The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Senator Borah of Idaho Called to Task FOR HIS RANTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. ON THE "BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR." SOME OF THE TESTIMONY IN THE "SHOOTING UP" OF THAT FAMOUS TEXAS TOWN. REVIEWED BY JOHN T. CAMPBELL SOLDIER'S HOME LA FAYETTE, IND. To The Indianapolis Star. There is a new United States Senator from Idaho. He is labeled Republican, but he is eminently fit to represent Alabama or Mississippi. He has recently made a speech in the Senate against the Negro soldiers charged with shooting up Brownsville, Texas. His name is Wm. E. Borah. Borah used cat tail logic while attempting to discuss the Brownsville affray. It is affirmed that every cat has three tails. Major proposition, No cat has two tails. Main proposition: Every cat has one more tail than no cat. Conclusion: Therefore every cat has three tails. Major proposition: The Negro soldiers shot up Brownsville from the upper veranda of their barracks. Minor proposition: All the Negroes in the barracks would have heard such shooting, from the barracks. Conclusion: Therefore, all the Negro soldiers had guilty knowledge of the shooting up of Brownsville. He assumes his major proposition while the crowd seen firing were inclined to scatter, which the white conspirators would be likely to do, to be seen and heard in many parts of the town. Senator Borah had some experience prosecuting Moyer and Haywood out in Idaho. He also had some experience defending himself against a prosecution for stealing timber out there, and the proof direct and circumstantial was stronger against him than against the Negro soldiers. If he had been obliged to face as much prejudice as do these Negro soldiers he would have been convicted. Hon. Wm. E. Borah made his speech almost wholly on the testimony of Brownsvillians, which has been pretty well exploded by Foraker, and which largely explodes itself. He quoted Mrs. Kate Leahy, who began by saying she did not know what physical fear is (and Borah agrees with her). Think of a witness beginning with such a false statement as that. Then she saw two men in the middle of the street from her upper It is not contended that all the people of Brownville called a town meeting and resolved to shoot up their town to make it appear that the Negro soldiers did it. But that a limited number did go into and organize a conspiracy for that purpose, and that many of the citizens not in the conspiracy honestly believed the Negro soldiers did it. The people of the town were greatly excited that evening because of the reported attempt of assault on Mrs. Evans by a black man or a man blacked. The Negro soldiers were all aware of that excitement, for their passes had been recalled, and those out were brought in by a patrol. Every woman and child who saw the flash, or heard the sound of a gun, would see or hear it toward the barracks, because their excited feelings were prejudiced that way. Every woman and child and many who saw a man moving about with a gun, would be sure to see a Negro in U. S. uniform, see a black face (in the dark) and hear a Negro voice If the Brownsvillians personated the Negro soldiers, of course they would procure an apparent uniform. They would black their faces. They would imitate Negro voices as well as they could; and it needed not extra good imitation, for had the Brownsvillians heard a dog bark or a jack bray, it would have been to them an undoubted Negro oceive. Release to them Barrabos, but crucify Christ. These Negro soldiers are acceded in one breath of being as cunning as foxes, and in the next of being as dumb as oxen. It was a most stupid act for them to go out and shoot up the town during the great excitement they knew to exist. They knew they would be charged with it sure. If the Brownsvillians did this they would do about as was done. They would begin firing near the barracks, and advance into the town while firing, and avoid firing into the barracks, as they supposed the Negroes would not shoot up their own camp, and they must imitate the Negroes. The Negroes would probably have stuck together, while the crowd seen firing, were inclined to scatter, which the white conspirators would be likely to do, to be seen and heard in many parts of the town. Senator Borah had some experience prosecuting Moyer and Haywood out in Idaho. He also had some experience defending himself against a prosecution for stealing timber out there, and the proof direct and circumstantial was stronger against him than against the Negro soldiers. If he had been obliged to face as much prejudice as do these Negro soldiers he would have been convicted. Hon. Wm. E. Borah made his speech almost wholly on the testimony of Brownsvillians, which has been pretty well exploded by Foraker, and which largely explodes itself. He quoted Mrs. Kate Leahy, who began by saying she did not know what physical fear is (and Borah agrees with her). Think of a witness beginning with such a false statement as that. Then she saw two men in the middle of the street from her upper window, and saw their faces plainly (in a dark night) and recognized them as Negro soldiers, and saw one of them an hour later in Captain Lyon's company when it went out to patrol the town. On cross-question she said she was positive he was the same man. If there had been a street lamp where she saw him first in the middle of the street, his hat would have so shaded his face that she could not have told whether he was black or white. She it was who saw the firing from the barracks porches The Mexican scavenger, Tazuyao, who was right at the spot, saw nothing of the said shooting from the barracks. Yet Borah quoted this witness with as much approving confidence as a five-year-old boy would quote Santa Claus. It reminds me of a case in London in the reign of James II, given by Macaulay. The authorities greatly desired to down an opposition preacher. Three disproutable women attended his meeting. They gave testimony that had been prepared for them which they had committed to memory, a quite lengthy paragraph. They gave it exactly allike, and repeated several times on call, and did not vary a syllable; yet they could not remember the text; they could not remember what hymn he read; they could not remember any other part of his sermon; they could not remember what prominent members of the congregation were present: The preacher declared that he had prepared his sermon, that the statement was not in his manuscript, and that he had not made such statement. But he was convoluted nevertheless; but the sentence was never put into execution. It was so barricaded that the authors become ashamed of it. These three women ought to have lived long enough to be at Brownsville on the night of August 18th. But with the mad dog cry of the Negro haters, and the cowardice of some Republicans who ought to rise to the occasion, Borah et al can get a verdict of guilty without the aid of the ancient women. 2 The hustling Secretary of the Parkwood Cemetery Association, who has worked day and night for the past year in order to get the Association to the point where it could buy a nice tract of land. Here is another gem quoted approvingly by Borah. Hale, Odin, of Detroit, Michigan, who was stopping at the Miller Hotel. Borah thinks he was not prejudiced against the Negroes. Well, if I have not forgotten, there were many Negro hating copperheads in the North, who at the sight of a Negro, colled in an attitude to strike. They left some descendants. May be Mr. Odin was not one of these. But the minuteness with which he describes what he saw is much like the English women before mentioned. He was sitting in a window of the Miller Hotel toward the mouth of the alley leading to the barracks. It was 11:55 at night. He heard six shots in the alley. Then saw seven Negroes come up the alley with guns. He called his wife, and she and their little boy came to the window. (Calling them right into danger.) He counted the Negroes several times. There was a light in his room; which makes it more difficult to see out into the dark, and a wire screen in the window; but with this difficulty in the way, he saw and recognized in the middle of the street, from his upper window seven Negro soldiers saw five more arrive and join these, making twelve in all. Saw one Negro with a freckled face (in the dark) who shot point blank at us (him and his wife and little boy) which shot cut the lower window sash and struck the ceiling and fell to the floor, which he later sent to the secretary of war. (Note this: It is significant.) Then the shooters moved in the street so as to be seen only from another part of the house, and notwithstanding all the shooting he had seen and heard, while other women and children who were really scared were crawling under their beds for safety, this man and his wife moved to another window so they could look out upon the shooting. These he observed, counted and described the shooters, calling them Negroes all the time he was testifying. There, at that side of the house, he said, was a street lamp and he could see their faces distinctly, but the town map shows an eight-candle power lamp 150 feet away; but he saw the freckled faced Negro on the alley side where it was dark. Mr. Odin, I strongly suspect you knew of the white conspiracy. May be he was a part of it, at any rate, played second to it. You seemed to know the shooting was for effect only, and that you were in no danger. I suspect you moved aside long enough for the shot to be made in the window. When twenty men go into an ambush to violate law, they are the staff who are very apt to get drunk, and grow reckless, and shoot a police leutenant and kill his horse — not purposefully, but recklessly. Why did Senator Borah, a new and young senator, jump into this affair, against the much abused Negroes? Answer, because bein ga new senator he wants many friends appointed to office, to whom he owes political debts. He must get these through an upstart suddenly lifted into power. This upstart is very vindictive, and pounds congressmen who displease him with any club he can wield Borah knows this. Therefore he beig early to faun for favors. Borah and other Negro haters insist that the Brownsvillians could plainly see and recognize Negroes on a dark night from fifteen to fifty feet distant, but that the officers and soldiers at the barracks could not see Negro soldiers slip back into quarters because the same degree of darkness prevailed there as out in town. But the Brownsville people were part owl and can see after night. Of course these Brownsvillians did not mistake some white men blacked up to personate the Negro soldiers, Oh, no! That would never do to think of a southern people doing such a thing! If these soldiers had been common, "loose Niggers" they could have made short work disposing of them. But being soldiers, the Brownsvillians had to work some plan to enlist the aid of the upstart at Washington, and they succeeded. John T. Campbell, La Fayette, Ind, May 20, 1908. From the Star, Indianapolis, Ind., May John M. Collins, former Chief of Police, and Frank D. Comerford, ex-Police Attorney, were on Wednesday morning, to the gratification of their hosts of friends, found "Not guilty" by a jury in Judge Chetlain's court, of conspiring together for the purpose of using the police force in the interest of Mayor Edward F. Dunne, and against Fred Busse in their contest in 1902. From beginning to end the case against Messrs. Collins and Comerford was nothing more than cheap politics, the whole trial was a huge joke, and Mayor Busse and the gentlemen running the State's Attorney's office, were not able to cope with Col. James Hamilton Lewis and former Judge N. Sears, in handling the Collins-Comerford trial, and we are truly glad that they had no trouble in confounding their political enemies in the Criminal Court of Cook Afro-Americans and William H. Taft THE SECRETARY OF WAR SUPPORTS THE SOUTH IN ITS SCHEMES TO DISFRANCHISE THE NEGRO. THE PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATE'S ATTITUDE ON THE "RACE PROBLEM" COMPARED WITH THOSE OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BEING IN CONTROL OF ALL BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT, PERMITS THE COLORED MAN TO BE STRIPPED OF HIS CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS. WITHOUT RAISING A HAND OR VOICE IN PROTESTA TION. AN INTERESTING ARTICLE BY W. T. FERGUSON To the Editor of the Washington Star: All Colored men have the highest respect for The Evening Star, and its opinions are generally ours, but I beg to differ from you with regard to "The Negroes and Judge Taft" editorial of May 9. In that article your first question is, "Will the advice of the speakers, preachers and newspapers not to support Judge Taft continue after Chicago?" I say, yes. Your next query is, "Will it affect a large number of voters when polling day arrives?" I say, yes. The welfare of our people demands that we resent the wrongs done us by the President and Judge Taft. And while we may make our political and civil bed harder than it is for a while, though I doubt it, the day will come when things will be better and politicians will recognize that they cannot outrage or insult us with impunity. If we allow the outrage done our soldiers to go unrebuked—if we allow the insult, that we are a race of criminals, to go unresented—then I join with Negro balters and say that the Negro is not only unfitted for franchise, but he is unfitted to live and the sooner such a people is exterminated the better. White Men Cannot Reason for Us. It is useless for white men to try to do our reasoning in this matter of voting. We will reason for ourselves and take the consequences. What difference is there between a man who advocates disfranchisement and one who condones it? If Mr. Foraker is not nominated by the Chicago convention or by an independent convention then the number of votes cast for Judge Taft will depend upon circumstances. You say that if Mr. Bryan were in the Senate he would support the President in the Brownsville affair. How do you know it? Mr. Bryan has never expressed himself as has Mr. Tillman, and Mr. Tillman is not supporting the President. And if he did, wouldn't he have a better right to do so than Mr. Lodge, who is a Republican; than Mr. Borah, who is a Republican, or Mr. Warner, who is a Republican? Mr. Bryan would be embarrassing the Republican party by taking the President's side in the Brownsville case, which, as a leader of the Democratic party, it would be good politics for him to do. South Does Its Disfranchising When Republicans Control — Republican Party Never Stops it. Now, let us consider the matter of disfranchisement. Six states have already disfranchised the Negro by constitutional amendments, and two have amendments pending to effect the same purpose. Every one of these states, with the single exception of No.34 NS William H. Taft SUPPORTS THE SOUTH IN ITS PUNCHISE THE NEGRO. DATE'S ATTITUDE ON THE LED WITH THOSE OF WIL- J. BRYAN. BEING IN CONTROL OF ALL GOVENMENT, PERMITS THE TRIPPED OF HIS CIVIL AND D OR VOICE IN PROTESTA- ON. CLE BY W. T. FERGUSON. South Carolina, has taken this action with the Republican party controlling the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the national government. The point of this is that it is no deterrent to disfranchisement for the Republican party to have control of the national government. The work of disfranchisement goes on whether the Republicans are in power or not. Lilywhites: are for Taft—He Endorses Them by Accepting Them. It is now being carried on right in the ranks of Republicanism by what is known as "illy whites," and these "illy whites," to a man, are for Judge Taft. Has he raised his finger or voice to object to or censure such unrepublican methods? Taft's Support of South's Disfran chising Schemes. Judge Taft has condoned disfranchisement in these words: "A policy in the south which excludes from the ballot the ignorant and irresponsible cannot be criticised. Conceding that the laws now in force in this state (North Carolina) and other parts of the south were intended, either by their terms or by their mode of execution, to exclude the ignorant Colored voter from the franchise with rigor, and allow the ignorant white voter, though equally unfitted for the franchise, to exercise it, I do not think that this makes a hopeless situation for the Colored man or the political power that he may, in the future, exercise." Mr. Bryan has said nothing worse than this. On the distranchisement question Mr. Bryan and Judge Taft are as much alike as two peas in a pod. And if distranchisement is to be the issue in the coming presidential election the ticket should be Taft and Bryan or Bryan and Taft, with Mr. Foraker and Mr. Chandler opposing. If Judge Taft were President the ballot box would not be open to a single Negro to whom it is now closed, and if Mr. Bryan were President it would not be closed to a single Negro to whom it is now open. The assumption that Negro opposition to Judge Taft is based upon revenge is a false one. It is based upon a principle, and that principle is that Judge Taft's views on the distranchising constitutions of the south are inconsistent with Republican doctrines and traditions. South Would Treat Negro Better If Bryan was I: You ask, "What would, what could, Mr. Bryan do for him (the Negro) in return for his support?" Judge Taft has answered that question. In his speech at Lexington, Ky., he said the southern white man is the Negro's best friend and the Negro's future de- (Continued on page 2.) Will promigrate and at all times uphold the brass primacy of the United States. For example, Foreign Missions, Republi- cans, Knights of Labor, or any one else can have their language is proper and they are 45 years old. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. HEALTH DEPARTMENT TALKS. Health and Happiness in Outdoor Life. Try the Trolley. The outdoor season is here. The parks are looking their best. Out in the country the fields are green, the air is balmy, flowers are blooming and all nature says: "Come and have a good time." Sounds a little sentimental, doesn't it? Well suppose it does. Nothing wrong about it is there? It certainly can do no harm to get out of the city for a day, or a part of a day. Especially when it costs so little. Many of the trolley lines will take you far beyond the city limits for only ten cents. If you can go on a weekday afternoon, the cars are not likely to be crowded and the ride alone is a treat. In the event you can not take the trolley ride you should be able to go to the nearest city park where the air is pure, the grass green and soft and the flowers and birds everywhere. What we are driving at is this: Get out of the house whenever you can. If you have a little time at your command, spend it out of doors. If you are compelled to stay in, open doors and windows and make your surroundings as nearly outside surroundings as is possible. Your house has been pretty well closed all winter. Now is the time to open it up and let the sun and air have a chance at every room in it. The parks are great places for the babies and children and they should be permitted to visit them every day if possible. Nothing like fresh air, bright sunshine and outdoor exercise to promote bodily vigor and mental content. The children can also study nature in the parks. They can find out the names of birds and their value in protecting trees from the worms and insects. It has been noticed that in communities where the boys are permitted to stone the birds and either kill or frighten them away, the trees soon die. Especially is this true of orchards and all fruit-bearing trees. Trees and birds go together. The beauty and attractiveness of all our city parks are maintained and increased by the birds and the noble trees in the branches or which they sing. Tell the children about all these things and they will grow up to be better men and women. And in this way all outings should be used; not only to make us well and strong in our bodies but also to teach us more about the world we live in and how to get a larger degree of health and happiness out of it. By the way, have you started that little garden yet? And what about those flowers for the front yard? Lots of good, healthy exercise to be had in tending a few garden beds and growing flowers. But in any event, get out of doors all you can and don't overlook the importance of letting the sun and air have the freest possible access to every corner of the home.—"R." The thirteenth annual Negro Conference met at Atlanta University, Tuesday, May 26. These conferences have been carried on for more than a decade and have brought distinguished students to the university and resulted in the publication of the following volumes: 1. Mortality among Negroes in Cities. 2. Social and Physical Condition of Negroes in Cities. tor of the American Tuberculosis Exhibition, spoke on Tuberculosis among Negroes, in the morning. In the afternoon the Free Kindergarten Association, which is supporting four free kindergartens for Negroes in the city, held a mother's meeting. At night Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, spoke of the "Negro Family" and expressed her great interest in this race and its welfare. The new Colored archdeacon of Georgia, Rev. E. L. Henderson spoke of the Church and Home and said: "While the Negro has made a splendid beginning in the acquisition of homes, a beginning it is, and not the end. For, here and there, in country and in city, we find, not only types of the ideal home, but tenements and shanties, which barely afford protection from wind and storm; dwellings where the laws of health are defied, where the most ordinary sanitary arrangements are unknown, and where boards of health fail to penetarte; beds innocent of clothing; human forms, even those of their children; piteously clad; hunger written upon careworn faces, and despair everywhere triumphant. What can be expected in such a home as this but that which often exists—an immorality as deep as its poverty." Among the visitors to the conference were: G. S. Dickerman, of the Slater board of trustees, the Rev. Henry H. Tweedy, of Bridgeport, Conn., Prof. W. S.Scarborough, of Wilberforce, Ohio, and others. "PAID IN FULL." Most Shocking and Debasing Play. Have we all become degenerates? Are our nostrils so charged with the stenches of modern life that we are no longer able to detect the odor of rottenness? It seems that not a purient instinuation, or broad suggestion is allowed to be overlooked in the public press. Salacious scandals with high sounding names make the best sellers for the dailies. And now comes playwright Eugene Walter, with his production, " Paid in Full." Crowded audiences might weep in maudling sympathy and surprise over the story and the critics with one voice shout that Walter is greater and his play is a masterpiece. Suspicious of the verdict because popularity is always the tribute of personal gratification we saw "Paid in Full" and we recommend the disinfectant bottle to its auditors. Joe Brooks is employed by a villainous old shipowner as a clerk at $18 a week. The old man deliberately keeps young Brooks down while advancing other men in his employ. Joe becomes a socialist and in an outburst of passion tells what he thinks of his boss and the wage system. Later on Joe steals $16,000 of Captain Williams' money to give his pretty wife the luxuries she demands. Then comes the real "interest" of the play. There should be no wonder that it is interesting. When such pictures draw the crowd, dirty letters sell papers and filthy jokes get the money, why should not "Paid in Full" succeed. Joe Brooks, in spite of his lofty socialistic ideas, asks his wife to save him from the penitentiary by selling her body to Captain Williams. After a tearful scene and a heartfelt struggle, Mrs. Brooks consents to visit Captain Williams and meeting him alone in his rooms at midnight, to save Joe. Of course the audience is interested. Peeping Tom would become frantic with delight at the prospect. He is promised a view of the scene between Mrs. Brooks and Captain Williams. Then the meeting takes place. Excitement is at fever heat. Every minute the salacious denouement is expected. A feeling of intense "relief" is experienced when the Captain and Mrs. Brooks turn out to be moral examples of the purest order. In order to express their own virtuous feelings the audience indulges in handkerchief play and loud and continued applause. There is no exaggeration in this criticism. But why, of why are the critics unanimous in their praise of such a spectacle? Why is it that young girls, wives and sweethearts are taken to the play while similar appeals to the prurient are suppressed in the dime museums. Is it because vice grows by what it feeds on and we have arrived at the stage where our nostrils must be appealed to by strong odors in order to crouse our interest? If the drama must flourish on such matrial then it is time to look around for some decent substitute,—"C." LELAND GIANTS' SCHEDULE... May 24th, Athletics at Auburn Park. May 28th, Logan Squares at Sycamore Park. May 30th, Riverviews A. M., at Riverview Park. May 30th, Logan Square P. M., at Logan Square Park. June 7th, So, Chicagoes at Auburn Park. June 13th, West Ends at West Ehd Park. June 14th, Havana Stars at Auburn Park. June 20th, JACOB L. PARKS. The successful Undertaker, 3155 State street, the original promoter of the Parkwood Cemetery Association, which has recently purchased a fine plat of land, which will be used for burial purposes. Riverviews at Riverview Park. June 21st, Athletics at Auburn Park. June 27th, Logan Squares at Auburn Park. June 28th, Spauldings at Auburn Park. WILLIAM H. TAFT. (Concluded from page 1.) pends upon sustaining good relation with his white neighbors. If this be true the south would undoubtedly be DEATH OF MRS. MINNIE BISHOP. Last Saturday morning, at 5 o'clock, Mrs. Minnie Bishop 3832 State street, departed this life after suffering with complications of ailments for almost one year. Mrs. Bishop was born in Louisville, Ky., and reared in Indianapolis, Ind., where she received her education. She had been a resident of Chicago for a good many years, and was well liked and very popular among her large circle of friends. She was a prominent member of Unique Temple, Daughters of Elks No. 15, and she leaves a kind and devoted husband, William Bishop, a daughter, Miss Quinnie Nelson, a brother, Charles Butler, a cousin, Mrs. E. Roberts; and her daughter, Miss E. Roberts, who came on from Indianapolis, to the funeral, Mrs Lizzie Malson, Grand Rapids, Mich., who was also present, and many other friends and relatives to mourn her death The last sad rites were held over her remains at Bethel church Tuesday morning. Rev. A. J. Carey officiating. Burial at Oakhill. Mrs. Frank W. King hurried home from a visit to New York in order to assist her husband to conduct the funeral services over the the remains of her bosom friend of many years. The funeral was largely attended, and everything in connection with it was of the very highest order. The floral tributes were many and could not be surpassed, as Mrs. Bishop possessed a pleasing and sunny disposition, and a heart full of sympathy for all she came in contact with. She will be greatly missed by those who had cultivated her friendship. WEST SIDE NEWS. By Prof. Alex Simpson, 73 S. Haisted St. Phone Monroe 3070. The Legrand Club boys are planing an outing soon. Mr. Henry Smith will be the great I AM with a capital L. Clarence Puckett is now on the city pay roll. The word roll sounds good to Chirence. Look out for the big concert on the 9th of June at Providence Baptist Church. Jones and Martin main squeezers. Mrs. Blakely, formerly of Leavitt street, is now residing on the South Slide. Mrs. A. B. Parker is making preparations for her summer vacation. Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the place. While out at the ball park Sunday, 79th street and Wentworth avenue, I thought I was in Hoboken, New Jersey. I don't know whether they were muskets or galinipers, but they certainly wouldn't let me enjoy the game. Miss B. Patterson, of Crawfordsville, Ind., is now in the employ of Prof. A. L. Simpson over on the West Side, in the capacity of manicurist and hair dresser. Mr. J. H. Zedicks, the Lake street mail order king, is on the fence. He evidently has lost his home. Dr. C. H. Pickett has opened an office and is now ready to do business. You can get sick if you want. WILLIAM H. TAFT. (Concluded from page 1.) pends upon sustaining good relations with his white neighbors. If this be true the south would undoubtedly be grateful to the Negro for helping it elect a President. Empty Promises. As to reduction of representation, the Republican national platform of 1904 promised it, as does the Ohio platform, upon which you say Judge Taft is standing. No effort has been made to redeem the 1904 pledge. Political fish in 1908 will be wary of 1904 bait. In closing this letter I want to say that if the allies are possessed of the political acumen with which they are credited they will center their forces Forakerward.—W. T. Ferguson, in The Star, Washington, D. C., May 21. Mr. Ferguson is one among the many courageous and independent Afro-Americans, who will not support Roosevelt or Taft for President of the United States.—Editor. 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 southeast corner 31st and State streets, in the Gerity 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. CHIPS Two Negro "night riders" were killed near Lexington, Ky., last week. Miss Jannie Colbert, of Surf and Evanston avenue, is on the sick list. Mr. Thos. Boger, of the U. of I. will spend his summer vacation in Chicago. Mr. Toney Langston, of the Keystone Hotel, has gone into the printing business. Mr. Hiram Wheeler, of St. Joseph, Mo., has gone to Tuskegee, Ala., where he will take charge of a dairy farm. Mr. Joe, Gans, of Baltimore, spent a day in the city last week enroute home from California. Dr. A. Booker, formerly of Provident Hospital, but now located in St. Louis, left for Europe May 28, to be gone six months. Mr. Robt. Wheeler, now located at Racine, Wis., spent a few days in the city last week awaiting his brother Lloyd at 3308 Rhodes avenue. Mrs. Maggis Thompson, one of the substantial citizens of Duluth, Mim., has become one of the new readers of The Broad Ax. Garrett Burns, manager of the Thallmann Printing Ink Co., 415 Dearborn street, is an up-to-date business man in every respect, and he would make a tip-top county commissioner. H. O. Tanner, the artist, has just finished a painting for the Salon des Artistes Francaise, Paris. It represents the parable of "The wise and foolish virgins." Albert H. Putney, Dean of the Illinois College of Law, 301 East Erie street, would make an ideal candidate for one of the new judges of the Municipal Court. An exchange says that Booker T. Washington and Joe Gans are the greatest Negroes in the world. Admitted. --- But Gans is the greatest fighter and Booker Washington is the greatest beggar. Alderman Stanley H. Kunze, Ex-Alderman Thomas Gallagher, William Gleeson, John F. Power, Rocco De Stefano, and K. B. Czarnecki are the leading candidates for Congress in the Eighth Congressional district. Attorney Walter M. Farmer, 124 Washington street, reparted last evening for Marshall, Texas, where he is interested in a law suit in connection with the United Brothers of Friendship. He will return home this coming Thursday by the way of St. Louis, Mo. Two of the twelve jurors who are to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the men charged with graft in connection with the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., are Negroes, both janitors, one of whom is the foreman. They were acceptable to both sides. Col. William H. Brown, the best and most popular Sergeant-atArms of the City Council, that Chicago has ever had, has finally succeeded in securing a nice position, for a beautiful young lady, with a big merry widow hat, in the City Hall. I. B. Barefield, who has been in the real estate business for a long time in the downtown district, is now connected with S. Loudenback & Co., Real Estate and Investment Brokers, 95 Dearborn street, where he will be pleased to meet his friends. Attorney B. F. Moseley has his petition circulating, for the nomination as one of the judges for the Municipal Court, and they are being numerously signed, and it is beginning to look as though Mr. Moseley will develop so much strength and have such a strong following, that he will come out on top at the primaries August 8th. The Parkwood Cemetery Association this week closed a deal for land for their cemetery. It is conveniently located for cemetery purposes, adjacent to Mount Greenwood and Mount Olivet cemeteries and accessible to the street cars and close to Grand Trunk Funeral Train Depot, also in driving distance. It is their present plan to begin burial September 1. Fred Taylor, 4969 Princeton Ave., artistic decorator and painter, is one of the best artists in his line of work in Chicago. Mr. Taylor has just finished decorating the four-flat building at 5025 and 5027 Armour Ave., and the work in every respect is first-class, and we take great pleasure in commending Mr. Taylor to all those who want a first-class artist. Because the woman of his choice chanced to be Colored, the citizens of Georgetown, Del., last Thursday took it upon themselves to ferret out the past of Charles Warrington, a white man, who had married a Colored woman and learned that he had a wite and two children in another part of the country. The "intermarriage" of the couple greatly incensed the white citizens of that village.—Ex. Thomas P Flynn, is one of the most prominent and active members of the Catholic Order of Foresters and on last Sunday this strong order in celebrating its twenty-five years of exhistence, held a great demonstration at the Coliseum and Mr. Flynn had the honor of serving as chairman of the meeting, and representatives of the order mingled with each other Sunday and Monday from all parts of the United States. Augustus L. Williams, Deputy Clerk and Collector County Treasurers office, is making great headway with his boom for County Commissioner. Mr. William has the backing of County Treasurer, John R. Thompson, Roy O. West, Alderman Frank L. Bennett, and many of the other leading Republican politicians, and it looks as though he will knock out Oscar De Priest, and be selected as the slate candidate for County Commissioner. SPECIAL NOTICE. Grand opening of the Chateau Gardens, 5320-36 State seret was postponed to June 6, 1908 Lakewood Cemetery and Arbor Leland Giant Baseball and Amusement Association. A Nice Mixture for Tarts and Puddlings Wash a pound of currants, rinse thoroughly, cover with clear water, and allow to soak all night. Then put both currants and water into an enamelled saucepan; peel and slice a pound of apples, add about half a pound of sugar; stir all together, and bring to the boll. Simmer gently till the apples have become transparent, and the whole is almost like jam. This should take about half an hour. When cooled, add 1-4 lb. of mixed peel, finely chopped, a little nutmeg and ginger, and a few drops of essence of almonds of ratafas or both, if preferred. Put into jars and tie down when cold. This mixture is very good, and makes a pleasant variety for rolypoly puddings. Selections AN INGENIOUS LOCK Made In New York For an Eccentric Potentate In India. A lock for which a New York lockmaker not long ago received an order taxed the ingenuity of all the experts in his establishment. It is a point or honor with the house, well known throughout the world, that no order, however ingenious, shall battle the inventive faculty of the designers or the technical skill of the workmen. What ever 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 gems, it had been impossible to discover the culprit. Whether the rajah dismissed his 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. The knapsacks are numbered, and when the stream to be bridged is reached the wooden forms can be promptly extracted from their canvas or leather coverings and quickly bolted into place. A number of experiments have been made by the military authorities, and it has been found that a knapsack bridge will support as many men as can be crowded upon it. In the military schools there are now working models of these bridges, and the men and officers, says the Mexican Herald, "have regular practice in the construction and operation of the puente." The idea can also be applied to the scaling of walls or the climbing of barrancas. Statesmen Wage Earners Aside from the lawyers, doctors, clergymen and others who are classed as professional men, merchants and manufacturers, the insurance agents, treasurers and others who work for a stated yearly salary or on commission, there are fifty members of the legislature who come directly from the bench in shop and mill and who work at a trade for a day's pay. This is an excellent showing, and we venture the prediction that in intelligence, honesty and industry these wage earning legislators will be found the peers of any sent by the people of the state to make our laws.-Boston Traveler. London's Big Directory London keeps on growing, and so does its directory, the 1908 edition of which recently made its appearance. The London postoffice directory, it is claimed, is the biggest book published. This one hundred and ninth edition of it weighs thirteen and a quarter pounds, is eight inches thick and contains 4,608 pages. One wonders how much longer it will be possible for the publishers to keep pace with the increase of the population of the metropolis and confine the record of it to a single volume. The Long Hair Prize In competition for a prize women with long hair presented themselves for examination before a committee in Berlin recently. The prize was awarded to Miss Elsie Burkhardt, whose braid was 197 centimeters (about seventy and a half inches) long. Barbers and other makers of hair growers in all parts of the empire are besieging the woman with the long hair for letters indorsing their respective lotions, and Miss Burkhardt has realized that capturing the long hair prize is not an unmixed joy. Where the Globes Went A business concern in Park row which runs about all night has missed scores of incandescent light globes lately. Since these globes are fairly expensive and the item of loss had become pretty sizable a detective was put on the job. It took him just twenty-four hours to find that the globes are as good as cash over the bars of the Park row and Bowery ginmills—one globe, one drink of whiskey—New York Sun. Selections THE TELEPHONE Its Marvelous Progress In Less Than a Generation. Of the 8,500,000 telephones in use throughout the world at present the United States and Canada have more than 6,000,000, with other countries practically nowhere. To Include Canada is indeed only complimentary, since the United States alone has about 5,750,000 instruments out of the 8,000,000 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 utilized in various parts of the world. In San Francisco there is a Chinese exchange, while in many of the manufacturing towns of New England operators are often compelled because of the mixed population which depends upon the telephone to speak two or three languages in addition to English. Away over in the capital of Persia another novel use of the telephone is found. There the shah, whom it is practically impossible to see, has allowed his subjects the right to petition by telephone. A booth has been set up in the central square of the city, and there citizens can get their sovereign's ear and demand their rights in a way as curious as it is new. Each day a long line of petitioners assembles at the booth at daybreak and remains until sundown, when it is closed. Indeed, the telephone is proving a powerful democratic influence in bringing together rulers and their subjects. King Edward, the czar and the German emperor are reached by this means much more often than was formerly possible. They are indeed fast becoming more accessible than many of New York's money kings whose telephone numbers appear in no directory, the operators being forbidden to reveal them under any circumstances. Were this not the case, it is said, the millionaires would be flooded with numberless calls of every description. By revealing their numbers to only a few business and personal associates this bother is eliminated. Another novel use of the instrument in New York is the taking of testimony under oath by means of it. The annual number of telephone messages in the United States is almost incredible, totalling 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 8,000 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 Legislators Vegetarian meals are a great success in the house of commons. A special vegetarian table d'hote has been provided in the members' dining room for some time. Perhaps not more than a dozen members adhere strictly to the use of "no flesh, no fish," but many are adopting a dietary containing a reduced consumption of meat. Sir James Alfred Jacoby, chairman of the kitchen committee, began about the end of last session to cater for vegetarian dishes which would appeal to members who were not vegetarians. He puts on the table "the vegetarian dinner at 1 shilling, guests sixpence extra" of which the following is a sample menu: "Creme bonne femme, omelette Lyonnaise or curried eggs and rice, macaron an gratin or sauté potatoes, milk pudding or rhubarb tart, bread, cheese, pat of butter."-London Tatier. 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 oply refused his assent, 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 Tombs. 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 pottery typical of the Merovingian period. Three of the tombs seem to have been reserved for women, to judge from the ornaments found in them, which include bracelets, brooches and rings. The cemetery must have been in use for a long time, as several different ways of placing the bodies are noted. London Athenaeum. Potential Criminals. "We are all potential criminals," was the starling statement made by Dr. Albert Wilson to a deeply interested audience at the Sociological society. "If we had had the heredity of some of these poor people (prisoners) or if we had had the environment we should have done the same as they."—London News. A Packing Index. Explorer Pearly 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 are the same kind, son," the old man replied, "but some customers want a barrel opened at the top and some at the bottom." Hoover 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, A "MR. WILSON, I BRECKON YOU'VE READ ENOUGH." "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 one of the officers, "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. Vanderblit 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. Vanderblit, "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 Rosebery 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 Rosebery and then, taking the cigar out of his mouth, asked hesitatingly: "Do you object to smoking, madam?" The "lady" intimated by a shake of the head that "she" did not, and shortly afterward Lord Rosebery astonished the nervous passenger by removing his wraps and lighting a cigar himself.—Home Chat. There is a woman's prison in Roumania 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 antiquity to use as the Jewish national language. The mine owners in the Transvaal expect a considerable reduction in profits when the 30,000 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 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 sale of Spanish olive oils in foreign markets. A Russian 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 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, "lemme 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 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 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 Nasrullah 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' riffle in one night over 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 charity." 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Standard News Company, 49 W. 116th street, New York City, N. Y. ```markdown ``` Humor No Place Like Home, After All, Go 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 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 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 joyful in your own humble apartments, with its faithful bed, whose very imperfections have endured 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 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 Passay cooyi. "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!" Gunner—Hot times out at the ball game. The players were slamming balls all the afternoon. Gnyer—And how about the bleacher-lites? Gunner—Oh, they were slamming the umpire!—Chicago News. Co-operating With Reform. "Do you think racing will ever be stopped?" "The trouble I have always bad," replied the hard luck specialist, "is that the horses I bet on always want to stop."—Washington Star. GOLL HOFF'S LONG DEVELOPER 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 Welr 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 Dye. 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 overdurable hat. We have learned that our ideas about it in the past were mostly fallacies."-Exchange. The Largest Morgue. New York is to nave 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 all it. If Washington square was laid out like a cemetery now, with every grave having its sepalate 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. "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 back at the campaign of 1864, it seems absurd 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. The Forty-sixth Star. In order to make room on the flag for the forty-sixth star, which must shave 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 2,500 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. $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern improvements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. JESSE BINGA, 3637 State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 FULL DRESS RECEPTION BY THE 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. --- 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 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 It's 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 purposely 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. 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 Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IN. POOL AND CIGARS AND BILLIARDS TOBACCOs WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 239 E. 22ND STREET Phone Callnet 2940 CHICAGO BASE BALL American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Frank H. Lewis, Prop. J. M. Fields FIELDS IS CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr.