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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Rawlins Honored with many Presents ON THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. THE AFFAIR WAS LARGELY ATTENDED AND WAS ONE OF THE FINEST SO FAR HELD AMONG THE PROGRESSIVE AFRO-AMERICANS IN CHICAGO. F. A. RAWLINS. One of the most progressive undertakers in Chicago, who recently celebrated his fifth wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Rawilins, who lately purchased a nice brick building at 4817 State street, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary shortly after moving into their new home, the latter part of May. On that happy occasion their pleasant home was most beautifully decorated with choice cut flowers. Green and white were the prevailing colors. Mrs. Josie Hubbard Miller and Mrs. Florence Thompson Woodward and Mr. W. R. Sobers and Dr. Robert H. Hardin, assisted Mr. and Mrs. Rawilins to receive their guests and hosts of warm friends. Stella Williams, Laura Tyler, Hazel Thompson, Anita Richardson, Goldie Bledsoe and Laura and Chaddie Stutley were the little misses who assisted to serve the refreshments in a lavish manner. Rev. Father J. B. Massiah, Rector of St. Thomas church, assisted by Rev. A. E. Browne, re-tied the wedding knot much tighter than it was before for Mr. and Mrs. Rawilins. The bridal table was a thing of beauty to behold. The candlesticks were artistically decorated with white flowers and malden hair fern, and it caught the eyes of the many richly gowned ladies and gentlemen present. W. E. Thornton was the caterer, and he served in the very latest style. Mr. and Mrs. Rawlins were the recipients of numerous presents useful as well as ornamental. Mr. Rawlins presented his bride of five years an elegant parlor suit upholstered in green. The following are some of the many presents received by them: Spice cabinet, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pinn; old mission waste paper basket, Gen. and Mrs. Lawrence and daughter; work basket, Mrs. S. K. Hamilton, Deadwood, South Dakota, old mission book case; Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrison Carr; bamboo corner chair; Mr. and Mrs. Miller and Miss Miller, basket of candy, Ethel Laws; crumb tray brush and server, Mr. and Mrs. Halliday; bamboo table, Mr. and Mrs. Darling; burnt wood book rack, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob L. Parks; burnt wood glove and handkerchief box, Miss Anne Bryant; hand painted case, china vase and salt box, Mr. and Mrs. R. Woodfolk; hand painted vase, Mr. and Mrs. Bowen; basket for silver, Mrs Lizzle Taylor; fancy salt box, Mrs. Gaskins and daughter; parlor picture, Mr. and Mrs. Crump; hall rack, Mrs E. A. Stevens; old mission book rack, Miss Nannie Smithers; comb and brush rack, Mr. J. P. Denizen; book rack, Mrs W. K. Davis; oak stool, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Wooton; parlor picture, Mr. and Mrs. M. Y. Lee; kitchen utensils, Mrs. Florence Titus, sister and father; dining-room picture, Mrs Lizzle Barnett; old mission stool, Mr. and Mrs. Cammer, CHICAGO, JUNE 6, 1908. MRS. F. A. RAWLINS. Prominent member of St. Thomas Church and one of the social leaders in the Town of Lake, who celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary. spice cabinet, Mr. and Mrs. Dyson and Mrs. Peters; burnt wood picture, Mrs. Braintigram; fancy basket, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hardin; pair of vases, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Cooper; hand painted celery tray, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Tandy; china tea set, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes; cut glass salt and pepper shakers, Mr. and Mrs. Minor; drawn work lunch cloth, Mrs. Mary Town send; curtain stretchers, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hill; Battenburg center piece, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cranshaw; set of water glasses and punch glasses, Misses Laura and Chaddie Stutley; oak tabourette, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Clements; hall tree, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Laws; knife and fork box, Mrs. Georgiana Batise; mahogany parlor table, Mrs. G. W. Kenley; linen towels, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson; waste paper basket, Mr and Mrs. W. N. Taylor and Mrs. S. Williams; comic picture, Mrs. Moore and Mr. David Moore; old mission cup rack Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Coombs; old mission plate rack, Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson; parlor picture, T. B. Harrison; bread tray, Mr and Mrs. G. W. Cotton; Battenburg square, Mrs. Lida McClain; mahogany handkerchief box, Mr. and Mrs. M. Craft; clothes hamper, Prof. and Mrs. William Emanuel; table cloths and napkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Baker, Jr.; fruit basket, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Douglas; game picture, Mr and Mrs. Slater; mahogany tabourette, Western Casket Co.; oak rocker, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thornton and C. J. Wilson & Sons; parlor picture, Miss Mary S. Kelly; oil painting, Miss C. Applewhite; oak tabourette, Misses Nora Anderson and Chester Johnson; dining-room picture, Mrs. Charles Morris; mahogany tabourette, Miss Mamie L. Johnson; bamboo bookcase, Mr. George Hutcheson; clothes and towel racks, Miss Carrie Mitchell; linen napkins, Miss Lizzie Mitchell; mahogany glove box, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Brannum; framed greeting, Mrs. J. A. Washington; comic picture, Mrs. George Matthews; parlor picture, Rev. Father J. B. and Mrs. Masslah; wine cabinet, Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Burrows; match holders, Mrs. W. P. Miller and Mrs. C. T. Hubbard; sitting-room picture, Mr. and Mrs. Mays; parlor picture, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Allensworth; curtain poles and knife and fork box, Mrs. B. Washington and Mrs. George Washington; heavy oak pedestal, Mrs. Lawrence Neal Jones, Mrs. R. A. J. Shaw and Mrs. Marie Madison Taylor; oak plate rack, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson; bamboo chair, Mrs. Dotson Cannon; oak tabourette, Mr. and Mrs. Telliver; carved knives and fork and brush, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Goffe; bamboo book Prof. B. Emanuel Johnson, assisted by Mrs. Patti Brown, Miss Mayne Morrison, Master Frank J. Woods, and Joseph J. Miles, will give his first annual piano recital at Institutional Church, 3805 Dearborn street, Thursday evening, June 11th. Captain John L. Fry, Col. Robert T. Motts and Henry Jones, ran up to Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday evening, to witness the prize fight, while in the cream city they were the guests of John L. Slaughter. The Afro-American Should Assume an Independent Position In Politics STRONG AND ABLE ADDRESS, BY REV. J. MILTON WALDRON, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO AMERICAN POLITICAL LEAGUE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE BROAD AX BY HORACE D. SLATER. THOMAS GALLAGHER. The popular West Side merchant, who is held in the highest esteem by a large army of friends; an active candidate for Congress in the Eighth Congressional District. Wilmington, Del., May 30.—Under the auspices of the "Citadel," a Negro political organization of Delaware, Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron, of Washington, president of the National Negro American Political League, delivered a strong and forceful address upon "Why the Negro Should Be Independent in Politics." The address was delivered to an audience of five or six hundred of the most representative Negroes of the vicinity, who cheered again and again every utterance of the speaker with reference to Senator Joseph B. Foraker and his bill for the reinstatement of the discharged Negro soldiers and his strong and manly plea for the rights of the Colored man under the Constitution. Dr. Walldron defended the right of the Negro to bolt the Republican party if that party deserted its basic principles, and in the course of his remarks, said: "While the Negro complains—and justly so—of the treatment he receives in this country, he does not use all the power in his possession to remedy the evils against which he protests. This is especially true of the political power which still remains in the hands of the race. Had any considerable number of the Negroes in the Southern states twenty-five years ago voted as indepen- dents, or sided with the Democrats, the Colored people would not have been disfranchised by the legislative enactments. The solid black Republican vote in the South is largely responsible for the solid Democratic vote of the South. "The threat by the Republican party to reduce the representation in in the electoral college and in Congress of those Southern States that have disfranchised the Negro is meeting with indifference by the race throughout the country, for the Colored people would not be benefited in the least by such reduction. The race, everywhere in America is insisting upon a fair and impartial enforcement of the Constitution, and especially, the fifteenth amendment. This amendment guarantees to the Negro the right of the franchise, and its abandonment by the Republican party has done more than anything else—except the discharge of the Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry—to call the attention of the entire country to the importance of doing all in their power to have the Republican party make a live issue of the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment." Continuing, the speaker said, "Unless this is done, the right of the Colo (Continued on Page Two) "Till promulgate and at all times uphold the truth principle of Democracy, but Catholic, Protestant, and other religions, and the rights of Labor, or any one else, can have their way, on long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad is an American whose platform is easy enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. THE BROAD AX Entered as Second-Class Matter, Alg. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Some Sanitary Suggestions as to Water Cleaner Attach the Privy Valut There are 7,959 old-fashinoed privy vaults in the City of Chicago which are located inside of the improved or sewered districts and which are maintained in plain violation of law. This means that these foul, disease breeding spots are so located that their abolition should be easy and that they should be replaced by modern sanitary inside toilets. There are 3,823 privy vaults scattered throughout the city in its unsewered portions and which cannot be abolished until sewers are put in. This makes a total of about 12,000 valuals of this character inside the city limits. Last year 1,600 were abolished. There is no good reason why every one of the 7,959 yet remaining in the sewered districts should not be dispensed with during the ensuing year It is astonishing how people in this day and age of enlightenment as to health and sanitations will insist on retaining anything so utterly indefensible and so admittedly a menace to health. They seem only to look at the money side of the proposition. They grumble and demur when notified by the department to abolish them, even going to the length of begging and pleading to be allowed to retain them just "one more year." It is hardly necessary to say that this is short-sighted economy. The money spent in abolishing an old privy vault and installing sanitary toilet and bath in a house is certainly a good investment from any standpoint. It adds to the value of the property itself; it makes the community a cleaner and more desirable place in which to live and in this way helps to promote the public health and comfort. In a recent talk we took occasion to tell you a few plain facts about the house fly. We told you how the house fly disseminated diseases of various kinds. One of the chest factors in the consideration of the house fly as a menace to public health is the privy vault. The abolition of these would go far toward lessening the harm that the house fly can and does do in disseminating disease. The Department of Health has begun the war upon the house fly. It has also started the fight against the privy vault. Both of these pests to our community life must go. Common sense, common decency and a due regard for the health of our city demand it. The purpose in writing these few words on this subject is to call your attention to the importance of carrying out this work which the department is endeavoring to do. We want your cooperation and your earnest aggressive support. Manure furnishes the breeding ground for files. It will be the aim of the department to keep the city as free as possible from this sort of refuse. This will mean fewer files, less sickness, fewer deaths and our city a more attractive and healthful place in which to live.—"P." THE WRITING ON THE WALL The best sense has condemned the Republican party of the South for eliminating the Negroes from its councils and prohibiting them from an active participation in its deliberations save its willingness to accept money contributions from the large army of Negro office holders who were forced to pay and "shut up" out of fear of losing their jobs. Secretary Taft once said that the Republicanism of the South is reduced to a chase for the Federal offices and after that, all is said and done. Yet Mr. Taft is the beneficiary of the "Lily White" delegations—and the conventions which selected them unceremoniously excluded the Negro on the theory that the Republican party of the South is a white man's party. Secretary Taft has not protested against this arrangement and the Negroes of the South who have kept the spirit of the party alive and suffered death and privation to maintain its claim upon the Southland, are ignored, turned down, and told that the Republican party is a composite of all the races except the Negro. We do not in advance of the convention, convict the party leaders of cowardice—but we await the action of the National convention in dealing with the 83 contests involving 100 or more Negro delegates. If there is an adverse decision; If the National convention gives moral sanction to these political outrages—then there will be a "long, loud cry" against this pronounced departure from the old land marks in favor of a disfranchisement which constitutes the chief asset of the Democratic party when "chasing a victory" in the South—Ex. GOVERNOR JOHNSON AND THE NEGRO. The people of the South will be asking the attitude of the candidates for President upon the Negro question. It will mean a great deal to them to have a man in the White House who will be friendly to them, conservative and sensible to say the least, and not a rabid Negro-lover, like Fire-Alarm Foraker is proving himself to be. We do not know that Govenor Johnson is in the same boat; but this remarkable story is printed in the Selma Times; "Before the people of the South cast their votes for Governor Johnson for the Democratic nomination for President," said a prominent physician of Dallas couknty, Alabama, "it would be well for them to learn something of his views, perhaps, on the Negro question. I was in' St. Paul in August, 1906, and with my wife visited the magnificent State capitol, which had just been completed. The building cost $5,000,000 and is a handsome structure. Like most visitors, I thought I would like to meet the Governor. We went into the Governor's office, and there were several others sitting around waiting. We sat down, expecting a secretary or somebody to introduce us to the Governor, fho was John Johnson. There was a Negro, well dressed and officiaculous, who seemed to be the major domo of the office. Some other ladies came in to see the Governor and the Negro chief clerk or secretary or whatever he was, went into the Governor's office and came back telling them the Governor was engaged. The Negro laughed and chatted with another Negro, and my wife and myself decided to leave, as we did not care to be introduced to the Governor by a Negro. I only relate the incident as a word of caution that our people had better make an investigation, for we of the South have had trouble enough with a President who did not understand the Negro question and particularly when such affairs as the Cosmopolitan Club dinner is being countenanced in the North." This is a striking contrast to the attitude of Mr. Bryan. In New York City, recently, Mr. Bryan delivered a splendid speech on the subject of the brotherhood of man, and at the conclusion of the address some one in the audience asked him: "Is the Democratic policy of disfranchising Negroes in the South in accord with the spirit of brotherhood of which you have been speaking?" And this answer came like a flash of lightning: "The white man of the South puts a qualification on Negro suffrage in self defense. There is not a community in the North that would not put on a similar qualification under the same circumstances. The white man in neither the north nor the south will permit a few men to take the solid black vote and use it for the making of money regardless of the interests of the community, as was done by the carpet-baggers of the South." Perhaps, if Governor Johnson is elected President, he will make the Negro his secretary, and the same sort of thing will have to be confronted in the White House. The gentlemen in Alabama who placed their names on the ticket as Johnson delegates for the State-at-Large would feel very small to find that their candidate had such Negro views as these. There are a great many people in the South who will hesitate to vote for a man in the face of such an incident as this. The Dallas County physician is indorsed by the Times as reputable and trustworthy, and from his remarks he has in his veins the true Southern blood and does not care to see the Negro pushed forward in public places, or placed anywhere that he can be officacious in the presence of white people. This incident will be very damaging to the cause of Governor Johnson and his followers in this State, and can only make their defeat the more certain and crushing—Montgomery (Ala.) Journal THE AFRO-AMERICAN IN POLITICS (Concluded from Page One) ored people in the Northern and Western states to the franchise would go by default, for it is only a step from the abandonment of the fifteenth amendment to its repeal." He insisted, "The Colored people of the country could easily improve their political situation, if they would, for they hold the balance of power in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia, and Delaware, and no party can hope to win a presidential election without these states a concerted action on the part of the Negro voters in those states will enable the race to carry the coming presidential election whichever way they wish." He defended the right of the Negro to be independent in politics in a vigorous and logical speech and gave several strong reasons why he should not blindly obey the behests of the Republican party. "The Negro ought to be independent in politics," he said, "for in this, as in no other way, would the race be in position to vote for the best men and measures of any and all parties and could easily ally themselves with the best white people in every section of America. By being independent in politics, he would be able to secure from the dominant party ample protection for his race, and the largest possible recognition of his rights under the constitution." "Though political independence the Negro could easily compass the defeat of the dominant party should that party prove itself corrupt in practice and opposed to the Constitution. In a Republic like the United States, an occasional change in parties is absolutely necessary, in order to insure the rights of the whole people and to prevent the prevalence of corruption and graft. The South needs nothing so much now as a strong, opposing political party, and if the few Colored that section would become independents, there would soon be sufficient disaffection in the Democratic party in the South to enable the Republicans to build up a party in the South sufficient to defeat the Democrats of the South once in a while." He concluded with the statement that the disfranchisement amendments of the Southern states would never be repealed until the Negroes in the North and West united and used all of their political power to bring about this result, and made a strong appeal for the men of the race to insist everywhere on a fair and impartial enforcement of the Constitution and especially the war amendments. He reminded his hearers that in contending for a full and fair enforcement of the Constitution they were not only protecting the Negro, but safeguarding the rights and liberties of all the people of this Republic. He advised the Negroes to vote for no candidate for Congress, or for the Presidency, who refused to pledge himself, before the election, to support the Foraker bill for the reinstatement of the discharged Negro soldiers. A NEGRO JEW. A longing to observe the Passover has led to the discovery of a real Negro Jew in the jail at Newark, N. J. On the occasion of the recent celebration of the Passover, Sam Johnson (the Negro in question) told the keepers that he was a Jew, and asked for Matzos. So strong was Johnson in his faith that he said he would starve before he would eat the flour of the Christians during the Passover, and he refused all bread. Little credence was put in his story because his skin is as black as any Negro and he speaks with a Southern dialect. When, however, he was brought out to the corridor, to the surprise of all Johnson started to protest in Hebrew to a representative of the Jewish community who was present for not being allowed to observe the festal season, as were his co-religionists. He not only spoke Hebrew fluently, but also could write in the language. He was born in Jerusalem, he asserted, and was really an Asiatic, although years spent in Virginia have caused him to act and talk like a native Negro.—Ex EVE, MOSES AND HOMER NE- GROER: PREACHER SAYS SO. GROES; PREACHER SAYS GO. Philadelphia, Pa., June 1.—Rev. C. F. Choclazi, B. S., M. A., graduate of King's College, Oxford, Trinity College, University of Berlin, Special Episcopalian Envoy of King Menelik of Abyssinia, and descendant of a line of priests of Abyssinia 3,500 years old, is in Philadelphia telling the Negroes, among other things, that Eve was a Negro, that Moses was a Negro, that Solomon was a Negro and that Homer was a Negro. His business here is to tell the blacks to go back to Africa, where he says they belong. RICH WHITE MAN LEAVES FORTUNE TO HIS LITTLE MU- LATTO DAUGHTER. Dying Request of Former Pittsburg Man Recalls Strange Infatuation for His Father's Negro Servant. Pittsburg, Pa.—The strange infatuation of a well to do white man for one of the Negro servants in his father's kitchen and the undying towe he later more for an acknowledged child was brought out here today when it became known that little Margaret McClure, a mulatto child living in poverty, was the heiress of F. C. McClure, who died recently in Canada leaving an estate worth several thousand dollars. For the past three weeks the police of Pittsburg have been searching for the McClure child, never dreaming that they were to uncover a most sensational affair. Word had come from the wilds of Canada that McClure, before dying from results of an accident, in the hospital at Gray's Siding, Ont., made his attendants swear that they would see that his little daughter Margaret, then somewhere in Pittsburg, be found and all he was leaving oennd in the world be given her. The child was not found here until late tonight, when it became known positively that she was little Margaret, now living with Mrs. A. Lert A. Franklin, a white woman, at Corapolts. The child is said positively to have been the offspring of McClure and a Negro girl named Mary Pryor, who has disappeared in the past few years, having been unable to take care of the child. An old warrant, which was sworn out by the Pryor woman against McClure as he fled from Pittsburgh, is still in existence, but nothing was heard of McClure since he left Pittsburg nine years ago until the word came from Canada some time ago that he was dead. McClure ten years ago was one of the most promising young men of the upper Ohio valley, living with his parents at Glenfield. Mary Pryor, the comely young Negro girl, daughter of the janitor of the Zwickley Presbyterian church, was a servant in the family for a time. It is claimed by friends of the dead man that he was so infatuated with Mary that he would have married her had his parents not threatened to disown him. Steps are being taken now to have a guardian appointed for the little mulatto of nine years, who will be rich. The Inter Ocean, May 30, '08. WEST SIDE NEWS. By Prof. Alex Simpson, 73 S. Halsted St., Phone Monroe 3070. If a person remains in their own home and does not trespass into that of another at unseemly hours, they will avoid the fate which befell a young man recently whose presence being unknown by a husband and others of the household, had to make an exit badly cut when discovered. The Young Men's Social Club, which formerly was the Standard, has opened again under the management of Shelton and Smith. Mrs. B. Patterson, of Crawfordsville, Ind., who has been in the employ of Prof. Alex Simpson in the incapacity of manicurist and hairdresser, was called home suddenly to the bedside of a very sick mother. She is succeeded temporarily by an eastern lady. The wedding bells will soon announce the matrimonial venture of Miss Celia Thornton and Mr. John Smith. The West Side Sunday Club are progressing nicely and are pflanning their summer vacation, some going east, others to the Sunny South. Mrs. J. H. Zedricks, wife of the Lake street mail order merchant, is in this city from the west, seeking a decree of divorce from the ties which apparently occasionally bind unhappily. Miss Gertrude Parker, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Parker, is quite ill at her home. Have you tried Simpson's Caroline Foot Balm, for hot, tired, swollen, and kidney feet? 50 cents per bottle. You need not inquire the news of your neighbor if you will read The Broad Ax. Send your subscriptions to Prof. Alex Simpson, 73 S. Halsted street. Phone Monroe 3070. For any information concerning your face, hair, hands or feet, visit our new parlors. We also teach the things we do at reasonable summer rates. 73 Halsted. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. The Pastor will preach at morning service. Mrs. Lena Mason, at afternoon and night. Sunday June 28th will be celebrated by the Eighth Anniversary of the organization of the Church. THE CORNELL CHARITY CLUB. Last Friday afternoon the Cornell Charity Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Stewart, 5434 Normal avenue. About forlives of the Club and their invited guests were present, Mrs. Alice Harris and her daughter of Dwight, Ill., and Miss Junita Cooper, assisted to receive the guests. After a short business meeting a dainty program was rendered in part: Paper—"Charity," Mrs. Tucker. Reading—"Kindness," Mrs. Carrie Hubbard Webb. Recitation—"When All the World Is Full of Spring," Miss Juanita Cooper. Remarks—By the President, Mrs. Alice Lyes The program concluded with an instrumental piano number, "March, the Ideal," rendered by Mr. J. W. Baker, of Toledo, Ohio. After which refreshments were served, assisted by Mrs. Wh Shannon and Mrs. Jas. W. Baker. Roses were the floral decorations for the occasion. The reporto f the progress of the Club in their good work having been given by the secretary, Mrs. Kemp, and then voting their next meeting to be held at Mrs. Helen Collins' residence, 5050 Dearborn steel, Friday, June 5th, the Club adjourned. GOD IS ALWAYS "BROKE." The report of the Presbyterian Gen'l Assembly just closed at Kansas City, Mo., shows their receipts were $1,347.265, the largest ever received in a year. There are 85,407 communicants, with more than 10,000 added during the year. The contributions from native sources in gold amounted to $290,050.85, the largest ever received from native christains. But in spite of all this enourmous amount of money collected by begging, false misrepresentations and religious bunco faking, there was a deficit on $102,751. Think of this amount of money wasted to cloth, wine and dine hundreds of drones, who work not, produce nothing, but like royalty, theives and crooks, live off the earnings and sweat of others. It is safe to say, not two cents from every dollar of above was used to benefit humanity.—The People's Press, Chicago. NEGRO SON OF CUBAN PATRIOT WEDS U. S. GIRL New York, May 29.—Joseph Antonio Maceo, Negro son of General Maceo, the Cuban patriot, and Isabel Mackey, a decided blonde, were married here today by Rev. Dr. C. A. Fulton of the First Baptist Church. Maceo is a student at Syracuse University and declares that the expenses of his education are being met by the Cuban government. CHIPS Mrs. D. P. French, is very ill at her home, 3336 Calumet Ave. Mrs. John Fry is visiting here parents and friends in Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Maud Jackson, 5121 Armour Ave., has been on the sick list for the past week. Mr. J. R. Maxie, 2627 State St., spent Saturday and Sunday visiting his wife in Janesville, Wis. Mr. Jack Mansfield, 402 27th St., has been confined to his bed with Lumbago for the last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pickett, of Washington, D. C., are expected in the city the last of the week. Miss Fannie Cooper, 3018 State St., has been confined to her house with tonsillitis for the last week. Mr. Walter Quinn of Jersey City spent a few days in the city last week enroute East from Denver. The many friends of Mr. Walter Bacon are glad to see his smiling face back of the handsome Keystone bar. Miss Hattie Shadd of Washington, D. C., will be the guest of Miss Easton, 40th St. and Wabash Ave., this summer. Mr. Edw. E. Wilson is in Baltimore, Md., where he is attending some legal business for Mrs. Joseph Gans, former spouse of the great prize fighter. Dr. G. W. Hubbard, Dean of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., spent a few days in the city last week visiting friends. Mr. Cnarles P. Williams and sister, left Chicago Tuesday for a two weeks visit with their parents and friends in Mississippi. Mrs. Alice Harris formerly of Chicago, but lately of Dwight, Ill., spent three days in the city visiting friends the past week. Mr. W. J. Waters, 2703 Dearborn St., was one of the successful candidates in his examination with The State Board of Pharmacy. The R. M. Leach, Van and Express Company, have removed from 3216 State street, to new and enlarged quarters at 3228 State street. Mrs. James W. Baker and little son Master J. W. B. Jr., of Toledo, Ohio, are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Stewart, 5434 Normal Ave., Hons. Alexander Lane, Edward D. Green and James A. Scott, are the three most prominent candidates for the legislature in the First Legislative District. Richard E. Burke who made a splendid record, while a member of the Legislature of Illinois, is a strong candidate for State's Attorney of Cook County. Among the society folks who will have out-of-town guests during the summer are: Mrs. E. E. Wilson, S. S. Paul, Daniel H. Williams, George Cleveland Hall, and L. Easton. X. F. Beidler, democratic candidate for Secretary of State and Hon. Lawrence B. Stringer of Lincoln, Ill, spent several days in the city this week rubbing up against the politicians. Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback Ralph W. Tyler Fourth Auditor of the Navy, and Judson W. Lyons, former Register of the Treasury, are in the city and stopping at the Keystone hotel 3022 State street, which will be the headquarters of all the big politicians during the Republican National Convention. The band concert and full dress reception to be given by the Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guards, at the First Regiment Armory, 16th street and Michigan Ave., Thursday evening, June 18th, in honor of the delegates and visitors to the Republican National Convention, promises to be, the greatest social event of the season. Things are coming to a pretty pass at Brownsville, Ga., when a white man narrowly escapes lynching for being found late at night in the house of a Negro woman. But for the active intervention of armed policemen the white exponent of "social equality" would have made no secret of their resentment of such familiarity on the part of the Caucasian interlooper.—Ex. Mrs. Catherine Thompson, formerly of Baltimore, Md., mother of Mrs. Mack Weaver, 3807 Wabash Ave., died Friday afternoon, May 29, after a brief illness. Mrs. Thompson was 70 years of age and has two daughters and one son surviving here. The funeral services were conducted at the above residence Monday morning by Rev. Father Massiah. Many flower tributes were received. The remains were buried a Oak Hill Cemetery. Several weeks ago the boom of Col B. F. Moseley for Judge of the Municipal Court, was started in these columns, and all of the other, Afro.American Newspapers, in town, are falling in line, and are boosting him along Former Congressman, Charles Wharton, has started his campaign, for reelection to Congress, from the 4th Congressional District. He has his petitions out, and already signed up, and he will enter the contest as a full-fledged candidate against, ex-congressman George P. Foster, and all comers. 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 startling 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. Saturn is nearly 900,000,000 miles away from us, and his rings, while 170,000 miles in diameter, are supposed to be only about a hundred miles thick. The microbe flend will be confirmed 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 centimeters wider. A dumb tramp has been arrested in Berlin for begging. He used a photograph, visiting private houses only, where his machine poured out a heart-rending tale of its owner's misfortunes. THE TELEPHONE Its Marvelous Progress In Less Than a Generation. Of the 8,500,000 telephones in use throughout the world at present the United States and Canada have more than 6,000,000, with other countries practically nowhere. To include Canada is indeed only complimentary, since the United States alone has about 5,750,000 instruments out of the 6,000,000 in use. More than 30,000 towns, 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, 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 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, macaroni an gratin or sauce potatoes, milk pudding or rhubarb tart, bread, cheese, pat of butter."—London Tatler. The Russian Way. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, the czar's only brother, a bachelor and nearly thirty years of age, is having his first affair of the heart, but as the lady, whose name has not been made public, is of lowly birth the czar has not only refused his assent, but has ordered that she be banished from the country, 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—Arconaut. Frankish Tombs Some interesting particulars are now available about the discovery a month ago of an extensive Frank cemetery at Halne-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. "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 Brevities Andrew Carnegie's library gifts amount almost to $50,000,000. Reginald Vanderbilt at college, it is said, wrote a number of poems of more than average merit. Thomas Pooley, eighty-six, of Claremont, N. H., acknowledges that he made a mistake in never marrying. Secretary Taft will deliver the Memorial day oration at Grant's tomb, on the Hudson river, New York. The president may attend. Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan was born in Pennsylvania, served with a Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war and received his academic and law education in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Olive Wentworth, who is eighty-five years old, is one of the smartest old ladies in Woodman, N. H. She does all of her housework, sewing and kultting, besides caring for a large flock of hens. One of the few survivors of the Mexican war residing in Connecticut is Ira Chapman, eighty, of Winsted. Mr. Chapman's grandfather, Robert Chapman, was a Revolutionary soldier and attained the age of ninety-six. James Dorr of Worcester, Mass., seventy-three years of age, dropped into a bowling alley the other day and after stating that was the first time he had bowled in thirty-five years made an average of seventy-eight pins in eight strings. The sum of $150,000 was left to Henry Baxendale in England by his father if he would return to the Plymouth Brethren, but as he had allied himself with a fraternity vowed to the simple life he refused to accept the bequest. Angus Morrison of Chicago suffered the poverty of riches when he visited St. Louis recently with $5,600 in cash in his pockets, and yet because of a soiled shirt and dusty coat he was unable to obtain lodging. He was finally locked up for safekeeping. His majesty King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has conferred upon Harry St. George Tucker the degree of commandatore of the Order of the Crown of Italy in recognition of the high regard in which the latter is held by Italian officials who were received by him while he was president of the Jamestown exposition. New York City. All of the immigrants who come to New York are not steerage passengers. The cabins brought 143,120 last year. New Yorkers are now moving faster in the direction of owning their own homes than ever before. Installment buyers are paying on contracts calling for $250,000,000. Experience in the metropolis prompted a coal dealer to say of one of his customers, "I don't think that he is a very wealthy man, because he pays his bills as soon as I present them." Chief Derry of the New York bureau of weights and measures reports that 5 per cent of the sellers in the city use false balances and measures and that to sell coal one-quarter short of the weight paid for is quite common.—New York Herald. Home Notes. In cleaning ribbons it is better not to iron them at all. Sponge with gasoline or ether and wrap around a large bottle. Never fill a lamp completely. If it is filled in a cold room and then taken into a warm one expansion will occur and the oil will overflow on the sides. Finger marks disappear from varnished furniture when sweet oil is rubbed on the spot and from oiled wood when paraffin is used in the same way. When a candle is too small for the socket of the candlestick and there is no time to make a paper filler, light the candle and drop some of the melted grease into the socket, then quickly stick the candle in, and it will remain firm as soon as the grease hardens. The Gamy Trout. It spawns on the reefs. It belongs to the same genus as does the salmon. When transported to warm waters it becomes fat and lazy. Mr. Fisherman like it because of its very sporty proclivities. It is omnivorous. Everything from jackknives to corncobs has been found in its stomach — Philadelphia Record. The only way to tame that fellow Castro would be to import, naturalize and assimilate him and then elect him to congress.—Philadelphia Ledger. For a fleet that was said to be full of blowholes and other infirmities the American battleships are giving a pretty fair imitation of seaworthiness—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And now a physician comes forward to say that "that tired feeling" is hereditary. It is pleasant to live in an age when it is possible to blame so many of our faults and fallings upon our ancestors.—Baltimore American. FACTS IN FEW LINES 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 $0,000 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 1,330 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 Katalla, 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 burled 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 4 battleships, 21 armored cruisers, 13 scouts, 44 destroyers, 62 torpedo boats and 106 marines. 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 688,853 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' rifle in one night ever one kill. Vienna had added the word "settlement" to its vocabulary because no German word, says the Neue Freie 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." Colored Retail Liquor Dealers' Protective Association Speeches by America's Best Known Colored Orators DANCING REFRESHMENTS A GREAT ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL Music by the Colored Elks Band :: Admission, including Dancing, 50 Cents :: PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 569. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 368 Office Telephones Central 1289 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 311-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. 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Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo. L Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 East 31st St. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nelle Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 39th St. Mrs. Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, 'robacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3532 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hadley 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars' and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 183 Randolph St., Detroit, Mick. The Standard News Co. 131 W. 53rd st. New York, City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 135th street, New York City, N. Y. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD is a very nourishing food; in fact, an article of diet so nutritious in itself, would support life. On it you can feed with profit and with pleasure. Palatable and easy of digestion. 10 cents a package. For sale by all Grocers Humor No Place Like Home, After All, So a Victim Believed. Visiting has ever been a form of discomfort. Your friend, who has a new home, a lately replenished library, a unique garden or something which represents money enough to make him vain in his possession, cannot rest until he has dragged you from a happy home to cater to this feeling of vanity. As for yourself, you put it off as long as possible. Of course you want to go. The thought of not having been able to get to see him has, you assure him, filled you with perpetual gloom. But circumstances over which you have had no control over forbidden Ali 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. $\Gamma$ and by, when he is getting tired, his wife, 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 exclaim in wonder over the fact that you have been so long in getting there. And when at last a week later, you reluctantly leave you tell him, with tears in your eyes, that you had the time of our life. It is only when once more you find yourself joyfully in your own humble apartments, with its faithful bed, whose very imperfections have endeared 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 coyly. "It was a painting of the er—what is the name of that little god that represents matrli-mony?" Hopping Gunner--He runs out at the ball game. The players were slamming bells all the afternoon. Gunner--And how about the bleacher. "The trouble I have always had," read the hard luck specialist, "is that the horses I bet on always want to stun." Washington Star. ROSE PUFF'S LONG DEVELOPER CHOICE M. SCELLANY The Rooster Muzzle. They were like fairy helmets—little wire helmets no bigger than a walnut. "They are rooster muzzles," said the city farmer as he 'led the way past the pea beds on the window sills, the potato field on the back porch and the flourishing mushroom crop under the outhouse. "Rooster muzzles!" "Even so. Muzzles, not to prevent roosters from biting—for even the gamest fowl has never been known to snap—but to prevent them from crowing. See here." They had reached the tiny chicken run. The city farmer caught a rooster and gently slipped a muzzle over its fierce head. "Now," said he, "it cannot crow. It can't wake the neighbors with its crows at daybreak; hence, thanks to this muzzle, it is at last possible to keep chickens in the most crowded city quarters. "Harrison Weir invented the rooster muzzle. A rooster to crow, you see, stands erect, flaps his wings, throws back his head and opens his beak wide. If he can't open his beak no crow can come from his little red throat."—New Orleans Times-Democrat Artificial Dyes. A recent investigation as to the chemical industries of Germany shows how rapidly artificial coloring agents are taking the place of the natural dyes formerly used. The change is indicated by the decrease of imports of various logwoods. Among these are bluewood, native to Mexico, Halti, 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 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 1844," 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. 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 3,500 new flags, and the treasury department will have to supply about 450 for federal buildings throughout the United States. W. cor. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flat, modern, hardwood throughout. 7 Langley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone, 5-6 seat, hardwood throughout. 4-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front resell separate. Make terms. 8 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick found. 9 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 roof. 2 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, improvements. D Dearborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, balcony. GRAND BAND CONCERT AND ALL DRESS RECEPTION BY THE Eighth Regiment NOIS NATIONAL GUARD 8th Regiment Ill. N. G. will give a Band Dress Reception in honor of the Delegates of the National Republican Convention at the memory on Thursday eve., June 18, 1908. GRAND CONCERT FROM 9 TO 10 O'CLOCK. GRAND MARCH 11 O'CLOCK. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. Indest Yet-ChateauGard 5320-22-24-26 State Street WILL OPEN SURDAY, MAY 30th, WITH urged Skating Rink, Health Merry Go-Round, Band Concerts and Vocal Solos, Parisian Café, and Cafe in connection. $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 Grand Band Concert FULL DRESS RECEPTION BY THE 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. --- 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 Now Out The Stock-Holders included to dissolve that Ass increased Capital for the J Giants Base-Ball Club and Class, Up-To-Date Am Figure 8, Shoot The Pavillion, Roller Skating Riding, and all the latest together with a First Class guests, at it's present location on the Electric Car's The Public is Base-B value in a single season. This New Enterprise. 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Now Organizing—Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with it's 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 it's 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 this 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 Lelar Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. which I am sending as Part (or infull) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. I agree to pay $_____per month until the full amount _____has been paid, at which time I am to recieve my stock certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of the Treasurer, 6928 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock-holders are required to inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their intentions to apply for employment. Inform the Treasurer of your address, Island, Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. 6228 Halsted St, Chicago, Ill. ForSale WITH HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Important L N. E. Corner POOL AND BILLIARDS WITH THE Phone Callnet 2940 BAY THE VI Satu AUBURN Take S A Cha The only Ameri President and T Vice Gomm 45th a 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 Callnet 2940 CHICAGO AT 8 P. M. AUBURN PARK, 79th AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. AFTER THE GAME VISIT THE American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Vards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dryer. output of Winter Yards output of Summer The Teleph Output of Winter Yards ..... per day Output of Summer Yards ..... per day Telephone Yards 128. J. M. Fields LDS IS CHICAGO Lou Seldon, Mgr.