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THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Negro Must Show His Independence Must Smash the Notion That Nothing Can Alienate Him From the Republican Party to Secure Proper Consideration says a Leading Republican Editor of the East in Discussing the Political Policy of the Negro Voters. Negro Must His Must Smash the Not Alienate Him Party to Secure says a Leading I East in Discussion of the Negro Vo Springfield, Mass.-The Republican of this city, one of the very best daily papers in this country, and always friendly to the Colored race, published an editorial recently, of which the following is the pertinent concluding half: "The Republican party professes to be the guardian of the race it freed from slavery, yet its guardianship now amounts to nothing, because it need not compete for Negro support in elections. Let it be understood that a race, a class, a section, may vote for the opposition unless certain things are done, and the party in power usually makes great efforts at "placation." The Jews of New York, who are numerous enough to turn the Empire State either way in a presidential election, never fail to be considered by the administration. Both parties fear the labor organizations and the independent vote they represent. And rather than offend the Pacific coast states, President Roosevelt squarely reversed his policy on the Japanese coole invasion. Both platforms this year have bid for the Pacific coast vote with planks on oriental immigration. The Negroes of the country, particularly of the northern and border states, need only to smash the prevalent notion that nothing could alienate them from the Republican party to find themselves getting much the same consideration. They can never fix the terms for an alliance, unless they prove that they are something besides a permanent asset, and go with the plant. "The effect upon Negro interests of the race's political independence would be advantageous in more than one respect. If the Negroes of the North SOUTH FIGHTS BRYAN ON RACE QUESTION. Rabid Democrats, Lily White Republicans and Populist Candidate Watson Join in Attempt to Deprive Democratic Candidate of Electoral Votes of Southern States Because of Expressed Friendliness to Colored Citizens. Colored Voters Stand Behind Nebraska, and, if Possible, Elect Him President—Temporizing Policy of Republican Administration Responsible for Growing Prejudice. By Francis H. Warren. War has been declared on William Jennings Bryan, the great commoner from the West, and Democracy's candidate for President, by the Negrohating Democrats of the Vardaman stripe, the Taft Lily White Republicans, and Tom Watson, the candidate for President of the Populist party, in the states composing the solid South, because of Bryan's friendly attitude toward Colored American citizens. For several days the dispatches to the daily papers have been loaded with the nefarious work of the elements above noted, looking to Bryan's defeat in southern states on the Negro problem. The immediate cause of this onslaught on Bryan was the answers given by the candidate to Bishop Walter's committee, a report of which is published elsewhere. were to vote for the Democratic ticket this year they would not only force upon Republicans recognition of the fact that their party must compete for Negro support, but would produce a kindler feeling toward the Negro race among Democrats, especially in the South. Ex-Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, does not err seriously in this matter. He is quoted as telling a Negro audience in Washington that "The oppression of the Negro in the South is due to the fact that members of your race have persistently supported the Republican party. Now would pot the Democratic party feel more kindly toward the Negro if he were to vote the Democratic ticket? The reasonableness of the supposition cannot be denied, for the sharp cleavage in the South between the white and black races has always been intensified by the fact that the Colored race solidly supported the political party which Southern whites regarded as an enemy of their section. Let the Negro voters show that they are no longer bound to an unswerving allegiance to the Republicans and the Southern Democrats could not fall to regard them with less prejudice and bitterness. In no very long time, the South might make concessions to the Colored race in order to secure its political support in northern centers for the Democratic party in important elections. The possibilities in this directon deserve serious consideration. Suggestions of this character are offered solely from the Negro point of view. Some time there will be developments not unlike those outlined, because the race must, sooner or later, fight its own battles in politics if it is to have a political existence." It is declared that this opposition will cost Bryan Georgia and several other southern states and thus encompass his defeat by turning over the solid South to Taft. A peculiar feature of this anti-Bryan and anti-Negro campaign in the South is the applause accorded the mention of Taft's or Roosevelt's names. It is also a peculiar coincidence that Prof. Booker T. Washington is lined up with this Negro-hating element, in an effort to encompass Bryan's defeat. The outcome will be watched with intense interest. We predict a disappointment for the narrow brained southerners who would deny any rights to Negroes. The duty of the Negro in such an emergency is clear. He should stand just as solidly behind William Jennings Bryan and work for his triumphant election as chief executive, as he has formerly stood by Grant, Hayes, Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt, the latter of whom was given the greatest popular majority ever given a president, because of his then avowed "square deal" and "open door" policy, only to afterward repudiate this wholesome policy by the tyranny of Brownsville. Yes, every black man possessing an ounce of independent manhood about him will vote for William Jennings Bryan in November and carry New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for the sage of Fairview.—The Informer, Detroit, Mie CHICAGO, JULY 25, 1908. L Mr. Hazard is first of all a business man of high caliber. At present he is the general attorney for McNell & Higgins Co., wholesale grocers, and is a lawyer of known ability. He was born in Chicago in 1873, and has lived in this city all of his life and is therefore acquainted with the needs of the people. He attended the public schools and graduated from the South Division high school. He then studied law and was admitted to practice at the age of twenty-three. He at one time was attorney for Nelson Morris & Co., the large packers, and later for five years was senior member of the law firm of Hazard & Prince. He has been honored and trusted by the leading business men of this city in many ways. He was secretary of the Commercial Exchange and other large associations at different times. We know that the WALTER WELLMAN ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN OHIO. In summing up the political situation in Ohio, at the present time, Walter Wellman, the noted political correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald, states in its issue July 23d that, "The Republicans have a good fighting chance in that state, but the leaders of the party are fearful that it might be swung over in the Bryan column." Mr. Wellman goes on to state that he asked a Republican leader what the Colored vote was going to do this year, and he replied: "God knows; I hope we shall hold the most of them. Many will get away, and a considerable share of those we do hold we shall have to buy. We do not like the way they act. They don't come around a-kicking. They are not saying a word; and that looks bad." That is the way Mr. Wellman sums up the political situation in Ohio, as far as the Negro is concerned; and, as long as the Negro refrains from permitting any one to tell how he is going to vote on account of the color of his skin or the kink of his hair, he is learning to play the great game of American politics! The All Star concert held at Institutional church Monday evening, was the hit of the season. J. W. Work, of Fisk University, Nashville, Tern., was at his best. Mrs. Fannie Hall Clint, and Miss Gertrude Jackson, were both all that could be expected, and Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, the sweetest and the most popular song bird in Chicago, completely captivated the large audience with her fine and highly cultivated soprano voice. people will be greatly benefited if they support Mr. Hazard at the primary election and secure his nomination as one of the new Republican Sanitary Trustees. By the recent decision of Judge Julian Mack in the case of The People ex rel Paul A. Hazard vs. Joseph Haas, County Clerk, et al, Mr. Hazard's name will appear first on the Republican Primary Ballot under the heading of Sanitary Trustees, and we admire his grit in a fight to preserve the merits of a law once it is put upon the statutes. He is for the people and their rights and believes that the great power which the Sanitary Canal has for sale should realize sufficient to show a large profit and thereby reduce the taxes of the people of this city. Join with us and become a Hazard booster. He is honest. He is tried and true. WHITE .MINISTER .GUILTY .OF ...SENDING |IMPROPER 'LETTERS... TO COLORED GIRL The jury in the superior court which has been sitting in the case C. M. Billings, a preacher, against the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer rendered a verdict to the effect that the charges of immorality preferred against the preacher by the newspaper while he was a resident of Blackville, S. C., were true and the suit for damages would not lie. The action for libel was based on a story printed by the Observer under a Blackville date line. In it was set forth that the preacher had written endearing epistles to a mulatto servant girl formerly employed in his household, the matter causing a sensational scandal in Blackville. The original letters were produced at the trial and proved upon the plaintiff, the evidence all through being sensational in the extreme.—The American Press. It is enough to cause the devil to grunt real loud, to read the statement made by William H. Taft wherein he states that "The trusts, monopolies and corporations will not be permitted to contribute any money to the Republican campaign fund this year." This is rather strange when we recall the fact that for the past three or four Presidential elections, these blood-sucking concerns have turned over millions of dollars which they have unlawfully extracted from the pockets of the people, to the Republican houses, to enable them to buy up and debauch the voters of this country. Election of Taft Would Mean Four Years More of Injustice to Race The Reformer, of Richmond, Va., Journal of Greatest Negro Organization on Earth, the True Reformers, Comes Out Strong for Democratic Ticket in Recent Campaign. "There are thousands of Democrats throughout the country who condemn high-handed injustice meted out to Negro soldiers by Republican administration. In every state in the South, Democrats of high character have spoken out against the disfranchisement of the Negro while Taft unjustly and cowardly condones that act."—From The Richmond Reformer. The appointment of Hon. Luke E. Wright of Tennessee, as secretary of War, to succeed Mr. Taft is an indication of the general policy that is to be pursued with reference to the Colored citizens, we believe that those Negroes who have assisted in having Mr. Taft nominated will yet live to be ashamed of their conduct. If the Republican ticket wins out at the polls in November we are to have four more years of Mr. Roosevelt as President. This means four more years of injustice and oppression for the Negro race. Deep down in his heart every Negro in the United States believes this to be the truth. When it comes to the rights of the Negro race as citizens of this country the Republican party is in perfect accord with the very worst element in the Democratic party. There are thousands of Democrats throughout the United States who never would have dismissed the Colored soldiers from the army and who condemn the highhanded injustice meted out to them by the Republican president. In every state in the South, Democrats of high character have spoken out against the disfranchisement of the Negro, while Secretary Taft unjustly and cowardly condones that act that is a violation of the most sacred meaning and teaching of the Federal Constitution. With a Republican administration of this character in power there is nothing irregular in the appointment of a staunch Southern Democrat to a seat in the Cabinet family. Under Mr. Wright the race may expect nothing of justice or injustice than it would from Mr. Taft. Mr. Wright's appointment is only an incident in the general program of this unjust, highhanded administration that has found its way into American affairs. A number of brave, patriotic Colored men in the United States have opposed the nomination of Mr. Taft, and since his nomination some of them seem undecided as to what is the right course to pursue. It seems to us that if they were right in their opposition to his nomination, they would be right in their opposition to his election. Unselfishly fighting for the rights and political liberation of their race, we believe these men were right, and the only correct course for these men to pursue is the opposition to the election of Mr. Taft. Those states where the Negroes, hold the balance of power should be turned over to the Democrats. Let the words of Dr. Dubois be posted over every ballot box in the doubtful states: "Vote for an avowed enemy, rather than for a false friend." An administration directed by Tillman and Vardaman, avowed enemies of our race could be no more unjust to us than an administration directed by Taft and Roosevelt, our false friends. It is the duty of every Negro voter, who is located in that part of the country where his vote counts for something to assist in the overthrow of those who oppress our people and the exultation of those who love justice. Even if the present Republican administration is continued in power there should be no backward steps. Let the fight be continued until the Negroes of America enjoy every right that is guaranteed to them in the Federal Constitution of the United States. JAMES A. SCOTT. Candidate for the Legislature in the First Senatorial District. The present primary contest in the First Senatorial District for the nomination of a Republican candidate for the Legislature, has developed into an exciting and interesting conflict between three Colored men, who are aspirants for the position. The many friends of Mr. James A. Scott have rallied to his support and his campaign under the able and aggressive management of James Hale Porter, has assumed such proportions that the other candidates have become alarmed, and they now regard Mr. Scott as something more than a formidable candidate—Mr. Scott, and his manager, Porter, are certainly making things hum in the First and Second wards, and they promise added steam for the last two weeks of the fight. It cannot be questioned but that James A. Scott is eminently fitted to represent the people at Springfield; he is a lawyer of splendid ability, a man of character and standing and a citizen popular and liked by the people. His mixing and hustling qualities stand him well in hand in a contest like the present one, and upon all sides can be heard words of commendation for Mr. Scott, and that he will receive a heavy vote is admitted by all. He has resided in the Second ward for the past ten years and has been always an active and earnest Republican, constantly helping the other fellow to obtain a nomination, this time he has yielded to the wishes of his numerous friends and hopes to obtain the nomination himself. He has received the endorsement of a number of Republican organizations both in the First and Second wards, and will no doubt set a hot pace for his opponents at the Primaries on August 8th. THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Inclubs, Single Taxes, Republicans, or any other class have their own, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad AX is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE*BROAD AX 5038 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. 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. NOTES FROM HARVEY, ILL. The noted Miss Mat Bowen, of Washington, D. C., is visiting The Amanda Smith Orphan Home. Miss Bowen was one of the speakers at the anniversary. She took her audience by storm by her splendid address on the subject of "Women." Miss Bowen is a Christian, also a very intellectual lady, having taught in the public schools of Washington for a number of years. She is also a well known speaker and has traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and large audiences have greeted her everywhere with a great deal of enthusiasm. Miss Bowen is an exceptionally attractive and pleasing speaker and carries her audience with her and swaits them at will, her illustrations and anecdotes are simply grand. To hear her once is to want to hear her again. Miss Bowen makes many friends wherever she goes. The Home has also been blessed with the presence of Mrs. Lucinda Beck, of Nebraska. Mrs. Beck is an evangelist, who has been engaged in work with the Salvation Army in the West, but has been an independent worker for nine years. She preached the closing sermon of our anniversary season on Sabbath evening. It was a sermon of power, and full of the Holy Spirit. Mrs. Beck is not only a good speaker, but a good singer, and souls have been saved through her songs-"P." NEGRO ELKS LOSE THEIR NAME. Court Makes. Permanent Injunction Against Colored Men's Use of Title Similar to Old Order. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Supreme Court Justice Morchauser has made permanent an injunction restraining the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World from using its present name and title. The order is composed of Colored men having lodges in Brooklyn and other places. The application for the injunction was made by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks through a committee appointed by the grand lodge. The decision says the defendant seems practically to have appropriated the name, title, seal, card emblem, and colors, and nearly everything else used by the plaintiff in its corporate affairs. NEGRO PORTER TAKES $8,000; BANK EMPLOYE ROBS VAULT. Isaac W. Bess, Studying for Colored Ministry, Caught with Money Stolen "Because He Needed It." Rockford, Ill—Isaac W. Bess, Negro janitor of the Manufacturers' National bank, according to the police, stole $8,000 from the bank vanit last Saturday. Bess carried off the money in a satchel when the bank closed at 12:30 for the half holiday. The robbery was discovered a few minutes after, and three hours later Chief of Police Bargren found Bess hiding at the home of Lew Harris, a Negro living in the west part of the city. All of the money was-recovered. He told the police he took the money because he needed it. In addition to the package containing $8,000 Bess took $420 in unsigned currency, to part of which he had forged the names of N. F. Thompson, president, and Belknap Mullford, cashier. Bess has been active in the African Methodist church and expected to be ordained as a preacher next fall. ALEXANDER LANE, M. D. Candidate for re-election to the Legislature of Illinois from the First Senatorial District. Candidate for re-election to the Legislature of Illinois from the First Senatorial District. In 1906 Dr. Alexander Lane, who is a great honor to the medical profession, was elected to the legislature of Illinois from the First Senatorial District, and the record he made as a member of that body is a credit to himself and to all the people of the great state of Illinois. He served on some of the most important committees throughout the long session of that body, and was popular with its members, both Democrats and Republicans. One of the wisest acts performed by him was in voting against that section in the proposed New City Charter for Chicago, which gave the heads of the various departments the right to discharge those working under them without any cause whatever, and pre- ```markdown ``` [Name not visible] WILLIAM C. CROLIUS. Formerly Mayer of Joliet, Illinois, stock brokers of Denver, Colorado. It was our pleasure while visiting Denver, Colorado, lately, to meet William C. Crollus, formerly mayor of Joliet, Illinois, and in 1904 he was quite active in state politics, being a candidate for governor at the Spring-field convention, about a year and a half ago he removed from Joliet to Denver, and within a very short time he has become one of its leading stock brokers; he is at the head of the firm of William C. Crollus & Com- Paul A. Hazard, Republican candidate for Trustee Sanitary District of Chicago, is to the manor born, and in the past he has shown consideration to worthy Afro-Americans, and it is useless to say that many of them will be with him when the time comes for voting, August 8th. venting the men and women so discharged from having a hearing before the civil service board; this and many other good measures received his support. Being one of the only two physicians in the Forty-fifth General Assembly, he succeeded in passing several measures which will be of lasting benefit to the medical profession and the people at large. In view of these facts Dr. Lane has a whole army of friends residing in the First and Second wards comprising the 1st Senatorial District, who will do everything in their power to boost him past the Primaries August 8th, and re-elect him to the legislature of Illinois. 1 pany, dealers in stocks, bonds, investments, grain, provisions, cotton and miscellaneous securities, with exclusive private wires to New York City and Chicago. His firm occupy fine quarters in the Ernest and Cramer Building, and Mr. Crollus, with his family, resides in an elegant home in a nice part of that enterprising city, and he is meeting with success and making lots of money. Miss Elizabeth Slaughter, 3544 Dearborn street, who has had a severe attack of rheumatism, has sufficiently recovered from its effects to enjoy her vacation and last Saturday morning she left for Benton Harbor, Mich., for a short stay. LETTER CONDEMNING THE EDITOR OF THE BROAD AX FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR. Captain John T. Campbell of La Fayette, Ind., recently received the following letter from an old friend of his residing in Kansas, in which he condemns the editor of The Broad Ax for speaking out against the "Brownsville Affairs": "I have carefully read your article in The Broad Ax, which you sent me, on the Brownsville-Roosevelt episodes. "I have the firm, and I think, the well grounded belief that southern hoodlums 'shot up' Brownsville, and that not a single shot was fired by a U. S. soldier at that time. "Roosevelt's action in relation to that affair is absolutely defenseless, and is flagrantly despotic, and, as an unconditionally precedent, is omniously dangerous, not to the Negro alone, but to American citizenship. Much is detracted from the force of the reasons for the condemnation of that high-handed infamy perpetrated by Roosevelt in grounding the condemnatory reasons, solely upon an outrage to the Negro and a violation of his rights. Much is also detracted from the force of the just condemnation of that Roosevelt outrage by the threate of the Negroes to visit their revenge for it upon the Republican party. One never repairs an injury done to him by an enemy, by condemning his friends because they do not at once average for him the wrong done him by his enemy. There is no real justification nor good policy in one leaving the camp of his friends and going into that of his enemy, who has wronged him, just because one's friends do not, as speedily as one thinks they should, proceed to avenge the wrong one has suffered. The enemy may receive such an apostate with simulated hospitality, but it will be with sincere loathing and earnest contempt and well grounded distrust. There are the elements of treason in one who will do so God hates a traitor, and even evil men despise him, and sooner or later he is brought to condign punishment and consigned to hopeless and merited oblivion and impotency. The threat of the Negro to take vengeance upon the Republican party because of this outrage against members of his race, by voting the Democratic ticket, but engenders in his friends contempt for him; and thus he loses vastly more than he can possibly gain by such an unwise and grossly selfish course of conduct, for the contempt of one's friend is of greater injury to him than the enmity of a dozen enemies. There is no way in which he can win his enemy's friendship; and it is never wise to try to drive a friend to you with a scorpion whip. Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith the Lord," is as true today as it was thousands of years ago, and has been in all the years, since that apothegm was written. The blood of three hundred and fifty thousand patriots shed for the Union and Liberty of the Negro, cries to heaven against the unholy alliance of Negroes with rebels, which The Broad Ax proposes, and for which it is waging a propaganda. God loathes an ingrate! I think your strictures on Borah are just and exteremely mild—pungent even as they are. I am amazed at the position of Senator Warner of Missouri, whom I know and have known well and very favorably for many years. I am not surprised but pained at the want of position of the senators from Kansas. Probably they have done all they could! They are not to blame for their architecture; and maybe it would be impious in me to say that God made them! There are a great many images of God in the world of whom to say "God made them" would be rank blasphemy against the Deity. Maybe I had better quit before I say something. I sincerely hope that The Broad Ax and W. T. Ferguson will see the error of their way and that they will act wisely and with them all of their kith and kin." The Republican party has nominated one of the men who committed this outrage against the Negro zoldiers. It has endorsed Roosevelt, who does not intend to right the wrong he has done. He has said, "If the Foraker Bill is passed I will veto it. If it is passed over my veto, I will refuse to enforce it." And yet this writer thinks it will be treason in the Negroes to vote against the Republican party after all this! How much more of such infamous treatment as this would he have them endure without showing any resentment? P. HON. R. W. SPEER. The broad-guaged and popular De mocratic Mayor of Denver, Colorado, who left no stone unturned in his until ring effort to make the delegates and visitors welcome to that Queen City of the West. The last city election held in Denver, was the hottest ever held in that city, and as usual the Afro-American played his part very well indeed. The leaders of the Republican party, during the contest, set up the same old hue and cry: "Remember we set you Colored people free, and you Colored folks have no right to vote, unless you vote the Republican ticket," but the Negro voters could not live on the dead past nor pay their house rent on false promises, so more than two thousand of them voted for Mayor Speer, and as he was elected by 2,500 majority he feels that he owes his election to the Colored people, and in order to partly reward them for standing by him. Immediately after he began his duties as mayor he organized a Colored fire company, officered by Colored men from head to foot, and each fireman receives $85 per month. Mayor Speer also appointed five Colored men as policemen, drawing the same pay as the white officers; all the ian- DR. J. H. P. WESTBROOK. The Leading and Most Prosperous Afro-American Physician and Surgeon in Denver, Colorado. * Shortly after arriving in Denver, Colorado, during our late visit, we had the honor of coming in contact with Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, who is by far the leading and most prosperous physician and surgeon among the Afro-Americans in that beautiful western city. Dr. Westbrook was born in Mississippi, receiving his education at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., graduating from the Meharry Medical College in that same city in 1905. The 1st of May, 1905, he located in Denver, with mighty little money and scarcely anything else, but by hard work he has succeeded in building up a fine practice. He owns a lovely home at 3020 Welton street, and controls other property. He is secretary of the Niagara movement in Colorado. He is prominent in fraternal orgalizations. He takes an active interest in politics, and is a warm supporter of Hon. R. W. Speer, the present popular Democratic mayor of Denver, and at the last election, through the influence of Dr. Westbrook, more than two thousand Afro-Americans recorded their votes against the Republican candidate, and it was their votes that turned the tide in favor of Mayor Speer. Dr. Westbrook, who has become a firm supporter of The Broad Ax, has always been a strong Republican, but in the forthcoming presidential contest he will bitterly oppose the onward march of William H. Taft, and support William J. Bryan for president of the United States. itors in the city hall and in all the other buildings belonging to the city are Colored men, and they were selected by him, and a Colored man has charge of the Commonwealth Bath House, which is the pride of all the citizens of Denver. It goes without saying that he has a strong following among the Colored people, and they will continue to vote for him for any office within the gift of the people. During the convention Mayor Speer left no stone unturned in his effort to make everything pleasant for the delegates and visitors, before leaving Denver we called at the city hall to pay our respects to him, and on presenting him with our card he cordially extended the glad hand and promptly subscribed for The Broad Ax without even requesting him to do so, and he gave us permission to scatter a little red paint during the remainder of our pleasant visit to Denver. WHITES OBJECT TO BOOKER T. Tukkegee Wizad Gets a Dose of His Own Medicine—Not Good Enough for Their Neighbor. Huntington, L. I., Tuesday,—Because of the leasing of the old Van Wyck homestead by Booker T. Washington, an open rupture has resulted between members of the "400" and citizens of the village. The latter are willing to accept Roosevelt's friend, but the aristocrats refused permission to allow telephone wires strung to the place. Citizens finally got wires in by a roundabout way—Ex INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH The last Quarterly Meeting will be held here Sunday, Rev. T. Reeves presiding elder in practice. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. Communion at 3 o'clock at which time Dr. Colbert, pastor of Zion A. M. E. church, will preach. At the evening service regular preaching. Monday night (July 27th, Enoch Arden will be rendered at the church. Tuesday night Mrs. Mason will lecture.—"S." Mrs. Hattie Kendall Smith is spending the summer in Milwaukee, Wis. Mmes. Benjamin and Hall of Boston, Mass., are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Hall, 3249 Wabash ave., this week. George G. Jones of Cleveland, O., owns and operates the only brass foundry controlled by a Negro in America. Miss Nanene Oudam, of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Mary Robinson Detherige, 6228 Sangamon street. Thomas Gallagher, who was in evidence at the Denver Convention, seems to be the favorite for Congressional honors in the 8th Congressional District. Miss Lucy Lindsay, 4110 Calumet avenue, entertained a small party of friends at cards and dancing Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Williams of the Original Dixie Jubilee Singers, will spend a few days in Chicago next week at the residence, 6618 Vernon avenue. CHIPS Mrs. Fannie Mason, 3516 Calumet avenue, entertained yesterday afternoon the Cornell Charity Club. A large number of ladies were present to partake of her hospitalities. After spending several weeks as the guest of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. L. Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Hart left for their home in Indianapolis, Ind., the first of the week. Byron Webster, 451 35th street, is recovering from the effects of prostration caused by the intense heat, and, under the watchful care of Dr. George C. Hall, he will soon be able to resume his labors. The Young Ladies' Literary Club of which Miss Edith Madden is the leading spirit, gave a select picnic at Wooded Island, Jackson Park, Tuesday afternoon and evening. Mrs. Charles Bentley chaperoned the party. Col. Robert M. Mitchell, 2733 Dearborn street, who is one of the most highly respected citizens in Chicago, and who has thousands of friends among both races, is gradually regaining his health, after a long spell of sickness. The first session of the Summer Course at the Chicago University ended Wednesday, and now a large number of our young men and women who have been in attendance there, will be at leisure to seek the rest and recreation they very much need. Mr. Chas. Hammond is very ill at the residence of his sister, Mrs. B. F. Moseley. 6248 Sangamon street. Mr. and Mrs. Joe. A. Crum have moved from their Englewood residence and are now living at 43 E. 29th place. Mr. H. C. Thompson of Erie, Penn., arrived in the city the first of the week. Mr. Thompson is steward on the United States steamship Wolverin, has traveled all over the world and has a large number of friends throughout the country. While here Mr. Thompson will stop aboard ship and his social pleasures will be looked after by Mr. Noah D. Thompson. William H. Taft, Roosevelt's man Friday, has been working on his letter of acceptance, but he will not hand it out to the press until he submits it to Mr. Roosevelt. Thus showing that Mr. Taft lacks confidence in himself, has no mind of his own, and is not able to write a short letter of acceptance, without having some one else to read it over for him. Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bentley gave a formal "At Home" Friday evening in honor of their guest, Miss Olive A. Rainey, of Boston, Mass., The Doctor's palatial residence at 345 East Forty-first street, was beautifully decorated with flowers, and their guests filled the house with pleasant chatter from eight to eleven. About one hundred invitations were issued. Miss Vanderberg has returned from her visit to Cleveland, Ohio, and will be the guest of her cousin, Mr. Robert L. Taylor, 3625 Dearborn St. While here Miss Vanderberg will take a course at the University of Chicago. The Sunday school of Bethesda church gave a picnic at Washington Park Thursday. The day was ideal and a large number of persons attended. The Tribune of Rockville, Ind., is a live, well edited and progressive newspaper. Lately it has greatly honored The Broad Ax by extensively quoting from its columns, and we attribute this fact to Captain John T. Campbell Soldiers' Home, LaPayette, Ind., who has furnished that paper with some copies of The Broad Ax. We wish to heartily thank the Tribune for the high compliments it has paid this paper. Lawyer Beauregard F. Moseley, candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court upon the Republican ticket, in the August Primaries, returned to the city today, from Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where he has been for the past ten days recuperating. He will now enter actively upon his campaign and show the Slate Makers a trick or two. Mr. Moseley is an active campaigner, and when he is on the firing line, there is something doing every minute of the time, and we predict his nomination. Attorney Timothy J. Fell, with law offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building, who has been favorably mentioned by the Chicago Bar Association as proper timber for Judge of the Municipal Court, was the first of last week united in marriage to Miss Pearl Alguvie, and the newly married couple are enjoying a bridal tour through the east. Mr. Fell is prominent in Wes Side politics, and he has a large host of friends who wish him much happiness throughout his married life. Don't fail to visit the Chateau De Plaisance, 5324 State street, on Saturday and Sunday, as there will be a Grand Skate Feast in Negligee and Shirt Waist Costume, with four grand prizes, besides an excellent show bill. Don't forget to take it in, as it is the only creditable enterprise conducted by our people, besides you get more for a dime than anywhere else on earth. Don't forget the baseball game Sunday, 79th and Wentworth avenue. Rube Foster, The Only, will pitch. Remember last Sunday and come prepared to root. THE NEW STENOGRAPHER. She Showed a Sample of Her Work on the Typewriter. Mr. Spotz was running his hands through his hair shampoo wise because his stenographress had suddenly left. "Ten dozen letters to get out today and no chanfeuf lady to run the typewriter! What shall I do?" he exclaimed. Just then a young miss, with calcimined hair, in a fluffy-ruff-house costume, entered the office. "Need a key puncher?" was her inquiry. Mr. Spotz bade her have a chair. Upon investigation he learned that she has escaped from Taffy's big school, where she had learned to talk stenography ($7.50 puts you through). The young lady was lined up in front of the typewriter, and Mr. Spots began to dictate. She did not take down what he said in shorthand, for he doubted if she could transcribe her own hieroglyphics. In dictating he made an effort to assist her in punctuation. When the letter was finished it read as follows: Mr. B. A. Goodthing. Dear Sir, Look over our leadger comma I notice that in your account don't abbreviate their is an outstanding eyetem of #1434 in figures comma witch I thrust you will remit by return male parenthesis as we wish to clothes out all old outstanding accounts period new paragraph. I beg to call 2 your attention the knew line of european goods we are displaying in our windows and show hyphen cases dash a line of goods that will a peal to your good taste full stop next sentence. We have just received a large Pareesian Capital P consignment and have sum bargains at feminously low prices exclamation mark. As the saying goes, quotation marks a word to the wise close another paragraph to the sentence or other paragraph you will not call around two see us at your leisure interrogation point. Trusting to be still favored with your patronage as in the passed, I remain comma Very resp. yours M. WORTH COLWELL. —Puck. Her Best Wishes "Well, I must go now, auntie. Do take good care of yourself. I am so uneasy about that cold of yours!" "It's nothing, Claribel. I'll be over it in a day or two." "If it should grow any worse you'll let me know, won't you?" "Nonsense, child! If I write to you it will only make you more uneasy. If you don't get any letters from me you will understand that I'm well again. How will that do? In case you don't hear from me I'm all right." "Yes; that will be better. And, oh, auntie, I shall be so anxious not to hear from you!" -Chicago Tribune. Good Enough For Him. City Nice—Why, uncle, I'm surprised to see you wearing such a rusty looking hat when you come to town. Uncle Reuben—It's the hat I allers wear tear home. City Nice—Yes, but that's different. Everybody knows you there. Uncle Reuben—Waal, nobody don't know me here, so I ain't worryin', by grassl—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A 'Clever Omission. "Did you write to papa, George?" "Asking for your hand?" "Of course." "Yes; I wrote." "That's strange. I supposed papa would be terribly angry. You know he doesn't like you." "Yes; I know. But I fixed it all right. I-I didn't sign the letter."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Looking For Work "Why don't you go to work instead of begging and boozing?" "I will, boss, as soon as there's an openh' in my trade. An' I ain't got long to wait now, nuther." "What is your trade?" "I'm a track walker for aeroplane lines."—New York Press. "He's a regular philanthro—what do you call it?" "Wot's he did?" "Why, in de last week he's give away two down 'Deadwood Dick' an' a dozen 'Nickel' libraries!"—New York World. COUNTING THE STARS. Use Made, of the Microscope and of Photographic Plates. The gigantic but fascinating task which J. Franklin-Adams, F. R. A. S. has undertaken of counting the myriad stars in the heavens and assigning to each its proper magnitude is one which demands the quality of almost infinite patience. Mr. Franklin-Adams has already secured photographic plates covering the whole of the southern hemisphere, and these, with the series dealing with the northern hemisphere, will number more than 200. Each plate, which is fifteen inches square, records from 20,000 to 250,000 starry images, and on a rough calculation the total number of stars photographed will prove to be about 23,000,000. The task of counting the stars on the plates has already been commenced, and that work, together with the cataloguing, will take another ten years. The method of counting the stars on the plates was explained by R. J. Mitchell, Mr. Franklin-Adams' chief assistant. "First taking one of the plates," said Mr. Mitchell, "we move it across a graduated grating contained in the field of a high powered microscope. A horizontal strip in the grating is then examined, and the stars in this small area are then counted from left to right. Of course it is impossible to insure absolute accuracy, for there is the possibility that a star may be counted twice or missed altogether. "Then there is the difficulty presented by mechanical specks on the plates, which may at first be taken for stars, but Mr. Franklin-Adams has a method by means of which all stars above the tenth magnitude can be differentiated from dust specks. Mr. Franklin-Adams and his assistants check one another in the counting, but there is always a slight difference in the totals, due, of course, to the personal equation as represented by the operator. "Merely to count the stars on an average plate apart from noting their photographic magnitude occupies the time of two men for more than a fortnight if they work seven hours a day. In taking the plates Mr. Franklin-Adams used a triple achromatic ten inch lens working at F4. In the northern hemisphere the minimum exposure was two hours twenty minutes and in the southern, with its clear atmosphere, two hours."-London Mall. An Ingenious Swindle A large number of chemists in Paris have just been the victims of an ingenious swindle. About 200 of them the other day received a visit from an individual who handed in a prescription to be made up. Among the ingredients was one which was quite unknown to them, and a note was added to the effect that it was to be obtained only at a certain wholesale depot. The chemists almost to a man sent off to the depot for the special ingredient and paid 12 francs for a bottle of stuff. The prescriptions were duly made up, but were never claimed, and it now transpires that a couple of men had temporarily hired the depot and sold bottles of colored water to the unsuspecting chemists at 12 francs apiece. The Paris police are anxiously inquiring for them as well as for their confederates who visited the chemists' shops. Barrels of Money. As the dot of his bride, Grand Duchess Maria Paulowna of Russia, 3,500,000 rubles have been deposited to the credit of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden. The money was shipped from St. Petersburg in thirty-five barrels, each containing 100,000 rubles in gold. The Swedish royal mint will recast the gold into Swedish values free of charge, and the young couple will then be enabled to establish their royal menage on a fitting scale. While this sum is a free gift of the bride to her husband, the grand duchess retains the income from her landed estates in Russia for her own pin money, and in addition to this the czar is having built at his own expense a castle for the royal "honeymooners" near the capital. -Argonaut. Wonderful Surgery Among recent wonderful surgical operations is one of the most daring and unusual nature. An idiot six years old, the daughter of a resident of Berlin, has been converted into an intelligent being by the process of grafting part of the mother's thyroid gland upon the child's pancreas. In more popular language, this means that part of the mother's throat has been transferred by the grafting process to a gland, or tissue, lying directly at the back of the stomach. The operation was carried out by Dr. Carl Garre, a German surgeon, whose success in the transplanting of organs from one animal to another and even from the lower animals to human beings has attracted wide attention. How Far We Are Behind. Over 1,000 years ago Switzerland possessed a forest system and had developed a scientific forestry by the fifteenth century, says the American Magazine. As early as Louis XIV. France awoke to the fact that her forests and her life were draining away together. But it was too late. Today she is spending $34 an acre to reforest her watersheds. The same experience is costing Italy $20 an acre. Ambrose Channel Ambrose Channel. Ambrose channel, leading from New York bay into deep sea water, is the most important waterway to the city. Since its improvement was started, about seven years ago, more than $3,000,000 has been spent on it, and an equal sum will be required before the work that is planned will be completed, about four years from now.-New York Herald. Agents Wanted IN THE SOUTH, WEST, AND OTHER SFCTIONS OF THE COUNTRY To handle The BROAD AX AND ACT AS CORRESPONDENTS Applicants must furnish reference. 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ASHLAND.BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 608 CHICAGO Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 705, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 Phone Calumet 1579 Morgue and Private Chapel. UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY R. W. GREEN; MGR. 2712 State Street Chicago Agents IN THE SOUTH, WEST, AND COU Hours--8 to 10 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 6 to 8:30 p. m., and nights. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 8100 STATE ST., CHICAGO Telephone Douglas 4796 Dr. W. E. MACKEY 4842 Armour Avenue. Phone, Blue 6571. CHICAGO. 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 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street FOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Callum 264 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. 51st St. CHICAGO Telephones: Oakland 246 and Oakland 245 Arthur Johnson Merchant Tailor Strietly First Class and Up-to-Date Work at Reasonable Prices Special Attention Given to Orders for Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Repairing Goods Called for. Orders Delivered. 134 W. 51st Street, Chicago Wanted OTHER SFCTIONS OF THE Manufactured city. Plant General appr. John J. Dunn COAL WOOD Wholesale and Retail Dunner in... Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARD: just St. & L. S. & M. S. Ing. just 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. 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Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2903 Armour ave. R. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and con- fessionary, 3833 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Hadley 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co. 183 Rand- dolph St., Detroit, Mick. The Standard News Co 181 W. Stard st., New York, City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 183th street, New York City, N. Y. 50 10 ```markdown ``` Selections Soon a Railway Will Mount to the Top of the Great Peak. In about four years' time, when you wish to climb the Matterhorn, instead of engaging a guide and waiting days for fair weather and then risking your neck in a breathless, glorious scramble over the glaciers and cliffs, you will simply press a button and shout, "Going up!" The railway to the top of the mountain, which is to be completed at a cost of $1,250,000, will be the most interesting of the world's great elevators and will carry the "rocking chair climber" to those grand viewpoints which defied all mountaineers until the memorable ascent in 1855 by Mr. Whymper, Lord Douglas and their companions, which ended tragically. The road will pierce its way upward through tunnels in the living rock to a point within sixty feet of the summit, at an altitude of 14,780 feet, where a number of rooms will be cut. The announcement is made that the terminus will be provided with various novel contrivances, not the least of which will be a special chamber filled with compressed oxygen for tourists suffering from mountain sickness. It is needless to say that the true mountain climbers, whose pride and joy it is to conquer the mighty Alpine snow peaks, look upon this prospective intrusion of the railroad and hordes of "trippers" with ill disguised grief. It was bad enough, say they, to have Jungfrau desecrated, but the Matterhorn, that superb peak, pronounced by Ruskin to be the perfect mountain, should have been left alone. On the other hand, thousands of people for whom the climb would be a physical impossibility are fully capable of appreciating the glories of the outlook and the uplift that comes from standing on so renowned a summit. No one has an exclusive property in such a peak as the Matterhorn.—Boston Transcript. The Radium Supply. Mine. Curie possesses 15 milligrams of radium; Professor Bordas, 10; M. Becqenerel, 10; Sir William Ramssay, 20; Sir William Crookes, 20; Professor D'Arsonval, 20, and Thomas A. Edison, 20 milligrams. About twenty milligrams more are in the possession of other professors. All this is in the form of pure or nearly pure radium and its salts, and the entire amount is 185 milligrams, or about two grains troy. Commercial low grade radium is distributed among a great many hands, and its strength is very variable; hence exact statistics are not obtainable, but it is estimated that the entire amount of commercial radium contains less pure radium than the quantity in the possession of scientists, as stated above. To these supplies must be added the comparatively enormous quantity of three grams of radium which Professors Exner and Wien have lately extracted from half a ton of Joachimstal pitchblende, the value of which is estimated at $80,000. One gram of this is to be sent to Sir William Ramsay for experiments on radium emanation.—Scientific American. Rome as a Seaport. Rome a seaport! This ideal which has been long under discussion, is, according to a British consul's report, about to be realized. Several schemes have been brought forward, including one for a ship canal something like that which has opened Manchester to the sea. The royal commission appointed to study the question has, however, adopted the project proposed by the Italian board of works, which is to dredge the Tiber sufficiently to allow ordinary steamers to approach Rome from the river's mouth at Flumcino, where important entrance works are to be undertaken. Thus the transfer of cargoes from steamer to rail at Civita Vecchia, fifty miles off, will be no longer necessary. The Great Little Pin. One hundred and thirty-three million gross of pins—nineteen billion pins! The census bureau is the authority for the statement that the output of pins in the United States for the year 1997 alone reached these suspendous figures. It is not strange that mankind has for many years wondered where all the pins go to. Nineteen billion pins supplies 225 pins for every man, woman and child in America. Nor is this all. These figures are for the common pin and do not include hairpins, safety pins nor the importation of an unstated quantity of pins from other countries.—Exchange. London's One Horse Tram Car. Bermondsey enjoys the distinction of possessing the last one horse tram car in London. It is a curiosity which should attract "rubber neck" sightseers. From Old Kent road to St. James' church, Bermondsey, this, the only car on the route, runs slowly backward and forward all day long, and the fare is only a halfpenny. It is a panionnery looking vehicle, low down on the ground and minus top seats - London Tilt Bite. In this poem, the seventh anniversary of Milton's birth, it is intending to note that the only one of the several books in which he is known to have lived still exists. That is the little colony of Chatham St. Gilles, where he resided for a time when the plague raged in London in 1655—London Builder. Most people cease to celebrate When ends the glorious Fourth. It is not so, as I can vouch. With James Augustus North. I called on him one afternoon When that great day had passed And found the country's colors still A-flying at the mast. His face—all I could see of it— Was blazing, burning red. Contrasting bravely with the white Of bandage round his head. And when I asked him how he felt He gave a loud "Boooh!" Which proved to me that James August- Us felt extremely blue. -Sauline Frances Camp in Woman's Home Companion. "I'm glad I kept my old umbrella. I can't afford to let my new one get wet so soon." The Story of an Obedient Boy. "Mamma, you told me that when one of the boys wanted to pick a fight with me I must turn around and hurry away." "Yes, dear." "Well, Willie Jones tried to pick a fight, and when I turned around he kicked me. Then I hurried away." "That was right, dear." "Yes, mamma. I hurried around the little circle in which is the fountain, an Willie Jones hurried after me. But, you see, I can hurry twice as fast as him, an' pretty soon I caught up to Willie an' grabbed him by the hair an' slapped him good an' plenty. Wasn't that right, mamma—'cause I did just what you told me to do?" And what could mamma say?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Strange Actions of a Steam Car. Our little four-year-old has always lived in an inland village and therefore is not much acquainted with nautical affairs, though deeply interested in railroad trains and other forms of terrestrial locomotion. Recently he visited in a neighboring town which is situated on a river. Standing on the shore, he saw a little ferryboat approaching and became much excited. Selizing his mother's skirts, he exclaimed: "Oh, look, mamma! Here comes a choo-choo car in swimming!" — Woman's Home Companion. The Tender Thought Harry is six years old. "Pa," he asked one day, "if I get married will I have a wife like ma?" "Very likely," replied the father. "Very likely," replied the father. "And if I don't get married will I have to be an old bachelor like Uncle Tom?" "Very likely." "Well, pa," he said after a moment of deep thought, "it's a mighty tough world for us men, ain't it?"—Success Magazine. A Resentment. "What made you draw yoh razzer when dat man said he didin' have no kind o' soda water flavorin' 'ceppin' chocolate?" inquired Miss Miami Brown. "I's tired o' hearin' 'bout drawin' de color line," answered Erastus Pinkley. "I wanted to give notice dat I aln' gwinter stand foh no Jim Crow soda fountains."—Washington Star. Real Circus. "Mister, did you ever see a circus train?" drawled the station master at Bald Eagle Junction. "I should say so," laughed the soap salesman. "I came down here on a train with fourteen honeymoon couples. Talk about a circus train! Well, you should have seen those couples when we entered a tunnel."—Chicago News. Just Like a Man. Mr. Stubb (sweetly) — Why, John, that is just what I have been trying to get you to do for a week.—Houston Fest. Grity George—No. De lady was too poetical. She pointed over to de sunset and said de clouds reminded her of bars of steel. I thought it was time to beat it—Denver News-Times. Classifying it. "I see that ballooning is to become a society sport." "Rather more elevating than monkey dummen, eh?" "Exactly. It's decidedly a sport that can't be monkeyed with"—Pittsburg Post. Chronicle Sorrower. Jimbliscute—Sawmallow strikes me as being one of those chaps who are always borrowing trouble. Snucklefrits—That's what. Why, if he didn't have any door to keep the wolf from he'd borrow one—Chicago --- Telephone Roulette ... 1885 JESSE BINGA REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO. LEASES MEGOTIATED, EXCHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. ForSale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La- modern, hardwood thru $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat heat, hardwood through $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 29- sell separate. Make to $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 room $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, be $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat JESSE BINGA, 3637 St. Leland Giants Base-Ball Now Organizing $100 The Stock-Holders of the Leland cluded to dissolve that Association in increased Capital for the purpose of buy- Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishin- Class, Up-To-Dare Amusement Par- Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Mi- Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Bu- riding, and all the latest fun making de- gether with a First Class Summer Ho- guests, at it's present location, 79th and ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop Dis- The Public is Base-Ball mad, and a value in a single season. Millions can This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Ram- mense and Well Paying Plant, Whi- Be Employed, between May and October out fear and Enjoy The Life and Free. The Answer can only be effectively given. it has been made purposefully low so have a Share and Interest in this Twen- Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each Any Holiday around Amusement Park wanted and never welcome. Come! buy the attached Coupon and mail with Ten and Amusement Association. Do it to-da- Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement A Mr. 57th and La Fayette Ave., in hardwood throughout. Hagley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone hardwood throughout. Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone from separate. Make terms. Salle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick, Salle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, Salle St., frame building, 6 rooms. Birborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms. $637 State St. Phi Parts Base-Ball and Amuse by Organizing—Capital St. $100,000 Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Club association in order to give room for the purpose of buying a Permanent B club and Establishing For All The Pe Amusement Park, With It's The Chutes, Minature Rye, Elec ating, Hurley Burley, Double Pr class Summer Hotel, large enough location, 79th and Wentworth Ave. Dars to the Loop District in Chicago. Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Jason. Millions can be made by those Favor Of The Race Owning And Paying Plant, Where More Than Seen May and October of each year, wh The Life and Freedom of a Citizen u be effectively given by subscribing for purposefully low so that all Loyal Mer interest in this Twentieth Century Ere (0.00) Dollars Each You Squander and Amusement Parks and Public Place Come! Buy and build one of and mail with Ten Dollars to the Le Association. Do it to-day so that we may o Ball & Amusement Assn. 6258 Halls $4,500—S. W. oor. 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. $2,000-3722 LaSalle St., frame building, 6 rooms, modern in- provements. JESSE BINGA, 3637 State St. Phone, Douglas 1565 Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. Now Organizing-Capital Stock $100,000 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give roor for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With 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 Immeense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposefully low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in the Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy 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. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- which I am sending as Part (or infull) as shares of the Capital Stock of the Lela Association. I agree to pay $_____ has been paid certificate. N. B. Part (or infull) as subscription fee for Stock of the Leland Giants Base pay $_____ per month has been paid, at which time I Ack Order Belley, Street Stock- referer should their instrument. an ad- dition 255 Name _____ Address _____ City _____ State _____ which I am sending as Part (or infull) as subscription fee for shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement Association. Two Little Wayfarers. The boy and girl had spent the half dozen years of their tranquil lives in a country home on the banks of the James river. The contrast when their parents moved to the great, bustling northern city was exciting in a thousand ways, but reached its climax when they found themselves two indistinguished muddges in an enormous public school building among hundreds of other children representing almost every nation under heaven. It was opening day, and the teacher to whose grade they were assigned was inscribing names and nationalities in her book. She came at last to the little brother and sister chasing each other's hand tightly under the desk. "Americana, of course," she concluded hurriedly as she wrote down their names in the book. Edward's eye sought Evelyn's inquiringly, and she telegraphed back her doubt. Then she rose to her little feet in the interests of truth, her knees smiling together. "Please, Miss Teacher," she quavered, "I think we're Americans, but I'm not sure, but I know for certain we're Virginians." "Woman's Home Companion. The Flicke Summer Mald. Rodrick—Man at the seashore discovered diamonds in the surf. Did you ever discover any jewels when you were there? Van Alber—I thought I discovered a jewel last summer, but after she fitted me I came to the conclusion that she was only an imitation—Chicago News. "You must watch my feet closely," said the ballet teacher to her pupil, "for when your turn comes, I tell you, you will have to toe the mark." "Then," said the intelligent pupil, "you go ahead and I will mark the toe."—Baltimore American. Always Piashing It. Town—Isn't May the lucky girl? Jess—Yes. She's got an engagement ring. Town—Yes, and, what's more, she's left handed—Philadelphia Press. of an engagement what's more, gina's Philia Press. Subscribe for All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beaugrand F. Moseley, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock-holders are entitled to prefer-ance as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their details of any changes to applications to apply for employment. 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Moxey Manuel, the ambidextrous twirler drafted by the Chicago Americans from New Orleans, showed some real baseball class recently at St. Louis, where Manager Fielder Jones sent him into a breach unexpectedly. The acquisition of Pitcher Charles Rhodes by the Cincinnati Nationals from St. Louis recalls the fact that Pitcher "Dusty" Rhodes, now of Cleveland, once wore a Cincinnati uniform. George Stone of the St. Louis Americans is not only a great hitter, a grand chap and an honest man, but he can manipulate the turgid udder of the mullay cow, harvest the esculent roasting ear and make the industrious potato bug get a hustle on. In other words, Stone is some pumpkins as a farmer. Facts From France. Southern France sent to Paris last year over 58,000 tons of fruits and to foreign countries nearly 46,000 tons. The French have now prohibited the importation of the dodder, a leafless, twining parasitic plant, because of its ravages. 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