The Broad Ax

THE BROAD AX HEW TO THE LINE. Echoes of the Springfield Riots Some of the White Soldiers Permitted the Members of the Mob to Boldly Walk in Front of Them SPIT IN THEIR FACES, TAKE THEIR GUNS OUT OF THEIR HANDS, AND USE THEM TO SHOOT AT FLEEING NEGROES. SIXTY OR SEVENTY GUNS BEING STOLEN IN THIS MANNER AND CANNOT BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES. CHEAP OR SHORT SIGHTED NEGRO PREACHERS LOOKING FOR EASY MONEY, AND POLITICIANS ENDEAVORING TO FALL INTO FAT JOBS, ARE HOLDING MEETINGS THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS, COMMENDING GOVERNOR DENEEN FOR PERMITTING THE MOB TO HOLD FULL SWAY IN SPRINGFIELD FOR THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. JAMES K. VARDAMAN, AS GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI, MARCHED AT THE HEAD OF HIS TROOPS, AND PREVENTED THE MOB FROM LYNCHING A NEGRO IN THE CAPITOL OF THAT STATE. GOVERNOR DENEEN COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE SAME FEAT AT THE CAPITOL OF ILLINOIS, AND PREVENTED ITS CITIZENS, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE FROM BEING EVERLASTINGLY DISGRACED. MOBS ARE OPEN REBELLION AGAINST THE CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES, AND THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THEM SHOULD BE SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD, AS RANK ENEMIES TO SOCIETY, LAW AND ORDER. No one, be he friend or foe, can ever write the true story of the race riots in Springfield, and that beautiful city being under the control of the mob, for three days and three nights without blushing with shame, and the further we recede away from mob rule in the capital of Illinois the more firmly are we convinced that no honest effort was put forth by the officials to choke off the reign of anarchy and open rebellion against the constituted authorities. Right at the commencement of the work of destruction of property and the murdering of human beings the members of the mob fully realized that they would have smooth sailing, for long before its members began working over time in filling up on bad whisky, they boldly walked up in front of the white soldiers, spit in their faces, took their guns out of their hands, at the same time cussing and branding them as "curs and cowards," and after taking the guns from the tom boy soldiers, the members of the mob used them to shoot at fleeing Negroes. Some sixty or seventy guns and possibly a larger number were stolen in this manner, for they cannot be accounted for by the military authorities and each and every taxpayer throughout Illinois will have to help to pay for those stolen guns, and the sheriff of Sangamon county, the mayor of Springfield, and the Governor of Illinois should be impeached and removed from office in disgrace for failing to bravely do their sworn duty at the proper time, that is to order their officers to shoot the life out of the mob at the beginning, and the so-called soldiers should be put to death for permitting their guns to fall into the hands of the mob. Cheap or short sighted Negro preachers looking for easy money and the politicians endeavoring to fall into fat jobs are holding meetings in all parts of the state commending Governor Deneen for permitting the mob to hold full sway in the cipal city for three days and nights. Two such meetings were held in Springfield last Sunday evening by two Negro preachers and their weak minded followers, and the hungry Colored politicians seeking jobs, and in the near future similar meetings will be held in this city by the same class of preachers and politicians. These preachers and politicians are unable to comprehend the fact that Governor Deneen needs no praise for what he did not do in the way of putting down the riot. They are too thick headed to understand that Governor Deneen, as the whole show in this state, at the outbreak of the mob, had the power to declare martial law in Springfield and call on all able bodied citizens of 21 years and over to come forward and assist to preserve law, and order, for he had at his disposal thousands of stands of arms, and enough of deadly ammunition to kill almost a million people, but he refused to adhere to this, the best and the shortest method of handling the mob, and he ordered troops from Chicago and other points in the state to march onto Springfield, and five hours passed away be- CHICAGO, AUGUST 29, 1908. Prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, who has worked early and late to bring about the consolidation of the Mount Glenwood and the Parkwood Cemetery Associations. DR. EDWARD Prominent member of the Knight and late to bring about the consolidation Parkwood Cemetery Associations. The Parkwood Cemetery Association has merged into and joined forces with the Mt. Glenwood Cemetery Association of Chicago. Two members of the Commission of the former Association have been elected to the Board of Directors of the latter. This step was taken because the Mt. Glenwood Association is fully chartered, has cemetery property already bought, paid for and partly impdoved. They will be ready to begin operations about the middle of September. Furthermore the officers of the Mt. Glenwood Cemetery Association have signed an agreement that in consideration of the winding up of the affairs of the Parkwood Cemetery Association as distinct and separate organizations, to insert in their charter a provision that there shall be no discrimination on account of race or color in the price of graves or lots for burial purposes or m ne location of the same as long as the Cemetery exists. The Commissioners of the Parkwood Cemetery Association influenced by the above considerations, also considering the fact that with the facilities of the Mt. Glenwood Cemetery Association for doing a cemetery business, that the step taken was the fore the soldiers struck the city, in the meantime the mob put in its time in chasing and killing Negroes and burning down their homes over their heads, and even after thousands of soldiers were in the city they stood around possessing that far away look, and they failed to observe the members of the mob with long ropes in their hands marching through the streets looking for more Colored victims to mob and lynch, and from the beginning to the end of the reign of lawlessness in the capital city, clearly indicates that Governor Deneen wanted to play politics at the expense of the lives of its citizens, and yet there are a lot of fool Negroes, including cheap grafting preachers and politicians who are ready to sing his praises for doing nothing to put down the mob, except to order out the troops from a distance, thereby increasing the taxes of every property holder in Illinois, whereas he could have accomplished better results by arming the decent citizens of Springfield or permitting them to assist to restore law and order, but if he had adopted such a simple course he would not have been able to make S. MILLER. wisest and best for all parties concerned. They have transferred their subscriptions for stock to the Mt. Glenwood Cemetery Association because they believe that the investment will be equally as profitable as it would have been in their own enterprise without the financial responsibility and risk involved. They urge all of their subscribers to do likewise. The Cemetery will be dedicated Sunday, September 6th. The public is cordially invited to participate. A special Chicago & Eastern Illinois train will leave La Salle Street Station at 2 p. m., 31st street at 2:05 p. m., 63rd street at 2:10 p. m., arriving at the Cemetery grounds about 2:45 p. m. Train will leave on return trip about 5 p. m. Admission to train will be free to those holding invitations and tickets. These can be secured from Commissioners of the Parkwood Cemetery Association, or from the Cimmittee at the station, or from the Secretary, C. O. Patton, Room 702, 185 Dearborn street. The lodges in the city are invited to participate either in a body or by representatives. There will be good speakers. The 8th Regiment Band will furnish music. his grand stand play for votes at the coming election. James K. Vardaman, notwithstanding, all the mean things he spits out against the Negro while serving as Governor of Mississippi, marched at the head of his troops and prevented the mob from lynching a Negro in the capital of that state, himself threatening to shoot the first man who attempted to take the law in his own hands. Governor Daneen, with the soldiers he had on hand at the breaking out of the riot, could have accomplished that same brave feat at the capital of Illinois and prevented its citizens and the people of the state from being everlastingly disgraced, but it seems he was too full of the whites rabbit to do so. In conclusion the time is bound to come in this country when mobs will be looked upon as open rebellion against the constituted authorities and those participating in them should be shot down in cold blood as rank enemies to society, law and order. Captain John T. Campbell, of the Soldiers' Home, La Fayette, Indiana Dilates on the Springfield Riot He Asserts That After the White Soldiers Failed to Protect the Lives and the Property of the Negroes Governor Deneen Should Have Called Out the Members of the Eighth Regiment to Perform That Service. He Recites Instances Where White Ladies of Good Families Make Love to Negroes, And Are Not Above Marrying Them A Red Hot Article by An Honored White Veteran of the Civil War. Soldiers' Home, La Fayette, Ind, August 25, 1908. Julius F. Taylor, Editor Broad Ax. The last number of The Broad Ax (August 22nd) was up to a welding heat, and rightly so, or very near it. That Springfield affair was horrid. Man is a very savage animal—even when civilized. He must always be on his guard against his animal nature. If his animal propensities get in control his man-nature is trampled underfoot, and nothing can check his brutal fury, but to let it run its course and spend its wrath. It has no power to check itself. When its fury gets into the ascendence, it will drag into its whirlwind pretty far-minded men, who hardly know why they are acting and making a part of the agitation. All people, in all ages, have at all times had some object against which to direct their savagery. In the early centuries it was the Jews. In the tenth to twelfth centuries it was the Mohammedans. In the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries it was the Roman Catholics in England. It was the Hugunts in France. In the United States alone it is the Negro. In our Pacific states it is the Chinese. In these times and places it needed no cause for action. A mere pretext has always been sufficient. Mrs. Hallam, in Springfield, was not a cause. She was simply a pretext. Let us see. She was alone in her house. She was dragged from her room where an assault was safe, into the back yard where it was dangerous. Her screams were far more likely to be heard in the yard than in the house. Let any man stop to think what a physical effort it would require to keep a woman choked into silence and at the same time accomplish a rape. We can't avoid a suspicion that it was a voluntary meeting in the back yard, and a caught or supposed caught, followed by quick action to avert the inference. A few months ago a young white man and a white girl of mature age took a walk in the evening in White river bottoms west of Indianapolis. The young man came running back to the house and reported that two Negroes had shoved cocked revolvers into his face, drove him off and raped the girl. The whites at once went wild, and the Negroes in that part of the city ran into hiding. Before the mob, which was rapidly gathering, got into shape, the young man and woman got scared, broke down and confessed that they told the story merely to create a sensation. But for this turn there might have been, probably would have been twenty Negroes killed and many houses burned. Will promulgate and at all times un- hold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, In- sidels, Single Taxes, Republicans, or anyone else can have their say, 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 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. WHITE GIRLS SOLD TO NEGROES. In Mississippi—They Are Used For Wives—A Heartless White Father Port Gibson, Miss., Saturday, August 15.—The most remarkable case of social equality practiced in Mississippi has been brought to light by the trial of Thomas Turner and Riley Wheat, Negroes, 20 years old, on the charge of being unlawfully married to two white girls—Ollie Parker, 16, and her sister, Nannie Parker, 13. The trial of the two Negroes was held before Magistrate Martin and Coulson in the courthouse at Port Gibson, although the offense was committed in another part of the county. Attempt to conduct the trial there, it was feared would result in a lynching, and events proved that this would likely have been the result. The evidence at the trial showed that George D. Parker, father of the white girls, had discovered the intimacy between Turner and his daughter, Ollie, and that Parker had compromised with the Negro on condition that he would bind himself to labor the remainer of his days for him without pay. The Negro agreed and was performing his part of the contract faithfully. It also was shown at the trial that Parker had discovered that his other daughter, Nannie, was intimate with another Negro, and compromised with the Negro on condition that he would give Parker one hale of cotton from his crop each year. Recently, according to the evidence, Parker also became intimate with one of his daughters, and the fact was discovered. He was compelled to flee the country. When he left the two daughters resided openly with their dusky husbands. During the progress of the trial a rush was made for the two Negroes by spectators, and in the scuffle several pistols were discharged in the court room, but none were hurt. Deputy sheriffs spirited the Negroes away. The two girls, charged with unlawful practice of social equality, are in jail awaiting trial, which has been fixed for next week, and a warrant has been issued for Parker.—The Citizen, Memphis, Tennessee. SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. NELLIE GLENWOOD. Last Saturday afternoon, at 480 o'clock, Mrs. Nellie Glenwood, 148 2nd street, who had hosts of friends among the members of both races, very suddenly departed this life. Stomach trouble was the immediate cause of her death. Mrs. Glenwood was raised in Indianapolis, Ind., where she was quite popular. She came to Chicago years ago, and successfully established herself in the dressmaking business at the above number, where she passed away. Some of the wealthiest class of white ladies were numbered among her customers. She possessed a pleasing disposition and knew how to make and hold her friends. She never fully recovered from the effect of waiting on her husband, who passed away the latter parr or April, after a long spell of sickness, and the sacrifices she made in caring for him undermined her health. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock funeral services were held over her remains at her late home. Rev. E. H. Stewart officiating. Mrs. Clifford Johnson was in charge, and she was held to rest in Oakhill by the side of her husband. (Concluded from page 1.) CAPTAIN JOHN T. CAMPBELL ON THE SPRINGFIELD RIOTS. the streets. But if black soldiers are not to be called out in such emergencies, why have them? One fact—our white people may just as well face now as later—that abbut three-fifths of the reported rapes of white women by black men, are cases of caught, or fear of exposure. Much information floats around from one to another in regard to this matter as "sub rosy," which the public press will not recognize, though the same about any other subject will be given. White women form armours or liasons with black men just as white men do with black women. It is idle to shut our eyes to this, and kill Negroes and burn houses. A man will debauch his neighbor's wife, but when he discovers that the neighbor has also debauched his wife, he replies with murder. If the neighbor be a black man, the white man will call a mob and kill all the black men he can reach. This lecherous miscegenation will continue in spite of mobs and murder. The only hopeful remedy is to teach people to restrain their animal passions. Let us think a moment—only a moment about this raping tendency. Not a Negro in the United States but knows that he is doomed if caught raping a white woman, or even strongly charged with it. But women sometimes tempt men, then fight their advances, really desiring to be overcome. When this occurs with a Negro he is liable to be in the attitude of rape. This is much more common than really honest, chaste people are ant to believe. In my limited acquaintance I have known five white women to voluntarily live with black men. Three of them ultimately married. Two were raised by democratic fathers. One I will describe as the case was so remarkable. She was a niece of a Democratic Congressman; was a graduate of the city high school of Greencastle, Indiana, had a handsome face and figure, was married to a working man (white), had a nice little two-year old daughter. Because of her illicit side loves, her husband let her. She then took up with a large three quarter Negro, one-eighth Indian and one eighth white, a dangerous man to quarrel with. She was related to some very worthy people. I saw and talked with her stepfather when he came to take her away, but she then refused to go with him. She and her husband were induced to leave together, and they left that part of the country. In addition to these cases, I have been told of similar cases beyond my power to count. The mulattoes, many of them the children of white mothers, confirm my statement beyond contradiction. I give these statements with some reluctance, but I believe the whole truth ought to be told. John T. Campbell. FALSELY ACCUSED. First of all, we consider all Negroes who are lynched for rape as innocent until they are proven guilty, and, since there can be no hearing of the case after the death of the accused, there is no way to legally establish the guilt. We deny, most emphatically deny these continued charges of criminal assault made against members of the Negro race and pronounce them, in a vast majority of cases, as scandalously false and foul. We are justified in this position by the facts developed before and after the lynching. Gov. Jelks of Alabama, in an address, bears testimony in the most positive manner to the general innocence of the Negro of the charges of rape. He said: "When I had been in the governor's office three years, I carefully inquired into the facts of every one of the five lynchings that had taken place.. It would astonish you to know that out of the five who had met violent death at the hands of a criminal mob, three of them were without offense before the law." Of course the two about which he says nothing were placed by death so they could make no defense at all. Bishop Turner has truly said that 95 per cent of these charges of rape against the Negro are false. Doubtless, 95 per cent are concocted to poison the nation against the Negro, or, to make the Negro a scapegoat for another's crime, like the Springfield, Mo., affair, in which two Negroes, after being cleared by the court of the charge of rape, were re-arrested on a trumped up charge of robbery, remanded to the prison, and that same night taken out and burned alive by the mob; or some of the 95 per cent are like the one Chief Justice Lore of Delaware tells of, where a Negro was hanged at Laurel, Del. 7 COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL. Commander of the Illinois National Guards, who experienced actual military service during the Spanish-American war, and who at the head of his well trained troops, would have put down the mob at Springfield in a few hours' time. Commander of the Illinois National Guards, who experienced actual military service during the Spanish-American war, and who at the head of his well trained troops, would have put down the mob at Springfield in a few hours' time. for rape that it was afterward found out never had been committed. The case at Helena, Ark., where a Negro had been sentenced to be hanged for assaulting a white woman, who afterward swore that he was absolutely innocent. A year ago, in Alexandria county, Va., a girl 17 years old was assaulted and her lover was shot through the mouth and tongue, and, immediately "there was mounting in hot haste" and a Negro was brought to bay and the authorities had the time of their lives to save him from lynching before he was identified; meanwnite the lover, who was shot, and lay dying in the hospital, identified the brother of the girl as the one who had shot him. Some one who signs his name F. D. Robertson writes to Thursday's Post-Dispatch on the Negro Problem, and says: "Down South they merely lynch the guilty Negro. Here they wreak vengeance on the race." Not one or the Negroes lynched at Atlanta were even charged with rape, but as the Citizens' Committee declared, they were law-abiding and industrious Negroes. Gov. Jelks tells us of the unprovoked lynching of an absolutely innocent Negro. The idea of an infuriated mob composed, as it necessarily must be, of the 'dangerous classes, frequenters of bawdy houses and red light district, ex-convicts, thelves and cutthroats, defending chastity and selecting the guilty men for punishment is indescribably ludicrous and false. Half of them are pirates and plunderers, the other half are habitual criminals or pervers and defectives. The charge of criminal assault is a pretext and a bugaboo, and it is behind this false cry that the drunkards, murderers, cutthroats and criminal classes concoct their bloody schemes for pillage, devastation and the destruction of life. It isn't the bad Negro but the bad white man that the nation has to deal with first. He is more numerous, more powerful and holds in his hands the power to sap the foundations of our social and political order. Some Negroes are criminal but they are solitary criminals. The white is a gregarious criminal. He goes in mobs or packs for his prey. Like at Fotus, Mo., four white men assaulted one woman; like at Hempstead, Mo., four white men criminally attacked a 9-year-old girl; like some time ago, out somewhere near Biddle street, a crowd of white men "mistreated" a girl. The reason why we use the word "mistreated" is because the dallies when alluding to criminal assaults committed by white men call it "mistreated," but when a Negro is accused he is a black brute, and the crime is a brutal assault. It is always a brutal assault, whether committed by a white man or a Colored man, and the one who commits it is a brute, it matters not how white or black he may be. Lynching Negroes has become a mere diversion or a sport in the South, and an infrequent occasion for pillage and wantonness in the North. It is not that some Negroes are bad, for some of all races are bad; the cause is not that the administrators of the law favor him, for the bad Negro is easy caught and judges and juries show hastiness in convicting him. The cause of the mob is that public sentiment is shamefully warped by race hate and that the "dangerous classes" can use this race feeling in securing opportunities for the gratification of their blood lust and the spread of anarchy and rapine. The people cannot afford to nuture the mob, nor can the press justify its brutalities. The law represents the dikes that keep the ocean back from Holland; when the dikes give way the flood rushes in and engulfs the rich as well as the poor, the white as well as the black, and destroys the order of life of the nation.—The Advance. St. Louis. Mo. The Chicago daily papers of August 22nd, with small head lines, contained the following short account or thirty-two soldiers attacking or assaulting a young woman near Camp Emmett Crawford, Wyo.; "Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 21.—While every effort has been made by the authorities at Camp Emmett Crawford, the military maneuver ground, to keep the fact secret, it is known that last Sunday-members of an artillery battery attacked a young woman, leaving her unconscious upon the ground. According to the story, a non-comissioned officer of the Twenty-first Regiment was escorting the young woman when they were attacked by thirty-two men of the artillery battery. The officer was beaten into insensibility with a gun and the young woman was dragged to an isolated spot and assaulted. The victim of the assault revived and crawled to a house some distance away. Twenty-six men alleged to have been implicated in the attack are under arrest and are chained together in the camp prison. They are under constant guard to prevent lynching. Three or the others were apprehended at Rawlins today. The other three are still at large. Nothing more has appeared in the daily papers in connection with the affair, and as all the parties belong to the superior race, it is presumed that that little incident is closed up, and no further effort will be made to lynch the soldiers who took their turn in assaulting their victim, nor to bring them to the bars of justice. But how different it would have been if the assaulting parties were Negroes. The whole country would have been up in arms, and the newspapers would have devoted many columns in giving the fullest details of the revolting crime committed by the black beasts. It seems that some white gentlemen are willing to do all the assaulting or raping of women themselves, but they get up in arms if males of any other race engage in the same line of business. Mr. and Mrs. John Blakemore., of Detroit, Mich., have for the past week been the honored guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, 5363 Dearborn street. HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS TO BE BUILT ON SOUTH SIDE. A nonsectarian home for wayward girls is to be built on the south side. Mrs. S. C. Bryant is at the head of the movement and it is planned to erect a three story brick structure to cost $75,000 on the property at 4737 Armour avenue, which has been donated by Mrs. Bryant. Work on the new building is expected to be started within thirty days. Mrs. Bryant and her friends hope to interest other charity workers in the movement, and it is not expected that trouble will be encountered in raising the necessary funds Among those who have interested themselves with Mrs. Bryant in the movement are Mrs. L. C. Valle, wife of the president of St. Monica's conference; William Austin, 167 Dearborn street; Walter Russell, 4749 Dearborn street, and Attorney L. Washington. The location of this home in the neighborhood, where it will be of the most practical benefit to those its promoters desire to reach and reform, is indeed a healthy sign and it indicates that an honest effort is being put forth to carry on some mighty good work at short range, in a district where it is much needed. Those behind the movement should be highly commended and it should meet with the greatest success. BOOKER TAFT WASHINGTON RE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF HIS NEGRO NATIONAL BUSI- Last week, the Negro National Business League met in Baltimore, Md., which was gotten up eight years ago, for the special benefit of Booker Taft Washington, and after eight years of its existence, he has permitted no one else to be elected president of it but himself, showing that he is extremely selfish. At the recent meeting of the League he permitted the following officers to be elected: Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, president. Charles Banks, Mississippi, 1st vice president. F. G. Elbert, Wilmington, Del., 2d vice president. Harry T. Pratt, Baltimore, 3rd vice president. J. A. Lankford, Washington, 4th vice president. Emmet J. Scott, Tuskegee, corresponding secretary. Gilbert E. Harris, Boston, treasurer. S. Laing Williams, Chicago, compiler. F. H. Gilbert, New York, registrar. William H. Davis, Washington, official stenographer. Cyrus Field Adams, Washington, transportation agent. On Wednesday, Mrs. Kate Howard, the prime leader of the race riot in Springfield, and who had stolen many articles from Loper's cafe, put an end to all of her earthly troubles by drinking a dose of poison. She had been indicted several times by the Sangamon County Grand Jury for inciting and leading the rioters. The last indictment charged her with assisting to murder Scott Burton, one of the oldest and most highly respected barbers of Springfield, and William H. Donnegan, who had served Abraham Lincoln, and who was the wealthiest Afro-American in the capital city. This was too much for Mrs. Howard, so she shuffled off this mortal coll. The chances are that she is the only one that will suffer in any way in connection with the riot in Springfield. DEATH OF DANIEL R. WILKINS. Daniel R. Wilkins, formerly editor of The Conservator, who was one of the ablest and most brilliant writers that the Afro-American race has produced in this country, passed away the latter part of last week at Dunning. Funeral services were held over his remains Sunday morning at Jackson's undertaking establishments, 2959 State street. Rev. J. F. Thomas officiating. Interment at Oakhill. A little over a year ago, Editor Wilkins lost his reason and was confined at Dunning, where his sad ending overtook him. Throughout his newspaper career he fought a good fight, and we can only say, let him sleep in peace. The order of services at the Institutional church Sunday are as follows. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. The evening service will be of special interest as the pastor will give at the close of the sermon some things that have been accomplished already by the Law and Order League. The theme for Sunday morning will be, "The Coming Kingdom." This subject will be discussed because there are facts set forth in it which go to prove that man has in part to play in establishing this Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is now at hand, the practical side is the elevation of mankind. Ways and means will be set forth in the Sunday morning sermon—"S." CHIPS Mrs. T. A. Triplett, of Cincinnati, Ohio is in the city visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. H. Anderson, 42nd Langley Ave., J. W. Anderson, 79 E. 32nd street, the new ward McAllister, of Chicago, last Friday chaperoned a party of visiting ladies across Lake Mich, where they spent a delightful day, winding it up with a 3 course dinner at the Pekin Cafe. Portraits of the Hon. Wm. Howard Taft are being placed in all the Negro offices in this city. Some of the Negroes who remembered the noted Brownville affair are taking the pains to take down these pictures, and return them with an oath.—The Clarion, Nashville, Tenn. A Grand Prize Brum Drill and Musical Concert will be given between the ladies of St. Mark and Berean Baptist churches, at Berean Baptist church, 4838 Dearborn street, Wednesday evening, September 2d, under the auspices of the Helping Hand Club. Oscar W. Nemo, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, and for a short time residing at 5025 Armour avenue, passed away last Friday at his late nome, 759 W. Taylor street, after a very brief illness. He was in his 25th year. He leaves a sorrowing wife and young baby son. His body was conveyed to Cincinnati for burial. Mrs. J. S. Carter, 168 E. 32nd street, last Monday afternoon and evening, entertained many of the members of the 400, at an elaborate luncheon and brilliant reception. Her elegant home was beautifully decorated for the occasion, and in every way it was one of the most select affairs. Many ladies from other sections of the country being present. Miss Bertha Dixon and her sister, Miss Hattie, of Vicksburg, Miss., and Mrs. R. S. Kelley, of Port Gibson, Miss., and Miss Elizabeth B. Slaughter, 3544 Dearborn street, called on Editor and Mrs. Taylor Monday evening. The ladies livened up things during their pleasant visit, and they will ever be as welcome as the rose in June. They will depart for their Southern homes the middle of the coming week. Sunday August 30th, quarterly meeting will be held at St. John A. M. E. church 62nd and Elizabeth street, Rev Jesse S. Woods pastor, and on the evening of that date, Rev J. P. Howard of Kansas City, Mo., who conducted revival meetings in this city last winter, will start in that same evening to hold revival meetings every afternoon and evening for three weeks, services will be held in a large tent adjoining the church, and it is expected, that many hardened sinners will come to the mourners bench. A pleasant surprise party was given last Monday night to a large number of young people by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods, 5032 Armour Ave., in honor of their visiting guest, Miss Cleota Holland, of Omaha, Neb., one of the most popular school teachers of Troy, Kans. The evening was spent in cards, dancing and music. A most dainty luncheon was served by the hostess, and all expressed themselves as having had a most enjoyable time. Miss Jennie Harris of St. Louis, Mo. Cousin of Mrs. Katherine Hamlet, Mrs. Jennie McCoulough and Mrs. Robert Woods, has been spending her vacation in this city, the guest of Mrs. Smith 5003 Armour Ave. She returned to her home Thursday. SPECIAL NOTICE TO VOCAL STUDENTS. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, has closed her studio during the month of August, and will resume teaching on September 14th. Pupils are now being enrolled for the fall term. Call or address Mrs. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue. WAMSLEY & SON'S Bed Bug and Mite Control Will destroy chicken lice, fleas on cats and dogs, lice on horses and other animals. The liquid is a disinfectant as well as a healer. "Does not stain." The 15c and 25c bottles and 25c packages of Cockroach and Ant Feed are the small orders referred to in our ad, in another column, for which we will accept stamps in payment by out of town orders if desired. BOOKINGS OF THE LELAND GIANTS FOR SEPTEMBER. Sept. 5th—West End Park. Sept. 6th—Anson Colts at Auburn Park. Sept. 7th a. m.—Logan Squares at Logan Square Park. Sept. 7th p. m.—At Gunther Park. Sept. 12th. Sept. 13th—Ft Wayne League Team at Auburn Park. Sept. 19th—At Gunther Park. Sept. 26th—Rogers Parks at Rogers Park. Sept. 27th—Rogers Parks at Auburn Park. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are spending the summer at Buena Vista, Pa. Major Weed of New Haven, Conn., aged sixty-seven, has ridden 49,785 miles on a bicycle in the last eight years. F. L. Prentiss of Alstead, N. H., after living in one house for fifty-seven years has decided that it is time to move. W. Cole of Groombridge, Sussex, England, has succeeded in planting 5,000 cabbages in three hours and ten minutes. In the first hour he planted 2,003 Colonel William C. Greene, the "copper king" of Cananea, Mexico, accompanied by his daughter and a party of friends, is making a tour of the world. Edward Rogers, a Norridgewock (Me.) man, with other men was cutting down a tree when a young crow flew down from the nest, and Rogers, making a flying leap, caught the bird. George Getty of Franklin, Pa., has been the father of twenty-eight children by two wives, and twenty of them survive; also forty-eight grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren. Prince Cen, son of Prince Ching, president of the board of foreign affairs, and Liang Tun Yen, assistant secretary to the board of foreign affairs, have been selected to receive the American fleet of battleships when it arrives at Amoy. Vernon Stiles, the American tenor, has been engaged for a period of six years to sing leading tenor roles at the Royal Opera in Vienna. After three years, under the terms of the contract, Mr. Stiles is free to return to America for five months each year to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Laundry Lines Drive a book or staple in small end of ironing board and hang in closet or inside of door. In ironing handkerchiefs it is well to begin at the center. If one irons the hem first the middle will have a tendency to bulge or "full." If you unexpectedly find your wire clothesline hopelessly rusted, lay strips of newspaper on it and pin clothes over them. Then the first bright day give your line two good coats of gray paint. Flannel will not harden or shrink if when new it is put into clean cold water and left for a week, changing the water frequently. Wash well in warm water, using a little soap to remove the oil. Flannel thus washed never hardens. English Etchings. London eats 180,000 tons of fish a year. England loses 60,000 persons every year by emigration. The newest visiting card fad is to have a little plan showing the residence and the adjacent streets printed on the back. The latest wonder is the installation at the London Hippodrome of a series of tiny machines that silently generate sea air in the auditorium. The Society For the Protection of Ancient Buildings has been making strenuous protests of late against the manner in which Exeter cathedral is being restored, more especially with reference to the sculpture, which, it is declared, has been obliterated without reason. Pith and Point. A man hates faint praise worse than he hates abuse. The little things get together and cause big troubles. Every one thinks he gives as much to the poor as his means will allow. poor as his means will allow. A genius is a man who knows how to do only one thing and knows how to do that well. A man is never so humble that his opinion is not worth quoting when favorable to you. Boosters are a good deal like men. A booster never gives notice of having found a worm until after he has swal- owed it—Atchison Globe. SHORT STORIES When a heavy fall of snow occurs in Valdez, Alaska, the fire department is called out to clear the sidewalks. During the 118 years in which we have had a national house of representatives it has never had a speaker who was born in New York city. Up to 1006 Pennsylvania produced more natural gas than she could make use of, but now it is necessary to draw upon the supply of West Virginia. Officers superintending and men employed in the construction of the new battleship at the New York navy yard have been strictly forbidden to give out any information about the work. Since its establishment the department of agriculture has cost the United States more than $200,000,000. It has given employment at different times to 58,000 experts and professors and issued 17,675 publications. Probably the longest if not the largest barn in Massachusetts is in one of the tobacco fields in Westfield. This barn, which has been added to from time to time, as the business of the owners prospered, is now 500 feet long. Fly Catches. Pitcher Willett of the Detroit Americans is making good Manager Jennings' claim for him. "Pittsburg's perennial pennant pursuing Pirates," is the way a New York scribe designates Barney Dreyfuss' National league representatives. While no one pretends to want Bugs Raymond, there are just about three National league clubs that would give their eyecethe to win him away from St. Louis. Konetchy of the St. Louis Nationals is a much better first baseman than he was last year. If he shows the same ratio of advancement next year he will be a full fledged star. Pitcher Eddie Summers of the Detroit Americans is the hardest loser in the game. The other day Cleveland took a fall out of his delivery, and Detroit bit the dust. After the game Summers retired to the dressing room and shed really and truly salt water tears. Church Work. The national board of church extension of the Christian church is trying to raise $1,000,000 by the end of next year. The new buildings of the Wesleyan East End mission, in London, cover one and three-fourths acres and are the result of twenty-three years' work. The first payment has been made on the three and one-half acre tract of land in Baltimore which is to be the site for the Episcopal cathedral in that city. The summer vacation work of the Episcopal City mission in Boston costs about $5,000, being devoted wholly to the care of women and children who need fresh air. There are about 4,000 churches in the missionary territory over which Rev. C. A. Woodyd acts as superintendent, he being an agent of the Baptists in Montana, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon and Nevada. Facts From France. The Paris Gaulois says that Taff's nomination is due to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. $ ^{*} $ In the little town of Venauson, in France, a man named Guigo has been elected mayor, his brother clerk and his six sons municipal councillors. Although France has had compulsory education for about twenty-five years, the percentage of illiterates reaches the high figure of forty per 1,000 men and sixty per 1,000 women. The former residence of the Catholic bishop at Marselles, France, is now used as a police station, while his chapel is used for an assembly room for the officials, this being one of the odd turns brought about through the expulsion of the church from France. Current Comment. The most dangerous of the revenue cutters is the tax dodger.—Atlanta Journal. Eight men who were jilted by a Chicago girl have formed a club. Gratitude has strange ways of manifesting itself—Buffalo Express. "We are not," says Dr. Wiley of the department of agriculture, "a nation of rascals." We are glad Dr. Wiley has confirmed a supposition that we have entertained for a long time—Reading Herald. Some one has invented a clock that will run a year with one winding. Now invent something else that will remind the owner once a year that it is time to wind the clock.—Boston Transcript. German Gleanings Auto street sprinklers have not proved successful in Berlin. At Spitzbergen, Bavaria, a woman aged 119 has been deprived of the only support of her old age by the death of her daughter, aged ninety-nine. A dumb tramp has been arrested in Berlin for begging. He used a photograph, visiting private houses only, where his machine poured out a heart-rending tale of its owner's misfortunes. Grand Duke Frederick of Baden has accepted the plans for the restoration of the old Castle of Heidelberg. The question of rebuilding the castle has been hotly discussed for the past half Humor WAITING FOR ANOTHER. How a Borrower Expects to Square a Debt. The impecunious man got the attention of a group of friends long enough to tell them a little joke on himself. At first they regarded him with deep suspicion, most of them having suffered more or less from his sorry habit of borrowing. When he had convinced them that he had no designs on their pocketbooks they consented to listen to his story. "Well," he began, "I have a very dear friend whom I long hesitated to borrow from because of my regrettable absentmindedness in such matters. [Heavy sighs from the assemblage.] However, being in desperate straits one day, I mustered up courage to 'touch' him for a five spot. Guess he hadn't heard much about me, for he went right down into his pocket and dug up the requested sum. "All right, old chap," said he. 'Any time I can help you out in a pinch I'll be glad to do so.' "That was some three weeks ago, and of course I had tried to forget it, not having managed to gather the amount of the loan meanwhile. The other morning my friend approached me with a genuinely serious air. "Say,' he said, 'I had a funny dream last night, and you were in it.' "That so?' said I. 'What was I doing—returning money that I had borrowed? "That's just what you were doing in part of the dream,' replied my friend. 'We were at a social gathering, and I could plainly see you hand me the five—by the way,' he broke off, 'have you really paid me that five?' "No,' I responded, and I could have kicked myself the moment the word escaped my lips. “Well,’ said my friend, ‘that dream made so strong an impression upon me that I was half convinced you had really paid me, and if you had said you did I would not have doubted your word.’ “I took very little interest in the remainder of the dream,’ said the impecunious man sadly. “Have you paid him yet?” one of the listeners asked. “No,” was the reply. “I am waiting for him to have another dream.”—Detroit Free Press. Little Marion, having few real playmates, has supplied herself with several imaginary ones, with whom she has many surprising experiences. Her mother recently overheard her playing with her large family of dolls and entertaining a visionary caller. "Yes, Mrs. Smif," she said, heaving a deep sigh, "we are poor—terribly poor. We are so poor that I have to spank my babies to keep them warm." —Woman's Home Companion. For the Meek Man "I buy all of John's shirts," said the tall, firm jawed woman, "and I don't allow him to wear loud colors. Show me some subdued shirts." "Yes, ma'am," hastened the witty clerk. "Just step this way. Here are some subdued shirts for subdued husbands."—Detroit Tribune. The Trouble. Lowe Comedry—Yes, Starman, the tragedian, is hopelessly mad. Hi Tragedry—Overstudy? Lowe Comedry—No, his understudy. He made a bigger hit in the part than Starman. — Catholic Standard and Times. What's the Use? CLICKEM INN The Parson—Ah, Pat, wasting your money in there again! You ought to put by for a rainy day. Pat—Sure, thin, Ol'd never spend ut at all, at all. It's laid up wid rheumatism Ol am when the weather's wet an' can't go out o' the house. Sketch. Speed Mania. "How fast do you usually travel?" "I don't pay much attention to that." answered the motorist. "I get most of my excitement in watching the rapidity with which pedestrians move out of my way."—Boston Post. A Paradox. "What a flat situation that new house has which Mr. Plungit, the bold speculator, is building for himself." "Yes, it is flat, and yet he built it on a bluff."—Pittsburg Post. Numerical. Customer—I want a pair of cornsets for my wife. Saleslady—What number? "She's No. 3."—New York Life. Agents Wanted IN THE SOUTH, WEST, AND OTHER SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY To handle The BROAD AX AND ACT AS CORRESPONDENTS Splendid Chance to Make Money! Write for terms at once. Applicants must furnish reference. Address all communications to JULIUS F. TAYLOR; Please enter my name as a subscriber to THE BROAD AX. I herewith enclose $2.00, the annual subscription to same. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO GRAY & MORAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 1114 Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts, Tel. Central 560. CHICAGO. Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 368 Office Telephones Central 1289 Automatic 5040 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reeper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. A. D. GASH Attorney at Law. 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 320 ASHLAND BLOCK TELEPHONE CENTRAL 968 CHICAGO Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 4856 Langley Av. CHICAGO F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1850 Phone Calumet 1579 Morgue and Private Chapel. C. JOHNSON UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY R. W. GREEN, MGR. 2712 State Street Chicago 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 W.D. Langford, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Home Office, 2353 State Street HOURS—9-12 m. 1:30 p. m. After 7:30 p. m. Phone Calumet 264 Telephone, Calumet 194 Dr. A. B. Schultz Hours: 2719 STATE STREET 9 to 12 A. M., 8 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 THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO Wanted Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RALK YARD | just St. & L. S. & H. S. RY. guard 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 ICE CREAM CIGARS, TOBACCO SHIRT WAIST$ KIMONA$ MRS. A. E. BAKER NOTIONS 419-36TH STREET Underwear a Specialty CHICAGO J. GARNER Tel. Douglas 320 THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAGO A Waiters and Cooks Prefer Our Make JACKETS AND LINEN because they have found them satisfactory. Write for complete Catalogue FREE. giving full instructions how to order. Marcus Ruben (Inc.) 390 State St., CHICAGO. THE BROAD AX. !s for sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, 134 W. 51st street Cigar Store and News Stand. C. H. Green, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 2718 State st. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, Cigars, Notions and News Stand, 131 W. 51st street. T. B. Hall's Cigar Store and Laundry office, 281 29th St. Mrs. Alma A. Simpson, news agent, 1255 State street. W. S. Cole, 354 Thirty-first street, cigars, tobacco and news stand. J. R. Peters Cigars, 'tobacco and News Stand, 338 E. 27th street. Mrs. A. E. Baker, Notions and News Stand, 419, 36th street. W. P. Johnson, Notion Store and News Stand 3704 State st. Turner Williams' Shaving Parlor and News Stand, 2003 Armour ave. B. Davis, cigars, tobacco, and confectionery, 3883 State st. C. C. McLain, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 1906 State street. Mrs. J. W. Haulley 116 W. 51st st. cigars, tobacco and news stand. Mrs. Katherine R. Hamlet, Cigars, tobacco, and fancy groceries and news stand 5028 Armour ave. M. A. Johnson, news stand, cigars and tobacco, 3812 State Street. The Informer News Co., 188 Randolph St., Detroit, Mkk. The Standard News Co 181 W. 386 st., New York City, N. Y. Standard News Company, 49 W. 188th street, New York City, N. Y. 10 15 50 YEAR --- Selections Curious Spectacle on the Coast of California. In the neighborhood of Summerland, on the coast of California, ten miles south of Santa Barbara, the visitor may behold at the present time a strange and interesting spectacle the like of which was never seen in the world before. It is nothing more or less than a fishery for petroleum. Out from the smooth, sandy beach and extending at right angles therewith into the ocean are many long docks or plers supporting old derricks. The latter are like any other derricks constructed for such a purpose, but instead of being used to bring up oil from the dry land they are made to serve for fetching the fluid from beneath the waters of the sea. The piers described are, many of them, of great length, stretching a quarter of a mile or more out into the Pacific, in order to tap the oil bearing strata under the sea. Derricks are set all along the beach itself, upheld by piles, in order that the breakers may flow back and forth beneath them. One might imagine that the discovery of the oil under the sea came about through observation of petroleum floating on the waves. Such does not seem, however, to have been the case. Prospectors for the precious fluid, having come upon a productive oil field on terra firma in the neighborhood of Summerland, were naturally led down to the ocean beach by the circumstance that the oil producing area appeared to extend in that direction. Finding that there was oil beneath the very breakers, it occurred to them to seek it farther out. The petroleum obtained from under the sea is remarkable, like all the oil in the neighborhood, for containing a great deal of asphalt. It is, in fact, very impure and thick owing to this admixture of an extraneous substance. But the asphalt itself is decidedly valuable when separated and is being utilized for paving and other such purposes—Saturday Evening Post. A Bored Floor. Mr. Reeder of Kansas told a story to the house of representatives about a Kansas settler and a trick he played. "I think we sent him on to the state of Wyoming," he said. "We have a lot of bad people in our state from Kansas," suggested Mr. Wendell of Wyoming. "This was a pretty smart fellow, and I wonder they did not send him to congress," answered Mr. Reeder. "The law required the settler to build a house with a board floor and a board roof. So he dug into the bank a space of three feet wide and six feet long and put poles across the top for a roof. Then he sharpened a stick and bored holes in the ground of the dugout. Next he bored holes through the roof and made an affidavit that he had a bored floor and a bored roof."—Detroit Free Press. Many Names of Hingham's Hall. Hingham has one hall with three names, the largest in the town and the one where all the town business is transacted, where Company K, Fifth regiment, M. V. M., has its armory and where the Hingham Agricultural society holds its deliberations. The hall has the distinction of having three names—Hingham town hall, the armory and agricultural hall. If it is a public performance or town meeting, then the notices read, "At the town hall;" if it is a rose and strawberry show or an agricultural meeting, then they read, "At agricultural hall," and if Company K is drilling or entertaining its friends the invitations say, "At the armory." No other hall in Plymouth county has so many official titles—Boston Herald. Honduran Hard Wood. A railroad in Honduras, which has just been opened to traffic as far as Celia, thirty-five miles, was built with crescented pine ties from the United States. It is worthy of note that, while crescented pine ties are being shipped from the United States to Honduras, hard woods are coming to the United States from that country. Americans are doing the shipping both ways. A tract of 8,000 acres in Honduras has been secured by an American company, which will cut the mahogany and other valuable hard woods and ship them to the United States—Forest and Stream. English Musical Taste. The London Evening News in order to determine the musical taste of the English people asked its readers to name the musical compositions the performance of which gave them the most pleasure. The answers showed these to be the most popular in the order named: The overture to "Tannhauer," the overture to "William Tell," Techal-kowski's "1812," Grieg's "Peer Gynt Sulta," Thomas" "Mignon Gavotte," "The Mikado," Mendelsohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream." A Nailless Skyscraper A skyscraping structure, without a nail or a screw in it, has been put up around and above the great southwestern gate of the city of Pekin. It is made entirely of bamboo poles and corda. The enormous scaffolding was necessary for the rebuilding of the Chichamen gate, which was badly battered in the Boxer troubles. The new gate is to be an imposing affair, twice the height of the great wall of the famous Chinese city. CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. Pilkins, full of petty hauteur, Bought a yellow auto motor— Think of it, a yellow— And its tawdy thits bedizen Half the world and its horizon. How I hate the fellow! For his pesky "honk" comes bossing Every time I touch a crossing, And in automobileless There's no honk for "If you please." So I (by financial rigor) Bought a yellower and bigger— Faster also when it pleases. And the chap who used to blind me Wallows in the dust behind me. He's the fellow now who sneezes! And my "honk" is quite as raucous In the automobile caucus, So I wave my hand and bow Quite politely to him now. (P. S.—Why do people visit On a crosswalk? Say, why is it?) -Edmund Vance Cooke in Woman's Home Companion. On the Highway. Waggles—Gee, I wonder why dat dorg blt me? His Friend—Oh, well, dere's no accountin' fer tastes, you know!—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Smashing Her Baggage. A series of terrific crashes against the front door brought the mistress to that exit, and, flinging it open, she beheld standing calmly before it the new cook, her baggage lying about in confusion, while driving off with a black countenance was the baggageman. "Mercy!" exclaimed the startled mistress. "Why did that rude man hurl your baggage after you like that, Mary? Wouldn't you pay him?" "Oh, it ain't thot, mum; but me last job wor at his house." -Judge. A Useful Tool: Gyer—Lots of inventors never fully realize the importance of their inventions. Myer—Don't they? Gyer—No. Take the hairpin, for example. It is said the inventor never intended it to be used in dressing the hair—Minneapolis Journal. A Reason Now. "Oh, Arizona will be admitted, all right," said the gentleman from that territory. "Been turned down pretty regularly, hasn't it?" "Don't let that worry you. They'll need the name for a battleship now." -Philadelphia Ledger. Deluding Himself Towne—It doesn't seem to have done Gagley any good to join church. He appears to be grouchier than ever since he got religion. Brown—I don't believe he's got that all. I'll bet what he takes for religion is merely dyspepsia. — Philadelphia Press. Proverb Practically Applied. "A man is judged by the company he keeps," said the aphorist. "Yes," answered the man with a boom. "Which makes it undesirable sometimes to print the names of all the contributors to your campaign fund."—Washington Star. "Pa, what does a king or an emperor do when he grants anybody an audience?" "He does about what your mother does when she grants me an audience—talks most of the time."—Denver News-Times. A Churchgoer. "Do you attend church regularly?" inquired the solicitous friend. "I've been a regular churchgoer of late," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Mother and the girls took me on a guidebook tour through Europe." — Washington Star. The Easiest Way "The easiest way to succeed, my boy, is-to give the people what they want." "No, sir; you are mistaken. The easiest way to succeed is to make the people think they want what you are giving them."—Chicago Record-Herald. Signs and Symptoms "Do you believe the countenance is indicative of character?" "In some respects. For instance, when you see a hatched faced woman, ten to one you'll find her temper on edge."-Baltimore American. Man as a Shopper. A gentleman undertook to purchase a waist for his wife. "What bust?" inquired the saleswoman. "Why, I didn't hear anything."—Everybody's. Not Worth Repeating. Kind Lady—But that isn't the same story you told me the last time you were here. The Hobo—Course it ain't. Youse didn't berieve de odder one—Chicago News. Obviously. "Aunt Hepay, what do they use invisible hairpins for?" Telephone Douglass ...1855 JESSE BINGA INSURANCE REAL ESTATE LOANS 3637 STATE STREET CHICAGO LEASES NEGOTIATED, EXCHANGES MADE, PROPERTY MANAGED. ForSale $4,500—S. W. cor. 57th and La Faye modern, hardwood through $5,250—6337 Langley Ave., 2 flat brick heat, hardwood through $9,000—3444-45 Wabash Ave., 2-9 room sell separate. Make term $2,000—3718 LaSalle St., 6 rooms, $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame bu provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat fram JESSE BINGA, 3637 State Good Colored Tenants Mr. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 in, hardwood throughout. Gley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone, 5-6 room, hardwood throughout. Wabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front resident aparate. Make terms. Salle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. Salle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. Salle St., frame building, 6 rooms, mod- ements. Arborn St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. 3637 State St. Phone, Doug Sored Tenants Always Appreciate $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 Good Colored Tenants Always Appreciated AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Stove Heated Flats TO SUIT EVERY MAN'S INCOME I am no Agent. I Rent on You will save many a weary st if you first call MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE Samuel Richardson, Telephone Main 2133 CHICAGO I Rent only my own Pro I will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. DAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PRO Richardson, 142 La Salle main 2133 CHICAGO Room I, OTIS BL I am no Agent. I Rent only my own Property You will save many a weary step when you want a Flat if you first call on me. (Please cut this out) "CAN'T SLEEP, WILL YOU scratch and tumble and Moth Liquid will clear beds vermin? Also kills lice on chick- gallon, 75c; gallon, $1.25; 5 gallon of Cockroach and Ant Feed banis- mination of Insects," sent postpa- int for small orders, large by P. O. on WAMSLEY & SO Leland Giants Base-Ball and Now Organizing— $100,00 The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants included to dissolve that Association in order to increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For- class, Up To Date Amusement Park, W Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minute Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Riding, and all the latest fun making devices gether with a First Class Summer Hotel, guests, at it's present location. 79th and We ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amuse value in a single season. Millions can be m This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race O mense And Well Paying Plant, Where M Be Employed, between May and October of a out fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom The Answer can only be effectively given by s tion. it has been made purposely low so that have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. Y Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and a attached Coupon and mail with Ten Doll and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so AT SLEEP, BED BUCK scratch and tumble all night, when our Bed luid will clear beds and walls of these mis- kills lice on chickens, cow or colt. Cost ballon, $1.25; 5 gallon can, $4.50. A 50c pa- nt and Ant Feed banishes them. Booklet, "T Insects," sent postpaid on request. Remit s ers, large by P. O. order or registered mail. LEY & SON, 3344 State St., O Telephone Douglas Sets Base-Ball and Amusement A Organizing—Capital Stock $100,000 Members of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, Association in order to give room for the former, the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For, the Club and Establishing For All The People. The O Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light- ing, Miniature, Minature Ry, Theater Theat- erating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boatin- est fun making devices and laugh producing cones Glass Summer Hotel, large enough to accomodate location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) ars to the Loop District in Chicago. Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have o millions can be made by those Who Take S e. Favor Of The Race Owning and Operating The Buying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Person May and October of each year, where you can con- the Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the rest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Thi 100) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you come. Come! buy and build one of your own by and mail with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Association. Do it to-day so that we may commence to b "CAN'T SLEEP, BED BUGS" WILL YOU scratch and tumble all night, when our Bed Bug and Moth Liquid will clear beds and walls of these miserable vermin? Also kills lice on chickens, cow or colt. Cost, half gallon, 75c; gallon, $1.25; 5 gallon can, $4.50. A 50c package of Cockroach and Ant Feed banishes them. Booklet, "Extermination of Insects," sent postpaid on request. Remit stamps for small orders, large by P. O. order or registered mail. WAMSLEY & SON, 3344 State St., Chicago Telephone Douglas 6100 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 Its Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Miniature 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 Publicis Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Immense And Well Paying Plant. Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will Be Employed, between May and October of each year, where you can come without fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed? The Answer can only be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corporation. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can have a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it, Shares Only Ten (10.00) Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places, where you are not wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your own by filling out one 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. Leland Giants Base Ball & Amusement Assn. Mr Beauregard F. Moseley; Treas:- which I am sending as Part (or infall) as subs shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland & Association. I agree to pay $...... has been paid, at certificate. N. B. All payments on Stock Ac- counts must be made to the order of Beauregard F. Moseley, Treasurer, 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois. All Stock holders are entitled to pre- ferment. Beeley; Treas:- Enclosed please find $___ Part (or infull) as subscription fee for _____ Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and An- y $___per month until the full ____has been paid, at which time I am to recieve Ac- order day, street, ck- celer- name address 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 BADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Listed Street CHICAQ0 Ewls, Prop. Lou Seldon, Mgr. Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB 239 E. 22ND STREET Clinet 2940 CHICAQ0 BASE BALL BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE Phone Oakland 1787. THE RAILROAD INN Imported and Domestic Wines Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection N. E. Corner Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, Chicago, IL WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB BASE BALL THE LELAND GIANTS AND VISITING TEAMS EVERY Saturday and Sunday AT 8 P. M. SUBURN PARK, 79th AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. AFTER THE GAME VISIT THE Chauteau D e Plaisance The only Summer Resort of its kind in the World. 5222-24-26 STATE STREET. American Brick Co. Client and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Lemon and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Saturday and Sunday AT 8 P.M. AUBURN PARK, 79TH AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. AFTER THE GAME VISIT THE American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, TROMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Yards running winter and summer, equipped with the latest improved Wolf Dopper. Yards ..... oppo per du summer Words ..... oppo per du ephone Yards 128. Telephone Yards 128. J. J. Bradley BRADLE REAL ART 8000 B. Halsted Street Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported L N. E. Corner POOL AND BILLIARDS WITH THE Phone Callnet 2940 BA THE VIE Satur AUBURN Take St AK Cha The only Ameri President and T Vice Gommor 45th an Toloph J. M. Fields Telephone Yards 696 CHIGA00 Lou Seiden, Mgr. America's Greatest Sport BETWEEN