It must be a great relief to his wife when he isn't himself."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. At the Insect Congress Ant—I hear they tore the centiped up so that he was completely out of the running. Spider—Yes. They didn't leave him a leg to stand on. Baltimore American. "It's the unexpected that always happens." "How now?" "Our automobile made the run without a breakdown."—St. Louis Republic. --- All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beauregard F. Moseley, Treasurer, 624 Hailstreet Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock Accounts are as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their intentions to apply for employment. For further information address LeLand Giants Base-Ball Stadium, 624 Hailstreet Chicago, IL 624. Hailstreet Giants Stadium, IL 624. Hailstreet Giants Stadium, IL 624. The Cookbook. An Insinuation: Taking It Literally E BINGA INVESTMENTS STATE LOANS STATE STREET CHICAGO. CHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. A Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 rooms throughout. Just brick and stone, 5-6 rooms, steam throughout. 9 room stone front residences; will terms. rooms, frame, brick foundation. brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. the building, 6 rooms, modern interior. frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 Mail and Amusement Assn. —Capital Stock 100,000 And Giants Base-Ball Association, has consider to give room for the former, with it’s being a Permanent Home For The Leland Park, With It’s Theater (Light Opera), Miniature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto devices and laugh producing concessions, to hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes district in Chicago. Amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in be made by those Who Take Stock In Face Owning and Operating This Imhere More Than 1,000 Persons Will number of each year, where you can come withedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? en by subscribing for Stock in this Corporate to that all Loyal Members of the Race can antithe Century Enterprise. Think of it, with You Squander More than this amount works 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 $...... us subscription fee for Iland Giants Base Ball and Amusement .....per month until the full amount paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock HUMOR OF THE HOUR A certain officer of the army who is of immense stature, being six feet four Laches 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 sometimes he finds it necessary to carry home reference books. One morning he gathered together several of the volumes, none of them very 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 lnd who, with an expression of great wonder, planted himself directly in the path of the huge officer. "Nakes alive, mister!" exclaimed the wondering boy. "Is they sendin' you to school?" Lippincott's Magazine. Safety In Numbers: "Yes," said Miss Passay, "Mr. Fox has called upon me several times later, but he always brings some other young man with him." "I suppose," remarked Miss Speltz, "he realizes that he can't be too careful in leap year."—Catholic Standard and Times. Interesting Game. Pearl—I was squeezed in bridge whilst last night. Ruby—Can I help you, dear? I have some pin money left. Pearl—Oh, this wasn't a financial squeeze. You see—er—Tom squeezed my hand under the table.—Detroit Tribune. "I don't know. I was only on the front of it for a second or so, and it got away before I could pick myself up." -Philadelphia Press. The Second Thought. "Remember," said the prudent man, "that the words once spoken can never be recalled." "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "but you can always make a fuss and say you were misquoted."—Washington Star Telephone DOUOLAR ..... 1866 Man or Boy? Up In the Air 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 THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IN. AT8 P.M. AUBURN PARK, 79TH AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. Output of Winter Yards ..... per day Output of Summer Yards..... per day Telephone Yards 128. J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL AM S. Halsted Street Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported Lit N. E. Corner F POOL AND BILLIARDS THE Phone Calcnet 2940 Telephone Yards 693 HLEY & FIRE A ESTATE, LOA ND INSURANCE Phone Oakland 1787. RAILROAD I and Domestic Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection fifty-first and Armour Avenue, WILLIAM LEWIS FRONTAN CLUB 239 E. 22 SE BAR America's Greatest Sport BETWEEN LELAND GI AND SITING TEAM J. M. Fields HELDS MANS CE CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr. INN C Wines , Chicago, IN. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS IS NAC