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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Afro-Americans Revolt Against the Nomination of William H. Taft THE LILY WHITES ARE IN THE SADDLE AND THE COLORED DELEGATES ARE FORCED TO STAND ASIDE FOR THEM. THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE WITH PLENTY OF MONEY TO SPEND HAVE CORRELLED. A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF DELEGATES AND BY DECIDING CONTESTS ALL ONE WAY TO NOMINATE BOOSEVELT'S MAN FRIDAY MANY MEETINGS ARE BEING HELD BY THE COLORED PEOPLE IN THIS CITY TO PROTEST AGAINST THE NOMINATION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. A MONSTER PARADE IS PLANED FOR MONDAY NIGHT. HOT TIMES ARE AHEAD FOR THE LEADERS OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY OF GOD AND BOODLE. The Republican National Convention will be called to order at the Coliseum in this city next Tuesday, June 16, at 12 o'clock, and never in the history of the great Republican party nor of any other political party have such shameless and reprehensible tactics been resorted to in order to crush out or stamp out all opposition to the nomination of a so-called favorite son, as has been brazenly adopted by Frank H. Hitchcock, who seems to be covered over with boodle from head to foot, and the other managers of his party, to bring about the nomination of William H. Taft. tinue to do so up until the morning of the convention. So far the meetings have been addressed by many of the most prominent Afro-Americans in this country who are not political tramps by any means. Among the speakers have been: Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C., president of the National Negro-American Political League; Granville T. Martin, of New York City; Oliver Randolph, secretary of the Foraker National League, Washington, D. C.; Rev. W. H. Scott, Boston, Mass.; Gurley Brewer, Indianapolis, Ind.; William A. Sinclair, Philadelphia, Pa.; William Monroe Trotter, editor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., and others. Tuesday evening an anti-Taft meeting was held at $160 State street, and editor Trotter was one of the speakers, and with his polished manner and eloquence he knocked the underpinning out from under his hearers. He concluded speaking as follows: [Name] presidential candidate and a vote for whom will mean the greatest possible addition of strength against Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft." T. M. Blodgett, who thought he was one of the white delegates from Georgia, but was unseated because he would not promise to vote for Taft, followed editor Trotter, and he exclaimed that "The black man has everything in the hollow of his hand, and the time has come and is at hand when the Negro's chance is right here. If you don't take advantage of it right now I am fearful that it will not return again." "I am unseated, and a man who is under two indictments in Fulton county, is seated in my place." He declared that "the Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia against Hoke Smith, was in favor of peonage, and that he was interested in 800 slaves, and that peonage is in full blast within a few miles of Atlanta." THE CHATEAU GARDENS. The Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association added an other feature to their already splendid list of attractions at their Chateau de Plaisance established 5318-26 Stat Street when, on last Saturday they opened after a months cessation to the largest crowd that was ever entered in the City by means of our people. The Garden is a perfect dream with a double decked Parisian Gallery overlooking it from the South a dance pavilion that will accommodate fifty couples, a band stand and stage with a solid up-right facade for moving pictures and illustrated songs a health Merry Go-Round, swings and 200 tables and easy chairs opening beams of stairways, upon this galler and Garden is the finest Roller Skating in the west, with a separate Rink for beginners, above and connected with the inner galleries is a fine cafe presided over by that master On Wednesday evening a great anti-Taft meeting was held at Odd Fellows Hall, 3335 State street, and Attorney J. C. Ayler, of New York City; Mrs. R. J. Brown, of Louisiana; Rev. W. H. Scott, Boston, Mass., and J. C. Manning, editor of the Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama, were the leading speakers, and Mr. Manning hotly scored Rossevelt and Taft up one side and down the other, and bitterly denounced the raw and rotten methods their henchmen resorted to in Alabama in order to permit the Taft and Roosevelt flag to fly to the breeze. All the Anti-Taft meetings are largely attended, and it is the first time in the history of the Republican party, that the Afro-Americans have had the courage and the manhood to stand up and fight against the nomination of one of its candidates for presidential honors, and if the weather will permit, on Monday evening a monster parade will wend its way through the streets of Chicago, to protest against the nomination of William H. Taft, and to let it be known that all Negro Americans cannot be bought and sold like hogs and cattle. And there are hot times ahead for the leaders of the Grand Old Party of God and boodle! Invitations are issued for the marriage of Miss Kathering E. Delaney to Mr. Joseph C. Moon, Wednesday evening, June the 24th, at the Institutional Church. The wedding reception will be held immediately after the ceremonies at the Irde's residence, 4536 St. Lawrence Ave., where they will be at home after July 6. THE CHATEAU GARDENS. THE CHATEAU GARDENS. The Leiand Giants Base Ball & Amusement Association added another feature to their already splendid list of attractions at their Chateau de Plaisance established 5318-26 State Street when, on last Saturday they opened after a months cessation to the largest crowd that was ever entertained in the City by means of our people. The Garden is a perfect dream with a double decked Parisian Gallery overlooking it from the South, a dance pavilion that will accommodate fifty couples, a band stand and stage with a solid up-right facade for moving pictures and illustrated songs, a health Merry Go-Round, swings and 200 tables and easy chairs opening by means of stairways, upon this gallery and Garden is the finest Roller Skating Rink in the west, with a separated Rink for beginners, above and connected with the inner galleries is a fine cafe presided over by that master of epicurians, C. D. Rice late of the Pekin Inn, Armant's Orchestra entertains with music from 7 to 11.45 each eveing. Jerry Mills late of the Pekin has charge of the vocalist and show department with Madam Lena Bryan the sweet singer and Lorain Board the renown barytone as leading characters; everything from soda to venson was served and every lady was happy, no discriminations, no bolstering or bad mannered people present and those who wish to patronize an institution meritorious and worthy will make a mistake if they don't visit the Chateau at least one evening a week. To night and tomorrow night there will be a special skate and dance program and a complete change in pictures and songs. Visit it to night and be the guest of the only live Negro organization in the City. WHITE GIRL MARRIES COLORED MAN. A white girl became the wife of a Colored man when Dorothea Niner and Alonzo Holmes were united in matrimony by a Colored minister, Rev. M. W. D. Norman, in his residence at 1211 T street northwest last night. Relatives of the girl in Baltimore say she is but seventeen years old and was old enough to look after her affairs and prevent herself from being kidnapped—Washington Star, June 6. An Evil and a Scandal PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CONDEMNED FOR HIS ACTIVITY. FOR ENFORCING THE NOMINATION OF WILLIAM H. TAFT. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Never before in the history of American politics was a federal administration so openly and unblushingly engaged in the effort to control the succession to the presidency as now. This is known to everybody in Washington who gives thought to public affairs, but it is not realized and reckoned with as it should be by the people. It is a serious matter when any president or the United States, no matter what his virtues may be, undertakes to do that which it belongs to the people to perform. President Roosevelt early proposed to select his own successor, and chose Mr. Taft as the favorite. Any candidate is entitled to such benefit as may come from the favorable regard of the president of the United States, but no candidate should have exercised in his behalf all the great power of the executive office. It is a fact that favors within the power of the administration to grant have been made to seem at least dependent upon the agreement of those who receive them to support the candidate of the White House. It is a fact that threats of prosecution by the federal government if. its various branches have been more or less directly made to serve as a lever with which to secure support for Mr. Taft. In such ways opposition to the Taft program has been overcome. The methods are not ligitimate. No matter what the virtues of the president may be, or what the fitness of the candidate for the executive office, such use of executive power which has its hands upon every branch of the federal government is an evil and a scandal. Mr. Roosevelt's activity as the real manager of the Taft campaign has established a precedent of wholly the wrong sort. People believe in Theodore Roosevelt, and so they are viewing with little seriousness a matter of a great moment in the long history of this country. Absolutism which disregards the proprieties of presidential conduct is at odds with democracy, and an enemy of it. Federal officers throughout the length and breath of the land have been swung to the side of the presidential favorite. It was for this purpose that Mr. Hitchcock left the postoffice department, after the scandal of his political activity there made his resignation necessary. All his political work was approved by the president. Not only is all this against precedent and the proprieties that ought to hedge about the presidency, but there is also great unfairness in it toward all others save the one chosen as the heir apparent. Not only this, but the threat has been directly and effectively made that if the great financial interests of this country refused their support to Mr. Taft, they would be met with the candidacy of Roosevelt. This threat has availed to bring many of the men whom the president has called "malefactors" into line with his plans. He plays the game to win, as Harriman can testify. His enemies are made to serve him now. Employment of these means to control the presidential office is both unfit and dangerous to the future of the republic. What democracies have always had to fear has been concentration of power and privilege. There never was before such an exhibition of the employment of the power of the presidential office to dictate public affairs as is now in evidence. That it is too lightly viewed by the masses of the people does not remove its undesirability or bring it into harmony with the principles upon which our scheme of republican government was founded. d a Scandal INDEMNED FOR HIS ACTIV- Y. INATION OF WILLIAM H. OF THE UNITED STATES. In the popular infatuation with Mr. Roosevelt's good qualities these elements of demoralization have been permitted to proceed with little challenge. The president has brought himself to an astonishing acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means. Under cover of it there has been in progress a method of political operation and bulldozing that cannot be defended. It is a broad and safe look that holds those in office to be the servants of the people and not dictators over them. Yet we have seen the power of the greatest office in the republic used to crush the opposition to the president's favor. This scandal should be characterized for what it is. Not until this government becomes one of men and not of principles can it be defended and condoned. Republicanism is best represented by the attitude of the governor of New York, who bushes himself with the duties which the people elected him to perform, and leaves to them their own business of running conventions and naming candidates. That is the legitimate and righteous viewpoint. The country will have to recognize this if we are not to make a wide and dangerous departure from the Abraham Lincoln conception of a government of the people, for the people and by the people. The White House action embodies old world views and practices to a degree that ought to demand thoughtful popular consideration and reprobation. Our democratic venture is only a little over 130 years old. It is still in the stage of an experiment. Its essentials must be preserved with zealous watchfulness, if this government in the purity of its conception is to be successful. Usurpation is to be resisted whoever indulges in it, and it may well be said that the better the general purpose of the man the worse the deed and the deeper the wound which popular government thereby receives.—Springfield Republican. THE STANDARD LITERARY SOCIETY The following program will be rendered by The Standard Literary Society, Sunday, June 14, at 4 p. m.: Instrumental Solo—Mr. Marshall. Address—Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback. Solo—Two Cities—By Hamilton Gray and J. E. Craig. Address—Attorney William Harrison of Oklahoma City. Solo—Miss Etta Johnson, "Paradise Dream." Address—Hon. T. G. Wilson, of Mississippi. The following local persons have been asked to serve as vice-presidents of this big meeting: Dr. G. C. Hall, Hon. E. E. Wilson, Julius F. Taylor, Rev. D. P. Roberts, L. B. Anderson, Noah D. Thompson, J. E. White Major F. A. Denison, Hon. F. L. Barnett, Prof. Wm. Kmanuel, Mrs. C. L. Davis, Miss Blanch Shaw, Mrs. C. Wolley, Dr. A. L. Smith, Dr. Majors, R. S. Abbot, Rev. Massiah, Dr. C. E. Bentley, Hon. B. F. Moseley, T. G. Maxwell, Hon. S. Laing Williams, Dr. D. H. Harris, Dr. W. A. Buckner, Attorney W. M. Farmer, J. E. Arly W. S. Jeffries, Dr. M. J. Brown, J. C. Parker, W. M. Cowan, Mrs. I. B. W. Barnett, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Rev. Jordan Chavis, Major R. B. Jackson, Dr. Anna Cooper, Geore M. Porter, Hon. Oscar De Priest, Dr. Schultz, Dr. A. A. Wesley, Col: John R. Marshall, Dr. E. S. Miller, Rev. Moses Jackson, Dr. A. J. Carey, Dr. W. S. Bradam, and J. Gray Lucas. Full promulgate and at all times uphold the true principle of Democracy, best Outstanding, Promising and Fair-minded citizens. Knights of Lbor, or any one else may have the language in proper and appropriate form. Bred. THE BROAD AX 911 Anniversary Avenue, Chicago. WILLIAM P. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Alg. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 8, 1879. HEALTH DEPARTMENT TALKS. Some Hot Weather Hints' as to the Care of Babies. DANGER OF OVERFEEDING. The heated period is at hand. The hot summer months are particularly trying to babies that have reached the "second summer," the teething period. Nothing is of more importance than the proper care in feeding of infants. Thousand of babies die each year as the result of indiscretions committed by the parent, either through ignorance or neglect. For many years the Health Department has issued a circular on the hot weather care of babies. This circular has been printed in many languages, has been widel distributed, and has done a great amount of good. This week we deem it advisable to say just a few words about babies and their care during the summer months. First let us tell you that one-third of the total yearly death of infants in Chicago occur during the two hottest months of the year, July and August. Heat kills off babies, because it spills their milk and other food quickly. Even breast milk, when the mother is overheated, may give the baby a collo or summer complaint. If a mother is very hot she should draw a teaspoonful or so from the breast before nursing the baby. If the breast has not been given for two hours or more it should be drawn off in the same way, or if the mother has been angry or excited it would be best not to give the breast at all. It should be drawn and the milk thrown away. Now, a word about feeding. Many infants are killed every year by bringing them to the table and giving them a little of this and a little of that and the other, meat, vegetables, pie, pickles, or whatever may be on the table. These are all articles of diet to which the little stomach is not accustomed, nor is it capable of taking care of them. The result is that the baby sickens, often dies, and the death certificates usually show as the cause, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera infantum, summer complaint, convulsions, brain fever, etc., but all these are only names that are used for the result of poisoning with improper food. Here is a good rule to be observed. Wait till baby gets its teeth before you put food into its mouth that needs to be chewed. Don't overfeed the baby. Once in two or three hours is often enough to suckle or feed a baby until it is four or five weeks old. After that don't feed so often. When a baby is six months old it will generally thrive best if fed once during the night and four or five times at regular periods during the day. It is bad for a bay's stomach and bowels to feed a bay's stomach and bowels to feed especially in the hot weather. A new born baby's stomach will hold from two to three tablespoonfuls, and not more than this amount should be given at a time during the first week or so of a bottle-fed baby's life. As the baby grows the quantity should be gradually increased, so that at the end of the first month it may be taking about four tablespoonfuls at a meal. Some children will require more and others will not stand so much, but there is more danger of giving too much than there is of giving too little. Keep the baby clean, and it will stand the heat better. It should have at least one full bath every day and offender when the days are very hot. Never bathe a baby, however, within one hour after feeding. If possible, bathe it first, feed afterwards. Dress the baby as lightly as possible. It will be better stark naked, except for a napkin and binder, during the hot weather when in doors. When the weather is fine and warm, it is better to keep a baby in the open air as much as you can between sunrise and sunset. Fresh air is the breath of life in a baby's nostrils. Therefore you will see the importance of keeping babies in the open air as much as possible. As we said in last week's talk, take them to the parks every day if you can possibly do so. Don't let the baby sleep in the game bed with any other person. If there is no crib, the mother should put a couple of chairs at her bedside with any sort of covering on them, except feather pillows and hot woollens, and let the baby sleep there. It will be much more comfortable and much more healthful. Finally, don't drug the baby. Don't buy patent medicines. If the baby is ailing, call your family physician. In closing, let us repeat once more these instructions: Don't overfeed the babies: Don't give them rich food, meats. Don't give them rich food, meats, gravies, pastries, cake, etc., nor a great variety. great variety. The simpler the food the better. Keep up the daily bath until it becomes a fixed habit, and. Give them all the fresh air and sunshine possible. Should you have a young baby in the house and want further instructions, send to the Department for the circular "Hot Weather Care of Infants and Young Children." This is printed in many languages and will be supplied upon request. "P." LET SOUTHERN REPRESENTA TION ALONE. It is most unfortunate that a certain class of politicians feel called upon at convenient intervals to forment race strife and discontent by idle threats of Federal regulation of Southern political conditions. It is our belief that such propositions are seldom, if ever made in good faith, they being nothing but plays to retain the gullible and unthinking Negro vote. We have said over and over, and continue to say, that no man in his sober senses expects or desires the Federal Government, at this late day, to in any way attempt the political coercion of the Southern States. Nor do the glaring injustices of Southern political conditions change in one iota this proposition. The sum of the situation is that the day when anything savoring of radical or coercive measures on the part of this government respecting Southern conditions has long since passed, possibly never to return. When it comes to a mere question of Negro suffrage, past experience proclaims with emphasis that no Federal law seeking to uphold the same would ever be enforced except at the point of the bayonet. There ought to be none so idle as to suppose that any such policy will ever be instituted in defence of the abstract rights of Negroes. But, of course, little or no talk is now being indulged in with reference to procuring for Negroes the franchise of which they have been so systematically robbed, the proposition of late years being to reduce Southern representation in the Electoral College and in the National House of Representatives in proportion as Southern States deprive Negroes of their Constitutional right to vote. When a bill to this effect was recently introduced in Congress, the Hon. John Sharp Williams admirably summed up the situation, and tessely stated the position of the radical element of Southern people, when he declared that the South is quite ready to have her representation reduced if the country is ready to have disfranchisement thus legalized on the basis of color. And this Crumpacker bill means nothing more—than that an element of Southern people are to pay in reduced representation for their cherished dream of "legally" disfranchising their Negro citizens. For all this, there are Negroes who are regarded as intelligent who not only countenance, but insistently demand the enactment of a National law which would mean their wholesale disfranchisement, not on the bases of education, property or ancestry, subterfuges which the South has hitherto been forced to employ, but upon the bold and glaring basis of color alone. If universal suffrage, for the Negro as well as for other citizens, is the ideal toward which this Nation is striving, and this none who believe in a Democratic government can dispute, any such a measure as the Crumpacker bill will be a gigantic stride in the opposite direction. No just or in any way desirable change will ever come over Southern political conditions except through education, an awakened public conscience and the vital power of public opinion, coupled with that economic freedom for Negroes throughout the country which will make it no longer necessary for them to accept any civil or political indignity of any section because such a section is the only one which affords them an opportunity to work for a living. If those persons North and South who actually desire a righteous adjustment of these conditions would grasp the fact that this is the real situation to be met, and cease so much idle and incendiary talk of "Force Bill" and seduction of representation, much needless race and sectional feeling would be averted, a sane and settled policy of dealing or rather refraining from dealing with Negro suffrage in the South would be reached, with bright prospects for ultimate satisfaction for all concerned.—The Pilot, Philadelphia, He. U.S.V. LIEUT-COL. JAMES H. JOHNSON. The efficient Lieut-Col. of the Eight who will greatly assist to receive the Ilican National Convention at the Fir Concert and full dress reception by h 18th. The efficient Lieut-Col. of the Eighth Regiment Illinois National Guards, who will greatly assist to receive the delegates and visitors to the Republican National Convention at the First Regiment Armory during the Band Concert and full dress reception by his regiment, Thursday evening, June 18th. POLITICAL LOVE-FEAST. There will be great "doings" at Tattersall's on the night of June 17th, when will be held a "political love feast" and grand ball under the auspices of the Colored Retail Liquor Dealers Association of Chicago. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTE FOR SUNDAY SERVICES. At 10:45 a. m., the pastor will preach from the subject, "To Who Shall We Go." The questions which most concern the black man of the country will be given consideration Many Colored men of national prominence will address the "feast." Among them will be heard Hon. Nathan Alexander, register of the land office, Montgomery, Ala.; Hon. Walter Cohen, New Orleans; Hon. B. A. Kennedy, receiver of public moneys, New Orleans; Hon. Wm. T. Vernon, register of the treasury, Washington, D. C.; Col. James Lewis, surveyor general, New Orleans; Hon. R. W. Tyler, auditor of the navy department, Washington, D. C.; Gen. Robert Smalls, Beaufort, S. C.; Judge R. H. Terrell, Washington, D. C.; Hon. E. H. Deas, Darlington, S. C.; Col. J. H. Devaux, collector of the port, Savannah; Col. Rucker, collector of internal revenue, Atlanta; Hon. J. W. Lyons, Augusta, Ga.; Hon. John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, Washington, D. C., Ex-Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana. PETER M. The up-to-date Coroner of Cook County election to his present position by the INDORSE CORONER HOFFMAN, Undertakers of City, Through Their Association, Hold Meeting and Adopt Resolutions. The up-to-date Coroner of Cook County, who has been indorsed for re-election to his present position by the Chicago Undertakers Association. The Chicago Undertakers' association at its meeting held on Tuesday, indorsed Peter M. Hoffman's administration of the coroner's office during the last four years. Resolutions adopted, and signed by Marlow M. Goodale, president, and W. O. Roberts, secretary, are as follows: "Whereas, The services of Peter INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH NOTES FOR SUNDAY SERVICES. At 10:45 a. m., the pastor will preach from the subject, "To Whom Shall We Go." The questions which most concern the black man of this country will be given consideration. The Divine Teacher. Sunday evening subject will be illustrated on canvass life size, and realistic. Illuminated with calcium light making the pictures plain and clear and following the footsteps of the Master up to his closing days. Mr. De Koven Thompson will sing his famous song which will be highly illustrated. Mr. Thompson is the author of the words. Another scene will be the bloody charge of the Tenth Cavalry at Las Guasimas and historic views of great interest. Don't forget the anniversary of the church the last Sunday in this month, June the 28th. Morning services will begin at 10:45, don't forget the hour and the place, 3825 Dearborn street, Old Railroad Chapel—"S." HOFFMAN. County, who has been indorsed for re-Chicago Undertakers Association. M. Hoffman as coroner of Cook county have been most satisfactory during his tenure of office, which fact is highly appreciated by the association; "Resolved. By this association in convention assembled, that we indorse his administration and commend him for the fair treatment given the undertakers of this county; "Resolved. That this resolution be entered of record and presented to said Peter M. Hoffman in appreciation of services rendered." ```markdown ``` INSPECTION OF THE LAND RECENTLY PURCHASED BY THE PARKWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. Last Sunday morning a number of gentlemen specially invited by Jacob L. Parks, Dr. Edward S. Miller and the other commissioners of the Parkwood Cemetery Association made a tour of inspection of the land recently purchased by the association. Those comprising the party as the guests of the commissioners journeyed southwest to 79th and Halsted St., thence from there by electric car to 111th street and Kedzie avenue, passing through Morgan Park, Washington Heights and other beautiful suburban towns, making a pleasant ride on a warm morning. The ground acquired by the Parkwood Cemetery Association is well located at the northeast corner of 111th street and Kedzie avenue, and it consists of a fraction less than thirty-six acres. The land is high and dry and better located to transportation lines, than Oakhill Cemetery. It is only a short distance from the Grand Trunk depot, where all the funeral trains stop, and on one side of its tracks are Mount Greenwood and Mount Olive, and on the other side is the ground which has come into the possession of the Parkwood Cemetery Association, and by employing a first class architect and landscape gardener it can be made one of the most attractive and beautiful burial grounds around Chicago. After inspecting the ground, the party wended its way to the Cunningham Road House, where all were served with a fine lunch, ordered by Commissioner Parks, and the following were those seated at the table: F. A. Rawilins, Noah D. Thompson, Mathew M. Hulett, W. H. Smith, E. Thurston, E. P. Harper, Chas. R. Hunter, Perry Brooks, James F. Lockman, Henry Calloway, David McGowan, Frank W. King, Dr. E. S. Miller, L. W. Dickerson, Jacob L. Parks and Julius F. Taylor. During the luncheon Dr. Miller and Mr. Parks very interestingly reviewed the history leading up to the present organization of the Parkwood Cemetery Association and at the conclusion of their remarks, Julius F. Taylor was called on for a few words, and we can state with pleasure, that the commissioners of the Parkwood Cemetery Association deserve the highest commendation for the wisdom they displayed in securing such a splendid piece of land. They have made the first payment on it and have the money in the bank to make the second substantial payment the latter part of August, and by September 1st, or shortly thereafter, they will begin to bury the dead in it. No discrimination will be made for black and white, rich or poor, the high and the low, can all find a resting place within the gates of the Parkwood Cemetery Association. WEST SIDE NEWS By Prof. A. L. Simpson, 73 S. Haisted St. Phone Monroe 3070. Dr. Strickland, Dr. Howard and Dr. Wallace graduated in medicine with high honors recently from P. & S. College, Chicago. Scott's Chapel has a new choir. Mr. R. Jones, leader; Miss Alice Andrews, pianist. Mr. Henry Smith, one of our leading business men recently became heir to a large fortune left him by a favorite aunt, of Rome, Ga. The concert given at Providence Baptist church by Jones & Martin, was a grand success. Mr. A. Cunningham is now located in his new Lake street real estate quarters. Miss Gertrude Parker who has been quite ill at her home, is able to be out again. Dr. C. T. Walker, the black Spurgeon of this country, will preach at Providence Baptist church at 11 a. m. Sunday, June 14. If you call up Monroe 3070 and say mail me The Broad Ax for six months or one year, why your request will be granted. All you have to do after the first issue is to mail $1.00 for the six months, or $2.00 for the year. Grand idea, Great! Wanted—Neat, smart girl to learn trade of hairdressing, manicuring and facial massaging; make herself useful around place; car fare and noonday lunch, but no salary while learning. Apply at Simpson's parlors 73 S. Halsted street, 2nd floor, Cor. Halsted and Madison streets. SPECIAL NOTICE E. H. McGee, platform representative of the Walters Employment Association and the Walters' Political Club, will address the Standard Literary Society, Sunday, June 21. Subject: "The Unwarnished Truth." LYNCHERS INSTANTLY KILLED While Trying to Lynch Negro— White Struck by Lightning, Drops Dead—Negro Escapes. Brookhaven, Miss., Tuesday.—While trying to lynch Bob Jones, a Negro lightning struck and killed four white men, who were at the end of the rope ready to swing the Negro to a telegraph pole. The Negro was charged with assulting a white woman. He was taken from jail at 6 p. m. Monday. When the mob reached the place designated a dark cloud arose and lightning began to flash, resulting in the killing of four white men instantly. The Negro escaped.—The Citizen, Memphis, Tenn., June 6. June 13th—West Ends at West End Park. June 14th—Havana Stars at Auburn Park. June 27th—Logan Squares at Auburn Park. June 28th—Spaldings at Auburn Park. CHIPS Mrs. Augusta Browne Hawkins is making preparations for a few weeks visit with friends in Springfield, Ill. Mrs. Clara Belle Barley, 4157 Ellis Ave., will entertain Mrs. Charles Glamison of New York City a few weeks this summer. Miss Alfred H. Slaughter, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting her sister, Miss E. B. Slaughter, and Mrs. Robert A. Williams, 3544 Dearborn street. Hon. W. F. Powell, of Camden, N.J. will be the guest of Mr. Charles H. Smiley, 69 E. 22nd street, during the National Republican convention. Lawyer Walter M. Farmer, 117 Washington street, returned home Tuesday morning from a ten days trip through Arkansas and Texas. Attorney P. W. Howard of Jackson, Miss., came up to Chicago to attend the big Republican convention, and is stopping at 3211 Wabash ave. Arkansas refused to send Senator Jeff Davis to Denver as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Senator Davis can now follow Senator Tillman and take a trip to Europe. Granville Martin, who is prominently connected with the Constitutional League, 500 Broadway, New York City, is in the city, the guest of his brother, Rev. Martin, pastor of Beahesda Baptist Church. Mrs. B. A. Lewis, 3926 Armour Ave. on last Friday evening, entertained The Eureka Band at a social. The affair was largely attended and an enjoyable time was had by all who had the pleasure of being present. Prof. and Mrs. N. Clark Smith, who have spent the past nine or ten months at Tuskegee, Alabama, where Prof. Smith has had charge of the band, in connection with Booker T. Washington's School, are in the city and their many friends can find them at their old number, 3608 State St. Mr. Jones, the newsdealer, 4827 State street, is the owner of the smallest dog in the United States. It is a little over a month old, weighs 21 ounces, 2 1-2 inches high and 4 inches long. It's name is Tiny and it attracts the attention of all children and grown folks when it appears on the streets with its master. William Monroe Trotter, the brainy and fearless editor of The Guardian, Boston, Mass., arrived in the city Tuesday afternoon, and he will take an active part in the fight against the nomination of William H. Taft, for President of the United States. Mr. Trotter will remain, until after the Republican convention, and is stopping at 3213 Wabash Ave. Hon. and Mrs. W. H. Barrett, and Mr. John T. Cheshire, of Newark, New Jersey, arrived in Chicago Wednesday evening. They are stopping with Mrs. Max Weaver, 3807 Wabash avenue. Mr. Barrett and Mr. Cheshire will later on be joined by Bishop A. Walters, Jas. E. Churchman, Solomon P Hood, T. W. Swan, T. W. White and W. H. Randolph and will be quartered at 2935 State street, where they have opened headquarters in the interest of Franklin H. Murphy, of New Jersey, whom they desire to nominate for vice-president at the Republican convention. ```markdown ``` 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, onelette Lyonnaise or curried eggs and rice, macaroni au gratin or sauté 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. Argonaut. 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 (punishment) 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. Reginaald 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 knitting, 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 it was the first time he had bowled in thirty-five years made an average of seventy-eight pins in eight strings. The sum of $150,000 was left to 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 is found on both continents. It is now artificially propagated. It belongs to the same genus as does the salmon. When transported to warm waters it becomes fat and lazy. Mr. Fisherman likes it because of its very sporty proclivities. It is at its splendid best in cool, sparkling mountain streams. There are many varieties in both western and eastern waters. It is omnivorous. Everything from jackknives to corncobs has been found in its seam—Philadelphia Record. Current Comment. 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 failings upon our ancestors—Baltimore American. 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 cooilies 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 Katalia, 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 Linddu. She left a letter inclosed in a volume of Tolstoy explaining that she had taken her life because she found it too dull and asking to be buried as a pauper, as she did not wish to reveal her identity. The native pearlers oppose the assumption that the pearl fisheries of Burma are becoming exhausted and need a long rest. They claim that the productiveness of the banks is as great as ever and that the shortage noted is entirely due to the class of divers having deteriorated. Johnny Goff, who was Roosevelt's guide during his Colorado hunt, is now living near Cody, Wyo. One of Goff's neighbors, when contemplating a trip to Washington the past winter, mentioned the fact to Goff. "Say, if you go," said the guide generously, "lemme know. I'll drop the president a line and have him look you up." Dr. George C. Nichols of Phippsburg, Me., owns one of the oldest signboards in the country. Eighty years ago, when a ferry was in operation over the Kennebec river from Phippsburg 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 feast 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 over one kill. Vienna had added the word "settlement" to its vocabulary because no German word, says the Neue Freie Prasse, 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." 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 ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Tel. Central 560. CHICAGO. Residence 87 Maculiston Pines Telephone Ashland 365 Office Telephones Central 1889 Automatic 5640 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 315-330 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law. 84-96 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 822 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 888 CHICAGO Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Donglins 1850 Phone Calumet 1579 Morgue and Private Chapel. C. JOHNSON UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY R. W. GREEN, MGR. 2712 State Street Chicago 10 15 50 YEAR POLITICAL L Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m.; and Nights. City Office, 500 Burton Bldg. 39 State Street Hours 4-7 P. M. Phone Central 3207 W.D. Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street FOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 Telephone, Calumet 194 Dr. A. B. Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M. 3 to 5 CHICAGO and after 6 p. m. C. E. Kreyssler Chemist and Druggist 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. 81st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO --- Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAB YARDS: Just St. & L. S. & N. S. RY. Jand St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO W. R. Cowan A. C. Harris M. C. Cowan W. R. Cowan & Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance 260 S. CLARK STREET Tel. Harrison 1075 CHICAGO ICE CREAM CIGARS. TOBACCO SHIRT WAISTS KIMONAS MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 325 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQ'SORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO CHEF Waiters and Cooks Prefer Dur Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. # is for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. Geo. 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 confectionary, 3832 State street. 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., 188 Bandeiph St., Detroit, Mkd. The Standard News Co 131 W. 58rd st. New York City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 135th street, New York City, N. Y. DO 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. For sale by all Grocers Humor No Place Like Home, After All, So a Victim Believes. Visiting has ever been a form of discomfort. Your friend, who has a new home, a lately replenished library, a unique garden or something which represents money enough to make him vain in its possession, cannot rest until he has dragged you from a happy home to enter 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 anticapillary 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 forth with to drag you over its weary length before you have had time to change your shoes. "Fine room this!" he exclaims, with a burst of honest pride, and so on. By and by, when he is getting tired, his wife, like a relay pony, takes up the lecture where he leaves off. So plastic are we that at the time by a sort of fictitious warmth you really seem to be enjoying yourself. You exclaim in wonder over the fact that you have been so long in getting there. And when at last, a week later, you reluctantly leave you tell him, with tears in your eyes, that you had the time of our life. It is only when once more you find yourself joyfully in your own humble apartments, with its faithful bed, whose very imperfections have endearled themselves to you, that you cry out in deep gladness, "Thank God it's over, for after all, there's no place like home!"—T. L. Masson in Puck. They Prayed Running. Harry and Ethel were crossing a field on their return from Sunday school when they encountered a bull. At the animal's approach they died 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 breed down right here." "No; we'll pray running. You ought to do it. You're a girl." "O Lord-O Lord-I can't!" sobbed Ethel. "You do it." The proximity of the bull demanded immediate action, and Harry rose to the occasion. Loudly and fervently he prayed: "O Lord, for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful!"—Success Magazine. Trapped. "I saw the cutest thing today," began Miss Passy copyly. "It was a painting of the—er—what is the name of that little god that represents matri- mony?" "Well, now," said Mr. Timmld, "you've got me." "Oh, Mr. Timmld, this is so sudden!" —Philadelphia Press. Ripping Times. Gunner—Hot times out at the ball game. The players were slamming balls all the afternoon. Guyer—And how about the bleacher- ites? Gunner—Oh, they were slamming the ampire—Chicago News. A Lung Developer. Liftman (for the second time)—No smokin' in the lift. Navvy—I ain't smokin'. Liftman—Well, don't you call that a cigar? Navvy (trying once more to make his "smoke" draw)—Naw, of course it ain't. It's a bloomin' lung developer— CHOICE M. MCCELLANY 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 garnest 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 madder has become nearly extinct in western Europe. Cochineal has been almost entirely driven from the market. Indigo alone holds its place strongly, although the competition with artificial indigo is now very keen.—Harper's Weekly. The Panama Hat. "The panama hat will still be the most correct hat for summer wear." said a Broadway hatter. "Only fine 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. 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 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. McChellan 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 McChellan 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, amused his disapproval of the request made and asked, "How did they happen to send you to congress?" "Well, you know, the country never sends its best men to congress," quickly replied the Indian representative.—Boston Post. The Forty-sixth Star. In order to make room on the flag for the forty-sixth star, which must shine there on the Fourth of July, the rows will be entirely rearranged. There will be six rows, four containing eight stars each and two containing seven. This leaves two vacant spaces for future occupation. A change in the flag involves an expense of many thousands of dollars. The army will need about 8,500 new flags, and the treasury department will have to supply about 450 for federal buildings throughout the United States. $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. --- Grandest Yet-ChateauGardens Enlarged Skating Rink, Health Merry Go-Rounds, Picture Shows, Band Concerts and Vocal Solos, Parisian Gallery, Soda Fountain and Cafe in connection. Leland Starts Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With 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, 9th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant. Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. It has been made purposefully low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in 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. Comel, buy and build one of your own by filling out the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leiar Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Huebnerau P. Mossley, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock-holders are entitled to preferance as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their details to apply for employment. For further information address Leland, Giants, Space-Pall and Amusement A. u.s. 6 # 58 Halsted St, Chicago, Ill. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets J. M. Fields LDS NS CHICAGO BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Bank H. Lewis, Prop. Lou Seidon, Mgr. 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 American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: