The Broad Ax

Much Bitterness Displayed Against William H. Taft BY THE AFRO-AMERICANS IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. MORE LARGELY .ATTENDED .ANTI-TAFT .MEETINGS HELD IN CHICAGO THE PAST WEEK. BOOKER TAFT WASHINGTON RAPPED OVER THE HEAD AND BRANDED AS THE GREATEST COWARD THE NEGRO RACE HAS EVER PRODUCED. CHAS, W. ANDERSON, RALPH TYLER, WILLIAM T. VERNON AND OTHER JOB HOLDERS ORDERED TO THIS CITY BY THEIR WHITE REPUBLICAN BOSSES. AND COMMANDED TO "WAVE THE BLOODY SHIRT," IN ORDER TO WHIP AND KEEP THE NEGRO IN LINE. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE RECOMENDS PADDED CELLS FOR NEGROES WHO REFUSE TO SHOUT FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR. EX-SENATOR STEWART OF NEVADA, FAVORS THE REPEAL OF THE 15TH AMENDMENT, IF THE NEGRO REFUSES TO CONTINUE TO PERMIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO RIDE INTO POWER ON HIS BACK. Within the last ten or fifteen days it has been our pleasure to converse with Afro-Americans residing in all parts of the United States, and the great majority of them have freely admitted, notwithstanding the fact that they have always been hide bound Republicans that "much bitterness continues to be displayed against William H. Taft, by the Afro-Americans in all sections of this country, that thousands of them will never vote for him under no condition whatever, that they look upon him as being unfriendly to their best interests. This is also true here in Chicago, where more largely attended anti-Taft meetings have been held the past week; on Friday evening a great massmeeting was held at Odd Fellows hall, 3335 State street, and while the speakers were engaged in denouncing Taft, and branding Booker Taft Washington, as "one of the greatest cowards and servile slaves that the Negro race has ever produced" they were applauded to the echo" for be it remembered that Booker Taft Washington, who claims to be the New Moses of the Negro race, and is willing to keep his mouth closed up tight for a little money, as to the wrongs and the many unspeakable crimes showed down upon the heads of innocent and law abiding Negro men, women and children, has never had one word to say in relation to the 'Brownsville affair,' not only that he has really condemned Senator J. R. Foraker, for championing the cause of the black man and the Negro soldiers, and in his underhanded way the great bagar of Tuskegee is turning over heaven and hell, in a vain endeavor to ram William H. Taft, down the throats of that class of Negroes who have progressed in everything which can be drank in by fallieled American citizens, until they have reached that point, that they are ready to stand up and exclaim in the language of the im- mortal Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Therefore it is perfectly apparent to all who are able to rightly read the signs of the times, that if Booker T. Washington, desires to be held in the highest esteem by the rank and file of his race, he had better lay away from William H. Taft, and the political game at this time and devote his time to begging and looking after the interest of his school. Saturday evening another rousing mass-meeting was held at 3335 State street, and in every respect it was a history making meeting, the hall was more than filled from end to end and hundreds of women were present and drank in every word that fell from the speakers lip, while they were engaged in denouncing Taft, Roosevelt, Washington and the other lily-white leaders of the Republican party. Rev. E. L. Gilliam, of Columbus, Ohio, was the first speaker, and he declared that: "If by any hook or crook or trickery Roosevelt should be nominated for president of the United States by the Republican party and the Democrats should nominate Vardaman or Tillzan, or Tom Dixon Pd vote for the Democratic candidate." Almost one thousand men and women, rose up and waved their hats for a long time, stamped their feet and shouted their approval of this sentiment. He declared that, "William H. Taft, had campaigned against Herrick when he was a candidate for governor of Ohio on the Republican ticket, that Herrick was defeated by forty thousand majority, while the rest of the Republican ticket was elected; that it will be a good thing to have Taft, nominated in order to have the pleasure of defeating him and giving him a taste of his own medicine." He exclaimed in conclusion: "I I Prominent member of the Choral Study Club, leader of the Choir of Quinn Chapel, and the only Afro-American graduate of the Chicago Musical College. Mrs. Martha Broadus-Anderson was born into this breathing and sighing old world at Richmond, Va. At the age of seven years she removed with her parents to Washington, D. C., where she blossomed from girlhood into womanhood, receiving her education in its schools, in time graduating from the Washington High School with high honors. Her musical training began under Prof. John T. Layton, who was one of the best instructors in the capitol city. Being a great lover of vocal and instrumental music, she sang in the choir of one of the leading Baptist churches, and was always a favorite in concerts and literary entertainments. In 1898 she became united in marriage to Mr. Henry S. Anderson. Shortly after their honeymoon they took up their permanent abode in this city, moving into their own lovely home, 6450 Champlain avenue, and from that time to the present, Mrs. Anderson has been in the public eye. exaltance, Mrs. Anderson has the great distinction of being the first Afro-American to graduate from the Chicago Musical College, and to have the degree, Bachelor of Music, conferred upon her. This is indeed a great honor and any one should feel proud to be the possessor of it. Judge Richard S. Tuthill conferred the degrees and diplomas, and awarded the medals. The following program was rendered, with full orchestra under the direction of Karl Reckzeh: 1. Overture—Donna Diana—von Reznieck. 2. Plano—Concerto, opus 25. G Minor, Andante—Presto—Men delsohn Mr. Isaac Van Grove. 3. Vocal—Aria-Non Destarmi-Romeo and Juliet—Gouned. Miss Leonora Antoinette Allen. 4. Violin—Capriccio-Gade. Miss Pauline Schmidt. Piano—Polish Fantasie—Paderewski. Mr Walter J. Rudolph. 6. Vocal—Aria—"My Heart Is Weary"—Nadescha—Goring Thomas. Miss Fern Gramling. 7. Violin—Concerto—G Immediately after becoming a resident of Chicago, she began to take an active interest in choir and concert work, at the same time becoming a student of vocal music, under the instructions of Miss Mabel C. Goodwin, of the American Conservatory of Music. Later on she received further instructions under Prof. P. T. Tinsley, and in 1904 she entered the Chicago Musical College, and in 1905 she received a teacher's certificate, and the following receiving certificates at the same time: Mrs. Patti Brown, Miss Marie Burton, Miss Ada Lou Mitchell, and Miss Elizabeth Williams, the latter discontinued their studies after the junior year. But Mrs. Anderson continued on to the end, receiving her diploma June 16, 1908. It was the 42nd annual commencement exercises of the Chicago Musical College which were held at the Auditorium on the above mentioned date, and in the forty-two years of its MEOROES CONDEMN W. H. TAFT Stain of Brownsville." Bethel church, Thirtieth and Dearborn streets, was the scene of two big meetings last night, and, according to the sulphurous speeches made at both of them "the Republican party is going to be whipped" by the black voters of the country next November in order to "wipe out the stain of Brownsville." The meeting in the upper part of ```markdown ``` existence, Mrs. Anderson has the great distinction of being the first Afro-American to graduate from the Chicago Musical College, and to have the degree, Bachelor of Music, conferred upon her. This is indeed a great honor and any one should feel proud to be the possessor of it. Judge Richard S. Tuthill conferred the degrees and diplomas, and awarded the medals. The following program was rendered, with full orchestra under the direction of Karl Reckzeh: 1. Overture — Donna Diana — von Reineckie. 2. Piano—Concerto, opus 25. G Minor, Andante—Presto—Mendelssohn Mr. Isaac Van Grove. 3. Vocal—Aria-Non Destarml-Romeo and Juliet—Gounod. Ms. Miss Leonora Antoinette Allen. 4. Violin—Capriccio—Gade. Miss Pauline Schmidt. Piano—Polish Fantasie—Paderewski. Mr. Walter J. Rudolph. 6. Vocal—Aria—"My Heart Is Weary"—Nadeschda—Goring Thomas. Miss Ferne Gramling. 7. Violin—Concerto—Gminor, Adagio—Allegro Energico—Bruch. Miss Pauline Alfonte. 8. Vocal—Aria—Ernani Involami—Ernani-Verdl. Miss Mary Elizabeth Highsmith. 9. Piano—Allegro de Concert—Chopin-Nicode. Miss Grace Buedefeld. Conferring degrees and diplomas and awarding medals, Hon. Richard S. Tuthill. Many of Mrs Anderson's warm friends were present to greet her and to witness the interesting exercises, and her musical education will be of great value to her. For she is a prominent member of the Choral Study Club, and for almost two years she has led the choir of Quinn Chapel. She possesses a sweet soprano voice and has met with great success in concert work. It can be said to the everlasing credit of Mrs. Anderson, that by her own labor, in the way of singing and giving instructions in music, she earned sufficient money to pay her way through the Chicago Musical College. the church was avowedly anti-Taft, and if there were any words of condemination and spite that the leaders of the movement had not used toward the president and the leading Republican candidate at the other meetings held during the last week they used them less night. About 2,000 Negroes were present. The gathering in the lower part of the church was of a different character. Not the hol poiol, but the elite of the black belt—they said so themselves—was present. Congressman ```markdown ``` William Howard Taft Nominated for President of the United States CONGRESSMAN JAMES S. SHERMAN, SELECTED FOR VICE PRESIDENT. SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE WHO LED THE FIGHT TO CONVICT THE NEGRO SOLDIERS FOR "SHOOTING UP BROWNSVILLE," CHOSEN PERMENENT CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION. NO COLORED MAN NAMED TO SECOND THE NOMINATION OF TAFT. LITTLE SOP. THROWN TO THE NEGRO IN ORDER TO KEEP HIM IN LINE. William Howard Taft was nominated for President of the United States late Thursday afternoon, in the midst of much disorder and excitement, receiving 702 votes, as against 277 votes for his combined opponents, showing that Foraker, Cannon, Fairbanks, Hughes, La Follette, Knox, and the other presidential candidates were not in the running with the big Secretary of War. Congressman James T. Sherman, of New York, was selected for vice-president. Congressman Burton, of Cleveland, O., nominated Secretary Taft, in a most masterly speech, and pictured him out as one of the greatest men of this nation. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who led the fight in the United States Senate in favor of convicting the members of the 25th Regiment for "shooting up Brownsville," Texas, was chosen as permanent chairman of the convention, and he was very careful to say nothing in his speech that would indicate that he or the other members of the convention from the North would utter one word that would be offensive to the lily-white members of the convention from the Southern states. The Republican convention of 1904 chose a Colored man to second the nomination of Roosevelt, and at the proper time, a little white girl and a little Colored boy, both waving the American flag, were ushered to the front of the platform, and stood side by side in full view of all those that were crowded into the convention hall. Martin B. Madden made the principal speech, asserting that he would make it his business to see that by national legislation the southern states are compelled to grant the Negroes in the south their full constitutional rights. The banquet was given for the visiting delegates and alternates from the south by the Sons of Mississippi and was advertised as strictly nonpartisan, nonpolitical, and merely for the social entertainment of all, irrespective of factional differences. When the speaking began the usual tirades against the administration were thundered out by the dusky orators. One speaker, Beauregard F. Moseley, a Chicago lawyer, proposed a unique plan of campaign. "Hamblet the great warrior of the cial purpose of jollying the Negro and appealing to his political prejudice. But the Republican National convention of 1908 kept the Negro in the background as much as possible, and and no Colored man was chosen to second the nomination of Taft. It is true the following plank was inserted in the platform, for the purpose of throwing a little sop to the Negro and keeping him in line for the Grand Old Lily White Party: "Rights of the Negro—The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more and without reservation for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." This plank is a huge joke, when we take into consideration the fact, that Negro delegates, figuratively speaking, were kicked out of the convention from every Southern state, and lily-white occupied their seats. middle ages, was a black man," he said. "But he subdued the mighty Romans. In a case like that it was well enough to use a band. That was war. But this campaign isn't. It's politics. Because we have liberty of speech is no reason why we should talk all the time. We all know how we feel about Taft and Roosevelt. But why go around talking about what we are going to do? What we want to do is to do nothing now and to be consistent in November. Then, if a Democrat is elected, we can take the credit, and if a Republican is elected we can stay in the band wagon. We know Low we are going to vote if Taft is nominated, but why brag about it until we've won."—The Chicago Tribune, June 17. Will prescindents and all old men upon the true institution of Dauphine, but Cattelia, Proprietor Illinois, Tulipa Pursuee, Mighty Troubles, and Mary's Mansion, will prescindents and all old men so long as no language is proper and reasonable in Excelsior. The Broad AX is a newspaper whose platform is based enough for all, over planning and editorial right to speak in our own language. Sound communications will receive attention, only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Mr. Year.....$0.20 Mr. Monthly.....1.00 Accordingly rules made known on application. All will commence on this THE BROAD AX 800 Amur Avenue, Chicago. JOHN T. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. SUPPLY STATIONS. Good milk means health and life to the baby. Bad milk, by which is meant stale, sour, impure, impoverished or dirty milk, means sickness and death. Milk is the sole article of diet for the baby. The little one cannot change its bill of fare. For this reason it is of the utmost importance that only pure, fresh milk be supplied. Then, after you have succeeded in obtaining the right kind of milk, it is almost equally important that it be properly supplied Don't feed the baby, with a spoon. Sucking is the natural way for a baby to take food, and it needs the sucking action of the lips, mouth and tongue to properly mix its food with the fluids of the stomach and also to avoid taking it into the stomach too fast. If a nursing bottle is used it should be of the simplest type—no long rubber tubes. The most sanitary type is the wide-mouthed plain bottle with the large rubber nozzle. After each feeding the nipple or nozzle should be taken off and at once immersed in boiling water, as should the bottle also for at least ten minutes. Many babies get "sore mouth," "wind colic," and "summer complaint" for want of proper care of the nursing bottle even when the milk around the neck of the bottle or in the nipple will set up a ferment which is poison to the delicate lining of the baby's mouth, throat and stomach. Don't forget what we said last week about overfeeding. Oftentimes when the baby cries it is not hungry, but it no doubt is thirsty. Babies need and should have water, the same as grown-up people. Don't forget to give the baby a drink of water. Of course, the water should be boiled and cooled. The Milk Commission of the Children's Hospital Society has established the following stations for the distribution of modified milk. It will be noted that they cover almost every section of the city. It would be a good idea to preserve this list for future use: Association House, 575 West North avenue. Chicago Commons, Grand avenue and Morgan street. Children's South Side Free Dispensary, 6236 Jackson Park avenue. Christopher House, 120 East Fullerton avenue. Gad's Hill Center, Twenty-second and Robey streets. Hull House, 335 South Halsted st. Jackson Park Sanitarium, Sixty Under ordinary conditions the appointment of such a character as Luke Wright by a Republican executive, state or national, to a political position of any considerable prominence or power, would be an act which ought to call forth earnest protest from law-abiding members of that party. Any such appointment, no matter by whom made, should elicit strong condemnation from Negroes, regardless of political affiliation. Those who paid much attention to the early history of the Philippine archipelago as an American colony will have no difficulty in recalling the fact that this same fellow was guilty of spreading vile and ignoble American prejudice on the land which he so abomnably misgoverned, so that the president' was soon forced to rid the orient of such a worse than worthless character. The latest authentic and semi-official news from the White House regarding a successor to Taft, is to the effect that the present secretary of war is to be succeeded by this same Luke Wright. How fitting a climax to Roosevelt's unfair racial policy! Roosevelt made much of his disposition to have a broad-guaged cabinet, not restricted to any one element in our country's population, at the time he appointed Mr. Straus as a member of his official advisory board. With the good will which so widely and so rightly marks reciprocally the relations in life of the Jew and the Negro, the latter was glad enough to see this consideration paid his Hebrew friends. But without assailing or being in the least disposed to assail the Jew, we ask, why could not Roosevelt have given a cabinet position to a Negro as well as one to a Jew? While the Semlteic element is well worthy of such distinguished recognition, the African element is also well worthy of such recognition. It was eminently proper and right for Roosevelt to show his respect to the Jewish element by according him representation in his cabinet; it was eminently improper and wrong for Roosevelt to ignore the Negro element at the time of planning such apportionment of representation. Such ignoring was peculiarly censurable in Roosevelt, in view of the fact that his party is far more deeply obligated to the Negro than any other element in the population, while the military reputation to which Roosevelt so largely owes his advancement towards the presidency would most certainly have been killed, and Roosevelt himself would probably have been killed at the same time, had it not been for the Negro's representation on the Cuban battlefields. But Roosevelt's ingratitude to the Negro is not mitigated even by a decent regard for fairness towards the race in his selection of white men for political positions or government places of any kind. The fact that a white man is notoriously the enemy of an egregiously prejudiced against the Negro by no means tends to disqualify that Caucasian from recieving a political appointment from or from being designated to excercise authority by Roosevelt. Did not Roosevelt say that he would as quickly take Garlington's word as he would the word of the fairest-minded northern officer in the army? And did not Garlington swear, before the senate investigating committee, that he would not believe any Negro, even under oath? And now Luke Wright, who proved his groveling prejudice so brazenly while in the Philippines, is to become Roosevelt's chief minion in meeting out injustice to the Negroes serving in the United Sates army. In going from Taft, who refrains from coming out in a direct, unequivocal denunciation of Negro disfranchisement, to Luke Wright, who has made himself notorious by his active prejudice. Roosevelt is most certainly driving the condition of the country's black defenders from bad to worse. What are we Negroes going to do about this latest prospective insult? Are we tamely to submit to Wright's appointment? Has Roosevelt not already used the military department of the government enough as a tool for unjustly offending the Negro? Roosevelt's original outrage in this line caused the race to utter a cry of protest which rings from ocean to ocean, and which, far from weakening, grows louder and louder as time goes on. Aroused as we so rightly are, let us meet this newly proposed aggression with new and more vehement protest. Do not wait until Wright becomes a recess appointee, and then denounce it, but let thoughtful, loyal, fait-minded citizens begin now to express their disapproval of Wright's appointment, in no uncertain terms, through both the Colored and the white press. Only the courageous, mainly protest of unpurchasable Negroes the county over, sided by fair-minded Caucasians who are free from hypocrisy in professing to favor a "square deal," forced Roosevelt modify to the extent he did the original discharge order. Nothing less than an equally vigorous and country-wide protest will prevent the appointment of Wright.-The Informer, Detroit, Mich. AERO: AMERICANS DISPLAY MUCH BITTERNESS AGAINST WILLIAM H. TAFT. was a Republican risking my life for the party when Frank Hitchcock was a boy in knee pants," he shouted, "and do you think that I am going to allow him to run his steam roller over me or mine?" Bishop Alexander Walters, Jersey City, N. J. William Monroe Trotter, editor The Guardian Boston Mass., who classed Booker T. Washington as one of the traitors of the Negro race, Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C., Rev. William H. Scott, Boston, Mass, and W. T. Ferguson, Secretary of the Negro-American National Political League, were among the other speakers, and the arguments which they advanced, against the continued enslavement, of the Negro to the Republican party, were unanswerable and cannot be brushed aside. Sunday afternoon another lively anti-Taft meeting was held in Bethel church, Dr. H. C. Cress, led off in a very bitter onslaught against Roosevelt and Taft, and he also branded the Negro office holders and those looking for jobs, as the "bread brigade", and that they must be marked as the real enemies of the race, for they are ever ready to do the dirty work of their white political masters. Rev. E. L. Gilliam, of Columbus, O., followed Dr. Cress, and he briefly spoke as follows: "Denouncing the unrighteous course of the nation," he declared that extraordinary conditions require extraordinary measures,' and that the present condition is 'unparalleled in the history of the country.' He expressed a desire to stand on a mountain peak and in a clarion voice gather around him the friends of the black man for the organization of a new party." Attorney W. F. Henderson, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the next speaker, and among the many good things he said was as follows: "That 'the great ship of Republicanism must be scutted.' He held that this action should be preceded by a warning to the convention that the "pirates" in charge of the convention must not nominate Taft." Rev. J. Milton Waldron, President of the Negro-American National Political League, wound up the speaking, and in doing so, he gave expression to the following sentiments, namely, if the Negro vote couldn't be "jumped all at once to the Democracy a bridge would be built so that the gap would be crossed in two jumps." "We're fighting against national disfranchisement right now," he cried. "They may have us down, but they haven't got us tied. I may be down on the ground, but they won't tie me. I'll bite, and kick, and scratch until I die. Blood may flow, but I'll not permit them to rob me of my rights." Monday morning, what was supposed to be a Taft meeting, was called to order in Quinn chapel, by John G. Jones. But the anti-Taft forces rushed into the church and took possession of the meeting, and Col. Jones, started on a dead run to the 22d street police station, and returned to the church with a wagon load of policemen, who took in the situation but refused to make any arrests o rto break up the meeting; and the anti-Taft Negroes held the fort, and passed resolutions, condemning the Secretary of War and President Roosevelt. In the meantime, the illy-white leaders of the Republican party, becoming alarmed, at so many unfriendly demonstrations, on the part of their former political slaves, ordered Charres W. Anderson, Ralph W. Tyler, and William T. Vernon, three Negro office holders, who are putting in all their time, in doing politics in the interest of William H. Taft, instead of tending to their duties which they are receiving pay for, to come to this city, for the purpose of stemming the anti-Taft sentiment among the Negroes, and Monday evening they held forth at Quinn chapel, and after waving the "Bloody Shirt," William T. Vernon, who claims to be a methodist preacher, and who can lie ten thousand times faster than the boss devil can run, wanted to know if there were any Negroes present who would vote the Democratic ticket and hundreds of voices cried out "Yes! Yes!" So the great Taft Republican meeting came near being turned into an anti-Taft meeting. The Chicago Tribune fully realizing, that the independent Negro, cannot be silenced with a few drinks of cheap whisky, and 25 or 50 cents in money recommends in an editorial Tuesday morning, that all Negroes, who speak out against Taft, Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, should be locked up and furnished with padded cells. And ex-Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada, who is one of the great leaders of the Republican party. Is in favor, of repealing the 15th Amendment unless the Negro continues to tamely permit the Republican party to ride into power on his back! THE PENDULUM Has the pendulum swing to its furthest point outward in the rule of the demagogues who ride into political office on the race issue? Is the South awakening to the fact that something should be demanded of her statesmen other than "cussing" the Negro and the railroads? It would seem so from recent events. The pendulum began its outward swing when Ben Tillman made his appearance in South Carolina politics way back in the eighties. Some of those to ride into office were such men as Arthur Pue Gorman, James K. Vardaman, Jeff Davis and Hoke Smith. These men played the race issue with all of their might and secured political preferment. But at last it seems the pendulum has begun to swing the other way. Gorman is dead. Vardaman was defeated for the Senate by John Sharp Williams. Jeff Davis' was repudiated by his state when it refused to send him to Denver as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention. Now Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has been defeated for a re-nomination as Governor by Joe Brown, a man whose candidacy was at first considered a huge joke by the Georgia politicians. The one remaining radical who has received no political reverses—if we except Hefflin, of Alabama, who is under indictment in the District of Columbia—is Ben Tillman, and he is an invalid. These signs of the South's returning to the fold of conservatism are to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that as the pendulum swings back, if it is really on its way back, that it will knock into oblivion all those men who have used their chief political asset ability to stir up hatred between the races—The Globe, Nashville, Tehn. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TURNS HIS BACK ON HIS OATH. When Mr. Roosevelt wired or 'phoned to the Taft managers to show the "Allies" no quarter, it was a bold stand to take. Coming from a man who swore before God and the world that he would be all the peoples' president, he condemns himself before God and the world more than any one else. But here come the vilest threat: Senator Stewart of Nevada tiptoed, and told the Negroes that if they carried out their threats and defeated the Republican party, they—the party—would repeal the Civil War amendments. For all the good they do, guess it would not kill the Negroes. We are men and mean to strike back when struck, and millions will die rather than be reenslaved, and we dare you to try it—the Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va. Court Gives Decision Concerning Case of Negro Children Who Were Ruled From Public Schools. From Public Schools. Alton, ill. June 12.—Fifteen citizens of Alton, including Mayor Edward Beall, all of whom were members of the city council ten years ago, must pay the state of Illinois $2,503.53 as the cost of the court contest started by the refusal of the school board, ten years ago, to admit the children of Scott Bibb, a Negro, to the public schools. The decision holding the fifteen men responsible for the costs was handed down by Chief Justice Hand of the Supreme Court of Illinois. It was stated today the only recourse of the defendants was to get a relief bill passed by the present council for their reimbursement. DIXIE DELEGATE HITS NEGRO. Southerner Objects to Colored Man's Presence on Sidewalk and Street Fight Follows. A delegate from a southern state objected to a Negro walking on the sidewalk alongside of him at Washington and State streets last night and struck him in the face, knocking him down. At the same time he told the Colored man to get out into the street. The Colored man arose and attacked the delegate. Several friends of the delegate became involved in the affair and a large crowd gathered about the fighting men. When two policemen appeared the delegate and the Colored man fled. The police were unable to learn from what state the delegate came. —The Chicago Tribune, June 18, and to think this delegate is a red hot Republican and not a Democrat. An aged Negro migrated from Florida and settled in Boston. The old fellow didn't dwell long in that atmosphere of cold reason and east winds before a mortal chill assailed, body and spirit. Winter came on. He got colder and colder. First he couldn't talk. Then he couldn't walk. Finally he lay stark and cold and dead. The family prepared for the burial of his remains. When he first reached Boston he had passed a crematory one day and had been enchanted with it. It appealed very warmly to him. He requested his relatives to see that his remains were cremated when he should come to die. So they carried his body off to the crematory and handed it over to the persons in chage. At the end of two hours they were invited to return and secure the ashes. At that time, therefore, in the presence of assembled friends, the door of the furnace was opened, whereupon a hoarse voice from within called out irritably: "Shut that do!' I feels a draf' on my feet!"—Ex. WEST SIDE NEWS By Professor Alex Simpson, 73 S. Halsted St. Phone Monroe 3070. West: Side Sunday Club members are making preparations for their summer vacation. The Club will soon close for the summer season. Dr. C. H. Pickett is now comfortably located in his new, spacious and commodious parlors, Lake and Robey streets. Mr. John McDermon and Mr. Henry Smith engaged in a fistic combat recently, in which neither one was injured very bad. West: Side residents are crowded with delegates and friends from the Sunny South. They evidently will be here until after the great Republican convention is over. Mrs. L. Williams, late of Professor William Emanuel's parlors, is now with Professor Alex Simpson, in the capacity of hair dressing, scalp treatments, and manicuring, 73 S. Halsted St. Phone Monroe 3070. Mr. John Smith and Miss S. Thornton will evidently joint hands this week. Mr. John Gaskill, a smart young man of the West Side 23 Club, is making preparations to go to Paris—Ky., where he expects to organize a new Club. Mr. John Tribute, one of our most respected attorneys, is in the city again after a three weeks' vacation. He can be found at his office after June 26, 1908. ANNOUNCEMENT. The tenth anniversary of the Amanda Smith Industrial Home, Harvey, Ill., Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28. Many distinguished preachers, leaders in charitable work, evangelists and teachers, have been invited and will be present, among whom are the following: Rev. C. T. Snaffer, Bishop of the A, M. E. church, who will preside; Mr Chas. Virden, Department of Fistation of Children; Rev. A. J. Carey, Rev. D. P. Roberts, Rev. R. C. Wilson, Rev. H. E. Stewart, Rev. J. F. Thomas, Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones, Rev. Cox, pastor of First M. E. church of Harvey. The exercises will be held in the temporary Tabernacle, and will begin at 11 o'clock Saturday a. m., and will be the greatest of all anniversaries. Barbecue dinners served to the visitors. Don't forget the day and date Bring your friends and help a good cause. P. S.—Trains leave the city every hour and twenty minutes over the Illinois Central. CHIPS These are heavenly days for the methodist preacher but they are Hell for the spring chicken.—Ex. Mr and Mrs. Phillip Green, 343 W. 47th St., are entertaining a number of Representative Baltimoreans. Sergeant and Mrs. Wm. Childs have as their guest for the summer two of their nieces from the Southland. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Williams, 6618 Vernon Ave., entertained a small party of their Detroit friends at dinner Wednesday afternoon. Hon. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson of New York are the buests of Miss Lucy Lindsay and her brother Mr. Robert Motts, 4110 Calumet Ave. Rev. Wm. Alexander of Baltimore Md. a delegate to the National Convention is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Selby, 380s Wabash Ave. Hon. Wm. F. Powell, Ex-United Sates Minister to Haytit, Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Perry, and daughter of Phila, are the guest of Mrs. Ernestine Siley 79 E. 22nd St. The "Subscription Dance" managed by Mr. Julius N. Aveyendorp, at Oakland music Hall Wednesday evening was well attended by home folks and visitors and a delightful time was spent by all. A wealthy Chinese merchant married a finely educated Colored woman not long ago, at Los Angeles, Cal., and placed her in a $7,000 mansion—and thus gave the so-called race problem another severe jolt. Mr. and Mrs. S. Shepard Paul, 3605 Forest Ave., gave an elaborate reception in honor of their guest Miss. M. Newton of Brooklyn, at their residence Tuesday evening. All of Chicago's elite and the representative visitors to the city were present. Mrs. Edward Everett Nelson, 3552 Forest Ave., gave a swell reception to about two hundred of the elite in honor of Mrs. Haydee Campbell of St. Louis, and Mrs. George A. Meyers of Cleveland from 3 to 7 o'clock. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Frank H. Lewis, who successfully conducts, the Railroad Inn, corner of 51st and Armour Ave., turns many a good trick in the interest of those residing in the community who are unaware of his kind acts, Mr. Lewis is proving himself a valuable citizen in the Town of Lake. Mrs. Mary A. Williams, entertained Mr. Wm. Wheeler and C. L. Hutchens, of Baltimore, at dinner Wednesday evening, after which a trip trough the white city was taken and enjoyed. Mr. Samuel W. Thompson has taken a few days off to attend the National Republican Convention. Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. John R. Marshall 3630 Calumet ave., gave an at home, in honor of Mrs. Ralph W. Tyler, Columbus O.; Mrs. George A. Myers, Cleveland O.; and Mrs. William H. Hackley, Jersey City, N. J. It was a most delightful affair, and many of the prominent members of the four hundred were present to greet the visiting ladies. Miss Maude J. Roberts, 79 East 32d st., a graduate of Waldon University, Nashville, Penn., of class "07" entered Bryant & Stratton business college May 1, for a 6 months course. And it is encouraging to note that her percentage snows that she will complete the course in four months. After which she will take the civil service examination, with the expectation of a call to Washington, D. C. Last Saturday evening, under the directions of Mrs. Victor F. Lawson directions of Mrs. Victor F. Lawson the closing exercises of the Kitchen Garden Class, at institutional Church took place, and many friends interested in the work so unselfishly performed by her and friends of the children were present to encourage her and assist to cheer them on. Alarm Clock For the Hersas A provision merchant in Oldham, England, has invented an ingenious contrivance by which he is able to feed his horses without personal attendance, through the medium of an American alarm clock. In a small office adjoining the stable the clock is placed on a shelf. Attached to the winding key is a piece of copper wire, and this is fastened to a small brass roller that runs over a wooden rod. At the end of the rod is a heavy weight. When the clock goes off the wheel is drawn over the rod and releases the weight, which falls to the floor. The corn box is filled overnight, and when the weight is released a small door at the bottom of the box files open and the corn falls into the manger. The horses never fall to rise at the sound of the alarm knowing what is to follow, and when the drivers turn up the animals are ready to be harnessed. Another advantage is that the horses need never be put to work before the breakfast has had time to digest. The Mathematical Mind At the recent meeting of the New England college presidents one of the most important of them all remarked that mental arithmetic did not train a child's mind and that a mathematician per se was incapable of moral reasoning. Mathematicians might take notice. It reminds one of Stiles—Stiles, the greatest of the Yale mathematicians of his kind. He, indeed, had virtues as well as mathematics and was the graceful and learned editor of Garden and Forest, horticulturist editor of the New York Tribune and president of the New York park commission. Once he was ill for a long time—a very long time—and he used to say that when he became convalescent he discovered that the mathematical! was the lowest order of mind. He wanted to read. He tried poetry, and that would not do, nor would fiction or philosophy or history, but when at last he tried mathematics he found that his enfeebled mind could master that—Harper's Weekly. 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, totalling probably 7,500,000,000. Were one man to attempt to speak all these conversations it would have been necessary for him to have started about 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, macaron an 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 Kaulhari delivered this cruel message with such energy, promptness and dispatch that Grand Duke Michael's sweetheart and her parents departed from their estate within six hours—Argonaut. Frankish Tombs 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 Athelseum. "We are all potential criminals," was the startling statement made by Dr. Albert Wilson to a deeply interested audience at the Sociological society. "If we had had the heredity of some of these poor people (prisoners) or if we had had the environment we should have done the same as they."—London News Andrew Carnegie's library gifts amount almost to $500,000,000. Reginald Vanderbilt at college, it is said, wrote a number of poems of more than average merit. Thomas Pooley, eighty-six, of Clarmont, 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 Jullus 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 Whinsted. 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 Louis recently with $5,000 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 command-datore 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 145,120 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 dilled 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 filer, 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 stomach—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 deet that was said to be full of blowholes and other infirmities the American battleships are giving a pretty fair initiation of seaworthiness—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And now a physician comes forward in pay that "the 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 coolies there employed are repatriated. The volume of freight sent by water from New York can better be realized when one considers the fact that 1,350 tons are loaded on ships every hour. Throughout the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí about 13,000 miners are employed. The products are gold, lead, mercury, zinc, climabar, 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 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 668,833 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 Osceowits, who has given 500,000 kvones for the erection of a children's hospital at Osceowits to commemorate the Francis Joseph jubilee. A record in tiger shooting is surely established by the feat of his highness Kawab Mohammed Naurullah Khan Bahadur, his 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 fall to his highness rite in one night over one kill. Visnana had added the word "settlement" to its vocabulary because no German word, says the Nene Nure 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 char- JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR. AT LAW 309 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 908 CHICAGO Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence. Gray 5870 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1829 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Donglin 1839 Phone Calumet 1579 Morgue and Private Chapel. C. JOHNSON UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY R. W. GREEN, MGR. 2712 State Street Chicago 10 15 50 YEAR Industrial Items. Canada has begun to make tin plata The demand for aluminium still exceeds the supply. Prussia's mine mines produce half the mine of the world. A plant will be established at Milwaukee, Wis., to make gas from old staw, corn cob, cornstalk, etc. Germany takes the credit for having the largest trades union in the world. It is composed of metal workers and has a membership of 385,000, a large proportion of whom are women. Pith and Point It sounds doubly bad when a smiling man is protale. If you get along, you must do well today; you can't always be waiting until tomorrow. After a man has made a mistake and been found out how he does long for time to fly! Whenever you give another follow the best of it without its costing you anything, you have made a good investment- Atchison Globe. Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M. 2 to 5 CHICAGO and after 6 p. m. C. E. Kreyssler Chemist and Druggist 5059 STATE STREET N. E. Cor. 51st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO have even understood electricity, as wires corresponding to our own telegraph wires have been found in Egypt." "That may be," answered Pat, "but the fact that no wires have been found in Ireland proves beyond a doubt that the Irish were in the habit of using wireless telegraphy."—Philadelphia Ledger. Prajudice. "Robert, this spelling paper is very poor," complained the small boy's teacher. "Nearly every word is marked wrong." "It wouldn't have been so bad," protested Robert, "but Annie corrected my paper, and she's mad at me, and for every little letter that I got wrong she caused out the whole word."—Mip 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 326 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIGJSORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO COOK Waiters and Cooks Prefer Dur Makes JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 300 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. is for sale at the following news stand: A. F. Tervalon, 124 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. Nellie Phelpa, 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. Potors Cigars, Tobacco and News Stand, 388 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. R. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 2704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. R. Davia, cigars, tobacco, and con- fessionary, 3532 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 3906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hedley 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, 3512 State street. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St. Detroit, Mkd. The Standard News Co 121 W. 51st 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 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 time to cater to this feeling of vanity. As for yourself, you put it off as long as possible. Of course you want to go. The thought of not having been able to get to see him has, you assure him, filled you with perpetual gloom. But circumstances over which you have had no control have forbidden All this you assert until the fatal moment arrives when you realize that no further subterfuge is possible, and, with many protestations of anticipatory delight, you start off. Your friend meets you at the station with his auto. He explains its workings, its superiority over all others, as you proceed back. If it breaks down on the way, as is more than likely, he smiles brightly. Such a thing has never happened before. He knows, of course, what the cause was. He mentions it carelessly, thereby implying that it was of so little consequence that it was scarcely worth while to avoid it. You arrive at his house. Filled with enthusiasm and reveling in a new victim, he proceeds forthwith to drag you over its weary length before you have had time to change your shoes. "Fine room this!" he exclaims, with a burst of honest pride, and so on. By and by, when he is getting tired, his wife, like a relay pony, takes up the lecture where he leaves off. So plastic are we that at the time by a sort of 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 endured themselves to you, that you cry out in deep gladness, "Thank God its over, for, after all, there's no place like home!"—T. L. Masson in Puck. They Preved 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 run, yet nearer and nearer came the bull. "We must pray," panted Harry. "You do it." Ethel pleaded. "We'll kneel down right here." "No; we'll pray running. You ought to do it. You're a girl." "O Lord—O Lord—I can't!" sobbed Ethel. "You do it." The proximity of the bull demanded immediate action, and Harry rose to the occasion. Loudly and fervently he prayed: "O Lord, for what we are about to receive make us truly thankful!"—Succes magazine. "I saw the cutest thing today," began Miss Pansy coyly. "It was a painting of the er—what is the name of. that little god that represents matrimony?" "Well, now," said Mr. Thmid, "you've got me." Ripping Times. Gunner—Hot times out at the ball game. The players were slamming balls all the afternoon. Guyer—And how about the bleacher-less! Gunner—Oh, they were slamming the ampire!—Chicago News. Co-operating With Reform. "Do you think racing will ever be stopped?" "The trouble I have always had," replied the hard luck specialist, "is that the horses I bet on always want to stop."—Washington Star. A Lung Developer. WE PUFF'S LAND DELIVERER 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 "smok" draw) — Naw, of course it ain't. It's a bloomin' lung developer—Tutier. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Rooster Muzzle. They were like fairy helmets—little wire helmets no bigger than a walnut. "They are rooster muzzles," said the city farmer as he 'led the way past the pea-beds on the s-'endow 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 A recent investigation as to the chemical industries of Germany shows how rapidly artificial coloring agents are taking the place of the natural dyes formerly used. The change is indicated by the decrease of imports of various logwoods. Among these are bluewood, native to Mexico, Haiti, the British West Indies, the Dominican Republic and the United States; yellowwood, which grows in Austria-Hungary, Mexico and South America, and redwood, indigenous to British India, the west coast of Africa and Mexico. For ages the Arabs have used the redwood of India for sandals. During the last forty years the cultivation of 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 1864," said Arthur B. Wright, a veteran Chicago politician. "This amount was wagered by a well known sporting man of that period, and the loss of the sum put a big crimp in his bank roll. Looking back at the campaign of 1864, it seems absurd now to have supposed it possible for McClellan to defeat Lincoln, and yet plenty of good judges rather liked the chances of the Democratic candidate."—Baltimore American. Native American Wit. During the last session of congress a newly appointed representative called on a brother congressman to ask him to support a certain measure. The new representative is an accomplished member of one of the well known Indian tribes. The elder member, with a patrolling 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 Iudian representative.—Boston Post. The Forty-sixth Star. In order to make room on the flag for the forty-sixth star, which must shine three 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 ForSale $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 $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and L. modern, hardwood t $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 fl heat, hardwood thro $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2 sell separate. Make $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 roo $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 fl JESSE BINGA, 3637 S GrandestYet-On 5320-22-24 WILL SATURDAY, M Enlarged Skating Rink, ture Shows, Band Concerts and Soda Fountain and Cafe in o OWNED AND O Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizing $100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland included to dissolve that Association in our increased Capital for the purpose of buy Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishi Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Pa Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, M Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley B Riding, and all the latest fun making d gather with a First Class Summer H guests, at its present location, 79th ar ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop D The Public is Base-Ball mad, and value in a single season. Millions can This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Reme ense And Well Faying Plant, WI Be Employed, between May and Octo out fear and Enjoy The Life and Free The Answer can only be effectively give gion, it has been made purposely low so have a Share and Interest in this Tween Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Eac Any Holiday around Amusement Pa wanted and never welcome. Comel bu the attached Coupon and mail with T and Amusement Association. Do it to-d Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Mr Bearregard F. Moseley; Treas: which I am sending as Part (or infall) a shares of the Capital Stock of the Le Association. I agree to pay $ has been pa certificate. 57th and La Fayette Ave., hardwood throughout. Ley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Jabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front, rate. Make terms. Mille St., 6 rooms, frame, brick, Mille St., 2 flat, brick and frame, Mille St., frame building, 6 rooms. Born St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms. Rest Yet-Chateau C. 1920-22-24-26 State Street WILL OPEN DAY, MAY 30th WITH Exciting Rink, Health Merry Gift, Concerts and Vocal Solos, Paint and Cafe in connection. ED AND OPERATED BY Base Ball & Amuse Organizing—Capital St. $100,000 Years of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association in order to give room for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home and Establishing For All The People Amusement Park, With It's The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electing, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Class Summer Hotel, large enough to the location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., to the Loop District in Chicago. Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Millions can be made by those Who Owl Of The Race Owning And Managing Plant, Where More Than 1,000 May and October of each year, when the Life and Freedom of a Citizen unites effectively given by subscribing to a purposely low so that all Loyal Members in this Twentieth Century Entitlement to Dollars Each You Squander My Amusement Parks and Public Places. Come! buy and build one of your mail with Ten Dollars to the Lelaction. Do it to-day so that we may coil & Amusement Assn. 6268 Halstreet Ley; Treas:- Enclosed plan Part (or infall) as subscription fee for stock of the Leland Giants Base Basketball. $___ per month until has been paid, at which time I am Name Address City State Enlarged Skating Rink, Health Merry Go-Rounds, Picture Shows, Band Concerts and Vocal Solos, Parisian Gallery, Soda Fountain and Cafe in connection. --- Leland Giarts 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 its present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposefully low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in 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 Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to build. which I am sending as Part (or inful) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Melted butter is a very good substitute for olive oil in salad dressing. Many prefer the butter to oil. Turals boiled in their jackets like beets are much better than when pared. Adding a little sugar to the water will correct any bitterness. Fish that is to be fried should be ordered to be sent early, as it cooks much better if previously rolled some time in a clean cloth to insure perfect dryness. Scoop out as many large lemons as there are guests, scallop the edges and fill the cups with French peas mixed with a stiff mayonnaise. Arrange the lemons on crisp lettuce leaves and serve with cheese and crackers. A woman who is past master in sandwich making prefers fries ham to boiled for sandwiches. She cooks the ham slowly in the frying pan, giving it just enough browning to improve the flavor. Then she reduces it by grinding to a veritable powder and mixes it with mayonnaise. --- All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Bemargard P. Mossley, Treasurer, 6358 Haldest Street, Treasurer, 6358 Haldest Street, holders are entitled to preference as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their intentions to apply for employment. For further information please contact Ball and Amusement Assn. 6238 Halsted St. Chicago, Ill. The Cookbook 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 POOL AND CIGARS AND BILLIARDS TOBACCO8 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: Frank H. Lewis, Prop. J. M. Fields LDS NS CHIGAGO Lou Seldon, 4gr.