The Broad Ax

Mrs. Earl Hallam Has Broken Down and Confessed that George Richardson Did Not Assault Her IN AN AFFIDAVIT SHE REQUESTS STATE'S ATTORNEY HATCH TO RELEASE HIM FROM THE BLOOMINGTON JAIL. HER FALSE STATEMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE CAUSED THE DEATHS OF MANY PEOPLE, AND OTHERS WOUNDED. THE DESTRUCTION OF 35 HOMES AND MANY BUSINESS PLACES BELONGING TO THE COLORED PEOPLE. ROLLING UP A DEBT ALL TOLD OF MORE THAN $200,000 AGAINST THE PROPERTY HOLDERS AND TAX-PAYERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. SOME WHITE LADIES ARE NOT ABOVE CONSORTING WITH COLORED MEN AS LONG AS THEY CAN WORK THEM OUT OF SOME MONEY. BUT IF THEY ARE CAUGHT IN TURNING THE TRICK, THEN THEY SEND UP THAT OLD FAMILIAR CRY "RAPE" Vol. XIII Mrs. Earl Hall Broken Down fessed th Richa No IN AN AFFIDAVIT SHE REQ HATCH TO RELEASE H TON JAIL. HER FALSE STATEMENT IN THE DEATHS OF MAN WOUNDED. THE DESTRUCTION OF 35 H PLACES BELONGING TO ROLLING UP A DEBT ALL T AGAINST THE PROPERTY ERS THROUGHOUT THE SOME WHITE LADIES ARE WITH COLORED MEN AS THEM OUT OF SOME M BUT IF THEY ARE CAUGHT THEN THEY SEND UP “RAPE.” Mrs. Earl Hallam, the Springfield lady who wanted to have her picture printed on postal cards and sold in order to make some money, after she claimed she had been assaulted in her home in that city August 14, has completely broken down and confessed that George Richardson did not assault her. In an affidavit which she freely and willingly signed the first of the week requesting State's Attorney Hatch to release him from the Bloomington jail. It is not out of place to state right here that "the blood of the innocent Negroes who met their deaths at the hands of the mob is splattered an over Mrs. Hallam, and the longest day that she lives she cannot escape from realizing that her foolish or childish tale was the direct cause of so much bloodshed, and the following is the tale she told, which was printed in large type, with most glaring head lines in setting forth her old tale she claimed that at or near 11 o'clock p. m. "she was dragged by some Negro from off her bed out of the house through the back yard to an outhouse where she was assaulted, after which she leaped over a back fence and notified her mother-in-law," while the so-called assault was going on, "she claims that she never lost consciousness," and yet notwithstanding the fact that she lives in a double house, no one heard any scuffling or noise, and with these facts before her eyes she had the nerve to relate her tale of assault, and the morning after it was supposed to have been pulled off, she was at the police station looking as bright and fresh as anyone could look. Richardson was one of the Colored men arrested charged with committing the crime and brought before --- her for identification, and she said that none of them was the guilty man. Afterwards she said that she believed that if Richardson would change his clothes she could identify him. He was arrested by the officers on his way home, his clothes were changed and he was again taken before the woman, this time in the county sheriff's office. She conversed with him and said that his voice sounded like that of the man who assaulted her and said that if he was not the man he would have to prove it to her. Furthermore she said that she was not positive about his identification as "all Colored men looked alike to her." Richardson protested his innocence and swore that he was at home with his wife all that night and that he retired about 8:30 p. m. His wife, not knowing his statement, gave exactly the same testimony when asked concerning his whereabouts. Nevertheless he was taken to jail and the report was widely circulated that the woman had positively identified him, and that he had confessed." In the light of recent events there is not the slightest doubt but what Mrs. Hallam made a downright false statement in the first place, and the newspapers added to it by positively declaring that she had identified him and that Richardson had confessed to committing the crime. The thick-headed police played their stupid part in assisting to convey the idea that Richardson was the right man, and without the slightest proof against him, seemingly they were perfectly willing to per permit him to be turned over to the mob, and if the mob could have gotten hold of him one more innocent ```markdown ``` One of the most popular Germa is a warm supporter of William J. States. man would have met his death at the hands of unknown parties. As it was Mrs. Hallam's false fish tale which caused the deaths of many people and more than one hundred wounded and the destruction of thirty-five homes and many business places belonging to the Colored people, rolling up a debt all told of more than two hundred thousand dollars against the property holders and taxpayers throughout the state of Illinois. It is true that if the mob could have given Richardson the short shift that would have been the end of him and Mrs. Hallam would not be forced to prove up her assault case in an open court, that was what she wanted for she was anxious to make a plain case of assault out after Richardson was put to death for the benefit of her mother-in-Jaw, but when Mrs. Hallam learned that expert doctors had examined Richardson after he was placed in jail and had declared that "he had no connection with her in any way" then she broke down and confessed that he is not the man who assaulted her. In the mean time Richardson, who is a hod carrier, all the time claiming that "he never touched Mrs. Hallam, will, on his release from the Bloomington jail return to Springfield and seek work at his trade, and Mrs. Hallam or no one else will step up and pay him for the time he lost while being confined in jail, and Mrs. Hallam herself has furnished one of the strongest arguments why prevail and lynch law should not prevail. Mrs. Hallam should have been examined that same night or early next morning by some expert doctor as to whether or not she had been really assaulted by a Coloree man, and the chances are that then and there she would have proven herself to be a falsifier, and every woman who claims that she has been raped by a Colored man should be subjected to the same process, in a quiet manner, and not call on ladies like the late Mrs. Kate Howard, who, for many years, ran a bawdy house in Springfield in which many girls were lured to their ruin by white Christian gentlemen, and her brother, William E. Connor, who also conducted a disorderly house, and thugs, bullies, robbers, wife-beaters, frequenters of brothels and other vile dens of vice, to defend her virtue and honor. For be it remembered that some white ladies are willing to consort with Colored men as long as they can work them out of some money, but if they are caught in turning the trick, then they send up that old familiar cry—"Bape." Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, arrived home the first of the week from attending the meeting of the National Medical Association in New York City. -American ctlizens in Chicago, who Bryan for president of the United SENATOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER EATS BLACK CROW. HE WILL SUPPORT WILLIAM H. TAFT FOR PRESIDENT. Senator Joseph B. Foraker has turned summersault, filled up on black crow, and has come out in favor of William H. Taft for President. The two met at the re-union of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Toledo, O., Wednesday, and after being introduced to the crowd arm in arm, Taft and Foraker retired and held a conversation lasting over an hour, and when they emerged from it, it was publicly announced by Senator Foraker, that Taft was good enough for him. In fact, he was his candidate, and that he was willing to go to Kansas, and open up the campaign for the Grand Old Party, of greed and robbery, and Taft let be known that he would not oppose the re-election of Mr. Foraker to the United States Senate. So they completely played at the game "you tickle me and I will tickle you." As Mr. Taft has preached the doctrine of the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South, and has declared to the world, that the Negro race is largely composed of murderers, rapists and criminals, and it is presumed that Senator Foraker is willing to entertain these same ideas, and share Taft's sentiments in relation to the Negro race. Therefore any Negro who raises voice in behalf of the election of William H. Taft for President is an enemy and a traitor to his race. LOUIS FLURDEAU MURDERED In His Store on the Northwest Side. He Was Charged With Assaulting Seven Little Girls. Last Saturday evening, Louis Flurdeau was murdered in his store, 596 Noble street, by robbers who were seeking his money and after killing him, they made good their escape. He was in his 68th year. Four or five men with unpronouncable names, were arrested shortly afterwards charged with committing the crime. Last February, Mr. Flurdeau was indicted by the grand jury charged with assaulting or attacking or (as the new invented phrase by the daily papers, when not referring to Negroes) of mistreating seven little girls. When the testimony came out against him for committing the assault on the girls, the people of Chicago did not attempt to mob and lynch him, and the daily papers could scarcely find room enough to devote a few lines to the crime which he had committed on those little girls. Further comment is unnecessary. William H. Taft And The "Brownsville Affair" THE BIG NARROW BRAINED EX-SECRETARY OF WAR, HAS SO FAR FAILED TO INTIMATE THAT IN CASE HE IS ELECTED PRESIDENT. HE WILL RESTORE THE DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED MEMBERS OF THE 25TH REGIMENT WHO HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF COMMITTING ANY CRIME TO THEIR FORMER POSITIONS IN THE ARMY. NOW IS THE TIME FOR HIM TO GO ON RECORD AGAINST EXECUTIVE MOB AND LYNCH LAW. The efforts jointly made by Gen Corbin and President Roosevelt to show that Mr. Taft was in no way responsible for the discharge without honor of the Negro battalion indicates a bit of nervousness, perhaps over the Negro vote in a number of northern states. The nervousness may be justified in view of the public announcement of Prof. Dubols of Atlanta university that he should vote for Mr. Bryan, for Prof. Dubols is one of the most talented leaders of the Negro race in America and possibly his attitude is symptomatic to a certain extent. Certain it is that since the national conventions the anti-Roosevelt, anti-Taft Negro organizations has been maintained and has given signs of continuing activity. A Negro committee visited Mr. Bryan at Fairview, and more recently pronouncements advising Negro voters to support the Democratic ticket have been issued from Washington. The Negro race is to be congratulated, first of all if the time has come when there is any competition between the two parties for its support. Mr. Bryan, indeed, professes to ignore the Brownsville issue, out of deference to southern susceptibilities and the open threats of some of the southern newspapers; but it is something to have the Republican leaders acting as if a Negro voter needed a little attention. If it could be established definitely that the Negro vote did not "go with the plant," as an immovable Republican asset, there would never again be the slightest danger that whole Negro battalions would be arbitrarily discharged for the alleged crimes of divers persons, less than a score in number, unnamed and unknown. Give the Negro vote mobility in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and the Brownsville episode would be the last as well as the first of its kind. Mr. Taft's connection with the affair has always seemed unfortunate. Undoubtedly he would have managed it differently had he been president at the time. It is impossible to believe that a man with his training in the civil courts would have pursued the course which Mr. Henry C. Duras, 2311 Wabash avenue, a Frenchman, who was born in Paris, France, fifty-three years ago, died September 2nd. Mr. Duras was married to a Colored lady, and when his wife, Mrs. Rachel Duras, passed away and was No.48 ft "Browns- ville Affair" O EX-SECRETARY OF WAR, INTIMATE THAT IN CASE MENT. HONORABLY DISCHARGED H REGIMENT WHO HAVE ALTY OF COMMITTING ANY MER POSITIONS IN THE HIM TO GO ON RECORD DB AND LYNCH LAW. Roosevelt thought so admirable. Mr. Taft no more than Mr. Roosevelt, would have cared "for the yelling either of the politicians or the sentimentalists," had he believed, that a certain policy was in the line of duty. But he would not have gone to the extreme of punishing a large number of innocent men for the sake of nailing a paltry few, whose own guilt was not beyond dispute. Why are many of the Negroes then so bitter against Mr. Taft? Why do they wish to punish Mr. Roosevelt over his shoulders? It is probably true that the secretary's merely administrative part in executing the president's orders would be overlooked if he had not later on became the president's warm champion. In the secretary of war's annual report for the year 1906, written considerably after the events to which Gen. Corbin has called attention, Mr. Taft entered upon a strong defense of the president's course. Having narrated the details of the Brownsville episode, Mr. Taft wrote: The order has attracted much attention and has been severely criticised as unjust because it condemns many innocent men to undeserved punishment. It is not improper, therefore, in this report to review the case and state the reasons which not only justified but made it necessary. And there upon an elaborate argument in defense of the executive order was presented. Mr. Taft never retracted the views developed in that report and so far as is known, he holds them to-day. The Negro critics of the administration, consequently, are forced to regard him as being still in full sympathy with the president's act, and it is this avowed sympathy that obviously alienates some of them from his presidential candidacy. Gen. Corbin's statement would exert much more influence if it were supplemented by a word from Mr. Taft that reflection had convinced him that an injustice may have been done and that, as president himself, he would reopen the case with an impartial mind. Cannot Mr. Taft give the Negro voters of the country some such assurance.—The Springfield Daily Republican. (Mass.) buried at Jeffersonville, Ind., a few weeks ago, he was so in love with her, that he could not become reconciled to her death and in two weeks' time he grieved himself to death over his loss. Mr. Duras was a music teacher, and a very large man, weighing 373 pounds. This morning he was laid to rest in Oakhill. F. A. Rawlins, funeral director, 17 State street, had charge. THE BROAD AX Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Inclides, Single Tuxedo Republicans, Inclides, single can have their say, as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose pages are 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. 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. WHAT IF HE HASN'T? Will the so-called Negro Democrats advise us if Mr. Bryan has modified his views of Negro disfranchisement?—N. Y. Age.) Mr. Bryan has never, as "The Age" insinuates, publicly expressed himself in favor of Negro disfranchisement, he having merely stated, without defining his personal feelings, that under similar conditions, any Republican community in the North would have taken the same steps to curb the Negro vote as was taken by the South. Ignoring the fact that Candidate Taft has frequently expressed himself as being so unqualified in favor of the methods being resorted to by the South to eliminate Negroes from the politicar equation, his "campaign" utterances to the contrary notwithstanding, that that he is more popular with an element of Southern Negrophobists than is the candidate of their own party—ignoring all these facts, what good purpose does "The Age" and its imitators hope to serve by pretending to see in Mr. Bryan's victory an added menace to the Negro's political status, or in Mr. Taft's victory any honest purpose, policy or principle of restoring to Negroes their dwindling political power? So far as the two candidates are concerned, every sensible man knows, however either may now express himself for political purposes, that their opinions are practically the same respecting political conditions in the South. Nothing could induce either man to turn his hand to enforce the War Amendments; still neither man could be induced to turn his hand or lend his influence to further restrict the Negro vote. But every individual of discernment knows that in those Southern localities where there is a purpose to eliminate the Negro vote, this purpose will be carried out, as has ever been the case, as readily under a Republican as under a Democratic National Administration, and not only without Republican opposition, but with Republican approval, as has been the case with Mr. Taft. Republican success, therefore, assures to Negroes not one lota of added security in their right to vote in any State. On the other hand, the continued right of Negroes to vote in the great State of Missouri hinges directly on the extent to which Negroes aid the Democrats of that State in the coming election, the recent Democratic convention of Missouri having refused to go on record in favor of Negro distranchism because it was brought out that the Negroes of that State had divided their vote with the Democratic party. We refuse to recognize the question of disfranchisement as being a direct and vital issue in this campaign, for the simple reason that neither party is inclined to do more than the other with reference to the same. But if an element of the surface-reasoners insist on making Negro suffrage an issue, we ask, in the name of reason, if it would not be far more wise for Negroes to curb the advance of disfranchisement by supporting the Democratic Party, thus inducing Democrats themselves to save Missouri from this disgrace, than it would be for them to still blindly support the Republican Party, thereby spurring Democratic overtures of friendliness and making certain disfranchisement in Missouri, and in every other State, whether West Virginia or Maryland, where the Democrats and lilys whites demand it, while the professed "Negro-loving" faction of the Republicans look on with indifference if not approval? Nothing is more needed in this campaign than a propaganda of education among Negroes as to how they should vote, and why. But it causes one to despair of a campaign of education when those who are advising Negroes to cling to the Republican party fall to produce any argument which will bear the slightest subjection to the rays of logic.—The Pilot, Philadelphia, Pa. WILLIAM H. TAFT AND THE SPRINGFIELD RIOT. When Taft acquiesced in the dismissal of the rioting Negro troops it was claimed that he lost the Negro vote. Now that he has denounced the white rioters of Springfield, we expect to hear that he has forfeited the white vote, too. Any thoughtful person at all well informed on current events need experience no difficulty in seeing in the foregoing editorial from the Detroit News a very serious and exceedingly damaging reflection upon the American Caucasian as a class—a reflection which The Informer believes to be wrong. Murder and arson were committed by white people in Springfield in broad daylight and in sight of thousands of eye witnesses, Kate Howard, for instance, the keeper of a house of ill-fame, most publicly urging on the mob at Loper's restaurant. Not a single eye witness as to the guilt of the Colored soldiers at Brownsville, however, was ever produced. Taft himself admitted in a letter to Roosevelt that in his opinion one of the chief spurious "eye-witnesses" had lied in his testimony. Moreover, the weight of all the circumstantial evidence obtainable was strongly on the side of the innocence of the soldiers. Let us paraphrase the News' statement by sticking a little more expressly to the truth in each case, as follows: "Taft acquiesced in visiting drastic punishment on men who were accused of rioting, notwithstanding the fact that a jury notoriously prejudiced against them was unable to return an indictment in their case, and despite the further fact that a hostile and most exhaustive and public trial showed them to be very probably innocent. Now, like everybody else, we freely admit that white criminals committed murder and arson in Springfield. Since Taft acquiesced in punishing Negroes against whom nothing could be proved and thereby lost the Negro vote, now that he has denounced the known white criminals we expect to hear of his losing the Caucasian vote." We are not ready to accept the News' statement that, in effect, the white vote will resent denunciation of persons known to be criminal as strongly as the Colored vote will resent severe and grievous punishment of innocent men—The informer, Detroit, Mich. ILLINOIS GOVERNOR FAILED TO DO HIS DUTY. Governor Deneen showed plainly his sympathy for the mob and his prejudice for the Colored population of Springfield when he failed to rush the 8th regiment into the district wherein the majority of the Colored people resided. If this had been done no white mob would have dared to attempt to invade the homes in that neighborhood, and they would have felt secure, and they would not have been forced to flee in order to save their lives. It has been proven on several occasions that a state militia is worthless when it comes to riots and lockouts, strikes and the like. And they were never known to hurt themselves while pretending to defend the life, home and property of a Colored man, whether he be good or bad. Governor Deneen ordered troops from Chicago and from all parts of the state to go to Springfield, but omitted to order out the Colored militia for fear that it would anger that blood-thirsty, villainous mob. So helpless and timid were some of the militia that they permitted the members of the mob to take their guns from them and lock them up in the armory. Looking at the situation broadly, does it seem impossible that a courageous governor seated in a state house with thousands of militia at his back could not have stopped rioting such as this before it ran three days? Governor Deneen, through cowardice and race prejudice, has helped to drag the name and home of Abraham Lincoln down into the quagmires of shame and disgrace.-The Advocate, Portland, Oregon. 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. A NEW BOOK AND ITS MOTIVE. "Pointing the Way" Discussed. It was the unanimous opinion of all who read "The Hindered Hand" that the author, Sutton E. Griggs, had drawn a most powerful indictment against the system of Negro repression in the South, showing most clearly the terrible plight of the Negro when shorn of his citizenship rights. But the book left one with some such thought as this coursing through his mind: "Here is a vivid picture of a dreaded disease. But where, oh where is the remedy?" In answer to this eager questioning of the mind, there now comes from the pen of this same author, a book entitled, "Pointing The Way." In this new book, Mr. Griggs sticks to his text which, though handled in various ways, has ever been the absolute necessity of according to the Negro equality of rights in point of citizenship. Selecting illuminating incidents that have come to his knowledge, Mr. Griggs has grouped them into a closely woven story that is dramatic, humorous, pathetic, forceful, and calculated to convince the most obtuse mind that life in America for the Negro is a hollow mockery, nay, wrose—an unending human tragedy, unless the Negro is placed upon a solid political foundation. Mr. Griggs chose as the dominating characters of his book able representatives of both races, who eventually find a common ground on which to stand to work for the betterment of conditions. While there is not the slightest suggestion of the surrender of any right of the Negro race, the points are so brought out in the book that no man of any race or section can justly find fault with the manner of their presentation. "Pointing The Ways" fills a long-felt need, being an artistic, logical presentation of a great truth in such palatable form that all groups of American people North and South, white and Colored can with perfect composure sit down and contemplate America's greatest problem. That this effort on the part of Mr. Griggs may bear perfect fruit it is now but necessary for the book to be generally read by the white and Colored people that they may understand each other's position and begin the harmonious working out of the great race question. It is to be hoped that the Negro race is sufficiently awake to seize and use this great weapon of moral suasion. "Pointing the Way" that has been forged in the brain of a man whom the ablest of men call one of the most profound thinkers of his times. Through the general circulation of this book the Colored people now have it within their power to pave the way for the solving of the race question. The book contains 233 pages, is beautifully bound in cloth, lettered in gold and has a particularly beautiful cover design. It is published and sold by The Orion Publishing Company, Nashville, Tem., and retails for $1.00. Mailing 10 cents. HOLDS WEALTHY UNCLE Hinsdale Man Must Face Grand Jury to Answer Charges Made by Niece. D. J. Kenny, wealthy plumber of Hinsdale, was held to the Dupage county grand jury yesterday on charges preferred by his niece, Theresa Kenny, seventeen years old. Kenny was arrested and taken before Justice Crosby after the girl had fled from his home. He was prosecuted by State's Attorney Hadley of Dupage county and denied guilt. The girl is the daughter of Kenny's brother, and is an orphan. She lived at the prisoner's home. A few days ago Miss Kenny ran to the home of a neighbor and begged that the windows and doors be locked. It was some time before she became calm. Then she declared that the uncle had attacked her. Intense feeling was shown by residents of the aristocratic suburb until the prisoner was held for the jury. This short account in connection with the affair appeared in only one of the Sunday morning newspapers and as long as D. J. Kenny does not claim to be a Colored man, he has the right to assault any woman he may fancy. Commencing Monday evening, September 6th, two performances will be given each night at the Pekin Theater, 27th and State streets. One will begin at 7:45 and let out at 8:45, and the other will start in at 9 o'clock and hold forth the remainder of the evening. Prices will be 10 and 15 cents and 25 cents for boxes. THE NEW DELMONICO HOTEL. Louis DeCosta, lately secured a lease on the premises, 2630 Wabash avenue, and he has transformed the building into a first class hotel, known as the "Delmonico." It contains twenty rooms, with hot and cold water in every room, gas and electric lights. Each room is furnished richly and artistically and the Delmonico will be conducted on the American anu European plan. The dining room is finished in bamboo. Meals served at all hours. Special Sunday dinner for family and a business man's lunch, from 11 to 2. The Delmonico will be conducted as a first class hotel. Phone Calumet 3460. MT. GLENWOOD CEMETERY AS- SOCIATION. 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. Armission 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 Committee 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.. CHIPS Mrs. Joseph B. Crum and daughter are spending a few weeks with mother and grandmother in St. Louis, Mo. Noah D. Thompson, returned home Tuesday morning from his vacation trip to Baltimore, Md., and Somerset, Pa. Mrs. Florence Gibson, formerly of Newark, New Jersey, is stopping with Mrs. Daniel Young 6616 Vernon Ave. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Harden and family are spending several weeks vacation at a summer resort in Benton Harbor, Mich. Mr. Green Raby and daughter left for their home in Guilford Miss., monday after spending two weeks sight seeing in Chicago. Mrs. Sarah Gross—nee Steuart, of Cincinnati, O., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Lewis, 759 W. Taylor street, where she will be pleased to meet her friends while in th city. Mr. and Mrs. John Auter who were recently married have returned from their wedding tour and are now light housekeeping in Evanston, Ill., where Mr. Auter has purchased a beautiful home. Prof. and Mrs. N. Clark Smith, 3608 State street, left for Tuskegee, Ala., where the rofessor will resume his duties as instructor and leader of the band, which is maintained in connection with Tuskegee Institute. Prof. W. E. B. Du Bois of Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. F. L. McGhee of St. Paul, Minn., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Julius N. Avendoph Sat. evening last. Both gentlemen were in route to Beloit Wisconsin to attend the convention of the "Niagara Movement" Assn. Mrs. Nemo, mother of the late Oscar W. Nemo, came on from her home in Huntsville, Ala., to attend the funeral of her son, who passed away a short time ago at his home in this city, 759 W. Taylor street, and accompanied his remains to Cincinnati, O., for burial. At a meeting of all clubs and organizations of Negro voters in Connecticut, held at New Haven recently, a resolution was passed agreeing to oppose William H. Taft, the Republican candidate for President, but to indorse the Republican State and Congressional nominees in Connecticut. The refusal of a license to Samuel Stickles, Colored, to wed Lizzie Franks, a white girl of Waynesville, Pa., by the clerk of the court at Cumberland, Md., did not prevent the marriage. The couple returned home, and on Saturday evening, Aug. 22, were married in the private office of the clerk of the court of Washington county, Pa., by a local minister. In Cumberland the girl declared she had Negro blood in her veins, but being a decided blonde, the officials doubted her story. Capt. Bill McDonald, for some time head of the Texas Rangers, and who declared at the "shooting up" of Brownsville," that he was willing to charge hell with a bucket of water, has promised to accompany President Roosevelt on his bull hunt through Africa next year, and the Africans had better hunt their holes before Messrs. Roosevelt and McDonald land there for they may become intoxicated with the excitement and go to shooting the natives instead of the bulls and bears. S. A. T. Watkins, Grand Supreme Attorney for the Knights of Pythias, returned home Monday morning from Hot Springs, Ark., where he supervised the purchasing for his order, a brick building composed of a hotel and modern bath rooms. The price paid for the property was $22,000. The hotel contains about 25 rooms, and it and the hot baths will be run in first class shape for the accommodation of those visiting that resort during the winter months as well as other seasons of the year. Col. Robert M. Mitchell, 2733 Dearborn street, is still confined to his home through illness, and he feels very grateful to his many warm friends who call up on the phone inquiring as to the state of his health. Some of the most prominent white politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, call to see him and send him nice flowers as a token of their friendship, which fills his heart with joy. For many years, Mr. Mitchell has been one of our best and closest friends, and at all times we are ready to cheerfully aid him in any way pending his illness, and we sincerely hope that he will soon be restored to health. David Knighten, 2719 State Street, who has always stood ace high with John P. Hopkins, John McCarthy and Roger C. Sullivan, has under good headway the organization of the Ill. Colored Democracy, with a vice-president in every congressional district in the state of Ill. and thousands and thousands of Afro-Americans in all parts of this state and Chicago are dead willing to join it and work for the election of William J. Bryan and General Stevenson, who will be the next Governor of Ill. Mr. Knighten, J. H. Coleman, James Miller and J. A. Easton, are the four Afro-American Democrats who were elected Captians of their respective Precincts in the second ward, at the recent primaries. Robert W. Schulze, one of Governor Deneen's Deputy Game Wardens, resides in Gage Park, and being a good Republican, he declared in an interview which appeared in the Chicago Tribune last Wednesday. That he has three shot guns in his house and that he is ready to shoot to death the first Negro that attempts to locate in Gage Park. Schulze, Henry Pansegan, George Muersch, Frank B. Buzsine and Louis Franks, and the other citizens of Gage Park should be hung up by their necks for endeavoring to incite a riot and bring on bloodshed in order to prevent peaceable and law-abiding Colored people from residing in or near Gage Park. PENSIONS PROLONG LIFE An Important Factor In the Promotion of Longevity An important and noteworthy fact which is to be taken into account by English economists in the administration of their old age pension system is that pensioners live long. That fact, often stated in a satiric vein, is to be taken seriously, as demonstrated by statistics and as having an essential bearing on both the amount of pensions to be paid and the effect of them upon society. A striking demonstration of this is to be observed in the records of the Friendly Society of Iron Founders in England. That organization has for many years been paying pensions to its superannuated members. In 1883-5 it was found that the average age of these pensioners at death was sixty-eight years and six months. In 1906-7 it was seventy-one years and three months. Thus the average life of a pensioner had been lengthened by two years and nine months. It does not appear that the general average of human life in England has been lengthened to so great an extent, wherefore we must conclude that the pensions are an important factor in the promotion of longevity. That is quite natural, of course, for the enjoyment of a pension means better food and generally better conditions of life than the superannuated worker would have without it, as well as greater freedom from anxiety, and those improved circumstances prolong life. If the same rule operates under the national pension system, as it probably will, though perhaps not to so marked an extent, the national treasury will have more to pay on that account than is estimated under the present expectancy of life. This increase in the length of life of pensioners, while it will add to the cost of the system, is of course to be regarded with gratification as a beneficent and desirable result and as an argument in favor of the system. New York Tribune. WASHINGTON LETTER An item in the public appropriations bill passed by the late congress tends to formulate the as yet rather nebulous idea held by many minds that as the years pass a new residence for the president of the United States will become a necessity. So many of the rooms of the White House are and have always been devoted to public and official business that the presidents and their families, the tenants at will of the people, have always been limited as to sleeping rooms. A Future Possibility The cloudy idea which in the future may be embodied in another structure is that the nation should supply two residences for the chief executive, an official and a personal one. The White House, rich as it is in historic associations, could be used as the public office building of the president, be more accessible to the general public than it now is and be the official theater of state functions, in addition, and separate from this, the executive and his family should be given a private residence in some desirable section of the city. The item in the appropriations bill which some interpret as looking forward to this provides for the purchase of a tract of land for park purposes. This tract is about two miles north of the White House and easily accessible by the Sixteenth street boulevard. Over a Century Old. It is almost 106 years since George Washington presided at the laying of the cornerstone of the executive mansion in the "federal city," as he called the city which was afterward to bear his name. This ceremony took place on Oct. 13, 1792, the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of Christopher Columbus. Eight years were consumed in building the "president's palace," and Washington had been dead almost a year when the second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail, took possession of the mansion. Despite the cries of extravagance $300,000 had been granted by congress for the building and furnishing of the house. In those days no small sum Architect of the White House The plans of the building, submitted in a competition for a prize of $500, were drawn by a young Irish architect of Charleston, S. C., named James Hoban. Since it gained its name, the White House, from a coat of white paint bestowed after its sacking and burning by the British in the war of 1812, some inlanders of reverential mind cherish the fond idea that the building is of marble. It may lose in artistic and poetic value when they learn that it is built of sandstone from Maryland and Virginia quarries. It was not Hoban's fault that the occupants of the nation's house had space limitations placed upon their welcoming and social instincts. His first plans called for a three story building, and in the third story were to be the sleeping apartments. An economical democracy decided that this was giving the executive too much; that two stories and a basement should satisfy all requirements. That Hoban planned well is shown in the fact that until 1902, when the executive offices were removed to the annex provided for them, the building was unchanged except for the addition of porches and conservatories and for repairs. A Historic Herb Patch. Close to the Dutch garden which decorates the south side of the White House is a little space where herbs have been raised ever since the first mistress of the executive mansion marked off a spot for a flower inclosure. There grow mints, savory, marjoram and other plants, many of which, tradition says, still come from the roots originally planted. All the dishes for the presidential table are seasoned with the products of this little patch, and the present mistress of the White House is as careful of this section of the grounds as of the handsomest flower bed. She has taken roots of spearmint, marjoram, sweet basil, tarragon and thyme to Oyster Bay, and she now has at the summer place one of the best herb gardens in Long Island. Parsley, of course, figures in the collection, including a French varieety, unusually pungent. New Treasury Pillars: Lon, delayed work of tearing out the thirty ionic pillars which ornament the east front of the treasury building and replacing them with granite columns is now on on, and soon the last of the sandstone work will have disappeared, and the entire structure will be of granite and marble. The contract was let for $298,965 and calls for the replacing of the sandstone pillars with monolith granite. The granite must match that of which the north, south and west wings are constructed and was quarried at Milford, N. H. A Costly Building. The contract calls for the completion of the work by the end of this year, but in view of the delay the time will be extended. The granite pillars are a perfect reproduction of the historic sand columns and are finished by hand. They bulge slightly in the middle, and no machine has been invented which can do this kind of work. The fate of the old columns has not been decided. If they can be removed in sufficiently perfect condition they will be used for ornamental purposes in the parks and around buildings with spacious grounds, like the new war college. The treasury building as it stands represents an outlay of about $7,000.000. Its history has been one of constant change and enlargement. It is now 582 feet north and south by 300 feet east and west, including the steps and porticoes at the ends and sides. CARL SCHOFIELD. WAMSLEY & SON'S Bed Bug and Moth Liquid. 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. 13th. Sept. 13th—Ft Wayne League Team at Auburn Park. Sept. 13th a. m.—At Felix Colts. Sept. 10th—Spauldings at Auburn Park. Sept. 20th—Spauldings 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 49,735 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 Cananen, 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 hook 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 tblinks he gives as much to the 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 rooster never gives notice of having found a worm until after he has swallowed it—Atchick 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 eyeteeth 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. Wooddy 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 Taft'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 phonograph, 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 Heldelberg. The question of rebuilding the castle has been hotly discussed for the past half dozen years. 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 Comerdy—Yes, Starman, the tragedian, is hopelessly mad. Hi Tragedry—Overstudy? Lowe Comerdy—No, his understudy. He made a bigger hit in the part than Starman. — Catholic Standard and Times. What's the Use? CLICK 'EM INN The Parson—Ah, Pat, wasting your money in there again! You ought to put by for a rainy day. Pat—Sure, thin, Of'd never spend ut at all, at all. It's upid upid rheumatism Oi 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 itself." Pittaway Post Customer-I want a pair of combs for my wife. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. 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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 pliers 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 plies, 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. Wesdell 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. Many Names of Hingham 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 Ceiba, thirty-five miles, was built with crossoled pine ties from the United States. It is worthy of note that, while crossoled 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 Tests 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 answer showed these to be the most popular in the order named: the overture to "Tannahuser," the overture to "William Tell" Tschakowkas's "1812," Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite," Thomas's "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 south-western gate of the city of Pelik. It is made entirely of bamboo poles and cords. The enormous scaffolding was necessary for the rebuilding of the Chichannen 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. Pilking, full of petty hauteur, Bought a yellow auto motor— the redow: For his peeky "honk" comes bossing every time I touch a crossing, And in automobiles Thehonk There's no honk for "If you please." 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 Coca-Cola? Say, what is it?) Edmund Vance Cooke in Woman's Home Companion. Waggles—Gee, I wonder why dat dorg bit 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 hurt your baggage after you like that, Mary? Wouldn't you pay him?" "Oh, it ain't that, 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. Mver—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 it at 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. What He Does. "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 "In some respects. For instance, when you see a hatched faced woman, ten to one you'll finish her temper on edge."—Baltimore American. Man as a Shepper. 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?" 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, f $2,000—3720 LaSalle St., 2 flat, brick $2,000—3722 LaSalle St., frame bu provements. $2,800—3940 Dearborn St., 2 flat fran JESSE BINGA, 3637 State Good Colored Tenants AND TREATED A Stove Heat St. 57th and La Fayette Ave., 2 flats 5-6 room, hardwood throughout. Gley Ave., 2 flat brick and stone, 5-6 room, hardwood throughout. Tabash Ave., 2-9 room stone front residence garate. Make terms. Malle St., 6 rooms, frame, brick foundation. Malle St., 2 flat, brick and frame, 5-5 rooms. Malle St., frame building, 6 rooms, mod- ents. Born St., 2 flat frame, 5-6 rooms, bath. 3637 State St. Phone, Doug Served Tenants Always Appreciate AND TREATED ACCORDINGLY Heated Flat $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 Stove Heated Flats TO SUIT EVERY MAN'S INCOME I am no Agent. I Rent on You will save many a weary stu- if you first call MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTAT Samuel Richardson, Telephone Main 2133 CHICAGO (Please cut to "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- mation of Insects," sent postpaid for small orders, large by P. O. on WAMSLEY & SO Leland Giants Base-Ball and Now Organizing—C $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, Minut Pavillion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley Riding, and all the latest fun making devices gether with a First Class Summer Hotel, guests, at its present location, 79th and Wet- 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 Omene And Well Paying Plant, Where I Be Employed, between May and October of a out fear and Enjoy The Life and Freedom The Answer can only be effectively given by sion. 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 the attached Coupon and mail with Ten Doll and Amusement Association. Do it to-day so 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. MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE OR PERSONAL PROPERTY Samuel Richardson, 142 La Salle Street Telephone Main 2183 CHICAGO Room 1, OTIS BLOCK (Please cut this out) "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 The Stock-Holders of the Laland Giants Base-Ball Association, has concluded to dissolve that Association in order to give room for the former, with its increased Capital for the purpose of buying a Permanent Home For The Leland Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All The People, The Only First Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With It's Theater (Light Opera), Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry, Electric Theater, Dance Pavilion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto Riding, and all the latest fun making devices and laugh producing concessions, together with a First Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accommodate 1000 guests, at its present location, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes ride on the Electric Cars to the Loop District in Chicago. The Public is Base-Ball mad, and amusement Crazy. Stocks have doubled in value in a single season. Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In This New Enterprise. Are You In Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Imense 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 infull) as subs shares of the Capital Stock of the Leland t Association. I agree to pay $...... has been paid, at certificate. 6258 Halsted Street, Ch eley; Treas:- Enclosed please find $___ Part (or infull) as subscription fee for Stock of the Leland Giants Base Ball and An $___per month until the full has been paid, at which time I am to recieve Ac- order e.g. east ch- fer- ward Name _____ Address _____ 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. A Resentment. "What made you draw yoh ramer when dat man said he didn' have no kind o' soda water flavors' cappin' chocolate?" Inquired Miss Miami Brown. "To tired o' hearin' 'bout drawn' de color lina," answered Brustus Pinkley. "I wanted to give notice dat I ain' gwimbar stand foh no Jim Crow soda mountains."—Washington Star. A Resentment. "What made you draw you吟 ramer when dat man said he didn' have no kind o' soda water flavorin' 'cappu' chocolate?" inquired Mimi Miami Brown. "I't tired o' hearin' 'hout drawin' do尔线 line," answered Brastus Pinklay. "I wanted to give notice dat I al' gwnewater stand foh no Jim Crow soda fountains."—Washington Star. Glass telephone poles re-enforceon wy wire are being used in some parts of Germany. By order of the Emperor William the trousers of seamen of the German navy are in future to be made about two centimetres wider. A dumb trump has been arrested in Berlin for begging. He used a phonograph, visiting private houses only, where his machine poured out a heart-tending tale of his owner's misfortune. All payments on Stock Accounts must be made to the order of Beaugrand F. M. Mosley, Treasurer, 6558 Hale Street, St. Louis, MO 63105, holders are entitled to preference as employees and should inform the Treasurer with their final remittance of their intimation. For further information address Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn. n. 6228 Halsted St. Chicago, Ill. HILLMAN'S STATE & WASHINGTON STS. WHERE EVERY PATRON Saves ON EVERY PURCHASE Jacob Feinberg Wholesale and Retail MARKET AND GROCERY TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 565 81st and State Streets BRADLEY & FIELDS REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE WILLIAM LEWIS THE FRONTANAC CLUB AT 8 P.M. AUBURN PARK, 79TH AND WENTWORTH AVE. Take State Street and Wentworth Avenue Car to the Park. American Brick Co. President and Treasurer, THOMAS CAREY. Vice-President, JOHN SHELHAMER, Secretary, WILLIAM SULLIVAN. MANUFATURERS OF Common and Sewer Brick Office and Yards: Output of Winter Yards ..... output per day Output of Summer Yards ..... output per day Telephone Yards 128. J. J. Bradley BRAD REAL AN 8. Halsted Street Frank H. Lewis, Prop. THE Imported LI N. E. Corner POOL AND BILLIARDS Phone Callnet 2940 Telephone Yards 69S LEY & FIRE ESTATE, LOA ND INSURANCE Phone Oakland 1787. RAILROAD and Domestic Liquors & Cigars Cafe in Connection Fifty-first and Armour Avenue, WILLIAM LEWIS FRONTAN CLUB 239 E. 2 America's Greatest Sport BETWEEN LELAND GH AND SITING TEAM J. M. Fields HELDS ANS CE CHICAQ Lou Seiden, Mgr. INN Public Wines ers e, Chicago, IL. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS VIS NAC