The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Vol. XIII CHICAGO, MAY 16, 1908. No. 82 WM. H. TAFT GROWING IN DISFAVOR IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Lily White Republicans of Lousiana and Virgnia Are Determined to Drive the Negro Out of the G. O. P. of God and Morality. The South's protest against Taftism has now assumed huge proportions. The Republicans of the South are up in arms. They resent the attempt that is being made to have it appear that they are for Mr. Taft. They are going to show to the country that it is not the South, not the rank and file of the party, but that it is a bunch of office holders, and in some cases the relatives of office holders, that are for the Secretary of War. What is the cause of the great number of contesting delegates from the South, It is the protest against Taftism. It has assumed huge proportions. The only way to show that you are dissatisfied is to protest. The South has made a most emphatic protest by sending up to the national convention a solid anti-Taft delegation. The Brevasville case will not down. It is like Banquo's ghost in that respect. It may prove as destructive to the party, in case of an unfair settlement, as the wrath of Achilles to the Greeks. The developments of the past week only confirm Senator Foraker's words that the President's unit state of mind rendered him ineligible to act judicially in passing upon the applications of the soldiers to re-enlist. We wonder what will the far-seeing Colored journals that have said that the President now realized his error now say. How will they explain this assertion from the President? He not only has not acknowledged "his mistake," but he takes the position that he would veto the Foraker bill and would even disregard it if it should be passed over his veto. But some of the Colored Taft-Roosevelt papers have been printing a lot of "authentic information" saying that the President had realized his "mistake" in the matter. Now it appears that these over-zealous Taft-Roosevelt Colored newspapers were wrong. Evidently they are not authorized to speak for Mr. Roosevelt. They are not as close to the President as they claim to be. By an actual count of "noses" the "allies" have enough votes to prevent Mr. Tafts nomination. The fight will unquestionably be before the national committee. Although only a few contests have been filed, yet before the 26th of this month there will be any number of them. The venerable journalist, T. Thomas Fortune has girded on his armor once more and has flashed his shining lance "full and fair" against the pretenders of this campaign. He has, in a communication in the New York American, exposed some of the charges of the so-called Colored Taftites. The word "no-called" is used advisedly, or it is a well-known fact that the prominent Colored officeholders, in private conversation, are as bitter against the Nosevelt Taft combination as any other fellow. But in public these same men, in order to hold their jobs, speak in another tone of voice. The Colored clan here in the department, who hold their jobs by virtue of having successfully passed a civil service examination, are indeed a credit to their race. Their manliness, their frankness and their true worthiness are a fitting rebuke to the truculent Colored men who hold the so-called "his job." These clerks—the civil service kind—are men who wear their own hats and who do their own thinking. And, too, a great number of them are better off. in the world's goods than some of the so-called "big men." And in intellect they are superior to these so-called "big office holders." The most representative Colored employees of the United States government here in Washington are the clerks, the civil service clerks. The warning must be sounded again to the Colored journals throughout the country to be on their guard against the printing of news that is manufactured by Taft bureaus. Be frank with your subscribers and give them nothing rather than such fiction. If you knew more about how these Taft bureaus made up such news you would be very thankful for this advice. Let the Foraker papers and the unbiased papers be careful to ascertain the truth of these Taft dots. The Louisiana Lily Whites have put two Colored men on their delegation in order to put in an academic denial of "Lily Whitism." Some of the speeches uttered by the Lily White office-holding, quasi-democratic campaigners will no doubt be on hand at Chicago. The New Orleans Times-Democrat of March the 8ta quotes Mr. Pharr, the "Lily White" candidate for governor, as follows: "The time has come for the elimination of the Negro from the Republican councils in the South, and we propose to take a firm stand and malaiten it." Again this same self-styled "Republican" undertook to "warn" Mr. Cohen from the stump about discussing the political situation, and intimated that he did not respect Mr. Cohen any more than any other Negro. These utterances do not sound like the utterances of a Republican. We are careful to keep a scrap book with these articles safely put away for future reference. Will some one please suggest what advantage would it be to the Colored Republicans of Virginia to vote for a "Lily White" of the type of State Senator Noel, who said that the Republican party of the state of Virginia was a white man's party, and whoever said it was not was a liar. Will some one please suggest what advantage it would be to the Virginia Colored Republican to vote for a man of such ideas instead of voting for a Democrat? Senator Dick, in the North American Review for May, has this paragraph in an article on Joseph Benson Foraker: "There is a vein of chivalry in his nature which leads him to champion the cause of the afflicted, the oppressed and the down-trodden. No cause is too humble to insist the tireless support of his whole being. He espoused the cause of the black battalion discharged at Brownville as secalously and fervently as he defended the railways against the attacks of an almost unanimous public sentiment. He has not yet been convinced, and those who agree with him see no reason why he should as yet be convinced, that he was wrong in either case." Let every Colored man read the speech of Senator Foraker on the Brownville affair and let him also read the speech of Senator Bullard on the same subject. These two speeches will convince you of the importance of the soldiers. We don't know what Taftian means in the North, but we do know that Taftian in the South means "Tray Whitlam." The Baghdadians of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and even Kentucky. BEAUREGAR D. P. MOSELEY. testify to that fact. "Lily Whitism" is as distasteful to the Southern Republican as absolute democracy. If Senator Foraker's friends contesting seats are successful there will be two more Colored men on the national committee. These will be Hon. Sam P. Hurst, a prominent planter from Clarksdale, Miss., and Hon. W. M. McDonald, the well-equipped politician from the Lone Star state. TAFT AND BRYAN. Last week the New York Age made a great ado over an alleged assertion of the New York World, that Mr. Bryan recently declared in a Cooper Union address in favor of the Southern disfranchisement of Negroes, the Age taking the position that no self-respecting Negro could vote for Mr. Bryan because of such views. We doubt if Mr. Bryan gave expression to any such opinions—though we do not doubt that they are privately held by him, just as they are held by a majority of the Republicans. North as well as South, not excepting a majority of the members of the Federal Supreme Court. At all events, we have quite as much respect for and confidence in a man like Mr. Bryan, who, as it is claimed, frankly expressed his opposition to the "ignorant Negro vote" of the South, thereby making it known that he would do nothing to interfere with Southern treatment of the same, as we have for and in a man like Mr. Taft, who, by nice words, seeks to placate the Negroes, while at the same time mating it known that his sympathies are with the South along the same line, and that he would do nothing to interfere with political conditions in the South. Neither the New York Age nor any other publication or individual of the race will have the hardship to say that it would expect Secretary Taft to do aught toward reversing political treatment of Negroes in the South Then why contend over the respective attitudes of Taft and Bryan when their positions are essentially the same? The most that the Negro can hope for many a day to come will be to retain His political prestige in the north. His political fate is sealed if he makes no demands of the Republican party but declares himself their willing slave, no matter what their treatment. We believe that the Democrats are opposed to Negroes largely because they consider Negroes to be unalterably opposed to them. A vote for the Demo cratic nominee, if such the situation should demand, would show independence, and independence would be beget respect and consideration from both parties. At all events, in what manner Negroes could fare worse under a Democratic administration than they have fared under the present administration we are unable to imagine. The Pilot, Philadelphia, Pa. PRESIDENT ROOBEVELT FISHING FOR NEGRO VOTES. The great haste with which most of our contemporaries have arisen to commend President Roosevelt's letter to Attorney General Bonaparte anent the separate car system of the South shows conclusively that our brethren do not understand the situation, or that for the moment they are so blinded by partisan zeal that they cannot see the errors underlying it. The President calls upon the Attorney General to institute proceedings against the railroads compelling them to furnish equal accommodations to white and Colored passengers alike. The truth of the situation is that in the traffic confined to individual States neither the President nor the Interstate Commerce Commission, has any warrant or authority to interfere. In interstate traffic the courts have already determined that the separate car laws of the Southern States have no force nor effect in regulating or restraining it, and as to this no action is needed at the hands of our Attorney General. The Interstate Commerce Commission has authority, if it cares to exercise it, to compel the railroads engaged in interstate traffic to furnish equal accommodations to all their patrons, and to put to an end to the practice of the railroads in enforcing the laws of the States through which they pass. The Interstate Commerce Commission, in a statement recently issued, and the President in his letter just referred to, practically consent to the separation of the races on these interstate roads, the only ones with which they have authority to deal, only exacting that the accommodations shall be equally for all. What the Negro wants in this matter is not only equality of accommodation but identity as well, for where separation is enforced we know that the railroads will not, and in many instances cannot furnish in its Negro railroads accommodations equal to those DUBOIS SAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DESERTING COLORED AMERICANS. Declares Roosevelt Administration Represents Reactionary Element of Party that Formerly Stood for Equal Rights. "Election of Taft Would Mean Another Century of 'Jim Crow' Cars, Peonage and Disfranchisement." We exclude from consideration, of course, office-holders and office-seekers. We do not condemn these classes—their calling is honorable and their ambition may be laudable; but in the nature of the case an office-holder cannot speak, or always think, freely. When therefore one abuses us, we sit silent. It is not he that speaks, it is his salary. To the mass of thinking Negro voters, however, who are not making a living out of politics, and who regard political activity not as a vocation but as a way to Freedom and Justice—to these we may lay down certain considerations: 1. The Negro is an ought to be a Republican, since he owes his freedom, enfranchisement and civil rights to that party. He may not be the Negro's tried and true friend, like Foraker, or a just man to all races, like Hughes; but if he is a Republican and reasonably faithful to the past, vote for him. 3. But! We know that we are today losing the things which the older Republican party gave us; we are losing our Vote, our Freedom, our Civil Rights. Who are taking them away? Southern Democrats and Northern sympathizers. These sympathizers are right in the Republican party, and furnished other passengers. We need an enforcement of the law as it exist, not an endorsement of Southern devilry, with a catch phrase intended to hush Negroes into silence on the Brownsville incident, and the condoning of Southern suffrage regulations.—The Afro-American-Leger, Baltimore, Md. S. LAING WILLIAMS, LOUIS E. ANDERSON AND OSCAR DE PRIEST, THREE POLITICAL PAP SUCKERS, ORGANIZE A TAPT CLUS. Judge B. Laing Williams, who could never make a decent living while mucking with the law and who is now working in the United States district attorney's office and receiving the great sum of $85 per month for his valuable services (we don't think), and Loutie B. Anderson, assistant county attorney, who always wants to be the big I am in everything he can hurt into, and Oscar De Priest, who has got almost another member of his family on the run. their views are voiced by Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. 4. If this reactionary wing of the Republicans trump, we are in grave danger. We are sentenced for a century to Jim Crow cars, peonage and disfranchisement. This is proven. With Republicans in control of all branches of the government all these things have increased and flourished and Taft has told us South: "Rest easy—it is all right." 5. These reactionaries can only triumph by Negro votes; we had in 1900 the balance of power in the following Northern states: Connecticut, 4,576; Illinois, 29,762; Iowa, 4,441; Kansas, 14,695; Massachusetts, 10,456; Michigan, 5,198; Nebraska, 2,293; New Jersey, 21,474; New York, 31,425; Ohio, 31,235; Pennsylvania, 51,688; and Rhode Island, 2,765. Total, 1900, 209,987; Probate total, 1908, 250,000. 6. Depending thus on our votes, why do the Republicans contemptuously ignore us? Would they ignore two or three hundred thousand Germans or Irishmen or Italians? No. Why not? They do not OWN them—they think they own us. They do not own me. Do they own you? 7. Is a vote for Democracy impossible for a Negro? No. Northern Democrats are as friendly as northern Republicans Southern Democrats are our sworn enemies, but they are not fools. If Bryan wins by Negro votes, and if Democracy can stay in power only by Negro votes, will the Democratic party flout us? If you think so read the Columbia (S. C.) State of April 1, 1908. Indeed unless we do get some hold on the Democrats what mercy can we expect at their hands? It is foolhardy to iet any party remain unobligated to us. 8. Friends, we are not deserving the Republican party—the Republican party deserting us. If we want its power, we must make ourselves necessary to it. If we are willing to sell our liberty for six minor political offices thrown us as a sop at the command of a traitorous and cringing Boss, then our liberty is gone. But if we stand, ballot in hand, ready to punish the party that insults and neglect us, it will learn in time to treat us as men and not as dogs. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Ald. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HEALTH DEPARTMENT TALKS. SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO BET- TERING FUTURE CONDITIONS— PUBLIC HEALTH DAYS. From the pen of Burton Rogers, formerly a veterinary inspector for the United States government, come a few pertinent thoughts and sugges- tions that are worth while. In sub- stance he says: "It is all right to honor our ancestors and to observe certain days that are set apart to commemorate their deeds. But in these days of concentration of time and effort, why not let our ancestors rest in peace, and set aside a few days for the noble purpose of bettering the conditions that will surround our descendants?" According to Mr. Rogers we need more days in which to concentrate our efforts towards preventing conditions that make it unfortunate for those born today, as compared with the conditions that are certain to prevail fifty years hence. Not a bad idea, is it? If tuberculosis is preventable, why not prevent? If education prevents, why not educate? To this end and to stimulate the idea of the widest possible publicity along the lines of public education on this subject, Mr. Rogers suggests that President Roosevelt, the governors of all the states and the mayors of all the cities unite in proclamations setting aside certain days to be known as "Public Health Days." That programs be prepared embracing talks by competent local physicians and officials, covering all phases of popular instruction on health matters. All organizations, such as women's clubs, churches, aid societies, medical and scientific associations, commercial clubs, legislative bodies, charitable and fraternal organizations, farmers' institutes and granges, etc., could jointly or severally hold meetings on these days. The halls where moving picture shows are held might be leased for the day, and by the use of the stereoicon the pertinent facts of all The essential phases could be clearly and popularly presented to the general public. School teachers should tell the story of invisible germ life with test tubes and culture media. Each organization might consider becoming an auxiliary member or aid to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. And these should select and send delegates to the International Tuberculosis Congress to be held in Washington, D. C., September 21 to October 3, 1908, and in this way help to create and stimulate individual patriotism that will manifest itself in individual effort and support toward making this gathering the greatest international success in history. Information concerning the congress can be secured from Dr. John B. Fulton, Washington, D. C. A Public Health Day should have as much interest attached to it as any day set aside for any purpose could possibly have. Nobody wants to be sick; all of us want to be well and to keep well all the time. Avbor Day is a great day, or should be. It is the day on which we are asked to plant trees, and all who can should contribute their share towards the proper observance of a custom which means so much for future generations. So in the same spirit, might we observe with fitting and instructive lessons days set apart for the wider dissemination of knowledge as to the prevention of a scourge which claims over 100,000 victims in the United States alone. The idea of having Public Health Days is well worth thinking about, as is also the idea of making all our days count in that we do something to add to our store and to the world's store of knowledge on matters that will enable us to live longer and with less suffering and The Brownsville episode, like Banques Ghost, will not down, and it should not in so far as the Afro-American citizens are concerned. This act, by our chief executive of the nation was not only an insult to the Afro-American race variety, but an affront to all true and patriotic American citizens, be they white, black, brown or yellow. Mr. Roosevelt has proven himself Czareratic in his action against the black soldiers in this one instance, as no other President ever has, and yet we have had cases far more serious and more tangible than that of the Brownsville case. The very general but positive attitude of a large majority of the Afro-American citizens in this country in offering opposition to Mr. Roosevelt, or any man that he may put forth for the Presidency is justifiable and reasonable. It does appear and the veneering is not so thick that one cannot see at a glance that Roosevelt is flirting with Southern democracy by his lily-white Republicanism in a way that it is neither safe nor sane for the future welfare of the Republican party as based upon the principles as enunciated by Lincoln, Sumner and Grant. —The Courant, Philadelphia, 19. CONGRESSMAN IS INDICTED Washington, May 11.—The grand jury has indicted Representative Thomas Heflin of Alabama who shot Louis Lundy, Colored, and Thomas McCreary, the horseman. Tom Heflin, was forced to pay about five thousand dollars to McCreary, which included his doctor bills, and that means that Heflin, has already spent one years salary, for his smartness in shooting at a Negro, on a street car, while he was on his way to deliver a drunken temperance lecture to some of the milk and water, white Christians, in one of the churches, and in addition to paying out five thousand dollars for his bull headedness, he has an indictment hanging over his head and a twenty thousand dollar suit pending against him instituted by Louis Lundy. So Tom Heflin has got himself into all kinds of trouble by playing the part of a big burly hair-drunken policeman:—Editor. BISHOP BREAKS MARBLE SLAB IN RAPPING FOR ORDER—PRESIDING CLERGYMAN AT CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN METHODISTS IS ACCUSED OF BEING UNFAIR AND DISORDER FOLLOWS. Norfolk, Va.—At today's session of the general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Bishop Salter, presiding, broke the marble top of a table on the pulpit stand while rapping for order. A delegate from the floor had accused the Bishop of being unfair in his rulings. "I take that as an insult," was the rejoinder of the Bishop, as he came down with his gavel on the slab. Dr. Chappelle, secretary of the Sunday School Union, was speaking when several questions put to him brought on a discussion. Dr. Smythe of Michigan made a point of order. Bishop Salter refused to entertain it. Intense excitement followed, Dr. Chappelle insisting upon proceeding with the conference against him. The introduction of the South Africa delegation was greeted with much enthusiasm—The Inter Ocean, May 10. The above was the only interesting news item which appeared in last Sunday morning's newspapers published in Chicago in relation to the doings of the Negro throughout the country. Further comment is unnecessary. THE CHICAGO BEACH LITERARY ASSOCIATION. Beginning last Monday night and running 20 nights thereafter, the Chicago Beach Literary Association, which is composed of the intelligent and progressive waiters of the Chicago Beach Hotel, will give a grand fair at the St. Paul Baptist church 5540 Lake ave. The money derived from the fair which will last 20 nights, will go into a fund which will be used to purchase a home for broken down and worn out waiters. This is a worthy cause, and it should reslove generous financial support. RCET T. MOTTS Sole owner and manager of the Pekin Theater, who has generously donated the use of his playhouse for the benefit of the Kindergarten run in connection with Institutional church. Col. Robert T. Motts, owner of the Pekin theater, Twenty-seventh and State streets, has generously donated the use of his popular playhouse Friday afternoon, May 22, at which time an all-star Colored vaudeville performance will be rendered for the benefit of the kindergarten run in connection with Institutional church. WEST SIDE NEWS BY PROF. ALEX SIMPSON, 73 S. HALSTED ST., 'PHONE MONROE 3070. The West Side Sunday Club boys put it on awful strong in their recent burlesque on West Side women of St. Stephen's church, headed by their president, Dr. C. H. P. Why not have The Broad AX mailed to your homes? Call up Monroe 3070. Ask for Simpson. Mrs. J. H. Zedricks is in the city, but expects to be here for a short while only. She is certainly looking fine and her looks show that the west agrees with her. LOOK. BOYS. Save up all of your soiled silk neckties. Drop postal to A. L. Simpson, 73 S. Halsted street, second floor, who will call at your home and get them, clean and press them good as new and deliver them for 10c each, or $1 per dozen. How's that? The Star and Garter is now closed for the season. You will have to wait until it rains, boys. Mr. William Puckett now receives $1,800 per year for his services as salesman with the National Cash Register Co., J. Tuckhorn, manager. If you see it clouding up you only think its going to rain, but if your corns hurt your feet then you know it is going to rain. For further information see Simpson, expert chropodist. Does not draw blood or color line. 73 S. Halsted St., Phone Monroe 3070. Mrs. Irene Camp, No. 9 S. Wood street, is quite a busy woman these days, always busy in behalf of her sex. Anything you don't know and would like to know, ask The Broad Ax, 73 S. Halsted. APPEAL FOR GENERAL RALLY. The published account of the financial condition of the Old Folks Home, should appeal to every person who has a spark of feeling or race pride. Let there be set on foot at once a general rally for this worthy institution time wasted in calling meetings. Energy and money wasted in getting up entertainments could be used to a better advantage If this money be given to the home direct. Wednesday May 20, 85-general rally day at the home. Send your contribution by money order or check or take it in person to the home, 610 Garfield Blvd.-Mrs. Wm. Emantiel. Wanted, pianist; must be good sight reader and capable of singing illustrated songs, and transpose; male or female. Apply Lincoln theater, 2900 State street, 8 p. m. 3827 Dearborn street. Some of the very best known Colored artists, who are regular headliners in the city, have contributed their services on the bill. Much good has been accomplished by Rev. H. E. Stewart and those assisting him in conducting the kindergarten and the other practical CHIPS CHIPS Wait! Wait! Elk's Ball, Tatersalls, May 18:h. Will you be there? Where? Elk's Ball, Tatersalls May 18th. Max Weaver has removed from 3210 Indiana avenue to 3807 Wabash avenue. 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. The Delta Hexagon Club gave an informal dance at the Douglas Club house, 3518 Ellis avenue, Monday evening. It is more difficult and more meritorious to turn men from their prejudices than to civilize barbarians.— Voltaire. A married woman who says she wishes she were single again is the first to look for No. 2 as soon as she becomes a widow. Elijah Johnson and family, who for many years resided at 4847 Armour avenue, are now in their new home, 3026 Vernon avenue. Major and Mrs. Robert R. Jackson, 245 Thirty-seventh street, will celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary Thursday evening, May 28. Frank H. Lewis, the main chief of the Railroad Inn, Fifty-first and Armour avenue, is becoming one of the big politicians in the Town of Lake. Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis have removed from 2419 Wabash avenue to 2444 Wabash avenue, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. Former Alderman John J. Bradley of the Thirtieth ward would make a tip-top candidate for president of the Board of Cook County Commissioners. Thomas Gallagher, ex-member of the Board of Education, will become a candidate at the primaries, August 8th, for Congress in the Eighth Congressional district. Aldermen Stanley H. Kunze and Henry L. Fick returned to the city Saturday morning from West Baden, where they spent ten days in drinking in reform water. Dr. J. W. McDowell, 3100 State street, arrived home last Friday evening from Washington, D. C., and while absent he visited other sections of that "Jim country." If Mr. Taft is a conscientious defender of the rights of Negroes why does he not disown these ill-white, snap convention, federal office holder delegates and conventions in the South? A. Brown, postmaster at South Atlanta, Ga., has been selected as a work which he is accomplishing in the way of training young boys and girls to become in time useful men and women. And it goes without saying that Col. Matts deserves to be highly commended for coming to the front at the proper time and assisting to continue the good work. delegate to the Republican National Convention, and while in the city he will be shown its sights by his nephew, Col. Benjamin Brown, No. 5 Imperial court. NOTICE OF REMOVAL Dr. Edward S. Miller and Dr. William A. Richardson desire to announce to their friends and patrons that they have removed their offices from 3160 State street to the south east corner 31st and State St., in the Gerly Block number 3101 State street. They have fitted up the entire second floor as a suite of offices and are now ready to receive their patients at the new location. MILLINERY FOR SALE CHEAP. I have moved my millinery department to 5041 State street, in Jordan's candy store, for a few weeks, where I will sell all my stock off cheap. T. GUENGERICH, 5041 State St. Pith and Point. You laugh at some people. Others laugh at you. Where one man is in trouble nine men imagine they are. The very nicest girl in the world is the one the boys are the most afraid of. There are too many people in the world who use their nest eggs to make cake of. The man who does little else but talk of his wonderful accomplishments of the past will not do anything starling in the future. - Atchison Globe. Scraps of Science. Light passes from the moon to the earth in one and one-fourth seconds." Astronomers tell us that in our solar system there are at least 17,000,000 comets of all sizes. The microbe flend will be confined in his fussiness who learns that some hardy microbes can live over two centuries on the land and longer yet in the water. German Gleanings Glass telephone poles re-enforced by wire are being used in some parts of Germany. By order of the Emperor William the trousers of seamen of the German navy are in future to be made about two centimetres wider. A dumb trumpet has been arrested in Berlin for baggage. He used a phonograph, visiting private houses only, where his machine poured out a heart-reading tale of its owner's misfortune. Selections AN INGENIOUS LOCK Made In New York For an Eccentric Potentate In India. A lock for which a New York lock-maker not long ago received, in order taxed the ingenuity of all the experts in his establishment. It is a point or honor with the house, well known throughout the world, that no order, however ingenious, shall baffle the inventive faculty of the designers or the technical skill of the workmen. Whatever a customer wants he must have. The order in question came all the way from a rajah in India. After the manner of dusky potentates, he suffered from the dual possession of dishonest servants and magnificent diamonds. The diamonds had been disappearing at an alarming rate, and though only seven servants had access to the box containing the genus, it had been impossible to discover the culprit. Whether the rajah dismissed it is retinue or put them to death on suspicion, the thefts regularly continued. In his extremity he heard of the New York house. An American would have contented himself with procuring a safe the lock of which would answer to no key but his own. But the rajah desired something more. He wanted not simply to preserve his jewels, but to catch the thief. His order was for a safe fitted with eight different keys, one for each of his servants and one for himself. A piece of glass about eight inches square was to be let into the front of the safe. The lock must be so constructed that upon the opening of the safe by any particular key the photograph of the opener should appear immediately in front of the glass, to remain there till another key was inserted. Thus it would always be possible to tell who had last opened the safe. The clumsy ingenuity of the idea made it a difficult one to realize. But in a short time an apparatus was designed which would contain the seven photographs. This was fastened inside the safe and made to communicate with the lock. By a clever mechanical device the key of each servant as it turned the lock brought the photograph into view.—New York Tribune. The Knapsack Bridge A Mexican engineer, Colonel Lopez, has planned and perfected a new kind of bridge made of knapsacks. The framework of each knapsack is made of symmetrically arranged pieces of wood, which can be spread out by means of hinges into boards of known dimensions, and when the stream to be bridged is reached the wooden forms can be promptly extracted from their canvas or leather coverings and quickly bolted into place. A number of experiments have been made by the military authorities, and it has been found that a knapsack bridge will support as many men as can be crowded upon it. In the military schools there are now working models of these bridges, and the men and officers, says the Mexican Herald, "have regular practice in the construction and operation of the puente." The idea can also be applied to the scaling of walls or the climbing of barrancas. Statemen Wage Earners. Aside from the lawyers, doctors, clergymen and others who are classed as professional men, merchants and manufacturers, the insurance agents, treasurers and others who work for a stated yearly salary or on commission, there are fifty members of the legislature who come directly from the bench in shop and mill and who work at a trade for a day's pay. This is an excellent showing, and we venture the prediction that in intelligence, honesty and industry these wage earning legislators will be found the peers of any sent by the people of the state to make our laws.-Boston Traveler. London's Big Directory London keeps on growing, and so does its directory, the 1908 edition of which recently made its appearance. The London postoffice directory, it is claimed, is the biggest book published. This one hundred and ninth edition of it weighs thirteen and a quarter pounds, is eight inches thick and contains 4,008 pages. One wonders how much longer it will be possible for the publishers to keep pace with the increase of the population of the metropolis and confine the record of it to a single volume. The Long Hair Price In competition for a prize women with long hair presented themselves for examination before a committee in Berlin recently. The prize was awarded to Miss Elsie Burkhardt, whose braid was 197 centimeters (about seventy and a half inches) long. Barbers and other masses of hair growers in all parts of the empire are beailing the woman with the long hair for letters indicating their respective lotions, and Miss Burkhardt has realized that capturing the long hair prize is not an unimaginable joy. Where the Globe Went. A business concern in Park row which runs about all night has missed scores of incandescent light globes lately. Since these globes are fairly expensive and the item of loss had become pretty almost a detective was put on the job. It took him just twenty-four hours to find that the globes are as good as cash ever the burs of the Park row and Bowery ginnills—one globe one drink of whiskey.—New York. Selections THE TELEPHONE. Its Marvelous Progress In Less Than a Generation. Of the 5,600,000 telephones in the 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, cities and villages in this country now have telephone connections. Many are the strange ways in which this instrument, only one generation old, is utilised in various parts of the world. In San Francisco there is a Chinese exchange, while in many of the manufacturing towns of New England operations 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 car 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 task, 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 arms 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 Legislator. 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 Jacob, 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 I shilling, guests sixpence extra," of which the following is a sample menu: "Creme bonne femme, omelette Lyonnaise or curried eggs and rice, macaron au gratin or saute potatoes, milk puddin, or rhubarb tart, bread, cheese, pat of butter."-London Tatter. 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 ascent, but has ordered that she be banished from the country, but with 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 Tomba. Some interesting particulars are now available about the discovery a month ago of an extensive Frank cemetery at Haine-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 portery 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 Atheneum. 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 (injuredmen) or if we had had the environment we should have done the same as they."—London News NEW SHORT STORIES A Parking Index. Explorer Perry 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 as 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.'" Hoosier 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 'squite,' 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, SUPER "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 crum, 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 enconced in a big fur rug, with a round fur cap pulled right down over his head and netted snugly in the corner of a first class smoking carriage. FACTS IN FEW LINES There is a woman's prison in Romania that has only women officials. A new monthly postal service across the Sahara has just been established. The messengers are mounted on camels. Jewish societies in London are agitating the problem of restoring the pure Hebrew of uniquity to use as the Jewish national language. The mine owners in the Transvaal expect a considerable reduction in profits when the 80,000 or more coolies there 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, cinnabar, 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 Kataila, Alizsa, 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 centures 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 sale of Spanish olive oil in foreign markets. A Russ'n' girl, aged twenty, shot herself dead in a forest near Lindau. 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, 04 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 668,853 men. In Alsace-Lorraine are quartered 81,109; at Metz, 13,035; in the environs of Metz, 11,819; at Strasburg, 15,408; environs of Strasburg, 1,133; at Colmar, 5,032; at Mulhouse, 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 Koot 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 sixtieth 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 600,000 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 Nasrullah Khan Bahadur, heir apparent of Bhopal. It is reported that his recently killed nine tigers in two days. Once in a single beat of a jungle four tigers apperted 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 that 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 char- *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. 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Turner Williams Moving Faster and News Stand, 2803 Armour ave. R. Davin, cigars, tobacco, and con- fessionery, 3883 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 455 State street. Mrs. J. W. Haddley 118 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katharine R. Hammel, Cigars, tobacco, and linen growers and news stand 6088 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 2812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 128 Sun- Golph St. Detroit, MI. The Standard News Co. 121 W. Nord st. New York City, N.Y. Standard News Company, as W. 121th street, New York City, N.Y. --- Humor 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 its 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 him has, you assure him, filed 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 prostatations 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. "Fing 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 fictious warmth you really seem to be enjoying yourself. You explain 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 endearced 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 fled in terror. Faster and faster they ran, yet neater 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 "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. "I saw the cutest thing today," began Miss Passay coyly. "It was a painting of the—er—what is the name of that little god that represents matrimony?" "Well, now," said Mr. Timmid, "you've got me." "Oh, Mr. Timmid, this is so sudden!" —Philadelphia Press. Ripping Times Gunner—Hot times out at the ball game. The players were slamming balls all the afternoon. Guyer—And how about the bleacher-less? Gunner—Oh, they were slamming the empire—Chicago News. "The trouble I have always bad," replied the hard luck specialist, "is that the houses I bet on always want to stop." -Washington Star. A Lung Developer. WILLOW'S LOW DEVELOPER They were like fairy helmets—little white 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 nourishing 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 be, "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, Halit, 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 mudder 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 panamas will be worn, though. I am stocking nothing under $12. "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 everdurable hat. We have learned that our ideas about it in the past were mostly fallacies."-Exchange. The Largest Morgue. 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 fill 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.--Pittsburg Dispatch. A Fair Sized Wager. "The biggest election bet I ever knew to be made was a wager of $65,000 that George B. McClellan would be elected president in 1864," 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 lack at the campaign of 1864, it seems a burd now to have supposed it possible for McClellan to defeat 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. 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 vacant spaces for future occupation. A change in the flag involves an expense of many thousands of dollars. The army will need about 8,500 new flags, and the treasury department will have to supply about 400 for federal buildings throughout the $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. Grand Band Concert AND ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS The 8th Regiment Ill. N. G. will give a Band Concert and Full Dress Reception in honor of the Delegates and Visitors to the National Republican Convention at the 1st Regiment Armory on Thursday eve., June 18, 1908. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. Indest Yet-Chateau Gar 5320-22-24-26 State Street WILL OPEN SURDAY, MAY 30th, WITH Urged Skating Rink, Health Merry Go-Ro- ws, Band Concerts and Vocal Solos, Parisia mountain and Cafe in connection. --- Grandest Yet-Chateau Gardens WITH Enlarged Skating Rink, Health Merry Go-Rounds, Picture Shows, Band Concerts and Vocal Solos, Parisian Gallery, Soda Fountain and Cafe in connection. OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give roor for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With 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, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More, Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. It has been made purposefully low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in the Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it. Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come!买 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. HILLMANS STATE & WASHINGTON STS WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE 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, IL. POOL AND CIGARS AND BILLIARDS TOBACCOS WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 239 E. 22ND STREET Phone Calcinet 2940 CHICAGO American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Output of Winter Yards ..... spare per du Output of Summer Yards ..... spare per du Telephone Yarde 128. Frank H. Lewle, Prop. J. M. Fields LDS IS CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr.